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Saerbeck is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km west of Osnabrück and 25 km north of Münster.
Twin city
Rietavas, Lithuania
Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, France
Commerce, Georgia, United States
References
Steinfurt (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saerbeck |
Edwin Nelson Hubbell (August 13, 1815 – February 5, 1897) was an American politician in New York and Michigan who served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867.
Biography
Hubbell was born in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York on August 13, 1815, the son of Nathan Hubbell and Edith (Mead) Hubbell. He was educated in Coxsackie and became a farmer and an active member of the Greene County and New York State Agricultural Societies. He was also active in business, including operating a brick making factory and serving on the Board of Trustees of the Coxsackie Savings Bank.
Family
He married Catharine Conel (or Conine) in 1836. After her death, in 1868 he married Catharine Elizabeth Stoutenburg Hoffman.
Political career
A Democrat, from 1857 to 1860 he served as Coxsackie's Town Supervisor. He was also a member of the Greene County Board of Supervisors, of which he was Chairman in 1859. In 1864 he ran successfully for the U.S. House seat representing the 13th congressional district of New York. He served one term, the 39th Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867), and was not a candidate for reelection.
Later career
In 1876 Hubbell's business failed, and he moved to East Saginaw, Michigan, where he worked as a Clerk at a lumber company from 1883 to 1887. He served as Assistant City Treasurer from 1887 to 1890 and Deputy City Treasurer from 1894 to 1896.
Death
Hubbell died in Nyack, New York on February 5, 1897. He is buried at Albany Rural Cemetery.
His name is sometimes spelled as "Hubbel."
References
1815 births
1897 deaths
People from Coxsackie, New York
Politicians from Saginaw, Michigan
County commissioners in Michigan
Burials at Albany Rural Cemetery
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
Michigan Democrats
19th-century American politicians
Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20N.%20Hubbell |
Mr. Gone is the eighth studio album by jazz fusion band Weather Report released in 1978 by ARC/Columbia Records. The album reached number one on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Overview
As the group was still looking for a drummer following the departure of Alex Acuña, outside drummers Tony Williams and Steve Gadd appear along with Peter Erskine, who would become Acuña's replacement. Singers Deniece Williams and Maurice White also appear on the track "And Then." The Pastorius-penned "Punk Jazz" was later the title of a posthumous compilation of Jaco Pastorius's music.
The record became a center of controversy when DownBeat magazine gave it a one-star review. Zawinul went on to deliver a furious response to this review during a later interview.
According to Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul came up with the name "Mr. Gone" as a reference to Shorter who was absent while the band was working on that album. Shorter stated in an interview on the Questlove Supreme podcast, "I stayed another month in Brazil while they were making a record. They were making some music and they named it after me. Joe Zawinul said, 'Let's call this one, Mr. Gone.'
Critical reception
Frederick I Douglass of the Baltimore Sun proclaimed he tuned in and became "immersed in the electronic space sounds of Weather Report".
Don Heckman of High Fidelity wrote "Still, despite Zawinul's electro -musical genius, despite the astonishing bass playing of Pastorius, despite the consistently rewarding improvisations of Shorter, and despite Pastorius' and Manolo Badrena's attempts to break out into exuberant vocalisms, this is a hard record to like without reservation". With that said the album was still named the Best Contemporary Jazz Album in High Fidelity's 1978 Critics Choice Poll.
Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave a B grade proclaiming "Like Black Market and Heavy Weather, this is short on rhythmic inspiration (four different drummers, no percussionists) and long on electric ivory. When I'm in the mood I can still get off on its rich colors and compositional flow." Music critic Jon Pareles later placed Mr. Gone in his ballot for the Village Voice's 1978 Pazz and Jop poll.
Bill Milkowski of Jazzwise described Mr. Gone as "a collection of well-crafted confections".
Track listing
"The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat" (Zawinul) 5:03
"River People" (Pastorius) 4:50
"Young and Fine" (Zawinul) 6:55
"The Elders" (Shorter, arranged by Zawinul) 4:21
"Mr. Gone" (Zawinul) 5:26
"Punk Jazz" (Pastorius) 5:09
"Pinocchio" (Shorter) 2:26
"And Then" (music - Zawinul, lyrics - Sam Guest) 3:22
Personnel
The recording and technical personnel were as follows:
Weather Report
Joe Zawinul - modified Rhodes 88 electric piano, acoustic piano, two ARP 2600 synthesizers, Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, Mu-Tron Bi-Phase and Mu-Tron Volume Wah effects, kalimba, thumbeki drums, sleigh bells, melodica, high hat, vocals (tracks 1 and 5)
Wayne Shorter - tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, vocals (track 1)
Jaco Pastorius - bass, drums (tracks 1 and 2), timpani (track 2), vocals (tracks 1, 2, and 6)
Peter Erskine - drums (tracks 1 and 7), hi hat (track 3), vocals (track 1)
Additional musicians
Tony Williams - drums (tracks 5 and 6)
Steve Gadd - drums (tracks 3 and 8)
Manolo Badrena - vocal solo (track 1)
Jon Lucien - vocals (track 1)
Deniece Williams - vocals (track 8)
Maurice White - vocals (track 8)
Technical
Alex Kazanegras - engineer
Dave Mancini - second engineer
Nancy Donald - cover design
Lou Beach - cover illustration
Charts
References
1978 albums
Columbia Records albums
ARC Records albums
Weather Report albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Gone%20%28album%29 |
Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the sweet tooth, wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Hydnaceae. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type species of the genus Hydnum. The fungus produces fruit bodies (mushrooms) that are characterized by their spore-bearing structures—in the form of spines rather than gills—which hang down from the underside of the cap. The cap is dry, colored yellow to light orange to brown, and often develops an irregular shape, especially when it has grown closely crowded with adjacent fruit bodies. The mushroom tissue is white with a pleasant odor and a spicy or bitter taste. All parts of the mushroom stain orange with age or when bruised.
A mycorrhizal fungus, Hydnum repandum is broadly distributed in Europe where it fruits singly or in close groups in coniferous or deciduous woodland. This is a choice edible species, although mature specimens can develop a bitter taste. It has no poisonous lookalikes. Mushrooms are collected and sold in local markets of Europe and Canada.
Taxonomy
First officially described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum, Hydnum repandum was sanctioned by Swedish mycologist Elias Fries in 1821. The species has been shuffled among several genera: Hypothele by French naturalist Jean-Jacques Paulet in 1812; Dentinum by British botanist Samuel Frederick Gray in 1821; Tyrodon by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1881; Sarcodon by French naturalist Lucien Quélet in 1886. After a 1977 nomenclatural proposal by American mycologist Ronald H. Petersen was accepted, Hydnum repandum became the official type species of the genus Hydnum. Previously, supporting arguments for making H. repandum the type were made by Dutch taxonomist Marinus Anton Donk (1958) and Petersen (1973), while Czech mycologist Zdeněk Pouzar (1958) and Canadian mycologist Kenneth Harrison (1971) thought that H. imbricatum should be the type.
Several forms and varieties of H. repandum have been described. Forms albidum and rufescens, found in Russia, were published by T.L. Nikolajeva in 1961; the latter taxon is synonymous with H. rufescens. Form amarum, published from Slovenia by Zlata Stropnik, Bogdan Tratnik and Garbrijel Seljak in 1988, is illegitimate as per article 36.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, as it was not given a sufficiently comprehensive description. French botanist Jean-Baptiste Barla described H. repandum var. rufescens in 1859. English naturalist Carleton Rea described the white-fruit bodied version as a variety—H. repandum var. album—in 1922.
Molecular studies have shown that the current species concept for H. repandum needed revision as there was a poor overlap between morphological and molecular species concepts. A 2009 Phylogenetic analysis of European specimens, based on internal transcribed spacer and 5.8S DNA sequences, indicated that H. repandum specimens form two distinct clades, whose only consistent morphological distinction is cap size. These genetic differences foreshadowed the presence of undescribed cryptic species, and that the taxon may currently be undergoing intensive speciation. A comprehensive genetic study published in 2016 of members of the genus worldwide found that there are at least four species in the broad concept of H. repandum: two species from southern China, one from Europe and eastern North America, and H. repandum itself from Europe, western North America, and northern (and alpine southwestern) China and Japan. Although it is missing from Central America, genetic material has been recovered from Venezuela from the tree Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea, suggesting it somehow migrated there and had changed hosts.
The specific epithet repandum means "bent back", referring to the wavy cap margin. The varietal epithet album means "white as an egg". Hydnum repandum has been given several vernacular names: "sweet tooth", "yellow tooth fungus", "wood urchin", "spreading hedgehog", "hedgehog mushroom", or "pig's trotter". The variety album is known as "white wood".
Description
The orange-, yellow- or tan-colored pileus (cap) is up to wide, although specimens measuring have been documented. It is generally somewhat irregular in shape (it may be convex or concave at maturity), with a wavy margin that is rolled inward when young. Caps grow in a distorted shape when fruit bodies are closely clustered. The cap surface is generally dry and smooth, although mature specimens may show cracking. Viewed from above, the caps of mature specimens resemble somewhat those of chanterelles. The flesh is thick, white, firm, brittle, and bruises yellow to orange-brown. The underside is densely covered with small, slender whitish spines measuring long. These spines sometimes run down at least one side of the stipe. The stipe, typically long and thick, is either white or the same color as the cap, and is sometimes off-center. It is easy to overlook the mushrooms when they are situated amongst gilled mushrooms and boletes, because the cap and stipe are fairly nondescript and the mushrooms must be turned over to reveal their spines. The pure white variety of this species, H. repandum var. album, is smaller than the main variety, with a cap measuring wide and a stipe that is long.
The spore print is pale cream. Basidiospores are smooth, thin-walled and hyaline (translucent), roughly spherical to broadly egg-shaped, and measure 5.5–7.5 by 4.5–5.5 µm. They usually contain a single, large refractive oil droplet. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are club-shaped, four-spored, and measure 30–45 by 6–10 µm. The cap cuticle is a trichodermium (where the outermost hyphae emerge roughly parallel, like hairs, perpendicular to the cap surface) of narrow, club-shaped cells that are 2.5–4 µm wide. Underneath this tissue is the subhymenial layer of interwoven hyphae measuring 10–20 µm in diameter. The spine tissue is made of narrow (2–5 µm diameter), thin-walled hyphae with clamp connections.
Similar species
North American lookalikes include the white hedgehog (Hydnum albidum) and the giant hedgehog (Hydnum albomagnum). H. albidum has a white to pale yellowish grey fruit body that bruises yellow to orange. H. albomagnum is large and paler than H. repandum. Hydnum umbilicatum is smaller, with caps measuring in diameter, and thinner stipes that are wide. Its caps are umbilicate (with a navel-like cavity), sometimes with a hole in the center of the cap, unlike the flattened or slightly depressed caps of H. repandum. Microscopically, H. umbilicatum has spores that are larger and more elliptical than those of H. repandum, measuring 7.5–9 by 6–7.5 µm. A European lookalike, Hydnum rufescens, is also smaller than H. repandum, and has a deeper apricot to orange color. Hydnum ellipsosporum, described as a new species from Germany in 2004, differs from H. repandum by the shape and length of its spores, which are ellipsoid and measure 9–11 by 6–7.5 µm. Compared to H. repandum, it has smaller fruit bodies, with cap diameters ranging from wide.
Ecology, habitat and distribution
H. repandum is a mycorrhizal fungus. The fruit bodies grow singly, scattered, or in groups on the ground or in leaf litter in both coniferous and deciduous forests. They can also grow in fairy rings. Fruiting occurs from summer to autumn. The species is widely distributed in Europe, and is one of the most common of the tooth fungi. In Europe, it has been listed as a vulnerable species in the Red Data Lists of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany; Sweden lists it as being of Least Concern. H. repandum also grows in Ontario.
Edibility
H. repandum is considered to be a good edible mushroom, having a sweet, nutty taste and a crunchy texture. Some consider it to be the culinary equivalent of the chanterelle. Author Michael Kuo gives it an edibility rating of "great" and notes that there are no poisonous lookalikes, and that H. repandum mushrooms are unlikely to be infested with maggots.
Delicately brushing the cap and stipe of specimens immediately after harvest will help prevent soil from getting lodged between the teeth. H. repandum mushrooms can be cooked by pickling, simmering in milk or stock, and sautéeing, which creates a "tender, meaty texture and a mild flavor." The mushroom tissue absorbs liquids well and assumes the flavors of added ingredients. The firm texture of the cooked mushroom makes it suitable for freezing. Its natural flavor is reportedly similar to the peppery taste of watercress, or oysters. Older specimens may have a bitter taste, but boiling can remove the bitterness. Specimens found under conifers can taste "unpleasantly strong". The form amarum, locally common in Slovakia, is reportedly inedible because its fruit body has a bitter taste at all developmental stages.
Hydnum repandum is frequently sold with chanterelles in Italy, and in France, it is one of the officially recognized edible species sold in markets. In Europe, it is usually sold under its French name pied-de-mouton (sheep's foot). It is also collected and sold in local markets of Mexico, Spain and British Columbia, Canada. H. repandum mushrooms are also used as a food source by the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).
Nutrition
Dried H. repandum is 56% carbohydrates, 4% fat, and 20% protein (table). In a 100 gram reference amount, several dietary minerals are high in content, especially copper and manganese. Major fatty acids include palmitate (16%), stearic acid (1%), oleic acid (26%), linoleic acid (48%), and linolenic acid (20%). Mycosterol is present.
Constituents
Both H. repandum and the variety album contain the diepoxide compound repandiol (2R,3R,8R,9R)-4,6-decadiyne-2,3:8,9-diepoxy-1,10-diol), which is under laboratory research to determine its possible effects. The volatile organic compounds responsible for the fruity aroma of the mushroom include eight-carbon derivatives, such as 1-octen-3-ol, (E)-2-octenol, and (E)-1,3-octadiene.
European studies conducted after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster showed that the fruit bodies have a high rate of accumulation of the radioactive isotope caesium.
References
Cited literature
External links
Edible fungi
Fungi described in 1753
Fungi of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
repandum
Fungi of North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum%20repandum |
Westerkappeln is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km north-west of Osnabrück.
References
Steinfurt (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerkappeln |
András Sallay (born 15 December 1953) is a former ice dancer from Hungary. Competing with Krisztina Regőczy, he won a gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and a silver at that year's Winter Olympics. Sallay is the vice-president and managing director of IMG Hungary. He has two daughters, Nóra and Laura.
Results
(ice dance with Krisztina Regőczy)
Navigation
References
László Rózsaligeti. Magyar olimpiai lexikon [Hungarian Encyclopedia of the Olympics]. Budapest: Datus. 2000.
1953 births
Living people
Hungarian male ice dancers
Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for Hungary
Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Sallay |
was a professional Go player.
Biography
Sakai was promoted to 6 dan in 1970. He had 3 brothers, Sakai Michiharu, Sakai Yasuo and Sakai Yoshimitsu. He also had many students including Baba Shigeru, Ito Yoji, Hikosaka Naoto, Hiroe Katsuhiko, Okumura Hideo, Hamanaka Takamitsu, Akedo Kazumi, Ikezaki Tokinori, and Hotta Seiji.
Titles & runners-up
Was never a runner-up to any tournament
1920 births
1983 deaths
Japanese Go players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio%20Sakai%20%28Go%20player%29 |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1970.
The Building (Fifth Amendment) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/109
Extradition (Genocide) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/147
Fugitive Offenders (Genocide) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/148
Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/294
Abrasive Wheels Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/535
Diplomatic Privileges (Cititzens of the United Kingdom and Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/635
Superannuation (Judicial Offices) Rules 1970 S.I. 1970/1021
The Building (Sixth Amendment) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1971/1335
Anchors and Chain Cables Rules 1970 S.I. 1970/1453
Foreign Marriage Order 1970 S.I. 1970/1539
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/1680
Secretary of State for the Environment Order 1970 S.I. 1970/1681
Weights and Measures (Local Standards: Limits of Error) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/1710
Working Standards and Testing Equipment Testing and Adjustment) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/1714
Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (Transitional Modifications of Part I) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/1882
Eurocontrol (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1970 S.I. 1970/1940
Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1970 S.I. 1970/1980
UK Statutory Instrument 1970 No. 94
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201970 |
The Vidocq Society is a members-only crime-solving club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named for Eugène François Vidocq, the ground-breaking 19th century French and first private detective, who helped police by using the psychology of the criminal to solve cold case homicides. A former criminal himself, he created the private detective agency. He is also considered to be one of the fathers of modern criminology, for the numerous inventions (for example indelible ink and unalterable bond paper) and major advances, such as the introduction of undercover work, ballistics, a record keeping system to criminal investigation, and the first ever plaster cast impressions of shoe prints At meetings, law enforcement officials from around the world present cold cases for review.
Members are forensic professionals; current and former FBI profilers, homicide investigators, scientists, psychologists, prosecutors and coroners who use their experience to provide new insights for investigations that have gone cold. Membership is capped at 82, one for each year of Vidocq's life.
The Society was formed in 1990 by William Fleisher, Richard Walter, and Frank Bender. It solved its first case in 1991, clearing an innocent man of involvement in the murder of Huey Cox in Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to the investigation of the 1957 murder of Joseph Augustus Zarelli ("Boy in the Box"), the Society was involved in solving the murder of Terri Brooks. Some law enforcement agencies doubt the efficacy of their work.
Vidocq will only consider cases that meet certain requirements: they must be unsolved deaths more than two years old and the case must be formally presented to them by the appropriate law enforcement agency.
References
External links
The society web site
1990 establishments in Pennsylvania
Criminology organizations
Organizations based in Philadelphia
Organizations established in 1990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidocq%20Society |
Beykoz Spor Kulübü Derneği, today known for sponsorship reasons as TTNet Beykoz, is a Turkish sports club based in Beykoz, Istanbul. Their home arena is Beykoz Sport Hall.
Beykoz was founded in 1908. Team colours are black and yellow. The Beykoz football team played in the Turkish First League for eight seasons. The team played in the Third League as Beykozspor 1908 AŞ, which is the fourth level of Turkish football, and were promoted to the Second League in the 2007–08 season as champions. The first American basketball player in Turkey, Clev Cristy, was player of Beykoz in the 1961–62 season.
The team is sponsored by Türk Telekom Internet Service.
The basketball section of the club have won the Turkish Basketball Championship in 1946.
League participations for basketball
First Level: 1988–1990 (as Sümerbank Beykozspor), 2005–2008
Second Level: ?, 2008–2011
Regional (Third) Level: 2011–
Honours for basketball
Turkish Basketball Championship
Winners (1): 1946
League participations for football
Turkish Super League: 1958–66
TFF First League: 1966–71, 1972–79, 1980–84, 1986–91
TFF Second League: 1971–72, 1979–80, 1984–86, 1991–01, 2007–2009
TFF Third League: 2001–07, 2009–11
Turkish Regional Amateur League: 2011–13
Istanbul Super Amateur League: 2013–
Note: Beykozspor finished the Istanbul Super Amateur League 3rd Group in 11th place and relegated to Istanbul First Amateur League. But, they took place of İstanbul PTT and became Beykozspor 1908. They finished SAL 7th Group as 4th in 2014–15 season
References
External links
Beykoz 1908
Supporters' web site
TBLStat.net Team Profile
Sport in Beykoz
Basketball teams in Turkey
Football clubs in Turkey
Basketball teams established in 1928
1908 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Süper Lig clubs
tr:Beykoz Basketbol Takımı
diq:Beykozspor 1908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beykoz%20S.K.D. |
Arastradero Preserve, officially known as Enid W. Pearson–Arastradero Preserve, is a nature preserve that protects most of the Arastradero Creek watershed, including its ephemeral Mayfly Creek tributary. It also includes the upper reach of the Felt Creek tributary to Stanford's Felt Reservoir. The preserve is owned and operated by the City of Palo Alto, California. The main parking lot hosts an interpretive center and is located at 1530 Arastradero Road (37°23'13" N, 122°10'29" W).
Description
Arastradero Preserve consists of rolling savanna grassland hills and evergreen forests; the preserve varies in elevation from in the northeast to in the southwest. There are four gates (labeled A, B, C, and D) into the preserve, though public parking is available only at Gate A on the North side. Gate D connects to Foothills Park as part of the Bay-to-Ridge Trail. The park is also accessible from a pedestrian footpath that leads to the residential area on the street Paseo del Roble.
The east portion of the preserve protects Arastradero Creek, which flows into Matadero Creek at the junction of Arastradero Road and Page Mill Road. Near the East side about a quarter mile south of the entrance is Arastradero Lake, and further south up into the preserve is Sobey Pond. The lake is also about 0.2 miles from the Paseo del Roble entrance. The southwest portion of the preserve protects seasonal Felt Creek, which runs beneath Arastradero Road and is diverted to Felt Lake. In wet years, Felt Lake releases flows which reach Los Trancos Creek, a San Francisquito Creek tributary.
Ecology
The preserve contains an abundance of wildlife, including deer, bobcats, coyotes, snakes, and many species of birds. The preserve and the surrounding area are habitats for the California puma (Puma concolor is also locally known as mountain lion). There are regular sightings of puma and coyotes in the areas, and people hiking with dogs or small children should be cautious.
From 2016 through 2020, a pair of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) has nested in a large eucalyptus tree near Felt Lake and the preserve.
Trails
The Pearson–Arastradero Preserve has of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding. While many of the trails are open year-round, some trails are designated as "seasonal" and are closed at the trailhead temporarily after heavy rain. The trails at Arastradero Preserve include Acorn, Arastradeo Creek, Bay Laurel, Bowl Loop, Juan Bautista de Anza, Meadowlark, Ohlone, Paseo del Roble, Portola Pastures, Redtail Loop, Wild Rye, Woodland Star, and Woodrat.
Restoration and stewardship activities
Grassroots Ecology, a local environmental nonprofit, has run a collaborative stewardship program on the preserve in cooperation with the City of Palo Alto since 1997. Volunteers and Grassroots Ecology staff work to improve the Preserve by eliminating invasive weeds such as non-native thistles, planting native species such as blue wild rye and engaging local youth and community members.
Surroundings and history
Portions of Arastradero Preserve border Foothills Park (on the South side), the Palo Alto Golf Course (on the East side), open land owned by Stanford University (to the North), and one of the campuses of Palo Alto University (to the West). From the hills on the North Side, one can see Felt Lake which is otherwise difficult to see from public lands except Vista Hill in Foothills Park. Because most of the golf course in on a flat mesa at a higher elevation than the preserve, the golf course is largely invisible from the preserve.
There remains a small piece of private property adjacent to Arastradero Road surrounded on all sides by the preserve which currently has no structures. There had been a private home deep within the preserve until the late 1990s which has now been torn down.
In 2006 a small visitor's center was erected near the parking lot entrance which contains a miniature scale model of the park and exhibits explaining the ecology, flora, and fauna of the region.
References
External links
Arastradero page on Acterra site
A map of the preserve
Nature reserves in California
Palo Alto, California
Protected areas of Santa Clara County, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arastradero%20Preserve |
The 2006 Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge, England, was the UK's largest cash heist. It began with a kidnapping on the evening of 21 February 2006 and ended in the early hours of 22 February, when seven criminals stole almost £53million. The gang left behind another £154million because they did not have the means to transport it.
After doing surveillance and placing an insider at the Securitas depot, the gang abducted the manager and his family. The same night, they tricked their way inside the building, and tied up 14 workers at gunpoint. The criminals stole £52,996,760 in used and unused sterling banknotes, the property of the Bank of England. Most of the getaway vehicles were found in the following week, one containing £1.3million in stolen notes. In raids by Kent Police, £9million was recovered in Welling and £8million in Southborough. By 2007, 36 people had been arrested in relation to the crime.
At trial at the Old Bailey in London in 2007, five people were convicted, and received long sentences, including the inside man, Emir Hysenaj. A woman who had made prosthetic disguises for the gang gave evidence in return for the charges against her being dropped. Lee Murray, the alleged mastermind, had fled to Morocco with his friend and accomplice Paul Allen. He successfully fought extradition to the UK and was imprisoned there for the robbery. Allen was extradited and after a second trial in 2008 was jailed in the UK; upon his release he was shot and injured in 2019. By 2016, £32million remained unrecovered, and several suspects were still at large.
Depot
The Bank of England prints pound sterling (£) banknotes in Debden, Epping Forest. In 2006 it was outsourcing the distribution of currency to five companies, Group 4 Securicor, Halifax Bank of Scotland, Post Office Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland and Securitas. There were 28 centres across England and Wales holding new currency and which stored used currency as it was returned, either to be redistributed or destroyed. Until 2001, Barclays had stored its own supplies of cash; it had built the depot at Medway House, Vale Road, Tonbridge, in Kent, in 1980, choosing the location because it was close to three police stations that were always open (at Royal Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge itself). Medway House was just away from the Tonbridge station and was also near the Angel shopping centre. The first building on Vale Road was a Kwik Fit garage and the second was the depot.
Barclays outsourced the distribution of money to Securitas Cash Management (a subsidiary of Securitas) in 2001, and by 2006 Securitas was running the Tonbridge depot. It operated non-stop with 80 full-time staff split across three shifts; most of the work was sorting and counting banknotes which arrived by armoured transport and were sent out again to restock cash machines. The cash was bundled into bricks, which were wrapped in differently coloured plastic according to denomination: £5 bricks were green (£2,500); £10 bricks were blue (£5,000); £20 bricks were red (£5,000); £50 bricks were yellow (£12,500).
The manager of the depot was Colin Dixon. He lived in Herne Bay with his wife and their young child. Owing to the nature of his job, he had been trained not to tell his colleagues where he lived and to drive to work every day using a different route. The family owned two cars, and he would alternate which car he used. He had been told that if he was ever stopped by the police when driving that he should stay in his car and give the officers a piece of paper describing his job, then follow them to the nearest station, where he would co-operate with their enquiries.
Conspiracy
A criminal gang began to study the depot with the intention of robbing it. Men later convicted of conspiracy included Paul Allen, Jetmir Buçpapa, Roger Coutts, Emir Hysenaj, Lee Murray, Stuart Royle and Lea Rusha. Albanians Buçpapa and Hysenaj were childhood friends who met at school in Bajram Curri. They did not mention this in court, claiming not to know each other at all. Lea Rusha, a roofer and cage fighter, met Buçpapa (a bouncer) at a mixed martial arts (MMA) training session run by Rusha at the Angel Centre, near the depot. Rusha also knew Lee Murray through MMA; Murray was stopped by Kent Police on 28 July 2005 while in his car on a road overlooking the depot, together with two unidentified men. As well as being a cage fighter, Murray was also a drug dealer.
Hysenaj signed up with a recruitment agency which supplied workers to Medway House. He was first given a job at Royal Victoria Place shopping centre in Royal Tunbridge Wells, and then at the end of 2005 offered work at the depot. At his training he asked questions about security measures and passed the information to Buçpapa, who told Rusha. On 6 January 2006, mobile phone records displayed at trial indicated that Allen, Coutts, Murray, Royle and Rusha were present at a meeting at Royle's house. Murray visited a surveillance shop in Derbyshire to buy a spy camera and recording device, with the intention of giving it to Hysenaj. Despite warning by the shop owner to be careful not to get glue on the lens of the camera when placing it in position, someone from the gang did precisely that, so Murray sent his friends Allen and Keyinde "Kane" Patterson back to the shop to get it replaced. The shop owner fixed the camera and attached it to a belt, which Hysenaj used to film inside the depot. On their way back, the men were stopped by Nottinghamshire Police for driving at . Allen had broken the speed limit while driving on an expired provisional licence, and was in a car he did not own which had no MOT and no insurance, so it was impounded by the police.
Several days before the robbery, Murray went clubbing in London and crashed his yellow Ferrari sports car on the New Kent Road the next morning. Murray fled the scene and was arrested by four police officers nearby. He was charged with assault in a case that never came to trial. When he had abandoned his car he left behind two burner phones containing numbers of other gang members and three photographs from the club, which showed him associating with Allen and Patterson. The police later recovered these items from the impounded car. Murray had accidentally recorded himself on one of the phones, talking to Rusha about how to carry out the robbery.
