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Sri City or Satyavedu Reserve Infracity Pvt. Ltd. is an integrated business city (township) and special economic zone located in Tirupati district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Inaugurated on August 8, 2008 by then-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Sri City forms part of Satyavedu and Varadaiahpalem mandals of Tirupati district. It is located along the NH16 of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is spread over 7500 acres, and includes a multiproduct Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a Domestic Tariff Zone (DTZ), a Free Trade & Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) and an Electronics Manufacturing Cluster.
Geography
It is situated between north latitudes of 13°29’50" & 13°34’40" and east longitudes of 79°57’30" & 80°02’50", at an average elevation of about 20 meters above MSL (66 ft) in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. It is alongside NH 5 which forms part of the Golden Quadrilateral. A creek (Karipeti Kalava) flows through Sri City passing through a number of lakes on the way to joining Pulicat Lake north of Tada. There is a state forest on the western boundary. The Telugu Ganga project carrying Krishna River water to Chennai passes along the western boundary of Sri City.
Languages
Telugu is the official and spoken language. People can also understand Tamil due to the land proximity to the border with Tamilnadu state. Most of the educated populace speak English and are bi-lingual.
Demographics
Sri City forms part of Satyavedu and Varadaiahpalem Mandals of Tirupati District. It is part of the Satyavedu constituency for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the Tirupati constituency for the Lok Sabha. As per 2011 census the total population of the Satyavedu constituency is 2,77,010, with a literacy rate of 78.98, well over national rate of Literacy in India which stand at 74.04%.
Social organizations
Krea University
Sankara Nethralaya (India)
Institute of Financial Management and Research – IFMR (India)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City
Chinmaya Vidyalaya School (India)
Special Economic Zone
The integrated township includes various zones: Industrial, Residential, Educational, Commercial and Recreational.
The Industrial Zone includes a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for Export Oriented Industry and Domestic Tariff Zone (DTZ) for Domestic Industry. It is a business destination for global companies to establish Manufacturing, Services and Trading operations in India.
The SEZ is administered by Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) & Industrial Area Local Authority (IALA). The Government appointed officer controls the planning and building approval processes. A Commissioner appointed by the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce, administers the (SEZ) area.
The SEZ was designed by Jurong Consultants, Singapore, taking into account future dimensions of expansion.
Transport
Sricity is located in close proximity to Asian Highway 45. The Tirupati Airport is the nearest airport (82 km) Tada and Arambakkam railway stations are nearest railway stations to Sricity. Chennai Port and Ennore Ports are the nearest port to the town. While, Krishnapatnam Port is located to the north of Sri City.
See also
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
External links
Sricity website
Special Economic Zones in India
City Website for more information about Civic Services & Administrative Offices, Accommodation, Recreation etc
References
Towns in Tirupati district
Industrial parks in India
Special economic zones
Tax resistance
Special Economic Zones of India
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The 1976 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Sandown International Motor Racing Circuit in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1976. It was open to racing cars complying with either Australian Formula 1 or Australian Formula 2.
The race was the forty first Australian Grand Prix and doubled as Round 1 of the 1976 Australian Drivers' Championship. John Goss won the race driving a Matich A53 Repco-Holden, and in doing so became the only driver to win both of Australia's highest profile motor races, the Australian Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000. Goss won the 47 lap race by just half a second from Australian international Vern Schuppan who was driving an Elfin MR8 Chevrolet entered by Ansett Team Elfin. Finishing third, over a lap behind, was John Leffler driving a Lola T400 Chevrolet.
Qualifying results
Race results
References
External links
1976 Australian Grand Prix Sandown, www.youtube.com
Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
Motorsport at Sandown
Formula 5000 race reports
Australian Grand Prix
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Onychoteuthis meridiopacifica is a species of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae. Males become mature at 40 mm, and the species is believed to reach a maximum mantle length of 90 mm, the smallest species in the genus Onychoteuthis. The tentacular club reaches a length of 20-25% of the mantle length, and contains 16-19 club hooks. Arms reach 27-44% of the mantle length, and each contain 50-60 suckers. 8-12 nuchal folds are present on each side of the head. Its short, broad fins and the possession of a small number marginal suckers on the tentacular clubs of adults are distinguishing characteristics of this species. It is found off eastern Australia and probably extends into seas off Indonesia as well as east to Tonga and Vanuatu.
References
Squid
Molluscs described in 1990
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"About Last Night…" is the twelfth episode in the twelfth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 179th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 5, 2008.
The episode depicts Barack Obama after winning the presidential election against John McCain. In a satire of American partisan politics, mass hysteria ensues as liberals celebrate with drunken rioting and conservatives experience apocalyptic panic. Meanwhile, Obama, McCain, and their respective campaign staffs are revealed to be a gang of jewel thieves who ran for president as part of a heist. In a parody of the films Ocean's Eleven and Entrapment, Obama and McCain use the hype and fear of Election Night to carry out a high-tech heist from the Smithsonian.
Parker and Stone briefly considered parodying Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight by having then-President George W. Bush gallantly take the blame for the Smithsonian heist. They decided against it, however, as they felt that jokes about President Bush had been "done to death".
Plot
Following the announcement of the 2008 presidential election results, Barack Obama and John McCain address their supporters on national television as the people of South Park watch. The town's Democrats, including Randy and Sharon Marsh and the Broflovskis, express a belief that Obama is the Messiah, crudely taunt their Republican neighbors and begin to celebrate drunkenly in the streets.
Meanwhile, the town's Republicans, including the Stotches, Mr. Garrison and Mr. Mackey, sit despondently inside, certain that a liberal President means that the Apocalypse is at hand. Ike Broflovski, who supported McCain, attempts suicide by jumping out a first-story window. Certain that Ike is badly injured, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski put him in a child's wagon and try to take him to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Obama and McCain turn out to be friends and the leaders of a jewel heist club known as the "Presidential Crime Syndicate". Furthermore, Michelle Obama is really an ace computer hacker and single mother who has faked marriage to Obama to make him electable. Sarah Palin is secretly an extremely intelligent, poised, and articulate Englishwoman. The Syndicate has conspired to win the election by running Obama and McCain against each other, so that the winner can access a hidden tunnel from the Oval Office, break into the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, and steal the Hope Diamond.
In South Park, Stan and Kyle vainly search through the partying Democrats to find anyone who can drive Ike to the hospital. They watch as Randy, believing that Obama's win means that he no longer needs a job, punches his equally liberal boss in the face and breaks his nose. When Officer Barbrady attempts to restore order, the drunken crowd assumes that he must be a Republican, loudly boos him, and overturns his police car.
Stan and Kyle find the Stotches building an "ark" while keeping many horrified conservatives from entering due to space limitations. The boys' plea for help leads to a brawl among the terrified Republicans and the boys head for the hospital on foot. They find the emergency room packed with Democrats who have partied too hard and Republicans who have tried to kill themselves.
Obama and Michelle break into the Museum, cross a room full of lasers, and steal the Hope Diamond. Ike, who had been a member of the heist the entire time, blows up a private jet that contains dummies of the criminals and alters hospital records to declare everyone involved legally dead. The next day, as the Syndicate prepares to leave the country, Obama announces that he will not be going with them. Instead, he convinces Michelle to stay behind and "give this President thing a shot".
The following morning, South Park's Republicans emerge from their "ark" and realize that the world has not ended. Realizing that they can vote Obama out later if he does a bad job, the Conservatives decide to give the new President a chance. That same morning, Randy Marsh wakes up on his couch with a severe hangover, his pants missing, and his TV having been stolen by Eric Cartman while he was out partying. Stan delivers a message from Randy's boss, telling him that he has been fired, and Randy—taking this as evidence that Obama lied to the voters—flies into a rage and shouts that he should have voted for McCain.
Themes
An interpretation of the episode summarized its contents as a condemnation of those who care too much about political issues. The episode satirizes the variety of reactions from liberals and conservatives in the aftermath of election returns: "somewhere between a boozy orgy of celebratory puking in the streets and apocalyptic panic". The episode exaggerates their reactions to extremes to illustrate possible absurdity.
Production
The episode's plot originated before the season began, when the writing team began brainstorming episode ideas. Parker and Stone noticed that an episode from the run could air the day following the election, and set their sights on producing an episode. Parker was particularly set on producing the episode after seeing the uproar over a joke from a recent Family Guy episode ("Road to Germany"), in which the character of Stewie, dressed as a Nazi, sports a McCain-Palin button. South Park had previously criticized the program with the 2006 two-parter "Cartoon Wars Part I" and "Cartoon Wars Part II", and Parker intensely disliked the joke. Rather than focus the episode's plot as satiric commentary on modern politics, the duo instead decided to create an absurd, action-movie plot inspired by the film Ocean's Eleven. "We've all heard about everything; we've talked about everything to death," Parker said. "And it's like, let's just put him in a diamond heist movie. They're just diamond thieves, and it's not about the politics at all anymore." After coming up with a neutral plot that would not disclose who would win the election, it gradually became obvious over the season that Obama would emerge the winner.
Parker felt strongly over the course of the election season that Obama would win the election, so much so that he bet money on his victory in October. Parker used a sports betting website, which he normally used to gamble on football games, to predict the outcome; the website placed the odds heavily against McCain. The team initially intended to create an alternate version in case McCain won, but found the prospect too daunting, considering their quick production schedule. In a possible scenario in which McCain was declared the winner, the duo intended to air the completed episode as is and deal with what was termed their "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment later. Possible outcomes included doing a drunken Mystery Science Theater 3000-esque commentary over the completed version, in which lines are poorly dubbed over the dialogue. Rather than partying in the streets, Obama supporters would be rioting, while McCain supporters would hide in the Ark to protect themselves from the riot, rather than a world in which their candidate loses. "There was a really stressful fifteen minutes there where we thought 'Oh man, what if we're wrong?' We really banked on it", said Stone.
In choosing which characters would be liberal or conservative, Stone admitted the choices were sometimes arbitrary. The character of Randy getting inebriated was always something the team found humorous; as a result, it was natural he become a hard-partying Obama supporter. In contrast, Mr. Garrison, who in the series is a "self-hating gay man", is portrayed as a McCain supporter to provide irony. In one possible storyline, then-President George W. Bush would heroically take the blame for the diamond heist, in a parody of The Dark Knight, but it was rejected as jokes about Bush had become overdone. The episode includes details such as excerpts from Obama's victory speech and the stage and podium on which he spoke. For the victory and concession speeches, Parker wrote placeholder lines until after the election's outcome. Following Obama's victory speech, the duo found it remarkable the amount of placeholder material that turned out similar to the actual speech. Comedy Central, as usual, saw few finished sequences before the episode went to air, but raised questions over one scene in which Obama's grandmother "fakes" her death (Obama's real grandmother had passed the day preceding the election).
The episode was completed on the morning of its air date, hours after they typically complete episodes. "We're delivering it right up against the wire every single week. ... Trey and I got home at 10:30 yesterday morning," said Stone to an interviewer the day following the episode's broadcast.
Reception
Sean O'Neal of The A.V. Club commended the episode's apolitical approach, but wished "tonight's inconsequential silliness had been a little funnier across the board". Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger criticized the episode as a "half-hour SNL sketch", commenting that only the first five minutes he felt were humorous. Newsweek criticized the episode as a "lukewarm parody" in a 2010 article criticizing the creative state of the program. "While this episode was perhaps not as funny as it could have been, it manages to feel poignant," said Travis Fickett of IGN.
"Trey Parker and Matt Stone have always turned around South Park episodes with impressive speed, but Wednesday night was ridiculous," said James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter.
Home release
"About Last Night...", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park'''s twelfth season, were released on a three-disc DVD and Blu-ray set in the United States on March 10, 2009. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode, a collection of deleted scenes, and two special mini-features, The Making of 'Major Boobage and Six Days to South Park.
See also
"Trapper Keeper", a South Park episode about the 2000 U.S. presidential election
"Douche and Turd", a South Park episode about the 2004 U.S. presidential election
"Obama Wins!", a South Park episode about the 2012 U.S. presidential election
"Oh, Jeez", a South Park'' episode about the 2016 U.S. presidential election
References
External links
"About Last Night..." Full episode at South Park Studios
Cultural depictions of Barack Obama
Cultural depictions of Sarah Palin
Works about John McCain
South Park (season 12) episodes
Television episodes about suicide
Television episodes about elections
Television episodes about theft
2008 United States presidential election in popular culture
Television episodes set in the White House
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Hell's Backbone Road is a 38-mile (61 km) gravel road that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and connects the towns of Boulder, Utah and Escalante, Utah. Halfway along the road is Hell's Backbone Bridge, which is long, and wide. A drop is on either side. Near the bridge are views of the Box-Death Hollow Wilderness. From late spring to autumn, the road, which climbs to more than 9,000 feet (2,750 m) elevation, is passable by ordinary passenger vehicles, but it is very narrow and winding.
Hell's Backbone Road is a high-country alternative to the paved Utah Scenic Byway 12, which also connects Boulder and Escalante, 27 road miles (44 km) apart.
Images
References
Roads in Utah
Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah
Gravel roads
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Manjari Chaturvedi is an Indian Kathak dancer. She belongs to the Lucknow Gharana.
Early life and background
Manjari Chaturvedi was born in a well established family of Lucknow. Her grandfather, Justice Hari Shankar Chaturvedi, was a High Court Judge at The Lucknow bench. Her father, Prof. Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, was a Geologist and a Geophysics professor at the IIT Roorkee, and a respected Space Scientist who established the Remote Sensing Applications Centre at Lucknow and a visionary in the field of Science & Technology for Rural Development. Her mother Sudha Chaturvedi is a strong, resilient, well read woman who instilled strong values in her children. Manjari spent her early formative years in Lucknow and it is this city that has impacted her work the most. She did her schooling from Carmel Convent and Hoerner School and her higher studies from Lucknow University. She did her Masters (M.Sc.) In Environmental Sciences from the Lucknow University. She trained in the professional category of Kathak Dance at the Kathak Kendra under the UP Sangeet Natak Academy .
She trained initially in the Lucknow gharana of kathak under the guidance of Arjun Mishra. She also studied abhinaya under Kalanidhi Narayan at Protima Bedi’s Nrityagram. She closely studied Baba Bulleh Shah’s contribution to Punjabi Sufi traditions. Mawlana Rumi and Amir Khusro also influenced her.
Career
Chaturvedi began her career as a Kathak dancer. She attempts at building an interface with diverse forms like the music of Rajasthan, Kashmir, Awadh, Punjab, Turkmenistan, Iran and Krygistan. She is particularly drawn to Sufi mysticism and has endeavoured to incorporate movements in her performances that are reminiscent of the meditative practices of the whirling dervishes. She has therefore, chosen to name her dance style as Sufi Kathak.
She performed at the Taj Mahal and Sydney Opera House.
She did a Sufi music video directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and written by Gulzar called as Tere Ishq Mein.
She has performed in more than 300 concerts in more than 22 countries across the world. In the last two decades, Manjari has performed concerts all over the world including Europe (France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, U.K. & Ireland), Armenia, Georgia, the Middle East (Dubai, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait), South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka) and Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) along with Australia and America.
Significant Venues
India International Centre
Kalaghoda, Mumbai
Tagore Auditorium, Chandigarh
Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad
Aravali Bio Diversity Park, Gurgaon
Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi
Symphony Space, New York City
Judith Wright Centre for Performing Arts – Brisbane
Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, UK
Sydney Opera House, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Rashtrapati Bhawan
Parliament House
Medinat Jumeirah
Purana Quila
Jagmandir Palace, Udaipur
Lake Palace, Udaipur
Aman-E-Bagh
Ram Bagh Palace, Jaipur
Lotus Temple, New Delhi
Town Hall, Kolkata
Qutb Minar, New Dlehi
Murshidabad Palace, Murshidabad
Neemrana Fort
Devigarh Fort
Qila Mubarak, Patiala
Jagatjit Palace, Kapurthala
Khajuraho Temple
Janana Mahal, Udaipur
Amber Fort, Jaipur
Fatehpur Sikri
Arab Ki Sarai, Humayun’s Tomb
Holkar Palace, Maheshwar
Taj Mahal, Agra
Dilkusha Palace, Lucknow
Dance of Mystics
She has been the part of the Sufi Symposium at the prestigious Smithsonian Museum Washington D.C. and of the conference on Living heritage by UNESCO and is the Jury and member of "Think Tank on Asian dance" for the prestigious Asian Dance Committee in Korea. In the past decade Manjari Chaturvedi has collaborated and performed with a wide range of international artists as Global Fusion with Tim Ries (Saxophone, Rolling Stones, USA) And Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan (Sitar, India), Taufiq Quereshi (India), Kailash Kher (India), Kevin Hays (Piano, USA), Dhaffer Yoseuf (Oudh, Vocals, Tunisia), Rahim Al Hajj ( Oudh, Iraq), Patrick Possey (Saxophone, USA), Firas Shahrstan (Qanun, Syria), Micheal Glenn (Bass, USA).
SHORT FILMS AND VIDEOS She did a Sufi music video directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and written by Gulzar called as Tere Ishq Mein. She has performed in ZARA THAHER JAAO: a Dance sequence on music by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan She has performed in JASHN-E-AWADH: An audio visual for the Taj Group of Hotels She has performed in SOULFUL STRINGS OF SARANGI: A film by Pamela Rooks She has performed in HISTORICAL JOURNEY OF TAJ HOTELS, RESORTS & PALACES: A film directed by Zafar Hai She has performed in AMIR KHUSRAU: A film for National Television directed by Muzaffar Ali She has performed in RAQS-E-DIL: A film for National Television by Muzaffar Ali She has performed in RUMI IN THE LAND OF KHUSRAU: A film on the Sufi traditions across the world She has done dance direction and choreography in HUSN-E-JAANA a television serial by Muzaffar Ali She has performed in THE LEGACY OF AN ERA: A film on Lucknow by Mazhar Kamran.
The Courtesan Project
A brilliant initiative by Manjari Chaturvedi that is dedicated to work towards removing social stigmas associated with Courtesan, the Tawaifs, and thereby giving them much deserved respect and place as artists par excellence. "The Lost Songs and Dance of Courtesans - Gender discrimination in Arts and How it Shapes the Art for Future" is a project that archives and documents the lives and stories of the incredible women performers.
Manjari has undertaken an absolutely new work, it is a lot of research as it brings alive dance and stories of women who were stigmatised by the society for being performers both music and dance and in an unfortunate society ridden by gender discrimination were not even part of the documentation history of the performing arts. Hence it becomes imminent we tell their brilliant stories to the world and show their dance. In the wake of inadequate research and documentation, several myths and misconceptions shroud lives and history of courtesans.
Today, it is not uncommon to have the words ‘courtesan’ and ‘prostitute’ being used inter-changeably. This is the greatest error that has been continually done. In an extremely unfair record of history based on gender inequality, the men pursuing these arts are revered as "Ustads" (Masters) while the women pursuing the same arts became "Nautch Girls" (Dancing Girls). The current generations of erstwhile male court dancers talk about family lineage with a sense of pride extolling the greatness of their forefathers as dancers in royal courts. At the same time, the generations of women court dancers live with a sense of shame never disclosing their lineage or any connection with erstwhile courts. Gender discrimination in the field of arts has never been addressed and today this sect of women are ostracised in the society and considered "lesser" than their contemporary men.
Manjari says, "It is the need of the hour to question and challenge the "disregard" towards these women artists and their traditions. We must think about this as a collective society and a project like this helps to shape up the collective conscience of the society."
Controversy
Qawwali Performance Interrupted
On 17 January 2020, Manjari Chaturvedi claimed that her qawwali performance was “deliberately” stopped midway by officials of the Uttar Pradesh government during an official cultural programme at a private hotel in Lucknow. However, the Department of Culture, Uttar Pradesh, denied the accusation.
See also
List of Kathak dancers
References
Kathak exponents
Indian female classical dancers
Performers of Indian classical dance
1968 births
Living people
Dancers from Uttar Pradesh
Women artists from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian dancers
20th-century Indian women artists
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Leigh Hobbs (born 18 April 1953) is an Australian artist and author. He is best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children's books which he has written and illustrated, although he has produced works across a wide range of mediums. His books principally feature the characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr Badger and Mr Chicken, and characters from the 4F for FREAKS books. He was the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016–17.
Life and career
Leigh Hobbs was born in Williamstown in Victoria, Australia and grew up in the town of Bairnsdale. After graduating from Caulfield Institute of Technology art school (now Monash University) in 1973, he was employed as an artist at Sydney's Luna Park, an amusement park located adjacent to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. While there he designed the colour scheme for the antique carousel, and created two large three-dimensional characters called Larry and Lizzy Luna, which now reside at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Between 1978 and 2002 Hobbs supported his artistic career by working as a secondary school art teacher.
In 1980 Hobbs held a one-man show of caricature sculptures at the Rex Irwin Gallery in Sydney. Between 1985 and 2010 he was a freelance contributing cartoonist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria. Since 1999 time a number of major profiles of Hobbs and his work have been published. In 1983 Leigh Hobbs created a series of glazed ceramic tea pots in the shape of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station. These are in the collection of a number of galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1999 Hobbs designed the colour scheme for the entrance to Melbourne's Luna Park in St. Kilda. Between 1998 and 2002 a French/Australian co-produced animated cartoon TV series Old Tom was created based on his Old Tom books, and over 50 episodes were broadcast in Australia on ABC TV. In 2013 Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) adapted Hobbs' book Mr Chicken Goes To Paris for the stage and the book is a popular title in the Musée du Louvre bookshop in Paris.
Leigh Hobbs's children's books are often described as working on a number of levels and could be seen as gently subversive. For example, Hobbs's most popular creation, Old Tom, is a grotesque one eyed cat, but the word cat is never used in the books. Old Tom's 'owner' a prim matron like character called Angela Throgmorton thinks of Old Tom as her 'son' and the stories revolve around her efforts to socialise this creature who is in fact like a seven-year-old boy trying to break free of a mothers constraints. Hobbs has frequently been shortlisted for the CBCA's Picture Book of the Year award, his books have won many of the major children's choice awards in Australia, and in 2010 Old Tom was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. In Australia his works are published by Allen & Unwin
Leigh Hobbs's artwork, paintings, drawings, prints, illustrations and ceramics are to be found in numerous private collections, public art galleries, and institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Libraries of Victoria, and Western Australia. A 1993 photo-portrait by Francis Reiss of Hobbs at work is held in Australia's National Portrait Gallery.
Leigh Hobbs was the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016 & 2017.
In 2019 Australia Post featured Leigh and his character Mr Chicken on an 'Australian Legends of Children's Literature' postage stamp
Personal life
He lives in Melbourne with his partner the writer Dmetri Kakmi.
Bibliography
The following books were written and illustrated by Leigh Hobbs:
Old Tom (1994)
Old Tom at the Beach (1995)
Old Tom goes To Mars (1996)
Old Tom’s Guide to Being Good (1998)
Horrible Harriet (2001)
Old Tom’s Holiday (2002)
Old Tom Man of Mystery (2003)
Fiona The Pig (2004)
Hooray For Horrible Harriet (2005)
4F For Freaks (2006)
Fiona The Pig’s Big Day (2006)
Freaks Ahoy (2007)
Old Tom’s Big Book of Beauty (2007)
A Friend For Old Tom (2008)
Mr Chicken Goes To Paris (2009)
Mr Badger and The Big Surprise (2010)
Mr Badger and The Missing Ape (2010)
Mr Badger and The Difficult Duchess (2011)
Mr Badger and The Magic Mirror (2011)
Horrible Harriet’s Inheritance (2012)
Mr Chicken Lands on London (2014)
Mr Chicken arriva a Roma (2016)
Mr Chicken All Over Australia (2019)
Horrible Harriet and The Terrible Tantrum (2021)
References
External links
Leigh Hobbs' website
1953 births
Living people
Australian children's writers
Australian illustrators
Australian gay writers
Australian gay artists
People from Bairnsdale
Artists from Victoria (state)
Australian cartoonists
Monash University alumni
20th-century Australian LGBT people
21st-century Australian LGBT people
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Raja Chaudhary (born 23 July 1975) is an Indian television actor, writer and producer based in Mumbai. He predominantly works in the Bhojpuri cinema. In 2008, Chaudhary participated as a contestant on Colors TV's reality show Bigg Boss, where he emerged as the first runner up.
Career
Chaudhary played a villain role in the Bhojpuri film Saiyyan Hamar Hindustani opposite Shweta Tiwari. He gained fame during his stint at the Hindi reality show Bigg Boss 2 where he was a runner up. He then participated in another reality show Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipe Out.
Chaudhary has also acted in many television serials Your Honour, Daddy Samjha Karo, Chandramukhi, Aane Wala Pal, period Indian fantasy series Kahani Chandrakanta Ki and Adaalat . He was also featured in a TV serial called Black (loosely based on Hollywood Omen) on 9X Channel, directed by Sunil Agnihotri.
Personal life
Chaudhary is an alumnus of Asian Academy of Film & Television. He married television actress, Shweta Tiwari in 1998, the couple had a daughter together, Palak Tiwari. The couple featured together in season 2 of the reality dance show, Nach Baliye. The couple later separated after Tiwari filed for divorce in 2007 ending their 9 years in marriage. In 2015, he married Shveta Sood, a Delhi based corporate professional.
Filmography
Films
Television
References
Indian male television actors
1975 births
Living people
Male actors from Uttar Pradesh
21st-century Indian male actors
Actors from Meerut
Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) contestants
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The Playoff Bowl (officially, the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl) was a post-season game for third place in the NFL, played ten times following the 1960-69 seasons. It was abandoned in favor of the current playoff structure with the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that broadcast the Playoff Bowl during its existence.
References
External links
The Playoff Bowl (Bert Bell Benefit Bowl)
Lists of National Football League announcers
National Football League playoffs
CBS Sports
CBS Sports Spectacular
Broadcasters
20th century-related lists
Florida sports-related lists
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Episcopal Day School of St. Matthew is a private co-educational day school located in San Mateo, California. Until 2021, the school was known as St. Matthew's Episcopal Day school, but the name was changed to Episcopal Day School.It was founded in 1865, by Andrew Lee Brewer, and was previously a military school known as Saint Matthew's Hall or Saint Matthew's School.
Background
The school offers classes from Pre-Kindergarten to 8th grade. The school's pre-school program was terminated in 2019 after more than 50 years of continuous operation. The school is on a small campus, a building completed in 1957, that was expanded in a major construction project that began in 2013 and was completed in 2015 and is shared with St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. The Pre-K and Kindergarten classes are in a separate building a block away. Lay teachers have been used since 1970. The tuition is around $30,000 per year. The main campus is located at 16 Baldwin Avenue, San Mateo, California.
Enrollment
The school had K-8 enrollment of 269 students in the 2019 school year compared to 271 in the prior year. Maximum enrollment capacity is approximately 324 students. The day school has facilities for two classes per grade.
School history
Founding as a Military School
The day school was founded in 1865 and was previously a military boarding school for boys known as Saint Matthew's Hall or Saint Matthew's School, established as an "English and Classical School for Boys". Military discipline was rigorously maintained - students were required to wear military style uniforms, marched between locations at the school and were awakened by bugle. Starting in 1872, military instructors of military academies were required to be commissioned Majors in the National Guard, ensuring that military schools maintained adequate discipline. In the early years of the military school, students, called cadets, were equipped with rifles and a cannon (a Parrott field gun) and conducted military field training. Approximately 3,000 young men graduated from Saint Matthew's Hall before its closure. The military school was prestigious, and graduation guaranteed acceptance to the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford. It was so successful that several similar military-style schools opened in the surrounding area. In the early 1890s, Reverend Brewer decided that the military school required more room and moved to Hillsborough, where it remained until it closure in 1915.
David Kawānanakoa, a nephew of Hawaiian King David Kalākaua, attended the academy from 1884 to 1887. While studying there Kawānanakoa, and his younger brothers, Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, are credited with introducing surfing to the United States.
St. Margaret's School for Girls
After the military school moved to Hillsborough, Reverend George Wallace reopened the buildings at the day school's current location on Baldwin Avenue as St. Margaret's School for girls, which continued operation until 1892.
Establishment of Current Day School
The current form of day school was founded in 1953 by the Sisters of the Community of the Transfiguration, an order of Episcopal nuns from Ohio under rector Lesley Wilder Jr. The day school initially included nursery and pre-nursery classes before adding additional classes to become a nursery through 8th grade school in 1963. The day school completed a $21 million building project in 2015 that increased its building space by 27,000 square feet, adding classroom space and allowing it to double its classes from one class per grade level to two. Although the school exists within the Episcopal Church, students are not required to ascribe to any religion, and only about 15% are Episcopalian. Sexual abuse crisis
Notable alumni
Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole - fifth in the line of in succession to the Hawaiian throne
David Kawananakoa - third in the line of in succession to the Hawaiian throne
Edward Keliiahonui - fourth in the line of in succession to the Hawaiian throne
John F. Madden, U.S. Army brigadier general
Lincoln Steffens - later a celebrated writer, who was frequently disciplined by Brewer
Sexual Abuse Case
Background
In 2017, the day school experienced a child sexual abuse crisis when one of its pre-school teachers created hundreds of pornographic images and videos of day school students. The teacher targeted as many as 20 five to eight year old students. The illegal pictures and videos were taken during school hours in the pre-school and in the school's after-care program. The teacher acknowledged using the pictures for sexual gratification as part of a bondage fetish. The teacher pled guilty (no contest) to 5 felony charges and was sentenced to 6 years in prison. The case resulted in a number of claims and lawsuits filed against the day school, Head of School Julie Galles and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and resulted in a great deal of negative publicity for the school.
