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Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman, (21 February 1884 – 1 June 1949) was an Australian soldier, politician, and judge. He served in both the First and Second World Wars. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1920 to 1926, representing the Nationalist Party, and later served as a judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration from 1927 until his death in 1949.
Early life
Born in Busselton, Western Australia, Drake-Brockman was the son of surveyor Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and heroine Grace Vernon Bussell and brother of Deborah Vernon Hackett. He was a 1902 graduate of the Guildford Grammar School. Interested in the military, he joined the Citizen Military Forces as a volunteer in 1903. He combined this with a career in law, becoming a barrister and solicitor in 1909, practicing in Perth.
First World War
Following the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered for overseas service and served in the Gallipoli Campaign as a major while assigned to the 11th Battalion. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services at Gallipoli. Later in the war, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and commanded another Western Australian infantry battalion, the 16th, serving on the Western Front. In 1918, he was promoted to brigadier general and commanded the 4th Brigade.
Politics
Drake-Brockman was elected to the Senate at the 1919 federal election, one of a number of former AIF commanders elected as Nationalists. He was the first native-born Western Australian to be elected to the Senate, and only the second to be elected to federal parliament (after Sir John Forrest). Drake-Brockman became a "loyal government supporter". In 1923, when parliament reconvened after the 1922 election, he was appointed as government whip.
In parliament, Drake-Brockman spoke frequently on defence issues. He supported the government's Defence Bill 1921 which would have applied the United Kingdom's Army Act to the Australian military, and warned of Japanese aggression in the Pacific in the context of "the preservation of a White Australia". On trade policy, he "argued that the protective tariff disadvantaged the primary producing Western Australians" and opposed the government's establishment of the Tariff Board. Drake-Brockman was a member of several select committees, including that which recommended that the government commission Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) to develop an overseas radio communication service. In 1925 he represented Australia at the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva.
In 1924, Drake-Brockman was elected president of the Central Council of Australian Employers, an employers' federation, succeeding George Fairbairn. At the annual convention later in the year, he "urged the employers to strenuously resist the rising tide of socialism" and advocated a return to piece work rather than wages.
Drake-Brockman did not recontest the 1925 federal election, in order to allow the Nationalists to put forward a joint ticket with their coalition partners the Country Party. He was the most junior of the three Nationalist senators in Western Australia up for re-election. His term expired in June 1926.
Judicial career and later life
In April 1927, Drake-Brockman was appointed to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
Still in the Citizen Military Forces, he was called up for duty during the Second World War, and commanded the 3rd Division, a militia formation, until 1942. He died on 1 June 1949, and was survived the three children he had by his wife, Constance, whom he had married in April 1912.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Mallett, Ross, Major General Edmund Drake-Brockman, General Officers of the First AIF, adfa.edu.au
Obituary, Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
1884 births
1949 deaths
Military personnel from Western Australia
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath
Australian generals
Australian military personnel of World War I
Australian Army personnel of World War II
Drake-Brockman family
Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
People from Busselton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Drake-Brockman |
The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Douro () is an administrative division in Portugal. It replaced the Comunidade Urbana do Douro, created in 2004. It takes its name from the Douro River. The seat of the intermunicipal community is Vila Real. Douro comprises parts of the former districts of Bragança, Guarda, Vila Real and Viseu. The population in 2011 was 205,157, in an area of .
Douro is also a NUTS3 subregion of Norte Region. Since January 2015, the NUTS 3 subregion covers the same area as the intermunicipal community.
Its economic activity is largely centered on the production of wine, particularly port, and also non-fortified Douro wine from the Douro DOC wine region. The entire region is mountainous and crossed by steep valleys.
Municipalities
The CIM Douro is composed of 19 municipalities:
Geography
The main rivers are Douro River, Corgo River, Tua River and Sabor River. There is an airport at Vila Real: Aerodromo de Vila Real/Douro [VRL]. The Douro railway line was completed in 1887. The narrow gauge branch lines in the area (such as the Corgo line) are now all closed.
The main monuments are the cathedral and Mateus Palace in Vila Real, and the Remedios and Sé/cathedral in Lamego. The Alto Douro Wine Region and the Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley are both classified by UNESCO as heritage sites.
The University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro is situated in Vila Real.
References
External links
Official website CIM Douro
Intermunicipal communities of Portugal
Norte Region, Portugal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douro%20%28intermunicipal%20community%29 |
Sven Oftedal (3 June 1905 – 23 June 1948) was a Norwegian physician and politician, representing the Labour Party. He was Minister of Social Affairs in 1945 and 1945-1948 and a member of the Storting (1945-1948).
Biography
Oftedal was born at Stavanger in Rogaland, Norway. He was the son of Lars Oftedal (1877-1932) and Alice Stephansen (1877-1938). His father was editor of Stavanger Aftenblad. His brother Christian Stephansen Oftedal (1907–1955) was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and served as a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
After graduating at the Stavanger Cathedral School in 1923, he went to the University of Oslo to study medicine. He graduated Cand.med. in 1930. He served at Stavanger Hospital from 1931 to 1932. Oftedal established himself as a private practice doctor in Stavanger from 1933 to 1941. He was elected as member of Stavanger City Council from 1934 to 1940.
During the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during World War II, his involvement in the resistance movement led to his arrest. In 1941, he was sent to Grini detention camp. He was released but was arrested again in the fall of 1942. In February 1943 he was sent to the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin and stayed there until German capitulation in 1945. During his captivity, he made an effort to treat prisoner who were particularly prone to dysentery and pneumonia. Oftedal managed to obtain permission from the camp commander to obtain medicine for the prisoners. Regular drug deliveries arrived from both the Norwegian and Swedish Red Cross organizations.
After the liberation of Norway, Oftedal was Social Minister in Einar Gerhardsen's First Government in 1945 and in Einar Gerhard's Second Government from 1945 to 1948. He was elected to the Storting for the period 1945 to 1949 for Vest-Agder and Rogaland. In 1948, he died at 43 years of age as a result of a heart attack and was buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo. A bust of Sven Oftedal was made by artist Per Palle Storm in 1950 and is located in Stavanger city center.
References
1905 births
1948 deaths
Politicians from Stavanger
Physicians from Oslo
University of Oslo alumni
20th-century Norwegian physicians
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Grini concentration camp survivors
Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
Burials at Vestre gravlund
Norwegian general practitioners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven%20Oftedal%20%28politician%29 |
District 18 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Aransas, Austin, Burleson, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties, western portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties, and an eastern precinct of Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas.
The current Senator from District 18 is Lois Kolkhorst.
Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 18 has a population of 809,726 with 587,890 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.
Election history
Election history of District 21 from 1992.
Previous elections
2020
2016
2014
2012
2010
2006
2002
1998
1994
1992
District officeholders
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Gonzales County, Texas
Harris County, Texas
Jackson County, Texas
Lavaca County, Texas
Lee County, Texas
Matagorda County, Texas
Nueces County, Texas
Refugio County, Texas
Victoria County, Texas
Waller County, Texas
Washington County, Texas
Wharton County, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Senate%2C%20District%2018 |
TK is a Peruvian pop rock band formed in 2001 by Emilio Pérez de Armas and Edgar Guerra.
Pérez and Guerra met at university. DLater Christopher Farfán, Diego Dibós and Carlos Lescano joined them to form TK.
In 2002 Sony Music awarded TK with Gold and Silver discs for sales of their album in Perú.
In 2003 TK and Zen, both Peruvian rock bands, were nominated by MTV for the award of Best New Central American Artist. TK won.
In 2004, their most recent album, Tentando Imaginarios, was released, with the hit single "Buscama." Other hit songs from the album are "Ilusión," "Alas Cortadas" and "Inminente Conjunción."
In 2005, TK made the soundtrack for the animated movie Piratas en el Callao. The song "La Juerga Pirata" was the main hit of the soundtrack.
In 2006, June, they announced their separation, but in November, guitarist, Emilio Pérez de Armas reformed the band with new members.
In 2007 they released their 3rd album, "Nucleo" with the lead single "Fragmentos".
Members
Emilio Pérez de Armas (Vocals, Guitars) 2001–Present
Juan Francisco Escobar (drums) 2007–Present
Miguel Ginocchio (keyboards) 2007–Present
Past members
Diego Dibos (Vocals, Guitar) 2001 - 2006
Carlos Lescano (Bass) 2001 - 2006
Edgar Guerra (Guitar) 2001 - 2006
Christopher Farfan (Drums) 2001 - 2006
Albums
Trece (2002)
Tentando Imaginarios (2004)
Soundtrack: Piratas en el Callao (2005)
Nucleo (2007)
Singles
From "Trece":
"Inminente conjunción" (2002)
"Alas cortadas" (2002)
"A Lina" (2002)
"Aquellos que nunca quisieron" (2003)
"Buscando la victoria" (2003)
From "Tentando Imaginarios":
"Abril" (2004)
"Ilusión" (2004)
"Buscama" (2005)
From "Nucleo":
"Fragmentos" (2007)
Other:
"La Juerga Pirata" (from "Los Piratas del Callao" Soundtrack) (2005)
References
Peruvian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 2001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK%20%28Peruvian%20rock%20band%29 |
Olav Berntsen Oksvik (7 May 1887 – 16 September 1958) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour and Social Democratic Labour parties. He served as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1928 until 1952 and then as the County Governor of Møre og Romsdal county from 1952 until his death in 1958.
In 1928 he helped launch the newspaper Romsdal Folkeblad. In January 1941 he was ordered by Nasjonal Samling to become mayor of the municipality of Bolsøy, which he categorically refused. He temporarily served as the acting Minister of Agriculture from 1947 to 1948 in place of Kristian Fjeld.
References
1887 births
1958 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
County governors of Norway
People from Stranda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav%20Oksvik |
Mike Solari (born January 16, 1955) is an American football coach and former player. Solari has previously worked for five other National Football League (NFL) teams, including a stint as offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs from 2006 to 2007. He played collegiately as an offensive lineman at San Diego State University.
Playing career
Solari got his start as playing both ways at El Camino High School in South San Francisco, California (Class of 1973), where he was a standout, particularly on the offensive side of the ball (tackle). His next stop was as an offensive lineman at College of San Mateo. He then moved onto San Diego State, where his teammates included two other JC transfers, future NFL head coaches Herman Edwards and John Fox.
Coaching career
After SDSU, Solari coached at the high school level in Southern California, for the Mission Bay Pirates in the Pacific Beach sector of San Diego, and as a wrestling and assistant track coach at Orange Glen High School in 1978–79. Next he began his college coaching career at nearby MiraCosta College, a community college in Oceanside. He then went to United States International University (USIU) as an assistant football coach on Tom Walsh's staff.
Solari spent time at Boise State, Cincinnati, Alabama, Kansas and Pittsburgh as assistant football coach.
He was with the Dallas Cowboys as assistant offensive line coach and special teams coach.
Solari joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1992 as tight ends coach and assistant offensive line coach. There he won a Super Bowl ring as a member of 1994 49ers coaching staff.
In 1997, he joined the Kansas City Chiefs as their O-line coach. And for many years, tutored some of the best lineman in the NFL, including Pro Football Hall of Famers Will Shields and Willie Roaf. Upon the retirement of Dick Vermeil and the signing of incumbent OC Al Saunders by Washington, Solari was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2006. After the conclusion of the 2007 season, Solari was fired by the Chiefs following a 4-12 season and was replaced by former Georgia Tech head coach and long-time NFL coach Chan Gailey.
Solari joined the Seahawks staff in 2008, he changed its offensive line scheme to more zone blocking.
On January 21, 2010, Solari was named offensive line coach for the San Francisco 49ers.
Solari joined the Packers staff as an offensive line assistant following the 2014 season.
On January 21, 2016, Solari was hired by the New York Giants as offensive line coach.
On January 15, 2018, Solari was rehired by the Seattle Seahawks as their offensive line coach.
Personal life
He is married to wife Patti and has three children; Tamara, Stephanie and Michael.
References
1955 births
Living people
American football offensive linemen
Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
Boise State Broncos football coaches
Cincinnati Bearcats football coaches
Dallas Cowboys coaches
High school football coaches in California
Junior college football coaches in the United States
Kansas City Chiefs coaches
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National Football League offensive coordinators
New York Giants coaches
Phoenix Cardinals coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
San Diego State Aztecs football players
San Francisco 49ers coaches
San Mateo Bulldogs football players
Seattle Seahawks coaches
United States International Gulls football coaches
People from Daly City, California
Players of American football from San Mateo County, California
People from South San Francisco, California
Coaches of American football from California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Solari |
Marty Ehrlich (born May 31, 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz.
Biography
Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent in St. Louis, Missouri, was particularly important. As a high school student at University City High School in nearby University City, the teenager came into contact with the influential Black Artists' Group (BAG, 1968–72) which was modelled after the AACM in Chicago.
Later, during formal studies at the New England Conservatory, Ehrlich developed a particularly close relationship with pianist Jaki Byard. It was here that he was most deeply schooled in traditional jazz forms, as well as Western European classical music. During these formative years, Ehrlich was exposed to the cultural, political and musical workings of radical African-American art, and was mentored by such legends as Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake. Often associated with "Radical Jewish Culture" and cult icon John Zorn, Ehrlich has throughout the years nevertheless resisted classification under any single musical genre. He has, for instance, been a mainstay of trumpeter Randy Sandke's Inside Out ensemble, which offers a unique combination of avant-garde–associated figures and mainstreamers.
Since his 1978 move to New York, Ehrlich has been a performer and leader with numerous bands of legendary repute, as well as a soloist for a number of major orchestras. But perhaps his most important recent contribution to the story of Jazz and improvised musics, The Long View, was completed at a residency in Harvard. The composition (scored for an ensemble of both strings and horns) is inspired from abstract paintings by Oliver Jackson, and has been hailed as "one of a handful of integral long-form works in jazz, standing beside those of the likes of Hemphill, Mingus, and Ellington" (Boston Phoenix).
Ehrlich currently lives in New York City, commuting to teach at Hampshire College, and devoting much energy to his duo with pianist Myra Melford, and trio with Mark Dresser (contrabass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums).
Discography
As leader
The Welcome with Anthony Cox, Pheeroan akLaff (1984)
Pliant Pliant with Stan Strickland, Anthony Cox, Bobby Previte (1988)
Falling Man with Anthony Cox (Muse (1989)
The Traveller's Tale with Stan Strickland, Lindsey Horner, Bobby Previte (1990)
Side by Side with Frank Lacy, Wayne Horvitz, Anthony Cox, Andrew Cyrille (1991)
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble, Emergency Peace (New World, 1991) – with Abdul Wadud, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lindsey Horner
Can You Hear a Motion? with Stan Strickland, Michael Formanek, Bobby Previte (1994)
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble, Just Before the Dawn (New World, 1995) – with Vincent Chancey, Erik Friedlander, Mark Helias, Don Alias
New York Child with Stan Strickland, Michael Cain, Michael Formanek, Bill Stewart (Enja, 1996) – recorded in 1995
Light at the Crossroads with Ben Goldberg (Songlines Recordings, 1997) – recorded in 1996
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble, Live Wood (Music & Arts, 1997) - with Erik Friedlander, Mark Helias. recorded in 1996.
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble, Sojourn (Tzadik, 1999) – with Erik Friedlander, Mark Helias, Marc Ribot
The Waiting Game with Mike Nock (Naxos Jazz, 2000)
Marty Ehrlich's Traveler's Tales, Malinke's Dance (OmniTone, 2000) – with Tony Malaby, Jerome Harris, Bobby Previte
Song (Enja, 2001) – with Uri Caine, Michael Formanek, Billy Drummond, Ray Anderson
The Long View (Enja, 2002)
Line on Love (Palmetto, 2003) – with Craig Taborn, Michael Formanek, Billy Drummond
News on the Rail (Palmetto, 2005) - recorded in 2004
Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet, Things Have Got to Change (Clean Feed, 2009)
Fables (Tzadik, 2010)
Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet, Frog Leg Logic (Clean Feed, 2011)
Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble, A Trumpet in the Morning (New World, 2013) - recorded in 2012
Trio Exaltation (Clean Feed, 2018)
As sideman
With Ray Anderson
Big Band Record (Gramavision, 1994) with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
With Anthony Braxton
Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 (Leo, 1994)
Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 (hatART, 1995) – recorded 1978
Piano Quartet, Yoshi's 1994 (Music & Arts, 1996) – recorded 1994
Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2 (Leo, 2000) – recorded 1994
With John Carter
Castles of Ghana (Gramavision, 1986)
Dance of the Love Ghosts (Gramavision, 1987)
Fields (Gramavision, 1988)
Shadows on a Wall (Gramavision, 1989)
With Anthony Coleman
Lapidation (New World, 2007)
With Don Grolnick
Nighttown (Blue Note, 1992)
With the Julius Hemphill Sextet
Fat Man and the Hard Blues (Black Saint, 1991)
Five Chord Stud (Black Saint, 1994)
At Dr. King's Table (New World, 1997)
The Hard Blues: Live in Lisbon (Cleanfeed, 2004)
With Michael Gregory Jackson
Gifts (Arista Novus, 1979)
With Leroy Jenkins
Mixed Quintet (Black Saint, 1979)
Themes & Improvisations on the Blues (CRI, 1994)
With John Lindberg
Dimension 5 (Black Saint, 1981)
With Myra Melford
Even the Sounds Shine (Hat ART, 1995)
With Roscoe Mitchell
Sketches from Bamboo (Moers Music, 1979)
With Bobby Previte
Weather Clear, Track Fast (Enja, 1991)
Hue and Cry (Enja, 1993)
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
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References
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Marty Ehrlich
Discography
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
American jazz clarinetists
American jazz flautists
Avant-garde jazz musicians
Harvard University people
Musicians from St. Louis
Music of St. Louis
Living people
1955 births
Muse Records artists
Palmetto Records artists
Tzadik Records artists
Enja Records artists
21st-century American saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Missouri
21st-century clarinetists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Human Arts Ensemble members
21st-century flautists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20Ehrlich |
The Viewliner is a single-level railroad car type operated by Amtrak on most long-distance routes operating east of Chicago. The first production cars, consisting of an order of 50 sleeping cars, entered service in 1994. From 2015-2016, 70 Viewliner II baggage cars entered service. The new baggage cars are used on all Amtrak trains with full baggage cars, both single-level and bi-level, and replaced all of the Heritage Fleet baggage cars that Amtrak inherited from the freight railroads when it was established in 1971. From 2016-2019, 25 Viewliner II dining cars entered service, which replaced all of the Heritage Fleet dining cars. In 2019, 10 Viewliner II baggage-dormitory cars entered service. The last cars to enter service were 25 Viewliner II sleeping cars in 2021.
Early design
In the 1980s, Amtrak was looking to replace its Heritage Fleet railcars, which had been in service as far back as the 1940s. While new Superliner cars were built starting in 1979, those cars were too tall to run on Amtrak's eastern routes because of clearance issues in and around both New York Pennsylvania Station and Baltimore Pennsylvania Station.
Working with the Budd Company, Amtrak drafted plans for new single-level sleeping and dining cars that utilized a modular design where the interiors of the cars, especially the sleepers, were built in units separate from the exterior shell. These units contain all fixtures, electrical components, sewage and fresh water handling internally and are then mated with the car exterior shell upon assembly. This approach allows for easier maintenance and reconfiguration through removal and replacement of individual units. Access for this purpose is via a removable hatch on the side of the car, a distinguishing feature of the Viewliner series. Unlike the Superliners, occupants of both bunks in the bedrooms have an outside view. The design of the cars was created by Amtrak's design group, which received input from every department in the company. At the time of their introduction into service, Amtrak planned to assemble a fleet of over a thousand cars during the ten years after their introduction.
The prototype Viewliner cars were assembled at Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops in Beech Grove, Indiana, in 1987-1988 from Budd components. Two sleeping cars (2300 and 2301) were built, as was one dining car (8400). These cars were tested on the Capitol Limited beginning in 1988. They were also tested on other trains, such as the Night Owl and the Auto Train. The prototypes were in regular service until 2002.
The prototype Viewliner dining car, number 8400, was later rebuilt with stimulus funding and restored to revenue service in October 2011 and given the name Indianapolis. Originally a prototype dining car with experimental trucks built during the Viewliner design phase in the late 1980s, the car was completely rebuilt at Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops and currently serves on Eastern long distance trains. Information learned from building and using this car was applied to the dining cars included in the new order of Viewliner II cars.
Production
Viewliner I
The first production Viewliners were built in 19951996 by Amerail (now Alstom)/Morrison-Knudsen. Amtrak's original intention in the 1980s was to order 500600 new cars, of which 100 would be sleepers and the rest coaches, diners, and lounges. This would have enabled Amtrak to replace its remaining Heritage Fleet equipment and run trains with solid Viewliner consists. Ultimately, Amtrak awarded a contract for 50 sleeping cars with an option for 227 cars of various types to Morrison-Knudsen, who were also building the new California Cars based on the Superliner design. Morrison-Knudsen unveiled the first Viewliner shell at its Chicago plant on October 26, 1994. The first entered service on the Lake Shore Limited in November 1995. All Viewliner I cars were alphabetically named in the "View" series to signify their uniqueness as a new car type, starting with American View and finishing with Winter View. Prototype sleeper 2301 was renumbered to 62091 and given the name Eastern View at this time as well.
After Morrison-Knudsen was placed in bankruptcy, the outstanding orders were completed by Amerail with final delivery in 1996 alongside the California Car fleet. After the first 50 cars were delivered, none of the remaining 177 options were exercised. The 50 Viewliners arrived just in time to retire most of Amtrak's remaining Heritage sleeping cars, which were coming under increasing environmental pressure due to their use of non-retention toilets. Since 1995, Viewliner sleepers have operated on East Coast single-level trains in concert with Amfleet coaches and Heritage diners (and eventually Viewliner diners).
When Amtrak decided on the names for the new Viewliner II sleeping cars, they also announced new names for the Viewliner I sleepers. The View series was to be replaced by the new River series, named alphabetically after major rivers east of the Mississippi. Starting with Altamaha River and finishing with Pearl River, they were to match the incoming cars. Amtrak had removed the "View" series names from the Viewliner I cars in the mid 2000's, however, only two would be renamed into the "River" series; 62014 was renamed Croton River from Imperial View and 62043 was renamed New River from Sunset View. New River is also the only Viewliner I sleeper painted in Amtrak's Phase IIIB paint scheme.
Viewliner II
On July 23, 2010, Amtrak ordered 130 Viewliner II cars55 baggage cars, 25 dining cars, 25 sleepers, and 25 baggage-dormitorieswith an option for up to 70 additional cars. The five-year order, worth $298.1 million, was placed with CAF USA in Elmira, New York, a fully owned subsidiary of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles. According to former Amtrak president Joseph Boardman, CAF was selected over Alstom, the only other bidder, due to CAF's lower bid and it being able to construct the entire car at its factory, rather than relying on subcontractors. In August 2014, the order was modified by swapping 15 baggage-dormitories for 15 baggage cars, changing their totals to 10 and 70, respectively.
The first car from the order was originally scheduled to roll off the assembly line in October 2012, but was delayed by more than a year, with field testing beginning in June 2014. CAF had multiple issues, including failure to detect defects in the baggage cars, and quality issues with initial construction of the diner and sleeping cars. Amtrak also experienced project management challenges in addressing these faults. While all 130 cars were originally expected to be delivered by the end of 2015, by December 2016 only the baggage cars and one diner were in service. The final cars were delivered in August 2021.
Viewliner II cars feature an updated version of Amtrak's older Phase III paint scheme, known as Phase IIIB. The baggage cars are numbered 61000–61069 and the baggage-dormitories are numbered 69000–69009. The dining cars, numbered 68000–68024, are named alphabetically after the first 25 state capitals east of the Mississippi River starting with Albany and finishing with Tallahassee. Prototype Viewliner I diner 8400 was rebuilt and named Indianapolis. The sleeping cars (62500–62524) are alphabetically named after major rivers east of the Mississippi, starting with Portage River and finishing with Westfield River. This continues from the planned renaming of the Viewliner I sleepers. Unlike the roomettes on Viewliner I sleepers, the Viewliner II roomettes do not have in-room toilets; instead, there are two shared restrooms. Because of this, the Viewliner II sleepers have one fewer roomette than the Viewliner I sleepers11 versus 12.
Inspection cars
Both prototype sleepers would be rebuilt into company inspection cars in the 2010's. In March 2014, number 2301 (which had been renumbered to 62091 and renamed Eastern View) was converted into an inspection car and renumbered 10004 as well as given the name American View. This inspection car has rear-facing seats and a large glass window at the end that allows passengers to observe the tracks. American View is used by maintenance crews to visually inspect the tracks for defects and by the Amtrak president and other executives for official purposes. Number 2300 was rebuilt into a track-geometry car in October 2020.
Future cars
In 2022, Amtrak announced that they would be replacing all of their current Superliner, Amfleet II, and Viewliner I passenger cars used for long-distance service by 2032. Amtrak issued a request for information from ten manufacturers in December 2022. Request for proposals are planned for 2023.
Service
Viewliner passenger cars are designed for use on Amtrak's long-distance routes in the Eastern United States: the Cardinal, Crescent, Lake Shore Limited, Silver Meteor and Silver Star. This is due to clearance restrictions in and around New York Pennsylvania Station and Baltimore Pennsylvania Station that prevent tall bi-level cars from clearing the tunnels.
Viewliner baggage cars are used on all Superliner and single-level trains which use full baggage cars on the Amtrak system. The first Viewliner baggage cars entered service on March 23, 2015 on multiple Eastern routes, with the last entering service in December 2016.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Viewliner 3D Tour
Amtrak rolling stock
Rail passenger cars of the United States
Train-related introductions in 1995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewliner |
Jan Henry Tungeland Olsen (20 August 1956 – 10 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996. He got the nickname "No-fish Olsen" during the negotiations of a possible membership for Norway in the European Union, when he said he was not going to give a single fish to the EU.
In March 2008, Olsen told the Norwegian newspaper Nordlys that at the age of 51 he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. His wife, Laila Lanes, published the book "Skynd deg å elske" in 2009, chronicling his life and his struggle with Alzheimer's. A documentary was released in 2011, showing the former politician's battle with the disease over the span of twelve months. Olsen spent his final years in hospice care. He died from the disease on 10 July 2018, aged 61.
References
1956 births
2018 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Politicians from Tromsø
Labour Party (Norway) politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Henry%20T.%20Olsen |
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is a national, non-profit, charitable organization devoted to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. At present, there are 30 local branches of the Society, called Centres, in towns and cities across the country from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, and as far north as Whitehorse, Yukon. There are about 5100 members from coast to coast to coast, and internationally. The membership is composed primarily of amateur astronomers and also includes numerous professional astronomers and astronomy educators. The RASC is the Canadian equivalent of the British Astronomical Association.
History
The RASC has its original roots in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where in 1868 a group of friends began meeting as part of the "Toronto Astronomical Club." The club was formally incorporated as "The Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto" in 1890, and this is considered the founding date of the Society. The club grew over time, and by 1900, surrounding communities were affiliated with the group. On 1903 March 3, the club was renamed to "The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada" after petitioning King Edward VII to use the prefix "Royal" in the group's name. At the time it had 120 members. In the more than a century since its formal incorporation, the RASC has expanded across Canada with Centres in 30 cities, reaching every province of Canada with the exception of Prince Edward Island.
Organization
Mandate
The RASC mandate is five-fold:
to stimulate interest and to promote and increase knowledge in astronomy and related sciences;
to acquire and maintain equipment, libraries, and other property necessary for the pursuit of its aims;
to publish journals, books, and other material containing information on the progress of astronomy and the work of the Society;
to receive and administer gifts, donations, and bequests from members of the Society and others;
to make contributions and render assistance to individuals and institutions engaged in the study and advancement of astronomy.
Society Office
The Society Office in Toronto employs three staff.
Board of directors
President (1-year term)
1st Vice-President (1-year term, Chair of Publications Committee and Chair of Constitution Committee)
2nd Vice-President (1-year term, Chair of Nominating Committee)
Treasurer (1-year term, Chair of Finance Committee)
National Secretary (1-year term)
Up to four (4) Directors
Executive Director (Appointed - non-voting)
National Council
Centre Representatives
At least one representative from each Centre, plus two Unattached Member reps
Past Presidents
Immediate Past President
Editors
Observer's Handbook Editor (5-year term)
Journal Editor (5-year term)
Observer's Calendar Editor (5-year term)
Bulletin Editor (5-year term)
Staff (Non-voting)
Finance Officer
Permanent Committees (Chairs)
Astroimaging
Awards (Past President)
Constitution (1st Vice-President)
Education and Public Outreach
Finance (Treasurer)
Fundraising
History
Information Technology
Light-Pollution Abatement
Membership and Development
Nominating (2nd Vice-President)
Observing
Publications (1st Vice-President)
Conduct of Business
The RASC conducts business through a Board of Directors with regular meetings, plus two scheduled meetings at the General Assembly, which is traditionally held on the May or July long weekend (GA). The GA is hosted by one of the Centres, with annual meetings alternating between eastern and western Canada. Meetings follow Robert's Rules of Order and are governed by the By-Laws of the Society.
Centres
Each of the Centres of the Society conduct a variety of activities of interest to its members and to the public. At regular meetings, well-known professional and amateur astronomers give lectures on a variety of topics of current interest. In addition, there are study and special-interest groups. Most Centres publish their own newsletters and hold their own group-observing events. Some members take part in regular observations of variable stars, lunar occultations, sunspots, meteors, comets, and other phenomena; others develop special skills such as astroimaging at workshops.
Outreach
Most Centres have public education programs, including special outreach star nights when the public is given an opportunity to look through a telescope courtesy of a RASC volunteer. In 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, many Centres were instrumental in organizing events of educational astronomy outreach for their local communities. The RASC's Light-Pollution Abatement Committee also administers Canada's Dark-sky preserve program, working with provincial and national parks to create management agreements to preserve the darkness of the nighttime sky.
Resources
Many Centres have observing equipment, libraries, and observing locations. For example, the Victoria Centre has telescopes and a large library of books and periodicals available to members in good standing. Additionally the Victoria Centre built and operates the "RASC Victoria Centre Observatory (RASC VCO)" which is located at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. The Society has recently purchased a robotic telescope.
Publications and awards
The RASC publishes a number of books and periodicals, and issues awards to recognize accomplishments in astronomy and outreach activities.
Recurring Publications
The annual Observer's Handbook (2021: ) can be found in observatory control rooms and astronomers' reference shelves worldwide. Published in the autumn of the year, the 352-page Handbook contains detailed information on astronomical events in the upcoming year and is an in-depth reference of significant astronomical data such as observing techniques, physical constants, and optical properties of telescopes. The first two editions were published in 1907 and 1908, respectively. For the following two years information from the Observer's Handbook was integrated into the main Journal, but it was decided eventually that the Handbook return to circulation. The 3rd edition of the Observer's Handbook was published in January 1911, with Editor C. A. Chant aiming to publish the 1912 edition in the autumn of that year. The 110th edition was published in 2017, covering events in 2018. In addition, for the first time, a USA Edition was created for the American audience, in cooperation with the Astronomical League. The publication is currently in its 113th edition published in 2020, covering the events of 2021.
The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (ISSN 0035-872X) (bib. code - JRASC), continuously published since 1907, is a bi-monthly periodical that features articles about Canadian astronomers, activities of the RASC and its Centres, and peer-reviewed research papers.
The Observer's Calendar (2017: ) features photos of an astronomical subject taken by amateur astronomers using CCD and other camera equipment on amateur instruments. Each photograph is given an informative caption along with comprehensive astronomical data for dates throughout each month.
Explore the Universe Guide; An Introduction to the RASC ETU Certificate Program () is a book for the casual backyard astronomer who is thinking about getting serious.
See also
Société d'astronomie de Montréal
List of astronomical societies
References
External links
Links to individual RASC Centres' Web sites.
Archival papers of Frank Scott Hogg, president and assistant editor, held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
Archival papers of Ruth Josephine Northcott, first female chair (1942–1943) and editor (1956–1969), held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
Astronomy organizations
Astronomy societies
Amateur astronomy organizations
Higher education in Canada
Learned societies of Canada
Professional associations based in Canada
Organizations based in Canada with royal patronage
Scientific organizations established in 1868
Astronomy in Canada
1868 establishments in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Astronomical%20Society%20of%20Canada |
Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014.
Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (now named Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, he founded and edited the Journal of Social History. While at Carnegie Mellon, he developed a pioneering approach to teaching World History, and has contributed to the field as well through editing, and contributing to, the Routledge series, Themes in World History. He is also known for various work on the nature and impact of the industrial revolution and for exploration of new topics, particularly in the history of emotions.
He is active in historical groups such as the American Historical Association, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association and the International Society for Research on Emotion.
Early life
Peter Stearns was born in London, but of American parents (Raymond and Elizabeth) and was an American citizen at birth. He was raised in Urbana, Illinois and attended public grade school and then the University of Illinois High School. After graduating from Harvard College, summa cum laude, he had a traveling fellowship in Europe and then returned to complete his PhD at Harvard. He has four children and a stepson, and five grandchildren. He has held positions at the University of Chicago, Rutgers, Carnegie Mellon, and now George Mason.
Education and career
He attended Harvard College and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his prolific career as an author and editor, he has written or edited over 135 different books. Stearns served as founding chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee and as Vice President for Teaching of the American Historical Association.
Works
His books include:
1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe, Norton, 1974
American Behavioral History
Battleground of Desire
Cultural Change in Modern World History
Cultures in Motion
Debating the Industrial Revolution (2015)
Documents in World History
Emotion and Social Change
Encyclopedia of European Social History
The Encyclopedia of World History
Global Outrage
Guiding the American University: Challenges and Choices (2015)
History of Shame (2017)
Time in World History (2019)
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society (1975)
The Industrial Turn in World History (2016)
The Revolutions of 1848 (1974)
Tolerance in World History
World Civilizations
World History in Brief
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
See also
List of Carnegie Mellon University people
List of Harvard University people
List of historians
List of people from Virginia
Notes
References
Chair, AP World History Development Committee
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
George Mason University faculty
Harvard College alumni
Historians of Africa
Historians of Europe
Living people
Social historians
1936 births
Canadian Knights Bachelor
American male non-fiction writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Stearns |
A love deity is a deity in mythology associated with romance, sex, lust, or sexuality. Love deities are common in mythology and may be found in many polytheistic religions. Female sex goddesses are often associated with beauty and other traditionally feminine attributes.
Sub-Sahara Africa
Western African-Congo
Efik
Anansa, goddess of the Sea, allure and beauty.
Vodun
Baron La Croix, loa of the dead and sexuality.
Baron Samedi, loa of the dead, sex, and resurrection.
Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers.
Yoruba
Oshun, goddess of luxury and pleasure, sexuality and fertility, beauty and love, the river and fresh water venerated in Ifá, Yoruba religion, Dahomey mythology, Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, Haitian Vodou.
Afroasiatic Middle East
Canaanite
Astarte, goddess of sex and war.
Egyptian
Bastet, goddess of felines, love, protection, perfume, beauty, and dance.
Bes, god of music, love, and dance.
Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, and music; originally a sky goddess.
Min, god of reproduction, love, and sexual pleasure.
Hausa
Zamani, god of sex and beauty.
Mesopotamian
Inanna/Ishtar, goddess of sex, love, beauty, wine and war.
Nanaya, goddess personifying voluptuousness, sexuality and sensuality.
Moroccan
Aisha Qandicha
Western Eurasia
Albanian
Prende, goddess of love, beauty and fertility.
Balto-Slavic
Lithuanian
Milda, goddess of love and freedom.