Robbery
In the early evening of Tuesday, 21 February 2006, Dixon was driving home along the A249 when he was pulled over just outside Stockbury, a village northeast of Maidstone, by what he presumed was an unmarked police car. The Volvo S60 had flashing blue lights in its grille and one of the two uniformed officers came to Dixon's window, asking him to turn off his engine and leave the keys in the ignition. Breaching protocol, Dixon followed the officer's order to step out of his car and to sit in the other car, where he was handcuffed. His car was moved off the road and the Volvo travelled west on the M20 motorway to the West Malling bypass. The criminals play-acted driving him to a police station before revealing their deception and threatening him with a gun at Mereworth. He was tied up and transferred into a white van which drove to Elderden Farm near Staplehurst.
The two men impersonating police officers next drove to Dixon's home in Herne Bay and spoke to Lynn Dixon, telling her that her husband had crashed his car and that she and her son should accompany them to the hospital as quickly as possible. When she got into the car Lynn Dixon realised it was not a real police car and the men told her she was being abducted; they took her to the farm as well. Colin Dixon was then interrogated about the layout of the depot and warned at gunpoint that the lives of his family members depended upon his actions.
Around 01:00 on Wednesday, 22 February 2006, three vehicles headed to the depot. Lynn Dixon and her son were held in the back of a 7.5 tonne white Renault Midlum lorry; Colin Dixon and the other gang members travelled in a Vauxhall Vectra and the Volvo. The vehicles split up, and the Volvo arrived at the depot at 01:21. Dixon and a gang member dressed as a police officer got out of the car and walked towards the pedestrian entrance. Dixon rang the bell and looked through the window at the control room operator. Instead of querying why Dixon was returning at night or why he was with an officer, the inexperienced operator opened the door and let the two men through the airlock into the building. The entire robbery was filmed on the building's CCTV and when Kent Police later reviewed the footage, they nicknamed this gang member "Policeman". "Policeman" subdued the operator and, without being asked, Dixon pressed the button which opened the gate and allowed the vehicles to enter the yard.
The rest of the gang now entered the building. One man was later nicknamed "Stopwatch", because he was wearing a stopwatch to time the robbery in an echo of the film Ocean's Eleven. Others were called "Shorty", "Hoodie" and "Mr Average". The criminals' faces were hidden by balaclavas and they were armed with handguns, shotguns, AK-47 assault rifles and a Škorpion submachine gun. Dixon urged staff to comply with the gang's commands, and 14 workers were tied up. Nobody pressed an alarm. The seven members of the gang attempted to load metal cages full of banknotes into the lorry and found they were too heavy, so one criminal tried to drive the Lansing Linde power lifter and the rest shoved the hostages out of the way. It was difficult to manoeuvre the lifter and a Securitas worker was ordered to drive it; when he kept deliberately crashing it, Dixon was told to use a pallet mover. The worker then wedged the power lifter between the tail lift of the truck and the loading bay, rendering it useless. When Dixon pumped the pallet mover up, "Hoodie" became suspicious and pointed a gun at his head; frustrated by the slow progress, the other gang members grabbed bundles of money in their hands and filled up shopping trolleys. The criminals stole £52,996,760 in used and unused banknotes; another £154million would not fit in the lorry and they had to leave it behind. In total they took seventeen cages and three trolleys full of banknotes.
The staff workers were left locked up inside empty cages, as were Lynn Dixon and her son. No alarm had been set off and the gang ordered the staff to stay still when they left at 02:44. At 03:15, when they were sure the robbers had gone, the staff triggered an alarm which called the police. The police arrived and began the investigation by interviewing the staff and taking their clothes and their DNA profiles.
Investigation and arrests
The following day (Thursday, 23 February 2006) Securitas and their insurers offered a reward of £2million for any information about the heist, which Crimestoppers stated was the largest reward ever offered in the UK. Securitas gave the Bank of England £25million as an initial reimbursement. Kent Police said the heist had been meticulously planned by organised crime and that at least £20million had been stolen, possibly as much as £50million. By the evening of 23 February, two arrests had been made in South London: a man aged 29 and a woman aged 31 were detained at separate houses on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery. A third person, a 41-year-old woman, was arrested at a branch of the Portman Building Society in Bromley on suspicion of handling stolen goods. This woman was innocent and she told The Guardian she was planning to sue the police on account of "the most distressing experience of my life". As news of the robbery reached the newspapers, Hysenaj was told he had the day off work and went to see the Levellers at the Assembly Hall Theatre in Royal Tunbridge Wells with his girlfriend.
The same day, police discovered some of the vehicles implicated in the robbery: a former Parcelforce van had been left at the Hook and Hatchet pub in Hucking, near Maidstone; a Volvo and a Vauxhall Vectra had been abandoned near Leeds Castle; Dixon's Nissan Almera was located at the Cock Horse pub in Detling. The next day, Friday 24 February, discarded metal cages and other paraphernalia from the crime scene were found at Friningham Farm near Detling, on land rented by a friend of the owner of Elderden Farm.
A white Ford Transit van owned by a friend of Buçpapa and Rusha was reported to be in the car park of the Ashford International Hotel. When the police checked the van, they found a balaclava, a bulletproof vest and the Škorpion submachine gun. Two bags were opened which contained over £1.3million in stolen banknotes. On Saturday, 25 February 2006, armed police officers raided the homes of Buçpapa and Rusha, encountering Buçpapa's wife at their house on Hadlow Road in Tonbridge. At Rusha's house in Lambersart Close in Southborough, police found surveillance footage of Dixon's home, weapons and plans of the depot. In the shed they discovered balaclavas, Royal Mail clothing and a radio scanner tuned to a frequency used by the emergency services. On Sunday afternoon, Kent Police arrested Stuart Royle and another man in Tankerton, between Whitstable and Herne Bay, after shooting out a tyre of the BMW car he was driving. On Monday, police arrested Buçpapa and Rusha in Deptford, London, after shooting out the tyres of their car. The following day, the white 7.5 tonne lorry which had transported the loot was located at a hire centre and Elderden Farm was searched. At the farm £30,000 in stolen notes was found in the boot of a car and £105,600 hidden under a dead tree in the orchard.
Four days after the heist, Murray and Allen fled the UK. After visiting Amsterdam, they travelled to Morocco, where they spent money extravagantly on houses, jewellery and narcotics. Back in the UK, police officers raided a unit on the Graves Industrial Estate in Welling on 2 March. They broke open a shipping container, finding an estimated £7million in cash, which was later announced to be £9,655,040. They also found £50,000 in a bin bag elsewhere. The discoveries were connected to Roger Coutts, a van dealer who rented the yard and kept his boat there. The same day as the find, three people appeared at Maidstone Magistrates' Court: the owner of the farm was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, handling stolen goods, and three charges of kidnapping; Royle was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery; a third person was charged with handling stolen goods. All three were remanded in custody. Royle had hired the Renault lorry used in the heist in his own name.
Buçpapa and Rusha appeared in court on 3 March, each facing the same charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. They were remanded in custody until a preliminary hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on 13 March. By 3 March, the number of people arrested had grown to fourteen. Two days later, the police discovered a hoard of £8,601,990 in a lock-up garage in Southborough near to Rusha's home. The money was stuffed into eighteen laundry bags and suitcases. The garage was rented by a man who sublet it to Rusha's cousin, who was supposed to pay £10 rent every week but was two weeks behind.
In June a businessman named Ian Bowrem was arrested as he drove around the M25 motorway. In his Mercedes-Benz, the police found almost £1million, of which £380,000 was made up of £50 notes from the robbery. Bowrem refused to say who had given him the money and was eventually sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. Police believed he was carrying out Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) fraud to launder the stolen money. Also in June, Allen and Murray were two out of four men arrested in Morocco's capital Rabat after a three-month investigation. They were charged with possession of drugs, false imprisonment and assaulting the police. In England another man had been arrested as part of the police investigation and was released without having been charged; he then fled to Northern Cyprus in December 2006. By the year's end, Kent Police had recovered £21million and had asked the Home Office for at least £6million to cover both investigating the case and future spending on trial preparations. By 2007, 36 people had been arrested.
Trials
The trial of eight people, including Jetmir Buçpapa, Roger Coutts, Emir Hysenaj, Stuart Royle and Lea Rusha, began on 26 June 2007 at the Old Bailey in London. These five men were all charged with conspiracy to rob, conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to possess firearms. The prosecution was led by Sir John Nutting and the High Court judge was Mr Justice David Penry-Davey.
The role of manager Colin Dixon was examined, the defence barristers highlighting "co-incidences" in his conduct which might be interpreted as suggesting he was the inside man. It was noted that he had breached regulations in several ways: he possessed two keys for the vault, when he was supposed to only have one; he had taken photographs of the depot and its workers, which were found on his computer at home; he had told CCTV engineers to postpone a visit; he had waited thirty minutes before raising the alarm after the robbers had departed, despite knowing that if they had left there was no way for them to get back inside. It then emerged that the inside man had actually been Emir Hysenaj. Buçpapa had called Hysenaj at 02:38 as the gang left the depot; Hysenaj had not picked up but the police could show the mobile phone records to prove the call had been made.
During the trial, a woman who had made prosthetic disguises for the gang decided to turn Queen's evidence in return for her charges being dropped. On 28 January 2008, the jury returned guilty verdicts for Buçpapa, Coutts, Hysenaj, Royle and Rusha. Buçpapa, Coutts, Royle and Rusha were given life sentences with an order to serve a minimum of fifteen years. The next day, Emir Hysenaj was sentenced to twenty years in prison with an order that he serve a minimum of ten. The judge also recommended that both the Albanian men be deported after they had served their sentences. The owner of the farm and another man were each acquitted. The second man had been paid £6,000 in stolen notes to make signs on the side of one of the vans used in the heist, but had not been involved in planning the crime.
At the beginning of the second trial in October 2008, presided over again by Penry-Davey, prosecutors dropped charges against the girlfriends of Buçpapa, Royle and Rusha. Paul Allen (who had been extradited from Morocco) and another man were charged with conspiracy to rob, conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to possess firearms. Allen was held on remand in the high-security HM Prison Belmarsh and driven to court escorted by a police helicopter which cost £30,000 a day. A court order made during the first trial to preserve Lee Murray's anonymity was lifted and he was named as the leader of the gang. In January 2009 the jury were unable to reach agreement on whether Allen was guilty or not and found the other man not guilty. A retrial was ordered for Allen in September and he was held on remand until then. At the ensuing trial, Allen pleaded guilty to the three charges of conspiracy which he had previously denied, admitting his involvement but denying both that he had handled firearms and that he had been one of the seven men who went inside the depot. He received a sentence of eighteen years' imprisonment and served six. The 1,063 days spent on remand were taken off the sentence.
In June 2009 Murray was confirmed to have Moroccan nationality and therefore he won his fight against extradition from Morocco to the UK. He remained in prison in Salé and one year later stood trial for the robbery. He was convicted and jailed for ten years; when he appealed the length of this sentence, it was raised to 25 years. Kent Police Detective Superintendent Mick Judge said "I'm pleased Murray will now begin serving a significant prison sentence for his part in the Tonbridge robbery." Murray was claimed by other gang members to have been the leader. The police believed he had worn a disguise when taking Dixon hostage, and that he was the person dubbed "Stopwatch" caught on CCTV directing the robbers to move as quickly as possible at the depot. The other man who had abducted Dixon was believed to be Rusha wearing a fake ginger beard.
Later events
Securitas stopped the handling of cash and sold the Tonbridge depot to Vaultex, a company run by Barclays and HSBC. Howard Sounes published a book about the crime in 2009, entitled Heist: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery. A decade after the robbery, in 2016, £32million had still not been recovered. In the opinion of a former detective superintendent, the cash would have quickly been absorbed into organised crime networks. Farmers who lived near the robbed depot reported harassment from criminals convinced that some of the money was buried on their land. Several people escaped capture and were suspected by police to be living off the proceeds of the crime in the West Indies and Northern Cyprus.
In February 2013 Malcolm Constable, who was believed by his brother Derek to be associated with the robbery, was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in Canterbury. Kent Police stated they had no record of any incidents involving Constable. Paul Allen was severely injured on 11 July 2019 when he was shot at his home in north London; he was taken to hospital in a critical condition. He survived and by February 2021, eight men had been arrested in connection with the attack.
In 2016 an appeal by Jetmir Buçpapa to serve the rest of his sentence in Albania was rejected by the Secretary of State for Justice. The following year on judicial review the decision was found to be irrational. Buçpapa was released from HM Prison Belmarsh in 2020 and deported to Albania. On New Year's Day 2022, he married for a second time, in his home town of Tropoja.
Similar incidents
Other Securitas depots had been previously targeted in the mid-1990s, when ram-raiders in Liverpool and Manchester had stolen more than £2million. The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast was previously the biggest cash theft in UK history, when £26.5million was stolen in 2004. This record was broken by the Tonbridge heist. The largest cash heist in global history took place in March 2003, when approximately US$1billion was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq, shortly after the United States began the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
See also
List of bank robbers and robberies
List of heists in the United Kingdom
References
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2006 in England
2000s in Kent
2000s trials
2010s trials
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Kidnapping in the 2000s
Kidnappings in England
Organised crime events in the United Kingdom
Organised crime in England
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In geometry, a supporting hyperplane of a set in Euclidean space is a hyperplane that has both of the following two properties:
is entirely contained in one of the two closed half-spaces bounded by the hyperplane,
has at least one boundary-point on the hyperplane.
Here, a closed half-space is the half-space that includes the points within the hyperplane.
Supporting hyperplane theorem
This theorem states that if is a convex set in the topological vector space and is a point on the boundary of then there exists a supporting hyperplane containing If ( is the dual space of , is a nonzero linear functional) such that for all , then
defines a supporting hyperplane.
Conversely, if is a closed set with nonempty interior such that every point on the boundary has a supporting hyperplane, then is a convex set, and is the intersection of all its supporting closed half-spaces.
The hyperplane in the theorem may not be unique, as noticed in the second picture on the right. If the closed set is not convex, the statement of the theorem is not true at all points on the boundary of as illustrated in the third picture on the right.
The supporting hyperplanes of convex sets are also called tac-planes or tac-hyperplanes.
The forward direction can be proved as a special case of the separating hyperplane theorem (see the page for the proof). For the converse direction,
See also
Support function
Supporting line (supporting hyperplanes in )
Notes
References & further reading
Convex geometry
Functional analysis
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Lebrija () is a city and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Andalusia, most specifically in the Province of Sevilla. It straddles the left bank of the Guadalquivir river, and the eastern edge of the marshes known as Las Marismas.
According to a 2008 population census, it has 26,046 inhabitants, and has an area surface of 372 km2, making it one of the biggest municipalities in the province. The nearest municipalities are El Cuervo and Las Cabezas de San Juan, in Seville and Trebujena and the city of Jerez de la Frontera in the province of Cádiz.
The main productive activity is agriculture, with beet, cotton, wheat and various fruits its main products. Winemaking activities are also prominent with Manzanilla and other finos too. Lebrija is also known for its pottery and earthenware heritage, including búcaros. The farmers of this area were the first to cultivate corn brought over from the Americas.
History
There has been human presence in the area since the Bronze Age, although the founding of Lebrija, possibly did not take place till the Phoenicians arrival, who baptised the settlement as Lepriptza, then to be renamed Nebrissa, during Tartessian times.
Originally, it was a port on the shores of the Lacus Ligustinus, a large inner lake surrounded by the Guadalquivir River and its tributaries and coastal sand bars to the South. The lake later filled with sediment, and gradually gave way to the current Guadalviquir marshy lowlands or, in Spanish, las Marismas.
Lebrija is also the Nabrissa or Nebrissa, surnamed Veneria, of the Romans; by Silius Italicus. According to local historian José Bellido, the word "veneria", (Latin: "that which venerates (worships)") makes reference to the mythical foundation of Lebrija by the god Dionysus (Bacchus): "Where special veneration is given to Bacchus, there where the swift satyres and the menades, at night celebrate the mysteries of that god, with their heads covered up with a deer skin".
Nebrishah was a strong and populous place during the period of Moorish domination (from 711); it was taken by King St Ferdinand in 1249, but again lost, and became finally subject to the Castilian crown only under Alfonso the Wise in 1264.
Lebrija was the birthplace of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522), also known as Antonius Nebrissensis, one of the most important Renaissance leaders in Spain, author of the first published grammar study of any modern European language, the tutor of Queen Isabella, and a collaborator with Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros in the preparation of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.
Lebrija was granted city status by letters patent in 1924.
History of the Jornalero movement
In 1903, the first general strike was recorded and documented by Spanish writer Azorín.
During the Spanish Second Republic, Lebrija was always a Frente Popular stronghold, as it has been an Anarchist one in the previous century. A process of Agrarian reform was started with some collectivisation of farms and expropriation of land from absentee landlords. This was put to an end with the army rebellion, which led to the Spanish Civil War and ultimately to the Francoist victory.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Lebrija, together with Jerez and Morón de la Frontera, became a focus of Jornalero protests (peasants without land) due to their poor living condition and expectations. As a result, a regime of "community work", guaranteeing a minimum salary during a few months every year, was established.
Shortly after Francisco Franco's death, on 6 January 1976, around one hundred jornaleros locked themselves up in the parish church to express their political demands, only to be removed by the Civil Guard, but not before they have voiced their consigns using the church tower loudspeakers several times:
"We want the miscultivated fields and lands to be given to jornaleros and small owners. We want subsidies for the unemployed all year round. We want collective agreements for the whole sector and a right to retirement at 60. We want trade union liberty and freedom for all political prisoners and exiles..."
Main sights
The area has remnants of its Muslim past among its old buildings. Its chief buildings are a ruined Moorish castle and the parish church, Santa María de la Oliva, one of the finest churches in the province of Seville that combines a variety of styles: Mudéjar, Renaissance and Baroque, dating from the 14th century to the 16th, and containing some early specimens of the carving of Alonso Cano (1601–1667).
The campanile tower was inspired by the Giralda, of the Cathedral of Seville, and it is commonly known as "La Giraldilla" (little Giralda).
The Casa de la Cultura (Cultural Center) was built in the 18th century in Andalusian Baroque style. Originally, it was used as a wheat silo for the Archbishop of Seville and housing for the local Catholic chapter. The Diezmos and tributes paid by the town people to the church were kept here. In 1982, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in charge of Lebrija City Council at the time bought the property and its restoration began. It was reopened in 1986 as the "Casa de la Cultura", a place dedicated to learning, exhibits, and all sorts of cultural expressions, including dance and music.
The Covent and Church of San Francisco (1585) has always been associated to the Franciscan Order. It is located in the Plaza Manuela Murube (also known popularly as El Pilar), one of the most beautiful and artistic corners of Lebrija. In the same square are located the Old Hospital of Mercy (Hospital de la Misericordia) and Saint Andrew's Asylum (Asilo de San Andrés).
Culture
The Cruces de Mayo (Holy Crosses of May) is the most well-known and popular festivity in Lebrija. It is held during the first two weekends of May every year. It is a community activity where each neighborhood raises a cross, either using a permanent buttercross site or building them from scratch using flowers, forged iron or wood. These places around the town are then used for dancing and singing, particularly a local form of Sevillanas, known as Sevillanas corraleras.
The local annual fair is dedicated to the patron saint of Lebrija, Our Lady of the Castle, and held around her nameday, on 12 September.
The festivity of the Júas (Andalusian dialect pronunciation of the name Judas) takes place on Saint John's Eve. Local people get together and make lifesize rag dolls, representing celebrities and local politicians. These rag dolls are left outside of houses so they can be admired by others. At midnight they are set alight, together with a fireworks display, thus ending the festivity.
As in Seville and other Andalusian cities, towns, and villages, several hermandades, or religious brotherhoods, march in procession, carrying pasos, lifelike wood or plaster sculptures of individual scenes of the Passion of Jesus Christ or images of the Virgin Mary. Two of the most important hermandades are Los Dolores or El Castillo.
Lebrija is a flamenco centre and the Caracolá, one of the major flamenco festivals in Spain is held there every year in July.
People
Antonio de Nebrija, Andalusian grammarian who wrote the first grammar of the Spanish language, was born in this town.
Juan Díaz de Solís, navigator and explorer who reached and named the Rio de la Plata Estuary.
Juan Bernabé (1947–1972), dramatist and theatre director
Juan Peña "El Lebrijano", flamenco singer.
Juan Ramón López Caro, former manager of Real Madrid Football Club, of the Spanish La Liga
David Peña Dorantes, flamenco composer and pianist
Benito Zambrano, contemporary filmmaker
References
External links
Official website
Lebrija in Pueblos de España website
Painting and Sculpture in Lebrija, by Juan Cordero Ruiz, Emeritus Professor of University of Seville
Municipalities of the Province of Seville
Phoenician colonies in Spain
Roman sites in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebrija |
Jānis Liepiņš (August 9, 1894 – September 2, 1964) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He studied at Jūlijs Maderniek's studio in Riga between 1909 and 1910, at the Kazan Art School 1911–1913, and at Marcus Bernstein's studio in St Petersburg 1913–1917. He was a member of the Riga Artists' Group and professor of painting at the Art Academy of Latvia 1940–1950. During the 1920s Liepiņš was active in the left-wing press.
Liepiņš is credited with having introduced the theme of fishermen into Latvian genre painting. He also created still lifes of various subjects (tavern scenes, gamblers, peasant life), drawing particular attention to the social aspects.
References
1894 births
1964 deaths
Artists from Riga
People from Kreis Riga
Soviet painters
20th-century Latvian painters
Latvian male painters
People's Artists of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (visual arts)
Burials at Forest Cemetery, Riga | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis%20Liepi%C5%86%C5%A1%20%28painter%29 |
The Cody Scarp or Cody Escarpment is located in north and north central Florida United States. It is a relict scarp and ancient persistent topographical feature formed from an ancient early Pleistocene shorelines of ~1.8 million to 10,000 years BP during interglacial periods. The Cody Scarp has a slope of 5% to 12%.
The Cody Scarp runs from just east of the Apalachicola River to Alachua County. It is the boundary over that range between the Gulf Coastal Lowlands and the Northern Highlands of Florida. The Gulf Coast Lowlands have only a thin layer of soil over limestone, while the Northern Highlands consist of plateaus of sand, clay and carbonate rock. The scarp rises about from the Gulf Coastal Lowlands to the Northern Highlands. The Cody Scarp and the Gulf Coastal Lowlands are karst landscapes, with many sinkholes, springs, underground streams, and related features.
The scarp, at above sea level, is most prominent in Leon County, Florida where it runs east to west. It is a remnant of two Pleistocene interglacial shorelines. The first shoreline is known as the Okefenokee Terrace. The second is known as the Wicomico Terrace.
In Jefferson County to the east, the scarp coincides with the Wicomico Terrace with an elevation at 40–45 feet above mean sea level.
The scarp separates the Hawthorn Group of fine to medium grained sandy clays and silty, clayey sands of the Red Hills Region of north Florida and southwest Georgia to the north from the fine to medium fine grained, partially recrystallized, silty to sandy limestones of the Gulf Coastal Lowlands to the south. A dramatic difference in elevation is seen here as the Red Hills, at a maximum of mean sea level (MSL), drops to the area known as the Woodville Karst Plain, an elevation of within .
On the Woodville Karst Plain, the Suwannee Limestone of the Floridan Aquifer is shallow and exposed in many places. This is the primary recharge area for Wakulla Springs and where the aquifer is most vulnerable to pollution on the land surface. It is also a zone of high sinkhole activity.
In Alachua County, Florida this westward-facing escarpment between an upland plateau to the east and a karst plain to the west has elevations up to mean sea level (MSL). The Cody Scarp runs right through Gainesville, Florida.
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External links
Red Hills & Gulf Coastal Lowlands Bioregions
Landforms of Florida
Escarpments of the United States
Regions of Florida
Geography of Florida
Geography of Jefferson County, Florida
Geography of Leon County, Florida
Geography of Alachua County, Florida
North Florida
Landforms of Jefferson County, Florida
Landforms of Leon County, Florida
Landforms of Alachua County, Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody%20Scarp |
Microsoft Schedule+ is a discontinued time management app developed by Microsoft. It was included by Microsoft in the Microsoft Office productivity suite since the Office 95 version. Since the Office 97 version, most of its functionality was incorporated into the Outlook 97 program.
History
Schedule+ was originally developed by Microsoft as a companion to the Microsoft Mail email client, but was later shipped with Exchange Server 5.0, Microsoft Office 95, Exchange Client and Windows Messaging. The "Outlook Calendar" feature that was part of Outlook for Windows 3.1 and Macintosh versions before 9.0 was actually a new version of Schedule+. Since the loss of many features in Office 97, it was included on Office up to Microsoft Office 2003, although it was just to support conversion from Schedule+ 1.x.
The first version of Schedule+ was released in 1992 for Windows 3.0 and classic Mac OS. Versions 2 through 6 were skipped, and the next version became version 7, released in 1995 for Windows 95 and classic Mac OS. Version 7.5 was included with Office 97 up to Office 2003.
Bugs
Year 2020+ Problem
Attempting to run Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 with the system clock year greater than 2019 leads to an error due to the software being designed to operate within a 100-year time window ranging from 1920 to 2019. This bug was fixed in version 7 onwards.
See also
Lotus Organizer
Sun StarSchedule
References
Schedule Plus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Schedule%2B |
Sensemayá is a composition for orchestra by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, which is based on the poem of the same title by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. It is one of Revueltas's most famous compositions.
Poem
Guillén's poem evokes a ritual Afro-Caribbean chant performed while killing a snake:
The poem "Sensemayá" is based on Afro-Cuban religious cults, preserved in the cabildos, self-organized social clubs for the African slaves. African religions were transmitted from generation to generation. In this poem we meet an adept known as the mayombero. He is knowledgeable in the area of herbal medicine, as well as being the leader of rituals. In Sensemayá, the mayombero leads a ritual which offers the sacrifice of a snake to a god. One of the main motives in Sensemayá is based on this word mayombero. This chant "mayombe, bombe mayombé", is an example of Guillén's use of repetition, derived from an actual ceremony.
Orchestral composition
Revueltas first composed Sensemayá in Mexico City in 1937, in a version for small orchestra. In 1938, he expanded it into a full-scale orchestral work for 27 wind instruments (woodwinds and brass), 14 percussion instruments, and strings. As one advertising blurb for the score describes it:
The work begins with a slow trill in the bass clarinet as the percussion plays the sinuous, syncopated rhythm that drives the work. Soon a solo bassoon enters playing an eerie but rhythmic ostinato bassline. The tuba then enters playing the first of this work's two major themes, a muscular, ominous motif. Other brass join in to play the theme, growing louder and more emphatic, but rigorously yoked to the underlying rhythm. Eventually the horns blast as loudly as they can, with obsessive trills on the low clarinets far underneath, and the strings enter with the slashing second theme. The brass take up this new theme and bring it to a climax, after which the music returns to its opening texture. This recapitulation brings with it a mood of foreboding. The rhythm becomes even more obsessive, and finally the music reaches a massive climax during which both themes are played, overlapping, sometimes in part and sometimes in whole, by the entire orchestra in what sounds like a musical riot. The coda feels like the final dropping of a knife.
Instrumentation
The score of the second version of Revueltas's composition calls for a large orchestra consisting of:
woodwinds: 4 flutes (2 doubling piccolos), 2 oboes, an English horn, a piccolo clarinet in E-flat, 2 soprano clarinets in B-flat, a bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, a contrabassoon;
brasses: 4 horns in F, 4 trumpets in C, 3 trombones and a tuba;
timpani and percussion (3 players): xylophone, claves, maracas, raspador, gourd, small Indian drum, bass drum, 2 tom-toms (high and low), cymbals, 2 gongs (large and small), a glockenspiel;
keyboards: a piano, a celesta;
strings: violins (1st and 2nd), violas, violoncellos and basses.
Notes
Sources
Further reading
Ellis, Keith. 1983. Cuba's Nicolás Guillén: Poetry and Ideology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
González Aktories, Susana, and Roberto Kolb. 1997. Sensemayá: Un juego de espejos entre música y poesía. México: JGH Editores. .
González Aktories, Susana, and Roberto Kolb. 2011. "Sensemayá, entre rito, palabra y sonido: transposición intersemiótica y ecfrasis como condiciones de una mitopoiesis literaria y musical". In Entre artes, entre actos: Écfrasis e intermedialidad, edited by Susana Gonzáles Aktories and Irene Artigas, 293–316. México: UNAM.
Hoag, Charles K. 1987. "Sensemayá: A Chant for Killing a Snake." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 8, no. 2 (Autumn): 172–84.
