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Cho Hanseung (, born November 27, 1982), also known as Jo Hanseung is a professional go player.
Biography
Cho turned professional in 1995. He was promoted to 7 dan in 2004, 8 dan in 2005 and 9 dan in 2006.
Titles and runners-up
Total: 5 titles, 11 runners-up.
External links
GoBase profile
Sensei's Library profile
1982 births
Living people
South Korean Go players
Asian Games medalists in go
Go players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho%20Han-seung |
Eric Baer, (born Erich Bär; July 18, 1932) is an American scientist and engineer known for his major research and educational contributions to polymer science and engineering. He is a leading pioneer in understanding the complex relationships between solid state structure, processing, and properties of polymeric materials and systems.
Baer was born in , Hesse, Germany on July 18, 1932. He was raised as an only child in a Jewish home by his parents, Arthur and Erna Baer (née Kraemer). His father and his father’s brother, Julius, owned a clothing and accessory store in Butzbach, Hessen, which was closed by the Nazis around 1937. Arthur was taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp during Kristallnacht, the evening of November 8, 1938, and was luckily released in June, 1939, since the family had received permission to emigrate immediately to England. They traveled by boat from The Hague, Netherlands and arrived in England on August 28, 1939. The family was taken to London and survived the blitz. Baer was evacuated north to Dunstable, Bedfordshire in December 1940.
In 1956 Baer married Ana Golender, who was both a chemist and homemaker. Ana and Eric had two children, Lisa and Michelle, both of whom pursued professional careers, in law and medicine respectively. Ana died in 1995 after a long illness and in 1999, Baer married Professor Ann Hiltner, a long time professional colleague. Hiltner, the first female chaired professor in the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, passed away in 2010. In 2016, Baer married Jane Glaubinger. Jane served for many years as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art and is now retired.
Baer’s formal education began in the early spring of 1941 after the family’s move to England when he was approaching nine years of age. He entered elementary school and was placed in classes with six year-old children. He quickly skipped grades and was accepted into the prestigious Church of England Dunstable Grammar School in the autumn if 1942. It was during his time at Dunstable Grammar School that his interest in science was stimulated. Baer and his parents moved to the United States in December, 1947. There they joined a large number of relatives who had the good fortune to leave Germany prior to the Holocaust and World War II.
Baer graduated from Baltimore City College (high school) in 1949. In 1951, Baer entered graduate school at Johns Hopkins University majoring in organic chemistry. His first research was on the synthesis of intermediate compounds to mimic naturally occurring strained ring structures. After earning his M.A. in 1953, he was attracted by an opportunity in rapid heat transfer kinetics by dropwise condensation, and transferred to the Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering majoring in chemical engineering. Baer earned a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1957 and immediately joined E. I. DuPont Polychemicals Division, at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. He had no previous education or exposure to the field of polymer science and engineering. While at DuPont he learned for the first time the many aspects of polymer science and engineering concentrating mainly on structure property relationships and small scale processing. This education in an advanced industrial setting served as the foundation for the remainder of his scientific career.
In 1962 he joined the engineering faculty at Case Institute of Technology (which is now Case Western Reserve University.) His goal at CWRU was to develop a major program in advanced polymer education and research which, under his leadership, became the current Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. Today, Baer serves at CWRU as Distinguished University Professor and holds the Herbert Henry Dow Chair in Science and Engineering. Currently he is also the Director of CLiPS, the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems.
Over the last twenty years, Baer has led a large team in the creation of polymer layered systems. Focus on both micro and nanolayered structures has inspired the development of novel gradient index lenses and superior layered dielectric films for energy storage. Today, new layered systems are being developed under his direction for uses in food packaging, ballistic resistant layered structures, and security features.
Awards
Among his other notable awards, in 2018, he received the Charles Goodyear Medal of the ACS Rubber Division; he also received the James L. White Innovation Award (2016), and the William A. Fowler Award (2015). In 2014, he was received the Paul J. Flory Research Prize at the PolyChar World Forum in Advanced Materials, and in 2000, was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame. In 1996, he received the Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Award, he also was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993), and in 1991, he received the International Education Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers.
Selected publications
References
External links
CWRU Homepage
CWRU Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Center for Layered Polymeric Systems
Micro and nano-layered structures
Novel gradient index lenses
Entry in the Plastics Hall of Fame
Citation for Hovorka Prize
1932 births
Living people
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Case Western Reserve University faculty
Baltimore City College alumni
Polymer scientists and engineers
Emigrants from Nazi Germany
Immigrants to the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Baer |
The 2005 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 27th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It was held in Chennai, India from 10–18 December 2005.
Squads
Head Coach: Barry Dancer
Head Coach: Bernhard Peters
Head Coach: Rajinder Singh
Head Coach: Roelant Oltmans
Head Coach: Asif Bajwa
Head Coach: Maurits Hendriks
Umpires
The following umpires were nominated by International Hockey Federation (FIH) for this tournament:
Xavier Adell (ESP)
David Gentles (AUS)
Satinder Kumar (IND)
David Leiper (SCO)
Jason McCracken (NZL)
Philip Schellekens (NED)
John Wright (RSA)
Raghu Prasad (IND)
Results
All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)
Pool
Classification
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Awards
Topscorer
Santi Freixa
Best Player
Bevan George
Fair Play Trophy
Final standings
References
External links
Official FIH website
C
C
Champions Trophy (field hockey)
2005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Men%27s%20Hockey%20Champions%20Trophy |
Kang Cheol-min (July 26, 1939 – 2002) was a professional Go player.
Biography
Kang became a professional in 1958. It took him 40 years to reach the level of 8 dan. He died in 2002.
Titles and runners-up
1939 births
2002 deaths
South Korean Go players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang%20Cheol-min |
Bayʿah (, "Pledge of allegiance"), in Islamic terminology, is an oath of allegiance to a leader. It is known to have been practiced by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Bayʿah is sometimes taken under a written pact given on behalf of the subjects by leading members of the tribe with the understanding that as long as the leader abides by certain requirements towards his people, they are to maintain their allegiance to him. Bayʿah is still practiced in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan. In Morocco, bayʿah is one of the foundations of the monarchy.
Etymology
Bay'ah derives from the Semitic triconsonantal root B-Y-’, related to commerce, and shows the contractual nature of the bond between caliph and the people. Bay'ah originally referred to the striking together of hands between buyer and seller to mark an agreement.
In Islamic history
The tradition of bayʿah can be traced back to the era of Muhammad. From the beginning, bayʿah was taken by Muhammad as an oath of allegiance. Anybody who wanted to join the growing Islamic community did so by reciting the basic creed expressing faith in the oneness of God and the prophethood of Muhammad. However, this differed from the proclamation of faith necessary to become an individual Muslim. In addition to this, Muhammad formally took bayʿah from the people and tribes. Through this formal act, they were absorbed by the community and showed willingness to obey Muhammad. The text of the oath varies in different traditions, but often contains the Shahada and prayers of repentance.
It is reported that at annual gatherings outside Mecca, Muhammad met people from Yathrib (later renamed Medina), who accepted his call towards Islam. Muhammad then took bayʿah from them.
In Sunni Islam, the Bayʿah rite continued to be used throughout history to mark a caliph's accession, first in the Rashidun Caliphate (the Bayʿah of Abu Bakr occasioning the Shi'a-Sunni split), then throughout the Dynastic Caliphates (Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman). With the abolition of the Caliphate, Bayʿah remains in use today by some modern Muslim kingdoms such as Saudi Arabia and Morocco.
In the Qur'an
After the Pledge of the Tree, which led to the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, the following was revealed in the Qur'an commemorating and appreciating the pledge and those who made it:
History
The bayʿah of Rizwan, a mass initiation of thousands of Muslims at the hands of Muhammad, is mentioned in the Qur'an. The tradition was continued by the caliphs.
In subsequent ages, it was associated with Sufi orders, and spiritual masters would initiate their followers. The practice still exists in Sufi orders around the world.
Content
The Bayʿah varies across different times, places, and settings, but usually contains a relatively standardised formula such as the following:
"I give my allegiance to...To hear and obey in times of difficulty and comfort, in hardship and ease, and to endure being discriminated against, and not to dispute about rule with those in power, except in case of evident infidelity regarding that which there is a proof from Allah."
See also
Bay'ah (Ahmadiyya)
Bay'ah Mosque
References
Sufism
Islamic culture
Islamic jurisprudence
Politics of Morocco
Islamic terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%27ah |
This is a list of clubs that play Australian rules football in Australia at the senior level.
Guide to abbreviations:
FC = Football Club
AFC = Australian Football Club (mainly used if in Queensland or NSW or outside Australia) / Amateur Football Club (mainly used in the other Australian States)
ARFC = Australian Rules Football Club
Australia
National Level
Australian Football League
AFL Women's
State Level
Victorian Football League
South Australian National Football League
West Australian Football League
Tasmanian State League
Northern Territory Football League
Victoria
AFL Victoria
Eastern Football League
Balwyn Football Club
Bayswater Football Club
Belgrave Football Club
Blackburn Football Club
Boronia Football Club
Chirnside Park Football Club
Coldstream Football Club
Croydon Football Club
Doncaster Football Club
Doncaster East Football Club
Donvale Football Club
East Burwood Football Club
East Ringwood Football Club
Fair Park Football Club
Ferntree Gully Football Club
Forest Hill Football Club
Heathmont Football Club
Kilsyth Football Club
Knox Football Club
Lilydale Football Club
Mitcham Football Club
Montrose Football Club
Mooroolbark Football Club
Mulgrave Football Club
Noble Park Football Club
North Ringwood Football Club
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Nunawading Football Club
Park Orchards Football Club
Ringwood Football Club
Rowville Football Club
Scoresby Football Club
Silvan Football Club
South Belgrave Football Club
South Croydon Football Club
Surrey Park Football Club
Templestowe Football Club
The Basin Football Club
Upper Ferntree Gully Football Club
Vermont Football Club
Wantirna South Football Club
Warrandyte Football Club
Waverley Blues Football Club
Whitehorse Pioneers Football Club
Essendon District Football League
Aberfeldie Football Club
Airport West Football Club
Avondale Heights Football Club
Burnside Heights Football Club
Coburg Districts Football Club
Craigieburn Football Club
Doutta Stars Football Club
East Keilor Football Club
Glenroy Football Club
Greenvale Football Club
Hadfield Football Club
Hillside Football Club
Jacana Football Club
Keilor Football Club
Maribyrnong Park Football Club
Moonee Valley Football Club
Northern Saints Football Club
Oak Park Football Club
Pascoe Vale Football Club
Roxburgh Park Football Club
Strathmore Football Club
Taylors Lakes Football Club
Tullamarine Football Club
West Coburg Football Club
Westmeadows Football Club
Northern Football League
Banyule Football Club
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Eltham Football Club
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Southern Football League
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Frankston Dolphins Football Club
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AJAX Football Club
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Aquinas Old Collegians
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Canterbury Football Club
Caulfield Grammarians Football Club
Collegians Football Club
De La Salle Old Collegians
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Glen Eira Amateur Football Club
Hampton Rovers Football Club
Hawthorn Amateur Football Club
Ivanhoe Assumption Football Club
Kew Football Club
La Trobe University Football Club
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Marcellin Old Collegians
Masala Football Club
Mazenod Old Collegians
Melbourne High School Old Boys
Monash Blues
Mount Lilydale Football Club
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Old Brighton Grammarians
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Olinda Ferny Creek Football Club Inc.
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Ramadugu is a village in Ramadugu mandal of Karimnagar district, Telangana State, India.
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Mandal headquarters in Karimnagar district | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadugu |
Semde (; Sanskrit: , "mind division", "mind class" or "mind series" is the name of one of three scriptural and lineage divisions within the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) tradition. The Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism traditionally classifies its Dzogchen teaching into three main divisions: Semde, Longdé (Space Series) and Menngagde (Secret Instruction Series).
Semde texts are mostly said to be translations by figures of the early transmission (7th–9th centuries) of Buddhism to Tibet like Śrī Siṅgha, Vairotsana and Vimalamitra. These texts emphasize the "awakened mind" (Tibetan: byang-chub-kyi sems, Skt. bodhicitta), which is the true nature of the mind and is essentially pure and perfect, just like Buddhahood. Semde texts critique tantric practice as being based on effort, and instead promote simple and effortless contemplation of the mind and its emptiness, luminosity, purity and inherent gnosis.
Background and history
Earliest sources
The Dzogchen texts which are today classified as "Semde" include the earliest Dzogchen sources currently known. These are generally short texts which appeared in the ninth century and are attributed to early transmission figures like Garab Dorje (seventh century?), Śrīsiṁha (eighth century), Vairotsana (8th century) and Vimalamitra (eighth-ninth century). These teachings were influenced by tantric sources like the Guhyagarbha tantra as well as by Yogacara "mind-only" and buddha-nature literature. Various scholars have shown that early Dzogchen teachings developed out of the teachings of the Mahayoga tantras like the Guhyagarbha.
Scholars like Samten Karmay and Karen Liljenberg have also argued that other traditions like tantric Shaivism and Chan Buddhism may have had some influence on this early Dzogchen literature. Jean-luc Achard has noted some similarities between Dzogchen practices and the teachings of the Shaiva Vijñānabhairava tantra. Regarding Chan, Liljenberg notes that various documents form Dunhuang indicate that some Dzogchen practitioners were syncretizing Dzogchen with Chan and other early Dzogchen works show that other people disagreed with this trend. This is also supported by the work of the Tibetan scholar Nubchen Sanggye Yeshe. Nubchen attempts to argue for the difference between the two teachings and the superiority of Dzogchen, but he also agrees that much of their terminology is similar. Furthermore, the biography of several Dzogchen masters depict them as traveling to China (Vairotsana) or even having transmitted Chan lineages (Aro Yeshe).
Liljenberg writes that the main themes of the five early translations include non-duality (gnyis med), universal equality (mnyam nyid), "non-action" (bya med), "not seeking (rtsol med) the enlightened state", and the fact that there is "no need for meditation or gradual practices to purify or improve oneself" since "there is no path to follow, as the "destination" of enlightenment is already reached, and primordially-immanent." According to the Tibetologist David Germano, early Dzogchen "Semde" texts ignore or deny the validity and relevance of Vajrayana tantric practices and rituals in favor of terse poetic descriptions and direct experience of the awakened mind (bodhicitta). As such, he calls these works "pristine Great Perfection", and contrasts them with the later texts of the "Funerary Great Perfection" which embrace the taboo tantric imagery of violence, sex and death. Germano writes that these early sources "are marked by the absence of presentations of detailed ritual and contemplative technique," and by the lack of the "funerary Buddhism" of the anuttarayogatantras (including any discussion of charnel ground imagery, death motifs, bodily relics, funerary rituals, and bardo teachings) as well as tantric sexual motifs and practices.
Some Semde texts, like the Kunjed Gyalpo, even deny the validity and relevance of key elements of tantric buddhism (such as mandalas, empowerment, stages of practice, etc). As Liljenberg notes, the Total Space of Vajrasattva (rdo rje sems dpa’ nam mkha' che) calls tantric practice "a childish pursuit" (byis pa'i spyod yul). Sam van Schaik also writes that "later developments in the Great Perfection brought far more complex doctrines and practices, but the early mind series texts stayed close to one central theme: the immediate presence of the enlightened mind, and the consequent use- lessness of any practice that is aimed at creating, cultivating or uncovering the enlightened state." However, not all early Dzogchen sources reject tantric ritual, some of them, like Padmasambhava's Garland of Views, present Dzogchen within the framework of tantric Mahayoga. As such, it is likely there was a spectrum of early Dzogchen methodologies, some more tantric than others.
While the terms "Mind Section" (Tib. sems sde) and "Mind Orientation" (Tib. sems phyogs) are not attested prior to the 11th century (and are thus not found in the earliest Dzogchen texts), they are used by Tibetan and Western scholars retroactively to refer to a class of texts. The most of important of these are the "Eighteen Great Scriptures" (Lung-chen bco-brgyad), which came be to called "mind series" (sems de) texts at a later date. Five of these texts, the "five early translations" (snga ’gyur nga), are perhaps the earliest of these, and are attributed to the monk Vairotsana of Pagor. Manuscripts of some of these texts have been found in the Dunhuang caves. They include The Cuckoo of Awareness (Rig pa'i khu byug), The Small Hidden Grain (gSangs rgyas sbas pa), Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva and Gold Refined from Ore (rdo la gser zhun). According to Liljenberg, Gold Refined from Ore may be the earliest of these and could indeed have been written in India.
Sam van Schaik notes that some of the earliest datable Dzogchen texts are The Meditation on the Awakened Mind by Mañjuśrīmitra (which is listed in a 9th century catalogue called the Denkarma) and various short texts which are quoted by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe's late 9th century Lamp for the Eyes of Contemplation (Samten Migdrön). Nubchen's Lamp itself is a very important commentarial source for early "Semde" Dzogchen, as it quotes numerous early sources, and is also one of the earliest texts which discuss claim that Dzogchen is a distinct vehicle of spiritual practice (yana). The Lamp also lists the “twenty or eighteen minor texts on the mind” (which refers to the eighteen great scriptures), indicating that even as early as the 9th century, these works were beginning to be considered as a group.
Another important source for early Dzogchen Semde ideas is the work of gNyan dPal dbyangs (c. 8-9th century), especially his rDo rje sems dpa’ zhus lan (Vajrasattva Questions and Answers) manuscripts of which have been found in Dunhuang and his sGron ma drug (Six Lamps), which are widely quoted by Nubchen.
Later developments
The Kun byed rgyal po (All Creating King), which is historically the most important Semde text in Nyingma, is a slightly later composite text possibly dating from the late 10th or the early 11th century which contains within it various short early Semde texts like the Cuckoo of Rigpa.
By the 11th century these traditions developed in different systems such as the Kham, the Rong and the Nyang systems, which according to Ronald Davidson "are represented by texts surviving from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries"). The Kham system was founded by the Kham yogi Aro Yeshe Jungne (a ro ye shes 'byun gnas, 10th century). This lineage unified the teachings of Dzogchen and the Chan lineage of Heshang Moheyan what was called "the Mental Position system" (A-ro lugs). The Rong lineage is associated with Rongzom.
During the 13th century, Semde lineages and traditions became less popular and were slowly outcompeted by the much more popular Intimate Instruction (Mennagde) systems of Dzogchen, especially the Seminal Heart (Nying-thig) tradition. These new Dzogchen teachings had begun to appear in the Renaissance period (11th–12th century) and are associated with treasure revealers like Chetsün Sengé Wangchuk and Zhangton Tashi Dorje (1097-1127) who claimed they had discovered texts that had been hidden by figures like Vimalamitra.
In the new Mennagde systems, early Dzogchen teachings were first given the classification of "Semde" and were subordinated to the teachings of the Seminal Heart tradition. According to Instruction Series texts, the Mind Series is based on understanding that one's own mind is the basis of all appearances and that this basis, called mind itself, is empty and luminous.
According to the modern Dzogchen teacher Namkhai Norbu, the three series are three modes of presenting and introducing the state of Dzogchen. Norbu states that Mennagde is a more direct form of introduction, Longde is closely associated with symbolic forms of introducing Dzogchen, and Semde is more focused on oral forms of introduction.
Semde teaching
View
The focus of all these texts is the "awakened mind" (byang-chub-kyi sems, Skt. bodhicitta). According to Sten Anspal, this common Buddhist term has a special meaning in Dzogchen texts. It refers to the true nature of consciousness, "which is essentially identical to the state of Buddha". Anspal writes that according to Semde texts, accessing and abiding in this pure and perfect awakened mind "fulfills and surpasses all the various practices and methods of other Buddhist approaches."
Christopher Hatchell explains that for these early Dzogchen texts "all beings and all appearances are themselves the singular enlightened gnosis of the buddha All Good (Samantabhadra, Kuntu Zangpo)". The Victorious Emergence of the Peak (rTse mo byung rgyal) says that "the diversity [that is] Samantabhadra" is “the principal consciousness, the Basis-of-all” (kun gzhi) which "has never stirred from the expanse of naturally-occurring primordial wisdom" and is "endowed with compassionate energy that completely pervades a thousand realms". This expansive awareness which is often compared to the vasteness of the sky is called the “Great Self” (bdag nyid chen po) in various Semde texts, including the All-Encompassing Perfection (sPyi chings). This idea of an innate awakened mind is influenced by the Mahayana Budhist buddha-nature literature which state that all sentient beings have a pure buddha-matrix or essence (tathāgatagarbha).
Mañjuśrīmitra's Meditation on the Awakened Mind describes bodhicitta as the “self-nature of experience” (Tib. sems kyi rang bzhin, Skt. citta-svabhava), and as the “ultimate nature of experience" (Tib. sems kyi chos nyid, Skt. citta-dharmata). Namkhai Norbu writes that in Semde sources, terms like bodhicitta, the very core of bodhicitta (snying po byang chub kyi sems), and “the primordial ground of being” (ye gzhi), are all synonyms for the Great Perfection (Dzogchen), which is "the primordial state of pure and total presence" that is also called “the great hypersphere” (thig le chen po), “the all-inclusive state of the individual” (bdag nyid chen po), and “spontaneous perfection” (hun grub).
One of the terms that Nubchen Sangye Yeshe draws on to explain the nature of the ground, the intrinsic state, is "spontaneous presence" (Tib. lhun grub). According to Esler, Nubchen sees this as the state in which "all the various wisdoms are spontaneously complete". Nuben calls this state "the great excellence in self and others" and compares to a wish granting jewel. Nubchen is also careful to explain that this spontenous wisdom is free of any thoughts, words, or concepts, as well as any sense of existence or non-existence, comparing it to sky-like spaciousness. As Nubchen writes:
Intrinsic awareness, aware of space, is free from thoughts:
Endowed with the force of abiding naturally,
It is without thoughts and occurs like the sky itself.
According to Keith Dowman, the five translations of Vairotsana focus on simple non-dualism and include no anthropomorphic symbolism and no "abstruse metaphysical infrastructure". Instead, the focus is on the nondual reality of the timeless "unitary light of awareness" which is a naturally perfect "all-inclusive wholeness". This enlightened mind is the ineffable ground of all things. Dowman further describes it as an "ineffable nondual reality that is a unity but at the same time a multiplicity. It is at once the source and the creation. It is inconceivable and inexpressible. It is enlightened mind or luminous mind."
Practice
According to Germano, Semde texts claim that striving for liberation through structured practices (like tantric visualization and ritual) creates more delusion. Instead, Semde works recommend simple contemplations to recognize the pure and empty awakened mind. Christopher Hatchell writes that Semde works show "a disinterest in specifying any kind of structured practices or concepts" which are used to connect with the ultimate gnosis (rigpa). Instead, Semde texts argue that "there is nothing to do and nothing to strive for, so the reality of All Good will manifest in its immediacy just by relaxing and letting go." According to van Schaik, in these early Dzogchen texts, rigpa (gnosis, knowledge) refers to a non-dual and non-conceptual awareness.
Germano writes that the main contemplation in Semde works was a formless "technique free immersion in the bare immediacy of one's own deepest levels of awareness". This formless method was seen as superior to the visual fabrications of tantric deity yoga. However, the teachers of this formless method may have also used "calming" (samatha) practices as well as some tantric practices as preparatory or secondary methods.
Dowman similarly writes that the ethos of these early Dzogchen texts is "non-action," "undirected action" or "non-deliberate action". This is because "the here and now is a field of immanent sameness, and any attempt to affect it or change it by any technique is counterproductive. Any engagement of effort diminishes it. Seeking it inhibits its discovery." As such, these texts teach the "no meditation" of letting go of all goal directed activity, since the luminous mind cannot be accessed through calculated discipline and structured activity. They also contain no teaching on graduated progress or path, since the nature of mind is already complete and perfect. It cannot be improved from its immanent perfect state and so there is no place to go or path to follow.
The Semde attitude of “nonaction” (bya ba med pa) to religious practice can be found in the following short Semde text called "The Cuckoo of Rigpa" (rig pa'i khu byug):
Esler notes that that this important text attempts to reconcile the diversity of appearances with the deeper non-dual nature of all things, which is equated with Buddha Samantabhadra (All Good). Since all appearances are ultimately good, there is nothing to do but rest in the spontaneity of what is present. According to Esler, this "non-referential" (Tib. dmigs med) form of meditation lacks any specific object of focus and instead entails repeatedly training "the ability to rest, “effortlessly,” in a state of awareness (Tib. rig pa) identified as being already perfect in every way." This is confirmed by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe who writes in his commentaries that Dzogchen transcends the use any meditation supports like mudrās, objects of mental focus and mantra repetition. This is supported by a commentary to the Cuckoo of Rigpa found at Dunhuang (ITJ 647) which states: "because of the spontaneous accomplishment of ineffable bodhicitta, the mandala is established spontaneously and abides without artifice, with no need for the activities of development and perfection."
In a similar fashion, the Semde text called the bDe ba phra bkod says:
There is no practice to be accomplished, [and] no fixation upon any deities. There is no meditation to be done; [it is] free of any object of attention.
The Realization of the True Meaning of Meditation (sGom pa don sgrub) also says that since the true nature of the mind is Dharmata (the ultimate nature of things), there is no need to meditate on anything else:
Whatever characteristics of conceptual thought may arise, if one knows that very thought to be the true nature of things, there is no need to meditate on the realm of reality anywhere else.
Norbu notes that the practice of "nondoing" in Dzogchen Semde must be grounded in a deep understanding of the nature of the mind, the mind's natural condition (i.e. rigpa). It is only in this state that there is "nothing to correct or adjust, accept or reject; there is no meditation to enter into or come out of."
Four yogas
One feature of the practice of contemplation in semde as taught today is "four yogas" (where yoga in ). The four yogas are:
Calm state (Wylie: gnas pa) this is taught as a kind of śamatha cultivation with eyes open. One method which is taught is gazing at an object, like a image of the letter A, which is the main symbol for primordial consciousness in Dzogchen according to Namkhai Norbu. Another method is practicing calm meditation without any object.
Non-movement (Wylie: mi g.yo ba), which is associated with vipaśyāna
Non-duality (Wylie: mnyam nyid, Sanskrit: ), and
"Spontaneous presence" or "the self-perfected state" (Sanskrit: or , ).
According to Namkhai Norbu, "there is no difference between the state of lhundrub and the Tregchöd spoken of in the Dzogchen Upadesha".
These four yogas are said to parallel the Four Yogas of Mahamudra.
Texts
The mind class (semde) of Dzogchen are today found in the Collected Tantras of the Ancients (Nyingma Gyubum) and in other Nyingma school collections like Collected Tantras of Vairocana.
Main Semde texts
The most important Semde texts are part of a collection that goes under various names including "the twenty or eighteen minor [texts of the] Mind" (an appellation found in Nubchen Sanggye Yeshe's Lamp for the Eyes of Contemplation), and "the Eighteen Major Crucial Teachings" (lung chen po bco brgyad). Modern scholars generally agree that the eighteen Semde texts is the earliest corpus of Dzogchen literature. However, there is much confusion and diversity regarding the contents of this collection (including the number of texts in it, hence Nubchen's statement that they consist of "the twenty or eighteen" works).
Between the 9th and 14th centuries, various lists of these main Semde texts proliferated, and these different lists vary in content. Further complicating the issue is the fact that Semde texts with the same title found in different sources can sometimes be different texts altogether. Furthermore, Karen Liljenberg has also noted that some of Semde texts in this collection may have changed names. As such, this corpus of works may have served as an "ideal" canon, rather than a specific closed list of texts.
Whatever the case, Longchenpa's list of twenty one main Semde texts in the Treasury of Spiritual and Philosophical Systems (Grub mtha’ mdzod) is the following:
The Five Early Translations (sNga ‘gyur lnga) of Vairotsana, also known as the five bodhicitta texts, which are:
The Bodhicitta Cuckoo of Rigpa ()
The Great Potency of Bodhicitta ()
The Bodhicitta Great Soaring Garuda ()
Mañjuśrīmitra's Meditation on the Awakened Mind (Byang chub sems bsgom pa), also known as Extracting Pure Gold from Ore (). It is a logical exposition of Semde teaching which makes much use of Yogacara thought.
The Bodhicitta Unwaning Standard of Victory, also known as The Total Space of Vajrasattva (), this text also appears as the thirteenth chapter of the Kun byed rgyal po, and in other Tantras.
The thirteen later translations (Phyi ‘gyur bcu gsum), translated by Vimalamitra assisted by Nyak Jñānakumāra and Yudra Nyingpo:
The Victorious Emergence of the Peak ()
The King of Space ()
Bodhicitta's Jewel-Encrusted Ornament of Bliss ()
All-Encompassing Perfection ()
The Essence of Bodhicitta (), also known as The Quintessential King (Yang tig rgyal po)
Infinite Bliss ()
The Wheel of Life ()
The Six Spheres ()
Bodhicitta's All-Penetrating Perfection ()
The Wish-Fulfilling Precious Jewel ()
All-Unifying Rigpa ()
The Supreme Lord ()
The Realization of the True Meaning of Meditation ()
Finally, there are three texts which are often classified separately as Semde and listed in other sources (when these are added, the collection is called the 21 Semde texts):
The All Creating King Bodhicitta Great Perfection of All Phenomena (Chö Tamched Dzogpa Chenpo Changchub Kyi Sem Kunjed Gyalpo), a composite text which contains within various early Semde works including some of the eighteen Semde texts.
The Marvelous Bodhicitta (). The Marvelous (rMad du byung ba) is the most widely quoted Semde text by Nubchen Sanggye Yeshe in his Lamp for the Eyes of Contemplation.
The Ten Concluding Teachings (mDo bcu)
Furthermore there are other Semde texts which are not part of the common list of Semde texts, but are still considered important. Two other important texts which are quoted by Nubchen in his Lamp are The Small Hidden Grain (rGum chung) and The Universally Definitive Perfection (rDzogs pa spyi spyod). Also, Longchenpa has an alternative list of 18 texts which lists the Tantra of the Edge and the Center of the Sky (Nam mkha' mtha' dbus kyi rgyud).
Other texts
Aside from the twenty one key Semde works, there are also other works in the Semde section of the Collected Tantras of the Ancients, including other tantras such as exegetical tantras, secondary tantras and secret instruction tantras. Furthermore, the collection called Transmitted Precepts of the Ancients also contains further Semde texts. For example, an anonymous commentary to Extracting Pure Gold from Ore exists, titled the Byang chub sems bsgom pa don bcu gnyis bstan pa.
There is also a collection of Dzogchen songs of realization (dohas) associated with the early translations. These are the Eighteen Songs of Realization (full Tibetan title: Sems sde bco brgyad kyi dgongs pa rig 'dzin rnams kyis rdo rje'i glur bzhengs pa).
Furthermore, as van Schaik notes, there are numerous manuscripts found in Dunhuang which are important for the study of early Dzogchen and Semde, even if some of these do not use the term Dzogchen. One example of these is sBas pa’i rgum chung (ITJ 594) which "looks like an early mind series text, although it is not found in any of the surviving collections."
There are also Dzogchen treatises written by early Nyingma figures. These include the works of Nubchen Sangye Yeshe, especially his Lamp for the Eyes of Contemplation (Samten Migdrön). Nubchen also wrote commentaries on some of the eighteen Semde texts, and these include the rJe btsan dam pa’i ’grel pa [Commentary on the Holy Revered One]; the Byang chub sems bde ba ’phra bkod kyi don ’grel [Meaning Commentary on the Inlaid Jewel of Bliss, the Enlightened Mind]; and the rDo rje gzong phugs kyi ’grel pa [Commentary on the Piercing Awl]. Another Semde commentary is the sPyi gsang sngags lung gi ’grel pa (General Commentary on the Authoritative Scriptures of Secret Mantra), a commentary on the Semde text called the sPyi chings (The Universal Bind) by Nyak Jñānakumāra (fl. 9th c.).
The work of early Nyingma scholars like Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo (1012-1088) and Rogban Sherab (1166–1244) also quote and rely on mostly Semde texts for their explanation of Dzogchen.
Later Nyingma authors also wrote commentaries and treatises on Semde practice, such as Longchenpa's Jewel Ship (rin chen sgru bo), a commentary to The All Creating King.
English translations of Semde material
Clemente, Adriano; Guarisco, Elio; Valby, Jim. The Marvellous Primordial State, The Mejung Tantra, A Fundamental Scripture of Dzogchen Semde, Shang Shung Publications, 2012.
Clemente, Adriano; Norbu, Namkhai. The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde Kunjed Gyalpo, Shambhala, 1999.
Dowman, Keith. Original Perfection: Vairotsana's Five Early Transmissions, 2013.
Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Pointing Out the Nature of the Mind: Dzogchen Pith Instructions of Aro Yeshe Jungne.
Kunsang, Erik Pema. Wellsprings of the Great Perfection, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2006. [Contains various translations]
Lipman, Kennard; Norbu, Namkhai. Primordial Experience An Introduction to rDzogs-chen Meditation. Shambala, 1987. [A translation of Gold Refined from Ore and anonymous commentary].
Lipman, Kennard. You Are the Eyes of the World, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2000. [A translation of Longchenpa's Jewel Ship]
Neumaier-Dargyay, E.K. The Sovereign All-Creating Mind: The Motherly Buddha, Albany, 1992.
Norbu, Namkhai. Rigbai Kujyug: Six Vajra Verses, 1990.
References
Citations
Works cited
Further reading
Esler, Dylan. Effortless Spontaneity: The Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe. Leiden: Brill, 2023. (xiv, 248 pp.) Open Access. https://brill.com/display/title/63340.
External links
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Kazimierz Gzowski may refer to:
Casimir Gzowski (1813–1898), engineer and acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, 1896–1897
Kazimierz Gzowski (equestrian) (1901–1986), Polish Olympic horse rider | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Gzowski |
Eugene Scape Littles (June 29, 1943 – September 10, 2021) was an American basketball player and coach. He played six seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Carolina Cougars and Kentucky Colonels between 1969 and 1975. Littles won an ABA championship with the Colonels in 1975. He later coached in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets, and Denver Nuggets.
Early life
Littles was born in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1943. He attended McKinley Technology High School in his hometown. He went on to play college basketball at High Point University, where he is the all-time leading scorer in High Point school history, and a three-time NAIA All-American. Littles was selected in the 5th round of the 1969 NBA draft by the New York Knicks and in the 1969 ABA draft by the Dallas Chaparrals. He opted to play in the ABA. His playing rights were later acquired by the Carolina Cougars.
Professional career
Littles made his ABA debut on October 18, 1969, scoring ten points against the Chaparrals. He played for five seasons with the Cougars from 1969 to 1974. He was named to the All-Rookie Team in 1970. He finished sixth in the league in field goal percentage (.507) that year, while recording career-highs in points (1,025), assists (282), and rebounds (415). Littles led the ABA in games played in 1972–73 with 84. He later played for one season (1974–75) with the Kentucky Colonels. He was a member of the Colonels team that won the 1975 ABA Championship. However, he had career-lows in games played (61), minutes played (900), points (215), assists (119), and rebounds (86) in his final regular season.
Coaching career
After his playing career, Littles became a coach, starting as an assistant with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. He was then a college head coach at North Carolina A&T from 1977 to 1979, leading the team to two straight MEAC tournament championships. He was also honored as the conference's coach of the year in 1979.
Littles got his first taste of NBA coaching when he was hired by the then-New Orleans Jazz in 1979 and moved with the team to Utah. He then moved over to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1982 and was subsequently given the interim head coaching job when
George Karl was dismissed before the end of the 1985–86 season. However, the Cavaliers did not retain him and instead hired Lenny Wilkens the following season.
Littles was an assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls in 1986–87, before serving in that capacity with the Charlotte Hornets for two seasons. He later received a second opportunity as NBA head coach with the Hornets, replacing Dick Harter in February 1990. He lasted a season and a half with the recent-expansion Hornets, until he was replaced with Allan Bristow at the end of the 1990–91 season. Littles then briefly served as a vice president of the Hornets and special assistant to club president.
Littles returned to coaching in 1992–93 as an assistant with the Denver Nuggets. He was one of the candidates interviewed at the end of the season to be head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers; however, the position ultimately went to Bob Weiss. Littles later became the Nuggets interim coach during the 1994–95 season, in between Dan Issel and Bernie Bickerstaff.
Later life
Littles was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame and the High Point University Athletics Hall of Fame. His number 14 was retired by his alma mater, and a bench outside Millis Athletic Convocation Center was later named in his honor in 2019.
Littles died on September 10, 2021, at the age of 78.
Head coaching record
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| 42 || 11 || 31 || || style="text-align:center;"|7th in Midwest || — || — || — || —
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| 82 || 26 || 56 || || style="text-align:center;"|7th in Central || — || — || — || —
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| style="text-align:left;"|Denver
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| 16 || 3 || 13 || || style="text-align:center;"|(interim) || — || — || — || —
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| 155 || 44 || 111 || || || — || — || — || — ||
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Asian handicap betting is a form of betting on football in which teams are handicapped according to their form so that a stronger team must win by more goals for a bet on them to win. The system originated in Indonesia and gained popularity in the early 21st century. It is a form of spread betting. Handicaps typically range from one-quarter goal to several goals, in increments of half- or even quarter-goals.
Most importantly, Asian handicap betting reduces the possible number of outcomes from three (in traditional 1X2 wagering) to two by eliminating the draw outcome. This simplification delivers two betting options that each have a near 50% chance of success.
Asian handicaps are both good and bad for bookmakers. On one hand, they help bookmakers minimize risk by facilitating trading with parity or balancing the amount of wagering on each side of the match. This enables bookmakers to take larger positions in major matches. On the other hand, Asian handicap markets are typically low-margin offerings that do not contribute as significantly to the gross win as higher vigorish betting options like 1X2.
According to BetAsia, a publication owned by journalist Joe Saumarez Smith, the term "Asian handicap" was coined by journalist Joe Saumarez Smith in November 1998, after he was asked by an Indonesian bookmaker, Joe Phan, to provide a translation of the betting method that was termed 'hang cheng betting' by bookmakers in Asia.
Description
Football (soccer) is one of the few sports in the world where a draw is a fairly common outcome. With traditional fixed odds, draws are treated as an additional outcome to the game. In other words, bettors lose when they place a wager on either team to win and the game draws. With Asian handicaps, however, the chance for a draw is eliminated by the use of a handicap that forces a winner. This creates a situation where each team has a 50-50 chance of winning; similar to the odds for a basketball or football spread handicap typically offered by Las Vegas sportsbooks.