Slavic
Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness.
Dzydzilelya, Polish goddess of love and marriage and of sexuality and fertility.
Siebog, god of love and marriage.
Živa, goddess of love and fertility.
Lada, goddess of beauty and fertility.
Jarilo, god of fertility and springtime, sometimes regarded as god of lust and passion.
Celtic
Áine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth, and sovereignty; possibly originally a sun goddess.
Branwen, Welsh goddess of love and beauty
Cliodhna, Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty.
Esoteric
Babalon, Thelemic godform of lust, carnality and the liberated woman.
Asmodeus, Demon of Lust from the Ars Goetia and Medieval Demonology.
Norse-Germanic
Eostre, Germanic dawn goddess.
Freyja, goddess of love/sex, beauty, seiðr, war, and death.
Frigg, goddess of marriage and women.
Lofn, goddess who has permission from Frigg to arrange forbidden marriages.
Sjöfn, goddess associated with love.
Greaco-Roman
Greek / Hellenic
Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty.
Dionysus, god of wine and pleasure.
Eos, the Greek dawn goddess.
The Erotes
Anteros, god of requited love.
Eros, god of love and procreation; originally a deity unconnected to Aphrodite, he was later made into her son, possibly with Ares as his father; this version of him was imported to Rome where he came known as Cupid.
Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love.
Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery.
Hermaphroditus, god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men.
Hymen, god of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn.
Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning, and desire.
Hedone, goddess of pleasure.
Helios, the sun, who played a role in love-magic, and according to Pindar, lovesick men would pray to him.
Pan, god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, rustic music, and fertility of the wild/flocks. Is portrayed as very lustful and often depicted with an erect phallus. He lusted after several nymphs, most importantly Echo and Syrinx. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds. Pan's greatest conquest was that of the moon goddess Selene. He accomplished this by wrapping himself in a sheepskin to hide his hairy black goat form, and drew her down from the sky into the forest where he seduced her.
Peitho, personification of persuasion and seduction.
Philotes, either a goddess of affection or a daimon of intercourse.
Priapus, god of sexual intercourse, genitalia, nature, fertility, and lust.
Selene, the moon, who played a role in love-magic, and according to Pindar, lovesick women would pray to her.
Roman
Aurora, Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos.
Bacchus, Roman equivalent of the Greek Dionysus.
Cupid, Roman equivalent of the Greek Eros, also called Amor.
Suadela, Roman equivalent of the Greek Peitho.
Venus, Roman equivalent of the Greek Aphrodite.
Voluptas, Roman equivalent of the Greek Hedone.
Etruscan
Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers.
Turan, goddess of love and vitality.
Western Asia
Armenian
Astghik, goddess of fertility and love.
Azrul, god of seduction and sex.
Hindu-Vedic
Kamadeva Hindu god of human love or desire.
Rati, consort of Kama, goddess of love, carnal desire, lust, passion and sexual pleasure.
Ushas, Hindu dawn goddess.
Persian Zorostarian
Anahita, seems to have gained an association with fertility and sex due to being influenced by the Mesopotamian Inanna; originally appears to have been a water goddess.
Turkic-Altai
Aisyt, love and beauty goddess.
Asia-Pacific / Oceania
Filipino
Bangan: the Kankanaey goddess of romance; a daughter of Bugan and Lumawig
Obban: the Kankanaey goddess of reproduction; a daughter of Bugan and Lumawig
Amas: the Aeta deity who moves to pity, love, unity, and peace of heart
Dian Masalanta: the Tagalog goddess of lovers, daughter of Anagolay and Dumakulem; a patron of lovers and of generation; the Spanish called the deity Alpriapo, as compared with the Western deity Priapus
Mangagayuma: the Tagalog deity specializing in charms, especially those which infuses the heart with love; one of the five agent brothers
Agkui: the Manobo divinities who have purview over sexual excess
Tagbayaw: the Manobo goddess that incites incest and adultery in mortals
Far East Asia
Chinese
Jiutian Xuannü, a goddess of war, sex, and longevity.
Yue-Lao, a god of love, who binds two people together with an invisible red string.
Tu Er Shen, a deity who oversees love between (effeminate) homosexual men.
White Peony (Bai Mudan or Pai Mu-Tan), a goddess who tempts men, especially ascetics.
Wutong Shen, a group of five wanton deities from Southern China. They ravished and possessed beautiful women.
Baimei Shen, Chinese prostitution god. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was supposed to make a sacrifice to him.
Qian Keng (Peng Zu), a god of health-focused sex.
Chuangmu, goddess of the bedchamber. She and her husband Chuanggong look after everything that may happen in the bed room, including sex, sleep, and childbirth.
King Zhou, one of worst tyrants in Chinese history. He is known as the god of sodomy.
Japanese
Daikokuten, one of the Seven Lucky Gods. He is a god of prosperity who gets often portrayed with a huge phallus.
Vietnamese
Ông Tơ and Bà Nguyệt, are the two gods of love and marriage. Bà Nguyệt is depicted as someone holding a fan to bring harmony to love and Ông Tơ is depicted as holding a red thread which he uses to tie a couple together.
Buddhist
Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja, a deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion.
Kuni, god of love.
Kurukulla, Tibetan goddess particularly associated with rites of magnetization or enchantment.
Native Americas
Central American and the Caribbean
Aztec
Ixcuiname, goddess of carnality.
Teicu, goddess of sexual appetite.
Tiacapan, goddess of sexual hunger.
Tlaco, goddess of sexual longing.
Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds.
Xocotzin, goddess of sexual desire.
Xochiquetzal, goddess of sex and beauty.
Xochipilli, god of homosexuality, love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song.
South America
Guaraní
Kurupi, god of sexuality and fertility.
Rudá, god of love.
References
Love
List | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20love%20and%20lust%20deities |
Pakistan Under-19 cricket team are twice (2004 and 2006) Cricket World Champions at the under-19 level. Their second win made them the first, and to date only, back-to-back champions. They are also 3 time runners-up (1988, 2010 & 2014) and have finished 3rd place 4 times (2000, 2008, 2018 & 2020).
Tournament history
U-19 World Cup Record
U-19 Asia Cup Record
2004
Pakistan won the 2004 U/19 Cricket World Cup by defeating the West Indies in the final in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was Pakistan's first time to be crowned the Under-19 World Cup champions after beating West Indies in a tight finish where Pakistan won by 25 runs under the captaincy of Khalid Latif.
2006
Pakistan won the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup by defeating the India in the final in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when they successfully defended a small total of 109 runs by dismissing the Indian batting lineup for 71 runs and became the first team and to date only team to defend the U-19 World Cup under the captaincy of Sarfraz Ahmed.
Current team
Head coach: Ijaz Ahmed
Management and Coaching Staff
See also
Pakistan women's under-19 cricket team
Pakistan men's national cricket team
Pakistan women's national cricket team
References
C
Cricket teams in Pakistan
Under-19 cricket teams
Pakistan in international cricket
National youth sports teams of Pakistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20national%20under-19%20cricket%20team |
Johan Ulrik Olsen (2 August 1885 – 4 October 1963) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Hitteren as a son of farmer Peder Olsen (1847–1933) og Dorothea Hesnes (1848–1931). He became a journeyman carpenter in 1899, at the age of 14, and worked in that field until 1914, when he started his own fishing business. He was involved in the local branch of the International Organisation of Good Templars, from 1917 to 1918 he was a board member of Norges kooperative landsforening, and from 1913 to 1940 and 1945 to 1947 he was the board chairman of the local newspaper Tidens Krav. He was a member of Kristiansund city council from 1913 to 1951, serving as mayor from 1934 to 1940 and 1945 to 1947. He also chaired the city school board from 1928 to 1933.
Olsen was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1933, representing the constituency Market towns of Møre og Romsdal county. He was re-elected five times, ending his last term in 1961. From 1948 to 1958 he served as the Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Labour. He was the first to hold this position, and served in both Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet, Torp's Cabinet and Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet. As he was not actually present in Parliament while serving as a Minister, his seat was taken by deputies Gottfred Hoem (1948–1950), Karl Johan Aarønes (1950–1954), Peter Kjeldseth Moe (1954–1956), Arnfinn Severin Roald (1956–1958) and Oscar Andreas Ingebrigtsen (1958–1958).
Olsen has been credited for co-founding Utbyggingsfondet for Nord-Norge. He was the chairman of the board from 1952 to 1961, and also a board member of Norges Kommunalbank from 1946 to 1954.
References
1885 births
1963 deaths
Mayors of places in Møre og Romsdal
Members of the Storting
Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Politicians from Kristiansund
Norwegian temperance activists
20th-century Norwegian politicians
International Organisation of Good Templars people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrik%20Olsen |
Parks College may refer to:
Parks College, Oxford, a graduate college of the University of Oxford, established in 2019
Parks College, one of multiple colleges combined to make Everest College
Parks College Airline
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%20College |
Olaj Johan Olsen (6 April 1851 – 16 June 1920) was a Norwegian jurist and politician.
He made a career as a civil servant in various government ministries. He was later promoted to serve as Minister of Justice and the Police and Minister of Finance and Customs in 1888 and 1889, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm from 1896 to 1897 and Minister of the Interior from 1897 to 1898.
He was also County Governor of Nordre Bergenhus amt from 1889. In 1902 he left this post to become burgomaster of his hometown Bergen.
References
1851 births
1920 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Politicians from Bergen
County governors of Norway
Ministers of Finance of Norway
Ministers of Justice of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaj%20Olsen |
Maryland Route 103 (MD 103) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from St. Johns Lane in Ellicott City east to Parkway Drive South in Hanover. MD 103 serves as the local complement to MD 100 from Ellicott City in northeastern Howard County through Dorsey to Hanover in northwestern Anne Arundel County. The state highway was constructed from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Elkridge to US 29 in Ellicott City in the 1920s. MD 103's eastern terminus was relocated from Elkridge to US 1 near Dorsey in 1956. When MD 100 was constructed between Glen Burnie and Ellicott City in the 1990s, the state highway was extended to its present western and eastern termini. MD 103 replaced MD 176 from US 1 east to near MD 295.
Route description
MD 103 begins at a point on St. Johns Lane just west of its intersection with High Point Road in Ellicott City. St. Johns Lane continues west to Columbia Road, where the county highway turns north toward US 40. MD 103 heads east as Montgomery Road, a four-lane undivided highway, through a three-quarter diamond interchange with US 29 (Columbia Pike). Access to MD 103 from northbound US 29 is via MD 100 and Long Gate Parkway, which the state highway intersects east of Old Columbia Pike, which heads northeast into the Ellicott City Historic District. East of Long Gate Parkway, MD 103 reduces to two lanes and has a sporadic center left-turn lane. Before leaving Ellicott City, the highway intersects the northern terminus of MD 104 (Waterloo Road) and Ilchester Road, which heads east to the hamlet of Ilchester on the Patapsco River, where the county highway provides access to Patapsco Valley State Park and the ruins of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Patterson Viaduct. On the western edge of Elkridge at Miller's Corner, MD 103 intersects the county-maintained portion of Montgomery Road, which heads east to the center of Elkridge.
MD 103 continues southeast along Meadowridge Road, which meets MD 100 at a dumbbell interchange. The highway passes under Interstate 95 (I-95) with no access and passes between Meadow Ridge Memorial Park on the north and an industrial park to the south before its intersection with US 1 (Washington Boulevard). MD 103 continues east as Dorsey Road, which curves northeast and then southeast again. The route crosses Deep Run and passes through the community of Dorsey, where the highway enters Anne Arundel County by passing under CSX's Capital Subdivision railroad line, which carries MARC's Camden Line. The highway crosses a branch of Deep Run and begins to parallel the eastbound side of MD 100. MD 103's name changes to Parkway Drive South at its intersection with Coca-Cola Drive, which is unsigned MD 100M and has an interchange with MD 100 immediately to the north. The state highway reaches its eastern terminus at an arbitrary point east of Race Road in a business park adjacent to MD 100's interchange with MD 295 (Baltimore–Washington Parkway) in Hanover.
MD 103 is a part of the National Highway System as an intermodal connector from US 1 east to Douglas Legum Drive at Dorsey.
History
MD 103 originally followed all of Montgomery Road from US 1 in Elkridge, which followed Old Washington Road, to US 29 (Old Columbia Pike) in Ellicott City. The first section of MD 103 was paved in concrete from US 1 to west of Landing Road by 1923. The next section was constructed as a concrete road from there west to the highway's intersection with Meadowridge Road at Miller's Corner in 1924 and 1925. A disjoint section of MD 103 was built from US 29 east to near New Cut Road in 1928. Montgomery Road was completed from near New Cut Road east to Miller's Corner by 1930.
The portion of MD 103 east of US 1 was originally part of MD 176, which was completed as a concrete road from Glen Burnie west to the B&O Railroad in Dorsey on the Howard–Anne Arundel county line by 1930. The portion between the county line and US 1 was constructed around 1936; MD 176 originally met US 1 at an intersection just south of the modern US 1–MD 100 interchange. The Howard County portion of MD 176 was widened in 1949. MD 103 was widened from US 1 to Waterloo Road, which was then part of MD 175, in 1950. The state highway was widened from Waterloo Road to US 29 starting in 1953. In 1956, MD 103 was removed from Montgomery Road from Miller's Corner to Elkridge and instead placed on Meadowridge Road from Miller's Corner to US 1 near Dorsey.
Several changes occurred in the route of MD 103 due to the construction of MD 100 in the 1990s. MD 103 was extended to its present western terminus when its interchange with US 29 was built in 1992. The western end of MD 176 was relocated to the double-curve alignment in Dorsey to tie into the eastern end of MD 103 by 1995. MD 176 was cut in two when MD 100 took over the former highway's interchange with the Baltimore–Washington Parkway. By 1997, MD 103 replaced MD 176 on Dorsey Road west of the parkway. That same year, the intersection of Montgomery Road and Meadowridge Road was reconstructed to make MD 103 the through route instead of Montgomery Road. MD 103's interchange with MD 100 was completed in 1998 when MD 100 opened from MD 104 to I-95.
Junction list
Auxiliary routes
MD 103A is the designation for the segment of Montgomery Road between US 1 and Old Washington Road in Elkridge.
MD 103C is the designation for the unnamed service road that serves a shopping center at MD 103's intersection with MD 104 near Ellicott City.
See also
References
External links
MDRoads: MD 103
103
Maryland Route 103
Maryland Route 103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20103 |
Michael David Martin Sr. (born February 12, 1944) is the former head baseball coach of the Florida State Seminoles baseball team. Martin is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. Upon the completion of his career, Martin had compiled a record of 2,029 wins, 736 losses and four ties over 40 seasons of collegiate coaching. On May 5, 2018, Martin reached 1,976 career wins, surpassing legendary coach Augie Garrido.
Martin, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, began his collegiate playing career at Wingate Junior College where he was a Junior College All-American. He then transferred to Florida State, where he played from 1965 to 1966 and graduated in 1966. During his years as the center fielder at Florida State, Martin hit .354, and earned all-District honors in his senior season and played in the 1965 College World Series. After his college career was over, Martin played professional baseball in the New York Mets and Detroit Tigers minor league organizations for three seasons before beginning his career in coaching.
Martin began his career in coaching at the junior high school level. His first stint as a college coach, surprisingly, came in a different sport, basketball, when Martin became the head basketball coach at Tallahassee Community College during the 1970–1971 season.
It was in 1975, when Woody Woodward took over the head coaching job at Florida State, that Martin would be reunited with his alma mater. Martin served as an assistant coach under Woodward for four seasons, and then for another season under Dick Howser. Howser would get his chance to manage the New York Yankees and Martin stepped into the head coaching role at Florida State in 1980.
Though Martin's teams did not win a national title, his tenure at Florida State was marked with many honors and feats. Florida State, as of the 2019 season, has made 43 straight postseason appearances (41 under Martin), the longest active streak in the country. Martin's Seminoles won eight Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships and appeared in 17 College World Series.
Martin's players, which include many college and professional standouts such as Deion Sanders, J. D. Drew, Doug Mientkiewicz, Stephen Drew, Paul Wilson, Lincoln R. "Link" Jarrett, and Buster Posey, have excelled as well. More than 70 of Martin's players have been named All-Americans, five have been named national player of the year, four have won the Golden Spikes Award, considered to be the most prestigious individual award in amateur baseball, and two - J.D. Drew and Posey - have won the Dick Howser Trophy, considered to be the equivalent of the Heisman Trophy for baseball. Martin has won the ACC Coach of the Year award seven times (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2012).
On June 18, 2018, it was announced that Martin would retire following the 2019 season.
Florida State's baseball team plays on Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium, dedicated in 2005.
On March 9, 2019, Martin became the first coach to achieve 2,000 career wins with a 5–2 victory over Virginia Tech in the second game of a doubleheader. In 2019, Martin was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Head coaching record
See also
List of college baseball coaches with 1,100 wins
References
External links
Florida State profile
1944 births
Living people
Florida State Seminoles baseball coaches
Florida State Seminoles baseball players
Greenville Mets players
Winter Haven Mets players
Wingate Bulldogs baseball players
Mankato Mets players
Rocky Mount Leafs players
People from Gastonia, North Carolina
Baseball coaches from North Carolina
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National College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Martin%20%28baseball%20coach%29 |
Delian League is a metal band from New Jersey. In 2005 they released their album titled Truth in Chaos.
The members of Delian League are:
Jude Andrade – Vocals
Shane Boulos – Bass
Richard Broadhead – Guitar
David Hatfield – Guitar
Joe Dooling – Drums
References
External links
Billboard.com
Delian League MySpace
Heavy metal musical groups from New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian%20League%20%28band%29 |
Trygve Jens Asbjørn Olsen (11 November 1921 – 17 April 1979) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Måsøy.
Trygve Olsen was the son of Parliament member Johannes Olai Olsen, but was not elected to parliament. Instead, he worked as a fisher from 1939. He was a member of the board in Norges Råfisklag from 1958 to 1966, and chairman of Fiskebåtredernes forbund from 1977 to 1979. He was the Minister of Fisheries from 1972–1973 during the cabinet Korvald.
He was active in local politics as mayor of Måsøy municipality from 1968 to 1972. During the same period he was also a member of Finnmark county council.
References
1921 births
1979 deaths
People from Måsøy
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Mayors of Måsøy
Place of death missing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Olsen |
Wolfbrigade (formerly Wolfpack) is a Swedish hardcore punk band formed in 1995 by Jocke Rydbjer, Frank Johansen, Erik Norberg, Marcus "M. Psykfall" Johansson and the vocalist Tomas Jonsson (known for being part of the local crust punk band Anti Cimex) their line-up has included members of Asta Kask, To What End?, Cosa Nostra, Obscure Infinity, and Harlequin.
History
Singer Tomas Jonsson was forced to leave the band in 1998 and was replaced by Micke. At around the same time, the band changed their name from Wolfpack to Wolfbrigade to avoid association with a Swedish neo-Nazi prison gang who shared that name. In 2002, drummer Frank left and was replaced by Dadde. The band split up in 2004 because of lack of motivation and Micke needing surgery for vocal cord problems. Four of the members started a new band, Today's Overdose.
On 7 January 2007, Wolfbrigade announced that they were reuniting. Wolfbrigade imported bassist Johan from Today's Overdose and released a comeback album, Prey to the World, in June 2007. In 2008, the group released Comalive. Wolfbrigade went on a one-year hiatus from playing live in 2011, and then regrouped for the release of Damned in 2012.
Wolfbrigade's last album The Enemy: Reality was released Fall 2019 through Southern Lord Records. They released an EP, Anti-Tank Dogs, on August 12, 2022.
Members
Current line-up
Mikael Dahl – vocals - (1999–present) (Today's Overdose, To What End?)
Jocke Rydbjer – guitar (1995–present) (Today's Overdose, ex-To What End?, ex-Obscure Infinity, ex-Sunday Morning Einsteins)
Erik Norberg – guitar (1995–present) (Today's Overdose, ex-Obscure Infinity)
Johan Erkenvåg – bass (2004–present) (Today's Overdose)
Tommy Storback – drums (2015–present) (Nifters, The Clockwork Crew, ex-Booze & Glory)
Former
David "Dadde" Stark – drums (2002-2015) (Today's Overdose, Asta Kask, To What End?, Ubba, Second Thought, Sju Svåra År, Suicide Blitz, Disculpa, ex-Fear, ex-Imperial Leather, ex-Sunday Morning Einsteins, ex-The Pipelines)
Tomas Jonsson – vocals (1995-1998) (Anti Cimex, Moment Maniacs, Shitlickers)
Frank Johansen – drums (1995-2002) (End of All, ex-Obscure Infinity)
Marcus "M. Psykfall" Johansson – bass (1995-2004) (Harlequin)
Timeline
Discography
as Wolfpack
Albums
A New Dawn Fades (1996)
Lycanthro Punk (1997)
Allday Hell (1999)
EPs and Splits
Bloodstained Dreams (1995)
Hellhound Warpig (1997)
split with Skitsystem (1998)
as Wolfbrigade
Albums
Progression/Regression (2001)
In Darkness You Feel No Regrets (2003)
Prey to the World (2007)
Comalive (2008)
Damned (2012)
Run with the Hunted (2017)
The Enemy: Reality (2019)
EPs
Split with Audio Kollaps (2001)
A D-beat Odyssey (2004)
Anti-Tank Dogs (2022)
Compilations
The Wolfpack Years (2003)
References
External links
Official Myspace site
Official blog
Swedish crust and d-beat groups
Musical groups established in 1995
Swedish heavy metal musical groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfbrigade |
Chibuzor "Chib" Chilaka (born 21 October 1986) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward for Matlock Town in the Northern Premier League.
Career
Chilaka began his football career at Rushden & Diamonds in 2002, spending two years at the club's academy. In 2004, Chilaka joined Notts County after Notts County youth team coach Neville Hamilton had previously worked with the player at Rushden. He impressed during his year in the club's youth system, and subsequently signed a one-year professional contract on 4 July 2005. He made one first-team appearance for the club in the Football League Trophy 5–2 defeat at Northampton Town in October 2005. In December 2005, Chilaka joined Hinckley United on a three-month loan spell, playing two games for the club before Notts County recalled him on 10 January 2006. Chilaka was released by Notts County in May 2006.
He studied at the University of Hull, captaining and managing the team due to their ex-manager leaving. He also played for England Universities. Ahead of the 2007–08 season, Chilaka had a successful trial with Hull City but decided to finish his university course studying Human Biology. He played for Bridlington Town during the 2008–09 season, scoring a total of 38 goals for Bridlington in all competitions, 25 of which came in the league. During the following season, he played for Leeds Carnegie, where he scored 20 league goals in 29 appearances. He also won the club's Player of the Season award at the end of the 2009–10 campaign. Ahead of the 2010–11 season, Chilaka went on trial at Conference North side Guiseley, scoring twice in a friendly against Farsley. Guiseley manager Steve Kittrick was keen to sign Chilaka, but the player joined Bradford City on trial instead.
Bradford City
After a successful trial period, he was signed by Bradford City on non-contract terms. Chilaka made his debut for Bradford in the club's 2–1 League Cup defeat against Preston North End, coming on as a 79th-minute substitute in the match. He made his league debut for the club against Morecambe on 2 October 2010, again coming off the substitute's bench. After three appearances in league and cup matches, he was loaned to Bradford Park Avenue in November 2010 to gain match fitness. Chilaka scored on his debut for Bradford Park Avenue in the side's 3–1 win against Eccleshill United in the West Riding County Cup. However, Chilaka was ineligible to play in the match and Eccleshill were subsequently reinstated into the competition at Avenue's expense. He played his first league game on 11 December 2010, scoring the winning goal in the 93rd minute in the club's 3–2 away victory at Burscough, a game in which Avenue came from two goals down to win. Chilaka's loan spell at the club was disrupted by the snow throughout November and December 2010, resulting in a spate of postponements. This meant that he played just one league game for Bradford Park Avenue during his loan spell, scoring one goal.
In February 2011, Chilaka went out on loan again, this time to Conference North side Harrogate Town, making his debut in the club's 3–1 away win at Gainsborough Trinity. He scored a hat-trick in his final game before his loan spell ended as Harrogate ran out 3–0 winners against Gloucester City on 26 March. Chilaka played eight games for Harrogate, scoring three times. On his return to Bradford, he appeared as a second-half substitute in the club's 2–1 away loss to Stevenage. He was released by Bradford City on 10 May 2011, and signed for Braintree Town in August.
Harrogate Town
On 2 February 2012, Chilaka signed for Harrogate Town.
In 2013, Harrogate released Chilaka.
Bradford Park Avenue
Chilaka joined Bradford Park Avenue as a free agent on 5 July 2013.
Personal life
His younger brother, Nduoma, is also a footballer, who has played for a number of non-League football clubs as well US University soccer team Regis Rangers (Regis University).
References
External links
Living people
1986 births
Nigerian men's footballers
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Notts County F.C. players
Hinckley United F.C. players
Bridlington Town A.F.C. players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Harrogate Town A.F.C. players
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
Braintree Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Alumni of the University of Hull
Men's association football midfielders
Shaw Lane A.F.C. players
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
Hyde United F.C. players
Grantham Town F.C. players
Matlock Town F.C. players
Northern Premier League players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibuzor%20Chilaka |
Gene Wojciechowski () is an American sports writer, best known for his work with ESPN.
Born in Salina, Kansas, Wojciechowski received a bachelor's degree in communications and journalism from the University of Tennessee and began his career as a sports writer covering college football and college basketball. His work has included stints with the Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times; he became a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine in January 1998, having worked as a football reporter for the network since 1992. He was named a senior national sports columnist for ESPN in June 2005.
Career
Prior to joining ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, Wojciechowski was the national college football and college basketball columnist for the Chicago Tribune (1996–997). He also reported on the NFL for both The Denver Post (1983–1984) and The Dallas Morning News (1984–1987) before switching to back to college football and basketball for the Los Angeles Times (1987–1996). Wojciechowski authored a novel, About 80 Percent Luck, plus a non-fiction book, Cubs Nation: 162 Games. 162 Stories. 1 Addiction (Broadway Books), following the Cubs for a full season.
Wojciechowski has also co-authored autobiographies with several sports personalities. These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.
The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky, and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball by Wojciechowski was released by Blue Rider Press in 2012. He is also the author/co-author of nine books.
On July 3, 2023 Wojciechowski was laid off by ESPN.
References
Living people
American sportswriters
University of Tennessee alumni
People from Salina, Kansas
The Denver Post people
The Dallas Morning News people
Chicago Tribune people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Wojciechowski |
Malcolm "Cam" Cameron (born February 6, 1961) is an American football coach. He is the former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach of the LSU Tigers football program. Cameron attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and played quarterback for the school. Cameron began his coaching career in the NCAA with the Michigan Wolverines. After that he switched to the National Football League (NFL), where he was offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens and the San Diego Chargers and head coach for the Miami Dolphins, coaching them to a 1–15 record in his only season.
Early years and education
Cameron was born February 6, 1961, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A multi-sport athlete, Cameron was an All-American quarterback at Terre Haute South Vigo High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. But before he went to Terre Haute South he also went to Saint Patrick School. He won the 1979 Trester Award for mental attitude as a guard on the high school basketball team which went to the state finals three years in a row. He played football and basketball at Indiana University under coaches Lee Corso and Bob Knight, respectively, until a knee injury ended his playing career. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He graduated from Indiana in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in business.
Coaching career
Michigan
Cameron spent the first ten years of his career at the University of Michigan, where he learned from long-time Wolverine coach Bo Schembechler. After two years as a graduate assistant, he became Michigan's youngest assistant and was responsible for tutoring quarterbacks and receivers. He coached many future NFL players, including Jim Harbaugh, Elvis Grbac, Todd Collins, Amani Toomer, Derrick Alexander and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard. Cameron served as an assistant at Michigan alongside future head coaches Lloyd Carr, Gary Moeller, Les Miles, and Mike DeBord. His fellow graduate assistant was Mike Trgovac, who was the former defensive line coach of the Green Bay Packers, after serving six years as the defensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers.
Washington Redskins
Cameron was the quarterbacks coach for the Washington Redskins between 1994 and 1996. He is credited with guiding quarterback Gus Frerotte to his only Pro Bowl appearance in 1997, and also played a key role in the development of Pro Bowl quarterback Trent Green.
Return to Indiana
Cameron returned to his alma mater to serve as the head coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers in 1997. In five seasons, he achieved a record of 18-37. Cameron brought an explosive offense to Indiana with highly effective offensive players such as Antwaan Randle El. Indiana averaged 23.6 points per game under Cameron's guidance. In fact, Randle El became the first player in NCAA Division I history to pass for 40 career touchdowns and score 40 career rushing touchdowns. He finished his college career as fifth on the all-time NCAA total yardage list, and became the first player in college football history to record 2,500 total yards for each of four consecutive years.
Although Cameron's Indiana teams won less than one-third of their games, Indiana was recognized by the American Football Coaches Association for its exemplary football graduation rates in each of Cameron's final four seasons. He was fired after the 2001 season.
San Diego Chargers
From 2002–2006, he served as the offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers. In 2004, San Diego scored 446 points, third-highest in the NFL that year and the third-most in team history. Following the 2004 campaign, Sports Illustrated named Cameron its Offensive Assistant of the Year. In 2005, the Chargers averaged 26.1 points per game, fifth in the NFL in that category. In 2006, the Chargers offense amassed a team-record 494 points while paving the way for league MVP LaDainian Tomlinson to break the single-season touchdown record. In addition to Tomlinson, Cameron had the opportunity to work with Pro Bowl quarterbacks Drew Brees and Philip Rivers, as well as All-Pro tight end Antonio Gates in San Diego. He brought in former Hoosier Kris Dielman as left guard.
Miami Dolphins
Cameron was interviewed for a number of head coaching jobs, including the Houston Texans and St. Louis Rams vacancies following the 2005 season but was not hired. Cameron also interviewed for the head coaching jobs with the Arizona Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons in January 2007 but Miami was the only club that made an offer.
By the time Cameron arrived, the Dolphins were coming off the abrupt resignation of their head coach Nick Saban, despite repeatedly saying he would stay in Miami and denied rumors of him taking the Alabama head coaching job. His 2007 Dolphins lost 13 consecutive games to start the season, before beating the Baltimore Ravens in overtime on December 16 for their first and only win that season. The Dolphins ended the 2007 season in last place in the AFC East with a franchise-worst 1–15 record, the worst record in the NFL that year and the worst in the team's 40-year history. On January 3, 2008, newly hired general manager Jeff Ireland announced Cameron had been fired along with most of his staff.
Baltimore Ravens
On January 23, 2008, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh announced Cameron as the Ravens’ new offensive coordinator. Following a loss to the Washington Redskins in Week 14 of the 2012 NFL season, Cameron was released by the Ravens and replaced by Jim Caldwell. At the time of his release, he had helped the Ravens attain a 9–4 record.
After Cameron's firing, the Ravens went on to win Super Bowl XLVII against the San Francisco 49ers. Despite being fired as offensive coordinator after week 14, head coach of the Ravens John Harbaugh stated that Cameron deserved and would receive a Super Bowl ring, having helped the team for a majority of the season to get to the playoffs.
LSU
On February 8, 2013, it was reported on CBSSports.com that Cameron had accepted the offensive coordinator position at LSU, replacing Greg Studrawa. Later in the day this report was confirmed.
Entering 2013, Cameron had immediate success, as his LSU offense averaged 46 points in the first six games of the regular season. The Tiger offense finished the season 34th in the country in passing yards at 265.1 per game, 32nd in rushing yards at 200.8, 22nd points for at 37.0, and 32nd in total offense (LSU's best since 2007) at 5591 yards of total offense and a total average of 465.9 yards per game. Cameron has also been widely praised for the development of redshirt senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger who had the best season of his LSU career with a 64.9% completion percentage, and a 22–8 touchdown to interception ratio, a notable improvement over past seasons.
On September 25, 2016, it was announced that Cameron was fired along with Les Miles after a 2–2 start to the season. Reports later indicated that it was incoming interim head coach Ed Orgeron who decided to release Cameron.
Head coaching record
College
NFL
References
1961 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Baltimore Ravens coaches
Indiana Hoosiers football coaches
Indiana Hoosiers football players
LSU Tigers football coaches
Miami Dolphins head coaches
Michigan Wolverines football coaches
National Football League offensive coordinators
San Diego Chargers coaches
Washington Redskins coaches
Sportspeople from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sportspeople from Terre Haute, Indiana
Coaches of American football from Indiana
Players of American football from Indiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%20Cameron |
Christian Wilhelm Engel Bredal Olssøn (5 April 1844 – 3 November 1915) was a Norwegian military officer and politician.
Olssøn was born in Horten in Vestfold, Norway. He was the son of Edvard Olssøn (1820–1867) and Leonore Rebecca Bredal (1820–1910). He received a military education at the Norwegian Military Academy (1866) and Norwegian Military College (1870). He received additional education at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (1872–1874).
He was appointed major general in 1896. In 1898, he was commander at Oscarsborg, 1899 inspector general for coastal artillery. In 1907, he became lieutenant-general. He retired from military service in 1912 as commanding general. He served as Minister of Defence 1893–1894, 1895–1898, 1905–1907, and member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1894–1895.
References
1844 births
1915 deaths
People from Horten
Norwegian Army generals
Norwegian Military Academy alumni
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Norwegian people of Swedish descent
Defence ministers of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Olss%C3%B8n |
The building form most closely associated with New York City is the skyscraper, which has shifted many commercial and residential districts from low-rise to high-rise. Surrounded mostly by water, the city has amassed one of the largest and most varied collection of skyscrapers in the world.
New York has architecturally significant buildings in a wide range of styles spanning distinct historical and cultural periods. These include the Woolworth Building (1913), an early Gothic revival skyscraper with large-scale gothic architectural detail. The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setback in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco design of the Chrysler Building (1930) and Empire State Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel spires, reflected the zoning requirements. The Chrysler Building is considered by many historians and architects to be one of New York's finest, with its distinctive ornamentation such as V-shaped lighting inserts capped by a steel spire at the tower's crown. Early influential examples of the International Style in the United States are 330 West 42nd Street (1931) and the Seagram Building (1958). The Condé Nast Building (2000) is an important example of green design in American skyscrapers.
The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses, townhouses, and tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. In contrast, New York City also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-standing dwellings. In the outer boroughs, large single-family homes are common in various architectural styles such as Tudor Revival and Victorian. Split two-family homes are also widely available across the outer boroughs, for example in the Flushing area.
Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. Unlike Paris, which for centuries was built from its own limestone bedrock, New York has always drawn its building stone from a far-flung network of quarries and its stone buildings have a variety of textures and hues. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the presence of wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 19th century, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could burst municipal water pipes. Garden apartments became popular during the 1920s in outlying areas, including Jackson Heights in Queens, which became more accessible with expansion of the subway.
Concentrations of buildings
New York has two main concentrations of high-rise buildings: Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan, each with its own uniquely recognizable skyline. Midtown Manhattan, the largest central business district in the world, is home to such notable buildings as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Citigroup Center, as well as the Rockefeller Center complex. Lower Manhattan comprises the third largest central business district in the United States (after Midtown and Chicago's Loop). Lower Manhattan was characterized by the omnipresence of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center from its completion in 1973 until its destruction in the September 11 attacks in 2001.
In the first decade of the 21st century, Lower Manhattan saw reconstruction, which included One World Trade Center within the new World Trade Center complex. The Downtown skyline received new designs from such architects as Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry. In 2010, a , 43-story tower named 200 West Street was built for Goldman Sachs across the street from the World Trade Center site.
