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The BYU Centennial Carillon is a bell tower containing a carillon on the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, United States.
Description
The bell tower was dedicated in October 1975 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the school's founding. Built in a simple, modern style designed by architect Fred L. Markham, it is tall with 99 steps up a spiral stair case and 11 steps up a ladder to the carillon. The carillon contains 52 bells and the bells range in size from 25 lbs to 4,730 lbs.
The carillon tolls a tune based on the hymn "Come, Come, Ye Saints," followed by the hour, and tolls a chime on the half-hour. The hour and half-hour strikes are controlled by an automated system. Carillonneurs may also play the instrument by means of a keyboard located directly below the belfry, in a small room reached by a spiral staircase that ascends through the center of the tower.
The carillon was constructed by Paulsen Construction Company with Markham & Markham Architects and Engineers doing the design work. BYU is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and its carillon is the only such instrument the church owns. LDS churches rarely feature bell towers, and the only temple to contain even a single bell is the Nauvoo Illinois Temple.
See also
List of carillons in the United States
References
External links
Towers completed in 1975
Brigham Young University buildings
Bell towers in the United States
Carillons
Tourist attractions in Provo, Utah
1975 establishments in Utah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham%20Young%20University%20Centennial%20Carillon%20Tower |
West Point High School can refer to:
West Point High School (Alabama) in Cullman, Alabama
West Point High School (Arizona) in Tolleson, Arizona
West Point High School (Mississippi) in West Point, Mississippi
West Point High School (Nebraska) in West Point, Nebraska
West Point High School (Virginia) in West Point, Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Point%20High%20School |
Elaine Kildare Murray (born 22 December 1954) is a retired Scottish Labour politician. She was leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council for the 2017–2022 term. She was also the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dumfries from 1999 to 2011, and then for Dumfriesshire from 2011 to 2016. At the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections, Murray increased her percentage share of the vote. She was Shadow Minister for the Environment in the Scottish Parliament. She lost her seat in 2016.
In May 2017, Murray was elected one of four councillors in Dumfries and Galloway who represent the Nith ward and was elected the Group Leader of Labour in the council. She did not stand for re-election in 2022.
Background
Murray was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where her Scottish parents lived at the time. She was brought up in Edinburgh, where she was a pupil at The Mary Erskine School, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Cambridge.
After graduating from Cambridge, Murray first worked in scientific research, and from 1990–93 was an associate lecturer for the Open University. At the same time, she worked for Alex Smith, Member of the European Parliament. In 1994 Murray was elected as a Councillor on Strathclyde Regional Council and in 1995 to South Ayrshire Council, where she was Convenor of Educational Services.
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Murray was elected as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Dumfries constituency following the first Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 1999. She was re-elected in 2003 and then again in 2007, 2011 and 2016.
Murray was appointed Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport upon Jack McConnell becoming First Minister in 2001, a post she held until 2003. She has been a member of a number of Committees in the Scottish Parliament, including holding the post of Deputy Convenor of the Finance Committee between 2007 and 2008. Murray was Enterprise Spokesman under Wendy Alexander's leadership and upon election of Iain Gray as Leader of the Labour Group in the Scottish Parliament, she was appointed Shadow Minister for the Environment.
Murray was a member of the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee as well as Convenor of the Cross Party Groups on Science and Technology and Civil Nuclear Energy. She was also Vice-Convenor of the Life Sciences and Animal Welfare Cross Party Groups.
In September 2011, Murray announced her candidacy for the deputy leadership of the Scottish Labour Party. She withdrew in early November after failing to gain enough nominations. She claimed she could have got the sufficient number of nominations but said it was clear the Deputy Leadership role would go to a Westminster MP.
At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Murray lost her seat to Oliver Mundell, a Conservative.
Dumfries and Galloway councillor
At the 2017 Scottish local elections, Murray stood for election in the Dumfries and Galloway ward of Nith and was elected as one of four councillors for the ward. She later became leader of the council, but announced her retirement from politics in April 2022, saying: "I want to do other things while I'm still fit and healthy. I have been an elected representative in local or national politics for 27 out of the last 28 years and I feel that's long enough."
References
External links
Personal website
1954 births
Living people
People from Hitchin
People educated at the Mary Erskine School
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish physical chemists
Labour MSPs
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2011–2016
Ministers of the Scottish Government
Women members of the Scottish Government
20th-century Scottish women politicians
Leaders of local authorities of Scotland
Women councillors in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Murray |
OFK Spartak () is a Bulgarian municipal association football club from the city of Pleven founded on 10 September 1919. It currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. The team's greatest achievements are the Bulgarian Cup final in 1957 and the third place in the Bulgarian Championship during the following season.
Spartak Pleven made its debut in the A Group during the 1952 A Group season. Spartak established itself as one of the most consistent teams in the Bulgarian A Group, only missing 5 seasons of top flight football between 1952 and 1988. However, after 1989, with the political and economic changes in Bulgaria, Spartak began gradually declining, with the club’s most recent A Group season being 2001–02.
History
Spartak Pleven was created in 1919, by a student from Pleven, Dragomir Nestorov. He along with a couple of friends founded the club under the name "Skobelov".
The year 1931 remains important for the club's history. This is because then the club changed its name to "Belite Orli". In 1941, the club was given their first ground by the Pleven municipality.
Things began to change in 1944, when the new government in Bulgaria began to interfere in sports as well. In 1946, it was decided that Belite Orli should be renamed to "Republikanec". However, the fans of the club were against the new name and in a meeting, it was decided to change the team's name to "Spartak Pleven", which it still carries today. In 1949, other football teams began to appear in the city, such as "Lokomotiv" and "General Vinarov". However, it was decided that all the teams should be united into one, strong team, so the name "Septemvri" was given to the new team. The team even managed to promote to the elite the same year. However, less than a year later, it was decided that Spartak Pleven would separate and act as a club on its own.
It was decided that there would be a qualifying tournament for the club's in Pleven to decide which team would participate on a professional level. Torpedo Pleven won that tournament and went to A PFG, while Spartak would start from the regional groups. However, the team quickly managed to promote back to professional football, gaining a place in the Bulgarian elite by 1951. Beginning in 1952, Spartak became a consistent member of the Bulgarian top tier. In 1958, Spartak achieved its greatest success, finishing third. Only two seasons later, however, Spartak was relegated, ending a nine year stay in the A Group.
It didn’t take long for Spartak to return to the top level. The team finished first in the 1961 B Group, thus promoting back after just one year in the second level. The next five seasons were spent in the A Group, although a 7th place finish was the most that Spartak could achieve. In 1966, the team was relegated again to the B Group. Spartak was again among the best teams in the second level, finishing first once more in 1967, thus returning back to A Group.
Beginning in the 1967-68 season, Spartak managed another nine year stay in the A Group. This period wasn’t however remembered for any significant results, as two nine-placed finishes in 1971 and 1975 were the best the team could achieve. Another relegation followed at the end of the 1976-77 season. This time it took two seasons for Spartak to return to the A Group.
The next five seasons were spent in the A Group. Although Spartak managed to produce some noteworthy results, the club was also involved in bribery schemes with other teams from the elite, which resulted in an administrative relegation in 1983. Spartak originally finished 5th. The team managed to recover quickly though, returning to the A Group after just one year. Spartak managed to remain in the top level for four more seasons, although it mostly placed towards the bottom of the table, eventually relegating after the 1987–88 A Group season.
The next eight years were spent outside the top level. Spartak was in serious danger of relegating to the third tier on some occasions, such as the 1989-90 season, when Spartak finished 12th. Spartak eventually began improving its performance in the upcoming years, eventually managing to earn promotion back to the A Group at the end of the 1995-96 season. Spartak only managed to stay two years in the top level, again dropping to the second level after the 1997–98 A Group. It took three years for Spartak to again regain its status in the top level. The 2001–02 A Group season ended in relegation, however.
To date, the 2001-02 season remains the last one for Spartak in the A Group. Since then, Spartak Pleven has been bouncing between the second and third tiers.
The record low came in 2009, when the club declared bankruptcy. This led to Spartak being reformed and started playing from the amateur leagues. In 2012, Spartak returned to the second level, but an immediate relegation followed. Another promotion to the B Group came in 2015, but again this was short-lived, with relegation coming in 2017.
At the end of the 2018-19 season, Spartak finished first in the North-West third league and managed to gain promotion to the second tier for the 2019-20 season. The team, however, experienced difficulties in the second tier, both financially and performance wise. Spartak largely remained in the relegation zone, struggling to survive. They were even deducted three points for not showing on a game. In May 2020, the Bulgarian Football Union decided to cancel the remainder of the season due to the coronavirus epidemic outbreak in Bulgaria. At the time, Spartak was in 16th place (second to last), which meant relegation to the third tier, after just one year in the second league.
After two seasons in the Third League, Spartak returned to the second level as champions of the 2021-22 Northwest Third League.
Colours
Spartak Pleven's colours are blue and white.
Honours
First League:
Third place: 1958
Second League:
Winners (5): 1960–61, 1966–67, 1977–78, 1983–84, 2000–01
Third League:
Winners (4): 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2021–22
Bulgarian Cup:
Runners-up: 1957
Cup of the Soviet Army
Runners-up: 1987
League positions
Players
For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2023.
Past seasons
European Record
Matches
Notable stats
References
External links
Official website
Association football clubs established in 1919
Spartak Pleven
1919 establishments in Bulgaria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFC%20Spartak%20Pleven |
V20 or V-20 may refer to:
Aircraft
Fokker V.20, a Dutch experimental aircraft
LFG V 20, a German seaplane
Pilatus UV-20A Chiricahua, an American utility transport aircraft
Automobiles
Lexus ES (V20), a Japanese executive car
Toyota Camry (V20), a Japanese sedan
Electronics
Canon V-20, a MSX microcomputer
NEC V20, a microprocessor
LG V20, a smartphone
Other uses
ATC code V20 Surgical dressings, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
V20 engine, an engine with twenty cylinders
V20, health supervision of infant or child, in the ICD-9 V codes
Vulnerably Twenty, a bloc of the Climate Vulnerable Forum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V20 |
A university system is a set of multiple affiliated universities and colleges that are usually geographically distributed. Typically, all member universities in a university system share a common component among all of their various names. Usually, all member universities of a university system are governed by a system-wide governing body, such as a board of trustees or a board of regents. In the United States, many states have one or two state university systems under which many of their publicly funded universities are aligned, both in name and in governance. Additionally, for-profit universities, such as DeVry University, often have multiple campuses which share the same name; these may be, but are not always, described as a university system.
In Canada, university system usually refers to the collection of all universities within a jurisdiction, as distinguished from other post-secondary institutions. Used as a point of comparison, it may refer to the universities within a province or within a country. In the UK, university system has been used to refer to the policy and practise of integrated administration and infrastructure of the universities within the country.
In the Philippines, university system is a title granted by the Commission on Higher Education to a private or public higher education institution after complying certain requirements. The commission defines university system as an organized academic entity composed of separate but interrelated units, at least one of which has university level status. A single governing board is responsible for the formulation of system-wide policies and programs. A university system has its own system administration headed by a chief executive officer. Its function is to coordinate and integrate system-wide functions and activities. Each constituent unit has its own chief executive officer to whom broad powers is delegated by the governing board for the organization and operation of the constituent unit.
In Vietnam, university systems consist of many member institutions, with each institution equivalent to a regular specialized university. Vietnam currently exists 6 university systems, each university system divided into many member universities, member schools or member institutes specializing in training and researching a specific group of disciplines to create their own strengths. The head of a university system is called a president, and the head of a member university is called a rector.
List of university systems
Asia
India
Indian Institutes of Technology A group of 23 public research universities specializing in engineering and sciences.
National Institutes of Technology A group of 31 public research universities specializing in engineering and sciences.
Indian Institutes of Management A group of 20 public universities specializing in business and management education.
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research A group of 7 public research universities focused on the fundamental and applied sciences.
All India Institutes of Medical Sciences A group of 19 universities focused on medical education and research.
National Law universities A group of 23 universities focused on world class legal and judicial education and research
Iran
Islamic Azad University (2 independent and 31 state Universities)
Technical and Vocational University
University of Applied Science and Technology
Payame Noor University
Farhangian University
Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research
Malaysia
Universiti Teknologi MARA System (1 main campus, 4 satellite campuses, 4 autonomous state campuses, 8 state branch campuses, 9 city campuses, 21 affiliated colleges, 1 international campus, 1 training hospital, and 2 training hotels)
Philippines
De La Salle Philippines (16 campuses)
Mindanao State University System (8 constituent universities, 3 attached colleges)
St. Paul University System (7 campuses)
University of Perpetual Help System (4 DALTA campuses, 5 JONELTA campuses)
University of the Philippines System (8 constituent universities, with 10 campus locations)
University of Santo Tomas System (5 campuses)
Taiwan
University System of Taiwan (4 campuses)
Taiwan Comprehensive University System (4 campuses)
University System of Taipei (3 campuses)
Thailand
Rajabhat University system (38 universities)
Rajamangala University of Technology (9 universities)
Vietnam
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (9 universities, 3 schools)
Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (7 universities, 2 schools, 1 branch and 1 institute)
University of Da Nang (6 universities, 2 schools and 1 branch)
Hue University (8 universities, 3 schools and 1 branch)
Thai Nguyen University (7 universities, 2 schools and 1 branch)
Europe
France
Federal University of Toulouse (an alliance of 3 constituent universities and 27 institutes)
Paris-Saclay University (a collegiate university with 10 dependent colleges, 6 constituent colleges or « Grandes Écoles »)
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (a collegiate university with 11 constituent colleges or « Grandes Écoles », 8 associate colleges)
Polytechnic Institute of Paris (a collegiate university with 5 constituent colleges or « Grandes Écoles »)
Greece
State University System of Greece
Ireland
National University of Ireland (4 constituent universities, 1 recognized college)
United Kingdom
England
University of London (17 constituent colleges)
Northern Ireland
Ulster University (4 campuses)
Scotland
University of the Highlands and Islands (13 colleges and institutes)
South America
Brazil
Federal University of Technology – Paraná (campuses in 13 cities in the state of Paraná)
São Paulo State University (campuses in 24 cities in the state of São Paulo)
Bahia State University (campuses in 24 cities in the state of Bahia)
State University of Western Paraná (campuses in 5 cities in the state of Paraná)
Amazonas State University ("campuses" in 19 cities in the state of Amazonas)
North America
DeVry University (23 major campuses in the United States and Canada)
Canada
(10 universities, schools and institute)
Canadian Military College system
Mexico
Anahuac University Network: a private university system with 8 campuses throughout Mexico, plus some allied institutions located in Spain, Italy, United States, Chile and France.
Puerto Rico
Ana G. Méndez University System (5 campuses) It also has 3 sub-systems and a research center. Each of the campuses have off-campus centers that function independently and thus act as individual campuses.
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico (9 campuses)
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (4 campuses)
NUC University (6 campuses)
University of Puerto Rico (11 campuses)
United States
University of Alabama System (3 campuses)
Air University
Army University (170 schools and campuses)
Auburn University System (2 campuses)
University of Alaska System (3 campuses)
Arizona Board of Regents (3 universities)
Maricopa County Community College District (11 campuses + 2 skills centers)
University of Arkansas System (5 universities, 1 medical school, 2 law schools, 1 graduate school for public service, 5 community colleges, 1 division of agriculture)
Arkansas State University System (10 campuses)
University of California (10 campuses under direct administration, plus an independently administered law school)
California State University (23 campuses)
California Community Colleges System (116 campuses)
Claremont Colleges (7 institutions)
University of Colorado (4 campuses)
Colorado State University (3 campuses)
Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) (17 campuses)
University of Connecticut (5 campuses)
Florida College System (28 campuses)
State University System of Florida (12 institutions)
University System of Georgia (26 colleges and universities)
Technical College System of Georgia (22 colleges)
University of Hawaii System (3 universities and 7 community colleges)
University of Illinois system (3 institutions)
Southern Illinois University (2 institutions and multiple campuses)
Indiana University (9 campuses)
Purdue University System (5 campuses)
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana (23 campuses)
Kentucky Community and Technical College System (16 campuses)
Louisiana State University System (2 medical schools, 1 law school, 1 dental school, 1 veterinary school) (10 campuses)
University of Louisiana System (9 campuses)
Southern University System (5 campuses)
Louisiana Community and Technical College System (10 campuses)
University of Maine System (7 campuses)
Maine Community College System (7 campuses)
Marine Corps University
University System of Maryland (13 campuses)
University of Massachusetts System (5 campuses)
University of Michigan (3 campuses)
University of Minnesota system (5 campuses)
Minnesota State (30 state colleges, 7 state universities, in total operate 54 campuses)
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (3 campuses)
University of Missouri System (4 campuses)
Montana University System (14 campuses)
University of Nebraska system (4 campuses)
Nebraska State College System (3 campuses)
Nevada System of Higher Education (2 universities, one state college, 4 community colleges, and one research institute)
University System of New Hampshire (4 campuses)
City University of New York (24 campuses)
State University of New York (64 campuses)
University of North Carolina (16 campuses, plus one affiliated high school)
Johnson & Wales University (2 campuses around the United States)
North Dakota University System (11 campuses)
University System of Ohio (13 campuses with 23 2-year institutions)
Oklahoma State University System (4 university campuses and 2 health centers)
Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO) (6 universities on 12 campuses)
Oregon University System (7 institutions; defunct)
Commonwealth System of Higher Education (4 institutions with 33 campuses)
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (14 institutions with 20 campuses)
University of South Carolina System (8 campuses)
University of Tennessee system (5 campuses)
Tennessee Board of Regents (6 universities, 13 community colleges, 26 technology centers)
University of Houston System (4 institutions and 2 multi-institution teaching centers)
University of North Texas System (3 institutions)
University of Texas System (14 institutions)
Texas A&M University System (11 institutions)
Texas State University System (7 institutions)
Texas Tech University System (5 institutions)
Troy University System (4 campuses, 23 support sites)
Brigham Young University System (5 institutions—Provo, Hawaii, Idaho, LDS Business College, and online Global Pathways)
Utah System of Higher Education (16 institutions)
Vermont State Colleges (5 campuses)
Virginia Commonwealth University (2 campuses)
Virginia Community College System (23 campuses)
University of Virginia (2 campuses)
University of Wisconsin System (13 institutions, 26 campuses)
Wisconsin Technical College System (16 institutions)
See also
Affiliating university
Colleges within universities in the United Kingdom
References
Types of university or college | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20system |
Mount Harriet National Park, officially renamed as Mount Manipur National Park, is a national park located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India. The park, established in 1969, covers about 4.62 km2 (18.00 mi2). Mount Manipur (Mount Harriet) (), which is a part of the park, is the third-highest peak in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago next to Saddle Peak () in North Andaman and Mount Thullier () in Great Nicobar.
The park is named in commemoration of Harriet C. Tytler, the second wife of Robert Christopher Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist and photographer, who was appointed Superintendent of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans from April 1862 to February 1864. Harriet is remembered for her work in documenting the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time of the Revolt of 1857 in India.
The park's well-known faunal species are Andaman wild pigs (an endangered species), saltwater crocodiles, turtles and robber crabs. The park is also a butterfly hotspot. The picture on the back side of ₹ 20 banknote has been taken at the park.
Geography
Mount Harriet National Park was originally a reserve forest which was converted into a national park in 1979. It encompasses an area of , which is likely to be extended to cover an additional area of to include adjoining mountain ranges and the marine ecosystem on the eastern coast. The mountains in the park are aligned in a north–south direction with the ridges and spurs originating from it aligned in an east–west direction. The park's elevation range is from zero at the coast to the peak level of . The eastern face of the park has steep slopes, and the beaches here are also formed of rocks interspersed with small sandy areas. The park is drained by many streams which rise in the hills and flow into the sea on the east. The park experiences marine climatic conditions, and hot and humid conditions in view of its proximity to the equator.
A notable feature away from the park is Kalapathar, where prisoners used to be pushed down the ravine to their death.
The park is at a distance of from Port Blair, the capital of the union territory, which also has an airport.
Trekking through the park is popular as it passes through an attractive beach; one can watch endemic avifauna, animals, and butterflies that fly around, and also see elephants carrying lumber.
The tribal community living in the tropical forest of the park are the Negrito people, who are hunter-gatherers.
Flora
The park has evergreen primary forests, and at Chiriyatapu the forest type is mixed deciduous, a combination of primary and secondary forests. The three types of forests are categorized as tropical evergreen, hilltop tropical evergreen and littoral. Overall 134 plant and tree species are reported, including 74 native and 51 introduced species. Some of the plant species of the tropical variety are:Dipterocarpus gracilis, Dipterocarpus grandiflorus, Dipterocarpus kerrii, Endospermum chinensis, and Hopea odorata including Araucaria columnaris which is a conifer native to Caledonia Islands. Plant species of the hilltop tropical variety are
Canarium manii, Cratoxylum formosum, and Dipterocarpus costatus. The littoral forest species are mainly Manilkara littoralis and Moringa citrifolia.
Trekking along the path from Bambooflat to the mountain top at , trees are seen with hanging vines.
Fauna
Avifauna identified by Bird Life International include seven 'near threatened' species which are: the Andaman wood pigeon (Columba palumboides), Andaman cuckoo-dove (Macropygia rufipennis), Andaman scops-owl (Otus balli), Andaman boobook (Ninox affinis), Andaman woodpecker (Dryocopus hodgei), Andaman drongo (Dicrurus andamanensis), and Andaman treepie (Dendrocitta bayleyi); there are also two species of 'least concern', which are the Andaman coucal (Centropus andamanensis) and white-headed starling (Sturnus erythropygius).
Introduced species include the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and chital (Axis axis) apart from ferals. There are 28 reptile species recorded (including 14 species endemic to the Andamans) which are mostly lizards and snakes. The amphibian fauna reported are 6 species; 2 species of Andaman bull frog (Kaloula baleata ghoshi) and Andaman paddy field frog (Limnonectes andamanensis) are endemic.
The aquatic fauna reported from the streams consist of 16 species; some of these species are eel, catfish, gobies, sleepers and snakeheads.
The land molluscs consist of six species. The invertebrate species reported are 355 which include insects to the extent of 70%. The well-known insect silkmoth, Samia cynthia, has been recorded in the park in lowland forest areas up to . In addition, larvae of Samia fulva were noted eating the leaves of Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Rutaceae) and Heteropanax fragrans (Araliaceae).
References
Bibliography
National parks in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1979 establishments in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Protected areas established in 1979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Harriet%20National%20Park |
"Fire" and "Jericho" are two songs recorded by English electronica/rave act the Prodigy (both were later released under the name "Fire/Jericho", the band's third single on 14 September 1992). It peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart.
The single was sub-titled "Strangely Limited Edition" due to the 12-inch vinyl record being deleted after two weeks. This was to move the focus over to the release of the debut album, Experience, following a few weeks later. Even when the single was re-released, the subtitle was still standing.
"Fire"
"Fire" uses the sample "I am the god of Hell fire, and I bring you (fire)" from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's 1968 single of the same name. The "fire" vocal sample following "...I bring you" is taken from Daddy Freddy's "Live Jam". It samples the vocal "When I was a youth I used to burn collie weed in a Rizla" from the track "Hard Times" by Pablo Gad.
Liam Howlett commented at the time that in contrast to most rave music being associated with the drug ecstasy, "Fire" was more inspired by marijuana, which was equally prevalent among ravers: "It's a smokin' song instead of an ecstasy-feel rave song. It's got a reggae feel to it, because I want to link it up to the whole smoking vibe, 'cos at the end of the day everyone who goes out raving puffs."
"Jericho"
"Jericho" uses an interpolation of the distinct melody in "Kunta Kinte" by the Revolutionaries. This track was also remixed by British electronic group Genaside II. Their mix begins with a sample of Front 242's "Welcome to Paradise", a song that cites the words of American preacher Pastor Ferell Griswold "Hey poor you don't have to be poor anymore"
"Fire" video
A video was directed by frequent collaborator Russell Curtis, but the band didn't like the result and it remained unreleased at the time. In particular, the Prodigy were dissatisfied with the quality of the computer graphics, even though it had been by far their most expensive video production up to this point (with scenes of the band sitting around a campfire shot in a mountain scenery in Wales). The video did however turn up on a compilation from XL called The Video Chapter. Due to its rarity, this video has been much sought after by fans. The music video can now be viewed on the official Prodigy YouTube channel, or through the Prodigy's official website.
The video was left off their 2005 compilation Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005.
Track listing
XL
7-inch vinyl record
A. "Fire" (Edit) (3:21)
AA. "Jericho" (Original Version) (3:47)
12-inch vinyl record
"Fire" (Burning Version) (4:42)
"Fire" (Sunrise Version) (5:05)
"Jericho" (Original Version) (3:47)
"Jericho" (Genaside II Remix) (5:45)
CD single
"Fire" (Edit) (3:21)
"Jericho" (Original Version) (3:47)
"Fire" (Sunrise Version) (5:05)
"Jericho" (Genaside II Remix) (5:45)
Elektra CD single
"Fire" (Edit) (3:21)
"Jericho" (Original Version) (3:47)
"Fire" (Sunrise Version) (5:05)
"Jericho" (Genaside II Remix) (5:45)
"Pandemonium" (4:25)
Charts
References
Songs about cannabis
The Prodigy songs
1992 singles
XL Recordings singles
Songs written by Liam Howlett
1992 songs
Elektra Records singles
Music Week number-one dance singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire/Jericho |
La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority (it was created in 1924) and audience share (it had a regular listenership in 2018 of 4,139,000). The acronym SER stands for Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Spanish Broadcasting Company).
Cadena SER's programmes – which includes news, sport, talk, entertainment and culture – can be received throughout Spain. The network's main studios are located on the Gran Vía in Madrid; In addition, studios across the country contribute with local and regional news and information, and local programming in each location amounting between 2 and 3.5 hours daily.
Cadena SER is owned by Unión Radio, the majority shareholder in which is currently the PRISA group, a major player in the Spanish media market which also controls, music radio stations such as LOS40, Cadena Dial, Radiolé and a number of newspapers (including the influential national daily El País), as well as other media in Spanish-speaking countries around the world.
History
At 18:30 on Friday, 14 November 1924, station EAJ-1 Radio Barcelona, the first Spanish radio station to receive an official license from the government of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, began regular broadcasting. Seven months later, on 17 June 1925, Unión Radio – a company which had the backing of the leading manufacturers of electrical and broadcasting equipment in Spain, Germany, and the United States – opened station EAJ-7 Radio Madrid, and when the foundations were in place for the formation of Spain's first national radio network on 10 November 1926, this same company also took over the ownership of Radio Barcelona. By 1927 Unión Radio was operating not only Radio Madrid and Radio Barcelona, but also EAJ-5 Radio Sevilla, EAJ-9 Radio Bilbao, and EAJ-22 Radio Salamanca, enabling all of these stations to broadcast simultaneous, i.e. networked, programming for most of their time on air, with Radio Madrid as the chief production center.
Through the remaining years of the monarchy (until 1930), and during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), Unión Radio continued to be Spain's only nationwide radio network. Unión Radio created Spain's first national radio news programme La Palabra ("The Word"), broadcast several times daily. However, from 1939 until 1977, under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco and the initial part of the transition to democracy, the network was forbidden from carrying any national news programming other than the compulsory twice-daily relays of the official news bulletins prepared by the government-controlled Radio Nacional de España.
On 25 September 1940, ownership of Unión Radio was transferred to the newly constituted Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión ("Spanish Broadcasting Company"), and the network renamed itself Cadena SER. In 1975, 25% of the shares in the network were compulsorily acquired by the Spanish state, and in 1984 most of the remaining shares were purchased by the PRISA media conglomerate. The nationalized shares were subsequently sold back to the private sector (in effect, to PRISA) under the premiership of Felipe González in 1992.
The network played a significant role in the period of transition to democracy following the death of Franco and in the years leading up to and immediately following the adoption of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, notably in its coverage of the attempted coup of 23 February 1981. Cadena SER also played a vital journalistic role with its reporting of the events and circumstances of the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Cadena Ser registered 4,367,000 listeners according to the first wave of the General Media Study (EGM) for 2021. This was the station's highest result since 2017, and is significantly higher than competitor stations Cope and Onda Cero. Their morning show Hoy por Hoy reached a daily audience of 3,550,000 listeners in 2021.
Politics
Cadena SER, along with other media in the PRISA group, is considered to be close to Spain's center-left political party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). There have been many disputes with the other main privately owned radio network in Spain, the right-wing Cadena COPE, which is owned by the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
Sports
Cadena SER is also the leader in radio sports coverage. The network covers every match in La Liga, in the UEFA Champions League games whenever a Spanish team is playing, and matches involving the Spain national football team.
Notable programmes
Notable programmes on Cadena SER include Hoy por hoy, broadcasting news and current affairs in the morning, which was first aired on 22 September 1986; El Larguero (the late nightly sports programme, on air since 1989); Hablar por hablar, a talk show first broadcast in 1989 for Radio Barcelona; El Mundo Today for comedy, and Carrusel Deportivo for sports, Spain's oldest, and still remaining, radio programme dating to 1952.
Logos
Sources
Carmelo Garitaonaindía; La radio en España (1923–1939), Siglo Veintuno de España, Madrid, 1988.
Lorenzo Díaz; La radio en España, 1923–1977, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1997.
References
External links
Official website
Cadena SER radio barcelona online
An orchestral arrangement of Cadena SER's interval signal, Sinfonía Azul
Radio stations in Spain
PRISA
European Broadcasting Union members
Radio stations established in 1924
Gran Vía (Madrid)
1924 establishments in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadena%20SER |
A Broomstick is the stick of a broom.
Broomstick or Broomsticks may also refer to:
Broomstick (horse), a racehorse
In music
Broom, Broomstick or Brush, a type of percussion mallet
"Broomstick", a song on the B-side of a version of Paul McCartney's Flaming Pie album
In christian mythology and fiction
A broom, when described as a means of transport for witches and others who perform magic, is often called a broomstick.
As such, it is what one rides on during a game of Quidditch.
The Three Broomsticks, a fictional restaurant in the Harry Potter universe
formed after the fictional restaurant, The Three Broomsticks is a real restaurant in the Orlando The Wizarding World of Harry Potter themepark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomstick%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Emilia Bashur (, née Valeva), known mononymously as Emilia, is a Bulgarian pop folk singer. She has released eight studio albums to date.
Early life
Emilia was born in Galabovo on 21 March 1982. She has one older sister, Daniela. Emilia became interested in music at an early age and began singing in the local choir. She began learning traditional Bulgarian music with Jivka Dimitrova and Dimitar Kolev. Several years later, she signed a contract with the Bulgarian record label Payner.
In 1999, she recorded her first song- "Its over with you" which became popular in the pop-folk culture. Her debut album Veselo Momiche (Happy Girl) was successful.
She has a son, Ivan and a daughter, Mira.
Discography
Studio albums
2001: Весело Момиче (Veselo Momiche — Happy Girl)
2002: Нежни Устни (Nezhni Ustni — Tender Lips)
2003: Ангел в Нощта (Angel v Noshta — Angel in the Night)
2005: Самотна Cтая (Samotna Staia — Lonely Room)
2006: Мисли за Mен (Misli za Men — Think About Me)
2008: Родена съм да те обичам (Rodena sum da te obicham – I was born to love you)
2010: Така ми харесва (Taka mi haresva — I like that)
2012: Смелите си имат всичко (Smelite si imat vsichko — The Brave Have It All)
2015: Ех, Българийо красива (Eh, Balgariyo krasiva — Ah, beautiful Bulgaria)
Greatest hits
2007: Целувай ме – Best Ballads (Tseluvay me – Kiss me)
2013: Златните хитове на Емилия (Zlatnite hitove na Emilia — Golden hits of Emilia)
Video albums
2006: Emilia Best Video Selection
Planeta Tours
Emilia took part in Planeta Tours in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2014.
References
External links
Payner Music website
Emilia discography at mp3-bg.com
Planeta TV
Chalga icons
1982 births
21st-century Bulgarian women singers
Bulgarian folk singers
Bulgarian folk-pop singers
Living people
People from Radnevo
Symphonic rock musicians
Payner artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia%20%28Bulgarian%20singer%29 |
Mehmet Culum (born 1948) is a contemporary Turkish novelist who was born in Çeşme, a town in western Turkey. He studied political sciences at the University of Ankara. Before starting an antique shop in his hometown, Culum worked as an IT consultant for some time in İzmir. After retiring in 1998, he began to explore the history of Western Turkey and especially the Çeşme Peninsula.
Work as an author
His first book, Azab Aga, was published in April 2004. Culum wrote the factually accurate history of his family in this book, not changing the names of characters and events. The book's events took place in the first half of the 20th century.
The compilation of the stories to which he listened while in the region of Alaçatı was the theme of his second book, Alaçatili, which was published in June 2006. The book's events center around a lawyer of Greek origin from New York City who seeks the roots of his family in Alaçatı, which was a Greek settlement for almost a century.
Culum was inspired by the true stories of the Çeşme Peninsula when he authored his third novel Kalenin Gölgesinde Çeşme, which became available to readers in April 2009. Culum has published his fourth novel Yengec Disi in January 2018.
References
External links
Mehmet Culum's homepage
Turkish novelists
Living people
People from Çeşme
1948 births
Ankara University alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet%20Culum |
York High School may refer to:
York High School, York, North Yorkshire, England
York High School (George), George, South Africa
York High School (Maine), Maine, United States
York Middle/High School, Retsof, New York, United States
York High School (Virginia), Yorktown, Virginia, United States
York Community High School, Elmhurst, Illinois, United States
York Comprehensive High School, York, South Carolina, United States
York Catholic High School, York, Pennsylvania, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York%20High%20School |
Venetian Isles () is a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located on the western shore of the Chef Menteur Pass on the northern side of U.S. Highway 90.
Legally a part of the city, Venetian Isles is separated from the bulk of the developed portion of the city by miles of undeveloped land. It long had the appearance of a small fishing town. In the late 20th century it saw development as a suburban style bedroom community.
The ruins of old Fort Macomb are along Chef Menteur Pass at the south of the neighborhood.
Venetian Isles was hit hard by storm surge during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As it lies outside of the City's levee system, it experienced damage similar to that seen in Pearlington, Mississippi and Pass Christian.
Former 2nd District Congressman Joseph Cao makes his home in Venetian Isles.
References
Neighborhoods in New Orleans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian%20Isles%2C%20New%20Orleans |
Noctilien is the night bus service in Paris and its agglomeration. It is managed by the Île-de-France Mobilités (formerly the STIF), the Île-de-France regional public transit authority, and operated by RATP (with 32 lines) and Transilien SNCF (with 20 lines).
It replaced the previous Noctambus service on the night of 20/21 September 2005, providing for a larger number of lines than before and claiming to be better adapted to night-time transport needs.
In place of the previous hub-and-spoke scheme where all buses terminated at and departed from the heart of Paris: Châtelet , Noctilien's new service includes buses operating between banlieues (communes surrounding Paris proper) as well as outbound lines running from Paris' four main railway stations: Gare de l'Est, Gare de Lyon, Gare Montparnasse and Gare Saint-Lazare. In addition, these four stations are also connected to each other by a regular night bus service.
All in all, Noctilien operates 52 bus lines, from the end of the rail network and day bus service (around 00:30) until their resumption early in the morning (around 05:30), over the whole of Paris and the Île-de-France region.
It is made up of:
2 circular lines: & running between Paris' major train stations ;
6 transversal lines: from to running between different suburbs of Paris via its center at Châtelet ;
21 radial lines (the other 2 digits lines, except N71) running between major Paris stations and more or less its near suburbs ;
2 radial long distance lines: & (subcontracted by the RATP) running between Paris and its remote suburbs ;
19 radial long distance lines (the other 3 digits lines, except N135) running between Paris and its remote suburbs (with often a partly motorway route) and managed by the Transilien SNCF ;
2 ring lines in the suburbs: by RATP & by Transilien SNCF.
Like Transilien, the name "Noctilien" is formed by analogy with "Francilien" — the French demonym for residents of Île-de-France.
Noctilien lines
The time intervals indicated here may depend on the day of week -- service is reinforced on Friday and Saturday nights and on days that precede bank holidays.
- Inner (clockwise) circle line from and to Gare de l'Est via Gare de Lyon → Gare Montparnasse → Gare Saint-Lazare . Every 14 minutes.
- Outer (counterclockwise) circle line from and to Gare Montparnasse via Gare de Lyon → Gare de l'Est → Gare Saint-Lazare . Every 14 minutes.
- Pont de Neuilly ↔ Château de Vincennes . Every 30 minutes.
- Pont de Sèvres ↔ Romainville - Carnot. Every 45 minutes.
- Mairie d'Issy ↔ Bobigny - Pablo Picasso . Every 20 minutes.
- Mairie de Saint-Ouen ↔ La Croix de Berny . Every 30 minutes.
- Asnières − Gennevilliers - Gabriel Péri ↔ Villejuif - Louis Aragon . Every 30 minutes.
- Pont de Levallois ↔ Mairie de Montreuil . Every 22 minutes.
- Châtelet ↔ Longjumeau - Hôpital. Every 30 minutes.
- Châtelet ↔ Juvisy . Every 20 minutes.
- Châtelet ↔ Chelles-Gournay . Every 30 minutes.
- Châtelet ↔ Sartrouville . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Paris Orly Airport (South Terminal). Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Boissy-Saint-Léger . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Villiers-sur-Marne (via Vincennes & Nogent-sur-Marne). Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Torcy . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Villiers-sur-Marne (via Maisons-Alfort & Saint-Maur-des-Fossés). Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Villeparisis – Mitry-le-Neuf . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Aulnay-sous-Bois - Garonor . Every 20 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Gare de Sarcelles-Saint-Brice . Every 20 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Garges-Sarcelles . Every 20 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Montfermeil - Hôpital. Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Gare d'Enghien . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Gare de Cormeilles-en-Parisis . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Nanterre - Anatole France. Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Montparnasse ↔ Clamart - Georges Pompidou. Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Montparnasse ↔ Rungis International Market. Every 35 minutes.
- Gare Montparnasse ↔ École Polytechnique - Vauve. Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Montparnasse ↔ Gare de Chaville-Rive-Droite . Every 30 minutes.
- Rungis International Market ↔ Val de Fontenay . Every 26 minutes.
- Châtelet ↔ Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy (Disneyland Paris). Every 60-80 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Brétigny . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Melun . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Juvisy . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Combs-la-Ville - Quincy . Every 60 minutes.
- Boissy-Saint-Léger ↔ Corbeil-Essonnes . Every 60-65 minutes.
N137 - Gare de Lyon ↔ Fontainebleau-Avon (Montereau-Fault-Yonne On week-ends)
N138 - Gare de Lyon ↔ Coulommiers . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport (All Terminals). Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Gare de Meaux . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Tournan . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare de l'Est ↔ Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport (Semi-direct link to all Terminals). Every 30 minutes.
- Gare de Lyon ↔ Corbeil-Essonnes . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare Montparnasse ↔ Gare de La Verrière (Gare de Rambouillet On week-end). Every 60 minutes.