Jacobs, Glenn. Cuba's Bola de Nieve: A Creative Looking Glass for Culture and the Artistic Self. Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 9, no. 1 (Spring–Summer): 18–49.
Kaufman, Christopher. 1991. "Sensemayá: The Layer Procedures of Silvestre Revueltas". DMA thesis. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University.
Malone, Andrew Lindemann. n.d. "Sensemaya, for orchestra". Allmusic.com (accessed 30 October 2015).
Mayer-Serra, Otto. 1941. "Silvestre Revueltas and Musical Nationalism in Mexico." Musical Quarterly 27:123–45.
Rodríguez, Nilo. 1974. "Guillén va con la música". In Recopilación de textos sobre Nicolás Guillén, edited by Nancy Morejón, 171–75. Serie Valoración Múltiple. Havana: Casa de las Américas.
Sardinha, Dennis. 1976. The Poetry of Nicolás Guillén: An Introduction. London and Port of Spain: New Beacon Books. ; .
Williams, Lorna V. 1982. Self and Society in the Poetry of Nicolás Guillén. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Zohn-Muldoon, Ricardo. 1998. "The Song of the Snake: Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 19, no. 2 (Autumn): 133–59.
External links
Text of the poem (English and Spanish)
Revueltas's Sensemayá, Leonard Bernstein's marked copy of the published study score (Schirmer). Leon Levy Digital Collection: International Era 1943–1970. New York Philharmonic Digital Archive (Accessed 6 July 2012).
Revueltas's Sensemayá, Leonard Bernstein's marked copy of the manuscript full score. Leon Levy Digital Collection: International Era 1943–1970. New York Philharmonic Digital Archive (Accessed 6 July 2012).
Symphonic poems
Compositions by Silvestre Revueltas
1937 compositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemay%C3%A1 |
Dr. Susanna Rahkamo (born 25 February 1965) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater, sports leader and leadership consultant.
Education and Research
Susanna Rahkamo holds a PhD (Aalto University, Industrial Engineering) and a Master's degree in Food Science and Economics (University of Helsinki). Rahkamo’s doctoral dissertation in the research field of management, organizations and work psychology examines the impact of creative thinking in the process of acquiring exceptional expertise. According to her study, six critical factors are needed in the process: questioning and playing with thought; insight; systemic application; faith in self; inner drive; and persistent work. Dr.Rahkamo offered this conclusion: Little sparks of insights appear little by little through collaboration, seeing, probing and reflecting, affecting an exclusive perspective, understanding, view and allowing holistic insights to develop. Therefore, building excellence is a collective activity merging many peoples' knowing together.
Competitive Skating and Ice Show Appearances and Productions
Rahkamo competed with Petri Kokko in ice dancing winning the European Championship and World Championship silver in 1995, the World Championship bronze in 1994 and the European Championship bronze in 1993. The couple competed twice in the Olympics, in 1992 in Albertville (6th place) and in 1994 in Lillehammer (4th place). They were nine times national champions between 1987-1995.
After 1995, Rahkamo and Kokko became professionals. They skated in various shows and competitions for five years until they ended their careers in Finland with the Tango Cafe tour at the end of 2000. During their professional years, the pair participated in numerous professional competitions in the United States. In the 1995-1996 season, the couple toured with the highly successful Stars on Ice show in the United States.
The couple also produced ice skating tours, shows and TV productions in Finland, Germany and the United States. Their TV series Susanna and Petri on Ice on MTV3 ran for two seasons MTV3. In 1996, the couple performed in a music video for the band Enigma. Rahkamo and Kokko left their mark on the ice dance in so many ways. The International Skating Union (ISU) commissioned them to develop a new compulsory dance from a quickstep rhythm dance they had used from 1994-99 in competitions. This Finnstep was included in the ISU program for the period 2008-2009. It was ratified in June 2008 as the Finnstep at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. In the period 2020–2021, the Finnstep was also the mandatory part of short dance.
Leadership in Sport
Dr. Rahkamo was President of the Finnish Figure Skating Association from 2004 to 2014 for a total of five terms. During her presidency, Finnish figure skating was internationally successful. Three different women skaters won nine Championship medals, five of them gold. Synchronized skating also blossomed during Dr. Rahkamo’s presidency with a grand total of thirteen medals at the World championships in Synchronized Skating. During her term, Finland organized three financially and athletically successful Championships in which Laura Lepistö won the European Championship gold and Susanna Pöykiö bronze. At the Synchronized World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in 2011, Finnish teams the Rockettes brought gold and Marigold Ice Unity silver. At the end of the season, Dr. Rahkamo was successful in applying for the 2017 World Championships in Finland.
Since November 2008, she has served on the Board of the Finnish Olympic Committee and since 2012 as its Vice President. In 2014, Rahkamo was elected Chairman of the Olympic Culture and Legacy Commission of the EOC (European Olympic Committee). During her term, the Commission's mission has been to promote the Olympic values. To further this mission, the Commission created the European Young Olympic Ambassadors program for young future sport leaders to engage with the European Youth Olympic Festival participants to learn about Olympic values. The fourth training program began in the summer of 2020.
In 2016, Dr. Rahkamo was selected by the International Skating Union (ISU) to lead their strategic flagship project, the Development Commission. The Commission supports local and regional development projects for all three ISU disciplines (Short Track, Speed Skating, Figure Skating) in ISU member countries. Two major accomplishments are the creation of the global ISU Centers of Excellence network and the ISU e-learning. In 2020 Rahkamo was appointed to the steering group of the ISU Digital Development and AI Group.
Leadership in Business
Since 2005, Dr. Rahkamo has worked as a leadership consultant and since 2010 as a senior partner at Pertec Consulting specializing in management consulting. In the autumn of 2019, she sold Pertec Consulting Oy to Hälsa Oy. In 2021, she joined with two other partners to form Yellow Method Oy, which gathers data and insights about the creative potential of organizations.
Family
Rahkamo and Kokko married in 1995 and have two children. Rahkamo is the daughter of politician Lord Mayor of Helsinki, Kari Rahkamo.
Programs
Results
Sources
External links
Finnish Figure Skating Association (STLL)
Maxilla Oy – Rahkamo's consulting work
Living people
1965 births
Finnish female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Finland
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skating officials
Sportspeople from Helsinki
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Dancers from Helsinki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna%20Rahkamo |
Petri Kokko (born 21 February 1966) is a Finnish former competitive ice dancer. He competed with Susanna Rahkamo, his wife. With Rahkamo, he is the 1995 European champion, 1995 World silver medalist, and competed in the Winter Olympics twice.
Skating career
Initially interested in hockey, Kokko began figure skating at age 14 to improve his skating skills. His first partner was Virpi Kunnas.
Rahkamo/Kokko formed their partnership in 1985 and moved to Oberstdorf, Germany to train with Martin Skotnický. Their first major international event was the 1986 European Championships, where they finished 18th. In 1990, they reached the top ten at the European and World Championships for the first time.
In the 1991–92 season, Rahkamo/Kokko won the silver medal at the 1991 Skate America and placed sixth at the 1992 Winter Olympics. In 1991, they portrayed the characters of Dagwood and Blondie in their free skating program; Kokko wore tails and Rahkamo wore a tutu and red skates. Robin Cousins, the commentator for NBC at the 1991 World Championships in Munich, called it a "comedy spoof not only of the ballet, but maybe some of their fellow competitors". According to writer Ellyn Kestnbaum, Rahkomo and Kokko's free dance parodied the conventions of romantic pursuit. Kestnbaum says about the program: "The sterotyped roles within the narrative of pursuit are thus revealed as constructs, not inherent and inevitable in the facts of maleness and femaleness".
The following season, they won gold at the 1992 Skate Canada International and bronze at the 1993 European Championships. They were fourth at the 1993 World Championships.
In 1993–94, Rahkamo/Kokko stood atop the podium at Piruetten. They placed fourth at the 1994 European Championships and at the 1994 Winter Olympics. They ended their season with a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships.
At the 1995 European Championships, Rahkamo/Kokko became Finland's first European champions in figure skating — their country's next European title came in 2009 when Laura Lepistö won the ladies' singles event. They went on to win the silver medal at the 1995 World Championships. Their quickstep original dance from the 1994–95 season was adapted into a compulsory dance/pattern dance. It was ratified in June 2008 as the Finnstep.
Rahkamo/Kokko turned professional in 1995 and performed in ice shows until 2000. They made an appearance on Enigma's music video for Beyond the Invisible.
Later life
Rahkamo and Kokko married in 1995 and have two children, Max born in 2001 and Camilla in 2003. Kokko has a master's degree from the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. He became the program manager at a sports television channel in 2001 and Nike Finland's managing director in 2003. He was appointed country manager for Google Finland in 2006, worked as global director of Google Inc. at Googleplex in California for two years from November 2009, and then became a director in Germany.
Programs
(With Rahkamo)
Results
With Rahkamo
With Kunnas
References
Living people
1966 births
Finnish male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for Finland
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Google employees
Sportspeople from Helsinki
20th-century Finnish people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri%20Kokko%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (30 June 1795 – 5 May 1877) was a French pharmacist. He was a professor at the École de Pharmacie (School of Pharmacy) in Paris. He collaborated with Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in a Parisian laboratory located behind an apothecary. He was a pioneer in the use of mild solvents to isolate a number of active ingredients from plants, making a study of alkaloids from vegetables. Among their successes were the isolation of the following compounds:
Quinine sulfate later proved to be an important remedy for the disease malaria. Quinine is the active anti-malarial ingredient in the bark of cinchona tree.
Neither of the partners chose to patent their discovery of this compound, releasing it for everybody to use. In 1823 they discovered nitrogen in alkaloid compounds. Other compounds they discovered include colchicine and veratrine.
The crater Caventou on the Moon is named after him.
References
Further reading
People from Saint-Omer
1795 births
1877 deaths
19th-century French chemists
French biochemists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Bienaim%C3%A9%20Caventou |
The Southwestern Medical District is an area or neighborhood located immediately to the northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas. It consists of of medical-related facilities between I-35E and The Dallas North Tollway.
The medical center includes multiple research, higher education, and clinical institutions, and employs over 35,000 people and attracts nearly 3 million patient visits a year to its clinics and hospitals, providing services from pediatric preventive care to geriatric services, from lifesaving emergency care to heart transplants.
Healthcare institutions
Major institutions with facilities and offices in the Center are:
American Heart Association
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Children's Medical Center Dallas
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital
Academic and research institutions
Texas Woman’s University (Dallas campus)
UT Dallas Callier Center
Center for BrainHealth
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Dallas
UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas
See also
South Texas Medical Center
Texas Medical Center
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern%20Medical%20District |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1958. This listing is the complete, 40 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014).
Statutory Instruments
The Small Ground Vermin Traps Order 1958 SI 1958/ 24
The Work in Compressed Air Special Regulations, 1958 SI 1958/ 61
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments (Pakistan) Order 1958 SI 1958/141
The Conveyance of Explosives Byelaws 1958 Explosives SI 1958/230
The Superannuation (Fire Brigade and other Local Government Service) Interchange (Amendment) Rules 1958 SI 1958/361
The Agriculture (Avoidance of Accidents to Children ) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/366
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments (India) Order 1958 SI 1958/425
The Dark Smoke (Permitted Periods) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/498
The Imported Livestock Order, 1958 SI 1958/558
The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (France) Order 1958 SI 1958/597
The Central Banks (Income Tax Schedule C Exemption) Order 1958 SI 1958/598
The Fire Services (Pensionable Employment) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/640
The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Belgium) Order 1958 SI 1958/ 771
The Dark Smoke (Permitted Periods) (Vessels) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/ 878
The Petroleum-Spirit (Conveyance by Road) Regulations, 1958 SI 1958/ 962
The Copyright (International Organisations) (Amendment) Order 1958 SI 1958/1052
The Government Annuities Payment Regulations 1958 SI 1958/1181
The National Insurance (New Entrants Transitional) Amendment Regulations 1958 SI 1958/1239
The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Malta) Order 1958 SI 1958/1261
The Visiting Forces (Designation) (Colonies) (Amendment) Order 1958 SI 1958/1262
The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Yugoslavia) Order 1958 SI 1958/1263
The Central Banks (Income Tax Schedule C Exemption) (No. 2) Order 1958 SI 1958/1265
The Chequers Estate (Appointed Day) Orders, 1958 SI 1958/1352
Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/1530
The Opencast Coal (Notice of Work) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/1649
The General Claims Tribunal (Transfer Date) Order, 1958 SI 1958/1752
The Import Duty Reliefs (Administration) Order 1958 SI 1958/1965
The Foreign Compensation Commission (Amendment) Rules, Approval Instrument 1958 SI 1958/1995
The Whaling Industry (Ship) (Amendment) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2042
The Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act (Commencement) Order 1958 SI 1958/2080
The Maintenance Orders Act, 1958 (Commencement) Order, 1958 SI 1958/2111
The Opencast Coal (Notice of Record) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2121
The National Insurance (New Entrants Transitional) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2124
The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Amendment) Order 1958 SI 1958/2125
The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Directions) Order 1958 SI 1958/2126
The Superannuation (English Local Government and Northern Ireland) Interchange (Amendment) Rules 1958 SI 1958/2136
The Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2146
The Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty) Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2166
The Pensions Commutation Payment Regulations 1958 SI 1958/2195
The Land Powers (Defence) Act (Inquiries) Rules 1958 SI 1958/2231
Unreferenced Listings
The following 8 items were previously listed on this article, however are unreferenced on the authorities site, included here for a "no loss" approach.
Explosives (Fees for Importation) Order 1958 SI 1958/136
Dragonby Ironstone Mine (Diesel, Diesel-Electric and Storage Battery Vehicles) Special Regulations 1958 SI 1958/320
Winn's Ironstone Mine (Diesel, Diesel-Electric and Storage Battery Vehicles) Special Regulations 1958 SI 1958/321
Meters (Permitted Alterations) Order 1958 SI 1958/1061
Silverwood Mine (Electric Trolley Locomotives) Special Regulations 1958 SI 1958/1276
Sheffield Water Order 1958 SI 1958/1383
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Rules) 1958 SI 1958/1872
Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council 1958 SI 1958/1946
References
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201958 |
James Andrew Little (born January 14, 1976, Woodbridge, Virginia) is an American carpenter, stagehand and television personality. He is currently a co-host and carpenter on HGTV's Don't Sweat It (with Steve Watson) and HGTV's Dear Genevieve (starring Genevieve Gorder).
Family
Little's father owned a construction company and his mother managed companies ranging from landscaping, lumber, painting and millwork. Little was formerly a carpenter on Trading Spaces and Town Haul. He belongs to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
Television
HGTV
Don't Sweat It (91 episodes to date; co-host and construction supervisor)
Dear Genevieve (8 episodes to date)
25 Biggest Renovation Mistakes (1 episode; commentator)
25 Biggest Landscaping Mistakes (1 episode; commentator)
TLC
Trading Spaces (13 Episodes, carpenter)
Town Haul (18 Episodes, carpenter and co-host)
References
External links
Official Site
Don't Sweat It Official Site
Trading Spaces Official Site
1976 births
Living people
American television personalities
American carpenters
People from Woodbridge, Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Little%20%28carpenter%29 |
The City and Liberty of Westminster was a unit of local government in the county of Middlesex, England. It was located immediately to the west of the City of London. Originally under the control of Westminster Abbey, the local authority for the area was the Westminster Court of Burgesses from 1585 to 1900. The area now forms the southern part of the City of Westminster in Greater London.
Governance
Following the dissolution of Westminster Abbey, a court of burgesses (the Westminster Court of Burgesses) was formed in 1585 to govern the Westminster area, previously under the Abbey's control. The City and Liberties of Westminster were further defined by Letters Patent in 1604, and the court of burgesses and liberty continued in existence until 1900, and the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster.
The court of burgesses (or court leet) was headed by the High Steward of Westminster Abbey, who was usually a prominent national politician. He appointed a high bailiff, who served for life, and performed most of the functions usually exercised by a high sheriff of a county. The city and liberty were divided into twelve wards, each with a burgess and assistant burgess, this arrangement being adopted from the system then used in the City of London. Eight wards were located in the parish of St Margaret, three in St Martin in the Fields, and one for St Clement Danes and the Strand area.
The burgesses chose two head burgesses, one for the city and one for the liberty, who ranked next after the high bailiff. A high constable was appointed by the court leet, under whom was a force of constables. These were absorbed by the Metropolitan Police in 1829.
Following the dissolution of the court of burgesses in 1900, a link has been retained to the old corporation, as the Lord Mayor of Westminster is ex officio Deputy High Steward of Westminster Abbey.
Westminster returned two members to parliament. Although outside the Liberty of Westminster, eligible inhabitants of the Liberty of the Savoy, which included part of the parishes of St Clement Danes and St Mary le Strand voted with Westminster.
The City and Liberty of Westminster was a franchise coroner's district until 1930, when it became part of the Central district of the County of London.
Constituent parishes and other areas
The City of Westminster consisted of:
The main part of the parish of St Margaret; after 1727 the combined parishes of St Margaret and St John.
The extra-parochial Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter around Westminster Abbey
The Liberty of the City of Westminster consisted of:
The detached part of the parish of St Margaret
The parish of St Martin in the Fields; later partly divided into St Anne (1687), St George Hanover Square (1724), St Paul Covent Garden (1645) and St James (1685)
Part of the parish of St Clement Danes
Part of the parish of St Mary-le-Strand
The extra-parochial St James's Palace
Privy Gardens (also known as Whitehall Gardens)
Verge of the Palaces of St James and Whitehall (also known as Whitehall)
Geography
The Penny Cyclopaedia in 1843 describes the boundaries as:
Notes
References
History of the City of Westminster
Liberties of London
Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20and%20Liberty%20of%20Westminster |
Axura (also, Akhura) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 20 km away from the district center, on the right bank of the Akhura River (tributary of the Eastern Arpachay River). Its population is busy with grain-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary and an incomplete secondary schools, cultural house and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,481.
Etymology
The village got its name from the river of the same named in the area. Its previous name was the Yeni Axura (New Akhura). First time the name of the settlement which was named Axura was mentioned in the sources of the 7th century. On June 20, 1840, the Axura village which was located at the foot of Mount Ararat, has been destroyed at the result of a strong earthquake. The population of the village has moved to the current area and established the village of Yeni Akhura. Later, the first component of name of the village has fallen and the village was named Axura. At the language of the monuments, the words of axur/akur/akuru expresses in the meaning of "covered; quiet, silent, slow; free".
Historical and archaeological monuments
Axura Necropolis I
Axura Necropolis I is the archaeological monument of the end of the Iron Age, in the north of the village of Axura, in the Sharur region. Because of its location on the bank of the Axura River, a portion of the necropolis destroyed by the flood waters. The area of its surviving part approximately is 150×100 m. The tombstones consist of giant stones and they in conical shape. Depth of the two of soil graves are 1.5 m. Both of them were skeletons of men, on the length of 185 cm.
Axura Necropolis II
Axura Necropolis II is the archaeological monument of the ancient period in the 1 km east from Axura necropolis I, on the right bank of the Akhura River, in the Sharur region. At the result of archaeological excavations, the two graves have been studied and identified that both of them consist of soil graves. Samples of material culture have been found from the graves.
References
Populated places in Sharur District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axura |
Palmelo is municipality in southeast Goiás state, Brazil. It is the smallest municipality in the state and the only town in Brazil where most of the inhabitants follow the religion called Spiritism.
Location
The distance to the state capital, Goiânia, is 128 km. Highway connections are made by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / BR-352 / GO-020 / Santa Cruz de Goiás. Source: Sepin
The municipality is bounded on north, south, and east by Pires do Rio and on the west by Santa Cruz de Goiás. It is crossed by the Ribeirão Caiapó and its tributaries: Ribeirão São Jerônimo and Ribeirão Monjolinho, which flow into the Corumbá River.
History
The city was founded on February 9, 1929, when a group of 18 people founded a Spiritist center called Luz da Verdade. These people had converted to Spiritism after seeing the alleged cure of a medium, Dorcelino Damásio da Silva, who had suffered from a disease called fogo selvagem. In 1953 Palmelo became a municipality separating from Pires do Rio. It is probably the only town in Brazil and in the world where most of the inhabitants are Spiritists.
Climate
The climate is moist tropical, with two well defined seasons: summer and winter. The summer is very rainy while the winter is very dry. The temperature varies between 16 °C and 26 °C.
Political Information
In January 2005 the Mayor was Geraldo Afonso Leite. The city council had 9 members and there were 1,842 eligible voters in December 2007.
Demographic Information
In 2007 the population density was 38.32 inhabitants/km2. In 2007 there were 2,088 people living in the urban area and 172 living in the rural area. The population has increased by about 600 people since the first census in 1980.
Economy
The main economic activity is cattle raising, both for meat and milk and the region also produces a lot of clay for brick making. In 2006 there was a dairy—Centrolac Indústria e Comércio Ltda—and 3 small industrial units. There were 22 commercial units.
In 2007 there were 2,500 head of cattle. The main agricultural products were oranges, manioc, and corn. All were of modest production due to the small area of the municipality.
Agricultural data 2006
Number of farms: 63
Total area: 1,161 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 22 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 61 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 862 ha.
Area of woodland and forests: 176 ha.
Persons dependent on farming: 110
Farms with tractors: 12
Number of tractors: 12
Cattle herd: 127,000 head IBGE
Health and education
In 2007 there was 1 hospital, with 14 beds and 2 ambulatory health clinics. In 2000 the infant mortality rate was 9.80—much lower than the national average of 33.0 and one of the lowest in the state. It 1990 it had been 40.97.
In 2006 the school system had 3 schools, 17 classrooms, 34 teachers, and 622 students. In 2000 the adult literacy rate was 85.3%--lower than the national average of 86.4%.
Municipal Human Development Index
MHDI: 0.787
State ranking: 18 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 891 (out of 5,507 municipalities) For the complete list see Frigoletto.com
Tourism
One of the greatest attractions is Spiritism and people from all over the country come seeking cures for their illnesses.
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions of Goiás
References
Frigoletto
Sepin
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmelo |
Don Van Natta Jr. (born July 22, 1964) is an American journalist, writer and broadcaster. He is an investigative reporter for ESPN, since January 2012, and the host and executive producer of “Backstory,” an ESPN docuseries. He previously worked for 16 years as an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes.
Life
At the Times, Van Natta was on a six-reporter team, led by Jeff Gerth, that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories about American corporations that sold satellite technology with military value to China. He was one of nine reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for work on Al Qaeda following the September 11 attacks.
Gerth and Van Natta wrote an investigative biography of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, entitled, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, published in June 2007 by Little, Brown and Company.
Van Natta was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey and graduated in 1982 from Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, New Jersey. He is a 1986 graduate of Boston University, where he won the Scarlet Key, an award given to student leaders. At BU, he served for three semesters as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press, an independent daily newspaper published by students. In 2000, Boston University's College of Communication presented Van Natta with its Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2005, Boston University honored Van Natta as one of its 22 alumni to have won the Pulitzer Prize.
At the Times, Van Natta was the first investigative correspondent in the newspaper's history to be posted overseas. He was based in the newspaper's London, England bureau for nearly three years, from January 2003 until September 2005. While at the Times, he has also covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the deadlocked 2000 election in Florida, campaign finance and the crash of TWA Flight 800. Since September 11, 2001, Van Natta has covered terrorism and "extraordinary rendition," the CIA program that kidnaps terrorism suspects abroad and sends them to third countries, where they are often tortured. In October 2005, Van Natta was one of three reporters to write a 5,800-word article about former Times reporter Judith Miller's 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury led by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. The article focused in detail on the handling of her case by the Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and top editors at the Times, including executive editor Bill Keller.
Prior to joining the Times in July 1995, Van Natta worked for eight years at The Miami Herald, where he was a member of a team of reporters awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew in August 1992. Van Natta was sent by Herald editors to cover the eye of the storm in Florida City in southern Dade County. He stayed in a Comfort Inn, which was destroyed by the 165 m.p.h. winds, and he nearly lost his life. His first-person account of surviving the storm was part of the Herald's Pulitzer winning entry. While at The Herald, he won numerous national, regional and state awards, including the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel and the Investigative Reporters & Editors Gold Medal for an eight-part series called "Crime and No Punishment," which revealed Miami had the highest rate of crime but the lowest rate of punishment in America.
In April 2003, Van Natta published his first book, First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush (Public Affairs, ). The non-fiction book about Presidential golf was a New York Times bestseller, and was also excerpted in the March 24, 2003 edition of Sports Illustrated, and was the cover story in the June 2003 edition of the Observer Sports Monthly in the United Kingdom. First Off the Tee was made into a documentary by the Times Discovery Channel, a show that featured interviews with Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. And the book was also named a Notable Non-Fiction Book by The New York Times and one of the best sports books of the year by Sports Illustrated.
Van Natta's latest book, Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, was published in 2011 by Little, Brown. The book was not a bestseller, but in 2012 the United States Golf Association awarded "Wonder Girl" the "Herbert Warren Wind Book Award" as the top golf book published in 2011.
On September 5, 2010, The New York Times published the results of a 6-month investigation led by Van Natta into alleged malpractice at the News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The News of the World dismissed the allegations as unsubstantiated and said "the investigation was tainted by a vested interest in the outcome". They also accused The New York Times of flawed reporting and of being motivated by commercial rivalry. In a letter to the Times' Public Editor Arthur Brisbane, The News of the World cited seven breaches of The New York Times' own ethical guidelines on accuracy, use of anonymous sources, bias, impartiality, honest treatment of competitors, reader benefit and conflict of interest. They also questioned the professional detachment of Van Natta, who they claimed had sent a Twitter message linking to a personal attack on News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch alongside a message which read: "The Last Great Newspaper War". In a blog post following publication of the News of the World story, media commentator Michael Wolff characterised Van Natta as a Times's "enforcer" and "insider, loyalist and gun". In his column, Brisbane broadly supported the Times' reporting but conceded that it relied heavily on anonymous sources and that presentation of the story and gratuitous references to Murdoch could leave room for suspicions of a "hidden agenda".
Personal
Don Van Natta lives in Coral Gables, Florida with his wife, Lizette Alvarez, a New York Times correspondent, and their two daughters. He is a frequent player of Dominoes in South Florida, and frequently plays with Billy Gil of ESPN Radio Miami, and has a rivalry with Dan Lebatard and Stugotz amongst others.
References
External links
Column archive at The New York Times
https://web.archive.org/web/20071127062022/http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper87/stills/46n3jtdx.jpg
1964 births
American male journalists
American non-fiction writers
Don Bosco Preparatory High School alumni
The New York Times writers
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners
Boston University College of Communication alumni
Writers from Ridgewood, New Jersey
People from Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Van%20Natta%20Jr. |
Croydon Common Athletic Ground, commonly referred to as the Nest, was a football stadium in Selhurst, south London. The original occupiers of the ground were Croydon Common F.C., the Robins, who occupied it from 1908 to 1917.
It was also the home ground of Crystal Palace F.C. from 1918 until 1924. The Nest was subleased from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the parties being The Croydon Common Football and Athletic Company Limited and then Crystal Palace Football and Athletic Club, The London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. The reason for three parties to this lease was that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners actually owned the land, the Railway Company had leased it from them and thus the club was subleasing it from the Railway Company. The lease stipulated that the ground could only be used for soccer or athletics or for "the holding of Flower Shows and School treats". As the ground was owned by the Church, the lease also prohibited its use for any purposes on Good Friday and Christmas Day and so the club played only away fixtures on these particular days. The 1872 1:10,560 Ordnance Survey Map merely shows the land as being "Selhurst Wood" prior to the ground being formed.
The ground was quite basic, having only small earth banks around the major part of its circumference. These banks were topped by bushes known to the supporters as "The Jungle". When Croydon Common FC took over The Nest there was a small stand with seats on the northern side of the ground, but this burned down shortly afterwards. A new stand, significantly longer than the previous one (approximately 75 metres long), was erected to replace it. This stand consisted of an elevated tier with seven rows of seating, achieving an approximate capacity of 1500 seats, and a small standing paddock at the front. The roof had a small triangular white painted gable in its centre. In addition to the dressing rooms, there were a number of stores, rooms and offices under this grandstand. A cinder athletics track ran around the pitch.