Asian handicap is a form of betting that creates a more level betting environment between two mismatched competing teams by giving a "handicap" (expressed in goals or points) to the teams before kick-off. In Asian handicaps, a goal deficit is given to the team more likely to win (i.e. the Favourite) and a head start is given to the team less favoured to win (i.e. the Underdog).
This system works in a straightforward manner. The bookmaker's aim is to create a handicap or "line" that will make the chance of either team winning (considering the handicap) as close to 50% as possible. Since the odds are as close to 50% as possible, bookmakers offer payouts close to even money, or 1.90 to 2.00. Asian handicaps start at a quarter-goal and can go as high as 2.5 or 3 goals in matches with a huge disparity in ability. What makes Asian handicaps most interesting is the use of quarter goals to get the "line" as close as possible. Taken in conjunction with the posted total for the game, the handicap essentially predicts the game's final score.
Quarter-goal or two-way handicaps
Subsequently, many matches are handicapped in ½ and ¼ intervals; both of which eliminate the possibility of a push since no one can score a half-goal. Quarter-(¼) handicaps split the bet between the two closest ½ intervals. For instance, a $1000 bet with a handicap of 1¾ is roughly the same as betting $500 at 1½ and $500 at 2. With ¼ handicap bets, you can win and draw (win ½ of wager) or lose and draw (lose ½ wager). The ¼-goal handicap may be expressed by some bookmakers as "0 and ½", or as "pk and ½" (for "pick-em") - especially for bookmakers whose systems are designed for sports like American football and basketball, where bets have a handicap that is designed to make the odds as close to even as possible.
The bettor's stake is automatically divided and placed as if it were 2 separate bets. More precisely, if the "draw" outcome is a half-loss, the stake will be divided equally; otherwise, the "potential win" amount will be, i.e. the stake of leg 1 will be inversely proportional to the decimal odds less stake of leg 2. This means that with a handicap point of 0-0.5 or 0 and ½, half of your stake is on the 0 point handicap and the other half is on the 0.5 handicap.
Example:
Match: Everton v. Newcastle
Line: Everton -1.75
Let's say you bet $100 on Everton -1.75 at odds 2.29. If they win by exactly two goals, then the outcome will be:
$50 is refunded (H -2.0)
$50 wins at 2.29 (H -1.5)
For a total return of $164.50, or a $64.50 profit.
However, the payout will be different. Obviously, H -1.5 would not "by itself" have odds of 2.29 - they would be lower. In order to achieve the goal of "half win and half push", the stakes (risked amount) can't be what's equal, it has to be the potential profit for each leg - half of the profit has to go on either side. Seen from the perspective of "splitting up the stakes", it might be divided as such:
$35.71 on H -2.0 @ 2.80
$64.29 on H -1.5 @ 2.00
Explained: This handicap states that half of your bet goes on Newcastle to win, draw, or lose by less than 1 goal; and half on Newcastle to win, draw, or lose by less than 1.5 goals.
If the final score is Everton 1-0 Newcastle, half your bet would be refunded due to a draw (Everton 1 - +1 Newcastle, i.e.: Newcastle lost by exactly one goal). The second half would win (Everton 1 - +1.5 Newcastle, i.e.: Newcastle lost by less than 1.5 goals).
Whole handicaps and draws
In the event that a whole number is used for the handicap, the handicap adjusted final score could result in a draw. This situation is not a draw, but a push. With a push, all bettors have their original wagers returned as there is no winner. The plus signs in the Team result columns indicate "or more", eg. "2+" means "by 2 goals or more".
References
Sports betting
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Gambling terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20handicap |
James Randolph Hubbell (July 13, 1824 – November 26, 1890) was an American politician from Ohio, serving as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
He was born in Lincoln Township in Delaware County, Ohio. After teaching school, he practiced law in London and Delaware, Ohio. Hubbell served in the Ohio state House of Representatives during the years 1849, 1858–59 and 1862–63. He was Speaker of that body in 1863.
At the close of the American Civil War, Hubbell was the U.S. representative from Ohio's 8th district from 1865 to 1867. Later, in 1869, he was a member of the Ohio state Senate.
Hubbell died in Bellville (Richland County), Ohio. He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Ohio.
See also
Edwin N. Hubbell (born 1815, date of death unknown), congressman from New York
Jay Abel Hubbell (1829–1900), congressman from Michigan
William S. Hubbell (1801–1873) congressman from New York
References
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Elizabeth of Austria (; ; ; c. 1436 – 30 August 1505) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the wife of King Casimir IV of Poland. Orphaned at an early age, she spent her childhood in the court of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. As one of the three surviving grandchildren of Emperor Sigismund, she had a strong claim to the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia. That made her an attractive bride for a Polish prince. The Polish nobility, seeking to increase Polish influence in Hungary and Bohemia, pursued marriage with Elizabeth since she was born and finally succeeded in 1454. Her marriage to Casimir was one of the most successful royal marriages in Poland. She gave birth to thirteen children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood. Four of her sons were crowned as kings.
Early life
Tumultuous childhood
Elisabeth was the daughter of Albert II of Germany, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg, daughter of Emperor Sigismund. The exact date of her birth is unknown and has been variously provided between 1436 and early 1439. Her elder brother was born in February 1435. Polish chronicler Jan Długosz mentioned that Polish envoys traveled to Vienna in autumn 1436 to negotiate with Emperor Sigismund a marriage between his granddaughters, Anne and Elisabeth, who were considered heirs to the thrones of Bohemia and Hungary, and Polish princes Władysław and Casimir. While the negotiations ended without a decisive agreement, they allowed historians to conclude that Elisabeth was born in the first half of 1436.
Elisabeth's early life was marked by political turmoil. After the death of Emperor Sigismund in December 1437, Elisabeth's father was crowned as King of Hungary and Bohemia. His Bohemian title was challenged by the Hussites who promoted Polish prince Casimir IV Jagiellon as their king and a war erupted. Polish diplomats continued to pursue the plan for a marriage between Casimir and Elisabeth, who would bring Bohemia as a dowry. King Albert received the diplomats coolly as he had no intentions of surrendering his claims to Bohemia. In March 1439, Elisabeth's sister, Anne, was betrothed to William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, son of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, and was sent to live at the Saxonian court.
King Albert died in October 1439 after a brief campaign against the Ottoman Empire. His pregnant widow considered herself to be the only rightful heir of Emperor Sigismund and fought to crown her son Ladislaus the Posthumous as King of Hungary while Hungarian nobles selected Polish King Władysław III. Princess Elisabeth's nanny Helene Kottannerin stole the Holy Crown of Hungary and brought it to Queen Elisabeth in Komárno. Three-month-old Ladislaus was crowned on 15 May 1440, but that did not stop the civil war. For their safety and protection, the two children of Albert and Elisabeth were placed in the care of Frederick III, elected but not crowned Holy Roman Emperor. As part of the agreement Elisabeth was betrothed to Frederick, nephew of Frederick III and son of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, and Margaret of Austria.
At the emperor's court
Elisabeth and Ladislaus were initially cared for by Anna von Pottendorf at the Forchtenstein Castle. When Queen Elisabeth died in December 1442, Emperor Frederick III continued to care for the orphans who spent most of their time in Graz and Wiener Neustadt. The opposition accused the Emperor of neglecting the children, but that could be just political propaganda. Emperor Frederick III was known to be emotionally distant and frugal, but he also provided both children with a good education. Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the emperor's secretary and future Pope Pius II, wrote De liberorum educatione as instruction for educating the children.
A 1973 study of Elisabeth's remains revealed that she most likely had spinal tuberculosis at a young age. This left her skeleton visibly deformed, with an s-shaped spine, misaligned jaw, deformed thorax and her head cocked permanently to the right. The permanent tilt of her head led to stunted development of the right side of her face. Her face was narrow with a large chin. However, as her later life and frequent pregnancies showed, she was of overall good health.
In 1447, Frederick III proposed to marry Elisabeth to Charles, son of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Philip had purchased Luxembourg from Elisabeth of Bohemia. Frederick III offered 70,000 ducats, as the dowry of Elisabeth, in exchange for Luxembourg, but Philip demanded 120,000 ducats and the negotiations fell through. For unknown reasons, Elisabeth's scheduled wedding to Frederick of Saxony, negotiated by her mother Queen Elisabeth, did not take place despite a wedding treaty signed in July 1450.
After the death of Władysław III of Poland in the Battle of Varna in 1444, Hungarian nobles recognized Elisabeth's brother Ladislaus the Posthumous as their king. However, the Emperor refused to allow Ladislaus to leave his court. Political ambitions of Ulrich II, Count of Celje, cousin of Queen Elisabeth, led him to demand the release of the children into his custody. In December 1451, when the Emperor traveled to Rome to be officially crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor, he took Ladislaus with him but left Elisabeth in Vienna. Austrian nobles rebelled against Frederick III and transferred Elisabeth into the care of Ulrich. Elisabeth made a tearful public appeal in a city square calling for help to her and her brother, neglected and held virtual captive by the Emperor. When Frederick III returned in June 1452, Austrian nobles forced him to release Ladislaus to Ulrich in September 1452.
Polish queen
Wedding and family life
In August 1452, preparing for the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) with the Teutonic Knights, the Poles sent an embassy to Vienna to once again negotiate marriage between Elisabeth and now-king Casimir IV of Poland. Ulrich II, Count of Celje, who now had custody of Elisabeth, received the proposal favorably and sent two of his men to Poland. The formal wedding agreement was reached in August 1453 in Wrocław in the presence of Polish and Austrian nobles. According to the agreement, Elisabeth's dowry, guaranteed by her brother King Ladislaus the Posthumous, was 100,000 Hungarian golden coins. The dowry was secured by lands in Austria, Hungary and Bohemia. In turn, Casimir guaranteed Koło, Opoczno, Przedecz as well as a monthly sum of 5,000 golden coins from the Bochnia and Wieliczka Salt Mines. Elisabeth had to renounce her claims to lands of Austrian rulers; the renunciation would not apply if her brother Ladislaus died without a male heir.
Elisabeth's dowry was not paid immediately and that gave her the pretext to claim the Hungarian and Bohemian crowns. Eventually, Elisabeth received two-thirds of her dowry—it was paid in 1471 and 1472 by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. The third of her dowry secured by lands in Bohemia was forgiven when her son Vladislaus II became King of Bohemia. Casimir compensated for the delayed dowry and provided his wife with financial security when in December 1461, after the death of Queen Sophia, he transferred a number of royal lands in Sophia's possessions to Elisabeth, including Korczyn, Wiślica, Żarnowiec, Radom, Jedlnia, Kozienice, Chęciny, Łęczyca, Kłodawa, Pyzdry, Konin, Inowrocław. In 1467, she renounced her claim to the Duchy of Luxembourg to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, whose father had bought the territory in 1443 from Elisabeth, Duchess of Luxembourg.
Elisabeth arrived to Poland in February 1454 with a retinue of nine hundred riders. Reportedly, Casimir was informed that Elisabeth was not an attractive lady and was reconsidering the marriage, but bowed to the pressure of his court. On February 9, Elisabeth arrived at Kraków and was met by Casimir and his mother Sophia of Halshany. The next day, 18-year-old Elisabeth married 27-year-old Casimir and was crowned Queen of Poland. Their 38-year marriage was happy and Elisabeth, despite frequent pregnancies, accompanied her husband on almost all travels, including about thirty visits to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They would separate infrequently and for short periods of time when Casimir lived in war camps. Their first child, Vladislaus II, was born on 1 March 1456—two years after the wedding. She gave birth to seven children in ten years. The children received extensive education, which was credited to Elisabeth by Marcin Kromer. Their tutors included Polish priest Jan Długosz and Italian humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi.
Queen Elisabeth had an influence on her husband Casimir, but she did not play a more active role in politics. Instead, Elisabeth was very actively involved in arranging her daughters' marriages. Her influence was particularly evident during the negotiations for the marriage of her daughter Hedwig to George, Duke of Bavaria in December 1474. When Elisabeth's demands exceeded the authority of Bavarian envoys, instead of sending the envoys back to discuss the demands with the Duke of Bavaria, Elisabeth took the responsibility for her demands and wrote a letter to the Duke asking him not to punish the envoys. Elisabeth did not arrange her sons' marriages and none of her sons under her influence married young: Casimir (died at age 26) and John Albert (died at age 41) never married, while Sigismund married at 47. Only Alexander, who lived in Lithuania, and Vladislaus, who lived in Bohemia, married while Elisabeth was alive.
Struggle for Hungary and Bohemia
After the 1457 death of Elisabeth's childless brother, King Ladislaus the Posthumous, she and her family started to advance their claims to the thrones of Bohemia and Hungary. The Poles argued that since Elisabeth's dowry was unpaid, she was entitled to the Hungarian and Bohemian lands. However, the Golden Bull of 1356 did not recognize women's inheritance rights and Hungarian and Bohemian nobles considered their monarchy to be elective, not hereditary. Therefore, they elected Matthias Corvinus and George of Poděbrady. Since Poland was engaged in the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), King Casimir could not enforce Elisabeth's claims. However, that did not stop political measures. In 1466, Bishop Rudolf of Rüdesheim informed Elisabeth that Pope Paul II considered George of Poděbrady to be a heretic and Elisabeth a rightful heir to the throne of Bohemia. When Matthias Corvinus proposed to Elisabeth's daughter Hedwig in 1468, Elisabeth angrily refused and called Corvinus a 'dog'.
A new chapter in Elisabeth's struggle for her inheritance began with the death of Poděbrady in 1471, Elisabeth's son Vladislaus II became King of Bohemia. At the same time a group of Catholic Bohemian nobles supported Corvinus instead of Vladislaus II. In turn, a group of Hungarian nobles conspired against Corvinus and invited the Polish king to overthrow him. With Bohemia in Vladislaus' hands, King Casimir IV decided to install his son, future Saint Casimir, in Hungary. A Polish army invaded Hungary, but the army was ill-supplied and the short Hungarian campaign was not successful. The war in Bohemia continued until the Peace of Olomouc divided Bohemia between Corvinus and Vladislaus II.
After the death of Corvinus in April 1490, Casimir and Elisabeth supported their son John I Albert as King of Hungary. Hungarian nobles preferred ineffectual Vladislaus II. After Elisabeth's pleas on behalf of John Albert, who reportedly was her favorite, failed to persuade Vladislaus II to abandon the Hungarian crown, a war erupted between the two brothers in June 1490 and lasted until January 1492. John Albert lost and returned to Poland, while Vladislaus II was crowned as King of Hungary. At last, Elisabeth's son ruled both Hungary and Bohemia, except that it was not the son she desired. Hungary and Bohemia were ruled by Vladislaus and his son Louis II of Hungary until 1526.
Queen mother
King Casimir died on 7 June 1492. Art historians believe that she hired artist Veit Stoss to create Casimir's tomb and recumbent effigy. The Lithuanian throne was already secured by Alexander Jagiellon who acted as his father's regent in Lithuania since 1490. Elisabeth took decisive actions to secure the Polish throne to her favorite son John I Albert—she wrote letters to Teutonic Grand Master Johann von Tiefen, her sons Vladislaus II and Alexander campaigning on behalf of John Albert. More importantly, she borrowed 5,675 florins from the Fischel banking family and hired a group of Hungarian soldiers. These soldiers, led by Elisabeth's son Fryderyk, marched to Piotrków Trybunalski where Polish nobles elected John Albert as their King on 27 August. The personal union between Poland and Lithuania was temporarily interrupted.
Widowed, Elisabeth led a sedentary life in Kraków in the company of her youngest daughters Barbara and Elisabeth. She was not involved in state politics. Her only known political move during the reign of John Albert was asking the King to support Frederick of Saxony in his quest for the title of Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. However, she continued to take an active role in family matters. In early 1495, she traveled to Vilnius to attend the wedding of her son Alexander and Helena of Moscow. Elisabeth wanted to convince Helena to convert from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism and to obtain a position for her son Sigismund. She failed in both regards and left Lithuania angered and insulted—perhaps because of this dislike she was passive when John Albert suddenly died in 1501 and did not take any more prominent actions to support Alexander as a candidate to the Polish throne.
In 1496, she arranged the marriage of Barbara to George, Duke of Saxony. Elisabeth was left with only her youngest daughter, also named Elisabeth, as her companion in Kraków. Perhaps with his mother's help Sigismund obtained the Duchy of Głogów from his brother Vladislaus II in 1499. In 1503, she funded a chapel within Wawel Cathedral to house the tomb of her son John Albert by Florentine artist Francesco Fiorentino. She also sent a Polish governess to Vladislaus II when he was expecting his first child Anne. Elisabeth opposed the marriage of her youngest daughter Elisabeth to Bogdan III, Voivode of Moldavia. Instead, in 1504 and 1505 Queen Elisabeth assigned her lands and income to ensure her daughter's financial independence; Princess Elisabeth also inherited the bulk of the queen's wealth.
Elisabeth became ill in 1505, but her symptoms are unknown. She died on 30 August 1505. She was interred next to her husband and two daughters in her husband's tomb on 21 September in Wawel Cathedral.
Issue
Casimir and Elisabeth had the following children:
Vladislaus II (1 March 1456 – 13 March 1516), King of Bohemia and Hungary
Hedwig (21 September 1457 – 18 February 1502), married on 14 November 1475 to George, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
Casimir (3 October 1458 – 4 March 1484), patron saint of Lithuania
John I Albert (27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501), King of Poland and Duke of Głogów
Alexander (5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland
Sophia (6 May 1464 – 5 October 1512), married on 14 February 1479 to Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Elizabeth (9 May 1465 – 9 May 1466)
Sigismund I (1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Frederick (27 April 1468 – 14 March 1503), Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland
Elizabeth (13 May 1472 – betw. 19 May 1480/20 May 1481)
Anna (12 March 1476 – 12 August 1503), married on 2 February 1491 to Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania
Barbara (15 July 1478 – 15 February 1534), married on 21 November 1496 to George, Duke of Saxony
Elizabeth (13 November 1482 – 16 February 1517), married on 25 November 1515 to Frederick II, Duke of Legnica
Ancestors
Notes and references
Notes
References
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1505 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
15th-century House of Habsburg
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Austrian people of Luxembourgian descent
Austrian royalty and nobility with disabilities
Burials at Wawel Cathedral
Bohemian princesses
Czech people with disabilities
Dukes of Luxembourg
German royalty and nobility with disabilities
Grand Duchesses of Lithuania
Lithuanian people with disabilities
Nobility from Vienna
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Polish people of Austrian descent
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Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America, 17 Cal.4th 670, 952 P.2d 218, 72 Cal.Rptr.2d 410 (1998), was a landmark case which upheld the right of a private organization in California to not allow new members on the basis of their sexual orientation. Its companion case was Randall v. Orange County Council, 17 Cal.4th 736, 952 P.2d 261, 72 Cal.Rptr.2d 453 (1998).
Background
In 1980, eighteen-year-old Tim Curran, an Eagle Scout, applied to be an assistant Scoutmaster in the Mount Diablo Council Boy Scouts of America. Members of the Boy Scouts of America, however, had recently learned that Curran was gay after reading an Oakland Tribune article on gay youth which featured an interview with Curran. Based on his sexual orientation, the Boy Scouts of America refused to allow Curran to hold a leadership position in their organization.
Curran sued in 1981, alleging that the Boy Scouts of America's membership requirements amounted to unlawful discrimination under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which required "Full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services in all business establishments".
Decision
This case was ultimately decided in 1998, when the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts of America. The court held that because the Boy Scouts of America was not considered a "business establishment" under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, it could not be required to change its membership policies so as to include homosexuals.
Psychiatrist and lawyer Richard Green was co-counsel for Curran.
References
External links
California state case law
Boy Scouts of America litigation
United States LGBT rights case law
1998 in United States case law
1998 in California
1998 in LGBT history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curran%20v.%20Mount%20Diablo%20Council%20of%20the%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20America |
Timocrates of Rhodes () was a Rhodian Greek sent by the Persian satrap Pharnabazus in 396 or 395 BC to distribute money to Greek city states and foment opposition to Sparta. He visited Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos. His encouragement prompted Thebes to provoke Sparta into war, beginning the Corinthian War, which dragged on from 395 to 387 BC.
The primary aim of Timocrates' mission, which he accomplished, was to force the withdrawal of the Spartan king Agesilaus and his army from Ionia. Timocrates's success in this mission was the basis for the famous statement, recorded by Plutarch, that "a thousand Persian archers had driven [Agesilaus] out of Asia," referring to the archer that was stamped on Persian gold coins.
Notes
References
Fine, John V.A. The Ancient Greeks: A critical history (Harvard University Press, 1983)
Plutarch, Life of Agesilaus
4th-century BC Rhodians
People of the Corinthian War
Medism
Ancient Greek ambassadors
Ancient Greek emigrants to the Achaemenid Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timocrates%20of%20Rhodes |
Hoor may refer to:
alternative spelling of Houri, women of paradise in Islamic societies
Hoor, Iran, village in Iran
Höör, locality in Sweden
See also
Houri (disambiguation)
Hur (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoor |
Gideon Freudmann, is a composer, performer and cello innovator coined the term CelloBop to describe his music. His solo performances often include improvisation and the use of technology to sample, loop and layer tracks in real time to create music that is complex, nuanced, creative and compelling.
Composer and cellist Gideon Freudmann enjoys an international reputation for his innovative compositions and unique approach. He has been on the forefront of that instrument's modern creative expansion and his music is immediately accessible and richly detailed in its nuance and complexity. His compositions are heard on television soundtracks and as a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, This American Life and he was a TEDtalk speaker . The Boston Globe said of him, “Taking a modern artist's approach to the four-stringed instrument, Gideon Freudmann has brought the cello to a new realm.”
His music has appeared in several episodes of Weeds, and has been placed in a number of indie films including the Sundance Documentary Film winner, Buck.
Freudmann has released numerous solos CDs as well as several duet albums with guitar, mandolin, violin, shakuhachi, and ukulele. He has published several sheet music ensembles for cello trios, quartets and quintets. He is a founding member and composer for The Portland Cello Project and Caravan Gogh. The short film, Denmark, based on his composition of the same name has won numerous international awards.
Freudmann performs live soundtracks for classic silent films with a focus on Buster Keaton comedies and German Expressionist films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Phantom of the Opera. He also performs and composes music for dance companies including the internationally acclaimed Project Bandaloop. He has composed music for several short films and the feature-length movie, Clocking The T. Gideon Freudmann tours throughout the United States and has performed in Europe, Australia and Asia. Originally from New England, he now resides in the Pacific Northwest.
Discography
Fellini's Martini (1993)
Cellobotomy (1995)
Banking Left (1995)
Adobe Dog House (1997)
Sound of Distant Deer (1998)
Hologram Crackers (1999)
More Batteries (2001)
Ukrainian Pajama Party (2001)
Holiday Clocks (2001)
Dancing On My Hat (2002)
CelloTales (2004)
Ghost in the Attic (2005)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (2006)
Caravan Gogh (2007)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari DVD (2008)
Sonic Surf (2008)
7 in the Afternoon (2011)
Cello Shots (2011)
Rain Monsters (2012)
The 3 Faces of Steve (2014)
Magnetic West (2015)
Spring Breakup (2017)
Unraveling (2017)
Sasquatch (2020)
Flying Cars (2022)
Filmography
Moving On (2023)
An American Farmer (2020)
Clocking The T (2018)
La Escuela Del Crimen (2018)
Agnes Martin Before The Grid (2018)
Poison (2015)
Tashi’s Turbine (2015)
Weeds (TV - 12 Episodes) (2007-2012)
Denmark (2011)
Buck (2011)
The Unfortunate Gift (2011)
Of the Air of the Earth (2008)
Silent Film Soundtracks:
Nosferatu
The General
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Sherlock Jr
Metropolis
Phantom Of The Opera
Pandora’s Box
Downhill (Hitchcock)
Steamboat Bill, Jr
College
Woman in the Moon
Radio Programming:
This American Life
All Thing Considered
Car Talk
Sheet Music (cello ensembles)
Denmark (cello quintet)
Robin Hood Changes His Oil (cello quintet)
Indigo Blue (cello quintet)
Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof (cello quintet)
Vertigogh (cello quartet)
Equinox (cello quintet)
Dance of the Seahorse (cello quartet)
Manila Waltz (cello quartet)
Midnight Moon (cello quintet)
Princess Mortuba (cello quartet)
Blue Stew (cello solo)
Wind and Snow (cello quintet)
Lilia's 3-Step (cello quartet)
Nine (cello quartet)
Ice cave (cello quartet)
Home (cello quartet)
Blue Cello (cello trio)
CelloBop Book 1 (cello solo, duo, trio)
See also
Cello rock
Mortal City
Denmark (film)
References
FAME Review: Gideon Freudmann - Hologram Crackers
cdBaby.com review – Gideon Freudmann – Ukrainian Pajama Party
External links
Artist's website
TEDx Talk
The Portland Cello Project
American cellists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%20Freudmann |
Ronald Kenneth Hunt (born February 23, 1941) is a former professional baseball second baseman. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1974 for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals. He batted and threw right-handed.
In Hunt set a single-season record for being hit by more pitches (50) than any player since 1900.
Career
Ron Hunt was born in St. Louis on February 23, 1941. He graduated from Ritenour High School in Breckenridge Hills, Missouri, where he played football and baseball. After graduating, he signed with the Milwaukee Braves, with whom he spent four years in the minor leagues. The Mets purchased his contract in October 1962 and added him to the major league roster.
Hunt broke into the major leagues in as the Mets’ regular second baseman, batting .272 with 10 home runs, which would be his career high, and 42 runs batted in, which he would tie in 1964. That year, he also finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the National League Rookie of the Year honors. In he batted .303 and became the Mets’ first-ever starting All-Star representative, the game being played in Hunt's home ballpark, the newly opened Shea Stadium. He was also an All-Star representative in .
In November 1966 Hunt and Jim Hickman were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith. After batting .263 during the season, Hunt was traded again, this time to the San Francisco Giants in the same deal that sent Tom Haller to Los Angeles.
In his first season with the Giants , Hunt batted .250 with two home runs. The second came off Bob Gibson the first inning of the Giants' September 17 game against the St. Louis Cardinals and accounted for the only run in Gaylord Perry's no-hitter.
After two more seasons in San Francisco, Hunt was traded to the Montreal Expos. In nearly four seasons in Montreal, he batted .277, including a career high .309 in . Late in the season, the struggling Expos, seeking to turn over their roster, made Hunt the first to go by placing him on waivers. He was claimed by his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he closed out his career after playing 12 games. The Cardinals brought Hunt to Spring training in 1975, but released him in March, after which he retired.
In his 12-year career Hunt batted .273 with 39 home runs and 370 RBIs in 1483 games played. He was also one of the most difficult batters to strike out, fanning 382 times in 5235 at-bats, or once in every 13.70 at-bats. In 1973, he set an Expos record by only striking out 19 times in 401 at-bats, the fewest ever in franchise history by a player who had at least 400 at-bats on the season.
Hunt hit his last major league home run on September 21, 1971, against the Phillies as a member of the Expos at Jarry Park. He then went 1,302 at-bats and 378 games without hitting another when he closed out his career at the end of the 1974 season.
Hit by pitches
Hunt, whose motto was, “Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball,” was hit by pitches more often than anyone during his playing days. He led the National League in getting hit by pitches in each of his final seven Major League seasons, and the Major Leagues in all but his final season (). He was hit by 25 pitches in , 25 in , 26 in , 50 in , 26 in and 24 in , and 16 in 1974.
Hunt said in a July 2000 interview with Baseball Digest that he really began to get hit by pitches after being traded to San Francisco. "But," Hunt asked, "why would you hit me to face Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Jim Ray Hart?"
In , as a member of the Montreal Expos, he set a single-season record for being hit by more pitches (50) than any player since 1900 (Hughie Jennings holds first place, with 51 hit by pitches in 1896). Hunt, who batted right-handed, would stand with his "left arm hanging over the plate" and allow himself to be hit to make up for his lack of hitting power. On June 25, he was hit three times during a doubleheader. He had the habit of tossing back the ball that had hit him to the pitcher.
On September 29, 1971, against the Chicago Cubs at Jarry Park, Hunt was hit by a Milt Pappas pitch to give him 50 on the season, obliterating the post-1900 record of 31 by Steve Evans. Pappas argued to home plate umpire Ken Burkhart that the pitch was directly over the plate, that Hunt got hit by the ball without even trying to get out of the way. Earlier in the year, Pappas had also contributed #27 in the Hunt collection, prompting Cub manager Leo Durocher to cry foul after home plate umpire Augie Donatelli awarded Hunt first base on that pitch. Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson had a similar complaint after Hunt was hit by a Jim McGlothlin pitch on August 7 of that year; the HBP was Hunt's 32nd of the season, which broke the National League record set by Steve Evans of the St. Louis Cardinals.
On April 29, , Hunt tied a Major League record with three HBPs in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. At the time, he was only the fifth player to be hit by a pitch three times in one game. The feat has since been done 17 times as of the end of the 2013 season.
Upon his retirement, his 243 HBPs were a post-dead-ball era career record. Hughie Jennings holds the all-time record with 287. Don Baylor would break the live-ball record in and retire with 267 HBPs. Craig Biggio would break Baylor’s record in and retire at the end of the season with 285 HBPs.
Personal life
Beginning in 1986, Hunt has operated an instructional baseball camp in Wentzville, Missouri. As of 2018, Hunt was reportedly suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
References
External links
Ron Hunt at Baseball Almanac
Ron Hunt - Baseballbiography.com
Ron Hunt's instructional baseball camp
The man who got hit by pitches ESPN, February 10, 2015
1941 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Austin Senators players
Baseball players from St. Louis
Cedar Rapids Braves players
Florida Instructional League Mets players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball second basemen
McCook Braves players
Montreal Expos players
National League All-Stars
New York Mets players
People from Wentzville, Missouri
San Francisco Giants players
St. Louis Cardinals players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Hunt |
Who's the Man? is a 1993 thriller buddy comedy film directed by Ted Demme in his feature film directing debut. The film stars Yo! MTV Raps hosts Doctor Dré and Ed Lover as its two main protagonists and features cameo appearances from some of the top rap/hip-hop acts of the time, including (though not limited to) Busta Rhymes, Bushwick Bill, Guru, Eric B., House of Pain, Ice-T, Kris Kross, Phife Dawg, Queen Latifah, KRS-One, Run-D.M.C., and a young Del the Funky Homosapien. The film is also the feature film debut of Terrence Howard.
Plot
Doctor Dré and Ed Lover are two bumbling barbers at a Harlem barbershop. Knowing full well that cutting hair is not their calling, their boss, friend, and mentor Nick (Jim Moody) tells the two maybe they should try out for the police academy. They refuse at first, but Nick threatens them with unemployment. Crazily enough, it works out for the two, and they are accepted on the New York City police force. Things seem to be going well for them, when tragedy suddenly strikes, and they lose Nick and the barbershop. Now enforcers of the law, the team decides to investigate the incident, which they believe to be a murder.
Ed and Dre find out through the streets that a crooked land developer named Demetrius (Richard Bright) might have had something to do with their friend's death, and proceed to attempt to dig up as much dirt on him as possible. This proves to be difficult, however, when they've got an angry Sergeant (Denis Leary), a moody detective (Rozwill Young), and a bunch of unwilling street hoods (Guru, Ice-T) to go through to get the information they need. Though there aren't any certain clues to be found, strange happenings are certainly going on, as the cops found out that Demetrius' company seems to be looking for oil rather than looking for property.
With their superiors not believing Ed and Dre's story and getting themselves in trouble, they end up being suspended. However, they get a lead to a warehouse where they find a lot of guns. They have enough evidence to arrest Demetrius, but Demetrius didn't kill Nick. It was revealed that Nick's friend, Lionel, who was working for Demetrius had murdered him because Nick refused to sell his shop. Ed and Dre have Lionel arrested.
Ed and Dre are offered their jobs back, but decided to quit, stating it's too violent for them. When they return to their old barbershop they discover oil coming from the floor. Soon after, they're back in business re-opening the place giving customers bad haircuts.
Cast
Doctor Dré as himself
Ed Lover as himself
Badja Djola as Lionel Douglas
Cheryl "Salt" James as Teesha Braxton
Colin Quinn as Frankie Flynn
Denis Leary as Sergeant Cooper
Bernie Mac as G-George
Terrence Howard as Costumer
Richard Gant as Albert
Guru as Martin Lorenzo
Ice-T as Chauncey "Nighttrain" Jackson
Larry Cedar as Officer Barnes
Jim Moody as Nick Crawford
George T. Odom as Albert
Joe Lisi as Captain Reilly
Karen Duffy as Officer Day
Roger Robinson as Charlie
Richard Bright as Demetrius
Leslie Segar as Sheneequa
Rozwill Young as Bo Griles
Vinny Pastore as Tony "Clams" Como
Tony Lip as Vito Pasquale
Caron Bernstein as Kelly
Kim Chan as Fuji
Cameo appearances
B-Fine as Club Guy #1
B-Real as Jose
Apache as Bubba Worker #1
Ashanti as Kid #4
Bill Bellamy as K.K.
Big Bub as Roscoe
Bow-Legged Lou as Forty
Bushwick Bill as Bar Vagrant
Busta Rhymes as Jawaan
Angelo Montagnese as The Manno
Michael Giordano as Not The Manno
Chi-Ali as Drew
CL Smooth as Robber #2
Danny Boy as Steve
Del the Funkee Homosapien as Kid #1
D-Nice as Male Nurse
DJ Lethal as Mike
D.J. Wiz as Test Taker #1
Dres as Malik
Eric B. as Robber #5
Everlast as Billy
Fab 5 Freddy as himself
Flavor Flav as himself
Freddie Foxxx as Bartender
Gavin O'Connor as Police Drill Man
Heavy D as himself
House of Pain - Card players
Humpty Hump as Club Doorman
Kid Capri as himself
King Sun as Haircut Guy
Kool G Rap as Guy in Barbershop Chair
Kris Kross as Karim/Micah
KRS-One as Rashid
Leaders of the New School as Passengers in Jeep
Lin Que Ayoung as Female Nurse
Mark Sexx as Guy at Bar
Melle Mel as Delroy
Monie Love as Vanessa
Naughty By Nature as Themselves
Nikki D as Protestor
Pete Rock as Robber #1
Penny Hardaway as Darryl
Phife Dawg as Gerald
Queen Latifah as herself
Run-D.M.C. as Detectives
Sandra "Pepa" Denton as Sherise
Scottie Pippen as Raymond
Showbiz & A.G. as Test Taker #2/Test Taker #3
Smooth B as Bubba Worker #2
Stretch as Benny
Taji and Qu'ran Goodman as Kid #2/Kid #3
Yo-Yo as Woman
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 50% based on reviews from 7 critics.
Roger Ebert gives a favorable review, with a score of 3 stars out of 4.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on April 20, 1993, through MCA Records. It peaked at #32 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
References
External links
1993 films
1990s police comedy films
African-American comedy films
De Passe Entertainment films
1993 directorial debut films
Films directed by Ted Demme
Films set in Brooklyn
1990s hip hop films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s%20the%20Man%3F |
Pond was a band from Portland, Oregon. They formed in 1991 and broke up in 1998. They were signed to Sub Pop (first two albums) and the Work Group records sub-label of Sony Records (last album).
On October 23, 2010, Pond reunited for a show to commemorate the closing of Portland club Satyricon.
Members
Charlie Campbell — guitar, vocals
Chris Brady — bass, vocals
David Triebwasser — drums
Discography
Albums
Pond (February 12, 1993 - Sub Pop SP186)
"Young Splendor"
"Perfect Four"
"Gone"
"Agatha"
"Tree"
"Wheel"
"Spots"
"Foamy"
"Grinned"
"Filler"
The Practice of Joy Before Death (1995)
Sideroad
Mubby's Theme
Union
Magnifier
Patience
Ol' Blue Hair
Sundial
Glass Sparkles in Their Hair
Van
Happy Cow Farm Family
Carpenter Ant
Artificial Turf
Rock Collection
Gagged and Bound
Rock Collection (1997)
"Spokes"
"You're Not an Astronaut"
"Scoliosis"
"One Day in the Future"
"Twins"
"You're Not a Seed"
"Flawed"
"My Dog Is an Astronaut Though"
"Forget"
"Golden"
"Greyhound"
"Rebury Me"
"Filterless"
"Rabbit"
"Guitar Opus"
"Ugly"
Singles/EPs
Young Splendor/Tree (B-side is an alternate version from the one that appears on the s/t, Tim/Kerr - 1991)
Wheel/Cinders (Sub Pop, 1992 - Wheel 7")
Wheel/Cinders/Snowing (Sub Pop, 1992 - Wheel 12")
Wheel/Cinders/Ebner (Sub Pop, 1992 - Wheel 12" Import)
Wheel/Cinders/Snowing/11X17 (Sub Pop, 1992 - Wheel EP)
Moth/You Don't Quite Get It Do You? (But You're Thinking Hard) (1994 SubPop SP263)
Glass Sparkles In Their Hair/Sundial (1995 SubPop SP146/366)
Spokes (1997 - Work)
Compilation Appearances
John Peel Sub Pop Sessions - Sub Pop, 1994 (Songs: "You Pretty Thing", "Cinders")
It's Finally Christmas - Tim/Kerr, 1995 (Song: "Gloria In Excelsis Deo")
That Virtua Feeling: Sub Pop and Sega Get Together - Sub Pop, 1995 (Song: "Sundial")
External links
Info at subpop
The Pond Page
"Spots" music video (from "Pond")
Alternative rock groups from Oregon
Musical groups from Portland, Oregon
American grunge groups
Musical groups established in 1991
Musical groups disestablished in 1998
1991 establishments in Oregon
1998 disestablishments in Oregon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pond%20%28American%20band%29 |
Eugene R. "Bumper" Tormohlen (May 12, 1937 – December 27, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was born and raised in Holland, Indiana; he attended Holland High and helped lead the Dutchmen to an IHSAA Sectional in 1953.
He was recruited to the University of Tennessee by former Purdue star Emmett Lowery. During his time in Knoxville, Bumper became a 3-year starter, set the Tennessee career rebounding record (1,113 rebounds), a 16.9 rpg rate; was twice named All-SEC and was named to Converse's All-American team and become known to scores of Vols fans as the "Chairman of the Boards."
