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Flora Hill Secondary College was a public co-educational secondary school, catering for students in Year 7 to Year 10, located in , Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Overview
In 2009, the college had an enrolment of over 1200 students, supported by over 100 staff . Year 10 students have the opportunity to specialise in specific areas of interest. Senior students also have the opportunity to undertake some units of their Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) at the college. Most of the students who elected to go on to achieve the VCE do so at Bendigo Senior Secondary College. Before becoming co-educational, Bendigo South East was known as Flora Hill Secondary College, and before that both Flora Hill High School and The Bendigo's School for Domestic Arts, a Girls High School.
Flora Hill Secondary College, in honour of it history, named their sporting houses after influential females in history. Gold was (Caroline) Chisholm, Red was Bronte after the three Bronte sisters, Blue was (Daisy) Bates and Green was (Florence) Nightingale.
Flora Hill Secondary College amalgamated with Golden Square Secondary College in 2008. The new school, on the Flora Hill Secondary College site, is called Bendigo South East College.
See also
List of schools in Victoria, Australia
Bendigo South East College
References
Defunct public high schools in Victoria (state)
Education in Bendigo
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Alive Again may refer to:
"Alive Again" (Chicago song), 1978
"Alive Again" (Cher song), 2002
Alive Again (Nightingale album), 2003
Alive Again (Nuclear Assault album), 2003
Alive Again (Matt Maher album), 2009
Alive Again (The Neal Morse Band album), 2016
See also
Live Again (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive%20Again |
Jim Starkey (born January 6, 1949 in Illinois) is a database architect responsible for developing InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning, the blob column type, type event alerts, arrays and triggers. Starkey is the founder of several companies, including the web application development and database tool company Netfrastructure and NuoDB.
Education and career
Jim Starkey graduated from University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. After graduating, Starkey worked at Computer Corporation of America on a research project to build a database machine for ARPAnet.
Starkey's first major computer language was STOP, an assembler emulator
written in 1965 and used by IIT for undergraduate instruction. Starkey joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1975. At DEC, he created the DATATRIEVE family of products, the DEC Standard Relational Interface, VAX Rdb/ELN, and designed the software architecture for DATATRIEVE'S database. He released DATATRIEVE Version 1 for the PDP-11 in 1977, VAX DATATRIEVE in 1981 as part of the VAX Information Architecture, Rdb/ELN, the Digital Standard Relational Interface, and a variety of uncommercialized database-centric and 4GL proofs of concept. Also at DEC, Starkey invented the BLOB, a “binary large object.”
In 1984 he founded Groton Database Systems which became InterBase Software Corporation in 1986. Interbase was sold to Ashton-Tate in 1991, which in turn was sold to Borland. Borland subsequently incorporated InterBase in its Delphi product. After leaving Interbase, Starkey began a series of attempts to productize innovative database technology, including Netfrastructure. He is known fondly as "The Wolf" to Firebird SQL developers (which is an open source branch from InterBase v6.0).
In 2000, Starkey founded Netfrastructure, Inc., a platform for web applications including a relational database, integrated search, a Java virtual machine, and a context-sensitive page generator. Netfrastructure was acquired by MySQL and Starkey became a senior software architect at MySQL, where he started work on Falcon - a new transactional database engine based on the Netfrastructure codebase. He left MySQL in June 2008, a few months after Sun purchased MySQL AB, and Falcon never went beyond beta release.
In 2008, Jim Starkey incorporated a database company called NimbusDB. The name was formally changed to NuoDB in 2011. He is currently working on a new database model called AmorphousDB.
Patents
Jim Starkey has been issued the following United States patents:
“Database management system,” patented in 2012.
“Database server system with methods for alerting clients of occurrence of database server events of interest to clients.”
“Method and apparatus for generating web pages from templates”
Personal life
Starkey is married to Ann Harrison, who is “a contributor to InterBase’s development.”
External links
See Dr. Dobb's Portal for a November 2007 interview with Starkey.
Another Interview with Jim Starkey was done in 2003 from InterBase World website
The History of the Blob and Interbase is on this page in the History section of Ibphoenix website
References
Living people
1949 births
American computer businesspeople
American technology company founders
Businesspeople from Illinois
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Starkey |
The German Embassy in Washington, D.C. is the Federal Republic of Germany's diplomatic mission to the United States. Its chancery, designed by Egon Eiermann and opened in 1964, is located in northwest Washington, D.C. As of August 2023, the German ambassador to the United States is Andreas Michaelis.
History
Early period
Germany and the United States first established diplomatic relations in 1871, the year of the establishment of the German Empire.
In 1894 the German embassy occupied a new chancery at 1435 Massachusetts Avenue. That building, constructed in 1873 as a private residence on a design by Adolf Cluss, was subsequently expanded to include 70 rooms, and would be occupied by Germany – with wartime interruptions – for nearly 50 years. The opening of the embassy was marked by a formal ball attended by 500 members of the Washington diplomatic corps, along with several members of the United States Congress and Chief Justice of the United States Melville Fuller. Music was provided by a detachment of the United States Marine Band. In this early period the embassy also hosted the return visit of President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt to Prince Henry of Prussia during the prince's official visit to the United States in 1902.
During the years prior to American entry into World War I, Franz von Papen was posted at the embassy as a military attache, though was ultimately declared persona non grata by the U.S. government as a result of suspected espionage. In February 1917 the United States terminated diplomatic relations with Germany. Staff of the embassy were returned their passports by the U.S. government and departed for Germany shortly thereafter.
Following the conclusion of World War I, in 1921, Germany reestablished diplomatic relations with the United States and the German embassy reoccupied its former chancery.
In the spring of 1938 the German government approved plans for construction of a new chancery. Construction, however, was ultimately sidetracked by the war in Europe.
1941 San Francisco incident
A serious diplomatic incident occurred in January 1941 when U.S. Navy sailors Edward Lackey and Harold Sturtevant, both on leave from the psychiatric ward of the Navy's Mare Island Hospital where they had been treated for sleep walking, scaled a fire escape, tore down the flag from the German consulate in San Francisco and destroyed it. According to the sailors, they were unaware the building at which the flag was being flown was the German consulate. In his memoirs, consul Fritz Wiedemann, who witnessed the incident, recalled it as "both surreal and comical". The United States government issued an apology to Germany. The two sailors were briefly jailed and dismissed from military service, though following the onset of war with Germany they were pardoned and allowed to reenlist.
World War II
On December 12, 1941 – following Germany's declaration of war against the United States – Switzerland assumed the role of protecting power of Germany in the United States and took custody of the chancery of the German embassy; staff were, meanwhile, interned at the Greenbrier until an exchange of diplomats was arranged the following year. During World War II, Switzerland used parts of the chancery to house its own staff, thereby alleviating a housing shortage for Swiss diplomatic personnel in the United States. Following the German military surrender in May 1945, Switzerland acknowledged the extinction of the German state and declared itself absolved of protecting responsibilities. The chancery of the embassy was surrendered by Switzerland to the United States government as trustee of the Allied Control Council that month. Upon receiving custody of the building, the United States government removed all documents and files that had been left behind by the German delegation and held them until 1950, at which point they were given to the then newly established West German government.
Post-War
The furnishings of the former German chancery were sold at auction by the U.S. government in 1948, fetching slightly less than $50,000. The chancery was auctioned by the U.S. government in 1951. Morris Cafritz was the high bidder, however, the government subsequently rejected his bid as too low. It was thereafter sold by the U.S. government to James S. Kerwin for $165,000. United States Senator William Langer opposed the sale, saying the site should be held in trust by the U.S. government for the future use of Germany. Four years later, the property was razed and turned into a parking garage.
In 1955 the United States established diplomatic relations with West Germany. The United States awarded the Federal Republic of Germany $300,000 from the earlier sale of the chancery and its furnishings, and a new chancery was occupied in Foxhall that year. The facility was constructed in a modern style and featured modern interior decor as, according to German diplomats at the time, the country "has no antiques now".
East German representation
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the United States began full diplomatic relations in 1974. The GDR maintained an embassy in a leased office space on Massachusetts Avenue near Dupont Circle.
In 1990, the office space was abandoned mid-lease upon the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the GDR. Although the FRG agreed to assume all debts and obligations of the former East Germany, the landlord's attorney later wrote that "without disclosing any confidences, I can say that our client did not necessarily find the Federal Republic and its embassy entirely consistent in its public and private positions".
Facilities
Chancery
West Germany, along with Denmark and Switzerland, was a trailblazer in the use of modern architecture for diplomatic facilities in Washington. In 1964 it opened its new and current chancery, designed by Egon Eiermann. The building's design evoked the Bauhaus school and "was meant as a disavowal" of the Nazi architecture of Albert Speer.
The chancery building and consular building underwent a $46.5 million renovation that was completed in 2014.
Residence
The residence is located on the grounds of the chancery. It was constructed in 1994 from a design by O.M. Ungers, who aimed to "find an architectonic expression for the residence of the German ambassador that would be associative of the characteristics" of Germany.
The Washington Post has called the residence "one of the most conspicuous diplomatic pads in town" and, in 2015, described it as "a Bauhaus-inspired take on classical Washington" that did not appear dated, even more than two decades after it was built.
The entrance hall contains two paintings by Gerhard Merz as well as a series of woodcuts on canvas by Markus Lüpertz. The dining room contains paintings by Bernard Schultze and a red lacquered partition/folding screen by Simon Ungers. The ladies' sitting room has an olive green- and brown-colored carpet by Rosemarie Trockel, while the gentlemen's sitting room contains paintings by Christa Näher of the four classical elements.
Consulates
Germany maintains consulates general in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. There are honorary consuls in more than a dozen U.S. cities.
See also
Embassy of the United States, Berlin
United States Ambassador to Germany
Notes
References
External links
Washington
Germany
Embassy
German-American culture in Washington, D.C.
Embassy
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The borders of Russia changed through military conquests and by ideological and political unions in the course of over five centuries (1533–present).
Russian Tsardom and Empire
The name Russia for the Grand Duchy of Moscow began to appear in the late 15th century, and became official in 1547 when the Tsardom of Russia was established. The Grand Duchy of Moscow was one of the successors in part of the territory of medieval Kievan Rus'. Another important starting point was the official end in 1480 of the overlordship of the Tatar Golden Horde over Moscovy, after its defeat in the Great Stand on the Ugra River. Ivan III (reigned 1462–1505) and Vasili III (reigned 1505–1533) had already expanded Muscovy's borders considerably by annexing the Novgorod Republic (1478), the Grand Duchy of Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, the Appanage of Volokolamsk in 1513, and the principalities of Ryazan in 1521 and Novhorod-Siverskyi in 1522.
After a period of political instability between 1598 and 1613, which became known as the Time of Troubles, the Romanovs came to power (1613) and the expansion-colonization process of the Tsardom continued. While western Europe colonized the New World, the Tsardom of Russia expanded overland – principally to the east, north and south.
This continued for centuries; by the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire reached from the Baltic Sea, to the Black Sea, to the Pacific Ocean, and for some time included colonies in the Americas (1732–1867) and a short-lived unofficial colony in Africa (1889) in present-day Djibouti.
Expansion into Asia
The first stage from 1582 to 1650 resulted in North-East expansion from the Urals to the Pacific. Geographical expeditions mapped much of Siberia. The second stage from 1785 to 1830 looked South to the areas between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The key areas were Armenia and Georgia, with some better penetration of the Ottoman Empire, and Persia. By 1829, Russia controlled all of the Caucasus as shown in the Treaty of Adrianople of 1829. The third era, 1850 to 1860, was a brief interlude jumping to the East Coast, annexing the region from the Amur River to Manchuria. The fourth era, 1865 to 1885 incorporated Turkestan, and the northern approaches to India, sparking British fears of a threat to India in the Great Game.
Historian Michael Khodarkovsky describes Tsarist Russia as a "hybrid empire" that combined elements of continental and colonial empires. According to Kazakh scholar Kereihan Amanzholov, Russian colonialism had "no essential difference with the colonialist policies of Britain, France, and other European powers". Qing China defeated Russia in the early Sino-Russian border conflicts, although the Russian Empire later acquired Russian Manchuria in the Amur Annexation. During the Boxer Rebellion, the Russian Empire invaded Manchuria in 1900, and the Blagoveshchensk massacre occurred against Chinese residents on the Russian side of the border. Russian Empire reached its maximum territory in Asia with the Russo-Japanese War, where after its defeat, Russia ceded Manchuria, southern Sakhalin, Russian Dalian, and Port Arthur to Japan with the Treaty of Portsmouth, though Russia kept the northern portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Table of changes
Czarist and imperial Russia's territorial gains and losses, up to the 1905 Russian Revolution, listed chronologically:
The Russian SFSR and the Soviet Union
After the October Revolution of November 1917, Poland and Finland became independent from Russia and remained so thereafter. The Russian empire ceased to exist, and the Russian SFSR, 1917–1991, was established on much of its territory. Its area of effective direct control varied greatly during the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922. Eventually the revolutionary Bolshevik government regained control of most of the former Eurasian lands of the Russian Empire, and in 1922 joined the RSFSR to Belarus, Transcaucasia, and Ukraine as the four constituent republics of a new state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (or Soviet Union, USSR), which lasted until December 1991.
Territories of the former Russian Empire that permanently or temporarily became independent:
Crimean People's Republic, 1917–1918
Republic of Aras, 1918–1919
Alash Autonomy, 1917–1920
Kingdom of Lithuania (1918), 1918
Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian State, 1917–1921
Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1918), 1918
First Republic of Armenia, 1918–1920
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 1918–1920
Republic of Finland, 1917–
Kingdom of Finland (1918), 1918–1919
Belarusian Democratic Republic, 1918–1919
Balagad state, 1919–1926
North Caucasian Emirate, 1919–1920
Republic of Latvia, 1919–1940
Republic of Central Lithuania, 1920–1922
Centrocaspian Dictatorship, 1918
Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921
Moldavian Democratic Republic, 1917–1918
Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, 1917–1920
North Ingria, 1919–1920
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918
In 1919, northern Mhlyn, Novozybkiv, Starodub, and Surazh counties (s) of Ukraine's Chernihiv Governorate were transferred from the Ukrainian SSR to the new Gomel Governorate of the Russian republic. In February 1924, Tahanrih and Shakhtinsky counties (okruhas) were transferred from the Donetsk Governorate of Ukraine to Russia's North Caucasus krai.
By the end of World War II the Soviet Union had annexed:
Western Belarus and Western Ukraine from the Second Polish Republic (see Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union), annexed in September–October 1939
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, occupied in August 1940
Bessarabia (Moldova), Hertsa, and part of Bukovina, occupied from Romania after an ultimatum in 1940
Parts of Karelia and Salla in 1940, Pechengsky Raion (Petsamo) in 1944, and a 50-year lease on the naval base at Porkkala in 1944
Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and occupied in 1944
Tuva (independent 1921–1944; previously governed by Mongolia and by the Manchu Empire)
East Prussia (now Kaliningrad Oblast) from Germany, in 1945
The Klaipėda Region, annexed to Lithuania in 1945
The Kuril Islands and southern Sakhalin from Japan, occupied in 1945
Of these, Pechenga, Salla, Tuva, Kaliningrad Oblast, Klaipėda, the Kurils, and Sakhalin were added to the territory of the RSFSR.
The Chinese Eastern Railway, formerly a tsarist concession, was taken again by the Soviet Union after the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict, the railway was returned in 1952.
Meanwhile, territories were removed from the Russian SFSR, including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in 1924, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 1936, and Karelo-Finland from 1945 to 1956. The Crimean oblast and city of Sevastopol were transferred to Ukraine on 19 February 1954 (later annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014).
There were numerous minor border changes between Soviet republics as well.
After World War II, the Soviet Union set up seven satellite states, known as “European colonies”, while remaining independent though their politics, military, foreign and domestic policies were dominated by the Soviet Union:
People's Socialist Republic of Albania (until 1961)
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
German Democratic Republic
Hungarian People's Republic
Polish People's Republic
Socialist Republic of Romania (until 1965)
Russian Federation
The dissolution of the Soviet Union has led to the creation of independent post-Soviet states, with the Russian SFSR declaring its independence in December 1991 and changing its name to the Russian Federation.
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was a secessionist government of the Chechen Republic during 1991–2000. After Russian defeat at the Battle of Grozny, the First Chechen War ended with Russia recognizing the new Ichkerian government of president Maskhadov in January 1997 and signing a peace treaty in May. But Russia invaded again in 1999, restoring a Chechen Republic and the Ichkeria government was exiled in 2000.
The Russian Federation has been involved in territorial disputes with several its neighbours, including with Japan over the Kuril Islands, with Latvia over the Pytalovsky Raion (settled in 1997), with China over parts of Tarabarov Island and Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (settled in 2001), with its coastal neighbours over Caspian Sea boundaries, and with Estonia over the adjoining border. Russia also had disputes with Ukraine over the status of the federal city of Sevastopol, but agreed it belonged to Ukraine in the 1997 Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty, and over the uninhabited Tuzla Island, but gave up this claim in the 2003 Treaty on the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait.
The Russian Federation has also used its armed forces, armed formations, and material support to help establish the disputed breakaway states of Transnistria in Moldova after the Transnistria War, and South Ossetia and Abkhazia, after the 2008 war in Georgia. In 2008, shortly after announcing the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev laid out a foreign policy challenging the US-dominated "single-pole" world order and claiming a privileged sphere of influence in the near abroad around the Russian Federation and farther abroad. Following these conflicts, both Transnistria and South Ossetia have made proposals for joining Russia.
In 2014, when after months of protests in Ukraine, pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was deposed in the Revolution of Dignity, Russian troops occupied Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, and after a hasty referendum the Kremlin annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. The annexation was not recognized by Ukraine or most other members of the international community. A few weeks later, an armed conflict broke out the Donbas region of Ukraine, in which the Kremlin denies an active role, but is widely considered to be fuelled by soldiers, militants, weapons, and ammunition from the Russian Federation.
On February 21, 2022, the Russian president Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of two Donbas republics in Ukraine, and invaded the region. Two days later, Russian troops openly invaded Ukrainian-held territory of Ukraine, a move widely seen as an attempt to conduct regime change and occupy much or all of Ukraine. After failing to seize Ukraine's capital Kyiv for over a month, the Russian defence minister stated that the main goal of the war was the "liberation of the Donbas", but later a Russian general stated that it was to seize eastern and southern Ukraine right through to Transnistria, a breakaway territory in Moldova.
On 30 September 2022, Putin announced in a speech that Russia was to annex four partially occupied regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. However, Russia's annexation of these territories was widely condemned by the international community, and Russia does not control the full territory of any of the four annexed regions, and its government was unable to describe the new international "borders".
See also
Chechen–Russian conflict
Foreign policy of the Russian Empire
Foundations of Geopolitics
History of the administrative division of Russia
Internal colonialism
Kaliningrad question
Karelian question
Moscow, third Rome
Post-Soviet conflicts
Russian imperialism
Russian irredentism
Near abroad
Russian-occupied territories
Russification
Derussification
Soviet Empire
Timeline of geopolitical changes
List of national border changes from 1815 to 1914
List of national border changes (1914–present)
References
Further reading
Bassin, Mark. "Russia between Europe and Asia: the ideological construction of geographical space." Slavic review 50.1 (1991): 1–17. Online
Bassin, Mark. "Expansion and colonialism on the eastern frontier: views of Siberia and the Far East in pre-Petrine Russia." Journal of Historical Geography 14.1 (1988): 3–21.
Forsyth, James. "A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990" (1994)
Foust, Clifford M. "Russian expansion to the east through the eighteenth century." Journal of Economic History 21.4 (1961): 469–482. Online
LeDonne, John P. The Russian empire and the world, 1700–1917: The geopolitics of expansion and containment (Oxford University Press, 1997).
McNeill, William H. Europe's Steppe Frontier: 1500–1800 (Chicago, 1975).
Plamen Mitev, ed. Empires and peninsulas: Southeastern Europe between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699-1829 (LIT Verlag Münster, 2010).
Treadgold, Donald W. "Russian expansion in the light of Turner's study of the American frontier." Agricultural History 26.4 (1952): 147–152. Online
Velychenko, Stephen, The Issue of Russian Colonialism in Ukrainian Thought.Dependency Identity and Development, AB IMPERIO 1 (2002) 323-66
Atlases
Blinnikov, Mikhail S. A geography of Russia and its neighbors (Guilford Press, 2011) Borrow at Internet Archive
Catchpole, Brian. A map history of Russia (1983)
Chew, Allen F. An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders (2nd ed. 1967) Borrow at Internet Archive
Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) 8th ed. 2010 at Internet Archive
Parker, William Henry. An historical geography of Russia (University of London Press, 1968) Borrow at Internet Archive
Shaw, Denis J.B. Russia in the modern world: A new geography (Blackwell, 1998) Borrow at Internet Archive
History of colonialism
History of ethnic groups in Russia
Geographic history of Russia
Imperialism
Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial%20evolution%20of%20Russia |
Bendigo Senior Secondary College (BSSC) is an Australian government-funded co-educational secondary school for Year 11 and Year 12 students located in the centre of Bendigo, Victoria. It is the largest provider of VCE, VET and VCAL in the state of Victoria.
Bendigo has four government-funded Year 7 to 10 secondary schools: Eaglehawk Secondary College, Bendigo South East College, Crusoe College and Weeroona College Bendigo. Students from these schools transition to BSSC for their final two years of schooling in Years 11 and 12.
History
The Bendigo Continuation School opened on 27 April 1907, with the aim of preparing students for entry into the public service, teacher training, university or other education. In 1912, the school was renamed as Bendigo High School. The school incorporated nearby buildings such as the Sandhurst Corporate High School (later St Andrew's College) and eventually the James King Hall and administration block were built in 1930. The former Bendigo Supreme Court was used to serve as the music rooms when it was obtained in 1959, after the relocation of Bendigo Girls' High School. Other additions include the Alexander Wing (1967) and the Commonwealth Library (1977).
The last year Bendigo High School provided the full range of secondary school courses from Years 7 to 12 was in 1975. In 1976, the school became Victoria's first senior high school providing courses in only Year 11 and Year 12. The school phased in this change with the removal of the lower years which was complete in 1979. In 1984, the school was renamed as Bendigo Senior High School. In 1990, the school was renamed as Bendigo Senior Secondary College.
In 1991, a building program saw the construction of new buildings, with an overall upgrade all of the facilities starting from 1995. The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Notable achievements and projects
In 2001, Bendigo Senior Secondary College was the first government school in the world to be accredited with the Council of International Schools. In 2011, BSSC was bench-marked again and welcomed international scrutiny.
NETschool is an extension of BSSC and offers VCE, VCAL and VET. It provides curriculum access for 15–18 year-old students who have been outside mainstream schooling or training.
BSSC also runs an online program which they deliver the college program through. It was setup to help students in other schools in Victoria. This program is expected to continue to expand in the future.
Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
Nick Bland (born 1973), cartoonist and writer. Nick's books, which include The Very Cranky Bear, The Wrong Book and The Runaway Hug, have been recognised by many different awards, including the Children's Book Council of Australia, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Yergurl (born 2000), singer-songwriter, producer, and 2018 Triple J Unearthed High finalist
Business
Frank Milne (born 1946), economist and finance theorist
Politics
Nicola Rosenblum, former High Commissioner to Brunei and the youngest head of mission to date
Jim Short (born James Robert Short, 1936), Federal Liberal MP and Assistant Treasurer to the Howard government
Sport
Nick Dal Santo (born 1984), AFL footballer for St Kilda and North Melbourne
Ben McGlynn (born 1985), former AFL footballer for Hawthorn and Sydney , assistant coach at St Kilda
Kobe Mutch (born 1998), former AFL footballer for Essendon
Scott Selwood (born 1990), former AFL footballer for Geelong and West Coast
Dean Solomon (born 1980), former AFL footballer for Essendon and Fremantle
Chris Tarrant (born 1980), former AFL footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle
Jeff Tho (born Jeffery Tho, 1988), Australian representative at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games in badminton
Glenn Warfe (born 1984), Australian representative to the 2012 Olympic Games in badminton
Jack Ginnivan, AFL
Mark Alvey, AFL
Notable buildings
James King Hall – started 1929 and completed 1930. The building was named after Headmaster James King who served between September 1907 to the end of 1923.
Ron Lake Building – opened 1994. The current building stands on the ground where the caretaker residence used to be, which had a tennis court and playing ground.
Supreme Court – started 1858 and used to 1896. Then turned into Bendigo Continuation School in 1907 till 1912. Then Bendigo Teachers College in 1929 till 1958. Then in 1959 it became part of Bendigo High School / Bendigo Senior Secondary College
The Police Barracks – completed 1860 and served till 1920. From 1941 it was used by Bendigo High School as an Art Room until 1967. In 1999 it was refurbished and leased to Bendigo Senior Secondary College.