The name of "The Nest" came about because the first club to occupy it were Croydon Common FC – they wore red shirts and were nicknamed "The Robins", hence their ground being known as "The Nest". It typically held a maximum of 20,000 supporters. The Robins were wound up in 1917.
Crystal Palace
The club moved to The Nest in 1918, having spent four years at the Herne Hill Athletics Stadium and gained promotion in the 1920–21 season by winning the Division Three championship (later to become known as Division 3 (South)). There is no connection between the Crystal Palace nickname 'The Eagles' and the name of this former ground – the nickname only coming about in the 1970s via the flamboyant manager Malcolm Allison.
In 1924, the club bought a new state-of-the-art ground, Selhurst Park, which would be their home into the next century. Crystal Palace then sublet the ground to Tramways F.C., a railway workers football club.
During the time that Crystal Palace played League football at The Nest, it was common for many spectators to purchase a platform ticket at the adjoining Selhurst Station, and watch matches from Platform 1, as this was cheaper than the match admission price and afforded an elevated clear view of all of the ground.
The site of The Nest is now a train depot for the rail company Southern. The only confirmed remaining trace of the ground is the front boundary wall along Selhurst Road, opposite the railway station. There is some conjecture amongst historians regarding whether or not the shell of the grandstand remains (minus its original roof), as a brick building operating as stores for the railway depot exists in the same position (in which the number of rooms within this building matches exactly the number of rooms under the grandstand as described on the football club leases). This building also displays an interesting feature on its side walls, namely possible steps from what would have been the seating tier. This structure curiously also possesses a quite substantial chimney, which would have to have been subsequently added.
References
Crystal Palace F.C.
Croydon Common F.C.
Defunct football venues in London
Defunct sports venues in London
Defunct athletics (track and field) venues in England
Sports venues completed in 1908
English Football League venues
1908 establishments in England
Defunct football venues in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon%20Common%20Athletic%20Ground |
Mets–Willets Point (formerly Shea Stadium) is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. Prior to 2021, the station would normally be open only during New York Mets home games, the U.S. Open tennis tournament, major events, and emergencies. The station has been served full-time since 2023.
Although Mets–Willets Point was originally not part of CityTicket, it was added to the CityTicket program in August 2011, and fares are collected before boarding during games and special events.
History
The station, which opened in time for the 1939 New York World's Fair, included a modernistic structure above the tracks that could accommodate up to 18,000 passengers per hour. Resembling an airplane hangar, it combined both Art Deco and Bauhaus features, and was also in close proximity to the Railroads on Parade exhibit.
The inaugural run of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Silver Meteor began at this station on February 2, 1939, having been dedicated at the New York World's Fair. Future runs of the train began their trips at New York Penn Station.
Between 1946 and 1952, the station was known as United Nations Station. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was the temporary site of the U.N. General Assembly, and had shuttle buses to their temporary headquarters in Lake Success at the time. Once the UN moved to its permanent home on the east side of Midtown-Manhattan, the station closed. However, it was reopened again with its original name on January 11, 1961, and the 1939 World's Fair ramp was expanded for the 1964 New York World's Fair to connect the Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to Shea Stadium, which opened that same year (though it was not part of the World's Fair). After the World's Fair closed in 1965, the station was named for Shea Stadium in 1966.
When the Elmhurst station closed in 1985, Shea Stadium station became the westernmost station on the Port Washington Branch before merging with the LIRR Main Line at Winfield Junction. As of 2003, a portion of track from the Whitestone Branch, which diverged just east of the station, was still visible next to the westbound track.
Following the 2009 closure and demolition of Shea Stadium, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority renamed the station to Mets–Willets Point, matching the name of the adjoining subway station and omitting the corporate-sponsored name, Citi Field, associated with the current stadium. The MTA was unsuccessful in achieving a similar naming rights deal and would not post the name for free. Had the naming rights deal been achieved, the station would have been known as Citi Field.
Prior to 2021, the station would normally be open only during New York Mets home games at Citi Field (Shea Stadium prior to 2009), the U.S. Open tennis tournament at the USTA National Tennis Center, major events such as concerts, and during emergencies. In February 2021, the station began to be open full time and was served by all trains while Citi Field was being used as a COVID-19 vaccination site. Full-time service ended after the COVID-19 vaccination site closed. After receiving feedback from customers, the MTA decided to resume 24/7 service at the station in April 2023, with trains serving the station every 30 minutes in each direction.
Planned renovation and accessibility
In September 2014, the MTA announced renovation plans for the Mets–Willets Point LIRR station, which would see its current active platform (see below) extend in length from eight cars to 12 cars, including the installation of an elevator, which would connect to the New York City Parks Department boardwalk leading to Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, making the station fully ADA accessible. The project was scheduled to be completed in time for the 2016 baseball season, but , the elevator has not been installed.
Cancelled AirTrain station
On January 20, 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to build AirTrain LaGuardia, a people mover running along the Grand Central Parkway and connecting the station to LaGuardia Airport. The project would have included the renovation of the Willets Point LIRR station, which would have become fully accessible. In May 2017, Parsons Brinckerhoff was hired to design the AirTrain; at the time, construction was projected to start in 2019. Transportation advocates criticized the plan as being overly roundabout. In October 2021, Kathy Hochul, who succeeded Cuomo as governor after his resignation, directed PANYNJ to pause the AirTrain project. The PANYNJ presented 14 alternatives in March 2022, and the AirTrain LGA project was canceled in March 2023 in favor of increased bus service.
Station layout
The Port Washington Branch has six tracks at this station. This station has three high-level island platforms. The north platform, adjacent to Tracks 1 and 2, the two main tracks, is eight cars long. The center platform, adjacent to Tracks 3 and 4, is also eight cars long. The south platform, adjacent to Tracks 5 and 6, is six cars long. Only the north platform is currently in use; the other tracks have not been used in regular passenger service since the 1964–65 World's Fair. The stairwells leading to the other platforms are blocked off, the platforms are in disrepair, and the tracks are rusted over. The other tracks nonetheless comprise Shea Yard and are used for train storage. The platforms are decorated in the Mets team colors, blue and orange. East and west of the station, the six tracks merge into two tracks.
References
External links
2019 LIRR service for Mets-Willets Point station (overview)
SHEA Interlocking (The LIRR Today)
Mets-Willets Point (The LIRR Today)
Long Island Rail Road; New York World's Fair 1939-40 and 1964-65 (TrainsAreFun)
Before Shea Stadium (Arrt's Arrchives.com)
1939–40 World's Fair Station including Railroads on Parade
United Nations Station and 1964–65 World's Fair Station
Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City
Railway stations in Queens, New York
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1939
1939 establishments in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mets%E2%80%93Willets%20Point%20station%20%28LIRR%29 |
Elizabeth Punsalan or Swallow (born January 9, 1971) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With her husband Jerod Swallow, she is a five-time U.S. national champion, two-time Skate America champion, and competed twice in the Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Elizabeth Punsalan was born in Syracuse, New York. Her father, Ernesto, moved from the Philippines to the United States as a medical student and became a surgeon. She married Jerod Swallow in September 1993. Her younger brother, Ricky, was charged in the death of their father, who was fatally stabbed on February 4, 1994, but he was found mentally unfit to stand trial.
Career
Early in her career, Punsalan competed with Christopher Rettstatt. They placed 8th at the 1989 U.S. Championships.
Punsalan began skating with Swallow in mid-1989. They were initially coached by Sandy Hess in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They placed 7th at 1989 Skate America and 5th at the 1990 U.S. Championships. The following season, they won their first U.S. national title.
At the 1991 World Champtionships in Munich, they performed a "catchy" free dance based upon the theme of stock car racing. They both wore black sketch suits in racing colors; Punsalan wore a checkered flag skirt. They played the roles of race cars, with test trials, pit stops, and the race itself. Writer Ellyn Kestnbaum, in her discussion and analysis of the program, does not consider Punsalan and Swallow's program as a single coherent narrative, but states that it instead used a variety of images, including that of victory and defeat, related to their theme. Kestnbaum also stated that although their theme seemed to "defy gender", Punsalan's role of the car followed conventional representation of the female body taking on "the status of inanimate object (or alien 'other')", while Swallow represented the more male role of the human agent, or driver. Swallow took "literal control" of Punsalan's body in the program, which controlled the narrative imagery; as Kestnbaum put it, "The man's choreographed control of the woman's body thus results in male victory within the final image of the performance".
They were one of the favorites for the 1992 Olympic team but at the 1992 U.S. Championships, Swallow fell during the free dance and they finished in third. Swallow was ready to leave competition for show skating but she persuaded him to continue.
In 1992, Punsalan/Swallow began working with Igor Shpilband for choreography in Detroit. By the 1993–94 season, he had become their head coach. The couple developed a rivalry with Renee Roca / Gorsha Sur, who had earlier choreographed a program for them and trained alongside them. The U.S. had a single berth to the ice dancing event at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Punsalan and Swallow were involved in a letter-writing campaign to Congress to prevent Sur from receiving expedited citizenship, which would allow him to compete at the 1994 Olympics. At the U.S. Championships in January 1994, Punsalan/Swallow placed first in the original dance, ahead of their injured rivals in second. Roca/Sur withdrew before the free dance and Punsalan/Swallow went on to win their second national title and were named to the Olympic team. They competed at the 1994 Olympics only two weeks after her father's death, finishing 15th.
Punsalan/Swallow won silver at the 1995 U.S. Championships behind Roca and Sur but finished ahead of them the following year to take their third national title. Punsalan/Swallow won another two national titles at the 1997 and 1998 U.S. Championships. They placed 7th at the 1998 Winter Olympics and 6th at the 1998 World Championships.
Punsalan/Swallow ended their eligible career in 1998 and continued to skate in shows for a number of years. Punsalan became a coach at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Results
(with Jerod Swallow)
(with Christopher Rettstatt)
References
Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York
American female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
1971 births
Living people
American sportspeople of Filipino descent
20th-century American sportswomen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Punsalan |
Somis (; Chumash: Śo Mís) is an unincorporated community in Ventura County, California. It was established in 1892 by Thomas Bard and D.T. Perkins on a portion of the Rancho Las Posas Mexican land grant.
Somis is in the Las Posas Valley on the south bank of Fox Barranca, just west of Arroyo Las Posas. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Somis as a census-designated place (CDP).
Name
The name of this townsite is derived from the Chumash term śo mís, meaning “water of the scrub oak.” There was a Ranchería named Somes noted in records from 1795 and 1796.
History
Like many of the farms on the adjacent Oxnard Plain, the crops of corn, wheat and barley grown here were shipped through the wharf that had been constructed in Hueneme in 1871. Agricultural products were able to be shipped by rail when the line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was routed through the valley and a stop was established adjacent to the community. The current spelling of the name was established when the railroad came through.
Geography
The school provides a sense of community for the town and the surrounding rural agricultural area that lies within the Somis Union School District boundary. The Census Bureau definition of the area does not precisely correspond to the local understanding of the historical area of the community. Several structures have been designated County of Ventura Landmarks. The Camarillo station is the nearest stop for Amtrak and Metrolink trains and is served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to East Ventura.
Somis Road (SR 34), the main thoroughfare, is lined with a few shops, businesses and a county fire station and intersects State Route 118 (Los Angeles Avenue) just north of town after crossing Fox Barranca. The railroad, which is parallel with Los Angeles Avenue between Somis and Moorpark, turns and becomes parallel with Somis Road at the south end of town where they located the railroad stop for shipping agricultural products. The tracks continue south to the Camarillo Station and the intersection with US 101. Somis Road becomes Lewis Road a little over south of town at the northern boundary of the City of Camarillo which is also generally the southerly boundary of Rancho Las Posas.
Shown as Central Avenue on the original plat filed by Bard, Somis Road runs in a north-south direction through the middle of the townsite. The parallel roads on either side are named West Street and East Street. Three streets are oriented in an east-west direction. The most northerly, named North Street, was extended northwesterly with plats filed in 1948 and 1953 that subdivided additional town lots. No further subdivision of town lots has occurred after this post-World War II expansion of the townsite to .
It is primarily an agricultural area, but is home to a hardware store, a market with a Mexican cafe, a post office, an elementary school, several shops, a small animal hospital, one main residential tract and numerous estates and ranches. It has no formal local government, but it is serviced by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and the Ventura County Fire Department.
The Somis ZIP Code, 93066, includes a large area of surrounding agricultural lands bounded on the south by the edge of housing tracts in Camarillo and on the north by the ridge line of South Mountain, north of Los Angeles Avenue. The ZIP Code encompasses an area some in width in the east-west direction. Forbes Magazine ranked Somis the 108th most-expensive ZIP code in the United States in 2015. Somis had the highest median home prices in Ventura County in 1999.
Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above . According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Somis has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.
References
Unincorporated communities in Ventura County, California
Populated places established in 1892
Unincorporated communities in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somis%2C%20California |
Randy Kenneth MacGregor (born July 9, 1953) is a former professional ice hockey player. MacGregor played Junior Hockey in Ontario, before going pro with the Broome Dusters (Binghamton, NY) of the North American Hockey League in 1973. He skated much of his professional career in Binghamton.
MacGregor would make the transition with the Dusters in 1977 into the American Hockey League. The Dusters became the Whalers in 1980 and MacGregor would spend part of the 1980–81 season in Klagenfurt, Austria. He would return to Binghamton later that season, but would end his career in 1984 in Glens Falls, NY with the Adirondack Red Wings.
Following his playing days, MacGregor returned to his adopted hometown of Binghamton. He is a contractor and has been a hockey coach with the Southern Tier Hockey Association and Syracuse Stars minor hockey systems. MacGregor continues to reside in the area; now calling Vestal home. He has two adult sons Justin and Dillon.
Awards
In 1984, MacGregor's #11 became the only jersey in Binghamton Hockey History to be retired to the rafters. (It was unretired by the Rangers' organization in 1991)
In 1998, MacGregor was the first player inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame. Also part of the Hall of Fame's inaugural class was Broome Dusters' founder Jim Matthews and Detroit Red Wings General Manager Ken Holland, who spent much of his playing career in Binghamton.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
External links
1953 births
Living people
Adirondack Red Wings players
Binghamton Dusters players
Binghamton Whalers players
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Hartford Whalers players
Ice hockey people from London, Ontario
Muskegon Mohawks players
Undrafted National Hockey League players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20MacGregor |
April L. Sargent (born April 1, 1968) is an American former ice dancer. Skating with Russ Witherby, she won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992 and competed in the Winter Olympics that year. She currently coaches at the Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Society.
Sargent was born in Ogdensburg, New York, and was formerly an ISU Technical Specialist.
Results
(with John D'Amelio)
(with Russ Witherby)
References
Navigation
1968 births
Living people
People from Ogdensburg, New York
American female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
International Skating Union technical specialists
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%20Sargent |
Alpena County Regional Airport is a county-owned, public-use, joint civil-military airport in Alpena County, Michigan, United States. The airport is located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) west of the central business district of Alpena, off of M-32 . It straddles the boundary between Maple Ridge Township on the north and Wilson Township on the south. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline, an affiliate of Delta Connection, with freight services provided by an affiliate of FedEx Feeder
It is said to be the "Proud home of Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center," the host unit of the Michigan Air National Guard's Alpena Air National Guard Base.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 7,519 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 7,638 enplanements in 2009, and 8,737 in 2010. It is included in the FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.
The airport regularly hosts airshows and aircraft displays of antique aircraft. Aircraft like the B-29 Superfortress and the B-24 Liberator have made stops at the airport for access by the public.
History
Alpena County Regional Airport was founded after World War 1. It was formally dedicated in 1931, and the US Army Air Corps used the airport for training purposes until 1947, at which time it was handed over to Alpena County. The airport has been assigned to the Air National Guard since 1952 and is used for training.
The airport started updates to its passenger terminal in the 1990s. Great Lakes Airlines provided service to Chicago until 1997, when Northwest Airlines began flights to Detroit with regional partner Mesaba Airlines. In 1999, the airport became eligible for Federal Airport Improvement Funds, which currently serve as the primary funding source for airport development. SkyWest Airlines began servicing the airport in 2012 on behalf of Delta Connection.
In 2020, the airport received $17 million as part of the federal CARES act to upgrade facilities and maintain operational levels during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The airport has had increasing passenger numbers throughout its history. In 2021, the airport received a $1 million subsidy from the FAA after passing a 10,000 enplanement threshold that year.
In 2015, the airport was the site of drone test flights in order for the FAA to develop standards for integrating drones into national airspace.
In early 2022, Alpena County and the airport were sued by Huron Aviation, the fuel provider at the airport, over concerns that the airport was trying to break up Huron's business relationship with SkyWest and seize control of the airport's fuel farm, which Huron Aviation claims to have invested in to build. Huron Aviation said Alpena sought quotes from competitors AvFuel and Alpena Ground Services in hopes they would offer lower quotes that the county could offer SkyWest. If SkyWest took a competing offer, Huron says it would have breached its contract with the county, giving the county the right to seize the fuel farm and give it to another provider. The county denies the allegations.
In 2022, SkyWest provided controversy when they cut direct flights at Alpena, instead operating tag flights between Delta hubs via, at different times, Sault Ste. Marie and Pellston. The company had wanted to add flights to Minneapolis as well as Detroit in the summer of 2022, but it failed to sustain the FAA approval to do so.
Facilities and aircraft
Alpena County Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has two runways with concrete surfaces: 1/19 is 9,001 by 150 feet (2,744 × 46 m) and 7/25 is 5,028 by 100 feet (1,533 × 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2021, the airport had 5,252 aircraft operations (down from 9,790 in 2010), or roughly 14 per day: 44% military, 40% general aviation, and 20% air taxi. For the same time period, there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 23 single-engine and 4 multi-engine airplanes.
The airport has an FBO offering fuel, courtesy cars, a crew lounge, and showers.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Cargo
Ridership statistics
In Media
Several scenes of the film Die Hard 2 were shot there. The location was chosen in part because there was a need for snow, and the producers expected Alpena to produce. However, due to a lack of snowfall, artificial snow had to be used. Consequently, other filming was done at Kincheloe Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Accidents & Incidents
On August 12, 1984, a Piper PA-12 was involved in an accident at the airport.
On March 13, 1986, an Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante operated by Simmons Airlines crashed while attempting an ILS approach in bad weather. The aircraft was attempting a second approach after going around the first time. The probable cause was found to be the flight crew's continued descent below the glideslope and through the published decision height without obtaining visual references of the runway. Contributing to the accident was an insufficient weather dissemination system. Three of the nine occupants were killed.
On March 13, 2006, a Saab 340B operated by Mesaba Airlines was substantially damaged on the ground before departing from the airport. After the engines were started for a flight to Detroit, it was found a stroller from an inbound passenger had not been offloaded. The pilots shut down the left engine to ease access. The agent retrieving the stroller lost their balance while exiting the aircraft; they dropped the stroller, which was subsequently blown under the fuselage by wind and into the aircraft's right main landing gear before impacting the right engine's propellers, which were spinning. Fragments from the stroller struck the fuselage after passing through the propeller, puncturing three holes and causing dents. The probable cause was found to be the station agent's inability to maintain control of the stroller when he lost his balance while exiting the cargo compartment. A contributing factor was high, gusting winds.
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Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2009-0160) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
Ninety-day notice (July 14, 2009): from Mesaba Aviation, Inc. of its intent to discontinue unsubsidized scheduled air service at the following communities, effective October 12, 2009: Paducah, KY; Alpena, MI; Muskegon, MI; Hancock, MI; Sault Ste. Marie, MI; International Falls, MN; Tupelo, MS and Eau Claire, WI.
Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-2009-0300) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
Memorandum (November 19, 2009): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities (Alpena, MI; Eau Claire, WI; Hancock/Houghton, MI; International Falls, MN; Muskegon, MI; Paducah, KY; Sault Ste. Marie, MI; Tupelo, MS).
Order 2010-5-18 (May 13, 2010): setting final past-period subsidy rates for Mesaba Airlines, Inc., d/b/a Delta Connection, for its forced service at Alpena and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, International Falls, Minnesota, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Also selecting Mesaba to provide essential air service (EAS) at three of these four communities on a prospective basis. At the fourth community, Tupelo, we are tentatively selecting Mesaba to provide service based on a pro-rata application of the rate Mesaba agreed to which the staff applied to a reduced service level.
Ninety Day Notice (July 15, 2011): from MESABA AVIATION, INC. and PINNACLE AIRLINES, INC. of termination of service at Alpena, MI.
Order 2011-9-5 (September 13, 2011): prohibiting suspension of service and requesting proposals
Order 2012-6-3 (June 6, 2012): extending the Essential Air Service obligation of the two wholly owned subsidiaries of Pinnacle Airlines Corporation—Mesaba Aviation, Inc. and Pinnacle Airlines, d/b/a Delta Connection at the eight communities listed below (Muscle Shoals, AL; Alpena, MI; Iron Mountain/Kingsford, MI; Brainerd, MN; International Falls, MN; Greenville, MS; Laurel/Hattiesburg, MS; Tupelo, MS) for 30 days, through, July 9, 2012.
External links
Alpena County Regional Airport, official site
Aerial image as of April 1998 from USGS The National Map
Airports in Michigan
Essential Air Service
Buildings and structures in Alpena County, Michigan
Transportation in Alpena County, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpena%20County%20Regional%20Airport |
A precinct captain, also known as a precinct chairman, precinct delegate, precinct committee officer or precinct committeeman, is an elected official in the American political party system. The office establishes a direct link between a political party and the voters in a local electoral precinct. Their role is to build a relationship between those who hold public office and those who vote at the polls.
Election to the office is by ballot or by the county party executive committee. Voters file their declaration of candidacy with their party in their voting district. If elected during the primary, the Precinct Captain shall serve as long as one remains eligible, or until seeking reelection in the subsequent district primary. Requirements vary among states and counties.
Responsibilities of the post include facilitating voter registration and absentee ballot access; leading get out the vote outreach efforts; distributing campaign and party literature; promoting the party; and addressing voter concerns. In many states Precinct Captains are also eligible to establish party unit committees for fundraising.
The concept of precinct leadership is to provide a grassroots position with officials generally serving as volunteers, though in some states they receive a stipend. Positions of county captain have also been created, but are usually used for election campaigns rather than party organizing.
In Illinois, Michelle Obama got her initial introduction to Democratic party politics when her father served as a Precinct Captain and the then-Michelle Robinson accompanied the elder Robinson on his rounds through his precinct.
In the State of Washington, this office is known as the "Precinct Committee Officer". In Washington, in case of a vacancy in the state legislature, the precinct committee officers will nominate candidates to fill the vacancy, which then need to be approved by the county council. In the State of Oregon, this office is defined in state law under Oregon Revised Statue 248.015 as "Precinct Committee Person".
Office title designation by state
Titles may vary by political party.
Alabama - Unknown
Alaska - Unknown
Arizona - Precinct Committeeman
Arkansas - Unknown
California - Precinct Committeemen
Colorado - Precinct Organizer
Connecticut - Town Committeeman
Delaware - Precinct Committee Member
Florida - Precinct Captain
Georgia - Precinct Captain
Hawaii - Precinct Committee
Idaho - Precinct Committeeman
Illinois - Precinct Committeeman
Indiana - Precinct Committeeman
Iowa - Precinct Captain
Kansas - Precinct Captain
Kentucky - Precinct Captain (with allowances for a Co-Captain and a Youth Captain for at least the Republican party)
Louisiana - unknown
Maine - unknown
Maryland - Precinct Captain
Massachusetts - Town Committeeman
Michigan - Precinct Delegate (officially, but less commonly, referred to as Delegate To County Convention)
Minnesota - Block Captain
Mississippi - unknown
Missouri - unknown
Montana - Precinct Officer
Nebraska - unknown
Nevada - Precinct Captain
New Hampshire - unknown
New Jersey - unknown
New Mexico - Ward Chair
New York - District Leader
North Carolina - Precinct Chairman
North Dakota - Precinct Committee Person
Ohio - Precinct Captain
Oklahoma - Precinct Chair
Oregon - Precinct Committee Person
Pennsylvania - Precinct Committee Member (Republican) ~ Precinct Committee Person (Democrat)
Rhode Island - unknown
South Carolina - Precinct President
South Dakota - Precinct Committeeman or Committeewoman
Tennessee - Precinct Committeeman or Committeewoman
Texas - Precinct Chair
Utah - Precinct Chair
Vermont - unknown
Virginia - Precinct Committeeman
Washington - Precinct Committee Officer
West Virginia - unknown
Wisconsin - Community Captain
Wyoming - precinct committeeman and committeewoman
References
Sources
Lincoln, Abraham and Don E. Fehrenbacher. ''Speeches and writings. page 66. Online Google Books. June 19, 2008.
Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Online. June 19, 2008.
Political parties in the United States
Elections in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precinct%20captain |
Facing the Animal is the tenth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1997 through Pony Canyon (Japan) and Mercury Records (United States). The album reached No. 20 on the Finnish albums chart and No. 39 on the Swedish albums chart.
Although credited to Malmsteen, "Air on a Theme" is an arrangement of the second movement (Largo) of Antonio Vivaldi's "Piccolo Concerto in C Major (RV443)". Facing the Animal features one of drummer Cozy Powell's last performances before his death in April 1998.
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave Facing the Animal three stars out of five, saying that "much of the record is stronger than anything Malmsteen has recorded in years" but also calling it "predictable, from the rockers to the power ballads".
Track listing
Personnel
Yngwie Malmsteen – guitar, bass (tracks 1, 4, 6, 12), background vocals, arrangement, production
Mats Levén – lead vocals (except track 13)
Mats Olausson – keyboards
Cozy Powell – drums (except track 13)
Barry Dunaway – bass (except tracks 1, 4, 6, 12, 13)
Chris Tsangarides – engineering, mixing, production
Keith Rose – engineering assistance
Rod Fuller – mastering
Chart performance
Certifications
References
External links
Facing the Animal, 1997 at yngwiemalmsteen.com
Yngwie Malmsteen albums
1997 albums
Albums produced by Chris Tsangarides
Pony Canyon albums
Mercury Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facing%20the%20Animal |
Last Chance Creek may refer to:
The creek in which the Four Georgians discovered gold, in what is now Helena, Montana
Last Chance Gulch, the main street of Helena, Montana, beneath which flows what remains of this creek
Last Chance Creek (Plumas County, California)
A creek in southern Utah
A creek in Yukon Territory, Canada
A creek in Alaska
There are probably many other creeks with this name, as it was common for prospectors to decide that a particular location was their "last chance" to find gold before having to return for supplies.
Gold rushes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Chance%20Creek |
Jerod Swallow (born October 18, 1966) is an American ice dancer. With his wife Elizabeth Punsalan, he is a five-time U.S. national champion, two-time Skate America champion, and competed twice in the Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Swallow was born October 18, 1966, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He married Elizabeth Punsalan in September 1993.
Career
Early career
Swallow competed in two disciplines at the 1985 World Junior Championships, placing fourth in pair skating with Shelly Propson and fourth in ice dancing with Jodie Balogh. He and Propson withdrew from the 1986 U.S. Championships after an accident in a practice session. She hit her head when she fell from a lift and was taken to the hospital where she recovered quickly.
Partnership with Punsalan
Swallow teamed up with Elizabeth Punsalan in mid-1989. They were initially coached by Sandy Hess in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They placed 7th at 1989 Skate America and 5th at the 1990 U.S. Championships. The following season, they won their first U.S. national title.
At the 1991 World Champtionships in Munich, they performed a "catchy" free dance based upon the theme of stock car racing. They both wore black sketch suits in racing colors. They played the roles of race cars, with test trials, pit stops, and the race itself. Writer Ellyn Kestnbaum, in her discussion and analysis of the program, does not consider Punsalan and Swallow's program as a single coherent narrative, but states that it instead used a variety of images, including that of victory and defeat, related to their theme. Kestnbaum also stated that although their theme seemed to "defy gender",
Swallow represented the more male role of the human agent, or driver. Punsalan's role of the car followed conventional representation of the female body taking on "the status of inanimate object (or alien 'other')", while Swallow took "literal control" of Punsalan's body in the program, which controlled the narrative imagery; as Kestnbaum put it, "The man's choreographed control of the woman's body thus results in male victory within the final image of the performance".
They were one of the favorites for the 1992 Olympic team but at the 1992 U.S. Championships, Swallow fell during the free dance and they finished in third. Swallow was ready to leave competition for show skating but Punsalan persuaded him to continue.