The California Department of Social Services also found that the day school committed licensing violations as a result of the incidents.
Efforts to Remove Judge
In addition to the very large number of children targeted, the case was notable because of the San Mateo District Attorney's efforts to remove the judge, Judge Donald Ayoob, from the case (as well as two other cases being heard by Judge Ayoob), because of perceptions that the judge was too lenient on sex abuse perpetrators and would not take the case seriously. Judge Ayoob had sentenced prior perpetrators to a year in county jail rather than state prison as requested by prosecutors including a perpetrator who possessed thousands of pornographic images and videos. Prosecutors did not file paperwork requesting the removal in time, and another judge refused to remove Ayoob. After the case of Brock Turner, who received a 6 month sentence for raping a Stanford University Student, generating such public outcry over the leniency of the sentence that the judge in the case was recalled and removed as a judge, the prosecutors' effort to remove the judge reflected prosecutors' determination to ensure that sexual abuse cases are taken seriously, but raised questions of whether prosecutors were trying to politicize cases or influence the outcome by generating a "mob mentality". Although the judge was not removed, the sentence of six years was significantly more severe than Judge Ayoob had given to other perpetrators, and the general perception was that the effort to have these cases taken seriously was, at least in this case, effective.
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church of St. Matthew operates the day school. The church is part of the Diocese of California, located in San Francisco.
On April 24, 1864, Giles Alexander Easton established an Episcopal church named for Saint Matthew on the historic mission trail known as El Camino Real. Services were held in a school until ground could be broken for a building. Two acres of land were donated by Agnes Poett Howard, widow of William Davis Merry Howard, and their son, William Henry Howard. In 1865 a stone church with capacity of about 200 people was built and a two-story school building known as Saint Mathew's Hall for the school. The nave was 48 feet (15 m) by 36 feet (11 m), and the chancel was 12 feet (3.7 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m). The street between the church and school was known as Saint Matthews Avenue. Alfred Lee Brewer (1831–1899) operated the school in English "public school" tradition with strict military discipline. The school campus became part of the city of Burlingame, California.
Three Princes of the Kingdom of Hawaii, brothers Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1871–1922), David Kawānanakoa (1868–1908) and Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui (1869–1887) attended the school in the 1880s. It advertised itself as "the leading private educational institution for boys on the Pacific Coast" in 1889. It was later taken over by his son William Augustus Brewer (1863–1931). William Brewer became mayor of the new town of Hillsborough, California. By 1902 the school was called "the best known private educational institution upon the west coast."
Neptune Blood William Gallway became rector of the church in 1904. The buildings were damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The old church was replaced by a new one designed by Willis Polk, with many furnishings salvaged from the original building. The new building was consecrated on May 15, 1910. The school was shut down in 1915 when a road was constructed through the campus. A new organ was donated in memory of William H. Crocker in 1938.
See also
William Verbeck
References
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First-round selections
The following are the first round picks in the 1989 Major League Baseball draft on June 5.
Supplemental first round selections
Other notable players
Brian Hunter, 2nd round, 35th overall by the Houston Astros
Tim Salmon, 3rd round, 69th overall by the California Angels
Jerry Dipoto, 3rd round, 71st overall by the Cleveland Indians
Shane Reynolds†, 3rd round, 72nd overall by the Houston Astros
John Olerud†, 3rd round, 79th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays
Phil Nevin†, 3rd round, 82nd overall by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but did not sign
Eric Wedge, 3rd round, 83rd overall by the Boston Red Sox
Brook Fordyce, 3rd round, 84th overall by the New York Mets
Denny Neagle†, 3rd round, 85th overall by the Minnesota Twins
Jeff Bagwell‡, 4th round, 110th overall by the Boston Red Sox
Scott Erickson†, 4th round, 112th overall by the Minnesota Twins
Ryan Klesko†, 4th round, 116th overall by the Atlanta Braves
Alan Embree, 5th round, 125th overall by the Cleveland Indians
J. T. Snow, 5th round, 129th overall by the New York Yankees
Paul Quantrill†, 6th round, 163rd overall by the Boston Red Sox
Russ Springer, 7th round, 181st overall by the New York Yankees
Butch Huskey, 7th round, 190th overall by the New York Mets
Curt Leskanic, 8th round, 203rd overall by the Cleveland Indians
Mike Lansing, 9th round, 219th overall by the Baltimore Orioles, but did not sign
Sterling Hitchcock, 9th round, 233rd overall by the New York Yankees
Jeffrey Hammonds†, 9th round, 237th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays, but did not sign
Chad Mottola, 10th round, 245th overall by the Baltimore Orioles, but did not sign
Scot McCloughan, 10th round, 266th overall by the New York Mets
Marty Cordova, 10th round, 269th overall by the Minnesota Twins
Kelly Stinnett, 11th round, 281st overall by the Cleveland Indians
Trevor Hoffman‡, 11th round, 290th overall by the Cincinnati Reds
Jim Thome‡, 13th round, 333rd overall by the Cleveland Indians
Mike Trombley, 14th round, 373rd overall by the Minnesota Twins
Pat Rapp, 15th round, 388th overall by the San Francisco Giants
Gregg Zaun, 17th round, 427th overall by the Baltimore Orioles
Brian Giles†, 17th round, 437th overall by the Cleveland Indians
Mark Grudzielanek†, 17th round, 450th overall by the New York Mets, but did not sign
Tim Worrell, 20th round, 520th overall by the San Diego Padres
Jeff Kent†, 20th round, 523rd overall by the Toronto Blue Jays
Robert Person, 25th round, 645th overall by the Cleveland Indians
Joe Randa, 30th round, 773rd overall by the California Angels, but did not sign
Joe Borowski, 32nd round, 823rd overall by the Chicago White Sox
Dana Brown, 35th round, 898th overall by the Philadelphia Phillies
Hilly Hathaway, 35th round, 903rd overall by the California Angels
Jorge Posada†, 43rd round, 1,116th overall by the New York Yankees, but did not sign
Jason Giambi†, 43rd round, 1,118th overall by the Milwaukee Brewers, but did not sign
Eric Young†, 43rd round, 1,123rd overall by the Los Angeles Dodgers
Chad Curtis, 45th round, 1,157th overall by the California Angels
Bobby Magallanes, 50th round, 1,260th overall by the Seattle Mariners
Denny Hocking, 52nd round, 1,314th overall by the Minnesota Twins
† All-Star
‡ Hall of Famer
NBA/NFL players drafted
Scott Burrell, 1st round, 26th overall by the Seattle Mariners, but did not sign
Jeff Brohm, 7th round, 176th overall by the Montreal Expos, but did not sign
Rodney Peete, 13th round, 348th overall by the Oakland Athletics, but did not sign
Marcus Robertson, 19th round, 489th overall by the Cleveland Indians, but did not sign
References
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Harvey Winson Fellows (11 April 1826 in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire – 13 January 1907 in Rickmansworth) was an English amateur cricketer. He was the brother of Walter Fellows.
Career
Fellows was a right-handed batsman and a roundarm right arm fast bowler. Having made his name as a schoolboy cricketer at Eton College, where he bowled in tandem with Walter Marcon in 1841 and 1842, Fellows was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He played for several predominantly amateur teams, including I Zingari, and represented the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series.
Fellows was noted for his fearsome pace, especially on rough pitches. He is said to have reached his peak early and, after he changed his action by raising the height of his arm during delivery, he lost much of his speed and accuracy.
Fellows made 67 known appearances in first-class matches from 1847 to 1869. His known career bowling record includes a total of 169 wickets at an average of 7.66 with a best performance of 8 wickets in one innings. He is credited with ten wickets in a match on 7 occasions.
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Roohi Zuberi (born 24 March 1959) is an Indian social worker and women's rights activist. Zuberi has also served as a senior cabinet member at Aligarh Muslim University.
Career
As a university student, she became district president of the National Students' Union of India. Zuberi is an advocate for minority rights. In 1986, she established the Women's Welfare Society in Northern and Central India (महिला कल्याण समिति). In 2000, she ran for mayor of Aligarh on the Indian National Congress' ticket. Zuberi advocated that there was the need for enacting a Muslim matrimonial code including the bride's consent to marriage.
On 30 January 2014, she was appointed to the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee's Executive Committee.
Zuberi is currently president of the Women's Welfare Society in Uttar Pradesh. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, and of the Minority Cell of the All India Mahila Congress.
Political career history
Distt. President NSUI, 1972–73
Secretary of Abdullah Girls College, 1972–73
Executive Member of Student Union of AMU, 1974–75
Vice President of Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union, 1980
President (ad hoc) of Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union, 1982
Founded Women's Welfare Society, 1986
District President Mahila Congress, Aligarh, 1992
General Secretary Mahila Congress, U.P, 1993
Vice President of the District Congress Committee
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (5 times)
Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, 1996–2008
Congress party Candidate for the post of Mayor (Aligarh), 2001
General Secretary, UPCC
Additional position held
Ex-Member Railway Board
Ex-Member Telephone Advisory Board
Ex-Member Lok Adalat, Aligarh
Ex-Member District Consumer Forum
Vice President Akansha Samiti, Formed by District Magistrate
Awards
Bhartiya Nari Shakti Award for her role in women empowerment on 29 January 2014 at the Constitutional Club of India, New Delhi
Rashtriya Gaurav Award, in the field of Social Work by the India International Friendship Society (2014)
Family background
Roohi Zuberi belongs to a family of Marehra in Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father, the late Mr. Bashir Mahmood Zuberi (Advocate) (1921-1993) was a freedom fighter in the Indian Independence Struggle against British Raj. He was also a social worker, a politician, and the Chairman of the Marehra Municipal Board. During his life, he gave much of his personal property up for the development and welfare of the local population. The B. M. Zuberi Hospital in Marehra, a civil government hospital, is named after him.
Mrs. Zuberi is also related to Maulvi Bashir Uddin who spent all of his assets to establish Islamia College in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh in 1888 which was a similar effort to establish another university as happened in the case of Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College. He was a Congressite who wore Khadi and also published a highly respected paper al-Bashir. He was awarded Padma Shri, but he did not go to receive it, just as he did not go to receive the title of Khan Bahadur. Former President of India Dr. Zakir Husain was also a student of this institution.
She is also the daughter-in-law of mathematician and former Parliamentarian Dr Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, one of the mentors of the Aligarh Movement and Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, who served as Vice Chancellor for three terms and later became the Rector of Aligarh Muslim University.
Matin Zuberi, was her maternal uncle and a scholar of international relations. Professor Zuberi was born at Marehra in the Etah district of Uttar Pradesh on 15 July 1930. After obtaining his Master's degree from Aligarh Muslim University, he went to St. Anthony's and Balliol colleges at the University of Oxford. On his return, he was appointed senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He joined JNU in 1978 and continued there till 1995.
As a professor of international politics and disarmament studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Prof. Zuberi was an academic observer of international nuclear developments. His contributions went beyond academics. In three stints — 1990–91, 1998–99 and 2000–01 — he was a member of the National Security Advisory Board. On the last occasion, he participated in the preparation of the Draft Indian Nuclear Doctrine. Earlier, he was a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament and Development. Prof. Zuberi was also a member of the executive council of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and the governing body of the Society of Indian Ocean Studies.
Education qualification
She started her education in her hometown Marehra and thereafter moved to Aligarh for higher education. Her alma mater is Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
B.A in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University.
M.A in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University
L.L.B from Aligarh Muslim University
Personal life and family
Roohi Zuberi is married to Ahmad Zia-ud-din and they have three sons, Md. Zia-ud-din (Rahi), Shahbaz Zia-ud-din, Sheeraz Ahmad and a daughter, Sadaf Ahmad.
References
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Walter Bruno was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His career as a writer of plays includes three productions, Shouting for Joy and Hand-to-Hand, and, in collaboration, a translation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu the King, all staged in Toronto, Ontario. He was briefly playwright in residence at Toronto Free Theatre.
In 2004, Bruno translated Two English Girls and the Continent (Cambridge Book Review Press), the first translation into English of Deux Anglaises et le Continent by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim). Two English Girls was the inspiration for François Truffaut's well-regarded adaptation of 1971 (see Two English Girls).
Bruno's poetry has been awarded prizes by Fiddlehead magazine and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1996, his imprint, Authors Collective, published Long Shot Odyssey. In 2006, it published Cat Walk and Other Poems.
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Richard Gynge (born 1 February 1987 in Tyresö) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently playing for AIK of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv). Former clubs he has represented include Brynäs IF and Växjö Lakers of the SHL, and HC Dynamo Moscow, HC Lev Praha, Admiral Vladivostok, HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk and Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
After two seasons with Traktor Chelyabinsk, Gynge opted to return to his native Sweden as a free agent, signing for a second stint with the Växjö Lakers in agreeing to a three-year contract on 23 July 2019.
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Palisades Entertainment, LLC, better known as Palisades Toys, was an American manufacturing and distributing toy & collectibles company geared toward the adult collector market. Established in 1994, the company generally worked within the same vein as competitors such as McFarlane Toys and NECA, producing detailed action figures, statues, plushes, and other collectibles of licensed properties up until its bankruptcy in 2006. Palisades also developed the brand Factory X which continues under Limited by CAS Inc.
Public relations and products
Palisades was notable for its close relationship and commonality with toy fans. The official message board served as one of the company's strongest communication platforms where President and CEO Mike Horn and other employees would directly discuss their products with consumers. In fact, polls were often held to let fans decide upcoming products, and news coverage of the company frequently stemmed from Palisades' forum discussion. Horn and his wife, Kate, were also reachable through the buyer's office. The company's concern with adequate distribution of merchandise forced it to introduce Palisades Collector's Club. This offered exclusive figures and came in response to reports of difficulty in obtaining the Vanishing Cream Beaker figure.
In terms of product quality, Palisades set high standards, particularly with its array of action figures. Such attributes included strong attention to detail and likeness, a high rate of joint articulation and bountiful accessories with tedious working functions. The company frequently employed designers from the fan community of each property they licensed and always credited staff and contributors on packages. Palisades also assigned help from various groups such as the painting and sculpting talents of Plan B Toys and accessory work by Industrial Zoo. The Muppet Show collection, celebrating the shows 25th anniversary, would become one of Palisades' flagship licenses. The line lasted nine series through 2002-2005 and included various convention and store exclusive figures as well as expansive playset. Aside from the aforementioned qualities, it also boasted an innovative technique in which a magnet placed inside the figure's head would allow its magnetically equipped hat to sit firmly in place. This eliminated the need for an unsightly hole in the top the figure's head, which was the traditional way of attaching a hat (via peg).
In 2001, Palisades acquired the license to produce Star Trek figures to commemorate its 35th anniversary. Concept designs were soon being developed and aimed for a style similar to the Playmates Toys' previous Star Trek line. However, due to such comprehensive plans, the figures were never produced.
In October 2003, Fun-4-All unveiled plans to produce Sesame Street action figures but had only developed prototypes before its bankruptcy in mid-2004. A few months later, Palisades obtained the hot license. The debut of this collection was culminated by the 2005 convention exclusive Super Grover with box art by Alex Ross. As one of the most highly anticipated figure lines at the time, the first series of Sesame Street was intended for a mid-2005 release but came to a stirring delay. In fact, two series of figures were planned, and many photos of the fully developed, packaged figure prototypes were released to the public. But according to Horn, the line would ultimately never come to fruition, due to lack of retailer support. This same problem haunted The Muppet Show and led to its cancellation that same year.
Distribution
Palisades products were sold throughout the world at various retail outlets including Toys R Us, KB Toys, Target, Electronics Boutique, Tower Records, Media Play, Sam Goody, Suncoast Video, and various comic shops. Due to the selectivity of the company's products, however, this range of retailers would eventually narrow to a select few and play a significant part in Palisades' floundering success.
On August 1, 2005, Palisades began a partnership with Blister Direct that made them the exclusive distributor of Palisades merchandise in Japan. On September 18, Diamond Comics Distributors became Palisades' sole distributor of North America.
Financial trouble and bankruptcy
While generally praised by the toy community, Palisades' uncompromising devotion to adult collectors proved financially cumbersome. Many products laid within a narrow niche market of passionate fans or were simply unusual in scale or design; an example would be Mega Meatwad, a 5½" tall, non-articulated figure of the simple, limbless character. Yet comprehensive quality and large supply were being exerted on such selective merchandise. Despite such a staggering level of production, Palisades' also offered some of its merchandise at considerably low prices compared to similar high-end products within the industry. A combination of these factors may have attributed to deep expense on behalf of the acclaimed toy company.
Micronauts dilemma
However, the biggest blow to Palisades would be during the production of Micronauts, Series 1. The company initially was given the impression that it would have access to the original Micronauts molds and tooling which would reduce production effort. This would not be the case, however, and plans were scaled back as everything would have to be built from scratch. Curiously, Takara would have no part in this Micronauts revival, so Palisades began seeking out vintage samples from fans to help its development.
Throughout mid-late 2002, according to former Palisades toy designer Bryan Wilkinson, reports from China on the in-development line were positive. However, it would later be discovered that Ken Lilly, who was head of Palisades’ product development, had been deceived by a company acting as Palisades' middleman responsible for subcontracting the factory. By this point, a significant percentage of the commission was paid to the middleman, and the other portion was to be paid after contract fulfillment. This middleman apparently had no intention of ever collecting the rest, and instead, kept most of the money while farming out the production to another facility to develop the toys for a fraction of the cost and with no quality control. The middleman never received the rest of its money and vanished when pursued by Palisades.
With numerous errors and mispackaged and defective parts, employees were appalled at the result, but at this stage, financial losses on the part of Palisades would be inevitable. Not only was the Micronauts line affected, but other lines assigned to the factory at the time, such as part of the early The Muppet Show series, suffered though not as heavily.
Adding to the strain was slow shipment due to the U.S. dock workers' union dispute and lockout in October 2002. Already over-budget Palisades quickly addressed the poor quality but had few resorts and only one employee to handle it. The company could only replace badly damaged returned toys with other poor quality product which, according to Wilkinson, "might have been their worst mistake from a public relations point of view, as some felt that this indicated they were trying to still push and mark up known defective product." Nevertheless, while financial recovery would be impossible, Palisades attempted to salvage their reputation and pride with a second Micronauts series, a retooled Series 1, and a special Series 1.5, working more closely with the manufacturers this time. However, the company lost even more money in doing so, and retailers lost interest. A third series was put in development as a last attempt at redemption but canceled. The Micronauts revival would result in "an albatross for Palisades, their biggest financial loss ever."
Cancellations and demise
Problems with Palisades became evident as early as mid-2005. A forum poll during the prior year let fans choose a Muppet pack-in character or accessory. However, due to a growing retailer disinterest in the line, the winning item, which was a cow, would not be released. Later that year, The Muppet Show was canceled entirely, after which Ken Lilly had posted the tentative series 10 through 14 lineup on their message board. Four items of the series were released while all of the rest never passed the prototype or planning stages. These consisted of basic, Mega, and Mini figures, in addition to playsets such as the massive Muppet Theatre stage.
In November, a press release by President Mike Horn detailed the long-standing delay on Palisades' hotly anticipated Sesame Street action figure line:
"There's not one person on the planet who wants this product line out more than me. It's been alluded to numerous times, but I'll say it here, on the record. The delays on this (and other) lines are directly related to the general lack of retail support. There's simply not enough orders to justify the massive production costs. That said, we are proceeding with production (and likely losing a ton of money in the process) so that we can try to get some momentum started and to satisfy collector desires." In addition, Horn said "I regret to inform you that after more than 11 successful years, Palisades Entertainment, LLC has discontinued its business of manufacturing and selling licensed and proprietary action figures, collectibles, toys and other goods. This development parallels a general trend within the toy industry"
News from the company became scarce in the following months, and it was reported that shortly before Christmas, a large number of key staff members were released. Palisades also did not appear at the 2005 Wizard World Dallas, 2006 UK ToyFair, or 2006 US ToyFair where they would typically have had a significant presence.
Finally, on February 1, 2006, Palisades announced its bankruptcy and subsequent sale of the company to Limited by CAS Inc. Horn discussed the situation in a press release noting, "This development parallels a general trend within the toy industry, including the bankruptcy of one of Palisades’ largest customers." While Limited continued Palisades' Factory X branch of statues and prop replicas, Horn and his wife were not offered positions in the transaction.
Aside from Sesame Street, the sudden disestablishment of Palisades had left several other planned products left unreleased. Those who bought the first series of Aqua Teen Hunger Force figures, for example, would not be able to complete their set with the second series intended for a February 2006 release.
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Chase the Clouds is the debut and only studio album by American singer Keedy, released through Arista Records on March 12, 1991. The album includes the singles "Save Some Love" and "Wishing on the Same Star". "Save Some Love" peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "Wishing on the Same Star" charted at No. 86. "Wishing on the Same Star" was later covered in Spanish by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne as "Mi Primer Amor" in 1992, Australian pop group Girlfriend in 1994, American singer Judy Cheeks in 1996, and Japanese singer Namie Amuro in 2002.
Track listing
Personnel
Keedy – lead and harmony vocals, backing vocals (2, 3, 5, 6, 8)
Claude Gaudette – keyboards, arrangements (1), keyboard programming (2), drum programming (2), additional drum programming (3)
Greg Gerard – keyboards, arrangements, keyboard programming (2), drum programming (2), guitars (2), backing vocals (6)
Teddy Castellucci – guitars (1)
Michael Thompson – guitars (2, 4)
James Harrah – guitars (3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Mark Leggett – guitars (7)
Jimmy Johnson – bass (4, 5)
Randy Jackson – bass (6)
Michael Jay – drum programming (1, 4, 7, 9), arrangements (1, 4, 7, 9)
Kevin Gilbert – drum programming (3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Pat Mastelotto – drums (3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (4, 7)
R.U. Kidding – kazoo (1)
Guy Roche – arrangements (2)
Chris Gerard – backing vocals (3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Sara Gerard – backing vocals (8)
Lauren Superstein – backing vocals (9)
Production
Producers – Claude Gaudette (Tracks 1, 2 & 3); Greg Gerard (All Tracks); Michael Jay (Tracks 1, 4, 7 & 9); Brian Malouf (Tracks 5, 6, 8 & 10).
A&R – Michael Cohen
Executive Producer on Track 2 – Brian Malouf
Production Coordinator on Tracks 1, 4, 7 & 9 – Lauren Superstein
Engineers – Michael McDonald (Tracks 1, 4, 7 & 9); Patrick MacDougall (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10); Frank Roszak (Track 2); Brian Malouf (Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10).
Assistant Engineers – Patrick MacDougall (Tracks 1, 4, 7 & 9); John Jackson (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10); Lawrence Fried (Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10)
Additional Engineer on Track 8 – Bill Gerard
Recorded at The Zoo (Encino, CA); 41B Studios (Westlake Village, CA); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, CA); Image Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA); Trax Recording Studio (Hollywood, CA).
Mixed by Brian Malouf at Ameraycan Studios (North Hollywood, CA) and Can-Am Recorders.
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
Art Direction and Design – Elisa Marshall
Photography – Randee St. Nicholas
References
External links
1991 debut albums
Arista Records albums
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The 1977 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Oran Park International Raceway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 6 February 1977. It was the forty second Australian Grand Prix and also the first round of the 1977 Rothmans International Series. The race was open to Australian Formula 1 cars and Australian Formula 2 cars.
The race was won by Warwick Brown (Lola T430), his first and only Australian Grand Prix victory. Alan Jones (Lola T332) actually finished his 58th and final lap 40 seconds ahead of Brown, however officials penalised Jones 60 seconds for jumping the start and he was officially classified in 4th place.
Classification
Results as follows:
Qualifying
Race
Notes
Pole Position: Warwick Brown – 1:05.7
Fastest Lap: Alan Jones – 1:06.4
Average speed of winning car: 138.6 km/h
Alan Jones was penalised 60 seconds for jumping the start
References
Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
Formula 5000 race reports
Australian Grand Prix
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The Arrows A7 was a Formula One car which the Arrows team used to compete in the 1984 Formula One season. The car made its debut at the 1984 Belgian Grand Prix held that year at Zolder. Driven by versatile Swiss fast man Marc Surer and Belgian Thierry Boutsen, the A7 scored only 3 points when Boutsen and Surer finished 5th and 6th respectively in the 1984 Austrian Grand Prix.
The A7 was the team's first time running a turbocharged engine. This was the same powerful BMW M12 Straight 4 which was also used by the Brabham team, though unlike Brabham who had BMW engineers looking after their engines, the Arrows engines were maintained and developed by Swiss engine guru Heini Mader. This left Arrows with around while the factory units were developing around
Complete Formula One results
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References
A07
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The Arrows A6 was a Formula One car which the Arrows team used to compete in the and Formula One seasons. It was designed by Dave Wass and powered by the Cosworth DFY V8 engine. The A6 used a honeycomb monocoque frame, as a carbon fibre chassis was too expensive.
Drivers of the A6 at various times included Marc Surer, Chico Serra, Thierry Boutsen and World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones.
The A6 was replaced during the season by the team's first turbocharged car, the A7.
An Arrows A6 was entered by Roger Cowman in the 1985 Formula 3000 championship for Slim Borgudd.
Complete Formula One results
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References
See also
Historic Formula One Championship
1983 Race of Champions
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Kevin Daniel Arbouet is an American director, writer and producer. He was born May 29, 1977, in Brooklyn, New York. He and his partner Larry Strong directed the viral video I Got a Crush... on Obama.
Filmography
2022 : Showrunner, True Love - Wondery/Amazon
2006 : An Guide to Kicking Terrorism's Ass! by Amanda Baramki and Yori Tondrowski : Producer
2007 : Serial with Larry Strong : Co-director, Screenplay
2007 : I Believe in America by Michael J. Narvaez : Co-Producer
2008 : Last Day of Summer by Vlad Yudin : Producer
2014 : Police State (2016 film) by Kevin Arbouet : Director
2016 : Fair Market Value by Kevin Arbouet : Director, Screenplay
Television
2008 : Strokes : Co-director and Co-Producer with Larry Strong
References
http://www.ksla.com/2018/09/23/louisiana-film-prize-announces-s-judges-panels/
https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/festivals/bentonville-film-festival-2018/
https://www.screendaily.com/news/arbouet-to-direct-big-screen-benjamin-dove/5106308.article
http://www.playbill.com/article/join-this-free-happy-hour-dance-workout-with-broadway-performers
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/geena-davis-bentonville-film-festival-celebrates_us_590106d4e4b0768c2682e280
https://www.dallasnews.com/life/better-living/2012/08/21/local-bodybuilder-grows-muscle-and-fame-heads-to-mr-olympia-competition
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7784742/garjana-dance-nonprofit-food-tank
https://deadline.com/2013/10/deadline-caption-contest-clooney-photo-bombs-spielberg-and-seinfeld-604433/
External links
1977 births
Living people
Writers from Brooklyn
Film directors from New York City
Film producers from New York (state)
Television personalities from New York City
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The Arrows A8 was a Formula One car, designed by Dave Wass, which the Arrows team used to compete in the and Formula One seasons. Powered by the BMW M12 turbocharged engine, its best finish was when Thierry Boutsen drove it to second place at the 1985 San Marino Grand Prix.
Design and development
The A8 was designed by Dave Wass and utilised a carbon-composite tub behind which was mounted the BMW M12 turbocharged engine, the team continuing the use of this powerplant from the previous season. The engines were maintained by Swiss engine guru Heini Mader. A total of five A8 cars were built for 1985.
Racing history
1985 season
For , Arrows continued with the Belgian driver Thierry Boutsen while Gerhard Berger was contracted to drive the second entry. A podium finish was achieved by Boutsen at Imola where he placed third but was later moved to second when winner Alain Prost's McLaren was disqualified for being underweight. Boutsen himself was lucky to finish the race having run out of fuel within sight of the flag, though he had enough momentum to be able to coast over the line still in third place. This proved to be the A8's high point as it was never again driven to a podium finish.
The A8 scored 14 points during the 1985 season, placing Arrows eighth in the Constructors' Championship.
1986 season
Arrows continued with the A8 for the season, with Marc Surer and Christian Danner nominated as drivers. The team could only place tenth in the Constructors' Championship final standings due to Danner scoring a solitary point for sixth place at the 1986 Austrian Grand Prix. The team introduced a new car, the A9, midseason at the Austrian Grand Prix where it was driven by Boutsen. After qualifying 21st, Boutsen retired from the race with turbo failure. After a further two races at which it failed to finish, the A9 was shelved and the team persevered with the A8 for the remainder of the season.
While Heini Mader did a good job in maintaining the team's BMW engines, they lacked the power of the same engines powering the Brabham and later Benetton teams as those particular engines were continually maintained by BMW, giving them access to new parts, information and factory backed development that Mader did not have. This was shown in the results as the Arrows-BMWs rarely out-qualified or out-raced the Brabhams or Benettons.