Old Gold Quadrangle – Original School Building completed 1870 and new additions completed 1914. The Quadrangle was used for school assemblies for many years.
Alexander Wing – opened 1967. It was opened in celebration of the school's diamond jubilee and was named after former student and principal Charles Alexander. It was later renovated in 2017 to include a new VCAL center, library, classrooms and study areas.
The Commonwealth Science Building – opened 1977. It was opened with help from the Commonwealth science grant. The ground floor originally had 2 science rooms. It was extended in 1996 to house the library, the first floor housed the library from 1977 til 1996 when it was converted to the multimedia center. In 2018 the ground floor was renovated into 4 new classrooms, study area, and renamed to the Business Center.
Notable landmarks
King Memorial Gates – erected in 1933. Erected in memory of James King with the inscription Non Omnis Moriar ("I Shall Not Wholly Die"). This was the main entrance of the school until 1957.
Memorial Gates and Memorial Steps – started 1956 and completed 1957. It was built as a war memorial to "those members of the school who served and suffered that our way of life might be preserved".
Awards and nominations
Australian Training Awards
School Pathways to VET Awards
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See also
Bendigo South East College
Crusoe College
Weeroona College Bendigo
List of schools in Victoria
References
Notes
External links
1907 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in Bendigo
Public high schools in Victoria (state)
Educational institutions established in 1907
Education in Bendigo
Rock Eisteddfod Challenge participants
Victorian Heritage Register Loddon Mallee (region)
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Beware of the Car (, translit. Beregis Avtomobilya, English titles Uncommon Thief, or Watch out for the Automobile) is a 1966 Soviet crime comedy drama film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky and produced by Mosfilm. It stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Oleg Yefremov, Andrei Mironov and Anatoli Papanov, among others. Beware of the Car is recognized as a satire of the film noir genre, highly unusual in Brezhnev-era society. It is credited for launching Soviet political satire as a film genre, typified by Ryazanov's work.
Plot
Yuri Detochkin (Smoktunovsky) is a humble Soviet insurance agent who steals fancy cars from corrupt Soviet officials and scammers, disappointed by the militsiya being unable to fight the crooks. One of Detochkin's victims is Dima Semitsvetov (Mironov), a retail embezzler mocked but tolerated by his colorful father-in-law Semyon Vasilyevich (Papanov), a retired Soviet Army officer. Dima has a dacha (registered to his father-in-law) and a Volga car (registered in his wife's name). Meanwhile, Yuri is a commitmentphobe who has been courting his bus-driver girlfriend for years without settling down with her. In his spare time, Yuri is an amateur actor, and in his latest play, a production of Hamlet, he is playing alongside his friend, Detective Maksim Podberyozovikov (Yefremov). Not knowing who the car thief is, Detective Podberyozovikov investigates the missing cars. When he realises who is stealing them and why, the detective faces a serious moral problem, as he discovers that Detochkin has sold the cars and anonymously transferred the proceeds to the accounts of various orphanages.
Cast
Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Yuri Detochkin
Oleg Yefremov as Maksim Podberyozovikov
Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya as Detochkin's mother
Olga Aroseva as Lyuba
Andrei Mironov as Dima Semitsvetov
Anatoli Papanov as Semyon Vasilyevich
Tatyana Gavrilova as Inna
Georgiy Zhzhonov as a Militsiya officer
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as an acting coach
Donatas Banionis as a priest
Lyubov Sokolova as a judge
Vyacheslav Nevinny as a car mechanic
Gotlib Roninson as Yakov Mikhailovich
Galina Volchek as a customer
Sergey Kulagin as Philippe Cartuzov
Yakov Lents as a tobacconist salesman
Nikolay Parfyonov as a prosecutor
Viktoria Radunskaya as Tanya
Boris Runge as a man with suitcases
The author's narration was read by Yury Yakovlev.
Production
The film's name is derived from traffic signs warning of locations where cars could potentially hit pedestrians or motorists, such as parking garages.
In the film, Detochkin and Podberezovikov act together in an amateur theatre which rehearses Hamlet – a play from Smoktunovsky's real-life acting career: he was reputed as the "best Hamlet on the Soviet stage" and starred in a celebrated film adaptation.
The waltz performed in the film is a distinguished melody composed by Andrey Petrov. Sergey Nikitin's repertoire includes a song named Glass Gentleman (lyrics by Yevgeny Yevtushenko), which used a waltz from the film.
All of the cars stolen by Detochkin are the GAZ-21 Volga model, the most prestigious Soviet car of the time. The GAZ-21 was the standard personal car for the Soviet elite, a satire element of the film which Ryazanov found very hard to get approved.
One scene featuring a petrol station includes American vehicles such as a 1955 Buick and a 1955 Oldsmobile. These were an extremely rare sighting for the location, since the United States had sanctions on the USSR and did not sell these cars within the Eastern Bloc.
According to many modern psychologists, Yuri Detochkin has Asperger's syndrome. For example, in his behavior there are elements of stimming, and an obsession with justice, and various talents (the talent of a burglar, a driver, an actor, and a private detective). At the same time, clumsiness and asociality, as well as altruism.
Awards
The film was the leader of Soviet film distribution for 1966, viewed by 29 million people. Innokenty Smoktunovsky was recognized as the Best Actor of 1966.
The film won awards at the 1966 Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1966 Sydney Film Festival, 1967 Melbourne International Film Festival, and 1969 Cartagena Film Festival.
See also
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film), an American film that also focuses on an insurance agent who is secretly a car thief
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film), a loose remake of the 1974 film with different characters, including a detective who pursues the main character, whom he knows personally
References
External links
1966 comedy films
1966 films
1966 in the Soviet Union
1960s crime comedy films
1960s Russian-language films
Films about automobiles
Films directed by Eldar Ryazanov
Films scored by Andrey Petrov
Films set in the Soviet Union
Films shot in Moscow
Russian crime comedy films
Russian vigilante films
Soviet crime comedy films
Mosfilm films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20of%20the%20Car |
William Edward Berry (born 1942) is a retired American basketball coach.
Early life and college career
Berry was born in Winnemucca, Nevada and graduated from Humboldt County High School in 1960. He then attended Michigan State University. From 1961 to 1964, Berry played on the Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team under coach Forddy Anderson. At Michigan State, Berry was the top team rebounder for the 1962–63 season with 184 total rebounds and 9.2 per game. Berry earned his bachelor's degree in 1965 and master's degree in 1969 from Michigan State, both in physical education.
Coaching career
Berry began his coaching career in 1966 as head varsity basketball coach at Highlands High School of North Highlands, California and stayed as coach until 1969. After completing his master's degree at Michigan State, Berry became head coach at Cosumnes River Junior College from 1970 to 1972. Then, Berry became an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level with California until 1977. Berry then returned to his alma mater Michigan State to be an assistant coach under Jud Heathcote and was part of the coaching staff of the 1979 NCAA championship team that featured Magic Johnson.
From 1979 to 1989, Berry was the head men's basketball coach at San Jose State. For the San Jose State Spartans, Berry had a 142–144 record, then the Spartans' second-highest win total under one coach. Under Berry, San Jose State had a 17–12 record in the 1979–80 season, won the 1980 PCAA tournament, and made the 1980 NCAA tournament. In a 21–9 season in 1980–81, San Jose State qualified for the 1981 National Invitation Tournament. San Jose State also had three straight seasons over .500 from 1984 to 1987. However, the 1988–89 Spartans finished 5–23. In January 1989, when the team was 5–11, 10 of the 14 players on the Spartans men's basketball team accused Berry of "mental cruelty" and refused to play or practice under Berry as coach. However, the players declined to provide specific examples. Berry then organized a new team of walk-on athletes, including star football player Johnny Johnson. San Jose State dismissed Berry after the season on March 24, 1989.
After San Jose State, Berry entered the NBA as a scout and assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings in 1989. He transferred to the Houston Rockets as a scout in 1991 and then assistant coach in February 1992 under Rudy Tomjanovich. Berry was an assistant coach to the Rockets 1994 and 1995 championship teams. From 1999 to 2003, Berry was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls
Berry was an assistant under Tim Floyd until Floyd resigned on Christmas Eve (December 24) of 2001, when the Bulls named Berry as interim head coach. Berry coached two games, both losses, and Bill Cartwright became permanent head coach effective December 28. On September 7, 2006, the Washington Wizards announced that Bill Berry would join the team as an assistant coach to head coach Eddie Jordan.
Personal life
Bill Berry has been married to Clarice "Reese" Berry since 1963 and had two children. The Berry family lived in Morgan Hill, California, during Bill Berry's tenure at San Jose State. Their son Ricky Berry (1964–1989) played college basketball at San Jose State under Bill Berry and in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings before committing suicide in 1989.
Head coaching record
College
NBA
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References
1942 births
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Nevada
Basketball players from Nevada
California Golden Bears men's basketball coaches
Chicago Bulls assistant coaches
Chicago Bulls head coaches
High school basketball coaches in California
Houston Rockets assistant coaches
Junior college men's basketball coaches in the United States
Living people
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball coaches
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball players
People from Morgan Hill, California
People from Winnemucca, Nevada
San Jose State Spartans men's basketball coaches
Washington Wizards assistant coaches
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Berry%20%28basketball%29 |
Bill Berry (born 1958) is an American drummer, formerly of the band R.E.M.
Bill Berry may also refer to:
Bill Berry (Australian footballer) (born 1957), Australian rules footballer in the VFL
Bill Berry (basketball) (born 1942), American basketball coach, who served two games as head coach of the Chicago Bulls
Bill Berry (director), Broadway director
Bill Berry (folk singer) (1934–2019), Australian folk singer
Bill Berry (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1972), English footballer in the 1920s and 1930s
Bill Berry (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1943), English footballer
Bill Berry (trumpeter) (1930–2002), American jazz trumpeter
See also
William Berry (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Berry%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Mark Janoschak (born December 2, 1968, in Bramalea, a community in Chinguacousy Township) is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Jacqueline Petr, he is the 1992 Canadian national champion. They represented Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympics, where they placed 12th.
Career
A few months after he and Jacqueline Petr teamed up, they placed 7th at the 1987 World Junior Championships.
Two years later, Petr and Janoschak placed 6th at the Canadian Championships. The following year, they won the bronze medal. In 1991, they won the silver medal and qualified for the 1991 World Championships, where they placed 10th.
In 1992, Petr and Janoschak won their national title and were selected for the 1992 Winter Olympics. During a practice session on February 10, Petr's right skate hit her left calf, requiring 22 stitches. They finished 12th at the Olympics. At the 1992 World Championships, they placed 12th.
Petr and Janoschak retired from competitive skating and skated professionally in shows. Janoschak also skated competitively with Sandra Ross under the direction of Roy Bradshaw.
Results
(with Jacqueline Petr)
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Canadian male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Sportspeople from Brampton
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
20th-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Janoschak |
Chile competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Seven competitors, all men, took part in eight events in four sports.
Athletics
Men's 10.000 metres
Edmundo Warnke
Heat — 28:43.63 (→ did not advance)
Cycling
Two cyclists represented Chile in 1976.
Sprint
Richard Tormen — 9th place
1000m time trial
Richard Tormen — 1:09.468 (→ 16th place)
Individual pursuit
Fernando Vera — 18th place
Fencing
One fencer represented Chile in 1976.
Men's épée
Juan Inostroza
Shooting
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
1976 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201976%20Summer%20Olympics |
Chile competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Eleven competitors, nine men and two women, took part in nine events in five sports.
Athletics
Men's 5000 meters
Edmundo Warnke
Heat — 13:43.6 (→ did not advance)
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
Martín Vargas
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Lost to Calixto Perez (COL), 0:5
Equestrian
Rowing
Men's Single Sculls
Rodmanis Janis
Heat — 8:23.38
Repechage — 8:29.66 (→ did not advance)
Shooting
Two male shooters represented Chile in 1972.
Skeet
Jorge Uauy
Antonio Yaqigi
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
1972 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics |
Chile competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 21 competitors, 19 men and 2 women, took part in 19 events in 4 sports.
Athletics
Boxing
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
Miguel Villugron
First Round — Lost to Jan van Ispelen (HOL), TKO-2
Equestrian
Shooting
Four shooters, all men, represented Chile in 1968.
Trap
Juan Enrique Lira
Pedro Estay
Skeet
Nicolas Atalah
Jorge Jottar
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
1968 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Chile at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan] was the nation's twelfth appearance out of fifteen editions of the Summer Olympic Games. The nation was represented by an all-male team of 14 athletes that competed in 13 events in 6 sports.
Athletics
Boxing
Equestrian
Fencing
Three fencers, all men, represented Chile in 1964.
Men's épée
Sergio Vergara
Sergio Jimenez
Aquilles Gloffka
Modern pentathlon
One male pentathlete represented Chile in 1964.
Individual
Aquilles Gloffka
Shooting
Three shooters represented Chile in 1964.
50 m rifle, prone
Roberto Huber
Trap
Juan Enrique Lira
Gilberto Navarro
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
1964 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
Chile at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was the nation's eleventh appearance out of fourteen editions of the Summer Olympic Games. The nation was represented by a team of 9 athletes, 8 males and 1 females, that competed in 8 events in 3 sports.
Athletics
Boxing
Shooting
Two shooters represented Chile in 1960.
Trap
Juan Enrique Lira
Gilberto Navarro
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1960 Summer Olympics
1960
1960 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201960%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Embassy of Germany in London is the diplomatic mission of Germany in the United Kingdom. The embassy is located at Belgrave Square, in Belgravia. It occupies three of the original terraced houses in Belgrave Square and a late 20th-century extension.
History
The Prussian Consul-General was housed at 9 Carlton House Terrace in the so-called Prussia House. During Hans Wesemann's 1936 trial over the kidnapping of pacifist writer Berthold Jacob from Basel, Switzerland, Wesemann admitted that the German Embassy in London had been used as a base for the activities of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret State police. In 1937, Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop hosted 1,000 people, including Prince George, Duke of Kent and his wife, Maria, Duchess of Kent, at the reopening of the Embassy at Carlton House Terrace which had undergone a £100,000 renovation. In September 1939, the German Embassy burned its files following the onset of World War II.
Post World War II
After World War II Prussia House was requisitioned as enemy property, furniture and the works of art were sold in separate auctions. The Federal Republic of Germany moved its consulate and diplomatic operations to Belgrave Square, still operating as a consulate general. The consulate became a fully functional embassy in June 1951, the FRG leasing the building for 99 years in 1953. In the 1960s, the West German Embassy was the site of Jewish War veterans who were protesting signs in Germany of a revival of anti-Semitism.
In the 1970s, office space in the embassy was tight so an extension was erected at Chesham Place, inaugurated in 1978. It won the Westminster City Council prize for architecture.
In 1990, after German reunification, the East German embassy building at 34 Belgrave Square became part of the German embassy.
List of German ambassadors to the United Kingdom
Gallery
References
External links
Official site
German Foreign Office
London
Germany
Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
Germany–United Kingdom bilateral relations organisations
Belgravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20London |
Katapult is a free application launcher for the TDE desktop environment. Original development ceased in 2008, but it has been maintained by the TDE developers ever since.
Katapult allows the user to quickly launch applications or open files by pressing Alt + space and typing the beginning of the file or application name. Katapult doubles as a quick calculator, spell checker, and document viewer. Katapult also evaluates expressions (e.g. "5+1"). The solution appears on the right (e.g. "6"). Katapult also features a spell checker that allows the user to verify the spelling of a typed-in word. Katapult file access supports incremental find. The user does not need to type in the entire name of the file to access it, only the first few letters. This feature may also be used to open applications, play songs via Amarok, and in other contexts as well. The Escape key exits Katapult. The Enter key opens applications that are displayed.
Some of the functionality of Katapult has been integrated in the built-in KRunner that ships with KDE Software Compilation 4.
See also
Comparison of applications launchers
KDE Plasma Workspaces
References
General References
Mayank Sharma (July 16, 2007), Katapult yourself to keyboard productivity, linux.com
Andrew Min (28 May 2007), Launch your programs faster with Katapult, Free Software Magazine column
Benjamin Mako Hill, Das offizielle Ubuntu Buch, Pearson Education, 2007, , p. 252
External links
Original website (mirror) on the Internet Archive
Katapult on Kde-Apps
The Katapult Handbook
Katapult – KDE application launcher in openSUSE Linux , October 25, 2008, susegeek.com
Peter Upfold (March 18, 2008) Katapult - a general purpose launcher for KDE, FOSSwire
KDE software
Application launchers
fr:KDE#Applications KDE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katapult |
WELU (channel 34), branded on-air as CTNi Puerto Rico, is a CTN-affiliated television station licensed to Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting. The station shares transmitter facilities with WSJN-CD (channel 20) at the Monte Renovados La Peña in Bayamon.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
On June 12, 2009, WELU signed off analog broadcast and reverting to digital channel.
Spectrum reallocation
On August 14, 2017, it was revealed that WELU's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's spectrum reallocation auction, fetching $375,347. WELU will not sign off, but it will later share broadcast spectrum with WSJN-CD that also covers the entire metropolitan area. Also will change their city of license from Aguadilla to Toa Baja.
References
External links
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
ELU
Television channels and stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Puerto Rico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WELU |
Viktor Zuckerkandl (2 July 1896, Vienna – 5 April 1965, Locarno) was a Jewish-Austrian musicologist. His doctorate was granted in 1927 from Vienna University, having earlier studied under Richard Robert. He conducted freelance throughout the decade of the 1920s. He was a critic for Berlin newspapers from 1927 to 1933 and taught theory and appreciation courses in Vienna from 1934 to 1938. He emigrated to the US in 1940, teaching at Wellesley College until 1942, when he took a job as a machinist in the war effort. From 1946 to 1948 he taught theory at The New School in New York, and joined the faculty at St. John's College, Annapolis in 1948. He remained at St. John's, teaching music as part of their Great Books program, until his retirement in 1964.
His explanations of music theory were heavily indebted to the theories of musicologist Heinrich Schenker, and his understandings of musical perception owed much to Gestalt psychology, as well as German phenomenology. Zuckerkandl believed music was part of the "mystical aspect of human existence", and sought to explain its existence in all cultures as a universal phenomenon. He was not well known until scholars rediscovered his works in the 1990s.
Works
Prinzipien und Methoden der Instrumentation in Mozarts Werken (diss., U. of Vienna, 1927)
Musikalische Gestaltung der grossen Opernpartien: jugendlich-dramatisches Fach (Berlin, 1932)
Die Weltgemeinschaft der Juden (Zürich, 1938)
Sound and Symbol, 1956
The Sense of Music, 1959
Die Wirklichkeit der Musik (Zürich, 1963)
Vom musikalischen Denken, 1964
Man the Musician, 1973
References
Suppan, Wolfgang. "Zuckerkandl, Viktor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
Austrian Jews
Musicians from Vienna
1896 births
1965 deaths
Pupils of Heinrich Schenker
20th-century Austrian musicologists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Zuckerkandl |
The International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (Polish: Międzynarodowy Konkurs Skrzypcowy im. Henryka Wieniawskiego) is a competition for violinists up to age 30 that takes place every five years in Poznań, Poland, in honor of the virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880). The first competition took place in 1935 in Warsaw, 100 years after the birth of its patron, and consisted of two stages. The second, after a gap of 17 years in 1952, and subsequent events were held in Poznań in three stages. In 2001 it was decided that the competition would henceforth be held in four stages.
Candidates shall be qualified for the competition subject to preliminary selection auditions run by Maxim Vengerov and another member of the jury.
The following three statutory prizes shall be awarded in the competition:
First prize: 30,000 Euro and gold medal;
Second prize: 20,000 Euro and silver medal;
Third prize: 12,000 Euro and bronze medal.
Additional prizes include three honorary distinctions of 5,000 Euro and the special extra-statutory prize funded by Maxim Vengerov: 12 individual lessons for one of the competition participants. The first edition of the competition took place in 1935 in Warsaw and drew 160 contestants from 23 countries. The inaugural winner of the competition was France's Ginette Neveu. One of the participants was also Grażyna Bacewicz who received an honorary diploma and was to become a future juror of the competition. The two first prizes were funded by renowned Polish luthier Tomasz Panufnik.
Prizewinners
2022
I. Hina Maeda
II. Meruert Karmenova
III. Qingzhu Weng
Distinction. // Hana Chang & Jane Hyeonjin Cho & Dayoon You
2016
I. / Veriko Tchumburidze
II. Bomsori Kim & Seiji Okamoto
III. Not awarded
IV. Luke Hsu
V. / Richard Lin
VI. Maria Włoszczowska
VII. Ryosuke Suho
2011
I. Soyoung Yoon
II. Miki Kobayashi
III. Stefan Tarara
Distinction. Erzhan Kulibaev & Aylen Pritchin & Arata Yumi
2006
I. Agata Szymczewska
II. Airi Suzuki
III. Anna Maria Staśkiewicz
IV. Lev Solodovnikow
V. Maria Machowska
V. Jarosław Nadrzycki
VI. Wojciech Pławner
Distinction. Simeon Klimashevskiy
2001
I. Alena Baeva
II. Soojin Han & Roman Simowic
III. Gaik Kazazian & Bracha Malkin & Hiroko Takahashi
IV. Mayuko Kamio
V. Jaroslaw Nadrzycki
VI. Alexandra Wood
1996
I. Not awarded
II. Reiko Otani
III. Akkiko Tanaka
IV. Łukasz Błaszczyk & Asuka Sezaki
V. Anna Reszniak
VI. Maria M. Nowak
1991
I. Bartłomiej Nizioł & Piotr Pławner
II. Chie Abiko
III. Reiko Shiraishi
IV. Monika Jarecka
V. Tomoko Yoshimura
1986
I. Ewgenij Buszkow
III. Nobu Wakabayashi & Robert Kabara
IV. Wiktor Kuzniecow
V. Alexander Romanul
VI. Hiroko Suzuki
1981
I. Keiko Urushihara
II. Elisa Kawaguti
III. Aureli Błaszczok
IV. Seiji Kageyama
V. Iwao Furusawa
VI. Megumi Shimane
1977
I. Vadim Brodsky
II. Piotr Milewski & Michał Wajman
III. Zachar Bron & Peter A. Zazofsky
IV. Charles A. Linale
V. Hiro Kurosaki & Anna A. Wódka
VI. Kazuhiko Sawa
Awards. Asa Konishi & Keiko Mizuno
1972
I. Tatiana Grindienko
II. Shizuka Ishikawa
III. Barbara Górzyńska
V. Tadeusz Gadzina & Graczija Arutunian
VI. Stefan Czermak
VII. Edward Z. Zienkowski
1967
I. Piotr Janowski
II. Michał Bezwierchnyj
III. Kaja Danczowska
IV. Eduard Tatewosjan
V. Anatolij Mielnkow
VI. Michał Grabarczyk & Mincho Minchev
1962
I. Charles Treger
II. Oleh Krysa
III. Krzysztof Jakowicz
IV. Izabella Petrosjan
V. Mirosław Rusin & Henryk Jarzynski & Priscilla A. Ambrose
VI. Tomasz Michalak
1957
I. Roza Fajn
II. Sidney Harth
III. Mark Komissarow
IV. Augustin Leon-Ara
V. Ayla Erduran
VI. Władimir Malinin
1952
I. Igor Oistrakh
II. Julian Sitkovetsky & Wanda Wiłkomirska
III. Blanche Tarjus & Marina Jaszwili & Olga Parchomlenko
IV. Emil Kamilarov & Edward Statkiewicz & Igor Iwanow & Henryk Palulis
V. Csaba Bokay
1935
I. Ginette Neveu
II. David Oistrakh
III. Henri Temianka
IV. Boris Goldstein
V. Ljerko Spiller
VI. Mary Luisa Sardo
VII. Ida Haendel
VIII. Hubert Anton
IX. Bronislav Gimpel
Laureates by country
See also
List of classical music competitions
Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors
Chopin International Piano Competition
World Federation of International Music Competitions
References
External links
Henryk Wieniawski Society – organizer of the competition
Poznań
Music competitions in Poland
Polish awards
Recurring events established in 1935
1935 establishments in Poland
Violin competitions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk%20Wieniawski%20Violin%20Competition |
Chile at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England was the nation's eighth appearance out of eleven editions of the Summer Olympic Games. The nation was represented by a team of 54 athletes, 50 males and 4 females, that competed in 27 events in 8 sports.
Athletics
Basketball
Men's Team Competition
Preliminary Round (Group B)
Defeated China (44-39)
Defeated Iraq (100-18)
Defeated Philippines (68-39)
Lost to Belgium (36-38)
Lost to South Korea (21-28)
Quarterfinals
Lost to France (52-53)
Classification Matches
5th/8th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (38-36)
5th/6th place: Lost to Uruguay (32-50) → Sixth place
Boxing
Cycling
Four cyclists, all men, represented Chile in 1948.