After a splendid college career at the University of Tennessee, Tormohlen was selected with the fifth pick in the second round of the 1959 NBA draft by the Syracuse Nationals. However, his first years as a pro were spent in the NIBL with the Cleveland Pipers before being traded to the Kansas City Steers in the fledgling American Basketball League. After two seasons in that league, he moved to the NBA, joining the St. Louis Hawks) in 1962. His entire NBA playing career was with the Hawks; five seasons in St. Louis and one season in Atlanta. He retired as an NBA player in 1970, having spent the 1968-68 & 1969-70 seasons as a player-coach for the Hawks. He was a member of the 1970 Western Division champions during his final season in uniform.
He remained with the Hawks, becoming an assistant coach for four seasons. With the Hawks at 28–46 and mired in a ten-game losing streak, he was promoted to replace Cotton Fitzsimmons on an interim basis on March 30, 1976. The next season, the team hired Hubie Brown as their full-time head coach. He spent several seasons as the Director of College Scouting for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Tormohlen died on December 27, 2018, at age 81.
References
External links
BasketballReference: Gene Tormohlen (as player)
Gene Tormohlen (as coach)
Gene Tormohlen Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame profile
Gene Tormohlen SEC Legends
1937 births
2018 deaths
People from Dubois County, Indiana
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Atlanta Hawks assistant coaches
Atlanta Hawks head coaches
Atlanta Hawks players
Basketball coaches from Indiana
Basketball players from Indiana
Centers (basketball)
Cleveland Pipers players
Kansas City Steers players
Phoenix Suns expansion draft picks
Power forwards (basketball)
St. Louis Hawks players
Syracuse Nationals draft picks
Tennessee Volunteers basketball players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper%20Tormohlen |
Uncle Styopa (), also known as Dyadya Stepa, Uncle Steeple and Tom the Tower, is a series of poems written by Russian children's poet Sergey Mikhalkov. They were written in trochaic tetrameter. The poems featured a brave and noble militsioner (a policeman) who was unusual due to his extreme height. The name of the protagonist of the series was Stepan Stepanov (), or Styopa, which is a diminutive of the Russian given name Stepan. He performed various acts of good will, such as rescuing people, preventing train crashes, helping firefighters, stopping a school bully or working as a police officer for the Soviet Militsiya. Styopa is a wise, brave, generous, noble, fun-loving character. He fights against injustice and serves as an inspiration to the pioneers.
It was largely due to this set of poems, among others written during the 1930s in the Soviet Union, that Mikhalkov achieved fame and garnered admiration from the Soviet population. His popularity was phenomenal. Uncle Styopa's face was almost instantly associated with the face of the author. Sergey Mikhalkov himself looked like a tall athlete, and the first illustrators of the poem pictured Uncle Styopa with Mikhalkov's face. More than 250 million copies of the poems have been sold.
Publication
The first poem Uncle Styopa was published in the 7th issue of The Pioneer magazine in 1935. It introduced the character of Stepan Stepanov. In 1936 the poem was included in Sergey Mikhalkov's first collection of poems. The same year it was published as a single volume by Detizdat, with illustrations by A. Kanevsky. Boris Galanov wrote that Sergey Mikhalkov initially showed the poem to Samuil Marshak, who approved of it and inspired Mikhalkov to continue working on the series, and it was the only reason that Mikhalkov didn't think of Uncle Styopa a passing episode in his career.
The next poem Uncle Styopa The Militsioner () was released in 1954. It was published in the 20th issue of The Pogranichnik, and in Pionerskaya Pravda (as of 10 December 1954), illustrated by E. Shcheglov. It was also published in the 12 December issues of the magazines Novy Mir and The Pioneer illustrated by V. Suteev. In 1955 it was released as a single volume by Detgiz with the illustrations of G. Mazurin. In the preface to The Pioneer'''s edition Mikhalkov revealed that he decided to come back to the character after 19 years because of an accidental meeting with some police officer in Moscow: "Fifteen years ago I got my driver's license and since then I've been a driver. Once, while driving on the street in Moscow, I committed a traffic offence. I stopped my car in the wrong place, at the footpath. I was approached by a police officer. Imagine my surprise when I saw my "uncle Styopa" in the uniform. The officer was very tall, the tallest of all the officers I have seen in my life! Very politely, in a civilized manner, Uncle Styopa asked me to show my driver's license and never to violate rules of the road again. I apologized and promised to be careful next time. We got into conversation. It turned out that Uncle Styopa served in the Navy before becoming a police officer. I was amazed at this! My Uncle Styopa, the character I wrote about nineteen years ago in a fun poem for the children, served in the Navy too! <…> And now I've decided to write a sequel to my fun little book."
The third poem Uncle Styopa and Yegor () was published in Pravda on 27 December 1968. It was released as a single volume by Detskaya Literatura in 1969, with illustrations by Yuvenaliy Korovin. It introduced Styopa's son named Yegor, "a new Heracles" whose birth weight was 8 kg. In the preface Mikhalkov explained that the idea came to him when he visited the kindergarten to speak in front of the children. He was asked to read Uncle Styopa. After that a boy came up to him and asked if Uncle Styopa had any children. Mikhalkov did not know how to reply, because it was "hard to say no", and he decided to write about Uncle Styopa's son.
The final poem Uncle Styopa The Veteran () was published in Pravda on 1 June 1981, and in the 10th issue of Murzilka (1981). It was released as a single volume by Detskaya Literatura in 1985, with illustrations by Yuvenaliy Korovin.
Also, a poem was published in 1940, called "Uncle Styopa in the Red Army" (Дядя Стёпа в Красной Армии), telling of Styopa's participation in the Polish campaign. The poem was heavily laden with wartime propaganda, and had fallen into obscurity.
PlotUncle Styopa begins with the description of a "gigantic" man Stepan (Styopa), nicknamed "Fire Tower" due to his height. The first part of the poem focuses on Styopa's struggles with his height, e.g. he cannot enjoy shooting galleries in amusement parks because he can easily touch the targets with his hand. He wears 45th size boots and always buys the trousers "of previously unheard width". He orders double portions for lunch, does not fit into a bed, and has to sit on the floor at the cinema. However Styopa is a kind person and "all children's best friend". He rescues a drowning boy and saves pigeons from a burning house by reaching for the attic and opening the window. Styopa decides that he has always wanted to serve the country, and joins the Navy. Uncle Styopa ends with his return on shore leave. He tells stories "about the war, about the bombings, about the big battleship Marat" to the pioneers. Children change his nickname to "Lighthouse".
In Uncle Styopa The Militsioner Styopa, the former Starshina in the Navy, joins the Soviet militsiya, because he thinks that "it is important". He's respected by adults and children alike. He continues to help people: when a small boy loses his mother at the train station, Styopa lifts the child and he sees his mother in the crowd. When one of the traffic lights breaks down and this creates a traffic jam, the Road Traffic Control Department (ORUD) officer asks for Styopa's advice. Styopa reaches the light with his hand and fixes it. This earns him another nickname, "Traffic Light". He also earns the first prize in a speed skating competition, making the Militsiya proud.
In Uncle Styopa and Yegor Styopa's wife Manya gives birth to a son named Yegor. His birth weight is 8 kg. The poem follows his childhood as he makes first steps, goes to school. Yegor is not as tall as his father, but he is exceptionally strong. He is a model student who gets good marks at school, plays sports, "eats soft-boiled eggs for breakfast", and prevents arguments among classmates. As he gets older Yegor becomes famous due to his strength. At the age of 20 he wins the European Weightlifting competition and beats the European record by lifting 330 kg. He later wins the gold medal at the Olympic Games. His dream is, however, to "fly among the stars". In the end of the poem he goes through the astronaut training.
In Uncle Styopa The Veteran Styopa is a pensioner. He enjoys life, plays with children, and travels to France to see the Eiffel Tower. His granddaughter (Yegor's daughter) is born. Mikhalkov concludes the poem saying that logically Styopa "has to, unfortunately, pass away sooner or later", but "every reader knows" that the character will never get old and die.
Adaptations
1939 film
A 1939 black-and-white animated film Uncle Styopa was directed by Vladimir Suteev and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm, with a script written by Nikolay Aduyev. The music was composed by Alexey Kamin. Among the animators were Boris Dyozhkin, Faina Yepifanova, Lidiya Reztsova, Fyodor Khitruk, Anna Shchekalina. It was one of the earliest Soyuzmultfilm's animated films.
1964 film Uncle Styopa The Militsioner was adapted into the popular animated film with the same name in 1964, also known as Uncle Stiopa the Militiaman. It was directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and art director Leonid Shvartsman with the music composed by Aleksandr Lokshin. Among the animators were Anatoly Abarenov, Boris Butakov, Mikhail Botov, Yury Butyrin, Alexander Davydov, Sergey Dyozhkin Lidiya Reztsova, and Konstantin Chikin.
Voice cast:
Valentina Sperantova as Narrator
Vladimir Troshin as Uncle Styopa
Sergey Tseits as the Road Traffic Control Department officer; the school bully; crowd
Klara Rumyanova as children; shop assistant; the woman on the street
Yulia Yulskaya as the old woman
Margarita Korabelnikova as children
Other adaptations
Two filmstrips were released by the Diafilm (Диафильм) studio. The first, Uncle Styopa, was created by Yevgeniy Migunov in 1963. The second, Uncle Styopa The Militsioner, was created by Migunov and released in 1966.
There was a candy named "Uncle Styopa" in the USSR and Russia.
There are three sculptures of the character, in Moscow by Alexander Rozhnikov, in Prokopyevsk by Konstantin Zinich and in Samara by Zurab Tsereteli.
The video game Militsioner'' is loosely based on the Uncle Styopa story. It features a fictional dystopian Soviet town guarded by a gigantic policeman that the player character has to evade and escape from the town.
References
External links
Children's poetry
Russian poems
Fictional police officers
Characters in children's literature
Characters in poems
Male characters in literature
Fictional Russian people in literature
Fictional Soviet Navy personnel
Literary characters introduced in 1935
1935 poems
Soyuzmultfilm
1939 animated films
1939 films
1935 in Russia
Russian children's literature
Fictional characters with gigantism
Fictional Olympic competitors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle%20Styopa |
Corey Sutherland Lewis (also known as Rey or The Rey) is an American comic book creator. He is primarily known as the creator of Sharknife, published by Oni Press. Other works include PENG for Oni, and providing back-up comic strips for the Darkstalkers and Street Fighter comics for UDON. Rey also had a brief stint as the artist and writer of the Rival Schools comic book. He participated with a short story in Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Stories comic published by Dark Horse Comics. He created a series of self-published zines that were later published by Image Comics as the anthology Sun Bakery. Rey recently started Coastalvania where he sells books and other merchandise made by him.
Lewis' work is notable for its combination of global youth culture influences, including martial arts, video games, American comic books and cartoons, Japanese anime and manga, graffiti, hip-hop, and indie rock. His work has been compared to that of Bryan Lee O'Malley, and the two artists are friends. Lewis' art tends to be stylized and make use of sound effects. So far he has worked almost exclusively in the action genre. Lewis cites Paul Pope and Masashi Kishimoto (creator of Naruto) as his primary comics influences.
Bibliography
Comic books
Sharknife Series
Sharknife Vol.1 (2005)
Sharknife Brunchtime Bash (Free Comic Book Day release) (2005)
Sharknife Stage First (reprint of Vol.1) (2006)
Sharknife Double Z (2012)
Sharknife: Fight Machine (2019)
PENG! one-shot (2005, reprinted in PENG! 2020)
Rival Schools Issues #1 & #2 (2006)
Marvel Strange Tales MAX "Longshot!" Issue #3 (2009)
Game Changer (2015)Sun Bakery (2017)
Short stories
Koja-Oh: The Story of Koja in Punchthroat Anthology (2003)
Cheap Shots / Street Fighter Mini / Darkstalkers Mini (2004–2005)
PINAPL in Popgun (2007)
Strange Tales MAX #3 - Longshot (2010)
X-Men: Nation X - Cannonball (2010)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Stories (2011)
Web comics
Rival Schools Issues #3 & #4 (2007)
Dead In the Now (Zuda Comics) (2007 and 2008)
Seedless (2008–2010)
Self-published
Apollonia No! (2004)
Appleton (2005)
Stab Kids (2006)AremBare KnuckleFreeze (also collected in PENG! 2020)
Extra Sauce (2020–Ongoing)PENG! reprint with additional stories (2020)
Other works
Apparel designs for punk band MXPX.
Concept illustrations for toy company Hasbro, including Transformers box art.
Concept designs for properties such as Castlevania (mostly un-used).
Illustrations for "Mobisode" animation featured on the Tony Jaa film, The Protector (Tom-Yum-Goong) entitled "8-Limbs".
Wrote a short story in Vol 5. Issue 3 (2009) of Marvel's Strange Tales entitled "The Fortune Full X-Men"
References
External links
Reyyy.com - Personal website.
Reyyy.lj - Livejournal, blog and relevant news.
Myspace Page - Rey's Myspace page.Coastalvania'' - Rey's online store.
American webcomic creators
Living people
American bloggers
American cartoonists
American comics artists
American comics writers
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey%20Lewis |
Navodaya may refer to
Navodaya, a modern literature movement in the Kannada language
Navodaya Appachan (1925–2012), Indian film producer, director, and entrepreneur
Navodaya Institute of Technology, a college in Raichur, India
Navodaya Medical College, a medical college in Raichur, India
Navodaya Studio in the Malayalam language film industry of India
Navodaya Times, a Hindi-language newspaper established in 2013 and published in Delhi
Saju Navodaya, Indian film actor
See also | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navodaya |
Portland State Vanguard, formerly known as the Daily Vanguard and Vet's Extended, is an independent student newspaper for Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Publishing
The tabloid format newspaper has a circulation of 5,000, and is distributed for free in and around the Portland State campus area. Until fall 2010 it was published Tuesday through Friday during the academic year, and once a week during the summer. Tuesday, Friday and summer issues were 12 pages, while Wednesday and Thursday issues were eight. As of 2013, the Vanguard publishes once a week on Tuesdays. Exclusively online stories are also released daily. As of 2016–17, the paper is known as the Portland State Vanguard and publishes weekly, every Wednesday.
The Vanguard is composed of four sections: News, Opinion, Arts & Culture and International. The news section provides coverage of significant events relating to the university, administration, student government and the city of Portland. The opinion section offers a variety of views on local and national news and politics and provides a forum of discussion and debate for students and faculty. Arts & Culture covers arts, entertainment and popular culture around campus and Portland. The international section provides coverage of world news and Portland State international and multicultural student organizations and events.
The newspaper's approximately $200,000 annual operating budget is funded in part through student fees and in part through advertising revenue.
The Portland State University Media Board, which consists of four students, four faculty members, and one community member, acts as the Vanguard publishing body. The board hires the Vanguards editor-in-chief at the end of each academic year and the remainder of the editorial staff is hired by the editor-in-chief. Editors serve a term of one academic year, beginning and ending in June.
Staff
Vanguard is entirely student run, employing over 60 paid student writers, photographers, graphic designers and section editors. Contributors are freelance and are paid per contribution.
The current editor-in-chief is Kat Leon. Vanguard adviser is Reaz Mahmood, who replaced Jud Randall, a former editor at The Oregonian.
Notable former staff
Andy Ngo, Online/Social Media Editor 2015-2016
History
Established in 1946, Vanguard was originally the newspaper of the Vanport College Extension in Vanport, Oregon, from which the Vanguard name is derived. The Vanport College Extension relocated to downtown Portland, Oregon after it was destroyed by a flood on May 30, 1948, and eventually became Portland State College before becoming Portland State University.
The newspaper's first issue was published by founding editor Don Carlo, a blind military veteran, on November 16, 1946, under the temporary nameplate Vet's Extended. The first article on the front page was a story covering the student council elections. The first editorial was titled "The Spirit of a Student Body," and declared:
We, as students, are helping to start a new idea for colleges. For it is true that there was no school here before, and it is also true that this organization was only started to alleviate the congestion created by the emergency....and though the only romantic thing around here is the cinder path from Portland to Oregon Halls, we do have the proper shift of....a University. But even without all of the atmospheric attributes, we have within us the insatiable search for knowledge that was born while waiting for the end of the war. Many of us waited years so that we might have an opportunity to attend such a school.
After the alternative names of "Stooge" and "Aspect" were rejected, the name was changed to "Vanguard" beginning January 14, 1947 at the counsel of the paper's first faculty adviser, Vaughn Albertson of the English Department .
The Vanguard originally published weekly on Wednesday afternoons and featured only text. In November 1953, production day was changed to Friday, and the first photograph appeared in the January 28, 1954 edition.
In early 1967, the Vanguard went on strike in objection to salary and budget cuts imposed by faculty members in the dean of students office, which maintained financial control over the paper at that time. In spring term of 1967 the editorial staff announced the paper would not publish until certain conditions were met, including an audit of the paper's finances by an accountant from the college's business office, the positioning of the paper completely under the Publications Board and a demand that the dean of students relinquish all responsibility for all publications. The strike ended after the first week of spring term, with the paper missing only one week of production, and production was then increased to twice-weekly.
On May 19, 1967 The Vanguard published a nude photograph of beat poet Allen Ginsberg on its front page. The photo prompted college President Branford P. Millar to order that publication of the newspaper be suspended on May 24, 1967, calling the Ginsberg photo "vulgar." The Vanguard published the following Wednesday, May 31, and Friday, June 2, as the Independent Vanguard. The cost of publication was covered by donations from faculty members, whose support was led by Donald R. Moor of the Philosophy Department.
During the 1990–91 academic year, the Vanguard changed its publication schedule from twice-weekly to four days a week.
On October 18, 2005, the Vanguard published an opinion article titled "A city divided: Religious disputes over Jerusalem require diplomacy" by Caelan MacTavish that addressed the religious divide over Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The article immediately attraction the attention of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting, and the group contacted the paper to voice its concern and request an apology. By October 27, the article was removed from the Vanguard Web site and replaced it with an editor's note explaining that, after review, the story did not meet the paper's editorial standards.
On October 28, the paper ran an editorial stating that "the column was not given as much editorial attention as it deserved, and realizes in retrospect that the column simply should not have been published....The column neither contributes to educated debate on the subject matter nor provides any insight into the issue that it ostensibly addresses."
By the winter of 2008, the Vanguard was publishing a Twitter feed and maintaining a Facebook site to participate in the expanding trend of social media sites.
Awards
The newspaper and its staff have won several collegiate journalism awards, including the General Excellence Award from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Award. In 2016, the student staff won five national awards from College Media Business and Advertising Managers. From the Associated Collegiate Press, Vanguard received two national Pacemaker awards in 2019 (1st place in Editorial Cartoon and 5th place in Local Climate Change Reporting and 7th place "Best of Show" for a special edition newspaper in 2018. For 2020 Coronavirus coverage, Vanguard earned a weekly CCC national award as well as a final award from among the weekly winners.Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Awards'
General Excellence (2004, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Best Section (2007, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Best Special Section (2009, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Best Headline Writing (2008, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Best Writing (2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Best News Story (2004, 2017)
Best Series (2008, 2017, 2018)
Best Feature Story (2007, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018)
Best Editorial (2004, 2009, 2018, 2020)
Best Columnist (2007, 2014, 2017, 2018)
Best Sports Story (2009)
Best Review (2007, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018)
Best Spot News Photo (2009, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Best Feature Photo (2008, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Best Photography (2009, 2018, 2019)
Best Design (2007, 2017, 2018)
Best Graphic (2007, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Best Cartooning (2008, 2018, 2019)
Best House Ad (2008, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Best Web Site (2009, 2014, 2017, 2019)
College Ad of the Year (2004)
Note: Award listings are missing for years 2005 - 2006, 2010 - 2013, 2015 - 2016.
See also
List of student newspapers
Notes
External links
The Daily Vanguard
Portland State Student Publications
The Daily Vanguard on Twitter
The Daily Vanguard on Facebook
1946 establishments in Oregon
Newspapers published in Portland, Oregon
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
Portland State University
Newspapers established in 1946
Student newspapers published in Oregon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20State%20Vanguard |
The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF; ) is the principal authority over all chess events in Malaysia and organizes the Malaysian Chess Championship. The MCF promotes and coordinates all major chess events in the 13 Malaysian states and is an active sports body in Malaysia. The Federation is affiliated to the world governing body, FIDE, and is part of the ASEAN Chess Confederation.
Controversies
In 2017, a 12 year old girl was barred from attending the National Scholastic Chess Championship organised by the MCF held in a school in Putrajaya over her “seductive” knee-length dress. The news sparked outrage online with the MCF vowing to investigate the incident while denying that the decision was due to religious sensitivities.
External links
References
Malaysia
Chess in Malaysia
Chess
1975 establishments in Malaysia
Sports organizations established in 1975
Chess organizations
1975 in chess | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Chess%20Federation |
The ISA Brown is a crossbreed of chicken, with sex-linked coloration. It is thought to have been the result of a complex series of crosses including but not limited to Rhode Island Reds and Rhode Island Whites, and contains genes from a wide range of breeds, the list of which is a closely guarded secret. It is known for its high egg production of approximately 300 eggs per hen in the first year of laying.
History
ISA stands for Institut de Sélection Animale, the company which developed the crossbreed in 1978 for egg production as a battery hen. In 1997, the ISA Group merged with Merck & Co., forming Hubbard ISA, so the variety is sometimes called Hubbard Isa Brown. In 2005, Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA) and Hendrix Poultry Breeders (HPB) merged in ISA B.V., which also became part of the multi-species breeding company, Hendrix Genetics. In March 2005, Hubbard was purchased from Merial Ltd by Group Grimaud La Corbiere, SA.
See also
Hy-Line International
References
Chicken crossbreeds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISA%20Brown |
The Yakovlev Yak-55 is a single-seat aerobatic aircraft. Pilots flying the Yak-55 have won several world aerobatic championships.
Development
The Soviet team in the 1976 World Aerobatic Championship, although dominating the championship, finishing first and second in the individual competition and also winning the team and women's competitions in their Yakovlev Yak-50s, were impressed by the performance of competing foreign aircraft, which could carry out the required manoeuvers in less space than the Yak-50. A team in the Yakovlev design bureau, led by Sergei Yakovlev, and with V. P. Kondratiev and D. K. Drach as chief engineers, therefore set out to design an all-new dedicated aerobatic aircraft, unrelated to the Yak-50, which would be able to match the tight, low-speed style of Western aircraft.
The resulting design, the Yakovlev Yak-55, was a single-engined all-metal cantilever monoplane. The aircraft's wing is mounted midway up the fuselage and is of thick, symmetrical section to aid inverted flight. The pilot sits in an enclosed cockpit under a sliding teardrop canopy level with the trailing edge of the wing and with the seat below wing level. The powerplant is the same tractor configuration Vedeneyev M14P engine driving a two-bladed V-530TA-D35 propeller, as used by the Yak-50, while the aircraft has a fixed undercarriage with titanium sprung main gear and tailwheel.
The prototype Yak-55 first flew in May 1981, was unveiled at the Moscow Tushino air show in August 1982 and displayed (but did not compete) at the 1982 World Aerobatic Championships. By this time, fashions in aerobatic flying had changed, with the high-energy aerobatics demonstrated by the Yak-50 back in fashion, leading to the Yak-55 being rejected by the Soviet team. The Yak-55 was therefore redesigned with new wings with shorter span, reduced area and a thinner but still symmetrical aerofoil section, giving an increased rate of roll and speed. Series production finally began in 1985 at Arsenyev, with 108 aircraft being delivered by 1991.
In the late 1980s, work began on a revised version of the Yak-55, the Yak-55M, to meet demands from DOSAAF for an aircraft with further increased rates of roll, and to compete with new designs from the Sukhoi design bureau. The Yak-55M had a still smaller wing, which resulted in the required improvement in roll rate. It first flew in May 1989, entering production in 1990. 106 Yak-55Ms had been built by the end of 1993, with low-rate production continuing.
Operational use
The Soviet aerobatic team first used the aircraft in 1984 when they won the World Aerobatic Championship. That same year the Soviet woman's aerobatic team took first place flying the Yak-55, Kh. Makagonova winning individual gold.
The aircraft has been relatively free of Service Bulletins and Airworthiness Directives and has proved exceedingly effective in competition at all levels. The obvious capabilities of the aircraft and its success in use, together with the relatively large numbers built (about 250) have meant that owners make relatively few modifications and that few are needed.
Variants
Yak-55
Prototype/initial production aerobatic aircraft. Long-span wings.
Yak-55
Revised production version with reduced wingspan and area.
Yak-55M
Further revised version, with revised wings.
Technoavia SP-55M
The SP-55M is a development of the Yak-55M by V. P. Kondratiev, one of the designers of the Yak-55 with a redesigned vertical tail, composite-covered control surfaces, a deeper aft fuselage.
Yak-56
The Yak-56 was to be a two-seat trainer based on the Yak-55M, but with a low wing and retractable undercarriage. Power was to have come from a 300 hp VOKBM M-16 8-cylinder x-8 engine driving an AV-16 three-bladed propeller. The prototype was expected to fly in 1992, but delays in producing the engine meant that Yakovlev decided to produce the Yak-54 instead.
Boerboon & Coller Yak-110
The Yak-110 is a twin-fuselage aircraft made from two Yak-55s, fitted with a new wing center section supporting a single General Electric J85 turbojet engine in addition to the Vedeneyev M14P propeller engines. In 2013 pilot Jeff Boerboon and mechanic Dell Coller came up with the idea of the Yak-110. Chad Bartee owns one half, Boerboon the other. The plane is flown with the pilot in the left Yak-55 and is the only trimotor certified for unlimited aerobatics. Its first airshow was the Gunfighter Skies in 2018 at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
Operators
Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces
Specifications (Yak-55M)
See also
References
Gordon, Yefim, Dmitry Komissarov and Sergey Komissarov. OKB Yakovlev: A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft. Hinkley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2005. .
Gunston, Bill and Yefim Gordon. Yakovlev Aircraft since 1924. London, UK: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1997. .
Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 2003. .
Smith, Tony. "Lots of torque at Kiev". Flight International, 21 August 1976, pp. 437–439.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (editor). Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory 1999/2000. London:Brassey's, 1999. .
YAK-55M Operators Handbook
Aerobatic aircraft
1980s Soviet sport aircraft
Yak-055
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev%20Yak-55 |
Assam Agricultural University (AAU) is an agricultural education state university which was established on 1 April 1969 in Jorhat in the state of Assam, India. The jurisdiction of the university extends to the entire State of Assam with regard to teaching, research and extension education in the field of agriculture and allied sciences. The university has a number of campuses with its headquarters at Borbheta, Jorhat.
Colleges
The university has faculties and colleges all over Assam:
College of Agriculture, Jorhat
College of Community Science, Jorhat
College of Veterinary Science, Khanapara
College of Fishery Science, Raha
Biswanath College of Agriculture, Biswanath Chariali
Sarat Chandra Sinha College of Agriculture, Rangamati, Dhubri
Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science, North Lakhimpur
College of Horticulture, Nalbari (Currently functioning at Assam Agricultural University's Jorhat campus)
College of Sericulture, Titabor (Currently functioning at Assam Agricultural University's Jorhat campus)
Research stations
The university has six Regional Agricultural Research Stations in each agricultural zone of Assam at:
Titabar - Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone
North Lakhimpur - North Bank Plain Zone
Shillongoni - Central Brahmaputra Valley Zone
Diphu - Hill Zone
Gossaigaon - Lower Brahmaputra Valley Zone
Karimganj - Barak Valley Zone
The university also has four Commodity Research Stations at:
Citrus Research Station, Tinsukia
Sugarcane Research Station, Buralikson
Horticulture Research Station, Kahikuchi
Goat Research Station, Burnihut
The university also has established Krishi Vigyan Kendras for extension purpose in all the districts of Assam.
Departments
Departments under the university's faculties are:
Faculty of Agriculture
Agronomy
Agroforestry
Agricultural Biotechnology
Agricultural Economics & Farm management
Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural Meteorology
Agricultural Statistics
Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Biochemistry & Agricultural Chemistry
Crop Physiology
Entomology
Extension Education
Farm Power, Machinery & Structure
Horticulture
Irrigation & Water Management
Nematology
Plant Breeding & Genetics
Plant Pathology
Soil Science
Tea Husbandry & Technology
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Animal Biotechnology
Animal Genetics & Breeding
Animal Nutrition
Animal Production & Management
Extension Education (Veterinary)
Veterinary Anatomy & Histology
Veterinary Gynaecology
Veterinary Medicine, Public Health & Hygiene
Veterinary Microbiology
Veterinary Parasitology
Veterinary Pathology
Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
Veterinary Physiology
Veterinary Surgery & Radiology
Poultry Science & Dairy Science
Faculty of Community Science
Human development and Family Studies
Textile Science and Apparel Designing
Extension Education and Communication Mgt.
Food Science & Nutrition
Family resource management
Faculty of Fisheries Science
Aquaculture
Fish Biology
Hydrography
Fish Technology & Engineering
Fish Extension Education
Fish Economics & Management
The university is the only educational centre in the world to offer a comprehensive four-year degree program in Agriculture with specialization in Tea Husbandry and Technology, which covers the entire gamut of tea cultivation, production and marketing. The Faculty of Agriculture offers B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degree programs. The Faculty of Home Science offers B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree programs in all departments and a Ph.D. degree program in Food and Nutrition only. Presently, the number of students enrolled in the first year B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree each year is 100 and enrolment capacity of each department in M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. degree programme is 10 and 4, respectively, in the Faculty of Veterinary Science.
References
External links
Universities in Assam
Agricultural universities and colleges in India
Jorhat
Education in Jorhat district
Agriculture in Assam
Universities and colleges established in 1969
1969 establishments in Assam
State universities in Assam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam%20Agricultural%20University |
Shane C. Drake is an American music video director and producer originally from Redding, California. He has directed videos for many artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Avril Lavigne, Trivium, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Flo Rida, Timbaland, Blindside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Almost, Hawthorne Heights, Subseven, and AJR. He is best known for Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies (2006), Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift: Highway Don't Care (2013) and Paramore: Misery Business (2007).
Early career
Early in his career, Drake spent time working as an editor and cinematographer with such bands as Poison the Well, Deftones, Thursday and many more. He now spends most of his time directing. Drake has directed videos for some of todays biggest acts. He owns Say So Pictures, a California-based production company.
Awards
In 2006 Drake was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies".
In 2007 Drake was nominated for the MTV Monster Single of the Year for his video for Timbaland's "The Way I Are". In 2008, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video with Panic! at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" and MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video with Paramore's "Crushcrushcrush" and also Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It". In 2009 Drake was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for his video for Paramore's "Decode" from the Twilight film soundtrack album. In 2012, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message for Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side".
At the 48th Academy of Country Music Awards Drake took home music video of the year for the Little Big Town song "Tornado" starring Johnathon Schaech.
In 2013 the "Highway Don't Care" film won Drake, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year.
Drake would go on to win two CMT awards in the coming years, one in 2015 for the Lady A music video for their song, "Bartender" starring Tony Hale and Kate Upton, the other in 2019 for the Carrie Underwood music video for her song "Love Wins".
Music videography
Awards and honors
References
External links
Say So Pictures - Shane Drake Official Website
mvdbase.com - Shane C. Drake Videography
I Write Sins Not Tragedies page at MTV Video Music Awards site.
IMDB - Shane Drake Official IMDB Page
American music video directors
Living people
1974 births
People from Redding, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane%20Drake |
Roger Potter (October 5, 1907 – June 1982) was an American basketball coach, who was the first coach for the National Basketball Association's Tri-Cities Blackhawks (now the Atlanta Hawks). He lasted seven games (going 1-6) and was replaced with Red Auerbach.
References
External links
BasketballReference.com: Roger Potter
1907 births
1982 deaths
Tri-Cities Blackhawks head coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Potter |
Short Beach is a beach neighborhood situated in Branford, Connecticut. It is the westernmost of Branford's seven neighborhoods, the others being: The Hill, The Center, Pine Orchard, Stony Creek, Indian Neck, and Brushy Hill. Short Beach's population is approximately 2,500. About a half mile long, it is situated in New Haven County and is bordered by East Haven to the west, Branford to the north and east and Long Island Sound to the south. It is home to many small islands, the largest being Kelsey's Island which has a few small cabins used as summer homes.
Short Beach was once a thriving shoreline vacation village that became almost a completely year-round neighborhood starting in the late 1950s. There are still million-dollar summer homes on the waterfront as well as the old vacation homes. Nowadays Short Beach is a fast-growing area that still retains a neighborhood feel. It is home to people of every economic background and is a safe and heavily policed area. Most of the old cottages have been fixed up, so much so that the area has a newer look than it did just ten years ago. There has been immigration to Short Beach and the New Haven area in general from the former Yugoslavia as well as from the Caribbean.
The central portion of the Short Beach neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Short Beach Historic District in 2017.
Attractions
Short Beach is home to half of the famous Shore Line Trolley Museum, which is also in neighboring East Haven, Connecticut. Also in Short Beach are the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club (YCYC), Shore Automotive, the Adult Day Care Center, Short Beach Church, the local fire house, which houses and is owned by Short Beach Hose, Hook and Ladder Volunteer Company 4 of the Branford Fire Department, as well as a U. S. Post Office. Short Beach has three parks, the largest being Pardee Park in the center. Short Beach has a 3-day festival at the end of summer called Short Beach Days with a parade, lip-synching contest, races, basketball, and sand castle building.
New Haven CT Transit F3, F5 and F6 buses run through Short Beach connecting the neighborhood to East Haven, New Haven, downtown Branford and go as far as Seymour and Ansonia.
Short Beach is known for a population of monk parakeets that live there. It is said that they escaped from captivity and never left the neighborhood. The parrots took up residence in the community's trees and can be heard and seen all year long.
History
Short Beach was occupied by the Quinnipiac and possibly the Paugussett tribes in the 17th century but this information is still disputed. It became part of Branford when the town was established in 1644. The area remained largely undeveloped until the post-Civil War period, when it began a slow development as a summer resort area. By the 1890s the area featured a hotel and a number of seasonal and year-round residences along Beckett Avenue. From 1891 until she died in 1919, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox lived on the Short Beach coast overlooking Granite Bay. Wilcox was influential in promoting the area, and its growth was assured when the Branford Electric Railway ran its line near Short Beach in 1897. The area's popularity as a summer resort area peaked in the early 1920s, after which it was subjected to increasing suburbanization.
Environment
Short Beach has a temperate climate and has hot summers and cold winters.
Many oak trees, apple trees, prickly pear, pines and maples grow in the area.
Common animals in the area include monk parakeets, known locally as "Short Beach parrots," raccoons, mice, possums, skunks, gulls, pigeons, common terns, ducks, deer, coyotes, bobcats, turkeys and chickens. Cornsnakes also live in some Short Beach areas.
References
Branford, Connecticut
Neighborhoods in Connecticut
Historic districts in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Beach |
The Aviator is a 1985 American aviation adventure drama film directed by George T. Miller and starring Christopher Reeve and Rosanna Arquette.
Plot
Edgar Anscombe (Christopher Reeve) is an instructor at a US Army Air Corps flying school in 1918. While he is teaching a young pilot, the aircraft crashes during a landing attempt and bursts into flames. The student is killed, though Edgar survives.
Ten years later, Edgar is a Contract Air Mail pilot flying the rugged CAM-5 route between Elko, Nevada and Pasco, Washington. When asked to take a passenger, Edgar reluctantly agrees, revealing that the last time he had a passenger in his aircraft, it was the doomed trainee.
Tillie Hansen (Rosanna Arquette) is outspoken and rebellious. She makes it clear that she does not want to go to her aunt's house, but her father demands it. He uses his influence as banker for the airline to secure passage for her. Tillie annoys Edgar with her questions, and he acts coldly towards her.
During the stopover at Boise, Idaho, Edgar's pilot friend, Jerry Stiller (Scott Wilson) changes the oil lines on the engine, but neglects to inspect his work as a call has just come in for him. The tension between Edgar and Tillie continues to escalate, and when the flight resumes, Edgar decides to take a shortcut over the mountains, deviating from the normal route. However, the engine loses oil pressure and soon fails, causing Edgar to crash land on a remote ridge.
Tillie blames Edgar for stranding them, and Edgar calls Tillie a jinx. During the night, Tillie accidentally blows up the remains of the aircraft with a cigarette. Afterward, Edgar's anger subsides as he seems to accept the hopelessness of their situation.
The next day, Edgar goes out hunting and manages to shoot a rabbit with his pistol. However, while returning to camp he is attacked by a pack of wolves who steal the rabbit and badly injure his arm. Tillie manages to sew the wound shut and bandages his arm. Faced with the continued threat of the wolves, and since the remains of the aircraft have been destroyed, Edgar and Tillie decide to climb down the cliff to the canyon below.
During their descent, a search aircraft flies overhead. Edgar and Tillie jump on a ledge to try to signal the aircraft, but Tillie falls and breaks her leg. The two are forced to spend the night on the cliff face, and a mutual affection develops. The next day, Edgar carries Tillie to the canyon floor, where he makes a travois to haul her.
When Tillie spots some telephone lines, Edgar heads off to investigate, leaving Tillie his revolver. Meanwhile, one of the search pilots has determined the location of the crash, and flies toward the crash site. As Edgar returns to the clearing where he has left Tillie, he is again attacked by a wolf, within sight of Tillie. The rescuers fly overhead and spot Edgar, but are powerless to help. Tillie manages to crawl out of her travois and shoots the wolf, saving Edgar's life. They are rescued, with hints of a romantic relationship developing.
Cast
Christopher Reeve as Edgar Anscombe
Rosanna Arquette as Tillie Hansen
Jack Warden as Moravia
Sam Wanamaker as Bruno Hansen
Scott Wilson as Jerry Stiller
Tyne Daly as Evelyn Stiller
Marcia Strassman as Rose Stiller
Will Hare as Old Man
Robert Pierce as Student Pilot
Glenn Neufeld as George Hansen
Frano Lasić as Daniel Hansen
Ron Travis as Probosky
Jeff Harding as Carson
Paul Reid Roman as Counterman
Paul Lichtman as Customer
Production
The story of the film was adapted by Marc Norman from the book The Aviator, written by Ernest K. Gann. In the book, Tillie is an 11-year-old girl rather than the pert teenager in the film. Also she is critically injured after the crash of the Stearman mailplane and is immobile the entire time afterward.
Although set in the northwestern United States, the film was actually shot in Croatia near Rijeka, and Ljubljana, Slovenia, then a part of Yugoslavia.