Complete Formula One results
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Notes
References
A08
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The Arrows A2 was a Formula One racing car, designed by Tony Southgate and Dave Wass, was used by the Arrows team in the latter half of the 1979 Formula One season. Powered by a Cosworth DFV V8 engine and driven by Riccardo Patrese and Jochen Mass, it was relatively unsuccessful with its best finish being sixth on two occasions.
Design and development
For the season, Tony Southgate supervised the design and development of the Arrows A2. Unlike most contemporary cars, the engine, a Cosworth DFV V8 engine, and gearbox of the A2 were set at a four-degree angled incline. This enabled the use of aerodynamic underfloor sections across the full width of the chassis. This had the effect of raising the car's centre of gravity. The A2 generated extensive downforce, but at the expense of handling. Within weeks design work started on the A2's successor, the A3, and the previous year's car, the A1, was brought back for one final entry in the 1979 season.
Race history
The A2 made its debut at the 1979 French Grand Prix but finished well down the field. Mass managed a pair of sixth places, at the German and Dutch Grands Prix.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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3 points scored using the A1B.
Notes
References
A02
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The Arrows A1 was the car with which Arrows Grand Prix International competed in the and Formula One seasons. It replaced the Arrows FA1, which was banned by the London High Court on 31 July 1978 after a legal protest from the Shadow team on the grounds that it was a carbon-copy of the Shadow DN9. Arrows anticipated that they would lose against Shadow and designed and built the A1 in under 60 days whilst the court case was being heard. Hence Arrows were able to present the Arrows A1 to the press just three days after the court case ended and did not miss any races.
Given that the FA1 was a carbon-copy of the Shadow DN9, the A1 is the essentially first true F1 car designed and built by Arrows Grand Prix International.
The Arrows A1 was one of the first "ground effects" Formula 1 cars and despite being rushed into service without any testing or development after the FA1 was banned, the Arrows A1 proved competitive. Riccardo Patrese finished 4th in the 1978 Canadian GP. A number of further 4th and 5th places followed in 1979 and that year's Monaco GP could have been the Arrows A1 crowning-glory, with Jochen Mass running as high as third in the race (after qualifying eighth) before brake issues dropped him down to sixth at the chequered flag.
In total six Arrows A1 were built, chassis numbers A1-01 to A1-06.
The first three cars (chassis A1-01, A1-02, and A1-03) were used in 1978 and were all built to the same "initial" 1978 specification. For the first race of 1979 (the Argentine GP) three cars (in effect two race-ready cars and a spare monocoque) had been prepared to an updated specification, known as A1-B specification. The two race cars were chassis A1-03 (which had been updated) and the new chassis A1-05, whilst the spare monocoque was new chassis A1-04. During the Argentine GP warm-up A1-05 was crashed and this chassis was subsequently rebuilt to a further improved A1-C specification alongside the final Arrows A1 chassis built, A1-06. Both A1-05 and A1-06 debuted at the 1979 South African GP and were used by Riccardo Patrese (A1-06) and Jochen Mass (A1-05) till the radical, but unsuccessful, Arrows A2 was introduced. In fact, even after the Arrows A2 had been introduced, Riccardo Patrese chose at times to practice in and race the older Arrows A1 believing it to be a superior car, with more predictable handling.
The A1-B update included stiffening the monocoque and revising the "ground-effects" side-pods. The A1-C update included a new rear wing with a single central support, improved rear-suspension geometry and totally re-designed "ground-effects" side-pods which were more swept-up towards the rear tyre.
As the updated A1-C specification cars (A1-05 and A1-06) were introduced, three older specification Arrows A1's (A1-02, A1-03 and A1-04) were sold to Charles Clowes Racing and A1-01 was put on display in a museum. Charles Clowes Racing competed in the 1979 and 1980 Aurora AFX British Formula One Championships with his three A1's. Rupert Keegan won the championship in 1979 in a Clowes-run Arrows A1 and Guy Edwards finished a very close 3rd in the 1980 season in one of Clowes' Arrows A1 behind two Williams FW07's.
Formula One entries
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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* 8 points in scored using the FA1* 2 points in scored using the A2
References
A01
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The Arrows A4 was the car which the Arrows Formula One team used to compete in the 1982 Formula One season.
Complete Formula One results
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The Arrows A5 was the car which the Arrows Formula One team used to compete in the 1982 Formula One season. The A5 appeared late in the season, and was primarily a development car, with the lessons learned to be applied to the A6 for the upcoming 1983 Formula One season.
Complete Formula One results
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A05
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The Arrows FA1 was a Formula One car used by the Arrows Grand Prix International team during the first half of the 1978 Formula One season.
The FA1 was in reality a Shadow DN9, which Tony Southgate had designed for Shadow whilst working as a consultant for them. Southgate mistakenly believed that because he had designed the Shadow DN9 whilst working as a consultant (and not a Shadow employee) that he owned the intellectual rights to the Shadow DN9 design. Based on this misconception Arrows built the FA1, which was essentially a carbon copy of the DN9.
The FA1 was banned by the London High Courts partway through the 1978 season after a legal protest from the Shadow team, on the grounds was a blatant copy of the DN9. The judgement handed down ruled that over 70% of the FA1 was identical to the DN9 and that all four Arrows FA1's should be broken up by Arrows and their parts handed over to the Shadow team.
Knowing it would lose the case, Arrows hurriedly designed and built a new car, the A1, whilst the court case was being heard and did not miss a race.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
3 points scored using the A1.
References
FA1
Formula One controversies
Works involved in plagiarism controversies
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The extreme points of Northern Cyprus are the most notable places that are closest to the most northerly, southerly, easterly and westerly areas of North Cyprus, the northern third of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The most easterly and northerly places are the same, due to the north-easterly protrusion of the Karpass Peninsula.
References
Geography of Cyprus
Lists of landforms of Cyprus
Northern Cyprus-related lists
Northern Cyprus
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The Type 63A (; also known as the ZTS63A) is an amphibious light tank upgraded from the Type 63, designed for river-crossing operations at inland rivers and lakes. Its industrial designation is WZ213.
The Type 63A is being replaced by the ZTD-05 Amphibious Assault Tank.
Development
Before the mid-1990s, Chinese ground forces relied on the Type 63 amphibious light tank developed in the early 1960s. The low swimming-speed and weak firepower of the Type 63 was insufficient to the needs of modern maritime amphibious assault operations that PLA would conduct. The PLA demanded a replacement for the Type 63 in the early 1990s, which led to the development of the Type 63A in 1997. Reports indicate that over 300 examples has been delivered to the PLA by the end of 2000. The tank is also used by the Tanzanian armed forces.
Compared to the Type 63, the Type 63A featured five major improvements:
The modernised Type 63 to Type 63A has given enhanced sea travelling performance, increased swimming speed, improved fire-control system, ATGM capability, and larger 105 mm rifled gun with dual stabilizers.
Design
Characteristics
The Type 63A is a lightly armoured amphibious light tank with a flat, boat-like hull. Suspension is made up of 6 road wheels and lead or return rollers. A redesigned welded turret from the original Type 63 is mounted center of the hull, with the powerpack positioned in the rear. The Type 63A has 2 additional floating tanks to increase the stability of the vehicle in the water. There are 3 water inlets on both sides of the hull. In the rear of the hull there are to allow 2 large water jets for travelling in water.
Armament
Type 63A introduces an enlarged welded turret replacing the original Type 63 turret, the modernised Type 63A utilises a two-axis stabilised ZPL-98 105 mm rifled gun replacing the 85 mm gun. The 105 mm rifled gun fires armour piercing fin stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS), high explosive (HE), and high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) ammunitions, and GP105 laser beam riding guided missiles. A total of 45 rounds can be carried inside the vehicle. APFSDS round can penetrates 400 mm RHA armour or destroy a reinforced concrete bunker at a distance of 2,000 m.
To overcome the inaccuracy of firing when swimming, the GP105 gun-launched missile uses laser-beam guidance which is not affected by wave motion while swimming. The missile has a maximum firing range of 4–5 km with a first hit probability of +90% against stationary targets. It can also engage low-flying helicopters. Secondary weapons include QJC-88 roof-mounted machine gun and Type 63 coaxial machine gun.
Mobility
The Type 63A enhance capability allowing the vehicle to conduct amphibious operations from its host amphibious warfare ships at distances from 5–7 km to the shore at a speed of 28 km/h.
Fire control
The FCS includes digital fire-control computer, integrated commander sight with laser rangefinder input, and white-light spotter or image-stabilised gunner's sight w/ passive night vision. The Type 63A night vision is an image intensifier system. Alternatively the gunner sight can be fitted with a thermal imager night vision. It is also equipped with the satellite positioning (GPS/GLONASS) system to allow accurate landing position in harsh weather conditions and night operations. It's also equipped with computerised fire-control to enable accurate firing both on land and at sea.
Operators
People's Liberation Army Ground Force – 100 as of 2021. Phasing out.
References
Amphibious tanks
Post–Cold War light tanks
Light tanks of the People's Republic of China
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
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FA1 or FA-1 may refer to :
Arrows FA1, a racing car
FA-1 (cable system), a fiber cable crossing the Atlantic
Fresh Aire, the first album in the Fresh Aire album series
ALCO FA-1, a diesel-electric locomotive
Formula Acceleration 1, a formula racing series that started in 2014
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Marquis Wu of Cai (蔡武侯) (died 837 BC), born as Ji ? (姬?; his name is lost to history), was the sixth ruler of the State of Cai from 863 BC to 837 BC during the Gonghe Regency. He was the only known son of Marquis Lì of Cai (蔡厲侯), his predecessor. His reign lasted for 28 years. He was succeeded by his son.
References
Shiji
Chinese Wikipedia
Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
837 BC deaths
9th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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The Arrows A9 was a Formula One car which the Arrows team used to compete in the 1986 Formula One season. It was powered by the massively-powerful BMW M12/13 turbocharged inline-four engine. Unlike the BMWs used by the Brabham and Benetton teams whose engines were maintained and updated regularly by BMW, the Arrows engines were maintained by Swiss engine guru Heini Mader and were rated as the least powerful of the BMW runners.
The A9 was supposed to replace the ageing A8 car, but it turned out to be worse than its predecessor. The new car was the team's first carbon composite chassis, built by British Aerospace but delays in manufacture caused the car to be late. Its lack of performance caused Dave Wass to quit Arrows.
Because of this, the team stuck with the A8 from the previous season. As a result, the A9 only saw action at three races, at the German and Austrian Grands Prix, in the hands of Thierry Boutsen, in both of these races the car failed to finish after its turbocharger failed.
At the Hungarian Grand Prix teammate Christian Danner raced the A9 but retired after 7 laps with rear suspension failure.
The Arrows team found that the rear end was the major problem with the A9 and for a couple of races it was run with its new front end joined to the rear end of the A8. While this actually improved the performance of the new car, Arrows soon returned to running the older A8 for the balance of the season.
Arrows finished the season in 10th place, with a single point, earned by Boutsen's teammate Christian Danner in Austria while driving the A8.
Complete Formula One results
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* scored with the Arrows A8
References
Arrows A9 at f1db
A09
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The Arrows A10 was a Formula One car used by the Arrows team to compete in the and Formula One seasons. The car was designed by Ross Brawn and was upgraded slightly in 1988, racing as A10B.
1987
As BMW announced its intention to officially withdraw at the end of , Arrows team boss Jackie Oliver brokered a deal with support from its primary sponsor, USF&G, to continue the use of the upright 4cyl BMW engines under the name of USF&G subsidiary Megatron, Inc., founded by long-time F1 aficionado John J. Schmidt. The engines were serviced by the team's long time engine tuner Heini Mader from Switzerland, the former mechanic of Jo Siffert.
For 1987 the engines were fitted with a FIA approved pop-off valve which was mandatory for all turbo engines in the season with turbo boost restricted to 4.0 bar (previously turbo boost was restricted only by what the engineers felt the engines could handle, though most, including the BMW M12, usually went no further than 5.6 Bar). Power from the engine, which always had the ability to handle high boost settings, was still estimated to be over for qualifying and around for races with the cars also restricted to just 195 litres of fuel per race. During the season the team continually experienced problems with the pop-off valve cutting in well below the 4.0 Bar limit in both qualifying and races, with Warwick reporting at the opening race in Brazil that the valve was restricting boost to 3.5 Bar, and sometimes it was cutting in at 2.6 Bar (a loss of around ), a situation that didn't improve throughout the season. Without the resources and financial backing available to the likes of Ferrari or Honda, it would take Mader until the three quarters of the way through the season to solve the problem.
In 1987 the team improved from its 10th place in 1986 to finish in 7th place in 1987. Englishman Derek Warwick scored 3 points for the year with a 5th in the British Grand Prix, and 6th in Hungary, while his American teammate Eddie Cheever managed to score 8 points from a 4th in Belgium, 6th in Detroit and Portugal and another 4th in Mexico, in what was his comeback year after missing most of the season when racing Sportscars for Tom Walkinshaw Racing's Silk Cut Jaguar team. His only Formula One race in 1986 was in Detroit for the Haas Lola team.
The car scored 11 points for the season leaving them in 7th place in the Constructors' Championship.
1988
The car, with upgrades to suspension and aerodynamics, was dubbed the A10B and was more successful in 1988 when most teams had converted to running 3.5L naturally aspirated engines in preparation for turbocharged engines being banned from . Arrows continued with the Megatron turbos and finished 5th in the 1988 Constructors' Championship and Eddie Cheever scored the A10's only podium finish with a 3rd placing at the 1988 Italian Grand Prix. Warwick also finished 4th in that race, only 0.582 seconds behind Cheever, in a great result for the team. Warwick finished 8th in the Drivers' Championship with 17 points while Cheever scored 6 points to finish 12th.
During 1988 Arrows were rated as a good chance to pick up points over the naturally aspirated cars due to having more power with the Megatron turbo, reported have around with the new 2.5 bar turbo limit (down in 1988 from 1987's 4.0 bar limit). The turbos were also restricted to just 150 litres of fuel per race in 1988, while the 'atmo' cars were limited only to what the car designers deemed necessary (the Benetton B188 allegedly had the largest fuel tank at 215 litres). The FIA mandated pop-off valve had a habit of cutting in well before the 2.5 bar limit, which restricted power and often left the cars with plenty of fuel to spare at the end of a race (the team had experienced exactly the same problem in 1987). Quite often the pop-off valve cut in at 2.3 bar or below in both qualifying and races (F1 engineers estimated that each 0.1 bar was worth approximately 20 bhp) leaving Warwick and Cheever with a hard time fighting off the atmos of Benetton, Williams and March, let alone challenging the other leading turbo teams: McLaren-Honda (who won 15 of the 16 races in 1988), Ferrari (who won the race that McLaren did not) and Lotus-Honda.
It took until just before the Italian Grand Prix for Heini Mader to get on top of the pop-off valve problem, which turned out to be the FIA unit being located too high above the engine, resulting in less power, a problem that Honda and Ferrari engineers had long since solved thanks to the resources available to them from their respective factories. By moving the valve closer to the engine, Mader had allowed Warwick and Cheever to finally exploit the raw power of the straight 4 turbo and to be much closer to the front than they had been all season. However, while the pop-off valve issue was finally fixed, the engine's other main problem that had remained since the 4-cylinder BMW had first appeared in F1 back in still remained, lack of throttle response from turbo lag followed by the power coming on like a light switch. This hampered the team in the final four races of the season, especially at the Spanish Grand Prix held at the tight Circuito de Jerez where the cars are constantly on and off the throttle over the course of a lap and good throttle response counts for more than outright top speed. Warwick could only qualify 17th at Jerez while Cheever started on the back row of the grid in 25th, his worst qualifying performance since he failed to qualify for the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix in a turbocharged V8 Alfa Romeo.
In qualifying at Monza and with its Megatron engine finally exploiting the full 2.5 bar limit, Warwick and Cheever in the A10B were faster through the start/finish line speed trap at , than the McLaren-Hondas which managed . Cheever was also the fastest through the speed trap at the Rettifilo at , comfortably faster than the McLarens and Ferraris which were only trapped at . Despite this Cheever, who qualified the faster of the two drivers in 5th place (Warwick was 6th, only 0.155 slower), was still 1.686 seconds slower than pole man Ayrton Senna (McLaren). The main difference being the downforce of the McLarens as well as the superior acceleration of the Honda V6. This was a considerable improvement for the team who had been some 5.8 seconds slower (Warwick) than the McLarens just three races earlier at Hockenheim in Germany.
During qualifying for the German Grand Prix, Eddie Cheever, on a quick lap, had a close call at almost on the straight before the circuit's "Stadium" section. On a hot lap, Cheever moved to his left to pass the Eurobrun of Oscar Larrauri, while Ferrari's Gerhard Berger was on his own hot lap and was attempting to pass them both, the problem being Cheever had what was left of the road. Berger put two wheels on the grass which threw his car into a wild spin back across the track and directly between the Arrows and EuroBrun, just missing taking both cars and himself out in a high-speed crash (luckily the Ferrari did not hit the armco and was able to drive away).
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The Arrows A11 was a Formula One car with which the Arrows team competed in the and Formula One seasons, and at the start of the season (badged as a Footwork).
Designed by Ross Brawn, the A11 was the first Arrows car following the ban on turbocharged engines at the end of , being fitted with a normally-aspirated 3.5-litre Ford Cosworth DFR V8 engine. It was raced to reasonably good effect by Derek Warwick and Eddie Cheever in 1989, Warwick finishing in the top six on five occasions and briefly challenging for victory in the Canadian Grand Prix, and Cheever finishing third in the United States Grand Prix, held in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona. With 13 points, Arrows placed seventh in the Constructors' Championship.
For 1990, the car received minor suspension upgrades and became the A11B, while Italian drivers Michele Alboreto and Alex Caffi replaced Warwick and Cheever. 1990 turned out to be far less successful than 1989, however, as the car failed to qualify seven times, and finished in the top six only once, when Caffi took fifth at an attritional race in Monaco. Caffi was also forced to sit out the United States and Spanish races through injury, Germany's Bernd Schneider deputising on both occasions. The two points from Monaco gave Arrows ninth in the Constructors' Championship.
By the start of 1991, the team had been taken over by the Japanese Footwork concern and renamed accordingly, and had also secured a deal to run Porsche V12 engines, replacing the Fords. However, the team's car for that season, the FA12, had to be redesigned when it was discovered that the large Porsche engine, the 3512, could not fit into it. The team therefore modified the A11B into the A11C to accommodate this engine, and used it in the first two races, as well as at San Marino after Alboreto destroyed his redesigned FA12 during practice. From these five attempts, the ageing car qualified only once (Alboreto in the United States), before being finally retired.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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A11
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The Footwork FA13 was a Formula One car used by the Footwork Arrows team in the 1992 Formula One World Championship and, when updated as the FA13B, in the first two races of the championship. It was powered by the Mugen-Honda V10 engine.
The FA13 chassis, designed by Alan Jenkins, was a conventional, straightforward car and Alboreto scored four times, 5th in both the Spanish and San Marino Grands Prix and 6th in both the Brazilian and Portuguese Grands Prix, the team finishing with six points and equal 7th with Ligier in the Constructors' Championship.
Complete Formula One results
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* All 1993 points were scored using the Footwork FA14
References
FA13
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The Footwork FA14 was a Formula One car with which the Footwork team competed in part of the 1993 Formula One season. It replaced the FA13B, a revised version of the previous year's FA13 chassis that had been used for the first two races of that season. It was driven by veteran Derek Warwick, returning from a 3-year sabbatical, and Aguri Suzuki, retained from 1992.
Race history
At its first race, the attritional European GP at Donington Park, neither driver finished. The FA14's performance proved to be patchy; Suzuki managed a run of seven straight retirements towards the end of the season, while Warwick frequently finished outside the top ten. However, over the course of the season the car's performance steadily improved, with Warwick finishing sixth at his home race at Silverstone, and then fourth at the Hungaroring for his final F1 points. Suzuki's improvement throughout the season was even more marked; after qualifying on the back row at Donington, he qualified sixth at Spa ahead of Warwick and was running fifth until his gearbox retired, and finished seventh at the final race at Adelaide, although he and Warwick did collide at the first corner at Monza.
1993 proved to be both drivers' final full season in F1. Warwick retired at the end of the season, while Suzuki drove briefly for Jordan and Ligier in the following seasons. For the 1994 season they were replaced by Christian Fittipaldi and Gianni Morbidelli.
Race results
(key)
† Driver did not finish the race, but were still classified as they completed 90% of the race distance.
References
FA14
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Walter Fellows (23 February 1834, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire – 23 July 1902, Toorak, Melbourne) was an English amateur cricketer who later became a clergyman in Australia. He was the brother of Harvey Fellows, who also played first-class cricket.
Cricket player
Walter Fellows was the seventh son of Thomas Fellows, of Moneyhill, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was an all-rounder who was first noted as a schoolboy cricketer at Westminster. In first-class cricket, he was mainly associated with Oxford University and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He played for several predominantly amateur teams including the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series. He had a reputation as a "terrific and very successful hitter". Fellows' name has appeared in the "records" section of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for many years under the heading "Record Hit" with the same wording: "The Rev. W. Fellows, while at practice on the Christ Church ground at Oxford in 1856, drove a ball bowled by Charles Rogers 175 yards from hit to pitch." A note reproduced in an Australian newspaper in 1890 states that Fellows at the time was 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 17 stones 4 pounds.
Fellows made 24 known appearances in first-class matches from 1853 to 1857. He played in the University match for Oxford University against Cambridge University as a lower middle-order batsman and a bowler for four years from 1854 to 1857, making important batting contributions in 1854, 1856 and 1857 and having some limited success as a bowler in 1855 and 1856; he appeared in the Gentlemen v Players matches at Lord's from 1855 to 1857.
Later career
Fellows was ordained in 1858, and served as curate at Weedon and at Sidmouth, before he emigrated to Australia in 1863 to become the first vicar of St John's Church, Toorak. In Australia, he played for the Melbourne Cricket Club; a report in an Australian newspaper in 1878 indicates that Fellows was discouraged from playing in major matches by his bishop, Charles Perry, but that the retirement of Perry brought about a more permissive attitude from the new incumbent, James Moorhouse, and Fellows was able to resume.
He resigned his position due to ill health in 1900, and died at Toorak parsonage near Melbourne on 23 July 1902.
Family
Fellows married, in 1862, Julia Packe, daughter of Rev. Christopher Packe, vicar of Ruislip.
References
Sources
External links
CricketArchive record
1834 births
1902 deaths
English cricketers
English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
Gentlemen cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
People from Rickmansworth
Gentlemen of England cricketers
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
19th-century English Anglican priests
English emigrants to colonial Australia
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Marquis Yi of Cai (蔡夷侯) (died 809 BC), born as Ji ? (姬?; his name is lost to history), was the seventh ruler of the State of Cai from 837 BC to 809 BC. He was the only known son of Marquis Wu of Cai (蔡武侯). His reign lasted for 28 years like his father's. He was succeeded by his son.
References
Shiji
Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
809 BC deaths
9th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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First round selections
The following are the first round picks in the 1988 Major League Baseball draft.
Supplemental first round selections
Compensation picks
Other notable players
Arthur Rhodes†, 2nd round, 34th overall by the Baltimore Orioles
Bob Hamelin, 2nd round, 48th overall by the Kansas City Royals
Darren Oliver, 3rd round, 63rd overall by the Texas Rangers
Scott Servais, 3rd round, 64th overall by the Houston Astros
Marquis Grissom†, 3rd round, 76th overall by the Montreal Expos
David Weathers, 3rd round, 82nd overall by the Toronto Blue Jays
Luis Gonzalez†, 4th round, 90th overall by the Houston Astros
Turk Wendell, 5th round, 112th overall by the Atlanta Braves
Mickey Morandini†, 5th round, 120th overall by the Philadelphia Phillies
John Valentin, 5th round, 121st overall by the Boston Red Sox
Pat Listach, 5th round, 133rd overall by the Milwaukee Brewers
Eric Karros, 6th round, 140th overall by the Los Angeles Dodgers
Gary DiSarcina, 6th round, 143rd overall by the California Angels
Rheal Cormier, 6th round, 158th overall by the St. Louis Cardinals
Greg McMichael, 7th round, 163rd overall by the Cleveland Indians
Jim Edmonds†, 7th round, 169th overall by the California Angels
Mark Wohlers†, 8th round, 190th overall by the Atlanta Braves
Tim Naehring, 8th round, 199th overall by the Boston Red Sox
Tim Wakefield†, 8th round, 200th overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates
Mark Clark, 9th round, 236th overall by the St. Louis Cardinals
Pete Rose Jr., 12th round, 295th overall by the Baltimore Orioles
Scott Hatteberg, 12th round, 302nd overall by the Philadelphia Phillies, but did not sign
Paul Byrd†, 13th round, 332nd overall by the Cincinnati Reds, but did not sign
Kenny Lofton†, 17th round, 428th overall by the Houston Astros
Darren Lewis, 18th round, 463rd overall by the Oakland Athletics
John Flaherty, 25th round, 641st overall by the Boston Red Sox
Joey Hamilton, 28th round, 711th overall by the Baltimore Orioles, but did not sign
Woody Williams†, 28th round, 732nd overall by the Toronto Blue Jays
Russ Davis, 29th round, 755th overall by the New York Yankees
Jeff Frye, 30th round, 765th overall by the Texas Rangers
Damion Easley†, 30th round, 767th overall by the California Angels
Deion Sanders, 30th round, 781st overall by the New York Yankees
Mike Matheny, 31st round, 810th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays, but did not sign
Aaron Sele†, 37th round, 961st overall by the Minnesota Twins, but did not sign
Marvin Benard, 39th round, 1003rd overall by the Chicago White Sox, but did not sign
Orlando Palmeiro, 43rd round, 1114th overall by the New York Yankees, but did not sign
Scott Erickson†, 44th round, 1140th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays, but did not sign
Fernando Viña†, 51st round, 1266th overall by the New York Yankees, but did not sign
Mike Piazza‡, 62nd round, 1390th overall by the Los Angeles Dodgers
† All-Star
‡ Hall of Famer
NFL players drafted
Rodney Peete, 14th round, 359th overall by the Oakland Athletics, but did not sign
Todd Marinovich, 43rd round, 1101st overall by the California Angels, but did not sign
Hart Lee Dykes, 54th round, 1300th overall by the Chicago White Sox, but did not sign
See also
List of first overall Major League Baseball draft picks
External links
Complete draft list from The Baseball Cube database
References
Major League Baseball draft
Draft
Major League Baseball draft
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Bruno Martino (11 November 1925 – 12 June 2000) was an Italian composer, singer, and pianist.
Career
Martino learned to play the piano at the age of fourteen. A jazz fan, he spent the early years of his career performing with European radio and night club orchestras. In the mid-1950s he was a member of the RAI orchestra. He later started composing music for popular Italian singers, eventually touring the world with his own orchestra. This resulted in a late-blossoming career as a singer.
Internationally he is best known for his 1960 song Estate, a standard that has been performed by many jazz musicians and singers since the early 1960s, including João Gilberto, Joe Diorio, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Shirley Horn, Eliane Elias, Michel Petrucciani, Monty Alexander, Mike Stern, John Pizzarelli and Robert Jospé.
Another one of Martino's hit-songs, Dracula Cha Cha (later also called Dracula Cha Cha Cha) was originally composed for Steno's horror-comedy film Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959) and released as a single the same year. It was later included in the album Italian Graffiti (1960/61) and performed onscreen in Vincente Minnelli's film Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). It inspired the title of Kim Newman's novel Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1998), which takes place in Rome in 1959. There were several recordings by other artists, including Bob Azzam, Bob McFadden, Renato Rascel and Henri Salvador. Martino himself released a follow-up song called Draculino (Vampiro un po' bambino) (1959).
Discography
1959 - I grandi successi di Bruno Martino
1960 - Nuovi successi
1963 - Bruno Martino
1964 - Bruno Martino con orchestra
1965 - Dedicato a te
1969 - Sabato sera
1970 - The Best of Bruno Martino
1971 - Cos'hai trovato in lui
1972 - Ieri, oggi e sempre con Bruno Martino
1975 - I Love You
1977 - In the Night
1978 - Night Games
1980 - Il pianoforte e tu
1981 - Starai bene con me
1983 - Inconfutabilmente mia
1986 - Innamorarsi mai
References
1925 births
2000 deaths
20th-century Italian composers
20th-century Italian male musicians
20th-century Italian male singers
20th-century pianists
Italian bandleaders
Italian jazz pianists
Italian jazz singers
Italian male composers
Italian male pianists
Italian pop musicians
Male jazz musicians
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A Kashmir rug is a hand-knotted oriental rug from Kashmir valley in India, which is associated with Kashmiri handicrafts. Kashmir rugs or carpets have intricate designs that are primarily oriental, floral style in a range of colors, sizes and quality.
The Kashmiri( /kaʃˈmɪəri/ ) word denotes a native or inhabitant of Kashmir. It also refers to the language of Kashmir. Rug ( /rʌɡ/ ) word is recognised with the floor covering of thick woven material ("an oriental rug").
Kashmir carpets are handmade, hand-knotted, and are primarily made using pure wool, pure silk and occasionally wool and silk blends. These are available in wide-ranging colors, designs and sizes.
Kashmir rugs are primarily made in the vicinity of Srinagar, Kashmir in North India and neighboring villages in rural parts of Kashmir. Kashmir rugs are one of the most sought-after artworks by connoisseurs around the world owing to their exceptional workmanship.