In 1992, Punsalan/Swallow began working with Igor Shpilband for choreography in Detroit. By the 1993–94 season, he had become their head coach. The couple developed a rivalry with Renee Roca / Gorsha Sur, who had earlier choreographed a program for them and trained alongside them. The U.S. had a single berth to the ice dancing event at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Punsalan and Swallow were involved in a letter-writing campaign to Congress to prevent Sur from receiving expedited citizenship, which would allow him to compete at the 1994 Olympics. At the U.S. Championships in January 1994, Punsalan and Swallow placed first in the original dance, ahead of their injured rivals in second. Roca/Sur withdrew before the free dance and Punsalan/Swallow went on to win their second national title and were named to the Olympic team. They competed at the 1994 Olympics only two weeks after her father's death, finishing 15th.
Punsalan/Swallow won silver at the 1995 U.S. Championships behind Roca/Sur but finished ahead of them the following year to take their third national title. Punsalan/Swallow won another two national titles at the 1997 and 1998 U.S. Championships. They placed 7th at the 1998 Winter Olympics and 6th at the 1998 World Championships.
Punsalan/Swallow ended their eligible career in 1998 and continued to skate in shows for a number of years. Swallow is managing director at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Results
Ice dancing with Punsalan
Ice dancing with Balogh
Pair skating with Propson
References
American male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Living people
1966 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerod%20Swallow |
Kelly Schafer ( Wood, born 8 April 1981 in Dundee) is a Scottish-Canadian curler who has represented her Scotland and Great Britain on an International and Olympic level. After playing in the 2010 World Championships in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she fell in love with and married the mayor of the city and has lived there ever since. She currently plays third on Team Robyn Silvernagle.
Career
Schafer made her international curling debut competing at the 1999 World Junior Championships, representing Scotland and the Letham Grange Ice Rink. With Schafer leading the team as skip, they finished a respectable fifth position. Schafer was skip for Team Scotland at the World Juniors two more times, in 2001 and 2002. Both years the team again finished fifth.
Scotland's curling dominance over the two other host nations of Great Britain secured its place at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Schafer was shortlisted along with nine other female curlers to be considered for a place on the women's Olympic team and became successful to travel to Turin to defend Rhona Martin's Olympic gold that Team GB won in Salt Lake City in 2002. She joined Rhona Martin, Lynn Cameron, Jackie Lockhart and Debbie Knox. As in her other international games, Shaefer played second throughout the Olympic competition. However, despite beating U.S. 10–4 after only six ends, Team GB's Olympic hopes were shattered as Canada beat Denmark in a nail-biting match in the final end. A win over Canada by Denmark would have enabled Great Britain to go into a playoff to compete for the last semi-final position. When interviewed after the game Kelly conceded Team GB's loss was "gutting" but added "we [Team GB] have to take the positives out of this."
Schafer won her first medal at an international event at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship. She skipped Scotland with teammates Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers, Lindsay Wood and Karen Addison. Scotland won the bronze medal by losing in the semi-final to Denmark, skipped by Angelina Jensen.
Schafer returned to the Olympics in 2010, again playing second but this time for skip Eve Muirhead. Team Great Britain finished 7th with a record of 3–6.
A month after the Olympics Schafer again played with Muirhead, this time as third at the 2010 World Championships. Team Scotland played Germany in the final, settling for the silver medal after giving up two points in an extra end.
Though she no longer lives in Scotland, Schafer has been a frequent alternate for Team Scotland, including at the 2012 World Championships in Lethbridge, Alberta, the 2017 World Championships in Beijing, China, and for Great Britain in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Although not yet a Canadian citizen, Schafer played for Saskatchewan at the 2014 and 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. After becoming a citizen, she was able to compete in provincial playdowns, and joined the Robyn Silvernagle rink for the 2022–23 curling season. She won her first Saskatchewan provincial women's title in 2023, and will play for Saskatchewan in her first Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Personal life
While representing Scotland at the 2010 World Championships in Swift Current, Kelly Wood met the mayor, Jerrod Schafer, and a romance developed. She would later move to the town. Kelly and Jerrod Schafer married in 2013. They have one child together. She currently works as a safe places manager for the City of Swift Current and also as a fitness coach.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dundee
Scottish female curlers
British female curlers
Olympic curlers for Great Britain
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Curlers from Saskatchewan
People from Swift Current
Canadian women curlers
Scottish emigrants to Canada
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Schafer |
Charles Butler (born April 4, 1979, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American physician, entrepreneur, and former figure skater. With Jessica Joseph, he is the 1998 World Junior champion and 1998 U.S. silver medalist. They also were the youngest couple to compete in the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.
Butler attended New York University Medical School, completed his residency as a Doctor of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. As an entrepreneur, he started several successful companies including "Charles Jewelry LLC", a jewelry company that makes high end jewelry and diamonds, and an ice skate blade company "Ultimate Skate LLC". He successfully founded and funded "VideoMedicine, Inc.", a telemedicine software company that is the world's first free-market health system. His Twitter handle is @DrCharlesButler.
Competitive highlights
(with Joseph)
References
American male ice dancers
Figure skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
1979 births
Living people
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Figure skaters from Salt Lake City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Butler%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875, by Patrick Joseph Dillon (1842–1889), a Roman Catholic priest, editor and politician, born in Tuam, east County Galway, Ireland. Fr. Dillon was appointed a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions. He was one of the legislators who proposed Buenos Aires as the federal capital.
The Southern Cross was the first entirely Roman Catholic English language publication in Buenos Aires, and continues in print to this day on a monthly basis. A downloadable version can be obtained at The Southern Cross website.
Published by Editorial Irlandesa S.A., the paper provides readers with a beginners' guide to the Irish language, helping Irish Argentines keep in touch with their cultural heritage.
External links
The Southern Cross
References
Newspapers published in Argentina
Newspapers established in 1875
Mass media in Buenos Aires
Monthly newspapers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Southern%20Cross%20%28Argentina%29 |
"Velvet Goldmine" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. A glam rock number with lyrical references to oral sex, it was originally recorded on 11 November 1971 at Trident Studios in London during the sessions for his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It was ultimately left off the album and subsequently released as a B-side (along with "Changes") of the UK re-release of "Space Oddity" in 1975. Praised by biographers as an undervalued classic, it later appeared on compilation albums, including on Re:Call 1, part of the Five Years (1969–1973) boxed set, in 2015. Its namesake was used for Todd Haynes's 1998 film of the same name.
Overview
David Bowie recorded "Velvet Goldmine", originally titled "He's a Goldmine", at Trident Studios in London during the sessions for his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on 11 November 1971, the same day as "Star", "Hang On to Yourself", "Sweet Head", "Looking For a Friend" and "Ziggy Stardust". Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, it featured contributions from his backing band the Spiders from Mars—guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Woody Woodmansey. Slated for release on the album's second side as late as 15 December before it was replaced in early 1972, Bowie stating in a radio interview that it was "probably a little provocative".
Musically, "Velvet Goldmine" is a glam rock number that contains a bouncy piano part and backing vocals similar to Hunky Dory (1971), while also anticipating the cabaret feel Bowie soon experimented with on Aladdin Sane. Author Peter Doggett described it as a combination of Gene Vincent's 1950s rock 'n' roll and the "electric thrust" of Marc Bolan. Lyrically, the same exhibits similar themes to "Sweet Head"; in Doggett's words, a "teen sex fantasy oozing with references to oral sex". Its title is in part a reference to the Velvet Underground. Discussing its composition, biographer Chris O'Leary highlights its "salacious" lyric ("I'll be your king volcano" and "heal ya head with my own"), the "eerie" D minor refrain and the almost spoken word backing vocals. He and AllMusic's Ned Raggett also commend Ronson's guitar solo, which was accomplished via a phaser.
The song remained unreleased until 1975 when RCA Records included it—with 1971's "Changes"—as part of the "Space Oddity" maxi-single, using a new mix without Bowie's consultation. He was furious, later commenting: "The whole thing came out without my having the chance to listen to the mix. Somebody else had mixed it—an extraordinary move." Nevertheless, the maxi-single became Bowie's first UK number-one single. In later decades, the song has been praised by Pegg and O'Leary as "superb and undervalued" and "a lost Bowie classic", respectively.
Later releases
The song was included on the 1982 RCA compilation Rare, where it was accompanied by a set of inaccurate lyrics. Eight years later in 1990, the song appeared as a bonus track on Rykodisc's CD reissue of Ziggy Stardust. It subsequently appeared on The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 in 1997, the Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary reissue bonus disc in 2002, and on Re:Call 1, part of the Five Years (1969–1973) boxed set, in 2015. The song's namesake was also used for filmmaker Todd Haynes's 1998 film of the same name, a film that features numerous allusions to Bowie's career. The band King Volcano also took their name from the song.
Personnel
According to Chris O'Leary:
David Bowie – lead and backing vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
Mick Ronson – electric guitar, piano, backing vocals
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar
Mick Woodmansey – drums
Technical
David Bowie – producer
Ken Scott – producer, engineer
Dennis MacKay – engineer
References
Sources
David Bowie songs
1971 songs
Songs written by David Bowie
LGBT-related songs
Song recordings produced by Ken Scott | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet%20Goldmine%20%28song%29 |
The Herne Hill Velodrome is a velodrome in Herne Hill, in south London. It is one of the oldest cycling tracks in the world, having been built in 1891. It hosted the track cycling events in the 1948 Summer Olympics and was briefly the home of Crystal Palace Football Club during World War I.
Between 1987, when the track at Paddington Recreation Ground was demolished, and 2011, when the London Velopark for the 2012 Summer Olympics opened, Herne Hill was the only track in London.
History
Herne Hill was originally named the London County Grounds, the track of the London County Cycling and Athletic Club. It became popularly known as Herne Hill track or velodrome after its position just off Burbage Road, in Herne Hill, part of the London Borough of Southwark.
The velodrome was founded by George Hillier, an amateur racer, in 1891. Before then the leading venue had been at nearby Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace, however, had no banking and a poor surface and supporters favoured a track which opened north of the Thames in Paddington, in 1888. Hillier had been a leading light at Crystal Palace and tried to persuade the owners, the Crystal Palace Company, to win back the supporters and racers by redesigning the track. The company declined and Hillier looked for a new site south of the Thames. He found an area off Burbage Road in Herne Hill and leased it from Dulwich College Trustees.
Work on the new track was undertaken by W. and J. Peacock, a building company sympathetic to cycling. It started in September 1890 and finished, ahead of schedule, in March 1891. The first race, open only to members of the Herne Hill club, was on 16 April 1891. The first open meeting was on 23 May that same year.
The circuit was designed with 5 ft bankings which were later raised. The original surface was red shale, which needed repeated rolling. It was replaced in 1893 by wooden slats, which led to fast racing but frequent crashes after rain. Concrete was laid instead in 1896.
Many records were beaten on the track, which reached a peak of popularity with the Cuca Cup 24-hour races at the end of the 19th century.
Good Friday meetings
From 1903 it was the venue for the Good Friday meeting organised by the Southern Counties Cycle Union. World champions have performed at Good Friday meetings, which during the 1920s and 1930s attracted attendances of 10,000. National and world records have been established there – Norwood Paragon's Frank Southall was a notable record-breaker in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1936 the tandem pairing from Addiscombe C.C. - Ernie Mills and Bill Paul set a world best of 30 miles 793 yards, unpaced in one hour, although no tandem figures were recognised by the governing body at that time.
The deterioration of the velodrome and poor weather resulting in the cancellation of the 2010 meeting led to the promoters relocating the event to Manchester Velodrome for 2011. Subsequently, the promoters announced that the meeting would be moved to London Velopark from 2014. Despite this plans for a new Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill were released, focusing on inter-schools racing, disability cycling, women-only groups, under-eights and over-40s.
War and the Olympics
The National Cyclists Union leased Herne Hill for 21 years from 25 March 1942. It had been damaged during the war when the site was used for a gun battery. Weeds grew waist-high through cracks in the surface and along the track's edges by 1942. A. P. Chamberlin, secretary of the NCU, said: "The crevices between the concrete slabs of the track are covered with all kinds of growth, and I found it impossible to uproot small trees that were growing. In the back straight a luxurious grape vine has assumed interesting proportions." Work started that year to restore it to make it ready by 1943.
The organising committee of the 1948 Olympic Games chose it as "the only suitable" track. It said "considerable work would have to be carried out to bring the arena, both from a competition and a spectator point of view, up to the required standard for Olympic events." The track was repaired, permanent stands were built - the only permanent construction work carried out by the Games organisers - and the approach roads and turnstiles were improved and extended. A temporary stand was built in the back straight for journalists, who had 12 telephone boxes to report to the world. A small scoreboard was also put up, which the crowd "fully appreciated."
The cycling press said it was disappointed that the Games opened at Herne Hill without ceremony:
What a strange nation we British are! The greatest cycling festival of this century—the XIVth Olympiad—might well have been an ordinary track promotion on the opening day at Herne Hill. Greatest oversight was the omission of any form of opening ceremony. The sparse crowd of 3,000 which gathered to watch the two-hour morning racing session received a lukewarm greeting over the loudspeakers and were then immediately given the draw of the 1,000m sprint.
The racing was reported as good but the organisation poor:
The worst organisation of the entire XIVth Olympiad cycling events resulted in the deciding third heat of the tandem final being held at nine o'clock. It was so dark when the two tandem pairs lined up for the final run that the Italians, in their blue racing vests, were invisible against the background of spectators. To put two tandems on the track under such conditions was a disgrace.
The light was so poor that the photo-finish camera did not work and judges told photographers not to use flash for fear of harming both their and the racers' night vision.
Professional circus
The National Cyclists' Union opened what became known as a professional circus there in May 1952, under the track's manager, John Dennis. The plan was to bring crowds to the track, making it profitable, and to establish professional racing in Britain. Among those who took professional licenses was a prominent road rider, Dave Bedwell
Survival
The track held meetings featuring star internationals such as Jacques Anquetil, Fausto Coppi, Reg Harris and Tom Simpson during the 1950s and 1960s. The future of the track then became less certain. A campaign was fought to retain it during the early 2000s following a dispute between the landlord, Dulwich Estate, and the leaseholder, Southwark Council. A feature, said the journalist Richard Williams, was "a lease long enough to make it worthwhile to undertake the necessary refurbishment of the grandstand, which is closed for safety reasons, and the 450‑metre track itself." Bill Wright of British Cycling, formed by the merger of the National Cyclists Union with the British League of Racing Cyclists in the 1950s, said: "The problem is that the venue is underfunded and deteriorating, and desperately in need of refurbishment but cannot get the investment it needs unless landlords Dulwich Estate renew their lease, something Dulwich Estate is reluctant to do. The estate, which also owns the land of some of the area’s prestigious public schools such as Dulwich College and Alleyn's School, is legally required to get the best return on its investment for benefactors. However, it also has a commitment to community upkeep." A supporter of the campaign was Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins, who started racing at Herne Hill when he was 12. The campaign has also attracted support from British racing cyclists Victoria Pendleton and Ben Swift, as well as local residents Jo Brand and James Nesbitt.
Structures and facilities
Unlike a modern Olympic velodrome (which will have an inner circumference of 250m, and banking of about 45°), Herne Hill is a shallow concrete bowl measuring approximately 450m with the steepest banking 18°.
The grandstand shown in this photo is the original one dating from 1891, it has now (2016) been demolished and replaced with a new structure. In the 1890s there was a cinder athletics track inside the cycle track, and tennis courts within that. The tennis courts later became the site of a football/rugby pitch, but the track centre is now only used for cyclo-cross races.
Other uses
The Velodrome was home of Crystal Palace F.C. from 1914 until 1918, when the club then moved to The Nest opposite Selhurst Station. Crystal Palace were forced by the Admiralty to leave Crystal Palace Football Stadium and move to the Velodrome due to the Crystal Palace being commandeered for World War I training purposes. Typically Crystal Palace FC drew crowds of 3,000 – 4,000.
The FA Amateur Cup final in 1911, between Bromley and Bishop Auckland, was also played at Herne Hill as well as the Surrey Senior Cup finals in 1906 and 1909.
London Irish was the first rugby club to be based at the Velodrome. It was the club's first home ground from 1898 to 1902.
London Welsh Rugby Club had their home at the Velodrome for 40 years after World War I, until moving to a new home in Old Deer Park in Richmond in 1957.
The stadium was also used for motor cycle events pre WWI.
Regeneration
As part of the Southwark Olympic Legacy Project work began on the upgrade of the Velodrome in February 2013. The first phase included the construction of a new Junior 250m track, a hardstanding area for warming up and to hold activities like bike-ability, bike polo and non-conventional bikes (e.g. handbikes and other cycles used by Wheels for Wellbeing) and installation of floodlights for longer training sessions in the winter.
A £200,000 grant from British Cycling allowed the track to be resurfaced, and £1.5 million was secured from Sport England and the London Marathon Trust for the construction of a new pavilion, which began in April 2016 and was completed in 2017. The pavilion, designed by Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects (who also designed the London Olympic Velodrome), was opened in March 2017 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony carried out by Union Cycliste Internationale President Brian Cookson.
See also
List of cycling tracks and velodromes
References
External links
Velo Club de Londres
Venues of the 1948 Summer Olympics
Crystal Palace F.C.
Defunct football venues in England
Sports venues in London
Velodromes in England
Sport in the London Borough of Southwark
Cycle racing in London
Olympic cycling venues
Sports venues completed in 1891
Velodrome
American football venues in the United Kingdom
1891 establishments in England
Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Southwark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne%20Hill%20Velodrome |
Sir Edward William Spencer Ford (24 July 1910 – 19 November 2006) was a courtier in the Royal Households of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He is perhaps best known for writing to Elizabeth II’s private secretary regarding the 40th year of her reign, having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding 1992 an annus horribilis. She used the phrase in a speech to describe a year in which one of her four children was divorced, two more formally separated from their spouses, and Windsor Castle caught fire.
Family background
Ford was a fraternal twin. His family has strong connections with the Anglican church and with cricket. His father was the Very Reverend Lionel Ford, headmaster of Repton and later of Harrow, and Dean of York from 1926 to 1932; his mother Mary Catherine was a daughter of the Right Reverend Edward Stuart Talbot, Bishop of Winchester, and education campaigner Lavinia Lyttelton; an uncle was Neville Stuart Talbot Bishop of Pretoria; another uncle was a royal chaplain. His brother Neville Ford played cricket for Derbyshire, and three of his uncles played first-class cricket, including Francis Ford who played for England.
Education
Ford was at West Downs School and was then a King's Scholar at Eton. He won an open scholarship to read Classics at New College, Oxford (where he was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1982). He obtained a first in Mods and second in Greats.
Career
He was tutor to John Lascelles, son of Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI, in 1933. He was a Harmsworth scholar at Middle Temple, before tutoring Prince (later King) Farouk of Egypt from 1935–36. He was called to the Bar in 1937 and briefly practised law until 1939.
Military service
Ford had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in supplementary reserve of the Grenadier Guards in 1936, and promoted to first lieutenant in 1939. He fought in World War II in France and Belgium, being evacuated from Dunkirk, and in Tunisia and Italy, and was mentioned in despatches twice. He was brigade major of the 10th Infantry Brigade and later of the 24th Guards Brigade, and was an instructor at the Staff College in Haifa, Israel.
After the war, at the invitation of Sir Alan Lascelles, he entered Royal Service as Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI, 1946–52, and then served in the same office to Elizabeth II until 1967. Ford was telephoned by the King's Private Secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, with news of the King's death at Sandringham in February 1952, and Ford broke the news to the prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, at 10 Downing Street and then to Queen Mary, the King's mother, at Marlborough House. He was an Extra Equerry to the Queen from 1955 until his death. He became a close friend of Group Captain Peter Townsend, an equerry whose love affair with Princess Margaret caused a crisis early in Queen Elizabeth's reign.
Resignation
Ford resigned from the Royal Household in 1967, after Sir Michael Adeane, Lascelles' successor, asked him to move to the household of the Prince of Wales to make way for the younger Philip Moore. He was secretary of the Pilgrim Trust from 1967 to 1975, and also managed the estate of his late father-in-law, Lord Brand, at Eydon Hall in Northamptonshire. Later, he was Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit (for which he received an honorarium of £100) from 1975–2003.
Annus Horribilis
Ford used the Latin phrase "annus horribilis" in a sympathetic letter to the Queen in 1992, after a series of unfortunate events, including a major fire in Windsor Castle. In a later television documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession, Ford chided himself for a grammatical error, saying that, in order to describe a horrible year, he properly should have written "annus horrendus". The Queen later used the phrase in a speech: "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an 'Annus Horribilis'."
Honours
For his service to the Crown, Edward Ford was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1949, Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1952, knighted as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1957, advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1967 and promoted to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1998. He received the Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) in 1987, having long served as a reserve officer, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, served as Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (DL) and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire. He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1979.
He was the literary executor of Sir Alan Lascelles. Despite the sensitive nature of their contents, he managed to secure permission for Sir Alan's wartime diaries to be published. King's Counsellor was launched in 2006, a few weeks before his death.
Personal life
He married his wife, Virginia, in 1949, the widow of John Metcalfe Polk. She was the daughter of the banker Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand and Phyllis Langhorne, a sister of Nancy Astor. His wife died in 1995.
Death
He died in London, on the 19th of November 2006, aged 96. He was survived by he and Virginia’s two sons and a stepson. A second stepson predeceased him.
References
Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 21 November 2006
Obituary, The Times, 21 November 2006
Obituary, The Independent, 23 November 2006
Obituary, The Guardian, 28 November 2006
1910 births
2006 deaths
Academics of the Staff College, Camberley
People educated at West Downs School
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Fellows of New College, Oxford
Grenadier Guards officers
British Army personnel of World War II
Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Deputy Lieutenants of Northamptonshire
Assistant Private Secretaries to the Sovereign
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ford%20%28courtier%29 |
Christopher Rose or Chris Rose may refer to:
Sir Christopher Rose (judge) (born 1937), English Lord Justice of Appeal
Christopher Rose (electrical engineer) (born 1957), American electrical engineer and professor
Chris Rose (artist) (born 1959), British wildlife artist
Chris Rose (journalist) (born 1960), American journalist and writer
Chris Rose (born 1971), American television sportscaster
See also
Christine Rose (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Rose |
Verlon Marion Biggs (March 16, 1943 – June 7, 1994) was an American football defensive end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played for the New York Jets (AFL) in Super Bowl III, but felt he didn't receive enough credit for the Jets' playoff win against the Oakland Raiders in the AFL Championship Game that launched them into the Super Bowl. He played well but sulked until 1971, demanded more money, and wound up signing with George Allen's Washington Redskins. Always a dominating defensive end, Biggs solidified Allen's defense along with fellow newcomers Diron Talbert, Myron Pottios and Jack Pardee, plus holdovers Pat Fischer, Chris Hanburger, Brig Owens and Mike Bass, and led the Redskins into Super Bowl VII. His nickname with the Redskins was "Dirty Biggs" because of his extremely physical style of play.
See also
List of American Football League players
References
1943 births
1994 deaths
People from Moss Point, Mississippi
American Football League All-Star players
American football defensive ends
Jackson State Tigers football players
New York Jets players
Washington Redskins players
Deaths from leukemia
American Football League players
Deaths from cancer in Mississippi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlon%20Biggs |
Olivier Mourgue (born 1939) is a French industrial designer best known as the designer of the futuristic Djinn chairs used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Life and career
Mourgue was born in Paris, France. He is perhaps best known for his furniture design, particularly the bright red Djinn chairs that featured prominently in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The main manufacturer of his designs, "Airborne International", is no longer in business, however some designs are still in production by other companies. The Djinn chair remains highly sought after as a classic example of 1960s era modern furniture design.
References
External links
Mobilier national : Olivier Mourgue
Moma collections
1939 births
French industrial designers
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier%20Mourgue |
Kawawachikamach () is a Naskapi/Iyiyiw First Nations reserve and community at the south end of Lake Matemace (where it joins Lake Peter), approximately northeast of Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. It belongs to the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach. The village was built by the Naskapi/Iyiyiw from 1980 to 1983. The language spoken is Iyiyiw-Imuun, a dialect closely related to Innu and Iynu (East Cree). The name means "the winding river".
Access to the village is by way of Schefferville Airport or railway from Sept-Îles to Schefferville, then by way of a road from the centre of Schefferville. With the demise of Schefferville as a residential centre for the iron ore mining operations, Kawawachikamach and Matimékush are now the main communities in the region.
Telephone and postal services are provided from the Schefferville exchange by Telebec and from the Schefferville Post Office, while electricity is provided by the Schefferville Power Company. The Naskapi/Iyiyiw provide their own policing services. Sichuun provides Internet, VoIP, cellular and IPTV services to the Kawawachikamach/Schefferville region. Other services include a community radio station, a healthcare centre, a recreation centre and a gymnasium.
Legal status
Its formal legal status is a Naskapi Reserved Land (terre réservée naskapie, category 1-AN, under federal jurisdiction). There is also a separate, non-contiguous Naskapi Village Municipality (municipalité de village naskapie, category 1-BN, under provincial jurisdiction) of the same name, some distance to the north. The entire population lives on the Reserved Land; despite its title, the Naskapi Village Municipality of Kawawachikamach has no resident population and is for the exclusive use of Naskapi for hunting or other activities. The Naskapi Reserved Land is south of the 55th parallel and is geographically located within the Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, although not juridically a part of it; the Naskapi Village Municipality is north of 55 and is within the Kativik Territory.
The Commission de toponymie du Québec, perhaps a bit confusingly, refers to the Naskapi Reserved Land as a "Naskapi village" (village naskapi) and the Naskapi Village Municipality as a "Naskapi village municipality" (municipalité de village naskapi), making a careful distinction between the two. However, from a practical point of view it seems intuitive that the "village" is where the population lives.
History
The Naskapi of Kawawachikamach were originally from northern Quebec, but were subjected to relocations several times before moving from Fort Chimo to Schefferville in 1956. Government officials may have induced or ordered this move but did nothing in preparation for their arrival in Schefferville. The Naskapi settled near the airport in shacks built with scavenged materials, but they were relocated again by the Schefferville municipal authorities to a site on John Lake, where they lived in poverty without water, sewage, electricity, schools, and medical facility. In 1968, the Matimekosh Reserve was formed, and the Naskapi moved there in 1972, together with the Innu.
In the 1970s, the Naskapi began negotiations for a settlement of their aboriginal claims. In 1978, they ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve as a prerequisite to the Northeastern Québec Agreement that provided for the formation of their own reserve. As part of this agreement's implementation, of land was transferred from the Government of Quebec to the Government of Canada for the exclusive benefit of the Naskapi band in 1981. By 1983, the first residents settled in the village that was specifically adapted to the environment.
Demographics
As of May 2022, the band counted 797 members, of whom 691 persons are living in the community.
Population trend:
Population in 2021: 641 (2016 to 2021 population change: 6.7%)
Population in 2016: 601 (2011 to 2016 population change: 2.6%)
Population in 2011: 586 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3.0%)
Population in 2006: 569
Population in 2001: 540
Population in 1996: 487
Population in 1991: 405
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 194 (total dwellings: 203)
Mother tongue:
English as first language: 2.6%
French as first language: 1.8%
English and French as first language: 0%
Other as first language: 95.6%
Economy
The local economy is based mostly on arts and handicraft, trapping, tourism, outfitters, construction and transport. The Naskapi are developing several major projects of social, educational, cultural and economic scope, such as road and runway maintenance, hydro-electric facilities, caribou hunting and fishing operations.
References
External links
Official website of the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach (English / Naskapi)
Community profile, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
CJCK Radio
Indian reserves in Quebec
Naskapi
Communities in Côte-Nord
Communities in Nord-du-Québec
Populated places established in 1981
1981 establishments in Quebec | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawawachikamach%2C%20Quebec |
Baki İlkin (born 3 October 1943 in Ankara) is a Turkish diplomat and ambassador who served as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations.
Previously, Baki İlkin served as ambassador, Deputy Under-Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (2001-2004); ambassador of Turkey to the United States (1998-2001); ambassador of Turkey to the Netherlands (1996-1998); ambassador, director general, special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1993-1996); ambassador of Turkey to Denmark (1990-1993); and ambassador of Turkey to Pakistan (1987-1990).