Reception
Aviation film historian Stephen Pendo noted that aviation films such as The Aviator had a difficult time. The last major feature, Blaze of Noon (1947), also adapted from a Gann novel, that explored the air mail period was mildly successful. "While many aspects of aviation have continued to interest filmmakers years after the events have passed, the glamor of flying the mail faded quickly ..." and so did interest in this film, concluded Pendo. Film critic Leonard Maltin's review was succinct, "Dull Ernest Gann story barely made it (and understandably so) to theaters." Famed Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert slammed the film, and when they brought it on their TV show At the Movies, they included the film as a "stinker" of the week- a rare title reserved for only films they considered awful. Ebert saying that "the film takes all the basic cliches from 2 totally different genres and combine them to make one remarkably and almost transcendentally silly movie- it doesn't contain a single ounce of thought" and Siskel noting that "there isn't a single scene in this movie that is good. Not one. It is uniformly awful and boring."
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 20% based on reviews from 5 critics.
See also
Airmails of the United States, which describes the Contract Air Mail service and specifically the CAM-5 route which provides the setting for the film
References
Notes
Bibliography
Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988. .
Pendo, Stephen. Aviation in the Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1985. .
External links
1985 films
1980s adventure films
American aviation films
Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Films based on American novels
Films directed by George T. Miller
Films produced by Mace Neufeld
Films scored by Dominic Frontiere
Films set in the 1920s
Films set in 1928
Films set in Idaho
Films set in Nevada
Films set in Washington (state)
Films shot in Croatia
Films shot in Yugoslavia
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films
Films about postal systems
1980s English-language films
1980s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Aviator%20%281985%20film%29 |
EuLisp is a statically and dynamically scoped Lisp dialect developed by a loose formation of industrial and academic Lisp users and developers from around Europe. The standardizers intended to create a new Lisp "less encumbered by the past" (compared to Common Lisp), and not so minimalist as Scheme. Another objective was to integrate the object-oriented programming paradigm well. It is a third-generation programming language.
Origin
The language definition process first began in a meeting in 1985 in Paris and took several years. The complete specification and a first implementation (interpreted-only) were made available in 1990.
Distinguishing features
Its main traits are that it is a Lisp-1 (no separate function and variable namespaces), has a Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) style generic-function type object-oriented system named The EuLisp Object System (TELOS) integrated from the ground up, has a built-in module system, and is defined in layers to promote the use of the Lisp on small, embedded hardware and educational machines. It supports continuations, though not as powerfully as Scheme. It has a simple lightweight process mechanism (threads).
Summary
A definition in levels, currently Level-0 and Level-1
Modules based on (non-first-class) lexical environments.
Lexically scoped, with dynamic or late binding available in Level-1.
A single name space for function and variable names (like Scheme).
Lightweight processes.
A fully integrated object system with single inheritance at Level-0 and multiple inheritance and meta-object protocol at Level-1.
An object-oriented condition system.
Implementations
An early implementation of EuLisp was Free and Eventually Eulisp (FEEL). The successor to FEEL was Youtoo (interpreted and compiled versions), by University of Bath in the United Kingdom. An interpreter for the basic level of EuLisp, level-0, was written by Russell Bradford in XScheme, an implementation of Scheme by David Michael Betz, originally named EuScheme EuScheme but the most recent version is renamed EuXLisp to avoid confusion. Also Eu2C , a EuLisp optimizing compiler, was created by Fraunhofer ISST under the APPLY project in Germany .
A dialect of EuLisp was developed, named Plural EuLisp. It was EuLisp with parallel computing programming extensions.
Example
Example use of classes in the algorithm to solve the "Towers of Hanoi" problem.
(defmodule hanoi
(syntax (syntax-0)
import (level-0)
export (hanoi))
;;;-------------------------------------------------
;;; Tower definition
;;;-------------------------------------------------
(defconstant *max-tower-height* 10)
(defclass <tower> ()
((id reader: tower-id keyword: id:)
(blocks accessor: tower-blocks)))
(defun build-tower (x n)
(labels ((loop (i res)
(if (= i 0) res
(loop (- i 1) (cons i res)))))
((setter tower-blocks) x (loop n ()))
x))
(defmethod generic-print ((x <tower>) (s <stream>))
(sformat s "#<tower ~a: ~a>" (tower-id x) (tower-blocks x)))
;;;-------------------------------------------------
;;; Access to tower blocks
;;;-------------------------------------------------
(defgeneric push (x y))
(defmethod push ((x <tower>) (y <fpi>))
(let ((blocks (tower-blocks x)))
(if (or (null? blocks) (< y (car blocks)))
((setter tower-blocks) x (cons y blocks))
(error <condition>
(fmt "cannot push block of size ~a on tower ~a" y x)))))
(defgeneric pop (x))
(defmethod pop ((x <tower>))
(let ((blocks (tower-blocks x)))
(if blocks
(progn
((setter tower-blocks) x (cdr blocks))
(car blocks))
(error <condition>
(fmt "cannot pop block from empty tower ~a" x)))))
;;;-------------------------------------------------
;;; Move n blocks from tower x1 to tower x2 using x3 as buffer
;;;-------------------------------------------------
(defgeneric move (n x1 x2 x3))
(defmethod move ((n <fpi>) (x1 <tower>) (x2 <tower>) (x3 <tower>))
(if (= n 1)
(progn
(push x2 (pop x1))
(print x1 nl x2 nl x3 nl nl))
(progn
(move (- n 1) x1 x3 x2)
(move 1 x1 x2 x3)
(move (- n 1) x3 x2 x1))))
;;;-------------------------------------------------
;;; Initialize and run the 'Towers of Hanoi'
;;;-------------------------------------------------
(defun hanoi ()
(let ((x1 (make <tower> id: 0))
(x2 (make <tower> id: 1))
(x3 (make <tower> id: 2)))
(build-tower x1 *max-tower-height*)
(build-tower x2 0)
(build-tower x3 0)
(print x1 nl x2 nl x3 nl nl)
(move *max-tower-height* x1 x2 x3)))
(hanoi)
;;;-------------------------------------------------
) ;; End of module hanoi
;;;-------------------------------------------------
References
"An Overview of EuLisp", Julian Padget, Greg Nuyens, and Harry Bretthauer, editors. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Number 1-2, 1993, pages 9–98.
"Balancing the EuLisp Metaobject Protocol", Harry Bretthauer, Jürgen Kopp, Harley Davis, and Keith Playford. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Issue 1–2, August 1993, pages 119–138.
"EuLisp in Education", R. Bradford and D.C. DeRoure. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Number 1-2, pages 99–118.
"Applications of Telos", Peter Broadbery, Christopher Burdorf. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Issue 1–2, August 1993, pages 139–158.
"A Practical Approach to Type Inference for EuLisp", Andreas Kind and Horst Friedrich. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Issue 1–2, August 1993, pages 159–176.
"EuLisp Threads: A Concurrency Toolbox", Neil Berrington, Peter Broadbery, David DeRoure, and Julian Padget. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Issue 1–2, August 1993, pages 177–200.
"Plural EuLisp: A Primitive Symbolic Data Parallel Model", Simon Merrall, Julian Padget. LISP and Symbolic Computation, Volume 6, Issue 1–2, August 1993, pages 201–219.
"A Conservative Garbage Collector for an EuLisp to ASM/C Compiler", E. Ulrich Kriegel. OOPSLA'93 Workshop on Garbage Collection and Memory Management, Washington, DC, September 27, 1993.
"An Implementation of Telos in Common Lisp" , Object Oriented Systems, vol. 3, pp. 31–49, 1996. ISSN 0969-9767.
External links
EuLisp FAQ and links
Version .99 of the final 1993 specification – (PDF)
Version .991 unofficial updated draft definition (2010) – (PDF)
EuScheme sources
, latest versions of: EuLisp (with 64-bit support and more), EuXLisp, Eu2C
Dynamically typed programming languages
Functional languages
Lisp programming language family
Multi-paradigm programming languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuLisp |
The Last Words were an Australian punk rock group formed in 1977 by mainstays Malcolm Baxter on lead vocals (briefly also on drums), and his song writing partner, Andy Groome on guitar (briefly on bass guitar). Their debut single, "Animal World" (March 1978), was released on their own label, Remand Records. A self-titled album appeared in December 1980 but the group disbanded in the following year.
History
The Last Words were an Australian punk rock group formed in Sydney in 1977 by Malcolm Baxter (vocals), Andy Groome (guitar), Mick Smith (bass guitar) and ex-the Saints' Jeffrey Wegener (drums). Baxter, Groome and Smith had been living in suburban, Liverpool when they met Wegener. Wegener left soon after formation and Smith exited before the end of the year. Their debut single, "Animal World" (March 1978), was recorded by the two remaining members with Baxter on lead vocals and drums and Groome on guitar and bass guitar; and it was co-written by the pair. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described how, "[it] was a poorly recorded, self-produced effort."
Baxter and Groome were joined by Ken Doyle (drums) and Leigh Kendall (bass) to re-record "Animal World", which was re-issued in February 1979 via Wizard Records. Bob Short of Kill Your Pet Puppy, described the label's rationale for signing the group, "As glam faded they desperately looked around for their chunk of the next big thing. If you were looking for an unsigned contender, the Last Words ticked off all their boxes. Authentically working class punk with a firm grip on traditional pop sensibility, Wizard rushed them into the studio and did the business properly."
The Last Words relocated to London and were signed to Rough Trade Records. Doyle remained in Australia and was replaced by local musician, John Gunn on drums. Rough Trade used the Wizard Records version for another re-issue of "Animal World", which appeared in the United Kingdom in October 1979. It reached No. 8 in the Alternative Charts. Their next two singles, "Today's Kidz" (February 1980) and "Top Secret" (August), were followed by their debut album, The Last Words (December 1980). Although it contained a cover version of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and was produced by Adrian Sherwood; it did nothing to lift the band out of its relative obscurity. The group disbanded with Baxter returning to Australia.
In December 1979 Kendall had played guitar on a four-track EP, Punks Are the Old Farts of Today (Rock-O-Rama Records RRR 001) by German punk group, Vomit Visions, which were led by Erik Hysteric ( Erich Knodt). A recording, by Hysteric, of a gig by the Last Words at London University in March 1981, as support to Killing Joke remains unreleased. After the Last Words broke up, Hysteric's backing band, the Esoterics, had Groome on guitar and bass guitar, Kendall on bass guitar, guitar and vocals, and Gunn on vocals. They were joined by Vomit Visions drummer, Dieter Krist, and appeared on Hysteric's album, Drive You Crazy (1981), via Wasted Vinyl Records. It includes the track, "Frag Mich Warum", which is a German language cover version of the Last Words' "Wondering Why", and is sung by Kendall. Groome and Kendall also played on three tracks "Life" (Waste 45), "Fool Around" and "(I Wanna Be A) Kid Forever" (Waste 9) recorded before the album, which were released as Eric Hysteric's solo singles in 1982 and 1983.
Discography
Albums
The Last Words (August 1980) – Armageddon Records (ARM 2)
Walk Away; Top Secret; My Streets Of Fire; Games; Do It Yourself; Semi Detached Love; Today's Kidz / Spectacular Times; The Stranger; It's Alright; Every Schoolboy's Dream; Never Never Man; White Rabbit
(Produced by Zen Gangsters (Adrian Sherwood). Recorded at Berry St, London.)
The Last Words 1977 - 1980 (Remand Records)
Animal World; No Music; Every Schoolboy's Dream; Today's Kids; Something's Wrong; Games; It's Alright; Top Secret; The Stranger; Animal World (original); Wondering Why
Singles
"Animal World" / "Wondering Why" (March 1978) – Remand Records (RRCS 2439) 500 copies pressed, plain white sleeve
"Animal World" / "Every Schoolboy's Dream" (February 1979) – Wizard Records (ZS-196) Blue vinyl
"Animal World" / "No Music in the World Today" (October 1979) – Rough Trade Records (RT 022) Initial pressing stated that the label was "Rough Trade & Wizard"
"Today's Kidz" (February 1980) – Remand Records
"Top Secret" (August 1980) – Armageddon Records
References
External links
"Animal World" video from 1978 on youtube
Musical groups established in 1977
Musical groups disestablished in 1981
Australian punk rock groups
Musical groups from Sydney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Words%20%28band%29 |
Alvin Harris Gentry (born November 5, 1954) is an American professional basketball executive for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A former college basketball player, Gentry has led six different NBA teams. He served as an interim head coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1994–95 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Pelicans and Kings. He currently serves as the vice president of basketball engagement for the Kings.
Early and personal life
Gentry was born in Shelby, North Carolina, where he grew up and attended Shelby High School. His first cousin is former NC State and NBA star David Thompson.
Gentry played college basketball at Appalachian State University, where he was a point guard under Press Maravich and Bobby Cremins. In 1978 he spent one year as a graduate assistant at the University of Colorado. After one year working in private business, he returned to the bench when he received his first full-time collegiate assistant coaching job at Baylor University under Jim Haller in 1980. After one year at Baylor, Gentry returned to the University of Colorado as an assistant coach from 1981 to 1986 under Tom Apke. From 1986 to 1989, Gentry served as an assistant at the University of Kansas under Larry Brown, where they won the 1988 NCAA National Championship.
Gentry has been married twice and is the father of two sons and one daughter.
Coaching career
Early career
In 1989, Gentry began his NBA coaching career as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs under Larry Brown.
Gentry joined Gregg Popovich, R. C. Buford, and Ed Manning as part of Larry Brown's assistant coaching staff for the Spurs when Brown left Kansas before the 1988–89 NBA season. After two seasons in San Antonio, Gentry left to become an assistant for the Los Angeles Clippers beginning in the 1990–91 season.
Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons
For the 1991 season Gentry joined Kevin Loughery's staff as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat, where he coached for three seasons. He then moved to Detroit following the 1994–95 season where he served as an assistant for two and a half seasons before being named head coach late in the 1997–98 season.
LA Clippers
Gentry returned to San Antonio as head assistant coach following the 1999–2000 season, where he was reunited with former co-assistants Gregg Popovich (the Spurs head coach and vice president of basketball operations) and R .C. Buford (the Spurs' general manager). But that assignment was brief, as Gentry accepted the head coaching position for the Los Angeles Clippers weeks after taking the San Antonio job. He led the Clippers to 31 wins and 39 wins respectively in his first two seasons as their head coach. Those seasons were marked by the solid play of young players, such as Darius Miles, Elton Brand and Lamar Odom. In Gentry's third season, however, the team regressed (despite the addition of Andre Miller), and Gentry was fired in March 2003, following a run of five consecutive defeats. His final record as Clippers head coach stood at 89–133.
Phoenix Suns
Gentry later became an assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns for six years, serving under head coaches Mike D'Antoni and Terry Porter. When Porter was fired in his first season as head coach, Alvin Gentry took over on an interim basis. He was named Suns' head coach for the 2009–10 season. Gentry's record in his first year as head coach during the 2009–2010 season was 54 wins, a career high, against 28 losses. The Suns advanced to the Western Conference finals and lost to the Lakers in six games. He became the fifth head coach to lead the Suns to the Western Conference finals in his first full season. Gentry figured out how to blend the two styles of D'Antoni and Porter. Comparing his coaching to D'Antoni, Gentry said "We are not seven seconds or less. We're 12 seconds or under. We don't take a lot of really quick shots. We don't play with that breakneck pace. We play with a rhythm." Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich remarked "One thing about Phoenix is they are better defensively than in the past. They're much more active, much more committed, they've taken responsibility to a much more significant degree than ever before."
On January 18, 2013, Gentry mutually parted ways with the Phoenix Suns. In July 2013, he returned to the Clippers organization, taking the title of associate head coach, making him Doc Rivers' lead assistant.
Golden State Warriors
After one season with the Clippers, Gentry was hired as associate head coach for the Golden State Warriors, working under new head coach Steve Kerr.
New Orleans Pelicans
On May 30, 2015, Gentry was named the head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans. prior to the start of the 2015 NBA Finals, but was to remain with Golden State until the series was completed. The Warriors won the NBA Championship after they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games to give Gentry his first NBA championship.
On August 15, 2020, after a disappointing performance in the NBA Bubble following the resumption of the 2019–20 season, Gentry was fired as the Pelicans' coach. He was 175–225 in five seasons. Often plagued by injuries, New Orleans used 140 starting lineups in that span, 11 more than the next-closest team in the league. Gentry left the Pelicans with the second-most wins in franchise history behind Byron Scott and was their only coach with a winning post-season record (5–4).
Sacramento Kings
On October 6, 2020, Gentry was named the associate head coach of the Sacramento Kings. On November 21, 2021, Gentry was named the interim head coach of the Kings following the dismissal of Luke Walton. On April 11, 2022, he was fired by the Kings.
Executive career
Following his dismissal as head coach, Gentry was retained by the Sacramento Kings as the vice president of basketball engagement.
Head coaching record
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 36||15||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Atlantic||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 37||16||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|6th in Central||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 50||29||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Central||5||2||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 58||28||30|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Clippers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||31||51|||| style="text-align:center;"|6th in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Clippers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||39||43|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Clippers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 58||19||39|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 31||18||13|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||54||28|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Pacific||16||10||6||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||40||42|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 66||33||33|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 41||13||28|||| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||30||52|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Southwest||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||34||48|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Southwest||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||48||34|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Southwest||9||5||4||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference semifinals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||33||49|||| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Southwest||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 72||30||42|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Southwest||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Sacramento
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 65||24||41|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Pacific||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career ||1,170||534||636|||| ||30||17||13||||
References
External links
NBA profile
BasketballReference.com: Alvin Gentry
1954 births
Living people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from North Carolina
Basketball players from North Carolina
Baylor Bears men's basketball coaches
Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball coaches
Detroit Pistons assistant coaches
Detroit Pistons head coaches
Golden State Warriors assistant coaches
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball coaches
Los Angeles Clippers assistant coaches
Los Angeles Clippers head coaches
Miami Heat assistant coaches
Miami Heat head coaches
New Orleans Hornets assistant coaches
New Orleans Pelicans head coaches
Sportspeople from Shelby, North Carolina
Phoenix Suns assistant coaches
Phoenix Suns head coaches
Point guards
Sacramento Kings assistant coaches
Sacramento Kings head coaches
San Antonio Spurs assistant coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20Gentry |
David Bowie (1947–2016) held leading roles in several feature films, including The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) (for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor), Just a Gigolo (1978), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Hunger (1983), Labyrinth (1986), The Linguini Incident (1991), and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). Films in which he appeared in a supporting role or cameo include The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Zoolander (2001).
Bowie also appeared on several television series including Extras, Dream On, and the horror anthology series The Hunger. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Special Class Special in 2003 for Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s with David Bowie (AMC).
Bowie was featured in a number of documentaries, films, and videos focusing on his career. He also appeared frequently in documentaries about other musicians.
Film
As actor
As subject of documentary or video
This list contains documentaries and videos that have been officially released as films, television broadcasts and/or home video, ordered by date filmed. Bootlegs and privately distributed videos are not included. The list is selective, particularly with respect to television performances and interviews. A more complete list can be found in Nicholas Pegg's The Complete David Bowie (Titan, 2004, revised and updated 2011).
As himself in other documentaries
This list is selective. For a more complete list, see Nicholas Pegg's The Complete David Bowie.
Group Madness: The Making of Yellowbeard (1983)
Cool Cats: Twenty-Five Years of Rock 'N' Roll Style (1983)
Queen: The Magic Years (1987)
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
Travelling Light (1992)
The Time Life History Of Rock N' Roll (1995)
Inspirations (1997)
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
As producer
Büvös vadász (1994) (aka Magic Hunter)
Passaggio per il paradiso (1998) (aka Gentle Into the Night or Passage to Paradise)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
See also
David Bowie videography - Bowie's appearances in music-related film.
References
Filmography
Bowie, David
it:Filmografia di David Bowie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bowie%20filmography |
, stylized in Latin script between 1988 and 1990, is a biweekly Japanese manga magazine published by Shueisha.
History
Margaret was first published as a weekly magazine in 1963. When manga serialized in Margaret are collected into tankōbon volumes, they are published under the Margaret Comics imprint. Series from sister magazine Bessatsu Margaret are also published under the Margaret Comics imprint. Margaret has been published on the 5th and the 20th of each month since 1988. Margaret other sister magazine The Margaret was published quarterly until its disbandment in 2023.
In 2009, the circulation was 154,584. However, the circulation dropped to 95,044 in 2010. As of 2016, the magazine is also published online.
Serializations
Current
Mei-chan no Shitsuji DX (2014–present)
Sentimental Kiss (2020–present)
Pink to Habanero (2021–present)
Yojōhan no Ibarahime (2023–present)
Past
1963–1979
Sarutobi Ecchan (1964–1969)
Attack No. 1 (1968–1970)
The Rose of Versailles (1972–1973)
Aim for the Ace! (1973–1980)
The Window of Orpheus (1975–1981)
Oniisama e... (1974)
Swan (1976–1981)
Claudine (1978)
1980–1989
Yūkan Club (1982–2002)
Hikari no Densetsu (1985–1988)
Zetsuai 1989 (1989–1991)
1990–1999
Boys Over Flowers (1992–2008)
Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989 (1992–1996)
2000–2009
Parfait Tic! (2000–2007)
Love Monster (2002–2006)
Tail of the Moon (2002–2007)
Maria-sama ga Miteru (2003–2010)
Yokujō Climax (2004–2006)
Ginban Kaleidoscope (2005–2006)
Mixed Vegetables (2005–2007)
Switch Girl!! (2006–2014)
Stepping on Roses (2007–2012)
A Devil and Her Love Song (2007–2011)
Demon Love Spell (2008–2014)
2010–2019
Daytime Shooting Star (2011–2014)
Fudanjuku Monogatari (2011)
Like a Butterfly (2012–2015)
Neko to Watashi no Kinyōbi (2013–2015)
Akuma ni Chic × Hack (2016–2017)
References
External links
1963 establishments in Japan
Semimonthly manga magazines published in Japan
Weekly manga magazines published in Japan
Magazines established in 1963
Shōjo manga magazines
Shueisha magazines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20%28magazine%29 |
Bilinda Jayne Butcher (born 16 September 1961) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as a vocalist and guitarist of the shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine.
Early life
Butcher was born and raised in London and later relocated with her parents and older sister Jo-Anne to Golden Valley, Derbyshire, a small hamlet in the countryside. Her forename is an alternate spelling of Belinda and was chosen by her mother. Butcher has been quoted as saying, "if I'd been a guy I would have been named Bill, but since I was a girl it became Bilinda".
Butcher has said that growing up in Golden Valley she was considered "a weirdo" as she wore clothes based on 1920s fashion and listened to records on a portable gramophone. Butcher stated: "My mother thought I was up in the clouds. I never watched the news or read the papers; it was like I lived in another era. Everybody was into punk and I was living in the '20s and '30s." At age sixteen, Butcher moved back to London and began studying dance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, but left after a year.
After leaving Trinity Laban, Butcher worked as a nanny for a French family in London for six months and later moved to Paris for another six months with her partner. The pair moved back to London, squatting in Brixton, and had a child, Toby.
Music career
My Bloody Valentine
Butcher was recruited as a vocalist for My Bloody Valentine in April 1987. She replaced original vocalist David Conway and shared vocal duties briefly with Joe Byfield. Butcher, whose prior musical experience was playing classical guitar as a child and singing and playing tambourine "with some girlfriends for fun", learned that the group needed a backing vocalist from her boyfriend, who had met drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig on a ferry from the Netherlands. At her audition for the band, she sang "The Bargain Store", a song from Dolly Parton's 1975 album of the same name. She was chosen as a vocalist ahead of a girl called Julie who was in a relationship with Douglas Hart from The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Butcher was featured as co-vocalist and co-guitarist on My Bloody Valentine's non-album single, "Strawberry Wine", and the band's second mini album, Ecstasy, both of which were released in 1987 on Lazy Records. She performed vocals and guitar on all further My Bloody Valentine releases, until the band's second studio album Loveless (1991), on which her guitar duties were performed by co-vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields. She contributed a third of the lyrics to Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless, as well as other releases including You Made Me Realise (1988), Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991).
My Bloody Valentine attempted to record a third studio album after signing with Island Records in October 1992 for a reported £250,000 contract. The band's advance went towards the construction of a home studio in Streatham, South London, which was completed in April 1993. Several technical problems with the studio sent the band into "semi-meltdown", according to Shields. Despite suggestions to the contrary, Butcher never left the band, although she did leave the home studio in Streatham. My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2007, and released their third album, m b v, in 2013.
Collaborations
During My Bloody Valentine's hiatus, Butcher collaborated with two major bands. She performed lead vocals on two tracks—"Ballad Night" and "Casino Kisschase"—on the hip hop band Collapsed Lung's album Cooler (1996), and performed backing vocals on the Dinosaur Jr song "I Don't Think" from Hand It Over (1997). At Primavera Sound in 2013, Butcher performed with The Jesus and Mary Chain, providing vocals on "Just Like Honey".
Artistry
Butcher's vocals have been referred to as a trademark of My Bloody Valentine's sound, alongside Kevin Shields' guitar techniques. On a number of occasions during the recording of Isn't Anything, Butcher was awoken and recorded vocals, which she said "influenced [her] sound" by making them "more dreamy and sleepy". A similar process was used during the recording of Loveless, on which her vocals have been described as "dreamy [and] sensual". Explaining the situation, Butcher said: "often when we do vocals, it's 7:30 in the morning; I've usually just fallen asleep and have to be woken up to sing … I'm usually trying to remember what I've been dreaming about when I'm singing". Her singing was originally influenced by Françoise Hardy and later by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.
Butcher wrote a third of the lyrics on both Isn't Anything and Loveless. According to Butcher, she "didn't have a plan and never thought about lyrics until it was time to write them. I just used whatever was in my head for the moment". Some of her lyrics were written as a result of attempting to understand rough versions of songs Shields had recorded. Butcher has said: "He [Shields] never sang any words on the cassettes I got but I tried to make his sounds into words. It always became my own thing in the end though".
Like Shields, Butcher uses a number of offset guitars. Her most notable instruments include several Fender electric guitars, including Jaguars, Jazzmasters and Mustangs. On occasion, Butcher uses a Charvel Surfcaster, which she has referred to as her favourite guitar. When performing live, Butcher uses a minimal number of effects pedals and processors.
During her adolescence, Butcher became a fan of gothic rock bands such as Bauhaus, and later post-punk artists such as The Birthday Party.
Personal life
Butcher has three sons, Toby, Billy and Davy
References
Bibliography
External links
1961 births
Living people
Alternative rock guitarists
Alternative rock keyboardists
Alternative rock singers
English rock keyboardists
English rock guitarists
English rock singers
English female dancers
English women guitarists
Women rock singers
British women singer-songwriters
Musicians from London
My Bloody Valentine (band) members
People from Amber Valley
British shoegaze musicians
Singers from London
20th-century English women singers
20th-century English singers
21st-century English women singers
21st-century English singers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinda%20Butcher |
The Old University of Chicago was the legal name given in 1890 to the University of Chicago's first incorporation.
The school, founded in 1856 by Baptist church leaders, was originally called the "University of Chicago" (or, interchangeably, "Chicago University"). After years of financial struggle, the university's campus was badly damaged by fire, the school was foreclosed on by its creditors, its classes ceased in 1886, and it no longer admitted students. Rather than try to continue operations, its trustees decided in 1890 to change the school's name to the "Old University of Chicago" and allow the establishment of a new legal entity that would once again be called the "University of Chicago."
The Northwestern University School of Law began as a department of the Old University of Chicago and transferred completely to Northwestern when Old UC folded, whereas the Baptist Theological Union had formed a separate theological school in 1865 that would later be grafted into the new University as the University of Chicago Divinity School. While the present-day University of Chicago, which was established in 1890, is a separate legal entity and in a different location, it recognized Old University of Chicago alumni as its own and maintained a number of other continuities from its pre-1890 origins.
History
The land upon which the Old University of Chicago was established was originally part of a lakefront tract owned by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas had offered the plot, worth $50,000 and located at Cottage Grove Avenue and Thirty-Fifth Street, to the Presbyterian Church for a seminary. When the church group failed to raise the $100,000 Douglas set as a precondition of his donation, he offered the site to a group of Baptists, who accepted. Douglas was not particularly religious but an avid promoter of Chicago; critics accused him of trying to boost the value of his adjoining lots.
The school's 1856 charter required that most of the members of the board of trustees be of the Baptist faith. The school made no such restrictions on either faculty or students. Despite the title of university, in the early years, the tenor of the instruction was primarily collegiate and vocational in nature. Two hundred to five hundred students enrolled annually in preparatory, collegiate, law, and medical schools.
The new institution began almost immediately to encounter financial difficulties. Fundraising was hurt by Douglas' support for the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which was regarded by many northern Baptists and other abolitionists as a betrayal, while the financial Panic of 1857 drained the finances of many of the principal investors, rendering most of their initial subscriptions worthless.
The trustees proceeded with plans to build the university, including construction projects that were beyond the school's means because of the volatility of the market. With the university's debt mounting rapidly, President John C. Burroughs and the trustees sold a second wave of subscriptions. Key to this effort was James Hutchinson Woodworth, a former Chicago mayor who was also president of the Treasury Bank of Chicago. Woodworth served as a university trustee from 1857 to 1869, as well as treasurer for some time.
Burroughs, who remained in office longer than any of his five successors, established in 1859 the university's Law Department, the city's first law school. In 1870, Ada Kepley and Richard A. Dawson received bachelor of law degrees, likely the first woman and first African American, respectively, to receive degrees from the institution. In 1872, the faculty voted to allow the awarding of degrees to women undergraduate students. Alice Robinson Boise Wood became the first woman to graduate from the university with a B.A. in Classics in 1872. In 1873, the Law School became jointly associated with Northwestern University, as the Union College of Law and when the Old University of Chicago folded, today's Northwestern University School of Law. Baptist ministers and lay leaders had gathered in 1856 to organize a university for collegiate and theological education, and Baptists again gathered in 1863 as a separate Baptist Theological Union when theological instruction had not been addressed in the university, forming the Baptist Theological Union Seminary, which existed from 1867 to 1877 alongside the university. In 1877 the seminary moved to Morgan Park, IL. In the 1890s, this seminary became the University of Chicago Divinity School.
The university's finances deteriorated rapidly after Woodworth died in 1869. It was rocked by the huge costs of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the Panic of 1873 decreased donations. In 1874, a fire damaged the university's main physical plant.
Meanwhile, disagreements in the board of trustees flared up over fundraising, financial management, and faculty appointments, escalating into open conflict. Burroughs and his most vocal opponent, trustee W. W. Everts, left the board. To keep Burroughs affiliated with the university, the trustees created the post of chancellor and appointed him responsible for the school's financial affairs. But the new president and Chancellor Burroughs were quickly at odds. Other administrators were hired and departed in rapid succession; by 1886, six presidents had served the university.
The university's fifth president, Galusha Anderson, appealed to philanthropists John D. Rockefeller and Leland Stanford, but was unable to secure substantial donations. Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, the university's chief creditor, brought suit in 1881 to foreclose the mortgage on the university's property. Anderson argued to keep the school open, but in January 1885 the court found for Union Mutual. The university closed in autumn 1886, and the main building was razed in 1890.
At the final meeting of its board of trustees in 1890, the group officially changed the name of the institution to the Old University of Chicago. This was to enable a new Rockefeller-financed Baptist school, then being organized, to have a completely separate legal entity and take the title of the University of Chicago.
A stone from the old school's building in Bronzeville, which was destroyed by fire, was preserved on the present school's main quadrangle, where it was set into the wall of the arch between the Classics building and Wieboldt Hall. The stone was removed from the wall and archived by the university in July 2020 in response to concerns regarding the old Douglas Hall benefactor's association with slavery.
Notable graduates
Richard A. Dawson, second African American to be admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, and Arkansas state senator.
Charles Richmond Henderson, minister and sociologist, taught at Univ. of Chicago
Thomas W. Hyde, Union general and founder of Bath Iron Works
Ada Kepley, first woman to receive a law degree in the United States
Robert Todd Lincoln, completed law degree here.
Ferdinand Peck, real estate mogul
J. Morris Rea, Iowa attorney and politician, served as state senator
Benson Wood, U.S. congressman
Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, first African American admitted to the bar in Illinois, and helped found Provident Hospital.
References
External links
Guide to the Old University of Chicago Records 1856-1890 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
Universities and colleges established in 1856
1886 disestablishments in Illinois
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Educational institutions disestablished in 1886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20University%20of%20Chicago |
William III (30 April 1425 – 17 September 1482), called the Brave (in German Wilhelm der Tapfere), was landgrave of Thuringia (from 1445) and claimant duke of Luxemburg (from 1457). He is actually the second William to rule Thuringia, and in Luxembourg; he was the third Margrave of Meissen named William.
He was a younger son of Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony, and Catherine of Brunswick and Lunenburg. On 2 June 1446 he married Anne of Luxembourg, daughter of Albert II, King of Germany, Bohemia and Hungary and Elisabeth of Luxembourg. On behalf of his wife, he became Duke of Luxembourg from 1457 to 1469. They had two daughters, Margaret of Thuringia (1449–1501) and Catherine of Thuringia (1453 – 10 July 1534), who married Duke Henry II of Münsterberg.
William minted a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen. Its obverse portrait shows a man with a pointed beard wearing a Jewish hat, which the populace took as depicting a typical Jew.
Ancestors
1425 births
1482 deaths
Landgraves of Thuringia
Saxon princes
House of Wettin
Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20III%2C%20Landgrave%20of%20Thuringia |
Nebraska Highway 13 is a highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska that runs predominantly northwest–southeast with a south terminus east of Hadar at an intersection with U.S. Highway 81 and a north terminus two miles (3 km) south of Center, Nebraska at an intersection with Nebraska Highway 84.
Route description
Nebraska Highway 13 begins at U.S. Highway 81 north of Norfolk. It goes west through farmland into Hadar, then turns northwest through Pierce and Foster. At Plainview, NE 13 meets U.S. Highway 20 and the two highways overlap going west from Plainview. After , NE 13 turns northward and meets Nebraska Highway 59 at Creighton. It continues northward and ends south of Center at an intersection with Nebraska Highway 84.
Major intersections
References
External links
The Nebraska Highways Page: Highways 1 to 30
Nebraska Roads: NE 11-20
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Transportation in Pierce County, Nebraska
Transportation in Antelope County, Nebraska
Transportation in Knox County, Nebraska | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska%20Highway%2013 |
The Bishwa Ijtema (, meaning Global Congregation) is an annual gathering of Muslims in Tongi, by the banks of the River Turag, in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of the largest peaceful gatherings in the world. The Ijtema is a prayer meeting spread over three days, during which attending devotees perform daily prayers while listening to scholars reciting and explaining verses from the Quran. It culminates in the Akheri Munajat, or the Concluding Supplication (Final Prayer), in which millions of devotees raise their hands in front of Allah (God in Arabic) and pray for world peace. The Ijtema is considered a demonstration of Muslim unity, solidarity, mutual love and respect and an opportunity to reiterate their commitment to Islamic values. It's the biggest festival by population in Bengali culture.
The Ijtema is non-political and therefore it draws people of all persuasions. It is attended by devotees from 150 countries. The majority of its devotees come from across Bangladesh, the world's third largest Muslim majority country.
Speakers include Islamic scholars from various countries. Bishwa Ijtema is now the second largest Islamic gatherings with 5 million adherents, after the Arba'een Pilgrimage (15-20 Million attendees), surpassing the 2-3 million worshipers that perform the Hajj in Saudi Arabia (which is one of the five pillars of Islam for Muslims). The Bangladeshi Ijtema is a modern event where Muslim participation is voluntary.
Etymology
Ijtema is an Arabic word which means 'public gathering' or 'conference'
In Bengali, the event is known as the . is a Bengali word which means 'world' and means 'conference'.
Organization
The event is organized in January by the Bangladeshi branch of the Tablighi Jamaat, a Deobandi movement.
The congregation takes place in an area which spans over five square kilometers in Tongi, an outer suburb north of Dhaka. An extensive tent is created in the area with the help of the Government of Bangladesh. Transport is provided by state-run companies, including Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the Bangladesh Railway and the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC). The Bangladesh Armed Forces assists by arranging infrastructure. Despite the large number of devotees living within a confined space, generally there are very few problems of sanitation, cooking, and internal movements. It is believed to be possible because of the minimalist approach adopted by the devotees. Devotees reduce their own requirements and develop a respect for others' requirements. During the Final Prayer, huge crowds stretch from the Ijtema ground in Tongi into the Dhaka metropolitan area. Schools and offices are declared closed on the occasion.
History
The Bengali Tabhlighi Jamaat movement started in Dhaka, East Bengal during the 1950s. The first Ijtemas were organized in Chittagong (1954) and Narayanganj (1958), followed by Ijtemas at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka in 1960, 1962 and 1965. Due to the increasing rate of participants, the government of East Pakistan allowed organizers to schedule the event annually by the River Turag in 1967. Later, the government of Bangladesh allotted 160 acres
Number of devotees
In 2001, the number of attendees was 2 million. In 2010, the number was 5 million.
Foreign devotees
Estimates of foreign devotees stand at 20,000–50,000. They come from various regions, including the South Asian Subcontinent, Russia and Central Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and the United States.
Overcrowding and weather
Due to increasing overcrowding, the Ijtema was divided into two segments with an interval of seven days from 2010. The first phase is allowed for devotees from 32 designated Bangladeshi districts. The second phase allows devotees from the remaining districts of the country. Foreign devotees are allowed in both phases.
Due to increasing overcrowding, the Ijtema was divided into four segments from 2015. The first phase is allowed for devotees from 16 designated Bangladeshi districts. The second phase allows devotees from another 16 designated Bangladeshi districts. Devotees from the remaining 32 districts of the countrywill join next year.
In 2008, the event had to be cut short to only one day due to rain and cold weather which left three attendees dead.
Gallery
See also
Raiwind Ijtima
Dawah
Spread of islam
Islamization
Darul Uloom Deoband
Nerul Aalami Markaz
Kakrail Mosque
Raiwind Markaz
References
External links
BBC Slideshow on Biswa Ijtema 2007
Islam in Bangladesh
Tablighi Jamaat
Tongi
Islamic festivals
January events
Islamic terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishwa%20Ijtema |
Anne of Bohemia and Austria (12 April 1432 – 13 November 1462) was a Duchess of Luxembourg in her own right and, as a consort, Landgravine of Thuringia and of Saxony.