Kashmir rugs are available in a range of standard sizes, such as 3'x2', 4'x2'6", 5'x3', 6'x4', 7'x5', 10'x8', 12'x9', 14'x10', 15'x12' and 18'x12'. Larger sizes than these dimensions are mostly custom-made.
Kashmir rugs are renowned to have bright, jewel-like color tones such as sapphire blue, ruby red, emerald green, aquamarine, amethyst, and ivory. Rugs from Kashmir are traditionally made in oriental, floral designs that typically involve significant and culturally important motifs such as the paisley, chinar tree, (the oriental plane) and tree-of-life. Most of these designs are rooted in the Kashmiri way of life and are a symbolic representation of the age-old Kashmir tradition of hospitality, warmth, and love.
It is often said in Kashmir folklore that a home is incomplete without a soul - a Kashmir carpet. The ethos of Kashmir culture is often represented in the motifs of a Kashmir rug. Although, the art of making these gorgeous rugs is not native to Kashmir and was first introduced nearly 400 years back by the Mughal rulers in India. Yet the indigenous brilliance of the local crafts-persons has made Kashmir carpets one of the most sought after works of art in the world.
Rugs of Kashmir have always found more appeal due to their quaint designs and an interesting blend of classic colors inspired by the cultural microcosm of Kashmir and at times the colors were contemporary in nature that made carpets of Kashmir widely popular across North America, South Asia and Europe.
References
Rugs and carpets
Pakistani rugs and carpets
Kashmiri culture
Indian rugs and carpets
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Marquis Xi of Cai (蔡釐侯) (died 761 BC), given name Suǒshi (所事), was the eighth ruler of the State of Cai from 809 BC to 761 BC. He was the only known son of Marquis Yi of Cai (蔡夷侯), his predecessor. His reign lasted for 48 years, the longest reign in Cai history. He was succeeded by his son.
References
Shiji
Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
761 BC deaths
9th-century BC Chinese monarchs
8th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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SUPERAntiSpyware is a software application which can detect and remove spyware, adware, trojan horses, rogue security software, computer worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications. Although it can detect various types of malware, SUPERAntiSpyware is not designed to replace antivirus software.
Details
SUPERAntiSpyware's virus definitions are updated several times a week and generally receive a build update once a month. The company claims that it is specifically designed to be compatible with other security applications, and can, therefore, be used even when other applications are incompatible with other anti-spyware products.
The product is available as freeware for personal use with limited functions.
Reception
In 2011, SUPERAntiSpyware received a "DISMAL" rating from PC Magazine, which complained that it had no real-time protection and the lowest detection rate and lowest score in a malware removal test. Both the freeware and commercial version received a 4 out of 5 star average user rating on CNET's Download.com website.
Acquisition
On 16 July 2011, SUPERAntiSpyware was acquired by Support.com. The transaction was structured as an acquisition of assets with a cash purchase price of $8.5 million. All employees, including the founder, Nick Skrepetos, joined the acquirer.
References
External links
Spyware removal
Windows-only proprietary software
Windows security software
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The World Bowling Writers (WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame was established in 1993 and is located in the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, on the International Bowling Campus in Arlington, Texas.
History
The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame was located at 11 Stadium Plaza, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and shared the same building with the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum, until November 8, 2008. It moved to Arlington and reopened in early 2010. In 2012, the WBW was merged with the International Bowling Media Association. After the merger, the WBW Hall of Fame inductees became part of the IBMA Luby Hall of Fame.
Criteria for election
WBW Hall of Famers are chosen strictly in the basis of athletic performance, to even qualify for consideration, a player must be an amateur and accumulate a minimum of 15 points in any combination of four specifically designated international competitions;
the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) adult World Championships
the Bowling World Cup
the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) adult Zone Masters Championships
and the Olympic Games
with gold medals occurring in an event other than five-person team. Five points are credited for a gold medal, three points for silver, and one for bronze.
Each summer, the WBW Administrator scans a database to determine eligible candidates and sends ballots with those players’ names and resumes to current officers of the World Bowling Writers, which formed the Hall’s Board.
Election process
There are two categories: “Men” and “Women.” Voters can cast one vote in each category for every three names listed there, and one vote for any group of “leftovers” names in each category that totals less than three. The man and woman who receive the most votes are elected.
In the case of ties, more than one man or one woman can be elected, provided that each candidate in the tie receives at least two-thirds of the total votes cast in that category that year. If that standard is not met, no one is elected in that category that year.
(WBW) International Bowling Hall of Fame members
See footnote
2013 Inductees
See also
United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame
References
External links
International Bowling Media Association (IBMA) is a 2012 merger between World Bowling Writers and Bowling Writers Association of America.
Ten-pin bowling
Bowl
Bowl
Sports in Arlington, Texas
Awards established in 1993
Bowling organizations
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The Aracanidae are a family of bony fishes related to the boxfishes. They are somewhat more primitive than the true boxfishes, but have a similar protective covering of thickened scale plates. They are found in the Indian Ocean and the west Pacific. Unlike the true boxfishes, they also inhabit deep waters, of over in depth.
Fossil species
The family is represented in the fossil record by the extinct genus Proaracana with the single species P. dubia known from the Middle Eocene of Italy.
References
Marine fish families
Tetraodontiformes
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Smoked glass is glass held in the smoke of a candle flame (or other inefficiently burning hydrocarbon) such that one surface of the sheet of glass is covered in a layer of smoke residue. The glass is used as a medium for recording pen traces in scientific instruments, and is also used to track pheromone deposition in ants
The advantages of using the glass are that the recording medium is easily renewable (just re-smoke the glass), and that the trace obtained can easily be magnified by projection onto a suitable surface. A variation on this scheme is the use of smoked paper in early seismographs.
The effect of smoked glass can be incorporated into glass manufacture by adding darkening materials, such that light passing through the glass is decreased in brightness. It can be used aesthetically, for example, in the manufacture of coffee tables with smoked glass tops. It can also be used in scientific instruments as a filter, as in the use of smoked glass in cross-staves and sextants, allowing operators to make sun sightings without damaging their eyesight.
See also
Window film
References
Glass coating and surface modification
Smoke
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The Fountain: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2006 film The Fountain directed by Darren Aronofsky. Released on November 27, 2006, through Nonesuch Records, the album is a collaboration between contemporary classical composer and frequent Aronofsky collaborator Clint Mansell, classical string quartet the Kronos Quartet, and post-rock band Mogwai. The score received mixed reviews from critics and was nominated for several awards.
Recording
Clint Mansell—the composer for Aronofsky's previous films Pi and Requiem for a Dream—reprised his role for The Fountain. The San Francisco-based string quartet Kronos Quartet—who previously performed for the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack—and Scottish post-rock band Mogwai also contributed to the film score. Darren Aronofsky hoped that David Bowie—whose song "Space Oddity" helped influence the film's space traveler storyline—would record a song when the musical artist worked briefly with composer Clint Mansell during production. Aronofsky planned for Bowie to rework pieces of the score and to vocalize them, but the plan was unsuccessful. After the score was completed, Nonesuch Records, the home of The Fountain musical contributor Kronos Quartet, released the soundtrack on November 21, 2006.
Mansell researched possible scores to compose one tying together the three storylines. He sought to have an organic feeling to the score and explored implementing orchestral and electronic elements that would have "a real human element to them that breathes". Contrary to most films' scores composed in post-production, Mansell's score was composed concurrently with the film's production; he created a mood that flourished as the film progressed. The composer described the parallel process, "It's instinct and listening to what the film is telling you it needs".
Mansell drew from five to six years of writing material for The Fountain. The composer planned for the score to be pure percussion when the film was first meant to be epic in scale. Mansell, lacking classical training, collaborated with arranger Justin Skomarovsky in creating the score. They deconstructed the composer's initial pieces for The Fountain and re-played them in a key so the lead melodies could harmonically play with every progression. The song "Together We Will Live Forever" was an electronic piece designed by Mansell to be the protagonist's memory theme. Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, was commissioned to create a vocal piece over Skomarovsky's piano arrangement of "Together We Will Live Forever" for the end credits, but the director decided that the vocals would not be appropriate to end the film. The song was ultimately performed by pianist Randy Kerber.
Marketing and reception
The content and research agency Ramp Industry launched The Fountain Remixed, an official website driven by user-generated content. Users could download freely provided audio parts from The Fountain'''s film score, remix the music, and upload the work onto the website to be evaluated by other users.
Mansell won the Chicago Film Critics Association's 2006 award for Best Original Score, and he also won the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year and Public Choice Award. He was also nominated for the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for The Fountain, but lost to Alexandre Desplat for The Painted Veil. Mansell also lost a nomination for the 2006 BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Composer to Philip Glass for The Illusionist''.
Track listing
All music composed by Clint Mansell.
"The Last Man" – 6:09
"Holy Dread!" – 3:52
"Tree of Life" – 3:45
"Stay with Me" – 3:36
"Death Is a Disease" – 2:34
"Xibalba" – 5:23
"First Snow" – 3:09
"Finish It" – 4:25
"Death Is the Road to Awe" – 8:26
"Together We Will Live Forever" – 5:02
Personnel
Kronos Quartet
Hank Dutt – viola and string arrangement
David Harrington – violin and string arrangement
John Sherba – violin and string arrangement
Jeffrey Zeigler – cello and string arrangement
Mogwai
Dominic Aitchison – bass guitar
Stuart Braithwaite – guitar
Martin Bulloch – drums
Barry Burns – piano
John Cummings – guitar
Additional performers
James Bagwell – piano
Martin Doner – tenor
Misa Iwama – contralto
Melissa Kelly – soprano
Randy Kerber – piano
Karen Krueger – contralto
Drew Martin – tenor
Christopher Roselli – bass singing
Justin Skomarovsky – celesta, film score arrangement, glockenspiel, and programming
Charles Sprawls – bass singing
Kathy Theil – soprano
Technical personnel
Ameoba Proteus – design
Tony Doogan – production and engineering for Mogwai
Geoff Foster – engineering, mixing, production, and sequencing for choir
Scott Fraser – production and engineering for Kronos Quartet
Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine, United States
Clint Mansell – production
Dawn Thompson – assistant engineering for Kronos Quartet
André Zeers – editing for Kronos Quartet
References
External links
Homepage for the album from Nonesuch Records
The Fountain: Music from the Motion Picture from Allmusic
2006 soundtrack albums
Drama film soundtracks
Instrumental soundtracks
Kronos Quartet albums
Mogwai soundtracks
Nonesuch Records soundtracks
Collaborative albums
Clint Mansell soundtracks
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Diuris behrii, commonly known as golden cowslips, is a species of orchid which is endemic to southern continental Australia. It has between three and six grass-like leaves and a flowering stem with up to four drooping, yellow flowers with dark streaks on the labellum. The flowers appear between September and November in its native range.
Description
Diuris behrii is a tuberous, perennial herb with between three and six grass-like, narrow linear leaves up to long. Up to four drooping, bright yellow flowers are borne on a flowering stem up to tall. The pedicel of each flower is enclosed in a bract. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped, up to long and leans forwards. It has dark streaks similar to those on the labellum. The lateral sepals are greenish, linear to lance-shaped, up to long and turn downwards and parallel to each other. The petals spread sideways or droop and are narrow egg-shaped to elliptic, up to long on a green, stalk-like "claw". The labellum is up to long, often has brownish streaks, and has three lobes. The centre lobe is a broad wedge shape, often with irregular edges. The lateral lobes are small and oblong with toothed edges. There are two ridge-like calli about long near the mid-line of the labellum. Flowering occurs from September to November.
Taxonomy and naming
Diuris behrii was first formally described in 1847 by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal who published his description in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde. The specific epithet (behrii) honours the German-American botanist, Hans Hermann Behr.
Distribution and habitat
The golden cowslip orchid grows in grassland and woodland mostly in western Victoria but is also found in south-eastern South Australia. Plants previously included in D. behrii in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory are now segregated as D. amabilis.
References
behrii
Orchids of New South Wales
Orchids of Victoria (state)
Endemic orchids of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1847
Taxa named by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
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Marquis Gòng of Cai (蔡共侯) (?–760 BC), born as Ji Xīng (姬興), was the ninth ruler of the State of Cai from 761 BC to 760 BC. He was the only known son of Marquis Yi of Cai (蔡夷侯), his predecessor. His reign only lasted for 2 years, which seem reasonable since his father's reign was 48 years making him an old man by the time he became Marquis. He was succeeded by his son.
References
Shiji
Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
760 BC deaths
8th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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The 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship was the 14th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began at Symmons Plains on 5 March 1973 and ended at Warwick Farm after eight rounds. The series was won by Allan Moffat in a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III.
The night before Round 6 of the series at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie. Rather than see Moffat out of the race (he was the series points leader at the time having won the opening 4 rounds and finishing 3rd in round 5), Murray Carter loaned Moffat his GTHO Falcon for the race. Peter Brock won the race while Moffat kept his points lead by finishing second. Moffat's stolen Falcon was later found abandoned in the Adelaide Hills where the thieves who had taken it for a "joy ride" dumped it when it ran out of fuel.
Teams and drivers
The following drivers competed in the 1973 ATCC. The series consisted of eight rounds held in six different states. As of 2022, Elemer Vajda's entry is still the only Subaru to have contested an ATCC/V8 Supercars race.
Calendar
The 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of eight rounds.
Drivers Championship
Points were awarded 4-3-2-1 for the first four race positions, and then 9-6-4-3-2-1 for the top 6 of each class.
References
Australian Touring Car Championship seasons
Touring Cars
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Sultan of Pahang () is the title of the hereditary constitutional head of Pahang, Malaysia. The current sultan is Al-Sultan Abdullah ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah. He is the Head of Islam in the state and the source of all titles, honours and dignities in the state. Historically, the title was also used by rulers of the Old Pahang Sultanate.
History
The Old Pahang Kingdom appeared in foreign records from as early as 5th century and at its height, covered much of the modern state of Pahang and the entire southerly part of the peninsula. Throughout its pre-Melakan history, Pahang was established as a mueang or naksat of some major regional Malayic mandalas including Langkasuka, Srivijaya and Ligor. Around the middle of the 15th century, it was brought into the orbit of Melaka Sultanate and subsequently established as a vassal Muslim Sultanate in 1470, following the coronation of the grandson of the former Maharaja as the first Sultan of Pahang.
Over the years, Pahang grew independent from Melakan control and at one point even established itself as a rival state to Melaka until the latter's demise in 1511. At the height of its influence, the Sultanate was an important power in Southeast Asian history and controlled the entire Pahang basin, bordering to the north, the Pattani Sultanate, and adjoins to that of Johor Sultanate to the south. To the west, it also extends jurisdiction over part of modern-day Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. During this period, Pahang was heavily involved in attempts to rid the Peninsula of the various foreign imperial powers; Portugal, Holland and Aceh. After a period of Acehnese raids in the early 17th century, Pahang entered into the amalgamation with the successor of Melaka, Johor, when its 14th Sultan, Abdul Jalil Shah III, was also crowned the 7th Sultan of Johor. After a period of union with Johor, it was eventually revived as a modern sovereign Sultanate in the late 19th century by the Bendahara dynasty.
After a period of union with Johor, the autonomous Pahang Kingdom came into existence with the consolidation of power by the Bendahara family, following the gradual dismemberment of Johor Empire. A self rule was established in Pahang in the late 18th century, with Tun Abdul Majid declared as the first Raja Bendahara. The area around Pahang formed a part of the hereditary domains attached to this title and administered directly by the Raja Bendahara. The weakening of the Johor sultanate and the disputed succession to the throne was matched by an increasing independence of the great territorial magnates; the Bendahara in Pahang, the Temenggong in Johor and Singapore, and the Yamtuan Muda in Riau.
In 1853, the fourth Raja Bendahara Tun Ali, renounced his allegiance to the Sultan of Johor and became independent ruler of Pahang. He was able to maintain peace and stability during his reign, but his death in 1857 precipitated civil war between his sons. The younger son Wan Ahmad challenged the succession of his half-brother Tun Mutahir, in a dispute that escalated into a civil war. Supported by the neighbouring Terengganu Sultanate and the Siamese, Wan Ahmad emerged victorious, establishing controls over important towns and expelled his brother in 1863. He served as the last Raja Bendahara, and was proclaimed Sultan of Pahang by his chiefs in 1881.
List of rulers
House of Melaka
Sultan of Pahang
1470–1475: Muhammad Shah
1475–1495: Ahmad Shah
1495–1512: Abdul Jamil Shah reign jointly with Mansur Shah I
1495–1519: Mansur Shah I reign jointly with Abdul Jamil Shah
1519–1530: Mahmud Shah
1530–1540: Muzaffar Shah
1540–1555: Zainal Abidin Shah
1555–1560: Mansur Shah II
1560–1575: Abdul Jamal Shah reign jointly with Abdul Kadir Alauddin Shah
1560–1590: Abdul Kadir Alauddin Shah reign jointly with Abdul Jamal Shah
1590–1592: Ahmad Shah II
1592–1614: Abdul Ghafur Muhiuddin Shah
1614–1615: Alauddin Riayat Shah
1615–1617: Abdul Jalil Shah III first time
1617–1623: Interregnum
Sultan of Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga (Johor Empire)
From 1623, Pahang was nominally merged with Johor when Johor's Sultan Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah died and Raja Bujang emerged as the new ruler of Johor-Pahang. Installed as Abdul Jalil Riayat Shah III, he reigned until 1677. With the decline of Aceh, Johor-Pahang gradually extend its suzerainty over the Riau-Lingga islands.
1623–1677: Abdul Jalil Shah III
1641–1676: Yamtuan Muda Raja Bajau – heir apparent to the Johor throne who ruled Pahang as separate dominion until his death in 1676.
1677–1685: Ibrahim Shah
1685–1699: Mahmud Shah II
House of Bendahara
Sultan of Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga (Johor Empire)
When Mahmud Shah II died in 1699, Bendahara Tun Abdul Jalil became Sultan of Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga and assumed the title Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah IV. His appointment was accepted by Johor chiefs based on an understanding that the Bendahara would succeed to the throne if the Sultan died without heirs.
1699–1720: Abdul Jalil Shah IV (Bendahara Tun Abdul Jalil)
1722–1760: Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah
1760–1761: Abdul Jalil Muazzam Shah
1761-1761: Ahmad Riayat Shah
1761–1770: Mahmud Shah III
Raja Bendahara of Pahang
By the early 19th century, the Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga empire had begun to break up. After 1806, the empire's constituent parts effectively became principalities, and the cultural unity that had hitherto existed between the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Riau-Lingga was gradually destroyed. The signing of Anglo-Dutch Treaty in 1824 further undermined the cohesion of the Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga empire and contributed to the emergence of Pahang and Johor as independent states. The Treaty confirmed, among other things, that the islands south of Singapore, including Java and Sumatra, were to remain the preserve of the Dutch, while the Peninsula would be within the British sphere of influence. The Malay Rulers were not consulted about the Treaty, and the Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga empire became irrevocably divided when a succession dispute gave rise to two centres of power, one in Riau-Lingga (under Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah, r. 1812–1832) and the other in Johor (under Hussein Shah, r.1819–1835).
From here, the Raja Bendahara of Pahang grew increasingly independent. While Bendahara Tun Ali had acknowledged Abdul Rahman as his overlord, the Anglo-Dutch Treaty confined the Sultan to Riau-Lingga, where he was deemed a vassal of the Dutch, and prevented him from exercising his control over the Malay Peninsula, which had come under the British. Bendahara Tun Ali declared his autonomy from the empire by 1853. He was able to maintain peace and stability during his reign, but his death in 1858 precipitated civil war among his sons, Tun Mutahir and Tun Ahmad, the result of which the formation of modern Pahang Sultanate.
1770–1802: Tun Abdul Majid
1802–1803: Tun Muhammad
1803–1806: Tun Koris
1806–1858: Tun Ali
1858–1863: Tun Mutahir
1863–1881: Tun Ahmad later proclaimed as Sultan
Sultan of Modern Pahang
1881–1914: Ahmad al-Mu’azzam Shah
1914–1917: Mahmud Shah
1917–1932: Abdullah al-Mu’tassim Billah Shah
1932–1974: Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin al-Mu’azzam Shah
1974–2019: Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah. Sultan Ahmad abdicated in ill health after Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicated as King of Malaysia on 6 January 2019, allowing his son to become Sultan of Pahang and thus King of Malaysia.
2019–present: Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah. Sultan Abdullah became King of Malaysia on 31 January 2019, shortly after he replaced his father as Sultan of Pahang on 15 January.
Family tree
See also
Pahang
Family tree of Malaysian monarchs
References
Bibliography
Pahang
History of Pahang
1470 establishments in Asia
1881 establishments in Asia
1880s establishments in British Malaya
People from the Federated Malay States
People from British Malaya
19th-century monarchs in Asia
20th-century Malaysian politicians
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Lumino () is a hip-hop group from Mongolia founded in 1996. Their music is dance-friendly and often melodic, with frequent contributions by external vocalists. Like most Mongolian bands, they like to include elements of traditional Mongolian music in their songs.
The creation of the band was inspired by a person named Jason who worked as an English teacher in Mongolia in 1996 and 1997. Besides giving language lessons, he also introduced his students to hip-Hop music. Five of them then came together to form Lumino, but a few years after the formation of the band two of their members, Chinzo and Hülgüü, stopped performing with the band. At one point Lumino consisted of more than a dozen members, headed by Skitzo, including the main MCs Skitzo, MC, Chinzo, and Lizard and MCs from the groups Old School and Skitzo's Free Style.
Around 1999 the group went through a major restructuring and changed their strategy in terms of songs they were producing. They also cut their members to five. Previously known for their hardcore rap, Lumino also started to make softer songs for mainstream audiences, and the head of the band was replaced by MC. A number of songs such as Zam and Hüniih were made into video clips and repeatedly played on TV, while the video for Namaig dagaad tseng was censored because of its too explicit imagery.
Discography
(End garch irev, 2001)
(Ireed butssan khair mini, 2002)
(Gerelt khorvood, 2003)
(Lamba guain nulims, 2005)
(Khuuchin surguuli "Old school", 2007)
Members
D. Temujin (MC) (The General of Mongolian HipHop)
B. Bat-Khishig (Baji)
D. Ankhbaatar (Skitzo) (a.k.a. CUTHBERTH)
T. Zolbayar (Dj Zolo)
Video
2000 “Бүтэлгүй хайр” Zaya’sh
2000 “Баярлалаа,Ухаарлаа” Zaya’sh
2001 “Энд гарч ирэв” Оны шилдэг клип Zaya’sh
2002 “Зам” Zaya’sh
2003 “Ирээд буцсан хайр минь” Zaya’sh
2003 “Хэдэн үгс” Lemon production
2003 “Наддаа ирээч” Zaya’sh
2003 “Намайг дагаад цэнгэ!” Lemon production
2003 “Гэрэлт хорвоод” Zaya’sh
2004 “Эхнэртээ бичсэн захидал” Zaya’sh
2004 “Хүнийх” Zaya’sh
2004 “Хип хоп рыцаръ” Lemon production
2004 “2 дахь хайр” Hero entertainment
2004 “Хүслийн шөнө” Lu entertainment
2005 “Freestyle” Lemon production
2005 “Кармааны хулгайч” Hero entertainment
2005 “Хайртай гэдгээ хэлээч” Cross studio
2006 “Өвөл” G entertainment
2006 “Тайван” Skin entertainment
2006 “Надтай цуг баяс” Lu entertainment
2006 “Уучил намайг” Zaya’sh
2007 “7 эгшиг” Lu entertainment
2007 “Бүжээрэй!” Lu entertainment
2007 “Минийх” Lu entertainment
2010 “Талархалын өдөр” TJ entertainment
Sources
Mongolian musical groups
Hip hop groups
Musical groups established in 1996
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Kimberly Akimbo is a play written in 2000 by David Lindsay-Abaire. Its title character is a lonely teenage girl suffering from a disease similar to progeria, that causes her to age four and a half times as fast as normal, thus trapping her inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. She meets another misfit (a teenage boy) and the two form an attachment to one another that borders on attraction, but their situation is not helped by Kimberly's rapidly deteriorating health. Soon, Kimberly's family gets mixed up in some crazy money schemes, and the family is emotionally destroyed.
Plot
Act 1
The lights go up on Kimberly sitting and waiting for her father, who is late picking her up because of his drinking. He compensates by agreeing to take her to a burger joint for some food, where they meet Jeff, the nerdy kid behind the window, who asks if Kim can do an interview for his project. Buddy strongly refuses and drives away. The scene changes to Pattie, Kimberly's mom, talking to a sound recorder to her unborn child about her life and how she believes she's a 'good mother'. Later on, Kimberly calls Jeff and agrees to meet at the library later for the interview, as he is learning about progeria.
Characters
Kimberly, a 16 year old girl, played by a woman in her 60s or 70s
Buddy, a man in his mid-30s, Kimberly's dad
Jeff, an awkward, unpopular 16 year old boy
Pattie, a very pregnant woman in her mid-30s, Buddy's wife
Debra, a woman in her early 30s, an ex-con, Pattie's sister
Historical casting
Productions
The play was initially produced at the South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, from April 13 to May 13, 2001. Directed by David Petrarca, the cast starred Marylouise Burke as Kimberly. Lindsay-Abaire received the Kesselring Prize in November 2001 for this production. The production received the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Writing in 2001.
Kimberly Akimbo premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club New York City Center Stage 1 on February 4, 2003 and closed on April 6, 2003. Directed by David Petrarca, the cast featured Marylouise Burke (Kimberly), John Gallagher, Jr. (Jeff), Ana Gasteyer (Debra), Jodie Markell (Pattie), Jake Weber (Buddy) and Daniel Zaitchik (Jeff).
Kimberly Akimbo ran from January 21, 2005 through March 6, 2005 at TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut, directed by Rob Ruggiero. The production starred Rosemary Prinz as Kimberly.
The show was presented in Chicago as a midwest premiere production at A Red Orchid Theatre in 2005.
Musical adaptation
A musical adaptation of the play premiered at Atlantic Theater Company in November 2021, with book and lyrics by Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. It was critically acclaimed, and won Best Musical prizes at the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. It began previews on Broadway on October 12, 2022 and opened on November 10 at the Booth Theatre. The show received eight 2023 Tony Award nominations, winning for best musical, book, score, leading actress, and supporting actress.
Awards and nominations
2003 Off-Broadway premiere
References
External links
Dramatists.com
2000 plays
Plays by David Lindsay-Abaire
Plays set in New Jersey
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The Lumpy Money Project/Object is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously on January 23, 2009 as Official Release #85, it compiles the releases Lumpy Gravy and We're Only in It for the Money with previously unreleased material, with the overall package serving as an audio documentary of the production of the two albums, which share conceptual continuity themes. It is project/object #2 in a series of 40th Anniversary FZ Audio Documentaries, following MOFO (2006).
Content
The first disc consists of the 1967 version of Lumpy Gravy, released by Capitol Records on 4-track cartridge to wholesalers and radio stations before MGM Records, Zappa's label at the time, forced Capitol to halt distribution of their version of the album, and the 1968 mono mix of We're Only in It for the Money. The second disc consists of two remixes prepared by Zappa in 1984, with overdubs by drummer Chad Wackerman and bassist Arthur Barrow. The Lumpy Gravy remix derives from the 1968 edit; this third version of the album had not been released in full; an excerpt appeared in a sampler for The Old Masters box set. The second remix, of We're Only in It for the Money had previously been released on compact disc in 1986. The third disc consists of studio assembly material and interviews with Zappa discussing the albums, as well as the single version of "Lonely Little Girl".
Track listing
Credits
All Music produced/composed & performed/conducted by Frank Zappa.
The Lumpy Money Project/Object Compiled & Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers
Liner notes: David Fricke
Conceptual & Continuous Stuff & Text: Gail Zappa
Production Manager: Melanie Starks
Solar Dominance: Jupiter
Cover Art, Package Design & Layout: Michael Mesker
FZ Portrait Photo: Linda McCartney
Mastering & Audio Restoration engineer, Discs One and Three: John Polito
Mastering, Disc Two: Bernie Grundman
References
Frank Zappa compilation albums
2009 compilation albums
Zappa Records albums
Compilation albums published posthumously
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Alana Kathryn Dillette (born December 2, 1987) is an academic and Olympic swimmer from The Bahamas.
Dillette swam for the Bahamas at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 2007 Pan American Games. She attended and swam for the USA's Auburn University.
At the 2007 Pan American Games she was part of the bronze medal winning women's 4 × 100 m medley relay alongside Alicia Lightbourne, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace and Nikia Deveaux.
Dillette majored in travel and tourism and as of 2022 is Assistant Professor in the L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at San Diego State University. Her research interests include the Black Travel Movement.
See also
Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games
List of Bahamian records in swimming
References
External links
1987 births
Sportspeople from Peterborough, Ontario
Auburn Tigers women's swimmers
Bahamian female swimmers
Bahamian people of Canadian descent
Black Canadian sportspeople
Canadian female medley swimmers
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for the Bahamas
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for the Bahamas
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Bahamas
Living people
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for the Bahamas
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for the Bahamas
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
Black Canadian sportswomen
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The 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship was the 15th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began at Symmons Plains on 4 March 1974 and ended at Adelaide International Raceway on 9 June after eight rounds. The championship was won by Peter Brock, driving for the Marlboro Holden Dealer Team in a Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 and a Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000.