Individual road race
Rafael Iturrate
Mario Masanés
Exequiel Ramírez
Rogelio Salcedo
Team road race
Rafael Iturrate
Mario Masanés
Exequiel Ramírez
Rogelio Salcedo
Sprint
Mario Masanés
Diving
Fencing
Three fencers, all men, represented Chile in 1948.
Men's foil
Enrique Accorsi
Men's épée
Enrique Accorsi
Ignacio Goldstein
Men's sabre
Andrés Neubauer
Ignacio Goldstein
Modern pentathlon
Two male pentathletes represented Chile in 1948.
Nilo Floody
Hernán Fuentes
Shooting
Four shooters represented Chile in 1948.
25 metre pistol
Roberto Müller
Ignacio Cruzat
Pedro Peña y Lillo
50 metre pistol
Ignacio Cruzat
Luis Ruiz Tagle
Roberto Müller
Water polo
Men's Team Competition
Preliminary Round (Group C)
Lost to India (4-7)
Lost to the Netherlands (0-14) → did not advance
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1948 Summer Olympics
1948
1948 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201948%20Summer%20Olympics |
William George Jordan (March 6, 1864 - April 20, 1928) was an American editor, lecturer and essayist.
Life
Jordan was born in New York City on March 6, 1864. He graduated from the City College of New York and began his literary career as editor of Book Chat in 1884. He joined Current Literature in 1888 and became its managing editor. In 1891 he left Current Literature and moved to Chicago where he started a lecture program on his system of Mental Training. He returned to Current Literature in January 1894 as its managing editor and then resigned again in August 1896. In 1897 he was hired as the managing editor for The Ladies Home Journal, after which he edited The Saturday Evening Post (1888–89). From 1899 to 1905 he was the editor and vice-president of Continental Publishing Company. He was the editor of the publication Search-Light between 1905 and 1906.
On July 26 of 1891, the Chicago Inter-Ocean published an interview with Mr. Jordan where he discussed his thoughts about education and "Mental Training". After the article was published he received so many requests for information that he scheduled a trip back in October to lecture on the subject. The Inter-Ocean in a September 24 article reported that:
During the past few weeks the calls from Chicago have been so numerous, enthusiastic and positive for lecture courses and private society classes that he has concluded to resign his position in New York and come to Chicago.
He remained in Chicago for two years and then returned to Current Literature in 1894. In 1894 he published a short 20-page pamphlet entitled Mental Training, a Remedy for Education (this was republished again in 1907), that summarized his lectures. The opening paragraph starts as follows:
There are two great things that education should do for the individual—It should train his senses, and teach him to think. Education, as we know it to-day, does not truly do either; it gives the individual only a vast accumulation of facts, unclassified, undigested, and seen in no true relations. Like seeds kept in a box, they may be retained, but they do not grow.
This style of speaking plainly about a principle and then drawing mind-pictures using analogies is a style that he utilized broadly in all his writings. It is style well suited to the general subject of self-improvement that was the focus of most of his publications.
After he returned to New York, The Literary Review said the following:
Though Mr. Jordan has won a fine reputation as an editor he is one of the youngest of the magazine editors in this city. He has delivered many lectures on mental training in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities, and his system has been received with great favor in all of these. During the last year he has brought Current Literature to a place of really notable excellence by the keen watchfulness which he keeps over the literary work that is being done both in this country and in England, by his catholic taste, and by his swift judgment. Besides being a first-rate editor and lecturer he is an admirable writer, as his vigorous editorials prove. Thus far nearly all of his contributions to the magazine have been unsigned, and his forthcoming book, it is thought, will establish his reputation as an author with a distinct and forcible style as well as of strong and original thought.
He published his first book, The Kingship of Self-Control, in 1898 and his last in 1926, two years before his death.
In 1907 he published a pamphlet entitled The House of Governors; A New Idea in American Politics Aiming to Promote Uniform Legislation on Vital Questions, to Conserve States Rights, to Lessen Centralization, to Secure a Fuller, Freer Voice of the People, and to Make a Stronger Nation. This work was circulated to each state governor, US President Theodore Roosevelt and members of his cabinet. The concept was well received, and the first meeting of the governors was held in Washington January 18 through 20, 1910. Jordan was elected secretary of this body at the first meeting and then dropped as secretary in September 1911. Nevertheless, the group became part of his legacy, and his part in its formation was often cited in later references to him by the press.
Jordan was married to Nellie Blanche Mitchell on May 6, 1922, in New York City at the Grace Episcopal Church.
He died of pneumonia in New York City on 20 April 1928 at his home.
Works
Jordan wrote a number of personal improvement and self-help books in the early 1900s, one of the most popular being The Majesty of Calmness.
His other works include:
Mental Training, 1894
The Kingship of Self-Control, 1898
The Majesty of Calmness, 1900
The Power of Truth, 1902
Self-Control, Its Kingship and Majesty, 1905, The Kingship of Self-Control and The Majesty of Calmness published as a single book.
The House of Governors, 1907
The Crown of Individuality, 1909
The Power of Purpose, 1910, subset of The Crown of Individuality.
Little Problems of Married Life, 1910
Five National Platforms: Dissected, Classified and Indexed, 1912
What Every American Should Know, A Voters Handbook of the Presidential Campaign …, 1916
Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: An Appreciation of His Life and Works, 1918
What Every American Should Know About the League of Nations, 1919
One Hundred Years of Fire Insurance, 1919 — co-authored with Henry R. Gall
The Trusteeship of Life, 1921
Charles Waldo Haskins, An American Pioneer in Accountancy, 1923
At the Historic Center of the United States—The New Independence Building, 1925 – co-authored with William C. Sproul, and Howell Lewis Shay
The Vision of High Ideals, 1926. This books consists of the last three chapters from The Trusteeship of Life
The rights to The Power of Truth were purchased by Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in conjunction with the Deseret Book Company around 1933. Grant had come across the book while in England sometime between 1903 and 1906. He purchased more than four thousand copies from the English publisher and before leaving England ordered another thousand. He also distributed more than seven thousand copies of just the first chapter. In a letter to Jordan dated October 5, 1907, Grant said: "I know of no book of the same size, that has made a more profound impression upon my mind, and whose teachings I consider of greater value."
References
External links
Posts about William George Jordan by Rod Mann
Individual books
Little Problems of Married Life at Google Books
The Crown of Individuality at Google Books
The House of Governors - Scanned version at Freedomnotes.com
The Kingship of Self-Control at Internet Archive
The Majesty of Calmness at Internet Archive
The Majesty of Calmness Read Online at LibriPass.com
The Majesty of Calmness Audio book at Librivox
The Power of Truth at Google Books
The Trusteeship of Life at Google Books
1864 births
1928 deaths
American essayists
Writers from New York City
City College of New York alumni
The Saturday Evening Post editors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20George%20Jordan |
Chile at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany was the nation's seventh appearance out of ten editions of the Summer Olympic Games. This was the first time that the nation was represented by a team under the auspices of the Chilean Olympic Committee of 39 males and 1 female athletes that competed in 27 events in 8 sports. The previous six teams that represented the nation were either walk-ons to the competitions or under the auspices of the Chilean Athletics Federation (FEDACHI) founded in 1914.
Athletics
Men
Track events
Road events
Field events
Combined events – Decathlon
Women
Track events
Basketball
Boxing
Cycling
Four cyclists, all men, represented Chile in 1936.
Individual road race
Jesús Chousal
Jorge Guerra
Rafael Montero
Manuel Riquelme
Team road race
Jesús Chousal
Jorge Guerra
Rafael Montero
Manuel Riquelme
Sprint
Manuel Riquelme
Fencing
Seven fencers, all men, represented Chile in 1936.
Men's foil
Tomás Goyoaga
César Barros
Hermogenes Valdebenito
Men's épée
Tomas Barraza
Ricardo Romero
Men's team épée
Ricardo Romero, César Barros, Tomas Barraza, Julio Moreno, Tomás Goyoaga
Men's sabre
Julio Moreno
Efrain Díaz
Tomás Goyoaga
Men's team sabre
Efrain Díaz, Tomas Barraza, Ricardo Romero, Julio Moreno, Tomás Goyoaga
Sailing
Shooting
Three shooters represented Chile in 1936.
50 m pistol
Roberto Müller
Carlos Lalanne
Enrique Ojeda
Swimming
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1936 Summer Olympics
1936
1936 in Chilean sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile%20at%20the%201936%20Summer%20Olympics |
Jamie Rose (born November 26, 1959) is an American actress and acting instructor. Born in New York City, Rose was raised in Southern California, where she began her career as a child actor, first appearing in commercials. She made her feature film debut in the cult horror film Just Before Dawn (1981), and subsequently had supporting roles in Clint Eastwood's Tightrope and Heartbreakers (both 1984).
Rose has numerous television credits, including the role of Vickie Gioberti on the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1983), as well as the lead on the crime series Lady Blue (1985–1986). Later film credits include Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012), as well as guest-starring roles on the series Jane the Virgin (2015) and Grey's Anatomy (2016).
Since 2007, Rose has operated her own acting studio workshop, JRose Studio, in Los Angeles. She has also written a book, Shut Up and Dance! The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead--On the Dance Floor and Off, published in 2011.
Early life
Rose was born November 26, 1959 in New York City to Stewart, a singer and dancer, and Reta Rose, a former Radio City Rockette. Shortly after her birth, Rose's family relocated from New York City to California, where she was raised in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles. Her father was Jewish, and she was raised in this faith. Rose began acting at age six, first appearing in commercials for Kool-Aid, and later, Mountain Dew as an adolescent. When Rose was fourteen, the family relocated to Fresno, where her father accepted a job as a building contractor. Rose graduated from Bullard High School in Fresno, and subsequently attended Fresno State University before transferring to the University of California, Santa Cruz. After a year, Rose decided to return to Los Angeles, and transferred to California State University, Northridge, where she majored in theater; she eventually dropped out, however, to begin acting professionally.
Career
She made her feature film debut in Jeff Lieberman's slasher film Just Before Dawn (1981), and subsequently had supporting roles in Clint Eastwood's Tightrope and Heartbreakers (both 1984).
Rose portrayed Vickie Gioberti on the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1983), as well as the lead on the crime series Lady Blue (1985–1986). She would go on to have guest-starring roles on various series in the 1980s, including Hotel, Columbo, and Murder, She Wrote. She also had a supporting part in the 1996 television film Lying Eyes, as well as guest appearances on Chicago Hope (1994–1995), Renegade (1994–1996), Ally McBeal (1997), and Walker, Texas Ranger (also 1997).
In 2012, Rose guest-starred on the series Criminal Minds and had a supporting role in the film Atlas Shrugged: Part II. She subsequently had guest-starring roles on Jane the Virgin (2015) and Grey's Anatomy (2016).
Book
Rose's memoir/self-help book about her experiences learning the tango and how it affected her relationship, Shut Up and Dance! The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead--On the Dance Floor and Off, was released September 15, 2011.
Personal life
Rose married filmmaker James Orr in 1986, though they later divorced. In 2006, Rose married actor Kip Gilman, whom she met on a blind date in 1997. They divorced in 2017. Since September 2007, she has been teaching acting through her JRose Studio in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
Sources
External links
JRose Studio
1959 births
Living people
Acting teachers
Actresses from Fresno, California
Actresses from Los Angeles
Actresses from New York City
American child actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
California State University, Northridge alumni
Jewish American actresses
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Rose |
The Independent Printing House CDN (better known as CDN, ) was an underground printing house (bibuła) operating in Poland between 1982 and 1990.
Formed after the imposition of the Martial Law in Poland, it focused on publishing various mostly history-related books. Apart from the modern history of Poland and Central Europe, the topics included also other topics banned by the Communist censorship, including sociology and politology. The CDN also published a number of magazines and music tapes, among them a series of cassettes featuring the songs of Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
See also
List of record labels
Polish record labels
Record labels established in 1982
Record labels disestablished in 1990
Publishing companies of Poland
1982 establishments in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niezale%C5%BCna%20Oficyna%20Wydawnicza%20CDN |
Widford is a village and civil parish between Ware and Much Hadham in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire in England. It covers an area of approximately 1,167 acres and contains 220 houses. The River Ash flows through the north of the parish. Widford had a population of 534 people in the 2011 census.
History
The name Widford comes from the old English word 'wid' meaning willow tree and the word 'ford'
The Widford commons were extensive and were enclosed under an award of 1856. There was a wood called Lily Wood to the west of the village which was cut down in the late 19th century.
Between 1870 and 1872, John Marius Wilson described Widford as: "a parish, with a village, in Ware district, Herts; near the Buntingford railway, 4 miles E by N of Ware. It has a post-office under Ware, and a r. station."
Demography and employment
The population of Widford was first recorded in 1801 at 361. The population peaked in 1841 at 539. In the most recent census in 2011 the population was measured as 534.
The data included in the graph shows that in 1881 there was one sector of employment that was significantly more popular than any others. This sector was the agriculture sector which had a total of 81 people working in.
Buildings and landmarks
Widford School is a combination of a primary school and a pre-School. There are approximately 60 pupils with a capacity for a maximum of 8 children per year group. Widford School has been open since 1875.
The Village Hall, on Bell Lane at the south of the civil parish, provides for local individuals and organisations. It was built in 1910 by George S Pawle. The primary use of the hall at inception was as a drill hall for the Hertfordshire Regiment TA; it was then used by a Regiment from Staffordshire. It was for village activities and events before it was bought in 1956, after volunteers raised money to buy the building and renovate it. These volunteers then cared and maintained the hall. A new kitchen was added in 2009. The hall has two main rooms: a function room and a smaller room. The function room has a removable stage and has capacity for 100 people. The smaller room is more of a committee room with capacity for 30 people.
The Widford pub is The Green Man. A local campaign helped keep the pub open after a possible closure.
There is a disused single-platformed railway station in Widford. The station was used between 1873 and 1963 as part of the Ware to Buntingford Branch Line. Construction of the railway began in 1859, and four years later the line was complete and nearly fourteen miles long. A coal and garden product distribution centre uses the site. The railway line is used by walkers and cyclists.
Widford allotments hold more than 20 plots; these were created in 1978 after the land was purchased by Widford Parish Council.
Church
The parish church is St John the Baptist. The oldest parts of the church date to the early 13th century, with further work in the late 13th and 14th. The church registers, at Hertfordshire County Record Office, date from 1558. The church graveyard was closed for burials in 1903 when a new graveyard on the other side of Ware Road became available. The Church is supported by an independent, non-religious charity called The Friends of Widford Church. The purpose of the charity is to support the parochial church council and to care for the management and maintenance of the church.
Sport and recreation
Playing field
Widford Playing Field includes a children's play area, a football pitch and a cricket strip. The playing field has green areas of planted trees and hedges. The development of the playing field came after Askey's Field was bought in 1979 by volunteers from the Village Hall Community who raised the money for purchase.
Cricket Club
The ground of Ware Cricket Club is one of the few privately owned cricket grounds in the country. The club has two teams that compete in the Saracens Hertfordshire Premier Cricket League.
Notable people
John Eliot was born in Widford. He was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians He developed an interest in Indian language and translated the Bible into Algonkian which is an American Indian, Algonquian language.
Arthur Percival who lived in Widford following the end of the Second World War, he was a British Army officer who is best known for his involvement in the Second World War. He commanded the forces of the British Commonwealth during the Battle of Malaya and the subsequent Battle of Singapore.
Charles Lamb, the author, with his sister of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, was a regular visitor to the village when he stayed with his Grandmother Mary Field; her grave can be found in the old churchyard. Mary Field was the housekeeper at the original Blakesware Manor.
See also
The Hundred Parishes
References
External links
Widford Primary School
Blakesware Manor – Images of England
Villages in Hertfordshire
Civil parishes in Hertfordshire
East Hertfordshire District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widford%2C%20Hertfordshire |
The Embassy of Germany in Canberra is Germany’s diplomatic mission to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Nauru. The current German ambassador, Dr. Thomas Fitschen, has been in office since August 2019. He and his team take care of the bilateral relationship between Germany and Australia, which includes the political, economic, cultural, military as well as scientific and press fields.
Location
The German Embassy is located at 119 Empire Circuit, Yarralumla, ACT 2600, Canberra, Australia’s capital.
History of diplomatic relations
Germany and Australia celebrated the 60th anniversary of their diplomatic relations on 28 January 2012. The two countries can look back on a successful shared history. During years past, they have been able to intensify and deepen their relationship in various ways.
In 1879, the consulate-general in Sydney was opened under the command of imperial minister and foreign minister Otto von Bismarck. The first consul back then was Dr Richard Krauel. After the outbreak of World War I, diplomatic relations ended and the consulate-general in Sydney was closed. On 24 March 1924 however, it reopened in Melbourne and four years later on 1 October 1928 the consulate moved back to Sydney. Due to the beginning of World War II, the consulate-general was again closed in 1939.
After years without any sign of communication, diplomatic relations were resumed in 1952. After World War II, Dr Walther Hess, West-Germany’s first ambassador, had to face a very controversial reception in Sydney, his arrival attended by protests and demonstrations. However, he succeeded in redefining German-Australian relations. It took quite a while until a suitable chancery was found, which is why the German Embassy conducted its business in Sydney. It was not until 1955 that the Embassy moved to Australia’s capital, Canberra. A consulate-general was founded in Sydney.
On 22 December 1972, the German Democratic Republic began diplomatic relations with the accreditation of Ambassador Hans Richter, but these ended on 3 October 1990 when the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, a few GDR diplomats remained at the German Embassy in Canberra until 1992 to conclude administrative matters.
On 28 January 2013, Germany’s Foreign Minister Westerwelle and Australia’s Foreign Minister Carr signed the Berlin-Canberra Declaration of Intent, confirming a strategic partnership on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of German-Australian relations. This declaration of intent includes sections such as foreign policy, security policy, industry and trade, science and research, energy and climate protection as well as development cooperation. Germany and Australia are planning on working together even more closely in the future.
In 2015 Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the creation of an Australian-German Advisory Group. Chaired by Prof. Dr. Anne Böhmer, Minister of State in the German Foreign Office, and Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance of Australia, the Advisory Group met for the first meeting in Berlin on 10 July 2015.
See also
List of German Ambassadors to Australia
References
External links
German Embassy Canberra
Basic Information about Australia
Consulate General Sydney
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Goethe-Institute Australia
Visit Canberra
Australia–Germany relations
Germany
Canberra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20Canberra |
Goffle Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Passaic County and Bergen County in New Jersey and drains the eastern side of the First Watchung Mountain. Heading up the brook from the confluence with the Passaic River, one encounters the borough of Hawthorne, the village of Ridgewood, the borough of Midland Park, and the township of Wyckoff.
History
Goffle Brook has seen human occupation for hundreds of years, as evidenced by abundant Lenape camp sites along its banks. Two such camps are known to have existed near the brook’s mouth, while another two existed about one and a half miles upstream on the east bank. A fifth camp, still locally remembered, sat at the confluence of Deep Voll Brook and Goffle Brook.
During the American Revolutionary War, General Lafayette stationed his men along the banks of the brook. In 1780, Major Lee’s Virginia light horse troop occupied the east bank of the brook, while Lafayette’s light infantry corps occupied the flanks of First Watchung Mountain to the west. Lafayette’s headquarters sat on the western bank of the brook in what is now Goffle Brook Park south of Diamond Bridge Ave in Hawthorne.
Prior to the twentieth century, the brook’s gradation supported saw, grain, and grist mills. It was probably instrumental in initial settlement and farming of the northern Passaic River valley.
In addition to it uses as a drinking water supply and an energy source for mills, the brook has served as a focus for human creativity. New Jersey native William Carlos Williams immortalized the brook in his 1949 poem Spring is Here Again, Sir. The poem opens with the line, Goffle brook of a May day blossoms in the manner of antiquity.
Today, Goffle Brook serves as the centerpiece of Goffle Brook Park and Kings Pond Park, providing fishing and ice skating opportunities to local residents.
Relationship with the NYS&W Railway
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway parallels Goffle Brook for the majority of its route through Hawthorne, Ridgewood, Midland Park, and Wyckoff, running roughly along the centerline of the Goffle Brook drainage basin. The railroad crosses the brook only twice, once in Ridgewood and again in Midland Park.
Tributaries
Traveling north along the brook from its mouth, the first tributary encountered is Janes Brook, in Hawthorne. Much of this small stream, which can be found in the wooded, southern section of Goffle Brook Park, was converted to a buried sewer in the twentieth century, but a tiny portion still remains at the surface where it empties into Goffle Brook. The second tributary encountered along Goffle Brook is Deep Voll Brook or Deep Brook (captioned name used by the USGS in 1995), which joins Goffle Brook just north of Goffle Hill Road at the far northern end of Goffle Brook Park in Hawthorne. Deep Voll Brook, which flows from northwest to southeast, is the most significant tributary of Goffle Brook, draining a sizeable portion of the northeastern corner of First Watchung Mountain in Hawthorne and Wyckoff.
Beyond Deep Voll Brook are two smaller streams that join Goffle Brook relatively close to each other. Both of these less significant tributaries appear to be unnamed. After these two tributaries is yet another tiny tributary that drains a small swamp at the head of Kings Pond, a manmade lake in southwest Ridgewood.
Continuing north, past the tributary at Kings Pond, Goffle Brook splits into western and eastern branches at Maple Lake, a former manmade swimming hole that was drained in the late 1980s. Of the two branches, the eastern branch is less significant, extending a short distance through Wyckoff before ending just inside the southern limit of Waldwick. The western branch almost completely bisects the town of Wyckoff through the midsection, ending west of Russell Ave at Goffle Pond, the source of Goffle Brook.
Dams
Seven dams exist along Goffle Brook, although ten existed historically. In Hawthorne, a former dam at the southern end of Goffle Brook Park once held back Mill Pond. A dam just south of Goffle Hill Road now forms Arnold's Pond, often referred to as the Duck Pond. In Ridgewood, a dam just north of Rock Road forms Gypsy Pond, and a bigger dam just a little further upstream holds back Kings Pond. The current fourth and fifth dams exist just to the west of where Goffle Road crosses the brook in Midland Park. A dam that was destroyed during a storm lies just upstream from Sicomac Avenue bridge. This dam was held back the waters to form Morrow Pond which was a swimming hole in Midland Park. North of Canterbury Lane in Wyckoff a dam used to exist which held back Maple Lake, now a wetland in danger of development. Two more dams create large lakes on the north and south sides Wyckoff Ave, again in Wyckoff.
See also
List of New Jersey rivers
References
External links
TopoQuest map depicting Goffle Brook in Hawthorne
2007 Water Resources Data brief on USGS's Goffle Brook stream gage
Rivers of Bergen County, New Jersey
Rivers of Passaic County, New Jersey
Tributaries of the Passaic River
Rivers of New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goffle%20Brook |
Jan Krzysztof Kelus, also known by his initials JKK, (born 1942) is a Polish singer, poet, composer, and a member of the democratic opposition in Poland between the 1960s and 1980s. A professional sociologist, Kelus is best known for a number of ballads which gained him a nickname of the Bard of the opposition and Polish Woody Guthrie.
After a brief period at the faculty of law, Kelus graduated from the faculty of sociology of the Warsaw University. After the events of March 1968 he became involved in various groups of the democratic opposition to the Communist regime of the People's Republic of Poland. Arrested in 1969 for his involvement in smuggling books published in Paris by Jerzy Giedroyc's Kultura through the Tatra Mountains, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the so-called Tatra Climbers' Trial. Released from the prison after the advent of Edward Gierek's rule, Kelus was involved in the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) where he organized legal and financial aid to workers and labor activists persecuted by the communist authorities. About that time his songs, passed in bootleg copies outside of the official market and without acceptance of the censorship, became one of the symbols of the opposition. During that time he also translated several songs by Czech artist Karel Kryl.
Simultaneously to his anti-communist activities, in the 1970s Kelus was working at the Gynaecological Institute of the Medical University of Warsaw. Dismissed from the job due to his political activity in 1979, Kelus continued his involvement in the opposition. In early 1980s he was among the founders of the Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza CDN, the largest underground printing house of that time. Arrested in 1981 after the imposition of the Martial Law in Poland, Kelus was interned in Białołęka, along with other notable leaders of the Solidarity. During that time JKK's songs were performed by numerous artists, among them Jacek Kaczmarski and Antonina Krzysztoń. After the peaceful transition of power in Poland in 1989, Kelus withdrew from public life to a house near Białowieża, where he owns a small beekeeping farm. Most of his songs were officially issued after 1989 for the first time.
References
External links
Lyrics of most of JKK's songs
1942 births
20th-century Polish male singers
Living people
Members of the Workers' Defence Committee
Polish male poets
Polish sociologists
Sung poetry of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Krzysztof%20Kelus |
Herbert Edward Pratten (7 May 1865 – 7 May 1928) was an Australian politician. He served as Minister for Health (1924–1925) and Minister for Trade and Customs (1924–1928) in the Bruce–Page government. He became a Senator for New South Wales in 1917, but resigned in 1921 to seek election to the House of Representatives where he served until his death in 1928.