She was the eldest daughter of Albert of Austria, the future Emperor-Elect and Elisabeth, Queen of Bohemia, the sole descendant of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
Her posthumous brother Ladislaus, Duke of Austria (1440–57) succeeded, very underage, as king of Bohemia and later also as king of Hungary. Anne also had a younger sister, Elisabeth, who later became Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania.
On 2 June 1446 the young Anne was married to William "the Brave" of Saxony (1425–82), Landgrave of Thuringia, a younger son of Frederick I "the Warlike" of Saxony.
In right of Anne, William became Duke of Luxembourg from 1457 when Anne's brother Ladislaus died childless. Though, their rights to the land were disputed by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, and in 1469, William concluded that the possession's keeping was untenable against Burgundian attacks, and retreated to his Thuringian lands – that however took place when Anne was already dead.
They had two surviving daughters:
Margaret of Thuringia (1449 – 13 July 1501), who married John II, Elector of Brandenburg, and whose direct main heirs have been Electors of Brandenburg, then Kings of Prussia, and then German Emperors.
Katharina of Thuringia (1453 – 10 July 1534), who married Duke Henry II of Münsterberg and who has surviving descendants, mainly among Bohemian high nobility.
Ancestry
References
1432 births
1462 deaths
15th-century German nobility
15th-century German women
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15th-century House of Habsburg
Pretenders to the Bohemian throne
Austria–Luxembourg relations
Landgravines of Thuringia
Pretenders to the Hungarian throne
Daughters of kings
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Permanent Record is a 1988 American drama film starring Pamela Gidley, Michelle Meyrink, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, and Alan Boyce. It was filmed on location in Portland, Oregon and Yaquina Head near Newport on the Oregon Coast. The film primarily deals with the profound effect of suicide, and how friends and family work their way through the grief.
Plot
David Sinclair (Alan Boyce) seems to have everything. He is smart, talented, funny, and popular. He is best friends with Chris Townsend (Keanu Reeves), a quirky outsider. He seems to have it all together, yet as his personal academic expectations and those of his parents become overwhelming, he seemingly is keeping emotional problems a secret to himself.
At a party with his school friends along the coast, he takes a walk to the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean.
Chris, playful as ever, decides to sneak up on his friend, but when he emerges from behind a rock, David is not there. He has fallen to his death. Originally assumed to be a horrible accident, the situation changes when Chris receives a suicide note in the mail. Chris and David's girlfriend, Lauren (Jennifer Rubin), want to hold some type of memorial, but a reluctant school decides against it, leaving the kids to memorialize their friend in their own way.
Cast
Keanu Reeves as Chris Townsend
Alan Boyce as David Sinclair
Michelle Meyrink as M.G.
Jennifer Rubin as Lauren
Barry Corbin as Jim Sinclair
Kathy Baker as Martha Sinclair
Pamela Gidley as Kim
Richard Bradford as Leo Verdell, Principal
Michael Elgart as Jake
Dakin Matthews as Mr. McBain, Drama Teacher
Lou Reed as himself
Sam Vlahos as Mr. Townsend
David Selberg as Dr. Moss, School Superintendent
Ron Jaxon as Woody
Kevin Brown as Tiny
Paul Ganus as Randy
Phil Diskin as Security Guard
Garrett Lambert as Producer
Carolyn Tomei as Chemistry Teacher
Reception
Permanent Record received mixed reviews from critics upon its release. The film holds a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 reviews.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film as one of the best 1988 had to offer, stating all the performances were appropriate to the material, whilst also praising Silver for finding authentic ways to portray emotions.
Variety Reviews applauded Reeves' performance in the latter half of the film, citing Boyce's character's suicide as the primary reason, although also criticizing the female characters in the film.
Rob Gonsalves of efilmcritic.com criticized the film, stating it was nothing more than a 'TV-Movie drama film,' whilst also criticizing the climax of the story. However, he also praised the performance of Keanu Reeves.
Soundtrack
The musical score for Permanent Record was composed by Joe Strummer, former member of the punk rock band The Clash. A soundtrack album was released in 1988 and featured five songs by Joe Strummer and the Latino Rockabilly War with Keanu Reeves guest starring on rhythm guitar for the album's opening track, as well as individual tracks by Lou Reed, The Stranglers, BoDeans, The Godfathers, and J. D. Souther.
References
External links
1988 films
1988 drama films
American drama films
American high school films
Films about grieving
Films about suicide
Films directed by Marisa Silver
Films set in Oregon
Films shot in Oregon
Films shot in Portland, Oregon
Paramount Pictures films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
Films produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent%20Record%20%28film%29 |
Dracophyllum is a genus of plants belonging to the family Ericaceae, formerly Epacridaceae. There are 61 species in the genus, mostly shrubs, but also cushion plants and trees, found in New Zealand, Australia, Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. The name Dracophyllum, meaning dragon-leaf, refers to their strong outward similarity to the unrelated Dracaena, sometimes known as dragon tree. Although dicotyledonous, they resemble primitive monocots with their slender leaves concentrated in clumps at the ends of the branches; they are sometimes called grass-trees.
The height varies from one centimetre (D. minimum) to about 12 metres (D. longifolium).
Species
The following species are recognised by The Plant List:
Dracophyllum acerosum Berggr.
Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie
Dracophyllum alticola Däniker
Dracophyllum arboreum Cockayne
Dracophyllum × arcuatum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum balansae Virot
Dracophyllum cosmelioides W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum × densiflorum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum densum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum elegantissimum S.Venter
Dracophyllum × erectum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum filifolium Hook.f.
Dracophyllum fiordense W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum fitzgeraldii C.Moore & F.Muell.
Dracophyllum × insulare W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum involucratum Brongn. & Gris
Dracophyllum kirkii Berggr.
Dracophyllum latifolium A.Cunn.
Dracophyllum lessonianum A.Rich.
Dracophyllum longifolium (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.
Dracophyllum mackeeanum S.Venter
Dracophyllum macranthum E.A.Br. & Streiber
Dracophyllum × marginatum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum marmoricola S.Venter
Dracophyllum matthewsii (Carse) Carse
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum milliganii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum minimum F.Muell.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum oceanicum E.A.Br. & Streiber
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum ophioliticum S.Venter
Dracophyllum ouaiemense Virot
Dracophyllum paludosum Cockayne
Dracophyllum palustre W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum patens W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum pearsonii Kirk
Dracophyllum politum (Cheeseman) Cockayne
Dracophyllum pronum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum prostratum Kirk
Dracophyllum pubescens Cheeseman
Dracophyllum pyramidale W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum ramosum Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium (G.Forst.) R.Br.
Dracophyllum × saxicola W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum sayeri F.Muell.
Dracophyllum scoparium Hook.f.
Dracophyllum secundum R.Br.
Dracophyllum sinclairii Cheeseman
Dracophyllum strictum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum subulatum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum townsonii Cheeseman
Dracophyllum traversii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum trimorphum W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum uniflorum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum urvilleanum A.Rich.
Dracophyllum × varium Colenso
Dracophyllum verticillatum Labill.
Dracophyllum viride W.R.B.Oliv.
Dracophyllum × vulcanicum W.R.B.Oliv.
New Zealand
Among the New Zealand species (all of which are endemic) are:
D. arboreum, tarahinau or Chatham Island grass tree. Tree-like growth to 10 m with a distinct juvenile phase, found in the Chatham Islands.
D. acerosum, 2m tall shrub found in Southern Marlborough and Canterbury in the South Island.
D. densum, small shrub found on high mountain tops in the South Island.
D. elegantissimum, 14m tall tree found only in North-west Nelson in the South Island.
D. filifolium, 4m tall shrub / tree found in both the North and South Islands.
D. fiordense, western Otago and Fiordland
D. kirkii, small shrub found in Canterbury and Westland in the South Island.
D. latifolium, neinei or spiderwood. Found in the North Island, from Mangonui southwards to North Taranaki and the Mahia Peninsula, growing from sea level to 1,100 m (Salmon 1973:271). Usually found growing under kauri.
D. lessonianum, wi-wi. Although it can grow up to 10 m high, it most frequently is seen as a straggly shrub.
D. longifolium, inanga or inaka. Growing to 12 m tall, this is the most widespread species in New Zealand, found from sea level up to 1200 m, in subalpine regions, from the middle of the North Island to as far south as the Auckland Islands.
D. mathewsii, D. viride and D. sinclairii are found only in the far north of Tai Tokerau.
D. marmoricola, 15cm tall prostrate shrub found in Kahurangi National Park in North-west Nelson.
D. menziesii is a multi-branched shrub that grows to 2 m. It grows in high rainfall areas in high montane to sub-alpine herbfields in Western Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island/Rakiura.
D. muscoides, small cushion found in the South Island.
D. oliveri, 1 - 4m tall shrub / tree found only in the South Island.
D. ophioliticum, 2m tall shrub found only in North-west Nelson.
D. palustre, 1m tall shrub found only on the west coast (region) of the South Island.
D. patens, 3m tall shrub / tree found only in the North Island.
D. pearsonii, 50cm tall shrub found in boggy and damp areas in the South Island.
D. politum, small cushion found from lowland to subalpine in the South Island. Cushion-like grows up to 0.5m tall and 1m in diameter with small, narrow leaves covering the twigs. Blooms small white flowers from December to March.
D. prostratum, small prostrate shrub found in montane to subalpine areas in the South Island.
D. pronum, small shrub found in the South Island, mostly east of the Alps.
D. pubescens, small prostrate shrub found only in low alpine areas in North-west Nelson.
D. pyramidale, a very slender, almost fragile tree, growing up to 10 m high. Grows between Great Barrier Island and the Kaimai Range.
D. recurvum, a 1m shrub with curled leaves, found in sub-alpine to high alpine regions of the Central Plateau of the North Island.
D. rosmarinifolium, bushy 1m tall shrub found in both the North and South Islands.
D. scoparium, 4m tall shrub / tree found in the Chatham and Campbell Islands. the species can extend its range to poorly drained area as a stunted shrub. Forms a hybrid swarm with D. longifolium.
D. sinclairii, 6m tall shrub / tree found only in the North Island.
D. strictum, 3m tall shrub / tree found only in coastal parts of the North Island.
D. subulatum, 2m tall shrub found in tussockland in central North Island.
D. townsonii, very similar to the neinei, grows mainly in the Nelson area and the West Coast of the South Island.
D. traversii, mountain neinei. Growing to 13 m tall and found above 750 m in the top half of the South Island, also in scattered places in the North Island.
D. trimorphum, 3m tall shrub / tree found only in North-west Nelson.
D. uniflorum (var. frondosum), 1m tall shrub found in the South Island.
D. uruvilleanum, 8m tall tree found only in the north half on the South Island (Marlborough and North-west Nelson).
Australia
D. sayeri grows near the summit of Mount Bellenden Ker Queensland's second highest peak.
D. macranthum, restricted to the Landsdowne area near Taree on the NSW coast.
D. secundum found in mountainous heath and sheltered lowland gullies on sandstone in the Sydney basin.
D. oceanicum from seaside cliffs near Jervis Bay NSW.
D. milliganii from the highlands of Tasmania
D. minimum, cushion plant from Tasmanian mountains, also widespread in NZ.
Taxonomy
Dracophyllum is a genus in the family Ericaceae published by Labill in Voy. 2: 210. T. 40 (1798), with 61 species and 2 varieties.
Dracophyllum has been found closely related to Richea and Sphenotoma, which are two genera endemic to south-eastern Australia and south-western Australia respectively. The three genera form a prominent clade in the strict consensus tree based on a molecular analysis by Crayn et al. in 1998. Traditionally, Dracophyllum is divided into three subgenera: subgenus Dracophyllum with 20 species found across New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Lord Howe Island, and New Caledonia; subgenus Cordophyllum with one species in New Caledonia; and subgenus Oreothamnus with 29 species in New Zealand and Tasmania.
Brief History
The first two specimens of the genus Dracophyllum were collected by J.R. Forster and his son J. G. A. Forster in March 1773 in Fiordland, New Zealand and described as two different species Epacris longifolia (Dracophyllum longifolium) and Epacris rosmarinifolia (Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium). Now the genus Epacris is used to describe an endemic Australian genus of 40 species other than the one published by the Forsters.
In 1800, the genus name Dracophyllum was used for the first time by Labillardière to describe a plant specimen collected in New Caledonia. Ten years after the first Dracophyllum species was published, Robert Brown divided the genus into two subgenera: Dracophyllum and Sphenotoma based on some distinct morphological traits of corolla, stamens, bracts, and inflorescence. The first full description of the genus Dracophyllum was published by De Candolle in 1838 and was included in the family Epacrideae. In 1844, Hooker gave the first full descriptions of the species and the species relationships, mentioning that Sphenotoma had been raised to genus level by Sweet in 1827. A century later, Dracophyllum (as Eudracophyllum), Oreothamnus had been raised to subgenus level and Cordophyllum was described as a third subgenus by Oliver in 1928. Sphenotoma was removed from the genus.
References
External links
Flora of New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Databases
Hebe Society
Ericaceae genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracophyllum |
Ronald L. Rothstein (born December 27, 1942) is an American former professional basketball coach and college basketball player, who has led many different NBA teams. He served as the first head coach for the Miami Heat, and later coached the Detroit Pistons. He has also coached in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In 2007–08, he also filled in for Pat Riley as an interim coach for the Heat.
Early life
Born in Bronx, New York, Rothstein graduated from Roosevelt High School of Yonkers, New York in 1960 and played college basketball at the University of Rhode Island for the Rams. At Rhode Island, Rothstein was team captain as a senior and graduated in 1964 with a degree in physical education. In 1966, Rothstein earned his master's in physical education from Hunter College.
Family
Ron Rothstein has a wife, Olivia, two children, Dana and David, and four grandchildren, Lucas, Hailey, Aidan, and Ava Jade.
Career
Rothstein began his coaching career in 1966 at Eastchester High School in Eastchester, New York and would remain until 1976. During the summer of 1967, he was the athletic director at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge in Bethel, New York. He then became assistant coach at NCAA Division III Upsala College for one season and then worked as head coach at New Rochelle High School of New Rochelle, New York from 1976 to 1978. Rothstein returned to Eastchester High for the 1978–79 season and coached varsity basketball and physical education thru June 1983.
In 1979, Rothstein signed as a scout for the Atlanta Hawks and was named assistant coach in July 1983. He was signed as an assistant for the Detroit Pistons in 1986 before becoming the first coach in Heat history (1988).
Rothstein coached the Heat for three seasons, never leading them to a winning record. Rothstein became a television commentator for the Pistons as well as for the NBA on NBC all during the 1990-91 season. Detroit eventually hired him as their head coach for a season, but he was eventually fired. In 1993, he was hired as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he stayed six seasons. In 2000, he was hired as head coach and general manager for the WNBA's Miami Sol, where he stayed during the franchise's entire existence (2000–2003). In 2003, he was hired by the Indiana Pacers as an assistant coach. Rothstein would eventually return to the Heat as an assistant.
On January 3, 2007, Rothstein was named as the interim head coach of the Miami Heat in place of Pat Riley, who took a leave of absence for knee and hip surgery.
Head coaching record
NBA
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References
External links
WNBA.com coach file: Ron Rothstein
NBA.com coach file: Ron Rothstein
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Samba Financial Group SJSC, formerly known as The Saudi American Bank, was a multinational banking firm based in Saudi Arabia. The combined institution had 66 branches in the Kingdom.
Samba merged with NCB to form Saudi National Bank on 1 April 2021.
History
Samba, or The Saudi American Bank as it was once known, was established on 12 February 1980 with the takeover of Citibank branches in Jeddah and Riyadh under a Saudi requirement that forced all foreign banks to be at least 60% owned by Saudi nationals. Citigroup entered a Technical Management Agreement under which it agreed to manage the new bank. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz, was the Managing Director of the bank in the 1990s.
First National City Bank (Citibank) opened its Jeddah branch in 1955, and its Riyadh branch in 1966. Citibank created SAMBA, in which it took a 40% share, to take over its branches in Saudi Arabia, under a Royal Decree on February 12, 1980. In 1985 SAMBA opened a branch in Istanbul that it closed after 1994, and at one point maintained a subsidiary in Geneva and a Representative office in Beirut. In the late 1980s, SAMBA opened a branch in London.
Speed Cash Services: Samba Financial group is the first in the banking sector to have simplified the process of transferring money overseas just within hours, Akhter Alam (General Manager) was the pioneer for these services.
In July 1999 SAMBA merged with United Saudi Bank through an Exchange of shares, to form one of the largest banks in the Middle East. Before the merger Citibank owned 30 percent of Samba, having sold a 10 percent tranche to two public agencies in 1991. After the merger, Citibank was still the largest shareholder with 23 percent of the shares. Kingdom Holding Company (owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal) also had a large share ownership deriving from his ownership in United Saudi Bank.
Samba was always the acronym for the Saudi American Bank but the name was changed to Samba Financial Group permanently in 2003 and all references to Saudi American Bank were removed. This name change followed Citibank's decision to pull out of Saudi Arabia and sell its then 20% stake to the General Organisation for Social Insurance. Officially, this was done due to the anticipated relaxation of laws governing foreign banks' operations in the Kingdom. Some speculate that this was due to rising anti-American sentiment in Saudi Arabia. This has become more evident after the change of the Saudi British Bank name as well to SABB in 2006. Nevertheless, SABB is still an HSBC partnership and they have changed their artwork and colors from green and white to the HSBC logo.
In 2004, Citibank sold its remaining stake in the company.
In March 2007, Samba Financial Group acquired 68% of Crescent Commercial Bank Limited (CCBL) in Pakistan. CCBL, established in 2002, was formerly known as Mashreq Bank Pakistan Limited, which in turn was the result of the merger in 2003 of Crescent Investment Bank Limited and the Pakistan branches of Mashreq Bank psc. CCBL is now named Samba Bank Pakistan. It currently operates 37 branches across Pakistan; the bank hopes to expand its network of branches in 2018.
In June 2008, Samba opened the first integrated branch in Dubai, UAE.
In 2010, Samba opened the first branch in Doha, Qatar.
In August 2011, Samba made the list of top ten safest banks 2011 in the Middle East ranked at number four.
In 2017, Rania Mahmoud Nashar was named CEO. This makes Samba the first listed Saudi commercial bank to have a female CEO.
Its International Operations consist of a branch each in London, Doha, and Dubai, as well as a subsidiary that has 40 branches across major cities in Pakistan. The company dates back to 1955. After a partial nationalization program by the Saudi government, Citibank owned a 40% stake in the company in 1980 but sold its remaining interest in 2004.
NCB Samba Deal
Samba and NCB carried out a mega-merger worth 15.3 billion dollars. The Merger resulted in the creation of Arabian Gulf's third largest bank after Qatar National Bank and First Abu Dhabi Bank. The new Saudi National Bank (SNB) company was formed in April 2021.
The previous Samba name and branding continue to be used outside of Saudi Arabia. Within Saudi Arabia, all Samba and NCB branding was switched to the new SNB branding.
See also
List of banks in Saudi Arabia
List of banks in the Arab world
References
External links
Samba Official Website (Dubai)
Samba Official Website (Pakistan)
1980 establishments in Saudi Arabia
2021 disestablishments in Saudi Arabia
Companies listed on Tadawul
Banks of Saudi Arabia
Companies based in Riyadh
Banks established in 1980
Banks disestablished in 2021
Multinational companies headquartered in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian companies established in 1980
Saudi Arabian companies disestablished in 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba%20%28bank%29 |
Jesse Edward Curry (October 3, 1913 – June 22, 1980) was an American police officer who was the chief of the Dallas Police Department from 1960 to 1966. Curry was chief at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Early life
Born in Hamilton, Texas, Curry and his family moved to Dallas when he was a few months old. Curry's father served as a police officer in Dallas for a brief period of time before becoming a Baptist minister. Curry attended Dallas Technical High School. He was an all-district tackle and led his high school football team to the state finals against Greenville High School in 1933. He studied optometry for a short time after graduation. During World War II, Curry served for eleven months in the Civilian Pilot Training Program.
Law enforcement career
Curry joined the Dallas Police Department as a traffic officer on May 1, 1936, and worked his way up the ranks to become the chief of police on January 20, 1960. As Curry explained it to the Warren Commission, he worked his way up in "practically every assignment the police department has", and graduated from the Northwestern University Traffic Institute in 1945/6 and the FBI National Academy in 1951.
Kennedy assassination
Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry was riding in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade with sheriff James Eric "Bill" Decker when they turned west off Houston Street onto Elm Street. Looking straight ahead, they noticed "a few unauthorized people on the overpass and wondered how they got there." Those people were later described as thirteen railroad men and two policemen who were stationed on the overpass (Triple Underpass) against rules of protocol. After the Presidential motorcade had proceeded a few more yards, Curry heard the first gunshot and immediately shouted over the police radio: "Get a man on top of that triple underpass and see what happened up there!" His words sounded an alarm that something was dreadfully wrong.
On April 15, 1964, Warren Commission assistant counsel Leon D. Hubert obtained a deposition from Curry at the US Post Office Building in Dallas. The following week on April 22, Curry, along with other officers of the Dallas Police Department, provided testimony to the Commission in Washington, D.C.
Curry later recounted in his Warren Commission testimony and with the LBJ Presidential Library that as he rode in the lead car of the motorcade carrying President Kennedy, he provided security for both the president and the vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson, at Parkland Memorial Hospital where President Kennedy died, and, later, aboard Air Force One when Johnson was sworn in as the new president.
Two hours after President Kennedy was assassinated, Dallas Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald in connection with the fatal shooting of Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald quickly became the prime suspect in Kennedy's death and was charged with both crimes. Curry and the Dallas Police were initially praised for apprehending the assassin so quickly, but the praise ended two days later when Oswald was shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while he was being transferred from the basement of the Dallas Police station to the county jail. Curry had allowed journalists and camera men into the area to witness the transfer in an effort to quell rumors that Oswald was being mistreated while in police custody. Curry was later criticized and sometimes blamed for compromising Oswald's safety and allowing him to be killed "in the basement of his [Curry's] own building."
After President Kennedy's assassination, Curry and his family received death and kidnapping threats.
Personal life
Curry was a member of the St. John's United Methodist Church in Dallas, where he was also a choir member. Two weeks before his death, he was honored as being the oldest member of the congregation. Curry was also a Freemason.
Marriages and children
Curry was married twice. He and his first wife had a son, Gene (born 1937). They later divorced. Curry then married Bessie "Bea" Wilhelm with whom he had a daughter, Cathey. They remained married until Curry's death in 1980.
Later years and death
Due to health issues and on the advice of his doctor, Curry retired from the Dallas Police Department in 1966. In 1969, he wrote a book on the subject of JFK's assassination entitled, Retired Dallas Police Chief, Jesse Curry Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File. On November 5, 1969, Curry held a press conference to announce the release of his book said to contain his "personal file" of the assassination. During the interview, Curry expressed his doubts about the Warren Commission's single bullet theory and their finding of a lone assassin. Curry stated: "I'm not sure about it. No one has ever been able to put him (Oswald) in the Texas School Book Depository with a rifle in his hand." Curry reasoned in another interview: "I think there's a possibility that one [shot] could have come from in front [of the limousine]. We've never, we've never been able to prove that, but just in my mind and by the direction of his blood and brain from the president from one of the shots, it would just seem that it would have to [have] been fired from the front rather than behind. I can't say that I could swear that I believe that it was one man and one man alone. I think there's a possibility there could have been another man."
After his retirement, he worked as director of security at the Texas Bank Building until 1976 when he was forced to step down after suffering two heart attacks. For the remainder of his life, Curry worked as a private investigator.
Curry suffered from diabetes and survived a stroke in 1978. On June 22, 1980, Curry suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep at his Dallas home. He was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas where he was pronounced dead, at age 66. His funeral was held at the Ed C. Smith Funeral Chapel on June 25, after which he was buried at Grove Hill Cemetery in Dallas.
References
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Chiefs of the Dallas Police Department
Burials in Texas
People associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy
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American United Methodists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Curry |
Sugar Ray is the fourth studio album by the band Sugar Ray. The album was released on June 12, 2001, and debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, and went gold. The album's first single, "When It's Over", also performed well on pop and rock charts.
Release and promotion
The track "Words to Me" was featured on the Scooby-Doo film soundtrack in 2002. The movie was shot in Queensland, Australia, with the band themselves appearing in it. While in Australia, they performed a beach concert that would be later released on a DVD called Music in High Places: Live from Australia. The track "Sorry Now" was also featured in the 2001 film Scary Movie 2.
Reception and sales
Sugar Ray received generally positive reviews. Aggregator Metacritic gave the album a 71 out of 100 rating based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
The album sold one million copies, less than the multi-platinum albums Floored and 14:59, but far more than their next album, 2003's In the Pursuit of Leisure, which sold fewer than 150,000 copies.
Track listing
Personnel
Mark McGrath – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Rodney Sheppard – lead guitar, backing vocals
Murphy Karges – bass, guitar, backing vocals
Stan Frazier – drums, percussion, guitar, programming, backing vocals
Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock – turntables, samples, programming, keyboards, backing vocals
Additional personnel
Emanuel Dean - Keyboards on "Ours"
Dave Holdredge - Guitar on "Ours"
Nick Hexum - Vocals on "Stay On"
Greg Kurstin - Keyboards on "Words To Me"
JayDee Maness - Pedal steel guitar on "Just a Little"
William Francis - Guitar on "Disasterpiece"
John "Juke" Logan - Harmonica on "Disasterpiece"
Timothy S. Wright - Guitars,Backline
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
2001 albums
Sugar Ray albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums produced by David Kahne | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Ray%20%28album%29 |
Apurimac III: Nature – Spirit – Pride is an album by the German cross-cultural new-age band Cusco, released in 1997. The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.
All tracks on this album are related to the Native American cultures of North America. The beats, chants, and flute works depict a Native American musical style, though are made more accessible to modern ears through the use of overtly synthesized instrumentation and percussive rhythms.
Track listing
All songs written by Michael Holm and Kristian Schultze except where indicated.
"Ghost Dance" (traditional)
"Kokopelli's Dream" (featuring Craig Chaquico)
"Geronimo's Laughter"
"Medicine Man"
"Little Pigeon and Crazy Horse"
"Pahrump — Big Water" (Holm)
"Dream Catcher"
"Legend in the Redwoods" (Schultze)
"The Hunt"
"White Buffalo" (Holm)
Album credits
Kristian Schultze — Arranger, programming
Maria Ehrenreich — Director, production director
Dan Selene — Executive producer
Michael Holm — Arranger, producer, mixing
Frank Von Dem Bottlenburg — Engineer, mixing
Giuseppe Solera — Flute
Murry Whiteman — Paintings, photography
Johan Daansen — Acoustic guitar
Debra Holland — Liner notes
Craig Chaquico — Guitar, performer
William Aura — Digital assembly, digital mastering
Matt Marshall — Executive producer
References
External links
Apurimac III at MP3.com
1997 albums
Cusco (band) albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apurimac%20III |
, known as before 2000, is a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was conceived as a or "special issue" of its sister magazine Shōjo Comic. It is released on the 13th of each month.
Serializations
Current
Queen's Quality (2015–present)
Called Game (2017–present)
Yuzuki-san Chi no Yon Kyōdai (2018–present)
Former
1970–1979
Sunroom Nite (1970)
Joker e... (1972)
The Poe Clan (1972–1976)
They Were Eleven (1975)
California Story (1978–1981)
1980–1989
Family! (1981–1985)
Zenryaku Milk House (1983–1986)
Kisshō Tennyo (1983–1984)
Banana Fish (1985–1994)
1990–1999
Basara (1990–1998)
Kanojo ga Café ni iru (1992–1993)
Tokyo Boys & Girls (1994–1996)
Lovers' Kiss (1995–1996)
Yasha (1996–2002)
Forbidden Dance (1997–1998)
Kaze Hikaru (1997–2002)
2000–2009
Doubt!! (2000–2002)
Chicago (2000–2001)
Hot Gimmick (2000–2005)
7 Seeds (2001–2002)
We Were There (2002–2012)
Sonnanja neyo (2002–2006)
Sand Chronicles (2003–2006)
Backstage Prince (2004–2005)
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Romance of Darkness (2004–2005)
Monkey High! (2005–2008)
Black Bird (2006–2012)
Seiho Boys' High School! (2006–2010)
Beast Master (2006–2007)
Dengeki Daisy (2007–2013)
Joō no Hana (2007–2016)
Piece (2008–2013)
Kokoro Button (2009–2013)
2010–2019
Ichirei Shite, Kiss (2012–2015)
Hedgehog in Love (2013–2015)
Hatsu*Haru (2014–2018)
QQ Sweeper'' (2014–2015)
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Official circulation numbers at JMPA
Official publication information at Shogakukan AdPocket
Chronology of Betsucomis works at eBookJapan
1970 establishments in Japan
Magazines established in 1970
Magazines published in Tokyo
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Shogakukan magazines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsucomi |
Fatima bint Musa (), circa 790–816 CE, commonly known as Fatima al-Ma'suma (), was the daughter of Musa al-Kazim () and sister of Ali al-Rida (), the seventh and eighth Imams in Twelver Shia. A young Fatima left her hometown of Medina in about 816 to visit her brother al-Rida in Merv, but fell ill along the way and died in Qom, located in modern-day Iran. She is revered for her piety in Twelver Shia and her shrine in Qom is a major destination for pilgrimage.
Biography
Fatima was born circa 790 CE in Medina to Musa al-Kazim, the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia. When Musa died in 799 in the prison of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (), possibly poisoned, a significant group of his followers accepted the imamate of his son Ali al-Rida, brother of Fatima. In 816, al-Rida was summoned to Khorasan by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun (), who designated him as the heir apparent in 817, possibly to mitigate the frequent Shia revolts. Fatima then set out to join his brother in Merv but fell ill along the way in the Sunni town of Saveh. There she asked to be taken to the nearby Shia town of Qom, where she died a few days later, possibly after seventeen days. Another account states that a local Shia figure by the name of Musa ibn Khazraj al-Ash'ari brought Fatima to Qom and hosted her during her final days. There are also some reports that Fatima was poisoned, though they are not mentioned in , a history of Qom written in 988 by Hasan ibn Muhammad Qomi. Fatima thus died in 816, or in 817. Her age at the time is not known with certainty but she must have been at least twenty-one years old, considering that her father Musa was last imprisoned in 795 until his death in 799.
Place in Twelver Shia
Fatima is known by the title al-Ma'suma (). It is uncertain when and how she received this title but she was already referred to as such in an order issued by Jahan Shah (), the fifteenth-century king of Iran. Fatima is revered as the "embodiment of the feminine virtues" in Twelver Shia, where she is recognized for piety and religious scholarship, and often compared to Fatima bint Muhammad (), daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (). She is revered by Twelvers as a saint who would intercede on the Judgement Day and performs miracles, such as healing those with incurable diseases.
Shrine
Fatima was buried outside of Qom in a plot of land owned by Musa al-Ash'ari, which became a public endowment later. The house where she stayed, the site of her prayers, became a mosque outside of Qom. Her shrine has been developed by successive generations, patronized by the Buyids () and the Seljuks (), as well as the Qara Qoyunlus () and the Aq Qoyunlus (). The current imposing complex, however, largely dates to the Safavid () and Qajar () eras.
Qom owes its status as a pilgrimage destination to the shrine of Fatima al-Ma'suma, and pilgrimage to her shrine is encouraged in traditions attributed to her brother al-Rida and his son Muhammad al-Jawad (), the ninth Imam in Twelver Shia. The city thus became an important center for Shia activity and learning from the eighth century onward, reaching a peak in the tenth century, until it was destroyed in 1224 during the first Mongul invasion of Persia. The Persian historian Hamdallah Mustawfi found the city in ruins in his visit in the fourteenth century, but it reemerged during the Safavid period. In particular, the shrine was further developed in 1519 by Shah Bigum, the daughter of the Safavid king Ismail I (), while the Safavid king Abbas I () financially supported the shrine and built there a school and pilgrim hospice. He did so partly to encourage pilgrimage to Shia shrines within his territory just before the Sunni Ottomans established in 1638 their rule over Iraq, where the shrines of most Shia Imams are located. The theological law school there was founded in 1533, known as Feyziyya after the Safavid-era philosopher Mohsen Fayz Kashani (). Qom later benefited from its proximity to Tehran, the royal residence of the Qajars, who further developed the shrine and buried their dead in the city. The Qajar-era jurist Mirza-ye Qomi () particularly helped raise the academic profile of the seminary school. Another phase of growth began with the arrival of Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi () in 1921, who founded the present theological center (). Among his students was Ruhollah Khomeini () who led the Iranian revolution in 1979.
See also
Footnotes
References
Further reading
Family of Muhammad
Qom
Qom Province
9th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century Arab people
790 births
816 deaths
Burials at Fatima Masumeh Shrine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima%20bint%20Musa |
James Mitchell Cleamons (born September 13, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player and current coach.
Playing career
He played collegiately at the Ohio State University, and was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th pick of the 1971 NBA draft. He had a nine-year NBA career for four teams (the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks, and the Washington Bullets). In 1976, Cleamons was selected to the NBA All-Defense 2nd team.
Coaching career
Cleamons worked as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1996. He was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for slightly over one year, from 1996 to 1997. He was then the head coach of the Chicago Condors of the American Basketball league, a short-lived women's professional basketball league in the mid Nineties. He also served as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. For a few games during his tenure with the Lakers, he served as acting head coach while Phil Jackson was absent.
In 2011, Cleamons became a coach in the Chinese Basketball Association. In 2013, he became an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.
In 2014, Cleamons joined the New York Knicks coaching staff under Derek Fisher.
In 2017, Cleamons accepted a position as an assistant coach for the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) high school boys basketball team.
Head coaching record
College
NBA
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References
External links
BasketballReference.com: Jim Cleamons (as coach)
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20th-century African-American sportspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Cleamons |
David Samuel Brandt is an attorney and politician from Montserrat who served as the island's 6th Chief Minister from 22 August 1997 to 5 April 2001.
In July 2021 he was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment after being convicted of sexual exploitation and perverting the course of justice.
Sex crimes
In September 2015, Brandt was charged with two counts of conspiracy to have sexual intercourse with a minor. He was released on EC$20,000 bail. In November 2018, Brandt was arrested again and subsequently charged with two counts of child sexual exploitation and one count of perverting the course of justice. He was released on bail in the amount of EC$90,000. The Government of the United Kingdom through the National Crime Agency has spent more than £200,000 to investigate Brandt's alleged child sex abuse.
He was finally tried in 2021 on six sexual exploitation charges and one count of perverting the course of justice; the jury found him guilty on six of the seven charges on 30 June. He was sentenced on 19 July to six concurrent jail terms, the longest being fifteen years for the count of perverting the course of justice.
References
Further reading
"Former Montserrat Chief Minister retires from active politics", 19 August 2009, CSME Network News. Retrieved Jan 5, 2011.
"Montserrat Honours Former Legislators", 27 November 2009, Government of Montserrat. Retrieved Jan 5, 2011.
Montserratian politicians
Chief Ministers of Montserrat
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Heads of government who were later imprisoned | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Brandt%20%28politician%29 |
Bertrand Osborne (18 April 1935 – 4 September 2018) was a British politician from Montserrat. He served as the territory's Chief Minister from 13 November 1996 to 22 August 1997. He resigned from his post amid demonstrations over his dealings with the British government in the wake of the island nation being ravaged by a volcano eruption.
References
1935 births
Montserratian politicians
2018 deaths
Chief Ministers of Montserrat
Movement for National Reconstruction politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20Osborne |
Reuben Theodore Meade (born 7 March 1954) is a retired politician from Montserrat who served as the island's first Premier between 2010 and 2014. He previously served as Chief Minister between 1991 and 1996 and 2009 to 2010. A member of the Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP), he previously led the now-defunct National Progressive Party.
Biography
He launched his election campaign (for the early general election of 8 September 2009) on 28 July 2009. His party won the majority, garnering six of the nine seats up for grabs, while former chief minister Dr Lowell Lewis and two other independents took the remaining seats.
Meade was congratulated by his political opponent, Lewis, and said that the revival of the economy of Montserrat would be his main priority.
The 2014 elections saw the defeat of the MCAP. Meade finished seventh in the vote total, retaining his seat in the Legislative Assembly.
References
1954 births
Chief Ministers of Montserrat
Living people
Movement for Change and Prosperity politicians
National Progressive Party (Montserrat) politicians
Leaders of the Opposition (Montserrat)
University of the West Indies alumni
Premiers of Montserrat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben%20Meade |
The Akshaya project first started in the rural areas of Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and has now spread all around the state. The project was the first district-wide computer literacy project in India and one of the largest known Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless networks in the world. In November 2002, the state government of Kerala put into place a project, piloted in Malappuram, with the goal of at least one person in every family to be computer literate in that district. Malappuram is now what is said to be India's first E-literate District. The mission continues to make Kerala the first E-literate state in India.
History
The project started in 2002 in Ariyallur, Malappuram district under the Kerala State IT Mission. The project came into being as a result of the efforts of the leaders P. K. Kunhalikutty (former State Industries and IT Minister ) and key role Abdurahiman Randathani
With the encouragement of the then Kerala Chief Minister, A. K. Antony then Kerala Industries and IT Minister constituted a twenty committee of experts to make a e-literacy on establishing e-literacy project in the State.
References
External links
Official website of Akshaya Project
Find nearest Akshaya Centre
Government of Kerala
E-government in India
Education in Kerala
Educational technology non-profits
Information technology in India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshaya%20project |
Robert "Rob" McCall, CM (September 14, 1958 – November 15, 1991) was a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Tracy Wilson, he was the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist.
Biography
McCall was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He moved to Toronto when he teamed up with Tracy Wilson.
McCall competed with Marie McNeil early in his career. They were the 1975 Canadian novice silver medallists, 1977 Canadian junior national champions, 1978 & 1979 Canadian senior bronze medallists, 1980 silver medallists, and the 1981 national champions. They placed 13th at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and the 1981 World Figure Skating Championships.
Following that season, McCall teamed up with Tracy Wilson and skated with her until his death. They were the 1982-1988 Canadian national champions and three-time World bronze medallists. They placed 8th at the 1984 Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
They turned professional in 1988 and skated professionally together. They toured with Stars On Ice, and won the World Professional Figure Skating Championships in 1989.