He also held the posts of chief of cabinet for the President of Turkey (1983-1987); special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981-1983); counsellor at the Embassy of Turkey to the United Kingdom (1977-1981); and Chief of Cabinet for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, as well as Chief of Section for Greece, Turkish Department of Political Affairs (1975-1977).
In addition, Baki İlkin worked as first secretary at the Embassy of Turkey to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1974-1975); third and first secretary at the Embassy of Turkey to Greece (1970-1974); and Third Secretary at the Department of Cypriot-Greek Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1969-1970).
Baki is married to author Nur Ilkin.
See also
List of Turkish diplomats
References
1943 births
People from Ankara
Turkish civil servants
Living people
Ambassadors of Turkey to Pakistan
Ambassadors of Turkey to the United States
Permanent Representatives of Turkey to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Turkey to Denmark
Ambassadors of Turkey to the Netherlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baki%20%C4%B0lkin |
John G. Hemry (LCDR, USN ret.; born April 14, 1956), is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series. Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written six volumes of The Lost Fleet series and the steampunk/fantasy The Pillars of Reality series. He has also written over a dozen short stories, many published in Analog magazine, and a number of non-fiction works.
Hemry has continued the Lost Fleet series with a spin-off: Beyond the Frontier, focusing on the main characters from the Lost Fleet. A second series, called The Lost Stars, focuses on the collapse of the Syndicate Worlds.
Awards and honors
Winner of 2006 Anlab vote for best short story
Publications
As John G. Hemry
Stark's War
The series follows a conflict between US Army soldiers and their leadership during a campaign that takes place on the Moon. Faced with increasingly outrageous disregard for their survival, the enlisted soldiers mutiny under the leadership of Sergeant Stark, who then faces an uncertain path in dealing with the civilian colony they are based next to, as well as the Pentagon and US government.
Stark's War (April 2000)
Stark's Command (April 2001)
Stark's Crusade (March 2002)
Paul Sinclair (JAG in Space)
The publisher promotes this series descriptively as "JAG, set in space". The title character is a junior officer aboard the USS Michaelson, a military spaceship in peacetime conditions. While he faces the trials of maturing as a line officer, Sinclair also serves as his commanders' legal advisor—a role that brings him into close contact with the military legal system.
A Just Determination (May 2003)
Burden of Proof (March 2004)
Rule of Evidence (March 2005)
Against All Enemies (March 2006)
Short fiction
As Jack Campbell
The Lost Fleet
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (2006)
The Lost Fleet: Fearless (2007)
The Lost Fleet: Courageous (2007)
The Lost Fleet: Valiant (2008)
The Lost Fleet: Relentless (2009)
The Lost Fleet: Victorious (2010)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier
Sequel to The Lost Fleet series.
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught (2011)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Invincible (2012)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Guardian (2013)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast (2014)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Leviathan (2015)
The Lost Stars
Spin-off of The Lost Fleet series.
The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight (2012)
The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield (2013)
The Lost Stars: Imperfect Sword (2014)
The Lost Stars: Shattered Spear (May 2016)
The Genesis Fleet
Prequel to The Lost Fleet series.
The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard (2017)
The Genesis Fleet: Ascendant (2018)
The Genesis Fleet: Triumphant (2019)
Outlands
Sequel to The Lost Fleet series.
Outlands: Boundless (2021)
Outlands: Resolute (2022)
Outlands: Implacable (2023)
Short stories
"Grendel" (2009)
"Flèche" (2013)
"Shore Patrol" (2017)
"Ishigaki" (2019)
The Pillars of Reality
The Dragons of Dorcastle (2014)
The Hidden Masters of Marandur (2015): "continues a fascinating science fiction story set in a world divided between mechanics, mages, and the common folk"
The Assassins of Altis (2015)
The Pirates of Pacta Servanda (2016)
The Servants of the Storm (2016)
The Wrath of the Great Guilds (2016)
The Legacy of Dragons
Sequel to The Pillars of Reality series
Daughter of Dragons (Audible: Feb 2017)
Blood of Dragons (Audible: Aug 2017)
Destiny of Dragons (Audible: Jan 2018)
Empress of the Endless Sea
Prequel to The Pillars of Reality series.
Pirate of the Prophecy (Audible: Mar 2020)
Explorer of the Endless Sea (Audible: Mar 2020)
Fate of the Free Lands (Audible: Mar 2020)
Collections
Ad Astra (2013)
Borrowed Time (2013)
Swords and Saddles (2013)
Other
The Last Full Measure (2013)
The Sister Paradox (2017)
References
External links
Official web site
Review of A Just Determination
Review of Burden of Proof
Black Jack Calling, an interview with Jack Campbell, AKA John G Hemry at Geek Speak Magazine
1956 births
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American male writers
American male novelists
American male short story writers
American science fiction writers
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Living people
Military science fiction writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20G.%20Hemry |
The Treaty of Hamburg was signed on 22 May 1762 in Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia during the Pomeranian War, a theater of the Seven Years' War.
The treaty came into being after Russia had allied to Prussia on 5 May, making it impossible for Sweden to continue the war which they had entered to regain territories in Pomerania, which they had previously lost. The treaty reaffirmed the pre-war status quo.
See also
Treaty of Hamburg (1638)
List of treaties
External links
Scan of the treaty at IEG Mainz
The Encyclopedia of World History (2001)
Treaties of the Seven Years' War
1762 treaties
Hamburg
Hamburg
History of Hamburg
1762 in Prussia
1762 in Sweden
Prussia–Sweden relations
Treaties of the Silesian Wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Hamburg%20%281762%29 |
The Gäubodenvolksfest in Straubing is one of the largest Volksfests (beer festival and travelling funfair) in the German state of Bavaria. It is an annual event, spanning eleven days mid-August.
History
The Gäubodenvolksfest was founded in the year 1812 by Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, as an agricultural festival to foster an annual gathering of the people in the Danube region.
The festival went on hiatus in 1915-18, 1940-45 & 2020-21.
Description
The Gäubodenvolksfest is a modern and family-friendly festival with several attractions, including carousels and roller coasters. There are also several large beer tents that span a 100,000 m2 area. The event has maintained the historic character of Bavarian festivals, and attracts approximately 1.4 million visitors every year. Many visitors wear traditional Bavarian clothing (Tracht) for the occasion.
The festival combines Bavarian tradition with progress and vitality. It is one of Bavaria's oldest and most popular festivals and it has increased to one of the biggest events in Germany. Beer plays a central role in the fair. The beer is specially brewed, and only breweries from Straubing or the district Straubing-Bogen are allowed to serve beer there.
On the first day of the festival there is a "Bierprobe", which means "beer tasting," followed by a parade consisting of people wearing Bavarian native attire walking on foot, riding horses, or in horse carriages.
On the second day there is the official opening with a representative of the Bavarian or German government.
The festival is held every year in the middle of August and lasts 11 days. The festival is celebrated by the whole city as a "fifth season", and many companies are closed down during this time.
Combined with the Gäubodenvolksfest is the Ostbayernschau, the biggest trade show of eastern Bavaria.
Statistics (2017)
Number of visitors: 1.35 million
Beer: 730,000 litre
Breweries: 7 with 26,400 seats
Length: 2,500 metres
Price of a one-liter mug of beer (Maß): €9,15
Main Attractions/Festival Events
Olympia Looping (appears once every two or three years)
Star World (appears once every two or three years)
Wilde Maus
Feuer und Eis (Fire and Ice)
Free fall tower
Chairoplane
Bumper cars
Transformer
Bavarian Big Wheel
Whitewater channel
Horse riding
Children and family friendly carousels
Revues and shows
Bavarian and international food and beverages
A parade with Bavarian and international folklore and beer carriages
A romantic parade with boats, swimmers, and torches on the Danube
A boxing match and other sport events
Two fireworks displays
The beer tents with Bavarian folk music and mood music
Dates of Previous/ Upcoming Events
2020: 7 to 17 August (not held, COVID-19 pandemic)
2021: 13 to 23 August (not held)
2022: 12 to 22 August
2023: 11 to 21 August
2024: 9 to 19 August
Beer tents
Weckmann
Brewery:, Röhrl Straubing
Krönner
Brewery: Irlbacher, Irlbach
Lechner
Brewery: Irlbacher, Irlbach
Nothaft
Brewery: Karmeliten, Straubing
Reisinger
Brewery: Arcobräu, Moos
Wenisch
Brewery: Erl-Bräu, Geiselhöring
Greindl
Brewery: Karmeliten, Straubing
References
External links
Official Website of the Gäubodenvolksfest
Information in English about Gäubodenvolksfest
A lot of pictures about the people, the fun, the beer tents, the nice atmosphere, the ostbayernschau-fair, the rides and so on ...
gäubodenvolksfest.de
Photos Gäubodenvolksfest
Lechners Schmankerlzelt
Wenisch
Reisinger
Krönner
Ochsenbraterei Beck
Nothaft
Röhrlbräu
Beer festivals in Germany
Culture of Altbayern
Tourist attractions in Bavaria
1812 establishments in Bavaria
Annual events in Germany
Festivals established in 1812
Straubing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4ubodenvolksfest |
In Tokelau a fiafia (literally "celebration," "get-together," or "happy") is a ritualized public social occasion, that comprises an exchange between two or more "sides" of various kinds of "gifts", which need not be material, including skits, theatrical performances, food, money, speeches, and even clowning; but mainly dancing.
Fiafia are held at the conclusions of sporting contests, in particular the Tokeluan communal cricket matches, and meetings, on saints days, and during Christmastide; and one common form of such dance is the fatele.
Such celebrations also happen in Samoa, and although the tradition form can still be seen on formal ceremonial occasions (weddings, inaugurations of schools and churches, awards) a more common form nowadays is a less formal "fiafia night" which is usually a buffet meal with slap-dancing and fire-dancing.
The name was used as the name of the merged tribe name in the 2016 season of Australian Survivor.
References
Reference bibliography
Further reading
New Zealand culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiafia |
Classic Car Weekly is a British car newspaper published by the Bauer Media Group.
History and profile
Launched in 1990 by Emap, Classic Car Weekly comes out weekly on a Wednesday, and majors on news and auction coverage, as well as running regular articles on buying, selling, maintaining and driving classic cars. The current editor is David Simister.
It is a newsprint A3-sized publication, and primarily carries a mixture of private-seller advertising and editorial articles. From 2002 to the end of 2009 the title was published under licence by Kelsey Publishing, Bauer Media, which had bought EMAP's consumer magazines in the meantime, took it back from Kelsey at the end of 2009. Classic Car Weekly is now one of a group of UK motoring titles published by Bauer, including Practical Classics, Land Rover Owner, Car, Car Mechanics, Classic Cars, and Modern Classics. Kelsey responded by launching its own weekly competitor, Classic Car Buyer.
The newspaper's average reader owns two classic cars, but also aims to be the first port of call for traders and private owners looking to buy or sell classic cars, and is also used for the latest information about the classic car market and for details of classic cars.
Regular content and features
The Way We Were: images from the 1950s-1990s and a discussion of the cars featured in the images
Five Classic Trials: an assessment of a classic car tested by Classic Car Weekly
The following sections regularly appear in Classic Car Weekly every Wednesday: This Week, Out and About, Living With Classics, Buying and Selling
This Week
Myth Buster: a regular column which de-bunks popular misconceptions about classic cars
Products: reviews of classic car-related products and books
Value My Classic: a weekly assessment of what a classic car - typically belonging to one of the readers - is worth
Out and About
Reports on classic shows from around the UK, such as the Goodwood Revival, or European events, including Techno Classica Essen and the Le Mans Classic
Living With Classics
Our Classics: updates on classic cars owned by members of the Classic Car Weekly team, and contributors including Jon Bentley and Steve Berry
Mods and Consequences: a rundown of what modifications can be made to classic cars, focusing on a different model each week
£500 Challenge: updates on running a Ford Puma, Mercedes-Benz S-class and MG ZR bought by Classic Car Weekly for £500 each
Buying and Selling
Classic Risers: a look at how values of classic car models have increased over a 15-year period, and a prediction of their future values
Buying Classics Abroad: an assessment of international classic car prices
Awards
Classic Car Weekly won the Automotive Consumer Publication award at the 2017 Newspress Awards.
References
External links
Official website
1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
Automobile magazines published in the United Kingdom
Bauer Group (UK)
Magazines established in 1990
Mass media in Peterborough
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Car%20Weekly |
"Sweet Head" is a song written by David Bowie which was recorded at Trident Studios on 11 November 1971. It took 18 years before it was eventually released and it first appeared on the Rykodisc CD release of Ziggy Stardust in 1990. Its release came as a complete surprise to even the most die-hard Bowie fans and collectors who were totally unaware of the track prior to its issue. Even co-producer Ken Scott had forgotten about its existence and admitted his utter surprise upon its release.
It then appeared on the 30th Anniversary Reissue bonus disc of Ziggy Stardust in 2002 and again in 2012 for the 40th Anniversary (this time with a jokey 30 second studio discussion between Bowie and the band). Though originally written for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders of Mars (the lyrics refer to "brother Ziggy"), it was considered too provocative to be released on the original album by the A&R team at RCA.
The song's lyrics contain references to the then recently released film A Clockwork Orange as well as strong innuendo, racist name-calling and directly references oral sex. "It was about oral sex, and it was one I don't think RCA particularly wanted," Bowie told Musician in 1990.
Similar in tempo to the other discarded song recorded in the same session (Chuck Berry's "Around and Around"), "Sweet Head" features lead guitar by Mick Ronson, while Bowie plays his customary twelve string acoustic guitar. There are 5 takes of the song which were all recorded live in the studio - the issued song being Take 4.
Personnel
David Bowie – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Mick Ronson – electric guitar
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar
Mick Woodmansey – drums
References
Bibliography
David Bowie songs
Songs written by David Bowie
1972 songs
British hard rock songs
Fellatio
LGBT-related songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Head |
Sir Christopher Dudley Roger Rose (born 10 February 1937) is a former judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Education
Christopher Rose was educated at Morecambe Grammar School (1947—1950), a former state grammar school, in the seaside town of Morecambe, in Lancashire, and Repton School (1950—1954), a boarding independent school for boys, in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, followed by the University of Leeds (1954—1957), from which he obtained a degree in Law and Wadham College at the University of Oxford,
from which he graduated as Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), in 1959. He has acted as an Honorary Fellow at Wadham College since 1993.
Life and career
Rose became Vice-President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal in 1997. In 2002 he was Treasurer of the Middle Temple. On 24 April 2006 he retired, and soon afterwards he was appointed Chief Surveillance Commissioner, a post which he held until 2015.
During his time on the Court of Appeal he was an outspoken critic of recent legislation, in particular the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which he criticised as being poorly drafted, saying: "If a history of criminal legislation ever comes to be written it is unlikely that 2003 will be identified as a year of exemplary skill in the annals of Parliamentary drafting."
In 2009 he said the Civil Nuclear Constabulary's "approach to covert activity is conspicuously professional'. He found that the system for storing the intelligence gained from informers was 'working well' and that "senior officers regard covert surveillance as a long-term requirement".
References
20th-century English judges
Lords Justices of Appeal
1937 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
People educated at Repton School
21st-century English judges | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Rose%20%28judge%29 |
Resedaceae is a family of mostly herbaceous dicotyledonous plants comprising 107 known species in 8 to 12 genera:
Borthwickia - 1 species, sometimes placed in its own family Borthwickiaceae
Caylusea - 3 species
Forchhammeria - 10 species
Homalodiscus - 2 species
Neothorelia - 1 species
Ochradenus - 4 species
Oligomeris - 3 species
Randonia - 1 species
Reseda - ca 55 species
Sesamoides - 1 species
Stixis - 7 species
Tirania 1 species
Taxonomy
Roman natural philosopher Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder, who lived in the first century, is attributed to have used the name Reseda for the first time in writing. But he must have used it for another plant, because the medical effect of healing swellings and inflammations that he described, could not be reproduced from Reseda by later researcher. The British botanist Samuel Frederick Gray erected the family Resedaceae in 1821, based on the type genus Reseda as validly described by Carl Linnaeus.
Recent molecular studies suggest that Oligomeris, Randonia and Ochradenus all arose from within the ranks of Reseda. This would imply that only three genera should be recognized, although as yet no nomenclatural changes have been made.
The family includes annuals, biennials and perennials and is distributed in temperate to sub-tropical regions of Europe, western Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and South Africa.
Resedaceae were placed under the Cronquist system in the order Capparales. The APG II system places it in the order Brassicales. In APG IV (2016) it was expanded to include the genera Borthwickia (formerly Borthwickiaceae), Neothorelia, Stixis, and Tirania (formerly Stixidaceae) and Forchhammeria (formerly in Capparaceae)
References
Brassicales families | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resedaceae |
Live!! is a live album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1998 through Dreamcatcher Records; it was reissued in 2000 as Double Live in the United States through Spitfire Records. The album was recorded live in Brazil on 5–6 May 1998 at the Olympia in São Paulo, and on 7 May 1998 at the Metropolitan in Rio de Janeiro. According to singer Mats Leven, most of the recordings originate from the second night in São Paulo.
Critical reception
Track listing
Disc one
Disc two
Personnel
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Guitars, Vocals on "Red House"
Mats Levén - Vocals
Mats Olausson - Keyboards
Barry Dunaway - Bass
Jonas Ostman - Drums
Rich DiSilvio - Cover art & package design
Originally Cozy Powell would be the drummer for this tour, however due to his death on 5 April 1998, Jonas Ostman was hired to replace him.
Japanese Version
In Japan the album was released with an EP with 3 songs live of the Brazilian hard rock band Dr. Sin. This EP was called 'Live in Brazil'.
References
1998 live albums
Yngwie Malmsteen live albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%21%21%20%28Yngwie%20Malmsteen%20album%29 |
Famous Stars & Straps (or simply Famous) is an American clothing and accessory line created by blink-182 drummer Travis Barker in December 1999. The company is based in Encino, California and operates online as a direct-to-consumer brand.
Description
Famous Stars & Straps embraces the California lifestyle, punk music, tattoos and cars.
Their stylized "F" logo, known as the "Badge of Honor", designed by Eddie Santos (Black Flys / Wahoo's Fish Taco) aka "Rock Da Mullet", has become synonymous with the brand.
Famous specializes in tees, hoodies, jackets, hats, accessories, and other special items.
References
Blink-182
Clothing brands of the United States
Skateboarding companies
Surfwear brands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%20Stars%20and%20Straps |
Siva Samoa is the Samoan term for a Samoan dance. It is practiced in Samoa, and around the world by the Samoan diaspora. There are siva schools in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.
Traditional Samoan dancing is one area of the culture that has been the least affected by western civilisation. It requires the dancer to retain grace; movement of the arms and hands are
done so in a subtle but delicate manner. In earlier times, high chiefs or matais performed this special dance but modern day it is performed by a taupou. A version of Siva Samoa, called Mak Sa'moa, is a popular traditional dance style in Western Samoa.
Other forms of traditional Samoan dancing include the taualuga, siva afi, and sasa. There is also the māuluulu, Laumei, and Tautasi.
The most popular is the Siva Afi in which the dancer dances with fire on Samoan Knives, one, two, and even up to four knives can be used.
References
External links
How to Siva Samoa at The Coconet
Samoan dances
Samoan words and phrases | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siva%20Samoa |
Benalmádena Stupa is a stupa in Benalmádena, Málaga in the Andalusian region of southern Spain, overlooking Costa del Sol. It is high and is the tallest stupa in Europe. It was inaugurated on 5 October 2003, and was the final project of Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche.
Overview
In Buddhism, a stupa is a monument which represents peace, prosperity and harmony, as well as being a place for meditation. Benalmádena Stupa (Chan Chub Chorten in Tibetan) symbolizes Buddha's enlightenment, the realisation of the nature of the mind, and is one of the eight different forms that stupas are built. Whereas stupas are typically sealed structures, the Benalmádena Stupa is unusual as there is a 100 square metre meditation room and a room that can be used for exhibitions about Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan culture inside the structure. The walls of the meditation room are painted with the life story of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni.
Bhutanese Lama Lopon Tsechu guided the ritual elements, while German-based Polish architect Woitek Kossowski, oversaw construction. The stupa was inaugurated on October 5, 2003 by H.H. Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, the second-most important teacher within the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Also present was Lömpo Sangye Ngodup, a minister from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Lama Ole Nydahl and the Mayor of Benalmádena, Enrique Bolin. Sr Bolin was inspired by another large Karma Kagyu Diamond Way stupa near Vélez-Málaga, Spain, and was instrumental in providing the land on which the stupa is situated. The stupa is run by the non-profit Asociación Cultural Karma Kagyu de Benalmádena, under the spiritual guidance of the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje.
Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche
Lopon Tsechu visited Spain for the first time in 1990, where he gave teachings and empowerments at Karma Guen, a Buddhist meditation centre near Vélez-Málaga, about from Benalmádena. Rinpoche built his first stupa at Karma Guen in 1994, a symbol of peace and prosperity for Spain. Rinpoche went on to build 16 more stupas in Europe before his death in 2003. Rinpoche became a resident of Spain in 1995 and began visiting the country regularly, giving further teachings and empowerments. Tsechu Rinpoche guided this stupa project from the beginning but died near its completion. The final inauguration was performed by the 14th Shamar Rinpoche.
References
External links
https://www.andalucia.com/benalmadena/benalmadena-pueblo/buddhist-temple
Buildings and structures in Andalusia
Stupas
Tourist attractions in Andalusia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalm%C3%A1dena%20Stupa |
My Heart is the debut album by American R&B singer Donell Jones. It was released by LaFace Records on June 4, 1996, in the United States. After the dissolution of his group Porché, Jones turned to songwriting and production, writing songs for R&B group Jade from their 1994 second album Mind, Body & Song as well as co-writing for Usher's self-titled debut album in that same year. He signed a recording contract as a solo performer with LaFace under Untouchables Entertainment, a production company and record label founded by Heavy D. & The Boyz member Edward "Eddie F." Ferrell. Most of the album was produced by Jones himself with additional help from Ferrell's Untouchables Entertainment production team. The album featured three singles, including "In the Hood", "Knocks Me Off My Feet" and "You Should Know".
Track listing
Sample credits
"Waitin' on You" contains samples of "The Way We Were", as performed by Gladys Knight & The Pips and "Can It Be All So Simple", as performed by Wu-Tang Clan
"All About You" contains a sample of "Summer Madness", as performed by Kool & the Gang
"You Should Know" contains a sample of "Player's Anthem", as performed by Junior M.A.F.I.A.
"In the Hood (Remix)" contains a sample of "Computer Love", as performed by Zapp
"The Only One You Need" contains a sample of Shook Ones (Part II)", as performed by Mobb Deep
Personnel
Credits adapted from Allmusic.
Keyboards: Donell Jones, Eddie F., Darin Whittington, Mookie, Mark Sparks, Kenny Tonge
Drum Programming: Donell Jones, Eddie F., Darin Whittington, Mookie, Mark Sparks, Kenny Tonge
Trumpet: Joseph Morant
Background vocals: Donell Jones, Shelene Thomas, Tia Whittington, Chico DeBarge, Patria, Erik Milteer
Recording engineer: Scott Hollingsworth, Darin Whittington, Joe Quinde, Jason DeCosta, Kenny Ifill, Kenny Tonge
Mixing: Scott Hollingsworth, Kenny Ortiz, Paul Logus, Rich Travali, Dave Daschinger, Chris Tergersun
Executive producer: Edward "Eddie F." Ferrell, Antonio M. Reid, Kenneth B. Edmonds
Mastering: Herb Powers at The Hit Factory
Photography: John F. Cooper
Art direction: D.L. Warfield
Design: Ron Jaramillo
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
[ My Heart] at Allmusic
1996 debut albums
Donell Jones albums
LaFace Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Heart%20%28Donell%20Jones%20album%29 |
Zamira Khamatkhanovna Zaytseva (; born February 16, 1953) is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR. She was born in Oltinkoʻl, Uzbek SSR.
Her achievements include three championship silver medals over 1500 metres.
Her personal best times are 1:56.21 (800 metres) and 3:56.14 (1500 metres).
International competitions
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Andijan Region
Uzbekistani female middle-distance runners
Soviet female middle-distance runners
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamira%20Zaytseva |
Carillon Senior Hockey League was a Canadian senior men's ice hockey league that plays out of southeastern Manitoba. It is affiliated with Hockey Manitoba, the provincial branch of Hockey Canada.
History
The league was created in 2003 on the premise that local teams should have local players. The existing senior league at the time, the Hanover-Taché Hockey League (HTHL), included a large number of imported players. During its first season, the CSHL was operated as an independent league and did not have accreditation from Hockey Manitoba. Three teams competed that season (Landmark Dutchmen, Mitchell Mohawks, Ste. Anne Aces) with Mitchell winning the championship.
In its second season, the CSHL was accepted by Hockey Manitoba. The league doubled to six teams, with the Grunthal Red Wings, St. Adolphe Hawks and Steinbach Huskies being accepted. Mitchell once again won the championship.
Prior to the third season, the rival HTHL folded, and two teams joined the CSHL: the La Broquerie Habs and St. Malo Warriors. This brought the league total of teams to eight. The La Broquerie Habs defeated the Ste Anne Aces in four-straight games to claim the league championship.
In its fourth season, the Steinbach Huskies went on hiatus while the Landmark Dutchmen folded, leaving the league with six teams yet again. The La Broquerie Habs defeated Ste. Anne in five games to claim their second straight league title. In provincial competition, the La Broquerie Habs won the Manitoba Senior 'A' provincial championship.
The Steinbach Huskies rejoined the league for the 2007-08 season, while Grunthal Red Wings went on hiatus. This season produced a new champion, the Ste. Anne Aces, who defeated St. Malo in seven games to become the champions.
The following season, it was the St. Malo Warriors that ended a 21-year championship drought and captured their first CSHL title. The final was a rather quick series as St. Malo won in five games, winning the cup at home against the Ste. Anne Aces. The 2008-09 season was a special year for hockey in St. Malo as both the Senior Warriors and the Junior 'B' Warriors of the Keystone Junior Hockey League captured their respective titles in the same year for the first time in the town's history.
In 2009-10 season, the Steinbach Huskies won both the CSHL championship and the Manitoba Provincial 'A' Championship. The Huskies followed up their provincial championship by defeating La Broqerie in the seventh game of the finals the following day. Captain Mike Martens scored with 3:13 left in the third period to clinch the victory. The championship was a first for the Steinbach team in the CSHL, and the first local league title since the Huskies won the Hanover-Tache Hockey League in 1993-94. The Huskies repeated as champions the following season.
In only their second season in the CSHL, the Niverville Clippers captured their first league title in 2012, sweeping La Broquerie in four games.
The CSHL's last season of play was 2019-20. After two cancelled seasons due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the league formally ceased operations in 2022.
Teams
Grunthal Redwings (2004-20)
Ile des Chênes North Stars (2020-22)
La Broquerie Habs (2005-19)
Lac du Bonnet Blues (2005-19)
Landmark Dutchmen (2003-06)
Mitchell Mohawks (2003-13)
Niverville Clippers (2010-13)
Red River Wild (2010-22)
Springfield 98s (2012-17)
Steinbach Huskies (2004-19)
St. Adolphe Hawks (2004-09)
St Malo Warriors (2005-16)
Ste. Anne Aces (2003-22)
Champions
Each season, the winner of the playoffs is crowned league champion. The CHSL champion compete against Manitoba's other senior league champions for the Manitoba Senior 'A' Provincial Championship.
See also
Hanover-Taché Hockey League
Hanover Tache Junior Hockey League
References
External links
Carillon Senior Hockey League website
Hockey Manitoba
Ice hockey leagues in Manitoba
Sport in Eastman Region, Manitoba
Senior ice hockey
Sports leagues established in 2003
2003 establishments in Manitoba
2022 disestablishments in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillon%20Senior%20Hockey%20League |
Urutaí is a municipality in southeast Goiás state, Brazil. It is a major producer of poultry products.
Location
Urutaí is located 163 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. Highway connections are made by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / BR-352 / G-020 / Santa Cruz de Goiás / Palmelo. See Sepin for all the distances.
In the north it borders Pires do Rio and Orizona; in the south and the east it borders Ipameri; and in the east it borders Pires do Rio.
The elevation is between 654 and 988 meters with the municipal seat lying at 807 meters.