Early life
Pratten was born on 7 May 1865 in Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, England. He was the son of Ann Rebecca (née Vowles) and Herbert Graham Pratten; his mother died in 1870. Pratten was educated at the Merchant Venturers' Technical College and the Bristol Trade and Mining School. At the age of 15, he joined the iron and steel company John Lysaght and Co., based in Bristol. He was sent to Sydney in 1884 to become a clerk at the firm's new Australian branch, working under William Sandford at Five Dock.
Business career
In about 1888, Pratten established a soft drink company in Ashfield, New South Wales. He founded a printing company in 1889 and arranged for his half-brother Frederick to immigrate from England. Their company Pratten Bros. became "one of the largest of its kind in Australia". In 1895, he also acquired Taylor Bros., a jam manufacturer which had been indebted to him. He sold the company a few years before World War I at a substantial profit. Pratten was also a director of the Stanmore Preserving Company, which exported fruit pulp to Europe using newly developed cold-storage techniques. In 1911, he established the Hargraves Consolidated Goldmining Company to take advantage of a government subsidy. He later co-founded the Austral-Malay Tin Mining Company with Ambrose Freeman, which in 1926 was consolidated into Larut Tin Fields Limited.
Pratten visited Asia for business reasons on several occasions. He wrote a series of articles for The Daily Telegraph about his 1906 trip to the Philippines, Japan, China, Malaya, Singapore, and India, which in 1908 he published in book form as Asiatic Impressions. He dedicated the book to "all Australians who realise the many racial dangers that the future may have in store for our beautiful land". His second book Through Orient to Occident (1912) recounted a journey to South-East Asia and China and his experience on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Pratten believed that the economic growth of Asia was both a threat and an opportunity for Australia. He recommended that the federal government place trade commissions in Calcutta and Shanghai.
Public life
Pratten served on the Ashfield Municipal Council from 1905 to 1912, including as mayor from 1909 to 1911. Pratten Park was named in his honour when it opened in 1912. Pratten was also president of the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures from 1912 to 1914.
Politics
Pratten first stood for federal parliament at the 1910 election, running unsuccessfully as an independent in the Division of Parkes. He was a Liberal candidate for the Senate at the 1914 election, but was defeated.
In 1917, Pratten was elected to the Senate as a Nationalist. He spoke on a variety of topics but was particularly interested in economic matters. He argued for more private-sector experience in the Defence Department, opposed financing budget deficits with overseas loans, and argued against the creation of a department akin to the United States Department of Commerce, which he believed was too powerful. Pratten was also interested in reforming parliamentary procedure, suggesting that public servants should be directly questioned by parliament and supporting Josiah Thomas's unsuccessful motion to force ministers in each chamber of parliament to appear in the other chamber to answer questions.
Pratten was elected deputy president of the New South Wales National Association in 1920. In November 1921, he resigned from the Senate to contest the 1921 Parramatta by-election, caused by Sir Joseph Cook's resignation.
1922 election and coalition formation
After a redistribution Pratten transferred to the new Division of Martin at the 1922 election. The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Country Party holding the balance of power. Pratten played a key role in negotiating a coalition, which saw Stanley Bruce replace Billy Hughes as prime minister and Country Party leader Earle Page become deputy prime minister. For a brief period in January 1923, it was rumoured that Pratten himself would replace Hughes as prime minister, despite having no ministerial experience. Sydney's Evening News definitively reported that either Pratten or Earle Page would lead the next government. In response, he issued a statement to the press stating that he was surprised by the reports and that no overtures had been made to him. The following week, Melbourne's Herald reported that Pratten would likely become deputy prime minister in a government led by Page, while The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Bruce would become prime minister and Pratten would be his deputy.
Government minister
It had been expected that Pratten would take the trade and customs portfolio in the Bruce–Page Ministry, but he was unexpectedly omitted. The Age reported that he had been "accepted by every member in the House as a certainty in whatever Cabinet might be constituted". Pratten was eventually elevated to cabinet in June 1924, following Austin Chapman's resignation. He was appointed Minister for Trade and Customs and Minister for Health; he relinquished the latter portfolio to Neville Howse in January 1925. As trade minister, Pratten was considered a strong protectionist, believing Australia needed a high-tariff policy in order to protect its local industry from currency depreciation and dumping. However, he also supported Imperial Preference. He introduced legislation to establish the Tariff Board on a permanent basis, and introduced major amendments to the Customs Tariff Act – in 1925 to increase duties on imported textiles and in 1926 to increase duties on imported iron and steel.
Personal life
Pratten married Agnes Wright, the daughter of a business partner, on 29 May 1891. The couple had two sons and three daughters together, including Herbert Graham Pratten who played first-class cricket for New South Wales. Pratten died in May 1928 on his 63rd birthday, suffering a cerebral haemorrhage while addressing a Nationalist women's meeting in Turramurra. He was succeeded in federal parliament by his nephew Frederick Graham Pratten, who won the 1928 Martin by-election.
References
Members of the Cabinet of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Martin
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Parramatta
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Australian Senate for New South Wales
Australian jam and preserved fruit makers
1865 births
1928 deaths
People from Mangotsfield
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Ministers for Health
Mayors of Ashfield
British emigrants to Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Pratten |
Chao-Li Chi (; April 5, 1927 – October 16, 2010) was a Chinese-born American actor and dancer who worked extensively in American television, including his best known role as Chao-Li, the faithful majordomo and chauffeur of Jane Wyman's character in Falcon Crest. Additionally, his film credits include Big Trouble in Little China, The Joy Luck Club, The Nutty Professor, Wedding Crashers and The Prestige. He was featured in the short film by Maya Deren, Meditation on Violence, in 1948.
His brothers include the economist Ji Chaoding and diplomat Ji Chaozhu.
Early life and education
Chi was born in Shanxi, China, on April 5, 1927. He settled in New York City in 1939 with his family, including his younger brother Ji Chaozhu, as refugees from the Japanese invasion of China. He obtained a bachelor's degree from St. John's College, in Annapolis, Maryland. Chi also earned a master's degree from New York University and a second master's degree from The New School, which was known as the New School for Social Research at the time.
Career
Chi began studying acting under Pearl S. Buck at the East and West Association. He appeared as the lead performer in Maya Deren's 1948 film, Meditation on Violence. He continued to perform with Deren dance companies into the 1960s. In 1967, Chi became the Dance Director of the Living Arts Program in Dayton, Ohio, while touring with Deren.
Chi appeared in approximately fifty-one film and television roles during the course of his career. On television, Chi was perhaps best known for his role as Chao-Li in the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest which aired for nine years on CBS. His other television credits included parts on M*A*S*H and Pushing Daisies. Chi's film credits included The Joy Luck Club, Big Trouble in Little China, The Prestige and Wedding Crashers. His theater credits included the travelling production of Flower Drum Song and the short lived musical Barbary Coast.
Chi moved to Los Angeles in 1975. A practicing Taoist, Chi co-founded the Taoist Sanctuary, which is now known as the Taoist Institute, in Hollywood. He taught courses in Tao Te Ching, I Ching, philosophy and T'ai chi at California State University, Los Angeles and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He also taught T'ai chi at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California, on Saturdays for more than thirty years.
Death
Chi died in his home in Granada Hills, California, on October 16, 2010, at the age of 83. He was survived by his wife, daughter and stepson.
Filmography
References
External links
Obituary Los Angeles Times
1927 births
2010 deaths
American male actors of Chinese descent
American male television actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male dancers
American male soap opera actors
California State University, Los Angeles faculty
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
New York University alumni
The New School alumni
American Taoists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Male actors from New York City
People from Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Male actors from Los Angeles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chao-Li%20Chi |
Bank shot may refer to:
Sports
Bank shot (basketball), type of shot
Bank shot, a
Bank shot, move in air hockey
Other uses
Bank Shot, a 1974 film
Bank Shot, a novel in the John Dortmunder series published by Donald E. Westlake
"Bankshot", a song by Operation Ivy from the 1989 album Energy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20shot |
James Gould Polk (October 6, 1896 – April 28, 1959) was a prominent U.S. politician of the Democratic Party during the middle of the 20th century.
A native of Highland County, Ohio, Polk grew up on a farm and graduated from high school in New Vienna, Ohio. He did not serve during World War I because of a physical disability, and graduated from Ohio State University in 1919.
Polk worked as a school administrator in small towns in Ohio during the 1920s, and was first elected to office in 1930, as a U.S. Congressman from Ohio's 6th District. He won five elections in a row before stepping down in 1941.
During World War II, Polk worked as a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.
After the war, Polk re-entered politics, and won back his old Congressional seat in the 1948 election. He remained in Congress until his death.
Polk died of cancer on April 28, 1959, in Washington, D.C. His remains are buried in Highland Cemetery in Highland, Ohio.
See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99)
References
Sources
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: POLK, James Gould
1896 births
1959 deaths
People from Highland County, Ohio
Ohio State University alumni
Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.
20th-century American politicians
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20G.%20Polk |
The Canterbury Rams are a New Zealand basketball team based in Christchurch. The Rams compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Cowles Stadium. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as The Wheeler Motor Canterbury Rams.
Team history
The Canterbury Rams were a foundation member of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1982. Between 1986 and 1994, the Rams made the NBL final seven times, winning championships in 1986, 1989, 1990 and 1992. Import players Kenny Perkins, Clyde Huntley, Eddie Anderson and Angelo Hill were central to the success of the Rams, as was the outstanding New Zealand core of John "Dutchie" Rademakers, Gilbert Gordon, Andy Bennett, Graham Timms, John Hill, Ian Webb, Glen Denham and Ralph Lattimore. The architects of this success were coaches Garry Pettis, who led the team from 1986 to 1988, and Keith Mair, who took over in 1989. In 1999, the Rams made their eighth NBL final under coach Bert Knops, where they lost 79–72 to the Auckland Rebels.
In 2000, Dr John Watson took over the Rams organisation from the cash-strapped Canterbury Basketball Association (CBA). His takeover of the team created some deep divisions within the basketball community. In 2006, the CBA signed a three-year management contract with Watson. In December 2008, after the CBA advised Watson that they would not be completing the third year of the contract, the Rams withdrew from the NBL, with the Christchurch Cougars taking their place in the 2009 NBL season. The Cougars lasted just two seasons after withdrawing on the eve of the 2011 season due to the Christchurch earthquake.
In November 2013, the Canterbury Rams were granted re-entry into NBL under the leadership of Christchurch businessman Andrew Harrison, making their return during the 2014 NBL season.
In 2016, the Rams were regular season winners for the first time since 1993 behind the likes of McKenzie Moore and Marcel Jones. They made their first playoff appearance since 2002 but lost 104–85 to the Super City Rangers in the semi-finals despite a 35-point effort from Moore.
In 2023, the Rams reached their first NBL final since 1999 behind the likes of Troy Baxter Jr., Tevin Brown and Corey Webster. They won their fifth championship and first since 1992 with a 93–82 win over the Auckland Tuatara.
Honour roll
Players
Current roster
Notable past players
Eddie Anderson
/ Clifton Bush
Glen Dandridge
Glen Denham
/ Richie Edwards
Mickell Gladness
Angelo Hill
Clyde Huntley
/ Marcel Jones
Jeremy Kendle
Jeremy Kench
/ Terrence Lewis
Damian Matacz
McKenzie Moore
Kenny Perkins
John Rademakers
Matthew Rogers
Ethan Rusbatch
Jermaine Taylor
Reuben Te Rangi
Dennis Trammell
/ Arthur Trousdell
Chris Tupu
Carlo Varicchio
Marques Whippy
John Whorton
Robert Wilson
Coaches
Head coaches
Murray McKay (1981–1983)
Darrell Todd (1984–1985)
Garry Pettis (1986–1988)
Keith Mair (1989–1995)
Bert Knops (1996–1999)
Matt Ruscoe (2000–2001)
John Watson (2002–2004)
Pete McAllister (2004–2005)
Chris Sparks (2006–2007)
Bert Knops (2008)
Dave Harrison (2014)
Mark Dickel (2015–2018)
Mick Downer (2019–2021)
Judd Flavell (2022–present)
Source: Canterbury Rams Facebook page
References
External links
Official team website
Andrew Harrison: the unassuming man behind the Canterbury Rams' NBL success
Basketball teams in New Zealand
National Basketball League (New Zealand) teams
Sport in Christchurch
Basketball teams established in 1981
1981 establishments in New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury%20Rams |
The Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) () is a semi-autonomous corporation attached to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, of the Government of Pakistan. It was created in 1973 with an authorized capital of Rs.1,000 million (approximately 10 million U.S. dollars) to expand and help mineral development activities in the country.
PMDC headquarters are in Islamabad. The company operates salt mine/quarries, coal mines and a silica sand quarry. This company conducts exploration of mineral deposits and prepares technical and economic feasibility reports. When needed and appropriate, it goes ahead and actually mines and markets the minerals in Pakistan.
Recent developments
In October 2021, the Imran Khan government announced plans to take "radical and innovative measures for uplift of the minerals sector with coordinated efforts of all stakeholders including provincial authorities". A senior Pakistani government official said, "The country is blessed with 92 minerals, out of which 50 are exploited on commercial basis. The new initiatives will greatly help exploit true potential of this sector".
This official also announced that the federal government had already established the 'Balochistan Minerals Exploration Company Limited' (BMEC) as a joint venture with the Government of Balochistan (Pakistan) to promote mining in the mineral rich province of Balochistan.
Additionally, a restructuring of Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) was underway for better service to help explore more mineral resources in Pakistan.
See also
Pakistan Coal Mines and Resources
Pakistan Chrome Mines Ltd
Resource Development Corporation
Gemstones of Pakistan
References
External links
Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation Official Site
Government-owned companies of Pakistan
Pakistan federal departments and agencies
1974 establishments in Pakistan
Mining in Pakistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Mineral%20Development%20Corporation |
The Power of Truth is a book written by essayist and Saturday Evening Post editor, William George Jordan first published in 1902. It is a self-help book that was originally 151 pages long. Circa 1933 the copyright and printing plates for this book were purchased by Heber J. Grant, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in conjunction with Deseret Book Company, from Nellie Jordan, William's widow. Deseret Book re-published it in 1935 as the 8th edition. Grant first encountered the book while he was in England between 1903 and 1906 serving as president of the LDS Church's European Mission. He purchased over 4,000 copies of it before returning to the United States. He thereafter started a long-running correspondence with William George Jordan.
References
1902 non-fiction books
LDS non-fiction
Self-help books
Deseret Book books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%20of%20Truth |
Bog pine is a common name for several trees and may refer to:
Halocarpus bidwillii, native to New Zealand
Pinus uncinata, native to northern Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog%20pine |
Paraguay competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Seven competitors, six men and one woman, took part in seven events in five sports.
Athletics
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Men
Field
Fencing
One male fencer represented Paraguay in 1996.
Judo
Sailing
Open
Swimming
See also
Paraguay at the 1995 Pan American Games
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Bob, Bobby, Robbie, Rob or Robert Fuller may refer to:
Academics
Robert W. Fuller (born 1936), American president of Oberlin College
Robert C. Fuller (born 1952), American professor of religious studies
Performers
Robert Fuller (actor) (born 1933), American TV Western star
Bob Fuller (1898—after 1935), American blues and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
Bobby Fuller (1942–1966), American rock and roll singer and guitarist
Rob Fuller, British actor in 1991's "Miami Twice"
Sportsmen
Robert Fuller (footballer) (born 1964), Australian rules footballer
Robbie Fuller, British speedway racer in 1984 through 1988 British League season
Rob Fuller (born 1973), American Chevrolet driver at 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Rob Fuller, English rugby lock in 2020–21's Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club
Wrestlers
Robert Fuller (wrestler) (born 1949), American wrestler and manager, birth name Robert Welch
Robert Fuller Jr. (born 1958), American wrestler, birth name Robert Gibson
Others
Robert Fuller (FBI agent), American counter-terrorism agent since 1990s
Robert E Fuller (born 1972), English wildlife artist
Robert L. Fuller (1996–2020), African American found hanged in California
See also
Robert Fuller House, American historic house in Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fuller |
PMDC may refer to:
Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation
People's Movement for Democratic Change, a political party in Sierra Leone
Permanent magnet direct current, a type of electric motor
Portable Modular Data Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMDC |
is a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.
Career
Amano worked on the manga adaptation of the Legend of Mana video game series. It was serialized from 2000 to 2002 and published in five volumes.
Amano also worked on the Kingdom Hearts manga adaptations, following the events that took place in the video games with differences to account for the loss of interactivity a video game provides. The manga was originally serialized in Japan by Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan and eventually released in tankōbon format. The first tankōbon was released in Japan in October 2003. The manga was released in the US by Tokyopop two years later in October 2005. Yen Press now holds the rights to publish the books for the USA market. The first series, Kingdom Hearts, consists of four volumes, while the second series, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, has two volumes. The third series, Kingdom Hearts II, has had five volumes published and is currently on hiatus. A fourth series based on Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is being serialized. The games have also been adapted as a light novel series, written by Tomoco Kanemaki and illustrated by Shiro Amano. Like the manga series, it is divided into separate series based on the games. Kingdom Hearts is divided into two volumes; "The First Door" and "Darkness Within". Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is divided into two volumes. Kingdom Hearts II is divided into four volumes; "Roxas—Seven Days", "The Destruction of Hollow Bastion", "Tears of Nobody", and "Anthem—Meet Again/Axel Last Stand".
Works
Artbook
Amano Shiro (天野 シロ) Art Works Kingdom Hearts
References
External links
Living people
Manga artists
1976 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiro%20Amano |
Paraguay competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 27 competitors, 24 men and 3 women, took part in 12 events in 6 sports.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Men
Field
Women
Field
Fencing
Two male fencers represented Paraguay in 1992.
Ranks given are within the group.
Football
Men's team competition
Preliminary round
Group C
Quarterfinals
Team roster
( 1) Ruben Ruiz Diaz
( 2) Andres Duarte
( 3) Osvaldo Peralta
( 4) Juan Ramon Jara
( 5) Celso Ayala
( 6) Carlos Gamarra
( 7) Francisco Ferreira
( 8) Hugo Sosa
( 9) Arsenio Benitez
(10) Gustavo Neffa
(11) Julio César Yegros
(12) César Velázquez
(13) Juan Marecos
(14) Ricardo Sanabria
(15) Guido Alvarenga
(16) Francisco Arce
(17) Héctor Sosa
(18) Charles Bourdier
(19) Mauro Caballero
(20) Jorge Luis Campos
Head coach: Sergio Markarian
Judo
Swimming
Tennis
See also
Paraguay at the 1991 Pan American Games
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Embassy of Germany in Tel Aviv is Germany's diplomatic mission to Israel.
Since April 2022, the embassy is located at 2 Hashlosha Street, Tel Aviv. The embassy is also home to a consulate, various departments and a military attaché. The current ambassador is Steffen Seibert.
See also
List of diplomatic missions in Israel
External links
German Embassy in Tel Aviv
German Foreign Office
Tel Aviv
Germany
Germany–Israel relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20Tel%20Aviv |
Paraguay competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Athletics
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
Men
Track & road events
Field
Combined Events
Boxing
Judo
Shooting
See also
Paraguay at the 1983 Pan American Games
References
sports-reference
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Paraguay competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Four competitors, all men, took part in six events in four sports.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Fencing
One fencer represented Paraguay in 1976, Bejarano was drawn in Pool nine, and won just one of his five contests.
Shooting
Swimming
Men
See also
Paraguay at the 1975 Pan American Games
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20at%20the%201976%20Summer%20Olympics |
Carnival of Chaos is Gwar's sixth studio album, released on March 25, 1997, by Metal Blade Records.
Overview
The album is Gwar's longest album (exceeding 74 minutes), and contains Stampe's solo number: "Don't Need a Man". Hunter Jackson also returns in "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo", and there is a ballad entitled "Sammy" about the rotting corpse of Sammy Davis Jr. "In Her Fear" is Oderus's swan song, and Beefcake the Mighty gives a memorable song in "Hate Love Songs" - Casey Orr's last song as a lead vocalist with the band until his return on Lust in Space.
Carnival of Chaos is the last Gwar album to feature Peter Lee as Flattus Maximus. Due to recurring stomach problems stemming from a gunshot wound sustained in a carjacking four years prior, he left the band shortly after the 1997 Halloween Tour.
"Don't Need A Man" was not originally meant to be a Gwar song. It was supposed to be just Danielle Stampe (Slymenstra Hymen) singing and Michael Derks (Balsac the Jaws of Death) on piano. It ended up featuring Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha), Derks (sequencing the upright bass part, the piano and the guitar) and Stampe. Derks produced the track, but received no credit. Additionally, Derks wrote "Hate Love Songs," and was initially going to sing the lead, but opted instead to have Orr (Beefcake) do it. He is still heard in the background.
Approximately nine minutes after "Don't Need A Man" is a clip of "Drop Drawers." This was supposed to appear on the album, along with a complete version of "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo." The latter had to be changed, due to Paramount's refusal to give permission to use music from the 1967 Star Trek episode, "Amok Time". There is a "Slave Pit Single, released after this album, that features it. The former, which included a cover of Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun," had to be cut, save for a short clip at the end.
"Drop Drawers" can be found on Slaves Going Single, an extremely rare B-sides collection released between We Kill Everything and Violence Has Arrived on Slave Pit Records. The latter can be heard, minus the unlicensed cover, on the album just after Techno sings "You'll just make me...", and the full song (except for a slight cut-off of Techno at the end) on the Rawgwar Slave Pit Single.
"Sammy" is the longest song on this album, despite "Don't Need A Man"'s 12:40 track length (most of it is silence; the actual song is a little less than 4:30 long). Clocking in at 6:57, it and the title track from their 1999 follow-up, We Kill Everything, were the longest songs by the band until the song "War on GWAR" (7:21) was released on 2017's The Blood of Gods. Note, the 30th anniversary remix of Scumdogs of the Universe includes the entire version of “King Queen”, which clocks in at 8:09, making it the longest Gwar song to appear on a studio album.
Songs from Carnival have not been in the band's setlists for a number of years except for the group occasionally playing "Penguin Attack" and "Back to Iraq". Unlike We Kill Everything, where the band readily admits their dissatisfaction for the content (explaining the absence of songs from that album), they have yet to give a definitive reason why. The songs "Pre-Skool Prostitute" and "Hate Love Songs" were part of Gwar's 2013 Madness At The Core Of Time Tour setlist.
Track listing
All tracks by Gwar
Personnel
Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) - Lead vocals
Pete Lee (Flattus Maximus) – Lead guitar, backing vocals
Mike Derks (Balsac the Jaws of Death) – Rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Casey Orr (Beefcake the Mighty) – Bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Hate Love Songs"
Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) - Drums
Hunter Jackson (Techno Destructo) - Lead vocals on "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo"
Danielle Stampe (Slymenstra Hymen) – Lead vocals on "Don't Need a Man"
Ron Goudie – Producer, Mixing
Warren Croyle – Mixing
Gene Grimaldi – Mastering
Katherine Leatherwood – Photography
Drew Mazurek – Mixing
Mark Miley – Assistant Engineer, Drum Producer
Grant Rutledge – Assistant Engineer
Eddy Schreyer – Mastering
References
1997 albums
Gwar albums
Metal Blade Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%20of%20Chaos |
General National Archive () is the name of several national archives in Latin America.
General Archive of the Nation (Argentina)
General Archive of the Nation (Colombia)
General National Archive (El Salvador)
General National Archive (Mexico)
General National Archive (Nicaragua)
General Archive of the Nation (Peru)
General National Archive (Uruguay)
General National Archive (Venezuela) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20National%20Archive |
June Haimoff (MBE) (27 December 1922 – 23 April 2022) was an English environmentalist who lived in Dalyan in the Turkish province of Muğla. In the period from 1984 to 1988 she and fellow-environmentalists such as David Bellamy, Lily Venizelos, Günther Peter, Nergis Yazgan and Keith Corbett launched a successful campaign to preserve İztuzu Beach as a habitat for the endangered loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). This beach is one of the main nesting places of the species in Turkey and the Mediterranean.
Background
June Haimoff was born in Essex as Joan Christine Fairey, daughter of Christopher and Madeleine Fairey. As her father was a prominent petroleum engineer, the family often lived abroad (a.o. in Uganda and Iran).
In her adult life, she pursued the ambition of becoming an opera singer and did her studies in music, dancing and ballet. When married with Charles Haimoff, she was seriously engaged in painting and had her own art gallery in Gstaad, Switzerland.
June Haimoff died of multiple organ failure in Dalyan on 23 April 2022, where she had been living since 1987.
Conservation campaign
She visited southwestern Turkey for the first time in July 1975, when the region was still outside the usual tracks of international tourism, by means of a boat (Bouboulina) purchased in Greece.