In 1988, Wilson and McCall were made a Member of the Order of Canada.
In March 1990, whilst in Portland, Maine on tour with a show, McCall became critically ill with pneumonia. He was diagnosed with AIDS. Hoping to be able to continue to skate professionally in the United States (which then had restrictive immigration and customs laws barring persons with AIDS) he kept the nature of his illness secret However, his health deteriorated and he died of AIDS-related brain cancer on November 15, 1991 at age 33. It was an open secret that he was gay.
In 2018 McCall was named one of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.
Results
(with Marie McNeil)
(with Tracy Wilson)
References
External links
1958 births
1991 deaths
AIDS-related deaths in Canada
Canadian male ice dancers
Deaths from brain cancer in Canada
Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
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Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
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Olympic figure skaters for Canada
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Gay dancers
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Canadian gay men | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20McCall%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Percival Austin Bramble (born January 24, 1931) is a politician from Montserrat. He served as the territory's Chief Minister from December 1970 to November 1978. Bramble is the son of W.H. Bramble, the island's first chief minister. While in office, Bramble helped pass laws to spur development on the island of Montserrat. Among his achievements in this area are the North Road connecting the northern end of the island with its eastern side. Also during his term, medication was made free at the point of delivery for all diabetics and hypertensives.
Leadership
His campaign speech was "I shall slander no one, I shall abuse no one; I shall make no enemies."
References
1931 births
Montserrat Labour Party politicians
Members of the Legislative Council of Montserrat
Living people
Chief Ministers of Montserrat
Children of prime ministers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%20Austin%20Bramble |
Pru District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono East Region), Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Atebubu District on 10 March 1989, until the northern part was split off to create Pru District; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Atebubu-Amantin District, which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 15 March 2018 to become Atebubu-Amantin Municipal District. However on 15 March 2018, it was split off into two new districts: Pru East District (capital: Yeji) and Pru West District (capital: Prang). The district assembly was located in the east central part of Brong-Ahafo Region (now east central part of Bono East Region) and had Yeji as its capital town.
List of settlements
Sources
District: Pru
19 New Districts Created, 20 November 2003.
References
External links
https://www.ghanaweb.com
Brong-Ahafo Region
2003 establishments in Ghana
Former districts of Ghana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pru%20District |
William Henry Bramble (October 8, 1901 – October 17, 1988), also known as Willy B, was a union leader and a political-party leader from Montserrat; from his Montserrat Labour Party, he was the first Chief Minister of the territory, serving from January 1960 to December 1970.
Owing to his social compromise for the poor and political action, Bramble is generally regarded as a "national hero", and the former national airport of Montserrat had been named after him until it was destroyed by the 1997 eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano.
Early life
William Bramble was the son of J. T. Allen, a famous social activist, and Mary Ryan, a conventional lower-class woman. William had started primary school, yet he was economically unable to finish it. It was the mother who mostly took care of him during those early years; William worked the soil of their poor farm, while learning for trade activities as well.
By the 1920s, William Bramble had joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, initially as an enthusiastic member, then with a waning participation. In those years, he lived of peddling religious books round Montserrat and Dominica. The British colonial office encouraged lime cultivation on Montserrat in the late 1800s. As demand for the product increased the British established lime farms on Dominica in the early 1900s for which they hired labor from Montserrat and encouraged settlement.
In 1930, Bramble married Ann Daly, a strict Adventist instead. They begot five children (P. Austin, Doris, Laurel, Howell, and Olga), of whom the oldest would get into politics as well. For supporting his large family, Bramble had forcibly to start further economic activities; he acquired a small boat and smuggled between the island nations of the Leeward Islands: animals, cooking oil, and vegetables of Montserrat, and salt of Anguilla.
Union and party leader
In his travels, Bramble became acquainted with the regional efforts for unionism, although he would earnestly start involvement in 1951, when joining the incipient Montserrat Trades and Labor Union (MTLU), in the years of its most virulent actions. He challenged Robert Griffith for leadership of the organization and was backed by the influential teacher and unionist, Ellen Peters, who saw him as a man of action with a viable plan for development. Once Bramble gained leadership of the MTLU, he used it as a springboard to propel him into the political arena.
Bramble became a local leader, against the alleged economic oppression of the planter owners and the political rulers; reportedly, by then the agricultural wages were well below the level of subsistence. Hence, Bramble adopted such causes, particularly organizing periodic strike actions; in a speech for the 1952 elections, he stated: "Listen to me, you landless people, you people, the industrial machinery of this country, arise, and throw off the yoke that binds you like slaves to the Wade Plantation."
1952: winning the free elections
Originally, William Bramble had been unable to vote in Montserrat, never fulfilling the requirements of property and income for enfranchisement. In 1952, the country allowed the universal adult suffrage for the first time, and then Bramble capitalized it, forging his own political power since then. Bramble actively participated in the 1952 elections, as the MTLU formed the Montserrat Labour Party, which won all five seats in the Montserrat. Bramble would eventually take the reins of the party. The party went on to win the 1955 and 1958 elections.
Bramble found appreciation and support nationally and abroad including England; even the rivaling popular leaders joined the most pragmatic Bramble in his causes against social oppression. However, in 1958 the Malone Commission of Inquiry, which attended labor disputes, accused Bramble, as he would have been attempting just to gain political power for himself through his political actions.
During his entire political career from 1952 to 1970, Bramble would win five general elections, until being defeated by Eustace Dyer. Additionally, in 1958 Bramble won the elections for representative of the short lived Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation.
Regional policies
Since early, vogue during those years. Instead, Bramble preferred the conventional financial support of a British colony, manifesting doubts that the so tiny Montserrat might survive as an independent territory; to share the government with the royal authorities it wasn't a practical problem for the national development.
Chief Minister
National development
Bramble was invested as the first Chief Minister of Montserrat in 1960 after constitutional changes introduced ministerial government; by then the cotton production was in a decline, as the workers were rather emigrating to United Kingdom. Coping with this situation, he formulated an economic project, with three objectives: the diversification of the exploitation of the rich soil of the country for exporting regionally, the development of the industry of tourism, and the development of a strong offshore banking through taxation exemption.
For the development of the tourism, in 1961, Bramble founded the Montserrat Real State Company, which built about 100 buildings for the foreign tourism. This effectively boosted the national income, forging a new, positive character of the nation which lasted until the eruption of the Soufriere Hills, in the 1990s with the massive destruction of the country. Indeed, until such nefarious event Bramble was regarded as the father of the modern Montserrat.
Bramble also supported the establishment of the powerful Radio Antilles; Bramble had to insist for convincing the British authorities for it, and the powerful station finally started operating in 1963, successfully broadcasting news for the whole Caribbean region. Also for 1963, Bramble managed negotiating with the British government, so the 12,000 inhabitants of Montserrat got electric supply with affordable fees for the first time; Bramble had pledged the regular acquisition in advance of a determined quote of energy, and so the local plant was granted.
Social reforms
This occurred with radical social reforms particularly for the poor people, as both his party and his trade union worked almost as a single entity.
In particular, Bramble interceded with the owners of the Wade plantation company, for the development of housing for their workers; initially just within some parcels of that company, then throughout Montserrat, both the employers and their workers helped erecting new neighborhoods. This directly ensued in the formation of a middle class, whose residences have reportedly been of the best ones in Caribbean region.
By 1957, Bramble was expressing concern about the countryside children of Montserrat, whose broad majority was illiterate; by 1969, he instead stated that by his administration all those children were already attending school.
Politics
During Bramble's tenure, the small Progressive Labour Party functioned as opposition, although it would never pose much hindrance to the official policies. The MLP won elections comfortably in 1961 and 1966. It was by 1970 that Bramble and his Montserrat Labour Party faced actual political troubles. Boosting the tourism industry, Bramble was allegedly too enthusiastic for the building of new establishments either for vacationing or retirement, but the Progressive Democratic Party of his son P. Austin Bramble was opposed to it. People agreed with the latter, providing a landslide triumph in the 1970 elections, and so William Henry Bramble lost the Chief Minister's office, while his MLP was left without representatives in the Legislative Council.
Still, Bramble underwent some criticism, particularly about his authoritarian demeanor among his intimates. Another source of controversy were the investments of tourism, which allegedly would have removed lands from agricultural projects. Another setback was due to the Canadian Leeward Islands Company Limited, which settled in 1960, eventually exploiting the tomato production almost without economic reward for the locals.
Death
William Bramble died in 1988; he was the first national figure to have a state funeral and he has the honour of being Montserrat's first National Hero. In 1995, the international airport of Montserrat was renamed, after him.
References
1901 births
1988 deaths
Montserrat Labour Party politicians
Members of the Legislative Council of Montserrat
Chief Ministers of Montserrat
Montserratian Seventh-day Adventists
Converts to Adventism
Members of the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Bramble |
William Quinn Buckner (born August 20, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiate basketball for the Indiana University Hoosiers, and won a national championship in 1976. He was a captain of both the last undefeated NCAA Division I basketball champion and the 1976 Olympics gold medal team. Buckner was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA draft. He had a ten-year NBA career for three teams (the Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers). In 1984, he won an NBA title with the Celtics.
Buckner is one of only eight players in history to win an NCAA championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. He is one of only three players in history to win a High School state championship, NCAA championship, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal. He also was a State Champion while playing high school basketball in Illinois.
In addition to his playing career, Buckner was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for one year, from 1993 to 1994. Currently, Buckner is a color analyst for the Indiana Pacers television broadcast team on Bally Sports Indiana. Buckner also was the play-by-play announcer on 989 Sports line of college basketball games for several years.
Early life
Born in 1954 in Phoenix, Illinois, Buckner played basketball at Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois. His Falcons lost only one game during his junior and senior seasons and won back-to-back state titles. The 1972 team was undefeated, with no team coming within 14 points of it, and is often cited as the greatest team in the history of Illinois high school basketball. Buckner was also an excellent football player, making all-state in high school. He is the only person ever named Chicago area Player of the Year for both football and basketball.
In 2006, Buckner was voted as one of the 100 Legends of the IHSA Boys Basketball Tournament, a group of former players and coaches in honor of the 100 anniversary of the IHSA boys basketball tournament.
College career
Buckner elected to play college basketball for the Indiana University Hoosiers under Coach Bob Knight. He ended his college career as a four-year starter and three-year captain at Indiana, and also played football for one year. He seemed to get along with volatile Coach Knight better than any other player in the Hoosiers' history. "The one thing that I learned early was to respect authority figures, right or wrong", Buckner told the Dallas Morning News concerning his relationship with Knight.
In Buckner's freshman season, 1972–73, Indiana reached the Final Four, losing to UCLA. He played for the United States men's national basketball team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal. In two consecutive seasons, 1974–75 and 1975–76, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games. The 1974–75 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in an 83–82 win against Purdue they lost consensus All-American forward Scott May to a broken left arm. With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92–90 in the Mideast Regional. Buckner, along with three of his teammates, would make the five-man All-Big Ten team.
The following season, 1975–76, Buckner served as a co-captain and the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 NCAA tournament without a single loss, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat.
NBA career
In Buckner's 10-year NBA career he was a tough defender, a solid playmaker, and a stabilizing force in any lineup. At various stages he filled the role of team leader and trusty reserve.
Although he scored only 10.0 points per game during his college career, Buckner was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the 1976 NBA draft, the seventh pick overall. He was also selected by the Washington Redskins in the 1976 NFL Draft. (Buckner had played free safety on the Hoosiers’ football team for two years.)
Before he joined the Bucks, Buckner played on the gold medal-winning 1976 U.S. Olympic basketball team alongside Adrian Dantley, Mitch Kupchak, and Scott May. But nothing could have prepared him for the NBA experience. Buckner's teams had suffered only 25 defeats in his eight years of high school and college basketball, and he had never been on a team that lost more than seven games in a season. But Milwaukee lost 52 times in 1976–77, finishing last in the Midwest Division.
Individually, Buckner proved to be a competent NBA player. He was unspectacular offensively, averaging 8.6 points while shooting .434 from the field, but he excelled on defense, ranking fourth in the league with 2.43 steals per game.
The next year Buckner raised his scoring slightly, to 9.3 points per game, and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. That postseason, Buckner set a playoffs career-high with 19 points alongside recording 10 assists in a Game 7 loss against the Denver Nuggets in the conference semifinals (the Bucks were in the Western Conference at the time). After a similar season in 1978–79, Buckner had his three best years. In 1979–80 he averaged 10.7 points and 5.7 assists, made the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for the second time, and helped the Bucks to the Midwest Division title. Under Coach Don Nelson, Milwaukee had assembled a solid lineup that included forward Marques Johnson, center Bob Lanier, and guards Brian Winters, Sidney Moncrief, and Junior Bridgeman.
The 1980–81 campaign saw Buckner play in all 82 games and notch career highs in scoring (13.3 ppg), field-goal percentage (.493), free-throw percentage (.734), and steals (197, third in the league). He repeated on the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. The Bucks were outstanding, finishing 60–22 with a balanced offense that saw seven players average in double figures. Milwaukee had high hopes for the postseason, but Julius Erving's Philadelphia 76ers derailed the Bucks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Buckner had established a reputation as a solid, dependable player with good fundamentals. He was never going to be a flashy player or a big scorer; his low-trajectory shot was jokingly said to have been responsible for more bent rims than Darryl Dawkins's dunks.
"My strength is defense," he said in the Boston Globe. "Another is my overall knowledge of the game and being able to get everybody involved in the game. I’ve never had an illusion that shooting is one of my strengths. In fact, it was a very known weakness that I had.…You play with a lot of pride and work hard every night out."
Milwaukee was trying to add a few essential parts that would turn the team into a championship contender, and the bottleneck at guard made Buckner expendable.
Before the 1982–83 season he was traded to the Boston Celtics for center Dave Cowens. When Boston signed Buckner, Red Auerbach told the Boston Globe, "He's a winner, a leader. He rises to the occasion. He has a good personality, he's team oriented, and he's disciplined." Buckner added, "I’ve always admired the Boston style of play, and I feel I can play it."
Milwaukee never did win the title. Boston, however, won a championship in 1984, with Buckner coming off the bench to spell Dennis Johnson and Gerald Henderson. The Celtics went 62–20 during the regular season and then nudged the Los Angeles Lakers in a seven-game NBA Finals. With the NBA championship ring, Buckner completed an impressive résumé.
In three seasons with Boston, Buckner made small but regular contributions for a powerful Celtics team. The club returned to the Finals in 1985, but the Lakers exacted their revenge, winning in six games.
Following the season, Boston traded Buckner to the Indiana Pacers for guard Jerry Sichting. He opened the 1985–86 season with the Pacers but was waived after 32 games, and subsequently retired, ending his 10-year career.
NBA career statistics
Regular season
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1976–77
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 79 || – || 26.5 || .434 || – || .539 || 3.3 || 4.7 || 2.4 || 0.3 || 8.6
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1977–78
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 82 || – || 25.3 || .468 || – || .645 || 3.0 || 5.6 || 2.3 || 0.2 || 9.3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1978–79
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 81 || – || 21.7 || .454 || – || .632 || 2.6 || 5.8 || 1.9 || 0.2 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1979–80
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 67 || – || 25.2 || .467 || .400 || .734 || 3.6 || 5.7 || 2.0 || 0.1 || 10.7
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1980–81
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 82 || – || 29.1 || .493 || .167 || .734 || 3.6 || 4.7 || 2.4 || 0.0 || 13.3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1981–82
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 70 || 70 || 30.8 || .482 || .267 || .655 || 3.6 || 4.7 || 2.5 || 0.0 || 12.9
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1982–83
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 72 || 56 || 21.7 || .442 || .000 || .632 || 2.6 || 3.8 || 1.5 || 0.1 || 7.9
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1983–84
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 79 || 0 || 15.8 || .427 || .000 || .649 || 1.7 || 2.7 || 1.1 || 0.0 || 4.1
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1984–85
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 75 || 6 || 11.4 || .383 || .000 || .640 || 1.2 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 2.4
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1985–86
| style="text-align:left" | Indiana
| 32 || 3 || 13.1 || .471 || .000 || .704 || 1.6 || 2.7 || 1.3 || 0.1 || 3.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 719 || 135 || 22.6 || .461 || .184 || .657 || 2.7 || 4.3 || 1.9 || 0.1 || 8.2
|}
Playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1977–78
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 9 || – || 28.6 || .500 || – || .652 || 3.0 || 6.9 || 2.0 || 0.1 || 11.2
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1979–80
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 7 || – || 23.6 || .340 || .000 || .636 || 2.3 || 4.4 || 2.1 || 0.0 || 6.1
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1980–81
| style="text-align:left" | Milwaukee
| 7 || – || 26.1 || .433 || .000 || .688 || 2.9 || 5.0 || 1.6 || 0.0 || 9.0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1982–83
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 7 || – || 14.0 || .432 || .000 || .000 || 1.4 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.0 || 4.6
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1983–84
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 23 || – || 11.7 || .405 || .000 || .545 || 1.5 || 1.2 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 3.3
|-
| style="text-align:left" | 1984–85
| style="text-align:left" | Boston
| 15 || 0 || 5.7 || .591 || .000 || .625 || 0.5 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 2.1
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 68 || 0 || 15.5 || .439 || .000 || .610 || 1.7 || 2.5 || 0.9 || 0.0 || 5.1
|}
Broadcasting career
He later on became a broadcaster for ESPN and NBC. He also called college and NBA basketball for CBS Sports and called games for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the early 1990s with Kevin Harlan, as well as games for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Buckner now calls Indianapolis his home and is the color commentator for Indiana Pacers television broadcasts (on Fox Sports Indiana from 1999 to 2021 and Bally Sports Indiana since 2021). Buckner participates in community relations efforts and contributes to Pacers TipOff, a game preview newsletter distributed via e-mail for every home Pacers game.
Coaching career
He was named head coach of the Dallas Mavericks for 1993–94. The club had gone 11–71 the previous season, and the franchise was in disarray. Although Buckner had no NBA coaching experience, Mavericks owner Don Carter hoped Buckner's charismatic personality and lifelong knack for winning would rub off on the young team. In an interview with the Arizona Republic, Buckner repeated his success formula: "Dedication, commitment, extreme concentration, discipline, realizing it can’t be done alone, it has to be done through the team."
Believing that his young charges needed more discipline, Buckner determined from the start to be a stern taskmaster in Knight's mold. Knight had advised Buckner that he would only be able to win in the NBA if he ran his team with an iron hand. The plan backfired, with many of the players (including Jamal Mashburn) complaining publicly about Buckner's heavy-handed coaching style. NBA historian Peter Bjarkman even suggested that Buckner frequently consulted with Knight during the season. They started 1–23, and for a while it looked like they would break the 1972–73 Philadelphia 76ers' record for the most losses in a season. Buckner loosened the reins a little bit as the season wore on, but it was not enough to keep the team from finishing 13–69—by far the worst record in the league, and at the time the worst record ever for a rookie coach who managed to survive for a full season (surpassed by Bill Hanzlik with the 1997–98 Denver Nuggets).
Buckner also angered Carter and other executives by not consulting them on hiring assistant coaches; they only learned about those hires when they called and asked how much they would get for moving expenses. Although Buckner had a five-year contract, Carter decided that "too many bridges had been burned" and fired him after the season.
In July 2004, Buckner was named the Vice President of Communications for Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PS&E), which owns and operates the Indiana Pacers, the WNBA's Indiana Fever and the Pacers Foundation, Inc. Buckner was appointed to serve a 3-year term on the Indiana University Board of Trustees by then-Indiana governor Mike Pence in June 2016.
Head coaching record
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Dallas
|style="text-align:left"|
| 82 || 13 || 69 || ||style="text-align:center"|6th in Midwest || – || – || – ||
|style="text-align:center"|Missed Playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:left"|Career
| || 82 || 13 || 69 || ||style="text-align:center"| || – || – || – || ||
Personal life
Buckner has four children with his wife Rhonda; Jason, Cory, Lauren and Alexsandra.
He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
See also
List of National Basketball Association single-game steals leaders
References
External links
Indiana Pacers: Quinn Buckner, Cable TV Color Analyst
BasketballReference.com: Quinn Buckner (as coach)
BasketballReference.com: Quinn Buckner (as player)
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Marietta L. B. Stow (1830 or 1837–1902) was an American politician and women's rights activist. Throughout her career in law and politics, Stow advocated for women's suffrage, access to political office, and probate law reform.
Personal life
Marietta Stow grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and worked as a teacher there throughout her early adulthood. Marietta Stow financed her own causes; she lectured about young girls working in dangerous shops and helping the orphaned daughters of Union Soldiers. After getting divorced in her early twenties, she later went on to marry Joseph Stow at the age of thirty-six. Three years later, Marietta Stow went back out into the political realm and became an active suffragette.
Nine years before women were granted the right to vote in California, Marietta Stow died of breast cancer in 1902.
Activism for women's rights
San Francisco Women's Suffrage Association
Stow replaced Elizabeth Schenck as president of the San Francisco Women's Suffrage Association after Schenck became sick in 1869. Aiming to widen the support of the movement, Stow called for a meeting in Sacramento to implement a suffrage bill, and she gave lectures in order to raise money for the cause. The organization decided to reject her idea and hold a conference in San Francisco instead, causing Stow to resign from the organization and leave the movement.
Probate law reform
Eight years into their marriage, Stow's husband died on August 11, 1874, at the age of 48. Stow was in Europe at the time of his death and the courts denied her inheritance of $200,000. This sparked her advocacy for probate law reform, which was an area that experienced extensive gender inequality at the time. In regards to probate law, Stow proposed a bill to the legislature of California in 1876 stating that the widow of a spouse would be granted control over their property and putting their affairs in order. Stow also met with attorney Belva Lockwood in Washington, D.C., and together they came up with a bill to reform federal marital property and estate laws; they brought it to the House of Representatives in 1879, but it was brushed aside.
Stow wrote a book called Probate Confiscation about her belief that women's rights and roles in society involved more than just their positions as wives. In 1879, Stow gave speeches to other women about probate law injustices while writing her book on the side. When the book was finally published, she earned close to one thousand dollars as a result of selling approximately four hundred copies and she promised this money would go towards a college for women.
Career and political office
Stow was nominated by the Greenback Party in 1880 to be the San Francisco School Director. A year after accepting this nomination she formed the Women's Independent Political Party. This new party allowed for women to be further involved in politics and it was a way for them to gain confidence and experience. Stow believed it was vital that women have their own party, but she was still a supporter of the Greenback Party and its candidates.
Stow ran for Governor of California in 1882, as the Women's Independent Political Party candidate. She was anti-Chinese, anti-monopoly, and anti-ring, but she was not against whiskey and tobacco. Stow campaigned these views via her own newspaper. The newspaper was also used to promote her ideas and thoughts on the philosophy of positivism, industrial education for women, and the new science of sociology while being actively against the masculinity of the government. Likewise, Stow promoted the usage of birth control, practicing eugenics, shorter work days, and preventing crime.
Vice Presidential candidacy
She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ultimately supported Lockwood on the National Equal Rights Party ticket as its vice presidential candidate in the 1884 United States presidential election. Stow was the first woman to run for vice president of the United States. The Equal Rights Party platform included equal rights for men and women, a curtailment of the liquor traffic, uniform marriage and divorce laws for the entire nation, and "universal peace." Lockwood also supported the rights of the Chinese, which went against Marietta Stows anti-Chinese agenda. Stow was accused of being outspoken and was notably against the Republican Party at the time and believed it was a dying group. The ticket won 4,194 votes nationwide. Women's suffrage was its major focus.
In 1892 she was a vice presidential candidate again, nominated by the "National Woman Suffragists' Nominating Convention" on September 21 at Willard's hotel in Boonville, New York presided over by Anna M. Parker, President of the convention. This time Victoria Woodhull was at the top of the ticket.
Stow was the editor of Women's Herald of Industry and Social Science Cooperator.
Notes
References
Further reading
Reda Davis (1980). Women's Republic: The Life of Marietta Stow, Cooperator. Pt. Pinos Editions.
Reda Davis (1968). California Women: A Guide to Their Politics, 1885-1911. San Francisco : California Scene.
Donna Schuele (1995). "In Her Own Way: Marietta Stow's Crusade for Probate Law Reform Within the Nineteenth-Century Women's Rights Movement," Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 7 (2): 279-306 (partly online)
External links
Picture This: California’s Perspectives on American History
Stow, Marietta
Belva Ann Lockwood: For Peace, Justice, and President By Frances A. Cook
Stumpers-L Archive
American women's rights activists
1884 United States vice-presidential candidates
1892 United States vice-presidential candidates
Women in California politics
National Equal Rights Party politicians
Female candidates for Vice President of the United States
1830s births
1902 deaths
Activists from California
19th-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta%20Stow |
Taryn Swiatek (born February 4, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional soccer player. Swiatek played as goalkeeper for the Canada national team, which placed fourth in the FIFA Women's World Cup competition in 2003.
She also joined with the Ottawa Fury soccer team in the W-League. Swiatek formally announced her retirement from the game of soccer in late January 2008.
Education
After graduating from Western Canada High School Swiatek attended the University of Calgary, where she played on the Dino's soccer team. She played for the Dinos from 1999 to 2001 and sat out the 2002 season with a knee injury.
References
1981 births
Living people
Soccer players from Calgary
Canadian women's soccer players
Canada women's international soccer players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Calgary Dinos women's soccer players
Western Canada High School alumni
Women's association football goalkeepers
Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
Ottawa Fury (women) players
USL W-League (1995–2015) players
Fortuna Hjørring players
Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
University and college women's soccer players in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taryn%20Swiatek |
Spacewarp is a line of build-it-yourself, marble-run toy "roller coasters" first made in the 1980s by Bandai. Users cut lengths of track to the correct size from a single roll of thick plastic tubing, forming curves and loops held in place by plastic track rail holders which attach to metal rods held vertical in a black plastic base. Steel balls roll around the track and on to a battery-powered screw conveyor that takes them to the top to start all over again.
Production of Spacewarp toys ended around 1988. Replacement parts were sold until 1995.
A redesigned Spacewarp toy was re-introduced to the Japanese market in 2005 by Tanomi. Improvements included redesigned parts which were less prone to breakage.
History
The first Spacewarp sets became available in Japan in 1983 and were sold by Bandai. That year, filmmakers were working on a movie called The Family Game which features a plot line about a boy who is fascinated with roller coasters. The filmmakers noticed the Spacewarp toy and decided to incorporate it into the movie in a few scenes. The movie The Family Game was released in Japan in November, 1983 to favorable reviews. Due to the popularity of the movie, Spacewarp sales increased so much that between 1983 and 1984, approximately one million sets were sold.
Due to the product's popularity, Spacewarp applied for and received the Spacewarp trademark in the United States of America in 1986, and started selling a subset of its marble roller coasters there.
Sets
1986-1990s North American Imports:
1983-1995 Japanese Market:
2004–2008 Japanese Market:
Accessories
Additional accessories include lighting kits, a staircase, bell ringer, escalator and more.
Knock-Offs
As with many popular toys, nearly identical counterfeit editions have emerged under the Chinese "Spacerail" brand. However, Spacerail acquired the Spacewarp trademark, and is continuing their tradition of running marble roller coasters.
Spacerail sets:
See also
Rolling Ball Sculpture
References
External links
Bandai brands
Construction toys | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewarp%20%28toy%29 |
Nancy Goodman Brinker (born December 6, 1946) is the founder of The Promise Fund and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Brinker was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. In 2011, she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control by the World Health Organization. For her work on breast cancer research, Time magazine named Brinker to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Brinker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama on August 12, 2009.
Early life
Brinker (née Goodman) was born in Peoria, Illinois to the Jewish family of Marvin L. and Eleanor (née Newman) Goodman. Her father was a commercial real-estate developer, and her mother was a housewife. In 1968, she received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois. After graduating, she moved to Dallas, Texas and worked at Neiman Marcus as an assistant couture buyer. In the following years, she took various positions at other public relations firms before marrying businessman Norman Brinker.
Career
Susan G. Komen
Brinker served as founding chairman of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, supervising all aspects of initial growth. The organization was named for Brinker's sister, who died of breast cancer. On December 2, 2009, Brinker was appointed CEO, a position in which she served in until June 17, 2013, when Judith A. Salerno succeeded her.
World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador
Brinker is currently serving as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control. She was appointed by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on May 26, 2009. She advocated for strengthening global action for cancer prevention and control in the context of the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2008. Her message emphasized the need for low and middle-income countries to strengthen comprehensive and evidence-based cancer control policies and programs.
Chief of Protocol
On October 7, 2008, Brinker hosted a symposium on "Breast Cancer Global Awareness" at the Blair House. First Lady Laura Bush joined the participants and the White House was illuminated in pink for the occasion.
As Chief of Protocol, Brinker expanded the role of the office through outreach programs intended to foster better relationships with the Diplomatic Corps. The effort, known as Diplomatic Partnerships involved over 60 events, including "Experience America", where the Diplomatic Corps traveled throughout the United States to meet with business and civic leaders.
Ambassador to Hungary
Brinker served as United States Ambassador to Hungary from September 2001 to 2003. For the first time, she held a conference on the trafficking and exploitation of workers that health ministers from the neighboring Balkan States attended. She also raised awareness about breast cancer among Hungarian women by leading a march over the Chain Bridge in Budapest. The bridge was illuminated in pink for the occasion.
Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl decorated Brinker with the Order of Merit, Medium Class, Cross Adorned with Star, for her work in advancing bilateral relations and in recognition of her charity activities.
The Promise Fund
The Promise Fund of Florida was created by Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Julie Fisher Cummings and Laurie Silvers in 2018. It was set up to address a lack of preventative diagnosis of breast cancer among women in South Florida.
Other government service
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed her to the National Cancer Advisory Board and in 1990, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to chair the President's Cancer Panel and monitor the progress of the National Cancer Program. In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle invited her to chair a subcommittee monitoring research, progress and development in the fight against breast cancer.
Brinker was a bundler for George W. Bush when he was running for office, helping to organize and collect campaign contributions from other donors. In 2000, she became a Pioneer, a member of his $100,000 Club. And on December 24, 2008, President Bush appointed her to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a six-year term.
She testified before the United States Democratic Policy Committee's Congressional Breast Cancer Forum and participated in the International Women's Forum.
Awards
Brinker has received the following awards and titles:
1995 University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award
The 1997 S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, awarded by Jefferson Awards
The 2000 Cino del Duca Award, the James Ewing Layman Award from the Society of Surgical Oncology
2004 Service to America Leadership Award presented by the National Association of Broadcasters Educational Foundation
2005 Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award in Support of Medical Research
The American Society of Breast Disease 2006
2007 Trumpet Award
2007 Castle Connolly National Health Leadership Award
2007 Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal
American Association for Cancer Research Centennial Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 2007
2007 IARC Medal of Honour
Modern Healthcare 2007 Health Care Hall of Fame
2009 Porter Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009
Reader's Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America, May 2013
Inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2016 in the area of Social Services.
National Women's Hall of Fame
Texas Women's Hall of Fame
Time magazine, 100 Most Influential People in the World
Ladies' Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
Biography Magazine's The 25 Most Powerful Women in America
Anti-Defamation League Americanism Award
The Ladies' Home Journal's Top 10 Champions of Women's Health
Global Pathfinder Award
The Champions of Excellence Award presented by the Centers for Disease Control
ASCO Special Recognition Award
Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, Inc. Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame
The Sword of Ignatius Loyola Award from Saint Louis University
The Albert Einstein's Sarnoff Volunteer Award
The Champion of Prevention Award by the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control
Inducted into the Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, Inc. Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame
Publications
Brinker has co-authored four books:
Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer , co-authored with Joni Rodgers - September 14, 2010
The Race is Run One Step at a Time, co-authored with Catherine McEvilly Harris
1000 Questions About Women's Health, co-authored with Dr. H. Jane Chihal
Winning the Race: Taking Charge of Breast Cancer, co-authored with Chriss Anne Winston
Brinker wrote the forewords for:
Tamoxifen for the Treatment and Prevention of Breast Cancer by V. Craig Jordan
Tamoxifen: A Guide for Clinicians and Patients by V. Craig Jordan
Personal
Nancy Goodman's first husband was Robert M. Leitstein, an executive at Neiman Marcus. They had one son together but divorced in 1978.
On February 13, 1981, Nancy Goodman married Norman E. Brinker, founder of Brinker International, which provided access to capital and influence and enabled her role in public service. Norman Brinker provided funds and methodology for building the Komen foundation. The couple were major contributors to George W. Bush's first presidential campaign. They divorced shortly after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, but Norman Brinker remained a board member of Komen for the Cure, having served on its board since its founding in 1982 until his death in 2009.
While ambassador, Brinker began to collect Hungarian art. Her collection spans 100 years, from just before the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the present and has been on display at several museums around the United States. The collection is one of the largest outside of Hungary.
Brinker is a major funder of gay marriage initiatives. She serves on the advisory board of the Harvey Milk Foundation.
References
External links
Nancy G. Brinker website
Papers of Nancy Brinker, 1954-2019 Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
1946 births
Living people
American businesspeople in retailing
American health activists
American LGBT rights activists
20th-century American Jews
American women ambassadors
Ambassadors of the United States
People from Peoria, Illinois
Ambassadors of the United States to Hungary
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Illinois Republicans
Texas Republicans
Chiefs of Protocol of the United States
Newsmax TV people
21st-century American Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Brinker |
The Scream cipher is a word-based stream cipher developed by Shai Halevi, Don Coppersmith and Charanjit Jutla from IBM.
The cipher is designed as a software efficient stream cipher. The authors describe the goal of the cipher to be a more secure version of the SEAL cipher.
The general design of Scream is close to the design of SEAL with block cipher-like round functions. There are two versions of Scream. One of them, Scream-F, reuses the S-boxes from the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher, while the other, Scream, internally generates new, key-dependent S-boxes as part of the initialization phase. The round function is also based on the AES-round function, but is narrower, 64 bits instead of 128 bits.
The cipher uses a 128-bit key and a 128-bit nonce. It is efficient in software, running at 4-5 cycles per byte on modern processors.
The cipher was presented at the Fast Software Encryption (FSE) conference in 2002.
References
Scream: a software-efficient stream cipher (pdf)
Stream ciphers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream%20%28cipher%29 |
Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928, Barquisimeto – 13 May 2001, Caracas) was a notable Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the National Prize for Literature. In 1989 received the Juan Rulfo Prize for Tan desnuda como una piedra.
List of works
Novels
Los pequeños seres (1958)
Los habitantes (1961)
Día de ceniza (1963)
La mala vida (1968)
Los pies de barro (1972)
Memorias de Altagracia (1974); translated to English by Jeremy Munday in 1996
El capitán Kid (1988)
Novellas
El parque (1946)
Short story collections
Cuentos cómicos (1991)
Doble fondo (1966)
Difuntos, extraños y volátiles (1970)
Los escondites (1972)
El inquieto Anacobero y otros cuentos (1976)
El brujo hípico y otros relatos (1979)
Emmiendas y atropellos (1979)
El único lugar possible (1981)
Hace mal tiempo afuera (1986)
La casa del tiempo (1986)
La gata y la señora (1991)
La media espada de Amadís (1998)
No es el espejo (2002)
El regreso (2004)
El inquieto Anacobero y otros relatos (2004)
Entre tías y putas (2008)
Non-fiction
La novela en Venezuela (1966)
Crónicas Sádicas (1991)
La vida buena (1995)
Anotaciones en cuaderno negro (2003)
El gran miedo, Vida(s) y escritura(s) (2004)
Books for children
Galileo en su reino (1994)
El cuento más viejo del mundo (1997)
Un pingüino en Maracaibo (1998)
El sapo y los cocuyos (1998)
El turpial que vivió dos veces (2000)
Mi familia de trapo (2002)
La viuda que se quedó tiesa (2004)
See also
Venezuela
Venezuelan literature
References
Salvador Garmendia biography
Perfiles: Salvador Garmendia - Lo afirmativo venezolano
External links
Salvador Garmendia, "A Country, A Decade", Encuentros No. 28, Sep 1998. Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center
Venezuelan novelists
Venezuelan male writers
Male novelists
Venezuelan screenwriters
1928 births
2001 deaths
People from Barquisimeto
20th-century novelists
20th-century male writers
20th-century screenwriters
Garmendia family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%20Garmendia |
Tracy Wilson, (born September 25, 1961) is a Canadian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Rob McCall, she won the Canadian national championship seven times (1982–1988), is a three-time World bronze medallist, and the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist.
Personal life
Wilson was born on September 25, 1961, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. She grew up in Port Moody, British Columbia. As child she did swimming and diving, competing at provincials three times. She first swam with the Coquitlam Sharks in 1967 before moving, in 1970, to Port Moody Aquarians. She attended college for one semester before her partnership with Rob McCall began.
In 1987, Wilson married Brad Kinsella. Though she did not change her name at the time, her name is sometimes printed as Tracy Wilson-Kinsella or Tracy Wilson Kinsella. Together they have three children – two sons who play hockey and a daughter who competes as an equestrian. They live in Toronto, Ontario.
Skating career
Wilson started skating when she was six years old in Coquitlam. After moving she became a member of Port Moody's Inlet Skating Club. She competed in ice dancing for the first time when she was fifteen. On the junior level, Wilson competed with Mark Stokes. They were the 1980 Canadian junior national champions.
In the summer of 1981, Wilson teamed up with Rob McCall. Their partnership started at the Elgin Barrow Arena in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and they trained in Richmond Hill throughout their competitive careers. Together they won the Canadian national championship seven times, from 1982 to 1988. They won the Skate Canada International competition in 1983 and 1987. The 1983 gold was the first time a Canadian team won the event. The pair were three-time World bronze medallists (1986-1988). They competed at the 1984 Winter Olympic and the 1988 Winter Olympic, winning a bronze medal in the 1988 Games. That medal was Canada's first Olympic medal in ice dancing.
After the 1988 Worlds, they decided to go pro. They competed in professional competition, including winning the World Professional Championships in 1989. The team also performed with Stars on Ice for two years and other shows. In March/April 1990, McCall was diagnosed with AIDS and his health was deteriorating. Disregarding the mass public fear of AIDS at the time, Wilson continued to skate with McCall. The pair did some shows and skated at the 1990 World Professional Championships. Wilson had to stop skating with the birth of her first child in 1991. Soon after McCall deteriorated further and he died November 15, 1991. Wilson retired from ice dancing, but she did skate a solo, while pregnant with her second child, at the tribute show for McCall on November 21, 1992.