Political information
Mayor: Ésio Bento Lemos do Prado (January 2005)
City council: 09 members
Eligible voters: 2,535 (December/2007)
Demographics
Population density: 4.35 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Population in 1980: 3,138
Population in 2007: 2,727
Urban population: 2,212 (2007)
Rural population: 515 (2007)
Population growth rate: -0.46% 1996/2007
The economy
The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
Industrial units: 2 (2007)
Commercial units: 29 (2007)
Financial institutions: - Banco Itaú S.A.
Cattle herd: 49,200 head (9,000 milk cows) (2006)
Poultry: 2,000,000 head (2006)
Main crops: pineapple, rice, bananas, coffee, sugarcane, beans, manioc, corn, and soybeans.
Agricultural data 2006
Number of farms: 363
Total area: 38,412 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 158 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 2,055 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 26,830 ha.
Area of woodland and forests: 8,363 ha.
Persons dependent on farming: 760
Farms with tractors: 52
Number of tractors: 81
Cattle herd: 49,200 head IBGE
Education (2006)
Schools: 4
Classrooms: 65
Teachers: 86
Students: 1,559
Higher education: Instituto Federal Goiano-IFGOIANO
Adult literacy rate: 88.3% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
Health (2007)
Hospitals: 0
Hospital beds: 0
Ambulatory clinics: 1
Infant mortality rate: 24.45 (2000) (national average was 33.0).
History
Urutaí is a town that appeared with the coming of the railroad in 1914. At first houses were built around the railroad station to house workers and soon this settlement grew. In 1947 the town separated from Ipameri to become a municipality.
Municipal Human Development Index
MHDI: 0.760
State ranking: 54 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
National ranking: 1,590 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000) For a complete list see Frigoletto.com
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions of Goiás
References
Frigoletto
Sepin
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruta%C3%AD |
Cibao International Airport () , also known as Santiago Airport, is located in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second-largest city. It is the country's third-busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana International Airport and Las Américas International Airport. Since its inauguration, in terms of passenger traffic, Cibao International has been projected to become one of the busiest airports in the country. Presently it has become the third-busiest airport in the Dominican Republic, only being surpassed by the airports of Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. The airport served more than 1,900,000 passengers in 2021.
The airport is located southeast of Santiago City's center.
The air terminal mainly serves Dominicans residing in the United States, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Puerto Rico, as well as Haitians residing in the Cibao Region. Recently many tourists and missionary workers are using Cibao International as a gateway to the Dominican Republic.
JetBlue is the primary international operator, with up to twenty daily flights to New York–JFK, Newark, and Boston. The airline replaced flights from American Airlines, and some slots from other airlines flying to the United States of America.
History
Plans for the construction of the airport were first proposed in 1969. The Cibao International Airport Corporation was created on March 29, 1978, with the cooperation of José Armando Bermúdez (president), Víctor Espaillat, Manuel Arsenio Ureña, Dr. José Augusto Imbert, Mario Cáceres and Ing. Carlos S. Fondeur, who acquired the land necessary to build the new airport.
The construction of the airport began on February 15, 2000, and was finished in 2002. The airport was inaugurated on March 18, 2002, with two direct flights to San Juan operated by American Eagle.
In May 2002, Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas made the first direct flight from Santiago to JFK Airport in New York. Later that month American Airlines and North American Airlines began direct flights to New York, Miami, and San Juan. A few months later Continental Airlines began direct flights from Newark. This was followed by direct service by JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines, both from New York.
Aeromar initiated Santiago as its secondary hub, after Las Américas International Airport.
In 2003, Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas stopped their flights into Santiago after the airline ceased operations.
By the end of 2005, the airport's operator began one of the biggest expansions for this airport. They expanded the customs hall and rebuilt the west and east sides of the terminal. The terminal saw the addition of a second floor. This expansion was finalized in 2006. The runway's expansion is currently in folders, but there is no scheduled date to begin or conclude this expansion yet.
In April 2008, Cibao International became the first airport in the country to eliminate fees for private planes, making it possible to increase tourism in the region.
In June 2008, Continental Airlines announced the discontinuation of their services to Santiago until September 3.
Delta Air Lines announced new service to Atlanta, starting on December 20, 2008, and the resuming of the New York route on December 13, 2008.
On January 9, 2009, Spirit Airlines announced operations to Santiago from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, starting on June 21, 2009.
In 2010, the airport recovered passenger movements from the previous year, handling more than 900,000. It also became the third busiest airport by passengers in the country, having already ranked number three in aircraft operations. Also, in 2010, regular domestic routes from Santiago operated by Aerolineas Mas, Air Century, Caribair and VolAir were established. Aerolineas Mas became the strongest domestic airline in the airport and started operating Santiago's Airport as a Focus City Destination.
March 14, 2011, Aerolíneas Mas, Air Century, Vol Air and Caribair all cancelled their domestic flights. The domestic terminal was then used for private charter flights.
On April 1, 2013, American Airlines stopped their direct flight to New York's JFK Airport.
In December 2019, there were plans by Frontier Airlines to operate flights from Newark, New Jersey, to Santiago. However, their plans to operate the EWR-STI route were cancelled due to airport restrictions. That route was successful, however, as JetBlue was operating direct flights on the EWR-STI route as of October 2022.
Up until January 2020, the airport operated on private land which wasn't paid to the original owners; the current administration was plagued with multiple lawsuits, with the lower courts siding with the landowners. The case is currently in the Supreme Court.
Infrastructure
The Cibao International Airport infrastructure consists of the main international terminal, a domestic terminal and a cargo terminal. The international terminal is the most utilized and receives most of the flights operating to and from Cibao International Airport and it has modern installations to make easier the check-in, boarding and baggage claim processes.
The airport's owners are planning to expand the runway and the construction of the new taxiway next to the runway by the next year.
Runway and taxiways
Runway 11/29
The runway length is 2,620 m, which can support all types of passenger airliners. The airport's operators are discussing the expansion of the runway to allow larger aircraft for long-haul flights from Europe.
Taxiways
Cibao International Airport's taxiways are composed by two exits E-1 and E-2; E-1 is located on the west side of Runway 11/29, next to the direction 11 of that runway. E-2 is located in the east side of the runway, next to direction 29 of the runway.
Runway lighting
Airport expansion
The Cibao International Airport is currently under renovation. The works include the extension of the aircraft movement and parking platform, amplification of the runway by about 380 meters to accommodate aircraft with greater capacity and range. In addition, it announced important improvements to the passenger terminal, enhancing its comfort and capacity, including new access roads. The Cibao International Airport technical team estimates that the renovation process will be finished in 2026.
The design work was carried out by Luis Vidal + Architects, and it will be built under the direction of the Airport's technical team. In the remodeling, $300 million will be invested with the aim of doubling the capacity of the terminal, from where two million people are transferred each year. In addition, it will serve as cargo transport to more than 25 million pounds annually.
This new terminal will have sufficient capacity to meet current and future demand over the next twenty years, offering an optimum level of service for all its users.
Terminals
International terminal
The airport's main terminal (international) has six gates (B1-B6). Five of these gates provide boarding docks (B1-B2/B4-B6). It is located between the domestic terminal and the cargo terminal. It has all of the facilities of a modern airport.
Future expansion of this airport is being discussed which would include additional gates and baggage handling areas as well as expanding the taxiway. Recently gates B1 and B2 received boarding docks leaving gate B3 for smaller aircraft. JetBlue Airways is currently the largest carrier at the airport.
Domestic terminal
The airport's domestic terminal, also called the General Aviation hall, has three stands (A1 to A3), and is located next to the international terminal. It was used for domestic flights and is now used for charter private flights. Aerolineas Mas was currently the major domestic airline in this Airport. The airline operated flights to Santo Domingo-JBQ and Port-au-Prince, and with plans to operate regularly to Punta Cana, Aerolineas Mas had made of this airport its Focus City. Air Century ceased operations on regular domestic flights from/to Santo Domingo-JBQ, Punta Cana and Puerto Plata, operating all their flights through the Domestic Terminal. All domestic flights are no longer available at this Dominican airport. The international air terminal is the only terminal in use.
Military
This airport also served as the northern air base for the Dominican Air Force, however, mainly as a support facility. Presently there are no military aircraft stationed at this airport.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Cargo
Notes
World2Fly's flight from Santiago to Madrid flies via Santo Domingo, however the flight from Madrid to Santiago is nonstop.
Statistics
Passenger traffic
Top International Routes
Incidents and accidents
February 7, 2008, A Caribair flight crashed close to La Romana, when its engines stopped. There were no fatalities, but the pilot had some injuries. The aircraft was a Britten Norman Islander BN-2A, registered as HI-653CA, and had departed on a flight to Punta Cana International Airport via La Romana International Airport at 6 pm.
See also
List of the busiest airports in Dominican Republic
List of the busiest airports in the Caribbean
References
External links
Cibao International Airport website
Live Tracker MDST
Aerial View Tracker MDST
Video of Cibao Intl Aircraft movements
Picture of CO Boeing 777 in STI Note: link this picture to others of the same airport
Aeropuerto Cibao - Departamento Aeroportuario
Airport Data for STI
Dominican Republic Search Engine
Fly Dominican Republic/Dominican Republic Pilots Guide
Weather Information at NOAA
Airports in the Dominican Republic
Buildings and structures in Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
Santiago de los Caballeros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cibao%20International%20Airport |
Coke 2 could refer to:
New Coke, the reformulation of Coca-Cola introduced in 1985 and renamed "Coca-Cola II" in 1992
Coca-Cola C2, a low-calorie version of Coca-Cola introduced in 2004 using high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke%202 |
Russel S. "Russ" Witherby (born February 3, 1962 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American coach and former competitive figure skater. He competed in ice dance with several partners. He and April Sargent Thomas competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics. His other partners included Lois Luciani and Susie Wynne.
He is currently coaching at the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Results
With Luciani
With Sargent
With Wynne
References
American male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
1962 births
Living people
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Witherby |
WCAT may refer to:
Radio stations
WCAT (AM), a defunct radio station at 1390 AM formerly located in Burlington, Vermont
WCAT-FM, a radio station at 102.3 FM located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
WWKL (FM), which was previously known as WCAT-FM and was simulcast on the current WCAT-FM
WQVD, a radio station (700 AM) licensed to Orange-Athol, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call sign WCAT from 1956 to 1987 and from 1988 until 2005
WKMY (FM), a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Athol, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call sign WCAT-FM from 1989 until 2002
KTEQ-FM, a college FM radio station located in Rapid City, South Dakota, which is the successor to an AM station known as WCAT that operated from 1922 to 1952
WXXL, a radio station (106.7 FM) licensed to Tavares, Florida, United States, which used the call sign WCAT-FM from 1987 until 1988
Other uses
Wakefield City Academies Trust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCAT |
Stranger in This Town is the first solo studio album by Richie Sambora, the guitarist from the New Jersey band Bon Jovi. The album was released in 1991, while Bon Jovi was on a 17-month hiatus. Jon Bon Jovi also released a solo album, Blaze of Glory (1990), during this period.
Recording and production
As his first solo album, Sambora experimented with a more blues-oriented sound. He sings lead vocals and plays guitar on the album, backed by his Bon Jovi bandmates Tico Torres on drums and David Bryan on keyboards, joined by Tony Levin on bass guitar. Eric Clapton makes a guest appearance playing guitar on the track "Mr. Bluesman".
"Ballad of Youth", "One Light Burning" and "The Answer" were co-written with colleagues from his former club band Shark Frenzy. "Rosie" was originally intended to be a Bon Jovi song for their fourth album New Jersey; versions of this song with the full Bon Jovi line-up have surfaced as bootlegs.
"Ballad of Youth" was released as the lead single followed by the second single "One Light Burning". The album titled track, "Stranger in This Town" was released as the third single and "Mr. Bluesman" featuring Eric Clapton was released as a promo single. The first three singles were accompanied by music videos.
The first radio promotional single was "Church of Desire" in the United Kingdom. "The Answer" and "Rosie" were also released as promo singles in Japan.
Occasionally, "Stranger in This Town" has been played by Sambora on Bon Jovi's tours, most recently on their Lost Highway Tour in 2008.
Chart performance
The album charted at #36 on the Billboard 200 and #20 on the UK Albums Chart.
The lead single, "Ballad of Youth", reached a high of #63 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #59 in the UK. The album titled track, "Stranger in This Town" charted at #38 on the Mainstream rock charts.
Track listing
Personnel
Richie Sambora - lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, strings arrangement, producer
David Bryan - keyboards, strings arrangement
Tico Torres - drums, percussion
Eric Clapton - guitar solo on "Mr. Bluesman"
Tony Levin - bass guitar, Chapman Stick
Randy Jackson - bass guitar on "One Light Burning"
Dean Fasano, Franke Previte, Curtis King, Bekka Bramlett, Isabella Lento, Tawatha Agee, Brenda White-King - background vocals
Jeff Bova, Robbie Buchanan, Larry Fast, Jimmy Bralower, Chris Palmaro, Eric Persing - keyboards, programming
Rafael Padilla, Carol Steele - percussion
Neil Dorfsman - producer
JD Dworkow - production coordination
Jeff Hendrickson, Lance Phillips, Frank Wolf - engineering
Bob Ludwig - mastering
Tim White, Darryl Estrine - photography
Margery Greenspan - art direction
Katie Agresta - vocal coach
Umi Kenyon - design
Notes
Album credits on ArtistDirect
Richie Sambora biography on RockDetector
Charts
Album
Singles
References
1991 debut albums
Richie Sambora albums
Albums produced by Richie Sambora
Mercury Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger%20in%20This%20Town |
The Public Library Association (PLA) is a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of public librarians and supporters dedicated to the "development and effectiveness of public library staff and public library services." In keeping with this mission, the PLA provides continuing education to members, hosts a biennial professional conference, publishes a trade journal, and advocates for public libraries and literacy. The PLA was founded in 1944 and currently has over 9,000 members.
Issues
The PLA identifies the following areas as "priority concerns":
Adequate funding for public libraries
Improved management of public libraries
Recognition of the importance of all library staff members in providing quality public service
Recruitment, education, training, and compensation of public librarians
Intellectual freedom
Improved access to library resources
Effective communication with the nonlibrary world.
Governance
The PLA is governed by an 11-member Board of Directors elected by the association's members. The PLA Board of Directors consists of the President, President-Elect, Past-President, six Directors-at-Large, ALA Division Councilor, and PLA Executive Director. The Executive Director is an ex-officio and non-voting board member tasked with enacting the board's decisions. The PLA's current president is Carolyn Anthony, its president-elect is Larry Neal, and its executive director is Barbara Macikas.
Members of PLA standing committees, award juries, task forces, and advisory groups are appointed to one- or two-year terms by the president-elect. Active committees include a Budget and Finance Committee, Every Child Ready to Read Oversight Committee, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Leadership Development Committee, Legislation and Advocacy Committee, Public Libraries Advisory Committee, and committees to manage the PLA's biennial conferences and nominate candidates for committee service.
Publications
Public Libraries is the PLA's official trade magazine. Published six times annually, this magazine focuses on news and issues pertaining to public libraries and librarianship. It commenced publication in January 1947 under the editorship of Muriel E. Perry of Decatur Public Library. Public Libraries Online is the digital companion to the print journal and offers three full articles from each print issue, plus daily updates, interviews, blogging, and other exclusive content. The print magazine is a delayed open access journal; its web companion is free and open to all users. PLA is also responsible for the publication of many key monograph titles in the field of public librarianship.
History
PLA was formed in 1944 as the Division of Public Libraries of the American Library Association. The formation of the Division of Public Libraries of the American Library Association was approved by the ALA Council in 1944 following petitions signed by nearly 1,200 members. The first PLA president was Amy Winslow of Cuyahoga County Library. The first Executive Secretary (a position now known as Executive Director) was Julia Wright Merrill. The original mission of the division was to advance public library interests and to cooperate in the promotion of library service in general. In 1971 Effie Lee Morris became the first woman and black person to serve as president of the PLA. The PLA's First National Conference, with the theme "Serving People: Public Libraries Today and Tomorrow" was presented March 23–26, 1983 in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference chair was Charles W. Robinson. The core purposes was to strengthen public libraries and their contribution to the communities they serve.
See also
American Library Association
History of public library advocacy
Library science
Public libraries
Public library advocacy
Public Libraries
References
Public libraries
Library associations in the United States
Library-related professional associations
Professional associations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Chicago
Organizations established in 1944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Library%20Association |
The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica near Lafayette Square at 222 East Harris Street, Savannah, Georgia, in the United States. It is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah.
History
The colonial charter of Savannah prohibited Roman Catholics from settling in the city. The English trustees feared that Roman Catholics would be more loyal to the Spanish authorities in Florida than to the English government in Georgia; however, this prohibition faded shortly after the American Revolution. The church's congregation was reorganized about 1796. French Catholic émigrés established the first church after they fled Haiti in 1799, following the outbreak of slave rebellions that began on the Caribbean island in 1791. It became the main church for free blacks from Haiti in the early 19th century. Construction began on the new Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in 1873. The structure was nearly destroyed by fire in 1898 but through diligent effort was rebuilt by 1899. The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist was the first building in Georgia constructed of brick. It features 81 stained glass windows, 16 gargoyles, is 214 feet tall with a roof height of 96 feet, took over 90,000 copper nails and 45,000 slates to construct.
The congregation constructed its first church on Liberty Square in 1779 and in 1811, chose a site on Drayton and Perry Streets for a larger building. Bishop John England of the Diocese of Charleston, which encompassed Savannah, consecrated the new church April 1, 1839. Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Savannah in July 1850. The new Cathedral was planned in 1870 under Savannah's fourth Bishop, The Right Reverend Ignatius Persico. Most Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley, Archbishop of Baltimore, presided at the dedication of the Neo-Gothic sanctuary April 30, 1876. However, the brick structure lacked spires, which were not added until 1896 when it also received a coating of stucco and whitewash.
On February 6, 1898, a fire swept the building and left only the walls and spires, however the congregation quickly rebuilt and was able to celebrate Christmas Mass in the new facility in 1899. Wind direction spared the Cathedral Rectory and St. Vincent's Academy. The renovated structure was not completed fully for an additional 13 years. Stained glass windows were installed around 1904. The parish undertook subsequent renovation projects in 1959–1965, which addressed heating, cooling and lighting systems and decoration; 1984–1985, to reinforce structural foundations and implement changes suggested by the Second Vatican Council and 1998–2000 to install new roofing, and restore the original interior color palette and decorations.
Pope Francis elevated the status of the church to minor basilica in 2020.
Gallery
See also
List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
List of cathedrals in the United States
List of Catholic basilicas
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
References
External links
Official Cathedral Site
Diocese of Savannah Official Site
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
Basilica churches in the United States
Churches in Savannah, Georgia
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
French-American culture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Haitian-American culture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Historic district contributing properties in Georgia (U.S. state)
National Register of Historic Places in Savannah, Georgia
John the Baptist, Savannah
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1896
Roman Catholic churches in Georgia (U.S. state)
Lafayette Square (Savannah) buildings
Savannah Historic District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20Basilica%20of%20St.%20John%20the%20Baptist%20%28Savannah%2C%20Georgia%29 |
Herbert Nachbar (12 February 1930 in Greifswald – 25 May 1980 in East Berlin) was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.
Life
Herbert Nachbar was the son of a fisherman in Greifswald, Province of Pomerania. From 1936 to 1940, he attended the Volksschule in Wolgast subsequently the Lehrerbildungsanstalt in Pasewalk. After a short time as an electrician, he went to school as the Oberschule in Rostock where he took his Abitur. Nachbar began a study of Medicine at the Humboldt University of Berlin which he broke off after two semesters. He worked as a local reporter and contributing editor to different East Berlin newspapers until 1953 after which as a literary editor for the Aufbau-Verlag. From 1957 he was a freelance writer. Nachbar lived in several towns: until 1959 on the island of Ummanz from the 1960 to 1963 in East Berlin, from 1963 to 1969 in Graal-Müritz as well as again in East Berlin after 1969. From 1968, he was head dramaturg at the Volkstheater in Rostock and later at the East German Television in Berlin. His death in East Berlin was the result of a difficult disease which had forced him to become a wheelchair user since 1978.
Herbert Nachbar was a member of the Deutscher Schriftstellerverband and the P.E.N.-Zentrals of East Germany.
Artistic creations
Herbert Nachbar was the writer of novels, narratives and television screenplays. In his novels, he depicts the life of a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast. Later he expanded his themes and assimilated his own experiences in his books. Some of his later works had been shaped by sagas of the Baltic area and Scandinavia and bear fantasy and romance features.
Awards and honors
1957 Heinrich Mann Prize
1961 Literature Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation
1966 Johannes R. Becher Medal, in Silver
1976 National Prize of East Germany, 2nd Class
1980 Vaterländischer Verdienstorden, in Bronze
Works
Der Mond hat einen Hof (The Moon had a Yard), Berlin 1956
Die gestohlene Insel (The Stolen Island), Berlin 1958
Die Hochzeit von Länneken (The Marriage of Länneken), Berlin 1960
Der Tod des Admirals (The Death of the Admiral), Berlin 1960
Brasilienfahrt (Brasil Trip), Rostock 1961 (together with Gerhard Vetter)
Oben fährt der Große Wagen (The Great Wagon drives above), Rostock 1963
Ein Feldherr sucht seine Mutter (A Commander searches for his Mother), Rostock 1965
Haus unterm Regen (House under the Rain), Berlin et al. 1965
Meister Zillmann (Master Zillmann), Rostock 1965
Die Millionen des Knut Brümmer (The Millions of the Knut Brümmer), Rostock 1970
Ein dunkler Stern (A Dark Star), Berlin et al. 1973
Pumpendings seltsame Reise (Pumpending's Strange Journey), Berlin et al. 1975
Der Weg nach Samoa (The Way to Samoa), Berlin et al. 1976
Das fliegende Paddelboot (The Flying Paddle Boat), Berlin 1979
Keller der alten Schmiede (Cellar of the Old Forge), Berlin et al. 1979
Helena und die Heimsuchung (Helena and the Afflicted), Berlin 1981
Die große Fahrt (The Great Trip), Berlin et al. 1982
Der Junge mit den knielangen Hosen (The Boy with the knee-length Pants), Berlin et al. 1984
Editorial work
Die Meisterjungfer (The Master Maid), Rostock 1970
Literature
Zu Nachbar. Ein Almanach (About Nachbar. An Almanac), Edited by Günter Caspar and Sigrid Töpelmann. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1982.
Werner Fritzsche: Darstellung und Gestaltung des Verhältnisses von Individuum und Gesellschaft in der DDR-Literatur, untersucht am literarischen Werk Herbert Nachbars (Werner Fritzsche: Portrayal and Figure of Individual and Society in East Germany, examined Works of Herbert Nachbar), Diss. A, Erfurt-Mühlhausen, Pädag. Hochsch., 1983.
External links
Literature by and on Herbert Nachbar in the catalog of the German National Library
1930 births
1980 deaths
People from Greifswald
Writers from the Province of Pomerania
East German writers
Writers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
20th-century German novelists
German male novelists
20th-century German male writers
Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany
Heinrich Mann Prize winners
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Nachbar |
Rachel Lynn Mayer (married name: Godino) (born December 12, 1973) is an American former ice dancer. With partner Peter Breen, she represented the United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics where they placed 15th.
Personal life
Mayer was born December 12, 1973 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1991, she graduated from The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. She married Tom Godino, Jr., with whom she has three children – Kylie, Thomas, and Annie. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Career
Mayer and Breen won the silver medal at the 1992 U.S. Championships. They competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, finishing 15th. Their original dance was to the music of Saak-I-Jaarven and their free dance was to the soundtrack of Doctor Zhivago.
In 2001, Mayer was elected chair of the United States Olympic Committee's Athletes' Advisory Council (AAC) for 2001–2004 and served on the USOC Board of Directors and the USOC Executive Committee. She also served on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee Board of Trustees, which helped plan the 2002 Winter Olympics.
In 2003, the USOC was involved in controversy concerning its CEO, Lloyd Ward, and its President, Marty Mankamyer. Mayer testify in Congress before both Senate and House committees about various issues concerning the structure, governance, and operation of the USOC. The controversy led to the creation in 2003 of both a USOC Governance and Ethics Task Force and an Independent Commission on Reform of the United States Olympic Committee, the members of the latter chosen by members of Congress. As the Chair of the Athletes Advisory Council, Mayer was a leader of the effort to reform the USOC, which culminated at a USOC Board of Directors meeting in October 2003, when the USOC Board voted to change the USOC governance structure, going from a 123-member Board, 21 Executive Committee members, and 19 committees with 195 committee members to an 11-member Board with no executive committee and four (4) standing committees with 20 members (most of whom are also members of the 11-member Board).
Beginning in January 2006, Rachel Godino served as a member of the Board of Athletes for Hope, a public charity founded to, among other things, increase the involvement of Olympic and professional athletes in charitable and community causes.
Results
GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)
with Breen
References
American female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Living people
1973 births
Sportspeople from Minneapolis
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Mayer |
WNAX may refer to:
WNAX (AM), a radio station (570 AM) licensed to Yankton, South Dakota, United States
WNAX-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Yankton, South Dakota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNAX |
Where I Wanna Be is the second studio album by American R&B singer Donell Jones. It was released by LaFace Records on October 12, 1999, in the United States. The follow-up to his debut album My Heart (1996), it became his most successful album to date, having gone platinum, and produced three singles, including the worldwide hit "U Know What's Up", Donell's biggest hit single to date, peaking inside the top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100 and at number two on the UK Singles Chart. The album also includes the UK hit "Shorty (Got Her Eyes on Me)", the minor R&B/Hip Hop hit "This Luv" and the US smash hit, soulful ballad and title track, "Where I Wanna Be".
Critical reception
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated the album four out of five stars. He found that "on the surface of things, Jones may sound similar to a lot of his peers, but there's a greater sense of musical sophistication in his music. There are light touches of jazz, suave electric pianos, and an easy seductiveness to the entire production [...] For much of the album, Jones hits the right tone – balancing mood, song, and performance quite alluringly. It gets him and the listener where they wanna be."
Chart performance
Where I Wanna Be debuted and peaked at number 35 on the US Billboard 200, with first week sales of 39,000 units. It also marked Jones' first top ten album on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 8, 2000, and Platinum on May 24, 2000. By June 2002, Where I Wanna Be had sold 1.2 million copies in the US.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
[ Where I Wanna Be] at Allmusic
1999 albums
Donell Jones albums
Albums produced by Eddie F | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20I%20Wanna%20Be%20%28Donell%20Jones%20album%29 |
Philippa is a feminine given name meaning "lover of horses" or "horses' friend". Common alternative spellings include Filippa and Phillipa. Less common is Filipa and even Philippe (cf. the French spelling of Philippa of Guelders: Philippe de Gueldres). It is the feminine form of the masculine name Philip. It is composed of the Greek elements philein (to love) and hippos (horse), and is derived from the name of Alexander the Great's father, the ancient Greek king, Philip II of Macedon (aka Philippos, Filippos, and Pilipos), who was an avid horse lover. The name is commonly shortened to the nicknames Pippa, Pippy, Pippita, Pipka, Pippulina, and Pip. Notable people with the name Philippa include:
Pre-modern era
Saint Philippa (died 220), Christian martyr and saint
Philippa of Hainault (c. 1310/15–1369), queen consort of Edward III of England
Philippa Roet (c. 1346 – c. 1387), wife of Geoffrey Chaucer
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355–1382), granddaughter of Edward III of England
Philippa of Lancaster (1360–1415), English princess, consort queen of Portugal
Philippa of England (1394–1430), daughter of King Henry IV of England, Queen of Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Philippa of Coimbra (1437–1497), Portuguese noblewoman and nun
Modern era
Philippa Boyens (born 1962), New Zealand screenwriter
Pip Courtney, Australian journalist and television presenter
Philippa Cullen (1950–1975), Australian performance artist
Philippa Dunne, Irish actress and writer
Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), English mathematician and educationalist
Philippa Foot (1920–2010), British philosopher
Philippa Forrester (born 1968), British television presenter and producer
Philippa Gregory (born 1954), British novelist
Pippa Mann (born 1983), British racing car driver
Pippa Middleton (born 1983), English socialite, author, and sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), English children's author
Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967), American pianist and child prodigy
Phillipa Soo (born 1990), American actress/singer
Pip Tomson (born 1977), English journalist and presenter
Philippa Whipple (born 1966), British high court judge and barrister
Philippa Whitford (born 1958), Scottish politician and breast surgeon
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist
Philippa York (born 1958), Scottish journalist and former professional cyclist
See also
Filipa
References
English feminine given names
English-language feminine given names
Feminine given names
Greek feminine given names
Given names of Greek language origin
Given names derived from animals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa |
Peter Breen (born October 29, 1969) is an American former competitive ice dancer. With partner Rachel Mayer, he is the 1992 U.S. national silver medalist. They represented the United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics where they placed 15th.