Between 1975 and 1981 she occasionally stopped at İztuzu Beach and Dalyan on her boat trips and was therefore called "Kaptan June" (Captain June) by the locals. In 1984 she settled in Dalyan in her own baraka (beach hut) on İztuzu Beach.
When it became clear that there were plans to exploit the beach for mass tourism, she started a campaign to preserve İztuzu Beach as a breeding habitat for the loggerhead turtle, which is on the IUCN Red List.
In April 1987 building started on an 1800-bed hotel complex by the name of Kaunos Beach Hotel. This caused a storm of protests world-wide. There were protests from the IUCN, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt. Particularly in the former Federal Republic of Germany the building caused a major uproar, because the German DEG (Deutsche Finanzierungsgesellschaft für Beteiligungen in Entwicklungsländern) wanted to use an amount equivalent to 5 million euros from public means under the pretense of development aid.
June Haimoff approached the WWF and consequently Prince Philip—then President—asked the Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Özal for a moratorium, while awaiting the outcome of an Environmental Impact Assessment. In the meantime the German Federal Government had forbidden DEG to invest development aid money for the building of the Kaunos Beach Hotel.
The project was stopped in September 1987 and in 1988 the Turkish government decided to forbid future building at the beach. The Köyceğiz-Dalyan region then obtained the status of Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA).
Afterwards, June Haimoff dedicated her efforts to assure conservation of the site as well as for attracting international attention to the fate of the turtles ".
She herself related the struggle and the victory for the preservation of the turtle species in her book titled "Kaptan June and the Turtles" published for the first time in 1997. A second edition published in 2002 and titled, this time, "Kaptan June and the Dalyan Turtles", featuring a new prologue, two additional chapters, bringing the story up to date, and an index.
Lately June Haimoff pursued her efforts in a wider frame, and was also concerned with the preservation of the nature in a more general sense with focus on the unique flora and fauna of the Köyceğiz-Dalyan Special Environmental Protection Area. She was particularly concerned for the protection of the soft-shelled Nile Turtle and the Oriental Sweetgum trees (Liquidambar orientalis), another endemic species proper to the region.
Turtle Conservation Foundation
In 2009 June Haimoff took an exam to obtain Turkish citizenship to start a foundation to protect the habitat of the loggerhead turtle. The Kaptan June Sea Turtle Conservation Foundation was officially established in February 2011 and has its Information Centre and Museum in Kaptan June's Hut at the minibus side of the beach, overlooking the place where the building of the Kaunos Beach Hotel started in April 1987.
Her work has been recognised by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2011 British New Year's Honors List.
June Haimoff lived until her death in Dalyan in a traditional Turkish house, named "The Peaceable Kingdom". She lived a very active life, supported by many friends and surrounded by her many dogs and cats.
References
Sources
First edition:
Second edition:
Breakfast with Kaptan June by June Haimoff
1922 births
2022 deaths
English conservationists
English environmentalists
People from Dalyan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%20Haimoff |
Paraguay at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was the nation's second appearance out of sixteen editions at the time at the Summer Olympic Games. One competitor, Rodolfo da Ponte, took part in the individual foil fencing.
Fencing
Ranks given are within the group.
See also
Paraguay at the 1967 Pan American Games
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
1968 in Paraguayan sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Charles Watson may refer to:
Charles Watson (Royal Navy officer) (1714–1757), British naval officer, governor of Newfoundland
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Whig Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Charles Watson (Wisconsin legislator) (1836–1910), Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Charles Moore Watson (1844–1916), Anglo-Irish British Army officer, engineer and administrator
Charles Boog Watson (1858–1947), Scottish engineer and antiquarian
Charles A. Watson (1871–1948), President of the American University in Cairo
Charles H. Watson (1877–1962), Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator
Charles G. M. Watson (1878–1961), Australian national chess champion
Chub Watson (Charles Watson, 1915–1971), American professional basketball player
Charles W. Watson (1915–2002), American sculptor
Tex Watson (Charles Denton Watson, Jr., born 1945), American murderer
C. J. Watson (born 1984), American professional basketball player
Charles Watson (businessman), American businessman, founder of The Natural Gas Clearinghouse, later renamed Dynegy
Charles Watson (musician), is a British musician who used to be one half of the band Slow Club before going solo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Watson |
David Beecroft (born April 26, 1955) is an American actor noted for his television appearances, having played both regular and recurring roles in series such as Falcon Crest (as Nick Agretti), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Melrose Place.
Early life and education
Beecroft was born in Warwick, Rhode Island. He graduated from W. T. White High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1974. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, before moving to Hollywood in 1979.
Career
In 1992, he starred on the short-lived series Hearts are Wild. He has also been a regular on the daytime soap operas One Life to Live as Trent Chapin (1985–1986) and All My Children from 1999 to 2001. He played the serial killer in 1990's The Rain Killer, and a gigolo in 1987's Creepshow 2.
Personal life
Beecroft's older brother is actor Gregory Beecroft. He and his wife have one son.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1955 births
People from Warwick, Rhode Island
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Rhode Island
W. T. White High School alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Beecroft |
The Ormskirk branch line is a railway line in Lancashire, England, running between Preston and Ormskirk. The train service is operated by Northern Trains, who usually operate class 150, 156, and 158 units. The line is the northern section of the former Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway; the line from Ormskirk to Liverpool is now part of Merseyrail's Northern Line. Prior to the introduction of the 1970–71 London Midland Region timetable, it was a secondary main line from Liverpool to Scotland, Blackpool, and Yorkshire. From 4 May 1970, however, the line was severed at Ormskirk. With express trains eliminated, stopping services at the village stations en route were improved, and have retained a similar frequency to this day.
Signalling
The line is controlled by Preston Power Signal Box (PSB) from where it leaves the West Coast Main Line at Farington Curve Jn by Track Circuit Block signalling regulations until Midge Hall signal box. From here until Rufford signal box, the trains are signalled by Electric Token Block regulations, and from Rufford to Ormskirk the train is signalled by One Train Working (No Staff) regulations (previously worked as One Train Working With Train Staff until 2016). If at any time there is a problem with either the token machine or track circuits showing occupied, then pilotman working must be implemented.
History
The line remained an important passenger artery into the 1960s, though freight had begun to disappear – the goods yards at Croston and Rufford closed around 1964, though that at Ormskirk remained active until 1969. Stopping passenger services were handed over to DMUs from the end of October 1965.
In 1969, the Labour Minister of Transport Richard Marsh refused to agree to British Railways request to withdraw local passenger services between Ormskirk and Preston, and to close the stations at , and . The price for the reprieve of the intermediate stations though, was the line's future as a main line. From October 1969 stopping trains from Blackpool and Preston terminated at Ormskirk, and the last through trains from Liverpool to Preston ran on 3 May 1970. Services to and from East Lancashire via and Blackburn were also withdrawn from 6 October 1969, when the original LO&PR line via Moss Lane Junction and the curve hence to Todd Lane Junction closed to passenger traffic. All services henceforth ran via Farington Curve Junction and the WCML to reach Preston. The line was then singled with the removal of the old Down Main between Midge Hall and Ormskirk in the summer of 1970, and from Midge Hall to Preston in 1983.
Future
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority announced in July 2021 that trials of a BEMU version their new Class 777 on the Merseyrail network had shown that they were capable of travelling up to without a charge. The battery-electric version of the Class 777 would allow the possibility of Merseyrail services from Liverpool to Skelmersdale, Wrexham, Warrington, Preston and Runcorn, without full line electrification.
The reinstatement of the Burscough Curves has been proposed which would allow services to Southport from Preston and Liverpool via Ormskirk. This could be accompanied by the reopening of Midge Hall station.
Preston – Ormskirk services were increased to hourly all day in May 2018 (apart from Sundays).
References
External links
Rail transport in Lancashire
Ormskirk Branch
Railway lines in North West England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormskirk%20branch%20line |
Hogans Corner is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 85 at the 2010 census. Prior to 2010 it was part of the combined Oyehut-Hogan's Corner CDP.
Geography
Hogans Corner is located in western Grays Harbor County around the intersection of Washington State Routes 109 and 115. SR 109 leads east to Hoquiam and north along the Pacific coast to Ocean City and Copalis Beach. SR 115 leads south to Oyehut and Ocean Shores.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hogans Corner CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 4.21%, are water.
References
Census-designated places in Grays Harbor County, Washington
Census-designated places in Washington (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogans%20Corner%2C%20Washington |
Oyehut is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 85 at the 2010 census. Prior to 2010 it was part of the combined Oyehut-Hogan's Corner CDP.
Geography
Oyehut is located in western Grays Harbor County at the south end of Washington State Route 115. The CDP is bordered to the south by the city of Ocean Shores, to the east by SR 115, to the north by Ocean City State Park, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Via SR 115 and SR 109, it is east to Hoquiam.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Oyehut CDP has a total area of , of which , or 2.02%, are water.
References
Census-designated places in Grays Harbor County, Washington
Census-designated places in Washington (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyehut%2C%20Washington |
Wendy Phillips (born January 2, 1952) is an American actress, known for her roles on television series including Falcon Crest, Homefront and Promised Land.
Life and career
Phillips was born in Brooklyn, New York. She made her screen debut in the 1975 NBC Movie of the Week, Death Be Not Proud. Two years later, Phillips made her big screen debut in the drama film Fraternity Row. On television, she starred alongside Mitchell Ryan in the CBS drama series, Executive Suite from 1976 to 1977, and later on the NBC series The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978–79). She later guest-starred on Lou Grant, Trapper John, M.D., Taxi, St. Elsewhere, The Twilight Zone, and Murder, She Wrote
During the 1980s, Phillips appeared in films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and Midnight Run (1988), and well as number of made-for-television movies notable Paper Dolls (1982), the NBC miniseries A Year in the Life (1986), and its sequel series from 1987 to 1988. In 1989, she was a regular cast member in the ABC sitcom The Robert Guillaume Show, and from 1989 to 1990 starred as David Selby's character's last wife, Lauren Daniels, during the final season of CBS prime time soap opera, Falcon Crest. In 1991, she played title character' ex-wife in the biographical film Bugsy.
From 1991 to 1993, Phillips starred in the ABC award-winning drama series, Homefront. She later played Gerald McRaney's wife, Claire Greene, on the CBS series Touched by an Angel (1994–98) and Promised Land (1996-99). The following years, Phillips guest-starred on Charmed, ER, The Closer, Shameless, and had a recurring roles on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) and Big Love (2006-2011).
Phillips has been teaching Scene Study and Acting for the Camera privately since 2001, and in later years she has been an Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Brooklyn
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
1952 births
USC School of Cinematic Arts faculty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Phillips |
Bolivia competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Four competitors, all men, took part in five events in four sports.
Athletics
Men's Marathon
Lucio Guachalla — 2:45:31 (→ 60th place)
Cycling
One cyclist represented Bolivia in 1976.
Individual road race
Marco Soria — did not finish (→ no ranking)
1000m time trial
Marco Soria — 1:14.480 (→ 26th place)
Equestrian
Roberto Nielsen-Reyes
Shooting
Jaime Sánchez
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%20at%20the%201976%20Summer%20Olympics |
Bolivia competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Eleven competitors, all men, took part in nine events in three sports.
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
Lionel Caero
First Heat — 11.19s (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
Ricardo Condori
Final — 2:56:11 (→ 58th place)
Crispín Quispe
Final — 3:07:22 (→ 61st place)
Juvenal Rocha
Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Equestrianism
Roberto Nielsen-Reyes
Shooting
Six male shooters represented Bolivia in 1972.
50 m pistol
Jaime Sánchez
50 m rifle, prone
Fernando Inchauste
Eduardo Arroyo
Trap
Armando Salvietti
Ricardo Roberts
Skeet
Carlos Asbun
Armando Salvietti
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics |
Bolivia at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was the third appearance of the nation at the sixteenth edition of the Olympic Summer Games. Bolivia sent to the 1968 Summer Olympics its third national team under the auspices of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ( - COB) four athletes (all men) competed in three events in three sports.
Canoeing
Men's K-1 1000m:
Fernando Inchauste - DNF
Equestrian
Roberto Nielsen-Reyes
Shooting
Two male shooters represented Bolivia in 1968.
Trap
Carlos Asbun
Ricardo Roberts
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Bolivia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan was the second appearance of the nation at the fourteenth edition of the Olympic Summer Games following a hiatus after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Bolivia sent to the 1964 Summer Olympics its second national team of one male athlete, Fernando Inchauste, under the auspices of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ( - COB). Inchauste was the flag bearer, and he was a canoeist who competed in the Men's K-1 1000 metres, where he qualified for the semifinal but did not start.
Canoeing
Fernando Inchauste - Men's K-1 1000 metres
Heat 2 - 6th (5:48:74)
Repechange - 6:07:70 (Qualified)
Semifinal - Did not Start
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
Bolivia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany from 1–16 August 1936 was the nation's first appearance out of ten editions of the Summer Olympic Games. Bolivia sent to the 1936 Summer Olympics its first national team of one male athlete, Alberto Conrad, under the auspices of the
Bolivian Olympic Committee ( - COB). Conrad was the flag bearer, and he was a swimmer who competed in the men's 100 meter freestyle, where he was eliminated during the heats. Bolivia would return to the Summer Olympics at the fifteenth edition in 1964, although a team was sent to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Background
The Bolivian Olympic Committee was recognized by the International Olympic Committee on 31 December 1935. This was Bolivia's first appearance at any edition of the Olympic Games from 1896 to 1932. The 1936 Summer Olympics were held from 1–16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany; a total of 3,963 athletes participated, representing 49 countries. The Bolivian delegation consisted of a single competitor, Alberto Conrad. He was the flag bearer for the opening ceremony. Bolivia made their next appearance at a Summer Olympics at the 1964 Summer Olympics although they did send a team to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Swimming
Alberto Conrad was 26 years old at the time of the Berlin Olympics, and was making his only Olympic appearance. In the first round of the men's 100 meters freestyle he was drawn into heat 2. He completed the race in a time of 1 minute and 17.5 seconds, which was seventh and last in his heat; only the top two from each heat and the two next fastest overall were permitted to advance, and Conrad was eliminated; the slowest qualifying time in his heat was 1 minute and 1 second. Conrad was the slowest of all 45 competitors, and nearly ten seconds behind 44th place, Spyridon Mavrogiorgos of Greece. The gold medal was won by Ferenc Csik of Hungary in a time of 57.6 seconds. The silver was won by Masanori Yusa and the bronze by Shigeo Arai, both of Japan.
Note: Ranks are given within a swimmer's heat only.
References
Nations at the 1936 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%20at%20the%201936%20Summer%20Olympics |
The German Embassy in Abuja is Germany's diplomatic mission to Nigeria.
The embassy is located at 9 Lake Maracaibo Close, off Amazon Street Maitama / Abuja F.C.T. The consulate-general is located in Lagos at 15, Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island - Lagos, Nigeria.
The embassy is also home to a consulate various departments and a military attaché.
Current German Ambassador to Nigeria is Birgitt Ory.
References
External links
German Embassy in Nigeria
Partnership with Africa
Abuja
Germany
Germany–Nigeria relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20Abuja |
In music, homorhythm (also homometer) is a texture having a "similarity of rhythm in all parts" or "very similar rhythm" as would be used in simple hymn or chorale settings. Homorhythm is a condition of homophony. All voices sing the same rhythm. This texture results in a homophonic texture, which is a blocked chordal texture. Homorhythmic texture delivers lyrics with clarity and emphasis. Texture in which parts have different rhythms is heterorythmic or heterometric.
The term is used for compositions in which all the voice-parts move simultaneously in the same rhythm, forming a succession of chords. It may also be called chordal style, familiar style, note-against-note style, isometric, and homophonic. Isometric may used to refer to music in which each vocal part has the same number of syllables, with isorythmic being used to refer to music in which each voice has the same rhythm.
[[Image:If ye love me.png|thumb|center|400px|Homophony in Tallis' "If Ye Love Me", composed in 1549. The voices move together using the same rhythm, and the relationship between them creates chords: the excerpt begins and ends with an F major triad. ]]
Isometre
Isometre is the use of pulse without regular meter. The music is used in the psalmsongs of the Orthodox Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, based on the rhythm made by Petrus Datheen (16th century), as well as some other churches. Isometric music may be homometric music or music in which each vocal part has the same number of syllables, with isorythmic'' being used to refer to music in which each voice has the same rhythm.
References
Musical texture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homorhythm |
This is a list of mayors of Timmins, Ontario.
W.H. Wilson – 1912–1916
J.P. McLaughlin – 1917–1918
Dr. J.A. McInnis – 1918–1925
E.G. Dickson- 1926
E.L. Longmore – 1927–1928
G.S. Drew – 1929–1933
R. Richardson – 1934–1935
J.P. Bartleman – 1936–1939
J. Emile Brunette – 1940–1947
Karl Eyre – 1948–1949
P. Fay – 1950–1951
J. Wilf Spooner – 1952–1955
Leo Del Villano – 1956–1959
J. Emile Brunette – 1960
Leo Del Villano – 1961–1966
J.J. Evans – 1967–1968
Leo Del Villano – 1968–1977
Michael Doody – 1977–1980
Victor M. Power – 1980–1988
Dennis Welin – 1988–1991
Victor M. Power – 1991–2000
Jamie Lim – 2000–2003
Victor M. Power – 2003–2006
Tom Laughren – 2006-2014
Steve Black – 2014-2018
George Pirie – 2018-2022
Kristin Murray - 2022 (acting)
Michelle Boileau - taking office December 2022
Until 1960, years represent those annual councils over which each mayor presided, and a calendar year may or may not exactly have corresponded with terms in office.
References
Timmins, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mayors%20of%20Timmins |
Florian Jenni (born 24 March 1980 in Lieli) is a Swiss chess grandmaster.
When he was five years old, he was taught to play chess by his mother and later on by his father. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2003. On the March 2010 FIDE rating list his Elo rating is 2520.
Jenni, who studied economics and plays the piano in his free time, won tournaments in Lenk (2002), the Swiss Championship in Silvaplana (2003), and Winterthur (2005).
He is also a member of the Swiss National Team.
References
Swiss chess players
1980 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%20Jenni |
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss () is a collection of visual art created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1995, after Geisel's death, by Random House of New York.
Contents of the book
Visual art
The bulk of this collection consists of painting and drawing. It does, however, include photographs of many sculptures created by Geisel. Both forms of art display the characteristic style and form that can be seen in all of his children's books.
Sculpture
All of Dr. Seuss's sculptures display the same themes, which are taxidermy and trophy hunting. Each sculpture takes the form of an imaginary and fantastic creature displayed on a wood mount in the style of a hunting trophy. Most of his pieces in this category make use of authentic animal parts.
Introduction/foreword
In addition to visual art, Secret Art provides more personal insight into the life of Theodor Geisel. The book opens with a very short introductory letter by Geisel's widow, Audrey Geisel, titled "A Personal Note About Theodor Seuss Geisel", as well as an introduction by Maurice Sendak, both of which relate anecdotal tales of Geisel's work ethic and artistic vision.
Media
Dr. Seuss used a wide variety of media in his art. In keeping with the post-modernist tradition, Seuss is very experimental with his media; he even uses a hinged window frame and screen as a frame for one of his oil paintings.
Paintings and drawings
Theodor Seuss Geisel's favored medium is watercolor, usually either on bristol or illustration board. He also makes ample use of ink or pen, oil, and acrylic. This selection of media helps to expand his distinctive style.
Sculpture
The most distinct aspect of Geisel's sculpture is his choice of medium. As mentioned above, all of his sculptures take the form of hunting-lodge trophies in the forms of surreal or fantasy animals. As if to enhance this effect, Dr. Seuss uses real parts of dead animals and animal by-products. Each sculpture is hung on a plain wood mount.
Complete list of media
Two-dimensional art
pencil
ink
watercolor
colored pencil
whiteout
oil pastel
pen
oil
acrylic
casein
gouache
enamel
crayon
On
bristol/illustration/drawing board
paper
watercolor board
Sculpture
plaster
metal
screws
laminate
shaving brush
horns (ex. kudu)
oil
fur
beak
leather
bull's horn
sawfish bill
Classification and analysis
Many have tried to classify Dr. Seuss's artwork, but there is no true consensus among critics on which school of art or movement he belongs to.
Although he was no longer working at the time the terms were coined, he can probably be best defined as a combination of early forms of maximalism and cute formalism. This is evident not only in the visual aesthetic of his work, but also in his work ethic. In the maximalist tradition, his work is very bright, sensual, visually rich, and extremely detailed. He was also very conscientious, and his pieces are all very formalistic and work-extensive. All of his pieces also display a childish and playful nature, with a touch of femininity and a sense of ironic politeness, which leads to the assertion that he was a preemptive cute formalist. This observation is particularly interesting because of the evident Oriental influence on Geisel's art, and both of these movements are centered in Eastern Asian culture (Chinese and Japanese, respectively).
Some have labeled Seuss's art as expressionist, but critics of this argument claim that his working style and ethics were not in-line with those of expressionism. Expressionism is usually defined as the exaggeration or over-emphasis of shapes, forms, and colors to heighten emotional reaction. While Dr. Seuss's art is clearly very exaggerated and emotional, many critics do not believe it was created with the deliberate attempt at emotional "shock value" they see as being characteristic of expressionism.
Neither of these arguments has much critical support, but then, neither do many other arguments concerning the classification of Theodor Seuss Geisel; in fact, he died before some of these terms were even coined. His works were quickly acquired by American pop art galleries, and some (but very few) critics consider it kitsch. Perhaps the safest classification is just as transgressive art, or even just the broader umbrella term of postmodernism.
See also
Dr. Seuss
Transgressive art
Postmodernism
References
Geisel, Audrey. The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss. Random House: New York, 1995.
1995 books
Books about the visual arts
Works by Dr. Seuss
Random House books
Books published posthumously | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Art%20of%20Dr.%20Seuss |
Suriname competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Athletics
Men
Women
Badminton
Swimming
Men
Women
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Suriname competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Six competitors, five men and one woman, took part in seven events in three sports.
Medalists
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Women
Cycling
One male cyclist represented Suriname in 1992.
Road
Swimming
Men
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is a postmodern children's book written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. Published in 1992 by Viking, it is a collection of twisted, humorous parodies of famous children's stories and fairy tales, such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Gingerbread Man". The book won The New York Times Best Illustrated Book award, was a Caldecott Honor book in 1993, and has won numerous other awards in various countries.
The book has proved to be popular with children and adults and is considered an American classic, as its lighthearted approach creates interest while educating young readers about some of the features of books (such as title and contents) by poking fun at those conventions.
The book was re-released in a 10th-anniversary edition in 2002 and included a new story, a parody of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" on the dust jacket.
Plot
The book is narrated by the character of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, who tells the stories and deals with the rest of the cast. There is a very loud and annoying Little Red Hen that comes in to complain about no one helping her make her bread (or do anything). Chicken Licken believes that the sky is falling and demands that someone call the President until the table of contents crushes her and the others. Jack introduces Little Red Running Shorts, a counterpart of Little Red Riding Hood, by blurting out the entire story — including the ending — so she and the wolf refuse to be in it. The Stinky Cheese Man, a counterpart of The Gingerbread Man, is afraid to be near anyone because he thinks that they will eat him...but they are really trying to get away from his horrid smell.
Also in the book are "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", "The Other Frog Prince", "The Really Ugly Duckling", "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Tortoise and the Hair". In the first, a retelling of "The Princess and the Pea", the Prince finally finds a girl he really loves. Sick of his parents rejecting potential wives when they do not feel a pea under 100 mattresses, he slips his bowling ball under her mattresses when his parents have her over. In "The Other Frog Prince", the frog tells the princess that he will turn into a prince if she kisses him and so she does; he then says "I was just kidding" and hops back into the lake. "The Really Ugly Duckling" (a parody of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling"), grows up to be a Really Ugly Duck rather than a swan. "Cinderumplestiltskin" combines "Cinderella" and "Rumplestiltskin". In "The Tortoise and the Hair", a re-telling of "The Tortoise and the Hare", a Rabbit says he can grow his hair (one on the top of his head) faster than the Tortoise can run. So they race, and race, and race, and race; this story has no ending, the last words of it being "not the end."
The foreword includes a parody of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as an example of a "Fairly Stupid Tale". Also, the table of contents includes the title, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty", a story found nowhere in the book. The latter story was printed on the back of the dust jacket for the book's 10th anniversary edition (whereas the original edition had the Little Red Hen complaining about buying this book, while asking who "this ISBN guy" is and complaining that she is only in three of the pages as a book gag).
In "Goldilocks and the Three Elephants", Goldilocks enters the house of the elephants, but she cannot climb up on any of the three chairs and eat "peanut porridge", so she goes home.