Drivers
The following drivers competed in the 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship.
Calendar
The 1974 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of seven rounds.
Drivers Championship
Points were awarded 4-3-2-1 for the first four race positions, and then 9-6-4-3-2-1 for the top 6 of each class.
Round 5 consisted of two separate races, one for over 3 litre cars and one for under 3 litre cars.
References
Australian Touring Car Championship seasons
Touring Cars
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Shiladesh is a ravi in Himachal Pradesh, India, approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the state capital, Shimla.
References
Valleys of Himachal Pradesh
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The spikefishes (family Triacanthodidae) are ray-finned fishes related to the pufferfishes and triggerfishes. They live in deep waters; more than , but above the continental shelves. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the west-central Pacific.
The spikefishes are quite variable in form, with some species having tubular snouts (greatly elongated in Halimochirurgus and Macrorhamphosodes), and others have spoon-like teeth for scraping the scales off other fishes. Depending on the exact species involved, they reach a maximum length of about .
While spikefish are shaped in a wide variety of different colors, sizes, and shapes, they can characterized by their similarities of having a dense body with relatively thick skin, a large amount of tiny yet spiky scales, two dorsal fins of which the first contains six spines and twelve to eighteen soft spines along the second, a rounded caudal fin, small and terminal mouth with at least 10 average sized conical teeth.
References
Tetraodontiformes
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
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Ohio Central Railroad may refer to:
Ohio Central Railroad System, acquired by Genesee and Wyoming in 2008
Ohio Central Railroad (1988), one part of the system, operating a former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway line between Warwick and Zanesville
Ohio Central Railroad (1879–1885), predecessor of the New York Central Railroad
Central Ohio Railroad (1847–1915), predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Martyn Forde is an Olympic-swimmer from Barbados. He swam for Barbados at the 2008 Olympics and the 2007 World Championships.
He holds the Barbadian Records in the short-course 50 and 100 freestyles.
External links
Forde's bio from the 2008 Olympics website.
Forde's bio on www.sports-reference.com
Bajan to swim in Beijing. CBC.bb; retrieved 2009-06-12.
1985 births
Living people
Canadian people of Barbadian descent
Barbadian male swimmers
Canadian male freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Barbados
Swimmers from Toronto
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Barbados
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
University of Toronto alumni
Black Canadian sportspeople
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Annette Hagre Johannesson, born 1951, is a Swedish ten-pin bowler.
Annette won the Bowling World Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) World Masters title on the same year in 1987. The World Bowling Writers association named her 1987 Female bowler of the Year.
Some months before the World Cup tournament, Hagre had endured a long and difficult operation to remove a ganglion in her bowling wrist. She didn't begin practicing until about a month before Copenhagen, but still managed to lead the field at Rodovre Bowling Center every day but one, with a 200-plus average. Soon after her 1987 victories, Johannesson retired to concentrate on her family and her career.
Coming out of retirement in 1989, she won the 1989 FIQ Euro Zone Masters title. She was elected to the WBW International Bowling Hall of Fame in 1993.
References
1951 births
Living people
Swedish ten-pin bowling players
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Jerold Charles Hoffberger (April 7, 1919 – April 9, 1999) was an American businessman. He was president of the National Brewing Company from 1946 to 1973. He was also part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles of the American League from 1954 to 1965, and majority owner from 1965 to 1979.
Biography
Hoffberger was a lifelong resident of Baltimore, Maryland, and was Jewish. He was the only son of his father Samuel, a lawyer who was active in the Democratic Party and a major shareholder and board chairman of National Brewing. His grandfather Charles had been a local merchant who sold wood, coal and ice. Hoffberger attended the University of Virginia. During World War II, he served in the United States Army with the 1st Armored Division in Africa, France and Italy, where he was wounded near Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. Jerold Hoffberger was also involved in the Battle of Monte Cassino.
Business career
The year after the war ended, he was appointed president of the brewery by his father after the death of his predecessor, Arthur Deute. Under the younger Hoffberger's command, National's sales rose from 230,000 barrels in 1946 to two million in 1966.
Baltimore Orioles
In 1953, when the St. Louis Browns of baseball's American League wanted to move to Baltimore, the nearby Washington Senators, led by Clark Griffith, objected to the potential encroachment on their market. Hoffberger helped ease the way for the move by making his National Bohemian beer a Senators sponsor. When Browns owner Bill Veeck was all but forced to sell the team, Hoffberger and attorney Clarence Miles put together a syndicate that bought the team for $2.5 million and moved it to Baltimore as the Orioles.
Hoffberger was the largest single shareholder in the Orioles, but was initially a silent partner with Miles (1954–1955), James Keelty (1955–1960) and Joe Iglehart (1960–1965). During this time, however, he bought more and more stock until he acquired controlling interest in 1965. He immediately brought in Frank Cashen, National's advertising director, as executive vice president. Under the direction of Cashen and general manager Harry Dalton, the Orioles won four AL pennants and two World Series from 1966 to 1971.
Even though the Orioles were a success on the diamond, the team struggled financially because of lagging attendance. Looking to sell his ballclub and brewery, Hoffberger engaged in talks for three months with the Labatt Brewing Company which was attempting to attract a major-league franchise to move to Toronto. Negotiations ended when the National and Carling Brewing Companies agreed to a merger on October 14, 1975. A result of the consolidation was Hoffberger becoming chairman and chief executive officer of the newly formed Carling National Breweries, Inc. He retained ownership of the Orioles which wasn't included in the transaction, but couldn't sell it without company approval.
Hoffberger cast the lone dissenting ballot when the American League club owners voted to award the Toronto expansion franchise to an investment group led by Labatt's. He had arranged the only other competing bid which was fronted by Atlantic Packaging Company chairman of the board Phil Granovsky and had the potential financial support from Carling's advertising money, but the attempt wasn't successful due to the Labatt's group having nearly purchased the San Francisco Giants with the intention of transferring it to Toronto. Hoffberger stated, "It was just not in the best interests of my company for Labatt’s to get the franchise."
He was a 1996 honoree into the Orioles Hall of Fame, inducted with Cal Ripken, Sr. and Billy Hunter. 400 showed up at the luncheon at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.
When Baltimore Oriole star Frank Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, he made reference to Hoffberger. He said that after a game, Hoffberger "wouldn't come over and slap you on the back and say nice game-winning home run, nice double, nice play or whatever. The first words out of his mouth were: 'How are you? How's your family? Is there anything I can do for you?'."
Hoffberger sold his controlling interest in the Orioles to Edward Bennett Williams for $12 million on August 2, 1979, with the transaction being approved unanimously by American League team owners weeks later on October 22. The Orioles in his final year of ownership fell one victory short of winning the 1979 World Series, set a new franchise season attendance record and earned a $1.5 million profit.
Later life
Hoffberger was known for his charitable contributions, which included assistance to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the University of Maryland and Goucher College. Town & Country magazine estimated in 1983 that he had donated more than $10 million to charities.
in the early 1970s, Hoffberger purchased a farm near Woodbine called Sunset Hill Farm (formerly Helmore Farm) in Howard County, Maryland where he bred Thoroughbred horses for racing. While primarily a breeder, he did race horses on his own, notably winning the 1984 Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park Race Track.
Hoffberger died at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, two days after his 80th birthday.
Notes
References
Beard, Gordon. Birds on the Wing. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1967.
Sullam, Brian. "Hoffberger 'disappointed'", The Baltimore Sun, Wednesday, December 7, 1988.
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1919 births
1999 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
Major League Baseball executives
Baltimore Orioles owners
American racehorse owners and breeders
University of Virginia alumni
Businesspeople from Baltimore
American brewers
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) executives
People from Woodbine, Maryland
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American philanthropists
20th-century American Jews
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The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. The competition was formally announced in the Federal Register on November 2, 2007. "NIST is initiating an effort to develop one or more additional hash algorithms through a public competition, similar to the development process for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)." The competition ended on October 2, 2012, when NIST announced that Keccak would be the new SHA-3 hash algorithm.
The winning hash function has been published as NIST FIPS 202 the "SHA-3 Standard", to complement FIPS 180-4, the Secure Hash Standard.
The NIST competition has inspired other competitions such as the Password Hashing Competition.
Process
Submissions were due October 31, 2008 and the list of candidates accepted for the first round was published on December 9, 2008. NIST held a conference in late February 2009 where submitters presented their algorithms and NIST officials discussed criteria for narrowing down the field of candidates for Round 2. The list of 14 candidates accepted to Round 2 was published on July 24, 2009. Another conference was held on August 23–24, 2010 (after CRYPTO 2010) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where the second-round candidates were discussed. The announcement of the final round candidates occurred on December 10, 2010. On October 2, 2012, NIST announced its winner, choosing Keccak, created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP.
Entrants
This is an incomplete list of known submissions.
NIST selected 51 entries for round 1. 14 of them advanced to round 2, from which 5 finalists were selected.
Winner
The winner was announced to be Keccak on October 2, 2012.
Finalists
NIST selected five SHA-3 candidate algorithms to advance to the third (and final) round:
BLAKE (Aumasson et al.)
Grøstl (Knudsen et al.)
JH (Hongjun Wu)
Keccak (Keccak team, Daemen et al.)
Skein (Schneier et al.)
NIST noted some factors that figured into its selection as it announced the finalists:
Performance: "A couple of algorithms were wounded or eliminated by very large [hardware gate] area requirement – it seemed that the area they required precluded their use in too much of the potential application space."
Security: "We preferred to be conservative about security, and in some cases did not select algorithms with exceptional performance, largely because something about them made us 'nervous,' even though we knew of no clear attack against the full algorithm."
Analysis: "NIST eliminated several algorithms because of the extent of their second-round tweaks or because of a relative lack of reported cryptanalysis – either tended to create the suspicion that the design might not yet be fully tested and mature."
Diversity: The finalists included hashes based on different modes of operation, including the HAIFA and sponge function constructions, and with different internal structures, including ones based on AES, bitslicing, and alternating XOR with addition.
NIST has released a report explaining its evaluation algorithm-by-algorithm.
Did not pass to final round
The following hash function submissions were accepted for round two, but did not make it to the final round. As noted in the announcement of the finalists, "none of these candidates was clearly broken".
Blue Midnight Wish
CubeHash (Bernstein)
ECHO (France Telecom)
Fugue (IBM)
Hamsi
Luffa
Shabal
SHAvite-3
SIMD
Did not pass to round two
The following hash function submissions were accepted for round one but did not pass to round two. They have neither been conceded by the submitters nor have had substantial cryptographic weaknesses. However, most of them have some weaknesses in the design components, or performance issues.
ARIRANG (CIST – Korea University)
CHI
CRUNCH
FSB
Lane
Lesamnta
MD6 (Rivest et al.)
SANDstorm (Sandia National Laboratories)
Sarmal
SWIFFTX
TIB3
Entrants with substantial weaknesses
The following non-conceded round one entrants have had substantial cryptographic weaknesses announced:
AURORA (Sony and Nagoya University)
Blender
Cheetah
Dynamic SHA
Dynamic SHA2
ECOH
Edon-R
EnRUPT
ESSENCE
LUX
MCSSHA-3
NaSHA
Sgàil
Spectral Hash
Twister
Vortex
Conceded entrants
The following round one entrants have been officially retracted from the competition by their submitters; they are considered broken according to the NIST official round one candidates web site. As such, they are withdrawn from the competition.
Abacus
Boole
DCH
Khichidi-1
MeshHash
SHAMATA
StreamHash
Tangle
WaMM
Waterfall
Rejected entrants
Several submissions received by NIST were not accepted as first-round candidates, following an internal review by NIST. In general, NIST gave no details as to why each was rejected. NIST also has not given a comprehensive list of rejected algorithms; there are known to be 13, but only the following are public.
HASH 2X
Maraca
MIXIT
NKS 2D
Ponic
ZK-Crypt
See also
Advanced Encryption Standard process
CAESAR Competition – Competition to design authenticated encryption schemes
Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization
References
External links
NIST website for competition
Official list of second round candidates
Official list of first round candidates
SHA-3 Zoo
Classification of the SHA-3 Candidates
Hash Function Lounge
VHDL source code developed by the Cryptographic Engineering Research Group (CERG) at George Mason University
FIPS 202 – The SHA-3 Standard
Cryptographic hash functions
Cryptography contests
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Barbados–Guyana relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Barbados and Guyana. The former maintains non-resident diplomatic representation from Bridgetown, while Guyana which prior had a High Commissioner to Barbados appointed its first resident Consul-General, Michael Brotherson to Bridgetown in January 2012.
General aspects
The relations between Guyana and Barbados began while both were part of the British Empire. Shortly after Great Britain secured (then British Guiana) from the Dutch, waves of migrants were encouraged to move and settle the new expansive area. Barbados was one such location where large numbers of migrants came from. Through time Barbados and Guyana have both supported each other. With the move towards independence in the region, Guyana was seen as the breadbasket of the wider-Caribbean which led to yet more waves of Barbadians seeking to move to Guyana for better opportunities.
In 1991 Barbados and the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana attempted moves towards forming a tri-state confederation consisting of Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. The now late former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning pitched the initiative for the tri-state area to enter into some form of political union or political association. This initiative was short lived and did not proceed following the Democratic Labour Party's defeat during the 1994 elections.
Relations became rocky due to immigration. Things became contentious for Guyanese persons to Barbados. The two nations continue their cooperation through the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and work towards building and maintaining good relations between their nationals. In 2012 the Consul-General of Guyana to Bridgetown remarked that immigration matters between Guyana and Barbados had substantially improved with no complaints since being attributed to Bridgetown.
More recently the Guyanese Government has extended an offer to Barbadians. The Guyanese government has offered to put in place an economically favourable regime towards any Barbadians that wish to relocate to Guyana and contribute towards that nation's goals in agricultural investment. The announcement was made in the final days of the Owen Arthur administration by MP member Mia Motley.
In 2004 both nations signed treaties to cooperate in the portion of overlapping international maritime boundary.
In 2007 both nations formed the Barbados-Guyana Joint Commission, which was held in Guyana for its inaugural meeting. The third meeting of the Joint Commission met in Georgetown in May 2015.
In 2013, trade between both nations was placed at US$25 million by the Consul-General of Guyana. both nations also explored an initiative of twinning in the hospitality and tourism sector as well as an arrangement for joint collaboration in the overlapping maritime EEZ between both nations.
In 2016 Guyanese President, Granger presented Barbadian Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart with the second highest award of Guyana, the Order of Roraima.
Sports
Both countries are part of the multi-national West Indies cricket team, with several players from both countries representing the board.
People
Eddy Grant, a musician charged with creating the genre of Ringbang in Barbados.
Lionel Luckhoo, served concurrently as a joint High Commissioner of both Guyana and Barbados to the United Kingdom (1967 to 1970)
Dr. Samuel Rudolph Insanally, CCH Guyana's High Commissioner to Barbados (1982 to 1986)
Rihanna, international pop star born in Barbados of partial Guyanese parentage.
Notes
References
Rupturing an old friendship, By Rawle Lucas (10 July 2009), Stabroek News Guyana
Barbados Foreign Minister lauds Guyana – says country has a bright future, (22 October 2013), Guyana Chronicle
See also
Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Union of South American Nations (USAN)
External links
Guyanese Association of Barbados Inc. (GABI)
British Guiana Colonists, A registry of early immigrations to British Guiana
Guyana
Bilateral relations of Guyana
Guyana
Guyana and the Commonwealth of Nations
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The Ohio Central Railroad is a part of the Ohio Central Railroad System, operating a former Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway line between Warwick and Zanesville, Ohio, United States. Operations began in 1988. It has several connections with tracks on which CSX has trackage rights.
The company was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2008 as part of its purchase of the Ohio Central Railroad System.
Gallery
References
External links
Ohio railroads
Genesee & Wyoming
Spin-offs of the Norfolk Southern Railway
1988 establishments in Ohio
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Mária Balážová (born 31 August 1956) is a contemporary Slovak artist. Her practise as an artist is usually associated with new geometry, post-geometry and postmodern.
Life and work
Balážová studied at the Academy of Muse Arts, Bratislava and Magister of Arts degree received in 1984. Since 1997, Balážová is also known as a teacher at the University of Trnava. Her husband is Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter.
Immediately at the beginning, Mária Balážová, created her own „personal mythology“, emphasizing a snake motif in the geometrically stylised form of a cobra. This animal, which occupies an important position in world mythologies and religions, became the main motif of cycles of paintings, to which the artist gave the name Serpent Geometry. Balážová distinguished herself from classic Neo-Constructivism, outlined on subjectless combinations of shapes and colours, put together into geometric structures. Art theorists appreciate the „new significance“ she achieved by creating radically reductive forms (Jiří Valoch, 2002). "
In her latest works, fear of violence, power and hegemony are projected in the intimate family background, where the dominant men´s element is systematically planned in the painting area and it culminates in the series of drawings and paintings called Domestic Violence. A distinctly expressive handwriting used in some places refers very straightforwardly to Balážová´s personal story and moves the general criticism of an androcentric society to a more intimate position. Here, the key role is played by the figure of a despotic father who permanently and demonically comes back in acrylic canvases and large-format drawings – destructively and aggressively . In the latest works, Mária Balážová bet on a straightforward expression of her personal story associated with a therapeutic character. This approach in her works represents a new dimension not only for her herself, but also for geometric painting in general. (Roman Gajdoš)
Her works are held in the collections of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, National Gallery, Prague (CZ), Wannieck Gallery Brno (CZ), Jan Koniarek Gallery , Trnava.
The artist has been a member of the revived Club of Concrete Artists 2 and the artist's group East of Eden. She lives and works in Trnava.
Awards
1990 Honorable Mention, Drawing 1990, Provo (USA)
1995 Prize of Masaryk's Academy, Prague (CZ)
2019 Honorary Mention Award, International Drawing Biennale India 2018-19, New Delhi (India)
Selected solo exhibitions
Maria Balazova, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 26 June – 30 July 1991 (catalogue)
Maria Balazova, Gallery Arpex, Bratislava, 28 January – 17 February 1993
Serpent Geometry, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, 19 April – 8 May 1995
Serpent Geometry 2, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 23 May – 23 June 1996 (catalogue)
Dozen 1988-2000, The Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, 5 May – 30 June 2000
Dozen 1988-2000, The East Slovak Gallery, Košice, 14 September – 15 October 2000
Nadowessioux, Bratislava City Gallery, 1 February – 11 March 2001
Mária and Blažej Baláž : The Discreet Charm of the Painting , House of Art, Česke Budějovice, 27 March – 21 April 2002, Czech Republic
Alphabet, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 9 September – 24 October 2004 (catalogue)
New significance, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, 28 June – 23 July 2007
Mária Balážová : Post-Geo, Liptov Gallery, Liptovský Mikuláš, 10 February – 9 April 2011
Mária Balážová-Blažej Baláž : Post-Geo-Text, Slowakisches Institut, Berlin, 14 April – 30 May 2011, Germany
Mária Balážová : Male and Female Pictures, Gallery of Art, Nové Zámky, 7 February – 16 March 2013
Mária Balážová – From Order to Chaos, Martin, Turiec Gallery, 11 September - 2 November 2014
Mária Balážová – Female Geometry, Bratislava, Gallery Z, 2 September - 9 October 2016
Mária Balážová – Geo-Femina,The Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, 18 May – 27 June 2017
Mária Balážová – Under the Skirt,The Museum of Art, Žilina, 19 October – 19 November 2017
Mária Balážová – Women´s Tread, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, 12 September – 27 October 2019
Selected group exhibitions
Interplays, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, 1987
Art Basel 20´89, Basel, Switzerland, 1989
Drawing 1990, Provo, Utah, USA, 1990
Vth International Drawing Triennale, Wrocław, Poland, 1992
Fibre, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1994
1st International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1995
BRIDGing, Esztergom, Duna Múzeum, Hungary, 1997
Club of Concretists, Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1999
Neo-Constructivism in Slovak Art, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia, 2000
Eine kurze Geschichte zur Malerei, Leverkusen, Germany, 2001
Slovak Contemporary Art, Prague, Gallery Art Factory, Czech Republic, 2002
Slovak Contemporary Art, Kraków, International Cultural Centre, Poland, 2004
Draught / Contemporary Slovak Painting 2000–2005, Prague, City Gallery, Czech Republic, 2006
Allied... , National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006
Contemporary Slovak Art 1960–2000, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania), Bucharest, Romania, 2007
1960 – present / The Slovak Art, Prague, City Gallery, Czech Republic, 2008
Borders of Geometry, Bratislava, House of Art Bratislava, Slovakia, 2010
After Hours : Phase 2 / Artists from Slovakia, Santa Ana, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, USA, 2010
Daisies and clones, Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery, Slovakia, 2011
ObraSKov/ Contemporary Slovak Painting, Brno, Wannieck Gallery, Czech Republic, 2011
IV New Zlín Sallon, Zlín, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Czech Republic, 2011
VIII International Biennial of Drawing Plzeň 2012, Plzeň, Czech Republic, 2012
IX International Biennial of Drawing Plzeň 2014, Plzeň, Czech Republic, 2014
3rd International Salon Graphics, Kraljevo (RS), 2015
Here and Now, Budapest, Kunsthalle (HU), 2015
5th International Drawing Triennale, Tallinn, Kunsthalle (EE), 2015
4th International Salon Graphics, Kraljevo (RS), 2016
Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2016, Osten Drawing, Skopje (MK), 2016
Socially alive, Bratislava, Slovak Union of Visual Arts, 2016
Sew Long! Fashion in Slovakia 1945–1989, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017
Contemporary European Geometrically Tendencies, Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018
Hommage à Peter Vajda, Prague, Museum Kampa – The Jan a Meda Mládek Foundation, Czech Republic, 2018
International Drawing Biennale India 2018–19, New Delhi India, 2019
Works
Archetyp (1988) : Collection of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Pose VII (1989)
Rocket Man 1 (1989)
Lexicon 1 (1990)
Flowing 6 (1993) : Collection of Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
Serpent Geometry 2 (1994) : Collection of Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
Serpent Geometry 3 (1994)
Serpent Geometry 5 (1996)
Serpent Geometry 15 – Church (1998)
Serpent Geometry 33 – Fatum (2000/01)
Serpent Geometry 40 – Alphabet 3 (2002) : Collection of National Gallery, Prague
Serpent Geometry 43 (2004)
Serpent Geometry 49 - Portrait (2005/06) : Collection of Wannieck Gallery Brno
Serpent Geometry – Shoot (2005)
Serpent Geometry 70 – History (2005/07)
Chaos 1 (2006/09)
Domestic Violence 5 (2019)
Domestic Violence 6 (2019)
Domestic Violence 8 (2019)
Books and Catalogues
BALGAVÁ, B. - ORAVCOVÁ, J. - VALOCH, J. 1997. Mária Balážová. Trnava : Ján Koniarek Gallery, 32 p.
VALOCH, J. 2002. Mária Balážová / Serpent Geometry 1997-2002. Trnava : Trnava University, 12 p.
BESKID, V. - VALOCH, J. - GAJDOŠ, R. 2009. Mária Balážová / 1985-2009. Trnava : Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, (English – Slovak, colour), 111 p.
References
Further reading
BESKID, V. 1998. 6 Slovak contemporary painters. Košice : V. Löffler Museum, 24 p.
ORIŠKOVÁ, M. 1999. Abstract art. In GERŽOVÁ, J. 1999 (ed). Dictionary of World and Slovak Fine Art in the 2nd half of the 20th century Bratislava : Kruh súčasného umenia Profil, p. 16
BESKID, V. 1999. New geometry. In GERŽOVÁ, J. 1999 (ed). Dictionary of World and Slovak Fine Art in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Bratislava : Kruh súčasného umenia Profil, p. 201
BARTOŠOVÁ, Z. 1999. Mária Balážová. In Contemporary Slovak Art. Bratislava : Rabbit and Solution, p. 6
VALOCH, J. 2001. In-between Pure Geometry and Semantics. In Ateliér, vol.14, no.6, p. 9 (CZ)
BÖHMEROVÁ, Z. – JANČÁR, I. 2007. Slovak Graphics of the 20th Century. Bratislava : Municipal Gallery, 2007, p. 267, 314
BARTOŠOVÁ, Z. 2007. 20th Century. In Art in Slovakia / Summary History of Pictures. Bratislava : Slovart, p. 224, 225
TOMÁŠOVÁ, I. 2007. New significance. In Vlna, vol. IX, no.32, p. 90 - 91. Bratislava : Občianske združenie Vlna
BELOHRADSKÁ, Ľ. – TROJANOVÁ, E. 2009. Borders of Geometry. Bratislava : PETUM, 429 p. (English – Slovak, colour)
KNÍŽÁK, M. – VLČEK, T. (eds.). 2009. 909 / Art from the Turn of the Millennium in the National Gallery in Prague 1990 - 2009. Prague - National Gallery, p. 147, 362
GERŽOVÁ, J. 2009. Talks about Painting. Bratislava : Slovart, VŠVU Bratislava, p. 232 - 247
BESKID, V. 2012. The image of painting in the „Picture du nouveau“. In ObraSKovo nanovo / Contemporary Slovak Painting. Poprad : Tatranská Gallery, p. 15
GUILLAUME, M. 2013. Male and Female Images. In Ateliér, vol. 26, no.6, 21.3.2013, p. 8 (CZ)
GUILLAUME, M. 2013. Mária Balážová – Personal Geometry. In Ostium, vol. 9, no.4/2013
External links
http://www.bbalaz.sk/
http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/maria-balazova-148595/profile.html
http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php
http://www.artgallery.sk
http://www.osobnosti.sk/index.php?os=zivotopis&ID=59281&mainkat=4
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https://web.archive.org/web/20081014100026/http://pdfweb.truni.sk/fak/katedry/kpvu/mbalazova/index.html
http://www.nitrianskagaleria.sk/index.php?cmd=vys_det&id=387
https://www.gjk.sk/en/exhibition/archive-of-expositions/2019/maria-balazova-womans-tread/
1956 births
Living people
People from Trnava
Abstract artists
Slovak contemporary artists
Concrete art
Contemporary painters
20th-century women artists
Slovak women painters
Slovak painters
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The SM-68 Titan (individual variants later designated HGM-25 Titan I and LGM-25 Titan II) was the designation of two intercontinental ballistic missiles developed for the United States Air Force. The Titan I and Titan II missiles were operational between 1962 and 1987 during the Cold War. These missiles, particularly the Titan II, were the basis of the Titan family of space launch vehicles.
Titan was originally built as a backup to the SM-65 Atlas. The Titan I used RP-1 and liquid oxygen propellants and required around fifteen minutes to load the rocket and raise it to a launch position. The more powerful Titan II used nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine, allowing it to be stored with propellant loaded, giving it a much shorter response time.
Titan I
The Titan I was the first version of the Titan family of rockets. It began as a backup ICBM project in case the Atlas was delayed. It was a two-stage rocket propelled by RP-1 and liquid oxygen. Using RP-1 and LOX meant that the Titan I did not have a quick launch sequence. It took about fifteen minutes to load LOX on the first missile at a complex, raise it topside and launch it, with two other missiles following at about eight-minute intervals. Titan I was operational from early 1962 to mid-1965.
Several US Air Force units operated the Titan I:
568th Strategic Missile Squadron, Larson AFB, Moses Lake, Washington
569th Strategic Missile Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Mt Home, Idaho
851st Strategic Missile Squadron, Beale AFB, Marysville, California
850th Strategic Missile Squadron, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota
451st Strategic Missile Wing (formerly 703rd) Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado
Titan II
Most Titan rockets were the Titan II, which could carry a W-53 nuclear warhead with a nine megaton yield, making it the most powerful ICBM on-standby in the US nuclear arsenal. These were deployed in three squadrons of 18 missiles each, in Arizona, Kansas, and Arkansas. All of the ICBM Titan II missile sites have been decommissioned since the retirement of the Titan II as an ICBM in 1987, but the Titan Missile Museum on Interstate 19 south of Tucson, Arizona, has preserved one deactivated launch site. The Titan II was a two-stage ICBM that was used by the US Air Force from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. The Titan II used a hypergolic combination of nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine for propellant. In addition to its use as an ICBM, twelve Titan II missiles were converted to launch Gemini spacecraft for NASA, ten of which were manned. Following retirement, a further thirteen were converted to the Titan 23G configuration, and used to launch satellites, and the Clementine Lunar probe. The last Titan II launch occurred in 2003.
See also
Titan III
Titan IIIB
Titan 34D
Titan IV
References
Intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States
Cold War nuclear missiles of the United States
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MEED, formerly Middle East Economic Digest, is a media publishing company founded in 1957 focused on economic and business news related to the Middle East. MEED also provides advertising and marketing services.
History
The first issue of Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) was published on March 8th 1957.
MEED's founder and driving force for the next two decades was Elizabeth Collard, a champion of Arab causes who was to become an adviser to UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Middle East affairs and a friend of Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. She also helped to establish the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU).
With two part-time secretarial assistants, MEED was produced on a hand-cranked Ronco printing machine. Every Friday evening, friends and relatives would help staple and stuff envelopes with the 12-page newsletter. Lacking any editorial resources, the Middle East Economic Digest was a compilation from newspapers and other reports. Newspapers were flown in weekly from Cairo and Beirut, translated and condensed.