Results
(with McCall)
(with Stokes)
Coaching career
In 2006, Wilson and Brian Orser were hired by the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club as consultants to help rebuild the skating program. The two decided to stay and coach there, training kids, adults, and elite skaters.
Her current students include:
Rika Kihira
Jason Brown
Jin Boyang
Rio Morita
Her former students include:
Junhwan Cha
Yuzuru Hanyu
Evgenia Medvedeva
Nam Nguyen
Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Javier Fernandez
Sonia Lafuente
Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama
Other ventures
Since 1990, Wilson has worked as a television figure skating analyst for American and Canadian networks, including CBS, NBC, CBC, CTV (TSN), ABC, and Turner Sports (TNT). She has also written several articles for TSN's website.
Wilson has also done some choreography, including for Canadian junior ice dance team Edrea Khong / Edbert Khong.
Wilson is also an AIDS activist. She was one of the primary organizers of the "Skate the Dream: A Tribute to Rob McCall" ice show, a fundraiser for AIDS research, which took place on November 21, 1992.
She is an ambassador for S'port for Kids Foundation, a charitable organization whose goal is to involve kids in organized athletics.
Awards and recognition
In 1988, Wilson and McCall were made Members of the Order of Canada. This is the highest civilian honor given by the Canadian government.
Wilson was also inducted into several halls of fame, including:
1989 – Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
1991 – BC Sports Hall of Fame
1999 – Richmond Hill Sports Hall of Fame
2003 – Skate Canada Hall of Fame
2005 – BC Summer Swimming Association Pool of Fame
In 1995, the Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall Trophy was established to annually recognize a Canadian pairs team. Past winners included pairs in rowing, bobsleigh, and tennis.
References
Living people
1961 births
Canadian female ice dancers
Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Canadian sports announcers
Figure skating commentators
Members of the Order of Canada
Figure skaters from Montreal
People from Lachine, Quebec
Anglophone Quebec people
HIV/AIDS activists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Wilson |
Maniktala is a residential area of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Etymology
The tomb of Manik Pir is located in lane near Maniktala crossing, therefore some locals suggest the neighbourhood is named after him.
Others argue that Manik Pir (erst: Syed Husen Ud din shah) came from North India on early eighteenth century, while the name Maniktala can also be seen mentioned in a map as early as of 1784. Instead, they believe, the bodyguard of Nawab of Bengal Alivardi Khan, Manikchand Bose (erst : Manikram Bose) lived in this place as the caretaker of Calcutta (Ali Nagar) from/around 1756. Since he was very popular among the locals because of his wise and compassionate nature, the place came to be known as Maniktala.
History
In 1889, the suburbs of old Calcutta were grouped in four municipalities. Maniktala formed the East Suburban Municipality. In the same year, Maniktala, Ultadanga and Beliaghata became 'fringe area wards' of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 brought about important changes. The adjacent municipalities of Cossipore, Chitpur, Maniktala and Garden Reach were amalgamated with Kolkata. Garden Reach was later taken out.
Geography
Location
Today's Maniktala crossing is the intersection of Vivekananda Road (Maniktala Main Road) and Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road (Upper Circular Road) — two main thoroughfares in North Kolkata. Beadon Street (Dani Ghosh Sarani/Abhedananda Road), one of the important streets of North Kolkata originates from Maniktala, ending in Nimtala Ghat. Amherst Street also starts nearby (Chaltabagan). Aurobindo Sarani crosses APC Road at Khanna crossing, Maniktala. Maniktala crossing connects Shyambazar, Kankurgachi, Rajabazar and Girish Park to Maniktala.
Police district
Manicktala police station is part of the Eastern Suburban division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 20, Canal West Road, Kolkata-700006.
Ultadanga Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Suburban division i.e. Beliaghata, Entally, Maniktala, Narkeldanga, Ultadanga, Tangra and Phoolbagan.
Landmarks
The Central Blood Bank of West Bengal Government is located at the Maniktala crossing. So is one of oldest markets of Kolkata, the Maniktala Bazar, easily identified by the clock tower. Gouribari Badridas Jain Temple is also located nearby.
Economy
Daily markets
Maniktala market, along with Hatibagan, Sealdah, Lake Market and Gariahat markets, is amongst the largest markets in Kolkata. It is owned by SC Nan and family. "The vintage landmark of the clock tower in Maniktala helps to spot the interiors of this market well." Maniktala is famous for its fish market but is also popular for groceries and fresh vegetables. It is one of the best farmer's markets in Kolkata. Maniktala Market at 187, Vivekananda Road is a private market spread over 3 acres. Vegetables, fruits, betel leaf, flowers, fish, meat, egg etc.are available. Maniktala Municipal Market is located at P-187, C.I.T. Road, Kankurgachi. In Kolkata, every para (neighbourhood) has a machher bazar (fish market), but there are some big fish markets in different areas of the city: Howrah wholesale fish market, Gariahat, Sealdah and Maniktala. These markets "are famous not only for the wide variety of fishes they procure but also for their stellar quality. Prices depend on the fish you want. The staple ones are competitively priced. However, the special fishes such as Iilish, Chitol, Chingri can go for some ridiculous pricing. But that's no deterrence for the fish lover who can't do without it in his lunch!" Maniktala market sets a sort of a bench-mark for the pricing.
Transport
The Maratha Ditch was dug in 1742 and it was partly filled up in 1799 to create the Circular Road (now Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road).
The construction of Vivekananda Road, by Calcutta Improvement Trust, was completed in 1928. It was a broad new road through a congested area and changed the complexion of the area. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads.
Electric tramcars were introduced in Calcutta in 1902. Tram lines were laid to Rajabazar in 1910. The line along Upper Circular Road to Galiff Street came in 1941. A new tram line was laid from Maniktala to Ultadanga in 1985. Now Kolkata tram route no. 18 serves Maniktala (via APC Road-Vivekananda Road/Maniktala Main Road).
Culture
One of Kolkata's largest Durga Puja celebration, the Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja is celebrated in its vicinity.
External links
References
Tourist attractions in Kolkata
Neighbourhoods in Kolkata | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniktala |
The Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyers (Hangul: 광개토대왕급 구축함, Hanja: 廣開土大王級 驅逐艦), often called KDX-I, are destroyers, but are classified by some as frigates, operated by the Republic of Korea Navy. It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy.
Development
The KDX-I was designed to replace the old destroyers in the ROKN that were transferred from the US Navy in the 1950s and 1960s. It was thought to be a major turning point for the ROKN in that the launching of the first KDX-I meant that ROKN finally had a capability to project power far from its shores. After the launching of the ship, there was a massive boom in South Korean international participation against piracy and military operations other than war.
Description
Weapon systems
The primary weapon deployed by Gwanggaeto the Great-class vessels is the Super Lynx helicopter, which acts in concert with shipboard sensors to seek out and destroy submarines at long distances from the ships. The Gwanggaeto the Great class also carries a close-in anti-submarine weapon in the form of the Mark 46 torpedoes, launched from triple torpedo tubes in launcher compartments either side of the forward end of the helicopter hangar. A secondary anti-shipping role is supported by the RGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface missile, mounted in two quadruple launch tubes at the main deck level between the funnel and the helicopter hangar. For anti-aircraft self-defense, the Gwanggaeto the Great class carries 16 RIM-7P Sea Sparrow. The Gwanggaeto the Great class also carries two 30mm Goalkeeper to provide a shipboard point-defense against incoming anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The main gun on the forecastle is an OTO Melara 127 gun.
Propulsion
The Gwanggaeto the Great class is powered by two General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines and two SsangYong 20V 956 TB 82 diesel engines. The Gwanggaeto the Great class can reach a maximum speed of 30 knots.
Construction
All Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyers were built by the Daewoo Heavy Industries Co., Inc. at Geoje, South Korea. In 1989, Daewoo Heavy Industries began working on the 4,000-ton destroyer which is now the secondary destroyer of the Korean navy, and the achievement was made through DSME's 100% design engineering for the first time in Korea.
The keel of the first ship was planned to have been laid down in late 1992 and the ship was planned to be completed in 1996. But due to definition studies that lasted until late 1993, the construction of the first ship did not started until April 1994 with the first steel cutting at Daewoo shipyard in Okpo.
Modernisation/Mid-Life Update
It was reported on April 27, 2016, that the KDX-1 class will undergo a limited mid-life upgrade at a cost of 67.41 billion won, aimed at replacing obsolete foreign equipment. The original command and control system (BAeSEMA SSCS Mk-7 combat management system) was replaced with Hanwha System's combat management system (likely Naval Shield ICMS), the installation of a domestic Towed Array Sonar System (TASS, likely from MteQ), LINK-16 and general equipment overhaul.
The first vessel, ROKS Yang Man-chun completed the upgrade in September 2020 at DSME, while the second vessel, ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great completed the upgrade in November 2021 and the final vessel, ROKS Ulchi Mundok completed the upgrade in December 2021.
Ships in the class
Bhumibol Adulyadej class
The is a modification of the Gwanggaeto the Great class for the Royal Thai Navy. It differs from the Gwanggaeto the Great class with the addition of stealth features.
(Active)
HTMS Prasae (Postponed)
See also
List of naval ship classes in service
List of active Republic of Korea Navy ships
Korean Destroyer eXperimental
Citations
References
External links
ROKN Navy website on KDX-I
Globalsecurity on KDX-I
Powercorea on KDX-I
Destroyer classes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwanggaeto%20the%20Great-class%20destroyer |
Mystic Island is an album by the German andean new age band Cusco. It was released in 1989, and was the band's second worldwide album release through Higher Octave Music.
Unlike its Higher Octave predecessor, Apurimac, Mystic Island has less to do with Andean Music and flute and more with a mixture of global melodies. The album overall is a compilation of previous tracks released by the band under the Prudence label, but the tracks on this album are re-mixed and contain a smoother, more modern quality than the originals. Most of the tracks on this album originally came from the albums Planet Voyage and Tales from a Distant Land, while North Easter (Cool Islands) and Catalina (Desert Island) are exceptions. While Catalina and The Fox and the Lady sound practically identical to the original album versions, the other tracks have very noticeable differences. For instance, Milky Way, where traditional rock beats have been replaced by more "natural" percussions, and Lonely Rose, which now features the signature pan flutes in the chorus.
Track listing
"North Easter"
"Lucky Jack"
"Catalina"
"Fireshoes"
"Solitude"
"Leo"
"The Fox and the Lady"
"Milky Way"
"Lonely Rose"
"Pisces"
1989 albums
Cusco (band) albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic%20Island |
Mario Suárez (1925–1998) was one of the earliest Chicano writers. He was one of five children born to Mexican immigrants to the U.S. state of Arizona, Francisco Suárez and Carmen Minjárez Suárez. After high school, he joined the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. In the military, he was stationed off the coast of New Jersey, and also served in Brazil. After the war, he returned to Arizona where he enrolled in the University of Arizona. In 1947, while still an undergraduate, he began writing sketches for Arizona Quarterly magazine. Suárez later went on to become a journalist and a college educator, and publishing in Arizona Quarterly. Most of Suárez's literature takes place in "El Hoyo" (The Hole), the name of the Mexican American barrio in Tucson, Arizona, where he was raised. Often overlooked in the "canon" of Chicano Literature for writers such as Rudolfo Anaya and Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Mario Suárez's writing pre-dates the Chicano literature movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of his sketches of Mexican immigrant and working class life were published in the mid- to late-1950s. From an anthropological standpoint, his work should be heralded for telling the Mexican immigrant story and documenting life in El Hoyo before its demise.
Bibliography
Chicano Sketches: Short Stories. Edited by Francisco A. Lomelí, Cecilia Cota-Robles Suárez, and Juan José Casillas-Núñez. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
References
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition
United States Navy personnel of World War II
American writers of Mexican descent
Writers from Tucson, Arizona
University of Arizona alumni
1925 births
1998 deaths
Hispanic and Latino American journalists
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American expatriates in Brazil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Su%C3%A1rez%20%28writer%29 |
Super Swing Golf (PangYa! Golf With Style in Europe, and Swing Golf PangYa in Japan) is a Wii version of the online golf game, PangYa. The game was a launch title for the Wii in Japan.
Gameplay
While very similar to the online PangYa, Super Swing Golf is slightly different in the areas of control and content. Both the single player and multiplayer game feature three different modes of play. In single player, these include a story mode, stroke play mode, and match mode, while in multiplayer, Balloon Pop mode replaces the story mode. In all modes, Pang (currency) can be earned and later spent on additional clothing or gear.
Players use the Wii Remote to scroll and pan around the course, as well as to actually execute shots. To swing, players raise the controller behind them (as with a real golf club) until the on-screen power meter reaches the desired point. Once ready, players then hold down the "A" button and swing forward. The angle and speed of the forward swing is used to determine how close the actual shot comes to the desired shot. If the controller is rotated or twisted as the player swings forward, the resulting shot will hook or slice. An alternative control system is to use just the buttons on the Wii Remote similar to how the game is played on the PC, including the same key combinations for power shots.
The Wii single-player story mode is named PangYa Festa. Complete with an anime-inspired storyline, the objective of this tournament is to defeat all opponents in match play. Players select a character and then a course, which determines the number of holes, typically 3, 6 or 9, and the opponent. As players successfully defeat opponents, they earn the right to play against more difficult opponents on different courses. Winning a given match also unlocks new characters, caddies, and items which can be purchased in the shop. Before and after each match, the player is greeted with a brief cutscene where the player's character and opponent exchange quips with each other and their caddies.
Reception
The game was met with positive reception. IGN gave it a score of 7.3 out of 10, calling it a fair game with a lot of replay value, but ultimately the rest depended on preference. Yahoo! Games awarded it 4.5/5, saying it was a fun mix between silly swings and serious golf. X-Play gave it four stars out of five for being fun but very difficult in some areas. GameRankings gave the game a score of 71.40%, while Metacritic gave it 72 out of 100.
Sequel
A sequel, Super Swing Golf: Season 2, was released on December 11, 2007.
References
External links
Official Japanese Super Swing Pangya Golf site
2006 video games
Golf video games
Tecmo games
Video games developed in Japan
Wii-only games
Wii games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Fantasy sports video games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Swing%20Golf |
The Vão do Paranã is a statistical micro-region created by IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil.
Municipalities
The microregion consists of the following municipalities:
Statistics
This is the poorest and most isolated region of the state of Goiás. According to the United Nations Human Development Index (2000) several of its municipalities were in the lowest places of the state ranking. Buritinópolis occupied last place in the state with a score of 0.600, and the other cities fared little better—Guarani de Goiás with 0.632, Flores de Goiás with 0.642, Divinópolis with 0.675, Iaciara with 0.704, Mambaí with 0.64, Posse with 0.711, São Domingos with 0.631, Simolândia with 0.657, Sítio d'Abadia with 0.643, and Alvorada do Norte with 0.688.
This index measures life expectancy, literacy rate of adults, school attendance, and per capita income.
The largest municipality in population is Posse with 28,850 and in area it is Flores de Goiás with 3,722.8 km². The smallest in population is Sítio d'Abadia with 3,251 and in area it is Buritinópolis with 269,1 km².
Municipality with most cattle: Flores de Goiás with 147,400
Municipality with greatest soybean production: Flores de Goiás with 5,400 tons
Municipality with greatest corn production: Flores de Goiás with 14,000 tons
Municipality with highest GDP: Posse with 128,500,000 Reais (2005)
Municipality with lowest GDP: Buritinópolis with 9,000,000 Reais (2005)
Municipality with highest per capita GDP: Sítio d'Abadia with 6,304 Reais
Municipality with lowest per capita GDP: Buritinópolis with 2,546 Reais
Municipality with highest literacy rate (2000): Alvorada do Norte with 80.5
Municipality with lowest literacy rate (2000): Buritinópolis with 71.9
Municipality with highest infant mortality rate: Buritinópolis and Flores de Goiás, both with 50.6
Municipality with lowest infant mortality rate: Iaciara with 20.46
Municipality with highest rural population: Flores de Goiás with 7,507
Municipality with highest population growth rate 1996/2007: Flores de Goiás with 6.21%
Municipality with lowest population growth rate 1996/2007: Guarani de Goiás with -1.28%
All data are from Sepin Estatísticas Municipais
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions of Goiás
References
Microregions of Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microregion%20of%20V%C3%A3o%20do%20Paran%C3%A3 |
Tain District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Wenchi District on 10 March 1989; until the western part of the district was split off to create Tain District on 12 November 2003 (effectively 17 February 2004); thus the remaining part has been retained as Wenchi District (which it was later upgraded to municipal district assembly status and has been renamed as Wenchi Municipal District on 29 February 2008). Later, the northern part of the district was split off to create Banda District on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been retained as Tain District. The district assembly is located in the northeast part of Bono Region and has Nsawkaw as its capital town.
List of settlements
Sources
District: Tain
19 New Districts Created, November 20, 2003.
References
2003 establishments in Ghana
Bono Region
Districts of Bono Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tain%20District |
Apurímac II: Return to Ancient America is an album by German andean new age band Cusco, released in 1994 on the Higher Octave music label. The album peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top New Age albums chart.
It is second in the Apurímac series, and contains native Central American and South American sounds reincarnated with a very modern European musical touch, and has a much more lush, contemporary sound than the first Apurimac album, or other Cusco albums in general. Sounds of the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations Maya, Inca and Aztec are represented, and its orchestral touches remind of the then recent Cusco 2000 and Cusco 2002 albums, though on this album they are used more sparingly. This album is also a commercial high-water mark in the band's career, selling more copies overall than any other Cusco album. The track "Montezuma" was featured as bumper music on Coast to Coast AM, and was also used for a Bud Ice television commercial. Some versions of this album have the final track titled as "Temple of the Forgotten".
Track listing
All songs written by Kristian Schultze and Michael Holm except as indicated.
"Montezuma" (Michael Holm/Ralph Stemman)
"Quetzal's Feather"
"Dance of the Sun Priest"
"Tula"
"Yucatán"
"Xul-Kan, King of Palenque"
"Maya Temple"
"Mexica"
"Goddess of the Moon" (Michael Holm/Ralph Stemman)
"Temple of Remembrance"
Album credits
Matt Marshall – Executive producer
Kristian Schultze – Arranger, programming
Dan Selene – Executive producer
Joseph L. Steiner III – Digital remastering
Murry Whiteman – Design
Dee Westlund – Art direction
Frank Von Dem – Bottlenburg mixing
Michael Holm – Producer, mixing
Cusco – Main performer
References
1994 albums
Cusco (band) albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apurimac%20II |
Garfield Heard (born May 3, 1948) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma and was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the third round of the 1970 NBA draft. He had a 15-year NBA career for four teams (the Sonics, the Buffalo Braves/San Diego Clippers, the Chicago Bulls, and the Phoenix Suns). Heard is best known for a buzzer beater he made to send Game 5 of the 1976 Phoenix–Boston championship series into a third overtime. This feat is commonly known as "The Cow", or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World", in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn", which was written about the Battle of Lexington.
College career
Heard set an Oklahoma school record with 21 double-doubles for a season by a Sooner in 27 games during 1969–70. It was finally broken by Blake Griffin on February 14, 2009.
Professional career
Prior to the 1973–74 NBA season, Heard and Kevin Kunnert were traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Buffalo Braves for John Hummer, a 1974 NBA draft 2nd round pick and a 1975 NBA draft 2nd round pick. Heard went on to rank in the top ten in rebounds and blocked shots that season. The deal was part of the resume that earned Buffalo Braves General Manager Eddie Donovan the NBA Executive of the Year Award. Heard once played 86 games in an NBA season, which is 82 games long, when he was traded in the middle of the 1975–76 NBA season from Buffalo to the Phoenix Suns.
The Shot
With two seconds remaining in double overtime, John Havlicek had given Boston a one-point advantage with a running one-handed shot. The Celtics' timekeeper then ran the clock out instead of stopping it after a made basket, per league rules. The Boston Garden crowd erupted, believing the game was over, and the Celtics themselves actually went back to their locker room. Legend has it that Havlicek had actually taken the tape off his ankles by this stage. But the Suns correctly pointed that there was still time left, though the officials only placed one second back on the clock instead of two. (Celtics fans had stormed the court after the time was erroneously allowed to expire, and one particularly boisterous fan attacked referee Richie Powers after it was announced that the game was not over yet.) Paul Westphal then intentionally took a technical foul by calling a timeout when the Suns had no more timeouts to use. It gave the Celtics a free throw, which Jo Jo White converted to give Boston a two-point edge, but the timeout also allowed Phoenix to inbound from mid-court instead of from under their own basket. When play resumed, Heard caught the inbound pass and fired a very high-arcing turnaround jump shot from at least 20 feet away. It swished through, sending the game into a third overtime. However, Boston eventually won the game and the Finals, four games to two. Heard had scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in Game 5.
A revision to Rule 12-A, Section I, in regards to excessive timeouts, resulted in the elimination of the advancement of the ball following an excessive timeout. The rule has since been changed to award the ball to the team shooting the free throw.
Coaching
Heard served as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks from 1993 to 1994 and the Washington Wizards from 1999 to 2000. His overall head coaching record is 23–74. During the 2004–2005 season, Heard was an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons; he coached several games that season when Larry Brown was out due to a medical condition. Heard has also served several stints as an assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers.
Head coaching record
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References
External links
BasketballReference.com profile as player
BasketballReference.com profile as coach
1948 births
Living people
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Georgia (U.S. state)
Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
Buffalo Braves players
Chicago Bulls players
Dallas Mavericks assistant coaches
Dallas Mavericks head coaches
Detroit Pistons assistant coaches
Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players
People from Hogansville, Georgia
Phoenix Suns players
Power forwards (basketball)
San Diego Clippers players
Seattle SuperSonics draft picks
Seattle SuperSonics players
Washington Wizards head coaches
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%20Heard |
Ambika Chakrabarty (January 1892 – 6 March 1962) was an Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary. Later, he was a leader of the Communist Party of India and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Revolutionary activities
Ambika Chakrabarty's father's name was Nanda Kumar Chakarabarty. He was a member of Chittagong Jugantar party. He took part in the Chittagong armoury raid led by Surya Sen. On 18 April 1930, he led a group of revolutionaries, who destroyed the entire communication system in Chittagong. On 22 April 1930, he was seriously injured in the gunfight with the British army in Jalalabad. But he was able to escape. After a few months, he was arrested by the police from his hideout and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair.
Later activities
Chakrabarty, after his release from the Cellular Jail in 1946, joined the Communist Party of India. He was elected to the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly in the same year. In 1952, he was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Tollygunge (South) constituency as a Communist Party of India candidate. He died in a road accident in Calcutta in 1962.
See also
Ganesh Ghosh
Ananta Singh
References
Indian revolutionaries
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
1962 deaths
Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal
1892 births
People from Chittagong District
West Bengal MLAs 1951–1957
Indian prisoners sentenced to death
Prisoners sentenced to death by India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambika%20Chakrabarty |
Jaman District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono Region), Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989 when it was known as Jaman District, which was created from the former Berekum-Jaman District Council. However on 12 November 2003 (effectively 17 February 2004), it was split off into two new districts: Jaman South District (which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 1 November 2017 (effectively 15 March 2018); capital: Drobo) and Jaman North District (capital: Sampa). The district assembly was located in the western part of Brong-Ahafo Region (now western part of Bono Region) and had Berekum as its capital town.
See also
Gyaaman
References
Sources
District: Jaman District
19 New Districts Created , November 20, 2003.
Brong-Ahafo Region
Former districts of Ghana
1989 establishments in Ghana
2003 disestablishments in Ghana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaman%20District |
Jaman North District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Jaman District on 10 March 1989, which was created from the former Berekum-Jaman District Council, until part of the district was split off to create Jaman North District on 12 November 2003 (effectively 17 February 2004); thus the remaining part has been renamed as Jaman South District; which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 1 November 2017 (effectively 15 March 2018) to become Jaman South Municipal District. The district assembly is located in the western part of Bono Region and has Sampa as its capital town.
Geography
It is located between latitude 7O 40’ N and 8O 27’N, and longitude 2O 30’W and 2O 60’W. The district is located in the western part of the Bono Region and to the north western fringes of the neighboring Ivory Coast country. It borders Tain District to the north through to the eastern part of the district, Jaman South Municipal District to the southwest and Berekum Municipal District to the southeast. The location of the district along the Ghana and Ivory Coast border presents economic potential and opportunities that can be maximized to improve the lives of the citizenry.
Population
According to the 2010 population and housing census, the total population of the district is 83,059 with a population growth rate of 2.25% as that of the region and is composed of 48.1% males and 51.9% females with about 52.5% of the population living in urban areas and 47.5% living in the rural areas.
Economy
The employment rate in the district is about 78% of the active labour force. The above figure puts the unemployment rate in the district at 22%. However, the unemployment rate in the region is about 34% which is higher than the district's rate of 22%. The major economic activities of the district fall under agriculture, forestry and commerce which employ about 72% of the active labour force in the district. Service and industrial sectors employ about 8.1% and 19.9% of the labour force, respectively.
Agriculture
Agriculture is the dominant economic activity in the municipality. It employs more than 70% of the total population within the labour force. Thus it is the major source of livelihood for majority of people in the district. The major sectors of agriculture in the district are crop farming and livestock rearing.
Education
The district has seventy-five schools: fifty-six public and nineteen private, with 99 classrooms. Total KG enrolment is 5,917 with 4,695 enrolled in the public schools. The male and female figures are; 2,244 and 2,451 respectively. Total enrolment at the primary level is 14,006 comprising 7,159 males and 6,901 females. At the Senior High level, there are eight Senior High and Technical Schools.
Health
Both orthodox and traditional health services are provided in the municipality which focuses on curative and preventive care delivery. The health needs of the population are catered for by the Sampa Government Hospital, Fountain Care Hospital, the six sub-districts health centres and over thirty-three chemical shops.
List of major settlements
Sources
District: Jaman North District
19 New Districts Created , November 20, 2003.
References
2003 establishments in Ghana
Districts of Bono Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaman%20North%20District |
Jaman South Municipal District is one of the twelve (12) districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally known as Jaman District on March 10, 1989, after being created from the former Berekum-Jaman District within the then-larger Brong-Ahafo Region. Later on, part of the district was split off to create Jaman North District on November 12, 2003; thus the remaining original part became Jaman South District. It was later upgraded to municipal status in November 2017, and renamed as Jaman South Municipal District. The municipality is located in the western part of Bono Region and has Japekrom as its capital town.
It shares common borders with Berekum West District the south-east, Jaman North District to the North, Dormaa Municipal to the south and La Côte d'Ivoire in the west. The Municipal has a total land area of about and about 130 settlements most of which are rural communities and have a population less than 400. It has a total land area of .
List of settlements
Sources
2003 establishments in Ghana
Districts of Bono Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaman%20South%20Municipal%20District |
Megan Wing (born November 1, 1975) is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner and husband Aaron Lowe, she is a two-time Four Continents bronze medallist.
Career
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wing began skating at the age of five and took up ice dancing at age 14. She joined forces with Aaron Lowe in 1986. The duo captured six bronze medals and four silver medals at the Canadian National Championships and competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they finished 11th overall. On April 25, 2006, Wing and Lowe announced officially their retirement from competitive skating.
Wing and Lowe coach in British Columbia. Their students include:
Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara
Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker
Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams
Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker
Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang
Noa Bruser / Timothy Lum
Sara Aghai / Jussiville Partanen
Tarrah Harvey/ Keith Gagnon
Ashlynne Stairs / Lee Royer
Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam (choreography)
Personal life
Wing / Lowe's twins, a daughter and son named Keauna Auburn Wing Lowe and Tayson Pierce Wing Lowe, were born on October 6, 2011.
Programs
Competitive highlights
GP: ISU Champions Series / Grand Prix
with Lowe
1995–1996 to 2005–2006
1989–1990 to 1994–1995
References
External links
Official site
Skate Canada profile
Care to Ice Dance? - Wing & Lowe
1975 births
Living people
Canadian female ice dancers
Canadian people of Irish descent
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Canadian sportspeople of Chinese descent
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters from Vancouver
Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
Figure skating choreographers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Wing |
Bucktown is a historic area in the eastern end of downtown Davenport, Iowa, along the Mississippi River. Settled by many German immigrants, it was known in the early 20th century during the Prohibition era for its numerous speakeasies. Bucktown garnered national media headlines as a red-light district and the "wickedest city in America."
Low culture
Bucktown was an area of the city dominated at night by crews and passengers from river boats. It was also settled by many German immigrants, who brought their customs of family entertainment at beer gardens. At the same time, this area attracted "adult" entertainments. Its racy reputation was based on its dance halls, saloons, and German music pavilions. Some 42 brothels were documented in a two-block area.
Jazz and other music of the people was played by the era's finest musicians, including Louis Armstrong from New Orleans and the legendary Bix Beiderbecke.
High culture
Bucktown was also known for its high culture. It was a destination for waves of German immigrants after the Revolutions of 1848. Their customs formed part of the identity of Bucktown and its infusion of the arts into the everyday. Art and music, for the common man, was central to the German way of life.
In 1856, immigrants formed the German Strasser Union Marching Band of Davenport. When the Tri City Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916, it was the twelfth in the nation. As two-thirds of its membership was drawn from the Strasser Marching Band, some scholars believe the orchestra should be considered the oldest music organization in the country. Davenport was built on the arts. Before there were paved streets and running water to homes in the city, there were opera houses with 40-foot domed ceilings. These were destinations for operatic troupes from Chicago who traveled on horseback to perform.
The most famous of these was the Burtis Opera House, which still stands on the north side of the Bucktown District. Davenport was home to the nation's first municipal art gallery formed in 1925 by German, Charles Ficke, the foundation of the Davenport Museum of Art, now known as the Figge Art Museum.
See also
History of Davenport, Iowa
References
Bibliography
History of Iowa
Geography of Davenport, Iowa
Historical red-light districts in the United States
Crime in Iowa
ru:Бактаун | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucktown%2C%20Davenport |
, formerly known as , is a Japanese manga magazine published by Kodansha. It was originally conceived as a , or companion magazine, to Shōjo Friend, which is no longer published. Bessatsu Friend is commonly known by the abbreviated name and is published on the 13th of each month.
The magazine originally featured manga focused on romance; however, with the start of publications by manga artists like Keiko Suenobu, it began publishing such that moved away from that main focus. publishes manga by many well known manga artists, such as Miwa Ueda, Satomi Ikezawa, Ayu Watanabe, Fuyumi Soryo, Nanba Atsuko, and Keiko Suenobu.
In October 2005, a manga serialized in Bessatsu Friend titled Flower of Eden was pulled from publication and recalled by both Kodansha and North American publisher Tokyopop, after it was revealed that the manga artist, Yuki Suetsugu, had copied art directly from Slam Dunk and Real by Takehiko Inoue. After that, official imports of Bessatsu Friend publications became scarce.
Serialization
Current
Hana-kun to Koisuru Watashi (2011–present)
A Girl & Her Guard Dog (2018–present)
Yamaguchi-kun Isn't So Bad (2019–present)
My Girlfriend's Child (2021–present)
L DK Pink (2022–present)
Past
1977–1989
Akogare (1970)
1990–1999
Mars (1996–2000)
Peach Girl (1997–2004)
Guru Guru Pon-chan (1998–2000)
Girl Got Game (1999–2002)
2000–2009
Flower of Eden (2000–2004)
The Wallflower (2000–2015)
A Perfect Day for Love Letters (2001)
Othello (2001–2004)
My Heavenly Hockey Club (2002–2005)
Life (2002–2009)
Senpai to Kanojo (2004–2005)
Peach Girl: Sae's Story (2004–2008)
Love Attack! (2005–2009)
A Song to the Sun (2006)
Minima! (2006–2008)
Papillon (2007–2009)
Love's Reach (2008–2011)
Drowning Love (2009–2014)
L DK (2009–2017)
2010–2019
Kyō no Kira-kun (2012–2014)
P and JK (2013–2020)
Kiss Him, Not Me (2014–2019)
Defying Kurosaki-kun (2014–2021)
Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight (2015–2020)
Star-Crossed!! (2019-2020)
Related magazines
Nakayoshi
Shojo Friend
Dessert
References
External links
1965 establishments in Japan
Kodansha magazines
Magazines established in 1965
Magazines published in Tokyo
Monthly manga magazines published in Japan
Shōjo manga magazines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessatsu%20Friend |
Aaron Lowe (born October 12, 1974) is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner and wife Megan Wing, he is a two-time Four Continents bronze medallist.
Career
Lowe was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He began in hockey at the age of seven and switched to figure skating when he was nine. He began skating with Megan Wing in 1986. They won six bronze medals and four silver medals at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. In 2006, the duo competed in the Winter Olympics, where they finished 11th overall. On April 25, 2006, Wing and Lowe announced officially their retirement from competitive skating.
Wing and Lowe coach in British Columbia. Their students include:
Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara
Personal life
Wing / Lowe's twins, a daughter and son named Keauna Auburn Wing Lowe and Tayson Pierce Wing Lowe, were born on October 6, 2011.
Programs
Competitive highlights
GP: ISU Champions Series / Grand Prix
with Wing
1995–1996 to 2005–2006
1989–1990 to 1994–1995
References
External links
Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe official website
1974 births
Living people
Canadian male ice dancers
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters from Vancouver
Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
21st-century Canadian people
Figure skating choreographers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Lowe |
Threat (2006) is an independent film about a straightedge "hardcore kid" and a hip hop revolutionary whose friendship is doomed by the intolerance of their respective street tribes. It is an ensemble film of kids and young adults living in the early-to-mid-90s era of New York City's all-time highest ever murder rate, each of them suffering from a sense of doom brought on by dealing with HIV, racism, sexism, class struggle, and general nihilism.
The intellectual issues are played out amid an aesthetic of raw ultraviolence that has earned director Matt Pizzolo both accolades and condemnations (such as Film Threat's rave review stating "great art should assail the status quo, and that is what Pizzolo and Nisa's film has skillfully accomplished" in contrast to Montreal Film Journal's scathing review saying the film "openly glorifies murderous revolt, literally telling the audience to go out and beat up random people, just because").
Unlike past urban dramas, the film does not outright condemn its characters' violent outbursts. Although it does show harsh consequences for acts of violence, numerous critics have pointed out that it is unclear whether or not the film intends to glorify violence and/or class conflict.
Summary
White, straight edge hardcore kid, Jim (Carlos Puga), and black, hip-hop radical, Fred (Keith Middleton), become friends living on New York's Lower East Side - both of them with the hope that their newfound brotherhood will bring solidarity to their disparate communities. Instead, the alliance triggers a violent race riot that spills into the city streets with devastatingly tragic consequences.
Cast
Carlos Puga as Jim
Keith Middleton as Fred
Rebekka Takamizu as Mekky
Kamouflage as Desmond
Katie Nisa as Kat
Neil Rubenstein as Ruby
David R. Fisher as Marco
Tony Dreannan as Tony
Rachel Rosen as Punk Rock Girl
Slug as Slug
Production
The film was produced by Kings Mob, a team of neophyte filmmakers in their late teen and early 20s. Director Matt Pizzolo was the eldest member of the crew: 19 years old when he wrote the script and 21 when shooting commenced. Pizzolo met filmmaking partner Katie Nisa at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Both were enrolled in the school's Dramatic Writing Program. Pizzolo left the program and lived out of a backpack in Manhattan's Lower East Side while writing the first draft of Threat.
Still at NYU, Nisa recruited film student Benjamin Brancato to join the project as cinematographer and NYU business school student Carlos Puga to play the lead role. Pizzolo recruited fellow Long Island native Ben Knight who was still a teenager at the time and put him to work as a production designer for the film. Nisa also cast Keith Middleton when she saw him walking on St. Mark's Place. Unknown to Nisa, Middleton was on his way to perform in the popular dance show Stomp.
Kings Mob shot the film in a DIY style that sharply contrasted with other more polished independent films of the mid 90s (sometimes referred to as Indiewood). The DIY style focused less on aesthetic and more on authenticity. This style later picked up traction with various DiY-Video movements including the mumblecore scene of the 2000s. Unlike most movies of the DIY-Video era to follow, Threat was shot on 16mm film.
Pizzolo interned at NYC film co-op Film/Video Arts, where he cleaned up after film classes in exchange for free access to cameras and lights while not in use. Nisa waitressed at East Village diner 7A to pay for production supplies that "couldn't be borrowed or stolen." Initially, sound recording was to be handled by one of Nisa's film student friends. When he could not make it to the first day of production, he instead gave Nisa a 15-minute lesson on how to run the nagra. She went on to be the film's sole sound recordist for the first months of production.
At the start of production, the crew consisted solely of Pizzolo, Nisa, Brancato, and Knight but over the course of production it grew to include over 200 young people from 5 different countries.
Although shot without permits on a shoestring budget by a team of non-professional first-time filmmakers, some critics have compared Threat to such iconic films as The Warriors, Do the Right Thing, American History X, Slacker, Clerks, Romper Stomper, Kids, Doom Generation, and Suburbia.
Critical response ranged from "easily one of the most important films of the decade" to "there is no explanation, no logic, and no reckoning."
Produced largely in the New York metalcore and hardcore punk scene, Threat features guest appearances by members of Most Precious Blood from the Trustkill Records label. Trustkill also contributed music to the film's score from Most Precious Blood, Bleeding Through, Eighteen Visions, and Terror. Most of the film's score, however, was composed by Alec Empire and his band Atari Teenage Riot. The score was constructed by jungle-music producer queque.
In keeping with the punk and DiY ideologies of the movie and their production company, Pizzolo and Nisa eschewed distribution offers from Hollywood studios.
Initially, the film was released as an underground VHS tape and toured across the US and Europe, playing at non-traditional venues such as record stores, hip hop clubs, skateparks, and music festivals.
One of the more notable non-traditional screenings took place during the Sundance Film Festival at a Doc Martens shoe store across the street from Sundance's flagship Egyptian Theater. It was here that The Daily Telegraph documented the sold-out screenings during Sundance as a cover story in its Saturday Magazine, leading the filmmakers to be invited on a European tour with the film. When they returned home, Threat screenings were added as an attraction on the Van's Warped Tour.
Years of touring culminated with an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where music-video distributor HIQI Media signed on to distribute the film to theaters.
Soon after, Pizzolo formed the punk cinema label Halo 8 and released Threat on DVD through a distribution deal with Sony Pictures and RED Music, who distributed the film's soundtracks.