In the special 10th anniversary edition, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" is about a boy who cried "Cow Patty" every time someone did something. One day, he took a shortcut behind Mr. Smith's barn and he jumped over the fence without looking. Not knowing Mr. Smith just shoveled out the cow barn, he lands in a fresh pile of cow patty and cries "Fire!". The firemen came and asked where the fire was, but the boy said that, if he cried "Cow Patty", no one would get him.
See also
Revolting Rhymes
References
1992 children's books
1992 short story collections
American picture books
Fairy tale parodies
Collections of fairy tales
Viking Press books
Caldecott Honor-winning works
Children's short story collections
Picture books based on fairy tales
Works based on The Princess and the Pea
Works based on The Ugly Duckling
Works based on Grimms' Fairy Tales | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stinky%20Cheese%20Man%20and%20Other%20Fairly%20Stupid%20Tales |
Bharatpur Division is one of the administrative geographical units, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises six districts, namely, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur, Gangapur City, Deeg.
References
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatpur%20division |
Bikaner Division is one of the administrative geographical unit, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises four districts, namely, Bikaner, Anupgarh, Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh. Churu was also previously a part of the Bikaner division.
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaner%20division |
Jaipur Division is one of the administrative geographical unit, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises five districts, namely, Alwar, Dausa, Jaipur, Jhunjhunun, Sikar .
References
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur%20division |
Jodhpur Division (also known as Marwar) is the biggest division among all in Rajasthan (Rajputana). The division (in pink colour on the map) comprises in six districts named Barmer,
Balotra,
Jaisalmer, Sirohi, Jalore, Jodhpur, Pali.
References
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodhpur%20division |
Kota Division is one of the administrative geographical unit, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises four districts, namely, Baran, Bundi, Jhalawar, Kota.
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota%20division |
Udaipur Division is one of the administrative geographical unit, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises six districts, namely, Banswara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Rajsamand, Udaipur and Pratapgarh.
Divisions of Rajasthan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaipur%20division |
Suriname competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The nation won its first ever Olympic medal at these Games. Six competitors, four men and two women, took part in ten events in four sports.
Medalists
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Women
Cycling
One male cyclist represented Suriname in 1988.
Road
Track
Pursuit
Judo
Men
Swimming
Men
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
Zaara is an archaic variant of Sahara, both being English transliterations of the original Arabic word for desert. It is an African region famed for its arid, barren characteristics, and was used by contemporary writers not just as a geographic reference, but also to illustrate the epitome of a dismal wasteland. Modern references to the Sahara as Zaara are very sparse. It generally cannot be found in online dictionaries or encyclopedias, not even as a footnote under the standard spelling. However, a few references can be found in antique books, particularly those regarding the animals of the region and travelogues; and on antique maps, some as recent as 1834.
Literary references
From the chapter on lions in William Smellie's 1781 English translation of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle:
The lions of Mount Atlas, the summit of which is sometimes covered with snow, have neither the courage, the strength, nor the ferocity of the lions of Biledulgerid or of Zaara, whose plains are covered with burning sands. It is chiefly in these fervid deserts that we meet with those terrible lions, who are the dread of travellers, and the scourge of the neighbouring provinces.
In the vast deserts of Zaara, in those that seem to separate two very different races of men, the Negroes and the Moors, in the unpeopled regions that lie about the territories of the Hottentos , and, in general, in all those southern parts of Africa and Asia, which man has disdained to inhabit, the lions are still very numerous, and continue in their natural state.
This is a description of the English Mastiff from the Cynographia Britannica, published in 1800. The reference to attacking "the lord of the savage tribes" means the breed's use as lion-hunters. At the time this was written, lions were commonly referred to as the "king of the beasts":
This ancient and faithful domestic, the pride of our island, uniting the useful, the brave and the docile, though sought by foreign nations and perpetuated on the continent, is nearly extinct where he probably was an aborigine, or is bastardized by numberless crosses, everyone of which degenerate from the invaluable character of the parent, who was deemed worthy to enter the Roman amphitheatre, and, in the presence of the masters of the worlds, encounter the pard, and assail even the lord of the savage tribes, whose courage was sublimed by torrid suns, and found none gallant enough to oppose him on the deserts of Zaara or the plains of Numidia.
This is an early 19th-century complaint about a 1788 American law that made it easier to market fraudulent land grants. It cites the poor quality of Zaara's land as an example of deceptive marketing. This commentary appears in Blackstone's Commentaries: with Notes of Reference, annotated by St. George Tucker of the College of William and Mary and published in 1803:
The evil has not rested here; emissaries have been dispatched to every part of Europe with bales of these patents; fictitious plats, and maps of the country, have been offered to the public's eye; rivers and streams have been made to flow where nature has denied water; mountains have been sunk into meadows, and rocks as barren as the sandy deserts of Zaara, have been represented as possessing the fertility of the banks of the Nile. Thousands of ignorant and innocent persons have been defrauded, and, with their families, plunged into irretrievable ruin by these nefarious practices.
The Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 by Corréard and Savigny, carries this lengthy subtitle:
Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. To Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia.
See also
Sahara
References
Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference (1803) by St. George Tucker
Buffon's Natural History translated 1781 by William Smellie
Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 by Alexander Corréard and Henry J.B. Savigny
Sahara
Geography of Africa
Arabic words and phrases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaara |
Suriname competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States, returning to the games after having boycotted the 1980 Olympics.
Athletics
Men
Judo
Men
Swimming
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Padre Bernardo is a municipality located in the state of Goiás, Brazil.
Location
Padre Bernardo is located 42 km north of the boundary with the Federal District. It has boundaries with the following municipalities:
North: Mimoso de Goiás
South: Cocalzinho de Goiás
East: Planaltina de Goiás
West: Vila Propício
The Economy
The main economic activities are cattle raising and growing of corn and soybeans. Local commerce, with restaurants, bars, clothing and shoe shops, banks, supermarkets, among others, supply the basic necessities of the population. There are small industries of brick making, milk produces and clothing manufacturing. The largest employer in the town was the government. There were 02 bank branches in August 2007.
In 2006 there were 137,000 head of cattle. The main agricultural products were rice, bananas, sugarcane, beans, coconuts, oranges, lemons, manioc, corn, and soybeans (11,000 hectares in 2006). Seplan
Agricultural data 2006
Farms: 1,113
Total area: 198,109 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 1,462 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 31,490 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 124,040 ha.
Area of woodland and forests: 35,582 ha.
Persons dependent on farming: 3,400
Number of tractors: 318
Cattle herd: 137,000 IBGE
Health and Education
In 2006 there were 26 schools with 8,495 students enrolled. The literacy rate was 82.6% in 2000. In 2007 there was 01 hospital with 27 beds. The infant mortality rate was 30.06% in 2000. The Municipal Human Development Index rating was 0.705 in 2000. Seplan
State ranking: 204 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 2,909 (out of 5,507 municipalities) For the complete list see Frigoletto.com
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
References
https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/go/padre-bernardo/panorama
https://www.padrebernardo.go.gov.br/
Frigoletto
Distâncias Rodoviárias
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre%20Bernardo |
Suriname competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Athletics
Men
Judo
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976
1976 in Suriname | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201976%20Summer%20Olympics |
Suriname, then still a constituent country of the Netherlands, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Athletics
Men
Judo
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972
1972 in Suriname | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics |
Suriname competed with one person at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. Suriname returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Athletics
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Part Three: Results
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
Olym | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Douglas Clark (1942 – 20 July 2010) was an English poet.
Clark was born in Darlington, County Durham, England, to Scottish parents in 1942. He was educated at Glasgow University, where he studied Mathematics, and in Edinburgh. From 1973 until 1993 he worked in Computing Services at the University of Bath, 10 years spent working on Multics. Since then he has done voluntary work.
From 1985 to 1991 he published an integrated set of four books (Troubador, Horsemen, Coatham, Disbanded) comprising the so-called The Horseman Trilogy from his own
Benjamin Press and the pamphlet 'Dysholm' in 1993, which completed the series.
His second set of books comprises Selected Poems (Benjamin Press, 1995), the 'Cat Poems' pamphlet (Benjamin Press, 1997) and 'Wounds' (Salzburg University Press, 1997), which may be found at the backlist
of Poetry Salzburg.
He edited the Webzine Lynx: Poetry from Bath
for three years from 1997 to 2000. The 'Kitten Poems' pamphlet was published in 2002. For his 60th birthday on 3 October 2002 he prepared a final pamphlet 'Alive' which was published in 'Finality: New and Selected Poems' (Benjamin Press, 2005). The compilation 'Durham Poems' (Arrowhead Press, 2005) was published in the same year and may be found at
Durham Poems
of Arrowhead Press. The final book from his Benjamin Press, published on 1 May 2008, is Love Poems (). All his poetry is available on the World Wide Web where he has his readership.
A current selection of his work is available.
An alternative selection
of his work is available at Poets' corner
which is curated by Anny Ballardini.
The cover graphics of his publications are available.
Douglas Clark died on 20 July 2010 in the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
References
External links
Douglas Clark's Home Page with all of his poetry.
People associated with the University of Bath
1942 births
2010 deaths
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
English male poets
20th-century English poets
20th-century English male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Clark%20%28poet%29 |
Flavio Germán Davino Rodríguez (born August 15, 1974) is a Mexican former professional footballer.
Club career
Flavio began his career in top-flight football with his current club Tecos. In winter 1997, he was transferred to León and later to Monarcas Morelia. For eight seasons, he played with Morelia and in apertura 2002. Then he got transferred to Cruz Azul. He retired in 2006 as a player but continues being in the soccer arena, but now to study to become coach.
International career
He appeared with the Mexico national football team in 2001 under the wing of Enrique Meza in an exhibition match against Bulgaria of which was held in Morelia, Michoacán.
Personal life
He is the son of the former Argentine footballer Jorge Davino, and the brother of Duilio Davino. Davino is also of Italian descent.
Honours
Morelia
Mexican Primera División: Invierno 2000
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Mexican people of Argentine descent
Sportspeople of Argentine descent
Footballers from León, Guanajuato
Footballers from Guanajuato
Men's association football midfielders
Mexican men's footballers
Mexico men's international footballers
Tecos F.C. footballers
Club León footballers
Atlético Morelia players
Cruz Azul footballers
Mexican football managers
Mexican people of Italian descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavio%20Davino |
Remla () is the main town of the Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia. A three-day Octopus Festival in March marks the start of the octopus fishing season.
The sector had a population of 2623 as of Census 2014-04-23.
References
External links
Lexicorient
Populated places in Tunisia
Populated coastal places in Tunisia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remla |
Jocelyn Davies (born 18 June 1959, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a Plaid Cymru politician who was a member of the Welsh Assembly (AM), for the South Wales East region from 1999 until 2016. She was Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration in the Labour/Plaid coalition government from 2007 until 2011.
Background
After attending Newbridge Grammar School, she read law at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. One of the first lay-inspectors of schools in 1993. Davies is married to Newbridge councillor Mike Davies. In 2004, she discovered tissue samples from their daughter, stillborn 16 years previously, were still being held in a Newport hospital.
Davies has three children.
Political career
Davies was a councillor on Islwyn Borough Council between 1987 and 1991, and contested the 1995 Islwyn by-election.
She has been a member of the National Assembly for Wales, list member for South Wales East, since 1999 and has served as Plaid Cymru Party Business Manager from 2000 to 2007.
In the Second Assembly, she was Chair on both the Committee on the Inquiry into the E.coli outbreak in Wales and the South Wales East Regional Committee.
In the Third Assembly, she was appointed Deputy Minister for Housing in the Labour and Plaid Cymru coalition government on 19 July.
She retired from the Assembly at the 2016 election.
Post Assembly
Davies currently sits on the Audit Risk and Assurance Committee for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.
References
Offices held
1959 births
Living people
Plaid Cymru members of the Senedd
Wales AMs 1999–2003
Wales AMs 2003–2007
Wales AMs 2007–2011
Wales AMs 2011–2016
People from Usk
Plaid Cymru councillors
Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidates
Councillors in Wales
Female members of the Senedd
Alumni of Harris Manchester College, Oxford
Members of the Welsh Government
20th-century British women politicians
Women members of the Welsh Government
Women councillors in Wales | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn%20Davies |
The German Embassy in Windhoek is Germany's diplomatic mission to Namibia. It is located at Sanlam Centre, 145 Independence Avenue in Windhoek. The current German ambassador is Herbert Beck.
See also
Foreign relations of Germany
Germany–Namibia relations
External links
German Embassy in Windhoek
Windhoek
Germany–Namibia relations
Diplomatic missions in Windhoek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20Windhoek |
Carl Edward Bereiter (born 1930) is an American education researcher, professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto known for his research into knowledge building.
Biography
He was born and raised in Wisconsin and entered Wisconsin University, where he was awarded B.A. in 1951, M.A. in 1952 and a Ph.D in 1959.
In 1961 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, before moving his current position as Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Since 1996 he is also held the position of Co-Director, Programs and Research, Education Commons.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967.
Contributions
His areas of research are:
Knowledge building
Knowledge age
Knowledge workers
Research design
Intentional learning
Instruction
Cognitive psychology
Educational policy
Educational technology.
Carl Bereiter is one of the pioneers of Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). In collaboration with Marlene Scardamalia, he introduced and developed the theory of "knowledge building". He is one of the main researchers of Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE), the first networked system for collaborative learning. The second generation of product was renamed Knowledge Forum.
Bereiter is one of the founders and leading researchers of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology, (IKIT). His educational contributions, along with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Michel Foucault, Howard Gardner, and others, are profiled in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.
He became well known for a 1966 proposal cowritten with Siegfried Engelmann on the persistent gap between inner city and middle class children in educational achievement that appeared in Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool. This position came to be called the cultural deficit hypothesis. This provoked a response by William Labov encapsulated in a much reprinted paper called "The logic of non-standard English." that argued that cultural and linguistic difference rather than deficit lay behind much of the gap. Bereiter has claimed that he was misread by his critics.
Books by Bereiter
Scardamalia, M., Bereiter, C. Fillion, B. (1981). Writing for Results: A Sourcebook of Consequential Composing Activities; Curriculum Series; Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (44).
Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology of written composition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. (1989). Across the World: Reading Skills Workbook Level 3:2.
Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M (1993). Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise.
Anderson, V., Brown, A. Scardamalia, A., Campione, J. and Bereiter, C. (1995). Continuous assessment (collections for young scholars, masters/grade 3)
Bereiter, C., Anderson,A., Brown, A., and Scardamalia, M. (1995). Reproducible Masters - Support for Teacher Tool Cards.
Anderson, V., Brown, A., Scardamalia, M., Campione, J., and Bereiter, C. (1995). Essay and writing assessment (collections for young scholars, masters/grade 3).
Bereiter, C. (1997). Collections for Young Scholars: Volume 3, Book 1.
Bereiter, C. (1997). Spelling and Vocabulary Skills Annotated Teacher's Edition Grade 5 (SRA Open Court Reading).
Bereiter, C., Jager, M., Pressley, A. and Pressley, M. (2000). SRA Open Court Reading: Reading and Writing Workbook, Level 4, Teacher's edition.
Koschmann, T., Scardamalia, M., Zimmerman, B.J., and Bereiter, C. (2000). Problem-based Learning: A Research Perspective on Learning Interactions.
Bereiter, C. (2002). Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age.
Bereiter, C. (2002). Open Court Reading Level 2 Book 2.
Smith, B. and Bereiter, C. (2002). Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society.
Bereiter, C., Kaplan, S.N. and Pressley, M. (2003). Open Court Classics: Level 3.
Bereiter, C., Adams, J., Pressley, M. and Roit, M. (2004). Open Court Reading: Level 4.
Bereiter, C., Carl (1970) Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories. Open Court Publishing
See also
Knowledge building
Knowledge Forum
OISE
University of Toronto
Marlene Scardamalia
References
External links
Carl Bereiter at IKIT
Recent book "Education and mind in knowledge age"
1930 births
Canadian educators
Educational psychologists
Canadian psychologists
Canadian educational theorists
Academics from Wisconsin
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Bereiter |
Ceres is a municipality in Goiás (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡojˈjas]) state, Brazil. Located atop the Brazilian Highlands, it was one of the first agricultural colonies built in the state of Goiás.
Geography
Ceres is 187 km. from the state capital, Goiânia. Municipal boundaries are with Itapaci, Nova Glória, São Patrício, Carmo do Rio Verde, Rialma and Rubiataba. Highway links are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / Petrolina de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / Rianápolis / Rialma. See Sepin
The city is located in the fertile São Patrício valley and is rich in water courses. The Rio das Almas is the main river in the region and separates Ceres from its neighbor, Rialma. The Rio das Almas flows north to join the Maranhão, a tributary of the Tocantins. The average annual temperature is 26 °C and the annual rainfall is approximately 1,800 mm3.
Temperatures
→ Winter temperatures: low: 12 °C/high: 32 °C;
→ Spring temperatures: low: 19 °C/high: 36 °C;
→ Summer temperatures: low: 21 °C/high: 29 °C;
→ Autumn temperatures: low: 15 °C/high: 29 °C.
Demographic and political data
The population dropped dramatically from 1980 to 2007 (31,400 to 18,600) and now appears to be stabilizing. Most of the population lives in the urban area of Ceres while the rural area has been losing population at a rapid pace.
Economy
Agriculture used to be the mainstay of the local economy and the city once had about 70 thousand inhabitants. In recent years Ceres has been transformed from an agricultural town into a service center. The town is noted for its health and education. There are small industries specializing in furniture, wooden carts, wheat flour, sawed wood, bricks, coffee toasting, cereals, and milk products. In 2007 there were four banks.
In 2006 there were 273 farms with a total area of 17,627 hectares, of which 4,700 hectares were cropland. There were 24,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops in planted area were rice, corn, sugarcane, and tomatoes. See IBGE
Health and Education Data
There were 8 hospitals with 302 beds in 2007 and 23 public health walk-in clinics. The literacy rate in 2000 was 89.4%. There were 23 schools with 7,084 students in 2006. There were three campuses of institutes of higher education: Faculdade de Filosofia do Vale do São Patrício. - UEG - Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias do Vale do São Patrício - Faculdades Integradas da Associação Educativa Evangélica (extension)
MHDI (2000): 0.782
State ranking: 28 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
National ranking: 1,019 (out of 5,507 municipalities)For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br
History
Ceres began in 1941 when the Getulio Vargas government created an agricultural colony called Colônia Agrícola Nacional de Goiás – CANG established on the banks of the left bank of the Rio Almas. 26-32-hectare lots were distributed along with seeds and tools, while free medical and dental care was promised to the new settlers. Each area had to preserve 25% of the land in forest. A house was given to each settler. The head of this project was an engineer named Bernardo Sayão, one of the pioneers of modern Goiás. The city of Ceres has its origin in this colony, which at the time attracted migrants from all over the country, attracted by the offers of free land in a fertile valley. In 1947 there were already 10,000 inhabitants. In 1943 Ceres was a district in the municipality of Goiás, separating in 1953 to become a municipality. Adib Shishakli, Syria's ex-president, was assassinated in his exile in Ceres by a Syrian Druze, Nawaf Ghazaleh.
References
Frigoletto
Highway Distances
External links
Ceres Online
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres%2C%20Goi%C3%A1s |
Pema Lingpa or Padma Lingpa (, 1450–1521) was a Bhutanese saint and siddha of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered a terchen or "preeminent tertön" (, discoverer of spiritual treasures) and is considered to be foremost of the "Five Tertön Kings" (). In the history of the Nyingma school in Bhutan, Pema Lingpa is second only in importance to Padmasambhava.
Biography
Pema Lingpa was born in Chel presently called Baribrang in Tang valley of Bumthang, part of the central Bhutanese region of Bumthang known as the “Wheel of Dharma.” His father was Lama Döndrup Zangpo of the Nyö clan, and his mother, Drogmo Pema Drolma, was bestowed with all the signs of a dakini. Their son was born among many miraculous signs. As an incarnation of the Omniscient One Drimé Ozer (Longchenpa), Pema Lingpa was extraordinary even as a child. He learned everything from reading and writing to ironwork and carpentry without receiving any instruction.
On the tenth day of the first month of autumn in a Monkey Year, Padmasambhava appeared before Pema Lingpa at the holy site of Yigé Drukma, blessed him, and placed in his hands an inventory of one hundred and eight major termas to be revealed. However, due to the karmic disposition of beings at that time, during his lifetime Pema Lingpa revealed only about half of the prophesied treasures. Nevertheless, the revealed treasures of Pema Lingpa contain the essence of all 108 treasures, which are summarized in the cycles of the three heart practices transmitted to Princess Pemasel by Guru Rinpoche: The Lama Jewel Ocean, The Union of Samantabhadra's Intentions, and The Great Compassionate One: The Lamp That Illuminates Darkness.
One well-known story of Pema Lingpa tells of his diving with a burning butter lamp into the Burning Lake in the Bumthang District of Bhutan. He told onlookers that if he was a false spirit his lamp would be extinguished. Disappearing into the bottom of the gorge and feared drowned, he emerged from the water with a statue the size of a fist and a treasure casket tucked under one arm, and the butter lamp still burning in the other.
Pema Lingpa was highly regarded by all four of the principal schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He spent his life revealing the precious treasures of Padmasambhava, giving empowerments and teachings, meditating in isolated locations, building and restoring monasteries, and establishing a tradition that endures to this day. Moreover, Pema Lingpa prophesied that in the future he would return as Longsal Nyingpo in the pure land of Pemako, and that those connected with him would be reborn in Pemakö as his students.
He married twice. His first wife was Yum Tima (alias Sithar) and his second wife was Yum Bumdren.
Notable descendants of Pema Lingpa include the House of Wangchuck and the 6th Dalai Lama.
The Pema Lingpa lineage of empowerments, transmissions and guidance continues today through the three lines of the Body, Speech, and Mind emanations of Pema Lingpa: the Gangteng, Sungtrul, and Tukse Rinpoches, all of whom traditionally reside in Bhutan.
Emanation lineages
Traditionally, there are three main emanation lineages of Padma Lingpa recognized:
the Peling Sungtrul incarnations: The incarnation of Padma Lingpa
the Peling Thuksay incarnations: The incarnations of Padma Lingpa's son Thuksay Dawa Gyeltshen
the Gangteng Truelku or Peling Gyalse incarnations: The incarnations of Gyalse Pema Thinley; son of Thuksay Dawa Gyeltshen.
They are known as "Peling Yab-sey-sum" meaning incarnations of Father, son and grandson, who are considered to be the combined body and activity incarnations. However mistakenly many refer to three of them as incarnations of speech, mind and body.
Peling Sungtrul incarnations
The incarnations are:
Tenzin Drakpa (1536–1597)
Kunkhyen Tsultim Dorje (1680–1723)
Dorje Mikyō-tsal Ngawang Kunzang Rolpai Dorje (1725–1762)
Kunzang Tsewang a.k.a. Tenzin Drubchog Dorje (1763–1817)
Kunzang Tenpai Gyaltsen (1819–1842)
Pema Tenzin a.k.a. Kunzang Ngawang Chokyi Lodro ()
Kunzang Dechen Dorje
Tenzin Chōki Gyaltsen (1843–1891)
Pema Ōsal Gyurme Dorje (1930–1955)
Jigdrel Kunzang Pema Dorji (b. 1965) – the present Peling Sungtrul or Lhalung Sungtrul Rinpoche
Peling Tukse incarnations
The incarnations are:
Tukse Dawa Gyaltsen (b. 1499) – son of Pema Lingpa
Nyida Gyaltsen
Nyida Longyang
Tenzin Gyurme Dorje (1641 – ca. 1702)
Gyurme Chogdrub Palzang (ca. 1708–1750)
Tenzin Chokyi Nyima (ca. 1752–1775)
Kunzang Gyurme Dorje Lungrig Chokyi Gocha (ca. 1780 – ca. 1825)
Kunzang Zilnon Zhadpa-tsal
Thubten Palwar (1906–1939)
Tegchog Tenpa'i Gyaltsen (1951–2010)
Peling Gyalse (Gangteng Tulku) incarnations
The incarnations are:
Gyalse Pema Tinley (1564–1642)
Tenzin Lekpai Dondrup (1645–1726)
Tinley Namgyal a.k.a. Kunzang Pema Namgyal (d. ca. 1750)
Tenzin Sizhi Namgyal (1761? –1796)
Orgyen Geleg Namgyal (d. 1842?)
Orgyen Tenpai Nyima (1873–1900?)
Orgyen Tenpai Nyinjed
Orgyen Thinley Dorje
Rigdzing Kunzang Padma Namgyal (b. 1955) – the present Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche
Family lineages
Pema Lingpa's family line grew into a pre-eminent class of religious elites, known as Choje, who were pre-dominant in the Bhutanese religious and political sphere. The House of Wangchuck claims direct descent from Pema Lingpa, as do many other Himalayan religious elites.
Tamzhing Chöje
This Chöje family, with its main seat at Tamzhing Monastery, began with Pema Lingpa's son, Drakpa Gyalpo, who died without leaving an heir. The family line continued through Pema Lingpa's youngest son, Sangda.