New York City has a long history of tall buildings. It has been home to 10 buildings that have held the world's tallest fully habitable building title at some point in history, although half have since been demolished. The first building to bring the world's tallest title to New York was the New York World Building, in 1890. Later, New York City was home to the world's tallest building for 75 continuous years, starting with the Park Row Building in 1899 and ending with One World Trade Center upon completion of the Sears Tower in 1974. The 1899 Park Row Building, one of the world's earliest skyscrapers, is still standing.
The high-rise buildings of Brooklyn constitute a third, much smaller skyline. Downtown Brooklyn is also experiencing an extensive building boom, with new high rise luxury residential towers, commercial space and a new arena in the planning stages. The building boom in Brooklyn has had a great deal of opposition from local civic and environmental groups which contend that Brooklyn needs to maintain its human scale. The borough of Queens has also been developing its own skyline in recent years with One Court Square (formerly the Citigroup Building, currently the tallest building in NYC outside Manhattan), and the Queens West development of several residential towers along the East River waterfront.
The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setback in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below.
History
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century. From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1894 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with eight different buildings holding the title. The New York World Building on Park Row, was the first to take the title in 1890, standing until 1955, when it was demolished to construct a new ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge. The nearby Park Row Building, with its 29 stories standing high, became the world's tallest office building when it opened in 1899.
Early 20th century
The 41-story Singer Building, constructed in 1908 as the headquarters of the eponymous sewing machine manufacturer, stood high until 1967, when it became the tallest building ever demolished. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, standing at the foot of Madison Avenue, wrested the title of world's tallest building in 1909, with a tower reminiscent of St Mark's Campanile in Venice. The Woolworth Building, and its distinctive Gothic architecture, took the title in 1913, topping off at . Structures such as the Equitable Building of 1915, which rises vertically forty stories from the sidewalk, prompted the passage of the 1916 Zoning Resolution, requiring new buildings to contain setbacks withdrawing progressively at a defined angle from the street as they rose, in order to preserve a view of the sky at street level.
Grand Central Terminal is located in East Midtown close to the Chrysler Building. The railroad terminal, completed in 1913, is the third on its site. It was built in the Beaux-Arts style by the firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The Roaring Twenties saw a race to the sky, with three separate buildings pursuing the world's tallest title in the span of a year. As the stock market soared in the days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, two developers publicly competed for the crown. At , 40 Wall Street, completed in May 1930 in only eleven months as the headquarters of the Bank of Manhattan, seemed to have secured the title. At Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street, auto executive Walter Chrysler and his architect William Van Alen developed plans to build the structure's trademark spire in secret, pushing the Chrysler Building to and making it the tallest in the world when it was completed in 1929. Completed in 1930, the Chrysler Building is a distinctive symbol of New York. Originally built for the Chrysler Corporation, the building is presently co-owned by Aby Rosen's RFR Holding LLC, in a joint venture with the Austrian SIGNA Group. The Chrysler Building was the first structure in the world to surpass the 1,000 foot threshold.
Both buildings were soon surpassed with the May 1931 completion of the 102-story Empire State Building with its tower reaching at the top of the building. The high pinnacle was later added bringing the total height of the building to . The Empire State Building, a contemporary Art Deco style building in Midtown Manhattan, was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and takes its name from the nickname of New York State. It was the first building to go beyond the 100-story mark, and has one of the world's most visited observation decks, which sees about 4 million visitors a year. The building was built in just 14 months.
30 Rockefeller Plaza is a slim Art Deco skyscraper and the focal point of Rockefeller Center. It stands 850 ft (259 m) with 70 floors. Built in 1933 and originally called the RCA Building, it was later called the Comcast Building. The frieze above the main entrance was executed by Lee Lawrie and depicts Wisdom, along with a phrase from scripture that reads "Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times", originally found in the Book of Isaiah, 33:6.
330 West 42nd Street (1931) was the only skyscraper in New York City displayed in Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson's influential International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932, and the only other U.S. skyscraper at that exhibition, besides the PSFS Building. Johnson, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, later helped build the Seagram Building (1959) on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, with extruded bronze mullions on the facade. Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times in 1976 that the Seagram Building was one of "New York's most copied buildings", its design having been copied in several structures worldwide.
Late 20th century
In 1961, the Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled plans to tear down the old Penn Station and replace it with a new Madison Square Garden and office building complex. Organized protests were aimed at preserving the McKim, Mead & White-designed structure completed in 1910, widely considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the architectural jewels of New York City. Despite these efforts, demolition of the structure began in October 1963. The loss of Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian Lewis Mumford—led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, which is responsible for preserving the "city's historic, aesthetic, and cultural heritage". The historic preservation movement triggered by Penn Station's demise has been credited with the retention of some one million structures nationwide, including over 1,000 in New York City. In 2017, a multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan was unveiled to restore the historic grandeur of Penn Station, in the process of upgrading the landmark's status as a critical transportation hub.
The MetLife Building, formerly the Pan Am Building, was the largest commercial office building in the world when it opened on March 7, 1963. It stands directly north of Grand Central Terminal.
The former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were located in Lower Manhattan. At , the 110-story buildings were the world's tallest from 1972 until they were surpassed by the construction of the Willis Tower in 1974 (formerly known as the Sears Tower, located in Chicago). One World Trade Center, a replacement for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, is currently the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Citigroup Center is a 59-story office tower located at 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is considered one of the most important post-war skyscrapers to be in erected in New York City. The striking design of the steeply slanted roof, the sleek aluminum-clad facade, and its base on four stilts over a church also on the site made the skyscraper an instant architectural icon. The sloping roof houses the building's mechanical and ventilation systems. The designers settled on an aluminum-clad facade to reduce the weight load on the building's foundation and support structures, since its entire weight would be supported by stilts. To prevent swaying, a "tuned mass damper" was later added on the roof.
21st century
Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper at Columbus Circle on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It was the first major building to be completed since the September 11 attacks.
The Condé Nast Building, officially Four Times Square, is a modern skyscraper in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan and one of the most important examples of green design in skyscrapers in the United States. Environmentally friendly gas-fired absorption chillers, along with a high-performing insulating and shading curtain wall, ensure that the building does not need to be heated or cooled for the majority of the year. Office furniture is made with biodegradable and non-toxic materials. The air-delivery system provides 50% more fresh air than is required by New York City Building Code, and a number of recycling chutes serve the entire building. Being the first project of its size to undertake these features in construction, the building has received an award from the American Institute of Architects, as well as AIA New York State.
Hearst Tower, located in Midtown Manhattan at 300 West 57th Street, is another example of the new breed of green design skyscrapers in New York City. Hearst Tower is a glass and steel construction skyscraper which rests on the base of the original 1920s Hearst Corporation Building. Hearst Tower is easily identified by the dramatic interlocking triangular glass panels designed by British architect Lord Norman Foster. Hearst Tower is also the first skyscraper in New York City to be awarded the coveted Gold LEED Certified rating by the United States Green Building Council.
Demolished buildings
Tallest buildings
The 15 tallest standard structures, which include those with the 10 highest antennae or radio towers (pinnacles)
† (constructed as the Cities Service Company Building)
‡ (constructed as the Bank of Manhattan Trust Corporation Building)
All addresses are in Midtown Manhattan except those in lighter shades, which are in Lower Manhattan.
Residential architecture
As New York City grew, it spread outward from where it originally began at the southern-tip of Manhattan Island into surrounding areas. In order to house the burgeoning population, farm land and open space in Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island were developed into neighborhoods of brownstones, apartment buildings, multi-family and single-family homes. The density of this new construction generally depended on the area's proximity and accessibility to Manhattan.
The development of these areas was often spurred by the opening of bridges and the connection of boroughs via public transportation. For example, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 and connects Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River. Brooklyn Heights, a nabe on the Brooklyn waterfront, is often credited as the United States' first suburb. The bridge allowed an easier commute between Brooklyn and Manhattan and spurred rapid construction, development, and redevelopment. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, completed in 1964, opened up many areas of Staten Island to residential and commercial development, especially in the central and southern parts of the borough, which had previously been largely undeveloped. Staten Island's population doubled from about 221,000 in 1960 to about 443,000 in 2000.
By 1870, stone and brick had become firmly established as the building materials of choice, as the construction of wood-frame houses had been greatly limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. Unlike Paris, which for centuries was built from its own limestone bedrock, New York has always drawn its building stone from a network of quarries, sometimes quite distant, which is evident in the variety of textures and hues of stone seen in the city's buildings. In the days before rail, stones were floated down the Hudson River or along the Atlantic Seaboard from pits in New England. While trains brought marble from Vermont and granite from Minnesota, it was Connecticut brownstone that was so popular in the construction of New York's row homes in the late 19th century that the term brownstone became synonymous with row house.
Beginning in the 1950s, public housing projects dramatically changed the city's appearance. New, large scale (frequently high-rise) residential complexes replaced older communities, at times removing artifacts and landmarks that would now be considered of historic value. During this period, many of these new projects were built in an effort towards urban renewal championed by the famed urban planner Robert Moses. The resulting housing projects have suffered from inconsistent funding, poor maintenance, and high crime, prompting many to consider these projects a failure.
A distinctive feature of residential (and many commercial) buildings in New York City is the presence of wooden roof-mounted water towers, which were required on all buildings higher than six stories by city ordinance in the 19th century because the municipal water pipes could not withstand the extraordinarily high pressure necessary to deliver water to the top stories of high-rise buildings.
Bridges and tunnels
New York City is located on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island are their own islands, while Queens and Brooklyn are located at the west-end of the larger Long Island. This precipitates a need for an extensive infrastructure of bridges and tunnels. Nearly all of the city's major bridges and several of its tunnels, have broken or set records. For example, the Holland Tunnel was the world's first vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927.
The Queensboro Bridge is an important piece of cantilever architecture. The towers of the Brooklyn Bridge are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. Their architectural style is neo-Gothic, with characteristic pointed arches above the passageways through the stone towers. This bridge was also the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. The Manhattan Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Triborough Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge are all examples of Structural Expressionism.
Street grid
Formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, New York adopted a visionary proposal to develop Manhattan north of 14th Street with a regular street grid. The economic logic underlying the plan, which called for twelve numbered avenues running north and south, and 155 orthogonal cross streets, was that the grid's regularity would provide an efficient means to develop new real estate property. Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, disapproved.
See also
List of buildings
List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
List of New York City Designated Landmarks
List of tallest buildings in New York City
List of cities with most skyscrapers
Art Deco architecture of New York City
References
Further reading
Federal Writers' Project (1939). The WPA Guide to New York City, The New Press (1995 reissue).
External links
Downtown Brooklyn Development - New York City Dept. Of Planning
Lower Manhattan Development - Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
The City Review - information on buildings and architecture by neighborhood
Tom Fletcher's New York Architecture Images and Notes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20New%20York%20City |
The Diocese of Down and Connor, (; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Armagh. The See is vacant; Bishop Donal McKeown (Bishop of Derry) is currently the Apostolic Administrator pending the appointment of a new bishop.
Territorial remit
The territorial remit of the diocese includes much of counties Antrim and Down, including the cities of Belfast and Lisburn and the large towns Antrim, Ballymena, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Downpatrick, Holywood, Larne and Newtownards. The population of the diocese is about one million, of which approximately 30% are Roman Catholic with Sunday mass attendance estimated at 20%. There are currently 88 parishes and ministries in the diocese served by fewer than 100 priests, though the significance of individual parishes has been overtaken by the development of 'pastoral communities'. The diocese is Ireland's second largest in terms of population (after the Archdiocese of Dublin).
History
St Fergus (died 583) is named as first Bishop of Down. The Diocese of Connor was founded in 480 by St Macnissi, and St Malachy was bishop there (1124). The dioceses of Down and Connor were permanently joined in 1439.
In 1670, as an effect of the Reformation, wars, and penal laws, in the whole of Down and Connor there were only 2,500 Catholic families. When at length the pressure of penal legislation was removed Catholicism revived rapidly.
In the period 1810–1840, a period of relaxation of the penal laws culminating in Catholic Emancipation, an estimated forty new churches were built. The progress thus made under William Crolly (1825–1835) and Cornelius Denvir (1835–65) was continued, as Belfast expanded as a city, under Patrick Dorrian (1865–86) and Patrick MacAlister (1886–95) and Henry Henry (1895–1908).
Diocesan statistics
Number of Catholics = 329,243
Number of parishes = 86
Number of churches = 151
Number of priests in diocesan ministry = 131
Number of permanent deacons in ministry (2018) = 9
Number ordained (2018) = 1
Number of retired priests = 44
Seminarians = 8
Number of brothers = 30
Number of sisters = 243
St. Mary's College of Education on roll = 994
Number of primary & nursery schools = 164 (on roll = 32,306)
Number of grammar schools = 12 (on roll = 10,795)
Number of secondary school = 31 (on roll = 15,621)
Baptisms = 4,096
First communions = 4,740
Confirmations = 5,207
Marriages = 1,250
(The Down and Connor Directory)
City parishes
Listed are city parishes listed by the Diocese of Down and Connor.
St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast
St Patrick's Church, Belfast / Pro-Cathedral, Donegall Street, Belfast
Christ the Redeemer, Lagmore
Corpus Christi, Ballymurphy, Belfast
St. Patrick's, Derriaghy
Drumbo & Carryduff
Hannahstown
Holy Cross, Ardoyne
Holy Family, Newington
Holy Rosary, Ormeau Road
Holy Trinity, Turf Lodge
Loughshore - Three parishes: St Mary’s Greencastle, County Antrim, Star of The Sea Whitehouse, County Antrim and St James’, Whiteabbey
Nativity, Poleglass
Our Lady Queen of Peace, Kilwee
Sacred Heart, Glenview Street, Oldpark Road, Belfast
St Agnes', Andersonstown Road, Belfast
St Anne's, Kingsway/Upper Lisburn Road, Belfast
St Anthony's, Willowfield, Woodstock Road, Belfast
St Bernadette's, Rosetta Road, Castlereagh
St Brigid's, Malone Road, Belfast
St Colmcille's, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast
St Gerard's, Antrim Road, Belfast
St John's, Falls Road, Belfast
St Luke's, Twinbrook
St Malachy's, Alfred Street, Belfast
St Mary's, Chapel Lane, Belfast
St Mary's-On-The-Hill, Glengormley
St Matthew's, Bryson Street, Belfast
St Michael The Archangel, Finaghy Road North, Belfast
St Oliver Plunkett, Glenveagh Drive, Glen Road, Belfast
St Paul's, Falls Road, Belfast
St Teresa's, Glen Road, Belfast
St. Therese of Lisieux, Somerton Road, Belfast
St Vincent De Paul, Ligoniel
Country parishes
Listed are country parishes listed by the Diocese of Down and Connor.
Aghagallon & Ballinderry (St Patrick's)
Ahoghill (St Marys Church; Ballynafie Road, Ahoghill)
Antrim (St Comgall's and St Joseph's)
Armoy (St. Olcan's)
Ballintoy (St Mary's and St Joseph's)
Ballycastle (St Patrick's & St Brigid's)
Ballyclare & Ballygowan (Sacred Heart)
Ballygalget (St Patrick's Church)
Ballymena/Kirkinriola (All Saints and St Patrick's)
Ballymoney & Derrykeighan (Our Lady & St Patrick's)
Bangor (St Comgall's, Bangor; Most Holy Redeemer, Ballyholme; St Comgall's, Donaghadee)
Carnlough (St John the Evangelist)
Carrickfergus (St Nicholas')
Castlewellan (under the patronage of St Malachy]
Coleraine
Crossgar
Culfeightrin (Ballyvoy)
Cushendall (St Patrick's) & Cushendun (St Patrick's, Craigagh & St Mary's "Star of the Sea", Culraney)
Downpatrick (St Patrick’s, Downpatrick; St Malachy’s, Ballykilbeg; St Brigid’s, Rathkeltair; St Colmcille’s)
Drumaroad & Clanvaraghan (St John the Baptist; Our Lady of the Angels)
Dundrum & Tyrella
Duneane (Moneyglass & Toome)
Dunloy & Cloughmills
Dunsford & Ardglass (St Nicholas’, Ardglass; St Mary’s, Dunsford)
Glenariff
Glenarm
Glenavy & Killead
Glenravel & The Braid
Holywood
Kilcoo (St Malachy’s)
Killough (St Patrick’s, Legamaddy; St Joseph’s, Killough; Star of the Sea, Rossglass)
Killyleagh
Kircubbin
Larne
Lisburn (under the patronage of St Patrick)
Loughguile
Loughinisland (St Macartan’s)
Lower Mourne
Newcastle/Maghera (Our Lady of the Assumption, Newcastle; St Patrick's, Bryansford)
Newtownards & Comber (St Patrick's Newtownards; Our Lady of the Visitation, Comber)
Portaferry (St Patrick’s, Ballyphilip; St Cooey’s, Portaferry)
Portglenone (Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate)
Portrush (St Patrick's)
Portstewart (St Mary's Star of the Sea)
Randalstown (St MacNissi's)
Rasharkin (St Mary's)
Saintfield & Carrickmannon
Saul & Ballee (St Patrick's, Saul; St Joseph's, Downpatrick; St Tassach's, Carlin)
Strangford (Star of the Sea)
Upper Mourne
Ad limina visit 2006
Bishop Patrick Walsh, Bishop Anthony Farquhar and Bishop Donal McKeown met with Pope Benedict XVI on the first morning of their visit. They spoke with the Pope for 20 minutes privately in which they discussed things like education, child sexual abuse, peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
Ad limina visit 2017
Bishop Treanor joined other Irish bishops in February 2017 for the ad limina visit. Unlike previous visits there were no private meetings with diocesan bishops and Pope Francis, rather the Pontiff spoke with the bishops together.
Previous bishops
Ordinaries
The following is a basic list of the Roman Catholic bishops and vicars apostolic.
John Fossade (1442–1450)
Thomas Knight. O.S.B. (1453–1469)
Tadhg Ó Muirgheasa (1469–1480)
Tiberio Ugolino (1483–1519)
Robert Blyth, O.S.B. (1520–1539)
Eugene Magennis (1539–1559)
Miler Magrath, O.F.M. (1565–1580)
Donat O'Gallagher, O.F.M. (1580–1581)
Bl. Conor O'Devany, O.F.M. (1582–1612)
(Patrick Hanratty, vicar apostolic, 1614–1625)
Edmund Dungan (1625–1629)
Hugh Magennis, O.F.M. (1630–1640)
(See vacant, 1640–1642)
Heber MacMahon (1642–1643)
Arthur Magennis, O.Cist. (1647–1653)
(Michael O'Beirn, vicar apostolic, 1657–1670)
Daniel Mackey (1671–1673)
(See vacant, 1673–1711)
(Terence O'Donnelly, vicar apostolic, 1711–unknown)
James O'Shiel, O.F.M. (1717–1724)
John Armstrong (1727–1739)
Francis Stuart, O.F.M. (1740–1749)
Edmund O'Doran (1751–1760)
Theophilus MacCartan (1760–1778)
Hugh MacMullan (1779–1794)
Patrick MacMullan (1794–1824)
William Crolly (1825–1835)
Cornelius Denvir (1835–1865)
Patrick Dorrian (1865–1885)
Patrick MacAlister (1886–1895)
Henry Henry (1895–1908)
John Tohill (1908–1914)
Joseph MacRory (1915–1928)
Daniel Mageean (1929–1962)
William Philbin (1962–1982)
Cahal Brendan Daly (1982–1990)
Patrick Joseph Walsh (1991–2008)
Noel Treanor (2008–2022)
Auxiliary bishops
Patrick Dorrian (1860–1865) (coadjutor)
Patrick Walsh (May 1983 – 1991)
Anthony Farquhar (May 1983 – December 2015)
Michael Dallat (1993–2000)
Donal McKeown (2001–2014)
See also
Diocese of Down and Dromore (Church of Ireland)
Diocese of Connor (Church of Ireland)
Roman Catholicism in Ireland
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Northern Ireland
Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
References
External links
Diocese of Down and Connor (GCatholic.org)
Catholic-Hierarchy.org – Diocese Profile
Profile from NewAdvent.org – info from Catholic Encyclopedia
1439 establishments in Ireland
Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 15th century
Religion in County Antrim
Religion in County Down
Religion in County Londonderry
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Armagh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Down%20and%20Connor |
Alan or Allan Cox may refer to:
Alan Cox (computer programmer) (born 1968), British computer programmer and Linux developer
Alan Cox (actor) (born 1970), English actor
Alan Cox (footballer) (1920–1993), footballer for Tranmere Rovers
Alan Cox (radio personality) (born 1971), radio host
Allan Cox (author) (1937–2016), American consultant and author
Allan Cox (cricketer) (1873–1896), Barbadian cricketer
Allan Leslie Cox (1927–1996), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Allan V. Cox (1926–1987), American geophysicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Cox |
Anton Thorkildsen Omholt (7 November 1861 – 11 February 1925) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Liberal Party. He served for a time as the editor of the Dagbladet newspaper. He served as the County Governor of Nordland county from 1908 until 1913. In 1913, the Prime Minister of Norway, Gunnar Knudsen asked him to be the Norwegian Minister of Finance, a position he held from 1913 to 1920. During his time as Minister of Finance, he took two leaves of absence. One was from 23 April-16 July 1915 and the other was at the end of his term, he left on leave on 12 December 1919 and resigned from the post on 16 June 1920. He then continued with a life outside of politics.
References
1861 births
1925 deaths
Ministers of Finance of Norway
County governors of Norway
County governors of Nordland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Thorkildsen%20Omholt |
Michael Brüggeman(n) (; ; 1583, Stolp – 1654) was a German Lutheran pastor, preacher and translator living in the town of Schmolsin (Smołdzino), Duchy of Pomerania. He was born in Stolp (now Słupsk).
Acting on the request of the last Griffin duchess, Anna von Croy, Brüggemann translated several liturgical texts, hymnals, prayer books and funeral speeches into Slovincian, a dialect of Kashubian. He also preached regularly in that language.
1583 births
1654 deaths
People from Słupsk
17th-century German Lutheran clergy
People from the Duchy of Pomerania
German male non-fiction writers
17th-century German translators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Br%C3%BCggemann |
The Oxford Bach Choir is an amateur choir based in Oxford, England. Founded by Basil Harwood in 1896 to further the music of J. S. Bach in Oxford, the Choir merged in 1905 with the Oxford Choral & Philharmonic Society, whose origins can be traced back to 1819. Oxford Bach Choir therefore has a choral tradition which extends back over two centuries. The choir performs most of its concerts in the Sheldonian Theatre (designed by Christopher Wren) in central Oxford, but also performs in St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, located on the Iffley Road.
Overview
The Oxford Bach Choir is a large mixed-voice choir, with around 120 members. The range of music covered is diverse, from the works of Bach and the classical repertoire to contemporary works. Oxford Bach Choir has always had a mix of town and gown singers. Rehearsals and concerts are scheduled so that students, academics and professionals are all able to participate in the choir's programmes. The choir enjoys good relationships both with Oxford colleges and with businesses in the city. New members, drawn from throughout Oxfordshire and adjacent counties, are encouraged to apply to join the choir at the start of each term.
Oxford Bach Choir gives at least three concerts every season, at the end of each academic term in December, March and June, occasions that attract audiences of up to 800 people. It also gives a carol concert each December in the Sheldonian Theatre, most recently in association with Oxfordshire Young Singers, Oxfordshire County Youth Choir and Oxfordshire Youth Brass Ensemble.
For its main concerts the choir is regularly accompanied by a top professional orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
In 2018 the choir appointed a new principal conductor, Benjamin Nicholas, who is also director of music at Merton College, Oxford.
Recordings have been made of some of the concerts performed by the choir.
Conductors
Basil Harwood (1896-1901)
Hugh Allen (1901-26)
William Henry Harris (1926–33)
Thomas Armstrong (1934–55)
Sydney Watson (1955–70)
Jack Westrup (1970–71)
Simon Preston (1971–74)
Edward Olleson (1975–77)
Christopher Robinson (1977–97)
Nicholas Cleobury (1997–2015)
David Crown (2016–17)
Benjamin Nicholas (2018-)
Notable members
Adrian Boult - English conductor who established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vera Brittain - Writer, pacifist and feminist. Author of Testament of Youth.
Dorothy L. Sayers - English "Golden Age" crime writer, classicist and poet. Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey.
Edward Heath - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1970-1974.
Basil Hume - English Bishop and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Margaret Thatcher (nee Roberts) - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990.
Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence QC – lawyer who successfully defended suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams in 1957.
Peter Gilliver - associate editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
References
External links
Oxford Bach Choir website
Benjamin Nicholas website
1896 establishments in England
Musical groups established in 1896
Oxford choirs
University choirs
Bach choirs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Bach%20Choir |
Onar Selmer Onarheim (15 October 1910 – 2 April 1988) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Kvinnherad.
Onarheim served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland, during the terms 1961–1965 and 1965–1969. From August to September 1963, he served as the Minister of Fisheries during the short-lived centre-right cabinet Lyng.
Onarheim was a member of Stord municipality council from 1947 to 1964 and 1979 to 1983, serving as mayor since 1954 and deputy mayor in 1982–1983.
Onar Onarheim had two adopted children, Onar Onarheim Jr. and Torunn Onarheim Staurset.
References
1910 births
1988 deaths
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Government ministers of Norway
Hordaland politicians
People from Kvinnherad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onar%20Onarheim |
Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages, or GAFL (경기외국어고등학교, 京畿外國語高等學校) is a foreign language high school located in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. It is equipped with two student dormitories, each for different genders,
with its own dormitory inspectors as staff. Students are divided into eight classes per grade by language (English & Japanese, English & Chinese, Japanese, and Chinese) in which they would like to major. It was originally established under the name of Myongji Foreign Language High School on March 2, 2004, by Myongji Foundation. It was run as Myongji Foreign Language High School for 5 years, but due to declining financial situation of Myongji Foundation, the school was taken over by Bong-ahm Institute in 2008. Consequently, Bong-ahm Institute changed the name of the school to the current name of Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages, with changes in various areas, including the principal, school uniform, dormitory inspectors and operation of school cafeteria. Although it kept the original subjects, or "majors", GAFL's international department changed the curriculum of its international curriculum department to
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in 2011, making GAFL the first Korean high school to adopt the program. Currently, there are nine years worth of graduates, with alumni spread over diverse universities, including domestically prominent SKY (universities) and various universities abroad. The school is also well known for its high tuition fee, always being in the top 10 schools by tuition fee.
Timeline
History
Founding
Before the founding of the school, the school properties belong to a private high school, Jung-won High School, founded in 1989, but was bought by the Myeonji Education Foundation and was demolished of its establishment. After, the Myeongji Education Foundation intended to establish a new school, that of a Foreign Language High School (), where under Korean government plan was a special type of school to educate students with high level of foreign languages. As Myeongji Education Foundation was already in possession of various schools including Myongji University, the school quickly gained recognition among the high competition between Foreign Language High Schools.
Myongji Foreign Language High School Era
Myongji Foreign Language High School was a dormitory-based foreign language high school that accepted students from all over the country, mainly through its individual and unique admission tests. The students lived in the dormitory, and studied at night under the supervision of the dormitory inspectors, who were outsourced by the school. Remaining at school on weekends and during vacation was optional, but students had to follow a strict timetable that regulated activities most of the time. In the absence of school teachers, the dorm inspectors would take the place of chaperoning the students and their activities. To accommodate the students' needs, there were various facilities such as laundry room, gym, and a 7-Eleven convenience store (which was rumored to be the second highest branch in sales throughout all of South Korea) inside the school. The academic performance of Myongji students steadily improved over time, peaking at the 3rd highest in 2011 College Scholastic Ability Test in all of South Korea.
Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages: former era (until 6th generation)
Myeongji Education Foundation faced a financial crisis during its attempt of expanding the business, hence was forced to handover the right to management of the school. This right was purchased by Daekyo Education Foundation, owned by Korea's prominent education company Daekyo (), and changing the present name, Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages. With the conversion of the school into Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages, the school took a drastic turn. In admissions, it could no longer test applying students in maths, and had to take into account their middle school grades to a larger extent due to change of government regulations. The school uniform also changed, from the previous 2 versions (winter and summer) to 3 versions (winter formal and casual, and summer). The school also scouted Hashik Park, a former vice-principal of Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies and Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies to be GAFL's new principal. Under Principal Park's running of the school, GAFL developed various student clubs, including a club pertaining to lacrosse. In terms of dormitory, staffing change was made in dormitory inspectors; the school hired a new group of dormitory inspectors that were regarded as a lot less strict than the group before. Amenities such as towels and laundry service were also made free to the students. However, the 6th generation of students still followed much of the same curriculum and education infrastructure as previous generations of students did.
Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages: latter era (7th generation ~)
From this time period, the school took even more of a drastic turn. It could no longer accept students from provinces other than Gyeonggi due to change in government regulations. However, it was accepted to incorporate the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, one of the first Korean high schools to do so. This entailed a change of system and infrastructure for the students; as opposed to the past, the subjects, or "majors" were now divided into four categories containing local English, international English (IBDP), Chinese and Japanese departments.
Symbols
Alma mater song
The schools alma mater song was written by the chairman of the Daekyo Education Foundation Young-jung Kang, where most of the lyrics are in Korean, but few phrases in English.
School symbols
The school chaplain of GAFL is the Zelkova serrate, which was chosen for its characteristics of an often used a shading plant in Korea. This was to symbolise the purpose of the schools value; educating the youth as the servant of the people.
Along with Zelkova, the flower was a Camellia lutchuensis, a symbol of strength as the Camellia endures the winters, and the floriography in Korea being humble heart, to symbolise the students of their strength endure through hard times, yet remembering the value of humbleness.
The school bird is a Phoenix (mythology), or 봉황 in Korean. To symbolise the everlasting sprit of the school. Because of this, the school board of parent donate a pair of Peafowl, which was kept within the school campus. Phoenix is discoverable in the coat of arms of the school and throughout the school logos etc.
Departments of Major Languages
In both Myongji Foreign Language High School and GAFL, students were divided into classes centered around certain "majors", which meant that the classes pertaining to that major would receive more education on that area. Traditionally, there were 2 classes for each major, and these majors acted as major factors in school management and student activities by providing a clear boundary between groups of students.
Myongji Foreign Language High School
In Myongji Foreign Language High School, there were four majors: English (major) and Chinese (minor), English (major) and Japanese (minor), Chinese and Japanese. Each department received differentiated education according to the majors, including conversation and theoretical classes. The number of classes pertaining to the language was designed to escalate as the grades increased; such was the case that 3rd grade students had 5 different subjects pertaining to their major, for instance, English Writing, English Conversation, English Grammar, English Reading and English Listening. As students wishing for acceptance in foreign universities were few in number, they were incorporated into the main system, but could take optional classes and guidance on the side.
Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages
GAFL was approved as World IB School in 2011, and unlike other IB schools in Korea, it is the only IB school where students can graduate with both IB Diploma and a Korean High School Diploma.
With the introduction of IBDP to the school, the major system also changed. The previously few students striving for foreign universities were promoted to a new major (international English), and the students striving for domestic universities were incorporated into local English courses. The IBDP is currently designed to address to the international English portion of the students.
English-Chinese Department
This is were English is the major language and Chinese is the minor language. The symbolic colour of the English-Chinese department is blue. This is the department were it constitutes the majority of the English department. Because of this factor, they have the slight advantage in determining the Korean High school GPA, which is relatively marked.
English-Japanese Department
Being only a size of one class, is the smallest department of the school. Having red as their symbolic colour. In the administrative system, often English-Japanese Department is categorised a one department with the International (IB) Department, but in terms of actual educational curriculum is completely independent from the International Department.
Chinese Department
Being represented with the colour black, the Chinese department majors in Chinese and English as a minor language. Chinese department is often associated with outgoing, strong images, specially showing a culture of strong bonds between the freshmen and the sophomore class. There are significant number of students in the Chinese department who move on to prominent Chinese or Taiwanese universities such Beijing University, Tsinghua University, National Taipei University.
Japanese Department
Being represented with the colour white, along with the Chinese department, the Japanese department is one of the biggest department and majors Japanese. Japanese department is often portrayed as the rival of the Chinese department, showing a very calm, and diligent image. Similarly, some students continue their academic in prestigious Japanese universities like University of Tokyo, Keio University, Waseda University.
International (IB Diploma Programme) Department
Being the smallest, yet the most support department of the school, International Department is the newest department of GAFL. Unlike most international schools in Korea, instead of adopting the SAT, or the Advanced Placement, has adopted the IB Diploma Programme for the first time as a Korean High school. Due to their different in curriculum, the International Department is granted of more independence and autonomy within the school. As the IB programme is constituted with 2 years, but the Korean High school system of 3 years, freshmen of International Department is enrolled in a Pre-DP curriculum provided by the school itself.
Unlike other departments where the minor language is fixed, the International department provides both Japanese and Chinese as minor language.
Offered Courses
As a Foreign Languages Highschool, IB students in GAFL are required to take 3 language courses within Group 1: Studies in Language and Literature and Group 2: Language acquisition. Thus students drop their Group 6: The Arts course at the end of DP1, and it is not included in final exam as well.
Courses offered:
Group 1: Korean Literature A (SL/HL), English Language and Literature A (HL)
Group 2: English B (HL), Chinese B (SL), Japanese B (SL)
Group 3: History (SL/HL), Economy (SL/HL)
Group 4: Biology (SL/HL), Chemistry (SL/HL)
Group 5: Mathematics Analysis and Approach (SL/HL)
Group 6: Film (SL), Theatre (SL)
Student Life
Uniform
Being complete re-designed in 2008, GAFL's uniform exist in different forms. Largely into three categories that of Spring-autumn, summer, winter uniform.
Winter uniform includes a jacket, coat, vest, shirt, tie, cardigan, trousers, skirts for female students. The Spring-autumn uniform with a jumper, vest, shirt, trousers, tie, and skirts for female students. The summer uniform is worn with shirt with short sleeves, trousers, shorts, and skirts and ribbons for female students.
Along with seasonal differentiation, there are two types of uniform, that of formal and casual. Students may were what ever kind of uniform they choose, but on Fridays, it is mandatory that students dress in their formal uniform, including the jacket and with black dress shoes.
There are unofficial uniforms of the school that students wear, usually being the baseball jackets. Students often wear baseball jackets over their uniform to show their affiliation with the prefect committee, or society they belong to. There are no particular school codes on these jackets, but through tradition, it is only the prefect committees, societies that existed from the founding of the school, and sports society that wear them. There are few exception to this.
Prefects
The school's prefect system imitates that of a democratic government, meaning there is the legislative, executive, and judiciary branch. The legislative branch is formed with each classes president and vice president, led by a chairman elected among them and has the right to amend the school codes. The executive branch is led by the School president voted through a vote as the school in whole, and the president chooses members of the executive branch that carries out all school actives. The judiciary branch is chosen by interviews conducted by the previous members of the judiciary. They have the right to hand out demerit marks to students according to the school codes.
The international department gets the exception and is allowed to form the International department committee, led by chairman elected within the department. The international department committee is only formed with student of the international department and gains autonomy to the prefect system of three branches.
Societies
As the school is a Foreign Language High school, the societies are more concentrated into languages, and humanities. There are more than 100 societies in the school which is formed, and led by the students, answering to the executive branch. There are no official division between the societies of the school, but there is what the students traditionally call the 'classic societies', like the Law society, Debate society, United Nations society, English society, and Economic society, which refer to about 12 societies that existed from the founding of the school. These societies tend to be large in number, financial support from school, and gets more opportunities to host a competition, or an event.
Besides the academic societies, there are numerous sports and art societies. The major sport society is football, basketball, and lacrosse. Sport societies usually participate in high school leagues held among prestigious private schools as varsity teams. The art society include orchestra, band, hip-hop, and painting societies. Art societies annually hosts a festival where they put up plays, drama, performances for the students.