N146 - Gare de l'Est ↔ Gare de Survilliers-Fosses . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Cergy Le Haut . Every 30 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Gare de Mantes-la-Jolie . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Cergy Le Haut . Every 60-70 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Saint Germain-en-Laye . Every 60 minutes.
- Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Montigny – Beauchamp . Every 70 minutes.
N155 - Gare Saint-Lazare ↔ Gare de Poissy . Every 60 minutes.
Line numbering scheme
Each bus line number starts with for Noctilien followed by a two or three digit number:
2 digits starting with "N0" for the two "circular" routes
2 digits starting with "N1" for the "transversal" routes
2 digits starting with "N2" for buses running from Châtelet
2 digits starting with "N3" for buses running from Gare de Lyon
2 digits starting with "N4" for buses running from Gare de l'Est
2 digits starting with "N5" for buses running from Gare Saint-Lazare
2 digits starting with "N6" for buses running from Gare Montparnasse
3 digits starting with "N1" for the long distance buses running to the outer suburbs.
References
External links
Official website (old)
Routes, schedules (official website)
Transport in Île-de-France
RATP Group
Transport in Paris
Transport in Hauts-de-Seine
Night bus service
Bus transport in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilien |
V24 may refer to:
Aircraft
Fokker V.24, a German fighter aircraft prototype
Mil V-24, a Soviet helicopter prototype
Softex-Aero V-24, a Ukrainian light aircraft
Other uses
ITU-T V.24, a telecommunications standard
V24 engine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V24 |
WKSE (98.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Niagara Falls, New York, serving the Buffalo metropolitan area and Western New York. It has a Top 40 (CHR) radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc., with studios on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York. It calls itself Kiss 98.5.
WKSE has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 46,000 watts. The transmitter is off Staley Avenue on Grand Island, New York. Its signal extends into the Niagara Region of Ontario as well as Hamilton and Toronto. WKSE broadcasts using HD Radio technology; its HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts country music sister station WLKK, while the HD3 subchannel simulcasts co-owned WBEN news/talk programming, and the HD4 subchannel simulcasts co-owned WGR's sports programming.
History
On , the station signed on as WHLD-FM. It was the FM counterpart to WHLD and largely simulcast the AM station's programming in its early years. In the late 1960s, it switched to a beautiful music format with some classical music programming as well.
The station changed its call sign to WZIR in 1980, WRXT in 1984, and the current call sign in early 1985. The current Top 40/CHR format has been in place since September 1984. Much of its playlist overlapped that of then-sister station Star 102.5 at times. (The two stations' programming eventually fully merged onto WKSE's signal in June 2023 as 102.5 was sold off that month.) WKSE carried the syndicated weekly show The Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown with Scott Shannon throughout the 1980s.
WKSE sold its broadcast tower to Vertical Bridge in March 2019. WKSE continues to use the tower under a leasing arrangement.
Until 2011, WKSE had a significant listenership throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario. After the launch of urban contemporary CKFG-FM that October on the adjacent 98.7 MHz frequency, WKSE lost much of its prominence in the Toronto market and became a bit harder to find on some radio receivers with weaker tuners. In addition, listeners in Canada are not able to use the Audacy app to stream WKSE, as it is restricted to users in the United States.
Programming
Janet Snyder has been the station's morning show host since 1989, with her co-host Nicholas Pickolas joining in 1994.
References
External links
KSE
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Audacy, Inc. radio stations
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKSE |
Ulmen is a town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde – a kind of collective municipality – to which it also belongs.
Geography
Location
The town lies in the Eifel some 11 km northwest of Cochem.
Constituent communities
To Ulmen belong the outlying centres – Stadtteile – of Meiserich, Vorpochten and Furth.
Geology
The Ulmener Maar, only about 11,000 years old, is not only a maar but also Continental Europe’s newest volcano north of the Alps. It is 37 m deep. Volcanic activity can be observed at depths of more than 4 m in the form of rising gas bubbles. The Ulmener Maar has no natural water inflow or outflow. The two tunnels that hold the water at a constant level today were dug in the 19th century.
Another maar in town is the 118,000-year-old Jungferweiher, which is considerably bigger than the Ulmener Maar. Formerly used as a fishpond for the lords of the castle, it dried up over the centuries until in the 1930s, it had become a peat bog. In 1942, however, the maar was flooded once again to regulate the water level in the nearby maar.
History
In 1074, Ulmen had its first documentary mention, though Merovingian graves south of the castle bear witness to earlier habitation within town limits. There have also been suspected Roman finds, but these have not yet been verified.
Sir Heinrich von Ulmen, a knight, went on the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople, whence he brought valuable treasures back, among others the famous Limburger Staurothek (“Limburg Reliquary of the True Cross”), which can still be seen in the cathedral in Limburg an der Lahn. His successors were in the 15th century subject to the Trier Archiepiscopal Foundation's public peace (Landfrieden). The “Sun King” Louis XIV of France conquered Ulmen twice and burnt it down. Both times, the castle and the town were built up again. Beginning in 1794, Ulmen lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Many old buildings bear witness even today to Ulmen's historical past. In the 19th century, when buildings confiscated by Napoleon were transferred to Prussian ownership, a Cochem townsman bought the castle and used it as a quarry. When Ulmen all but burnt down in a fire in 1831, the houses were rebuilt using stones from the castle. Since then, it has been a ruin.
In the forest that abuts the town is an old spring near which some Roman and Celtic figures were found. This spring is called Dietzjes Bärechje, a reference to children; for centuries, women prayed here for a good birth and healthy children.
In 1376, Ulmen was granted town rights by Emperor Karl IV. These rights were, however, lost as the Prussians took over the Rhineland in 1815. By decision of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cabinet on 1 September 2009, Ulmen was once again allowed to bear the designation Stadt (“town”) with effect from 2 October 2009.
Politics
Town council
The council is made up of 20 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Ulmen's mayor is Thomas Kerpen (CDU).
Coat of arms
The town's arms might be described thus: Per pale Or issuant from base a poleaxe sable and gules issuant from base a gatehouse with flanking towers embattled, the dexter taller than the sinister argent, on a chief of the fourth eight lozenges conjoined in fess throughout of the third.
Town partnerships
Ulmen fosters partnerships with the following places:
Lormes, Nièvre, France
In 1994, Ulmen and Lormes initiated the first contacts for a partnership. Both places contain an element meaning “elm” in their respective languages (Ulme, pl. Ulmen in German; orme in French). The partnership documents were signed in Lormes on 23 June 1996.
Culture and sightseeing
Museums
School museum with a reconstructed classroom from the Volksschule.
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Ulmen (main centre)
Ulmen Castle (Burg Ulmen, monumental zone) – castle complex consisting of Niederburg (“Lower Castle”), from before 1292, and Oberburg (“Upper Castle”), 1679 partly destroyed; dungeonlike gateway, of the Niederburg only sparse wall remnants left; in the Oberburg the girding wall of the Electoral-Trier Amtshaus, an essentially late mediaeval building, completed in 1682–1683, parts of the girding wall, fountain reconstructed; includes castle hill as well as the buildings from the 18th and 19th century at Bachstraße 2 and Burgfrieden 4, 5, 8 and 12
Saint Matthias’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Matthias), Am Maar – two-naved hall church, 1905, with the use of parts of the former Late Gothic church; transept on the site of the quire, 1966/1967; graveyard: Bonsig tomb, 19th century; warriors’ memorial, 1920s; whole complex of church and graveyard
Antoniusstraße 2 – former Electoral-Trier tithe house; building with mansard roof, marked 1727
Cochemer Straße/corner of Burgfrieden – sandstone wayside cross, first third of the 18th century
At In der Lay 1 – basalt wayside cross, marked 1817
In der Lay 2 – timber-frame house, commercial building, about 1840
At In der Lay 3 – coat of arms, 18th century
At In der Lay 3 – timber-frame house, balloon frame, early 16th century, remodelled in the 19th century
In der Lay 4 – timber-frame house, partly solid, first third of the 19th century
Winkelstraße 22 – former school; plastered building on quarrystone pedestal, partly timber-frame, Swiss chalet style, marked 1910–1911
At Winkelstraße 36 – Bildstock, 19th century
Antoniuskapelle – open chapel, marked 1659; cross, marked 1659, Electoral-Trier Amtsmann Georg von Metzenhausen's coat of arms
Waterworks – two basalt quarrystone buildings, marked 1940; whole complex
Furth
Further Mühle (mill) – L-shaped complex, 19th century, plastered building, barn, millraces, girding wall, bridge
Meiserich
Saint Anne’s Catholic Branch Chapel (Filialkapelle St. Anna) – aisleless church, essentially Late Gothic (1521), extension around tower marked 1793
Ulmener Straße 3 – L-shaped complex, 19th century
Before Ulmener Straße 4 – hand pump, with vase, marked 1909
Castle Ulmen, nowadays only a ruin, was built sometime about the year 1000, apparently on the remnants of a Roman building, although this has never been established through archaeological findings. Its current state is marked by somewhat less than successful restoration measures which have hidden much of the building’s original substance.
Saint Matthias’s Parish Church was built in Romanesque Revival-Gothic Revival style.
Music
The Spielmannszug Blau-Weiss 1952 Ulmen e.V. (band) under Rainer Pias’s direction.
The Musikverein Ulmen e.V. (music club), under Klaus Mohr’s direction for almost 30 years now, was founded on 24 January 1969 and today has 50 active members and a further 66 inactive ones.
Sport
The Sportverein Fortuna Ulmen e.V. (sport club) was founded on 21 September 1921 and offers active sport in the departments of aerobics, men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics, football, “seniors’” football, track and field, skipping, table tennis, gymnastics and volleyball.
Regular events
The Castle Festival (Burgfest) is held yearly in July at the Ulmen castle ruins.
Every three years on 3 October, the Appelfest is held at the Alter Postplatz by the Eifel Club.
Sightseeing gallery
Economy and infrastructure
Education
Kindergarten Ulmen
Grundschule Ulmen (primary school)
Realschule plus Vulkaneifel Ulmen/Lutzerath
Bundeswehr presence
The Schule für Diensthundewesen der Bundeswehr – a training school for dogs used in the German military – was moved in April 2005 from Koblenz-Bubenheim to the former munitions depot in the Hochpochtener Wald (forest) near Ulmen. Both the dogs themselves and their trainers are trained here. In the framework of the festivities for the school's 50th anniversary on 8 August 2008, the until now nameless installation in the Hochpochtener Wald was given the name Gräfin von Maltzan-Kaserne (Kaserne means “barracks”), after the veterinarian Maria von Maltzan, who was a member of the German Resistance in the time of the Third Reich; she helped those who were subject to Adolf Hitler’s repression and persecution, even hiding her future husband, a Jew, inside a couch. The then Ortsgemeinde of Ulmen took over sponsorship of this Bundeswehr facility, which was unique in Germany, on 30 January 2009.
References
External links
Town’s official webpage
Verbandsgemeindeof Ulmen
Ulmen, Vulkaneifel, sightseeing in the area
Eifel
Cochem-Zell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmen |
Greycrook is a village off the A68 and the A699 in the Scottish Borders, approximately south-east of St Boswells, and close to Dryburgh, Dryburgh Abbey, Maxton, Newtown St Boswells, and the River Tweed.
It was here that the highest temperature in Scotland, , was recorded on 9 August 2003.
The Record Was Beaten On 19 July 2022, When 35.1 °C Was Recorded In Kelso During The 2022 European Heat Waves
References
See also
Climate of Scotland
United Kingdom weather records
List of places in the Scottish Borders
List of places in Scotland
Villages in the Scottish Borders
Eildon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greycrook |
Dragon's Kin is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey. Published by Del Rey Books in 2003, it is the eighteenth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series and the first with Todd as co-author.
Dragon's Kin may be considered the first of a trilogy by the McCaffreys, preceding Dragon's Fire and Dragon Harper. Primarily the three books feature Kindan as a boy and young man, about 500 years after landing on Pern (500 AL).
Collaboration
Anne McCaffrey created Pern in the novella Weyr Search (1967) when her second child Todd was eleven. In 2001 and 2002 she published her fifteenth Pern novel and second collection of short stories. Dragon's Kin was their first collaborative work.
Todd later recalled that a Del Rey editor in the 1990s "pitched it to me that someone ought to continue Mum's legacy when she was no longer able. At the time I had misgivings and no story ideas".
Previously, as Todd Johnson, he had contributed the chapter "Training and Fighting Dragons" to The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (1989). Mother and son had also discussed Pern and its setting for years, and she had suggested that he "writes the military science fiction prequels" to the colonization, but that never progressed far.
They co-authored four Pern novels and, as of December 2011, Todd has done three alone. All are set just before and during the "Third Pass", about 500 years after human settlement on Pern and 2000 years before the "Ninth Pass" events chronicled in most of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books.
Plot summary
The story tells how the people of the planet Pern discover the special abilities of the watch-whers or whers, a distant relative of the dragons. Subsequently, these beasts are used in mines to warn miners of gas pockets and also to locate stranded miners, should there be a cave-in.
The story begins some years before the 3rd Pass in Camp Natalon, a mining camp. There, the reader is introduced to a young boy Kindan, whose father owns a watch-wher called Dask. During a mining cave-in, Kindan loses his entire family as well as Dask, and is adopted by the Master Harper Zist, who begins to train him to be both an entertainer and a spy, something that Harpers do. This is how Kindan learns that the camp is divided into two parties, Natalon's and his uncle Tarik's.
Meanwhile, the camp is without a watch-wher and minor accidents keep delaying the work. Despite the protests from Tarik and his group, Natalon decides to trade an entire winter's worth of coal for a chance for Kindan to ask a queen watch-wher for an egg. He succeeds and begins the difficult task of raising a nocturnal animal. As no records exist on how to raise or train the watch-wher, Kindan has no clue but is luckily aided by the mysterious Nuella. Together, they train Kisk and, in the process, learn a great deal about this species. This proves to be vital as, towards the end of the novel, Kisk's abilities will save many lives, including that of the camp leader, Natalon.
Notes
References
Sources
External links
2003 novels
2003 fantasy novels
2003 science fiction novels
Dragonriders of Pern books
Collaborative novels
Novels by Anne McCaffrey
Novels by Todd McCaffrey
Del Rey books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Kin |
Extrapolation is the debut album by English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin. It was recorded at Advision Studios in January 1969 and first released later in the year by Marmalade Records in the UK. The label was founded by producer Giorgio Gomelsky and distributed by Polydor Records. Re-issues of the album are on the Polydor label.
In 1972 the album was issued for the first time in the United States following McLaughlin's success as the leader of Mahavishnu Orchestra. It reached No. 152 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
"Binky's Beam" is dedicated to former jazz bass player Binky McKenzie.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians:
John McLaughlin – electric and acoustic guitar
John Surman – baritone and soprano saxophones
Brian Odgers – double bass (incorrectly named "Odges" on the liner notes)
Tony Oxley – drums
Technical:
Giorgio Gomelsky – producer
Eddy Offord – engineer (listed as "Eddie Offord")
References
External links
Review on jazz.com
1969 debut albums
Albums produced by Giorgio Gomelsky
John McLaughlin (musician) albums
Polydor Records albums
Marmalade Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolation%20%28album%29 |
Viscount Dungannon is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1662 when Marcus Trevor was made Baron Trevor, of Rostrevor in the County of Down, and Viscount Dungannon. These titles became extinct on the death of the third Viscount in 1706.
The Trevor estates, including Brynkinallt () near Chirk, Denbighshire, Wales, passed to the late Viscount Dungannon's kinsman Arthur Hill, who assumed the additional surname of Trevor in 1759. He was the son of Michael Hill and Anne Trevor, daughter of Sir John Trevor and granddaughter of John Trevor, half-brother of Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. Arthur Hill-Trevor's brother was Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough, from whom the Marquesses of Downshire descend. On 17 February 1766, Arthur Hill-Trevor was created Baron Hill, of Olderfleet, and Viscount Dungannon, in the Peerage of Ireland. This creation of the viscountcy of Dungannon became extinct on the death of the first holder's great-grandson, the third Viscount, in 1862.
The Dungannon estates, including Brynkinallt, passed to the latter's kinsman Lord Edwin Hill, third son of the third Marquess of Downshire, who assumed the additional surname of Trevor and was created Baron Trevor of Brynkinallt in the County of Denbigh, in 1890 (see Baron Trevor for more information).
Viscounts Dungannon, first creation (1662)
Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (1618–1670)
Lewis Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (died 1693)
Marcus Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (1669–1706)
Viscounts Dungannon, second creation (1766)
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (died 1771)
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (1763–1837)
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (1798–1862) (elected a representative peer in 1855)
See also
Baron Trevor
Marquess of Downshire
Baron Sandys
References
Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland
Noble titles created in 1662
Noble titles created in 1766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount%20Dungannon |
The Culture Show is a British magazine programme about books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts. The show was broadcast weekly on BBC Two between 2004 and 2015.
Early history
Launched in November 2004, the show initially transmitted on Thursday nights in a 7 p.m. slot, lasting 60 minutes. The first main presenter was Verity Sharp, though she shared presenting duties in the show's first run with Kwame Kwei-Armah and Andrew Graham-Dixon. The first series included segments on film director Martin Scorsese, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, the then little-known indie rock group Kaiser Chiefs and the contemporary visual artist Anselm Kiefer, among others. The launch editor, George Entwistle, was previously editor of BBC Two's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.
Entwistle was succeeded as editor by Edward Morgan in summer 2005. In May 2006, the show was moved to Saturday nights, shortened to 50 minutes, and began to be regularly presented by Lauren Laverne. The programme then also started to make occasional spin-off specials, which have so far included an hour-long interview with Steven Spielberg on the occasion of his 60th birthday; a programme exploring the work of Michael Palin; and interviews with Lou Reed and Arcade Fire. In January 2010, the team produced a successful one-hour special to cover the launch of BBC Radio 4's A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Presenters
The main presenters have changed since the programme's launch. After a long period with Laverne as anchor, by January 2010 the main presenter role had switched back to Andrew Graham-Dixon. Other regular presenters and reporters have included Mark Kermode, Tom Dyckhoff, Clemency Burton-Hill, Mark Radcliffe, Tim Samuels, Matthew Sweet, Lauren Laverne, Annie Mac, and Danny Robbins.
Guest presenters in the 2006/07 series included Stewart Lee, who interviewed his hero, the comedian Ted Chippington; Frank Skinner, who met singer Mark E. Smith for the show; author Grace Dent, who watches television in her caravan; Guardian television columnist Charlie Brooker, who criticised Saturday night talent shows; and Russell Brand who presented a segment on Oxford University. On occasion, editions of the programme have been presented by Sue Perkins.
Guests
Under the editorship of Edward Morgan, each edition of the programme featured at least one live performance from a musical artist. Musical guests who performed on the show in the 2006/07 season included Field Music, Babyshambles, Manic Street Preachers, Underworld, Mika, Faithless, Jarvis Cocker, Sting, Carlos Acosta, Bryan Ferry, Antony and the Johnsons, Paul McCartney and The Tiger Lillies.
Broadcasts
From 3 June 2008, the programme moved into the 10pm Tuesday slot, previously occupied by Later With Jools Holland, with an extended edition shown on Thursdays at 11.20pm. From inception, the show was jointly based in London and BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow. The show was broadcast in HD from late 2009.
The show was quietly ended in 2015, after a final special episode broadcast on 24 January.
Format
Edward Morgan was succeeded as editor of The Culture Show in Autumn 2009 by Grierson-award-winning Janet Lee, previously the editor of the BBC flagship arts and culture strand Imagine, presented by Alan Yentob. Lee's version of the show reverted to the launch model - 60 minutes long, broadcast at 7pm on Thursdays, pre-recorded with presenters on location and no live music performance.
References
External links
2004 British television series debuts
2015 British television series endings
BBC Television shows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Culture%20Show |
Michael "Tanker" Malley (born July 8, 1962) is a Canadian former politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented the riding of Miramichi-Bay du Vin in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006 and served as Speaker of the Assembly for part of 2006.
Political career
Malley, a former Miramichi city councillor and bus driver, was first elected to the legislature in the 1999 election and was re-elected in 2003.
The 2003 election returned his Progressive Conservatives to a majority government of just a one-seat margin. Malley was named whip, a position of expanded importance in a legislature with such close numbers. He was widely called upon by leaders in his community to leave the government in 2004 if the Lord government did not back away from rumoured health care cuts in the region. In the end the cuts were not as severe as had been rumoured and Malley remained in caucus.
On February 17, 2006, shortly after a cabinet shuffle, Malley announced he would leave the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent. He expressed disappointment in the government's overall direction and in his not being included in cabinet despite being the only representative of Miramichi in the Conservative caucus He argued that whereas Miramichi is the province's fourth largest city and where the three larger cities have significant representation (Moncton with 4, Saint John with 3 and Fredericton with 3), Miramichi ought to have had a member in the cabinet. His argument here was somewhat flawed, in that the cities proper have 2, 1 and 1 respectively, the numbers above include surrounding areas; the Miramichi area, if viewed through the same lens, has one cabinet member in Rogersville-Kouchibouguac MLA Rose-May Poirier.
Premier Bernard Lord has alleged Malley had less savory motives for leaving Lord's governing Conservative party. Lord alleged at a news conference that Malley made five specific demands in exchange for staying with the Conservatives, including: more money for his constituency office, more help for the Miramichi's troubled paper mill and the appointment of a female friend as his special assistant
. Lord further alleged that Malley demanded he immediately appoint Fredericton lawyer Cleveland Allaby, who Lord called a "good friend" of Mr. Malley's, as provincial court judge in the Miramichi. Allaby, however, denied this allegation and Lord admitted that he had no proof of any of the alleged demands. Malley has also denied these allegations.
Malley's floor crossing was especially significant because it changed Lord's Progressive Conservative government from a majority to a minority with the standings becoming: Progressive Conservatives 27, opposition Liberal Party 26 and two independents including Malley and former Liberal Frank Branch. When Malley announced he was leaving the Conservatives, he stated that he would use his new position of influence to support legislation that helps the poor people of New Brunswick and residents of the Miramichi region.
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
On March 28, 2006, Malley was acclaimed as Speaker of the Legislature after Tony Huntjens, the nominee of Bernard Lord, withdrew his name. Electing Malley as speaker, a position in which one only votes in the case of a tie, instead of a member of the government caucus, provides the government considerable more flexibility. Though still technically a minority government, by tradition, should there be a tie on a vote of confidence, the Speaker would vote in favour of the government.
On April 13, 2006, Malley announced he was rejoining the Progressive Conservative caucus, though as Speaker he would not attend caucus meetings and he would remain impartial. Liberal leader Shawn Graham and New Democratic Party leader Allison Brewer (whose party is not currently represented in the legislature, but was from 1991 to 2005) criticized the decision. Graham said Malley was making the legislature the "laughing stock" of the Commonwealth because of the unusual and unprecedented move of a, by definition, non-partisan Speaker announcing from his chair his change in partisan affiliation. Brewer said a mockery was being made of office of speaker. As Malley remains only able to vote in the case of a tie, the actual status of the legislature is unchanged with 27 ordinally voting members of the government, 27 members of the opposition and an impartial Speaker. The significance of this move, however, is a motion passed by the legislature in 2003 which requires the opposition withhold a vote on committees on which the government does not have a majority in order to "preserve the government majority". Premier Benard Lord argues he now has a majority again and the opposition should honour the terms of that motion while the Opposition has said that they do not recognize a change of affiliation from a speaker in the chair and will still operate as if the government were in a minority situation until such time as the Speaker resigns, sits among the Conservative caucus and re-offers for his office as a Conservative.
Through much of May, the Government and Opposition began to negotiate to bring some order back to the legislature. With only two parties represented, the tight numbers make it difficult for the Government to pass some of its agenda through the House and they had proposed radical rule changes to increase their majority inside of legislative committees. The Liberals opposed this saying it would turn the legislature into little more than a rubber stamp. A counter proposal offered by the Liberals was to see Malley resign as speaker and, in exchange, the Liberals would allow one of their members to stand for the post therefore increasing the working majority of the government by 2 votes. In exchange for this, the Liberals wanted an early election in the fall of 2006. Though the Conservative Government rejected this offer, the Liberals and Conservatives began negotiations which included the possibility of removing Malley from office. On May 24, 2006, Government House Leader Bev Harrison, Malley's predecessor as Speaker, said the government would not force Malley from office but, were he still Speaker, he would resign to resolve the deadlock. Malley has refused to comment to the media on this situation.
A vote on May 30, 2006 to remove Malley from office was defeated 27 to 25. Later however fellow Progressive Conservative Peter Mesheau announced his plans to resign from the legislature and rather than face another minority, Bernard Lord called an election. Malley sought re-election against Bill Fraser, the man who led the protests against hospital cuts in Malley's region.
In the general provincial election of September 18, 2006, Malley lost his seat to Liberal challenger Bill Fraser. Malley was soundly defeated, trailing his opponent by better than 20 percent in the popular vote.
Following his defeat, Malley was expected to continue to receive a salary as Speaker, though not as MLA, until a new Speaker is elected on February 6, 2007. This attracted some controversy.
References
Moncton Times & Transcript, "Tanker Jumps Back to Tories", Page A1/A5, April 14, 2006.
New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, "Former Speaker says he would step aside to help end gridlock", Page A1/A8, May 25, 2006.
Moncton Times & Transcript, "Tanker loses job, keeps salary", Page A1, October 6, 2006.
External links
Canadian Press: Tory N.B. member of legislature to sit as independent, legislature even
1962 births
Living people
Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs
Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
People from Northumberland County, New Brunswick
New Brunswick municipal councillors
21st-century Canadian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Malley |
The Northern dry deciduous forests, presently known as the North Deccan dry deciduous forests, is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of east-central India.
Geography
It covers an area of , mostly in western Odisha state, with portions in neighboring Chhattisgarh. The region extends northeast–southwest in the dry western rain shadow of the Eastern Ghats range, which block the moisture-laden monsoon winds from the Bay of Bengal to the east. It is surrounded by the more humid Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests ecoregion.
The ecoregion lies mostly in the middle basin of the Mahanadi River and its tributary the Tel. The southern portion of the ecoregion lies in the upper basin of the Indravati River, a tributary of the Godavari.
Flora
The original vegetation was a multi-storied forest of mostly dry-season deciduous trees, dominated by sal (Shorea robusta). Little of the original forest remains. Teak (Tectona grandis), which favors drier conditions, is more common in the remaining forests. Frequent fires, intensive grazing, and over-harvesting trees for firewood and fodder has reduced other areas to open scrubland or savanna. Much of the ecoregion has been converted to agriculture or pasture.
Fauna
The ecoregion has 68 native mammal species. Threatened mammals include the tiger (Panthera tigris), dhole (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), and chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis).
There are 261 bird species in the ecoregion. They include the Indian grey hornbill (Ocyceros birostris) and Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris).
Conservation
A 1997 assessment found that more than three-quarters of the ecoregion's natural habitat had been cleared or degraded. Four protected areas encompassed about 2.5 percent of the ecoregion's area. A 2017 assessment estimated that 1,604 km2, or 3%, of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Another 12% is forested but unprotected.
Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha (340 km2)
Gomarda Wildlife Sanctuary, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh (290 km2)
Kanger Ghati National Park, Chhattisgarh (230 km2)
Sunabeda Tiger Reserve, Nuapada district, Odisha (591 km2)
See also
List of ecoregions in India
External links
References
Ecoregions of India
Indomalayan ecoregions
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20dry%20deciduous%20forests |
Tutbury and Hatton Station is a railway station in England, served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line, which is a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.
History
The original station, called simply Tutbury, was opened on 11 September 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway. Nestlé have a historical presence in the village of Hatton due to the surrounding farmland, which supported a strong dairy farming industry. Nestlé's factory is labelled by the company as their Tutbury factory. Until the late 1970s the factory had its own private siding, which gave access to milk trains from the station. The factory since has developed into a major coffee producer, the sole UK facility producing the Dolce Gusto range, and also NescaféNESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto
The original Tutbury station closed to passengers on 7 November 1966.
The present station was opened in 1989 and serves the villages of Tutbury in Staffordshire, and Hatton in Derbyshire.
Facilities
The station is formed of two platforms which are staggered either side of the level crossing, supervised by a signal box at the station.
The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern help points and bicycle storage. The station has no ticket machines and the full range of tickets can be purchased from the guard on board the train.
Step-free access is available to both the platforms at the station.
Services
All services at Tutbury and Hatton are operated by East Midlands Railway.
On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly service westbound to via and eastbound to via and . During the late evenings, services terminate at Nottingham instead of Newark Castle.
On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Derby only although no trains operate before 14:00.
References
Further reading
External links
www.burton-on-trent.org.uk/station-history
Page at Dudley Mall
Railway stations in Derbyshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former North Staffordshire Railway stations
1848 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1989
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutbury%20and%20Hatton%20railway%20station |
Anthony Hand MBE (born 15 August 1967) is a Scottish former ice hockey player and coach. He was the first British player to be drafted by an NHL team when he was picked by the Edmonton Oilers in 1986.
Nicknamed Two point Tony, he holds several national records, and scored over 4000 points in his career, more than any professional hockey player at any level. Still over a point-per-game scorer deep into his forties, Hand retired after the 2015 EPIHL league finals, after his Manchester Phoenix team lost.
Hand served as the head coach of the Great Britain national team, a position he assumed in 2011 and resigned from in 2013. Until the franchise folded in January 2017, he was the coach of the Manchester Phoenix. In 2017, Hand received the Torriani Award from the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 2017, and inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
Early life
Hand was born on 15 August 1967 in Edinburgh, the second son to David and Lorraine Hand. He grew up in the Muirhouse area of the city and attended St Augustine's Catholic School. He started his ice hockey career with the Edinburgh-based Murrayfield Racers, playing for their junior team the Raiders and working part-time at the rink. His older brother Paul was also an ice hockey player.
Professional career
Early playing career
He made his senior debut on 20 September 1981, at the age of fourteen against the Fife Flyers when the Murrayfield Racers had a player shortage. He gained his first point against the Billingham Bombers on 17 October 1981, with an assist to a Chris Kelland goal. He finished the 1981/82 season having played 19 games, scoring 4 goals and adding 7 assists for 11 points. He followed it up the following year with 20 goals and 22 assists, a total of 42 points, in 24 games.
He established himself as a regular first choice player for Murrayfield side that finished 5th in the 1983/84 season, scoring 52 goals and 43 assists in 30 league games after scoring 12 goals and 8 assists in 7 Autumn Cup games. He reached his first Championship Playoff Final with Murrayfield but despite Hand scoring 10 goals and 5 assists in 6 games, the Racers lost 5–4 to Dundee Rockets. He went on to represent Great Britain at the World Junior Championships, scoring 6 goals and 3 assists.
In the 1984/85, Hand clocked up his 100th career league goal against Durham Wasps, scoring 72 in the season and broke Roy Halpin's league assists record with 107. He also scored 44 goals and 50 assists in 14 Autumn Cup and Championship Playoff games. With Murrayfield, he reached his second successive final after the Racers finished 3rd in the league but again they lost, this time to Fife Flyers. Representing Great Britain at the Pool C European Championships in Feltre in Italy, he played 3 games and scored 4 points. He also scored 2 goals while guesting for Dundee in the European Cup.
In the 1985/86 season, Hand continued to clock up the points scoring 72 goals and 110 assists from 35 games to help Murrayfield finish 2nd in the League behind Durham, including his 200th goal against Peterborough Pirates on 8 February 1986. In 15 cup and playoff games, he also scored 35 goals and 36 assists as Murrayfield won both competitions. They beat Durham 8–5 in the Autumn Cup and Dundee 4–2 at Wembley. Personally, he was awarded the Young Player of the Year award-winning a couple of weeks attendance at the Calgary Flames training camp to train with NHL players.
NHL draft pick
Instead of attending the Flames training camp, Hand went to the Edmonton Oilers' training camp after they had selected him in the 12th round (252nd and last overall) of the 1986 NHL entry draft. There he survived the full fourteen days of camp without being cut, despite breaking his only stick on the first day and having to borrow one from Marty McSorley. Playing alongside players such as Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, he impressed coach Glen Sather and was offered a contract to play junior hockey for a year. Suffering from homesickness, Hand turned it down but agreed to return the following year. Hand was the first of only three British-born and trained players ever to have been drafted by an NHL team (the second being Colin Shields and the third being Liam Kirk).
Before returning home to Scotland, Hand played briefly for the junior Western Hockey League's Victoria Cougars, with whom he had trained before the Edmonton camp, and scored eight points in only three games. He returned to Scotland a few months later due to exhaustion from the demands of training, playing and press interest.
Despite the interest of other British clubs, Hand returned to play for the Racers, where he won his first Heineken League Premier title, the Regal Scottish Cup and Scottish League. He broke the 200-league-point barrier for the first time, scoring 105 goals and 111 assists in 35 games, and scored his 300th career goal against Nottingham Panthers in February 1987. However, the Racers lost in the play-offs to Durham Wasps. He also won a bronze medal with the Great Britain Under-21s in Pool C of the World Championships in Denmark.
The following season, Hand went back to Canada to train with the Cougars before heading to Edmonton where he played for the Oilers against Team Canada and assisted a Kevin Lowe goal. Again he was offered a contract with the Oilers' farm team, the Nova Scotia Oilers, but again turned it down, afraid of being stuck in minor professional hockey earning less than his contract in Edinburgh.
In his autobiography, Hand wrote that this was perhaps a mistake and that perhaps he should have re-negotiated the offer. In the foreword, Sather expressed his disappointment that "he didn't accept my deal because he could have advanced in North America. His progress would have been celebrated." Indeed, Sather also says "At the training camp I could see that he had a great ability to read the ice and he was the smartest player there other than Wayne Gretzky. He skated well: his intelligence on the ice stood out. He was a real prospect."
Return to Britain
Hand returned in October 1987 for Murrayfield's first ill-fated trip onto the continent to play in the IIHF's European Cup where, after beating Bulgarian side Slavia Sofia in a preliminary round, the semi-pro team from Scotland were thrashed by full-time sides from the Netherlands, Sweden and (Germany).
On the domestic front they again won the Heineken League as well as the Scottish League and Cup double. However, in the Norwich Union Cup & Championship play-offs, Durham Wasps again proved to be their nemesis. After beating Murrayfield 11–5 in the final of the Autumn Cup competition, Durham also knocked them out of the Wembley Semi-final 11–8 despite Hand scoring a Championship record 7 points in the match. Hand ended the 1987–88 season with 125 goals and 135 assists in 52 league and cup games having scored his 400th league goal against Whitley Warriors on 13 March.
During the close season, Hand trained with Geneve-Servette and was offered a contract as their fourth import, but in the top Swiss league which allowed only three imports to play in game, he turned it down. Instead he returned to Murrayfield where, in an indifferent year, he scored 114 goals and 162 assists in 49 games, including his 1,000th point and 500th goal.
Having won the Scottish league and cup double with Murrayfield, Hand was selected for the GB senior team for the first time, making his debut in the World Championships Pool D competition in Belgium. In 4 games, he scored 6 goals and 12 assists to help Britain to a third-place finish and receiving his first World Championship medal.
At the end of the 1989–90 season, after winning the Norwich Union Cup and the Scottish double, Murrayfield reached the Wembley play-off for the fifth time in seven years but lost to Cardiff Devils on penalty shots with Hand missing the deciding shot. He played 45 games, scoring 73 goals and 117 assists. In March 1990, he won a Gold medal and the MVP award during Great Britain's Pool D promotion campaign in Cardiff scoring 5 goals and 8 assists in 4 one-sided games against Australia and Spain.
The following season was a disappointing one for Hand as Murrayfield won only one trophy, the Capital Foods Scottish Cup and Great Britain could only finish fifth in the Pool C competition in Denmark. On a personal front, Hand scored his 600th league goal against Durham Wasps and a record 11 assists against Trafford Metros in the quarter-final stage of the Norwich Union Cup. Overall, he scored 85 goals and 147 assists for Murrayfield in 52 games plus 9 goals and 12 assists in 8 games for the GB side.
1991–92 started badly for Hand with an eight-game ban for a drug offence when a cold remedy gave a positive result for traces of ephedrine. However, the domestic season got better for him personally as he was awarded a place on the All-Star team and was voted Players' Player of the Year. He was also the League's top scorer with 60 goals and 80 assists in 36 games and captained the Scotland side that beat England 7–6 in the 49th Home International, scoring three of the goals. For the Murrayfield team though, the season was full of controversy and disappointment which ended without qualifying for the play-offs.
In March 1992, the Pool C competition was held in Hull and in a group containing Australia, Belgium, Hungary, North Korea and South Korea, the GB team won the gold medal and promotion to Pool B. Hand finished top scorer with 6 goals and 12 assists in the 5 games to win the Best Forward award.
End of an era
Despite good offers from many teams over the years, Hand had remained with the Murrayfield Racers until they folded in 1994. Even then he joined the newly formed Edinburgh Racers, scoring over 200 points in a season for the third time in his career. However, after a single season with the Edinburgh Racers who also went bankrupt, Hand finally moved to the Sheffield Steelers, in the Superleague. Four years later, another return to Scotland came with a move to the Ayr Scottish Eagles. It was also around this time that Hand was offered a place on the roster of HPK of Finland's SM-Liiga
Coaching career
In 2001, Hand started a coaching career as player-coach of the newly formed Dundee Stars of the British National League, before returning to Edinburgh to coach the Edinburgh Capitals, where he has coached twice (2003–2004 and 2005–2006). Between these two spells at Edinburgh Hand was player-coach of the Belfast Giants. In the 2004 New Year Honours, Hand was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to ice hockey.
On 19 April 2006, Hand was announced as the head coach of the Manchester Phoenix for the 2006–07 season. Hand has now released his autobiography, Tony Hand: A Life in British Ice Hockey, written with Mike Appleton. Still playing aged 41, in November 2008 he scored his 4000th career point against Hull Stingrays.
Hand was named the head coach of the British national team on 30 December 2011. He signed a contract for four years.
As of 2018, Hand is the director of hockey for the Murrayfield Racers. On the 24 April 2023, Hand was announced as the head coach of Whitley Warriors.
Honours and awards
Scottish National League 1985–86 (Murrayfield Racers)
British National League 1986–87, 1987–88 (Murrayfield Racers)
Best Forward (World Championships D) 1990
Best Forward (World Championships C) 1992
ISL Second Team All-Star 1997–98
Awarded the Ice Hockey Annual Trophy as leading British scorer in 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07
Sekonda Face to Watch December 1999 and November 2000
ISL First Team All-Star 2000–01
British National league Coach of the Year 2001–02
British National League top points scorer 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04
British Ice Hockey Writers' Association Player of the Year 1988–89, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2010–11
Best British Forward 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
EIHL First Team All-Star 2004–05
EIHL Second Team All-Star 2005–06
British Ice Hockey Writers' Association All Star Teams 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
British Ice Hockey Writers' Association Coach of the Year 2010–11
Received the Torriani Award in 2017, and inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Ayr Scottish Eagles players
Belfast Giants players
British expatriate ice hockey people
Dundee Stars players
Edinburgh Capitals players
Edmonton Oilers draft picks
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Great Britain men's national ice hockey team coaches
Ice hockey player-coaches
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
Manchester Phoenix players
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Murrayfield Racers players
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Scottish ice hockey forwards
Sheffield Steelers players
Sportspeople from Edinburgh
Victoria Cougars (WHL) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Hand |
Poduyane ( ) or Poduene ( ) is a residential complex and a district of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria with 85,996 inhabitants. It is located in the northeastern outskirts of the city and is divided into microregions. Poduyane consists of the neighbourhoods Suhata Reka, Hadzhi Dimitar, Poduyane, Stefan Karadzha, Levski, Levski-G, Levski-V. A former village, it was incoroparted in 1895. The district's holiday is celebrated on 1 June.