By the time MEED was acquired by Emap in 1986, it had a staff of 20 full-time journalists and 12 researchers and newsroom assistants to cover Middle Eastern business and project news. In 2006 Emap Middle East also acquired business website AME Info.
In March 2012, the owning company rebranded as Top Right Group, but retained the Emap name for its magazine's operation, which at the time accounted for around 18% of the group's turnover. In October 2015 Top Right Group announced it was scrapping the Emap brand and would stop producing print editions, and that over the next 12–18 months all titles would become digital-only. In December 2015 Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential, who in January 2017 announced its intention to sell 13 titles including MEED; the 13 "heritage titles" were to be "hived off into a separate business while buyers [were] sought".
On 8 December 2017, MEED was purchased from Ascential in a $17.5m cash deal by GlobalData, the London-listed company formerly known as Progressive Digital Media.
Current business activities
MEED Magazine
MEED publishes a business-to-business magazine for subscribers every Friday featuring news, analysis and commentary, features and interviews and a weekly special report. Circulation, according to a 2009 audit by ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK), was 6'338.
MEED was launched in 1957. When Rafiq Hariri drew up plans to rebuild a war-shattered Lebanon, MEED met the prime minister and asked him to explain them. When Colonel Gaddafi unveiled the first part of his Great Manmade River, MEED took a front-row seat at the ceremony and quizzed the engineers. While US tanks were still rolling towards Baghdad in March 2003, MEED obtained plans from Washington that described how the US was hoping to rebuild the country. Three months before going public, MEED revealed DP World's IPO plans. Abdalla el-Badri announced Opec's potential move from US dollar to euro pricing to MEED. MEED broke news of Saudi Arabia moving ahead with plans for a Mile-High Tower in Jeddah – which would make it the tallest tower in the world – and Nakheel's plans to create a tower over one kilometre high (then called Nakheel Tower, later announced as Dubai's Harbour Tower) to trump Emaar's Burj Khalifa.
MEED is used as a source of Middle East information by the US and British government's – Energy Information Administration, United States Congress and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The dedication made by Abdullah II of Jordan in 2007 demonstrates MEED's positive contribution to the Middle East for over 50 years. "The celebration of this milestone is a testament to the distinguished insight into the region MEED has provided to its readers for five decades. Your acuity has recorded the region's diversity and potential, not just its challenges and crises."
References
External links
MEED.com
MEED Projects website
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates
Ascential
Magazines established in 1957
Business magazines
1957 establishments in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines
Mass media in Dubai
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Gloria Gwynne Gilford (born July 27, 1946) is an American psychotherapist and former actress. She appeared in several television series in the 1970s and 1980s, including A New Kind of Family, The Young Lawyers and The Waverly Wonders, and had roles in the films Beware! The Blob (1972), Satan's School for Girls (1973), Ruby and Oswald (1978), Fade to Black (1980), Kate's Secret (1986) and Masters of the Universe (1987).
Gilford is the daughter of actress Anne Gwynne (born Marguerite Gwynne Trice) and entertainment lawyer Max M. Gilford. According to Gilford, her mother would not allow her to act in film as a child.
Gilford studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and in New York. She played Abby Stone, a divorcée and head of the household, in the 1979 comedy A New Kind of Family.
She is married to actor Robert Pine. They are the parents of the actor Chris Pine and Katherine Pine. After retiring from acting, she and Katherine studied to become practicing psychotherapists.
References
External links
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American film actresses
American television actresses
American psychotherapists
Living people
21st-century American women
1946 births
Pine family
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The Premio Roma is a Group 2 flat horse race in Italy open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Capannelle over a distance 2,000 metres (about 1¼ miles), and it is scheduled to take place each year in November.
History
The event was established in 1911, and it was originally contested over 2,700 metres. The inaugural running had prize money of 50,000 lire.
The race was shortened to 2,100 metres in 1913. It was extended to 2,200 metres in 1919, and increased to 2,800 metres in 1925.
The Premio Roma was given Group 1 status in the 1970s. It was cut to 2,000 metres in 1988. It was downgraded to Group 2 status in 2017.
Records
Most successful horse (2 wins):
Pampino – 1933, 1934
Grifone – 1947, 1949
Surdi – 1961, 1962
Bacuco – 1969, 1970
Duke of Marmalade – 1975 (dead-heat), 1976
Taipan – 1997, 1998
Elle Danzig – 1999, 2000
Soldier Hollow – 2004, 2005
Leading jockey (6 wins):
Paolo Caprioli – Adelmo (1923), Old Master (1924), Ravioli (1925), Lui (1926), Vimarino (1932), Gaio (1939)
Leading trainer since 1974 (4 wins):
John Dunlop – High Hawk (1983), Highland Chieftain (1989), Taipan (1997, 1998)
Leading owner (4 wins): (includes part ownership)
Federico Tesio – Salvator Rosa (1912), Brunelleschi (1914), Nicophana (1935), Attalo (1938)
Frank Turner – Apulejo (1915), Adelmo (1923), Old Master (1924), Ravioli (1925)
Razza del Soldo – Vimarino (1932), Gaio (1939), Falerno (1954), Chitet (1957)
Scuderia Mantova – Galea (1940), Piavola (1946), Carolina (1960), Astese (1966)
Winners since 1979
The 1981 winner Dentz was later renamed Looking For.
Earlier winners
1911: Dedalo
1912: Salvator Rosa
1913: Sigma
1914: Brunelleschi
1915: Apulejo
1916: Aristippo
1917: no race
1918: Hollebeck
1919: Alcione
1920: Talaat Basa
1921: Marcus
1922: Pompea
1923: Adelmo
1924: Old Master
1925: Ravioli
1926: Lui
1927: Paulo
1928: Moltrasio
1929: Tigliano
1930: Emanuele Filiberto
1931: Eucaliptolo
1932: Vimarino
1933: Pampino
1934: Pampino
1935: Nicophana
1936: Ahmed
1937: Sinni
1938: Attalo
1939: Gaio
1940: Galea
1941: Zuccarello
1942–44: no race
1945: Buonarrota
1946: Piavola
1947: Grifone
1948: Eldorado
1949: Grifone
1950: Saccaroa
1951: Bandinella
1952: Worden
1953: Neebisch
1954: Falerno
1955: Bewitched
1956: Tissot
1957: Chitet
1958: Terma
1959: Feria
1960: Caorlina
1961: Surdi
1962: Surdi
1963: Veronese
1964: Haseltine
1965: Demi Deuil
1966: Astese
1967: Carlos Primero
1968: Chicago
1969: Bacuco
1970: Bacuco
1971: Fidyi
1972: Irvine
1973: Sang Bleu
1974: Orsa Maggiore
1975: Duke of Marmalade / Henri le Balafre *
1976: Duke of Marmalade
1977: Montorselli
1978: Nizon
* The 1975 race was a dead-heat and has joint winners.
See also
List of Italian flat horse races
References
Racing Post:
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capannelleippodromo.it – Albo d'Oro – Premio Roma.
galopp-sieger.de – Premio Roma.
horseracingintfed.com – International Federation of Horseracing Authorities – Premio Roma (2016).
pedigreequery.com – Premio Roma – Roma Capannelle.
Horse races in Italy
Open middle distance horse races
Recurring sporting events established in 1911
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Joseph Edward Persico (July 19, 1930August 30, 2014) was an author and American military historian. From 1974 to 1977, he was primary speechwriter to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. At the time of his death, he lived in Guilderland, New York.
His book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials; it was adapted for television as the docudrama Nuremberg.
Early life
Joseph Edward Persico was born in Gloversville, New York on July 19, 1930 to Thomas Persico and Bianca Perrone. In 1952 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from the New York State College for Teachers (now the University at Albany). Following graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy where he served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) aboard a minesweeper and also worked at NATO Headquarters Naples, Italy.
Political career
After three years, he left the Navy and joined Governor W. Averell Harriman as a writer and researcher. In 1960, Persico joined the United States Information Agency working in Argentina, Brazil, and Washington as a Foreign Service Officer.
From 1963 until 1966, he served as Executive Assistant to the New York State Health Commissioner and in 1966 became the chief speechwriter for then Governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller. He remained Rockefeller's primary speechwriter throughout the latter's Vice Presidency.
Persico was nominated as a commissioner to the American Battle Monuments Commission by then Secretary of State Colin Powell. In this capacity he contributed to the design of the World War II Memorial located at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., writing the words of the poem carved into the message stone located at the eastern entrance of the memorial as well as appearing on the 'Freedom Wall' on the Western edge of the memorial.
Author
In 1977, following the end of Rockefeller's tenure, Persico published My Enemy My Brother: Men and Days of Gettysburg, an historical work of non fiction covering the American Civil War.
In 1979, he published a novel, The Spiderweb, and a further nonfiction study, Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II.
Three years later he produced The Imperial Rockefeller, a biography of his former employer. This was followed by a biography of Edward R. Murrow. In 1995, he co-wrote Colin L. Powell's autobiography My American Journey.
Throughout the 1990s, Persico continued to produce historical books (Casey: From the OSS to the CIA and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial) as well as numerous articles on American history.
In November 2001, he published Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage and in 2004, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax.
In May 2013, he published his last book, Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II, through Random House.
Death and burial
Persico died in hospice at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, New York the morning of August 30, 2014. He was buried at Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, New York.
Personal life
He was married to Sylvia Palma LaVista and they had two daughters.
References
External links
Webcast Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 1, 2007
1930 births
2014 deaths
Historians from New York (state)
People from Guilderland, New York
People from Gloversville, New York
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
United States Navy officers
Burials at Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery
American male non-fiction writers
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Sang My Thang is Toshinori Yonekura's 13th original studio album. The album came three years after his last full-length original album, Roots Of Style. All songs appearing on the album are written and composed by Yonekura and the album was executively produced by pop singer and collaborator, Maki Ohguro.
Track list
Personnel
Toshinori Yonekura - Vocals, background vocals
Kiyoshi Kamada - Drums
Kitaro Nakamura - Electric bass
Yoichiro Kakizaki - Alto guitar, electric guitar
Takashi Numazawa - Drums
Hiroshi Sawasa - Electric bass
Gen Ohgimi - Percussion
Gen Ittetsu Strings - Strings
Big Horns Bee - Horns
Butcher Asano - Electric guitar
Obawo Nakajima - Percussion
Futoshi Kobayashi - Trumpet, flugelhorn
Ray - Double bass
Koji Orita - Alto sax
Wakaba Kawai - Trombone
Shiro Sasaki - Trumpet
Production
Executive Producer - Maki Oguro
Producer - Toshinori Yonekura
Co-Producer - Kiyoshi Yoshihara, Kazunori Ito
Vocal arrangement - Toshinori Yonkeura
Programming - Yoichiro Kakizaki, Shingo Sato
Recording & Mixing - Toy-knock, Yuji Kuraishi
Mastering - Harb Powers Jr.
Art Direction - Koh Sasaki
Styling - Shuhei Yomo, Hiromi Shibata
Hair & Make-Up - Satoshi Hirata
Photography - Takayuki Okada
Body Painting & Illustration - Hidekichi Shigemoto
Charts
Album - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
References
Toshinori Yonekura albums
2005 albums
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Scherzinger is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mara Scherzinger (born 1989), German actress
Nicole Scherzinger (born 1978), American singer
See also
Victor Schertzinger (1888–1941), American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter
German-language surnames
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The 2007 Bavarian Cup was the tenth edition of this competition, organised by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), which was started in 1998. It ended with the SV Seligenporten winning the competition. Together with the finalist, Würzburger FV, both clubs were qualified for the DFB Cup 2007-08.
The competition is open to all senior men's football teams playing within the Bavarian football league system and the Bavarian clubs in the Regionalliga Süd (III).
Rules & History
The seven Bezirke in Bavaria each play their own cup competition which in turn used to function as a qualifying to the German Cup (DFB-Pokal). Since 1998 these seven cup-winners plus the losing finalist of the region that won the previous event advance to the newly introduced Bavarian Cup, the Toto-Pokal. The two finalists of this competition advance to the German Cup. Bavarian clubs which play in the first and second Bundesliga are not permitted to take part in the event, their reserve teams however can. The seven regional cup winners plus the finalist from last season's winners region are qualified for the first round.
Participating clubs
The following eight clubs qualified for the 2007 Bavarian Cup:
Bavarian Cup season 2006-07
Teams qualified for the next round in bold.
Regional finals
The FC Augsburg II, runners-up of the Schwaben Cup is the eights team qualified for the Bavarian Cup due to TSG Thannhausen from Schwaben having won the Cup in the previous season.
First round
Semi-finals
Final
DFB Cup 2007-08
The two clubs, SV Seligenporten and Würzburger FV, who qualified through the Bavarian Cup for the DFB Cup 2007-08 both were knocked out in the first round of the national cup competition:
References
Sources
Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen 2006/07 Yearbook of German football, author: DSFS, publisher: Agon Sport Verlag, published: 2007, page: 288–289
External links
Bavarian FA website
2007
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The 2008 Bavarian Cup was the eleventh edition of this competition, organised by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), which was started in 1998. It ended with the SpVgg Unterhaching winning the competition. Together with the finalist, SpVgg Ansbach, both clubs were qualified for the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal.
The competition is open to all senior men's football teams playing within the Bavarian football league system and the Bavarian clubs in the Regionalliga Süd (III) and 3. Liga.
Rules & History
The seven Bezirke in Bavaria each play their own cup competition which in turn used to function as a qualifying to the German Cup (DFB-Pokal). Since 1998 these seven cup-winners plus the losing finalist of the region that won the previous event advance to the newly introduced Bavarian Cup, the Toto-Pokal. The two finalists of this competition advance to the German Cup. Bavarian clubs which play in the first and second Bundesliga are not permitted to take part in the event. The seven regional cup winners plus the finalist from last season's winners region are qualified for the first round.
Participating clubs
The following eight clubs qualified for the 2006 Bavarian Cup:
Bavarian Cup season 2007–08
Teams qualified for the next round in bold.
Regional finals
The SpVgg Ansbach, runners-up of the Mittelfranken Cup is the eights team qualified for the Bavarian Cup due to SV Seligenporten from Mittelfranken having won the Cup in the previous season.
First round
Semi-finals
Final
2008–09 DFB-Pokal
The two clubs, SpVgg Unterhaching and SpVgg Ansbach, who qualified through the Bavarian Cup for the DFB Cup 2008-09 both were knocked out in the first round of the national cup competition:
References
Sources
Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen 2007/08 Yearbook of German football, author: DSFS, publisher: Agon Sport Verlag, published: 2008, page: 292–293
External links
Bavarian FA website
Bavarian Cup seasons
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Established in 1984, and published monthly by Mondiale Publishing Ltd, NIGHT magazine covered operational, technical and design developments within bars, clubs, student unions, casinos and live venues across the UK. Through its partnership with nightclub association Noctis and research arm CGA the magazine was able to provide legal, political and operational guidance alongside information from installers, manufacturers and service providers working within the nightclub industry. The magazine also provided an overview of the culture and community of clubbing, conducting interviews with key industry figures and artists, creating features and commissioning its own photography.
The website of the magazine, launched in June 2007, carried all the information from the magazine, as well as daily news, technology and drinks bulletins.
NIGHT magazine hosted an annual awards night entitled 'NIGHT presents... the beda's'. The event aimed to recognise high standards of UK nightclub operation, design and technology
NIGHT magazine had an ABC certified circulation of 10,499 copies between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008.
In 2009 NIGHT magazine ended publication.
References
External links
Night magazine official website
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Mass media in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport
Professional and trade magazines
Magazines published in Manchester
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SORT or Statistics and Operations Research Transactions is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers related to statistics. It is published by the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, the statistical office of Catalonia, in English with a brief summary in Catalan.
The journal was established in 2003, when it replaced the journal Qüestiió (Quaderns d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, 1977–2002). It publishes two issues each year, and is available online as open access.
Abstracting and indexing
SORT is indexed in the Current Index to Statistics, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Journal Citation Reports.
External links
Academic journals established in 1977
Open access journals
Statistics journals
Biannual journals
English-language journals
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The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Jade Empress' is an American selection.
Description
'Jade Empress' grows to a height of 10–16 m. The foliage is dark green in summer, turning yellow in autumn .
Pests and diseases
The species and its cultivars are highly resistant, but not immune, to Dutch elm disease, and unaffected by the Elm Leaf Beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola.
Cultivation
'Jade Empress' is not known to be in cultivation beyond North America.
Accessions
None known.
References
Chinese elm cultivar
Ulmus articles missing images
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Jensy Gregory (née Anthony), also known mononymously as Jensy (also spelt Jency), is an Indian playback singer who has worked with composers like Ilayaraaja in Tamil films.
Career
Jensy Gregory hails from a family of musicians and music came into her life at a very young age. Her debut song was for Malayalam film Vezhambal. She was introduced to the Tamil movie industry in the song "Vaanathu Poonkili" in the movie Thiripurasundari scored by Ilayaraja. Her songs that followed were in many blockbuster movies like Mullum Malarum and Priya.
In September 2010, Srikanth Deva read one of the Jensy interviews and decided to give the talented singer a break in one of the movies that he was composing for. After the song recording was over, both director, John Mahendran and music director were heard saying that even after all these years Jensy's voice had not aged.
Discography
Tamil songs
Most of her Tamil film songs are scored by Ilayaraja.
Malayalam songs
References
External links
Jensy, list of songs
Coming out of recluse
Tamizh Cinema, Back with a Bang
Indian women playback singers
Jensy
Jensy
Living people
Film musicians from Kerala
Women musicians from Kerala
20th-century Indian women singers
20th-century Indian singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Poo Yee "Cordia" Tsoi (;) is a Canadian-born former short track speed skater who competed for Hong Kong at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Along with teammate Christy Ren, they became the first athletes to represent Hong Kong at the Winter Olympics.
Tsoi was born in Canada, but grew up in Hong Kong and attended Canadian International School. She competed in Kung Fu (Hong Kong National Team in Wushu 1999-2002) and Triathlon before embarking on a career in speedskating.
After the 2002 Games, Tsoi has since left the sporting world and studied at McGill University in Montreal. She is a psychology and business management graduate.
Tsoi is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and French.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Canadian female short track speed skaters
Hong Kong female short track speed skaters
Olympic short track speed skaters for Hong Kong
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Canadian people of Hong Kong descent
Canadian emigrants to British Hong Kong
McGill University alumni
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A steam fair or (steam rally) is a regular organised gathering of historic steam-powered vehicles and machinery, open to the public. Typical exhibits include: traction engines, steam rollers, steam wagons, and steam cars. Often, the scope is widened to include other historic exhibits such as stationary engines, internal-combustion -powered road transport, agricultural and construction vehicles, working horses, woodcraft and the like.
A typical steam fair consists of:
A parade ring or track in which vehicles may be demonstrated
Trade and craft stalls related to the exhibits
Areas where vehicles may be examined more closely and the public may talk to owners and operators
Entertainment areas (often, a beer tent) with food, drink, and evening music
A fairground area may also be included in the event
The following is a geographic list of these gatherings, some of which are referred to as rallies or as festivals. The list does not include static steam museums unless they host a particular event that falls into the classification.
In addition there are some travelling shows powered by steam. Where these are referred to as steam fairs they are included in the list.
Australia
Scoresby Steamfest
Lake Goldsmith steam rally (Twice yearly)
Hunter Valley Steamfest
Steam Rally Echuca Moama
SteamFest Tasmania at Sheffield
Canada
Steam-Era - (Milton, Ontario)
Threshermen's Reunion – (Austin, Manitoba)
Georgian Bay Steam Show _ (Cookstown, Ontario)
Ireland
Eyrecourt
Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally – (1998- )
Stradbally - Irish National Steam Rally – (1965- )
Upton Steam Rally – ( -1997)
Netherlands
Dordt in Stoom, Dordrecht - (1985- ) bi-annual large event in and around the historic harbour district with steam powered ships, trains, river boats and other engines.
Poland
Wolsztyn – (1993- ) annual steam locomotive parade held the last weekend of April near a historic roundhouse
Chabówka – (2005- ) "Parowozjada" - steam locomotive parade held the last weekend of August in a railway museum near the railway station
United Kingdom
Static events
Travelling shows
Carter's Steam Fair – (1976- ) A travelling funfair that travels throughout London and the home counties from Easter to Bonfire Night.
United States
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum - bi-annual show in Vista, California
Antique Powerland, Brooks Oregon. Annual Steam-Up
Antique Power and Steam Show - Large annual show taking place in the Lake County Fairgrounds in Indiana.
Badger Steam and Gas Show - Annual show hosted by Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club near Baraboo, WI
Buckley Old Engine Show - Annual show in Buckley, Michigan
K&O Steam and Gas Engine Show, Windfield Kansas.
Central North Dakota Steam Thresher's Reunion – (1958- )
The Dover Steam Show – (1964- ) Annual show hosted by Tuscarawas Valley Pioneer Power Association
Great Steamboat Race - (1963- ) annual round trip race from Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana and back between steamboats on the Ohio River
Old Thresher's Reunion - (1960- ) Labor Day weekend, Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
National Threshers Association (1944- ) annual reunion/show held in Wauseon, Ohio, last full weekend of June
Northwest Ohio Antique Machinery Association Antique Machinery Show - Findlay, OH
Nowthen Threshing Show - Annual show held on the third full weekend (Friday-Sunday) in August, in Nowthen, Minnesota.
Pageant of Steam - (1960- ) annual fair held in Canandaigua, New York
Pawnee Steam and Gas Engine Show - held first full weekend in May in Pawnee, OK
Pioneer Engineers Club of Rushville, IN - yearly show in Rushville, IN
Pioneer Steam and Gas Engine Society - Sagertown, PA.
Rock River Thresheree Edgerton, Wisconsin – (1955- )
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association Kinzers, Pennsylvania
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association, Berryville, VA "Pageant of Steam" held each year the last full weekend in July
Soule’ Live Steam Festival and Railfest annual event held the first weekend in November in Meridian, MS.
Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion annual event held July 1-July 5 in Denton, NC
Steamstock: An Antiquarian Exposition in Point Richmond, CA is an annual event held in July in a former Ford motor factory, next to the Rosie the Riveter Museum.
Tall Stacks - held every 3 or 4 years in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1988; is a fair for steam powered riverboats.
Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Association near Easton, MD - annual "Steam Show" (1973- ) in early July.
Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion (WMSTR) Rollag, Minnesota
Western New York Gas & Steam Engine Association Annual Rally - Alexander, NY
Cama Powerup Spring and Fall Kent, CT
Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association Back to the Farm Reunion Boonevill, MO
Riverbend Steam and Gas Association Allendale, MI
The Michigan Steam Engine and Threshers Club Reunion, Mason, MI.
See also
Live steam
Hollycombe Steam Collection – essentially a steam fair, but in the form of a museum
Thursford Collection – steam museum featuring traction engines
Notes
External links
List of UK Steam Fairs
UK Traction engine rallies
Live listings of UK Steam and Vintage Events (Visitors may also submit to this Events Guide)
"Old Glory" Online Guide to UK Events including steam rallies and fairs (dynamic list) - from the Old Glory magazine
(Old Glory also publishes a 'Free' paper version at the start of each year listing UK Events.)
Search for steam fairs near you (UK only)
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The Redstone family of rockets consisted of a number of American ballistic missiles, sounding rockets and expendable launch vehicles operational during the 1950s and 1960s. The first member of the Redstone family was the PGM-11 Redstone missile, from which all subsequent variations of the Redstone were derived. The Juno 1 version of the Redstone launched Explorer 1, the first U.S. orbital satellite in 1958 and the Mercury-Redstone variation carried the first two U.S. astronauts into space in 1961. The rocket was named for the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama where it was developed.
PGM-11 Redstone
First launched in 1953, the PGM-11 Redstone was a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile in active service with the U.S. Army from June 1958 to June 1964; and was used for the first U.S. live nuclear missile tests. It was built by Chrysler for the United States Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) and was deployed in West Germany. George Huebner was the executive engineer in charge of Chrysler's missile program for its first two years of operation.
Jupiter-A
Jupiter-A was the first variant of Redstone, used to test components later used in the PGM-19 Jupiter medium-range ballistic missile.
Jupiter-C
Jupiter-C was a sounding rocket used for three sub-orbital spaceflights in 1956 and 1957. It was used as a testbed for re-entry vehicles later deployed on the PGM-19 Jupiter.
Juno I
Juno I was a derivative of the Jupiter-C, used to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958. Although the U.S. possibly could have put a satellite into orbit before the Soviet Union had the ABMA been allowed to attempt a satellite launch in August 1956, the Eisenhower administration wanted the first U.S. satellite to be launched by a civilian rocket developed by American engineers instead of a rocket derived from a military missile program and developed by the German engineers of Operation Paperclip. Additionally, the administration saw value in the USSR taking the first move to reach orbit because they would set the precedent that territorial overflight in space was fair game, necessary for the United States' space-based photoreconaissance ambitions in the wake of diplomatic protests against U-2 incursions of Soviet airspace.
The Vanguard launch vehicle was the civilian rocket program in development for this purpose, so the administration ordered ABMA's research director, Wernher von Braun, not to attempt any satellite launches. The Vanguard rocket failed on its first attempt to launch the Vanguard satellite in December 1957, crashing back to the pad and exploding. Following this setback and in the wake of the Sputnik crisis, the administration changed course and turned to the Army, asking ABMA and von Braun to launch the JPL-built satellite as soon as possible.
Mercury-Redstone
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle (MRLV), also known as Mercury-Redstone, used the stretched Redstone configuration from the Jupiter-C for six suborbital launches for Project Mercury in 1960 and 1961, including United States' first two human spaceflights:
Mercury-Redstone 1, abort, traveled
Mercury-Redstone 1A, successful uncrewed flight
Mercury-Redstone 2, carried Ham, a chimpanzee
Mercury-Redstone BD, booster development – final test before crewed flight
Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7), first American in space, Alan Shepard
Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), second American in space, Gus Grissom
Sparta
Sparta was the name given to a series of surplus Redstone missiles with two solid-fuel upper stages launched as part of a joint US-UK research project with Australia from 1966 to 1967. Sparta launched Australia's first Earth satellite, WRESAT.
Saturn
Two members of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn I and IB, were partially derived from the Redstone. They used eight tanks built on Redstone tooling clustered around one propellant tank built on Jupiter missile tooling, and used eight Rocketdyne H-1 (Jupiter) engines to form the first stage of the rockets. First developed by the ABMA, the Saturn rocket was adopted by NASA for its Apollo program. America's first heavy-lift launch vehicles, the first of these was launched in 1961.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Medium-range ballistic missiles
Space launch vehicles of the United States
Sounding rockets of the United States
Expendable space launch systems
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A glossary of terms relating to project management and consulting.
A
Agile software development is a set of fundamental principles about how software should be developed based on an agile way of working in contrast to previous heavy-handed software development methodologies.
Aggregate planning is an operational activity which does an aggregate plan for the production process, in advance of 2 to 18 months, to give an idea to management as to what quantity of materials and other resources are to be procured and when, so that the total cost of operations of the organization is kept to the minimum over that period.
Allocation is the assignment of available resources in an economic way.
B
Benefits management plan a document that describes the activities necessary for achieving the benefits of a project and when these planned benefits will be delivered. It also outlines metrics and procedures to measure progress against benefits.
BOSCARD a strategic planning tool used in project management to give the Terms of reference for new projects.
Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues.
Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) measures the budgeted cost of work that has actually been performed, rather than the cost of work scheduled.
Budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS) the approved budget that has been allocated to complete a scheduled task (or Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) component) during a specific time period.
Business case a document that examines business need and cost-benefits analysis of a project to justify the approval of the project and to set its boundaries.
Business model is a profit-producing system that has an important degree of independence from the other systems within an enterprise.
Business analysis is the set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement or organizational change.
Business operations are those ongoing recurring activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. They are contrasted with project management, and consist of business processes.
Business process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers. There are three types of business processes: Management processes, Operational processes, and Supporting processes.
Business process modeling (BPM) is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current ("as is") process may be analyzed and improved in future ("to be").
C
Capability maturity model (CMM) in software engineering is a model of the maturity of the capability of certain business processes. A maturity model can be described as a structured collection of elements that describe certain aspects of maturity in an organization, and aids in the definition and understanding of an organization's processes.
Change control is the procedures used to ensure that changes (within quality management systems (QMS) and information technology (IT) systems) are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner. Change control is a major aspect of the broader discipline of change management.
Change management is a field of management focused on organizational changes. It aims to ensure that methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes to controlled IT infrastructure, in order to minimize the number and impact of any related incidents upon service.
Case study is a research method which involves an in-depth, longitudinal examination of a single instance or event: a case. They provide a systematic way of looking at events, collecting data, analyzing information, and reporting the results.
Certified Associate in Project Management is an entry-level certification for project practitioners offered by Project Management Institute.
Communications log is an ongoing documentation of communication events between any identified project stakeholders, managed and collected by the project manager that describes: the sender and receiver of the communication event; where, when and for how long the communication event elapsed; in what form the communication event took place; a summary of what information was communicated; what actions/outcomes should be taken as a result of the communication event; and to what level of priority should the actions/outcomes of the communication event be graded
Constructability is a project management technique to review the construction processes from start to finish during pre-construction phrase. It will identify obstacles before a project is actually built to reduce or prevent error, delays, and cost overrun.