Prakhar Zhalno
See also
House of Wangchuck
References
Citations
Works cited
Other sources
External links
Tertön Pema Lingpa’s Dharma Activities - at Gangteng Monastery, Bhutan.
TBRC P1693 Padma Lingpa - at The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
Pema Lingpa - at Rangjung Yeshe
The Pema Lingpa Lineage - at Yeshe Khorlo U.S.A.
1450 births
1521 deaths
15th-century lamas
16th-century lamas
Bhutanese lamas
Nyingma lamas
Place of death unknown
Tertöns
Wangchuck dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pema%20Lingpa |
The Rajasthan Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Rajasthan in India. The Rajasthan Police has its headquarters in the Jaipur, the state capital. The motto of the force is "committed to serve".
History
History of Indian police under British rule is marked by a series of attempts to introduce more advance standards of conduct and integrity and to raise the tone of the force by improving the pay and prospects of its members. The reconstruction of police was a step towards the improvement of the administration of criminal justice in India. Rajasthan was formed by the merger of the erstwhile princely states so there is great demand of good quality security services because previously no United public administration services existed. The security and the police forces of the former princely states varied in composition, functions and administrative procedures. Following the merger, the police forces of the princely states united as of January, 1951.
Organisational structure
Rajasthan Police is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP). The DGP is assisted by the staff officers of the rank of ADGP, IGP, DIG, AIG, SP. Rajasthan Police is governed by the Department of Home, Government of Rajasthan. The State Police is divided into several divisions, units, zones, ranges for better administration.
Hierarchy
Officers
Director General Of Police (DGP)
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP)
Inspector General of Police (IG)
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG)
Superintendent of Police (SP)
Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl.SP)
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)
Deputy SP (DySP) / Circle Officer (CO)
Subordinates
Inspector
Sub inspector (SI)
Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI)
Head constable (HC)
Constable (PC)
Recruitment and service
Recruitment is generally through the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), which conducts a state-level examination called Rajasthan Administrative Service/Sub-ordinate Services Exam (RAS). After passing the exam, recruits undergo training at RPA Jaipur and RPTC. They are governed by Rajasthan Service Rules. The nine organisational units are Crime branch, Rajasthan Armed Constabulary (RAC), State Special Branch, Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), Planning and Welfare, Training, Forensic Science laboratory, Telecommunications and Traffic Police.
As of 2014 the Rajasthan Police employed 82,193 persons.
Insignia of Rajasthan Police (State Police)
Gazetted Officers
Non-gazetted officers
Hierarchy
Officers
Director General of Police (DGP)
Additional Director General of Police
Inspector General of Police (IGP)
Deputy Inspector General of Police
Senior Superintendent of Police
Superintendent of Police (SP)
Additional Superintendent of Police
Assistant SP (IPS) or Deputy SP (RPS)
Sub-ordinates
Inspector of Police
Sub-Inspector of Police
Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police
Head Constable
Senior Constable
Constable
Present scenario
Over the years Rajasthan Police has firmly and professionally dealt with bandits (dacoits) in the Chambal ravines, organised crime, spies, smugglers, narco-terrorists and subversive elements from across the long border with Pakistan. The Rajasthan Police is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP). Rajasthan is divided into 2 police commissionerate, 7 police range each headed by an Inspector General of Police (IGP). The state is further divided into 40 districts (including 3 rural districts, 2 city districts in Jaipur City and 2 railway police districts), 171 circles, 709 police stations and 788 out-posts. The force had 889 Inspectors, 3366 Sub-Inspectors, 3902 Asst. Sub-Inspectors, 8867 Head Constables and 52,837 Constables and about 700 Indian Police Service (IPS) and Rajasthan Police Service (RPS) officers.
Rajasthan Armed Constabulary
Soon after independence, the law and order situation along the 1070 km Indo-Pakistani border became a serious problem. Incursions and cattle lifting by Pakistani raiders was a regular feature and it became imperative to put an end to it. In 1949-50, the duty of guarding the border was handed over to the joint forces of the Central Reserve Police and the Provincial Armed Constabulary, which continued until 1952. In 1952, the Government of Rajasthan decided to raise a special force that could not only be deployed along the border but also assist the civil police in combating the dacoity menace. The first headquarters and training centre was established at Bharatpur in 1952 and five battalions received training there. These men, some ex-soldiers drawn from the State forces and some from places outside Rajasthan, were a part of the first 5 battalions of the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary. Each battalion consisted of 6 companies and one company remained at the battalion headquarters. These battalions were then dispatched to the border areas of Sriganganagar, Raisinghnagar, Barmer, and Jaisalmer. One unit was stationed at Ghat Gate, Jaipur to check dacoity. Within a year of its inception, the RAC proved its worth both on the border and within the State by successfully carrying out its various duties.
The members of RAC displayed gallantry and high sense of morale on occasions that required courage, perseverance, and devotion to duty. Its men battled against all odds, combating not only the enemy but also facing the rigours of the desert areas devoid even of the bare necessities of life. The RAC continued as a temporary force until 1958, there after it was made permanent. From that year up to the late 1970s more battalions of RAC were raised as per the situation and the need. India saw two wars with Pakistan and one with China and there was unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, NEFA, as well as Mizoram. RAC battalions were dispatched to these sensitive areas and earned accolades for their courage and efficiency. In 1962, two companies were taken out of each unit and the 6th Battalion was formed. More battalions followed in the subsequent years. Later, seven of these RAC battalions were merged with the Border Security Force and two with the Central Reserve Police Force. Over a period of time, increasing criminal tendencies, subversive political activities, communalism and violence, have all led to the worsening of the law and order situation all over the country. Rajasthan could not remain unaffected.
Hence, the need was felt to create a special task force, familiar with modern techniques necessary to deal effectively with communal disturbances. In 1998, a Special Task Force, along the lines of the Rapid Action Force of C.R.P.F., was formed to maintain peace in the sensitive districts of Rajasthan. These companies are trained and fully equipped to handle riots. The training imparted to the select RAC companies is decided as per requirements. There are 3 companies of RAC, which have drawn expert swimmers from various R.A.C. battalions and are being trained for flood relief work. The 67 years of RAC's existence have been full of legendary stories, of heroic encounters, of gallant men and their dare devilry. One story that is still related with considerable pride is about the unforgettable encounter with dacoits in Thor village of Dholpur - it lasted for 18 hours. The outcome? thirteen dacoits held and no casualties on the RAC side. As on today fifteen battalions of RAC including one special battalion formed by only Ladies Constables Specially trained Unit named Hadi Rani Mahila Battalion (14 regular battalions + 1 Mahila battalion) and a sole battalion of MBC are there in the State as State paramilitary force. Out of these 14 battalions of RAC, 11 battalions are deployed in Rajasthan while 3 are in Delhi.
All units
First Battalion – Jodhpur
Second Battalion – Kota
Third Battalion – Bikaner
Fourth Battalion – Jaipur
Fifth Battalion – Jaipur
Sixth Battalion – Dholpur
Seventh Battalion – Bharatpur
Eighth Battalion – Delhi
Ninth Battalion – Tonk
Tenth Battalion – Bikaner
Eleventh Battalion – Delhi
Twelfth Battalion – Delhi
Thirteenth Battalion – Jail Security
Fourteenth Battalion – Bharatpur
See also
Mewar Bhil Corps
Notes
References
External links
Rajasthan Police official website
Rajasthan Police Sub Inspector Exam 2021
State law enforcement agencies of India
1951 establishments in Rajasthan
Government agencies established in 1951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthan%20Police |
Selve Automobilwerke AG was a car maker located in Hameln (near Hannover, Germany).
After World War I, the Northern German Automobile Works (), which made the Colibri car and the Sperber, was absorbed by the Selve firm, which was already producing Basse & Selve engines for the automotive industry. The first cars produced were the 24 horsepower 1.5 litre engine displacement and the 32 horsepower 2 litre model. The 40 hp 2090 cc model (which was later carried over to the 40 hp and 2352 cc) was also available in a sport version. Six-cylinder models of 2850 cc in engine displacement were produced in 1925 and the Selecta 3075 cc engine produced in 1927 completed the product line.
Adolf Hitler was a fan of the automobile mark in the 1920s having a Green Selve 6/20 in which he was chauffeured around by his adjutant Julius Schaub.
These automobiles were produced until 1929, when car manufacturing was suspended due to the economic crisis of 1929.
A front-wheel drive six-cylinder model designed by was shown at the 1928 Berlin Automobile Exposition, but was never put into production.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Cars of Germany
Companies of Prussia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selve |
Uzunköprü (Greek: Μακρά Γέφυρα) is a town in Edirne Province in Turkey. It is named after a historical stone bridge, claimed to be the world's longest, on the Ergene River. It is a strategically important border town, located on the routes connecting Turkey to the Balkans and Europe. It is the seat of Uzunköprü District. Its population is 39,577 (2022). Uzunköprü is the third most populous town of Edirne Province.
The town is served by Uzunköprü railway station.
Etymology
The Greek () and Turkish names of the town can both be translated as long bridge.
History
The history of Uzunköprü goes back to the Neolithic Era (8000–5500). In the field surveys conducted in Maslıdere, situated along the route going to Kırkkavak village to the south, many ware fragments overlaid with ornamental striped and pressed figures have been discovered with designs that have never been encountered in Greece and Bulgaria. Nevertheless, the information about this era is inadequate because the researches haven't been taken further. In addition, the history of the region from these ages to the 15th century BC is still unknown, so the previous claims do not stand.
In 15th century BC the land began to be settled by the Thracians and they had become tho sole owner of the place for a long time. However, after the 7th century BC the Thracian domination came to end by the continuous invasions over the years and got into the hands sequentially of Greeks, Persians, Romans and Byzantines.
Although the region has a very old past, a city had never been able to be built on the area where today's Uzunkopru exists because it'd been covered with vast swamps and dense forests till the Ottomans. That's why, the closest city to today's settlement built in the region is Plotinopolis, established by the Roman Emperor Trajan (AD 53–117) on the banks of the Maritsa River between Uzunkopru and Didymoteicho in Greek Thrace, that was named after Trajan's wife Pompeia Plotina and became a bishopric, suffragan of Adrianople. This ancient city is also called Old Uzunkopru. Eventually, the region was captured from the Byzantine Empire after the Ottoman conquest of Adrianople (which became renamed Edirne) in the 1360s, and only afterwards it could be possible for Uzunkopru city to be established.
Uzunköprü is the first Turkish city established in Rumelia by the Ottoman Empire. It was founded by Great Sultan Murad II in 1427 under the name of Ergene City. The establishment of the city is the result of both the necessity of a settlement place acting as a junction point on the ways connecting the Ottoman capital Edirne to Gallipoli and the Balkans and secondly taking16 years to build the Long Bridge over the Ergene River. Murad II decided to build a stone bridge over the Ergene River when his army couldn't pass the river during a campaign against Gallipoli because of the flood caused by the heavy rain at that time and collapse of the temporary wooden bridges easily. The first 360- arched stone bridge built between 1424 and 1427 wasn't found satisfactory, thereby destructed and rebuilt by Murad II. It is that second bridge existing in the city today. The construction of this second bridge had lasted from 1427 to 1443 and could be finished in 16 years. Due to the long-lasting works, the meeting of the needs of the workers and the soldiers protecting them and the area became indispensably necessary and had to be built a mosque, public kitchen, caravanserai, medrese, hammam and two water mills as facilities besides. Subsequently, families from firstly Edirne and later the Turkoman tribes who had passed onto Rumelia was brought and settled in the region to maintain and develop those facilities, thus it was laid the foundations of the city. This very first settlement called as Cisr-i Ergene (Ergene Bridge) had immediately become the trade route of the merchants carrying goods from Edirne to Gallipoli overland for shipping to Europe, Egypt and Syria, and flourished rapidly. In the beginning of 20th century the small town have mixed population of Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Orthodox Albanians, Armenians, Jews, Gypsies etc. In 1913 Turks uprooted 300 Bulgarian families, and till 1922 evicted all Greeks, Orthodox Albanians, Armenians etc.
Uzunköprü remained under Turkish sovereignty uninterruptedly till the 19th century. However, in the following years it had been occupied four times up to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire: by Russia twice, from 20 August to 20 November 1829 and 21 January 1878 to 13 March 1879; by Bulgaria, from 2 November 1912 to 19 July 1913 and lastly by Greece, from 25 July 1920 to 18 November 1922. In the last occupation the Greeks renamed Uzunköprü Makrifere. The city regained its present name after reconquered by the Turks on 18 November 1922. Eventually, Uzunköprü was left in Turkey in the Lausanne Treaty signed after the Turkish Independence War with the Allied Powers with which the Maritsa River became the border between Turkey and Greece. Today, the date of 18 November is celebrated as Uzunköprü's Independence Day to commemorate the liberation from the Greek occupation.
Geography
Uzunköprü city is located at the westernmost border of Turkey and in the middle of Edirne province. It is bordered by Greece and Meric town to the west, Tekirdag to the east, Kırklareli to the northeast, Ipsala and Kesan to the South, Edirne city and Havsa to the North. Because it was established on Ergene Plain, almost 75% of the city's territory is made up of low-lying areas that has an elevation of 18 m. Small hills and plateaus scattered especially to the north and the south from place to place form the sole heights encountered in the region. The highest point of the city is Suleymaniye Hill with a 221 m (725 ft) height.
Uzunköprü's weather is under the influence of severe Thracian Transitional Type of the Mediterranean climate which is a mixture of continental and maritime climates. The winds generally blow from the north with medium speed. While summers are hot and near-rainless, winters pass cold and precipitation often takes the form of snow. Most of the rain falls in the spring. Although the city has a semi-humid climate, its flora is steppe. As 70% of the unbuilt area is composed of arable soils that's allocated to cultivation, 20% of the rest is meadows and pastures, and 10% is forests and shrubland. The amount of the forestland has started to increase in the last years in result of the afforestation works.
The Long Bridge, Uzunköprü
Uzunköprü is the longest historical stone bridge of the world, and gives its name to Uzunköprü town. It was built by head architect Muslihiddin between 1427–1443 to span the Ergene river with the order of Sultan Murad II and brought into use with a ceremony attended by the Sultan himself in 1444. It's been located on a militarily and commercially highly strategic point connecting the capital Edirne to Galipoli and the Western Rumelia.
The bridge was built of binding ashlar blocks brought from the quarries in Yagmurca, Eskikoy and Hasırcıarnavut villages, to each other with Horasan cement. The construction process was supervised firstly by Ghazi Mahmud Bey and after his death by Ishak Bey. Although today its length is 1238.55 m (4063 ft) from the first arch to the last, its original length used to be 1392 m (4566 ft) with extended wings that don't exist today. The reason of why it was built this long was that the region used to be covered with vast swamps in that period. In addition, because the Ergene River causes flood in rainy season, the arches over the river were built high and opened seven bleed ports in them to prevent the bridge from collapse. The wings and arches of the bridge which has 13.56 m (44.48 ft) height, are embellished with several lion, elephant, bird, eagle, tulip and geometric relief motifs.
Because it has been through a lot of flood and earthquake disasters since the construction, the bridge underwent many restorations during the tenures of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, Osman II, Mahmud II and Abdulhamid II to repair the damages. In the final restoration made between 1964 and 1971 in the Republic period, its width was increased from 5.24 m (17.19 ft) to 6.80 m (22.3 ft) by widening from the both sides and lost its originality. In addition, the initial arch number of 174 reduced to 172 after one of them collapsed in time and two of them were united as one. However, with a new restoration and rehabilitation work thought to be performed, the bridge was planned to return to its original form and get pedestrianized.
Other sights
The Monument of Liberty (Liberty Fountain)
It is the democracy monument erected in memory of the reenactment of the Ottoman Constitution that's one of the milestones of the history of the Turkish democracy. With the re-declaration of the Constitution ( Kanun-i Esasi) on 23 July 1908, the Ottoman Empire's regime was changed from absolute monarchy to parliamentary regime and started an unprecedented era of freedom in the whole Empire. Uzunkopru didn't stay idle to these new political changes and the Liberty Monument was erected at the right side of the bridge's entry in such a political atmosphere to celebrate this great event with the contributions of the District Governor and Ottoman intellectual Mazhar Müfit Kansu and the Mayor Hafiz Ismail Yayalar on 11 December 1908.
Measuring in height, the monument was placed on a pedestal. Although in its initial form, there were two fountains as one on the front for people and the other on the left for animals, these fountains were removed and covered up in 1938. The four themes of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice were written in Arabic text on the markers and put atop of the first liberty monument of the Turkish history on the four sides. However, the original markers were lost while the monument was being moved to left of its primary place during the bridge restoration in 1964 and haven't been able to be found so far. The markers existing on the monument today are the replicas of their genuines. The Monument of Liberty was saved from oblivion with a complete restoration and opened to public just 104 years after it was built on 11 December 2012.
The Mosque of Murad II (Muradiye Mosque)
The Mosque of Murad II which is located in the Muradiye neighbourhood, was built by Ottoman Sultan Murad II (reigned 1421–1444 and 1446– 1451) along with the Uzunkopru and opened to service in 1444. It's one of the mosques carrying the title of Selatin, a mosque commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty. Although the Muradiye Mosque was originally built as a part of Külliye, areligious building complex, with a hammam (bayh) and an imaret (public kitchen) around, today only the mosque has survived.
The mosque made of rubble is seated on a rectangular base measuring 22 m (72 ft) in length and in width. Although initially the roof used to be structured as a dome, later this dome was removed during the renovation works in Osman II period (1618–1622) and replaced with a span roof coated with lead. It is the biggest span roofed mosque built up by the Ottomans. It has a capacity of 500 people. On the other hand, with a height, it is pretty low for a mosque. That is why, its windows are almost aligned with the fringes of the roof.
In front of the mosque, there is a last congregation porch that has the dimensions of . Although in its original state 12 wooden pillars were used to support the porch, in the restorations performed in the ensuing years, those pillars have been removed and a wall built instead. Apart from this, the mosque hosts a small cemetery in the backside, where the prominent people of the city were interred.
The minaret adjacent to the wall of the mosque is made of ashlar and introduced into the body with Turkish triangles on a rectangular pedestal. The minaret body is round and has a single balcony.
The courtyard of the mosque has three gates situated as two in the west and one in the east. On the main entrance gate located in the west, there is a marble inscription plaque written by the famous Ottoman historian Abdurrahman Hibri recording that the mosque was built by Murad II in 1443 and renovated by Osman II in 1621.
In the courtyard, there is a shadirvan (fountain) covered with a pyramidal spire just across the main entrance. It has an octagonal prism basin and eight taps. The fountain's former eight wooden poles were replaced in a renovation work in 1993 with reinforced concrete columns. The tradition of serving sharbat to the congregation after religious practices in the Ottoman Empire was started for the first time by pouring sharbat from this fountain's taps.
The Church of St. John the Baptist
The Greek Orthodox Saint John the Baptist Church () was built by the Greek community on behalf of Saint John the Baptist (Ioannis Prodromos) in 1875. It is located in the Muradiye neighborhood in Uzunkopru. The church is built of rubble with red bricks scattered among. It was structured as in basilica style with three naves and semi-dome. The apse and the roof are covered with tile. Also the apse and the naves contains barrel vaulted rectangular windows. The walls of the middle nave are embellished with the frescos depicting twelve apostles separately as six on the right and six on the left.
It is known that over 17,000 Greek citizens had been baptized in the St. John the Baptist Church from 1875 until they left the city in 1924 as a result of the Population Exchange Protocol between Turkey and Greece signed in the Treaty of Lausanne. While the Greek citizens were leaving the city, they took all the items belonging to the church including the great bell, which is being used in the Church of Xanthi now. From 1924 to 2011, the church has been left idle without any use.
The St. John Church has gained back its old grandeur with the restoration work lasting from 2011 to 2013 by the Uzunköprü Municipality, and opened its doors again after a long time with a big ceremony attended by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on 16 December 2013. Today, the church serves as the Art and Culture Center of Uzunköprü.
Gazi Turhan Bey Mosque and Tomb
A mosque and tomb were built on behalf of Gazi Turhan Bey, who was one of the most famous commanders of Sultan Murat II and Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) era. He was the son-in-law of Sultan Murat II and brother-in-law of Sultan Mehmet II. His father Pasha Yiğit Bey and his son Ömer Bey were prominent commanders of their time, too. Although his birth and death dates are uncertain, it's generally accepted that he died in mid-1456 and was buried into the tomb built for him in Kırkkavak village.
The village of Kırkavak, which is 8 km away from Uzunkopru, was bestowed as a foundation on him in exchange for his distinguished services in 1454. He built up a Külliye in this village. Evliya Çelebi mentioned about this village in his famous Seyahatname (Book of Travels) as a village with a beautiful mosque, inn (han) and Turkish bath (hammam) in 1658. Today, only the mosque and tomb of this Külliye still exist.
The mosque and the tomb carry the same characteristic structural features with the other contemporary counterparts in Edirne. They both were built on square-plan and made of rubble and brick. In addition the mosque and the tomb which are pretty humble in terms of inner decoration, have single domes covered with lead atop. The mosque was built with one minaret with a balcony and a wooden porch inside as a conclusion of the tradition and the necessity. They both were restored and opened to visit in 2008.
City Museum
Uzunköprü City Museum () was opened to service on 16 December 2013 with conversion of the ex-Tekel (Turkish State Liquor and Tobacco Company) building to a museum following its restoration. The museum building, which is a historical structure on its own, was constructed as a private mansion in the beginning of the 20th century, and from 1939 it had started to be used as Tekel storage, outlet and lodge. After the abolition of the Tekel in Uzunköprü in the 1990s, the building was left disused and had almost come to the brink of collapse. It was recovered by making a museum out of it and transformed into a center sheltering the relics the city possesses.
The double-storied museum has six rooms, and each room was turned into chambers, where the artifacts are displayed by classification according to their species. While the historical items are being displayed generally in the three rooms downstairs, the rooms modified as Bride's and Living Rooms and the Coffee Corner upstairs take the visitors to the scenes, where the past is revived.
The Museum is open to visit for free every weekday except Mondays and holidays.
The Telli Fountain
The Telli Fountain () is a four-sided four-taps stone drinking fountain located in the Telli Square in the center of the city. Taking the ornaments and the design of the fountain in consideration, it is believed that it was built in the Tulip period in beginning of the 18th century. The motifs carved on the stone fountain are curved branches and cypress. There are also relief motifs of Istanbul tulip, which is extinct today. The inscription and the decorations on the fountain were erased during the Greek occupation of Uzunköprü. Only their traces are visible today. The fountain was moved to its current place in 1960.
References
External links
Uzunköprü website
District municipalities in Turkey
Greece–Turkey border crossings
Populated places in Uzunköprü District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzunk%C3%B6pr%C3%BC |
Both Sides Of An Evening is the fifth studio album and released in 1961 by The Everly Brothers. Though it was released at the peak of their career, it failed to make any of the record charts.
Fourteen songs were laid down for the album, in two halves (the first seven, for side A, were marked "For dancing", and the second seven, for side B, marked "For dreaming"). The completed album was recorded in only three days worth of sessions. It was produced by Bill Porter.
Prior to the album's release, half-minute excerpts of the songs were released on a Souvenir sampler, purchasable for a single dollar.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote of the album "...the duo's most ambitious and mature record to date, but it just wasn't terribly exciting or of much interest (especially the second side) to the teenagers that made up the vast bulk of their audience."
Track listing
Side one (For Dancing)
"My Mammy" (Walter Donaldson, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:15
"Muskrat" (Merle Travis, Tex Ann, Harold Hensley) – 2:18
"My Gal Sal" (Paul Dressor) – 2:50
"Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 2:22
"Bully of the Town" (Adapted by Ike Everly) – 2:01
"Chlo-e" (Neil Moret, Gus Kahn) – 2:05
"Mention My Name in Sheboygan" (Bob Hilliard, Dick Sanford, Samuel Mysels) – 1:51
Side two (For Dreaming)
"Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Tim Kapper, Helen Deutsch) – 1:44
"The Wayward Wind" (Herb Newman, Stanley Lebowsky) – 2:26
"Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 3:26
"Now Is the Hour" (Traditional) – 2:39
"Little Old Lady" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stanley Adams) – 2:24
"When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:30
"Love Is Where You Find It" (Nacio Herb Brown, Earl Brent) – 1:48
Personnel
Don Everly – guitar, vocals
Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
Chet Atkins – guitar
Harold Bradley – guitar
Hank Garland – guitar
Ray Edenton - guitar
Sammy Pruett - guitar
Walter Haynes – steel guitar
Lightnin' Chance - bass
Marvin Hughes – piano
Buddy Harman – drums
Lou Busch – percussion, tambourine, cowbell
Production notes
Andrew Sandoval – producer
Bill Inglot – mastering
Dan Hersch – mastering
Bill Porter – engineer
Andrew Sandoval – mastering
Richie Unterberger – liner notes
Teresa Woodward - cover painting
References
External links
Collector's Choice Music reissue liner notes by Richie Unterberger.