History
Poduene was first mentioned in 1453 as Poduyani. The name is derived from the word poduy, an adjective from pod ("soil") with the now-unproductive suffix –uy. In that case poduy was a geographical term referring to a high flat country or a plain country at the foot of a hill.
Poduene was the first village to be included within the city of Sofia in 1895 and was mentioned in the Elin Pelin works. In 1920s the neighbourhoods of Suha Reka and Hadzhi Dimitar were established and experienced a quick population growth mainly from north-western Bulgaria. Many streets are still named after villages from the region such as Gintsi, Todorini Kukli, Petrohan and others.
During socialism (1944-1989) Poduene along with two other districts (Oborishte and Slatina) formed the 5th district "Vasil Levski" of the capital. In the 1960s, 1970s and especially 1980s many panel blocks were constructed in the neighbourhoods of Suha Reka, Hadzhi Dimitar, Poduene and Stefan Karadzha. In the end of the 1980s a new neighbourhood Metalurg was built and in 1999 it was renamed to Levski V and G after its incorporation into Poduene from Kremikovtsi.
Population
Poduene has 85,996 inhabitants which makes it the third most populous district in Sofia after Lyulin and Mladost. According to the 2001 census the population was 75,004 - 25,000 lived in Hadzhi Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha; 25,000 in Suha Reka and Poduyane (neighbourhood); 15,000 in Levski V and G and 10,000 in Levski.
There is an art college, 11 schools and 9 kindergartens as well as two polyclinics: 23rd and 18th. In the Suha Reka neighbourhood is located Georgi Asparuhov Stadium (also known as Gerena) home of PFC Levski Sofia.
Transport
Poduyane railway station is located within the district.
Territorial structure
The district of Poduene is surrounded by railways. The main railway is the international one which separates the district from the center. There are two rivers, Perlovska and Slatinska, while the Vladayska river serves as administrative border with Serdika. The Vladimir Vazov Boulevard which follows the Perlovska river divides the district into two parts:
North-western - the neighbourhoods of Hadzhi Dimitar, Stefan Karadzja and Levski-G
South-eastern - the neighbourhoods of Poduene, Suhata Reka, Levski and Levski-V
There are two mixed neighbourhoods with blocks and houses - Hadzhi Dimitar and Suhata Reka, two neighbourhoods with blocks - Levski V and G and one neighbourhood with houses - Levski. Poduene can be considered as part of Suhata Reka while Stefan Karadszha forms part of Hadzhi Dimitar.
Honour
Poduene Glacier on Danco Coast, Antarctica is named after Poduene.
References
Districts of Sofia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poduyane |
Daniel Joseph MacDonald, (July 23, 1918 – September 30, 1980) was a Canadian politician from Prince Edward Island. He served as Minister of Veterans Affairs from 1972 to 1979 and again in 1980 until his death.
Life
He was born on his family's farm in Bothwell, Prince Edward Island, and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse.
At the age of 20, he bought his own farm at Bothwell Beach. In 1940, he enlisted in The Prince Edward Island Highlanders to fight in World War II. He was transferred to the Cape Breton Highlanders in 1943 and fought with the rank of sergeant in Italy, where he was wounded during the assault on the Gothic Line. He returned to his unit after a few weeks and was seriously wounded on December 21, 1944, during the Battle of Senio River. As a result, his left arm and leg were amputated. Undiscouraged by his injuries, he returned to his farm, married a local woman named Pauline Peters, built a house, and raised seven children: Blair, Heather, Gail, Daniel, Leo, Walter, and Gloria. The singer-songwriter Jenn Grant is a granddaughter.
Political career
In 1962, he was elected to the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly and sat in the body for ten years. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry from 1966 to 1972, when he resigned to run in the 1972 federal election. Elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Cardigan, he was appointed to the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau as Minister of Veterans Affairs. He was defeated in the 1979 federal election but returned in the 1980 election and was then reappointed to the Veterans Affairs portfolio. MacDonald reformed veterans' pensions to make them more generous and introduced disability pensions and pensions for prisoners of war.
In the late 1970s, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau undertook an initiative to decentralize government away from Ottawa. He and MacDonald devised the plan to move the headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs from Ottawa to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The department's head office, along with the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, have been located in the Daniel J. MacDonald Building (the "DJM") in PEI's capital ever since. (In the early 21st century, a second building two blocks from the DJM, the Jean Canfield Building (the "JCB"), was constructed to house other federal government offices, including some from Veterans Affairs Canada.) The department has become a major economic contributor to PEI, and has had an important impact on Charlottetown's cultural landscape.
MacDonald died in office on September 30, 1980, and was given a state funeral. The eulogy was given by Prime Minister Trudeau at St. Dunstan's Cathedral, in Charlottetown.
Electoral history
References
Department of Veterans Affairs biography
1918 births
1980 deaths
People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island
Canadian Roman Catholics
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Prince Edward Island
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs
Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island
Canadian Army personnel of World War II
Canadian Army soldiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20J.%20MacDonald |
Manolo Lama (born 3 January 1962 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish radio sportscaster. Lama is known for his play-by-play covers of Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Spain matches on the radio program Tiempo de Juego on Cadena COPE from 1982 until 2011 in the Cadena Ser.
Lama has also covered important events such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. On Cadena COPE he presents the program Deportes COPE and collaborates on the show El Partidazo de COPE. On television, he presents the afternoon sports bulletin on Cuatro. Lama is also the Spanish play-by-play announcer (alongside Paco González) of EA Sports' FIFA series video games since 1998.
In 2023, after Luis Rubiales caused controversy when he kissed Spanish midfielder Jennifer Hermoso on the lips without her permission, Lama said on the radio, "Those who are angry, it's because they have never been kissed". After pushback, Lama said he was sorry to "those I have offended", and added, "Spain has become a country of inquisitors... if you think differently, you'll be stoned".
References
1962 births
Living people
Spanish reporters and correspondents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo%20Lama |
V18 or V-18 may refer to:
De Havilland Canada V-18, a utility transport aircraft
ITU-T V.18, a textphone protocol
LFG V 18 Sassnitz, a German flying boat
V18 engine, an internal combustion engine
Vulcan V18, a rifle
V18, a family history of certain other specific conditions, in the ICD-9 V codes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V18 |
The Races of Europe is the title of two anthropological publications
The Races of Europe (Ripley), an 1899 book by William Z. Ripley
The Races of Europe (Coon), a 1939 book by Carleton S. Coon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Races%20of%20Europe |
Mark Washington (born April 16, 1973) is the defensive coordinator for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is also a retired professional Canadian football defensive back in the CFL, having played for the Montreal Alouettes and the BC Lions over 11 seasons. After his retirement, he joined the Lions as the defensive backs coach, and was promoted to defensive coordinator for the 2014 BC Lions season.
College career
Washington attended Rutgers University. As a junior at Rutgers, he was an All-Big East performer, and as a senior, he was the team captain.
Professional career
Washington began his pro career with the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europa, where he won a World Bowl in 1997. He played six seasons for the Montreal Alouettes, from 1997 to 2002, recording nine interceptions (and returning two for touchdowns) and winning a Grey Cup in 2002. He moved in 2003, as a free agent, to the BC Lions, where in five seasons he intercepted eight passes (one for a TD), was named an all-star in 2003, and won the Grey Cup in 2006. He retired on January 31, 2008.
Coaching and broadcasting
After his playing career, he became the defensive backs coach of the BC Lions, and also began a career in television broadcasting, co-hosting a local talk-show.
On December 12, 2013 it was announced that he would become the new defensive coordinator for the BC Lions.
Mark Washington was named defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on January 16, 2019. On November 29, 2022, it was reported by TSN insider Farhan Lalji that Washington was one of three finalists for the vacant Ottawa Redblacks head coaching job.
References
1973 births
Living people
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football defensive backs
Canadian television hosts
BC Lions coaches
BC Lions players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats coaches
Montreal Alouettes players
Barcelona Dragons (NFL Europe) players
New York CityHawks players
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football players
People from Temple Hills, Maryland
Sportspeople from Prince George's County, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Washington%20%28Canadian%20football%29 |
Ronald Ralph Williams (14 October 1906 – 3 February 1979) was a Church of England bishop. He was Principal of St John's College, Durham from 1945 to 1953 and Bishop of Leicester from 1953 to 1979.
Early life and education
Williams was born on 14 October 1906 to the Revd Ralph Williams and Mary ( Sayers). He attended The Judd School, a grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent. He went on to study English and theology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He obtained second class honours in Part I of the English Tripos in 1926, first class honours in Part I Theology Tripos, and a distinction in Part II of the Theology Tripos with which he graduated with Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1928.
Ordained ministry
Williams was too young to be ordained immediately after leaving university in 1928, and so spent the following year as a tutor at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Having been ordained in the Church of England, he served his curacy at Leyton Parish Church from 1929 to 1931, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford in 1931. He then returned to Ridley Hall, Cambridge, the theological college where he trained for ministry, serving as its chaplain from 1931 to 1934. He was Home Education Secretary for the Church Missionary Society (CMS) from 1934 to 1940. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Religions Division of the Ministry of Information in 1940, and went on to serve as its director from 1943 to 1945.
In 1944, it was announced that he had been selected as the next Principal of St John's College, Durham in succession to C. S. Wallis. St John's College is both a residential college of the University of Durham and an evangelical Anglican theological college of the Church of England. He took up the appointment in 1945, and rebuilt the college physically and financially after the end of the War. He was also an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral from 1953 to 1954.
In October 1953, it was announced that Williams would be the next Bishop of Leicester. He was installed as diocesan bishop during a service at Leicester Cathedral in January 1954. He also served as President (ie its figurehead) of Queen's College, Birmingham from 1957 to 1963. He entered the House of Lords in 1959 as a lord spiritual. Although described as a liberal evangelical, he voted against an Anglican-Methodist reunion and was a staunch defender of the establishment of the Church of England. He abstained from voting on the Sexual Offences Act 1967: his twofold reasoning was that homosexuality should not be illegal but that it was still morally wrong, and so "the balance of my convictions can be expressed only by abstention". He retired in 1979, and was succeeded as Bishop of Leicester by Richard Rutt.
He wrote The Perfect Law of Liberty: An Interpretation of Psalm 119.
References
1906 births
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Holders of a Lambeth degree
Bishops of Leicester
People educated at The Judd School
20th-century Church of England bishops
1979 deaths
Principals of St John's College, Durham
Evangelical Anglican bishops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Williams%20%28bishop%29 |
HMS Raleigh was an unarmoured iron or "sheathed"-masted frigate completed in 1874. She was one of a series of three designed by Sir Edward Reed. The other two iron-hulled frigates of independent design were and . The Controller originally intended to build six of these big frigates, but only three were ordered in view of their high cost. They retained the traditional broadside layout of armament, with a full rig of masts and sails. Although widely believed to be named after Sir Walter Raleigh, the ship was in fact named for George of Raleigh.
Building programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of Raleigh and the other two iron frigates. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. (Note that costs quoted by J.W. King were in US dollars.)
*Date first commissioned.
Design
Raleigh displaced 5,200 tons and was long between perpendiculars by wide, and drew . She was designed as a sailing vessel with an auxiliary steam engine. Under favourable sailing conditions she could make . With nine boilers operating at , her 1-shaft horizontal single expansion engine developed and moved her along at , an unprecedented speed at the time.
Two 9-inch muzzle-loading rifle (MLR) guns and fourteen 7-inch 90 cwt MLR guns formed the main armament, supplemented by six 64-pounder MLRs. The 9-inch guns were chase weapons, mounted at front and back. The fourteen 7-inch guns were the main deck broadside battery.
These ships were constructed in response to the fast, wooden American Wampanoag-class frigates, and their iron hulls were clad from keel to bulwarks with a double layer of 3-inch timber. Raleigh was copper bottomed. All three had a great range and were designed for use in far seas.
The ship was intended as a successor to the wooden steam-frigates such as Immortalite and Ariadne. Inconstant and Shah had been considered by some too large and too expensive, so Raleigh was designed slightly smaller. The design was a compromise between steam power and a desire to retain good sailing properties. The propeller was damaged during steam trials, breaking one blade and cracking the other, but she proceeded to sailing trials around Ireland before repairs were made. George Tryon, appointed her first captain, made a number of minor alterations to her design details as she was completing building.
Raleigh had a normal crew of 530 men. In 1884, she was partially rearmed, retaining eight 7-inch MLR guns on broadside, but gaining eight more modern 6-inch breech-loading rifled (BLR) guns and eight 5-inch BLR guns. Four modern light guns were added as well as 12 machine guns and two torpedo carriages.
Service
First commission
On 13 January 1874 Raleigh was commissioned at Chatham by Captain George Tryon, Commander Arthur Knyvet Wilson second in command. Under Tryon, Raleigh served as part of the 1875 Detached Squadron from Autumn 1874 until she left at Bombay in February 1876. The squadron was commanded by Rear Admiral Sir George Granville Randolph until 31 May 1875, and then by Rear Admiral Rowley Lambert. The 1875 Detached Squadron consisted of:
(flag), Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, then (9 June 1875) Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott
, Francis Alexander Hume, then Gerard Noel (acting captain)
, Arthur Thomas Thrupp
, Robert Gordon Douglas
Raleigh (left at Bombay), George Tryon
(joined at Madeira, left at Bombay), Hon Edmund Fremantle
The Detached Squadron travelled to Gibraltar (October 1874) - Madeira (21 October) - Saint Vincent - Montevideo - Falkland Islands (30 January 1875) - Cape of Good Hope (3 April; Raleigh transported Sir Garnet Wolseley and his staff to Natal and then rejoined the others at Saint Helena) - Saint Helena (14 April) - Ascension - Saint Vincent (23 May) - Gibraltar (20 June – 15 July) - Cape of Good Hope - Bombay (22 October; escorting visit to India by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII) - Colombo - Trincomalee - Calcutta - Bombay (14 February 1876), where Raleigh left the squadron. The squadron returned to Plymouth on 11 May 1877. Meanwhile Raleigh served in the Mediterranean.
Speed trials between the ships demonstrated that Raleigh was the fastest steaming, but was also the second fastest under sail, after Immortalité. At Montevideo a number of sailors deserted from all the ships of the squadron, but a number were recaptured after searching British merchant ships. Raleigh had already lost 30 men to desertion before leaving England. On the second journey to the Cape of Good Hope a man fell overboard in a high sea. Tryon took the risk of launching a boat to rescue him, which was risky because the high sea might swamp the boat and lose the rescue crew too. However, all went well and Tryon commissioned a painting of the event, with photos of the painting given to every officer.
1877–1879 commission
On 11 May 1877 Captain Charles Trelawney Jago took command. Raleigh continued to serve as part of the Mediterranean Fleet, and participated in Hornby's forcing of the Dardanelles to discourage Russian occupation of Constantinople, and the subsequent occupation of Cyprus, acquired from Turkey. On 15 February 1878. Raleigh ran aground at the entrance to the Dardanelles off the Rabbit Islands, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated three or four days later, probably with assistance from and . Raleigh was repaired at Malta and a cost of almost £1,000.
1885–? commission
From 6 March 1885 to 1886 Raleigh was commanded by Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson, and was flagship of Rear-Admiral Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station. Raleigh continued as flagship of Rear-Admiral Hunt-Grubbe until 29 March 1888. Roger Keyes served aboard her as a young midshipman from 1887 to 1890.
In March 1888 the Raleigh became the flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard Wells, on the same station, and in May 1888 Captain Wilmot Fawkes took command; the ship was recommissioned at Simonstown Dockyard near Cape Town in June 1888.
1890–1893 commission
From September 1890 Raleigh was commanded by Captain Arthur Barrow, as flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry Frederick Nicholson, again on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa station from 1890 to 1893. She was the first posting of midshipman William Fisher. Raleigh is described in his biography as follows:
"The Raleigh was an old ship of 5200 tons displacement, barque-rigged and dependent on sail-power for long passages. She had a curious and mixed armament of muzzle-loading and breech-loading guns and had achieved a speed of 15 knots in her early days. She was typical of the last years of the "Groping Era" and so Fisher's early sea training took place in a ship with main features of two different ages of ship and armament design."
Raleigh was a happy ship; "though hard work was demanded from both officers and men, the leadership was of a high order". In a letter home Midshipman Fisher wrote:
"The lieutenants are nice, in fact nice without exception. Commander O'Callaghan is one of the best Commanders, it is generally acknowledged, in the service. Not for his smartness or ability but by leniency and well placed kindness with the men. He is certainly a most perfect gentleman. Captain Barrow is nice beyond doubt when off duty, when on duty, I think, as his is quite a newly made Captain, he tries to swagger too much and is rather harsh. Perhaps the fact of him being such a dandy sets me against him rather. You should see him go on inspection rounds in the morning with his beautiful white gloves and cane with uniform. David Nevin, our instructor, is a good old boy who has already taught me a considerable amount..."
1894 Madini Creek ambush
HMS Magpie, Raleigh and Widgeon under command of Rear-Admiral Frederick Bedford provided men for an incursion against slavery into the Gambia. The party were split into two columns, one consisting of two hundred and twenty-five bluejackets (naval personnel) from all three ships, was led by Captain Edward Harpur Gamble of the Raleigh. This main column was ambushed at Madini Creek on 23 February 1894. Eighteen men were killed, including two officers from the Raleigh, First Lieutenant William Arnold RN and Lieutenant Francis Hervey of the Marines. Forty-six officers and men were wounded (including Gamble). Shortly afterward British forces succeeded in bringing slavery to an end in the region.
Fate
When Sir John Fisher was Controller in the late 1890s he appropriated money that was meant for making good defects in Raleigh and used it for "making his own patent improvements in , such as laying a dancing deck."
In September 1902 it was announced she would not yet be sold, but be kept available for the training service.
Raleigh was sold on 11 July 1905 to Messrs Thos. W. Ward of Morecambe to be broken up.
Footnotes
References
Bradford, Admiral Sir Edward E, Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Bart, VC, GCB, OM, GCVO, pub Murray, 1923.
Brassey, Lord (ed) The Naval Annual 1887
James, Admiral Sir William, Admiral Sir William Fisher, pub Macmillan, 1943.
King, JW, Warships and Navies of the World, pub A Williams, 1881.
Rear-Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald, Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon K. C. B., William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh and London, 1897
External links
Russell, William Howard (Honorary Private Secretary to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales), The Prince Of Wales' Tour of India - a Diary in India, pub Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, 1877
HMS Inconstant
HMS Raleigh
The Flying Squadron
Walter James Hunt-Grubbe on-line biography
Charles Trelawney Jago on-line biography
Rowley Lambert on-line biography
George Granville Randolph on-line biography
George Tryon on-line biography
Arthur Knyvet Wilson on-line biography
Steam frigates of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Chatham
1873 ships
Maritime incidents in February 1878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Raleigh%20%281873%29 |
Kolkata, India, is largely inhabited by the ethnic community of the native Bengalis (both Ghoti and Bangal origin) respectively. According to a report by the Indian Statistical Institute owned by the Government of India, the Kolkata city had a population of 4.5 million as of 2011 out of which the population of native Bengalis in Kolkata is almost 62% which comprised the majority of the city's population, whereas ethnic groups like Marwaris, Biharis and Urdu-speaking Muslims together forming 36% of the population which comes under the category of large minorities. Other Various micro-minority communities of Kolkata include as far as concerned follows -: Pathans, Marathis, Odias, Gujaratis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Punjabis, Nepalis, Telugus, Tamils, Anglo-Indians, Iraqis, Jews, Armenians, Tibetans, Greeks, Parsis, Chinese, and Iraqis etc.
Chinese
Chinatown () in the eastern part of the city of Kolkata is the only Chinatown in India. Once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese, its population dropped to around 2,000 as of 2009 as a result of multiple factors including repatriation and denial of Indian citizenship following the 1962 Sino-Indian War, and immigration to foreign countries for better economic opportunities. The Chinese community traditionally worked in the local tanning industry and ran Chinese restaurants.
Iraqis
Iraqis first arrived in Kolkata during late 19th century from Eastern Uttar Pradesh state of India.Today majority are in the leather work of the city and other business. Most of them live in areas of Park Circus and Topsia. The present Iraqi population in Kolkata is estimated to be 10,000.
Jewish
Kolkata's Jews are mostly Baghdadi Jews who came to Kolkata to trade. At one point as strong as 6000, the community has dwindled to about 60 after the formation of Israel. Today there are only about 30 Jews left in Kolkata. The first recorded Jewish immigrant to Kolkata was Shalon Cohen in 1798 from Aleppo in present-day Syria. The most influential Jewish family in Kolkata was perhaps the father-son real estate magnates David Joseph Ezra and Elia David Ezra. They were behind such buildings as the Chowringhee Mansions, Esplanade Mansions and the synagogue Neveh Shalom.the family also were instrumental in the founding of the Jewish Girls School. Ezra Street in Kolkata is named after them. The community has five independent synagogues in Kolkata, including one in Chinatown, some of which are still active today. The Jewish confectioner Nahoum's in the New Market holds a special place in Kolkata confectionery. Founded in 1902, Nahoum's moved to its present location in the New Market in 1916. It is run today by the original owner's grandson, David Nahoum. A Jewish wedding in Kolkata after a gap of 50 years in the 1990s received a lot of media attention. After the establishment of Israel, many Kolkatan Jews left to live in Israel and the size of the Jewish community had a severe decrease.
Armenian
The Armenians followed the land route through Bactria to trade with India from ancient times. They were known as the "Merchant Princes of India", and some settled in Emperor Akbar's court. Some finally settled in Serampore and Kolkata, supposedly under the invitation of Job Charnock.
Among notable Armenians, Sir Apcar Alexander Apcar, a prominent businessman, was the head of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The size of the Armenian community can be testified by the five Armenian cemeteries in Kolkata, including the one adjunct to the Chapel of Holy Trinity in Tangra and an Armenian church. A gift of Rs. 8000 by Asvatoor Mooradkhan helped found the Armenian College in 1821. Armenian College has been instrumental in pioneering the game of rugby on the Maidan turf.
The Armenians settled in a block close to Free School Street, which even to this day is called Armani-para ("the neighbourhood of the Armenians"). They have mostly assimilated into the Indian population, and the community has now been reduced to a handful of houses.
Tibetan
The Tibetans were initially annual winter visitors to Kolkata who, along with the Bhutias, vended woollens. Post 1951, Kolkata became home to quite a few Tibetans who used the porous Sikkim-Tibet border to get to Kolkata. Winter sees large numbers of Tibetans set up winter garment streetside shops in the area around Wellington Square. The Tibetan community has also contributed to a large number of Tibetan restaurants serving ethnic Tibetan cuisine. Tibetan medicine is well accepted in Kolkata as alternative therapy to terminal illnesses.
Afghans
Kolkata was a popular destination for Afghan (including Pathan) businessmen from Afghanistan in the 19th century, vending spices and fruits. They are locally known as the Kabuliwala, named after the 1892 story which tells the story of a migrant from Kabul to Kolkata, and are also nicknamed as the Khans like elsewhere in India.
Greek
The Greeks emigrated to India after the Ottoman and Turkish invasions in the 16th century. Kolkata had a sizeable Greek community, mostly a close-knit clan of noble families from the Greek island of Chios, pursuing trade with the British. The firm of Ralli Brothers is perhaps the most common Greek name in Kolkata; the Rallis sold their firm in the 1960s after Indian independence and moved away, like most of the Greek community. The firm is now known as Ralli India, under the Tata Group of companies. The Greek community was centred on Amratollah Street around the Greek Church of the Transfiguration (built in 1782). The most famous Greek to hail from Kolkata possibly was the gifted violinist Marie Nicachi who embarked on a European tour in 1910 and played at the courts of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. She settled in her familial home of Corfu after World War I. The Greek contribution to the city will be remembered by the pioneering social work at the Greek Orthodox Church and the Panioty Fountain in the Maidan—named after Demetrius Panioty, personal secretary to the "friend of India," Lord Ripon.
See also
Chinese of Calcutta
Religion in West Bengal
References
External links
Greek Cemetery Kolkata
Chinese New Year 2015 in Kolkata
Chinese in Kolkata
ARMENIANS OF CALCUTTA
THE VANISHING CALCUTTA ARMENIANS
Photos of Parsi Fire Temple, Calcutta
Photos of Synagogues, Calcutta
Photos of Chinese Temple, calcutta
Photos of Chinese New Year
Chinese New New Year and Lion Dance Display in Kolkata
Demographics of India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20communities%20in%20Kolkata |
The Cedars Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Birstall in the English county of Leicestershire.
History
The school opened in 1959 as the Longslade Grammar School, which became a comprehensive before 1966.
Longslade was created at a time of innovation in Leicestershire with regard to education. Leicestershire had created what was to be known as the Leicestershire Plan. Education authorities are not renowned from learning from each other but Leicestershire received delegations from half of the other authorities in England as well as attention from the US to see the novel changes in Educational policy that they introduced.
The school population in Leicestershire was expanding. In 1948 there were just under 44,000 children in Leicestershire but this had expanded to over 72,000 by 1968. This was not just population growth but movement from Leicester to the outlying suburbs like Oadby, Wigston and included in this list was Birstall. The county was setting out on what was to be known as the Leicestershire plan for comprehensive education. Where other schools in England were converting existing grammar schools and secondary modern schools to comprehensive education by changing their intake, Leicestershire decided to change the age of entry. Some schools were converted into what they called high schools that served ages 11 to 14 whilst others were converted into upper schools that educated children from age 14 to 18. This idea had been tried out experimentally in Oadby and Wigston in 1957 and the second phase was in 1960 taking in high schools in Scraptoft (Hamilton High), Thurmaston and with both a high and upper school on the new site between Birstall and Wanlip.
Previously a community school administered by Leicestershire County Council, in 2015 Longslade Community College converted to academy status and was renamed The Cedars Academy. At the same time the school expanded its age range to 11, becoming a full secondary school. This resulted in the closure of Stonehill High School.
Admissions
The school serves a large catchment area including the villages of Anstey, Birstall, Cropston, Glenfield, Rothley, Thurcaston and Wanlip.
The school also provides adult education and special needs education.
Academic performance
For a number of years, its results were well below average. The Ofsted report in June 2013 deemed the school inadequate in achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management. Despite this, in August 2013 Longslade recorded their best GCSE results ever with students achieving 60% A*–C including English and Maths -in line with the county average.
Notable former pupils
Longslade Community College
Prof Sir Paul Curran (1955– ) NASA scientist, President since 2010 of City, University of London and Professor of Geography
Dan Greaves (athlete), paralympics discus thrower
Jay Hulme, poet
Scott Oakes, Luton Town footballer
Stefan Oakes, footballer, brother of Scott
Andy Reed Labour MP from 1997–2010 for Loughborough (1964– ), and Chairman since 2011 of the Sport and Recreation Alliance
Longslade Upper School
Ian Bolton, footballer
Nic Dakin, Labour MP since 2010 for Scunthorpe, and Leader of North Lincolnshire Council from 1997–2003
Mike Hendrick – England and Derbyshire cricketer
Carol Leader – actress and television presenter of Play School
David Nelson, architect and Joint Head of Design at Foster and Partners, designed Canary Wharf tube station, the McLaren Technology Centre, and the American Air Museum at Duxford Aerodrome
Brian Adams, international race Walker. Finished 11th in the 20 km Walk at the Montreal Olympics 1976 and 6th in the 1975 World Cup 20 km.
Peter Simons, philosopher
References
External links
The Cedars Academy official website
Academies in Leicestershire
Borough of Charnwood
Educational institutions established in 1959
Secondary schools in Leicestershire
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Archibald Cameron Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan (23 May 1856 – 19 March 1933), was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament and Liberal Unionist Party politician.
Early life
The second son of Thomas Corbett, a Glasgow merchant and philanthropist, and Sarah (née Cameron), he was educated at home and at the Glasgow Academy. With his older brother Thomas, he took up the offer of a world tour rather than go to university. On his return, he briefly studied sculpture in South Kensington and then managed his father's estates in Essex which he bought from his uncle after his father's death in 1880. He became one of the principal developers of the eastern suburbs of London.
Political career
An interest in philanthropy led him into politics and first contested North Warwickshire in 1884 at the age of 28. At the 1885 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Tradeston, first as a Liberal and from 1886 as a Liberal Unionist. In August 1908 he crossed the floor of the House and rejoined the Liberal Party. He held Glasgow Tradeston until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1911, when he was created 1st Baron Rowallan, of Rowallan in the County of Ayr.
Family life
In 1887, he married Alice Mary Polson, a daughter of John Polson, the co-founder of the corn merchants firm of Brown & Polson. They had a daughter, Elsie Cameron, and two sons; Thomas Godfrey Polson and Arthur Cameron who joined the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and was killed in 1916. During the First World War, Elsie was a VAD, and served as an ambulance driver with the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service. She was taken into captivity in 1915 while in the Kingdom of Serbia. As well as the War and Victory medals, she was awarded the Serbian Gold Medal for Devoted Service. Her photograph appears on the front page of the Daily Record of 25 December 1915, noting that she was still in Serbia.
In 1901, the Corbetts bought the 6,000 acre Rowallan Estate in Ayrshire. Their previous Scottish home at Rouken Glen was donated to the citizens of Glasgow as a public park. In 1906, he donated the Ardgoil Estate to Glasgow as well. Lord Rowallan died on 19 March 1933 aged 76 and was succeeded by his son.
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Branded Man is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released on Capitol Records in 1967.
Background
After a troubled youth that saw him in and out of youth reformatories, Haggard was finally sent to Bakersfield jail for a bungled robbery and, after an escape attempt, transferred to San Quentin prison on February 21, 1958. He was released in 1960. By 1967, he was on the cusp of country stardom when he hit number one on the country singles chart with the Liz Anderson composition "I'm A Lonesome Fugitive." Understandably, Haggard was concerned about the effect his time in prison might have on his career but, as Daniel Cooper writes in the liner notes to the 1994 box set Down Every Road, it had little effect at all: "It's unclear when or where Merle first acknowledged to the public that his prison songs were rooted in personal history, for to his credit, he doesn't seem to have made some big splash announcement. In a May 1967 profile in Music City News, his prison record is never mentioned. But in July 1968, in the very same publication, it's spoken of as if it were common knowledge." Haggard would be legally pardoned for his past crimes by California's Governor Ronald Reagan in 1971.
Recording and composition
The single "Branded Man" hit number one on the US country music charts in 1967, the first of four straight number ones Haggard would score in the next two years. The song is a little reminiscent of an old Roy Acuff song called "Branded Wherever I Go," which producer Ken Nelson had recorded with the Louvin Brothers in 1962. Branded Man kicked off an incredible artistic run for Haggard; in 2013 Haggard biographer David Cantwell states, "The immediate successors to I'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Branded Man in 1967 and, in '68, Sing Me Back Home and The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - were among the finest albums of their respective years." Haggard wrote or co-wrote seven of the album's twelve tracks, which feature many of the same session players who appeared on his previous two albums, including guitarists James Burton and Glen Campbell, and steel guitarist Ralph Mooney. Also contributing were The Strangers guitarist Roy Nichols and Bonnie Owens. Owens co-wrote two of the album selections with Haggard, while Bakersfield pioneer and Haggard mentor Tommy Collins had a hand in writing four songs.
Ken Nelson took a hands-off approach to producing Haggard. In the episode of American Masters dedicated to him, Haggard remembers: "The producer I had at that time, Ken Nelson, was an exception to the rule. He called me 'Mr. Haggard' and I was a little twenty-four, twenty-five year old punk from Oildale...He gave me complete responsibility. I think if he'd jumped in and said, 'Oh, you can't do that,' it would've destroyed me." In the same documentary, Dave Alvin marvels, "There's a purity to those records. A couple of acoustic guitars, a couple of electric guitars, and Merle's voice. And bass and drums. Those are just pure, those are timeless." In the documentary Beyond Nashville, Nelson recalls, "When I first started recording Merle, I became so enamored with his singing that I would forget what else was going on, and I suddenly realized, 'Wait a minute, there's musicians here you've got to worry about!' But his songs - he was a great writer."
The follow-up to "Branded Man" was the Haggard-penned "I Threw Away the Rose," which rose to number 2, and it was this song that brought Haggard to the attention of George Jones. In his 1981 autobiography Merle Haggard: Sing Me Back Home, Haggard recalls playing somewhere in Texas when someone handed him a phone saying Jones was on the line. Jones slurred his appreciation for the song and said he was coming to see him immediately. "It wasn't hard to see that ol' George was pretty wasted," Haggard wrote. "I hung up the phone and some of the others in the room said they wouldn't be surprised if he showed up. I told them I didn't think so, 'cause hell, he was supposed to be doing concerts all week." The next day Jones arrived, kicking the door in and eventually folding up the roll-away bed that Haggard's sleeping manager Fuzzy Owen was on and wheeling it out of the room. Jones would record "I Threw Away the Rose" himself, as well as several other Haggard compositions over the course of his career, and the pair would record two duet albums together.
Critical reception
Branded Man topped the Billboard country albums chart. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote "Like Swinging Doors before it, Branded Man... is merely a collection of songs pieced together to cash in on a couple of hit singles. Nevertheless, the intent of an album such as this doesn't really matter when the songs are this fine." In 2003, the album was ranked number 484 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums.
Track listing
Personnel
Merle Haggard– vocals, guitar
The Strangers:
Roy Nichols – guitar
Ralph Mooney – steel guitar
George French – piano
Jerry Ward – bass
Eddie Burris – drums
with
Lewis Talley – guitar
Billy Mize – guitar
Tommy Collins – guitar
Bonnie Owens – harmony vocals
and
James Burton – guitar
Glen Campbell – guitar
Shorty Mullins – guitar
Glen D. Hardin – piano
Leon Copeland – bass
Jim Gordon – drums
References
1967 albums
Merle Haggard albums
Capitol Records albums
Albums produced by Ken Nelson (United States record producer)
Albums recorded at Capitol Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded%20Man |
The Cannone da 90/53 was an Italian-designed cannon used both in an anti-aircraft role and as an anti-tank gun during World War II. It was one of the most successful anti-aircraft guns to see service during the conflict. The naval version of the gun was mounted on Italian battleships of the Littorio-class and the Andrea Doria-class.
The designation "90/53" meant that the gun had a 90 mm caliber and a barrel 53 caliber-lengths long.
History
Naval version
In 1938, after a development period, the Ansaldo company produced a new heavy AA gun for the Regia Marina, to replace the obsolescent Škoda 10 cm K10 and K11 used for that role on Italian warships; initially 48 calibers long, it was eventually brought to 50 calibers.
The Cannone da 90/50 Ansaldo Model 1938 and OTO Model 1939 had an autofretted monobloc barrel with a screwed-on breech ring containing the horizontal sliding breech block and seatings for the recoil and run-out cylinders. The most interesting part of the weapon was the single quadriaxial mounting designed for it: those were pre-stabilized, with a complex system controlled by 11 gyros, with two electric motors providing the necessary RPC; the whole complex was enclosed in an oval shielded turret, mainly to protect it from the blast effects from the battleship's main caliber guns. The turret weighed some 20 tons, and the practical rate of fire was 12 rounds per minute. After testing on the armoured cruiser San Giorgio, the 90/50 was fitted on the new Littorio-class battleships and the two Andrea Doria-class battleships being rebuilt, for a respective total of 12 and 10 mountings.
This system has been described as too advanced and ahead of its day, and, while ballistically the gun had good performance, the mountings proved delicate. In the Andrea Doria-class battleships the electrical RPC motors were removed in 1942 because of water damage; on the Littorio-class battleships, where the mountings were placed higher, the RPC was retained. Early rounds tended to be flawed and fragment into very small pieces, reducing their effectiveness, although improved rounds were issued during the war.
After the war, the twelve 90/53 guns from the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto were assigned to Yugoslavia as a part of war reparations. They were mounted on a coastal artillery battery on island Žirje off Šibenik as a part of the Cold War defense strategy. These guns saw action in September 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence, deterring the Yugoslav People's Army assault on Šibenik and blocking 34 Yugoslav Navy's patrol boats and minesweepers which were later captured by Croatian forces in the inner harbor.
Land version
The Cannone da 90/53, derived from the naval version, was also designed by Ansaldo, with the first examples being produced in 1939. The original plan was for the gun to be manufactured in three variants:
The Modello 41P was for static emplacement; 1,087 were ordered.
The Modello 41C was to be towed; 660 were ordered.
57 were ordered to be mounted on heavy trucks designated autocannoni da 90/53.
Italian industry was not up to producing these quantities and by the end of production in July 1943 only 539 guns had been delivered, including 48 converted for use on the Semovente 90/53 heavy tank destroyer; some, owing to delays in producing the adequate mountings, were fitted on makeshift ones or on the flatbed of trucks like the Lancia 3Ro and the Breda 52 and were designated Autocannone Breda 52 da 90/53.
Drawing upon the German experience with the comparable 8.8 cm FlaK 18, the gun was also used as field artillery in the indirect fire role or as an anti-tank gun. In the latter role its AP shell could penetrate of armour at , and at , and possibly up to , thus being able to destroy any Allied tank it faced in North Africa and mainland italy.
After Italy surrendered, guns captured by Wehrmacht forces were designated 9-cm Flak 41(i) or 9-cm Flak 309/1(i). Some of these guns were used for the air defence of Germany, while others were kept in service in Italy.
Characteristics
Calibre: 90 mm (3.54 in)
Barrel length: 4.736m (15 ft 6.5 in)
Travelling weight: 8,950 kg (19,731 lbs)
Weight in action: 6,240 kg (13,757 lbs)
Elevation: -2° to +85°
Traverse: 360°
Muzzle velocity: 830 m/s (2,723 ft/s)
Maximum ceiling: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
Shell weight: 10.33 kg (22.77 lbs)
Rate of fire: 19 RPM
See also
Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34
Italian Army equipment in World War II
Weapons of comparable role, performance and era
8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41
QF 3.7-inch AA gun
90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3
85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K)
Type 99 88 mm AA gun
Canon de 90 mm Modèle 1926
References
Bibliography
Artillery by Chris Chant, published by Amber Books,
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Paul Lambert is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Mathew Bose. Paul appeared between 2004 and 2009. He arrives as the son of existing characters Val Lambert (Charlie Hardwick) and Rodney Blackstock (Patrick Mower) and in 2008 Paul, who is openly gay, enters into a civil partnership with Jonny Foster, the first of any primetime soap opera. In 2015, Bose made brief returns to the soap on two occasions, one being in March and the other being in September.