Constructability Review is a process of reviewing design documents, construction drawings, specifications, and other construction documentation intended for use by a builder to construct the project. The purpose of a constructability review is to eliminate design errors, omissions, and coordination issues prior to bidding the documents so that the project bid is accurate, and less likely to create uncertainty, delays, added costs, or other risks during construction. Constructability reviews identify those risks so they can be corrected before bidding and constructing the project. Constructability reviews should be conducted by a multi-disciplined team of design, engineering, and construction professionals independent of the project designers. Constructability review comments should be addressed and resolved by modifying the bid documents prior to bidding or obtaining the construction contractor's price and before starting construction work to ensure accurate biddable, and buildable construction documents maximize construction efficiency, quality, and safety at the best price.
Costs in economics, business, and accounting are the value of money that has been used up to produce something, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.
Cost engineering is the area of engineering practice where engineering judgment and experience are used in the application of scientific principles and techniques to problems of cost estimating, cost control, business planning and management science, profitability analysis, project management, and planning and scheduling."
Construction, in the fields of architecture and civil engineering, is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the project manager and supervised by the construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect.
Cost overrun is defined as excess of actual cost over budget.
Critical path method (CPM) is a mathematically based modeling technique for scheduling a set of project activities, used in project management.
Critical chain project management (CCPM) is a method of planning and managing projects that puts more emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks.
D
Dependency in a project network is a link amongst a project's terminal elements.
Dynamic systems development method (DSDM) is a software development methodology originally based upon the rapid application development methodology. DSDM is an iterative and incremental approach that emphasizes continuous user involvement.
Duration of a project's terminal element is the number of calendar periods it takes from the time the execution of element starts to the moment it is completed.
Deliverable A contractually required work product, produced and delivered to a required state. A deliverable may be a document, hardware, software or other tangible product.
E
Earned schedule (ES) is an extension to earned value management (EVM), which renames 2 traditional measures, to indicate clearly they are in units of currency or quantity, not time.
Earned value management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner, with a combination of measuring scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system.
Enterprise modeling is the process of understanding an enterprise business and improving its performance through creation of enterprise models. This includes the modelling of the relevant business domain (usually relatively stable), business processes (usually more volatile), and Information technology
Estimation in project management is the processes of making accurate estimates using the appropriate techniques.
Event chain diagram : diagram that show the relationships between events and tasks and how the events affect each other.
Event chain methodology is an uncertainty modeling and schedule network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and event chains that affect project schedules.
Executive sponsor is the senior member of the project board and often the chair.
Extreme project management (XPM) refers to a method of managing very complex and very uncertain projects.
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Float in a project network is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to subsequent tasks and or the project completion date.
Focused improvement in Theory of Constraints is the ensemble of activities aimed at elevating the performance of any system, especially a business system, with respect to its goal by eliminating its constraints one by one and by not working on non-constraints.
Fordism, named after Henry Ford, refers to various social theories. It has varying but related meanings in different fields, and for Marxist and non-Marxist scholars.
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Henry Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant, who developed the Gantt chart in the 1910s.
Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. It illustrates the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project.
Goal or objective consists of a projected state of affairs which a person or a system plans or intends to achieve or bring about — a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines
Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable and time targeted objectives
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) is a network analysis technique that allows probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimated.
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Hammock activity is a grouping of subtasks that "hangs" between two end dates it is tied to (or the two end-events it is fixed to).
HERMES is a Project Management Method developed by the Swiss Government, based on the German V-Modell. The first domain of application was software projects.
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Integrated Master Plan (IMP) is an event-based, top level plan, consisting of a hierarchy of Program Events.
ISO 10006 is a guidelines for quality management in projects, is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization.
Iterative and Incremental development is a cyclic software development process developed in response to the weaknesses of the waterfall model. It starts with an initial planning and ends with deployment with the cyclic interaction in between
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Kickoff meeting is the first meeting with the project team and the client of the project.
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Level of Effort (LOE) is qualified as a support type activity which doesn't lend itself to measurement of a discrete accomplishment. Examples of such an activity may be project budget accounting, customer liaison, etc.
Linear scheduling method (LSM) is a graphical scheduling method focusing on continuous resource utilization in repetitive activities. It is believed that it originally adopted the idea of Line-Of-Balance method.
Lean manufacturing or lean production, which is often known simply as "Lean", is the practice of a theory of production that considers the expenditure of resources for any means other than the creation of value for the presumed customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination.
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Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.
Management process is a process of planning and controlling the performance or execution of any type of activity.
Management science (MS), is the discipline of using mathematical modeling and other analytical methods, to help make better business management decisions.
Megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project.
Milestones are tools used in project management to mark specific points along a project timeline.
Motivation is the set of reasons that prompts one to engage in a particular behavior.
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Nonlinear Management (NLM) is a superset of management techniques and strategies that allows order to emerge by giving organizations the space to self-organize, evolve and adapt, encompassing Agile, Evolutionary and Lean approaches, as well as many others.
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Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of good quality goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. It is the management of resources, the distribution of goods and services to customers, and the analysis of queue systems.
Operations, see Business operations
Operations Research (OR) is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics and formal science that uses methods such as mathematical modeling, statistics, and algorithms to arrive at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex problems.
Organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment.
Organization development (OD) is a planned, structured, organization-wide effort to increase the organization's effectiveness and health.
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PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products.
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale.
Portfolio in finance is an appropriate mix of or collection of investments held by an institution or a private individual.
Postmortem documentation : A project post-mortem is a process used to identify the causes of a project failure (or significant business-impairing downtime), and how to prevent them in the future.
Pre-mortem : A pre-mortem, or premortem, is a managerial strategy in which a project team imagines that a project or organization has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to the failure of the project or organization.
PRINCE2 : PRINCE2 is a project management methodology. The planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of the project and the motivation of all those involved in it to achieve the project objectives on time and to the specified cost, quality and performance.
Process is an ongoing collection of activities, with an inputs, outputs and the energy required to transform inputs to outputs.
Process architecture is the structural design of general process systems and applies to fields such as computers (software, hardware, networks, etc.), business processes (enterprise architecture, policy and procedures, logistics, project management, etc.), and any other process system of varying degrees of complexity.
Process management is the ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process, especially in the sense of business process, often confused with reengineering.
Product breakdown structure (PBS) in project management is an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of components that make up an item, arranged in whole-part relationship.
Product description in project management is a structured format of presenting information about a project product
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a statistical tool, used in project management, designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.
Program Management is the process of managing multiple ongoing inter-dependent projects. An example would be that of designing, manufacturing and providing support infrastructure for an automobile manufacturer.
Project : A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project accounting Is the practice of creating financial reports specifically designed to track the financial progress of projects, which can then be used by managers to aid project management.
Project charter is a statement of the scope, objectives, and participants in a project.
Project Cost Management A method of managing a project in real-time from the estimating stage to project control; through the use of technology cost, schedule and productivity is monitored.
Project management : The complete set of tasks, techniques, tools applied during project execution'.
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) : The sum of knowledge within the profession of project management that is standardized by ISO.
Project management office: The Project management office in a business or professional enterprise is the department or group that defines and maintains the standards of process, generally related to project management, within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects. The PMO is the source of documentation, guidance and metrics on the practice of project management and execution.
Project management process is the management process of planning and controlling the performance or execution of a project.
Project Management Professional is a certificated professional in project management.
Project Management Simulators are computer-based tools used in project management training programs. Usually, project management simulation is a group exercise. The computer-based simulation is an interactive learning activity.
Project management software is a type of software, including scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects.
Project Management Triangle is a model of the constraints of project management.
Project manager : professional in the field of project management. Project managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution, and closing of any project, typically relating to construction industry, architecture, computer networking, telecommunications or software development.
Project network is a graph (flow chart) depicting the sequence in which a project's terminal elements are to be completed by showing terminal elements and their dependencies.
Project plan is a formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control. The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning assumptions and decisions, facilitate communication among stakeholders, and document approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines. A project plan may be summary or detailed.
Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment.
Project stakeholders are those entities within or without an organization which sponsor a project or, have an interest or a gain upon a successful completion of a project.
Project team is the management team leading the project, and provide services to the project. Projects often bring together a variety number of problems. Stakeholders have important issues with others.
Proport refers to the combination of the unique skills of an organisation's members for collective advantage.
Q
Quality can mean a high degree of excellence ("a quality product"), a degree of excellence or the lack of it ("work of average quality"), or a property of something ("the addictive quality of alcohol").[1] Distinct from the vernacular, the subject of this article is the business interpretation of quality.
Quality, Cost, Delivery(QCD) as used in lean manufacturing measures a businesses activity and develops Key performance indicators. QCD analysis often forms a part of continuous improvement programs
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Reengineering is radical redesign of an organization's processes, especially its business processes. Rather than organizing a firm into functional specialties (like production, accounting, marketing, etc.) and considering the tasks that each function performs; complete processes from materials acquisition, to production, to marketing and distribution should be considered. The firm should be re-engineered into a series of processes.
Resources are what is required to carry out a project's tasks. They can be people, equipment, facilities, funding, or anything else capable of definition (usually other than labour) required for the completion of a project activity.
Resource leveling : 'A scheduling calculation that delays activities such that resource usage is kept below specified limits. It is also known as resource limited scheduling'.
Risk is the precise probability of specific eventualities.
Risk management is a management specialism aiming to reduce different risks related to a preselected domain to the level accepted by society. It may refer to numerous types of threats caused by environment, technology, humans, organizations and politics.
Risk register is a tool commonly used in project planning and organizational risk assessments.
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Schedules in project management consists of a list of a project's terminal elements with intended to start and finish dates.
Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflow processes, improving labor productivity.
Scope of a project in project management is the sum total of all of its products and their requirements or features.
Scope creep refers to uncontrolled changes in a project's scope. This phenomenon can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered a negative occurrence that is to be avoided.
Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development. Despite the fact that "Scrum" is not an acronym, some companies implementing the process have been known to adhere to an all capital letter expression of the word, i.e. SCRUM.
Six Sigma is a business management strategy, originally developed by Motorola, that today enjoys widespread application in many sectors of industry.
Slot-based scheduling term is first used by IBM Spectrum Symphony as a resource allocation method. It is implemented to project management literature by mentioning each slot as the replaceable qualified human hours required to complete a given task.
Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
Standards are documents approved by a recognized body, that provide, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for products, processes, or services with which compliance is not mandatory. (ISO 9453)
Stakeholder Clients or other parties invested in the Project.
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is any logical process used by a systems analyst to develop an information system, including requirements, validation, training, and user ownership. An SDLC should result in a high quality system that meets or exceeds customer expectations, within time and cost estimates, works effectively and efficiently in the current and planned IT infrastructure, and is cheap to maintain and cost-effective to enhance.
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed.
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Task is part of a set of actions which accomplish a job, problem or assignment.
Tasks in project management are activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time.
Task analysis is the analysis or a breakdown of exactly how a task is accomplished, such as what sub-tasks are required
Time limit is a narrow field of time, or a particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished.
Timeline is a graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events, also referred to as a chronology. It can also mean a schedule of activities, such as a timetable.
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Unified Process: The Unified process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process (RUP).
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Value engineering (VE) is a systematic method to improve the "value" of goods and services by using an examination of function. Value, as defined, is the ratio of function to cost. Value can therefore be increased by either improving the function or reducing the cost. It is a primary tenet of value engineering that basic functions be preserved and not be reduced as a consequence of pursuing value improvements.
Vertical slice is a type of milestone, benchmark, or deadline, with emphasis on demonstrating progress across all components of a project.
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Work Processes and Organization of the design - construction - operation team in order to support explicit and public business objectives.
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Wideband Delphi is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating effort.
Work in project management is the amount of effort applied to produce a deliverable or to accomplish a task (a terminal element).
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a method and a kind of representation that defines a project and groups the project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project. A Work breakdown structure element may be a product, data, a service, or any combination. WBS also provides the necessary framework for detailed cost estimating and control along with providing guidance for schedule development and control.
Work package is a subset of a project that can be assigned to a specific party for execution. Because of the similarity, work packages are often misidentified as projects.
Work stream is a set of associated activities, focused around a particular scope that follow a path from initiation to completion.
Related lists
List of production topics
List of project management topics
List of management topics
List of Theory of Constraints topics
List of topics in industrial organization
Timeline of project management
List of statistical tools used in project management
References
External links
Project Management Institute
Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
AACE International Cost Engineering Terminology
Tenrox Glossary of Project Management Terms
Project Management Dictionary (PM Hut)
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Project management topics
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Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh 1953 S.C. 34. encapsulates the Scots law position regarding the role of expert witnesses in providing their opinion to the court in criminal and civil proceedings.
Case
In Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh, an expert witness gave evidence concerning the effect of shock waves in blasting operations and referred to a specific section of a pamphlet that allegedly supported his opinion. The Court of Session disproved of the Lord Ordinary's action of adopting other parts of the pamphlet that the expert had not made reference to.
" The Court cannot...rely upon such works for the purpose of displacing or criticising the witness's testimony." - at 41.
Law
Lord President Cooper stated that "their duty is to furnish the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of their conclusions, so as to enable the Judge or jury to form their own independent judgment by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence." Therefore, an expert witness should only offer their opinion as to the facts that have already been established in court, and "should not hinder the trier of fact's duty by telling them how to assess the evidence that they have heard". The weight to be given to the evidence provided by the expert witness is a matter for the judge (in civil, or summary criminal proceedings) or jury (in solemn criminal proceedings) alone.
The court also stated that "expert witnesses are only required in order that certain facts can be assessed and understood in their specialist/scientific context".
Moreover, in this case it was held that "in some situations, the scientific knowledge that an expert witness claims to have must be proved in court", such as in "Hewat v Edinburgh Corporation" 1974 S.C. 30. This is to prevent false claims of credentials that may affect the reliability of the opinion advanced by the expert witness.
As a result of this case, only the extracts of any literature relied upon by an expert witness whilst giving their testimony may be used against them to challenge their opinion. The remainder of any texts/journals is not admissible and thus cannot be relied upon by the expert or any other party to the proceedings.
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Anders Christian Jensen-Haarup (8 January 1863 – 30 January 1934) was a Danish entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera. He was born in Nim and died in Silkeborg.
Jensen-Haarup was a teacher. In September 1904 he went to the province of Mendoza in Argentina on an insect collecting expedition. In 1905 he returned to Denmark to work on the material. In autumn of 1906 Jensen-Haarup went on a second trip to Argentina, this time accompanied by his friend Peter Jörgensen.
Jensen-Haarup published a series of popular accounts of the natural history of Argentina and wrote accounts of his travels as well as entomological works. The part of his collection which was not sold or retained by specialists to whom he sent material is in the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
External links
Melipona Biography, portrait, bibliography
wiki-silkeborg.dk Biography
Danish entomologists
Hymenopterists
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1934 deaths
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Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She directed the films Radiance (1998), One Night the Moon (2001), Bran Nue Dae (2010), and Jasper Jones (2017). Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and his wife Eileen.
Early life and education
Perkins was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory in 1970. She is the daughter of Charlie Perkins, granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, and has Arrernte, Kalkadoon, Irish, and German ancestry. Her siblings are Adam and Hetti Perkins, an art curator, and her niece is actress Madeleine Madden. She and her sister attended Melrose High School.
At the age of 18, Perkins moved to Alice Springs and entered into a traineeship at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Career
In 1992, Perkins founded Blackfella Films, a documentary and narrative production company creating distinctive Australian content for television, live theatre, and online platforms, with a particular focus on Indigenous Australian stories. Its productions have included multi-award winning seven-part documentary series First Australians, television film Mabo, and TV series Redfern Now.
She served as Commissioner with the Australian Film Commission from 2004 to 2008, and since 2009 has been on the board of Screen Australia.
She was also curator for the 2009 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival. This tenth anniversary of the festival held at the Sydney Opera House featured the premiere of Fire Talker, a documentary film about her father Charlie Perkins by Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen.
Since 2015, Perkins has been the president of the AIATSIS Foundation, which is part of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
She has continued to make award-winning films and TV series (see below).
In 2019, she was invited to give the ABC's annual Boyer Lecture, which she titled The End of Silence, and broadcast on ABC RN in November and available as a podcast.
Personal life
Perkins has a son with her ex-husband filmmaker Richard McGrath.
Selected filmography
Blood Brothers (film series) (1993) – producer, director, writerRadiance (1998) – directorOne Night the Moon (2001) – director, writerFlat (2002) – producerMimi (2002) – producerFirst Australians (2008) – producer, director, writer, narratorBran Nue Dae (2010) – director, writerMabo (2012) – directorBlack Panther Woman (2014) – directorFirst Contact (2014) – producerJasper Jones (2017) – directorThe Prospector (TBD) – director
Mystery Road (2019 & 2020) TV series
Total Control (2019) TV series
The Australian Wars (2022), a three-part documentary series about the Australian frontier wars on SBS Television – director, producer and presenter
Awards
Australian Film Institute
1998 – AFI Award Best Achievement in Direction: Radiance (1998) (nominated)
2002 – Byron Kennedy Award
Australian Writers' Guild
2001 – Awgie Award Television – Television Original: One Night the Moon (2001)
2001 – Major Award: One Night the Moon (2001)
Canberra International Film Festival
1998 – Audience Award: Radiance (1998)
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
2002 – Special Achievement Award: One Night the Moon (2001)
IF Awards
2001 – IF Award Best Direction: One Night the Moon (2001) (nominated)
Melbourne International Film Festival
1998 – Most Popular Feature Film: Radiance (1998)
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival
2001 – Genre Award Best Feature Film – Musical: One Night the Moon (2001)
AACTA Awards
2019 – Best Television Drama
Australian Directors' Guild Awards
2019 – Best director in a television drama series, for Mystery Road, Series 1
Tudawali Film and Video Awards
1994 – The Tudawali Award: Blood Brothers (1993)
2000 – Best direction: Radiance (1998)
New South Wales Premier's History Awards
2023 – Winner (with Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey and Don Watson), Digital History Prize: The Australian Wars'', Episode 1
References
Further reading
(bio)
Unearthing our first voices (Canberra Times)
Article about Rachel Perkins and her movie Radiance in Urban Cinefile
External links
1970 births
Living people
Australian film producers
Australian film directors
Australian women film directors
Australian television producers
Australian women television producers
Australian television directors
Indigenous Australian musicians
Australian screenwriters
Indigenous Australian filmmakers
Arrernte people
Australian people of Irish descent
Australian people of German descent
Australian women television directors
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The 1968 Intertoto Cup was the second, following the previous year's in which no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore the second in which no winner was declared. The tournament was expanded, with 50 clubs and fourteen groups compared to 48 clubs and twelve groups the season before. Clubs from Portugal and Spain participated for the first time.
Group stage
The teams were divided into fourteen groups - of four clubs each in the 'A' section, and of six clubs each in the 'B' section. Clubs from Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal were placed in 'A'; while clubs from East Germany, Poland, Sweden and Denmark were placed in 'B' groups. Clubs from West Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland were placed in both sections.
Group A1
Group A2
Group A3
Note: Match between Dukla Prague and Rapid Vienna was not played.
Group A4
Group A5
Group A6
Group B1
Group B2
Group B3
Group B4
Group B5
Group B6
Group B7
Group B8
See also
1968–69 European Cup
1968–69 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
External links
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Jajuara, also written Jajuar and Yajuar, is the largest village in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar in India, and the second-largest village in Bihar.
Etymology
The original name Yajuar comes from Yajur vedasaya agara yasya Yajuara, which means "Village of people who know Yajurveda one of the four Veda in Hinduism".
Geography and climate
The Yajuar region is situated in the district of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, India. The village covers , the largest village in Katra block. It is from Muzaffarpur, and from Darbhanga. There is no easy way to reach its district Muzaffarpur during rainy season. In recent times, solar energy has become very popular, but nowadays it is electricity.
The climate is mainly dry and cool. In summer the temperature varies from to . In winter it is typically to . The elevation is 51m close to sea level. The soil is suited for agriculture, which is the main economic activity of the region.
Administration
There are three panchayats in Yajuar, namely Yajuar East, Yajuar Middle and Yajuar West Village. Jajuar is part of Katra CD block. Its revenue village name is Jajuara.
Demographics
the population of Jajuara was 25,875 making it the second most populated village in Bihar. The male to female ratio in the village was 1,089/1,000. The literacy rate in the city was about 60%, male literacy being 69% and female literacy being 50%.
Language
Since Yajuar is a part of Mithila, Maithili language is spoken by all of the population. Hindi is the second most common language and limited use of English language is seen.
Culture
The culture is very traditional. All the major Indian festivals are celebrated here.
Religious places and festivals
There are many spiritual places in Yajuar. Badi pokhra where the God of the village Shri Dihbad Baba's temple is situated under the Peepal tree. Several other temples are also situated on the bank of the Pokhar. Some of the other important religious places in the village are yajuar kali asthan where kali puja is celbrated on diwali
Sarvnath Mahadev asthan near water tank, Bhagvati Sthan, Dev nagar (near Gudri Bazar Bhira), Dhelmara Gosai, and Chaupadi Mahadev sthan, Hanuman Mandir in Panchove Tota near the high school. Devi Shakti peeth "Chamunda Mata mandir" is situated in Katra (block office) which is from Yajuar.
Yajuar celebrates a variety of festivals such as Holi, Ganesh Chaturthi, Chaurchan, Kojagara, Durga Puja, Diwali and Kali Puja, and Bhaiya Dooj or better known as Bhardutiya among others. The Chhath Puja of Yajuar is very famous among all the nearby villages. In Durga Puja as well as Kali Puja, a group of people commonly known as the orchestra are invited by the committee members to entertain the people with their dancing and singing acts. Durga Puja is celebrated in the premises of the Bari Pokhra temple while Kali Puja is celebrated in Rajkiya Madhya Vidyalaya yajuar Anusuchit (Popularly known as Harijan school)
Economy
Agriculture is the main economic activity of this village. The main crops are rice, wheat, pulses, moong, urad, arhar, jute (with a recent decline in its production), and maize.
Apart from these, yajuar also produces many fruits including mangoes. Although mango trees can be found in the whole village, there is a special place called Bhagwanpur toal where a variety of mango trees can be found. As estimated, there are more than 25,000 mango trees in Bhagwan pur toal.
The economy is not robust and the village is considered one of the poorest in India. Flooding destroys enormous amounts of crops every year. Due to the absence of industry, a weak educational infrastructure, and criminal politics, the majority of the area's youth have had to relocate for education and earnings.
There is only one Regional Rural Bank situated here near Gobind Chauk.
Education
There are many private and government schools in village. There is one high school and many middle schools like Harijan school, Middle school etc. & one college Ram Janki inter Mahavidyalaya for higher education which is situated near badi pokhar. In private schools, Gaytree Vidya Mandir is most popular
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Tundla Junction is an important station in Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Delhi–Howrah main line 25 km from Agra City. Tundla is a technical halt for changing drivers and guards for almost all of the trains on the New Delhi–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar / Lucknow sections. The station was built by the British and remains essentially unchanged. The railway station is a site in itself and takes one back to the pre-independence era.
Tundla Junction is important for the people of Agra and for tourists providing connections to the east of the country, i.e. Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna etc., and especially to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
It has connections to Agra Cantonment, Badaun, Bareilly Junction, Etawah, Aligarh Junction, Phaphund, Kanpur Central railway station etc.
History
1972: Electrification from Howrah reaches Tundla.
29 December 2002: Konkan Railway conducts a trial run of the Madgaon–Roha Express at 150 km/h (briefly touching 165 km/h at times) using a WDP-4 loco. In December, NR is said to have run trials with a WDP-4 hauling at train at up to 180 km/h on the Ghaziabad–Tundla section.
13–21 December 2003: Trials with weak field arrangement for MEMUs on the Tundla–Kanpur section of NCR. With a "dense crush load" and stopping at all stations, a 4-car MEMU rake could reducee its total running time by 7% with a maximum speed of 90 km/h and 10% with a maximum speed of 100 km/h on the 228 km section, because of the improved acceleration.
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Railway junction stations in Uttar Pradesh
Railway stations in Firozabad district
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Sultan Haji Hassan III Sri Dhaadha Veeru Mahaa Radhun was the sultan of Maldives from 1443 to 1467. He ascended the throne after the death of his father, Sultan Abookuru I. In his 25th year of reign he chose to pay a visit to Mecca for Hajj and he made his young son as the regent while he was away. While he was in Mecca he was deposed by Sayyidh Muhammad (later Sultan Sayyidh Muhammad).
But after returning from Mecca he regained the throne by deposing Sultan Sayyidh Muhanmed and restored the Hilaalee dynasty. When the sultan returned he brought 70 slaves whom he bought from Mecca's Slave Bazaar. He reigned for 26 years.
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Cranbourne East is a proposed railway station on the Cranbourne railway line in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, Victoria, Australia. It would be the terminus of a short extension from the current Cranbourne terminus, with the station to be located west of Broad Oak Drive and north of the Blue Hills retirement village, and adjacent to near the Casey Fields sporting complex. There is a proposed pedestrian underpass to be built along with the station.
The station was promised by the Australian Labor Party during the 1999 and 2002 state election campaigns, but was dumped in May 2006. In November 2003, a "Trainlink" bus service was introduced as an alternative, meeting each train at Cranbourne station and running on a largely one-way loop through Cranbourne East. The then state government's Victorian Transport Plan, released in December 2008, listed the station and associated rail extension as "medium term" project, which was estimated to cost $200 million.
In January 2018, City of Casey advised it would need almost $3 Billion worth of rail and road infrastructure to extend the metropolitan train from Cranbourne to Clyde with duplication of the line between Dandenong and Cranbourne.
References
Proposed railway stations in Melbourne
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Haranath Chakraborty () is an Indian Bengali film director. He made his directorial debut with "Mangaldeep" (1989). Many of his movies have been critically acclaimed and enjoyed commercial success.
Early life and career
He was Born on 1 January 1959 in West Bengal. He was assistant director of Anjan Choudhury Group. His directorial debut film Mangaldeep was released in 1989.
Awards
Chakraborty's film, Ganrakal (2004) won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Clean & Entertainment Film Award.
Filmography
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
20th-century Indian film directors
Bengali film directors
21st-century Indian film directors
Film directors from West Bengal
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"Burn" is a song by Australian recording artist Jessica Mauboy. It was written by Taj Jackson, Jonas Jeberg, and Mich Hansen and was produced by Jeberg and Cutfather. "Burn" was released digitally on 17 November 2008 as the second single from Mauboy's debut studio album, Been Waiting (2008). Musically, "Burn" is an R&B-dance track that incorporates electronica influences. The song became Mauboy's first number-one on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for selling over 70,000 copies. "Burn" also became Mauboy's first charting single internationally, reaching number 92 on the Japan Hot 100.
In 2009, "Burn" received an ARIA No. 1 Chart Award and won 'Single of the Year' at The Deadly Awards. It was also nominated for 'Highest Selling Single' at the ARIA Music Awards. A corresponding music video for "Burn" was directed by Keir McFarlane and filmed at the Sydney Botanical Gardens. The video has garnered over one million views on YouTube/Vevo. In February 2012, "Burn" was featured in episode 17 of the fourth season of Packed to the Rafters. In 2014, a live version of "Burn" was featured on Mauboy's iTunes Session EP.
Background and composition
"Burn" was written by Taj Jackson, Jonas Jeberg, and Mich Hansen and was produced by Jeberg and Cutfather. It was made available for digital purchase on 17 November 2008. A digital extended play with an additional track and two remixes of "Burn", was released on 24 November. "Burn" is an R&B-dance track, that incorporates electronica influences. The song is written in the key of F minor. Lyrically, it features Mauboy singing to a cheating lover, "Look what you did to me / I need a doctor, cos this is starting to burn!".
A writer for muumuse.com wrote about the composition and production of the release, "'Burn' is quite modern in terms of production, and equally addictive upon replay. It's a bit more up-tempo, a bit more stomptastic, and the chorus is quite ear-friendly. Still loving her voice. Very Alesha-esque, minus the more grating cat-like yelps that often plague a typical Dixon track. Oh, and she's only 19 years old, which makes her sort of like the superior, Australian version of Jordin Sparks, no?"
Reception
Critical response
Nick Bond of MTV Australia wrote that the song is "worthy of Rihanna". Davey Boy of Sputnikmusic compared "Burn" to Mauboy's previous single "Running Back", writing it "is almost as good with its restrained use of electronica combining with a contagious chorus to result in a song which will be just as at home on radio as it is in the clubs." Dung Le of Mediasearch found "Burn" more "catchier" than "Running Back" and noted that its R&B grooves and catchy chorus will set "Jessica up well for a big assault in 2009 and a possible overseas release." "Burn" was awarded an ARIA No. 1 Chart Award for reaching number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. At the 2009 Deadly Awards, "Burn" won 'Single of the Year'. It was nominated for 'Highest Selling Single' at the 2009 ARIA Music Awards, but her previous single "Running Back" took that title. "Burn" became the fourth most-played song on Australian radio stations by February 2009.