Campus Facilities and Buildings
Main Hall
Being reused from the old building of the Jung-won High school, the Main halls is older than the school itself. This is where all of the class rooms are located except for the International department, along with most of the teachers' offices. On the ground floor of the Main hall is where the cafeteria is located where three meals a day is provided by the school including weekends. On the 1st floor is the School Memorial Hall, a place to remember and value the history of the school.
Bong-am Hall
Bong-am, being named after the school boards first chairman, Young-jung Kang, is the building that includes the school's convenience store, large studying hall, separate group seminar rooms, and an indoor basketball court, often used as a gather hall for school events.
Creation Hall
Creation hall, the first dormitory building of the school, is a 10 floor building located at the corner of the school's campus. When Creation hall was the only dormitory of the school, it accommodated both male and female students. However, due to its aging facilities of shower room, and air conditioning, the school later decides to build another dormitory building, and Creation hall only accommodating the male students from then. On the top floor of Creation hall locates a self-study area opened until 4 am, and an student lounge where students call eat, drink and relax as the dormitory codes prohibit consumption of food within each rooms.
Vision Hall
Vision hall is the newly built dormitory building with better facilities than Creation hall, accommodating the female students. Vision hall has total of 9 floors located right next to Creation hall. Vision hall is where the dean's night office is located on the ground floor, and has a garden at the rooftop, where the school holds annual event from time to time. In the basement of Vision hall is the laundry room, where the school provide free laundry service to students where they only have to pick their clothes up after school.
Global Hall
As recognisable from the name itself, the Global hall is the building where the international department is located. Because of this independent facility, the international department can use 12 classrooms, 1 teacher's office, 1 biology lab, 1 chemistry lab, film studio, theatre room, and 3 self study areas and a library. This is the first building that visitors see when entering through the school's main gate.
Servant Leadership Hall
Located in front of the Global Hall, Servant Leadership Hall is the newest building on campus, having the construction finished in 2021. This building is formed with 5 floor, having multiple classrooms, media room, and a gym on ground floor for the students use. This building was built to solve an old dissatisfaction of the students and faculty for the lack of teaching space. This building, due to the locational benefit, is mostly used by the international department, but also is used for multiple uses such as society activities.
GAFL Ground
GAFL Ground is the name for the indoor sports facilities located at the very north-west of the campus. Below the GAFL Ground is a parking lot used by the faculty, and above is the actual sports facilities. The sports facilities include 4 indoor badminton court, and two futsal fields, which is often used as a lacrosse field for the school's varsity team.
The Pathway
This is a distinct feature of the school's campus. The Pathway refers to the one singular indoor hallway that allows the students to navigate to all of the school's building. The Global hall is connected to the Servant Leadership Hall using a bridge, to the Vision hall by an underground pathway, the Creation hall through a roofed alley, and indoor hallway continuing all the way to the Main Hall. For this reason, no body uses an umbrella in the school.
References
Language high schools in South Korea
Schools in Gyeonggi Province
Educational institutions established in 2004
2004 establishments in South Korea
Private schools in South Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeonggi%20Academy%20of%20Foreign%20Languages |
Amélie may refer to:
Amélie (given name)
Amélie, a 2001 French film
Amélie (soundtrack) from the film
Amélie (musical), a musical based on the 2001 film
Ameli.fr, official website of the French national health insurance office
French frigate Amélie (1808), a 46-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy
"Amelie", song by Mercury Rev from The Light in You
"Amelie", a 2007 song by Mr. J. Medeiros
See also
Amelia (disambiguation)
Amalie (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Kjell Olav Opseth (2 January 1936 – 3 December 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Transport and Communications 1990–1996 and Minister of Local Government Affairs 1996–1997. As Transport Minister, he once observed of advertising hoardings featuring model Anna Nicole Smith that "on her own [she] is not a traffic hazard. It depends where she is."
References
1936 births
2017 deaths
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway
21st-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
People from Førde | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell%20Opseth |
Monforte de Moyuela is a town and municipality in Aragon, located in the comarca of Jiloca, in the province of Teruel. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 76 inhabitants, with an area of 47.77 km² and a density of 1.58.
The municipality is 121 kilometres from Teruel, the provincial capital.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Teruel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monforte%20de%20Moyuela |
Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film produced by Agi Orsi and directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding. Some of the featured surfers are Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, and Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers such as Mickey Munoz.
Synopsis
The film begins with a historical overview, starting at its Hawaiian beginnings, then moves on to focus on the dangerous lure of big-wave surfing (surfing waves that can reach up to ). The documentary chronicles the evolution of riding at Hawaii's Waimea Bay in the 1950s, the revolution of lighter boards, and tow-in surfing to allow for "riding giants". Three surfers who are part of this multi-generational evolution are spotlighted: Greg Noll is shown as a fearless big wave rider during the 1950s and 1960s; Jeff Clark who discovered Mavericks in Northern California and surfed there alone for years; and Laird Hamilton, the contemporary surfer who brings tow-in riding to the limelight.
Production
Peralta previously directed the acclaimed documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, which documented the rise of skateboarding, of which he was an integral part. The French producer Franck Marty, along with his partners, chose him to direct a new breed of big wave riding documentary film. He has said that the primary purpose of making a surfing documentary was that he "wanted to see a film like this", and that he hoped it helped to answer the question "why people choose to devote their entire lives to the pursuit of riding waves."
Riding Giants utilizes stills, archive footage, "re-enacted" footage, home movies, and interviews. Some of the surfers interviewed include Jeff Clark, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez, Greg Noll, Kelly Slater and Peter Mel.
Soundtrack music
Includes: Basement Jaxx, David Bowie, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Doves, Fila Brazillia, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Hives, Linkin Park, John Mayall, Moby, Pearl Jam, The Ruts, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Soundgarden, The Stray Cats, Alice in Chains, Érik Satie and The Waterboys.
Reception
Riding Giants was the first documentary film to open the Sundance Film Festival. It won the 2004 A.C.E. Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary by editor Paul Crowder. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% fresh rating, having earned mostly positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert said in his review, "Before seeing Riding Giants, my ideas about surfing were formed by the Gidget movies, Endless Summer, The Beach Boys, Elvis and lots of TV commercials. Riding Giants is about altogether another reality."
See also
Step into Liquid
References
External links
2004 films
2004 documentary films
French documentary films
2000s English-language films
Big wave surfing
Films set in Hawaii
Documentary films about surfing
StudioCanal films
Documentary films about Hawaii
American surfing films
Sony Pictures Classics films
American sports documentary films
2000s American films
2000s French films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding%20Giants |
Colostethus is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Panama south to Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru. Their common name is rocket frogs, but this name may refer to frogs in other genera and families, following the taxonomic revision of the genus in 2006.
Taxonomy
Formerly, the genus Colostethus was found to be "rampantly nonmonophyletic" in the taxonomic revision of poison dart frogs published in 2006. Before the revision, it had 138 species, but this was reduced to 18 species, after species of the former Colostethus were distributed among eight genera in two families, that is, in Dendrobatidae and in the newly established family Aromobatidae (e..g., Anomaloglossus). Within Dendrobatidae, many former Colostethus species were moved to Hyloxalus, while three were moved to the new genus Silverstoneia. Nevertheless, Colostethus is still considered paraphyletic because some Colostethus are more closely related to Ameerega than to other Colostethus.
Description
Dorsal colouration is cryptic, brown. A pale oblique lateral stripe is present (but may be broken or incomplete). Dorsal skin is granular posteriorly. In adult males, third finger is swollen.
Species
There are currently 12 species in this genus:
References
External links
Poison dart frogs
Amphibians of Central America
Amphibians of South America
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostethus |
The following three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are:
marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but have been genericized and have lost their legal status due to becoming generic terms,
marks which have been abandoned and are now generic terms
marks which are still legally protected as trademarks, at least in some jurisdictions
List of former trademarks that have been genericized
The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service, as used both by the consuming public and commercial competitors. These marks were determined in court to have become generic. Some marks retain trademark protection in certain countries despite being declared generic in others.
Aspirin Still a Bayer trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid in about 80 countries, including Canada and many countries in Europe, but declared generic in the U.S.
Catseye Originally a trademark for a specific type of retroreflective road safety installation.
CellophaneStill a registered trademark of Innovia Films Ltd in Europe and many other jurisdictions. Genericized in the U.S. Originally a trademark of DuPont. A thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose.
CirclineOriginally a trademark of General Electric of ring shaped fluorescent lamps. Became generic in the United States and Canada.
Dry iceTrademarked by the Dry Ice Corporation of America in 1925. A solid form of carbon dioxide.
EscalatorOriginally a trademark of Otis Elevator Company and it was a registered trademark until 1950.
Flip phone Originally a trademark of Motorola.
Flit gun Originally trademarked as a dispenser for Flit, a brand of insecticide manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (later Exxon).
Heroin Trademarked by Friedrich Bayer & Co in 1898. Trademark lost in some nations in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919.
Hovercraft Trademarked by Saunders-Roe.
KeroseneFirst used around 1852.
Lanolin Trademarked as the term for a preparation of water and the wax from sheep's wool.
Launderette Coin laundry shop. Telecoin-Bendix trademark, for coin laundries of Telecoin-adapted Bendix machines.
Laundromat Coin laundry shop. Westinghouse trademark, registered in the U.S. in the 1940s (automatic washing machine) and 1950s (coin laundry) but now expired.
Linoleum Floor covering, originally coined by Frederick Walton in 1864, and ruled as generic following a lawsuit for trademark infringement in 1878; probably the first product name to become a generic term.
Mimeograph Originally trademarked by Albert Dick. A low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.
Quonset A trademark of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation for a brand of hemicylindrical prefabricated structures, first deployed at Quonset Point, Rhode Island
SellotapeSellotape is a British brand of transparent, cellulose-based, pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. The term has become a genericised trademark in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Nigeria, Ghana, New Zealand, Israel, India, Serbia, Japan, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Malaysia, Macedonia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, and is used much in the same way that Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada, France, Italy and the United States, in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.
Spidola A brand created by the Latvian manufacturer VEF, but widely used in Russian to refer to all transistor radios.
Teleprompter The word TelePrompTer, with internal capitalization, originated in the 1950s as a trade name used by the TelePrompTer Corporation, for their television prompting apparatus.
Trampoline Originally a trademark of the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company.
Videotape Originally trademarked by Ampex Corporation, an early manufacturer of audio and video tape recorders.
List of former trademarks that have since become generic terms due to reasons other than genericization
The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks due to abandonment, non-renewal or improper issuance (the generic term predated the registration). Some marks retain trademark protection in certain countries despite being generic in others.
App Store Trademark claimed by Apple Inc. for their digital distribution platform. Apple filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com over Appstore for Amazon, but abandoned the lawsuit after an early rejection of Apple's false advertising claim in the lawsuit. As part of the settlement, Apple gave Amazon a covenant not to sue, so that Amazon would drop its counterclaim to have the registration cancelled. the trademark, reg. no. 4,829,304, remains "Issued and Active" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Dumpster Trademark was cancelled in 2015. Trademarked by Dempster Brothers, Inc. in 1963, dumpster is originally a portmanteau of the word dump and the last name Dempster. It originally appeared in the 1951 product name Dempster Dumpster, while related patents date back to 1937.
Multiball Used to refer to a state on a pinball machine where two or more balls are present on the playfield simultaneously and can be accessed by the flippers. Trademarked by WMS Industries in 1981 as "Multi-ball" and by Templar Studios in 2000 as "Multiball." "Multiball" was abandoned as a trademark in 2001, and "Multi-ball" was canceled in 2002.
Taco Tuesday A social/family event or sales promotion relating to consuming tacos on a Tuesday; held by Gregory’s Restaurant and Bar in New Jersey and Taco John's in the other 49 states until 2023, when the companies abandoned their trademark registrations after Taco Bell filed petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the marks.
Touch-tone Dual tone multi-frequency telephone signaling; AT&T states "formerly a trademark of AT&T".
Webster's Dictionary The publishers with the strongest link to the original are Merriam-Webster, but they have a trademark only on "Merriam-Webster", and other dictionaries are legally published as "Webster's Dictionary".
Yo-Yo Still a Papa's Toy Co. Ltd. trademark name for a spinning toy in Canada, but was determined that the trademark was improperly issued.
ZIP code Originally registered as a service mark but has since expired.
Zipper Originally a trademark of B.F. Goodrich for use in rubber boots.
List of protected trademarks frequently used as generic terms
Marks in this partial list are still legally protected as trademarks, at least in some jurisdictions, but are sometimes used by consumers in a generic sense. Unlike the names in the list above, these names are still widely known by the public as brand names, and are not used by competitors. Scholars disagree as to whether the use of a recognized trademark name for similar products can truly be called "generic", or if it is instead a form of synecdoche.
The previous list contains trademarks that have completely lost their legal status in some countries, while the following list contains marks which have been registered as trademarks, continue in use, and are actively enforced by their trademark owners. Writing guides such as the AP Stylebook advise writers to "use a generic equivalent unless the trademark is essential to the story".
External links
genericides.org used to keep a list of generic trademarks. Most entries included links to use in newspapers
References
Lists of trademarks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20generic%20and%20genericized%20trademarks |
Tanja Frieden (born 6 February 1976, in Bern) is a Swiss snowboarder. She won a gold medal in the inaugural Snowboard Cross competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
In the Snowboard Cross finals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Frieden was in second place well behind the American Lindsey Jacobellis, when the latter crashed while attempting to showboat on the second to last jump. Frieden passed Jacobellis and won the gold medal. In her pocket was a Norwegian flag in memory of her friend, snowboarder Line Østvold, who died in a training accident in 2004 aged 25.
Frieden, whose mother is from Norway, is fluent in Norwegian, as well as the Swiss German dialect of her native area. She also can speak German, French and English.
She is a primary school teacher in Switzerland and lives half the year near her home town by the mountains of the Bernese Oberland. The other half she is on a world tour in the ski/snowboard races.
After an Achilles heel injury which left her unable to defend her Olympic title, Frieden retired from snowboard cross three weeks before the Vancouver Games in 2010.
References
External links
http://www.TanjaFrieden.ch
Swiss female snowboarders
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
1976 births
Living people
Olympic snowboarders for Switzerland
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Sportspeople from Bern
X Games athletes
Olympic medalists in snowboarding
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Swiss people of Norwegian descent
21st-century Swiss women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanja%20Frieden |
David William Strangway, (June 7, 1934 – December 13, 2016) was a Canadian geophysicist and university administrator. Strangway was the founder, first President and first Chancellor of Quest University Canada, a private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia which opened in September 2007. He was President Emeritus of the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia.
Early life and education
Strangway was born in 1934 in Simcoe, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, earning a B.A. in Physics and Geology in 1956, an M.A. in physics and a Ph.D in physics in 1960.
Career
Strangway began his teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado between 1961-64. In 1965, he joined M.I.T for three years as both an Assistant Professor of Geophysics and Researcher. In 1970, he joined NASA as the Chief of the Geophysics Branch and was responsible for the geophysical aspects of the Apollo missions. In 1972, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his scientific contribution to NASA. As Chief of NASA's Geophysics Branch, David Strangway designed lunar experiments for Apollo astronauts and also was involved in the examination of returned Moon rocks that contributed to the further knowledge of the Solar System. Strangway is the author or co-author of more than 165 research papers, including results of lunar sample studies and experiments. Strangway's research focused extensively on magnetic studies and electromagnetic sounding, both terrestrially for exploration and mapping and in lunar mapping and exploration. Since 1971 he has served on a great number of scientific and academic committees on behalf of governmental or private sector organizations. In 1973 he served as the director of the Lunar Science Institute (later renamed the Lunar and Planetary Institute in 1977).
He was a vice-president at the University of Toronto and the chairman of its Geology Department from 1973 to 1983. Upon the retirement of James Ham in 1983, Strangway was appointed the acting president of the University of Toronto. He was elevated to become the University's eleventh President after the designated successor, Donald Forster, suddenly died of a heart attack in August of that year.
From 1985 to 1997, he was the tenth President of the University of British Columbia. He provided the direction and impetus that enabled the large, publicly funded University of British Columbia to achieve world-class status during his 12 years as President. This was enhanced by leading what was at the time, Canada's largest fund-raising campaign and by creating UBC Real Estate Corp. to develop market housing.
From 1998 to 2004, Strangway was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. This autonomous, Ottawa-based organization was founded in 1997 to fund and revitalize national research infrastructure programs that would enable Canadian Universities, Colleges and Research Hospitals to carry out across-the-board scientific and technological projects of benefit to all Canadians. Of CFI's capital investment budget of $3.65 billion, more than $2.7 billion was invested during Strangway's six-year tenure – effectively stemming the loss of Canadian researchers to other countries. It was during this time that he played a key role in helping the Canadian government to create the Canada Research Chairs. This program, funded at the level of $300m a year, has created 2000 new positions in Canadian Universities. Strangway retired from CFI March 31, 2004 in order to devote his full attention to Quest University Canada during the important construction and start-up phases of its development.
In 1997, he was appointed by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to join with William Ruckelshaus, an appointee of the President of the U.S., to study the Pacific Salmon controversy between the two countries. Their work and recommendations formed the basis for negotiation of a new agreement.
Death
He died on December 13, 2016.
Membership of committees
Premier's Advisory Council on Science and Technology
International Institute os Sustainable Development Founding Board Member
Chairman of the Ontario Geoscience Research Fund
Chairman of the University Research Incentive Fund Ontario
Member of the Lunar Science Research Plan
Member of the Lunar Science and Analysis Planning Team (Awarded samples to investigators and prepared the summary of the results of the first Apollo mission)
A member of COMPLEX, The National Academy of Science (Committee on Planetary Exploration)
Chair of the Premier's Council on Environment and Economy
Member of the American Geophysical Union Development Board
One of the original members of the steering committee that created the Canada Research Chairs (Major impact on Canadian Universities' competitiveness)
Honours
In 1984, Strangway received the Logan Medal for his geological works. This award is the highest honour the Geological Association of Canada bestows.
In 1987, he received the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal from the Canadian Geophysical Union
In 1996, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being an "internationally respected as an outstanding scientist and senior academic administrator".
In 2009, he was given the Maurice Ewing Medal, the highest honor of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Notes
References
1934 births
2016 deaths
Canadian geologists
Wilson Medal recipients
Canadian university and college vice-presidents
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Canadian geophysicists
Members of the United Church of Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
NASA people
Presidents of the University of British Columbia
Presidents of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
People from Norfolk County, Ontario
Logan Medal recipients
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Presidents of the Canadian Geophysical Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Strangway |
Helga Pedersen (born 13 January 1973) is a Norwegian politician, former Minister, and member of the Storting, who served as the deputy leader for the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. A native of Sør-Varanger, she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
A teacher by profession, she has spent most her adult life as a career politician. In 2009 she was elected to the Norwegian parliament, the Storting for the first time, and from 2009 until the 2013 parliamentary election she served as the Labour Party's parliamentary leader. Officially registered as a member of the Sámi national minority, Pedersen was Norway's first officially Sámi cabinet minister.
Early life
Helga Pedersen was born in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in Finnmark county on 13 January 1973, but was raised in the rural settlement of Vestertana in the nearby Tana municipality. Her father, Terje Pedersen (1941-) was a farmer who had built his own sheep-farm, as well as being a fisherman and a local politician. Her mother, Hjørdis Langholm (1942-), was originally from Jæren and worked as a registered nurse. She grew up with three siblings in a culturally Sámi household.
Education
She attended elementary school as well as lower secondary school at the local settlement school in Vestertana. Later she went to Vadsø Upper Secondary school, during which time she spent a year studying at the Lycée Alain Chartier in Bayeux, France. Upon finishing high school, she enrolled in the University of Bergen graduating in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Russian studies. After leaving Bergen she enrolled in the University of Tromsø, graduating in 1998 with a degree in History.
Early career
Pedersen started her professional career in 1992, when she was employed as a teacher's assistant, and later full-time teacher at the rural Boftsa school in Tana. She left the job in 1993. In 1998 she was hired as a construction planning consultant by the Finnmark county administration. This employment lasted until 2000.
Political career
Her political career started early. She became leader of her local Workers' Youth League chapter at age 19 and later served as political adviser within the Labour Party. At age 30 she was elected county mayor for Finnmark.
From April to October 2001, during the first cabinet Stoltenberg, she was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 2005, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. Pedersen is the first politician of Sámi descent to have been member of any country's government, and also the first member of any ethnic minority hold a place in the Norwegian government.
On the local level she was a deputy member of Finnmark county council from 1999 to 2003, and county mayor from 2003 to 2005. In 2007 she was elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party, as the first woman with Sámi background to hold this position. Following the 2009 election, Pedersen was chosen to be the parliamentary leader for the Labour Party in the Storting. She therefore resigned as fishery minister and left the cabinet. She remained in this capacity until the election defeat in the 2013 parliamentary elections, when former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg returned to the parliament.
Pedersen was named as a potential candidate for the Labour leadership, after Jens Stoltenberg announced he was stepping down as leader, in order to become the Secretary General of NATO. At a special Party Congress in March 2014, Pedersen was snubbed for the leadership post in favour of former Minister of Health Jonas Gahr Støre. She was instead re-elected as deputy leader. On 3 September 2014, she announced her intention of stepping down as deputy leader of the Labour Party due to family reasons.
Mayor of Tana
She became mayor of Tana municipality in 2019. Through 2021 she has been part of the municipality's crisis management team (krisestab) in regard to three different incidents:
the covid pandemic, a landslide, and a fraud investigation of a manager [from middle management] in the county administration.
Mere weeks before the 2023 party convention, Pedersen was open to succeeding Kjersti Stenseng as party secretary as part of a greater renewal of the party's leadership. This was despite the fact that Stenseng had previously announced that she would seek re-election. On 30 April, Pedersen announced that she wouldn't stand as a candidate to succeed Stenseng, arguing that she didn't have sufficient support within the party.
Pedersen was succeeded by the Centre Party's Jon Erland Balto on 12 October 2023 following the local elections the previous month.
Personal life
Pedersen is married to Erik Brenli, a journalist originally from Brandbu in Hadeland. They married on 12 July 2008, after having been in a relationship for almost five years. Together they have two daughters, named Anna and Maja and they divide their time between Oslo and their rural estate in Vestertana, Finnmark.
Both Pedersen and her children are officially listed as members of the Sámi national minority, gaining some privileges in regards to the Sami parliamentary elections, as well as in agriculture. Pedersen speaks fluently the Sámi language, and always dons the traditional Sámi Gákti dress on official celebrations and receptions.
Controversies
In 2009 media said that Pedersen and her husband illegally had resided in their beach-front home in Tana. The residence was only approved as a part-time vacation retreat, and the couple had not applied for the necessary permits to have it reclassified as an all-year residence.
In 2014 at a local meeting of Labour party members in Vadsø, she called for members to tar (or smear) () the Conservative-led government; there was criticism, and she apologized for her comments.
References
1973 births
Living people
People from Sør-Varanger
Government ministers of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Chairmen of County Councils of Norway
Finnmark politicians
Norwegian Sámi politicians
University of Bergen alumni
University of Tromsø alumni
Norwegian Sámi people
Members of the Storting
Norwegian Christians
Women government ministers of Norway
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
Women members of the Storting
Women mayors of places in Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga%20Pedersen%20%28Norway%29 |
District 19 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Brewster, Crockett, Dimmitt, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Real, Reeves, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Zavala counties, and portions of Bexar and Atascosa counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The district is currently served by Democrat Roland Gutierrez.
District 19 is one of the largest legislative districts in the United States, containing all or part of 17 counties and covering more than 35,000 square miles and about 400 miles of the Texas-Mexico border. The district contains 55 public school districts, more than 23,000 oil and gas wells, 10 state parks, three national parks, and more than 2,700 miles of highways and interstate transportation infrastructure. Redistricting in 2010 led to District 19 losing several western counties and gaining several eastern ones. The district is 66% Hispanic.
Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 19 has a population of 800,501 with 566,604 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.
Election history
Election history of District 20 from 1992.
Previous elections
2020
2018
2016
2012
2010
2006
2002
1998
1994
1992
District officeholders
Notes
References
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Atascosa County, Texas
Bexar County, Texas
Brewster County, Texas
Crockett County, Texas
Dimmit County, Texas
Edwards County, Texas
Frio County, Texas
Kinney County, Texas
Maverick County, Texas
Medina County, Texas
Pecos County, Texas
Real County, Texas
Reeves County, Texas
Terrell County, Texas
Uvalde County, Texas
Val Verde County, Texas
Zavala County, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Senate%2C%20District%2019 |
Alexander Valerievich Radulov (; born 5 July 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey player for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He had previously had two separate stints with the Nashville Predators, the NHL team which had drafted him, from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2012, as well one season with the Montreal Canadiens, five seasons with the Dallas Stars between 2016 and 2022, and eight seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), split evenly between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and CSKA Moscow from 2008 to 2016.
Radulov is a two-time World Champion (2008 and 2009) with Russia; a 2011 Gagarin Cup champion with Salavat Yulaev Ufa; and a 2006 Memorial Cup champion with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)'s Quebec Remparts. He won the Golden Stick Award (KHL MVP) on four occasions. Radulov ranks second in all-time KHL scoring with 427 points, behind Sergei Mozyakin. He is of mixed Russian and Gagauz ethnicity. Alexander is the brother of Igor Radulov.
Playing career
Junior career
Radulov began his North American career in 2004–05, selected at the 2004 Canadian Hockey League Import player draft by the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). That year, he finished third in scoring for his team, with 75 points in 65 games, behind Josh Hennessy and Karl Gagné.
The following year, Radulov became one of the most exciting and dominant players to play in the QMJHL. In the first half of the season, he and rookie Angelo Esposito formed one of the most explosive duos in the league. He became equally renowned for skating in front of the opposing team's bench and twirling his stick around and banging the handle on the ice, as if to put a sword into a sheath, after scoring a goal, something that angered opposing players but captivated and inspired his head coach, Patrick Roy.
On 28 October 2005, Radulov set a new franchise record with six goals against the Drummondville Voltigeurs. He added an assist in the eventual 11–3 win. That night, Radulov tied the Remparts team's record with Eric Chouinard for most points in a single game, with seven. Later, on 19 March 2006, in a game against the 2005 Memorial Cup second-place finishing Rimouski Océanic, for whom his teammates Cédrick Desjardins and Michal Sersen played for in 2004–05, Radulov wrote history in the Québec Colisée by scoring an unprecedented 7 goals and 4 assists for 11 points, breaking both records for most goals and points in a single game for the Remparts, in a lopsided 16–3 victory.
Radulov owns the Remparts record for the most consecutive point streak games with 50, passing the 28-game mark established by Eric Chouinard in the 1999–2000 season. Radulov is ranked second all-time with that sequence in the QMJHL, only behind Mario Lemieux, with 62.
Radulov finished as the scoring leader for the QMJHL and the CHL in 2005–06 with 152 points (61 goals and 91 assists). He currently owns the record for the most points in a single season for the Remparts, surpassing the mark of 120 set by Simon Gagné in 1998–99. Radulov also owns the record for the most goals and assists in a season as a Rempart. He passed the mark of 57 goals set by Eric Chouinard and the mark of 75 assists set by Wes Scanzano, both in 1999–2000. He also tied with Pavel Rosa for the most points by a QMJHL European player in a single season. His 61 goals were second-highest in the QMJHL for the 2005–06 season; Maxime Boisclair of the Chicoutimi Saguenéens was first, with 70.
In the 2006 QMJHL playoffs, Radulov scored 55 points (21 goals and 34 assists) and was ranked again as the scoring leader. He registered at least a point in each game. Radulov finished only two points shy of the playoff points record set by Simon Gamache in 2000–01. In the Remparts' semi-final series against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, he had 19 points in the seven-game series alone. He lost the MVP award, however, to victorious Moncton Wildcats forward Mārtiņš Karsums.
All team records set by Radulov are for the new edition of the Remparts, which began in the 1997–98 season.
Radulov delivered an incredible performance in the Remparts' 2006 Memorial Cup championship game victory over the Moncton Wildcats. In the 6–2 win, he netted two goals and assisted on three more, totaling five points, one point away from tying the all-time record in a Memorial Cup final. He registered nine points (five goals and four assists) in four games and won the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the tournament MVP.
On 28 November 2007, the Remparts retired Radulov's number 22 jersey.
Nashville Predators
During Radulov's 2005–06 season in the QMJHL, he signed a three-year, entry-level professional contract with the Nashville Predators on 9 January 2006. He would begin his professional career as a member of the Predators' minor league affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL), the following season. He was selected Player of the Week on 16 October 2006, posting two goals and four assists in only two games.
On 21 October 2006, Radulov made his NHL debut with the Predators against the Vancouver Canucks, logging seven minutes and one minor penalty. He scored his first career NHL goal on his first career shot against the San Jose Sharks on 26 October. Following another reassignment to Milwaukee, Radulov remained on the Nashville roster for the rest of the 2006–07 season after he was recalled on 21 November 2006.
In Game 2 of the first round of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, Radulov was suspended for one game for his hit on San Jose forward Steve Bernier. Bernier was sent into the boards head first and lay motionless on the ice for three minutes, before being helped off by teammates Joe Thornton and Marcel Goc. Bernier, however, did not suffer any serious injury.
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Transfer dispute
On 11 July 2008, it was announced that although Radulov was still under contract with the Nashville Predators for one more season, he had signed a three-year contract with Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), which would be extended to four years. Radulov had previously notified the Predators organization of his desire to play in Russia, stating that he was being offered better conditions.
Immediately after the announcement, the Predators, NHL and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) all released statements emphasizing that Radulov's contract obligated him to play for the Predators through the 2008–09 season and that signing with a team in Russia was a direct violation of an agreement made the previous day between the NHL and all international hockey leagues to respect players' existing contracts. After the IIHF ordered that Ufa void Radulov's contract, Ilya Kochevrin, vice-president of the KHL, argued that Radulov was signed on 5 July, before the agreement was made on 10 July. While the contract remained disputed, the IIHF suspended Radulov from international play on 18 July as investigations continued, although the suspension was soon lifted.
Nashville management gave Radulov until 1 September to confirm his intention to remain with the team. They suspended him on 2 September without pay for the 2008–09 season.
Two Continental Cups
In his first year, the 2008–09 season with Salavat Yulaev Ufa, a 22-year-old Radulov would finish third on the team with 48 points in 52 games. The team would win the Continental Cup as regular season champions. In the playoffs, they would bow out in the first round, with Radulov earning two assists in four games.
In his second year, the 2009–10 season, Radulov would lead his team with 63 points in 54 games. The team would win a second straight Continental Cup, but in the playoffs, they would lose in the Eastern Conference Final to eventual champions Ak Bars Kazan in six games. Radulov led the team with 19 points in 16 games.
Radulov won his first Golden Stick Award as KHL regular season MVP, and made the season All-Star team. His 63 points placed him fourth in the league, three points away from league leader Sergei Mozyakin, who had played two more games. Radulov's plus-minus rating of +44 was second best in the league, behind teammate Patrick Thoresen's +45. Radulov finished the season tied second in assists (39) and tied for ninth in goals (24).
Gagarin Cup champion
In his third year, the 2010–11 season, Radulov would lead his team and all of the KHL with 80 points in 54 games. Salavat Yulaev Ufa would finish second in the league, with division rival Avangard Omsk winning the Continental Cup. In the playoffs, the pairing of Radulov and Thoresen would lead the team to a Gagarin Cup, with each of them scoring 18 points apiece over 21 games; each scored 3 goals and added 15 assists.
Radulov won his second Golden Stick Award as KHL regular season MVP and made the All-Star team again. His record-setting 80 points were 14 more than linemate Thoresen's 66 points and 19 more than Roman Červenka's 61 points for Avangard Omsk. Radulov finished the season first in assists, tied for 15th in goals, and tied for first in plus-minus rating (+27).
Final year
At the conclusion of the previous championship winning season, the contract of head coach Vyacheslav Bykov was expiring. At the time, Bykov also served as the head coach of the Russian national team, having held the post for the previous five years. Unfortunately, a poor showing for Russia at the 2011 IIHF World Championship, where the team finished without a medal for the first time under his tenure, prompted Salavat not to renew his contract with the club.
As a result, a number of important players left the club in the off season—Patrick Thoresen, Kirill Koltsov and Dmitri Kalinin all signed with mega club SKA Saint Petersburg. This led to the rehiring of head coach Sergei Mikhalev, who had coached the team in the 2008–09 season to a Continental Cup, with a record of 43–8–0–5. However, he was unable to replicate past results and was fired as head coach after 21 games, posting a result of 9–8–0–4.
This led to a third coach within the calendar year being named to the post: Vener Safin. As the team was struggling, more players were traded away, including Robert Nilsson and Jakub Klepiš, among others. The team would round out the season with a record of 21–10–0–2 and ultimately finish eighth in the league. In the playoffs, they would lose to Ak Bars Kazan in the first round, in six games.
In his final year, the 2011–12 season, Radulov would once again lead his team and all of the KHL, with 63 points in 50 games despite an overturned roster. In the playoffs, he would add six assists in six games. At season's end, Radulov won his third Golden Stick Award as KHL regular season MVP and made the All-Star team for the third time. He finished the season first in assists and tied for second in goals.
Return to Nashville
Following the end of Salavat Yulaev Ufa's 2011–12 season, on 12 March 2012, it was reported that paperwork was being finalized for Radulov to return to Nashville for the balance of the regular season and for the 2012 playoffs. Five days later, Radulov's agent Yuri Nikolaev confirmed Radulov was indeed returning to the NHL for Nashville's 22 March 2012, game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The day before his return, Radulov was presented his jersey at a press conference, where the Predators announced they had lifted his suspension from the team, finalizing his return. In his return to Nashville, Radulov scored the Predators' only goal in a 5–1 loss to the Penguins. He concluded the 2011–12 regular season with seven points (three goals and four assists) in nine games.
On 1 May 2012, Radulov and Predators teammate Andrei Kostitsyn were spotted at a Scottsdale, Arizona, bar at 5:00 AM the night before Game 2 of their second round playoff series against the Phoenix Coyotes, thus breaking team curfew. Both were subsequently suspended by Predators management for Game 3. Predators general manager David Poile said of the incident, "What they did was unacceptable and the coaches and myself had to come to the plate and do the right thing for the team. It happened. It's really unfortunate. It's selfish behaviour and we'll just have to leave it at that."
On 6 June 2012, the Predators announced that they would not be extending Radulov's contract, thus making him an unrestricted free agent.
CSKA Moscow
On 2 July 2012, Radulov signed a four-year contract with CSKA Moscow of the KHL worth an average annual value of $9.2 million. He would lead the KHL in points or finish runner up, in three of the four seasons of his contract: 2012–13 (second), 2014–15 (first) and 2015–16 (second).
The 2013–14 season would be filled with injuries, and Radulov would miss multiple stretches of games. He would go on to appear in only 34 games, while still putting up 34 points. He would also miss the playoffs, during which CSKA was eliminated in the first round.
In his third year, 2014–15, Radulov led his team to a Continental Cup. In the playoffs, CSKA reached the Conference Final of the Gagarin Cup, losing in Game 7 to the eventual champions SKA Saint Petersburg.
In his fourth and final season, 2015–16, Radulov led CSKA to a second-straight Continental Cup. In the playoffs, they once again met SKA Saint Petersburg in the Conference Final, eliminating them in four-straight games. However, CSKA would then fall short of their ultimate goal and lose Game 7 of the Gagarin Cup Final to champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk.