Characterisation and development
When Paul arrives in the village, he is the only gay male in the programme. While Bose said he liked "being the only gay in Emmerdale", he did not want Paul to be defined by his sexuality. In a February 2008 interview, Bose said that he thought about leaving after a storyline where Paul has a one-night stand with a married man, Grayson Sinclair (Christopher Villiers), saying that he did not believe Paul would have done that. He also criticised the storyline saying, "It makes out that all gay men are promiscuous and I don't think they are any more promiscuous than anyone else." The actor said that the audience "distrust why shows are doing things then start not to like the character's story and it is hard to win them back." After he "kicked up a fuss", he said the storyline "seems to have been dropped", but said that he would give it a few months before deciding whether to stay with the programme.
In September 2008, it was announced that Matthew Bose would be leaving Emmerdale. He said that he had "had a brilliant time" playing Paul but felt it was time to "explore new projects". He said it was a "personal decision", and played down press rumours about low morale amongst the cast and denied they were unhappy with series producer Anita Turner. Turner said that it was "always disappointing to see great actors go" and that the door would be "open for him to come back at any time".
On 17 February 2015, it was announced that Bose was returning to the show for a brief stint, appearing that March. On 11 August 2015, it was announced that Bose would be returning again for the funeral of his mother, Val. Paul returned on 1 September, before departing again on 2 September.
Storylines
Paul arrives in the village in September 2004, for his aunt, Diane Blackstock's (Elizabeth Estensen), wedding to Jack Sugden (Clive Hornby) after leaving Italy having split from his partner of nine years Enzo (Daniel D'Alessandro). He is reunited with his mother Val (Charlie Hardwick) who is living in the village and has not seen Paul for years and he gives her a hostile reception. Paul returns to Italy to try to fix his relationship with Enzo, who later visits the village, but their relationship comes to an end. Paul and Val had had a difficult relationship for some years after he had had an affair with one of Val's boyfriends. His childhood was difficult, often having to protect his mother and get her out of trouble. He later revealed to Diane that he had been subjected to frequent beatings by the man he thought was his father, along with his brothers. On the day of Jack and Diane's wedding, Val revealed that Paul's father was not Jimmy Pepper (Michael Gunn), a former boyfriend, as he had always been told but Rodney Blackstock (Patrick Mower), who at the time of Paul's conception was married to Val's sister and Paul's aunt, Diane. Rodney and Paul then try to build a relationship, with Rodney finding Paul's sexuality difficult to cope with. However, they do finally build a good relationship. Paul also becomes close friends with Emily Kirk (Kate McGregor). In his early days in the village, Paul does a drag act, called Thelma Louise, but later stops doing this. He works as a barman at "The Woolpack" pub and also as an event organiser.
In 2005, Paul starts a relationship with bisexual Ivan Jones (Daniel Brocklebank), a local binman. Having suffered homophobic abuse in the past, Ivan does not want their relationship known, something which is difficult for Paul. They get past everyone finding out about their relationship by accident in the pub, but Paul's half-sister Nicola Blackstock (Nicola Wheeler) develops a crush on Ivan. However, when Lesley Meredith (Sherrie Hewson) – the mother of Nicola's partner Simon (Dale Meeks) – sees Ivan and Nicola together she gets the wrong idea, and tells everyone that they are having an affair. Paul ends their relationship, and although Ivan tells him Nicola was lying, Paul refuses to give him another chance.
In late 2006, Paul rescues Grayson Sinclair (Christopher Villiers) from a homophobic assault in a park in Hotten, and Grayson reveals he is bisexual. Grayson's wife, Perdita (Georgia Slowe), assumes that Paul and Grayson are having an affair, but Paul reassures her they are just friends, and he builds a strong friendship with Perdita. In February 2007, Perdita believes that Grayson is sleeping with Jonny Foster (Richard Grieve), so she introduces him to Paul to keep him away from Grayson. They soon start a relationship, and after six months Jonny moves in with Paul, Emily and Rodney. When Grayson and Perdita have difficulties in their relationship – caused by his mother Rosemary (Linda Thorson) – she is sectioned. Paul helps build their relationship and acts a go between the two when she refuses to see Grayson. Paul develops feelings for Grayson, and Jonny asks Paul to marry him. Paul accepts, but during their engagement he has a one-night stand with Grayson. When Grayson tells Paul it meant nothing to him, Paul feels guilty and tells Jonny. He manages to persuade Jonny not to leave Emmerdale and on 3 March 2008 they have their civil partnership at Hotten Registry Office. Later that day they have a ceremony at Home Farm, as neither can tell their parents they have already legally married.
Grayson and Perdita separate, and after one argument he tells her about his one-night stand with Paul. Months later, Katie Sugden (Sammy Winward) gives birth to Grayson and Perdita's child, who she had agreed to surrogate when they were still together. Katie had told Grayson that they would bring up the child together, without Perdita, but changes her mind when she finds out about Grayson's relationship with Paul. Katie had not told Perdita of her plans to give the child to her, so when Katie goes into labour Perdita tells Grayson. Perdita soon runs off with the baby, but Jonny refuses to believe that Paul had not tipped Grayson off. He later does believe Paul, but he later sees Paul and Grayson hug. Although, Paul said nothing had happened and he had not reciprocated the hug, Jonny said he could no longer trust Paul and leaves the village. Grayson leaves the next day after Paul outs him and tells the village about their one-night stand.
Jonny soon texts asking for a divorce, and in January 2009, he requests they close their joint bank account. After this Paul's friends, Lily Butterfield (Anne Charleston) and Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi), seeing how upset he is decides to try and reconcile him and Jonny. This causes Jonny's mother, Patricia (Vicki Michelle), to visit the village. After initial confusion, Paul convinces Patricia that he still loves Jonny, who has moved home to Australia. He plans to travel to Australia to try and rebuild his relationship with Jonny, but Val lies and tells him that Rodney has a heart condition in attempt to ensure Paul does not leave the village. Lily, however, gets in touch with Jonny and arranges a meeting between him and Paul. While they both still love each other, Paul tells Jonny he cannot leave Emmerdale because of his father's condition. However, on the day Jonny is to fly out, Paul discovers Val had been lying about his Rodney's illness after confronting Rodney when he was about to make love to Pam Montclare (Catherine Rabett). Before he leaves, although he does not forgive Val for her lies, he does say he believes she is sorry for what she did. He then rushes to meet Jonny and they leave for Australia together.
Paul returns briefly in June 2010 for Nicola's wedding to Jimmy King (Nick Miles). He goes back to Australia after the ceremony.
Paul returns again in March 2015 after Val is hospitalised after collapsing, whilst suffering from HIV. Paul is shocked by his mother's condition and sits at her bedside whilst she is in a coma and begs her to recover. He is also introduced to Val's employee Finn Barton (Joe Gill). When a doctor tells Val's family to prepare for the worst, Paul is devastated. Val wakes from her coma and Paul is relieved that his mother is OK. Paul notices that Finn is attracted to one of the hospital nurses, Darren Thompson (Danny Horn). He then goes to the village and visits his half-sister and cousin Bernice Blackstock (Samantha Giles) at her Beauty Salon and she shows him round her premises. He also is introduced to Val's other employee Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh) when she asks Val's husband Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell) for a place to stay. Paul also visits Marlon (Mark Charnock) and Laurel Dingle (Charlotte Bellamy). He helps Laurel prepare for a job interview with Bernice and tells her that he would like to stay for longer but has things to sort out back home. Paul goes for drinks in the pub with Jimmy, Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) and Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) and promises to keep in touch and asks for updates on Val's recovery. He also says goodbye to Bernice then leaves.
Following Val's death in a helicopter crash, Paul returns to the village in September for his mother's funeral. He is comforted by Rodney and Bernice. Paul is shocked when a grieving Eric steals the hearse and drives off with Val's coffin still inside. He remarks that his mother would have found it funny. Paul also offers Alicia Metcalfe (Natalie Anderson) the chance to be his business partner and co-own his bar in Portugal. He breaks down in tears during the funeral service. After the funeral, Paul calls his sister Sharon (Victoria Hawkins), who had been unable to attend as she was looking after her young daughter, and tells her how the service went. The following day, before he leaves, Paul leads an intervention to the B&B of Eric's family and friends in an attempt to help him come to terms with his grief, but he lashes out at them and accuses Paul of abandoning Val. Paul then says his goodbyes and leaves, returning home to Portugal.
Reception
On 3 March 2008, Paul and Jonny made British television history by becoming the first couple on a primetime soap opera to enter a civil partnership since the Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into force on 5 December 2005. Although radio soap The Archers and daytime soap Doctors had previously featured civil partnerships, Emmerdale was the first primetime soap opera to do so. Bose said he was proud Emmerdale was the first, and commented that soaps "have a great responsibility to show things as they change and be cutting edge".
References
External links
Paul Lambert at itv.com
Emmerdale characters
Fictional bartenders
Fictional gay men
Television characters introduced in 2004
Fictional LGBT characters in television
British male characters in television
Fictional characters in a same-sex marriage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lambert%20%28Emmerdale%29 |
Carl Thomas King is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, played by Tom Lister. The character and casting were announced in January 2004 when it was announced that producers were bringing "four new single 'hunks'" into the show, one of them being Carl. Lister made his first appearance on the show on 6 February 2004. Throughout the course of his story arc, Carl establishes a relationship with Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) – which contributes to his storylines that include the pair having an ill-fated wedding after Chas exposes Carl's affair with her best friend Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw). During his time on the show, Carl has accidentally caused the death of local postman Paul Marsden (Matthew Booth); killed his own father Tom (Ken Farrington) in the events surrounding the Who Killed Tom King? storyline, which he ultimately confessed to his brothers Jimmy (Nick Miles) and Matthew (Matt Healy) on the show's 500th village anniversary episode – after the trio were acquitted for their father's murder; formed a romance with DCI Grace Barraclough (Glynis Barber), the policewoman investigating his father's murder, that culminated with her being killed in a hit and run – just as she prepared to take Carl into custody after he admitted to killing his father; sparked a business conflict with Matthew that concluded with the latter's death, after Carl ruined Matthew's ill-fated wedding to his business partner Anna De Souza (Emma Davies) by exposing his involvement behind the death of her father Donald (Michael Jayston); developed a feud with Chas' niece Debbie (Charley Webb) upon clashing with her parents, Cain (Jeff Hordley) and Charity (Emma Atkins), respectively; embarked on a failed marriage with Lexi Nicholls (Sally Oliver); and became archenemies with Debbie's ex-boyfriend Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) after discovering his affair with Chas and subsequently blackmailing the pair in repaying him the £30,000 that Chas previously swindled from his bank account.
After getting jilted by Chas on their ill-fated wedding day at Christmas 2010, Carl became the show's main antagonist upon alienating himself from his family and friends – which ultimately led to the character being killed-off in the show's 40th anniversary episode. This involved Carl fighting with Jimmy over their problematic brotherhood; spoiling Chas' wedding to her fiance Dan Spencer (Liam Fox); and then nearly raping her after she rejects his efforts to recoup their broken relationship, up to the point where he confesses to killing his father for her. The seduction ends with Chas hitting Carl on the head with a brick, though he survives and ends up exposing her affair with Cameron to Debbie – shortly before Carl is then murdered by Cameron after the latter arrives in a failed attempt to stop him from destroying their lives.
Casting and creation
In January 2004, The Sun announced that Emmerdale would bring in "four new single 'hunks'" who are all brothers in an attempt to increase the sex appeal of the serial. They announced that the siblings would arrive in February with Tom Lister having been cast as Carl who would arrive first after securing a job in Tate Haulage.
Character development
Characterisation
Describing Carl, itv.com said: "Carl is a bit of a womanizer and a ladies' man. As one of the younger King brothers he's always had to fight for his place in the family. He's also commitment phobic, and despite apparently finding his perfect match in Chas, his eyes wandered onto Eve and he wrecked what could have been a beautiful relationship. Carl has a bad temper on him and has been responsible for two accidental deaths – so he's not one to be crossed".
Relationship with Chas Dingle
Carl has an on and off relationship with Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter). Carl and Chas end their relationship. Lister explained that Carl never stopped loving Chas but the relationship ended when "that door was basically slammed in his face when Chas's son Aaron fell into the mix and gave his mum an ultimatum – him or Carl. So Chas chose her son". Pargeter explained that Chas could not reunite with Carl while Aaron Livesy (Danny Miller) is around due to his ultimatum. Chas begins a relationship with Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt). Pargeter said that Chas loves Paddy as a friend and she could not "love anybody the way she loved – or still loves – Carl, really". She added that Chas has "never moved on because there was never closure" in the relationship. Carl begins a relationship with Lexi Nicholls (Sally Oliver). Lister said that Lexi proposes as she knows "there's something there between Carl and Chas and Lexi's envious of that. Obviously Lexi knows that Carl killed his father, but she doesn't know that Chas was the reason. Lexi decides to go all-guns blazing and propose. I think rather than being backed into a corner, part of Carl thinks that if Chas has knocked him back, he'll try and do right by Lexi". Lister told Kris Green of Digital Spy that Carl enters the relationship with the best intentions instead of "wishing he was with Chas all the time" who will always be in the "background". The actor said that viewers would be unsure whether Carl would go through with the wedding to Lexi or whether Carl would instead reunite with Chas. On his wedding day to Lexi, Carl tells Chas that he can not marry Lexi because he still loves her. Pargeter explained that "Chas is completely screwed up by the revelation" and is "desperate to get things back on track with Carl, but she's got Aaron to contend with. So Carl pours his heart out and she has to be as strong as she can". When Chas rejects Carl he marries Lexi but the marriage soon after ends when Carl admits he does not love Lexi.
Carl reunites with Chas but becomes tempted reignite his affair with Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw). Lister explained that his character decides to be "sensible" by putting some distance between Eve and himself as he does not want to mess up again after his "disaster" of a marriage to Lexi. He added that Carl is "not tempted enough" to cheat on Chas as he believes she is "the love of his life and he's decided to stay faithful to her – at least for now". Carl and Eve begin an affair; Chas discovers this. Pargeter revealed that Chas' initial reaction is to confront the pair but instead she decides to seek revenge as she is "very hurt". Chas begins her revenge by doing "little things" but later decides to "up her game and to start playing really dirty". Chas proposes to Carl as part of her plan, Pargeter said Chas "can't help wishing it was all for real". She added that it is important to Chas that Carl and Eve get their comeuppance. Pargeter said that Chas can not decide whether she will go through with her revenge or if she would instead forgive Carl and marry him. She added that Chas "genuinely thinks he loves her" and she loves him too. Chas lies she is pregnant. Lister said that Carl will be "gutted" if Chas goes through with her revenge plan. He explained that Carl was "thrilled" at Chas' pregnancy and he now wants to "give Chas whatever she wants – a big Christmas day wedding, anything to make her happy". Carl "wants to become a proper family with Chas and the baby. He'll be devastated if it all comes crashing down". He "realises his fling with Eve was a massive mistake, based on excitement and lust". Lister added that Carl felt Chas' proposal and pregnancy were "a great excuse to get out of the affair with Eve because it was all getting a little bit complicated", explaining that Eve "was becoming too much hard work".
Lister explained the couple's relationship saying: "there's something about those two – they are an absolute nightmare when they are together because they either fall out or one of them does something that jeopardises the relationship. But they always keep coming together, back to one another. They are destined to be together". Chas plans to expose Carl's affair on their wedding day, Lister explained that Chas begins "losing confidence in the whole revenge plan because she realises how much she would actually love to marry him and would love to have a family with him". He added that Carl and Chas have always wanted to marry and begin a family but they have never been able to "get their act together and decide to do it". Lister told Ryan Love of Digital Spy that Chas begins to doubt whether she will go through with exposing Carl's affair after she sees how serious Carl is about their relationship and that he has ended his affair with Eve. Lister said that if Chas goes through with her plan then Carl will be in disbelief that Chas "could do something like this – that she could pretend that she was pregnant, that she could do all this stuff basically just to bleed him dry of all the money. [...] For her to take him to the cleaners, I think he would be so gutted and completely ashamed for it to be revealed like that in front of everybody". Lister added that Carl could forgive Chas if she was honest about her plot before the wedding. Lister went on to say that Carl has "always seen Chas as the answer to all of his problems. She was like the one who he could get his life sorted with".
Departure and death
In October 2012, as part of the show's 40th anniversary celebrations, Carl was murdered by love rival Cameron Murray. His last words were "I'm indestructible." His body was found the next morning.
Storylines
Carl was the first member of the King family to arrive in Emmerdale as the new driver for Tate Haulage. However, no one knows that he is a spy, reporting back to his family business, King & Sons. Carl learns what Tate Haulage plan to bid for a new contract and, with this information, his family revise their bid and win the contract.
Despite being married, Carl flirts with Louise Appleton (Emily Symons) and she agrees to a date until Carl's wife, Colleen (Melanie Ash), arrives and tells Louise that she is Carl's wife and mother of his children; Thomas (Mark Flanagan) and Anya (Lauren Sheriston) before telling Carl not to come home. Louise slaps Carl and goes home so he moves into Holdgate Farm with his family but is "persuaded" to do some repairs to the roof, despite his fear of heights. Local postman, Paul Marsden (Matthew Booth) helps him and seeing his nerves about heights, starts teasing him and mucking about but stretches too far and falls, dying instantly. Not wanting people to know they were involved, Carl and his brothers, Jimmy (Nick Miles) and Matthew (Matt Healy), move his body to the back garden of the cottage Paul shared with his wife, Siobhan (Abigail Fisher). She finds him and assumes he fell from their roof after fixing the television aerial.
Meanwhile, Carl bonds with Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) over feeling like they're bad parents for abandoning their children and tells her about Paul's death. They start dating but the relationship is rocky and during one break, Carl has a one-night stand with Chloe Atkinson (Amy Nuttall). When she finds out Carl and Chas are back together, she decides to split them up permanently. She starts a campaign of poison pen letters and undermines Chas's trust in Carl, succeeding in her aim so he reconciles with Chloe but soon tires of her and tries to end it. Not wanting to let him go, she tells him she's pregnant, despite the fact that she isn't and starts trying to get pregnant before Carl discovers the truth. Chas discovers Chloe's lie and forces her to tell Carl the truth, that she isn't pregnant and never was. Before leaving the village, she reminds Carl that she could be pregnant as they weren't taking precautions. Horrified at his mistake, Carl tries to reconcile with Chas but she is not interested and leaves to join the army so Carl starts dating her cousin, Del Dingle (Hayley Tamaddon). Realising that Carl wanted Chas, not her, Del encourages him to fight for Chas so he tracks her down and declares his feelings, accidentally dropping her after picking her up and breaking her leg. Consequently, Chas is discharged on medical grounds and reconciles with Carl and he proposes marriage but Chas refuses, until he does a wing walk to conquer his vertigo. They move into Home Farm with his father Tom (Ken Farrington) and Chas becomes Jimmy's personal assistant.
Tensions erupt when Matthew and Jimmy's ex-wife, Sadie King (Patsy Kensit), declare their feelings for each other, move into Victoria Cottage and start a rival company. Matthew uses Carl to pass Jimmy false information so he loses an important deal while Tom and his fiancée, Rosemary Sinclair (Linda Thorson), insist that Chas is not good enough for Carl and on learning that Chas has been giving information about the Kings to Jamie Hope (Alex Carter), whose sister died in the King's River Showhome disaster, Tom bullies and bribes Chas to end things with Carl. Chas, however, encouraged by her cousin, Eli Dingle (Joseph Gilgun), tells Carl the truth on Tom and Rosemary's wedding day. Later that day, Tom dies after falling from his bedroom window, and his sons are the primary suspects.
The brothers are stunned to learn that they have a half-sister, Scarlett (Kelsey-Beth Crossley), daughter of their mother's nurse, Carrie Nicholls (Linda Lusardi). Carl struggles to bond with her and he and Matthew try to buy her share of the business. Carl eventually softens but is uncomfortable around Carrie, as they had a brief relationship when he was a teenager but is grateful when Carrie helps evict Rosemary from Home Farm. Hari Prasad (John Nayagam) tells the police that he heard the King brothers discussing how they murdered Tom and Louise, his girlfriend, backs him up but the case collapses when Louise admits giving a false statement. After the acquittal, Carl admits to Jimmy and Matthew that he killed Tom. He reveals that he confronted Tom about Chas, hitting him when Tom called Chas names and then pushed him away, causing Tom to fall out of the window. Carl begins dating DCI Grace Barraclough (Glynis Barber) in secret, unaware of her plan to learn who killed Tom, but Carl won't say. Grace ends their relationship and Carl gets drunk, telling Jimmy and Matthew about the relationship so Jimmy takes Carl abroad to clear his head. However, on his return, Carl deliberately gets arrested for drink driving so he can see Grace and tells her that he killed Tom and decides to confess. Jimmy watches as Carl and Grace go to the police station and as Carl stops to answer his phone, Grace carries on and is hit by a lorry. Grace dies and despite telling the police that he is a killer, the police ignore him as they are more concerned about Grace.
Carrie's daughter, Lexi (Sally Oliver), visits her sister and becomes involved with Carl. He joins De Souza Enterprises, angering Matthew. Donald De Souza (Michael Jayston) appoints Carl MD of his business, disappointing his daughter, Anna (Emma Davies). Carl hires Lexi to be his PA, but discovers she has been passing information to Matthew, and ends things with her. Carl and Anna are attracted to each other and he is jealous of her relationship with Matthew and reconciles with Lexi, but when he tries to end their relationship, Lexi tells him that Carrie told her that he killed Tom. Donald buys Mill Cottage for Carl and he and Lexi move in together. However, on learning that Carl sent an important client to his brothers, Donald terminates Carl's contract and Carl returns to work with his brothers. Carl is saddened when he hears that Donald has died and Matthew admits causing his death by refusing to give him his heart medication. Knowing the guilt Matthew will live with, urges him to tell Anna but he refuses. When King & Sons is declared bankrupt and the bailiffs move in on Matthew and Anna's ill fated-wedding day, Carl is furious to learn that De Souza Enterprises wrecked King & Sons's chances of survival and that Matthew will have an interest in the company as he is married to Anna, Carl blames Matthew for everything and reveals the truth about Donald's death at the wedding. This leads to a fight between him and Carl and Matthew drives a van at him. However, on seeing Anna standing with Carl, he swerves and is thrown through the windscreen, dying on the road.
Carl realises his only assets are Mill Cottage and a mortgage he gave Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb) and begins pressuring her for money. Carl, Jimmy, Lexi and Scarlett scrape together enough money to start a new haulage company. Carl tells Chas that he still loves her, but she insists they are history. Lexi proposes to Carl and he accepts, she sets a date but Carl goes missing on the day. He meets Chas and she insists she has moved on so he marries Lexi but is furious when he learns she has stopped taking precautions without consulting him. He reluctantly agrees to have a baby and Lexi gets pregnant but miscarries almost immediately as the pregnancy is ectopic. Tests done just after the miscarriage show that Lexi is unlikely to conceive again without IVF and Carl agrees to try IVF initially but soon changes his mind. Nicola De Souza (Nicola Wheeler) insists that Carl tell Lexi, which he does, and they argue. She also argues with Nicola and Nicola goes into premature labour after falling down the stairs. Lexi apologises and Nicola forgives her. Later, after a nurse gives baby Angelica to Lexi while Nicola is in the shower, she takes her up on to the roof, simply wanting to show her the world. However, seeing Lexi sitting on the roof with baby Angelica makes Jimmy, Nicola and Carl panic that she is going to jump. Carl talks her down and she returns baby Angelica to Nicola and Jimmy after Carl admits that he doesn't love Lexi and wouldn't have married her if she hadn't known that he killed Tom. Lexi tells Carl that she is leaving him and joins Carrie in Canada as Lexi herself divorces from Carl off-screen.
Nicola insists Carl move out of Mill Cottage and he reconciles with Chas again after telling her partner, Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt), about their affair. They are happy together for a while but, now getting bored, Carl begins an affair with Eve Jenson (Suzanne Shaw). Chas proposes to him and implies she is pregnant. Carl accepts and gives her money for the wedding and ends things with Eve but on the day, Chas reveals Carl's affair with Eve to the village and jilts him. Carl becomes bitter towards Chas for stealing his money and is accused of starting a fire near her house, which engulfs the village and kills Terry Woods (Billy Hartman) and Viv Hope (Deena Payne). Carl is arrested but later freed. He and Chas have a one-night stand months later and he comforts her when her son, Aaron Livesy (Danny Miller), is charged with murder. Carl borrows money from Scarlett to hire a lawyer for Aaron but when Aaron refuses to take it, invests it in his business instead. Disgusted, Scarlett discovers what he has done and leaves the village.
Carl is caught speeding on CCTV and he convinces Rodney Blackstock (Patrick Mower) to take his speeding points for him, in exchange for a job. The police reveal that a cyclist was hit during the incident and Carl is shocked when he learns Rodney could go to prison. Rodney blackmails him into giving him money and a job. Jimmy discovers what is happening and confronts Carl.
Carl discovers Chas has been having an affair with Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) and begins blackmailing them for the £30,000 that Chas took from him. Carl slowly becomes obsessed with getting Chas back and starts pushing everyone away, including Jimmy. Carl asks Chas to run away with him and she agrees, wanting to keep him sweet. However, on her wedding day, Carl has a fight with Jimmy. However, after she marries Dan Spencer (Liam Fox), Carl realises that she has no intention of being with him. He corners Chas and confesses that he killed his father for her. Chas is disgusted and tries to flee. However, he pushes her down and attempts to rape her. In self-defence, Chas hits him over the head with a brick. She flees the scene. Later, Cameron turns up. They argue and Cameron hits Carl with a brick, killing him. His last words were "I'm indestructible." His body is found the following morning by Adam Barton (Adam Thomas) and Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins).
Reception
At the 2007 Inside Soap Awards Lister was nominated for the "Sexiest Male" award for his portrayal of Carl. The same year, at the British Soap Awards, the "Who killed Tom King?" storyline was nominated for "Best Storyline". At the 2008 Digital Spy Soap Awards Lister was nominated in the "Most Popular Actor" category. He was later nominated in the "Sexiest Male" category at the British Soap Awards in 2009. In 2012, Lister was nominated for the "Best Bad Boy" Award at the Inside Soap Awards and for "Villain of the Year" at the British Soap Awards. and the awards has praised Lister's character Carl, as one of the all-time great, completely horrific soap monsters. On Digital Spy's 2012 end of year reader poll, Lister was nominated for "Best Male Soap Actor" and came fifth with 7.0% of the vote.
The Guardian's Grace Dent commented that "Carl King is powerless when presented with sexy golddiggers like Eve. Carl absolutely cannot and will not stop marrying these awful women until he's living in the back of a Land Rover heating up Heinz London Grill with a lighter his wife's lawyer owns half of. A fool and his underpants are easily parted." Carl's death episode boosted the serial's viewing figures and helped secure the highest viewing figures of the year. Regarding Carl's exit, David Brown of Radio Times stated that the episode "Tom Lister, who's played Carl since 2004, gave a barnstorming valedictory performance: in a show once described by Les Dawson as "Dallas with dung", he really was a bucolic J. R. Ewing [...] But as Carl lay lifeless on the floor in those dying seconds, it really did feel like the end of an era. New babies – even when they have prophetic names like Jack Sugden – are ten-a-penny on soaps. But decent villains are priceless: at the moment, it’s hard to see who deserves to inherit the mighty Carl King’s crown".
See also
List of soap opera villains
References
External links
Character profile at itv.com
Character profile at What's on TV
Emmerdale characters
Fictional businesspeople
Fictional murderers
Fictional patricides
Fictional murdered people
Fictional criminals in soap operas
Television characters introduced in 2004
British male characters in television
Male villains | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20King |
The Colour Field was the second release by the British new wave band, The Colourfield. This EP was released only in the US. The UK had already seen all of the songs released as either a single or a 12".
Track listing
All tracks written by Terry Hall and Toby Lyons
Personnel
The Colour Field
Terry Hall - all instruments and voices
Toby Lyons - all instruments and voices
Karl Shale - all instruments and voices
Gary Dwyer - drums
References
1986 debut EPs
The Colourfield albums
Albums produced by Ian Broudie
Albums produced by Hugh Jones (producer)
Chrysalis Records EPs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Colour%20Field |
The 2007 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 18, 2007, during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2006–07 season. It was the 56th edition of the NBA All-Star Game, and was played at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada. The Western Conference defeated the Eastern Conference, 153–132. Kobe Bryant was named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP), having recorded 31 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, and 6 steals. It was the first time the All-Star Game was played in a city without an NBA franchise and first to be played on a college campus. The game was nationally televised on TNT in the United States at 9 p.m. ET as part of the NBA on TNT coverage.
The Western Conference set All-Star records with 69 field goals and 52 assists. Amar'e Stoudemire scored 29 points with nine rebounds, and Carmelo Anthony had 20 points and nine rebounds for the West. LeBron James led the Eastern Conference with 28 points, six rebounds, and six assists, and Dwight Howard tallied 20 points and 12 boards. Bryant, previously the MVP of the 2002 All-Star Game, moved from 11th to 10th place on all-time All-star scoring, surpassing Magic Johnson. Dirk Nowitzki became the first European born-player to be a starter at the All-Star Game.
As announced on August 5, 2005, the NBA, led by Commissioner David Stern, did not allow wagering on the results of the game in the state of Nevada.
Venues
The choice to choose Las Vegas as the location was widely regarded as a bid by the city to give it its first major sports franchise. Mayor Oscar Goodman met with David Stern to discuss the possibility during the events. On April 5, Goodman sent a letter to the commissioner, requesting a meeting to sort out the matter. All-Star MVP and former teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal welcomed the possibility, amid the gambling.
All-Star Game
Coaches
The coach whose team has the best record in its conference is granted the right to coach their team. However, despite this rule, no one is allowed to coach in three consecutive All-Star Games. The Dallas Mavericks' Avery Johnson, who coached the West last year, fell under this rule so Mike D'Antoni of the Phoenix Suns took his place. The East's coach was Eddie Jordan of the Washington Wizards, as Flip Saunders was ineligible due to coaching the East last year.
Players
The 2006 All-Star MVP LeBron James was the top vote-getter, receiving 2,516,049 votes for the Eastern Conference's small forward position. One player has received more votes in NBA history: Dwight Howard with 3,150,181. Three other players, guards Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat and center Yao of the Houston Rockets, received more than two million votes. All three started at their positions in their respective conference—with the exception of Yao Ming due to injury.
In the Western Conference, the race was tight. Allen Iverson, formerly the seven-time East point guard starter, moved to Denver from Philadelphia, attracting votes from reigning NBA MVP Steve Nash. But surprisingly, neither of the two was voted in; both were reserves as swingman Tracy McGrady came in the back door win. Dirk Nowitzki, another player who analysts predicted that would be starting, was not able to muster enough votes to get over former MVP Kevin Garnett's 1,600,000, but was put in by coaches as a reserve and later added to the starting lineup by West coach Mike D'Antoni. Tim Duncan was also voted in as a forward. Carmelo Anthony, the star small forward for the Nuggets, was not voted in as a starter or reserve, contrary to earlier reports that head coaches from the conference would put him in the lineup despite being involved in a brawl, but was allowed as a reserve (because Carlos Boozer was injured). Mehmet Okur of the Utah Jazz and Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics were chosen by Stern to replace the injured Nash and Iverson.
Gilbert Arenas of the East benefited from Iverson's move to the West. In one of the closest races in game history, Arenas gained enough calls to start as the point guard of the East, over the New Jersey Nets' Vince Carter. Carter was eventually named as a reserve along with teammate Jason Kidd. In a controversial race, Shaquille O'Neal was voted in as starting center for the 14th straight time (despite playing only four games up to that point) over young star Dwight Howard. Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors was voted by the fans to start, marking the first time a Raptor started since Vince Carter was the top vote getter in his last season in Toronto.
Roster
Appearance denotes the number of times the player been selected to play in the All-Star game, including 2007. Jason Kidd of the East and Carlos Boozer, Steve Nash, Allen Iverson, and Yao Ming of the West could not play due to injuries. The game featured seven first time All-Stars.
Game
Unable to participate due to injury. Nowitzki was named to the starting lineup in place of Yao.
Named to team by commissioner David Stern as replacement for injured player.
All-Star Weekend
T-Mobile Rookie Challenge
David Lee hit all 14 of his field-goal attempts for a game-high 30 points as the Sophomore beat the Rookies for the fifth consecutive year, 155–114. Lee, who added 11 rebounds and four assists, took home MVP of the 2007 Rookie Challenge.
Chris Paul notched novice-game records of 17 assists and nine steals to go with 16 points. Monta Ellis was the beneficiary of many of Paul's assists, as he had 5 alley-oop dunks in a 3:25 span, en route to scoring 28 points. Rudy Gay and Paul Millsap paced the Rookie squad with 22 points apiece.
This game set a number of records for the Rookie Challenge:
Highest scoring half: 78 points (Sophomores 2nd Half)
Chris Paul's 17 assist and nine steals
The coaches of the game were Mike O'Koren (Assistant coach of the Washington Wizards) for the Rookie Team, and Marc Iavaroni (Assistant coach of the Phoenix Suns) for the Sophomore team.
Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout
Jason Kapono tied Mark Price's final-round record with 24 points and outlasted Gilbert Arenas on his way to the 2007 Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout title. Arenas notched a first-round high of 23 points and had 17 in the finals. Defending champion Dirk Nowitzki had 20 in round one and nine in the finals, and Kapono narrowly made the finals with a first-round score of 19. Mike Miller (18), Damon Jones (15) and Jason Terry (10) were eliminated early.
Slam Dunk Contest
The Sprite Slam Dunk Contest was a memorable one. Dwight Howard jumped up and dunked while posting a sticker of him laughing, on the backboard. Eventually, Gerald Green and Nate Robinson went to the final round. Robinson looked unimpressive with his first dunk, and Green looked as bad as Robinson. However, Robinson had to do his second dunk after the limited two-minute period, and scored below 40. Green finished it off by getting a perfect score after jumping over a table. The judging panel included an impressive list of former champions who are considered some of the greatest dunkers in NBA history: Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, Julius Erving, Kobe Bryant and Vince Carter.
PlayStation Skills Challenge
Unable to participate due to injury.
Named as replacement for injured player.
Result
Dwyane Wade won his second straight Skills Challenge.
Haier Shooting Stars Competition
The San Antonio team tried to be the first team to win back-to-back titles. Team Chicago (48.8) and Team Detroit (1:06) advanced to final round. Due to Ben Gordon shooting out of order before Candice Dupree, Detroit won by default.
Schedule
February 15–19: NBA Jam Session
Friday, February 16: NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
Friday, February 16: 2007 Rookie Challenge
Saturday, February 17: 1st Annual D-League All-Star Game
Saturday, February 17: NBA All-Star Saturday (Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout, Shooting Stars Competition, Skills Challenge)
Sunday, February 18: 56th Annual NBA All-Star Game
References
External links
NBA.com: All-Star 2007
National Basketball Association All-Star Game
All-Star Game
NBA All-Star Game, 2007
Events in Paradise, Nevada
2007 in sports in Nevada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20NBA%20All-Star%20Game |
The Salvador Option is an approach to counter-insurgency warfare involving the use of death squads utilised by the United States Department of Defense during the Salvadoran Civil War. The term was later used in the context of counter insurgency operations coordinated by Colonel James Steele, a retired special forces veteran who was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise Shi'ite paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency during the Iraq War. From 1984 to 1986 Steele operated as a counterinsurgency specialist and was head of the United States Military Group of US special forces advisers to frontline battalions of the Salvadorean military (which developed a reputation for its death squad activities).
The use of such methods in Iraq was controversial and attracted debate in the Pentagon and among members of the Iraqi government. It raised the question of possible U.S. military involvement in the use of quasi-official death squads, a tactic that was allegedly instrumental in bringing a decade-long war against the Salvadorian Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) to a close.
As the insurgency intensified, the US Military turned to Israel for lessons in military occupation. Israeli officers trained American troops in urban warfare techniques based on their experience in the West Bank and Gaza.
An article published in the Guardian quoted senior a US intelligence official who confirmed Israeli involvement and the setting up of assassination teams.
An article published by Newsweek in January 2005 that explored the notion of the "Salvador Option" quoted anonymous military insiders but did not specify the precise origin of the phrase or explicitly say that those words were actually used by Pentagon sources..
According to Newsweek:
...one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of assassination or so-called "snatch" operations, in which the targets are sent to secret facilities for interrogation. The current thinking is that while U.S. Special Forces would lead operations in, say, Syria, activities inside Iraq itself would be carried out by Iraqi paramilitaries.
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has publicly denounced the Newsweek article as "nonsense", when directly asked if such a policy was under consideration, he answered "Why would I even talk about something like that?" Observers of the Iraqi conflict have taken these and other cues to argue that the "Salvador Option" was put into operation. They point in particular to the existence of a Shi'ite led unit affiliated with the Iraqi ministry known as the Wolf Brigade.
See also
Chinese Solution
James Steele (US Colonel)
Phoenix Program
Special Police Commandos, a Sunni unit operating since September, 2004.
Sons of Iraq
Wolf Brigade, Shi'ite counter-insurgency unit operating since October 2004.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20061212213417/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35159 - Iraq: Gov't Death Squads Ravishing Baghdad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120300881.html - Iraq's Death Squads
External links
The ex-DEA agent Cele Castillo's site
THE PENTAGON MAY PUT SPECIAL-FORCES-LED ASSASSINATION OR KIDNAPPING TEAMS IN IRAQ, 'The Salvador Option' in Newsweek (not bylined)
"Salvador Option' on 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' (at articles from both links, see "show more text" near bottom
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Option |
CD Bidasoa Irun is a team of handball based in Irún, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL.
History
The Basque club was founded in 1962. Five years after its foundation, CD Bidasoa managed to get promoted to the second division and after the 1969/1970 season it was promoted to the first division. Eight years was enough to reach the highest class. The team achieved its main successes with the support of the Elgorriaga chocolate company. In its home country, the club won the league a total of 2 times (1987, 1995), the Copa del Rey 2 times (1992, 1996), the ASOBAL Cup 1 times (1993) and the Supercopa ASOBAL 1 times (1996). The club won 2 international cups: EHF Champions League in 1995, EHF Cup Winner's Cup in 1997.