In February 2009, "Burn" was removed from most Melbourne contemporary hit radios playlists because of its title and the Victorian bushfires that occurred during the time. Mauboy's manager David Champion said that Mauboy understood and supported the decision, saying: "Jessica is very mindful of the terribly traumatic situation that is occurring in Victoria. She does not want in any way to add to people's distress." Program director of 91.5 FM added that: "We have removed several songs from our line-up out of respect for the victims caught up in the tragedy. Even though these songs had nothing to do with the bushfires, they were a reflection of it."
Chart performance
"Burn" debuted at number 30 on the ARIA Singles Chart on 1 December 2008. After climbing the chart for seven consecutive weeks, "Burn" peaked at number one on 19 January 2009 and became Mauboy's first number-one single in Australia. It was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), for selling 70,000 copies. It also became Mauboy's first charting single internationally when it reached number 92 on the Japan Hot 100 on 25 April 2009.
Music video
The music video for "Burn" was directed by Keir McFarlane and filmed at the Sydney Botanical Gardens on 21 November 2008. It was uploaded to YouTube on 2 October 2009. The video begins with Mauboy sitting in the driver's seat of a red ferrari and then moves on to sing and dance in front of a bush. While singing the chorus of the song, Mauboy is seen outdoors with her backup dancers in front of a background of flames. The video then crosses over to club scenes where Mauboy is dancing alongside a bunch of people.
Live performances
Mauboy performed "Burn" on the Australian Idol grand finale show on 23 November 2008. She also performed the song at the 2008 Sydney New Year's Eve event. On 11 January 2009, Mauboy performed "Burn" during a Twenty20 cricket match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. On 19 January 2009, she performed "Burn" on Sunrise, which was broadcast live from the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. Mauboy performed the song at the Australia Day Live Concert held at the Parliament House, Canberra on 25 January 2009, dressed in a one piece black short jumpsuit. On 9 July 2009, Mauboy performed "Burn" at her first 'Live at the Chapel' concert, held at the Paddington Uniting Church in Sydney. At the 2009 ARIA Music Awards on 26 November, Mauboy performed a remixed version of "Burn", dressed in a black leather dress.
Mauboy performed "Burn" on her Galaxy Tour across Australia with Stan Walker from January through February 2012. Mauboy performed "Burn" again when she embarked on her first solo-headlining tour, the To the End of the Earth Tour, from 7 November 2013 to 24 January 2014 to help promote the release of her third studio album Beautiful (2013). Mauboy also performed the song at the Mbantua Festival, a celebration of Aboriginal Australian culture held in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A live version of "Burn" was included on Mauboy's extended play iTunes Session (2014).
Track listing
Digital download
"Burn" – 2:53
Digital EP
"Burn" – 2:52
"Runnin'" – 3:38
"Burn" (Nufirm Remix) – 4:40
"Burn" (Pop Embassy Remix) – 4:13
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes for Been Waiting.
Don Bartley – mastering
Tom Coyne – mastering
Mich "Cutfather" Hansen – production
Jonas Jeberg – production, programming
Jessica Mauboy – vocals
Audius Mtawarira – vocal production
Matz Nilsson – mixing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certification
Release history
See also
List of number-one singles in Australia in 2009
List of songs recorded by Jessica Mauboy
References
2008 singles
2008 songs
Jessica Mauboy songs
Music videos directed by Keir McFarlane
Number-one singles in Australia
Songs written by Cutfather
Songs written by Jonas Jeberg
Sony Music Australia singles
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Sultan Muhammad II Sri Bavana Mahaa Radhun was the Sultan of Maldives from 1467 to 1481, succeeding his father Sultan Hassan III to the throne. He is known as a cruel Sultan who ruled like his father.
15th-century sultans of the Maldives
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Anna of Schweidnitz (Świdnica) (also known as Anne or Anna of Świdnica, , , ) (Świdnica, 1339 – 11 July 1362 in Prague) was Queen of Bohemia, German Queen, and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She was the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.
Biography
Anne was the daughter of Polish Duke Henry II of Świdnica-Jawor from the Silesian branch of the Piast dynasty. Her mother was Katherine of Hungary, the daughter of Charles I of Hungary. In his autobiography written in Latin, which covers only his youth prior to marrying Anna, emperor Charles mentions civitatem Swidnitz and dux Swidnicensis, as depicted in the coat of arms room of his Wenzelschloss castle at Lauf an der Pegnitz near Nuremberg.
Anne's father died when she was four years old, and her childless uncle, Bolko II, Duke of Świdnica-Jawor became her guardian. She was brought up and educated by her mother at Visegrád in Hungary. At the age of 11, Anne had been promised to Wenceslaus, newborn son and successor to Charles IV. After the infant Wenceslaus and his mother Anna of the Palatinate died, the now-widowed Emperor asked to marry Anne himself. The planned marriage was part of the strategies devised by Charles and his then-deceased father John to gain control of the Piast Duchies of Silesia as vedlejší země ("neighboring countries") for the Kingdom of Bohemia. Anne's uncle, Louis I of Hungary, the future King of Poland, was able to assist her by renouncing his rights to Świdnica in favor of the House of Luxemburg.
At the instigation of archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice, Pope Innocent VI issued a dispensation for the marriage, which was required because of the degree of relationship between the bride and groom (they were second cousins once removed through their common ancestors Rudolf I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg). The two were married on 27 May 1353, when Anne was 14; her new husband was 37. The wedding was attended by Anne's guardian Bolko II of Świdnica, Duke Albert II of Austria, King Louis of Hungary, Margrave Louis of Brandenburg, Duke Rudolf of Saxony, an envoy of King Casimir III of Poland, and an envoy of the Republic of Venice.
On 28 July 1353, Anna was crowned Queen of Bohemia in Prague by Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice. On 9 February 1354, in Aachen, she was crowned German queen. As part of the coronation of Charles as Holy Roman Emperor on 5 April 1355, in the Roman Basilica of Saint Peter, Anne was crowned Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She was thereby the first Queen of Bohemia to become Empress.
In 1358, Anne bore a daughter, Elisabeth, who was named after Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330). In February 1361 she became mother of the desired successor to the throne, Wenceslaus, who was born in Nuremberg, and baptized on 11 April in the Sebalduskirche by the Archbishops of Prague, Cologne, and Mainz. She did not live to see the coronation of the two-year-old Wenceslaus, however. At age 23, she died in childbirth on 11 July 1362. She is buried in St. Vitus Cathedral. The emperor married Elisabeth of Pomerania one year later. The Duchies of Świdnica and Jawor passed to Bohemia after Bolko's death in 1368.
Ancestry
References
Literature
Andreas Rüther: Anna von Schweidnitz und Jauer. In: Schlesische Lebensbilder, Bd. VIII,
Peter Moraw: Anna von Schweidnitz und Jauer. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Bd. I, München 1980, Sp. 655
F. Machilek: Anna von Schweidnitz. In: Schweidnitz im Wandel der Zeiten, Würzburg 1990, S. 317-322
External links
genealogie-mittelalter.de
Boehm-Chronik -- Landbuch des Fürstentums / Herzogtums Schweidnitz-Jauer
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1362 deaths
Deaths in childbirth
Piast dynasty
14th-century women from the Holy Roman Empire
14th-century German women
Countesses of Luxembourg
Anna
Burials at St. Vitus Cathedral
Queens consort of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)
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Spin.FX is a Central Australian Indigenous band from the community of Papunya, Northern Territory. They sing in Luritja and play a mixture of reggae, rock, country and traditional sounds. The band's name is a modified spelling of spinifex.
Members
Stanley Roberts - vocals, guitar
Derek Williams - vocals, rhythm guitar
Amos Egan - vocals, lead guitar
Jason Butcher - drums
Esau Marshall - bass guitar, keyboards
Abraham Phillipus - bass
Leslie Pearce - backing vocals
Malcom Karpa - backing vocals
Lance McDonald
Discography
Ulumburruâ (2000) - CAAMA
Uluparru (2002) - CAAMA
Warumpinya (2006) - CAAMA
References
Deadly Vibe Issue 72 February 2003 Spin FX
Music Australia Uluparru
Music Australia Warumpinya
Northern Territory musical groups
Indigenous Australian musical groups
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The Cables are a Jamaican rocksteady/reggae vocal trio led by Keble Drummond, who recorded for Studio One in the late 1960s.
History
The group was led by Keble Drummond (sometimes spelled Keeble), whose first name led to the name of the group. Drummond explained "Now, I look at something with a cable and wires, and I say, well, 'Cables' would be a good name because you could send a message across the world, and that's how I came up with the name". He was backed by harmony singers Elbert Stewart (baritone) and Vince Stoddart (tenor). Drummond was taught the basics of guitar by Peter Austin of The Clarendonians and write his first songs after attending a songwriting course. Drummond had previously been a member of The Sylastians, along with Barry Llewellyn and Earl Morgan of The Heptones, and Clive Campbell of The Aces, and the Cables were first formed in 1962. After recording a single for Sonia Pottinger around 1966, they recorded a string of singles for Studio One, and these were later collected on the album What Kind of World in 1970. "What Kind of World" has been described as "a classic...a low-key showcase for some of the most under-rated vocals of the age". Studio One boss Clement "Coxsone" Dodd built up demand for the "Baby Why" single by limiting it to sound system plays for four months before releasing it. The rhythm tracks were later employed by Dodd on several tracks by other artists. Unsatisfied with the lack of money received from Dodd, The Cables recorded for Harry J while they were still under contract to Studio One, with Drummond altering his voice and the single released under the name "Herbie Carter" (a real singer who recorded for Harry J) to avoid Dodd finding out. By 1970, The Cables had left Studio One. "(Everybody) Feel Alright" was entered into the Festival Song Contest in 1971, losing out to Eric Donaldson's "Cherry Oh Baby". They recorded a few more singles for producers such as J.J. Johnson, Harry J, and Bunny Lee ("Come On", recorded with Slim Smith), but failed to repeat their Studio One success. Drummond left the group to embark on an unsuccessful solo career in 1972, and briefly formed a new group, True Experience, with Trevor Shields and Bobby Ellis, releasing "My Girl" in 1974.
"Baby Why" formed the basis of deejay tracks from both Dennis Alcapone and Prince Jazzbo, and the rhythm was used by The Gladiators for their 1974 track "Rearrange".
A second album, Baby Why, produced by Harry J, was recorded in 1977, where they were backed by musicians from The in Crowd and Third World.
The Cables have reformed several times in the years that followed. Drummond earned a living working in a shoe factory during The Cables' peak and moved to the United States in 1979, later working for American Airlines.
A third album, also titles Baby Why and credited to "Cables and friends" was issued in 1993, and led to The Cables performing at the 1994 Reggae Sunsplash festival.
The three original members, along with tenor Owen "Bobby" Dockery, reunited in 2011 to perform at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in California.
Drummond released a solo album, Mellow Moods of Music, in August 2013.
Discography
Albums
What Kind of World (1970) Studio One
Baby Why (1977) Harry J
Baby Why (2002) VP (Cables and friends)
Keble Drummond
Mellow Moods of Music (2013)
Singles
The Cables
"Happy End" SEP
"I've Made Up My Mind" aka "Good Luck to You" (1966) Gay Disc
"You Betrayed Me" (1967) SEP
"What Kind of World" (1968) Studio One/Coxsone
"Baby Why" (1968) Studio One
"Love Is a Pleasure" (1968) Studio One
"Cheer Up" (1968) Studio One
"So Long" (1969) Bamboo
"Got to Find Someone" (1969) Studio One
"Happy Time" (1969) Harry J (credited to Herbie Carter)
"How Can I Trust You" (1970) Studio One/Bamboo
"Didn't I" (1970) Harry J
"Feel All Right" (1970) Harry J
"Salt of the Earth" (1970) Harry J
"Come On" (1970) Jackpot
"A Sometime Girl" (1971) Big Shot/Electro
"Mixing" (1971) Electro
"Be Wise" (1971) Panther
"Everybody's Got a Song to Sing" (1976) Trojan/Horse
"Jamaica" Afrik (1977)
"I've Got to Go Back Home" Harry J
"Baby I Love You" (197?) World Wide/Money Disc
"Fast Mouth" Gaydisc
"How Do You Think I Feel?" Gaydisc
"Rich Man Poor Man" Dynamic
"Too Much Talking" Bright Star
Keble Drummond
"Dangerous" (1972) Mud/Pama (b-side of the Phil Pratt All Stars' "Feel Good All Over")
"Your Pretty Face" (1973) Jackpot
"Praise Jah" (1976) Mummy
"Keep on Dancing" Mummy
"Imagine Now" Starlight
"The Twinkle is Gone" Harry J (credited to "Eric Fater")
"If Only Love Could Last"
Keble Drummond and The Cables
"Poor People" High Note
"What Kind of World" (1977) Island/Black Swan
References
External links
The Cables at Roots Archives
Leggett, Steve "[ The Cables Biography]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
The Cables Official Website
Jamaican reggae musical groups
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Barbados–Canada relations are the bilateral relations between Canada and Barbados. In 1907, the Government of Canada opened a Trade Commissioner Service to the Caribbean region located in Bridgetown, Barbados. Following Barbadian independence from the United Kingdom in November 1966, the Canadian High Commission was established in Bridgetown, Barbados on 27 September 1973. There is a High Commission of Barbados in Ottawa and a Barbadian Consulate in Toronto. The relationship between both nations today partly falls under the larger gambit of Canada–Caribbean relations. As of 2014 it is estimated that as much as 8% of Canadian foreign investments in Barbados.
History
The relationship between the nations of Barbados and Canada extends as far back as the late 17th century. During this period, Barbados and the current provinces of Canada were a series of colonial possessions of Great Britain and France. In the early most instances of trade between the two regions, Barbados and Canada found themselves able to fill niche markets between one another's markets. The Bluenose vessels were instrumental to trade as Barbados and other islands exported their sugar and rum to the area of Canada, in return Canada exported salted cod and lumber supplies to the West Indies. This trade continued for a number of years, however these ties eventually weaned as the influence of the Thirteen American colonies grew in importance for Canada, Barbados, and the wider West Indies region.
In 1907, the Government of Canada opened its Trade Commissioner Service to the Caribbean region. This was located on the current grounds of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.
By the early 20th century several large Canadian financial institutions looked towards expansion into the West Indies. On 16 February 1911 the Royal Bank of Canada marked the opening of their first commercial branch in Barbados. then in 1920, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce did the same, and finally Scotiabank followed the first two in 1956.
In 1993-1994 Barbados had sought talks on entry into the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along with Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Although this was later abandoned in favor of having a hemispheric trade deal and because of belief that in Barbados joining NAFTA it would severely impact on the OECS states which depended on access to the Barbados market.
Economic relations
A growing legion of Canadian businesses and companies have established operations offering services in Barbados. Barbados is one of the largest recipients of Canadian Foreign Direct Investment.
During the Fifth Barbados Charity Ball held in Canada David Thompson, the Prime Minister of Barbados and also its Minister of Finance announced that Canadians represent some 75% of the international financial community in Barbados.
The Canadian government has also played an extremely critical role in the continuation of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank since its inception and acts as a significant lending country to the institution. The Government of Barbados is part of the Government of Canada's constituency at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.Barbados-Canada relations vital
Politics
Around the time of the various colonies of Canada entering into the agreement for confederation, the powerful Barbados Agricultural Society, which was made up of influential Bajan plantation owners, put together a proposition for Barbados to take part in this Canadian confederation as well. The proposal was made to Sir Francis Hincks, but the deal did not proceed and Barbados' interest subsided. It was not until the 1950s, just prior to the country of Barbados negotiating independence from the United Kingdom, that yet another movement for establishing some form of political association with Canada was broached yet again, this time spurred by several Barbadian members of parliament. As part of Canada's 150th anniversary, and Barbados's 50th anniversary of independence, the Central Bank of Barbados produced a segment regarding relations with Canada. The related paper by the Central Bank of Barbados reviewed all aspects of relations between both nations including previous movement towards political union.
In 2007, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the desire to heighten Canada's profile in the Americas. As part of his plan, Harper and his Canadian envoy visited several nations of Latin America and the Caribbean regions which included Barbados. Stephen Harper took part in several closed-door meetings with the then Barbadian prime minister Owen Arthur and the other heads of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) group of nations. Since Harper's visit, Canada and Barbados have concluded a mutual skies agreement and are currently in the process of working on a bilateral free trade agreement which will encompass Barbados and the rest of CARICOM.
The Canadian High Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean also spoke of the possibility of Barbadian and Canadian Companies forming joint ventures. At the time it was proposed that such an agreement could encompass infrastructure projects in the country of Barbados.
In addition to the Prime Minister's visit to Barbados, the Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean also visited Barbados that same year where she met with the Governor-General of Barbados.
In 2008, the three largest stock exchanges in the Caribbean (Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago) mulled the possibility that the Caribbean Stock Exchanges might seek to associate in some way with the Toronto Stock Exchange. All three of these exchanges are currently seeking to join their three bourses into a more effective single Caribbean-wide unit known as the Caribbean Exchange Network.
In 2009 The Hon. Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), saluted Barbados on achieving the country's 43rd anniversary of independence. In a press release the minister stated: "Canada salutes the people of Barbados as they mark their country's independence, Canada and Barbados have a long tradition of very close relations based on common values, people-to-people links and shared Commonwealth history."
The Crown Corporations known as the Barbados Water Authority and Canadian Commercial Corporation signed a $58 million deal in 2013 for the latter to help roll out fully digital water meters across the island of Barbados. The deal was facilitated through the Canadian High Commission office in Barbados.
In 2014 a trade mission from Barbados visited Nova Scotia to strengthen the level of trade among the two Atlantic regions.
In the spirit of close friendly relations in 2016, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary of Canada announced an April Fools' Day joke via Twitter that it had arranged a deal with the Government of Barbados for RNC officers to jointly patrol the beaches and other tourist areas of Barbados along with the local Royal Barbados Police Force during the Canadian winters.
Migration
A number of women from Canada come together to form The Canadian Women's Club of Barbados social club.
Canadians in Barbados
Eugene Melnyk (Canadian Businessman)
Pierre McMaster – Launched the Barbados-based mobile phone company Ozone Wireless.
Barbadians in Canada
Austin Clarke –novelist.
Anne Cools – Cools an Independent member, became the first person of afro-descent to be appointed Canadian Senate. Cools first entered into Canadian politics in 1978. She was appointed to the Senate in 1984.
Dr. William Duguid – A former member of the Barbados House of Assembly (M.P. for Christ Church West) living in Canada part-time.
Alan Emtage – Emtage developed one of the first examples of an Internet search utility.
Peter Fenty – Canada's first Black Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Keith Forde – Forde was the first visible minority Deputy Chief of Police in the history of the Toronto Police Service
Joe Fortes – the first official lifeguard in the city of Vancouver.
George Lamming – A novelist.
Richard Clement Moody – A Barbadian who established the then Colony of British Columbia (1858–66).
Patricia Whittaker – A 2006 candidate who sought in 2006 to become Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada after former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin stepped down.
Tourism
During the 1970s, Canada became the largest source of tourists to Barbados. In 1979, roughly 97,000 Canadians visited the island of Barbados. Over time Barbados has seen market share from Canada shift towards lower cost Caribbean destinations such as Cuba or the Dominican Republic. Still yet many Canadians vacation in Barbados including past prime ministers. In 1965 one of Canada's former Prime Ministers, John Diefenbaker was saved by a future prime minister of Canada, John Turner after The Hon. Diefenbaker waded out too far in usually strong surf one morning. Something which surely could have altered the political landscape in Canada.
On 3 November 2008, WestJet commenced the airline's inaugural flight to Barbados. The main competitory of WestJet on this route is Air Canada. The airline announced the start of a four-flights per week schedule going from Toronto, Ontario to Barbados. During the post-inaugural flight ceremony held at the executive lounge of the Grantley Adams International Airport the Barbadian Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy said that the Barbados Tourism Authority was currently seeking to increase its tourism from Canada. He also offered opportunity to collaborate in the future with WestJet should they need a regional Caribbean hub. According to the Barbados Advocate newspaper Sealy stated "We are game if Westjet is interested, in becoming the regional hub for more of your business and we would certainly like to see not four flights a week, but eventually, if we can have a daily service. Grantley Adams is already an established hub and we can feed business into the other territories. So I think there are some possibilities for even greater levels of cooperation with Westjet" he remarked to his Canadian counterparts.
Bilateral agreements
Diplomatic offices
Both nations maintain direct high-level diplomatic representatives.
High Commission of Barbados in Ottawa
Consulate of Barbados in Toronto
High Commission of Canada in Bridgetown
High Commission of Barbados in Ottawa
The High Commission is the primary diplomatic mission of Barbados in Canada. Among the initial diplomatic missions to be established by Barbados after the attainment of independence from Britain
Initially the Office of the Barbados High Commission was established in June 1967 at: 151 Slater Street, Suite 200. It remained for a number of years before relocating.
The High Commission further represents the Government of Barbados in many areas including helping to facilitate the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Canada. In years past it collaborated with various institutions in Canada including: the National Council of Barbadian Associations of Canada Inc. (NCBAC), the Barbados (Ottawa) Association Inc., and the Barbados Family & Friends Club. E. Evelyn Greaves is the resident Barbados government representative and High Commissioner to Canada, having succeeded Glyne Samuel Hyvesta Murray.
In 1989, the Barbados High Commission then under High Commissioner established the annual Errol Barrow Memorial Trust of Canada which awards worthy Canadians with educational scholarships. The 2013 fundraiser dinner and awards was hosted at the Ottawa City Hall.
The High Commissioner has participated in a number of community events in Ottawa including a major fund raising campaign for the Queensway Carleton Hospital Care Grows West expansion-project for which over CAD$5 million was raised.
Gallery
Notes
References
Canadian Trade and Investment Activity: Canada–Barbados, Federal Parliament of Canada
External links
Barbados-Canada relations – Canadian Government
Profile on Barbados by industry and sector
Amount of Barbados-Canada trade
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters – Barbados fact finding
Barbadian Consulate in Canada
The Barbados Ball Canada Aid (BBCA)
Canada
Bilateral relations of Canada
Canada
Canada and the Commonwealth of Nations
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Process map is a global-system process model that is used to outline the processes that make up the business system and how they interact with each other. Process map shows the processes as objects, which means it is a static and non-algorithmic view of the processes. It should be differentiated from a detailed process model, which shows a dynamic and algorithmic view of the processes, usually known as a process flow diagram. There are different notation standards that can be used for modelling process maps, but the most notable ones are TOGAF Event Diagram, Eriksson-Penker notation, and ARIS Value Added Chain.
Global process models
Global characteristics of the business system are captured by global or system models. Global process models are presented using different methodologies and sometimes under different names. Most notably, they are named process map in Visual Paradigm and MMABP, value-added chain in ARIS, and process diagram in Eriksson-Penker notation – which can easily lead to the confusion with process flow (detailed process model).
Global models are mainly object-oriented and present a static view of the business system, they do not describe dynamic aspects of processes. A process map shows the presence of processes and their mutual relationships. The requirement for the global perspective of the system as a supplementary to the internal process logic description results from the necessity of taking into consideration not only the internal process logic but also its significant surroundings. The algorithmic process model cannot take the place of this perspective since it represents the system model of the process. The detailed process model and the global process model represent different perspectives on the same business system, so these models must be mutually consistent.
A macro process map represents the major processes required to deliver a product or service to the customer. These macro process maps can be further detailed in sub-diagrams. It is often the case that process maps cross different functional areas of the organization.
Process maps are used by many companies to have a holistic view of all processes and the connections between them. Maps help in navigating the sub-processes and make understanding of the organization's operations easier. The process map shows relationships and dependencies between processes and its focus should be on core business processes of the organization.
A process map can be seen as the most abstract level of the process architecture, and it acts as the introduction to the more detailed levels. A process map that is correctly designed is able to provide a general understanding of a company's operations. Designing the process map is an important and strategic step for the organization, and it is followed by further business process modelling implementation.
Context
Methodology for Modelling and Analysis of Business Process (MMABP) is a business process modelling methodology developed at the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the Prague University of Economics and Business. The methodology is defined as a “general methodology for modelling business systems using informatics methods and approaches”.
Methodology is used to analyse business processes and to develop a comprehensive model of the system. The goal of developing a model is to be used for process optimization. The model should be created following the characteristics and specifics of the organization in question and following external influences that can affect the organization. The model should be optimal from an economic perspective, but it should also be optimal from a factual perspective, meaning that it should be as simple as possible while maintaining complete functionality.
Business system modelling is based on a two-dimensional approach:
Real World structure (substance) – set of objects and their relationships
Real World behaviour – set of mutually connected business processes
Additionally, there are also two views of the systems:
Global view of the system
Detailed view of the system's parts
This results in the need to model the system from four different perspectives in order to achieve the complete and comprehensive view of the business system. MMABP also proposes which notation languages can be used for modelling each perspective, and it also suggests some improvements to the notation languages in order to fit the purpose.
Global view of the objects – Conceptual model (Class diagram)
Detailed view of the objects – Object life cycle (State Chart)
Global view of the processes – Process map (Eriksson-Penker Diagram/TOGAF Event Diagram/ARIS VAC)
Detailed view of the processes – Model of the process flow (BPMN Diagram)
Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is additional diagram used for describing the required functionalities of the information system.
Notation standards
Eriksson-Penker Diagram
Eriksson-Penker diagram is a tool used in business model analysis and design. It is named after Hans-Erik Eriksson and Magnus Penker, who developed the concept in their book "Business modelling with UML: Business Patterns at Work”.
Eriksson-Penker diagrams are used to map out the key components of a business model and how they interact with one another. The diagrams typically consist of a series of boxes and lines that represent the different elements of the business model, such as the value proposition, customer segments, channels, revenue streams, and key resources. The lines between the boxes represent the relationships and dependencies between the different elements of the business model. These diagrams are useful for visualizing and understanding the various components of a business model, and can help organizations identify potential areas for improvement or areas of risk. They can also be used as a communication tool to help stakeholders understand the business model and its underlying assumptions.
These diagrams are useful for visualizing and understanding the various components of a business model, and can help organizations identify potential areas for improvement or areas of risk. They can also be used as a communication tool to help stakeholders understand the business model and its underlying assumptions. It is possible to use Eriksson-Penker diagrams to create a global process view of a business. In this case, a diagram would be used to map out the key processes and activities that are involved in the business, as well as the relationships and dependencies between these processes. For example, an Eriksson-Penker diagram could be used to depict the various steps involved in the product development process, from concept development to market launch. It could also be used to show how different functions within the organization, such as marketing, sales, and production, interact and depend on one another to support the overall business.
Eriksson-Penker diagram is one of the most popular de facto standards that can be used for an object-oriented global view of business processes. It is developed as an extension of the UML, and it is often used together with the BPMN to compensate for the lack of possibility to model the global view with this widely accepted standard.
TOGAF Event Diagram
TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) is a framework for enterprise architecture that provides a common language and set of standards for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise's IT architecture. TOGAF event diagrams are diagrams used in the TOGAF framework to represent the flow of events within a system or process.
The TOGAF Event Diagram is a visual representation of the events within an organization or system. It can be used to show the sequence of events that occur in a particular process, as well as the relationships between the events and the stakeholders involved. TOGAF Event Diagrams can be useful in creating a global process view because they provide a visual representation of the events, which can be helpful in understanding how the process fits into the larger context of the organization.
TOGAF Event Diagram is the most perspective standard for the system view of processes today. It is used to represent the system of processes as well as their connections to the functional organizational structure.
ARIS Value Added Chain
ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) is a methodology and a set of tools for designing and managing business processes. It is based on the idea that business processes are the core of an organization and that they can be modelled and optimized to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The ARIS methodology provides a framework for understanding and analysing business processes, as well as for designing and implementing improvements to those processes. It includes a set of graphical modelling languages and tools for creating process models, as well as a database for storing and managing process information.
In the context of the ARIS methodology, a value added chain (VAC) diagram is a specific type of process model that is created using the ARIS modelling languages and tools. The ARIS methodology recognizes the distinction between a global view of the system of processes and a detailed view of one process. VAC notation can be used in ARIS for modelling the global view.
Model consistency
Business process models should be consistent, both within a single model and in terms of mutual consistency with other models. Consistency applies to both global (Process Map) and detailed (Process Diagram) views. In order to be considered consistent, models should satisfy two consistency criteria: completeness and correctness.
In terms of a single model, business process models should be:
Complete – A process must be defined for every product, and all relevant events must be used as action reasoning in at least one model.
Correct – Process aim must be met by the process. Process actions and their sequence, inputs, outputs, and all other process properties must be valid for all potential process instances.
In terms of mutual consistency with other models, business process models should be:
Consistency between the class diagram and business process model relates to the correctness and completeness of object roles. All object classes have to be mentioned in business processes as some external factor, and the other way around too.
Consistency between the state chart and business process model relates to the correctness and completeness of actions. Every action from business process must have at least one equivalent state transition in state chart, and the other way around too.
Consistency between all diagrams (class diagram, state chart, and business process models) relates to the correctness and completeness of reasons. Every event that represents a reason for transitioning between states in the state chart should have an equivalent event that represents a reason for the process activity in the business process model, and the other way around too.
References
Business process modelling
Diagrams
Process engineering
Scientific modelling
Software engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20map
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