Awards
In October 2006, Threat won the Grand Prize for Best Feature at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland. The award was presented to the filmmakers on stage by Crispin Glover.
In April 2007, Threat won the "First Feature Film - Special Mention" prize at the Rome Independent Film Festival in Rome, Italy.
Soundtracks
Threat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Threats soundtrack consists mainly of digital hardcore courtesy of Alec Empire's DHR label, and metalcore courtesy of Trustkill Records. The soundtrack was released by HALO 8 Entertainment in January 2006.
Track listing
"Night of Violence" – Alec Empire
"Start the Riot" – Atari Teenage Riot
"Into the Death" – Atari Teenage Riot
"Rage" – Atari Teenage Riot feat. Tom Morello & D-Stroy
"Sick to Death" – Atari Teenage Riot
"Get Up While You Can" – Atari Teenage Riot
"Gotta Get Out" – Alec Empire
"Common Enemy" – Panic DHH
"Wanna Peel" – EC8OR
"Number Seven with a Bullet" – Bleeding Through
"The Great Red Shift" – Most Precious Blood
"One Hell of a Prize Fighter" – Eighteen Visions
"Overcome" – Terror
"Drone" – Eyes Like Knives
"mPathik" – queque
"heVn" – queque
"I Am a Threat" – King David
"Kids Are United" – Atari Teenage Riot
Threat: Music That Inspired the Movie
In addition to the Threat soundtrack, Halo8 produced and released the compilation Threat: Music That Inspired the Movie. In the tradition of soundtracks featuring collaborations/remixes, from such films as Spawn and Judgment Night, the album consists of mashups of hardcore punk and metalcore with breakcore. The album was released by HALO 8 Entertainment in January 2006.
Track listing
"Pandemic" – Most Precious Blood vs. Alec Empire
"World at War" – Agnostic Front vs. Schizoid
"Ghost in the Machine" – Inside Out vs. Oktopus from Dälek
"World Ablaze" (Threat mix) – Killswitch Engage vs. Edgey
"Overkill" – Terror vs. Enduser
"Champagne Enemaz" – Eighteen Visions vs. Otto von Schirach
"Zolobovine" – Gorilla Biscuits vs. Defragmentation
"Cannibal Kitten" – The Icarus Line vs. The End
"Slapped with an X" – Vision of Disorder vs. The Tyrant
"Bring It" – Judge vs. Bill Youngman
"Stalwart Carapace" – Youth of Today vs. Edgey
"Deathbed" – Bleeding Through vs. Hecate
"I Know That You're Lying" – Today Is The Day vs. darph/nadeR
"Star Buried in My Yard" – Glassjaw vs. Enduser
"Don't Step" – Minor Threat vs. Holocaust
References
External links
Threat Synopsis and reviews of the movie at threatfilm.com
2006 films
American independent films
Punk films
2000s English-language films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
2000s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat%20%28film%29 |
hostapd (host access point daemon) is a user space daemon software enabling a network interface card to act as an access point and authentication server. There are three implementations: Jouni Malinen's hostapd, OpenBSD's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.
Jouni Malinen's hostapd
Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It can be used to create a wireless hotspot using a Linux computer. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators, RADIUS client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host AP, MadWifi, Prism54 and some of the drivers which use the kernel's mac80211 subsystem), QNX, FreeBSD (net80211), and DragonFlyBSD.
OpenBSD's hostapd
OpenBSD's hostapd is a user space daemon that helps to improve roaming and monitoring of OpenBSD-based wireless networks. It implements Inter Access Point Protocol (IAPP) for exchanging station association information between access points. It can trigger a set of actions like frame injection or logging when receiving specified IEEE 802.11 frames.
Devicescape's hostapd
The Open Wireless Linux version of hostapd. It is kept as close as possible to the original open source release, but with OWL specific packaging and defaults.
The website appears to be dead (April 2013), probably as the project itself.
See also
HostAP
References
External links
DragonFlyBSD commit
Undeadly Article
Wi-Fi
OpenBSD | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostapd |
The Alberta Legislature Building is located in Edmonton and is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Executive Council of Alberta. It is often shortened to "the Ledge".
The Alberta Legislature Building is located at 10801 97 Avenue NW. Free tours of the facility are offered throughout the week. The building is also connected via underground walkway to the Government Centre station and Government Centre Transit Centre.
Location
The building is located on a promontory overlooking the scenic North Saskatchewan River valley near the location of Fort Edmonton, Mark V (1830–1915), a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, a long-established economic and administrative centre of the western Prairies. It is just up the hill from the archaeological finds at Rossdale Flats to the east, remnants of a long-standing First Nations campsite and location of an earlier Fort Edmonton. The Legislature's location was selected shortly after Edmonton was confirmed as the provincial capital by the first session of the Legislature in 1906. The legislature building was located along 97 Avenue. That road was routed through a tunnel during the 1970s renovations to the grounds, allowing a large plaza to connect the legislature to a greenspace to the north.
To the west of the building, the grounds are bounded by 109 Street and the railway right-of-way coming north from the High Level Bridge, now used by the High Level Bridge Streetcar. Nearby is a walking path, connecting to the Victoria Park and Golf Course and the Grandin neighbourhood. To the north lies the "Government Centre" district within downtown Edmonton, south of Jasper Avenue, Edmonton's main street. Here are found several provincial government office buildings including the Federal Building. A short section of 108 Street, called "Capital Boulevard", is anchored by two terminating vistas, the legislature and MacEwan University's City Centre Campus. MacEwan is a part of the Old Canadian National rail yard redevelopment.
Nearby to the northeast is the Government Centre transit centre, and further east is the Rossdale neighbourhood and Edmonton Ballpark. The security of the Legislature building and surrounding grounds are the responsibility of the Alberta Sheriffs Branch.
LGBT activism in Edmonton has taken place at the Alberta Legislature Building for many years and as such, the building is featured on the Edmonton Queer History Project map.
Statues and memorials
Several memorials and statues are situated within the Legislative Buildings, or the grounds surrounding it. The fountain inside the Legislature Building was installed during 1959 to commemorate the first visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the building. For the province's centennial, the Queen unveiled in the same structure a series of stained glass windows that highlight the role of the monarchy in Alberta over the previous century. The centre window, at the front entrance of the building, focuses on the reign of Elizabeth II, including her royal cypher surmounted by St. Edward's Crown and flanked by wild roses, while the other windows commemorate the reign of George VI, Edward VIII, George V, and Edward VII, along with provincial emblems such as the coat of arms and the wild rose.
Other items of significance on the grounds include the Lois Hole Memorial Garden, the statue of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, and a memorial to Chief Crowfoot.
"Purple City"
A local custom involves area teenagers staring at the building's flood lights and then looking up to see everything in the color purple.
The band The Rural Alberta Advantage referenced the custom in their song Edmonton.
It is also the origin of the name for Purple City Music Festival.
History
The Alberta Legislature Building was built between 1907 and 1913 in the Beaux Arts style at the same time as the much larger Saskatchewan and Manitoba legislative buildings by architects Allan Merrick Jeffers and Richard Blakey. Montreal architect Percy Nobbs helped with the final revisions. Allan Merrick Jeffers served as the Alberta Provincial Architect from September 1907 to 1910. The Provincial Archives of Alberta holds drawings for virtually all provincial buildings executed under his supervision.
Construction first began in August 1907. The cornerstone was laid by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first Premier of Alberta, and the Governor General of Canada, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, on October 1, 1909. On November 30, 1911, the first session was held in the building. The building was officially opened by Lord Grey's successor, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, on September 3, 1912.
Jeffers may have been influenced by the State House of Rhode Island, where he had been a student. The style was associated originally with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was fashionable in North America between 1895 and 1920.
The use of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian architectural influences was considered appropriate for a public building, as they suggested power, permanence, and tradition. Beaux-Arts buildings are characterized by a large central dome above a spacious rotunda, a symmetrical T-shaped plan, doors and windows decorated with arches or lintels, and a portico supported by massive columns. The dome has terracotta made by Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
The building is supported on concrete piles and constructed around a steel skeleton. The first floor is faced with Vancouver Island granite; upper floors feature sandstone from the Glenbow Quarry in Calgary. The interior fittings include imported marble, mahogany, oak, and brass.
The building is about in overall height; the project cost over $2 million at the time.
For the centennial of the province of Alberta, stained glass windows with the royal cypher and the emblems of Alberta were installed above from the main entrance of the building. These stained glass windows were unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on May 24, 2005.
References
Bibliography
External links
Alberta Legislature Virtual Visit
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Visitors Information
Buildings and structures in Edmonton
Legislative buildings in Canada
Provincial symbols of Alberta
Beaux-Arts architecture in Canada
Government buildings completed in 1913
Government buildings with domes
Alberta government buildings
Tourist attractions in Edmonton
Alberta Legislature
Terminating vistas in Canada
Provincial Historic Resources in Edmonton
1913 establishments in Alberta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Legislature%20Building |
Guilty is the third studio album by English boy band Blue. It was released on 3 November 2003 in the United Kingdom and on 25 November in the United States. It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart after its release, and it was certified 2× Platinum in December 2003.
The album was particularly successful in the UK, Europe, Japan and New Zealand. "Guilty", "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", "Breathe Easy" and "Bubblin'" were released as singles from the album. "Guilty", co-written by Gary Barlow, was the most successful single from the album, peaking at number two in the UK.
Singles
"Guilty" — The debut single, released in October 2003. The single peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 29 on the Australian Top 40, at No. 14 in New Zealand and No. 6 in Ireland. The song has received a Silver sales status certification for sales of over 200,000 copies in the UK.
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" — The second single, released in December 2003, featuring guest vocals from Stevie Wonder. The song is a cover version of Stevie's number one hit. The single peaked at No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 31 on the Australian Top 100, No. 22 in New Zealand and No. 17 in Ireland.
"The Gift" - A Japanese alternative single to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours", featuring the said track as a B-side. "The Gift" only appears on the Japanese version of Guilty. The single peaked at No. 3 on the Japan Hot 100. A music video was recorded and included on the Japanese edition of 4Ever Blue.
"Breathe Easy" — The third single, released in March 2004. The single peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was produced by multi-platinum producers DEEKAY & co-written by Lee Ryan, Lars Halvor Jensen, and Michael Martin Larsson. The song has received a Bronze sales status certification for sales of over 100,000 copies in the UK. In Italy, an Italian-language version of the song, "A Chi Mi Dice", was released as a single instead.
"Bubblin'" - The fourth and final single, released in June 2004. The single peaked at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. The single version of "Bubblin'" features vocals from L.A.D.E. In France, a French-language version of the song, "You & Me Bubblin'", was released a single instead. This version features vocals from French boyband LINK-UP.
Critical reception
Betty Clarke from The Daily Telegraph found that Guilty showed "Blue as we already know them: heavy on soul-puppy richness, light on meaning. It's easy listening in the most honourable sense, and there's no need to dress it up in seam-bursting bondage pants [...] What's left is a nifty little record." In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Sharon Mawer rated the album two out of five stars. She remarked that some songs on the album "were straying perilously close to Westlife territory and to many Blue fans, the most important thing about them was that they were not as bland as Westlife."
In a negative review, Chris Long from BBC Music, called the album "in equal parts, vapid, bland, hopelessly derivative, unimaginative and, occasionally, downright offensive." He further wrote that "there is not one moment of the ballad-heavy, drippy, sugar-sweet overdose of Guilty that deserves even a second listen [...] This is the sound of a band more interested in increasing their tabloid column inch count with their various late night shenanigans and celebrity ligging, than in their music. There is no effort, no emotion, no desire in any of the tunes on offer."
Track listing
Guilty: Live from Wembley
In Japan, the band's live DVD, Guilty: Live from Wembley, was packed with a ten-track bonus CD.
Tour
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2003 albums
Blue (English band) albums
Albums produced by Stargate
Albums produced by Steve Robson
Albums produced by Cutfather | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty%20%28Blue%20album%29 |
Darrell Walker (born March 9, 1961) is an American college basketball coach and retired professional player. He is currently head men's coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Walker played in National Basketball Association (NBA) for 10 seasons, winning an NBA championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1993. He played college basketball for Westark Community College and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Playing career
After graduating from Chicago's Corliss High School, Walker played college basketball at Westark Community College (now the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith) and the University of Arkansas. He was selected by the New York Knicks with the 12th pick in the first round of the 1983 NBA draft. Over a ten-year career, he played for five teams—the Knicks, the Denver Nuggets, the Washington Bullets, the Detroit Pistons, and the Chicago Bulls. Walker is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.
Walker was selected to the 1984 NBA All-Rookie team, and was among the league leaders during his career in assists and steals. His best season was in 1989–90 with the Washington Bullets when he averaged 9.5 points, 8.8 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game. He won an NBA title with the Chicago Bulls in his final season.
Coaching career
Walker has served as head coach for two different teams—the Toronto Raptors and the Washington Wizards. He was the Raptors' second coach, following Brendan Malone, and led the team for a season and a half. In 2000, he replaced the fired Gar Heard in Washington for half a season (the first coaching "call-up" in history, having previously been the coach of the Rockford Lightning of the CBA), but was then replaced by Leonard Hamilton the next year. Later that same year, he was named the interim head coach of the Washington Mystics of the WNBA, replacing Nancy Darsch who resigned during the season. He remained in Washington as director of player personnel and later head scout before joining the Hornets as assistant coach.
In March 2012, Walker became an assistant coach with the New York Knicks, where he was on staff until 2014.
Walker was named the head coach at Clark Atlanta University in 2016. In two seasons with the Panthers, Walker guided the team to a 45–18 overall record a SIAC conference tournament championship, and two appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament.
On March 27, 2018, Walker was named the head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Career playing statistics
NBA
Source
Regular season
|-
|style="text-align:left;|
|style="text-align:left;"|New York
|style="background:#cfecec;"|82*||0||16.1||.417||.267||.791||2.0||3.5||1.5||.2||7.9
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|New York
|style="background:#cfecec;"|82*||66||30.4||.435||.000||.700||3.4||5.0||2.0||.3||13.5
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|New York
|81||35||25.0||.430||.000||.686||2.7||4.2||1.8||.4||10.3
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Denver
|81||25||24.9||.482||.000||.745||4.0||3.5||1.5||.5||12.2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Washington
|52||0||18.1||.392||.000||.781||2.4||1.9||1.2||.2||6.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Washington
|79||78||32.5||.420||.000||.772||6.4||6.3||2.0||.3||9.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Washington
|81||81||35.6||.454||.095||.687||8.8||8.0||1.7||.4||9.5
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Washington
|71||65||32.5||.430||.000||.604||7.0||6.5||1.1||.5||7.8
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
|74||4||20.8||.423||.000||.619||3.2||2.8||.9||.2||5.2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|
|style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
|9||2||16.0||.158||.000||.333||2.1||1.0||1.1||.0||.9
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|†
|style="text-align:left;"|Chicago
|28||0||13.1||.403||–||.500||1.4||1.6||.8||.1||2.6
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career
|720||356||25.8||.435||.059||.713||4.4||4.6||1.5||.3||8.9
|}
Playoffs
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|1984
|style="text-align:left;"|New York
|12|| ||16.3||.370||–||.609||2.9||1.7||2.0||.2||6.8
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|1987
|style="text-align:left;"|Denver
|3||3||22.7||.324||–||.571||3.3||1.7||.7||.0||8.7
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|1988
|style="text-align:left;"|Washington
|5||0||31.0||.407||.000||.688||4.8||2.8||1.4||.8||11.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|1992
|style="text-align:left;"|Detroit
|5||0||13.6||.333||–||1.000||2.4||.8||.2||.0||2.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|1993†
|style="text-align:left;"|Chicago
|9||0||2.4||.250||–||.667||.1||.6||.0||.0||.4
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career
|34||3||14.9||.368||.000||.645||2.4||1.4||1.0||.2||5.2
|}
Head coaching record
NBA
|-
|align="left"|Toronto
|align="left"|
| 82 || 30 || 52 || ||align="center"|8th in Central|| – || – || – ||
|align="center"|Missed Playoffs
|-
|align="left"|Toronto
|align="left"|
| 49 || 11 || 38 || ||align="center"|(fired)|| – || – || – ||
|align="center"|–
|-
|align="left"|Washington
|align="left"|
| 38 || 15 || 23 || ||align="center"|7th in Atlantic|| – || – || – ||
|align="center"|Missed Playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
|align="left"|Career
| || 169 || 56 || 113 || || || – || – || – || ||
WNBA
|-
|align="left"|Washington
|align="left"|
| 12 || 5 || 7 || ||align="center"|4th in East|| 2 || 0 || 2 ||
|align="center"|Lost in Conference semifinals
|- class="sortbottom"
|align="left"|Career
| || 12 || 5 || 7 || || || 2 || 0 || 2 || ||
College
References
External links
Basketball-Reference.com: Darrell Walker (as player)
Basketball-Reference.com: Darrell Walker (as NBA coach)
Basketball-Reference.com: Darrell Walker (as WNBA coach)
1961 births
Living people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Canada
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Arkansas–Fort Smith Lions basketball players
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Illinois
Basketball players from Chicago
Chicago Bulls players
Clark Atlanta Panthers men's basketball coaches
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Continental Basketball Association coaches
Denver Nuggets players
Detroit Pistons assistant coaches
Detroit Pistons players
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Little Rock Trojans men's basketball coaches
New Orleans Hornets assistant coaches
New York Knicks assistant coaches
New York Knicks draft picks
New York Knicks players
Shooting guards
Toronto Raptors assistant coaches
Toronto Raptors head coaches
Washington Bullets players
Washington Mystics head coaches
Washington Wizards executives
Washington Wizards head coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell%20Walker |
Berekum-Jaman District is a former district council that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono Region), Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1975. However in 10 March 1989, it was split off into two new district assemblies: Berekum District (capital: Berekum) and Jaman District (capital: Drobo). The district assembly was located in the western part of Brong-Ahafo Region (now western part of Bono Region) and had Berekum as its capital town.
References
Sources
District: Berekum-Jaman District
1989 disestablishments in Africa
Brong-Ahafo Region
Former districts of Ghana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berekum-Jaman%20District |
Shefayim (, lit. High Hills) is a kibbutz in central Israel located 2.5 miles north of Herzliya along the Mediterranean coast. Shefayim falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Kibbutz Shefayim was established in 1935 by Jewish immigrants from Poland. The name is taken from the Book of Isaiah: "I will open rivers in high hills." During the British Mandate for Palestine, Shefayim was a base for clandestine immigration.
In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea.
In the early 1970s, the kibbutz established Polycad, a plastics factory. In the early 1980s, it established the Shafit biotechnology plant. In the mid-1990s, it acquired the Zirei Israel plant, which has become a leader in the Israeli cotton-ginning industry.
In 2012 IBM acquired New York- and Shefayim-based mobile application developer Worklight Ltd., founded in 2006 by Shahar Kaminitz, formerly of Amdocs.
Economy
Kibbutz Shefayim is among the wealthiest kibbutzim and was one of the few that did not require debt assistance from the state and banks during the recession in the 1980s. On the contrary, Shefayim contributed NIS 4 million to help failing kibbutzim. The main income source of the kibbutz is Hutzot Shefayim, a shopping mall, on real-estate previously classified as agricultural land. Other sources of income are a hotel and conference center, and a water park.
Notable people
Orit Noked (born 1952), former member of the Knesset
Rachel Shapira (born 1945), songwriter and poet
Uri Ben-Ari (1925-2009) is buried at the kibbutz cemetery
(1905-1993), Yiddish writer and journalist and social activist in Poland, is also buried at the kibbutz cemetery
References
External links
Shefayim water park and on the kibbutz homepage in English
Hotel Shefayim
Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1935
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
1935 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Polish-Jewish culture in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shefayim |
Marie-France Dubreuil (born August 11, 1974) is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With her husband Patrice Lauzon, she is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medallist.
Personal life
Marie-France Dubreuil was born on August 11, 1974, in Montreal, Quebec. She married her Canadian partner and skater Patrice Lauzon in August 2008. On December 24, 2010, she gave birth to their daughter, Billie-Rose.
Competitive career
When Dubreuil was five, she asked for skating lessons for her birthday and her grandmother gave her skates as a present. She took up ice dancing at the age of ten. The pair of Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov was one of her influences. Competing with Bruno Yvars, she won the bronze medal at 1990 World Junior Championships.
Dubreuil teamed up with Patrice Lauzon in 1995 and they placed 6th at their first Canadian Championships. They took the silver medal in their first appearance at Four Continents in 2000. Their coaches were Sylvie Fullum and François Vallee, who retired after the 2001–02 season. Dubreuil/Lauzon decided to move permanently to Lyon, France, to train under Muriel Boucher-Zazoui.
Dubreuil/Lauzon captured the gold medal at the Canadian National Championships five times and competed at the Winter Olympics twice. They had to withdraw from the 2006 Winter Olympics after Dubreuil suffered an injury from a fall during a lift attempt at the end of a program. Lauzon had to carry her off the ice. They recovered to win the silver medal at the 2006 World Championships in Calgary, Alberta.
Dubreuil/Lauzon began the 2006–07 season with gold medals at 2006 Skate Canada International and 2006 NHK Trophy, which qualified them for the Grand Prix Final. At the World Championships in Tokyo, they took their second consecutive World silver medal.
Dubreuil/Lauzon skated in ice shows in the 2007–08 season. They confirmed their retirement from competitive skating on May 20, 2008.
Dubreuil appeared on the CBC Television series Battle of the Blades, in which figure skaters are paired with ice hockey players in a figure skating competition. She and her season 1 partner Stéphane Richer finished in third place. She took season 2 off because she was pregnant. During the show's third season, she was paired with Bryan Berard.
Post-competitive career
Dubreuil and Lauzon coach and choreograph ice dancing at the Gadbois Centre in Montreal with Romain Haguenauer. Their current students include:
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (Olympic gold medalists,olympic silver medalists, European champions, Five-time World Champions, Three-time French National Champions)
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen (Two-time Danish National Champions and 2019 Canadian bronze-medallists.)
Madison Chock / Evan Bates (Olympic silver medalists (team event), World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, Four-time U.S. National Champions)
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (Four Continents Champions)
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (World Junior Champions)
Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
Holly Harris / Jason Chan
Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
Their former students include:
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Three-time Olympic gold medalists, Two-time Olympic silver medalists, Three-time World Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, World Junior Champions, Junior Grand Prix Final Champions, Eight-time Canadian National Champions, Only ice dancers to achieve career grand slam)
Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin
Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng
Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Other skaters Dubreuil has choreographed for include:
Shawn Sawyer
Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost
Joannie Rochette
Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau
Lubov Iliushechkina / Charlie Bilodeau
Nathan Chen
Kaori Sakamoto
Camden Pulkinen
Roman Sadovsky
Programs
(with Lauzon)
{|class=wikitable style=text-align:center
! Season
! Original dance
! Free dance
! Exhibition
|-
! 2006–07
|
Paya d'Ora
|
At Last
|
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Whole Lotta Love
|-
! 2005–06
| Salsa and rhumba:
Ne Me Quitte Pas (remix)
|
Somewhere in Time
|
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Singing in the Rain
|-
! 2004–05
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
Winter Vision
Taboo
|
Singing in the Rain
|-
! 2003–04
|
Americano
Why Don't You Do Right
|
Des Tours De Vies (Nu Tango)
Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)
Vuelvo Al Sur
Tango Inna Babylone (Nu Tango)
|
L'Oiseau
Glory Box
|-
! 2002–03
|
At the Ball
Furioso Polka
|
Dance with my Heart
|
Tango medley
|-
! 2001–02
|
Yo Soy Maria
Balada Renga Para Un Organito Loco
Yo Soy Maria
|
Madame Butterfly
|
|-
! 2000–01
|
L-O-V-E
My Melancholy Baby
|
Victorious Titus
|
The Ninth Gate
|-
! 1999–2000
|
Relax and Mambo (Machito)
Magalenha
Dance with Me
|
Life Is Beautiful
|
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The Feeling Begins
|-
! 1998–99
|
La Grimas Y Sonisas
Argentine Waltz
|
The Feeling Begins
|
|}
Results GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix''
With Lauzon
With Morbacher
With Yvars
References
External links
1974 births
Canadian female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Figure skaters from Montreal
Battle of the Blades participants
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Season-end world number one figure skaters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-France%20Dubreuil |
, formerly , is a bimonthly Japanese manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. The magazine was established in 1985. It is released on the 24th of every odd-numbered month as of May 2021. Much like its sibling publication Shōnen Ace, it places some emphasis on anime tie-ins and spinoffs. Manga serialized in Asuka are published in format under the Asuka Comics imprint.
Notable manga artists and series featured in Asuka
Tamayo Akiyama
Hyper Rune
Mouryou Kiden
Secret Chaser
Sumiko Amakawa
Cross
Clamp
Clamp School Detectives
Legal Drug
Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales
Suki: A Like Story
Wish
X
Fumino Hayashi
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days (spinoff of Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Akira Hiyoshimaru
Book Girl and the Delicious Recipe
Book Girl and the Lovesick Poet
Haruko Iida
Crescent Moon
Kasane Katsumoto
Hands Off!
Ayumi Kawahara
Idol Densetsu Eriko
Temari Matsumoto
Kyo Kara MA no Tsuku Jiyuugyou! (based on the Kyo Kara Maoh! series)
Min Min
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku (spinoff of Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Ai Morinaga
Yamada Tarō Monogatari
Nakano
Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō
Majiko!, Gorō Taniguchi, and Ichirō Ōkouchi
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (spinoff of the anime series Code Geass)
Aya Shouoto
Kiss of Rose Princess
The Demon Prince of Momochi House
Yukiru Sugisaki
D.N.Angel
Lagoon Engine
Lagoon Engine Einsatz
Satosumi Takaguchi
Hana no Asuka-gumi!
Sakende Yaruze
Kazusa Takashima
Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made
Keiko Takemiya
Tenma no Ketsuzoku
Yōko Tamotsu
Midnight Occult Civil Servants
Setsuri Tsuzuki
Broken Angels
Cain Yuga
Cowboy Bebop Shooting Star (based on the anime Cowboy Bebop, created by Hajime Yatate)
Yutaka Nanten and Hajime Yatate
Cowboy Bebop (spinoff/adaptation of the anime series of the same name)
Kiyo Kujo and Sunao Yoshida
Trinity Blood
Kairi Yura
Angelique
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Related magazines
Monthly Asuka Fantasy DX
References
External links
1985 establishments in Japan
Kadokawa Shoten magazines
Magazines established in 1985
Monthly manga magazines published in Japan
Shōjo manga magazines
Magazines published in Tokyo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka%20%28magazine%29 |
Kintampo District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono East Region), Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989. However on 12 November 2003 (effectively 17 February 2004), it was split off into two new districts: Kintampo North District (which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 1 November 2007 (effectively 29 February 2008); capital: Kintampo) and Kintampo South District (capital: Jema). The district assembly was located in the southern part of Brong-Ahafo Region (now western part of Bono East Region) and had Kintampo as its capital town.
Sources
District: Kintampo District
19 New Districts Created , November 20, 2003.
References
2003 disestablishments in Ghana
Brong-Ahafo Region
Former districts of Ghana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintampo%20District |
Captain Klutz is a comic strip character created in 1967 by Don Martin. He is a parody of superhero characters. The character originally saw print in a series of original paperback books done for the Mad magazine paperback line, not the magazine itself.
Backstory
The protagonist, Ringo Fonebone, is a hopelessly inept man utterly absorbed in reading comic books to the point that he was kicked out of his parents' house, a vocational school he tried to attend and a flophouse (the last expulsion left him in nothing but a set of red long johns and dotted boxer shorts). Attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself, the towel he used as a rope broke, inadvertently acquiring a mask (originally a woman's hat being thrown out by her irate husband), and finally crash-landed in the middle of a robbery, in long-johns, his "mask" and towel "cape", distracting the robber long enough for the police to capture him. The robber's angry exclamation, "Why, you klutz!," was taken by the dazed (and temporarily amnesiac) Ringo as his name, and he responded to the officers' questions regarding his identity with: "I'm...a klutz, captain." The police thought he had said he was "Captain Klutz".
Adventures
Captain Klutz did not lead a luxurious life, being reduced to homelessness at various times. (In one adventure, "my new airy apartment" was a park bench; in another, he hoped an invention would give him super-speed, so he could get a pizza delivery job.) He was also utterly inept at crime-fighting (apparent clumsiness), being poor at deduction, easily misled, and naive. (An alleged "kung fu master" easily conned Klutz for phony "training" in martial arts.) He usually succeeded in capturing the bad guy in spite of himself.
His main ally was Police Chief O'Freenbean, and he fought a variety of enemies, including:
Sissyman (a villainous mama's boy whose secret headquarters was in his mother's house; his weapons included an ice-cream gun)
Comrade Stupidska
Mervin the Mad Bomber (Captain Klutz tries to lure Mervin out of hiding by calling on a bevy of his loved ones, including family, friends, and the entire Norman Luboff Choir)
Gorgonzola (a giant mechanical spider; Klutz defeats him by grabbing a leg and sticking it into an electrical socket)
The Cackling Cockroach
Creators
Don Martin illustrated all the Captain Klutz stories. Numerous writers were credited for the stories. A listing of the stories, as well as the credited writers, follows.
The MAD Adventures of Captain Klutz (1967)
Stories below uncredited; credited writers Dick DeBartolo, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan, Don Martin
Prologue/Origin
The genesis of Captain Klutz.
"Sissyman"
No master of disguise, Klutz wears a rabbit costume while undercover as a high school football player.
"The Message"
Klutz writes to Chief O'Freenbean in invisible ink.
"Chicken Soup"
A scheming matron builds an army of zombies, by drugging the food at her soup kitchen.
"On The Elevator"
"Gorgonzola"
A story of man versus spider.
"Mervin the Mad Bomber"
Klutz learns to think twice, before calling out the bomb squad.
MAD's Don Martin Carries On (1973)
"The Man of 1,000 Faces (Give or Take 900)" written by Dick DeBartolo
MAD's Don Martin Steps Further Out (1975)
"Kung Fu To You, Too!" written by Dick DeBartolo
MAD's Don Martin Forges Ahead (1977)
"The Barfing Affair" written by Don Edwing
MAD's Don Martin Digs Deeper (1979)
"The Gravest Show on Earth" written by Dick DeBartolo
MAD's Don Martin Grinds Ahead (1981)
"The Cackling Cockroach" written by Don Martin
MAD's Don Martin Presents Captain Klutz II (1983)
"To Brusha with Love" written by Don Edwing
"The Klutz File", uncredited
"Hollywood Whodunnit", written by Dick DeBartolo
"The Sounds of Captain Klutz" and "The Klutz File", uncredited
"Theme Song from Captain Klutz – The Book" written by Don Martin and Nick Meglin, music by Norm Blagman
"The Klutz File", "Captain Klutz's Agendum for Secret Messages" and "Crimefighter's Corner" uncredited
"The Major Catastrophe" written by Don Edwing
Additional writers: John Gibbons, Norma Martin, and Dick DeBartolo
MAD's Don Martin Sails Ahead (1986)
"Klutzenstein" written by Don Edwing
Appearances
Captain Klutz's adventures were featured in the following volumes:
The MAD Adventures of Captain Klutz (Signet, 1967)
MAD's Don Martin Presents Captain Klutz II (Warner Books, 1983)
Captain Klutz stories also appeared in the following Don Martin anthologies:
MAD's Don Martin Carries On (Warner Books, 1973)
MAD's Don Martin Steps Further Out (Warner Books, 1975)
MAD's Don Martin Forges Ahead (Warner Books, 1977)
MAD's Don Martin Digs Deeper (Warner Books, 1979)
MAD's Don Martin Grinds Ahead (Warner Books, 1981)
MAD's Don Martin Sails Ahead (Warner Books, 1986)
References
External links
Captain Klutz at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 9, 2012.
Mad (magazine)
Parody superheroes
1967 comics debuts
Comics characters introduced in 1967
1986 comics endings
American comics characters
Male characters in comics
American superheroes
Humor comics
Parody comics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Klutz |
Patrice Lauzon (born November 26, 1975) is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With his wife Marie-France Dubreuil, he is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medalist.
Personal life
Patrice Lauzon was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Cecile and Norman Lauzon. He married Marie-France Dubreuil in August 2008. On December 24, 2010, Dubreuil gave birth to their daughter, Billie-Rose.
Competitive career
Lauzon initially took figure skating classes to improve his hockey skating. He took up ice dancing at the age of twelve. Early in his career, he competed with Marisa Gravino and Chantal Lefebvre.
In 1995, Lauzon teamed up with Marie-France Dubreuil and they placed 6th at their first Canadian Championships. They took the silver medal in their first appearance at Four Continents in 2000. Their coaches were Sylvie Fullum and François Vallee, who retired after the 2001–02 season. Dubreuil/Lauzon then decided to move permanently to Lyon, France, to train under Muriel Boucher-Zazoui.
Dubreuil/Lauzon captured the gold medal at the Canadian National Championships five times and competed at the Winter Olympics twice. They were forced to withdraw from the 2006 Winter Olympics after Dubreuil suffered an injury. They recovered to win the silver medal at the 2006 World Championships in Calgary, Alberta.
Dubreuil/Lauzon began the 2006–07 season with gold medals at 2006 Skate Canada International and 2006 NHK Trophy, which qualified them for the Grand Prix Final. At the World Championships in Tokyo, they took their second consecutive World silver medal.
Coaching career
Dubreuil and Lauzon coach and choreograph ice dancing at the Gadbois Centre in Montreal with Romain Haguenauer. Their current students include:
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (Olympic gold medalists,olympic silver medalists, European champions, Five-time World Champions, Three-time French National Champions)
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen (Two-time Danish National Champions and 2019 Canadian bronze-medallists.)
Madison Chock / Evan Bates (Olympic silver medalists (team event), World Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, Four-time U.S. National Champions)
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (Four Continents Champions)
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (World Junior Champions)
Rikako Fukase / Oliver Zhang
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (European silver medalists, Five-time British National Champions)
Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming
Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
Holly Harris / Jason Chan
Hannah Lim / Ye Quan
Mariia Holubtsova / Kyryl Bielobrov
Their former students include:
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (Three-time Olympic gold medalists, Two-time Olympic silver medalists, Three-time World Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, Three-time Four Continents Champions, World Junior Champions, Junior Grand Prix Final Champions, Eight-time Canadian National Champions, Only ice dancers to achieve career grand slam)
Justyna Plutowska / Jérémie Flemin
Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus
Olivia Smart / Adrián Díaz
Sara Hurtado / Adrián Díaz
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Teodora Markova / Simon Daze
Lee Ho-jung / Richard Kang-in Kam
Élisabeth Paradis / François-Xavier Ouellette
Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
Celia Robledo / Luis Fenero
Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette
Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (2022 Olympic bronze medalists, Four Continents Champions, Grand Prix Final Champions, U.S. National Champions)
Melinda Meng / Andrew Meng
Tina Garabedian / Simon Proulx-Sénécal
Other skaters Lauzon has choreographed for include:
Shawn Sawyer
Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost
Julianne Séguin / Charlie Bilodeau
Programs
(with Dubreuil)
{|class=wikitable style=text-align:center
! Season
! Original dance
! Free dance
! Exhibition
|-
! 2006–07
|
Paya d'Ora
|
At Last
|
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Whole Lotta Love
|-
! 2005–06
| Salsa and rhumba:
Ne Me Quitte Pas (remix)
|
Somewhere in Time
|
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Singing in the Rain
|-
! 2004–05
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
Winter Vision
Taboo
|
Singing in the Rain
|-
! 2003–04
|
Americano
Why Don't You Do Right
|
Des Tours De Vies (Nu Tango)
Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)
Vuelvo Al Sur
Tango Inna Babylone (Nu Tango)
|
L'Oiseau
Glory Box
|-
! 2002–03
|
At the Ball
Furioso Polka
|
Dance with my Heart
|
Tango medley
|-
! 2001–02
|
Yo Soy Maria
Balada Renga Para Un Organito Loco
Yo Soy Maria
|
Madame Butterfly
|
|-
! 2000–01
|
L-O-V-E
My Melancholy Baby
|
Victorious Titus
|
The Ninth Gate
|-
! 1999–2000
|
Relax and Mambo (Machito)
Magalenha
Dance with Me|
Life Is Beautiful
|
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The Feeling Begins
|-
! 1998–99
|
La Grimas Y Sonisas
Argentine Waltz
|
The Feeling Begins
|
|}
Competitive highlights GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix''
With Dubreuil
With Lefebvre
References
External links
1975 births
Canadian male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Figure skaters from Montreal
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists
Season-end world number one figure skaters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice%20Lauzon |
The Austrian Supercup (German: ÖFB-Supercup) was a football competition held annually from 1986 until 2004 between the winners of the Austrian Football Bundesliga and the Austrian Cup.
19 editions were played during the short history of the competition.
Results of the finals
Notes:
The Winner is typed in Bold.
The 1992–93 Austrian Cup Winners, Wacker Innsbruck lost its license and they were replaced by the new formed team Tirol Innsbruck, which are the continuation of their in the city of Innsbruck.
The 2001–02 Bundesliga Champion, Tirol Innsbruck were refused a license for the 2002–03 season and they were replaced by Sturm Graz, the 2001–02 Bundesliga Runner-up.
Performance
Performance by club
Notes:
All teams are defunct clubs from Innsbruck, Tirol. Wacker Innsbruck (1915–1999), Swarovski Tirol (1986–1992) and Tirol Innsbruck (1993–2002). They are considered to be the continuation of the each other.
The Red Bull company bought the club on 6 April 2005 and rebranded it. Prior 2005 the team was known as SV Austria Salzburg or Casino Salzburg. They also changed the colours from white-violet in red-white. The Violet-Whites ultimately formed a new club, SV Austria Salzburg.
* FC Admira Wacker Mödling was formed after the merger of SK Admira Wien and SC Wacker Wien in 1971, under the name of Admira Wacker Wien, the merge with VfB Mödling in 1997 and the merge with SK Schwadorf in 2008. The new team play in Mödling.
Performance by qualification
See also
Austrian Cup
Austrian Football Bundesliga
List of Austrian football champions
References
External links
Austria – List of Super Cup Finals at the RSSSF
S
Austria
Defunct sports competitions in Austria
1986 establishments in Austria
2004 disestablishments in Austria
Recurring sporting events established in 1986
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20Supercup |
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