Montreal Canadiens
On 1 July 2016, Radulov returned to the NHL as a free agent, signing a one-year, $5.75 million contract with the Montreal Canadiens. Radulov assumed a scoring role on the top line of the Canadiens and went on to score 18 goals and 36 assists for 54 points in 76 games played.
Dallas Stars
On July 3, 2017, having been unable to agree to another contract with the Canadiens, Radulov signed with the Dallas Stars to a five-year, $31.25 million contract. With the Stars, Radulov reached the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning (2–4). However, the following seasons were plagued with an injury and a decrease of his point production, posting only 22 points in 71 games in the last year of his contract.
Ak Bars Kazan
On May 31, 2022, his agent announced his return to KHL, signing a two-year contract with Ak Bars Kazan. It was later announced officially by Ak Bars on 14 July 2022.
International play
Radulov has played for Russia since the junior youth level, earning silver medals in the 2005 and 2006 World Junior Championships. He made his full senior men's debut in the 2007 World Championships, claiming a bronze medal before capturing two golds at the 2008 and 2009 World Championships.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Radulov led Russia in goals (three) and points (six) in five games, though the team lost in the quarter-finals to Finland, ultimately finishing in fifth place.
Personal life
In May 2015, Radulov married rhythmic gymnast Darya Dmitriyeva. Their first child was born in November 2015. The pair divorced on June 7, 2017.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and achievements
KHL
Trophies
Gagarin Cup champion: 2011
Continental Cup winner: 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016
Golden Stick Award: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
AHL
Player of the week
Week 2: 10 October 2006 to 15 October 2006
CHL
Player of the week
Week 1: 1 November 2005
Week 21: 21 March 2006
Trophies
Memorial Cup: 2006
Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy: 2006
CHL Top Scorer Award: 2006
CHL Player of the Year: 2006
QMJHL
Player of the week
Week 6: 24 to 30 October 2005
Week 18: 23 to 29 January 2006
Week 23: 27 February to 5 March 2006
Week 25: 14 to 19 March 2006
Player of the month
February 2006
March 2006
Trophies
Jean Béliveau Trophy: 2006
Telus Trophy: 2006
Michel Brière Memorial Trophy: 2006
QMJHL First All-Star Team: 2006
Coupe Postes Canada for QMJHL: 2006
References
External links
RussianProspects.com Alexander Radulov Profile
1986 births
Living people
Ak Bars Kazan players
Dallas Stars players
HC CSKA Moscow players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Milwaukee Admirals players
Montreal Canadiens players
Nashville Predators draft picks
Nashville Predators players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Olympic ice hockey players for Russia
Quebec Remparts players
Russian expatriate ice hockey people
Russian ice hockey right wingers
Salavat Yulaev Ufa players
Sportspeople from Nizhny Tagil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Radulov |
Tâmega Subregion () is a former NUTS3 subregion, part of the NUTS2 region of Norte Region, Portugal. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. Its name derives from the Tâmega River that crosses through the subregion. With 558,000 inhabitants (2005) it is the fourth most populated subregion in Portugal. It has several important urban centers - Paços de Ferreira (pop. 41,000), Lousada (pop. 25,000), Penafiel (24,000), Paredes and Felgueiras (pop. 21,000) - being one of the most decentralized of the Portuguese subregions.
The chief city is Penafiel. Other important cities are: Amarante, Felgueiras, Freamunde, Gandra, Lixa, Marco de Canaveses, Paços de Ferreira, Paredes, Rebordosa and São Salvador de Lordelo.
Important towns: Baião, Cabeceiras de Basto, Castelo de Paiva (Sobrado), Cinfães, Lousada, Resende, Ribeira de Pena and Vila Meã.
The main economical activities are centered on light industry, furniture, agriculture and wine.
It covers an area of 2,631 km2 with a density of 212 inhabitants/km2.
Main rivers: Douro River, Tâmega River and Sousa River.
Municipalities
The 15 municipalities that comprise the subregion are:
Amarante
Baião
Cabeceiras de Basto
Castelo de Paiva
Celorico de Basto
Cinfães
Felgueiras
Lousada
Marco de Canaveses
Mondim de Basto
Paços de Ferreira
Paredes
Penafiel
Resende
Ribeira de Pena
References
Former NUTS 3 statistical regions of Portugal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2mega%20Subregion |
Rudolf Elias Peersen (28 April 1868 – 5 February 1949) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician.
Peersen was born in Kristiansand on 28 April 1868, the son of Jens P. Peersen and Tomine Margrethe Ommundsen. He studied law at the University of Kristiania from 1888 to 1892. He became active in politics on the left, both locally and nationally. He was a member of Kristiansand city council at various times from 1905 to 1945, including being mayor from 1938 to 1940 and again in 1945. He represented Kristiansand in the national parliament from 1913 to 1919, briefly serving as Minister of Defence for a few months in 1919. He served as a member of the parliament again from 1930 to 1936. He was a member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
References
1868 births
1949 deaths
Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people
Politicians from Kristiansand
Defence ministers of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Elias%20Peersen |
Treorchy Male Choir, also known as Treorchy Male Voice Choir, is a choir based in Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, United Kingdom.
History
Choirs have existed in the Rhondda Valley for more than a 150 years and Treorchy is one of the best known from the area. One of its first male choirs was formed in the Red Cow Hotel in the summer of 1883 and developed into a National Eisteddfod winner, culminating in a royal command performance for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1895. The choir would later disband after the South Wales Valleys suffered during the massive economic downturn of the Great Depression in the United Kingdom and two World Wars.
The present Treorchy Male Choir was reformed on October 16, 1946, under the baton of John Haydn Davies, who led the choir for 20 years. They reached musical distinction in the national Eisteddfod by gaining a record eight national wins, making a total of twenty-two first prizes out of twenty seven entries.
The Treorchy Male Choir is a registered charity. It has launched its own Junior Musician of the Year competition for children in the Rhondda area.
Recordings
Treorchy was to become the first male choir to venture into the field of popular music and subsequently the choir has made more than fifty commercial recordings. Their popular music production include an album of music by Freddie Mercury and Queen and two recordings of music by Bob Marley, but they have also recorded more classical works and became the first British choir to perform Sibelius’ Kullervo Symphony in Finnish.
Collaborations
The choir has performed together with various celebrities, in concerts, on recordings, and on television. Their collaborations include performances with Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Julie Andrews, Harry Secombe, Burt Bacharach, Shirley Bassey, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Ball, Katherine Jenkins, Iris Williams, Max Boyce, Bryn Terfel, Aled Jones, Charlotte Church, Ozzy Osbourne, Jon Bon Jovi, Cliff Richard, Andrea Bocelli, McFly, Russell Watson and Il Divo.
Tours
Since the early 1980s the choir has undertaken a number of overseas tours beginning with two visits to Canada and a performance in Strasbourg Cathedral for its congregation of almost 6,000 people. A series of four tours of the USA followed, with visits to the White House and performances in San Francisco, Denver, Seattle and the Mid West. Treorchy has also enjoyed a close connection with Australia, becoming the first Welsh choir to appear at the Sydney Opera House in 1986. The choir has made two further visits to Australia appearing in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne and also making a return to the Opera House in Sydney. In Britain, the choir has appeared on the Royal Variety Performance and has become a regular entertainer on the turf of the Millennium Stadium for various rugby union international games.
References
External links
Treorchy Male Choir website
BBC Wales profile
Welsh choirs
Musical groups established in 1883
Treorchy
1883 establishments in Wales | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treorchy%20Male%20Choir |
Louis Notari (Monaco, 1879–1961) was a Monégasque poet, who was the pioneer of Monégasque literature. He wrote in the French and Monégasque languages.
Principal writings
He wrote in 1931 the final version of the text of the Monaco national anthem and he is considered as the first writer in Monégasque; before him, there was just oral literature. He wrote three books:
A legenda de Santa Devota/Santa Devota (1927) -about the legend of Saint Devota.
Bülüghe munegasche (1941).
U Campanin de San Niculau
Quelques notes sur les traditions de Monaco (1960).
Notari's writing in Monégasque has led to a veritable flowering of literature published in the language. A grammar and a dictionary by Louis Frolla and numerous other works, including by Georges Franzi, Louis Barral and Suzanne Simone (dictionary) Louis Canis, Jules Soccal, Lazare Sauvaigo and Robert Buisson, combine to allow this small country's own language to take its visible and permanent place among the other Romance languages.
However, while a substantial proportion of Notari's work was religious in inspiration, Monégasque is probably unique among the Romance languages in that it possesses, as yet, no Bible translation.
Former fascist sympathies
In his researches in Monégasque identity, Notari got in touch in the 1930s with Italian academics sustaining regional languages for a Latin federation pledged to the fascist Italian government. In this way, he wrote a few poems celebrating Benito Mussolini.
In the post-War era, however, any fascist sympathies which Notari may once have held were not stressed.
Personal legacy
The decision by the late Prince Rainier III to sponsor Monégasque teachers in local schools owed much to the groundwork in promoting Monégasque which writers such as Notari and others laid. Louis Notari was also prominent in civil engineering in the Principality, and was noted for his work on Monaco's renowned exotic garden, which annually hosts large numbers of visitors from many countries.
His daughter Roxane became the first woman elected to the National Council in 1963.
A street in the suburb of La Condamine, Monaco, is named after Louis Notari. A library, the Bibliothèque Louis Notari, which serves as the national copyright library for Monaco, is also named after him.
Notes
Monegasque writers in French
Monegasque poets
1879 births
1961 deaths
National anthem writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Notari |
Fuenferrada is a town and municipality in Aragon, located in the comarca of Cuencas Mineras, in the province of Teruel. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 43 inhabitants, with an area of 24.22 km2 and a density of 1.77.
The municipality is 73 kilometres from Teruel, the provincial capital.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Teruel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuenferrada |
Pontanus may refer to:
a Latin pen name of the German Lutheran pastor Michael Brüggemann (1583 – 1654)
the Italian humanist Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, commonly known as Iovianus Pontanus
Johan Isaksson Pontanus, author of the 1631 Rerum danicarum historia
Pontanus (crater)
Pontanus (bug), see List of Tingini genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontanus |
Disfear is a Swedish crust punk band that formed in the early 1990s and recorded sporadically over the years. After releasing the albums Soul Scars in 1995 and Everyday Slaughter in 1997, the group did not release another album until 2003 with a 12-track album, Misanthropic Generation, featuring vocalist Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates and The Great Deceiver and Uffe Cederlund of Entombed. They later worked with Converge's Kurt Ballou for their album Live the Storm.
Bassist Henke Frykman died of cancer on 25 March 2011.
Influences
Tomas Lindberg has cited The Ramones, AC/DC, Motörhead, The Wipers, The Dead Boys, The Stooges, Jerry's Kids, Articles of Faith, and Uniform Choice as musical influences, as well as Michel Foucault as a conceptual influence. Other bands mentioned as inspirational include Discharge, Entombed, Turbonegro, Zeke, and Anti Cimex.
Members
Current members
Björn Peterson – guitar (1989–present)
Tomas Lindberg – vocals (1998–present)
Marcus Andersson – drums (1998–present)
Ulf Cederlund – guitar (2004–present)
Andreas Axelsson – bass (2014–present)
Former members
Henke Frykman – bass (1989–2011; died 2011)
Jeppe Lerjerud – vocals (1989–1998)
Jan Axelsson – drums (1989)
Jallo Lehto – drums (1989–1995)
Robin Wiberg – drums (1995–1998)
Discography
Disfear (1992)
A Brutal Sight of War (1993)
Disfear/Uncurbed split EP (1993)
Soul Scars (1995)
Everyday Slaughter (1997)
In Defence of Our Future, tribute to Discharge, contributing the song "Realities of War" (2001)
Misanthropic Generation (2003)
Powerload (2003; 7", Throne Records)
Split with ZEKE (2004; 7", Relapse Records)
Live the Storm (2008)
Split with Doomriders (2008)
References
External links
Swedish crust and d-beat groups
Relapse Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfear |
Kristian Friis Petersen (17 September 1867 – 5 April 1932) was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs 1914–1916 and Minister of Trade 1916–1919.
Kristian became a student from Ålesund Latin School in 1886. In 1891 he attended a Candidate of Law degree and then attended the Sorenskriver in Søre Sunnmøre until he began a business in Ålesund in 1893. When his father was appointed foe in Romsdal that same year, he was one of the years appointed police chief in Ålesund.
From 1918 to 1929 he was County Governor of Hordaland.
References
1867 births
1932 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian%20Friis%20Petersen |
Soundlab was a collective of artists, both sound and visual, that started in the East Village, New York City around the mid 1990s. The founding members were Howard Goldkrand, Beth Coleman and Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky. The collective included many musicians and artists from the Illbient scene including DJ Olive, Lloop, Dj Wally, A.K. Atoms, Kit Krash, Acoustyk aka MegMan, Lucy Walker and Tim Sweet.
The initial Soundlab events took place at David Linton's House of Ouch in Chinatown and then moving around to secret venues around the city including participation in The RV's Substation massive at Andy Warhol's old Factory space (being the last event ever held there).
Bands such as We, Byzar and Subdub were regular performers as well as Arto Lindsay, Vernon Reid, DJ Soulslinger, the Freight Elevator Quartet and Elliott Sharp.
Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.
References
American ambient music groups
American artist groups and collectives
Music venues in Manhattan
Musical collectives
American sound artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundlab |
Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj (4 November 1889 – 11 February 1942) was an Indian industrialist. He founded the Bajaj Group of companies in the 1920s, and the group now has 24 companies, including six that are listed on the bourses. He was also a close and beloved associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who is known to have often declared that Jamnalal was his fifth son.
Background and early life
Jamnalal Bajaj was born in 1889 into a poor family of Kaniram and Birdibai in a village named Kashi Ka Bas in Jaipur state. In 1894, Seth Bachharaj Bajaj, a rich Wardha businessman, and his family were going to Kashi Ka Bas village temple. They spotted young Jamnalal playing outside his home and were drawn to him. After much persuasion, Jamnalal was adopted as Seth Bajaj's grandson. In return, Bajaj installed a well in order to help the village.
Seth Bachhraj(bajaj) was a distant relative on his father's side, and was a well-known and respected trader in the British Raj.
Jamnalal was married at age twelve to JankiDevi, who was around nine years old.
Upon coming of age, under the tutelage of Seth Bachhraj, Jamnalal got involved in the family business of his adoptive family. During this period, he acquired the skills of being a tradesman, rigorous book keeping and buying and selling commodities. He excelled in his work by the time Seth Bachhraj died. In 1926, Jamnalal founded what would become the Bajaj group of industries.
Honorary Magistrate
During the First World War, the British government appeased and honoured native tradesmen, soliciting funds. They appointed Jamnalal an honorary magistrate. When he provided money for the war fund, they conferred on him the title of Rai Bahadur, a title he later surrendered during the non-co-operation movement of 1921.
Follower of Gandhi
Upon Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa, Jamnalal took in interest in Gandhi's way of life, his principles, such as Ahimsa (non-violence), and his dedication to the poor. He could understand Gandhi's vision that home-made goods were the answer to India's poverty. He considered that some British companies were importing cheap, raw cotton from India and sending back finished cloth. He was humbled by the simple life that Gandhi was leading at the Sabarmati Ashram. He was impressed by the Ashram's routine of prayer and physical work. He brought his wife Jankidevi and his children to live in the Ashram. However, this close relationship and his deep involvement in the independence movement did not leave Jamnalal Bajaj with much time to spend on his newly launched business venture.
Freedom struggle
In 1920, Jamanalal was elected chairman of the reception committee for the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress. He gave up the title of Rai Bahadur conferred on him by the British government and joined the non-co-operation movement in 1921. Later, in 1923, he participated in the flag satyagraha, defying a ban on flying the national flag in Nagpur, and was detained by British forces. This earned him national admiration.
He wanted Gandhi to move to Wardha and make it the center of his activities. After the Dandi March in April 1930, Gandhi moved to Sevagram, a small village near Wardha, since he wanted to live close to the rural populace. Gandhi vowed not to return to Sabarmati Ashram until freedom was achieved.
Jamanalal was named the president of Gandhi Seva Sangha, a group of workers who dedicated their time to constructive work. He was later elected a member of the Congress Working Committee and as the treasurer of Congress in 1933.
Social initiatives
Jamanalal Bajaj was interested in initiatives such as the removal of untouchability, promotion of Hindi, and Khadi and village Industries. He had toured across the country promoting Khadi. In 1925, he was chosen as the treasurer of the All India Spinners Association. He was also the president of the All India Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (literary convention) that promoted Hindi as the single language to unite all Indians. He was instrumental in publishing Hindi magazines and books. He initiated the Gandhi Hindi Pustak Bhandar (bookshop) in Bombay and started the Sasta Sahitya Mandal (publishing house).
He founded the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha along with C. Rajagopalachari in hopes of spreading the learning of Hindi across the country.
From 1927, he served as the first Treasurer of the Managing Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Later in 1928, he became a life member of the university, while still serving as the treasurer.
With the intent of eradicating untouchability, he fought the non-admission of Harijans into Hindu temples in his home town of Wardha. As orthodox Hindu priests and Brahmins objected, he opened his own family temple, the Laxmi Narayan Mandir, in Wardha, for the Harijans in 1928. He began a campaign by eating a meal with Harijans and opening public wells to them. He opened several wells in his fields and gardens.
Due to his devotion, he was elected the chief of the Jaipur Rajya Praja Mandal in 1938. While chief, he negotiated a truce between the Maharajas of Sikar and Jaipur.
In honour of his social initiatives the Jamnalal Bajaj Award has been instituted by the Bajaj Foundation. Past awardees include Nelson Mandela and Desmund Tutu.
Business interests
Besides Bajaj Auto Ltd, the other major companies in the group include Mukand Ltd, Bajaj Electricals Ltd and Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd. One of his grandsons, Rahul Bajaj, ran the family flagship company, Bajaj Auto.
Legacy and memorials
Several institutions in India bear his name, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. A locality, JB Nagar, in the sub-urban Andheri in Mumbai has been named after him. Jamnalal Bajaj Award was established in 1978 by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation and are given away each year on his birth anniversary.
References
Further reading
In Gandhi's Footsteps : The Life and Times of Jamnalal Bajaj by B. R. Nanda, Oxford University Press, USA.
External links
of the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation
1880s births
1942 deaths
Indian industrialists
Rajasthani people
Indian independence activists from Rajasthan
Indian humanitarians
People from Sikar district
Indian Hindus
20th-century Indian philanthropists
Bajaj Group
Indian National Congress politicians
Rai Bahadurs
Businesspeople from Rajasthan
Jamnalal
Gandhians
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The Strand Station, also referred to as Auckland Strand Station, is a railway station located on the eastern edge of the Auckland CBD. It serves as the long-distance railway station for Auckland. It is the northern terminus of the Northern Explorer service between Auckland and Wellington, and the northern terminus for the Te Huia service. Suburban services are not scheduled to pass through the station, however, it serves as a backup for Britomart Transport Centre during times of disruption.
The platforms were formerly part of the Auckland Railway Station complex which was opened in 1930 on Beach Road, replacing the previous railway terminus which was on the Queen Street site where Britomart now stands. The 1930 station was the third to serve as the rail terminus for Auckland, and remained the sole station serving the CBD until its closure in July 2003, when Britomart became the new terminus. The original Platform 7 (now referred to as Platform 1) was retained for limited use as 'The Strand Station', named after the adjacent street. It continued to be used by a limited number of peak-hour suburban trains for a few months following the opening of Britomart. After this, the sole used platform served as a limited-use station for excursions and charters, though it and the other abandoned platforms fell into a state of disrepair. In August 2011, the original Platform 7 and Platform 6 (now referred to as Platform 2) were redeveloped and officially reopened for potential use during Rugby World Cup 2011, although they were never used for that purpose. These platforms were used for Northern Explorer services from December 2015 until December 2021.
History
Auckland Railway Station
Refurbishment
Between 2003 and 2011, the platforms had deteriorated into a decrepit state. All of the platforms had been shortened for the Britomart Curve, sections of removed track were stacked up on top of each other adjacent to the platforms, and grass and weeds covered most of the site.
In 2011, two platforms were upgraded by Auckland Transport to prepare them for use as an alternative to Britomart for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In a $1.7 million project, the canopies were removed from two platforms, with a small section left behind for historic purposes, and the canopies on the other platforms were also left standing due to their heritage value. The platforms were resurfaced, and amenities such as lighting and a public address system were installed.
The platforms did not end up being used during the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but they continued to serve as a potential backup station for Britomart during disruptions.
During 2013, stabling facilities were constructed in the disused part of the station, to the north of the refurbished platforms. The stabling yard, officially called the Strand Distributed Stabling Facility, is designed to hold trains when they are not in service. In 2014, the station was fully electrified as part of Auckland's railway electrification project. In December 2015, the station became the terminus of Auckland's sole long-distance passenger train service, the Northern Explorer which ran between Auckland and Wellington, following the shift of its Auckland terminus from Britomart. As the Northern Explorer had become the only diesel service still using Britomart, its operator KiwiRail was requested by Auckland Transport to fund an upgrade to the diesel extraction fans at the underground station, but KiwiRail decided it would be more cost-efficient to cease serving Britomart and move the Northern Explorer terminus to The Strand instead.
Current use
The Strand is occasionally used for excursion trains and is also available as a backup station for Britomart in case of disruptions. Since electrification, part of the station has been used as a stabling facility. Platform 8 restaurant occupies the foyer of the 1930 station.
Te Huia extends to The Strand on Saturdays from 24 July 2021. It was extended to The Strand on weekdays from 24 January 2022, much earlier than an earlier 2024 proposal, contingent on the Third Main Line project being sufficiently advanced. It may also run on Sundays and public holidays after year 4 or 5; once track access in the Auckland area is not required on Sundays for key rail projects.
Future
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the local iwi who owns much of the land in the area of the station, states on their masterplan for the area the wish for the station to be renamed Te Tōangaroa, the traditional name of Mechanics Bay, the reclaimed bay in which the station is located.
Proposals have also involved or inferred the return of suburban trains to The Strand, though this would entail moving the station further east or building new platforms on the tracks between Quay Park Junction and Britomart. In this case Eastern Line trains would call at The Strand/Te Tōangaroa station.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
Britomart Transport Centre
References
External links
Auckland's new Railway Station (1927 article in NZR magazine)
Photographs of Auckland Railway Station held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.
1928 photo of Breakwater Rd goods shed about to open.
Rail transport in Auckland
Buildings and structures in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand
Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in the Auckland Region
Railway stations opened in 1930
Railway stations closed in 2003
Gummer and Ford buildings and structures
1930s architecture in New Zealand
Auckland CBD
Parnell, New Zealand
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strand%20Station |
Jakob Martin Pettersen (11 April 1899 – 8 February 1970) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and Minister of Transport and Communications 1952–1955.
Born in Bergen to a factory worker and his wife, Pettersen studied chemistry at Bergen tekniske skole (now part of Bergen University College). He started working in Odda in 1921; from 1924 to 1945 he worked as a chemist at Odda Smelteverk.
In 1928, he became a member of the municipal council of Odda and he served as vice-mayor from 1932 to 1940. He was elected mayor in 1945 and held the position to 1947.
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1945 and served to 1965; from 1959 as vice-president of Odelstinget. From 1952 to 1955, he was Minister of Transport and Communications.
He held leadership and other elected positions in several temperance organisations.
References
1899 births
1970 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Bergen University College alumni
20th-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Martin%20Pettersen |
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's major newspapers and is owned by WEHCO Media, Inc., a diversified communications company with ownership in 14 daily newspapers, 11 weekly newspapers and 13 cable television companies in six states.
History
Chattanooga Times
The Chattanooga Times was first published on December 15, 1869, by the firm Kirby & Gamble. In 1878, 20-year-old Adolph Ochs borrowed money and bought half interest in the struggling morning paper. Two years later when he assumed full ownership, it cost him $5,500. In 1892, the paper's staff moved to the Ochs Building on Georgia Avenue at East Eighth Street, which is now the Dome Building. In 1896, Ochs entrusted the management of the paper to his brother-in-law Harry C. Adler when he purchased The New York Times (circulation 20,000). Ochs remained publisher of the Chattanooga Times. Ochs' slogan, "To give the news impartially, without fear or favor" remains affixed atop the paper's mast today. The Times was controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family until 1999.
Chattanooga Free Press
In 1933, Roy Ketner McDonald launched a free Thursday tabloid, delivered door to door, featuring stories, comics, and advertisements for his stores. Three years later, circulation had hit 65,000 per week, making some ad revenue. On August 31, the paper began publishing as an evening daily with paid subscriptions. One year later, the Free Press circulation reached 33,000, within reach of another p.m. competitor, The Chattanooga News (circulation 35,000). McDonald acquired The Chattanooga News from George Fort Milton Jr. in December 1939, when the majority bondholders of the News, specifically Milton's step-mother Abby Crawford Milton, and her three children, acted on a technical missed payment deadline of bond payment obligations—allowing them to foreclose on the paper. Despite heroic sacrifice and fundraising by George Fort Milton and his employees, payments to the creditors were rejected as they had already agreed to sell the paper to Roy McDonald, publisher of the rival Free Press, for $150,000. McDonald then appropriated the News name to prevent Milton from using it, and the Free Press became the News-Free Press. In their guide to writing, The Elements of Style, William Strunk and E. B. White used the paper as an illustration of comically misleading punctuation, noting that the hyphen made it sound "as though the paper were news-free, or devoid of news."
Competition and agreement
By 1941, News-Free Press daily circulation reached 51,600, surpassing the Times, with 50,078. In competition, the Times began an evening newspaper competitor, the Chattanooga Evening Times. One year later, however, the competing newspapers joined business and production operations, while maintaining separate news and editorial departments. The Times ceased publishing in the evening and the News-Free Press dropped its Sunday edition. The two shared offices at 117 E. 10th St.
Twenty-four years later, McDonald withdrew from the agreement. He bought the Davenport Hosiery Mills building at 400 E. 11th St. in 1966, and competition resumed between the two papers. The News-Free Press was the first paper in the nation to dissolve a joint operating agreement. That August, the day after the News-Free Press resumed Sunday publication, the Times responded with an evening newspaper: the Chattanooga Post. On Feb. 25, 1970, the Post ceased publication after the U.S. filed an anti-trust suit against the paper. The News-Free Press gave Chattanooga its first full-color newspaper photos.
Each newspaper won a single Pulitzer Prize. In 1956, Charles L. Bartlett of the Washington Bureau of The Chattanooga Times won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for articles leading to the resignation of the secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott. In 1977, staff photographer Robin Hood of the Chattanooga News-Free Press received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. The photo was of legless Vietnam veteran Eddie Robinson in his wheelchair watching a rained-out parade in Chattanooga with his tiny son on his lap.
When business declined for the News-Free Press, 14 employees mortgaged their homes to help keep the newspaper afloat. In the late 1970s, Walter E. Hussman Jr., the 31-year-old publisher of the Arkansas Democrat, approached McDonald for counsel regarding a bitter struggle with the Arkansas Gazette. In 1980, the Times and the News-Free Press entered into a new joint operating agreement. In 1990, after leading the paper for 54 years, McDonald died at age 88. Three years later, the paper returned to its original name: the Chattanooga Free Press.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
In 1998, Hussman bought the Free Press. A year later, he bought the Times as well and merged the two papers. The first edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press was published on January 5, 1999. The Times Free Press runs two editorial pages: one staunchly liberal, the other staunchly conservative, reflecting the editorial leanings of the Times and Free Press, respectively. The Tennessee Press Association recognized the Times Free Press as the best newspaper in Tennessee in 2002. One year later, Editor and Publisher magazine named the Times Free Press as one of 10 newspapers in the United States "doing it right". The newspaper has subscribers in southeastern Tennessee and northern Georgia. On Monday, April 14, 2014, the Chattanooga Times Free Press was named a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Speak No Evil." In 2017, the newspaper was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for "The Poverty Puzzle."
Website
When the Chattanooga Times Free Press launched its website in 2004, the site was only accessible to paid subscribers and featured only a handful of section pages and links. Four years later, in early 2008, the redesigned online presence of timesfreepress.com debuted, with an emphasis on breaking news, video and multimedia. The site features all local content in the paper, an online edition of the news product, and classified ads, as well. In late 2010, the newspaper launched "Right 2 Know", an online database of police mugshots, salaries of government employees, and a map of shootings in Hamilton County, but in August 2020, the newspaper removed the database, noting that the information published rarely met the newspaper's editorial standard of newsworthiness.
Other publications
The Times Free Press is also responsible for several other niche publications:
Chatter – a monthly magazine launched in 2008 with feature stories from around the area
"Get Out" – a monthly magazine focused on everything outdoor in Chattanooga and the surrounding area
"Edge" – a monthly magazine focused on local business
Noticias Libres – a free weekly Spanish language paper distributed around the Chattanooga area
ChattanoogaNow – a weekend publication distributed in every Thursday's Times Free Press that covers music, movies, dining and arts
"Dining Out" – a weekly publication focused on food and restaurants
Current and past publishers and contributors
Jeff Deloach, immediate past president
Charles L. Bartlett, reporter, Washington bureau, The Chattanooga Times, 1946–1962. Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting, 1956, for articles leading to the resignation of Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott.
Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist, combined papers, 2007–. Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning in 2002 at the Christian Science Monitor.
Bill Dedman, copy boy, copy editor, reporter for The Chattanooga News-Free Press and then The Chattanooga Times, 1977–1983. Pulitzer Prize winner, investigative reporting, 1989.
J. Todd Foster, editor, combined papers, 2010–2011. Editor of the Bristol Herald-Courier when it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Tom Griscom, executive editor and publisher, combined papers, 1999–2010.
Ruth Holmberg, publisher, The Chattanooga Times. Granddaughter of Adolph Ochs, and mother of author Arthur Golden and Michael Golden, publisher of the International Herald Tribune.
Robin Hood, photographer, The Chattanooga News-Free Press, 1970s. Pulitzer Prize winner for feature photography, 1977.
Roy McDonald, publisher, The Chattanooga Free Press and later The Chattanooga News-Free Press, 1933–1990.
Jon Meacham, reporter, The Chattanooga Times, 1991–1992. Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, 2009.
Albert Hodges Morehead, reporter, The Chattanooga Times, c. 1930.
Alan Murray, reporter, The Chattanooga Times, c. 1977. Assistant managing editor and columnist, The Wall Street Journal.
Adolph Ochs, publisher, The Chattanooga Times, 1878–1935. Later publisher of The New York Times. Died on a visit to Chattanooga.
Julius Ochs Adler, president and publisher, The Chattanooga Times. General manager of The New York Times.
See also
List of newspapers in Tennessee
References
External links
Newspapers published in Tennessee
Mass media in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1869 establishments in Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga%20Times%20Free%20Press |
The Morriston Orpheus Choir (), based in Morriston, near Swansea, Wales, is a male voice choir, one of the best-known in the UK.
History
The Choir was formed on April 23, 1935, by Ivor E. Sims and in its early days concentrated primarily on competitions and local concerts. In 1937, the Choir achieved its first success at the Royal National Eisteddfod in Machynlleth, going on to win at the "National" on six further occasions. The choir does not presently sing in competitions, preferring to concentrate on concert performances.
Over the years, successive musical directors have developed and broadened the repertoire. Variety is now the hallmark of the Choir's performances which include arrangements by Alwyn Humphreys M.B.E., musical director from 1979 to January 2005 and now the Choir's Conductor Emeritus. In 2005 the Choir appointed its first female Musical Director Sian Pearce to replace Alwyn Humphreys who had decided to retire after serving the Choir since 1979. Sian left the Choir in 2007 and Joy Amman Davies, who in 2004 had been made a Life Member of the Choir in recognition of her outstanding contribution and commitment as accompanist, was appointed musical director. After over a decade in the role Joy Amman Davies retired in August 2021, and after a competitive interview and selection process was succeeded by Conal Bembridge-Sayers.
The Choir enjoys an international reputation as a leading exponent of male choral singing. Within the United Kingdom the Choir is in constant demand with around 25 engagements a year, including concerts, TV and after-dinner performances. The Choir regularly undertakes concert tours overseas and in 2004 undertook two tours to Taiwan and to Abu Dhabi and Oman. In April 2007 the Choir returned to the UAE, performing in Dubai en route to a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. In October 2008 the Choir visited Geneva to perform a charity concert. During their stay they also visited and sang in the control room of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Highlights of previous overseas tours have included four appearances at British Military Tattoos and Concerts in the former West Berlin, participating at the International Choral Festivals in Nancy, France, and Toronto in Canada, representing Wales at Expo '92 in Seville, Spain, and becoming in 1996, the first British choir to perform at the International Choral Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The Choir has performed in all the major cities of Australia and New Zealand and received standing ovations at their appearances at the world famous Sydney Opera House. In October 2001, the Independent on Sunday reported that the Choir received "five standing ovations" at the Carnegie Hall in New York City. In the Spring of 2018 the Choir conducted a week-long tour of Vienna and Kraków, singing in St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna among other venues.
In Wales and the UK the Choir has performed in a variety of venues ranging from chapels and village halls to cathedrals and concert halls. It appears regularly in Swansea at the famous Brangwyn Hall in the city centre, as well as the newer Great Hall, at Swansea University's Bay Campus.
The Choir features regularly on TV. It has produced over 50 recordings and feature in more than 100 compilation albums. Successful ventures into the "pop" world have included recordings with T'Pau, the Welsh group The Alarm, and most recently Howard Jones.
With 2020 marking the Choir's 85th year, a busy schedule of events had been planned, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the choir ceased performances and rehearsals for the first time in its history. With assistance from Swansea University however the choir has been able to restart rehearsals online, which has been the subject of features on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Cymru, and BBC Wales Today.
MOCSA
The Choir has a long-standing policy of encouraging young Welsh singers through an annual competition organised by the Morriston Orpheus Choir Supporters' Association (MOCSA). The Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition has been running for over 40 years, and previous winners include Rebecca Evans and Sir Bryn Terfel
References
External links
Morriston Orpheus website
BBC Wales feature on the Morriston Orpheus Choir
Musical groups established in 1935
Music in Swansea
Welsh choirs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morriston%20Orpheus%20Choir |
Oddrunn Kristine Helene Pettersen (5 March 1937 – 30 November 2002) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party who served as Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs from April to October 1989, and Minister of Fisheries from 1990 to 1992.
References
1937 births
2002 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddrunn%20Pettersen |
Antiochia ad Cragum () also known as Antiochetta or Latin: Antiochia Parva (meaning "Little Antiochia") is an ancient Hellenistic city on Mount Cragus overlooking the Mediterranean coast, in the region of Cilicia, in Anatolia. In modern-day Turkey the site is encompassed in the village of Güneyköy, District of Gazipaşa, Antalya Province.
The city was founded by Antiochus IV Epiphanes around 170 BC. It minted coins from the mid-first to the mid-third centuries, the last known of which were issued under Roman Emperor Valerian. The city became part of the kingdom of Lesser Armenia in the 12th century. In 1332, the Knights Hospitallers took the city, after which it was known variously as Antiochetta, Antiocheta, Antiocheta in Rufine (Papal bull of Pope John XXII), and Antiochia Parva.
Some scholars claim an identity of Antiochia ad Cragum with the city Cragus (Kragos), or although it lies more than 100 km away, with Sidyma, which some scholars assert was the Lycian Cragus (Kragos).
Ruins of the city remain, and include fortifications, baths, chapels, the Roman necropolis, a wine press, and the largest Roman mosaic found in Turkey.
In 2018, latrine mosaics with dirty jokes about Narcissus and Ganymede were discovered in Antiochia ad Cragum, and in 2019, a large pool mosaic was discovered near the city.