Crest, colours, supporters
Naming history
Kits
Sports Hall information
Name: – Polideportivo Artaleku
City: – Irún
Capacity: – 2200
Address: – 30 Karrika Nagusia, 20304 Irún
Management
Team
Current squad
Squad for the 2022–23 season
Technical staff
Head coach: Jacobo Cuétara
Assistant coach: Borja Burguete Sagarzazu
Transfers
Transfers for the 2022–23 season
Joining
Mehdi Harbaoui (GK) from Sélestat Alsace Handball
Jakub Skrzyniarz (GK) from Górnik Zabrze
Asier Nieto Marcos (CB) from BM Huesca
Mihajlo Mitić (RB) from Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil
Leaving
Jose Manuel Sierra (GK) (retires)
Xoan Manuel Ledo (GK) to Istres Provence Handball
Kauldi Odriozola (RW) to HBC Nantes
Adrián Fernández (CB) to BM Torrelavega
Previous Squads
Trophies
Liga ASOBAL: 2
Winners: 1986–87, 1994–95
Runners-Up: 1993–94, 2018–19
Copa del Rey: 2
Winners: 1991–92, 1995–96
Runners-Up: 1992–93
ASOBAL Cup: 1
Winners: 1992–93
Runners-Up: 1991–92, 2018–19, 2019–20
Supercopa ASOBAL: 1
Winners: 1995–96
Runners-Up: 1993–94, 1996–97
EHF Champions League: 1
Winners: 1994–95
Runners-Up: 1995–96
EHF Cup Winner's Cup: 1
Winners: 1996–97
Runners-Up: 1990–91
EHF ranking
Former club members
Notable former players
Gurutz Aguinagalde (1995-2005)
Julen Aguinagalde (1999-2006, 2020–)
Asier Antonio (1997-2002)
Fernando Bolea (1990–1995)
Adrián Crowley (2005-2006, 2011–2021)
Aitor Etxaburu (1993–2001)
Julio Fis (1999–2000)
Xoan Manuel Ledo (2017–2022)
Yeray Lamariano (2007–2009)
Asier Nieto Marcos (2022–)
Jordi Nuñez (1995–1997)
Kauldi Odriozola (2016–2022)
Jesús Olalla (1985-1993, 1996–1998)
Iñaki Peciña (2005–2010)
Jose Manuel Sierra (2020–2022)
Nicolás Bonanno (2020–2021)
Gastón Mouriño (2015–2016)
Agustín Vidal (2013–2014)
Peđa Dejanović (2014–2017)
Senjanin Maglajlija (1997–1998)
Rangel Luan (2017–2020)
Marco Oneto (2005–2007)
Esteban Salinas (2018–2020)
Rodrigo Salinas Muñoz (2017–)
Bruno Gudelj (1998–1999)
Mikkel Aagaard (2007)
Patrick Cazal (1999–2002)
Olivier Girault (1998–1999)
Mehdi Harbaoui (2022–)
Christophe Kempé (1999–2001)
Sébastien Quintallet (2007)
Cyril Viudes (2005–2007)
Semir Zuzo (1998–1999)
Donát Bartók (2020–2021)
Heiðmar Felixson (2002–2004)
Alfreð Gíslason (1989–1991)
Patrekur Jóhannesson (2003–2004)
Júlíus Jónasson (1991–1992)
Rolandas Bernatonis (2009-2011)
Ratko Đurković (2003–2004)
Ole Erevik (2005–2007)
André Jørgensen (2003–2006)
Dawid Nilsson (2005–2007)
Jakub Skrzyniarz (2022–)
Bogdan Wenta (1989–1993)
Dan Racoțea (2020-2021)
Oleg Khodkov (2001–2003)
Oleg Kisselev (1994–1996)
Yuri Nesterov (2003–2004)
Mikhail Revin (2014–2015)
Nenad Bilbija (2006–2007)
Mladen Bojinović (2000–2001)
Jovica Cvetković (1988–1989)
Časlav Grubić (1986–1988)
Nedeljko Jovanović (1993–1994)
Jovan Kovačević (1997–1998)
Miloš Orbović (2019–2020)
Nenad Peruničić (1994–1997)
Ivan Stanković (2004–2007)
Vladica Stojanović (2004-2006)
Tomas Svensson (1992–1995)
Máximo Cancio (2008–2009)
Former coaches
References
External links
Handball clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Handball clubs established in 1962
Irun
Sport in Gipuzkoa
1962 establishments in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20Bidasoa |
Frederico Barbosa (born Recife, Pernambuco on February 20, 1961) is a Brazilian poet.
Places of residence
Barbosa moved with his family to São Paulo, where he currently lives, when he was six. He lived for some time in the United States, in New Haven, Connecticut, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas.
Education
Barbosa began undergraduate studies in physics and Greek at the University of São Paulo, where he majored in Portuguese Language and Brazilian and Portuguese Literature. He never completed his master's program in Brazilian Literature.
Career
A literary critic at the Jornal da Tarde and Folha de S.Paulo for some years, he currently directs one of the most important cultural centers in Brazil, the Casa das Rosas - Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura.
Awards and recognition
2008 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Chosen to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees
Works
His poems have been published in various journals in Brazil. His first book, Rarefato (Editora Iluminuras, 1990), was chosen by the newspapers O Estado de S. Paulo and O Estado de Minas (Belo Horizonte) as one of the best books published in the country that year.
His second book, Nada Feito Nada (Editora Perspectiva,1993), was published by the prestigious Coleção Signos, edited by Haroldo de Campos, and was awarded the most important literary prize in the country, the Jabuti Prize.
Recently, his poems have been translated and published in anthologies in several countries, as the United States, Australia, Mexico, Spain and Colombia.
In 2000, Frederico Barbosa published Cinco Séculos de Poesia - Anthology of Classic Brazilian Poetry, (Landy Editora) and Contracorrente - poems, (Iluminuras). In 2001 Frederico Barbosa published an annotaded edition of the episodes Inês de Castro and O Velho do Restelo, from The Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões (Landy Editora) and released his fourth book of poetry, Louco no Oco sem Beiras - Anatomia da Depressão, by Ateliê Editorial.
In 2002 Frederico Barbosa published, with Claudio Daniel, an anthology of contemporary Brazilian poetry, Na Virada do Século - Poesia de Invenção no Brasil (Landy Editora) and released his fifth book of poetry, Cantar de amor entre os escombros, also by Landy. For this publishing house, he created and edits the Alguidar Collection. In 2004 he published A Consciência do Zero (Lamparina) and won his second Jabuti Prize with Brasibraseiro.
In 2016, Frederico started working at Colégio Equipe.
References
Brazilian male poets
1961 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian poets
21st-century Brazilian poets
20th-century Brazilian male writers
21st-century Brazilian male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederico%20Barbosa |
Ma Yueliang or Ma Yueh-liang (1 August 1901 – 13 March 1998) was a famous Manchu teacher of tai chi. He was the senior disciple of Wu Jianquan, the founder of Wu-style tai chi, and married Wu's daughter Wu Yinghua in 1930.
Biography
Ma Yueliang was also a medical doctor who graduated from the Beijing Medical College in 1929 with a specialty in hematology. He established the First Medical Examination and Experiment Office and ran the blood clinics at Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai. Like Wu Quanyou and Wu Jianquan, Ma was of Manchu descent. Ma was educated both in the traditions traditional Chinese medicine and Western science.
There are accounts that Ma was a gifted martial artist in his youth. He had studied a number of martial arts including, Shaolinquan, Three Emperors Pao Chui, Baguazhang and Tongbeiquan. However, Wu Jianquan would accept Ma as a student only if he concentrated on Wu-style tai chi. From about age 18, Ma exclusively studied Wu-style tai chi. Wu Jianquan started the Jianquan Taijiquan Association in Shanghai in 1936, and Ma became the deputy director of the Association. Ma studied tai chi with Wu Jianquan until the death of his teacher in 1942. The Jianquan Association still exists today internationally and remains a resource for the study of Wu-style tai chi.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of Ma Yueliang and his wife in the emergence of Wu-style tai chi after the Cultural Revolution in China. Even at an advanced age, Ma was chosen as one of the 100 Best Martial Artists in China. Wu Yinghua and Ma continued to teach in tai chi until their deaths. They taught a large number of students in Shanghai and in their travels to New Zealand, Germany and elsewhere. They published several books on Wu-style tai chi, including the "Orange Book" relied upon today by Wu-stylists throughout the world. Ma and Wu Yinghua's Wu-style sword/weapons book includes a family picture with several of their closest students. Ma Yueliang also publicly practiced a number of formerly closed door (private or family secret) forms and methods so that they would not be lost. In public, Wu Yinghua would often demonstrate the Wu-style Slow Set and Ma would follow by demonstrating the Wu Style Tai Chi Fast Form. Ma taught many high level students, including Xie Bing Can and Fei Gua-ching, who is still active in the Jianquan Taijiquan Association in Shanghai. Li Liqun is one of Grandmaster Ma's oldest and closest living students. He was the deputy vice-secretary of the Jianquan Association in Shanghai under masters Ma and his wife Wu Yinghua.
Ma Yueliang and Wu Yinghua are survived by their children and grandchildren, including: Ma Jiangchun (b. 1931), Dr. Ma Hailong (b. 1935), Ma Jiangbao, and Ma Jiangling (b. 1947). Ma Jiangbao lived in the Netherlands and taught traditional tai chi throughout Europe. Their adopted daughter Shi Mei Lin now lives and teaches Wu-style tai chi in New Zealand. She also has students in France and in the United States (Tucson, Arizona).
References
Bibliography
Wu Kung-tsao. Wu Family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (吳家太極拳) Hong Kong 1980, Toronto 2006,
Wu Yinghua, Ma Yueliang, Shi Mei Lin (1987). Wu Style Tai Chi Fast Form. Henan Science Skills Ltd. Henan (only available in Chinese) /G122.
Wu Yinghua, Ma Yueliang, Shi Mei Lin (1991). Wu Style Tai Chi Fast Form. Shanghai Book Co Ltd, Hong Kong (only available in Chinese) . .
Wu Yinghua, Ma Yueliang (1993). Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan Forms, Concepts and Application of the Original Style. Shanghai Book Co Ltd, Hong Kong. .
Ma Yueliang & Zee Wen (1986, 1990, 1995). Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands. Shanghai Book Co Ltd, Hong Kong. .
Dr Zee Wen (2002) Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan, Ancient Chinese way to health. North Atlantic Books. .
Tai chi lineage tree with Wu-style focus
External links
Google video of Ma Yueliang performing Wu-style fast form
QuickTime movie of Ma Yueliang performing 13 posture spear form
by Bill Moyers
Ma Jiangbao's Traditional Wu-style Taijiquan website
Wu-style Taijiquan website: Shanghai
1901 births
1998 deaths
Chinese tai chi practitioners
Manchu martial artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%20Yueliang |
Under Indian criminal law, there is a provision for anticipatory bail under Section 438(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Law Commission of India in its 41st report recommended to incorporate this provision in procedure code. This provision allows a person to seek bail in anticipation of an arrest on accusation of having committed a non-bailable offence.
On filing anticipatory bail, the opposing party is notified about the bail application and the opposition can then contest the bail application in court (public prosecutor can also be used to do this).
Anticipatory bail is a direction to release a person on bail, issued even before the person is arrested. It is only issued by the Sessions Court and High Court.
Eligibility
When any person apprehends that there is a move to get him arrested on false or trumped-up charges, or due to enmity with someone, or he fears that a false case is likely to be built up against him, he has the right to move the court of Session or the High Court under section 438(1) of the code of Criminal Procedure for grant of bail in the event of his arrest for a cognizable or non-cognizable offence, and the court may if it thinks fit, direct that in the event of such arrest, he shall be released on bail. Anticipatory bail can be granted by Sessions Court and High Court.
Conditions
The High Court or the court of session may include such conditions in the light of the facts of the particular case, as it may think fit, including:
a condition that the person shall make himself available for interrogation by the police officer as and when required;
a condition that the person shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the court or to any police officer;
a condition that the person shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court.
If such person is thereafter arrested, and is prepared either at the time of arrest or at any time while in the custody of such officer to give bail, he shall be released on bail and the magistrate taking cognizance of such offence decides that warrant should be issued against that person, he shall issue a bailable warrant in conformity with the direction of the court granting anticipatory bail.
Supreme Court while dealing the case of Sidhram Mhetre, held certain conditions imposed by High Court to be not required & contrary to provisions of anticipatory bail.
Qualification
The applicant must show by disclosing special facts and events that he or she has reason to believe, that he or she may be arrested for a non-bailable offence so that the court may take care to specify the offence or offences in respect of which alone the order will be effective and it is not a blanket order covering all other offences.
Cancellation
An accused is free on bail as long as the same is not cancelled. The High Court or Court of Session may direct that any person who has been released on bail be arrested and commit him to custody on an application moved by the complainant or the prosecution.
See also
Bail
Arraignment
Preliminary hearing
References
Indian criminal law
Fair trial rights
Criminal Procedure Code Sections
Bail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory%20bail |
Paloma Picasso (born Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot on 19 April 1949) is a French fashion designer and businesswoman, best known for her jewelry designs for Tiffany & Co, and her signature perfumes. She is the daughter of artist Pablo Picasso and painter Françoise Gilot. Her name, Paloma (Dove), is associated with the symbol her father designed for the World Congress of Partisans for Peace, held in Paris the same year Paloma was born, and it can be found in many of her father's works.
Paloma Picasso is represented in many of her father's works, such as Paloma with an Orange and Paloma in Blue. Paloma Picasso is also represented in her mother's work, "Paloma à la Guitare” (1965), which sold for $1.3 million in 2021.
Career
Paloma Picasso's jewelry career began in 1968, when she was a costume designer in Paris. Some rhinestone necklaces she had created from stones purchased at flea markets drew attention from critics. Encouraged by this early success, the designer pursued formal schooling in jewelry design. A year later, Picasso presented her first efforts to her friend, famed couturier Yves Saint Laurent, who immediately commissioned her to design accessories to accompany one of his collections. By 1971, she was working for the Greek jewelry company Zolotas.
In 1980 Picasso began designing jewelry for Tiffany & Co. of New York. In 1984 she began experimenting with fragrance, creating the "Paloma" perfume for L'Oréal. In the New York Post Picasso described it as intended for "strong women like herself." A cosmetics and bath line including body lotion, powder, shower gel, and soap were produced in the same year.
Two American museums have acquired Picasso's work for their permanent collections. Housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is a 396.30-carat kunzite necklace designed by her. And visitors to The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago can view her 408.63-carat moonstone bracelet accented with diamond "lightning bolts."
Since 1983, she has been a member of the International Best Dressed List.
In 2010, Picasso celebrated her 30th anniversary with Tiffany and Co. by introducing a collection based upon her love of Morocco, called Marrakesh. In 2011, she debuted her Venezia collection, which celebrates the city of Venice and its motifs.
Red
Picasso has a penchant for red; her red lipsticks were called "her calling cards". François Nars says about Picasso, "red is her trademark." "It's her signature, defining, one might say, the designer's red period."
Her fascination with red started at an early age, when she began wearing bright red lipstick at age 6. She has become recognizable by her red lipstick; "Her angular profile serves as a reminder of her father's Cubist inclinations." When she feels like staying incognito, she simply avoids wearing her red lipstick: "Red lips have become my signature, so when I don’t want to be recognized, I don’t wear it."
Film
Picasso briefly lost interest in designing following the death of her father in 1973, at which time she played Countess Erzsébet Báthory in Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk's erotic film, Immoral Tales (1973), receiving praise from the critics for her beauty. She has not acted since.
Personal life
In 1978, Picasso married Argentine playwright and director Rafael Lopez-Cambil (also known as Rafael Lopez-Sanchez) in a black-and-white themed wedding. The couple later divorced. In 1999, Picasso married Eric Thévenet, a doctor of osteopathic medicine. Picasso and Thévenet live in Lausanne, Switzerland and in Marrakech, Morocco.
Paloma Picasso's older brother is Claude Picasso (1947-2023), her half-brother is Paulo Picasso (1921–1975), her half-sister is Maya (1935–2022), and she has another half-sister, Aurelia (b. 1956), from her mother's marriage to artist Luc Simon.
References
External links
1949 births
French jewellery designers
Living people
French people of Spanish descent
French fashion designers
Tiffany & Co.
Women metalsmiths
People from Lausanne
People from Marrakesh
French expatriates in Spain
French expatriates in Switzerland
French expatriates in Morocco
Pablo Picasso
French women fashion designers
Spanish women fashion designers
Women jewellers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paloma%20Picasso |
A data dependency in computer science is a situation in which a program statement (instruction) refers to the data of a preceding statement. In compiler theory, the technique used to discover data dependencies among statements (or instructions) is called dependence analysis.
There are three types of dependencies: data, name, and control.
Data dependencies
Assuming statement and , depends on if:
where:
is the set of memory locations read by
is the set of memory locations written by and
there is a feasible run-time execution path from to
This Condition is called Bernstein Condition, named by A. J. Bernstein.
Three cases exist:
Anti-dependence: , and reads something before overwrites it
Flow (data) dependence: , and writes before something read by
Output dependence: , and both write the same memory location.
Flow dependency (True dependency)
A Flow dependency, also known as a data dependency or true dependency or read-after-write (RAW), occurs when an instruction depends on the result of a previous instruction.
1. A = 3
2. B = A
3. C = B
Instruction 3 is truly dependent on instruction 2, as the final value of C depends on the instruction updating B. Instruction 2 is truly dependent on instruction 1, as the final value of B depends on the instruction updating A. Since instruction 3 is truly dependent upon instruction 2 and instruction 2 is truly dependent on instruction 1, instruction 3 is also truly dependent on instruction 1. Instruction level parallelism is therefore not an option in this example.
Anti-dependency
An anti-dependency, also known as write-after-read (WAR), occurs when an instruction requires a value that is later updated. In the following example, instruction 2 anti-depends on instruction 3 — the ordering of these instructions cannot be changed, nor can they be executed in parallel (possibly changing the instruction ordering), as this would affect the final value of A.
1. B = 3
2. A = B + 1
3. B = 7
Example :
MUL R3,R1,R2
ADD R2,R5,R6
It is clear that there is anti-dependence between these 2 instructions. At first we read R2 then in second instruction we are Writing a new
value for it.
An anti-dependency is an example of a name dependency. That is, renaming of variables could remove the dependency, as in the next example:
1. B = 3
N. B2 = B
2. A = B2 + 1
3. B = 7
A new variable, B2, has been declared as a copy of B in a new instruction, instruction N. The anti-dependency between 2 and 3 has been removed, meaning that these instructions may now be executed in parallel. However, the modification has introduced a new dependency: instruction 2 is now truly dependent on instruction N, which is truly dependent upon instruction 1. As flow dependencies, these new dependencies are impossible to safely remove.
Output dependency
An output dependency, also known as write-after-write (WAW), occurs when the ordering of instructions will affect the final output value of a variable. In the example below, there is an output dependency between instructions 3 and 1 — changing the ordering of instructions in this example will change the final value of A, thus these instructions cannot be executed in parallel.
1. B = 3
2. A = B + 1
3. B = 7
As with anti-dependencies, output dependencies are name dependencies. That is, they may be removed through renaming of variables, as in the below modification of the above example:
1. B2 = 3
2. A = B2 + 1
3. B = 7
A commonly used naming convention for data dependencies is the following: Read-after-Write or RAW (flow dependency), Write-After-Read or WAR (anti-dependency), or Write-after-Write or WAW (output dependency).
Control dependency
An instruction B has a control dependency on a preceding instruction A if the outcome of A determines whether B should be executed or not. In the following example, the instruction has a control dependency on instruction . However, does not depend on because is always executed irrespective of the outcome of .
S1. if (a == b)
S2. a = a + b
S3. b = a + b
Intuitively, there is control dependence between two statements A and B if
B could be possibly executed after A
The outcome of the execution of A will determine whether B will be executed or not.
A typical example is that there are control dependences between the condition part of an if statement and the statements in its true/false bodies.
A formal definition of control dependence can be presented as follows:
A statement is said to be control dependent on another statement iff
there exists a path from to such that every statement ≠ within will be followed by in each possible path to the end of the program and
will not necessarily be followed by , i.e. there is an execution path from to the end of the program that does not go through .
Expressed with the help of (post-)dominance the two conditions are equivalent to
post-dominates all
does not post-dominate
Construction of control dependences
Control dependences are essentially the dominance frontier in the reverse graph of the control-flow graph (CFG). Thus, one way of constructing them, would be to construct the post-dominance frontier of the CFG, and then reversing it to obtain a control dependence graph.
The following is a pseudo-code for constructing the post-dominance frontier:
for each X in a bottom-up traversal of the post-dominator tree do:
PostDominanceFrontier(X) ← ∅
for each Y ∈ Predecessors(X) do:
if immediatePostDominator(Y) ≠ X:
then PostDominanceFrontier(X) ← PostDominanceFrontier(X) ∪ {Y}
done
for each Z ∈ Children(X) do:
for each Y ∈ PostDominanceFrontier(Z) do:
if immediatePostDominator(Y) ≠ X:
then PostDominanceFrontier(X) ← PostDominanceFrontier(X) ∪ {Y}
done
done
done
Here, Children(X) is the set of nodes in the CFG that are immediately post-dominated by X, and Predecessors(X) are the set of nodes in the CFG that directly precede X in the CFG.
Note that node X shall be processed only after all its Children have been processed.
Once the post-dominance frontier map is computed, reversing it will result in a map from the nodes in the CFG to the nodes that have a control dependence on them.
Implications
Conventional programs are written assuming the sequential execution model. Under this model, instructions execute one after the other, atomically (i.e., at any given point in time, only one instruction is executed) and in the order specified by the program.
However, dependencies among statements or instructions may hinder parallelism — parallel execution of multiple instructions, either by a parallelizing compiler or by a processor exploiting instruction-level parallelism. Recklessly executing multiple instructions without considering related dependences may cause danger of getting wrong results, namely hazards.
Data Dependency Management
In 2016, Edgard Marx, a computer scientist from Leipzig University, coined the term Data Dependency Management to refer to the systems that deal with the management of data.
Data Dependency Management systems are designed to facilitate the deployment and management of data on the cloud, personal computers, or smart devices (edge). Data Dependency Management frameworks can be used to describe how the data was conceived, licensing as well as its dependencies. The concept of data dependency management comes from software package dependency management tools such as npm for JavaScript, gem for Ruby, and NuGet for .NET. Their rationale is to allow users to manage the software dependency on data, such as machine learning models for data-driven applications. They are useful to publish, locate, and install data packages. A typical example of a data dependency management frameworks are Hugging Face, KBox, among others.
References
Compilers
Analysis of parallel algorithms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20dependency |
G. H. Hovagimyan (aka Gerry Hovagimyan) is an American experimental cross-media, new media art and performance artist who lives and works in New York City.
Formation and early work
Hovagimyan was born 1950 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1972, he received a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received an M.A. from New York University in 2005. He has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Computer Arts Department. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working in Internet Art in 1993 with pioneering online artists groups such as The Thing, Artnet, and Rhizome.
From 1973 to 1986, Hovagimyan was involved in the SoHo and Lower East Side underground art scene. His first solo exhibition, a conceptual art show at 112 Workshop at 112 Greene Street in 1973, was titled Control Designators that used a system based on Jean Piaget's theory of child development as opposed to adult intellectual development. Thus, the basic matrix of the artist's code was related to the progression from undifferentiated surface topology through geometric triangulation to the linear sense of language experienced in reading."
Hovagimyan worked with artist Gordon Matta-Clark as an assistant on several projects, including Days' End, Conical Intersect, Working Man's Arch, and Underground Explorations. In 1974, during the video-performance series at 112 Workshop, he performed opposite Spaulding Gray in Richard Serra's video A Prisoner's Dilemma.
East Village, Punk, The Public, and Working with the Internet
Much of Hovagimyan's early work was ephemeral in nature. It involved performance art, text and language works, and temporary installations in galleries. A word piece, Tactics for Survival in the New Culture, was exhibited in The Manifesto Show (1979) that was organized by the artist collective Colab. This particular piece became the basis for one of his first online hypertext works in 1993.
Hovagimyan showed in several group exhibitions organized by Jean Dupuy, a French Fluxus artist living in New York at 405 E. 13th Street.
Media and New Media
In the early 1990s, Hovagimyan started working in media art and new media art. Some of the pieces involve using a combination of photographs and text, often mimicking advertising. In May 1994, his twenty billboard project for the New York public art organization Creative Time project called Hey Bozo...Use Mass Transit received press for its confrontation text calling drivers stuck in traffic clowns, attracting the attention of Larry Harmon, who owned the rights to the name Bozo and sued him over copyright infringement. The work was seen on several newscasts such as Good Day New York and the NBC Nightly News. It was written up in the New York Post, New York Daily News, and New York Times, among other places. A telephone interview with the artist and a report on the project was distributed over the AP newswire.
Around the same time Hovagimyan began working with computers and the internet. One of the earliest internet artists, his first pieces, BKPC, Art Direct and Faux Conceptual Art were written about in the art magazines Art in America and Art Press. He also hosted an internet radio/TV talk show called Art Dirt, broadcast by the 1990s early online live streaming service Pseudo. The first online new media art radio program of its kind, Art Dirt is part of the Walker Art Center's Digital Studies Archives collection.
Videos and Hacked Interfaces
In the 2000s, Hovagimyan increasingly created work using videos and hacked interfaces, often in collaboration with the French media artist Peter Sinclair. His collaborative works with Sinclair include A Soa(p) Opera for Laptops/iMacs, Shooter, and Rant/Rant Back/Back Rant. Shooter, an immersive sound and laser installation was developed at Eyebeam Atelier as part of its Artist in Residence program.Rant/Rant Back is an experimental performance work created in 2003 using a special interface programmed by Sinclair to sample voice input, manipulate it, and send it back into a general audio mix in real time. Hovagimyan performed in the persona of a borderline schizoid personality rambling about a confused mixture of media, news, information, gossip, and paranoid rumors, referencing actual news articles and posted in a blog.
Augmented reality
Since 2014, in addition to continuing hacked interface works such as 3D Karaoke, which used Kinect cameras to program karaoke performances generating live 3D videos of singers, Hovagimyan began using augmented reality as a medium, producing several series of paintings and sculptural installations triggering three-dimensional augmentations when viewed through handheld devices such as iPhones and iPads. These AR pieces, including AR Paintings, Teenage Zombie Avatars, and four Space Paintings were exhibited at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City and in solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn gallery of TRANSFER in 2014 and the Narrowsburg gallery of the Delaware Valley Art Alliance in 2019. His series of Fibonacci Spirals, large-scale sculptural installations used the Fibonacci series to iterate curving spiral slides, were constructed in Galilee, Pennsylvania, Valparaiso, Chile, and Flint, Michigan in 2014 and 2015.
References
External links
G.H. Hovagimyan homepage
Peter Sinclair & G.H. Hovagimyan collaborative works
N.Y. Underground
Chant a Capella
Dear Habermas
Digital media
New media
American video artists
1950 births
Living people
New York University alumni
University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20H.%20Hovagimyan |
Raúl "Chato" Padilla García (17 June 1918 – 3 February 1994) was a Mexican actor, and a member of Chespirito's comedy troupe, famous for his character in El Chavo del Ocho, Jaimito, el cartero ("Jaimito, the Mailman").
Career
Padilla joined the show in 1979 following the departure of Ramón Valdés, gradually taking over the sorts of roles Valdés used to play. He also worked on the film El Chanfle, scripted and starred by Chespirito. Padilla's second major character was that of Licenciado Morales, who was in charge of the local police station in Los Caquitos.
Death
Raúl died of a heart attack on February 3, 1994, at age 75. His nickname, "Chato", means "pug"; the nickname was in reference to his broad, flat nose. His son, Raul Padilla Jr. "El Choforo" also worked with Chespirito and was an actor in his own right, he died on February 3, 1994, at age 75.
Filmography
Notes
Chespirito actors
Mexican male film actors
Mexican male stage actors
Mexican male television actors
Male actors from Monterrey
1916 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Mexican male actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Padilla |
The AN/PEQ-5 is a laser sight manufactured by Insight Technology.
The sight is mil-spec and projects a visible red dot. The unit is the Carbine Visible Laser or CVL version of the larger AN-PEQ-2, and is found in the SOPMOD Block I kit for use by the U.S. military. The unit comprises a single rugged box that houses a visible red laser, which mounts to a weapon using a MIL-STD-1913 rail. The one major difference between the AN-PEQ-5 and the larger AN-PEQ-2, is the AN-PEQ-5 lacks the IR illuminator/target designator which is only visible through night vision devices. This feature is primarily used to aid with aiming while using night vision. Both are products of Insight Technologies.
See also
AN/PEQ-2
AN/PEQ-6
References
Firearm sights
Military electronics of the United States
Laser aiming modules | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PEQ-5 |
Tehran is the capital city of Iran.
Tehran or Teheran may also refer to:
In Iran
Tehran Province
Tehran TV
Tehran Metro
Tehran (Sadeghiyeh) Metro Station
Tehran University
Tehran's Grand Bazaar
Tehran International Fair
Tehranpars
Tehransar
Tehran Conference
Pas Tehran, a football club
Tiran, Iran, a city in Isfahan Province
Other
Tehran (film), a 1946 British film
Tehran: City of Love, a 2018 Iranian film
Tehran (horse) (1941–1966), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
Tehran (TV series), a 2020 Israeli espionage drama series
"Tehran" (Veep), a television episode
Tehran, a 1988 demo tape by the Offspring
Julio Teherán (born 1991), Colombian baseball pitcher
See also
Teheran 43, a 1981 film
Teheranno (Tehran Street), a street in Seoul, South Korea
Tehrangeles, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, US
Teran (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Club Balonmán Cangas Frigoríficos Morrazo is a team of handball based in Cangas, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL.
History
The team, founded in 1961, reached the Spanish first division, Liga ASOBAL, for the first time in 1995. It was there without interruption until 2006. The club made two appearances in Europe's number two cup, the EHF Cup, in the 2005/06 and 2015/16 seasons.
Sports Hall information
Name: – Pabellón Municipal O Gatañal
City: – Cangas
Capacity: – 2500
Address: – Carretera Cangas - Aldan, s/n, 36940, Cangas, Spain
Team
Current squad
Squad for the 2022–23 season
Technical staff
Head coach: Nacho Moyano
Assistant coach: Felipe Verde
Fitness coach: Cuco Rodríguez
Physiotherapist: Serxio Lemos
Club Doctor: Manuel Caeiro
Transfers
Transfers for the 2022–23 season
Joining
Juan del Arco (CB) from Helvetia Anaitasuna
Mario Dorado (LW) from BM Logroño La Rioja
Gabriel Chaparro (LP) from Atlético Novás
Rares-Marian Fodorean (LB) from Póvoa Andebol Clube
Rajmond Tóth (CB) from Budakalász FKC
Leaving
Daniel Fernández (LW) to TVB 1898 Stuttgart
Carles Asensio (LP) to GWD Minden
David Iglesias Estévez (LB) to Limoges Handball
Adrián Menduiña (RW) (retires)
Previous Squads
Season by season
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European competition
EHF Cup: It was formerly known as the IHF Cup until 1993. Also, starting from the 2012–13 season the competition has been merged with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup. The competition will be known as the EHF European League from the 2020–21 season.
As of 30 September 2022:
Participations in EHF Cup: 2x
EHF ranking
Former club members
Notable former players
Juan Francisco Alemany (1999–2001)
Vicente Álamo (2000–2002)
Marc Amargant (2005–2006)
Juan del Arco (2022–)
Daniel Fernández (2020–2022)
Rubén Garabaya (1999–2001)
Yeray Lamariano (2015–2016)
Antonio Ugalde (2003–2005, 2009–2011)
Mare Hojc (2006–2007)
Patricio Martínez Chávez (2004-2005)
Marco Oneto (2002–2005)
Venio Losert (2005–2006)
Kasper Hvidt (1997-1998)
Frédéric Louis (2007–2008)
Bruno Martini (1998–1999)
Seufyann Sayad (2006–2007)
Kim Sung-Heon (2002–2003)
Marko Lasica (2010–2013)
Mile Mijušković (2013–2015)
Alen Muratović (2003–2005, 2013–2021)
Gojko Vučinić (2001)
Filip Vujović (2016–2020)
Miguel Baptista (2020–2021)
Nenad Bilbija (2005–2006)
Borut Oslak (2008–2010)
Tihomir Doder (2005–2006, 2007–2011, 2019–2020)
Jovan Kovačević (1998–1999)
Stanislav Demovič (1999-2000)
Oleksandr Hladun (1997)
Máximo Cancio (2017–2019)
Gabriel Chaparro (2022–)
Eduardo Salazar (2013-2018)
Former coaches
References
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Handball clubs in Spain
Handball clubs established in 1961
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Life Partners, Inc. is a life settlement provider headquartered in Waco, Texas. LPI's parent company, Life Partners Holdings, Inc., delisted from the NASDAQ, currently trades on the OTCPK under the ticker LPHI.Q. This follows the company seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, resulting from a total of $46.9 million in penalties levied against the company and two of its officers.
Overview
Life Partners Inc. is the world's oldest life settlement provider and one of the most active companies in the world engaged in the secondary market for life insurance. Life Partners Inc. is the architect of the newest asset class, life settlements, which has grown over the past decade to become an $80 billion industry. By selling the policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment to use as he or she wishes.
It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 19, 2015.
Since its incorporation in 1991, Life Partners Inc. has completed over 150,000 transactions and generated a total business volume of over $3.2 billion in face value of policies for its worldwide client base of over 29,000 high-net-worth individuals and institutions in connection with the purchase of over 6,500 policies. Life Partners Inc. utilizes Advance Trust & Life Escrow Services, LTA for its life settlement transactions. ATLES is supervised and regulated by the Texas Department of Banking and is responsible for the custody and dispersion of LPI client funds.
Senior citizen clientele
Through life settlements, the secondary market for life insurance provides more options for policy owners to pursue when they no longer want or need their current life insurance policy. Many seniors paying premiums on life insurance policies cannot afford to continue. Premiums have skyrocketed and the need for the policy has diminished. More than 85% will simply let their policies lapse. Most likely, they are unaware they can sell these policies for four to ten times the cash value in the secondary market. If seniors give the proceeds from their life insurance policy sale to charity, they may reap substantial tax benefits.
Lawsuits and legal action
SEC legal actions
In January 2012, the SEC filed a civil action against Life Partners Holdings and three of its senior executives for an alleged fraudulent disclosure and accounting scheme involving life settlements. The SEC alleged that Life Partners' chairman and CEO, the president and general counsel, and the chief financial officer misled shareholders by failing to disclose a significant risk to Life Partners' business: the company was systematically and materially underestimating the life expectancy estimates it used to price transactions.
In 2011, a securities fraud class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of current and former shareholders Life Partners Holdings, Inc. The lawsuit alleged that LPHI violated US federal securities laws misleading its investors by issuing false financial statements and reports. The allegedly misleading statements led LPHI's stock price to increase and then dramatically plummet upon the uncovering of the misleading statements made by LPHI, thereby causing LPHI investors to suffer financial losses. On November 22, 2012, the court heard oral argument from the parties on the defendants' motion to dismiss. The court has not issued a ruling on the motion to dismiss. No trial date has been set. The viability of the case may be substantially affected by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Haliburton v. Erica P. John Fund which the Supreme Court is expected to rule on later this summer.
December 2013: Plaintiffs dismiss lawsuit against Life Partners—class certification denied
Life Partners Holdings, Inc. announced on December 4, 2013, that the plaintiffs have voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit filed against the company as well as its operating subsidiary, Life Partners, Inc., and two corporate officers. The abandonment of the lawsuit comes after the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied a motion for class certification in the lawsuit. Life Partners, Inc. is a life settlement provider and provides purchasing agent services for life settlement transactions. A life settlement is an alternative investment involving the purchase of an existing life insurance policy at a discount to its face value.
While the plaintiffs in the case could have appealed the denial of the class action or continued to pursue the case as individuals, they elected instead to voluntarily dismiss the case against the Life Partners defendants. A key allegation was that Life Partners' medical consultant used an unreasonable method of estimating life expectancies. However, this allegation was criticized by the Court as part of its 34-page order denying certification as a class action:
Proof only of results does not address these factors. Nor could an after-the-fact analysis of the insureds' deaths, in the aggregate, establish that LPI was unreasonable in using Dr. Cassidy when and how it did. The Court is highly skeptical that an analysis of results alone could lead a reasonable juror to determine that Dr. Cassidy's methods were flawed.
Life Partners CEO Brian Pardo commented, "This is yet another example of attorney-driven litigation which damages the entire economy, not to mention the companies that are the targets of such litigation. We are very pleased that the plaintiffs decided to walk away from this case and we hope to see other similar cases end the same way."
The case is styled Sean Turnbow et al. v. Life Partners, Inc. et al., Case No. 3:11-CV-1030-M, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division.
March 2014: Life Partners cleared of all fraud claims
Life Partners Holdings, Inc. announced in March 2014 that an Austin Federal court has ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to prove any of its fraud claims against Life Partners and its CEO, Brian Pardo, and General Counsel, Scott Peden. The ruling followed a jury finding in February that neither Life Partners, Mr. Pardo nor Mr. Peden committed securities fraud under Rule 10b-5 and that Mr. Pardo and Mr. Peden did not engage in insider trading. In the earlier ruling, the jury had found in favor of the SEC's fraud claim under Section 17(a) relating to the company's revenue recognition policies. That claim, which a government attorney characterized as "a lead" claim in the case, was challenged by Life Partners on the basis that it was not supported by any evidence.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division agreed with Life Partners that there was no evidence to support the revenue recognition claims for the period of time in question and ordered that judgment be entered in favor of Life Partners, Mr. Pardo and Mr. Peden on that issue. As a result of this ruling, the Company, Mr. Pardo and Mr. Peden have been completely exonerated from any allegations of fraud alleged by the SEC. The Court let stand the jury's findings against Life Partners relating to bookkeeping, reporting and certification by the CEO of the company's financial statements, none of which involve fraud or knowingly or recklessly misleading shareholders. The case is SEC v. Life Partners Holdings, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 1-12-C V-33-JRN in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division.
April 2014: Life Partners sues Charles Schwab subsidiary for counterfeiting
On April 15, 2014, Life Partners Holdings, Inc. filed suit against optionsXpress, Inc., a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation, the company's chief financial officer, and one of the company's largest customers for issuing and selling counterfeit shares of Life Partners Holdings stock.
The lawsuit, filed in Illinois by California attorney Gary Aguirre, whose practice focuses on market manipulation, asks the Court for an order preventing the Schwab subsidiary from creating and selling shares of Life Partners Holdings' stock which were not authorized by the company. The action also asks the Court for protection from securities fraud, deceptive business practices and civil conspiracy arising from the unlawful issuance of the counterfeit shares.
Under the law of Illinois, Texas, and every other state, a company has the exclusive right to issue and sell its own stock. The creation and sale of counterfeit or "phantom" stock by brokers and their customers violate these laws.
The lawsuit is based on findings in an administrative proceeding by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against optionsXpress and the other defendants which concluded that optionsXpress, its chief financial officer, and one of its biggest customers committed securities fraud by engaging in the sales of hundreds of millions of dollars in counterfeit-phantom stock passed off as the genuine stock of 25 public companies, including almost $5.5 million of counterfeit-phantom stock of Life Partners Holdings, Inc.
The company is continuing to investigate other persons and entities who may have engaged in counterfeiting shares of Life Partners Holdings, Inc.