1961 albums
The Everly Brothers albums
Warner Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both%20Sides%20of%20an%20Evening |
Lane Smith (born August 25, 1959) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He is the Kate Greenaway medalist (2017) known for his eclectic visuals and subject matter, both humorous and earnest, such as the contemplative Grandpa Green, which received a Caldecott Honor in 2012, and the outlandish Stinky Cheese Man, which received a Caldecott Honor in 1992.
Background
Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moved to Corona, California at a young age. He spent summers in Tulsa and cites experiences traveling there via Route 66 as inspirations for his work, which combines highbrow and lowbrow elements.
He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, at the encouragement of his high-school art teacher, Dan Baughman, helping to pay for it by working as a janitor at Disneyland. While still a student, he illustrated for alternative newspapers, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Reader and for the punk magazine No Mag. He also illustrated album covers for Oingo Boingo (Good For Your Soul) and the Dickies (Stukas Over Disneyland). He graduated from Art Center in 1983 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration and moved to New York City, where he freelance illustrated for various publications, including TIME, Mother Jones, Ms., Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Sesame Street Magazine and others.
Smith is married to Molly Leach, who has designed many award-winning books, including nearly all of Smith's.
Children's books
Smith is most noted for his work on bestselling and award-winning children's books. He has won the British Kate Greenaway Medal (There Is a Tribe of Kids), the Bratislava Golden Apple (The Big Pets), two American Caldecott Honors (The Stinky Cheese Man and Grandpa Green), five New York Times' Best Illustrated Book awards (Halloween ABC, The Stinky Cheese Man, John, Paul, George & Ben, Grandpa Green and A House That Once Was), and lifetime achievement awards from the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (2012), and the Society of Illustrators (2014).
His illustrations are created in varying media: oil paint, pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, collage and digital. Smith's artwork is also known for its experimental, textural nature. In a 2017 exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, "Collecting Inspiration", Smith's written appreciation for the art of Alice and Martin Provensen gives us insight into his own philosophy. The statement read:
Smith has illustrated works by Florence Parry Heide, Judith Viorst, Bob Shea, Dr. Seuss, Jack Prelutsky, Eve Merriam, Roald Dahl, George Saunders, Jory John, Chris Harris and Julie Fogliano. He has both written and illustrated several books, most notably It's a Book (2010)—a New York Times bestseller for over six months and translated into over twenty-eight languages—The Happy Hocky Family (1996), The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! (2002), Madam President (2008), John, Paul, George & Ben (2006) and A Perfect Day (2017).
On May 5, 2015, Roaring Brook Press published Smith's first middle-grade novel, Return to Augie Hobble, which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. It was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year.
He is also known for his collaborations with Jon Scieszka. Introduced by their wives Molly Leach and Jeri Hansen in the late 1980s, the two collaborated on several award-winning and bestselling books from 1989 to 2007. Their two most popular books, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! (1989) and The Stinky Cheese Man (1992), made lists by both TIME magazine and School Library Journal ranking them among the 100 best all-time picture books. (The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, number 35, and The Stinky Cheese Man, 91). Smith has also illustrated some volumes of Scieszka's The Time Warp Trio novels.
He is a five-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book award. In 2012, Smith was named a Carle Honor Artist for lifelong innovation in the field of children's books. In 2014, he received the Society of Illustrators' Lifetime Achievement award.
Smith's artistic talents have also been featured in other books and mediums. He illustrated one edition of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, and was Conceptual Designer for the 1996 Disney movie adaptation. He contributed conceptual designs for Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and the film adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Smith wrote and directed the 35 mm short Water Ride (1994), which starred Bill Irwin. It aired on PBS and the Bravo channel, and was screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival, among others.
Books
Some listings may not be first editions.
As writer and illustrator
Flying Jake (Viking Children's Books, 1988)
Glasses (Who Needs 'Em?) (Viking, 1991)
The Big Pets (Viking, 1991)
The Happy Hocky Family! (Viking, 1993)
Pinocchio: The Boy (Viking, 2002)
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! (Viking, 2003)
John, Paul, George & Ben (Hyperion Press, 2006)
Madam President (Viking, 2008)
The Big Elephant In The Room (Hyperion, 2009)
It's a Book (Roaring Brook Press, 2010)
It's a Little Book (Roaring Brook, 2011)
Grandpa Green (Roaring Brook, 2011) – Caldecott Honor Book
Abe Lincoln's Dream (Roaring Brook, 2012)
Return to Augie Hobble (Roaring Brook, 2015)
There Is a Tribe of Kids (Roaring Brook, 2016)
A Perfect Day (Roaring Brook, 2017)
A Gift For Nana (Random House Kids, 2022)
Stickler Loves the World (Random House Kids, 2023)
As illustrator
Written by Jon Scieszka
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! (Viking, 1989)
The Stinky Cheese Man (Viking, 1992) – Caldecott Honor Book
Math Curse (Viking, 1995)
Squids Will Be Squids (Viking, 1998)
Baloney (Henry P.) (Viking, 2001)
Science Verse (Viking, 2004)
Seen Art? (Viking, 2005)
Cowboy and Octopus (Viking, 2007)
Smith has also illustrated some installments of Scieszka's The Time Warp Trio series of novels.
By other writers
Halloween ABC, Eve Merriam (Simon & Schuster), 1987
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl (Random House, 1996 edition)
The illustrations also appear in the 1997 hardcover book The Roald Dahl Treasury.
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Dr. Seuss and Jack Prelutsky (Random House, 1998)
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders (McSweeney's, 2000)
Big Plans, Bob Shea (Hyperion, 2008)
Princess Hyacinth, Florence Parry Heide (Schwartz & Wade, 2009)
Lulu and the Brontosaurus, Judith Viorst (Atheneum Books, 2010)
Lulu Walks the Dogs, Judith Viorst (Atheneum Books, 2012)
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads, Bob Shea (Roaring Brook, 2014)
Penguin Problems, Jory John (Random House, 2016)
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming and Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, Chris Harris (Little, Brown, 2017)
A House That Once Was, Julie Fogliano (Roaring Brook, 2018)
Giraffe Problems, Jory John (Random House, 2018)
Awards and honors
1987 – New York Times A Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Halloween ABC
1987 – School Library Journal, A Best Book of the Year, Halloween ABC
1987 – Horn Book Honor List, Halloween ABC
1987 – Booklist Editor's Choice, Halloween ABC
1987 – Ohio Silver Buckeye Award, Halloween ABC
1989 – Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
1989 – New York Times A Best Books of the Year, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
1989 – Maryland Black-eyed Susan Picture-Book Award, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
1991 – Golden Apple Award, Bratislava International Biennial of Illustrations, The Big Pets
1991 – Society of Illustrators Silver Medal, The Big Pets
1991 – First-place award, New York Book Show, The Big Pets
1991 – Parent's Choice Award for Illustration, Glasses—Who Needs 'Em?
1991 – New York Times Best Books of the Year citation, Glasses—Who Needs 'Em?
1991 – ALA Notable Children's Book citation, Glasses—Who Needs 'Em?
1992 – Library of Congress Books for Children, Glasses—Who Needs 'Em?
1992 – A Publishers Weekly #1 bestseller, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
1992 – Caldecott Honor Book, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
1992 – New York Times A Best Illustrated Book of the Year, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
1992 – New York Times Notable Children's Book, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
1992 – School Library Journal, A Best Book of the Year, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
1993 – Publishers Weekly, A Best Book of the Year, The Happy Hocky Family
1995 – Booklist Editors' Choice citation - Math Curse
1996 – Publishers Weekly, A Best Children's Book - Math Curse
1996 – ALA Best Book for Young Adults citation - Math Curse
1996 – No. 1 Publishers Weekly bestseller, James and the Giant Peach
1998 – No. 1 Publishers Weekly bestseller, Dr. Seuss' Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
2006 – New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – New York Times Notable Book, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – Child magazine Best Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – National Parenting Publication Gold Award, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – Horn Book Fanfare, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – Parenting Best Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2006 – Child magazine Best Book of the Year, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2007 – Zena Sutherland Award, John, Paul, George, and Ben
2008 – Read Boston's Best Read Aloud Book, Madam President
2010 – Winner, Ladybug Picture Book Award, Princess Hyacinth
2010 – A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book, It's a Book
2010 – Goodreads Choice Awards Winner, Favorite Picture Book, It's a Book
2010 – A New York Times Notable Book, It's a Book
2010 – Boston Globe, Ten Best Books of 2010, It's a Book
2011 – Caldecott Honor, Grandpa Green
2011 – A New York Times Best Illustrated Book, Grandpa Green
2011 – Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book, Grandpa Green
2011 – Silver medal Society of Illustrators, Grandpa Green
2011 – School Library Journal Best Book, Grandpa Green
2015 – A Washington Post Best Book of the Year, Return to Augie Hobble
2015 – L.A. Times Summer Recommended Reading List, Return to Augie Hobble
2015 – Amazon Editors' Picks for Summer Reading: Ages 9–12, Return to Augie Hobble
2015 – Publishers Weekly Best Summer Books, Return to Augie Hobble
2016 – Irish Times, A Best Book of the Year, Penguin Problems
2016 – Bank Street, A Best Children's Book of the Year, Penguin Problems
2017 – NEIBA finalist, A Perfect Day
2017 – An NPR Best Book of the Year, A Perfect Day
2017 – Kate Greenaway Medal, There Is a Tribe of Kids
2018 – An ALSC Notable Children's Book, A Perfect Day
2018 – A New York Times Best Illustrated Book, A House That Once Was
References
External links
1959 births
American children's book illustrators
American children's writers
People from Corona, California
Artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Writers from California
Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane%20Smith%20%28illustrator%29 |
The United Faculty of Theology (UFT) was a recognised teaching institution of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1969 as an informal association of theological colleges and ceased operating in December 2014.
The UFT comprised:
The Jesuit Theological College of the Society of Jesus (incorporated in Victoria), Jesuit College of Spirituality from 2016
Trinity College Theological School, part of Trinity College and affiliated to the Anglican Province of Victoria
The Uniting Church Theological College (Synod of Victoria and Tasmania), Pilgrim Theological College from 2015
The Anglican Church continues to provide theological education through the Trinity College Theological School and the Uniting Church through Pilgrim Theological College.
History
The UFT arose from co-operation between the theological halls (seminaries) based at Queen's College and Ormond College, respectively Methodist and Presbyterian foundations affiliated with the University of Melbourne. In the 1960s, and even earlier, they shared resources while preparing resident theological students for the externally-examined graduate Bachelor of Divinity degree of the Melbourne College of Divinity. The two bodies effectively amalgamated before the formal union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches as the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977.
During the same period, the Jesuit Theological College moved to nearby facilities in Parkville and asked Ormond College to accommodate its library. The result was the Joint Theological Library (later the Dalton-McCaughey Library) which over time came to serve all member institutions of the faculty.
In 1969 the faculty was formally created by the three halls of what later became the Pilgrim Theological College the Uniting Church, together with the Jesuit college and the theological school of Trinity College, the Anglican residential college at the University of Melbourne, agreed to form the faculty and to teach a new degree, the undergraduate Bachelor of Theology (BTheol).
The UFT ceased operating in December 2014.
References
Seminaries and theological colleges in Australia
Education in Melbourne
Uniting Church in Australia
Catholic Church in Australia
Catholic universities and colleges in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Faculty%20of%20Theology |
Seth Wescott (born June 28, 1976) is an American snowboarder. He is a two-time Olympic champion in the snowboard cross.
Life and career
Wescott was born in Durham, North Carolina, and lives in Whistler, British Columbia. Growing up, Wescott went to Mount Blue regional school district in Farmington, Maine. His father Jim Wescott was the Track and Cross Country coach at Colby College. He began snowboarding at age 10, but had also grown up skiing. In 1989, after competing in both sports for a few years, he stopped skiing to focus mainly on snowboarding. Wescott attended Carrabassett Valley Academy where he studied and trained with fellow Olympians Bode Miller, Jeff Greenwood, Kirsten Clark and Emily Cook. He started out at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
In his Olympic debut, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, Wescott won gold in the snowboard cross as the first Olympic champion in the event. Having won gold, Wescott was invited to meet president George W. Bush, but turned down the offer, citing his opposition to Bush's foreign and domestic policies. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Wescott successfully defended his Olympic gold. Wescott, who started off the race in fourth, slowly advanced throughout the field until the end, when he narrowly defeated hometown favorite Mike Robertson on the final jump.
Wescott co-owns The Rack, a restaurant and bar near Sugarloaf that caters food and drinks to skiers and snowboarders.
On February 25, 2010, Wescott appeared on The Colbert Report. In 2012, he participated in Fox's dating game show The Choice.
Wescott attended Western State College in Gunnison, CO.
References
External links
NBC Olympics
Official website
1976 births
American male snowboarders
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in snowboarding
Sportspeople from Durham, North Carolina
People from Franklin County, Maine
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
X Games athletes
Olympic medalists in snowboarding
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Participants in American reality television series
Sportspeople from Maine
20th-century American people
21st-century American people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Wescott |
Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1722.
Hill was the eldest son of Michael Hill of Hillsborough and his wife Anne Trevor, daughter of Sir John Trevor, MP of Brynkinalt, Denbighshire. He was a member of an influential landowning family of County Down, Ireland. His father died in 1699 and Hill succeeded to his estates. He married sometime before 1717, Mary Rowe, widow of Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Baronet of Hillesden and eldest daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe (-1704) of Muswell Hill, Middlesex, MP.
Hill represented Hillsborough in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and subsequently County Down from 1715 until 1717, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Hill of Kilwarlin, in the County of Down, and Viscount Hillsborough. He became an Irish Privy Councilloer on 20 September 1717.
At the 1715 British general election he stood unsuccessfully as a Whig for Saltash, but three months later was returned as Member of Parliament for Aylesbury at a by-election on 30 April 1715. In 1722 his friend, the Duke of Wharton returned him as MP for Malmesbury, but he was unseated on petition on 13 December 1722. He was defeated at a by-election at Appleby in 1723, and did not stand for Parliament again. He was appointed Governor of County Down in 1729.
Hill had charm but a poor reputation as a wanton and profligate. He tried to recuperate his debts by gambling on horses, and was one of a party of men that were given a whipping by a carter offended by their riding naked with young ladies around Buckinghamshire.
Lord Hillsborough died aged 48 in May 1742. He had four sons and two daughters and was succeeded in the titles by his son Wills, who became a prominent statesman. His brother Arthur Hill succeeded to the Trevor estates through their mother and was created Baron Hill and Viscount Dungannon in 1765.
References
1693 births
1742 deaths
18th-century Irish landowners
Irish MPs 1713–1714
Irish MPs 1715–1727
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies
Hillsborough
British MPs 1715–1722
British MPs 1722–1727
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Trevor
People from Hillsborough, County Down
Viscounts Hillsborough
Irish emigrants to Kingdom of Great Britain
Politicians from County Down | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Hill%2C%201st%20Viscount%20Hillsborough |
The Heraea was an ancient Greek festival in which young girls competed in a footrace. The race was held every four years at Olympia, and probably took place around the same time as the ancient Olympic Games.
Overview
Not much is known about the Heraea, but most of our knowledge comes from Pausanias' Description of Greece. The date that the festival began is uncertain. Pausanias says that the games are (, "old"). There is evidence for cult activity in Olympia as far back as the tenth century BC, but the earliest cultic activity at the site appears to centre around the cult of Zeus; the cult of Hera was certainly in place by about 600 BC, when the first temple of Hera at Olympia was built. It is uncertain whether the races were an original feature of the festival, or a later addition. One story in Pausanias associates the sixteen women responsible for the Heraea with the conflict between Elis and Pisa after the death of Damophon, tyrant of Pisa around 580 BC. If the festival were already established by this point, there may have been a re-organisation around this time (as there was at other Greek festivals in the late archaic period).
The only event at the Heraean Games was the stadion, which was one sixth shorter than the equivalent men's race. Only parthenoi (unmarried young women) competed in the games. Competitors raced in three different age categories, though it is uncertain exactly how old the competitors were. They wore a distinctive outfit of a short chiton cut above the knees, which left the right shoulder and breast bare, and wore their hair loose. This outfit may have derived from the exomis, a variant of the chiton worn by labourers and associated with Hephaestus.
The winners were awarded a crown of olive leaves and a portion of a cow which was sacrificed to Hera. They were also permitted to dedicate statues inscribed with their name to Hera, though none of these statues survive.
The festival of the Heraea was presided over by a group of sixteen women, who as well as conducting the games were responsible for weaving a peplos for Hera and arranging choral dances in honour of Hippodameia and Physcoa. Pausanias gives two stories about these sixteen women. The first is that the Heraia was founded by Hippodamia and the first games were held to celebrate her marriage to Pelops, and she selected sixteen women to compete in the games. The second is that to settle a dispute between Elis and Pisa, the Eleans selected a wise elderly woman from each of sixteen polites in ancient Elis to settle the dispute; these women were also given the responsibility of organising the Heraea.
The Heraean Games may have been puberty rites or pre-nuptial rituals. Matthew Dillon argues that as there were three different age categories for competitors, the ceremonies were unlikely to be associated with marriage. On the other hand, the races were associated with a mythological wedding, and other races between girls in ancient Greece (such as a footrace in honour of Dionysos held at Sparta, also described by Pausanias) seem to have been associated with pre-nuptial initiations.
References
Footnotes
Works cited
External links
Ancient Greek athletic festivals
Ancient Greek women
Ancient Olympia
Festivals of Hera
Panhellenic Games
Women's sports competitions
Women's sport in Greece
6th-century BC establishments in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraean%20Games |
Paonta Sahib is an industrial town of Himachal Pradesh in India. It is located in the south of Sirmaur district, on National Highway 72 ( New NH 7). Paonta Sahib is an important place of worship for Sikhs, hosting a large Gurdwara named Gurudwara Paonta Sahib, on the banks of the river Yamuna. The river is the boundary between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
History
The town was founded by Sikh Guru Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. The Gurudwara Paonta Sahib has linkages to the tenth Sikh Guru, Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and the Sikh leader Banda Singh Bahadur. Its original name was Paontika. In Hindi language, Paon means "feet" and tika means "became stable". It is believed that Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and his horse stopped at this place, and he decided to stay here. He lived here for four and a half years, having never stayed so long at any other place in his entire life. He wrote many Sikh religious books during the stay and moved to Anandpur Sahib to establish the Khalsa Panth. The Gurudwara houses a museum containing antiques and weapons used by Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Paonta Sahib is the birthplace of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji, the eldest son of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Geography
Paonta Sahib is located at . It has an average elevation of 389 metres (1,276 feet). It is on the bank of the river Yamuna, the river being the boundary between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is situated near the towns of Nahan in Himachal Pradesh, Yamunanagar in Haryana, Saharanpur in Western Uttar Pradesh and Dehradun in Uttarakhand. It is on the western extreme of the Doon Valley, which is at a distance of about 44 km from Dehradun. Kalesar National Park is 12 km from Paonta Sahib. Colonel Sher Jung National Park is around 7 km from the main town. Some luxury hotels to stay in Paonta Sahib are Hotel Guru Surbhi, Hotel Yamuna, and Hotel Paonta Valley.
Climate
Paonta Sahib has a sub-tropical continental monsoon climate characterised by a seasonal rhythm, hot summers, slightly cold winters, unreliable rainfall and great variation in temperature (1 °C to 40 °C). In winter, frost sometimes occurs during December and January. It also receives occasional winter rains from the western disturbance.
Average temperatures:
Summer: Temperatures may rise to a maximum of 44 °C. The temperature generally remains 35 °C to 40 °C.
Autumn: The temperature may go to a maximum of 36 °C. The temperature usually remains between 16 °C and 27 °C in autumn. The lowest temperature may go to 13 °C.
Winter: Temperatures are cool and sometimes chilly. Average temperature in winters (November to February) remains at (max.) 2 °C to 7 °C and (min.) 0 °C to 5 °C.
Spring: The climate remains quite pleasant. The temperature remains (max.) 16 °C to 25 °C and (min.) 9 °C to 18 °C.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India, Paonta Sahib had a population of 1,58,268 (urban 25,172/ rural 1,33,096). Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Paonta Sahib has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than National average of 74.04% (2011 figure).: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 72%. In Paonta Sahib, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Paonta Sahib is a municipal council which has 13 wards. This council looks after the development of the city, maintenance of roads, streets, cleanliness etc. The election takes place every five years to elect ward members and a chairman.
Industries
Major industries are cement (Cement Corporation of India in Rajban), power generation - renewable energy ( Power Group ), aviation ( Air Himalayas ), pharmaceutical (Sun Pharmaceutical, Mankind Pharma Limited), textiles, and chemicals. Apart from these, Asia's biggest limestone market is located at Sataun.
Apart, Pharma Industry includes Tirupati Medicare Limited, Tirupati Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Tirupati Wellness Pvt. Ltd. and Pontika Aerotech Limited, all 4 are part of 'The Tirupati Group' in Paonta Sahib on Nahan Road.
References
Cities and towns in Sirmaur district
Sikh places
External links | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paonta%20Sahib |
The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (), abbreviated MIDA, previously known as Malaysian Industrial Development Authority is the government's principal agency to oversee and drive investment into the manufacturing and services sectors in Malaysia. Starting operations in 1967, MIDA was given the mandate to promote investments in the manufacturing and services sectors; and to advise the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) on industry matters including the formulation of related policies.
MIDA assists companies which intend to invest in the manufacturing and services sectors, as well as facilitates the implementation of their projects. The wide range of services provided by MIDA include providing information on the opportunities for investments, as well as facilitating companies which are looking for joint venture partners.
History
MIDA was established in and incorporated by the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Incorporation) Act 1965. The Act was first known as the Federal Industrial Development Authority (FIDA) Act 1965. It became fully operational in 1967, and began establishing overseas offices in 1972.
Functions
Functions of MIDA:
to promote foreign and domestic investments in the manufacturing and services sectors
to undertake planning for industrial development in Malaysia
to recommend policies and strategies on industrial promotion and development to the Minister of International Trade and Industry
to evaluate applications for manufacturing licences and expatriate posts; tax incentives for manufacturing activities, tourism, R&D, training institutions and software development; and on raw materials, components and machinery
to assist companies in the implementation and operation of their projects, and offer assistance through direct consultation and consultation and co-operation with the relevant authorities at both the federal and state levels
to facilitate the exchange of information and co-ordination among institutions engaged in or connected with industrial development;
to further enhance MIDA's role of assisting investors, senior representatives from key agencies are stationed at MIDA's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to advise investors on government policies and procedures. These representatives include officials from the Ministry of Human Resources, Immigration Department, Royal Customs Malaysia, Department of Environment, Tenaga Nasional Berhad and Telekom Malaysia Berhad.
In addition to its Headquarters, MIDA provides the following contact points for investors not based in Kuala Lumpur, and overseas:
MIDA State Offices:
Selangor
Perak
Pulau Pinang
Kedah
Terengganu
Kelantan
Pahang
Johor
Melaka
Negeri Sembilan
Sabah
Sarawak
MIDA Overseas Offices:
Asia and Asia Pacific
Sydney, Australia
Guangzhou, China
Shanghai, China
Mumbai, India
Osaka, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, South Korea
Taipei, Taiwan
Singapore
America
Chicago
Houston
Los Angeles
New York
San Jose
Europe
Paris, France
Frankfurt, Germany
Munich, Germany
Milan, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden
London, UK
Middle East
Dubai, UAE
Incentives
MIDA is able to offer various incentives to attract foreign investment, including incentives for specific companies. Regionally, there are two levels of incentives: one for Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, and Penang, and another for the rest of the country. MIDA meets weekly on Thursdays to approve new investment applications, and proposed incentives; an official from the Finance Ministry sits in on the meetings to approve the proposed incentives on the spot. If the incentive cannot be approved immediately, it is passed to a higher official at the Ministry, who typically approves or rejects it within a week.
Criticism
MIDA has been criticised by one business periodical as being "preoccupied with internal bureaucratic concerns rather than the entrepreneur's needs" emphasising "rules and regulations, with less actual assistance to the entrepreneur." The same periodical claimed "the entrepreneur appears to have less of a role in the economy" in Malaysia. However, the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the World Bank has praised MIDA, saying it could be relied on "to provide practically all the approvals and clearances needed" and that "the involvement of MIDA on behalf of an investor effectively guaranteed approvals and permits to be forthcoming without difficulties".
See also
Asset management in Malaysia
Neurogine Sdn Bhd
Notes and references
Government agencies established in 1967
1967 establishments in Malaysia
Investment in Malaysia
Federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia
Industrial development agencies
Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (Malaysia) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Investment%20Development%20Authority |
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