Bishopric
In Byzantine times, Antiochia Parva was the seat of an episcopal see of the Roman province of Isauria in the Diocese of the East. It was part of the Patriarchate of Antioch and was suffragan of the Archbishopric of Seleucia.
The five known ancient bishops of this diocese were:
Antonius took part in the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
Theodosius in the First Council of Constantinople in 381.
Acacius was among the fathers of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
Zacharias took part in the Trullan Council of 692
Theophanes finally witnessed the council held in Constantinople in 879–880 that rehabilitated the patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antiochia Parva is no longer a residential bishopric. It is today listed as a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The seat is vacant since April 11, 1964. It was held previously by:
Jacques-Eugène Louis Ménager (June 23, 1955 – December 7, 1961)
André-Jean-Marie Charles de la Brousse (January 26, 1962 – April 11, 1964)
Notes
References
Populated places established in the 2nd century BC
Archaeological sites in Antalya Province
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Seleucid colonies in Anatolia
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Ruins in Turkey
Antiochia Parva
Former populated places in Cilicia
Populated places in ancient Cilicia
Gazipaşa District
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Ross University may refer to:
Ross University School of Medicine, a medical school offering the Doctor of Medicine degree
Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary school in St. Kitts offering the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20University |
Frederik Christian Stoud Platou (17 February 1811 – 23 June 1891) was a Norwegian legal scholar, Supreme Court justice, district stipendiary magistrate and politician.
Personal life
He was born in Christiania as a son of educator, professor, politician and State Secretary Ludvig Stoud Platou (1749–1815) and his wife Karen Lumholtz (1785–1833). He was a maternal grandson of Nicolai Lumholtz and brother of Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou, and through the latter an uncle of Valborg Platou and Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou. He was a granduncle of Carl Platou.
In July 1844 in Kråkstad he married the vicar's daughter, Constance Henriette Reiersen (1820–1893). They had a son, Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou, and their daughter Mimi married Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou.
Career
He graduated from the university with the cand.jur. degree in 1839. In 1842 he started holding lectures at the university, and in the same year, when Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt became a Supreme Court Assessor, Platou was hired as a lecturer of jurisprudence from June 1843. In 1849 he was promoted to professor, although there was a vote of dissent in the government—some wanted Frans Christian Faye to advance from lecturer to professor of medicine instead. The dissent went to the Parliament of Norway in 1851, but no change was made. He published little; only one noteworthy book, Om Besiddelse efter norsk Ret ("On Possession after Norwegian Law") in 1863. He also participated in ad hoc law commissions. In 1877 he received an honorary degree at Uppsala University.
From 1862 to 1864 he was a Supreme Court Assessor, but after 1864 he was only extraordinary Assessor in some cases at the same time as being district stipendiary magistrate in Nes District Court. His son Oscar was deputy judge here from 1870 to 1871. Platou was acting Auditor General of Norway from 1873 to 1874, and participated as Minister of Auditing in three interim governments: first
during King Oscar II's travel in Germany from May to June 1875; then during King Oscar II's travel in Russia in July 1875; then during the King's and the Crown Prince's travel in Russia in September 1881. Christian Selmer was also a part of the first two of these interim governments.
In 1883–1884 Platou was an acting Supreme Court Assessor, and was a part of the Impeachment case against Selmer's Cabinet. Together with the other assessors he voted against the impeachment of Selmer and the entire cabinet, and as such he lost the case.
After 1884 he worked in the high court of the Diocese of Kristiania, where he was transferred because his hearing was deteriorating. He died in June 1891 in Kristiania.
References
1811 births
1891 deaths
Judges from Oslo
Norwegian civil servants
Norwegian legal scholars
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Supreme Court of Norway justices
Government ministers of Norway
Frederik Christian Stoud
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik%20Christian%20Stoud%20Platou |
StarTomorrow was an online-only musical talent search created by NBC and music executive Tommy Mottola produced by 25/7 Productions in association with CenterStaging and Rehearsals.Com.
History
NBC announced that it would air StarTomorrow in February 2006. Mottola severed his relationship with the show in June 2006, and producer David Foster was brought in. The prize was subsequently changed from a recording contract with Mottola's Casablanca Records to a contract with Foster's label.
Hosted by Michele Merkin, StarTomorrow premiered on NBC and NBC.com on July 31, 2006, when a one-hour show about the auditions aired on NBC. In a format similar to American idol, 92 bands competed in weekly head-to-head competition, and bands that won were then given the chance to compete in the competition's second round.
The show finale was in November 2006 and was eventually won by award-winning artist, Cindy Alexander. However, the show's contract was so bad that none of the Top 5 (Cindy Alexander, Bob Gentry, Brooke Ramel, Hydra FX, Blake Cody) bands signed. NBC officially ceased production on March 26, 2007.
Judges
Travis Barker
Mick Fleetwood
David Foster
Billy Gibbons
Rob Tannenbaum
Partial list of contestants
Round One
Week one winners
Aruna
Red Letter
Tim Corley
Far From Nowhere
Marissa Ponticorvo
Next Phase
Jeff Coffey
UNIQ
Big Toe
Mili Mili
Tubby
Week two winners
Stella's Notch
Mike Corrad
Cedric Thomas
Tubby
Blake Cody
Sharif
Bob Gentry
Another Found Self
This is Danica
Broken Pony
Men in Black
Shaley Scott
Week three winners
Tony B
Blake Cody
d Henry Fenton
Nikko
Scarlet Crush
The Blue Sky Traffic
Melodee Lynn Holsinger
Tubby
Kings of Spain
The Dre Allen Project
HydraFX
Week four winners
Malia Star
Jonalee White
Blake Cody
David Reavis and Kenny Kallam
Loose Chains
Slapdash Graduate
Dig Jelly
Pete Hopkins
Tubby
Tasha Taylor and the Band
Week five winners
Warren Beaumont
Michelle Andria
The Sexies
Rob Perez
Cindy Alexander
Tubby
Brooke Ramel
Horny Toad
Aria Johnson
Week six winners
Big Toe
Jonalee White
Slapdash Graduate
Pete Hopkins
Tony B
Red Letter
Tubby
The Blue Sky Traffic
Marissa Ponticorvo
Other weeks
Sheila E.
Mick Jones
References
External links
StarTomorrow
StarTomorrow Afterparty Hosts performances by eliminated contestants.
Star Tomorrow Mania
American music television series
American non-fiction web series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTomorrow |
Souleymane Adama Diamouténé (born 30 January 1983) is a Malian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Diamouténé was born in Sikasso. He spent his professional career in Italy, moving in the country after being noted by an Udinese scout. He then trained with the zebrette under-19 squad for a few months between 1999 and 2000, without being officially signed. After a friendly against Pisa, he was spotted by Francesco D'Arrigo, the head coach of the nerazzurri, who successfully signed him with his next club, Serie C1's Lucchese. Diamouténé spent two seasons with Lucchese, and in 2003 he was signed by Perugia.
In 2004, Diamouténé joined U.S. Lecce, becoming a mainstay of the salentini under coach Zdenek Zeman. He played two seasons in Serie A (2004–05, 2005–06) and two in Serie B (2006–07, 2007–08). He was confirmed with Lecce for the 2008–09 season, the first one back in the top flight for his club, but in January 2009, he was loaned to Roma with a pre-set price of €3.15M as a replacement for outgoing Christian Panucci.
On 31 August 2009, Diamouténé joined Bari on a loan deal.
On 10 February 2012, it was announced that Diamouténé had signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Bulgarian A PFG club Levski Sofia. He was handed the number 25 shirt. On 23 May 2012, Diamouténé scored his first goal for Levski in a 7–0 win over PFC Svetkavitsa. In August 2016, he joined Maltese club Gżira United.
International career
At youth level, Diamouténé played at the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship.
He represented the Mali national team at the 2004 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia, the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana and the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
Career statistics
Club
International
Score and result list Mali's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Diamouténé goal.
Honours
Perugia
Intertoto Cup: 2003
References
External links
Profile at Football.it
Profile at LevskiSofia.info
1983 births
Living people
People from Sikasso
Men's association football defenders
Malian men's footballers
Malian expatriate men's footballers
Mali men's international footballers
2004 African Cup of Nations players
2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
2010 Africa Cup of Nations players
Lucchese 1905 players
AC Perugia Calcio players
US Lecce players
AS Roma players
SSC Bari players
Fidelis Andria 2018 players
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
PFC Levski Sofia players
Lupa Roma FC players
ASD Nuova Igea Virtus players
Gżira United F.C. players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Serie D players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Maltese Premier League players
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Malta
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
21st-century Malian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souleymane%20Diamout%C3%A9n%C3%A9 |
CutePDF is a proprietary Portable Document Format converter and editor for Microsoft Windows developed by Acro Software. CutePDF Writer can create PDF files, and CutePDF Form Filler can edit simple PDF forms so that they can be sent without using more expensive PDF authoring software.
CutePDF can convert documents, images, and text. The software installs itself as a printer subsystem.
Reception
Chip rated it 4 of out 5 stars. It has been recommended by Tech Republic (October 9, 2003), The Washington Post (May 2, 2009), and PC World (February 13, 2014).
Controversy
In several historical versions, CutePDF bundles adware with its download.
Freeware Genius, in "The best freeware virtual PDF printer: a comparison" (June 16, 2011), wrote: "The virtual printers that we tried but decided to exclude from the comparison were Bolt PDF Printer, CutePDF Writer, ImagePrinter, pdf995, PDFlite and Primo PDF, mainly because they were inferior by functionality, configurability, or ease of use. Some (e.g. Primo PDF and CutePDF) were removed from the list for privacy considerations as they contain adware/spyware components." As of 19 June 2016, the installer attempts to install the Ask web browser toolbar, notorious for browser hijacking, and the OpenCandy adware.
See also
List of PDF software
References
External links
Desktop publishing software
PDF software
Windows-only freeware | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CutePDF |
Rolf Presthus (29 July 1936 – 1 January 1988) was a Norwegian politician and lawyer, who was chairman of the Norwegian Conservative Party from 1986 to 1988.
Presthus served as Minister of Finance 1981–1986, and Minister of Defence in 1986. He was a member of parliament from Akershus from 1969 to 1988, and mayor of Oppegård from 1968 to 1969.
At the Conservative party conference in 1987 he became the first Norwegian politician to use a teleprompter during a speech. He received widespread criticism and accusations, both for cheating and contributing to the Americanization of Norwegian politics.
Presthus died in Oslo at the age of 51 on 1 January 1988, due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
References
1936 births
1988 deaths
Members of the Storting
Ministers of Finance of Norway
Leaders of the Conservative Party (Norway)
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Defence ministers of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Presthus |
Mary Losseff (also Mara Loseff); (13 March 1907, Vladivostok – 3 July 1972, London) was a Russian-born British singer and film actress.
Life and career
Losseff was the stage, screen and life partner of the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber from 1929 to the mid-1930s, and Tauber's close friend until his death in 1948. She was the muse for his 1934 operetta Der singende Traum and his three songs titled An eine schöne Frau, and she also starred opposite him in numerous productions. She made commercial recordings of one solo (Peter, Peter) and several duets with Tauber. She co-starred in four films: The Land of Smiles (1930), Liebeskommando (1931), Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (1935) and The Sky’s the Limit (1938). Her voice was a high, light and sweet soprano – not big or great, but charming, true and technically assured.
Losseff's early life was comfortable. Her father owned a factory and the family were relatively well off. With the October Revolution, however, the family were forced to flee to Japan, where they remained for two years, surviving because of the father's They then moved on to Berlin in 1921. Little is known of this period except that Mary bore an illegitimate child, Dimitri, in 1927. This did not affect her plans to make a career on the stage. She took lessons from Bertha Niklas-Kempner and sent Dimitri to boarding school from the age of three for the whole of his childhood. She made her debut at Rudolf Nelson’s Review in 1929, singing ‘Peter, Peter’. This period is described by her then-lover, the pianist and composer Peter Kreuder, in his book Nur Puppen habe keine Tränen.
Tauber was in the audience at the Nelson Review and fell in love with Mary, and her voice, at first sight; he felt that she was the singer for whom he had long been searching to star in his planned operetta Der singende Traum. Initially through his influence, she secured major roles in several productions, including Paul Abraham's Viktoria und ihr Husar, Karl Millöcker's Die Dubarry, Jaromír Weinberger's Frühlingsstürme, Franz Lehár’s Paganini, Abraham's Ball im Savoy, Emmerich Kálmán’s Gräfin Maritza and of course Der singende Traum. She received critical acclaim, indicating that Tauber's faith was justified. At this time, Mary and Richard were considered a couple, and were expected to marry.
However, by 1933, Richard had been hounded from Germany, because his father was Jewish. Mary stayed by his side; they went first to Vienna and then to London. Mary took part in some London productions, but never quite hit it off with British audiences. She had also started drinking heavily, which affected her ability to perform. Domestically and professionally, Mary declined rapidly. Richard detested alcohol, and the nature of the relationship changed. When he married the non-singing British actress Diana Napier in 1936, Mary was devastated and began drinking even more heavily. Mary's last major role was in the South African production of Tauber's Land of Smiles in 1939, but during this tour she was replaced by her understudy Jose Malone. Richard was astonishingly loyal to her until his death. Many of his 60-odd letters repeat the same refrain: 'I wish that everything could have been different'. He also carried on giving Mary a weekly allowance and sending her additional money through the post whenever he could. Despite Richard's never-wavering constancy and repeated attempts to persuade her to stop drinking, Mary virtually disappeared from public performance, barring the occasional concert fixed up by friends. The last documented appearances by her were at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens in 1950.
Mary married the actor Brian Buchel in 1938 but the marriage did not succeed, and they separated long before divorce was granted in 1947. She moved to Exmouth in 1943, without Brian, then back to London to a flat in Queensway, Bayswater, in 1944 and remained there on and off until 1948, the year of Richard's death. She also bought a farm in Ireland, which was run by her son Dimitri and which she occasionally visited. She tried to bring her mother, brother and sister to Ireland and to England, but failed, and indeed she never saw her family again. After Richard died, her financial circumstances became desperate for a while, but she found a new partner by the name of Charles Holt, and when that relationship ended, lived with a Willy Bolt in Exmouth. Her National Registration Identity card gives her address as Bryn Cottage, Malltraeth, Anglesey in 1951, and in the same year she married Hugh J Owen in Anglesey. There is no record of a divorce, but by 1955, she was back in London, living in Acton and then Ealing. (There is no evidence that she lived at any time in Soho, sharing a room with a labourer who used the room by day which she used by night, as Diana Napier Tauber claimed.) In 1959, she met Vassia Myronovsky and moved into his house in the Hammersmith district of London, where she stayed until her death of cancer of the lung in July 1972.
Mary possessed a loving, homely quality until her old age, although her alcoholism gave rise to a terrible instability. She remained in touch with her son. He never forgave her for withholding information about his father, but later ancestry DNA tests of her grandchildren reveal that the unnamed father of Dimitri was 'central European Jewish', which casts her silence into a different light. She was extremely moved when her grandchildren were born. Her constant drinking and difficult behaviour became too much for Vassia in the end and their relationship deteriorated; during her terminal illness, she was tended by her daughter-in-law. She was cremated at North East Surrey Crematorium in Sutton, Surrey, where her ashes are interred.
Discography
‘Peter, Peter’ (part of ‘Das spricht Bände’). Recorded 1929. Available on Bei uns um die Gedächtniskirche rum… Berlin Cabaret (Edel 0014532TLR, 1996). CD 2, track 6.
‘Frühling in der Manschurei’ and ‘Traum versunken’, from Frühlingsstürme. With Richard Tauber. German Odeon recording 0–4521, 28 January 1933.
‘Sagen dir nicht meine Augen’ and ‘Sing mir ein Liebeslied’, from ’’Der singende Traum’’. With Richard Tauber. Austrian Odeon recording 0-4541, 4 September 1934.
She also recorded on 4.9.34 two solos from 'Der singende Traum', issued on Odeon 0-25208.
Unpublished 1936 master discs of ’’Der singende Traum’’, complete (now available from Danny Sharples, 20 Virginia Close, Baguley, Manchester M23 9NG, UK).
Filmography
The Land of Smiles (dir. Max Reichmann; Richard Tauber Tonfilm-Production. Germany, 1930).
(dir. Géza von Bolváry; Super-Film. Germany, 1931).
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (dir. Kurt Gerron; Panta-Film. Austria, 1935).
The Sky’s the Limit (dir. Lee Garmes and Jack Buchanan; General Film Distributors. UK, 1938).
Bibliography
Primary sources
Mary Losseff's private papers including 60 letters from Richard Tauber, held in the Exilarte Center for Banned Music, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien
Secondary sources
Losseff, Nicky,'Mary Losseff and Richard Tauber', in The Record Collector 51 (2006).
Castle, Charles and Tauber, Diana Napier; This was Richard Tauber. London and New York: W.H. Allen, 1971.
Jürgs, Michael; Gern hab’ ich die Frau’n geküßt: Die Richard-Tauber Biographie. München: List-Verlag, 2000.
Kreuder, Peter; Nur Puppen habe keine Tränen. Munich: Percha, 1971; reissued Munich: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003.
Tauber, Diana Napier; My Heart and I. London: Evans Brothers, 1959
External links
Discography
‘Peter, Peter’ (part of ‘Das spricht Bände’). Recorded 1929. Available on Bei uns um die Gedächtniskirche rum... Berlin Cabaret (Edel 0014532TLR, 1996). CD 2, track 6.
‘Frühling in der Manschurei’ and ‘Traum versunken’, from Frühlingsstürme. With Richard Tauber. German Odeon recording 0–4521, 28 January 1933.
‘Sagen dir nicht meine Augen’ and ‘Sing mir ein Liebeslied’, from ’’Der singende Traum’’. With Richard Tauber. Austrian Odeon recording 0-4541, 4 September 1934.
She also recorded on 4.9.34 two solos from 'Der singende Traum', issued on Odeon 0-25208.
Unpublished 1936 master discs of ’’Der singende Traum’’, complete (now available from Danny Sharples, 20 Virginia Close, Baguley, Manchester M23 9NG, UK).
Filmography
The Land of Smiles (dir. Max Reichmann; Richard Tauber Tonfilm-Production. Germany, 1930).
(dir. Géza von Bolváry; Super-Film. Germany, 1931).
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (dir. Kurt Gerron; Panta-Film. Austria, 1935).
The Sky’s the Limit (dir. Lee Garmes and Jack Buchanan; General Film Distributors. UK, 1938).
Bibliography
Primary sources
Mary Losseff's private papers including 60 letters from Richard Tauber (contact nl5@york.ac.uk)
Secondary sources
Castle, Charles and Tauber, Diana Napier; This was Richard Tauber. London and New York: W.H. Allen, 1971.
Jürgs, Michael; Gern hab’ ich die Frau’n geküßt: Die Richard-Tauber Biographie. München: List-Verlag, 2000.
Kreuder, Peter; Nur Puppen habe keine Tränen. Munich: Percha, 1971; reissued Munich: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003.
Tauber, Diana Napier; My Heart and I. London: Evans Brothers, 1959
External links
1907 births
1972 deaths
Singers from Berlin
Soviet women singers
Soviet actresses
Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Losseff |
Valley Ranch is a master-planned development in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving. The name comes from the fact that the land it sits upon was formerly a working cattle ranch and is located below a large ridge, and thus resembles a valley.
History
Like much of the rest of Irving, the Valley Ranch development was formerly ranch land and largely undeveloped. However, the introduction of the I-635 loop around Dallas created the opportunity for development of this land into a signature residential and commercial development like Las Colinas to the south. As the highway was being built westward in the 1970s, local Irving officials were determining how to maximize the potential of the city north of the new interstate highway. When the highway was joined to 121 and 635 loop in the 1980s, the area development began to soar and continued well into the 2010s.
With Irving being the home of the old Texas Stadium, it is not surprising that nearby Valley Ranch formerly hosted the practice facilities of the Dallas Cowboys football team (beginning in 1985) who moved to Frisco, Texas, in 2016, and the Dallas Stars hockey team, who have also since moved to Frisco.
Today, a large number of Asian Indians live in Valley Ranch and Las Colinas, and as a result, there are many Indian grocery stores with locations in or adjacent to Valley Ranch including Patel Brothers Farmers Market. Additionally, there are dozens of restaurants offering Indian cuisine about the area.
Geography
The area lies in the Trinity River floodplain; however, an extensive levee system on its eastern side separates the river from land, thus making it desirable for development. In order to maintain flood control and to provide recreation facilities for residents, Valley Ranch has many winding canals with walkways throughout.
Valley Ranch is bordered by Coppell, TX to the north and Las Colinas, Irving, TX to the south. It is bordered by Cypress Waters, Dallas, TX to the west and Farmers Branch, TX to the east. It is located in close proximity to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and is approximately a 30-minute drive from downtown Dallas. Its southern border is formed by Interstate 635.
Recreation
The Valley Ranch planned community has over five miles of winding, landscaped canal walkways and ponds with parks and an aquatic center. Cimarron Park is the key Irving city park located within Valley Ranch. This recreational area offers a gymnasium, tennis courts, two basketball courts, outdoor swimming pool and large field for soccer or other activities. It further offers playground equipment and a covered picnic area with barbecue pit. One may also access this site by trail.
Government
The Valley Ranch Association affairs are governed by the Master, Residential and Commercial board of directors. Each board consists of five volunteers who serve two-year terms. The Master board members are appointed by the Residential and Commercial board members. The Residential and Commercial board members are elected by members of the association. Ultimately, these members report to the city of Irving municipal government.
Education
Though technically a part of the city of Irving, Texas, children in Valley Ranch will attend schools in either the Coppell ISD or the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD.
Schools
Bernice Chatman Freeman Elementary (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
Canyon Ranch Elementary (Coppell ISD)
Tom Landry Elementary (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
Valley Ranch Elementary (Coppell ISD)
Barbara Bush Middle School (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
Ranchview High School (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
References
External links
Valley Ranch Association
Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau
Geography of Dallas County, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20Ranch%2C%20Irving%2C%20Texas |
Cool Blue is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Mullin and Richard Shepard, and stars Woody Harrelson, Hank Azaria, Ely Pouget, and Sean Penn.
Plot
An aspiring painter named Dustin Pennett is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration when he meets a woman named Christiane at an art gallery. They spend the night together at her apartment, but the next morning she has disappeared, leaving Dustin heartbroken. He visits her family home in Southern California and learns from her younger sister that Christiane ran away at a young age after having an abortion, also finding out that "Christiane's" apartment was actually a display room she had broken them into.
Dustin returns home to Los Angeles and, after confiding in Phil, a plumber who has seen Dustin at his local pub, about his issues with Christiane, finds success painting portraits of her from memory, idealizing her as his true love. Dustin's best friend, a struggling writer named Buzz, envies his friend's newfound success. After Dustin easily beds Cathy, a woman Buzz has been chasing for two years, Buzz angrily shouts at Dustin and threatens him with a pool cue during a drunken argument.
Christiane returns to the gallery and finds Dustin's paintings of her, including a nude one which she slashes. She then breaks into his apartment and throws blue paint on him. Christiane says that they had a meaningless encounter and complains that the paintings are interfering with her life. Dustin responds that he painted them because their night together meant something to him and he wants to get to know her as a person.
After making up with Buzz, Dustin ditches a show planned for him in New York by his manager Paul in order to meet Christiane at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The film ends with a shot of Dustin and Christiane embracing.
Cast
Woody Harrelson as Dustin
Hank Azaria as Buzz
Ely Pouget as Christiane
Paul Lussier as Paul
Phillip Brock as Bruce
Judie Aronson as Cathy
Christopher McDonald as Peter Sin
Gloria LeRoy as Ida
Karen Haber as Sascha
Jonathan Chapin as Les
Cindy Guyer as Girl in Gallery
Elisabeth Mullin as Rebecca
Allison Robinson as Cindy
Brian Ruf as Bartender
Nicoletta Munroe as Anna
John Diehl as Clayton
Julie Friedman
Sean Penn as Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
Home media
Filmed in mid-1988 in Los Angeles, Cool Blue was picked up for domestic distribution by RCA-Columbia and Epic Home Video in late 1989. It was first released in the US on February 27, 1990, on pay-per-view and cable TV. On March 7, it was released in the US on VHS and LaserDisc, however it was first released in Greece on VHS in September 1989. In 1991, the film was released on VHS in Australia and the UK.
It was not released on DVD until March 13, 2012, when MGM Home Entertainment released a remastered widescreen version as part of their Limited Edition Collection, with a trailer as the only special feature.
References
External links
1989 romantic comedy films
American romantic comedy films
Films about fictional painters
Films set in California
Films set in Los Angeles
1989 directorial debut films
1989 films
Films directed by Richard Shepard
1990s English-language films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
1990s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20Blue |
Anton Frederik Winter Jakhelln Prytz (14 February 1878 – 19 February 1945) was a Norwegian politician.
Prytz was born in Oslo. He was minister of finance in the NS government of Vidkun Quisling 1942–1945. Prytz died from cancer before the end of war.
He was the brother of Milda Dorothea Prytz.
References
1878 births
1945 deaths
Politicians from Oslo
Norwegian Army personnel
Members of Nasjonal Samling
Government ministers of Norway
Deaths from cancer in Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik%20Prytz |
Torolf Prytz (26 December 1858 – 16 June 1938) was a Norwegian architect, goldsmith and politician for the Liberal Party. He led the goldsmith company J. Tostrup of Oslo from 1890 to 1938, having inherited it from his grandfather-in-law Jacob Tostrup. He also served as Norwegian Minister of Industrial Provisioning from 1917 to 1918 and President of the Norwegian Red Cross from 1922 to 1930.
Background
He was born in Alstahaug in Nordland, Norway. He was the son of bailiff Eiler Hagerup Krog Prytz, Sr. (1812–1900) and his wife Anne Margrethe Thomessen (1820–1900). The family moved to Christiania (now Oslo) when he was 12 years old. Prytz went to Kristiania Technical School. After completing his education at the polytechnic college of the University of Hannover, he was an assistant of architects Georg Andreas Bull and Henrik Thrap-Meyer.
Career
He started a cooperation with goldsmith Oluf Tostrup, a son of goldsmith Jacob Tostrup and co-owner in his company J. Tostrup. Prytz became formally affiliated with J. Tostrup in 1882, when Oluf Tostrup died. In 1884, after two years of studying, he was promoted from head designer to co-owner.
When Jacob Tostrup died in 1890, Prytz bought the entire company, retaining the tradename. He was an innovative filigree designer, and strengthened the company's position as one of the leading goldsmith companies in Norway. In 1898, he was behind the moving into a new store, Tostrupgården on Karl Johans gate which was built between 1893 and 1898 with Prytz, Waldemar Hansteen and Christian Fürst as architects.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1900–1903, representing the constituency of Kristiania, Hønefoss og Kongsvinger, and served as Minister of Industrial Provisioning from 1917 to 1918. From 1922 to 1930 he was the President of the Norwegian Red Cross. Prytz also chaired the board of Den norske Husflidsforening from 1907 to 1935, the National Institute of Technology from 1916 to 1935 and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design from 1929 to 1934. He was among the founders of Den norske Husflidsforening and the National Institute of Technology, as well the Norges Gullsmedforbund. He served as a member of the board of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design from 1884 to 1934, Den norske Husflidsforening from 1891 to 1937 and the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1892 to 1900 and 1904 to 1928.
Personal life
In July 1882, he married Hilda Nicoline Marie Tostrup (1861–1947), a granddaughter of Jacob Tostrup. Prytz was the father of Anne-Margrethe Cappelen Prytz (1888–1960), who was married to Erik Cappelen Knudsen (1882–1954), eldest son of Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen. He was also the father of Jakob Tostrup Prytz (1886–1962) who followed him into the management of J. Tostrup. He was the grandfather of jewelry designers Grete Prytz Kittelsen and Jakob Tostrup Prytz, jr. He was also an uncle of Eiler Prytz who became a co-owner of J. Tostrup. He was made a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
Torolf Prytz died in June 1938 at Vestre Aker.
References
1858 births
1938 deaths
People from Alstahaug
University of Hanover alumni
Architects from Oslo
Norwegian goldsmiths
Deputy members of the Storting
Government ministers of Norway
Politicians from Oslo
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Presidents of the Norwegian Red Cross
Knights of the Legion of Honour | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torolf%20Prytz |
This is a timeline of first orbital launches by country. While a number of countries, incl. Canada, Australia, Germany, Brazil, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, the Philippines, Egypt, Spain, Mexico, Thailand and Chile, have built or launched satellites, as of 2022, eleven countries, incl. the United States, Japan, India, China, Iran, Israel, France, the United Kingdom and South Korea, have had the capability to send objects into orbit with their own launch vehicles. Russia and Ukraine inherited the capability of the space launchers and satellites from the Soviet Union, following its dissolution in 1991. Russia launches its rockets from its own and foreign (Kazakh) spaceports.
Ukraine launched only from foreign (Kazakh and Russian) launch facilities until 2015, after which political differences with Russia effectively halted Ukraine's ability to produce orbital rockets. France became a space power independently, launching a payload into orbit from Algeria, before joining space launcher facilities in the multi-national Ariane project. The United Kingdom became a space power independently following a single payload insertion into orbit from Australia.
Ten countries and one inter-governmental organisation (ESA) have a proven orbital launch capability, . Three countries (France, Italy and the United Kingdom) formerly had such an independent capability. In all cases where a country has conducted independent human spaceflights (as of 2021, three — China, the Soviet Union/Russia, and the United States), these launches were preceded by independent uncrewed launch capability.
The race to launch the first satellite was closely contested by the Soviet Union and the United States, and was the beginning of the Space Race. The launching of satellites, while still contributing to national prestige, is a significant economic activity as well, with public and private rocket systems competing for launches, using cost and reliability as selling points.
List of first orbital launches by country
Countries like Italy are not included since they have not yet developed an orbital rocket from scratch; i.e., an orbital rocket that was designed and engineered in its entirety in the country in question.
Partial contributions to orbital launch systems
Two countries, Italy and New Zealand, have contributed in the creation or continuation of orbital launch systems.
Notes
Other launches and projects
The above list includes confirmed satellite launches with rockets produced by the launching country, like Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom or the United States. Lists with differing criteria might include the following launches:
Failed launches
had yet to launch a satellite into orbit independently and its space program suffered three satellite launch failures, the latest being the explosion of a VLS-1 rocket on 22 August 2003 at the Alcântara Launch Centre, which resulted in 21 deaths.
Launches of non-indigenous launch vehicles
Some countries have no self-developed rocket systems, but have provided their spaceports for launches of their own and foreign satellites on foreign launchers:
with the first successful launch from Hammaguir of the French satellite Astérix on 26 November 1965 by French Diamant A. The last orbital launch from Hammaguir was on 15 February 1967 by French Diamant A and there are no further launches scheduled (the first Algerian satellite is AlSAT-1 launched by Russian Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk, Russia on 28 November 2002).
with the first successful launch from the San Marco platform of its satellite San Marco 2 on 26 April 1967 by US Scout B (the first Italian satellite is San Marco 1 launched by another Scout from Wallops, USA on 15 December 1964). The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches scheduled.
with the first successful launch from Woomera Test Range of its first satellite WRESAT on 29 November 1967 by US Sparta. The second and final successful orbital launch from Woomera was performed on 28 October 1971 by the UK Black Arrow.
with the first launch after its independence from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 January 1992 of the Russian Soyuz-U2 and Progress M-11 (the first Kazakh satellite is KazSat launched by Russian Proton-K from Baikonur on 17 June 2006). Currently the spaceport continues to be utilized for launches of various Russian rockets.
; a single Pegasus-XL was launched from Orbital Sciences' Stargazer aircraft flying from Gran Canaria Airport in April 1997.
with a successful launch of a Pegasus-H rocket from Orbital Sciences' Stargazer aircraft flying from Kwajalein Atoll in October 2000. Five ground-based launches were made by SpaceX using Falcon 1 rockets between 2006 and 2009, with the first success on 28 September 2008. Three further Pegasus launches occurred between 2008 and 2012, using the Pegasus-XL configuration. Currently there are no plans announced for a Marshall Islands satellite.
Privately developed launch vehicles
Orbital Sciences Corporation (USA) became the first company to launch a privately developed rocket into orbit, the Pegasus on April 5, 1990. Orbital subsequently developed the Minotaur rocket family. Orbital joined SpaceX as one of only two private entities to supply the International Space Station with its launch of the Cygnus Orb-D1 mission on its Antares rocket on September 28, 2013.
SpaceX (USA) became the second company to launch a rocket into orbit using a rocket developed with private—not government—funds. Its first successful launch was performed on September 28, 2008, by Falcon 1 from the Omelek Island, Marshall Islands and its first launch from US spaceport was Falcon 9 Flight 1 on June 4, 2010, from Cape Canaveral. Its Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on October 11, 2012, to deliver supplies.
American private company Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from Mahia Launch Center in New Zealand on January 21, 2018, carrying three cubesats into low Earth orbit. This was the first time that a rocket entered orbit after launching from a privately owned and operated spaceport.
Chinese private company i-Space successfully launched its Hyperbola 1 rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and sent several small payloads, including the CAS-7B amateur radio satellite into Earth orbit on July 25, 2019.
Galactic Energy successfully launched its Ceres-1 solid rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center into Sun-synchronous orbit on November 7, 2020, becoming the second Chinese private company capable of launching satellites into orbit.
Virgin Orbit successfully achieved orbit on January 17, 2021, using their LauncherOne vehicle to deploy 10 CubeSats into Low Earth Orbit for NASA.
Astra Rocket 3.3 vehicle successfully reached orbit on November 20, 2021, after launching from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA) carrying the demonstration payload STP-27AD2 for the United States Space Force.
Firefly Aerospace launched Firefly Alpha rocket, which successfully reached an orbit lower than the expected one, on October 1, 2022.
Space Pioneer successfully launched its first rocket Tianlong-2 into orbit on April 2, 2023. It was the first Chinese company that achieved the goal with the liquid rocket.
LandSpace became a private company with orbital launch capability by successfully launched Zhuque-2, world's first methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit, on July 12, 2023.
Sub-orbital launch
Innospace successfully launched its first rocket HANBIT-TLV into orbit on March 21, 2023 from the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil, making it the first civilian-made space rocket from South Korea. The inertial navigation system from Brazil, called SISNAV, being carried onboard as a payload of HANBIT-TLV, functioned properly, thus making it South Korea's first private launch service provider.
Other launches
launched its first satellite, named Astérix, from Algeria in late 1965.
launched its first satellite, named Ohsumi, in early 1970.
launched its first satellite in early 1975.
Abandoned projects
/ was developing larger designs in the Aggregat series as early as 1940. A combination of A9 to A12 components could have produced orbital capability as early as 1947 if work had continued. Further preliminary development of numerous rocket space launchers and re-usable launch systems (Sänger II, etc.) took place after WWII, although these were never realized as national or European projects. Also, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the private German company OTRAG tried to develop low-cost commercial space launchers. Only the sub-orbital tests of the first prototypes of the rockets were carried out.
did not proceed with a 1946 proposal to develop German V-2 technology into the "Megaroc" system to be launched in 1949. The UK also developed the Black Arrow rocket system and successfully launched a satellite in 1971, shortly after the program had been cancelled.
had developed the gun-based space launchers Martlet and GLO as the joint Canadian-American Project HARP in the 1960s. The rockets were never tested. In fact, in different periods, they worked in cooperation with Australia, Brazil, South Korea and the United Kingdom.
developed the space launcher RSA-3 in the 1980s. This rocket was tested 3 times without a satellite payload in 1989 and 1990. The program was postponed and canceled in 1994.