December 2014: LPHI loses lawsuit with the SEC. LPHI, Pardo and Peden ordered to pay a total of $46.9 million in penalties
A federal judge ordered Life Partners Holdings Inc and two top executives to pay $46.9 million for misleading investors about the core aspects of its business. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had sued Life Partners in 2012 and sought to prove that Life Partners intentionally misled investors over nearly four years about core aspects of its "life-settlements" business and that its two top executives engaged in insider trading. U.S. District Court Judge James Nowlin on Tuesday ordered Life Partners to pay $15 million in illegal profit and $23.7 million in civil penalties. Chief Executive Brian Pardo was ordered to pay a $6.2 million civil penalty, while general counsel and secretary of LPHI, R. Scott Peden, was given a $2 million civil penalty. Judge Nowlin reversed a jury finding in March that Life Partners and its executives were liable on one count of fraud. "In ordering this significant monetary relief, the court recognized the egregious nature of their misconduct, noting that the defendants engaged in 'serious violations' of the securities laws, that they 'deprived the investing public of the information it needed to make a fully informed decision about whether to invest in Life Partners," said Andrew Ceresney, SEC's enforcement director.
December 2016: Life Partners Inc. exits bankruptcy
On December 9, 2016, a Joint Plan of Reorganization sponsored by H. Thomas Moran, II the Chapter 11 trustee, and the Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee became effective. Life Partners emerged from bankruptcy, reorganized to maximize the recovery of investors' funds.
Moran was quoted as saying:
Within the next two weeks, distributions of more than $100 million collected from matured policies during the bankruptcy proceedings will be distributed to investors. Going forward, we project that investors will receive roughly 90 percent of their invested capital over time as a result of the plan we were able to put in place—depending on the option they elected.
References
External links
Companies based in Waco, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Partners%2C%20Inc. |
The 2008 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 17, 2008, during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2007–08 season. It was the 57th edition of the NBA All-Star Game, and was played at New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, home of the New Orleans Hornets. The Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference, 134–128. LeBron James was named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player, his second time winning the award. This was the first NBA All-Star Game that was hosted by New Orleans, and was the city's first major professional sporting event (outside of regular season games) since the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The city was awarded in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on May 22, 2006. The other reported contenders for the 2008 contest was Air Canada Centre at Toronto, who withdrew the bid early in 2005.
The East led early but blew a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter; ultimately, they pulled out the win due to the strength of Ray Allen and James. Allen scored 28 points in the game, 14 of them coming in the deciding quarter, and James finished with a near triple-double of 27 points, nine assists, and eight rebounds.
The inaugural NBA Development League Dream Factory Friday Night was modeled after the popular NBA All-Star Saturday Night. It included perennial NBA fan favorite events such as a Three-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk competition, while introducing H.O.R.S.E. and an interactive game of Hot-Shot with fans. Twelve D-League players, including an NBA-assigned player and five others with NBA experience, took to Center Court to showcase their skills throughout the evening's competitions.
All of the 2008 All-Star participants joined over 2,500 members of the NBA Family for the NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service. The volunteers participated in a variety of service projects at ten different sites throughout New Orleans.
The All-Star Game
Eastern Conference roster
The Boston Celtics, the team with the league's best record, came into New Orleans with three players. Kevin Garnett, top vote-getter in the league with 2,399,148 votes, was selected as a starter, while Paul Pierce and Ray Allen (replacing injured Washington Wizards forward Caron Butler) were selected as reserves by the coaches of the Eastern Conference Garnett did not play due to injury and Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh replaced him as starting power forward. Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace replaced Chris Bosh as the backup power forward. The Pistons, who at the time had the second-best record in the league, also had guards Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton participating.
Cleveland Cavaliers small forward LeBron James and Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade started for the fourth straight year and fourth overall for the East with two million votes each. Center Dwight Howard was voted to be a starting All-Star for the first time in his career after averaging 22 points and 15 rebounds for the first half of the season. Shaquille O'Neal was not voted in as a center for the first time in 15 years. Jason Kidd was voted in as the starting point guard for the East amid speculation that he would be traded to the Western conference (Dallas Mavericks).
Western Conference roster
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, 2007 All-Star MVP, was the top vote-getter in the West with nearly 2,000,500. However days before the game, he was examined by Lakers' doctors and revealed a torn ligament in his right pinky finger. Deciding to put off required surgery until after the season, the Lakers appealed to the league to replace Bryant but league policy stated Bryant must play after playing in the last game before the break.
Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson was voted an All-Star for the second time since moving to Denver. Along with him, teammate Carmelo Anthony earned a starting nod at forward. Power forward Tim Duncan made his tenth straight appearance and center Yao Ming his sixth (Yao Ming was voted to All-Star Game 2007 but did not play). Three teams, Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, and New Orleans Hornets, had two representations at the All-Star Game with Iverson/Anthony, Nash/Stoudemire, and Paul/West.
Rosters
Unable to participate due to injury. Chris Bosh was named to the starting lineup due to a Kevin Garnett injury
Unable to participate due to injury. Ray Allen was named to the roster in place of Caron Butler.
Unable to participate due to injury. Rasheed Wallace was named to the roster in place of Kevin Garnett.
Kobe Bryant played three minutes due to ligament tear in pinky
Coaches
The Eastern Conference team was coached by Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics. He clinched it nearly a month before the game on January 21, against the New York Knicks. The Celtics entered All-Star Weekend with a 41–9 record, the best record and win percentage in the league.
The Western Conference team was coached by Byron Scott of the New Orleans Hornets. Scott clinched the coaching spot on January 31, when the Dallas Mavericks lost to the Boston Celtics in Boston. The Hornets entered All-Star Weekend with a 36–15 record, and the best winning percentage in the Conference at .706.
2008 NBA All-Star Game Boxscore
NBA All-Star East
NBA All-Star West
All-Star Weekend
T-Mobile Rookie Challenge
The Sophomores defeated the Rookies 136–109. During the first half of the game Daniel Gibson tied the record of Kyle Korver by hitting seven three-pointers (Korver's record was for the entire game). He later set the whole-game record in the second half with eleven total three-pointers, finishing the game shooting 11–20 from three-point range. Gibson was named MVP of the game, finishing with 33 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals.
Sprite Slam Dunk Contest
Gerald Green returned to defend his crown won in last year's All-Star game. Young NBA stars Rudy Gay, Dwight Howard and Jamario Moon were also invited. What made the Slam Dunk contest unique in 2008 was the introduction of the fan vote. While judges (in this particular contest, Karl Malone, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, Darryl Dawkins and Dominique Wilkins) still scored dunks on a scale from one to fifty and selected those who would move on to the next round, fans had the last word.
NBA viewers for the first time could decide the winner of the Sprite Slam Dunk contest, under the tag line "They Dunk. You Decide." For five minutes after the final round, polls were open on NBA.com and through SMS TXT and the dunker with the most votes at the end of the time limit was the winner.
Dwight Howard won the contest, grabbing 78% of fan votes.
Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout
Jason Kapono became the first back-to-back winner of the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout since Peja Stojaković won in 2002 and 2003. Kapono also tied the all-time record set in 1986 by Craig Hodges by scoring 25 points in the final round.
Kobe Bryant was looking to be the first player to win a Slam Dunk contest and a Three-Point Shootout title until he was replaced by Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki due to injury.
PlayStation Skills Challenge
Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams won the Skills Challenge, with a first round time of 31.2 seconds and a record finish in 25.5 in his second run. For the first time since 2005, Dwyane Wade did not win the contest. He finished with a low 53.9 seconds, ending his streak at two. Jason Kidd, winner of the event in 2003, finished at 40 seconds. Chris Paul advanced to the finals with 29.9 seconds in the first go-around, but failed to match Williams in the end.
Haier Shooting Stars Competition
After an impressive run in the first round, Team San Antonio took care of business in the finals of the 2008 Haier Shooting Stars challenge against Team Chicago, as Duncan drained a half-court shot to give the Texas threesome a time of 35.8 seconds.
D-League All-Star
D-League All-Star Game
Twenty of the NBA Development League's top players were selected to the D-League All-Star Game rosters by a combination of fan balloting on the official D-League website and voting by the 14 head coaches of D-League teams. The selections were divided up into two teams, the Red Team and the Blue Team, by members of the NBA and NBA D-League's Basketball Operations staff. Players who have been selected by coaches and fans must be on an active roster of a D-League team. Los Angeles D-Fenders head coach Dan Panaggio and Idaho Stampede head coach Bryan Gates were selected as the coach for the Blue Team and the Red Team respectively. Both coaches earned the honor by securing the best records in the D-League through January 31.
Unable to participate due to a call-up to the Golden State Warriors.
Named as replacement for C. J. Watson.
D-League Dream Factory Friday Night
H.O.R.S.E.
Two preliminary rounds of two games each were played with the winners of the first two rounds competing in a final round for the title of H.O.R.S.E. Champion. Each round was capped at five minutes, and utilized a 24-second shot clock. Contestants were outfitted with a wireless microphone in order for fans to hear the player call his shot.
Lance Allred faced Fort Wayne's Jeremy Richardson. Both players were tied at the time limit, but Allred managed to advance in sudden death when Richardson could not convert on his attempt. In the other first-round matchup, Utah Jazz assignee Morris Almond advanced over Sioux Fall's Kasib Powell, as he held an H-O advantage at the time limit. In the final, Allred earned the victory over Almond when he sank a bank shot from just outside the elbow, leaving Almond facing an H-O deficit as time expired.
Hot-Shot
Hot-Shot contestants took to the floor to compete in a race against the clock to score the most points with the help of a D-League fan. Each team had one minute to tally the highest score from four designated shooting spots on the court, including a one-point layup, a two-point foul shot, a three-pointer from behind the arc, and a five-point half-court shot, with the fan only eligible to shoot from the lay-up position. Two teams competed simultaneously, one on each end of the court, during the first round with the winners advancing to a final round of head-to-head competition where the stakes were high – the fan from the winning squad had an opportunity to be a judge in the Slam Dunk Contest.
In the first round, Bakersfield's Andre Barrett came out on top with a total of 24 while Dakota's Carlos Powell checked in second with 23 points. Billy Thomas (20 points) and Randy Livingston (5 points) were eliminated after the first round.
In the second and final round, Powell and his teammate Will, a New Orleans resident, won the title with a total of 24, edging Barrett and company's total of 21.
Three-Point Shootout
Each contestant had 60 seconds to sink up to 21 three-pointers from seven shooting stations assembled around the three-point line. Each station had two orange balls (worth one point each) and one "money" ball (worth two points) which may only be attempted after both orange balls have been shot. Fans enjoyed one preliminary round and a championship round featuring the contestants with the top two scores from the first round.
Adam Harrington dominated the contest, posting the highest score of all four competitors in the first round, and then edging Kaniel Dickens in the final round to earn the victory. Dickens advanced to the final via a 30-second shootout with Josh Gross after two players tied for the second best total in the opening round.
Slam Dunk Contest
The Slam Dunk Contest, which consisted of two rounds of two dunks each, began with each dunker submitting his top two dunks and selecting a fan from the crowd who chose the first dunk to be performed in the first round of competition. A composite total of the scores from the first round of dunks of competition was tallied for each dunker and the dunkers with the two highest scores competed in a championship round consisting of two dunk attempts. Contestants were allowed one replacement dunk per attempt.
The Idaho Stampede pair of Brent Petway and Mike Taylor emerged from the first round and headed to the finals. Petway emerged as the victor after he completed a spectacular through-the-legs dunk that brought down the house at Jam Session and earned a perfect 50 score. Taylor attempted to counter with a show-stopping dunk of his own, but failed to convert on his two allotted attempts. Fort Wayne's Eric Smith and Iowa's Doug Thomas also performed some impressive dunks, but did not record high enough scores from the judges to advance to the final round.
Schedule
February 15–17: NBA Jam Session (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Friday, February 15: NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
Friday, February 15: 2008 Rookie Challenge
Saturday, February 16: 2nd Annual D-League All-Star Game
Saturday, February 16: NBA All-Star Saturday (Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout, Shooting Stars Competition, Skills Challenge)
Sunday, February 17: 57th Annual NBA All-Star Game
Musical happenings
Friday, February 15: Prior to the 2008 Rookie Challenge, Amanda Shaw performed the U.S. and Canadian anthems. Jordin Sparks performed "Tattoo" during halftime.
Saturday, February 16: Prior to All-Star Saturday Night, Marc Broussard with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, performed during the player introductions. Trumpeter Christian Scott performed the U.S. national anthem, while Lamont Hiebert performed the Canadian anthem. The same night, Dr. John paid tribute to NBA Cares, with a performance of "What a Wonderful World.
Sunday, February 17: For the 57th Annual NBA All-Star Game, Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis collaborated on the performance lineup. Connick was the musical director for the halftime show, featuring four original compositions performed by four pairs of pianists including Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Davell Crawford, Art Neville, Ivan Neville, Jonathan Batiste, Ellis Marsalis, and Connick Jr. and his Big Band. Marsalis was the musical director for the All-Star Player introductions, featuring compositions by Marsalis performed by the Rebirth Brass Band. Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty introduced the Western and Eastern Conference All-Star teams. Marsalis directed the U.S. national anthem performed by Stephanie Jordan and guitarist Jonathan Dubose. Deborah Cox performed the Canadian anthem.
Broadcast
Television
NBA on TNT
The Turner Broadcasting Network televised the game for the fifth straight year in the United States. The game was called by NBA on TNT commentators Marv Albert, Reggie Miller and Doug Collins. TNT also televised the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, PlayStation Skills Challenge, Footlocker Three-Point Shootout and the Haier Shooting Stars Competition.
ESPN
ESPN televised the McDonald's All-Star Celebrity Game on February 15. The event was simulcast on ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile and ESPN Radio. Although the All-Star game was not broadcast on ESPN, the game was on ESPN Radio.
NBA TV
Beginning the week of the All-Star game, February 11, NBA TV aired tributes to moments in All-Star game history, including a top-10 list, highlights and greatest moments. NBA TV aired the Basketball Hall of Fame Finalist Friday, February 15. The network also provided the behind-the-scenes practices of the East and West rosters, the NBA D-League All-Star game, and pregame and postgame coverage of the All-Star Game.
International
The NBA vastly increased the global appeal of the All-Star Game, allowing 123 broadcasters to air the games in 215 countries in more than 40 languages. NBA TV covered All-Star weekend to another record 80 countries. Most foreign major sports networks aired the All-Star game live.
References
External links
NBA.com: All-Star 2008
NBA All-Star 2008 – NBA – ESPN
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Brother Bear 2 is a 2006 American animated direct-to-video musical fantasy comedy-drama film and the sequel to the animated feature Brother Bear, which was released on August 29, 2006. Melissa Etheridge contributed three songs to the film. In the film, the adventures of bear brothers Kenai and Koda continue. While the first film dealt with Kenai's relationship with Koda, this one focuses more on his bond with a young human from his past, Nita.
Only five of the original characters return for the sequel (excluding Denahi): Kenai, Koda, Rutt, Tuke, and Tug, as Jason Raize died on February 3, 2004. Only four of those actors reprised their original roles: Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, and Michael Clarke Duncan. Jason Marsden, as heard in the first trailer, was originally announced to voice Kenai, after being voiced by Joaquin Phoenix in the first film; Patrick Dempsey ultimately voiced the character. However, the end credits still note Marsden as one of the additional voices.
Producer Jim Ballantine was removed from the project and replaced with Carolyn Bates.
Plot
Picking up several months after the events of the first film, Kenai, now a bear, is living joyfully with his foster brother Koda. Having just awoken from hibernation, the bears begin traveling to Crowberry Ridge for the first berries of the season. However, Kenai is plagued by visions of his childhood friend Nita, to whom he gave a special amulet many years ago after saving her from drowning. Nita, now grown up, is set to wed Atka, a man from a neighboring Inuit village. However, on the day of the wedding, the Spirits appear in the form of a storm that causes a fissure to open up in the ground between Nita and Atka, much to Nita's shock. Believing it to be a sign, Nita consults Innoko, the wisest shaman of the tribes. By communicating with the Spirits, Innoko reveals that the amulet that Kenai gave Nita all those years ago bonded her and Kenai together. The only way for Nita to sever the bond and be able to marry Atka is to find Kenai, go with him to Hokani Falls where he had given her the amulet, and burn the amulet together on the eve of the Equinox, thus returning the bond to the Spirits. Innoko grants Nita the ability to communicate with Kenai and the other wildlife.
Eventually, Kenai and Koda meet up with Nita. At first, Kenai refuses to destroy the bond, but Nita tells him that the Spirits may turn him back into a human and send him to find her. Under pressure from Nita and Koda, who fears that he and Kenai could no longer be brothers if this happens, Kenai relents and the three make their way to Hokani Falls. As they spend more time together, Kenai and Nita rekindle their old friendship, much to Koda's chagrin. The three also run into Rutt and Tuke multiple times throughout their journey, and Nita helps them woo a pair of female Canadian moose. One night, Nita asks Kenai if he ever thought of being human again. When Kenai says that he has considered it, Koda hears this and races up a mountain, anxious that Kenai may leave him. Nita finds Koda hiding in a cave, but both are caught in an avalanche and are rescued by Kenai. Kenai shouts at Koda for almost getting himself killed, but the two reconcile with Kenai assuring Koda that he will never leave him.
The trio eventually make it to Hokani Falls, where they burn the amulet. Without it, Nita can no longer communicate with Kenai or Koda, so she says goodbye. Seeing how miserable Kenai is and realizing that he loves Nita, Koda secretly asks his mother in the spirit world to turn Kenai back into a human so he can be happy. The next morning, Rutt and Tuke inform Kenai that Koda went to the village to retrieve Nita. Knowing that Koda will be killed, Kenai runs after him.
At the village, the tribes prepare for the wedding once again, but Nita, realizing her love for Kenai, tells her father Chilkoot that she cannot marry Atka. At that moment, Koda creates a major commotion in the village in order to get Nita's attention, while Kenai arrives to stop Koda. Rutt and Tuke rescue Koda from two of the villagers, while Atka fights with Kenai, throwing him off of a cliff and into shallow water. Nita rushes to Kenai's side, where the two profess their love for each other. The Spirits appear to change Kenai back into a human, allowing Nita to communicate with Kenai and Koda. Kenai tells Nita that he cannot become a human again and leave Koda, but Nita tells him that she can be with him. With her father's blessing, the Spirits transform Nita into a bear. The film ends with Kenai and Nita's wedding that the tribes, bears, Koda, Rutt, Tuke and their mates happily watch.
Cast
Production
The film was produced by DisneyToon Studios, Disney Animation Australia and Project Firefly, a start up animation company founded by former Disney Feature Animation Florida employees.
Reception
Enthusiastic reviews included Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures, who wrote, "The kids will love Brother Bear 2, especially if they loved the first film. It has a good message and some decent scenes." ReelTalk Movie Reviews said, "Although sequels -- even a few from Disney -- are often disappointing, this one is a keeper, mostly because of its charming story and extraordinary background music". DVDTalks Brian Orndorf said, "As money-grabbing animated product goes, Brother Bear 2 rests nicely on a lowered expectation level, and is hardly an offensive affront to the first film. The texture and polish is deeply missed, but the characters are so strong and engaging, it still entertains." David Cornelius, also of DVDTalk, wrote, "The story fails to impress, but everything else adds up in all the right ways to make up for it. The makers of Brother Bear 2 break the curse of the Disney sequel and turn in a welcome effort." Movie Metropolis said, "When you consider that Disney meant this production strictly for the home and it probably didn't cost nearly as much as the first film to make or market, it's actually a superior product...Brother Bear 2 may not be first-tier Disney filmmaking, but it is first-tier Disney animation, and that and the sweetness of the story line may be enough to keep even grown-ups entertained."
Negative reviews opined the film's use of cliches and said the plot was subpar in comparison to its predecessor. David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews said, "There's little doubt that Brother Bear 2, for the most part, comes off as an affable yet entirely needless piece of work, as filmmaker Ben Gluck, working from Rich Burns' script, is generally unable to wholeheartedly capture and sustain the viewer's interest - with the ongoing emphasis on stand-alone segments (eg the central trio run afoul of several violent raccoons) ensuring that the movie is only sporadically engaging."
Soundtrack
The soundtrack to Brother Bear 2 was released on August 15, 2006.
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Rob Swift (born Robert Aguilar; May 14, 1972) is an American hip hop DJ and turntablist. He was an original member of the turntablist group The X-Ecutioners until 2004. He has also released numerous solo albums and collaborated with various artists, including Mike Patton, Patton's project Peeping Tom, Dan the Automator and Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lords of Acid, Portugal. The Man, and Herbie Hancock.
From January 2010 through May 2015, Swift hosted the online hip-hop radio show Dope on Plastic on Scion A/V Streaming Radio 17.
In August 2012, Swift became the resident DJ for a new late night college sports TV talk show on ESPNU called UNITE.
In September 2014, Swift became a Professor at the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. He is currently teaching the DJ Skills & Styles course and his research includes Hip Hop History and culture as well as Musical Composition via turntable techniques.
Early life
Born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, by Colombian heritage, Swift (born Robert Aguilar) began DJing at the age of 12 by watching his father and brother. "My dad was a salsa and merengue DJ. My brother learned how to scratch and do all the hip hop deejaying stuff on my dad’s equipment (without his permission) and I’d sit there and watch him. When I entered the sixth grade, I decided I wanted to learn." So unlike those who were influenced through hip hop records, DMC and NMS tapes, or movies, Swift educated himself with the classic turntable beats of the early 1980s New York City playground pioneers while listening to funk and jazz at home. “My older brother exposed me to all that,” he says. “All the stuff I create as a DJ is rooted in the songs that I heard from Bob James, Herbie Hancock and James Brown to Quincy Jones and old DJs like Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizard Theodore. That’s where my roots are.”
In 1990, Swift enrolled as a student at Baruch College in New York City and in 1995, graduated with a degree in psychology. “While I was deejaying I pursued college. Speech class and English serve a purpose, you know?” His education can be said to translate into his cerebral style of scratching, juggling and making music.
Career
In 1991, Swift joined the groundbreaking turntablist crew the X-Men aka X-ecutioners (Roc Raida, Total Eclipse, and Mista Sinista). Also in 1991, he won the DMC East Coast title. In 2001, he was featured in the DJ documentary Scratch (Palm Pictures). He has appeared on ESPN, the Late Show with David Letterman and Sesame Street.
In 2008, Swift was the first hip hop DJ invited to perform at the Savannah Jazz Festival in Georgia. He has collaborated with artists from many genres including Blue Man Group, Herbie Hancock, Scritti Politti, Bob James, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Dan The Automator, Fat Joe, Cypress Hill and Bill Laswell. He currently works solo, as part of the group Ill Insanity (featuring former X-Men Total Eclipse and Precision), or collaborating with other like-minded artists.
Since January 2010, Swift has hosted the online hip-hop radio show Dope on Plastic on Scion A/V Streaming Radio 17 on which he plays mixes and interviews with guest turntablists. Guests have included J-Smoke & DJ Element, Tim Martells, and DJ Platurn.
In February 2010, Rob Swift's solo 18-song turntablism-classical music fusion album The Architect was released by Mike Patton on Ipecac Recordings, which Swift dedicated to Roc Raida who died in 2009. In June 2008, Swift's girlfriend played a piece by Chopin for him on her iPod while he was shaving. Swift said, "For some reason on that day in my bathroom, my heart was ready to embrace this genre." In July, he began work on a new album and a month or two into the recording process, he said, "I listened back to see how to album was starting to shape up. After sitting down and listening to it I started realizing that I was being influenced by this genre of classical that I had a new found love for ... I then started creating my music in a way that was reflective of the way that the composers created their pieces. So I started working in movements. I was using sounds and then reintroducing the sounds in other songs. And I sat down and went, 'wow!' All this time, artists like Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven were influencing me on this album subconsciously without me knowing. So once I realized that, then I decided that this album would be a take on what I feel classical composers like Mozart and Chopin would have done if they had turntables." One guest MC, Breez Evahflowin, rhymes about the album's concepts on "Principio" and "Ultimo".
On March 20, 2012, Swift released the album Roc for Raida, a collection of songs (some unreleased) and battle style routines that defined the late fellow X-Ecutioner Roc Raida as an artist, lost interview archives (from John Carluccio), and other material, with proceeds going to Raida's family.
In August 2012, Swift became the resident DJ for a new late night college sports TV talk show on ESPNU called UNITE. On his blog, DJ Qbert, reported Swift as saying, "Never would I have thought as a 12-year old that DJing would take me this far. It is something that I have always done out of pure love. Now I’m being contracted for a full-time TV position and paid to do something I truly love. It just goes to show, when you do something for the right reasons, the right things happen. Stay positive, stay true to what you love, don’t compromise your craft and never give up on your dreams."
In September 2014, Swift became a Professor at the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. He is currently teaching the course Dj Skills & Styles
and his research includes Hip Hop History and culture as well as Musical Composition via turntable techniques.
Discography
Albums
1997 Soulful Fruit (original release on Stones Throw Records)
1999 The Ablist
2001 Airwave Invasion
2002 Sound Event
2003 Under the Influence
2003 Who Sampled This?
2004 OuMuPo 2
2005 War Games
2006 Back to the Beat
2006 Pure Moods
2008 Dust to Dust
2010 The Architect
2012 Roc for Raida
2013 Tupac and Biggie Remix
Film appearances
2001 Scratch
2007 As the Table Turn (documentary)
2009 As the Technics Spin (documentary)
2011 DJ Rob Swift - Live! The Documented Movement (documentary)
2013 Master Class w/ DJ Rob Swift (documentary)
References
External links
Official website
Video interview with Rob Swift
Kyle Gilkeson, "DJ Rob Swift on his Foray into Classical Music", Alarm magazine, November 8, 2010
Platform8470 interview - February 2009
1972 births
Baruch College alumni
American people of Colombian descent
American DJs
Living people
People from Jackson Heights, Queens
Ipecac Recordings artists
Stones Throw Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Swift |
Live in Europe may refer to:
Live in Europe (Otis Redding album), 1967
Live in Europe (Rory Gallagher album), 1972
Live in Europe (Creedence Clearwater Revival album), 1973
Live in Europe (Leo Kottke album), 1980
Live in Europe (Curtis Mayfield album), 1988
Live in Europe (Dave Douglas album), 1997
Live in Europe (Mara! album), 2001
Live in Europe (Transatlantic album), 2003
Live in Europe (The Flock album), 2004
Live in Europe (Kultur Shock album), 2007
Live in Europe (Rashied Ali Quintet album), 2009
Live in Europe (Flying Colors album), 2013
Live in Europe (Billy Paul album), 1974
Live in Europe (Local H album), 2017
Live in Europe (Fred Hersch album), 2018
Live in Europe (Melody Gardot album), 2018
Live in Europe, a 1979 album by Burl Ives
Pink: Live in Europe, a 2006 live music DVD by Pink
Live in Europe 1993 by Deep Purple
Live in Europe, U.S. release of Live in Germany 1976 by Rainbow
Live in Europe (José González album), by José González and String Theory, 2019
See also
In Europe (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20in%20Europe |
Conditional random fields (CRFs) are a class of statistical modeling methods often applied in pattern recognition and machine learning and used for structured prediction. Whereas a classifier predicts a label for a single sample without considering "neighbouring" samples, a CRF can take context into account. To do so, the predictions are modelled as a graphical model, which represents the presence of dependencies between the predictions. What kind of graph is used depends on the application. For example, in natural language processing, "linear chain" CRFs are popular, for which each prediction is dependent only on its immediate neighbours. In image processing, the graph typically connects locations to nearby and/or similar locations to enforce that they receive similar predictions.
Other examples where CRFs are used are: labeling or parsing of sequential data for natural language processing or biological sequences, part-of-speech tagging, shallow parsing, named entity recognition, gene finding, peptide critical functional region finding, and object recognition and image segmentation in computer vision.
Description
CRFs are a type of discriminative undirected probabilistic graphical model.
Lafferty, McCallum and Pereira define a CRF on observations and random variables as follows:
Let be a graph such that , so that is indexed by the vertices of .
Then is a conditional random field when each random variable , conditioned on , obeys the Markov property with respect to the graph; that is, its probability is dependent only on its neighbours in G:
, where means
that and are neighbors in .
What this means is that a CRF is an undirected graphical model whose nodes can be divided into exactly two disjoint sets and , the observed and output variables, respectively; the conditional distribution is then modeled.
Inference
For general graphs, the problem of exact inference in CRFs is intractable. The inference problem for a CRF is basically the same as for an MRF and the same arguments hold.
However, there exist special cases for which exact inference is feasible:
If the graph is a chain or a tree, message passing algorithms yield exact solutions. The algorithms used in these cases are analogous to the forward-backward and Viterbi algorithm for the case of HMMs.
If the CRF only contains pair-wise potentials and the energy is submodular, combinatorial min cut/max flow algorithms yield exact solutions.
If exact inference is impossible, several algorithms can be used to obtain approximate solutions. These include:
Loopy belief propagation
Alpha expansion
Mean field inference
Linear programming relaxations
Parameter Learning
Learning the parameters is usually done by maximum likelihood learning for . If all nodes have exponential family distributions and all nodes are observed during training, this optimization is convex. It can be solved for example using gradient descent algorithms, or Quasi-Newton methods such as the L-BFGS algorithm. On the other hand, if some variables are unobserved, the inference problem has to be solved for these variables. Exact inference is intractable in general graphs, so approximations have to be used.
Examples
In sequence modeling, the graph of interest is usually a chain graph. An input sequence of observed variables represents a sequence of observations and represents a hidden (or unknown) state variable that needs to be inferred given the observations. The are structured to form a chain, with an edge between each and . As well as having a simple interpretation of the as "labels" for each element in the input sequence, this layout admits efficient algorithms for:
model training, learning the conditional distributions between the and feature functions from some corpus of training data.
decoding, determining the probability of a given label sequence given .
inference, determining the most likely label sequence given .
The conditional dependency of each on is defined through a fixed set of feature functions of the form , which can be thought of as measurements on the input sequence that partially determine the likelihood of each possible value for . The model assigns each feature a numerical weight and combines them to determine the probability of a certain value for .
Linear-chain CRFs have many of the same applications as conceptually simpler hidden Markov models (HMMs), but relax certain assumptions about the input and output sequence distributions. An HMM can loosely be understood as a CRF with very specific feature functions that use constant probabilities to model state transitions and emissions. Conversely, a CRF can loosely be understood as a generalization of an HMM that makes the constant transition probabilities into arbitrary functions that vary across the positions in the sequence of hidden states, depending on the input sequence.
Notably, in contrast to HMMs, CRFs can contain any number of feature functions, the feature functions can inspect the entire input sequence at any point during inference, and the range of the feature functions need not have a probabilistic interpretation.
Variants
Higher-order CRFs and semi-Markov CRFs
CRFs can be extended into higher order models by making each dependent on a fixed number of previous variables . In conventional formulations of higher order CRFs, training and inference are only practical for small values of (such as k ≤ 5), since their computational cost increases exponentially with .
However, another recent advance has managed to ameliorate these issues by leveraging concepts and tools from the field of Bayesian nonparametrics. Specifically, the CRF-infinity approach constitutes a CRF-type model that is capable of learning infinitely-long temporal dynamics in a scalable fashion. This is effected by introducing a novel potential function for CRFs that is based on the Sequence Memoizer (SM), a nonparametric Bayesian model for learning infinitely-long dynamics in sequential observations. To render such a model computationally tractable, CRF-infinity employs a mean-field approximation of the postulated novel potential functions (which are driven by an SM). This allows for devising efficient approximate training and inference algorithms for the model, without undermining its capability to capture and model temporal dependencies of arbitrary length.
There exists another generalization of CRFs, the semi-Markov conditional random field (semi-CRF), which models variable-length segmentations of the label sequence . This provides much of the power of higher-order CRFs to model long-range dependencies of the , at a reasonable computational cost.
Finally, large-margin models for structured prediction, such as the structured Support Vector Machine can be seen as an alternative training procedure to CRFs.
Latent-dynamic conditional random field
Latent-dynamic conditional random fields (LDCRF) or discriminative probabilistic latent variable models (DPLVM) are a type of CRFs for sequence tagging tasks. They are latent variable models that are trained discriminatively.
In an LDCRF, like in any sequence tagging task, given a sequence of observations x = , the main problem the model must solve is how to assign a sequence of labels y = from one finite set of labels . Instead of directly modeling (y|x) as an ordinary linear-chain CRF would do, a set of latent variables h is "inserted" between x and y using the chain rule of probability:
This allows capturing latent structure between the observations and labels. While LDCRFs can be trained using quasi-Newton methods, a specialized version of the perceptron algorithm called the latent-variable perceptron has been developed for them as well, based on Collins' structured perceptron algorithm. These models find applications in computer vision, specifically gesture recognition from video streams and shallow parsing.
See also
Hammersley–Clifford theorem
Maximum entropy Markov model (MEMM)
References
Further reading
McCallum, A.: Efficiently inducing features of conditional random fields. In: Proc. 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (2003)
Wallach, H.M.: Conditional random fields: An introduction. Technical report MS-CIS-04-21, University of Pennsylvania (2004)
Sutton, C., McCallum, A.: An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning. In "Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning". Edited by Lise Getoor and Ben Taskar. MIT Press. (2006) Online PDF
Klinger, R., Tomanek, K.: Classical Probabilistic Models and Conditional Random Fields. Algorithm Engineering Report TR07-2-013, Department of Computer Science, Dortmund University of Technology, December 2007. ISSN 1864-4503. Online PDF
Graphical models
Machine learning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20random%20field |
Charlie Kemp is a British actor. He played the character of Max King in the ITV soap opera, Emmerdale. He only featured in the series for a few months, with his last appearance on 2 October 2005, in an episode in which his character was killed in a car crash.
Kemp also appeared in the 2001 British made-for-TV film, Is Harry on the Boat?, and guest starred in the TV series Casualty and in an episode of the TV series Doctors, broadcast 14 November 2008.
On 28 July 2014, he appeared in Coronation Street as the character Oliver Porter, a mediator in a dispute between Nick and Leanne Tilsley.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British male television actors
21st-century British male actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Kemp |
Edward Howe Forbush (April 24, 1858 – March 7, 1929) was a noted Massachusetts ornithologist and a prolific writer, best known for his book Birds of New England.
Biography
Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1858, he was a precocious naturalist. His family moved to West Roxbury, when he was seven. As an older child, he conducted field studies of area wildlife and also studied taxidermy. Once again, his family moved to Worcester, where he became a member of the Worcester Natural History Society, and began to publish the results of his studies. At the age of sixteen he was appointed Curator of Ornithology of the Society's museum.
When he was nineteen, he mounted an expedition to Florida — this would be the first of many trips he took around the United States to study birds.
In 1893, Forbush was appointed Ornithologist to the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. His primary studies at this time were "economic ornithology" — that is, determining whether a given species of bird was beneficial or detrimental to agriculture.
In 1908 he became the Massachusetts State Ornithologist.
He was a founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He was also first president of the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association (now the Association of Field Ornithologists).
His work "Birds of Massachusetts (and Other New England States)" is a three-volume set of books published 1925–1929 by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture. Title notwithstanding, it was and remains a valuable reference regarding not just New England birds but also in regard to ornithology of the Northeast and farther afield.
He was also known for his studies of the Heath Hen and his attempts to save the species.
He died in Westborough in 1929. His wife donated a glass case containing artistically arranged ornithological specimens to the Westborough Public Library, with a plaque reading: "Presented by Etta L. Forbush in memory of her husband Edward Howe Forbush. All specimens collected prepared and mounted by Mr. Forbush at the age of eighteen." In 1931, The Forbush Bird Club of Worcester, Mass., was established in his memory.
Selected publications
Useful Birds and their Protection (1907)
Rats and Rat Riddance (1915)
A History of the Game birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States (1916)
The Domestic Cat (1916)
Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States (1925)
Notes
References
Forbush, Edward Howe, 1925–1929, The Birds of Massachusetts (and Other New England States). 3 vol. Massachusetts Department of Agriculture
May, Dr. John B., "Edward Howe Forbush" in Bulletin of the Northeastern Bird Banding Association, Vol.4, no. 2, April 1928
May, Dr. John B., "Edward Howe Forbush: 1858-1929" in Bulletin of the Northeastern Bird Banding Association, Vol. 5, no. 2, April 1929
White, E.B. "Mr. Forbush's Friends," in The New Yorker, February 26, 1966, pp. 42–66.
External links
Forbush Bird Club
1858 births
1929 deaths
American nature writers
American ornithologists
People from West Roxbury, Boston
Writers from Quincy, Massachusetts
Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Howe%20Forbush |
Tarzan & Jane is a 2002 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, Released on July 23, 2002, it is a direct-to-video spin-off to the Disney's 1999 animated feature Tarzan, and uses three then-unaired episodes of the film's corresponding television series, The Legend of Tarzan. Tarzan II, a prequel to both films, was released in 2005. The film is set one year after the events of the first film and Tarzan and Jane are married.
With the exceptions of Erik Von Detten and Jason Marsden as Flynt and Mungo respectively, none of the actors from the original film reprised their roles.
This film was dedicated to storyboard artist John Miller, who died before the film was released.
Plot
One year after the events of original film, this film makes use of a frame tale to present three self-contained "episodes" via flashback. Jane and Tarzan's first wedding anniversary has arrived, and Jane is trying to find a suitable present for her husband, with the help of the elephant Tantor and the gorilla Terk.
When a party is suggested, the trio remembers the disaster that occurred when three of Jane's friends arrived to rescue her, as they mistakenly believed Jane was being held captive in the jungle. After learning the truth, they decide to stay for a visit. Jane organizes an English-style picnic for her friends, but Tarzan refuses to join them after believing Jane was embarrassed by his savage habits. The picnic is interrupted when two panthers, Nuru and Sheeta attack Jane and her friends, forcing them to flee into the deeper regions of the jungle. As Jane taught her friends a few survival techniques, they are once again ambushed by the panthers, only to be saved when Tarzan rushes in. When Jane and her friends leave the next day, they thank her for the adventure and say they hope to come back soon.
Back to the present day, Jane ponders over the idea of expensive gifts, particularly jewelry, prompting Terk to remind her of the time Tarzan tried to get her a diamond. Tarzan had led two men, Johannes Niels and Merkus to a nearby volcano containing a diamond mine and in return, they would give him one of the diamonds to give to Jane, only for them to turn on him once inside, wanting to take all the diamonds for themselves. The volcano then erupted with Tarzan, Jane, and Professor Porter trapped inside, though they managed to escape before the lava flows reached them. Tarzan then rescued Johannes and Merkus, only for them to lose their diamonds in the process. They are arrested after this and taken back to England.
Professor Porter then joins the conversation, suggesting to Jane that she and Tarzan should celebrate their anniversary with a dance. This causes Terk to bring up the time Jane's old friend Robert Canler visited. Things had gone well, despite Tarzan feeling jealous and mistrusting towards Canler (claiming that he is a bad man that reminds him of Sabor), until Canler had revealed he was working as a double agent for the Germans of the German Empire during World War I and had come for a code machine disguised as a music box he gave to Jane for safekeeping. He then kidnapped her, but was tracked down and stopped by Tarzan assisted by RAF pilot Nigel Taylor, who had been on Canler's trail. Taylor commandeers Canler's plane and takes him back to England to stand trial.
Having run out of ideas and realizing anniversaries would not fit in with Tarzan's uncivilized lifestyle, Jane returns to the treehouse in disappointment, only to cheer up after finding it decorated and everyone, including Tarzan, who is wearing his father's suit, had planned a surprise party to make her happy. Terk, Tantor, and the Professor had known about it all along and were simply distracting her while everyone else got the party set up. Tarzan gives Jane a diamond ring made from the same diamonds in the volcano. The celebrations start as everyone dances, including Tarzan and Jane as the film concludes with the couple dancing under the moonlight with fireflies all around.
Cast
Michael T. Weiss as Tarzan
Olivia d'Abo as Jane Porter
April Winchell as Terk
Jim Cummings as Tantor and Merkus
John O'Hurley as Johannes Niels
Jeff Bennett as Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter and Robert Canler
Alexis Denisof as Nigel Taylor
Grey DeLisle-Griffin as Greenly
Nicollette Sheridan as Eleanor
Tara Strong as Hazel
René Auberjonois as Renard Dumont
Frank Welker as Nuru and Sheeta
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 17% of six surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 3/10. TV Guide rated it 3/5 stars and called it "sprightly amusement for kids of all ages".
The Legend of Tarzan
This film is largely a flashback to three episodes of the TV series The Legend of Tarzan: "Tarzan and the British Invasion", "Tarzan and the Volcanic Diamond Mine" and "Tarzan and the Flying Ace", the last three episodes of the show to be aired (but taking place much earlier in production order).
An adventure game on the DVD is based on the series. It resembles a multiple-choice story, featuring many different characters from the series.
References
External links
Official Website
2002 films
2002 animated films
2002 direct-to-video films
2000s American animated films
2000s fantasy adventure films
2000s romance films
American fantasy adventure films
American sequel films
Animated adventure films
Animated films about gorillas
Animated romance films
Direct-to-video sequel films
Tarzan (franchise)
DisneyToon Studios animated films
Disney direct-to-video animated films
Animated films set in the 1910s
Animated films set in Africa
Love stories
Tarzan films
Disney Television Animation films
2000s children's animated films
Films directed by Steve Loter
2000s English-language films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%20%26%20Jane |
Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Atari for Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. The game takes place between Mission: Impossible 2 and Mission: Impossible III.
Plot
IMF operative Ethan Hunt is scuba diving a shipwreck in the Black Sea. Two other scuba diving IMF agents give him an attachment to his goggles to show him his next mission briefing. Ethan will have to escort Mikail Marcou, a former advisor of Yugaria's dictator Simon Algo, and acquire a mini disk that contains vital information on Algo's operations. His team consists of Luther and Billy from Mission: Impossible 2, and new agents Jasmine Curry, a former FBI agent, and master of disguise George Spelvin.
Ethan arrives at the Yugarian Ministry of Information and makes contact with Marcou. Before Ethan can extract him, Marcou is killed by Vasyl Berkut, the head of the Yugarian Secret Service. Ethan takes possession of the disk and pursues Berkut, but he escapes.
At Los Muertos Laboratories, Ethan disguises himself as a security guard, and Agent Spelvin disguises himself as a scientist. Ethan sees Jong Ho Li, a contractor and ally to Algo, and Sofia Ivanescu, a software engineer, come to download info onto the computer core. Ethan hacks the core, and Luther reveals Los Muertos' plan to use three strains of neurodioxin. Luther calls an abort, but Ethan stays to destroy the neurodioxin. When Jong Ho discovers this, he accuses Sofia of being a spy. He places bombs throughout the facility to cover his tracks, but Ethan disarms them. Outside, Sofia sabotages a helicopter, and leaves Jong Ho behind. Ethan kills Jong Ho and follows Sofia to Yugaria.
Sneaking back into Yugaria's Ministry of Information, Ethan learns of ICEWORM, a computer virus capable of breaking through any type of security system. Unable to get ICEWORM's codes through the computer, Berkut orders his men to apprehend Sofia to obtain the codes. Ethan overhears that Sofia's deceased father, Nicholas Ivanescu is actually still alive. Ethan protects Sofia from Berkut's men, and they leave together.
Ethan, Sofia, Agent Curry, and Agent Spelvin travel to the Sansara prison, off the coast of North Africa, to destroy the remains of the neurodioxin. Curry and Spelvin meet with Berkut and enter the "Rat Trap". Meanwhile, Sofia tells Algo she developed ICEWORM as revenge for her father's apparent death at the hands of Yugaria's previous corrupt government. Ethan finds Sophia's father Nicholas alive in the prison, and he agrees to help Ethan destroy the neurodioxin. Ethan impersonates Berkut and disables the neurodioxin. Ethan witnesses Algo kill Agent Spelvin, injure Agent Curry, and take Sofia hostage. Ethan plants explosives in the lab, and escapes with Nicholas and Agent Curry.
Learning that Algo is using a plane as his headquarters, Ethan skydives and activates a jetpack to make his way to the plane. On board, Algo betrays and kills Berkut by using an experimental rocket launcher. Moments later, Ethan boards the plane and plants explosives on each wing of the plane. As Berkut prepares to kill Sophia, she kicks him out of the plane, but he grabs her, and they fall out together. Ethan pursues the two, grabbing a parachute from one of Algo's men in the process. He rescues Sofia, and all three land on the SURMA Building, a company Algo runs as a front for his terrorist activities. On the roof, Algo uses an experimental invisibility device, but Ethan disrupts the technology and kills him.
Weeks after the incident, Ethan and Sofia are on a private cruise off the coast of Aruba. As Sofia says her dealings with technology are over, she and Ethan kiss, and the two go on a scuba diving adventure.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms except the Game Boy Advance version, which received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions a score of all four sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.
References
External links
2003 video games
Action-adventure games
Atari games
Game Boy Advance games
GameCube games
Mission: Impossible video games
Paradigm Entertainment games
PlayStation 2 games
Single-player video games
Spy video games
Stealth video games
Video games about terrorism
Video games based on adaptations
Video games developed in the United States
Xbox games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%3A%20Impossible%20%E2%80%93%20Operation%20Surma |
Juventud Deportiva Arrate was a handball club based in Eibar, Basque Country. Its last season was 2010–11 in Liga ASOBAL.
History
Club names
From 1990 to 1991: Xerox Arrate
From 1991 to 2011: JD Arrate
Before 2011–12 season, they were expelled from Liga ASOBAL for falling to meet the economic requirement of Liga ASOBAL. Few days after this, Arrate was dissolved by its board members.
Last Squad 2010/11
Statistics 2010/11
Stadium information
Name: - Polideportivo Ipurua
City: - Eibar
Capacity: - 3,500
Address: - C/Santaines Kalea s/n.
Notable former players
Fernando Fernández Urosa,
Iñaki Malumbres Aldave
Alexandru Buligan
Josemi Marcos Salió
Jorge Dueñas
Dalibor Čutura
Gojko Vučinić
Tin Tokić
Blaž Vončina
Bogdan Petričević
Bojan Beljanski
Ivan Sever
Haris Kreso
Alen Geko
Notable former coaches
Viktor Debre
Francisco Díaz
Jordi Ribera Romans
Željko Martinčević
Jorge Dueñas
References
External links
JD Arrate Official Website
Handball clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Handball clubs established in 1947
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 2011
Defunct handball clubs
1947 establishments in Spain
2011 disestablishments in Spain
Eibar
Sport in Gipuzkoa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD%20Arrate |
Sudan competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Field events
Judo
Men
Weightlifting
Men
References
Sources
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992
OLy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics |
Sudan competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Boxing
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
138P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 7, is a faint periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet last came to perihelion on 11 June 2012, but only brightened to about apparent magnitude 20.5.
There were 4 recovery images of 138P on 8 August 2018 by Pan-STARRS when the comet had a magnitude of about 21.5. The comet comes to perihelion on 2 May 2019.
This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2), which crashed into Jupiter in 1994.
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net
Elements and Ephemeris for 138P/Shoemaker-Levy – Minor Planet Center
138P at Kronk's Cometography
Periodic comets
0138
138P
138P
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The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses is a 2005 direct-to-video animated film and the 11th film in The Land Before Time series. It was released on January 11, 2005, by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Plot
Every year, as the warm season approaches, a certain tree in the Great Valley blooms with pink flowers. These "treesweets" are viewed as a delicacy by the dinosaurs of the valley and everyone wants their fair share of it. However, because of the tastiness of the tree sweets, and due to the fact that there seems to only be one such tree in the entire valley, there is hardly enough for every dinosaur. Because of this, none of them may eat the treesweets until the day when they reach the "peak of their tastiness". Littlefoot and his friends Ducky, Petrie and Spike wait to eat the first treesweets of the season. Ducky is about to take one, but Littlefoot quickly tells her to stop, reminding them that they may not take any treesweets until "Nibbling Day". This, however, does not stop Petrie from flying to the tree's crown to attempt to take a treesweet, until Cera's father, emerges and states clearly how every dinosaur in the valley has waited all year to taste the treesweets. As Cera appears before them, she boastfully reminds the group that she is the one who is supposed to eat the first treesweet, having been the one who found the treesweet-tree in the first place, although it was Littlefoot who first found it. Cera also teases Littlefoot for being too little to reach the treesweets, offending him.
Meanwhile, Mr. Threehorn is visited by an old friend, a pink female threehorn named Tria. Topps, whom Tria calls Topsy, promises Tria the first treesweet of the season, and Cera becomes jealous. Cera refuses to make friends with Tria and dismisses her. In addition, Cera becomes violent toward her friends when they make any references involving Tria or her father's nickname. Littlefoot wanders off by himself and sulks about how "little" he is. When he returns to the treesweet tree, he climbs the cliff next to it and tries to prove that he can reach the treesweets himself. As he does, he accidentally slips off the cliff, falls right through the tree, and knocks down every single treesweet. Realizing the trouble that he is now in, poor Littlefoot faints in dismay. When he wakes up, he finds himself surrounded by several miniature longnecks (known by their group as tinysauruses). They have eaten all the treesweets and quickly run away once the shocked Littlefoot starts screaming in fear.
Upon noticing that every treesweet is gone, the other dinosaurs suspect that Littlefoot is responsible. Afraid to admit that he made the treesweets fall off the tree under Topps' threat of being banished from the valley, Littlefoot makes a parish truth and blames nearly everything that had happened on the tinysauruses. At first, everyone laughs at him in disbelief, but when they find teeth-marks on an eaten treesweet that are too small for Littlefoot to have made, he is believed and everyone begins to look for the tinysauruses, thinking of them as pests and preparing to drive them out of the valley. As Littlefoot and Cera search the valley, Littlefoot falls down a pothole in the ground where the tinysauruses are hiding. At first, Littlefoot is afraid of them and flees deeper into the cave, but he soon finds them to be nice and befriends them. Upon hearing how difficult it is for the tinysauruses to find food, Littlefoot promises to help bring them as much food as he can every night.
Littlefoot's friends find him while he is bringing food to the tinysauruses. They also fall in the pothole, and upon meeting the tiny dinosaurs agree not to tell the adults. Even Cera, who is still angry with her father, promises to keep it a secret, mainly because she finds out she can relate to them more than they would have imagined. Many of the tinysauruses, including Lizzie, in the colony feel that their leader, Big Daddy, bosses them around too much, though he is only looking out for them. To Big Daddy, the larger dinosaurs of the Great Valley only seem to think that "because they're bigger, it makes them seem more important", and he does not trust the other dinosaurs. By morning, Cera finally decides to be friends with Tria.
When sneaking off to see the tinysauruses the following night, Littlefoot and his friends are discovered by Topps. When he tries to ask them where they are going this time of night, Cera angrily throws the question back at him. He tells the children that he is on guard duty it is the tinysauruses which they have to worry about, then warns them to not let him catch them out late at night again, and sends them home. Afterwards, he meets up with Tria and they spot two of the tinysauruses, Lizzie and Skitter, who have been waiting for food. A chase ensues that ends when Topps and Tria, as she tries to stop Topps, finds the tinysaurus colony. Topps gathers the other adults to let them know that he has found the little creatures. As the grown-ups prepare to block the caverns, Littlefoot, realizing what he must do, stops them and admits the full truth that he unintentionally caused the treesweets to fall from the tree first. However, just as he is finished admitting his accident with the adults softly forgiving him and finally leaving the little creatures alone, the tinysauruses' cave collapses, seemingly trapping them inside.
The tinysauruses escape into the Mysterious Beyond, where they encounter a pair of Utahraptors who chase them back into the Great Valley. Upon hearing that Littlefoot initially blamed everything on the tinysauruses, Littlefoot's friends become upset and do not want to talk with him. Angry at his friends' rejection, Littlefoot leaves and decides to set things right on his own. Meanwhile, Cera apologizes to Tria about her father being hard on her when she tried to stop him from hunting the little creatures down. After a tragic mistake, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike feel remorseful for what they have done and begin to sob over the loss of their friend. With Cera's help, they all try to find Littlefoot and apologize for being hard on him; but they mistake the sharpteeth for Littlefoot, and the two carnivores chase them through the Great Valley. Just as Ducky is about to be eaten, Littlefoot shows up and saves her. Topps and Tria also appear. When all seems lost, the tinysauruses come to the children's aid and fight the carnivores. The grown-ups of the valley eventually reach the group and drive the sharpteeth back into the Mysterious Beyond through the same hole, which they cover up with a large boulder to prevent them from coming back.
After everything is sorted out and friendships are repaired, the tinysauruses become residents of the valley. Nibbling Day finally comes at last, and Littlefoot is able to reach the treesweets by himself after all. His grandfather notes how he’s grown especially when he stood up for the tinysauruses. As they enjoy the fruity blossoms, everybody of all sizes learn how even small things can make a big difference.
Voice cast
Aaron Spann as Littlefoot
Anndi McAfee as Cera / Diplodocus
Aria Curzon as Ducky
Jeff Bennett as Petrie
Rob Paulsen as Spike / Kosh
Leigh Kelly as Skitter
Cree Summer as Lizzie / Bonehead
Nika Futterman as Rocky
Ashley Rose Orr as Dusty
Michael Clarke Duncan as Big Daddy
Kenneth Mars as Grandpa Longneck / Longneck
Miriam Flynn as Grandma Longneck
John Ingle as Narrator / Topsy
Camryn Manheim as Tria
Tress MacNeille as Mama Swimmer / Petrie's mother
Music
The music score was composed by Michael Tavera. Some of his arrangements of James Horner's original themes from the first film can be heard in two shots of the film (one where Ducky, Petrie, and Spike tell Littlefoot why they are mad at him and the other where the Sharpteeth come out of a cave), though Horner was uncredited in this film. This was the last time that Tavera's arrangements of Horner's themes was heard in a Land Before Time film, as Horner died in a plane crash on June 22, 2015. Tavera's older themes from previous sequels can also be heard in other scenes from the film.
The music that plays in the background when Topsy catches Petrie trying to get one of the blossoms is the booby trap sliding scene music from An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island.
All tracks are written by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom.
Release
January 11, 2005 - VHS & DVD, the last Land Before Time film ever released on VHS
September 19, 2006 - DVD – 2 Tales of Discovery and Friendship
August 5, 2008 - Carrying Case DVD with Fun Activity Book – 2 Tales of Discovery and Friendship – Universal Watch on the Go
Reception
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses is considered by many critics and fans to be among the worst in the series alongside The Wisdom of Friends, with many citing a confusing storyline and poorly-written songs.
See also
List of films featuring dinosaurs
References
External links
2005 films
2005 animated films
2005 direct-to-video films
2000s American animated films
2000s children's animated films
Animated films about dinosaurs
American sequel films
Direct-to-video sequel films
Films scored by Michael Tavera
The Land Before Time films
Universal Animation Studios animated films
Universal Pictures direct-to-video animated films
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Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on some of the legends surrounding the Countess Elizabeth Báthory.
The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. Countess Dracula was also released on a double bill with Vampire Circus.
Plot
In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover Captain Dobi and her maid Julie to help with the kidnap and murder of several local girls, whilst beginning a new romance with a young Lieutenant named Imre Toth.
As a cover for her crimes while in her rejuvenated state, she takes the identity of her own 17-year-old daughter, Countess Ilona, whom she has Dobi hold captive in the woods by the mute money gambler. However, castle historian Fabio grows suspicious. Eventually, she kills a prostitute called Ziza, but her blood does not restore her like the others. Dobi finds Fabio, who has a book-chapter about blood sacrifices and tells Elisabeth the truth in return for being allowed to live. He reveals that only virgin blood will restore Elisabeth's youth and beauty.
Elisabeth then kills a peasant girl bought in the marketplace. Fabio tries to tell Toth the truth about her, but Dobi kills Fabio before he can do so. Dobi then exposes Elisabeth to Toth to steer him away from her. Elisabeth forces Toth into marrying her, but her daughter Ilona arrives home, having been brought by Dobi as a sacrifice, then freed by a repentant Julie who loved her as a daughter. At the wedding, Elisabeth grows old again after the priest pronounces the blessing. She tries to kill her daughter in front of the wedding attendees, but accidentally kills Toth instead. Elisabeth, Dobi and Julie are sentenced to death for their crimes and are last seen awaiting the hangman in their cell. In the final scene, the peasants curse Elisabeth as a "devil woman" and "Countess Dracula".
Countess Dracula was inspired by the infamous Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560–1614), a landowner and noblewoman who was accused of murdering dozens of women and girls.
Cast
Ingrid Pitt as Countess Elisabeth Nadasdy (voice dubbed by Olive Gregg, uncredited)
Nigel Green as Captain Dobi, the castle steward
Sandor Elès as Lt. Imre Toth
Maurice Denham as Grand Master Fabio, castle historian
Patience Collier as Julie Szentes, the Nurse
Lesley-Anne Down as Countess Ilona Nadasdy, Elisabeth's daughter
Peter Jeffrey as Captain Balogh, chief bailiff
Leon Lissek as Sergeant of Bailiffs
Jessie Evans as Rosa, Teri's mother
Andria Lawrence as Ziza, the whore at the Shepperd's Inn
Susan Brodrick as Teri, the chambermaid
Nike Arrighi as Fortune-telling gypsy girl
Marianne Stone as Kitchen Maid
Charles Farrell as The Seller
Anne Stallybrass as Pregnant Woman
Michael Cadman as Young Man
Ian Trigger as Clown
Alex Greenland (uncredited) as Choir Boy
Hülya Babuş as Dancer
Release
The film opened at the New Victoria cinema in London on 31 January 1971 before going on general release in the UK on 14 February. It opened October 1972 in the United States.
Critical reception
Allmovie has retrospectively called the film "one of the more underrated films from the latter days of the Hammer Films dynasty." The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films, on the other hand, wrote that the film's "distinctly anemic blood-lettings fail to lift a rather tiresome tale of court intrigue."
New York Times film critic Howard Thompson considered it "better than most [horror movies] in a sea of trashy competition", and called Peter Sasdy's direction "smooth and pointed" with "crisp, cutting edge" dialogue, until the last act of the film where "it runs out of gas, along with the desperate old woman [Countess Elizabeth]." David Pirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the acting "extremely poor," but found that the film "frequently takes on a nightmare quality" and that Pitt "brings to the part a very potent aura of physical corruption that is especially effective in the transformation sequences."
Home media
The film is available on DVD from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the US as a double-bill with The Vampire Lovers, and from Carlton in the UK in a box set with Twins of Evil and Vampire Circus.
Synapse released a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack in the U.S. in 2014, which featured a new high-definition transfer.
In the United Kingdom, the film was released on Blu-ray by Networkonair.com, using their own high-definition transfer. The extras including a commentary with star Ingrid Pitt.
See also
Vampire film
Cruelty and the Beast, a concept album by Cradle of Filth on which Pitt performs narration as Báthory.
References
Sources
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1971 films
1971 horror films
1970s biographical films
1970s historical horror films
1970s serial killer films
20th Century Fox films
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British serial killer films
Films about kidnapping
Films about dysfunctional families
Films about infidelity
Films about virginity
Films set in castles
Films set in the 1600s
Films set in the 1610s
Films set in country houses
Films set in Hungary
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
Hammer Film Productions horror films
Cultural depictions of Elizabeth Báthory
Films directed by Peter Sasdy
1970s English-language films
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Tarzan II (also known as Tarzan 2 and Tarzan 2: The Legend Begins) is a 2005 American direct-to-video musical animated film, and the third Disney Tarzan film after Tarzan and Jane, though it chronologically takes place during the events of the original film set during Tarzan's childhood, years before he met Jane. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and DisneyToon Studios Australia, with animation outsourced to Toon City Animation. Taking place during Tarzan's youth and before his adulthood, the film follows Tarzan's adventure to discover who he really is. Glenn Close and Lance Henriksen reprise their roles as Kala and Kerchak from the first film while Harrison Chad, Brenda Grate, and Harrison Fahn are the new voices for the younger versions of Tarzan, Terk, and Tantor, replacing Alex D. Linz, Rosie O'Donnell, and Taylor Dempsey. They are joined by new characters voiced by George Carlin, Estelle Harris, Brad Garrett, and Ron Perlman.
Tarzan II was released on VHS and DVD on June 14, 2005.
Plot
During the events of original film as a human orphan being raised by a family of gorillas after his parents were killed in an African jungle, Tarzan is worried that a fabled monster known as the Zugor will someday attempt to capture him. He is disappointed that he can't run as quickly as the other young apes in his family, and his attempts to prove himself keep resulting in chaos, hurting the baby gorillas and disappointing the mother apes and his adoptive father, Kerchak.
That night, when Tarzan fears that the Zugor will capture him, still, after feeling sympathy, his ape mother, Kala, shows him the family tree at the end of the ravine. The next morning, when an accident leads Kala to think Tarzan has died after the gorillas have crossed a ravine, the other apes feel that Tarzan has reached a fitting end. Tarzan believes it is best for everyone involved if he runs away.
Alone in the jungle, Tarzan gets chased by Sabor the leopard to a rocky place known as the Dark Mountain. When the echo of the monster calls, Sabor runs away just as Tarzan is encountered by two hulking, spoiled gorilla brothers, Kago and Uto, and their controlling, over-protective mother Mama Gunda. They fear the Zugor as much as Tarzan does, and when the booming call of the monster again echoes through the valley, the trio flee and Tarzan is able to escape Dark Mountain. He encounters a crotchety old gorilla who at first keeps the boy distant, but Tarzan discovers this gorilla is actually named Zugor and was pretending to be the monster. He uses hollow trees as megaphones to amplify his voice and pretend to be a monster, scaring other jungle creatures away from his territory and food. Tarzan uses this discovery to blackmail Zugor into letting the boy stay with him. Thanks to Tarzan's cheerfulness and helpfulness, Zugor begins to warm up to him. Tarzan continues to try to figure out what he is along with Zugor, but they both promise not to tell anyone.
Meanwhile, Tarzan's two best friends, the young gorilla Terk and the young elephant Tantor, come looking for him, and Kala also finds out that Tarzan is alive, so she goes looking for him as well, but allows the baby gorillas to join her. Terk and Tantor encounter trouble in Dark Mountain in the form of Mama Gunda, Uto, and Kago, but they are able to escape. Terk and Tantor eventually reunite with Tarzan, and the three become best friends once again. They leave Dark Mountain, and Mama Gunda, Uto, and Kago follow them. Tarzan does not want to return home with them but he reveals that there is no monster. Mama Gunda, Uto, and Kago overhear their conversation and learn it was Zugor who was pretending to be the monster; he gets himself into trouble. Uto and Kago wreck Zugor's treehouse in retaliation for scaring them. Zugor accuses Tarzan for breaking his promise and runs away, refusing to help him face the brothers. Terk and Tantor run to go and warn Kerchak. Kala and the baby gorillas arrive near Dark Mountain and also encounter trouble with Mama Gunda, Uto and Kago. Tarzan finally realizes what he is supposed to be: a "Tarzan", with his own special tricks that no one else can do in the jungle, Zugor comes to a similar realization, at which he returns to Tarzan and reconciles with him.
Tarzan is able to use tricks and traps to defeat Uto and Kago as Terk and Tantor try to save Kala and the baby gorillas from falling off a cliff; Tarzan saves Kala just in time. where as Zugor holds Mama Gunda hostage, but due to their connection and Zugor accidentally telling Mama Gunda that she has "beautiful eyes", they both fall in love. Uto and Kago return and are shocked to see them together. Tarzan tells Kala that she was right before and he is a part of her gorilla family.
As the movie ends, Tarzan, Kala, Terk, Tantor and the baby gorillas return to the gorilla troop. Kala gives Tarzan a hug and tells him how proud she is of him for rescuing her from the fall and from Uto and Kago. Mama Gunda punishes her sons for destroying Zugor's treehouse and tells them that there won't be any more fighting or wrecking things. Tarzan, Terk, and Tantor decide to play a monster game; Tarzan is now happy and proud of himself, as he now knows what he is supposed to be. Like the original movie, Tarzan stands on a tree and closes the movie by letting out the typical Tarzan yell.
Voice cast
Harrison Chad as Tarzan, a young human orphan raised by gorillas in the jungle. Tarzan was a socially awkward kid struggling to fit in with his ape family. When he was growing up, Tarzan had a childhood fear of the Zugor, a mythical monster said to live on Dark mountain. His second fear was that his mother Kala would get hurt because of him.
Glenn Close as Kala, Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother loves her son more than anything. Kala is caring and patient unless provoked, or if her family is in danger.
Brenda Grate as Terk, Tarzan's mischievous, quick-witted and sardonic "cousin". Her full name is Terkina, but she actually goes by Terk.
Harrison Fahn as Tantor, a germophobic and neurotic elephant, whose best friends are Terk and Tarzan despite these impediments.
Lance Henriksen as Kerchak, Kala's mate and the leader of the gorilla family in the jungle who holds a dislike on Tarzan because of his human appearance.
George Carlin as Zugor, an old hermit gorilla living in a hollow tree on Dark Mountain. He is the "monster" feared by Tarzan and almost all the animals, even Sabor before she was killed by the adult version of Tarzan in the first film.
Estelle Harris as Mama Gunda, an intimidating, loud, physically short and short-tempered mother of Kago and Uto.
Ron Perlman as Kago, an aggressive, hot-headed gorilla, and an all around bully. A running gag is that he always gets the hiccups when he gets poked around. He is Uto's older brother.
Brad Garrett as Uto, a cowardly, immature and slow-witted gorilla who likes to throw any creature he finds off a cliff to see if they can fly. He is Kago's younger brother.
Frank Welker as Animals' vocal effects.
Connor Hutcherson as Tonka
Reception
The movie was nominated at the 33rd Annie Awards for Best Home Entertainment Production. The film received negative reviews from critics, and holds a score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews.
Music
Mark Mancina, the first movie's composer, returned to compose the score for the film, joined by Dave Metzger. "Leaving Home" later became the song "I Need to Know" for the Broadway musical version of Tarzan. Phil Collins, who performed the songs for the first film, returns to write new songs for the sequel while reusing the ones from the previous film.
References
External links
2005 films
2005 animated films
2005 direct-to-video films
2000s American animated films
2000s adventure comedy films
2005 fantasy films
American adventure comedy films
American children's animated comedy films
Animated adventure films
Animated films about gorillas
Animated films about elephants
Direct-to-video prequel films
Tarzan (franchise)
Disney direct-to-video animated films
DisneyToon Studios animated films
Animated films about orphans
Animated films set in the 1890s
Animated films set in Africa
Tarzan films
Films scored by Mark Mancina
Films with screenplays by Jim Kammerud
2005 comedy films
2000s children's animated films
Films with screenplays by Noni White
Films with screenplays by Bob Tzudiker
2000s English-language films
American prequel films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%20II |
Sudan competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting both the 1976 and 1980 Games.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Boxing
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Brockley Combe is a wooded combe near the village of Brockley in North Somerset, England. The combe cuts into the western edge of the Lulsgate Plateau, the Carboniferous limestone hills which form a northern outlier of the Mendips, south west of Bristol.
Bristol International Airport lies at the top of the combe. A minor road runs along the length of the combe, meeting the A370 at the lower end, near the village of Brockley.
The name arises as a very rare co-joining of two Brythonic words; combe meaning 'a small deep dry valley, easily defended', and Brock meaning 'badger'. Combe is spelt differently in other part of the United Kingdom as Coombe and Coomb, but the meanings are the same.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1868, describes Brockley Combe as follows: "Near the village, on the south-east, is Brockley Coomb, a deep narrow glen, of singular beauty, sunk between steep rocks, rising at some points to the height of 300 feet. It is adorned with many noble trees, and all the fissures and ledges of the cliffs are enriched with a great variety of mosses and other forms of vegetation. Lead ore is found here, and there are masses of columnar basalt."
Two identically named poems were written about the combe. Brockley Coomb by British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is subtitled Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, May 1795; and Brockley Coomb by British poet Arthur Hugh Clough. John Marius Wilson said that Brockley Combe was a "favourite resort of Coleridge".
To the south is another, more undisturbed, combe, Goblin Combe.
Brockley Hall
Forestry is carried out in the surrounding woodland. Down from the A370 is a Georgian manor house called Brockley Hall, this was inhabited by the Smyth Pigott family until later in its life. In World War II it was inhabited by American soldiers who have inscribed their names in the surrounding trees and even the large stone gate posts. After the war the hall was lived in by squatters. In the 1960s and early 70s, it was let out as flats, with houses being built in the grounds. Around 35 years ago, it was bought and refurbished, then resold as 4 separate apartments, each worth nowadays around £900,000
In the woods are the remains of a bowling green which was used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is surrounded by large mature yew trees, one of which was painted by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm in 1773.
References
External links
Brockley & Chelvey parish
Ordnance Survey Map c.1900 of Brockley Combe
North Somerset
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A Spell for Chameleon is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books. It is the first book of the Xanth series.
Plot introduction
In this adventure, Bink is exiled to Mundania because he has (inadvertently) broken Xanth law by not having a magical talent. He returns to Xanth with Chameleon, a woman whose intelligence and beauty vary inversely depending on the time of the month, and the evil magician Trent, who was exiled 20 years earlier for attempting to usurp the throne of Xanth.
Plot summary
The book starts with the main character, Bink, in his home village. He must discover his magical talent before he comes of age, or be exiled to Mundania. While on his way to see the Good Magician Humfrey about whether he has a magic talent, Bink runs into three different women, Wynne, Dee, and Iris, as well as Chester and Cherie Centaur, and Crombie the soldier. He finds out from Good Magician Humfrey that he has Magician-caliber magic but that it can't be identified.
Because his talent cannot be discovered, Bink is exiled to Mundania, the land of no magic. While there, he is captured by the Evil Magician Trent, who was exiled 20 years ago for attempting to overthrow the current king. Trent is trying to invade Xanth with his Mundane army to usurp the throne but has been consistently prevented from entering by the magic barrier which surrounds Xanth. He believes that Bink can help him get into Xanth by providing information on the location of the source of the magical barrier, and attempts to coerce Bink into giving him this information. Trent has prepared a special elixir that can temporarily nullify magic and has a special catapult that can hurl this elixir into the land of Xanth. All that Trent needs now are the exact coordinates of the shield-stone. Bink refuses to cooperate and is thrown into a pit with a woman from Xanth that has followed him there named Fanchon. Bink and Fanchon escape to sea but are pursued by Trent's forces. Eventually, Bink, Trent, and Fanchon are all swept into Xanth via a whirlpool but Trent's forces are left behind.
The trio decides to declare a truce until they can safely make their way out of the wilderness. While travelling, the group discovers Castle Roogna, a castle built 800 years ago by one of the early Kings of Xanth but abandoned 400 years later. Here, Bink learns that Fanchon, Wynne, and Dee are all the same person named Chameleon. Castle Roogna is haunted by relatively benign ghosts and zombies and is an area of heightened magical power. The castle in fact seems to possess some form of awareness and had actually used its control of the surrounding area to herd the trio onto its grounds. It detected the presence of two magician-caliber talents in the group (Bink and Trent) and lured them there in the hopes that one of them could become king and restore the castle to its former glory. The group leaves Castle Roogna on their way to the see the King but are eventually forced to break their truce when Bink refuses to join Trent in taking over Xanth. While they are arguing, Iris of illusion shows up and offers to marry Trent and help him become King. Iris craves power, but as a woman she is barred from ruling Xanth so she has decided that the next best thing is to marry a King. Trent and Bink agree to a duel to the death or surrender: If Bink loses then he will stay out of Trent's way but If he wins then Trent will cease his efforts to gain the throne. In the course of this duel Trent deduces Bink's unknown talent, which is that he cannot be harmed by magic. Because Bink is still vulnerable to non-magical harm his talent has gone to great lengths to conceal itself over the years. In any case where Bink could have been harmed by magic he has always been saved by what appears to be a series of coincidences. Because of interference from Iris, Trent declares that the duel must be restarted, but now thanks to his knowledge of Bink's talent, Trent has the upper hand. He is about to kill Bink when Chameleon dives in front of the sword. Trent and Bink then call a truce so that they can obtain healing elixir to save her life. Bink eventually gets to the Good Magician's Castle in the form of a bird, having been transformed by Trent.
Not only does Bink manage to get the healing elixir, but he also manages to find out that the Storm King has died. All the officials of Xanth, including the Council of Elders (which includes Bink's father Roland), arrive on the scene. The Council captures Trent, heals Chameleon, and offers Trent the kingship if he will marry Iris. The Storm King was allowed to remain King well past his prime because there was no suitable successor and by forcing Trent to marry (and presumably produce magician-caliber offspring) the council hopes to prevent that state of affairs from occurring again. Trent's first act as King is to get rid of the magical barrier between Xanth and Mundania and grant Bink (and non-magical folk in general including mundanes) the right to stay in Xanth. Trent's forces, who consisted of mundanes who wished to immigrate to Xanth, begin to settle in various regions of the magical land. Bink and Chameleon are then married and Trent and Iris take up residence in Castle Roogna. Bink and Chameleon obtain a cottage just outside the Castle and Bink is given the title of Official Researcher of Xanth.
Critical reception
Spell won the 1978 August Derleth Award for the best novel of the year.
In a dual review for NPR in 2013, married couple Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston called Spell "risky and thrilling". Both said that reading the book as adolescents strongly affected their perceptions of sexuality and relationships, and gave them the confidence to accept themselves as they were, and believe that a potential partner would also accept them. Infinity Pluss Sue Lange stated that although the book was "written in a simple style and fairly childish", with concepts that "have not aged well", it had "a number of clever moments", as well as "delightful puns" that were "wickedly witty". Jason Heller, writing for The A.V. Club, described the book as a "sad, misogynistic fantasy" that is "little more than a bundle of leering, hateful, degrading judgments about both women and men", in which misogyny is "fundamentally integrated as a primary theme".
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1977 fantasy novels
Del Rey books
Books with cover art by Michael Whelan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Spell%20for%20Chameleon |
Golden Hits may refer to:
Lady of the Stars by Donovan, packaged as Golden Hits, 1996
The Drifters' Golden Hits, a 1968 compilation album by American doo wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters
Golden Hits – 15 Hits of Pat Boone, a 1967 greatest hits album by Pat Boone
The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits, a 1980 greatest hits album by Boney M.
Golden Hits (Demis Roussos album), 1975
Golden Hits of the Smothers Brothers, Vol. 2, the Smothers Brothers' first greatest hits album
The Golden Hits of Sandie Shaw, a compilation album by 1960s British singer Sandie Shaw
Golden Hits of the Four Seasons, 1963
Golden Hits (Turtles album), 1967
Golden Hits (Westlife album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Hits |
Sudan competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Boxing
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Tajrish (, , also romanized as Tajrīš) is a neighbourhood of Tehran, capital of Iran. Administratively it is in Shemiranat County, Tehran Province. It used to be a village and later was absorbed into the city of Tehran.
The Tajrish neighbourhood is located along the northern edge of Tehran. This neighbourhood is one of the oldest parts of Tehran and during the last few decades, has become popular with the wealthy by virtue of the low levels of pollution, in turn created by the area's favorable location along Tehran's northern hills. Tajrish is situated in the Shemiranat County. As of 2006, the neighborhood had 86,000 inhabitants.
The Tajrish Square itself is known as Sar-e Pol-e Tajrish (). This square is actually a vast bridge on top of a qanat river. In older times the locals used to call this bridge Gowgal, meaning "[The Bridge] of the Cow Herd.
History
The location of the neighborhood was once an ancient village, and in 1788, the Qajar dynasty choose this as their capital. It is known for its mountainous landscape. The area was often used as a summer retreat by city residents.
Until the 1920s, Tajrish and neighboring Shemiranat were a collection of small villages along Tehran's border. The area was relatively disconnected from Tehran's urban with the exception of Old Shemiran Road, currently known as Shariati Avenue. With the construction of Pahlavi Road (now named Valiasr Street) in 1930s and Modarres Highway, then known as Shahanshahi Boulevard, the Northern suburbs became highly accessible from downtown and rapid extension became possible.
Modern day
Popular tourist spots in Tajrish are the old bazaar and a mausoleum called Imam Zadeh Saleh.
Tajrish Square is currently one of the busiest parts of Tehran, with bus terminals, cab terminals. It is the location of shopping malls, including the popular Tandis Center. The square also the location of street performers, and where people gather to publicly celebrate holidays.
A number of Shia Islam religious sites are located here, including the mausoleum called Imam Zadeh Saleh, a shrine called , and a few Takyehs or religious buildings (such as Takyeh Borzog, Takyeh Pa'in, ).
The square is where Valiasr Street terminates. Valiasr is the longest and, along with Shariati Avenue, one of the most important streets in Tehran. It is also one of the busiest transportation hubs in Tehran. Many other suburbs are accessible from this square. A major metro station, the northern terminus of line one (the red line) is located here.
Tajrish is at the junction of streets that lead to Saad Abad Palace, Velenjak, Asad Abad, Zafaraniyeh, Elahieh, and Niavaran as well as many of the other places in northern Tehran.
Tajrish Bazaar
Tehran has two bazaars, the Tajrish Bazaar is located in the north and the Grand Bazaar is located in the south of the city. The bazaar was developed in the 18th-century (although some sources state early 19th-century), and was associated with the village of Shemiranat and the Qajar dynasty. The location of the Tajrish Bazaar is bound by Panzandeh-e Kordad Street, Molavi Street, Mostafa Khomeini Street, and Khayyam Street.
Tajrish Bazaar has been built according to architectural style which closely resembles the Grand Bazaar in downtown Tehran. Some of its arches have been destroyed due to construction of multi-story buildings and its traditional identity has been threatened by irregularity of window shops and external view of new stores. Tajrish Bazaar includes a roofed passageway through which thousands of people pass en route to either paying pilgrimage the Emamzadeh Saleh or to the bazaar for purchasing goods.
The traditional bazaar of Tajrish neighborhood has been renovated by the Tehran Beautification Organization, which featured reconstruction of the traditional market using both traditional and modern styles, wastewater collection, power, gas, telecommunication installations, as well as repair of small and large shops and passageways.
Geography
Tajrish is located at the foot of the Alborz mountain range and Tajrish Square is located at an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level. Tajrish's climate is temperate and cold. The maximum temperature in summer is 36 degrees and the minimum in winter is -20 degrees. There have been several aqueducts in Tajrish and some of them are still flowing. Among them are Imam Zadeh Saleh aqueduct , Mohammadieh aqueduct, Maghsoudbak aqueduct along Darband river, Sarpol Tajrish aqueduct and Kahrizak aqueduct which was manifested in the lower support of Tajrish.