Iraq claimed to have developed and tested "Al-Abid", a three-stage space launch vehicle without a payload or its upper two stages on 5 December 1989. The rocket's design had a clustered first stage composed of five modified scud rockets strapped together and a single scud rocket as the second stage in addition to a SA-2 liquid-fueled rocket engine as the third stage. The video tape of a partial launch attempt which was retrieved by UN weapons inspectors, later surfaced showing that the rocket prematurely exploded 45 seconds after its launch.
previous attempts at developing space launcher based on their Condor missile were scrapped in 1993.
The VLS-1 was cancelled after decades of development and high expenditures with poor results and a failed association with Ukraine that slowed the program for years.
tried to develop space launcher as part of its various ballistic missile programs in the second half of the 20th century. In different periods, they worked either independently or in cooperation with Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Iraq and North Korea.
developed the space launcher Capricornio (Capricorn) in the 1990s. The rocket was related to the Condor missile from Argentina and its test, scheduled for 1999/2000, was not conducted. As a result, in different periods, they worked in cooperation with Japan and the United States.
Swiss Space Systems company planned to develop the micro satellite launcher-spaceplane SOAR by 2018 but went bankrupt. Thus, in different periods, they worked in cooperation with Chile, Poland and Ukraine.
Other projects
developed an orbital rocket called Tronador II, whose maiden flight is expected to take place in the next four years as of late 2020.
's ATSpace developed an orbital launch vehicle called Kestrel, tentatively being launched in 2022 from Whalers Way.
's Gilmour Space Technologies developed an orbital launch vehicle called Eris, scheduled to be launched in 2023.
announced that it would launch its VLM rocket from the Alcântara Launch Center in 2025.
planned to launch military and security satellites. The first phase began in 2022.
planned to launch military and security satellites. The first phase will begin in 2024.
announced that it would launch some satellites in 2024 or any later year.
Orbex developed its Prime launch vehicle, whose first launch was planned in 2023 from Sutherland spaceport.
Blue Origin developed its New Glenn launch vehicle, whose first launch was planned for sometime in 2023.
The private company PLD Space developed the Miura 5 orbital launch vehicle, whose first launch is planned for 2024.
OrbitX, a private company of the Philippines, planned to develop Haribon, a biofuel-powered launch vehicle.
The private company of Malaysia Independence-X Aerospace developed an orbital launch vehicle called DNLV, being launched in 2023.
Thai Space Consortium developed a satellite called TSC-Pathfinder, being launched in 2023.
's Institute Of Aviation developed a rocket named ILR-33 Bursztyn (ILR-33 Amber).
announced that it would launch some satellites some time in 2024.
planned to launch several rockets starting in 2023.
launched a rocket in early 2023 from the space center in Brazil.
planned to launch some satellites beginning in 2024.
Satellite operators
Many other countries, such as Mexico, Poland, Chile, Japan and India, launched their own satellites on one of the foreign launchers listed above, the first being British owned and operated; American-built satellite Ariel 1, which was launched by a US rocket in April 1962. In September 1962, the Canadian satellite, Alouette-1, was launched by a US rocket, but unlike Ariel 1, it was constructed by Canada.
See also
List of orbital launch systems
List of missiles by country
Orbital spaceflight
Satellite
Spaceport (including timeline of first orbital launches by spaceport)
Discovery and exploration of the Solar System (including exploration by country)
Timeline of first artificial satellites by country
Timeline of Solar System exploration
Timeline of space exploration
References
External links
First Satellites Launched By Spacefaring Nations, Anthony R. Curtis, Ph.D., Space Today Online, accessed 17 February 2006.
National Briefings: Iraq, Ranger Associates, accessed 17 February 2006.
The 31 August 1998 North Korean Satellite Launch: Factsheet, Kevin Orfall and Gaurav Kampani, with Michael Dutra, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, accessed 17 February 2006.
News Release 25-98, United States Space Command, 8 September 1998, accessed 17 February 2006.
Daily Press Briefing, James P. Rubin, United States Department of State, 14 September 1998, accessed 17 February 2006.
BBC World: Brazil Launches rocket into space
Space.com: Brazil completes successful rocket launch
Herald Tribune: Brazil launches rocket for gravity research
AFP: Iran rocket test 'unfortunate': White House
Space-Travel.com: Iran opens its first space centre, riling the US
New York Times: Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center
MSNBC: Iran unveils space center, launches rocket
Orbital launches
orbital | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20first%20orbital%20launches%20by%20country |
"Mama" is a song recorded by Italian balladeer Umberto Tozzi and American pop star Laura Branigan. Renowned throughout Italy, Tozzi's melodic and romantic music was largely unheard outside his native country until Branigan discovered his songs and gave them dramatic reinterpretations.
Originally written by Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi in the late 1970s, "Mama" was one of several Italian songs Laura Branigan recorded in the early- to mid-1980s with a bold, urgently emotional vocal and more dynamic instrumentation that sharpened the songs' hooks and captured the zeitgeist of the era's synth- and guitar-driven Europop style. In 1982, the 1979 Tozzi/Bigazzi tune "Gloria" became a platinum, Number One smash for Branigan and launched her career. Two years later, Branigan would take the 1977 Tozzi/Bigazzi song "Ti Amo" to the top of the charts in several countries. And Bigazzi was the co-writer of Branigan's biggest international hit, "Self Control" (the only one of the four written in English and recorded by Branigan as written). For "Mama," as for "Ti Amo," Branigan's English lyrics were written by Diane Warren, a frequent collaborator on Branigan's early albums. Featured on her 1983 album, Branigan 2, "Mama" is the only one of the four which Branigan didn't release as a single.
1970s songs
Laura Branigan songs
Songs about mothers
Songs written by Diane Warren
Songs written by Giancarlo Bigazzi
Songs written by Umberto Tozzi
Umberto Tozzi songs
it:Eva/Mama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20%28Umberto%20Tozzi%20and%20Laura%20Branigan%20song%29 |
Bob Sanders (born December 5, 1953) is an American football coach. He was previously the defensive coordinator for the Orlando Apollos of the Alliance of American Football (AAF). He coached the Buffalo Bills from 2009 to 2012 after coaching for four years with the Green Bay Packers, four years with the Miami Dolphins and 11 years at the University of Florida. He was let go by the Packers following the 2008 season.
Sanders was hired on January 29, 2009, by the Buffalo Bills as defensive line coach. He was dismissed, along with the entire Bills coaching staff on December 31, 2012. Sanders worked under Steve Spurrier for 11 years at Florida. He also worked at Miami under the veteran defensive coordinator Jim Bates for five years, from 2001 to 2004 coaching linebackers and, in 2005, as defensive ends coach in Green Bay.
On February 2, 2015, it was announced that Sanders had been hired as the linebackers coach with the Arizona Cardinals.
In 2019, Sanders reunited with Spurrier as the defensive coordinator of the Apollos.
On March 1, 2022, Sanders reunited with Arians as the outside linebackers coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
References
External links
Oakland Raiders biography
Buffalo Bills biography
1953 births
Living people
East Carolina Pirates football coaches
Florida Gators football coaches
Buffalo Bills coaches
Oakland Raiders coaches
Green Bay Packers coaches
Miami Dolphins coaches
Orlando Apollos coaches
National Football League defensive coordinators
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Sanders%20%28American%20football%20coach%29 |
This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The list include also individuals with Dominican ancestry and citizenship.
Politics
Presidents
Nicholas Liverpool
Charles Savarin
Clarence Seignoret
Vernon Shaw
Crispin Sorhaindo
Alwin Bully (created or artist of the national flag of Dominica)
Prime Ministers
Dame Eugenia Charles 3rd
Pierre Charles 6th
Roosevelt Douglas 5th
Edison James 4th
Patrick John 1st
Oliver Seraphin 2nd
Roosevelt Skerrit (current)
Leader(s) of the Opposition
Lennox Linton
Political personalities
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, current Commonwealth of Nations Secretary General; former Attorney General for England and Wales
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1907–1986), politician
Ronald Green, politician
Edward Oliver LeBlanc, government official
Emmanuel Christopher Loblack (1898–1995), union leader and politician
Cecil Rawle (1891–1938), attorney and politician
Spiritual personalities
Ogyen Trinley Dorje, (widely known as the 17th Karmapa), head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Activists
Kellyn George
Whitney Mélinard, Kalinago Territory issues
Asquith Xavier, Dominican-born Briton who fought a colour bar to become the first non-white train guard at Euston station in London in 1966.
Actors
Danny John-Jules, of Red Dwarf and of Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe
Doctors
Jasmine R. Marcelin, physician
Media
Trisha Goddard, host of Trisha
Moira Stuart, female newsreader on British television and radio, working for the BBC
Urban Dangleben, proprietor of the first private radio station "Radio En Ba Mango" in the Commonwealth of Dominica..
Musicians
Gabrielle
Bashy
Pearle Christian
Nasio Fontaine
Ophelia Marie
Shakka
Swinging Stars
Windward Caribbean Kulture ("WCK")
Signal Band
Gordon Henderson Exile One
Freddy Nicholas
Fitzroy Williams
Phillip " Chubby" Mark and Marcel "Co" Mark of Midnight Groovers
Sports
Frank Bruno, professional boxer
Joe Cooke, footballer
Phillip DeFreitas, cricketer
Billy Doctrove, cricket umpire
Luan Gabriel, sprinter
Vince Hilaire, footballer
Manjrekar James, footballer
Garth Joseph, basketballer
Karina LeBlanc, footballer
Jérôme Romain, athlete
Adam Sanford, cricketer
Grayson Shillingford, cricketer
Shane Shillingford, cricketer
Visual artists
Tam Joseph
Pauline Marcelle
Writers
Phyllis Shand Allfrey, novelist (The Orchid House)
Lennox Honychurch, historian (The Dominica Story)
Marie-Elena John, novelist (Unburnable)
Elma Napier, novelist (Black and White Sands)
Jean Rhys, novelist (Wide Sargasso Sea)
Alec Waugh, novelist (Island in the Sun)
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Dominica |
Kay Arne Stenshjemmet (born 9 August 1953) is a former speed skater from Norway.
Short biography
Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Sten Stensen, and Jan Egil Storholt, Kay Stenshjemmet was one of the legendary four S-es (which sounds like "four aces" in Norwegian), four Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s. Kay is now working for Romerikes Blad
During the 1976 European Allround Championships in Oslo, fellow Norwegian Sten Stensen (the defending European Champion), set a new world record on the 10,000 m, but Stenshjemmet still became European Champion by a tiny margin of only 0.005 points (equivalent to 0.10 seconds on the 10000 m).
At the end of the 1975–1976 season, the world record on the 5000 m was Piet Kleine's 7:02.38. On 19 March 1977, first Sergey Marchuk and then in the following pair Stenshjemmet were the first to skate the 5000 m below seven minutes, with 6:58.88 and 6:56.9, respectively. Stenshjemmet's world record would last for five years, until Aleksandr Baranov skated 6:54.44.
Stenshjemmet was European Allround Champion in 1976 and 1980. He was also Norwegian Allround Champion in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1981, as well as Norwegian Sprint Champion in 1976. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stenshjemmet won silver on the 1500 m and on the 5000 m, both behind Eric Heiden.
Medals
An overview of medals won by Stenshjemmet at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:
World record
During his career, Stenshjemmet skated one world record:
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Stenshjemmet skated his personal records.
Note that Stenshjemmet's personal record on the big combination was not a world record because Jan Egil Storholt skated 163.221 at the same tournament.
Stenshjemmet has an Adelskalender score of 163.481 points. His highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a third place.
References
External links
Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages
Historical World Records from the International Skating Union
National Championships results from Norges Skøyteforbund (the Norwegian Skating Association)
1953 births
Living people
World record setters in speed skating
Norwegian male speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
People from Lillestrøm
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Viken (county) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Stenshjemmet |
Thomas Arthur Spragens ( ; April 25, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was an American administrator who was the 17th president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Spragens worked for the state and federal government early in his career, before joining the staff at Stanford University as a presidential advisor. He was the president of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, for a five-year term, and left Stephens to go to Centre in 1957.
The first Centre president who was not a member of the clergy, Spragens worked to lessen the ties between the college and the Presbyterian Church, which led to a significant rise in students reporting that they were non-denominational; it also led to attendance at chapel becoming optional for students. Spragens was an effective fundraiser for the school; his Fund for the Future Campaign ultimately raised $34 million. He was instrumental in the integration of the school, and admitted Centre's first black student in 1962. The same year, he led an effort to consolidate the school's women's department, formerly the Kentucky College for Women, onto Centre's campus. Many parts of campus were upgraded during his presidency; after twenty years, three quarters of Centre's facilities had been either built or renovated. During his term, which ended in 1981, Centre's student enrollment and faculty numbers both nearly doubled, its endowment increased, and the property value of its campus rose.
He was selected by two governors to be a part of commissions which studied higher education in Kentucky, and was a part of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the American Council on Education at different times. He was active in Democratic Party politics, and was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in support of Senator Eugene McCarthy. Additionally, he was a part of an effort which culminated in the 1962 founding of what is now the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, of which Centre remained a charter member until 2011.
Early life and education
Spragens was born on April 25, 1917, in Lebanon, Kentucky. He was the third of seven children in his family. His father, William Henry Spragens, was a lawyer and circuit court judge from Casey County, Kentucky, and his mother, Lillian Brewer Spragens, was from Lancaster, Kentucky. He attended Lebanon High School, graduating in 1934, and was recruited by then-president Charles J. Turck to attend Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, alongside three classmates with whom he formed a locally popular singing quartet. Turck's hope was that the four of them would attend Centre and replace the "Centre College Quartet", the members of which were soon graduating. Spragens's three classmates decided to attend Centre but he ultimately opted for the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington instead, though he did join the glee club at UK. He enrolled in, and attended, the University's College of Commerce (now the Gatton College of Business and Economics) for a year and a half, but afterwards transferred to the College of Arts and Sciences and majored in economics. He graduated from UK in 1938. After a summer employed by the Kentucky state government, he won a public administration fellowship and began graduate work at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He completed only one year of his graduate program; after spending the summer following the first year working for the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget), he decided to forgo the second year in favor of a permanent position with the Bureau.
Career
Early career, 1940–1957
Spragens worked for the federal government from 1940 to 1945 in multiple positions, including in his new permanent job as a senior analyst at the Bureau of the Budget, and in a job with the Foreign Economic Administration, which operated during World War II. In mid-1946, Spragens left his government positions to work at Stanford University as an assistant to the college president and as Stanford's representative in Washington, D.C. In this position, he assisted two presidents: Donald Tresidder, who originally hired him, and Wallace Sterling, who took over after Tresidder's death. He helped the college to manage its increasing enrollment numbers, which spiked from 4,500 in June 1946 to 7,200 in November of the same year. Spragens intended to remain in this position for only one to two years, and afterwards return to government work, but ended up working there for five years.
In 1951, Spragens left Stanford to accept a position as the secretary and treasurer of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which was a newly-formed subsidiary of the Ford Foundation. He worked in this position for just over a year before he was offered the presidency of Stephens College, a women's college in Columbia, Missouri. An announcement of his hiring was made to students and faculty at Stephens on November 1, 1952, and he began in this role exactly one month later, on December 1. At Stephens, he implemented a plan which saw the use of closed-circuit television as an academic aid, for which the school received "wide notice in educational circles". Television was used mainly as a supplement to seminar-style classes with small numbers of students, and it allowed lecturers to speak to multiple sections of a class simultaneously. During this time, he was selected to be a part of a commission that produced a report, "The Church and Higher Education", to the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina, which was completed in July 1955. He was a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools's commission on colleges universities and the board of directors of Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri; he was elected to the latter position on May 28, 1956. In his final week at Stephens, the college announced a 40-year campus relocation project at a total cost of $12 million (equivalent to $ million in ) with the eventual goal of abandoning its current facilities and constructing new instructional, residential, and athletic buildings at a site near U.S. Route 63.
In 1957, he was contacted by Don Campbell, a friend of his and chairman of the trustee presidential search committee at Centre, regarding the school's vacant presidency. He was offered the job, and despite having turned down a similar offer from what he later called a "stronger" college, he accepted the position at Centre. He was replaced by dean of instruction James G. Rice as acting president upon his departure on November 11, 1957.
President of Centre College, 1957–1981
Spragens was announced as Centre's next president by their board of trustees on August 22, 1957. On November 11, he began his term as the 17th president of Centre College. In doing so, he became the fourth president in the college's history who was not an ordained minister, the first who was not a member of the clergy at all, and the youngest in the college's history. He spent his first full day on campus the following day, when he presided over his first faculty meeting, and addressed the student body for the first time at a convocation on November 19. He was formally inaugurated in a ceremony on the morning of April 21, 1959, which included an inaugural address given by Stanford president Wallace Sterling.
In 1959, he introduced a ten-year plan with the goals of increasing the college's enrollment (with the specific goal of 750 students), adding to the faculty, and increasing the number of majors offered by the college. The following year, the college announced a $6.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) fundraising campaign in celebration of Centre's 150-year anniversary, a marked increase from the $20,000 () to $25,000 () typically raised every year. On June 9, 1958, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Westminster College, which was conferred upon him at their commencement ceremony. After beginning his term, he immediately declared that the school would move towards full integration and not discriminate by race when determining admissions, and the college admitted its first black student when Timothy Kusi, a Ghanaian student who transferred from Kentucky State College (now Kentucky State University), enrolled in 1962. This change was received well by much of the campus community. The campus of the former Kentucky College for Women, at the time operating as Centre's women's department, closed that same year, at which point it was consolidated onto Centre's campus, with Spragens presiding over the merger. He hired Shirley Anne Walker, a French language professor who became Centre's first black faculty member at the start of the 1971–1972 academic year.
As football grew more popular at Centre during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Spragens sought to keep the college's priorities on academics rather than athletics. After he was announced as president in August 1957, he said that he would continue the existing policy of lessened emphasis on athletics, saying that they were a "corollary aspect" of the school. His scholarship policy stipulated that financial awards would not be given solely for athletics, but rather to all students based on merit and need. He advocated for the creation of a new athletic association which would eliminate gate receipts; Centre was joined in this association by Washington and Lee University, Southwestern University at Memphis (now Rhodes College), and the University of the South, with Washington University in St. Louis added later the same year as the league's fifth charter member. This association ultimately became the College Athletic Conference (now the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) and was formally founded on September 1, 1962. Centre remained a member of the conference until 2011, when they left, along with six other SCAC schools and one independent school, to form the Southern Athletic Association. During the 1960s, Spragens decided to end the agreement under which Centre leased its football field to Danville High School, and underwent a facilities exchange with the local school district by which the Centre women's campus was given to the district and the old Danville High School site was given to the college.
Spragens was supportive of peaceful protests held by students on campus and around the city; his "'good citizenship' policy" took effect in the 1960s, and student protests increased in frequency as the decade continued, particularly with respect to racial segregation and the Vietnam War. In December 1966, he introduced a plan under which classes at Centre would be held during four days of the week, rather than five, as part of a trimester system that was in effect for some time beginning with the fall semester of the 1966–1967 academic year. This trimester system, referred to as "The New Curriculum", consisted of two terms of regular length, during which students would take four courses, with a six-week two-course winter term in between. He was selected as a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago, after serving as the chair of the Boyle County Democratic Convention and attending the state convention. He did both in support of Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, though McCarthy eventually lost the nomination to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, also of Minnesota. Following the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, he declared all classes suspended on May 8, and addressed much of the student body and faculty on the campus lawn.
Many of the changes that took place on Centre's campus during Spragens's presidency were long-lasting. Numerous buildings were constructed or upgraded during his time in office, including the Grace Doherty Library (which took the place of Old Main, which was demolished), the new Young Hall, Sutcliffe Hall, the Regional Arts Center (now the Norton Center for the Arts), Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, fraternity residences, and multiple dormitory buildings. After twenty years of Spragens's presidency, three quarters of the buildings on campus had been constructed or renovated. These upgrades increased the property value of the campus to $21.2 million (equivalent to $ million in ) by the time he left office. An effective fundraiser, he led the Fund for the Future campaign, which ultimately raised about $34 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for the college. A chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society (of which Spragens was a member) opened at Centre during Spragens' tenure. In 1961, Centre purchased land from the city of Danville at a cost of $175,000 (); a federal law that was new at the time allowed the city to start a community development project with funding totaling $2.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) as a direct result. Under Spragens, the college contributed to the city's economy, with one estimate stating that five to ten percent of the city's business revenue was generated by the college during fiscal year 1980–1981.
His presidency ended upon his resignation, which became effective November 16, 1981. Provost Edgar C. Reckard finished the academic year as interim president; Spragens was formally succeeded by Richard L. Morrill on June 1, 1982. He worked as a fundraiser for, and advisor to, the college for six months following his resignation.
During his time at Centre, Spragens was a member of a number of other institutions related to higher education, including the Kentucky Independent College Foundation, Independent College Funds of America, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He was the director of the American Council on Education for three years, and as the director of the Southern University Union for a time. During his presidency, he was selected as part of two commissions, appointed by Governors Bert Combs and Ned Breathitt, to study higher education in Kentucky. On two occasions, he was asked to interview with the search committee for the presidency of the University of Kentucky, but never received a formal offer, and he was contacted by Kentucky State University with a possibility of being their interim president after he retired from Centre. He ended up as a consultant for one year to the newly-hired president of Kentucky State, Raymond Burse, a Centre alumnus himself. He received honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities: Westminster College, the University of Kentucky, the University of Alabama, Berea College, and Kentucky State University, in addition to Centre.
Personal life and death
Spragens met Catharine Smallwood, a native of Oxford, Mississippi, and an alumna of the University of Mississippi, in the early 1940s and the pair married on May 24, 1941. The couple had two sons, Thomas Jr. and David, and one daughter, Barbara. David, who was their youngest child, graduated from Centre in 1973, during his father's presidency.
In an interview shortly following his resignation, Spragens stated that his personal hobbies included playing tennis and golf, as well as water skiing. He was Presbyterian, and had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since the age of 29. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. In 1990, Thomas and Catharine received the Honorary Alumni Award from Centre.
Spragens died on February 11, 2006, in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 88. His memorial service was scheduled for March 4, 2006, at the First Presbyterian Church in Danville. He is buried in Danville's Bellevue Cemetery.
Legacy
During his 24-year tenure as president, the college's enrollment nearly doubled, from 380 students to nearly 700, and the size of its faculty followed the same trend, increasing from 38 members to 68. Centre's endowment also grew, from $2.8 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to $18 million (equivalent to $ million in ). Three of Kentucky's four Rhodes Scholars at the time of his resignation had graduated from Centre over the previous fifteen years. After his retirement from the presidency he joined the Kentucky Council on Higher Education, the boards of numerous organizations including Shaker Village, Leadership Kentucky, Presbyterian Homes and Services, and Pikeville College (now the University of Pikeville), and was a city commissioner in Danville.
His tenure saw the college become more distanced from the church than in the past, as the portion of the college's budget obtained from the church decreased and chapel attendance became voluntary for students beginning in 1965. Two years later, he was elected moderator of the Northern Synod of Kentucky and recommended that Centre remove many of its remaining ties to the Presbyterian Church. In 1968, Centre withdrew from the Kentucky Synod for financial reasons and the following year it removed its policies which required the president and most board members to be Presbyterian. The effects of this were seen on the student body in the following years, with the percentage of students reporting themselves as Presbyterian falling from 32% in 1967 to 17% in 1971, and the percentage of students reporting themselves as non-denominational rising from 0.5% to 27% in the same time period. His presidency is remembered for his successful fundraising efforts and for the numerous buildings that were constructed. The Thomas A. Spragens Rare Book Room and Archives, located in the Grace Doherty Library at Centre, is named in his honor.
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2006 deaths
Burials in Bellevue Cemetery (Danville, Kentucky)
Franklin D. Roosevelt administration personnel
Kentucky Democrats
People from Lebanon, Kentucky
Presidents of Centre College
Stephens College people
Stanford University staff
University of Kentucky alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20Spragens |
Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 October 1948 – 17 January 2016) was an English drummer and a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople. Later, he worked as a producer, and produced many of the BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1981 to 1994.
Life and career
Born in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, Griffin attended Ross-on-Wye Grammar School. He played in local bands with future fellow Mott the Hoople member Overend Watts and it was during this time he gained the nickname "Buffin". Griffin's bands during this time included the Silence and the Charles Kingsley Creation. He appeared on two singles in 1966 by Yemm and the Yemen. Also in 1966, again with Watts and also with Mick Ralphs, Griffin played in the Doc Thomas Group. Successful in Italy, the group performed until the summer of 1968 when further changes of band personnel took place. Organist Verden Allen was added and the group changed its name to the Shakedown Sound and then to Silence. In 1969 they moved to London and with the addition of Ian Hunter, in June 1969 Mott The Hoople were formed.
Following the departure of Ian Hunter and Mick Ralphs, Griffin, along with Overend Watts and Morgan Fisher re-formed Mott with guitarist Ray Major and vocalist Nigel Benjamin. Following the departure of Benjamin in 1976 the remaining members regrouped as British Lions, with former Medicine Head member and songwriter John Fiddler, until their demise around 1978. During the 1980s, Griffin produced albums for Hanoi Rocks and The Cult, and the Department S hit, 'Is Vic There?', among others (such as New Model Army).
Griffin also produced numerous BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1981 to 1994. These included:
The first professional recording session for Pulp in 1981.
A session by The Smashing Pumpkins that included the track, "Girl Named Sandoz", which was featured on Pisces Iscariot (in the liner notes, Billy Corgan derisively referred to Griffin as 'Mott The Nipple').
An early session for Nirvana, which appeared on their Incesticide collection.
A session for Carcass in 1989.
A session for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1983.
Aged 58, Griffin was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
In January 2009 it was confirmed that Griffin and the other original members of Mott the Hoople would reform for three 40th anniversary reunion concerts in October 2009. Due to popular demand, the reunion was eventually extended to five shows. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Griffin only performed during the encores. The Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers, a fellow Herefordshire native and friend of the band, played the main set and also covered for Griffin on the 2013 tour.
Dale's brother Bob, also a drummer, plays in Hereford Punk band, Terminal Rage.
Griffin died in his sleep on 17 January 2016 at the age of 67, exactly a week after former collaborator David Bowie died from cancer.
See also
Peel Sessions 1979–1983
The Peel Sessions 1988–90
References
1948 births
2016 deaths
English rock drummers
British male drummers
English record producers
People from Ross-on-Wye
Musicians from Herefordshire
People with Alzheimer's disease
Mott the Hoople members
Glam rock musicians
20th-century British businesspeople
British Lions (band) members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Griffin |
The Blaser R93 Tactical is a German bolt action sniper rifle, based on the Blaser R93 design. It has as variants the Blaser LRS 2 and Tactical 2. It is used by German and Dutch police forces as well as the Australian military and special police units. The rifles were manufactured by the German firearms manufacturer Blaser.
Design
The LRT (Long Range Tactical), LRS 2 (Long Range Sporter 2) and Tactical 2 rifles are straight-pull bolt-action take down sniper rifles. The straight-pull action design was introduced in the Blaser R93 hunting rifle line. These actions allows for faster follow-up shots compared to traditional turn bolt actions. The rifles are designed to fire small groups (sub 0.07 mrad (7 mm at 100 m; 0.25 moa) with factory match ammunition.
The LRS 2 version, comes chambered in .223 Remington, 6mm Norma BR, 6.5×55mm, .308 Winchester and .300 Winchester Magnum.
An uncommon part of its design is that it is a straight-pull bolt-action rather than a turn-bolt, which allows for much faster follow-up shots. The 14-lug radial collet ensures the centering of the cartridge when fed into the chamber assisting in its accuracy. Barrel changes by an experienced person can take place in under 60 seconds.
The Tactical 1 (very low production) or 2 version is available in .223 Remington, .308 Winchester, .300 Winchester Magnum and .338 Lapua Magnum and has a larger frame, action and barrel to accommodate the use of the .338 Lapua Magnum chambering. The sight is mounted directly to the barrel as normal, however, the design allows the barrel and sight to be removed from the body of the rifle by undoing the two hex screws with a hex key accessed from under the body. This allows the rifle to be carried in a more compact fashion and can be reassembled easily in less than 30 seconds. The safety catch is mounted on the rear of the bolt and reveals a large red dot when pushed forward and up to the "fire" position. One feature of the bolt is that when unloaded and no magazine inserted, the safety has to be pushed forward slightly in order to pull the bolt back. The 5 round magazines in .308 calibre sit flush with the underside of the body when inserted.
Variants
R93 Tactical (1st gen) (1993-1997) Synthetic body model. Also available under the designations R93 UIT made for UIT competitions (later ISSF) and R93 CISM made for CISM competitions. Detachable staggered feed double stack 10-round box magazine. Chassis and barrel compatible with the regular R93. UIT and CISM versions came with diopter sights.
R93 Tactical LRS2 (1997-2005) Detachable box magazine, Single Stack (5-round). The 2nd gen is a ruggeriezed version, also known as Long Range Supporter 2 (LRS-2). New magazine design. Some of the different calibers may require different magazines. LRS stands for Long Range Sporter, but the model is sometimes also referred to as LRT for Long Range Tactical.
R93 Tactical LRS2 .338LM Large chassis version to facilitate .338 Lapua Magnum.
Blaser R93 Tactical 2 (2005-) Large chassis version, available in .223 Rem, .308 Win, .300 WinMag, .338LM.
R93 Duo Mod. Hamed Double barreled side by side rifle made to order for Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
R93 Handgun Hunting System An ultra short R93 with a 36 cm barrel and only a pistol grip (no buttstock).
Users
: Used by the Law enforcement in Argentina.
: Used by the Australian Defence Force and various Police Tactical Groups.
: Used by Comando de Operações Táticas (COT) Counter-Terrorism Forces of the Federal Police.
: Used by the Bulgarian Armed Forces Special Forces.
: Used by the Danish AKS [Special police force]
: Used by special unit of Prefecture de Police de Paris named "Brigade d'Intervention"
: Used by German Police.
: Used by Icelandic Police.
: Used by the Pasukan Khas Udara (PASKAU) Counter-Terrorism Forces of the Royal Malaysian Air Force and Special Task And Rescue Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
: Used by Dutch Police.
: Used by Polish Border Guard.
: Used by Federal Protective Service and FSB
: Used by Slovenian Police Special Forces.
: Used by special unit of Security Service of Ukraine named "A Group".
: Used by at least one UK Police Force - notably Avon and Somerset Police
: Used by New Jersey State Police
References
External links
Instruction manual (Eng, Fr and Ger)
Blaser company website
Blaser Tactical 2 at the Blaser company website
Blaser LRS 2 at the Blaser company website
Production of R93 stopped - Blaser (US) website
Brazilian Federal Police used the Blaser LRS2 to kill infamous bank robbers
7.62×51mm NATO rifles
.338 Lapua Magnum rifles
Straight-pull rifles
Post–Cold War weapons of Germany
Sniper rifles of Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaser%20R93%20Tactical |
The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Minho () is an administrative division in northern Portugal. It is situated between the Minho River and Lima River. It was created in October 2008. Since January 2015, Alto Minho is also the designation of a NUTS3 subregion of Norte Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. The main town of the intermunicipal community is Viana do Castelo. The intermunicipal community is coterminous with the Viana do Castelo District. The population in 2011 was 244,836, in an area of 2,218.84 km².
It borders to the north the Galicia autonomous region in Spain and to the south with the Cávado intermunicipal community. It is an area with a strong gastronomic identity and produces a specific type of wine called Vinho Verde (young wine).
Municipalities
It is composed of ten municipalities:
References
External links
Official website CIM Alto Minho
Intermunicipal communities of Portugal
Minho
Norte Region, Portugal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto%20Minho |
The Great Guinness Toast is an annual event that takes place across the world on, according to Guinness, on 13 February but evolved to be the 3rd Friday of February each year. The event is considered to have repeatedly broken the world record for largest toast.
There is much confusion concerning the actual date of the toast mainly due to a lack of information on the web. Many sites are non-Guinness affiliated and have the date listed as the "3rd Friday in February" which has been the US schedule since the mid-1990s. However, Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle Pub in Pittsburgh, PA, the pub claiming to have started the toast, had celebrated it on the 19th of February, 2010 (the third Friday of the month).
History
In 1993, Guinness, authors of the book of world records and purveyors of stouts, ales and lagers, decided to establish a new world record, the world's largest toast.
In 2001 and as captured in the Guinness Book of Records, over 300,000 adults, age 21 and older, raised their pint glasses of Guinness. The Great Guinness Toast will be held in more than 60 cities across the United States.
The Great Guinness Toast was started at Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle Pub in Pittsburgh in 1993.
The toast in 2007 was on February 13, 2007.
The toast in 2008 (15th Anniversary of the Toast) was on February 13, 2008. The toast in 2011 was held on February 18, 2011
References
External links
2013 Guinness Toast binge drinking controversy
Guinness advertising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Guinness%20Toast |
Ole Anton Qvam (5 August 1834 – 8 July 1904) was a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal politician, who was the Norwegian minister of Justice 1891–1893, 1898–1899 and 1900–1902, minister of the Interior 1899–1900, as well as head of the ministry of Auditing, ministry of Agriculture and ministry of Justice in 1900, and Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm 1902–1903.
Biography
Ole Anton Qvam was born in Bolsøy in today's Molde in Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Ole Larsen Qvam (1782–1844) and Johanne Pedersdatter Ryen (1797–1850). Qvam worked as a teacher in Christiania, Arendal and Setesdal. He began studying law at the University of Christiania and became cand.jur. 1862. He founded the Sparbu and Egge savings bank in 1872, where he was chairman of the board 1873–1886. Mayor of Egge from 1869 to 1885.
Qvam was elected to the Storting for Nordre Trondhjems (Nord-Trøndelag) from 1874 to 1885 and for Søndre Trondhjems (Sør-Trøndelag) from 1885 to 1888. He served as president of the Odelstinget from 1886 to 1888.
Qvam was Minister of Justice in the first government of Johannes Steen from March 6, 1891 to May 1, 1893, and later also Justice Minister of Johannes Steen's second government from February 17, 1898 to April 1899. On April 21, 1902, Qvam became Norway's Prime Minister in Stockholm during the first government of Otto Blehr.
Personal life
He was married to feminist pioneer Fredrikke Marie Qvam (1843-1938) who was President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and founded the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. Both he and his wife were co-founders of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884. He retired from government during 1903. He died at Egge on July 8, 1904.
References
1834 births
1904 deaths
People from Molde
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian educators
19th-century Norwegian lawyers
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway
19th-century Norwegian politicians
Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal
Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people
Ministers of Justice of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20Anton%20Qvam |
We Can't Be Stopped is the third studio album by Geto Boys, released on July 9, 1991. It was among their most successful records in terms of units sold. The album is analysed track-by-track by Geto Boys in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique. We Can't Be Stopped was certified Platinum in early 1992.
Recording
We Can't Be Stopped took only a few weeks to record. During the recording of the album, DJ Ready Red, one of the original Geto Boys members, left the group for personal reasons.
In We Can't Be Stopped, each member of the group has three solo tracks. Three tracks have all three members on the rapping roster, including a short verse from DJ Ready Red on the title track.
Album cover
The album cover is a graphic picture of member Bushwick Bill in the hospital. Bill was shot in the eye as he and his girlfriend tussled over a gun. Bushwick Bill wanted her to kill him and during the altercation he was shot as both hands were on the gun. The other two Geto Boys members and the group's management team took Bill out of the hospital room in order to take the picture, removing his eyepatch and intravenous drip in the process. Bill later expressed regret over the album cover, saying, "It still hurts me to look at that cover because that was a personal thing I went through... I still feel the pain from the fact I've got a bullet in my brain... I think it was pretty wrong to do it, even though I went along with the program at first."