Population
The population of the city of Tajrish in 1335 was 26,525 and in the census of 1365 was about 40,000.In the 1996 census, due to Tajrish being connected to the city of Tehran and being located in the Greater Tehran area, its population was mentioned along with the population of Tehran.
Language dialect
Tajrishi is also a dialect of Persian, which is nowadays almost extinct and has been replaced by standard Persian. The etymology of the word Tajrish itself is unknown.
Iranian linguist Habib Borjian, after examining all the available material at hand concerning this dialect confirms it is a dialect of the Persian and writes: "Tajrishi shows no divergence from the Persid group, despite minor variation with respect to modern standard Persian. It is in verb morphology that we do find in Tajrishi a massive Caspian overlay, imposed on the dialect by means of age-old socio-economic ties with the districts to its north in the Alborz chain. We may thus characterize Tajrishi and
other Shemirāni dialects as Persian with a significant Caspian imprint. Surprisingly enough, we find no trace of a Northwestern Iranian substratum in the dialect of Tajrish, nor do we find it in the scanty material available to us about the other extinct vernaculars of Shemirān ... This situation can only attest to an early Persianization of Rey and its adjoining settlements."
Gallery
References
External links
Neighbourhoods in Tehran
Shemiranat County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajrish |
Big Foot High School (BFHS) is a comprehensive four-year public high
school located in Wisconsin's South Central Walworth County in the Village of
Walworth. A union high school, BFHS operates as a grade
9-12 district with students coming from four K-8 districts. BFHS is
governed by a separate, elected five-member board of education. The
BFHS union district serves families from the villages of Fontana,
Sharon and Walworth; and the townships of Walworth, Delavan, Linn and
Sharon.
BFHS is named after the Potawatomi leader Big Foot
(Maumksuck) who had 6 toes and lived along the banks of Geneva Lake (originally
known as Big Foot Lake) until his tribe was forcibly relocated by the United
States government in 1836.
Extracurricular activities
Big Foot's football team went to the Division 4 state championship game at Camp Randall Stadium in 2008, but lost to Wautoma High School by a score of 20–0. In 2009, the team played in the championship game the second consecutive year, this time facing Kewaunee High School. Big Foot won by a score of 42–13, making it the first State Football title in school history.
Statistics
Enrollment: 468 (2021–22)
District Administrator: Mr. Doug Parker
Principal: Mr. Jeremy Andersen
Assistant Principals: Ms. Bailey Racky and Mr. Mike Welden
Coeducational: Yes
Colors: Scarlet and Silver
Notable alumni
Tyler August, Speaker pro tempore of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Travis Frederick, Center for the Dallas Cowboys (NFL)
References
External links
Big Foot High School website
Big Foot High School Band Website
1959 establishments in Wisconsin
Educational institutions established in 1959
Public high schools in Wisconsin
Schools in Walworth County, Wisconsin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Foot%20High%20School |
Sudan competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Ten competitors, all men, took part in ten events in four sports.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Boxing
Men
Shooting
Three shooters represented Sudan in 1960.
Men
Weightlifting
Men
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1960 Summer Olympics
1960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20at%20the%201960%20Summer%20Olympics |
Centaur Aisle is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the fourth book of the Xanth series.
King Trent has left Xanth on a mission of trade to Mundania and has left Dor as temporary king. When Trent fails to return after some time, Dor must find a way to rescue Trent. He is informed that the means to rescue Trent lies to the south on Centaur Isle, the home of a tribe of centaurs.
Plot
Xanth's King Trent has left for dreary Mundania, leaving Dor to practice governing the magical kingdom. Dor's magical talent is communication with the inanimate which for information gathering is very helpful, but for dealing with citizens needing discipline it leaves room for improvement. But when Trent goes to establish trade routes with Mundania, Dor and his friends (a golem named Grundy, the centaur Chet, Smash the ogre, and Dor's love interest, King Trent's daughter Princess Irene) must keep the land in line.
However, the former King Trent does not return when he had planned. After waiting two weeks, Dor gathers his gang and goes on a quest to help rescue Trent.
This mission leads them to Centaur Isle, to find an unknown Centaur Magician. Centaurs are very negative about magical talents, so when they find Arnolde the Centaur and discover his talent, he is exiled and willing to help them rescue Trent. Arnolde's talent is a magical aisle, creating a field of magic around him that allows anyone to use magic in Mundania.
The gang (minus Chet) travel north by rainbow to Mundania. While in Mundania, they find a scholar named Ichabod. From him, they learn that they are in the wrong time strand and must go back to Xanth and re-cross the border. Eventually Dor and his friends find the correct strand and go to the castle where they think Trent and his wife Iris were last. After a nice dinner and a little betrayal, they are locked in a dungeon. After escaping, they smash down walls to find Trent and his new friend King Omen, the proper king of this area.
The group (plus the new additions) struggles to get Omen onto his rightful throne. After exchanging farewells, they decide to return to Xanth with King Trent and Queen Iris.
Characters
Dor
Irene
Smash
Grundy
Chet
Arnolde
References
American fantasy novels
04
1982 American novels
Novels about magic
Del Rey books
Books with cover art by Michael Whelan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur%20Aisle |
Ogre, Ogre is the fifth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot introduction
Smash the half-ogre (offspring of Crunch the ogre and a human Curse Fiend acting like an ogre) goes to see the Good Magician Humfrey to get his question answered, although he doesn't know what his question is. The magician's answer: Travel to the Ancestral Ogres to find what you seek. His payment is to guard Tandy, a half-nymph, for one year.
They travel about the magical land of Xanth, and Smash acquires other young women who travel with him and whom he protects. Along the way, he is infected with the Eye Queue vine, which makes him intelligent (although actually invoking his human half) making him distressed as ogres are not supposed to be smart in any way. As he tries to find an antidote to his intelligence, he undergoes several adventures; saving Tandy from the dream realm in a plant called a hypnogourd and smashing the Gap Dragon. Soon he finds matches and finds solutions to all of the women, who leave one by one.
Plot summary
The book starts off with Tandy the half-nymph being sexually harassed by the nasty demon Fiant while trying to sleep. She has the talent of throwing tantrums that can stun or destroy, but her talent is ineffective against the demon, so she decides to visit her father Crombie at Castle Roogna to see if he can help. Having no means of travel, however, she decides to catch a night mare to take her there. She succeeds, at the price of being battered, except the mare takes her to the Good Magician's castle instead, where she is admitted without challenges due to the difficulties she went through riding the mare.
Cut to a year later, we find Smash the half-ogre travelling to the Good Magician Humfrey seeking to solve a vague dissatisfaction about himself. Using the best of his ogre qualities (strength and naive stupidity), plus his clumsy knowledge of human customs, as well as the occasional bright flash of human intelligence, he navigates his way into the Magician's castle passing various obstacles such as a basilisk and a pond of firewater. Once Smash gains entrance, though, he is too stupid to formulate his question. Magician Humphrey gives him an answer anyway, telling him to travel to the Ancestral Ogres and take Tandy with him, and guard her.
On their travels, Smash and Tandy blunder into an Eye Queue vine, which embeds itself into Smash's head and provides him with human intelligence so he converses in the human way instead of spouting simple ogre rhymes. He soon discovers that the vine also helps give him good ideas, as not all the problems he and Tandy encounter can be bashed to pieces. After the vine, they encounter an assortment of females of various magical races, each needing to fulfill a personal quest including a dryad who needs to protect her tree from woodsmen, the wingless fairy John looking for her similarly incorrectly named counterpart to switch back, Centaur Chem, a longtime friend with the talent of magic mapping who wants to chart more of Xanth, Blythe Brassie who accidentally leaves her hypnogourd homeworld to come to the real Xanth, a mermaid looking for love, and others. Unfortunately also during their travels, Tandy gets trapped in the hypnogourd world and has her soul wrenched from her, though she is later freed by the others. Smash enters back into the gourd and forages a deal with the world's spokesperson (in the form of a coffin): Smash will give his soul to the gourd under a 90-day lien in exchange for Tandy's soul. He then has 90 days to find the dread Night Stallion, ruler of the gourd world, and negotiate to void the lien.
As the travels continue, each female does find what she is looking for, eventually, although Smash's strength saps out of him a little at a time as his soul is gradually recalled as the days pass. Smash makes periodic forays into the gourd world, with the help of a magical and infinite ball of string to mark his way, in search of the Night Stallion, overcoming various world challenges, most of which require both his ogre strength and human intelligence to solve. Finally, when only Chem and Tandy are left with Smash, they come upon the dread Elements region and face a flood in the water region that washes off the Eye Queue vine from Smash's head, right before they enter the most dangerous Void region. As they enter the void, they come to realize that they are trapped and must find a way to get out, which they can't do without Smash's useful intelligence. Smash, using the Void's properties, manages to get his illusion of intelligence back (though at this point it is no longer illusory), and enter the gourd one last time, where he finally finds the Night Stallion and faces new challenges that require all his newfound human intelligence as well as his ogre strength and stubbornness to overcome.
Once Smash conquers the Night Stallion's challenges and wins back his soul, he realizes his human side and falls in love with Tandy, putting his own soul in jeopardy again to save her, but through another deal ends up with only half a soul and half his ogre strength. He finally does arrive at the home of the Ancestral Ogres but notes how stupid and ugly they really are and decides he does not want to stay with them, though, when they threaten Tandy he commits to fighting to save her. After Tandy sacrifices her own soul mid-battle to save Smash (giving him full ogre strength) so he can defeat the ancestral ogres, Smash finally comes to true terms with his human side, even transforming himself into a human so he can make love to Tandy properly.
As Smash and Tandy journey home, they again run into Demon Fiant. As a man, Smash is no match for the demon, but manages to transform back to ogre form, and is able to defeat Fiant permanently, though again his human intelligence is needed to win this battle.
Characters
Smash
Tandy
Chem
Siren
John Fairy
Blythe
Imbri
References
05
1982 American novels
Del Rey books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre%2C%20Ogre |
Dragon on a Pedestal is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the seventh book of the Xanth series .
This book centers on Princess Ivy, the 3-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, the search for her, and the spell on Gap Chasm that caused people to forget it existed breaking apart into "Forget Whorls".
Plot summary
When the book begins, the Good Magician Humfrey, and his son Hugo, run into the Gap dragon while filling a vial with water from the Fountain of Youth. Humpfrey tells Hugo to douse the dragon with the water, and Hugo does so but accidentally sprays Humpfrey as well. Humpfrey regresses to the age of a baby, as does the dragon. Queen Irene realizes Princess Ivy has wandered off, and begins a quest to find her daughter. Luckily, Ivy comes across Humfrey's 8-year-old son Hugo, and – due to her unknown talent of enhancement – Hugo temporarily becomes smarter, braver, and stronger when she tells him he is. Ivy also manages to enhance the positive qualities of the Gap Dragon, and names him Stanley Steamer.
In Castle Roogna, Dor accidentally put a forget spell on the Gap Chasm (the huge rift that splits Xanth in two), while trying to escape a horde of harpies and goblins, with the result being that everyone forgot the Gap Chasm existed, with the exception of the people who live near it. In this book, the forget spell is beginning to disintegrate into "forget whorls" spinning off into the nearby forest (due to the Time Of No Magic caused when Bink released the Demon X(A/N)th), causing confusion and memory loss. Ivy ends up walking through a forget whirl and it causes her to forget how to get home.
Near the end of the novel, all the characters join forces against a swarm of wiggles, which threaten the welfare of Xanth by burrowing through anything and everything in their path.
Characters
Ivy
Hugo
Irene
Gorgon
The Gap Dragon
Humfrey
Dor
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Dragon on a Pedestal for White Dwarf #52, and stated that "Despite a predilection for very didactic explanations and very stupid protagonists, Anthony is engagingly breezy and inventive, titivating each tired old quest plot with new varieties of 'magic'."
Reviews
Review [French] by Élisabeth Vonarburg? (1984) in Solaris, #54
Review by Richard Mathews (1984) in SF & Fantasy Review, March 1984
References
1983 American novels
American fantasy novels
Del Rey books
Human-zombie romance in fiction
07
Zombie novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20on%20a%20Pedestal |
A Schottky defect is an excitation of the site occupations in a crystal lattice leading to point defects named after Walter H. Schottky. In ionic crystals, this defect forms when oppositely charged ions leave their lattice sites and become incorporated for instance at the surface, creating oppositely charged vacancies. These vacancies are formed in stoichiometric units, to maintain an overall neutral charge in the ionic solid.
Definition
Schottky defects consist of unoccupied anion and cation sites in a stoichiometric ratio. For a simple ionic crystal of type A−B+, a Schottky defect consists of a single anion vacancy (A) and a single cation vacancy (B), or v + v following Kröger–Vink notation. For a more general crystal with formula AxBy, a Schottky cluster is formed of x vacancies of A and y vacancies of B, thus the overall stoichiometry and charge neutrality are conserved. Conceptually, a Schottky defect is generated if the crystal is expanded by one unit cell, whose a prior empty sites are filled by atoms that diffused out of the interior, thus creating vacancies in the crystal.
Schottky defects are observed most frequently when there is a small difference in size between the cations and anions that make up a material.
Illustration
Chemical equations in Kröger–Vink notation for the formation of Schottky defects in TiO2 and BaTiO3.
∅ v + 2 v
∅ v + v + 3 v
This can be illustrated schematically with a two-dimensional diagram of a sodium chloride crystal lattice:
Bound and dilute defects
The vacancies that make up the Schottky defects have opposite charge, thus they experience a mutually attractive Coulomb force. At low temperature, they may form bound clusters.
The bound clusters are typically less mobile than the dilute counterparts, as multiple species need to move in a concerted motion for the whole cluster to migrate. This has important implications for numerous functional ceramics used in a wide range of applications, including ion conductors, Solid oxide fuel cells and nuclear fuel.
Examples
This type of defect is typically observed in highly ionic compounds, highly coordinated compounds, and where there is only a small difference in sizes of cations and anions of which the compound lattice is composed. Typical salts where Schottky disorder is observed are NaCl, KCl, KBr, CsCl and AgBr. For engineering applications, Schottky defects are important in oxides with Fluorite structure, such as CeO2, cubic ZrO2, UO2, ThO2 and PuO2.
Effect on density
Typically, the formation volume of a vacancy is positive: the lattice contraction due to the strains around the defect does not make up for the expansion of the crystal due to the additional number of sites. Thus, the density of the solid crystal is less than the theoretical density of the material.
See also
Frenkel defect
Wigner effect
Crystallographic defects
References
Notes
Crystallographic defects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky%20defect |
The Movement for Autonomy (, MpA) is a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Sicily. The MpA, whose founder and leader is Raffaele Lombardo, demands economic development, greater autonomy and legislative powers for Sicily and the other regions of southern Italy.
History
Early years
The party was founded on 30 April 2005 as the Movement for Autonomy (Movimento per l'Autonomia) by Sicilian splinters from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) led by Raffaele Lombardo, as well as people from other centre-right parties, notably including Forza Italia (FI), the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI).
At the 2006 general election the party joined the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition and formed a joint-list, the Pact for Autonomies, with Lega Nord (LN), a regionalist movement based in northern Italy, and the Sardinian Action Party (PSd'Az). The MpA elected five deputies (two in the lists of FI) and two senators (one in the lists of FI). Lombardo claimed to have discarded the possibility of an alliance with the centre-left coalition The Union mainly because of the latter's opposition to the building of the Strait of Messina Bridge and their support for civil unions. In January 2008 the MpA formed a political pact with Vincenzo Scotti, leader of the Third Pole, who became president of the party.
At the 2008 general election the party won 1.1% of the vote (7.4% in Sicily) and obtained 8 deputies and 2 senators, thanks to the alliance with The People of Freedom (PdL) and Lega Nord. After the election the MpA joined the Berlusconi IV Cabinet.
More important, at the 2008 Sicilian regional election Lombardo was elected President of the region by a landslide and the MpA was the third largest party in the region with 13.8% of the vote (21.8% including also Lombardo's personal list and the Autonomist Democrats, the MpA's social-democratic and liberal faction) and 15 regional deputies.
The Party of the South
In the 2009 European Parliament election the MpA, that changed its name into Movement for Autonomies (Movimento per le Autonomie) and aimed at becoming a national party, ran as part of The Autonomy, that included also The Right, the Pensioners' Party and the Alliance of the Centre. As part of its "national" strategy the party was joined by some small northern regionalist parties: Lombardia Autonoma, the Forum of Venetians, Autonomist Trentino and S.O.S. Italy. The alliance gained a mere 2.2% of the vote, thus returning no MEPs, but in its Sicilian stronghold it reached 15.6%. Since the election there were talks about the foundation of a new "Party of the South", of which the MpA would have been the core. In December 2009 Raffaele Lombardo, leader of the MpA and President of Sicily, formed his third cabinet that included ministers from his MpA party, the "PdL–Sicily" of Gianfranco Micciché and the newly formed regional section of Alliance for Italy (ApI), plus some independents, including one who was close to the centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD). Lombardo appointed no members of the "official" PdL and of the UDC.
The break-up of the alliance with the official PdL in Sicily and all around the South led to a painful split. In January 2010 Vincenzo Scotti and four deputies out of eight, who wanted to continue the alliance with the PdL, were expelled from the party and formed their own movement called We the South (NS). However, in September 2010 Lombardo broke also with Micciché and formed his fourth cabinet supported by the so-called "third pole" coalition, composed of the MpA, Future and Freedom (FLI), a wing of the UDC and ApI, plus the PD. In November, as an ally of Gianfranco Fini's FLI, the MpA quit Berlusconi's government.
On 15 December 2010 the MpA was a founding member of the New Pole for Italy (NPI) along with the UDC, FLI and ApI.
In March 2011 Lombardo announced that the MpA would soon merge into a larger "party of the South".
In July 2012 Lombardo stepped down from secretary of the party and was replaced by Giovanni Pistorio, the long-time leader of the party in Sicily, along with Agazio Loiero, a former Southern Democrat and later Democrat who had been President of Calabria from 2005 to 2010.
The Party of Sicilians
In August 2012 Lombardo resigned also from President of Sicily, prompting an early regional election. The Sicilian section of the MpA was renamed as Party of Sicilians (PdS). Lombardo decided not to stand for re-election and the PdS chose to support Gianfranco Micciché, leader of Great South (GS), for president, as part of a "Sicilianist" coalition. Micciché won 15.4% of the vote, while the PdS obtained a mere 9.5% and ten regional deputies.
The PdS/MpA failed to pass the electoral thresholds in the 2013 general election, but, thanks to an agreement with the PdL, had one deputy (Angelo Attaguile) and two senators (Antonio Scavone and Pippo Compagnone) elected. Attaguile chose to team up with the LN in the "Lega Nord–Autonomies" parliamentary group. Attaguile later left the PdS/MpA and joined to Us with Salvini (NcS), becoming its national secretary.
In the 2017 regional election the PdS/MpA formed teamed up with Cantiere Popolare (CP) under the banner of "Populars and Autonomists". The list won 7.1% of the vote, obtained six regional deputies and entered the regional government led by Nello Musumeci, the newly elected president of Sicily.
In December 2017 the PdS/MpA was a founding member of Us with Italy (NcI), a pro-Silvio Berlusconi centrist electoral list within the centre-right coalition for the 2018 general election, along with CP, Direction Italy (DI), Civic Choice (SC), Act! (F!) and splinters of Popular Alternative (AP – two groups, a liberal one led by Enrico Costa and a Christian-democratic one led by Maurizio Lupi). NcI was later enlarged to the Union of the Centre (UdC) and Identity and Action (IdeA), with the goal of reaching 3%, required to win seats from proportional lists under a new electoral law.
The Movement for New Autonomy
In December 2020, Matteo Salvini and Roberto Di Mauro signed a federative agreement between the League and the Movement for New Autonomy (Movimento per la Nuova Autonomia, MNA) based on a series of key points: "Infrastructural development, taxation of ten-year advantage for companies that want to invest in Sicily, a relentless fight against organised crime, Sicilian agri-food development, tourism and strengthening of Sicilian autonomy and administrative in favor of municipalities, simplification and digitisation."
In 2022 the party resumed its original name, Movement for Autonomy.
In the 2022 regional election the party, again in a joint list with CP, won 6.8% of the vote.
Electoral results
Italian Parliament
European Parliament
Sicilian Regional Assembly
Leadership
(Federal) Secretary: Raffaele Lombardo (2005–2012), Giovanni Pistorio (2012)/ Agazio Loiero (2012–2013), Giuseppe Maria Reina (2017–2018), Roberto Di Mauro (2018–present)
Regional Secretary (PdS): Giovanni Pistorio (2012–2015), Rino Piscitello (2013–2015)
(Federal) President: Vincenzo Scotti (2008–2010)
See also
Southern Italy autonomist movements
References
2005 establishments in Italy
The Autonomy
Christian democratic parties in Italy
Catholic political parties
Political parties in Sicily
Political parties established in 2005
Regionalist parties in Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20for%20Autonomy |
Lulsgate Plateau is the name given to the Carboniferous Limestone hills which form a northern outlier of the Mendip Hills, southwest of Bristol, England, approximately above sea level, which has been occupied since prehistoric times.
The major feature on the plateau is Bristol International Airport. Cutting into the western edge of the plateau are two combes, Brockley Combe and Goblin Combe a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). There are two major roads in the area — the A38 cuts across the top of the plateau, while the A370 runs along its western edge. Both run in a southwesterly direction, and join Bristol to towns and villages in Somerset. To the west of the plateau are the North Somerset Levels, and to the south is the Yeo valley.
References
Landforms of Somerset
Mendip Hills
Plateaus of England
Wrington | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulsgate%20Plateau |
Seam allowance (sometimes called inlays) is the area between the fabric edge and the stitching line on two (or more) pieces of material being sewn together. Seam allowances can range from wide to as much as several inches. Commercial patterns for home sewers have seam allowances ranging from .
A 5/8″(1.5cm) seam allowance provides enough extra between the seam line and the cut edge of the fabric to make sure that the fabric will be safely caught as they are being joining together. This is particularly important when working with fabrics that ravel easily.
Sewing industry seam allowances range from for curved areas (e.g. neck line, armscye) or hidden seams (e.g. facing seams), to or more for areas that require extra fabric for final fitting to the wearer (e.g. center back). Curved seams generally have a smaller seam allowance than straight seams; bulky seams with a large amount of seam allowance are more difficult to press into or conform to a curved shape.
References
Seams | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam%20allowance |
139P/Väisälä–Oterma is a periodic comet in the Solar System. When it was discovered in 1939 it was not recognized as a comet and designated as asteroid 1939 TN.
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
139P/Vaisala-Oterma – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net
139P at Kronk's Cometography
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19391007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/139P/V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4%E2%80%93Oterma |
The Spon Lane Locks Branch is an 800-yard section of the BCN Main Line canal in Oldbury, England, which forms a connecting canal "sliproad" where the Old BCN Main Line crosses the New BCN Main Line at the Stewart Aqueduct. It runs westwards from Spon Lane Junction (underneath the M5 motorway) via the three Spon Lane Locks to Bromford Junction.
It was originally part of the Wednesbury branch of Birmingham Canal which opened in 1769. At the top lock, there is a rare example of a split bridge, which enabled a horse to cross the canal without being detached from the barge. The rope passed through a gap at the centre of the bridge between its two halves. However, this particular example is a modern reconstruction, dating from 1986. These are probably the oldest working locks in the country. There is pedestrian access to a tow path for its entire length, but being narrow and muddy, it is not suitable for cyclists.
On the north-west corner of Spon Lane bottom lock can be found a rare example of an Ordnance Survey rivet benchmark, this one indicating a height of above sea level at Newlyn. This is one of two rivet benchmarks on this branch, the other being at Smethwick Middle Lock.
References
Birmingham Canal Navigations
Canals in the West Midlands (county)
Oldbury, West Midlands
Canals opened in 1769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spon%20Lane%20Locks%20Branch |
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the eighth book of the Xanth series.
This book is a story within a story as one of Castle Roogna's ghosts, Jordan the Barbarian, tells Princess Ivy his story of betrayal and death via the magical medium of the Tapestry.
Plot
The five-year-old Princess Ivy asks one of Castle Roogna's ghosts to tell her how he became a ghost. Ivy uses her talent of enhancement - and some caustic Crewel Lye to strip off centuries of accrued grime - to improve the range and clarity of Castle Roogna's magical Tapestry. The Tapestry is a woven hanging which allows anyone to view recent or historical events (although it cannot violate the Adult Conspiracy, nor does it include sound). The ghost, known as Jordan the Barbarian when he was alive 400 years ago, begins his story by recounting how he set off on an adventure with his horse Pook.
Jordan had the magical talent of self-healing — which came in handy as he was cut, stabbed, and dismembered during his travels. In one case, a woman finds him gravely injured and hauls him to her cottage, not knowing of his talent. Jordan ends up falling in love with this woman, Threnody. Unfortunately, the evil magician Yin-Yang had already claimed Threnody to be his wife, and was willing to do anything to have her.
Intending to keep Jordan safe from Yin-Yang, Threnody makes it appear that she has betrayed Jordan. She cuts him into pieces and buries each piece in a different remote location — knowing that if the pieces were reattached, he would be able to heal himself. However, she is never able to break free of Yin-Yang long enough to collect Jordan's dismembered body and eventually kills herself.
After hearing Jordan's story, Ivy decides to gather his body parts herself. Once placed near each other, the pieces mend together and cover back up with muscle and skin (greatly sped up due to Ivy's enhancement). Jordan is alive again — but he wants his new love, the ghost Renee, to be brought to life again too. When Ivy and Jordan use a regenerating potion on Renee's remains (after accidentally teleporting Stanley Steamer the baby Gap Dragon away), Threnody emerges from her grave.
Threnody explains that her "cruel lie" had been done to protect Jordan. After some time, he forgives her and they get married.
Characters
Jordan
Threnody
Pook Pooka
Yin-Yang
Ivy
References
American fantasy novels
08
1985 American novels
Novels about magic
Del Rey books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crewel%20Lye%3A%20A%20Caustic%20Yarn |
In the United States, the investment company products/variable life contracts representative exam, is commonly referred to as the Series 6 exam. Individuals passing this multiple choice exam are licensed to sell a limited set of securities products:
Mutual funds
Closed-end funds on the initial offering only
Unit investment trusts
Variable Annuities
A Series 6 registered individual is not a stockbroker since Series 6 license holders cannot sell stock, other corporate securities, direct participation programs (DPPs), or option products.
This exam is administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, previously known as the NASD). In order to take the exam, an individual must be sponsored by a member firm of either FINRA or a self-regulatory organization (SRO). The cost of the exam is $40. Individuals are allowed 90 minutes to complete 50 multiple choice questions. The passing score is 70%, and those who fail this exam must wait thirty days before taking it again. In order to be registered with the Series 6, an individual must also pass the Securities Industry Essentials Exam (The SIE Exam).
The table below lists the allocation of exam questions for each main job function of an investment company and variable contracts products representative.
See also
List of securities examinations
Series 7 exam
Series 24 exam
Series 63 exam
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Sources
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (http://www.finra.org/industry/series6)
http://www.series6examtutor.com (via FINRA's series 6 content outline)
United States securities law
Professional certification in finance
Standardized tests in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%206%20exam |
Golem in the Gears is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the ninth book of the Xanth series.
Plot introduction
Grundy, a man only a few inches high, is desperate to prove himself and gain respect. He volunteers to ride the Monster Under The Bed to find his friend Ivy's long lost dragon, Stanley Steamer.
After many adventures, he rescues Rapunzel from the villainous Sea Hag. It seems too good to be true that she could become any size she wanted! A perfect match, seemingly. But that would have to wait until they shook off the pursuing Sea Hag...and Stanley still needed to be found!
Characters
Grundy
Rapunzel
Sea Hag
Snortimer
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Golem in the Gears for White Dwarf #86, and stated that "Like some legendary D&D campaigns, Xanth is so full of whimsy and casual magic that no situation can threaten for long: the storyline lurches drunkenly from pun to banal pun."
Reviews
Review by Bob Collins (1985) in Fantasy Review, December 1985
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #82 July 1986
Review by Andy Sawyer (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #64
Review by Ken Brown (1987) in Interzone, #20 Summer 1987
References
American fantasy novels
09
1986 American novels
Del Rey books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem%20in%20the%20Gears |
Rwanda competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Women
Track & road events
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
1988 in Rwanda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
Vale of the Vole is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the tenth book of the Xanth series.
It begins a trilogy including Heaven Cent and Man from Mundania. The novel was written as a satirical jab at the canalization of the Kissimmee River in Anthony's native state of Florida as a result of the effects of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane season.
The protagonist of this story is Eskil "Esk" Ogre, only son of Tandy Nymph and Smash Ogre. His talent is to protest; when Esk says "No!" he really means it. Those he directs this talent at literally stop what they have intended to do. Esk goes to ask Good Magician Humfrey how to get rid of the Demoness Metria, who has seemingly threatened his family. Unfortunately, Humphrey has gone missing.
Plot summary
On his way to the Good Magician's castle, Esk meets Chex, the winged centaur daughter of Xap Hippogryph and Chem Centaur. Despite having wings, Chex is unable to fly due to her solid equine weight; she is going to ask Humfrey how she can fly. Later, the two of them meet up with Volney Vole, who always replaces S's with V's during speech. Volney has a demon problem of his own, as his home by the Kiss-Me River has become unbearably infested with bugs ever since the demons decided to straighten out the river's undulating curves.
When they discover the Good Magician is missing, they decide to look for him. On the way, they go through a Hypnogourd, where bad dreams are manufactured. Esk meets Bria Brassie, a heavy brass woman, and they fall in love. The team discovers that Chex can make items temporarily light when she flicks them with her tail, which provides a solution to her problem of how to fly.
Characters
Eskil
Volney
Chex
Bria
Metria
References
10
1987 American novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale%20of%20the%20Vole |
The Hills Have Eyes is an American horror franchise that consists of four slasher films, a graphic novel and merchandise. It may also refer to:
In film
Films from the franchise:
The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film), an American horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven
The Hills Have Eyes Part II, a 1984 American horror film written and directed by Wes Craven
The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film), an American horror film and remake of Wes Craven's 1977 film of the same name
The Hills Have Eyes 2, a 2007 American horror film, and the sequel to the 2006 film which was a remake of the 1977 horror film
Mind Ripper (also The Hills Have Eyes III), a horror film released on HBO in 1995
In music
"The Hills Have Eyes", the sixth track from Stratovarius' 1992 album Twilight Time
"The Hills Have Eyes", the sixth track from Electric Wizard's 2000 album Dopethrone
"The Hills Have Eyes", the second track from The Acacia Strain's 2010 album Wormwood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hills%20Have%20Eyes%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Rwanda competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Women
Track & road events
References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
1984 in Rwanda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Heaven Cent is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the eleventh book of the Xanth series. It is the second book of a trilogy beginning with Vale of the Vole and ending with Man from Mundania.
Plot introduction
The protagonist of Heaven Cent is Prince Dolph, shapeshifting son of King Dor and Queen Irene and younger brother of Princess Ivy. The story begins with Dolph, a pre-teen, setting out on a Quest with his designated Adult Companion Marrow Bones to locate the magician Humfrey, who had been missing since Vale of the Vole.
Plot summary
The story begins with Prince Dolph lying in his sister, Ivy's, bed watching her magical tapestry which shows images from the past and present of Xanth. Dolph is the son of King Dor and Queen Irene, and he has the powerful talent of being able to shapeshift, giving him the power to change into any animal he chooses. While watching the images of the magical tapestry Dolph begins to think about the disappearance of the Good Magician Humphrey. Dolph gets so enraptured with the thought of finding the Magician that he eventually asks his father and mother permission to set out on a quest to find the answers. Queen Irene decides that Dolph is at a fine age to set out for a quest, but as long as he takes with him an adult companion. After some debate and arguing over who should accompany Dolph, Dolph suggests that Marrow Bones accompany him. Marrow is a walking, talking skeleton who has the ability to transform his skeletal body into many shapes as long as Dolph gives him a good kick in the tail bone first.
Once Dolph and Marrow set out on their journey they realize their first stop must be at the Good Magician Humfrey's castle to investigate for any clues to his disappearance. Once in the castle Dolph and Marrow find a hidden room that can only be viewed through a clear rock from above. In the hidden room is a message that reads "Skeleton Key to Heaven Cent". Marrow distinguishes that there is a pun in the message, and a Skeleton Key is really an island made of coral. So Dolph and Marrow set out to find the isle and find the Heaven Cent to bring back the Good Magician Humphrey.
Throughout Dolph and Marrow's adventures through the land of Xanth they encounter many different creatures. There are the always rhyming ogres, bone hungry and smelly harpies, the cruel merwomen, and many others. One of the major creatures that come into play in the book are the nagas. The nagas are a snake-human people who have the power to transform into either a full snake, full human, or mixed form. Dolph and Marrow encounter the nagas when trying to get through a goblin kingdom where the goblins are holding Nada, the naga princess, prisoner. After rescuing Nada, Dolph and Marrow return to the naga kingdom, where Dolph, even though too young, becomes unintentionally betrothed to Nada through a naga tradition. Nada joins Dolph and Marrow on their quest to find the Heaven Cent, and their romantic relationship blossoms until Nada reveals to Dolph that she is actually many years older than he is. Although Dolph is taken aback by this information, his love for Nada does not waver and he keeps the betrothal intact.
When Dolph, Marrow, and Nada finally find the right island where the Heaven Cent is supposed to be they encounter a magical castle where a maiden has been under a magical sleep for 900 years of a 1000-year sentence. The sleeping maiden is named Electra, and she was put under the sleeping spell because 900 years ago she accidentally activated the Heaven Cent. Dolph kisses the sleeping Electra and awakens her, but to Dolph's surprise Electra cannot survive unless she marries the person who broke the spell on her.
Once the entire party returns to Castle Roogna Dolph is left with the decision about what to do with his two betrothed women. After much debate with both women and the King and Queen, Dolph asks for the test of the roses. Dolph chooses the yellow rose for Electra showing friendship and the red rose for Nada representing love. Electra is the first of the betrothed to attempt the test and she quickly chooses the red rose for Dolph representing love. Nada goes second and tries to pick the red rose, but she cannot because she does not truly love him and she is pricked by a rose. Nada then tries to pick a black rose and commit suicide, but Dolph jumps over to her and stops her. Dolph explains that he loves Nada even though the love is not returned. In the end Dolph remains betrothed to each girl even though the King and Queen do not believe in it, but Dolph and the girls believe that, in the next seven years before Dolph can marry, they will work out all the problems.
The Test of the Roses
The test of the roses is when one person stands in the center of a garden of different colored roses. Each rose color stands for a different emotion: white for indifference, yellow for friendship, pink for romance, red for love, and black for death. The person being decided over stands on a pillar in the middle of the garden, then the person trying to show their emotions walks around the garden and picks the appropriate colored rose for how they feel about the person in the middle of the garden.
References
External links
Google Books excerpt
11
1988 American novels
Avon (publisher) books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%20Cent |
Man from Mundania is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony. The twelfth book of the Xanth series, it concludes the trilogy of Vale of the Vole and Heaven Cent.
Plot introduction
The protagonist of Man from Mundania is seventeen-year-old Princess Ivy, daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, older sister to Prince Dolph. Due to her ancestor Bink's deal in the second Xanth novel, The Source of Magic, Ivy has a magician-caliber magical talent of being able to selectively enhance the world around her to match her expectations. The story begins when Ivy decides to use the Heaven Cent, located by Dolph in the previous book Heaven Cent, to find the Good Magician Humfrey, who had been missing since Vale of the Vole.
Plot summary
Princess Ivy sets off with her younger brother's co-fiancees Nada Naga and Electra to retrieve the magic mirror that had been stolen by the evil machine Com-Pewter, in preparation for her quest to find Good Magician Humfrey. After besting Com-Pewter in a battle of wits, Ivy uses the charged-up Heaven Cent to transport her to Humfrey's location.
Meanwhile, in Mundania, an average college boy named Grey Murphy runs a computer program that claims that it will help him meet women. Sure enough, after installing the "Worm" program, Grey meets a series of appropriately named girls who move into the neighboring apartment, starting with Agenda and moving on through Dyslexia and Euphoria. When Ivy arrives, disorientated to find herself in Mundania, Grey starts to fall for her despite her claims that she is a princess from a fantasy world called Xanth.
When Ivy wants to go home, Grey agrees to go with her, even though he doesn't believe that Xanth exists. Even when they've entered Xanth, Grey finds a scientific basis for the fantastical things he sees. His feelings for Ivy grow stronger, although Ivy knows that her regal parents won't allow her to marry a non-magician. The two of them take a trip through the Hypnogourd, where bad dreams are manufactured. After exiting the gourd, Grey, still skeptical of Xanth's magic, turns the Maenads' wine spring into water. Nada realizes his talent: magic nullification - which is a magician-caliber talent. It emerges that Grey is the son of Evil Magician Murphy and Vadne, both banished from Xanth in the book Castle Roogna, although they had never revealed their origins to him.
References
External links
Excerpt from Google Books
12
1989 American novels
Avon (publisher) books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20from%20Mundania |
Isle of View is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1989. It is the thirteenth book of the Xanth series.
Plot
Che, Chex Centaur’s winged foal, has been kidnapped by a group of goblins. It is up to Jenny, a girl from the world of Two Moons, to save him. Dolph finally has to decide whom to marry: Electra or Naga Nada.
The book begins in mid-crisis: Che Centaur has been foalnapped. Jenny Elf, wandering in a myopic haze through the World of Two Moons with her cat Sammy, accidentally stumbles through a giant hole between dimensions and ends up in Xanth. Jenny eventually discovers Che being held hostage by a group of goblins, and her attempt to rescue him results in them both being captured by another band of goblins.
Nada Naga, Electra, and the original goblin gang work together and succeed in retrieving Che, Jenny, and Sammy from the new goblin kidnappers. Nada and Electra play a game of chance with the goblins to determine to whom Che goes; the goblins win. The four goblins, Che, Jenny, and Sammy go back to Goblin Mountain where Che is to live. There, Che and Jenny learn why the goblins had kidnapped Che in the first place: they wanted him to be the tutor and companion to Gwendolyn, a young goblin princess who was lame and mostly blind. Because the goblins only respect strength and power, Gwendolyn needed to be able to conceal her physical disabilities by riding on Che's back - otherwise she would be overthrown and killed.
As Che and Jenny are getting to know Gwendolyn, Che's parents call together all the winged monsters in Xanth to start a siege on Goblin Mountain. After much chaos, it is decided that Che will return to his parents, provided that they will take care of Gwendolyn as well.
Prince Dolph finally has to decide which one of his fiancees to marry: Electra or Nada.
Trivia
Jenny Elf is named after a real reader, a twelve-year-old girl named Jenny Gildwarg, who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident that left her partially paralyzed. The story is also chronicled in the non-fiction account, Letters To Jenny.
The title is a same-sounding (homophonous) phrase of "I love you", which is a mondegreen.
References
American fantasy novels
13
1989 American novels
1989 fantasy novels
William Morrow and Company books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20of%20View |
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