Reception
Fred Thomas from AllMusic called the album "[the group's] most visceral work, rising to platinum success against the odds and inspiring innovation in the genre with its powerful and distinctively Southern perspective on what rap could be." James Bernard of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a "B," saying that much of the “album stings, and their raw honesty has driven it onto the Billboard pop Top 40..."
The track "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" has been singled out for praise. Pitchfork Media ranked the song #45 on its Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s list, with reviewer Tom Breihan writing "This track established the South as a serious force in the music, proving that these Texans could do dark better than anyone on either coast." XXL ranked the song #14 on its list of the 250 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs from 1990 to 1999. The Source gave the track its "Best Song" award in 1991. Robert Christgau gave the album a choice cut rating, only liking "Mind Playing Tricks on Me."
There's a 'Chopped and Screwed' version of the album by DJ Spice.
Track listing
Sample credits
The following samples were used on We Can't Be Stopped:
"Rebel Rap Family"
"Scarface Theme" by Giorgio Moroder
"Homie Don't Play That"
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" by Funkadelic
"More Bounce to the Ounce" by Zapp & Roger
"West Coast Poplock" by Ronnie Hudson
"Atomic Dog" by George Clinton
"Pumpin' It Up" by P-Funk Allstars
"So Ruff, So Tuff" by Roger Troutman
"Mind Playing Tricks on Me"
"Hung Up on My Baby" by Isaac Hayes
"The Jam" by Graham Central Station
"I'm Not a Gentleman"
"I Heard That!!" by Quincy Jones
"You'll Like It Too" by Funkadelic
"Gota Let Your Nuts Hang"
"Corey Died on the Battlefield" by The Wild Magnolias
"Fuck a War"
"Devil With the Bust" by Sound Experience
"Ain't With Being Broke"
"Damn Right I Am Somebody" by Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s
"Quickie"
"Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers
"Oh Honey" by The Delegation
"Punk-Bitch Game"
"Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" by Sly and the Family Stone
"The Other Level"
"God Make Me Funky" by The Headhunters and The Pointer Sisters
"Love Hangover" by Diana Ross
"Kool Is Back" by Funk Inc.
"Trophy"
"Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" by Public Enemy
"Catch a Groove" by Juice
"Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango
"I Gotcha" by Joe Tex
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Singles
Certifications
References
1991 albums
Geto Boys albums
Horrorcore albums
Rap-A-Lot Records albums
G-funk albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Can%27t%20Be%20Stopped |
El Pescadero is a small village in the municipality of La Paz in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
It is located at km 64 on Federal Highway 19 on the Pacific Ocean about 8 kilometers South of Todos Santos which is about a one-hour drive north of Cabo San Lucas. The Mexican census of 2020 reported a population of 2,245 inhabitants.
Climate
The climate is heavily influenced by the Pacific Ocean, which moderates the temperatures year round.
Pescadero is bordered by the Sierra de la Laguna mountains to the East. In the huerta area of Pescadero (the farm land area,) palm-lined roads and farms co-exist with low-density private residences. A common sight in the huerta are the chili and basil fields. Most of these crops are grown for export.
Commercial farming in Pescadero flourishes because of an ample supply of underground water funneled down from the mountains. Air from the Pacific Ocean is pushed up the Sierra de la Laguna mountain range and is met with hotter air from the Gulf of California, resulting in frequent mountain rain storms that persist through the summer and fall.
Surfing
Surf breaks punctuate the length of the peninsula's Pacific coast. Two of the best are located in El Pescadero: Los Cerritos and San Pedrito. Both beaches have right breaks. Los Cerritos is better for beginner and intermediate surfers, while San Pedrito is considered an advanced surfer's break because of its rocky bottom and strong currents.
Festivals
Each March, the puebla hosts the Chili and Strawberry Festival, celebrating and promoting the area's agriculture. Organic produce and plants are offered for sale, food is available to sample, and agricultural products and tools are on display from vendors. The festival includes a dance, crowning of a queen, and a cabalgante - a procession of horse and riders from Todos Santos to the festival in Pescadero.
References
External links
2010 census tables: INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Populated places in Baja California Sur
La Paz Municipality (Baja California Sur) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Pescadero |
The Blaser R93 is a straight-pull action precision rifle offered in a multitude of calibers and barrel lengths manufactured by the German firearms manufacturer Blaser. Designed by Blasers' designer Mr. Meinhard Zeh in 1993, it had a number of features rare on modern hunting rifles, including a manual cocking system and a proprietary Blaser saddle scope mount for mounting the optic directly to the quick-change barrel
In 2002, more than 100,000 complete Blaser R93 rifles had been produced. By 2017, more than 200,000 R93 rifles had been produced, but it is not clear whether the R93 Tactical variant is included in these numbers.
History
The predecessor of the R93 was the 60 degree turn bolt action Blaser R84, which was discontinued after the introduction of the R93 in 1993.
The successor of R93, Blaser R8, was introduced in 2008. Production of the R93 ended by 2017.
Design features
Modularity
The Blaser R93 is a truly modular system built around an aluminium alloy frame, offering differing stocks and barrels varying length and thickness available in chamberings from .22 LR to .375 H&H Magnum/.416 Remington Magnum/.458 Winchester Magnum size. It also came in caliber 28 (13.97 mm; 0.550 in) as a shotgun/slug barrel.
The barrel has a quick-change design which lets the user switch barrels using two screws and a hex key. Different bolt heads for different groups of calibers and magazine inserts are also user changeable, making the Blaser R93 a modular firearm capable of using a multitude of calibers in its chassis. A R93 Rimfire conversion kit was also available in .22 Long Rifle and .17 HMR consisting of a new magazine, barrel, bolt head and bolt catch insert.
The rifle has a shorter overall length compare to more traditional designs due to the trigger being placed under the magazine. The rifle also has a reputation for being easy to disassemble and reassemble which can be an advantage when doing maintenance or during travelling, and has a reputation for having a repeatable zero upon reassembly.
Scope mounts
The Blaser is unique because the scope mounts on the barrel instead of the receiver. A Scope/barrel assembly can be removed and replaced with no change in zero. In 2009, Blaser and Carl Zeiss AG began offering a scope that switches on a red dot when the R93/R8 are cocked ("Zeiss Illumination Control/iC"). The iC system is based on the Zeiss rail.
Trigger
To avoid accidents with set triggers, Blaser offers the R93 only with a direct trigger, also known as single-stage triggers. The manual cocking system, or "de-cocking safety", enables the shooter to securely carry the weapon, only cocking the rifle just before the shot.
Per US importer armusa.com,
http://armusa.com/SigarmsRifles6.htm
"Also contributing to the Blaser's performance are its patented sear-free trigger mechanism and completely free-floated barrel." A free-floated barrel is a common modern accurizing technique, but searless triggers are quite novel.
Bolt design
The R93 straight-pull bolt action locks by a 14-lug radial collet in a 360 degrees groove in the barrel and is designed to withstand pressures significantly exceeding the Mauser 98–type bolt-action rifles. The Blaser R93 displays a locking surface of compared to for the Mauser 98. The bolt is symmetric and self-centering, providing a basis for increased accuracy. The stressed parts are made out of hammer forged steel and plasma nitrided to provide corrosion resistance and mechanical strength. In addition to the primary lockup by the bolt head into the barrel, the R93 also features a secondary lockup for added safety. While secondary lockup on turn bolt rifles is achieved with the bolt handle, secondary lockup on the R93 this is achieved with a camplate which supports the locked action against a hardened steelplate in the rear part of the magazine-box. The bolt knob uses M6 threads, enabling the use of aftermarket bolt knobs.
Available chamberings
Below is a list of some of the available factory chamberings for the R93. Several different barrel profiles were also available, such as Standard, Octagonal, Semi Weight, "Stutzen", Match or Safari
Letters in parentheses corresponding stamping on the bolt head.
Hornet (HO)
.22 Hornet
Mini (MI) caliber group
.204 Ruger
.222 Rem
.223 Rem
Standard (ST) caliber group
22-250
243 Win
5.6×57mm
6 mm Norma BR
6mm Rem
6×62mm Frères
.25-06 Rem
6.5×55mm
6.5×57
6.5×65 RWS
.270 Win
7×57
7×64mm
.308 Win
.30-06 Springfield
8×57mm
9.3×62mm
.45 Blaser
Medium (ME) caliber group
6.5×68mm
7.5×55mm
8×68mm S
9.3×64mm Brenneke
Magnum (MA) caliber group
.257 Weatherby Magnum
.264 Winchester Magnum
.270 Winchester Short Magnum
7 mm Rem Mag
.300 Win Mag
.300 Weatherby Magnum
.300 WSM
.338 Win Mag
.375 H&H Magnum
.416 Rem Mag
.458 Lott
Ultra Magnum (UM) caliber group
7 mm STW
.300 Rem Ultra Mag
Jeffery (JE) caliber group
.500 Jeffery
Swiss (CH) caliber group
10.3×60R Swiss (single shot)
Shot (28) caliber group
Caliber 28 (13.97 mm; 0.550 in) shotgun/slug barrel.
Successors
The R93 was upgraded to the Blaser R8 introduced in 2008, which has a detachable box magazine/trigger combination. Production of complete R93 rifles ceased in 2016. The Blaser R8 displays an enlarged locking surface of compared to of the R93. While the R93 collet has a locking angle of about 50 degrees, the angle of the R8 has been steepened to almost 90 degrees. Further the radial collet opens differently. This results in a less smooth operating bolt of the R8 when compared to the R93 series and some weight increase. Other differences are that the R8 is a little heavier and is offered in a wider range of chamberings. Parts for the R93 in general do not fit the R8 series rifles, except for scope mounts.
Recalls
In 2000, a recall was announced on R93 rifles delivered with plastic bolt carriers. According to Blaser, only 0.4% of all R93 rifles had been delivered with plastic bolt carriers, and only on the R93 Offroad model. Due to the increased risk of accidents, Blaser offered to replace all such plastic bolt carriers with a regular aluminum bolt carrier for free.
In May 2003, Blaser issued a recall on all R93 rifles sold in the United States, except the UIT, CISM, and LRS/LRS2 models, because non-stainless steel pins inadvertently had been used in some trigger units. Owners were urged to have their rifles inspected by Blaser's US representative to see if their trigger unit was affected, and if so be changed from a non-stainless to a stainless one.
Incidents
In 1994, after a shooting accident near Koblenz in Germany, the R93 was criticised with claims that it could not withstand high pressures, and that the bolt would unlock when excessive pressures were generated.
In August 2003, 41-year-old Norwegian Jan Sørlie had an accident where his R93 chambered for 8×68mm S exploded, resulting in loss of an eye and a skull fracture requiring titanium replacement. Sørlie reported that had used handloaded ammunition loaded with Norma MRP powder and a projectile.
In January 2004, 38-year-old German Albrecht Huf had an accident near Koblenz in Germany where his R93 chambered in .300 Weatherby Magnum exploded. Huf sustained injury to his thumb, jaw and zygomatic bone. He claimed to have used Weatherby factory ammunition only. An investigation by the German DEVA institute concluded that handloaded .300 Weatherby Magnum ammunition had been used that greatly exceeded the maximum safe gas pressure for the round.
In July 2009, Spaniard Jesus Nieto had an accident near Madrid in Spain where his R93 rifle chambered for 7mm Remington Magnum exploded, causing the bolt carrier to hit and damage his maxilar bone. The accident was determined by the shooter to be due to faulty ammunition leaving a fired bullet stuck in the barrel, causing an explosion
on the subsequent shot. The shooter stated that he had used Remington Safari Grade commercial ammunition.
In July 2014, 69-year-old Christer Svensson experienced an accident where his R93 chambered for .30-06 Springfield exploded while loading his rifle on a shooting range near Bollnäs in Sweden, resulting in the bolt hitting his face. Svensson was using Norma factory ammunition. He turned in the rifle to Blaser, but wanted the Swedish National Forensic Centre to investigate the matter. However, he later agreed to the wish of Blaser and its Swedish distributors that all technical investigation would be performed by the German DEVA institute. The DEVA report concluded that the damages to the firearm almost certainly came from a combination of an overpressure and a problem with the casing of the cartridge. Svensson told the Swedish hunting and firearms magazine Svensk Jakt that he had difficulties getting his firearm back from the testing, and that it had been modified when he finally received it. He stated that the chamber and bolt head had been chopped off, and that the barrel did not have a stamped serial number anymore, and claimed the serial number appeared to have been reapplied by hand. He also claimed his rifle originally had a front sight mounted to it which was missing on the returned barrel.
In August 2014, Svensk Jakt wrote that another Swede, Tony Kristoffersson, had experienced an explosion with his R93 while on a Beaver hunt the same year. He described that his rifle had made a clicking sound as if it had failed to fire, but exploded when he tried to pull the bolt back, which resulted in the bolt hitting his hand. The Swedish Blaser distributor later stated that while it is possible to pull the trigger without the bolt being fully locked into battery, the firing pin is designed such that it will not hit the primer with sufficient force to ignite the cartridge.
See also
Heym SR 30
Lynx 94
Rößler Titan 16
Ross rifle
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718203209/http://www.blaser.de/R93-Characteristics.119.0.html?&L=1
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718203223/http://www.blaser.de/uploads/media/R93_modularsystem_en_07.pdf
Hunting rifles
Straight-pull rifles
Modular firearms
Rifles of Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaser%20R93 |
Just Knud Qvigstad (4 April 1853 – 15 March 1957) was a Norwegian philologist, linguist, ethnographer, historian and cultural historian. He was also a headmaster in Tromsø, and a politician for the Conservative Party who served as mayor of Tromsø and as Minister of Education and Church Affairs.
Personal life
He was born in Lyngseidet as a son of district physician Engebret Qvigstad (1814–1869) and Petra Krogh Wadel (1828–1905). In August 1885 in Hammerfest he married Margrethe Antonette Aagaard (1859–1949). Their son Just Knut Qvigstad was a notable engineer. He was also a brother-in-law of Arnfinn Palmstrøm.
Career in education and politics
He was homeschooled until the age of ten, when he moved to Tromsø where he took the examen artium in 1869. He enrolled in philology studies at the Royal Frederick University in 1870 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1874. He was a teacher in Christiania from 1874 to 1875 and in Tromsø from 1875 to 1880, from 1878 at Tromsø Seminary. He studied from 1880 to 1881 to take the cand.theol. degree, and was hired as headmaster at Tromsø Seminary in 1883. He remained here to 1920. From 1910 to 1912 he was the Minister of Education and Church Affairs in Konow's Cabinet. As a politician he was also a member of Tromsø city council from 1889 to 1907, serving as mayor in the years 1889, 1905 and 1907.
Academic career
Qvigstad also made a name for himself as an academic. An interest in Sami language and culture started when he was hired at Tromsø Seminary, and he published his first of 112 academic works in 1881. This was Beiträge zur Vergleichung des verwandten Wortvorrathes der Lappischen und der finnischen Sprache, published in the Finnish journal Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. Other important linguistic works include Nordische Lehnwörter in Lappischen (1893). He co-wrote the eighteenth volume of Norske Gaardnavne, about farm names and place names in Finnmark, and followed with Spitsbergens stedsnavne før 1900 (1927), De lappiske stedsnavn i Troms fylke (1935), De lappiske stedsnavn i Finnmark og Nordland fylker (1938) and De lappiske appellative stedsnavn (1944). Historical works include Den kvenske indvandring til Nord-Norge (1921), about Kven immigration to Northern Norway. Cultural historical works include Lappiske Eventyr og Folkesagn (with Georg Sandberg, 1887), Lappiske eventyr og sagn (four volumes, 1927–1929) and Lappische Heilkunde (1932). His academic institution was Tromsø Museum, where he was a board member from 1884, and curator of the Sami collections from 1884 to 1931. However, most of his publications came after his retirement age. His last academic work was Opptegnelser fra samenes liv, released in 1954 when Qvigstad was 101 years old.
He was a member of the Société Finno-Ougrienne from 1885, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1888 and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1894. He was an honorary member of the Société Finno-Ougrienne from 1910 and Tromsø Museum from 1926, and Festschrifts were issued for his 75th and 100th birthdays. He was awarded the Gunnerus Medal in 1930, and in 1943 a "Headmaster Qvigstad's Gold Medal" was inaugurated by Tromsø Museum. He was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1912, and as a Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
He was a co-founder and board member of Norsk Finnemission from 1888 to 1916 and of the regional Norwegian Bible Society office from 1889 to 1910. He was also a board member of Tromsø Sparebank.
References
1853 births
1957 deaths
People from Lyngen
Politicians from Tromsø
Mayors of places in Troms
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian philologists
Linguists from Norway
Norwegian ethnographers
20th-century Norwegian historians
Translators of the Bible into Sámi
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Norwegian centenarians
Men centenarians
Ministers of Education of Norway
19th-century Norwegian historians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20Knud%20Qvigstad |
District 20 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Brooks, Jim Wells counties and portions of Hidalgo and Nueces counties in the U.S. state of Texas.
The current Senator from District 20 is Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa.
Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 20 has a population of 833,339 with 577,960 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.
Election history
Election history of District 20 from 1992.
Previous elections
2020
2016
2012
2008
2004
2002
1998
1994
1992
District officeholders
Notes
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Brooks County, Texas
Hidalgo County, Texas
Jim Wells County, Texas
Nueces County, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Senate%2C%20District%2020 |
Chludov Psalter (; Moscow, Hist. Mus. MS. D.129) is an illuminated marginal Psalter made in the middle of the 9th Century. It is a unique monument of Byzantine art at the time of the Iconoclasm, one of only three illuminated Byzantine Psalters to survive from the 9th century.
According to one tradition, the miniatures are supposed to have been created clandestinely, and many of them are directed against Iconoclasts. Many contain explanations of the drawings written next to them, and little arrows point out from the main text to the illustration, to show which line the picture refers to. The polemical style of the whole ensemble is highly unusual, and a demonstration of the furious passions the Iconoclast dispute generated.
The psalter measures 195 mm by 150 mm and contains only 169 folios. The outer edges of the pages are normally left blank in order to be covered with illustrations. The text and captions were written in a diminutive uncial script, but many of these were rewritten in crude minuscule about three centuries later. The book contains the Psalms in the arrangement of the Septuagint, and the responses to be chanted during their recitation, which follow the Liturgy of Hagia Sophia, the Imperial church in Constantinople.
In the illustration to the right, the miniaturist illustrated the line "They gave me gall to eat; and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink" with a picture of a soldier offering Christ vinegar on a sponge attached to a pole. Below is a picture of the last Iconoclast Patriarch of Constantinople, John the Grammarian rubbing out a painting of Christ with a similar sponge attached to a pole. John is caricatured, here as on other pages, with untidy straight hair sticking out in all directions, which was considered ridiculous by the elegant Byzantines.
Nikodim Kondakov hypothesized that the psalter was created in the famous monastery of St John the Studite in Constantinople. Other scholars believe that the liturgical responses it contains were only used in Hagia Sophia, and that it was therefore a product of the Imperial workshops in Constantinople, soon after the return of the Iconophiles to power in 843.
It was kept at Mount Athos until 1847, when a Russian scholar brought it to Moscow. The psalter was then acquired by Aleksey Khludov, whose name it bears today. It passed as part of the Khludov bequest to the Nikolsky Old Believer Monastery and then to the State Historical Museum.
References
Robin Cormack, Writing in Gold, Byzantine Society and its Icons, 1985, George Philip, London,
Kathleen Corrigan, Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992),
Further reading
Evans, Helen C. & Wixom, William D., The glory of Byzantium: art and culture of the Middle Byzantine era, A.D. 843-1261, no. 52, 1997, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
External links
Catalog Entry for MS. D.129 at the State Historical Museum, Moscow
Overview
Illustrations
Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
Illuminated psalters
9th-century biblical manuscripts
Septuagint manuscripts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chludov%20Psalter |
Liudmila Andreyevna Privivkova () (born 13 September 1986 in Moscow; also spelled Ludmila or Liudmilla, but she spells it Liudmila) is a curler (Skip) from Russia.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, she was the skip for the Russian team. Apart from the national team, she plays for the Moskvitch Curling Club, from Moscow. She won the World Junior Curling Championships in Jeonju, Korea on 19 March 2006 and the 2006 European Curling Championships in December the same year.
Her team also qualified for the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship, but did not enjoy the same success as in the European tournament, finishing tied for 8th place with a 4-7 record.
She qualified for her third world championship in 2008.
Teammates
2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
Anna Sidorova, Third
Nkeiruka Ezekh, Second
Ekaterina Galkina, Lead
Margarita Fomina, Alternate
Grand Slam record
Key
C – Champion
F – Lost final
SF – Lost semi final
QF – Lost quarter final
Q – Did not make playoffs
DNP – Did not participate in event
N/A – not a Grand Slam event that season
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Russian female curlers
Curlers from Moscow
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers for Russia
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2007 Winter Universiade
Russian curling champions
European curling champions
Universiade medalists in curling
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
Universiade bronze medalists for Russia
Competitors at the 2007 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudmila%20Privivkova |
Henry Fletcher may refer to:
Sir Henry Fletcher, 1st Baronet, of Hutton le Forest (died 1645)
Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet, of Hutton le Forest (1661–1712), English MP for Cockermouth
Henry Fletcher (engraver) (fl. 1710–1750), English engraver
Sir Henry Fletcher, 1st Baronet, of Clea Hall (1727–1807), British MP for Cumberland
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 4th Baronet (1835–1910), British MP for Horsham and Lewes
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (1887–1969), Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1954–1961
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 8th Baronet (born 1945), Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire since 2006
Henry A. Fletcher (1839–1897), American Civil War veteran and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
Henry Fletcher (mayor) (1859–1953), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island 1909–1913
Henry P. Fletcher (1873–1959), U.S. diplomat and RNC chair
Henry Fletcher (cricketer) (1882–1937), English cricketer
Henry Fletcher (missionary) (1868–1933), New Zealand missionary and Presbyterian minister
Henry Fletcher, pen name of Fletcher Hanks
See also
Henry Fletcher House, historic house in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886), British diplomat
Harry Fletcher (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Fletcher |
Chamberlain University is a private for-profit healthcare and nursing school with locations across the United States and online programs. It offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs in nursing and a public health master's degree. It is a subsidiary of Adtalem Global Education, formerly DeVry Education Group. The university is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
History
The roots of Chamberlain University are with its predecessor, Deaconess School of Nursing; its related organization, Deaconess Central Hospital; and the Deaconess tradition of service.
The Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth, Germany, established the first Deaconess Home and Hospital in 1836. The word deaconess means “one who is devoted to service”, being the feminine gender of the word deacon. The Deaconess Foundation exists today as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Deaconess Central Hospital was first established in St. Louis in 1889 by the Evangelical Deaconess Society of St. Louis, which was part of the Evangelical Synod that later merged with other Protestant denominations to form the United Church of Christ. The hospital was first at 2119 Eugenia Street, then moved to 4117 West Belle Place in 1893, and finally ended at 6150 Oakland Avenue in 1930. The hospital, by then named Forest Park Hospital, was sold to Tenet Healthcare Corp. of Dallas in 1997. In 2004, Forest Park Hospital was purchased by Argilla Healthcare Inc., which merged with Doctors Community Healthcare Corp. of Scottsdale, Arizona, becoming Envision Hospital Corp. It was acquired by Success Healthcare LLC in 2008. Its emergency room was closed in 2011 following many difficult years that included the laying off of the majority of their employees. In 2012, its property was purchased by the nearby St. Louis Zoo as part of a 20-year expansion project.
The Deaconess School of Nursing was established in 1943. It was purchased by DeVry (later known as
Adtalem Global Education, Inc.) and became the Chamberlain College of Nursing in 2005. It was subsequently renamed Chamberlain University. Its headquarters is located in Downers Grove, Illinois.
In 2017, Chamberlain College of Nursing students in Texas protested a new requirement that they pass a comprehensive test to graduate. This followed the Texas Board of Nursing's decision to forbid Chamberlain from enrolling new students after a significant number of recent graduates were failing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX).
Academics
Chamberlain University has two colleges, the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission with some specific programs accredited by other accrediting bodies. Degree programs include the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, Master of Public Health, Master of Social Work, and Doctor of Nursing Practice.
Campuses
Addison, Illinois
Atlanta, Georgia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chicago, Illinois
Columbus, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Houston, Texas
Indianapolis, Indiana
Irving, Texas
Irwindale, California
Jacksonville, Florida
Las Vegas, Nevada
Miramar, Florida
New Orleans, Louisiana
North Brunswick, New Jersey
Pearland, Texas
Phoenix, Arizona
Sacramento, California
San Antonio, Texas
St. Louis, Missouri
Tinley Park, Illinois
Troy, Michigan
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Student outcomes
The US Department of Education's College Scorecard reports the following regarding Chamberlain-Illinois:
74 percent graduation rate
Median salary after attending of $55,000 to $71,000
Repayment rate (2 years after entering repayment: 26% Making Progress, 26% Not Making Progress, 21% Forbearance, 15% Deferment, 6% Paid In Full, 3% Delinquent, 3% Defaulted, 0% Discharged
References
External links
Official website
For-profit universities and colleges in the United States
Educational institutions established in 1889
1889 establishments in Missouri
Adtalem Global Education
Nursing schools in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamberlain%20University |
The Battle of Paducah was fought on March 25, 1864, during the American Civil War. A Confederate cavalry force led by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest moved into Tennessee and Kentucky to capture Union supplies. Tennessee had been occupied by Union troops since 1862. He launched a successful raid on Paducah, Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
Events
In March 1864, Forrest set out from Columbus, Mississippi, for raiding in West Tennessee and Kentucky, with a force of just under 3,000 men. His object was to recruit soldiers, re-equip his men with supplies, and disrupt Union activities. He reached Paducah on March 25 and quickly occupied the town. The Union garrison of 650 men under Col. Stephen G. Hicks withdrew to Fort Anderson, in the town's west end. The fort was supported by two Union gunboats on the Ohio River, and Hicks began shelling the area with his artillery.
Forrest tried to bluff Hicks into surrendering, warning him, "... if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." Knowing the fort could not be easily taken, Hicks rejected the demand.
With the Union garrison holed up in their fort, Forrest's men began loading any Union Army supplies they could use into wagons and destroyed the rest. They rounded up all the army horses and mules they could find. A portion of Forrest's men from Kentucky decided to attack Fort Anderson on their own, much to his irritation. This attack constituted the Battle of Paducah. It was repulsed, causing the Confederates heavy and needless casualties. In reporting on the raid, many newspapers stated that Forrest missed more than a hundred fine horses hidden by the Yankees. As a result, Forrest sent Colonel Abraham Buford back to Paducah in mid-April and he captured these horses.
Casualties during the Paducah raid totaled 90 Union soldiers and 50 Confederates, most of them during the attack on the fort. The raid was counted as a victory for the Confederates because they had fewer casualties and gained some supplies, but they achieved little beyond destroying Union supplies and capturing needed cavalry mounts. They did not take the fort or alter control of the region. The raid put the Union Army on notice that Forrest and other Confederates raiders could still strike deep into Union-held territory.
See also
List of battles fought in Kentucky
References
External links
"Battle of Paducah", National Park Service description
Update to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission: Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields /Commonwealth of Kentucky'', National Park Service, Washington, DC: October 2008
Paducah
Paducah
Paducah
Paducah
Paducah
McCracken County, Kentucky
1864 in Kentucky
Paducah
March 1864 events | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Paducah |
Joanna Bruzdowicz (17 May 1943 – 3 November 2021) was a Polish composer.
Life
Born in Warsaw, Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music (composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Protasiewicz and Wanda Osakiewicz); she earned her M.A. in 1966. She continued her studies in Paris on a scholarship from the French government and became a student of Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer (1968–70). She joined the electroacoustic Groupe de Recherches Musicales and wrote her doctoral thesis "Mathematics and Logic in Contemporary Music" at the Sorbonne.
After completing her studies in France, she settled in Belgium with her husband, Horst-Jürgen Tittel, former top advisor to the president of the European Commission. Together, they created the 36-episode German TV series Stahlkammer Zürich for which Bruzdowicz wrote over 15 hours of music. They lived in the South of France. They have three sons: Mark, Jan and Jörg Tittel.
Artistic range
As a composer, she devoted her attention to opera, symphonic and chamber music, works for children, and music for film and television. She wrote four concerti and numerous chamber pieces, as well as over 25 hours of film music. Her compositions were featured on 12 CDs and over 20 LPs; she was featured in TV programs produced in Belgium, France, Germany and Poland.
Her output included several operas which brought to the stage some of the greatest works of European literature (e.g. The Penal Colony, after Franz Kafka, 1972; The Women of Troy after Euripides, 1973; and The Gates of Paradise, after Jerzy Andrzejewski, 1987).
Bruzdowicz had a long-standing creative relationship with French film director Agnès Varda, for whom she composed soundtracks for movies from Sans Toit Ni Loi (engl. Vagabond, Golden Lion in Venice, 1985) to Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (engl. The Gleaners and I), her multiple award-winning documentary.
More recently, her music could be heard in her second collaboration with director Yves Angelo, Les Ames Grises (engl. The Grey Souls), the last movie starring French comedian Jacques Villeret.
Selected recordings
Leila oratorio to text by Christiane Schapira
Film score
1997: An Air So Pure
Sources
Polish Music Center at USC
References
External links
Interview with Joanna Bruzdowicz, 7 May 1991
Joanna Bruzdowicz's biography on Cdmc website
1943 births
2021 deaths
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Polish women classical composers
Women film score composers
Women opera composers
Musicians from Warsaw
Polish classical composers
Polish film score composers
Polish opera composers
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers
Polish women composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Bruzdowicz |
Pescadero is the Spanish word for 'fishmonger'.
Pescadero may also refer to:
Places
Pescadero, California, USA, a town in San Mateo County, California
Pescadero State Beach
El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico, a coastal town north of Cabo San Lucas
Punta Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico, a point of land served by the Punta Pescadero Airstrip
"Pescadero" (see History of Mozilla Firefox), codename for version 0.1 of Mozilla Firefox
Streams
Pescadero Creek, a stream in San Mateo County, California
Pescadero Creek (Pajaro River), a stream in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, tributary to the Pajaro River in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescadero |
Colin Stanley Gum (4 June 1924 – 29 April 1960) was an Australian astronomer known for his cataloguing of emission nebulae and the publication of his findings.
Early life and education
Gum was born at Quambi Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, son of Stanley Sturt Edgar Gum and Ivy Olive (née Storr), of Appila, South Australia. His father, a farmer who had served as a private in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, died before Colin's birth.
Gum received his BSc honours degree from the University of Adelaide in 1949, going directly to the Mount Stromlo Observatory, based upon work conducted at which he was awarded his MSc from the University of Adelaide in 1951. He was awarded his PhD in 1955 by the Australian National University, one of the first recipients of this degree from that institution.
Career
Gum catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae which presented a catalog, now known as the Gum catalog, of 85 nebulae or nebular complexes. Gum 12, a large area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour. Gum was part of the team, whose number included Frank John Kerr and Gart Westerhout, that determined the precise position of the neutral hydrogen plane in space.
Gum was appointed Head of the Observational Optical Astronomy programme at the University of Sydney in 1959. He died in a skiing accident at Zermatt, Switzerland the following year. He was the brother-in-law of academic Fay Gale. The crater Gum on the Moon is named after him.
References
External links
Short biography
Gum Nebula
SouthernSkyPhoto.com
The Cloud Hunters
Illustrated Gum Catalog
20th-century Australian astronomers
1924 births
1960 deaths
Skiing deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Stanley%20Gum |
District 21 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Bee, Caldwell, Duval, Jim Hogg, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio, Starr, Webb, Wilson, and Zapata and portions of Atascosa, Bexar, Guadalupe, Hays, and Travis counties in the U.S. state of Texas.
The current Senator from District 21 is Judith Zaffirini.
Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 21 has a population of 807,460 with 567,099 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.
Election history
Election history of District 21 from 1992.
Previous elections
2020
2016
2012
2008
2004
2002
2000
1996
1994
1992
District officeholders
Notes
References
21
Atascosa County, Texas
Bee County, Texas
Bexar County, Texas
Caldwell County, Texas
Duval County, Texas
Guadalupe County, Texas
Hays County, Texas
Jim Hogg County, Texas
Karnes County, Texas
La Salle County, Texas
Live Oak County, Texas
McMullen County, Texas
San Patricio County, Texas
Starr County, Texas
Travis County, Texas
Webb County, Texas
Wilson County, Texas
Zapata County, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Senate%2C%20District%2021 |
Fred Garrigus Holloway (1898-1988) was an American bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1960. He also served as president of Western Maryland College (1935–47) and Drew University (1948–60).
Education
Holloway graduated in 1918 from Western Maryland College (now renamed McDaniel College), then earned a B.D. from Drew University in 1921.
Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, he was involved in education. He was Professor of Biblical Languages and President of Westminster Theological Seminary. He was also President (1935–47) of Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland.
He became Dean of the Drew Theological Seminary, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey in 1947. Just one year later he was offered the Presidency of the University upon the retirement of President Arlo Ayres Brown. As the seventh President of Drew from 1948–60, renovating and rebuilding the antiquated campus became his greatest legacy. New buildings, such as the Baldwin Gymnasium and many dormitories, were completed under his leadership. A graduate study curriculum was also instituted. Upon his election to the Episcopacy, Bishop Holloway left the university for his new role, and was assigned to West Virginia.
See also
List of bishops of the United Methodist Church
References
Biographical Notes: Presidents and Key Figures in the History of Drew University (Drew Univ. Library)
1898 births
1988 deaths
20th-century American educators
American religion academics
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
American biblical scholars
Bishops of The Methodist Church (USA)
Seminary academics
Presidents of United Methodist seminaries
Drew University alumni
American university and college faculty deans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Garrigus%20Holloway |
Antiochia Lamotis (), Antiochia in Isauria (), or Antiochia super Cragum is a Hellenistic city in ancient Cilicia, Anatolia at the mouth of Lamos (or Lamus) river. The site is on the coast a few km southwest of Erdemli, Mersin Province, Turkey.
During Roman times, it was capital of the Lamotis Region, Cilicia. The town also bore the name Lamus or Lamos (Λάμος). The river is mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium, and both the river and the town by Strabo and Ptolemy. The river, which is otherwise of no importance, formed the boundary between Cilicia Aspera and Cilicia Propria.
The town later became the seat of a bishop; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see in the Roman Catholic Church under the name of Lamus.
References
Archaeological sites in Mersin Province, Turkey
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Seleucid colonies in Anatolia
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Ruins in Turkey
Former populated places in Cilicia
Geography of Mersin Province
Populated places in ancient Cilicia
Populated places in ancient Isauria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochia%20Lamotis |
Carcegna is a small village located above the eastern shore of Lake Orta, at an altitude of 490m, in the Province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy.
Administratively a frazione of the commune of Miasino, it has 260 inhabitants, called Carcegnesi. Its patron saint is Saint Peter, celebrated on 29 June.
Archaeological excavations have brought to light Gaulish, Gallo-Roman and Etruscan remains. In the outskirts of the village there are ruins of a fortification, probably of Lombard origin.
The village is mentioned in the "Liber Cleri" as dependent of the parish church of San Giulio di Orta in 1133.
The current church was built in 1661 over the foundations of the preceding Romanesque one. It has paintings by Luigi Scaramuccia, and Federico Bianchi, and frescos by Luca Rossetti.
Frazioni of the Province of Novara
Miasino | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcegna |
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