Following that partnership, Breen teamed up with Kate Robinson. They are the 1997 U.S. bronze medalists.
Breen is currently a physical therapist and works with elite figure skaters such as Stephen Carriere and Katrina Hacker.
Results
GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)
With Mayer
With Robinson
References
External links
Backstage PT
American male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Living people
1969 births
Sportspeople from Brockton, Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Breen%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Naphthol Red (Pigment red 170 or PR170) is an organic pigment extensively used in automotive coatings and painting.
It is produced synthetically by converting p-aminobenzamide into the corresponding diazonium compound followed by coupling with 3-hydroxy-2-naphththoic acid (2-ethoxy)anilide ("Naphtol AS-PH" dye precursor).
In the solid state the hydrazo tautomer forms and several crystal structures exist. In the initial α polymorph the molecules are arranged in a herringbone pattern with extensive hydrogen bonding. The φ polymorph is more dense and more stable and produced industrially by thermal treatment in water at 130°C under pressure. In this phase the molecules are planar and arranged in layers. Extensive hydrogen bonding exists within the layer but between layers the only interactions are Van der Waals forces. Dense crystal structures are preferred for pigments used in coatings because in the event of photochemical decomposition the fragments are locked in place and are able to recombine. Research shows that by replacing the ethoxy group in this compound by a methoxy group the crystal structure is less stable and in the final application and the color fades more easily. By careful selection of substituents it is possible to optimize crystal structure and improve optical properties .
References
Crystal Structures of Pigment Red 170 and Derivatives, as Determined by X-ray Powder Diffraction Martin U. Schmidt, Detlef W. M. Hofmann, Christian Buchsbaum, Hans Joachim Metz, Angewandte Chemie International Edition Volume 45, Issue 8, Pages 1313 - 1317 2006 Abstract
Pigments
Organic pigments
Amides
Carboxamides
Ethoxy compounds
Diazo compounds
Aromatic ketones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphthol%20Red |
This is a list of feature films and documentaries that include mathematicians, scientists who use math or references to mathematicians.
About mathematics
Films where mathematics is central to the plot:
21 (2008) – A group of current and former MIT students, mostly mathematicians, and an algebra professor devise a card counting scheme for success at Las Vegas Strip blackjack tables.
The Bank (2001) – A mathematician discovers a formula to predict fluctuations in the stock market.
Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a math student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles.
Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great enigma and told to use pseudonyms based on famous historical mathematicians. At the house, they are trapped in a room. They must solve puzzles given by the host, who calls himself "Fermat", in order to escape the slowly closing walls of the room.
Gifted (2017) – Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy—his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace)—in a coastal town in Florida after the death of her mother Diane, a mathematician. Mary's grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) and uncle have different ideas on how to raise her. Mary tells her grandmother she wants to solve the problem her mother was working on, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
Good Will Hunting (1997) – Janitor and genius Will Hunting (Matt Damon) begins to turn his life around with the help of psychologist (Robin Williams) and a Fields Medal-winning professor (Stellan Skarsgård).
I.Q. (1994) – Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) helps a young man (Tim Robbins) pretend to be a physicist in order to catch the attention of Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan).
An Invisible Sign (2011) – Mona Gray (Jessica Alba) gives up everything important to her in life, except mathematics, as part of a "deal with the universe" to help restore her father (a mathematician) to health. Years later, Mona teaches the subject, and does her best to help her students contend with their own personal crises.
Moebius (1996) – Topologists including a young girl make contributions to the subway system and other facets of reality in Argentina in this math film with a science fiction and surreal feel.
Moneyball (2011) – Oakland Athletics baseball team's general manager Billy Beane attempts to assemble a competitive team using statistics.
The Oxford Murders (2008) – A Student (Elijah Wood) finds out about mysterious killings in Oxford and helped by a professor (John Hurt), they reveal the math patterns used by the killer.
Pi (1998) – A mathematician searches for the number that underlies all of nature.
Proof (2005) – A former student (Jake Gyllenhaal) of a recently deceased, brilliant mathematician (Anthony Hopkins) finds a notebook in his office containing a proof of an important theorem, but the mathematician's daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow) claims it is hers. The ensuing dispute is complicated by signs that she may have inherited her father's mental illness and a burgeoning romance.
Raising Genius (2004) – The film is about a boy (Justin Long) who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall.
Sneakers (1992) – An eclectic team is blackmailed into stealing a mathematician's code-breaking box.
Travelling Salesman (2012) – The US government hires four mathematicians to solve the most powerful problem ever to plague computer science (P vs NP problem).
X+Y (2014) A teenage mathematical prodigy has difficulty understanding people, but finds comfort in numbers.
Mathematician biographical films
Biographical films based on real-life mathematicians:
Agora (2009) – The life of the mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Hypatia (Rachel Weisz), directed by Alejandro Amenábar.
A Beautiful Mind (2001) – A fictional account based loosely on the life of mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe), who made a breakthrough that wins him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
A Brief History of Time (1991) – A biographical documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris.
(1973) - A miniseries on the life of René Descartes, directed by Roberto Rossellini.
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015) – A documentary film by George Paul Csicsery about Yitang Zhang, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, working in complete isolation and making an important breakthrough towards solving the twin prime conjecture.
Enigma (2001) – A story of romantic and psychological intrigue set in Bletchley Park during the World War II effort to crack the German Enigma machine.
Girls who fell in love with Math (2017) – Career profiles of mathematicians Sun-Yung Alice Chang and Fan Chung.
Hidden Figures (2016) – African-American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are featured in this film about the early years of the NASA Project Mercury and racial and sexual segregation.
A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon (1983) – A drama film about the professor of mathematics, Sofya Kovalevskaya.
The Imitation Game (2014) – British mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), a pioneer in digital computing and artificial intelligence, is tasked with cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code that would help the Allies win World War II. A new adaptation of the play "Breaking the Code".
Infinity (1996) – A story about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick).
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) – The true story of Indian mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who develops numerous properties of infinite series as a clerk in India before writing to Cambridge mathematicians who invite him to UK. Directed by Matthew Brown
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (1993) – A documentary directed by George Csicsery about the life of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős.
Ramanujan (2014) – A biographical film by Gnana Rajasekaran based on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Secrets of the Surface The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (2020) – A documentary film by George Csicsery about the Fields medalist and Iranian national hero.
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1985) – Epic film in four episodes, based on a true story of mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.
The Theory of Everything (2014) – The story of the life and hardships faced by theoretical physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking.
Starring mathematicians
Films where one or more of the main characters are mathematicians, but that are not otherwise about mathematics:
It's My Turn (1980) – A mathematics professor (Jill Clayburgh) falls in love with her father's bride's son (Michael Douglas).
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) – A math professor (Jeff Bridges) marries a literature professor (Barbra Streisand), but they want different things from the relationship.
Stand and Deliver (1988) – Based on the true story of math teacher Jaime Escalante, who inspired the students at a school in a troubled Hispanic neighborhood to take Advanced Placement Calculus. The method of tabular integration is featured in the film.
Straw Dogs (1971) – David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is an American mathematical physicist who moves to England, where he and his wife are violently harassed by locals.
A Summer's Tale (1996) – A young mathematician vacationing in Brittany.
Tall Story (1960) – A college physics and mathematics whiz is also the star basketball player, partly because he has devised equations for making baskets.
A Serious Man (2009)
Featuring mathematicians
Films where one or more of the members of the main cast is a mathematician:
21 Grams (2003) – An accident changes many lives, including that of a critically ill mathematics professor (Sean Penn).
Antonia's Line (1995) – A genealogical "line" of five generations of women includes a child prodigy, Thérèse, who grows up to be a mathematician.
Jurassic Park (1993) – A mathematician studying chaos theory (Jeff Goldblum) is among those invited to a theme park with cloned dinosaurs, in order to assess its safety.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – Mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) travels to an auxiliary Jurassic Park site to document dinosaurs.
See also
List of fictional child prodigies
References
External links
Mathematical Fiction: films by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)
The Mathematical Movie Database by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
Mathematics in Movies by Oliver Knill (Harvard University)
My Math Movie Picks by Brian Harbourne (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Math in the Movies by Arnold G. Reinhold
Math Becomes Way Cool by Keith Devlin (Mathematical Association of America)
Top 10 Math Movies (infographic)
Mathematicians
Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%20about%20mathematicians |
The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays is a collection of transcriptions written by The Firesign Theatre for the title tracks of each of their first four albums. The book also contains some introductory material that is serious as well a few pieces that parody introductory material. Photos of the group—childhood photos, casual snapshots, and full-costume publicity shots vaguely related to the written material—are included. The book concludes with "Lt. Bradshaw's Secret Indentity [sic] Roster" which indicates which member of the group performs each major role. Some of the material from the group's first four albums that was not included in this collection can be found in the 1974 book, The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book. A later printing of the "Big Book of Plays" (circa 1980) has a bright yellow cover, with different cover illustrations than the original shown here.
Table of Contents
A Straight, Forward Look at the Firesign Theatre
Who Am Us Anyway?
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
Revolution or Revelation
May I see your Passport, Please?
The Script
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
The Perfect Ralph Williams Mantra
Welcome to Side Six
The Script
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here
"A Life in the Day"
The Script
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
If Bees Lived Inside Your Head
Intrat Et Exit Ut Nil Supra!
The Script
Addenda, Appendix and Et Cetera
Mark Time's True Chronology of The Firesign Theatre
Lt. Bradshaw's Secret Indentity Roster
1972 books
The Firesign Theatre
Straight Arrow Press books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Firesign%20Theatre%27s%20Big%20Book%20of%20Plays |
() is a quarter in the borough of in Berlin, Germany, that takes its name from the small lake (literally 'White Lake') within it. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, was a borough in its own right, consisting of the quarters of , , , , and . A fictional German-language TV series by the same name is set in the borough between 1980 and 1990 during the communist era.
History
was first mentioned in 1313 as . The first settlers subsisted on fishing and established themselves on the eastern shore of the lake, where an old trade route connected Berlin with () and the Baltic Sea – today the federal highway.
1810 vs 2020
From 1914 onwards, the Weissensee Studios produced a number of silent films including works by Fritz Lang and the expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Weißensee has historically been overshadowed by its neighboring Ortsteile (localities) and , however its popularity is increasing due to its proximity to the hip but more expensive . Its trams make reaching Berlin Mitte very convenient.
Education in Weißensee
Kindergarten
Kindergarten EinStein, Klax-Kinder, Kita St.Josef, Kindergarten Staustraße, others
Primary School
Schule am Hamburgerplatz, Grundschule am Weißensee, Schule am Wasserturm, others
High School
Heinz-Brand-Schule, Hagenback-Oberschule, others
Gymnasium
Primo-Levi-Gymnasium, Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium, others
Technical college
Max-Bill-Schule
University/College
Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
Overview
Weißensee is one of the most peaceful districts of Berlin. The immediate area around the lake is characterized by its historic architecture, numerous places of interest, parks, lakes, and activities. The Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin () is of national rank. The cycling track has also hosted popular music concerts. The largest concert ever held here was a Bruce Springsteen concert on July 19, 1988, attended by an estimated 160,000 people. At Weißensee Cemetery, one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries, notable people such as painter Lesser Ury and publishers Samuel Fischer and Rudolf Mosse are buried.
The lake is almost circular in shape with a diameter of up to and is up to deep. With an area of , Weißer See has a water volume of .
Public transport
Public transportation in Germany is widespread, especially in its capital city, Berlin. The BVG is the main transport company in Berlin. Both buses and trams service Weißensee.
Bus
255 in the directions of Schwarzelfenweg and U Osloer Str.
259 in the directions of Aubertstr. and Stadion Buschallee/Hansastr.
Tram
M4 in the directions of Falkenberg or Zingster Str. and S Hackescher Markt
References
External links
tic-berlin: tourist & historical information about Weißensee
Gustav-Adolf Street
Article from Exberliner magazine
Localities of Berlin
Weissensee
Former boroughs of Berlin
Populated places established in the 1310s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissensee%20%28Berlin%29 |
Joseph Henry Druar (September 5, 1962 – July 27, 2023) was an American ice dancer. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics with Susie Wynne. The duo won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice.
Druar was born on September 5, 1962, and died from heart failure on July 27, 2023, at the age of 60.
Results
(with Susie Wynne)
References
Navigation
1962 births
2023 deaths
American male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Goodwill Games medalists in figure skating
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Druar |
Siemens v Manitoba (AG), [2003] 1 S.C.R. 6, 2003 SCC 3 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on whether provincial plebiscite, used to determine if video lottery terminals (VLTs) should be banned from individual communities, are constitutional. The Court held that the plebiscites were a valid exercises of the province's power to legislate on matters "of a local nature" under section 92(16) of the Constitution Act, 1867, and that the plebiscite did not violate the rights of the VLT owners under sections 2(b), 7 and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Background
In 1998, the town of Winkler, Manitoba held a non-binding plebiscite in which it was decided to ban VLTs from the community. In 1999, the province of Manitoba passed the Gaming Control Local Option Act (known as the "VLT Act") which allowed municipalities to hold binding plebiscites to ban VLTs. The VLT Act contained a provision in section 16 which made the Winkler plebiscite binding which resulted in the Winkler Inn, owned by the Siemens, to shut down its VLT facilities.
The Siemens challenged the VLT Act on the ground that section 16 was ultra vires the power of the provincial government's authority as it was a matter under the federal criminal law power, and that it violated their right to freedom of expression under section 2(b) of the Charter, their right to life, liberty, and security of person under section 7 of the Charter, and their right to equality under section 15(1) of the Charter.
The motions judge rejected the claims which was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Justice Major, writing for a unanimous Court, held that the Act was a valid exercise of the provincial law-making power and it did not violate any section of the Charter.
Opinion of the court
Major first considered the issue of whether section 16 was validly enacted. He examined the pith and substance of both the legislation and the impugned provision. The purpose of section 16 of the Act was to prohibit VLTs in the town of Winkler and to cancel all existing "siteholder agreements" for those with VLTs in their establishment. Based on the legislative debates, the section was used to give effect to plebiscite that had already been held. The purpose of the Act as a whole was "to allow municipalities to express, by binding plebiscite, whether they wish VLTs to be permitted or prohibited within their communities."
The regulation of gaming and the allowance of local input both fall under section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867. Section 16, which cancels "siteholder agreements" concerns property and civil rights which is a provincial power under section 92(13) of the Constitution Act, 1867. The Act as a whole gives power to the community to regulate VLTs consequently is considered a matter of a local nature under section 92(16).
Major rejected the argument that the law was a "colourable" attempt to enact criminal law. The Act did not contain the penal consequences required for valid criminal law nor was there a criminal law purpose for the Act. The moral aspect to the law was only incidental to the regulatory scheme.
Major rejected all of the Charter arguments. First, he dismissed the section 2 argument because although voting is a form of expression that is protected under the Charter it does not however include voting in a referendum as it was a creation of a statute. Second, he dismissed the section 7 argument as it has been well established that economic interests are not protected by the Charter and are not found within section 7. Lastly, he rejected the section 15 argument as the claimants failed to show that residence in a particular community or town is an "analogous ground" for discrimination.
See also
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (McLachlin Court)
External links
case summary from CLE society
Canadian federalism case law
Canadian freedom of expression case law
Section Fifteen Charter case law
Section Seven Charter case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
Winkler, Manitoba
2003 in Canadian case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20v%20Manitoba%20%28AG%29 |
Ornithomancy (modern term from Greek ornis "bird" and manteia "divination"; in Ancient Greek: οἰωνίζομαι "take omens from the flight and cries of birds") is the practice of reading omens from the actions of birds followed in many ancient cultures including the Greeks, and is equivalent to the augury employed by the ancient Romans.
Ornithomancy in some form has been found globally among a wide variety of pre-industrial peoples.
Mediterranean developments
Prophesying by birds appeared among the Hittites in Anatolia, with texts on bird oracles written in Hittite known from the 13th or 14th century, and from whom the Greek practice may derive. It was also familiar to the Etruscans, who may have brought it to Rome.
Greek evidence
Ornithomancy dates back to early Greek times, appearing on Archaic vases, as well as in Hesiod and Homer: one notable example from the latter occurs in the Odyssey, when an eagle appears three times, flying to the right, with a dead dove in its talons, an augury interpreted as the coming of Odysseus, and the death of his wife's suitors. Aeschylus has Prometheus claim to have introduced ornithomancy to mankind, by indicating among the birds “those by nature favourable, and those/Sinister”.
Ornithomancy could be spontaneous, or it could be the result of a formal consultation: the seer would face north, and birds on their right—the east, the direction of sunrise—were taken as favourable (the reverse being true of the Roman augur, who by contrast faced south). Although it was mainly the flights and songs of birds that were studied, any action could have been interpreted to either foretell the future or relate a message from the gods.
Roman practice
Omens from observation of the flight of birds were considered with the utmost seriousness by Romans. The practice of ornithomancy by priests called augurs was a branch of Roman national religion from before the founding of the city, which had its own priestly college to supervise its practice.
The word "inauguration" is derived from the Latin noun inauguratio derived from the verb inaugurare which was to "take omens from birds in flight." Since Roman augurs predominantly looked at birds for omens, they were also called auspex ("bird watcher", plural auspices), however they also interpreted thunder, lightning, the behavior of certain animals, and strange events. The phrase "under the auspices" is derived from this need for a favourable reading of the omens by the augurs.
Cultural echoes
Lewis Namier introduced his prosopographical study of eighteenth century politics in England with a quotation from Aeschylus on ornithomancy: “I took pains to determine the flight of crook-taloned birds, marking which were of the right by nature, and which were of the left, and what were their ways of living, each after his kind”.
The magpie counting song is a folklore remnant of ornithomancy.
See also
Notes
Sources
Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, New York, Carl Publishing Group Edition, 1996.
Mandelbaum, Allen, The Odyssey of Homer, New York, Bantam Classic Edition, 1991.
Divination
Prophecy
Ancient Greek religion
Ancient Roman augury
Birds in mythology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithomancy |
Mago may refer to:
Places
Mago Island, an island in Fiji
Mago, Minorca, a Carthaginian and later Roman town in Menorca
Mago, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
Mago National Park, in Ethiopia
Mount Mago a mountain in Mago National Park, Ethiopia
Mago River a tributary of the Omo river in Mago National Park, Ethiopia
People
Mago (agricultural writer), Carthaginian writer quoted and drawn on by Columella
Mago Barca (243–203 BCE), Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal
Mago (fleet commander) (died 383 BCE), Carthaginian fleet commander, active in Sicily
Mago (general), Carthaginian general active in Sicily in the mid 4th century BCE
The Magonids of the ruling dynasty of Carthage from 550 BCE to 340 BCE
Mago I of Carthage (reigned c. 550 – c. 530 BCE)
Mago II of Carthage (reigned 396–375 BCE)
Mago III of Carthage (reigned 375–344 BCE)
Andrea Bargnani known as "Il Mago" (b. 1985), Italian basketball player
Francisco Mago Leccia (1931–2004), Venezuelan ichthyologist
Hannibal Mago (died 406 BCE), Carthaginian shofet and general
Kenryo Hayashi, also known as "Mago", professional fighting game player
Music
Mago, an alternative term for didgeridoo
Mago (album), a 2007 album by Billy Martin and John Medeski
Mägo de Oz, a Celtic folk metal band from Spain
"Mago", a 2020 single by GFriend from the album 回:Walpurgis Night
Other uses
Mago (spider), a spider genus of the family Salticidae found in South America
HD 32518, a star with the approved name "Mago", named after the Mago National Park
Magu or Mago, a Chinese and Korean goddess
Nurarihyon no Mago, a manga series
See also
Magus (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mago |
An open primary is a primary election that does not require voters to be affiliated with a political party in order to vote for partisan candidates. In a traditional open primary, voters may select one party's ballot and vote for that party's nomination. As in a closed primary (such that only those affiliated with a political party may vote), the highest voted candidate in each party then proceeds to the general election. In a nonpartisan blanket primary, all candidates appear on the same ballot and the two highest voted candidates proceed to the runoff election, regardless of party affiliation. The constitutionality of this system was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party in 2008, whereas a partisan blanket primary was previously ruled to be unconstitutional in 2000.
The arguments for open primaries are that voters can make independent choices, building consensus that the electoral process is not splintered or undermined by the presence of multiple political parties.
Voter participation
The open primary could be seen as good for voter participation. First, the open primary allows nonpartisan or independent voters to participate in the nominating process. If these voters are allowed to help select the nominees then they may be more likely to vote in the general election, since one of the candidates could be someone the non-partisan voter voted for. Also, moderate members of one party may agree more with a candidate for the nomination of another party. These voters may have more of an incentive to participate in the general election.
It has also been claimed that the open primary is bad for voter participation. In Hawaii, primary voter turnout fell from 74.6% in 1978 to 42.2% in 2006 after changing to open primaries, although this could be the result of various other factors—not just the move towards the open primary system. The closed primary system had more of an incentive for people to join one of the major parties, which possibly led to people being more involved in the voting process. With the open primary, some argue, more voters become independent and are less likely to participate in the nominating or election processes.
Manipulation and dilution
Opponents of the open primary believe that the open primary leaves the party nominations vulnerable to manipulation and dilution. First, one party could organize its voters to vote in the other party's primary and choose the candidate that they most agree with or that they think their party could most easily defeat. Secondly, in the open primary, independent voters can vote in either party. This occurrence may dilute the vote of a particular party and lead to a nominee who does not represent the party's views. There is, however, little evidence of manipulation actually occurring, but there have been occasions when independent voters have an effect on the outcome of a partisan primary.
For example, in the 2008 presidential primaries in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney won among registered Republicans, but John McCain won overall. Likewise, in South Carolina, Mike Huckabee won among self-identified Republicans, but John McCain won the state.
Constitutional issues
Opponents of the open primary argue that the open primary is unconstitutional. These opponents believe that the open primary law violates their freedom of association, because it forces them to allow outsiders to select their candidates. An opposing view is that political parties are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution in any language, but voting rights of the individual are clearly defined.
Freedom of association has been recognized by the United States Supreme Court. First, in NAACP v. Alabama, the court said that "It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the "liberty" assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, which embraces freedom of speech."
In other words, the freedom of association is part of the freedom of speech. The freedom of speech, which is found in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, is applied to the states through the fourteenth amendment. In Gitlow v. New York, Justice Sanford states that "[f]or present purposes we may and do assume that freedom of speech and of the press-which are protected by the First Amendment from abridgment by Congress-are among the fundamental personal rights and 'liberties' protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the States."
This constitutionality raises a problem. The most popular alternative to the open primary is the closed primary. However, a mandatory closed primary can also be unconstitutional. In Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut, the United States Supreme Court determined that Connecticut's closed primary law was unconstitutional. The Connecticut closed primary law "[required] voters in any political party primary to be registered members of that party". The Republican Party of Connecticut, however, wanted to allow independents to vote in the Republican primary if they so chose. The problem with this closed primary law was that it prevented the Republican Party from allowing independent "registered voters not affiliated with any party to vote in Republican primaries for federal and statewide offices". Since the Republican Party of Connecticut was not able to choose who it wanted to vote in the primary, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, stated that the closed primary law in Connecticut "impermissibly burdens the right of the Party and its members protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments".
On October 1, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Virginia mandatory open primary statute was unconstitutional as applied to the Republicans because it imposed a burden on their freedom to associate under the First Amendment, although it did not explicitly rule on the question of whether an open primary law was in general unconstitutional as a burden on association.
California and primary election alternatives
A "modified closed primary" was in effect in California from 2001 to 2011. Each political party could decide whether or not they wish to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in their party's primary. This appeared to avoid the constitutional concerns of both the open and the closed primary. In the 2004 and 2006 primary elections, the Republican, Democratic, and American Independent parties all opted to allow unaffiliated voters to request their party's ballot. However, since the 2008 presidential primary election, only the Democratic and American Independent parties have taken this option, while the Republican party has not.
In 2011, the state adopted a "modified open primary". Individual citizens may vote for any candidate, and the top two candidates regardless of party will advance to the general election. The Presidential election is exempt from this voting method as it is a contest for delegates rather than a direct election for an office.
A potential side effect of the open primary is that parties that run more candidates may find themselves at a disadvantage, since their partisan supporters' votes will be split more ways in the primary and thus those candidates may have a harder time reaching the top-two ranking when competing with parties that run fewer candidates.
States with an open presidential primary
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Indiana
Massachusetts (Primaries open for "unenrolled"/unaffiliated voters only)
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire (Primaries open for “undeclared”/unaffiliated voters only)
North Carolina (Primaries open for unaffiliated voters only)
North Dakota
Ohio (semi-open)
Oklahoma (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2015)
South Carolina
South Dakota (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2018)
Tennessee
Texas
Utah (for the Democratic Presidential Primary)
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
States with open primaries for other elections
A similar system known as a nonpartisan blanket primary has been used in Louisiana for state and local elections since 1976, and began to be used in Washington, after numerous court challenges, in 2008.
In California, under Proposition 14, a measure that easily passed, traditional party primaries were replaced in 2011 with wide-open elections. Proposition 14, known as the open primary measure, gave every voter the same ballot in primary elections for most state and federal races, except the presidential contest.
Most primaries in New York are closed, but state law contains a provision allowing parties to use a different method if they want. Currently, only the Independence Party chooses to allow unaffiliated voters to participate.
Notes and references
Primary elections in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20primaries%20in%20the%20United%20States |
Harrah's Ak-Chin is a hotel and casino located 39 miles (63 km) south of Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa. It is owned by the Ak-Chin Indian Community and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The casino features video poker and slot machines, as well as blackjack, live roulette, live craps, keno, and bingo hall.
In July 2011, the casino underwent a $20 million expansion, with the addition of a new 152-room hotel tower that doubled its capacity.
The resort completed its last expansion in 2018 to include a 12-story hotel tower, bringing an additional 200 rooms totaling 529 total rooms. The pool and swim-up bar, completed in 2012, were renovated and completed in early 2019. The expansion also included an 18,000-square-foot multi-use entertainment space for live shows, weddings, and banquets.
History
Harrah's Ak-Chin has served more than one million customers since opening on December 27, 1994. It has hosted more than 750,000 hotel guests since 2001.
Timeline
December 27, 1994 – Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino opens in Maricopa, Arizona. It is Arizona's first, and only, Indian casino to have a management partner.
October 1997 – A Harrah's Ak-Chin guest wins $330,000 on a malfunctioning Quartermania slot machine. Some debate follows as to whether or not the guest will be paid because the machine was faulty, but Harrah's eventually awards her the full sum.
March 2001 – Harrah's Ak-Chin opens its resort hotel with 144 guest rooms and four guest suites.
February 2003 – The casino begins to offer tables games such as poker and blackjack.
June 2003 – Ak-Chin bingo operations move from the casino to the newly built Bingo Hall.
November 2009 – The 148 rooms on the property are remodeled.
December 2009 – The Ak-Chin Indian Community extends the Harrah's management agreement for five more years.
June 2010 – Harrah's Ak-Chin breaks ground at the site of its hotel expansion: a five-story, 152-room hotel tower on the existing property. All 152 rooms will include upgraded amenities, including 50-inch flat screen televisions.
July 2010 – The Ak-Chin Indian Community purchases Southern Dunes Golf Club, which is managed by Troon Golf. The club is open to the public and offered as an amenity to resort guests.
November 2010 – Harrah's Ak-Chin completes a remodel of The Buffet.
July 2011 – Harrah's Ak-Chin completes $20 million expansion and opens the new hotel tower.
May 2012 – Harrah's Ak-Chin completes remodel of pool with swim-up bar.
August 2013 – Harrah's Ak-Chin completes a $1.25 million renovation of the 2765-square-foot Lounge.
December 2013 – Harrah's Ak-Chin completes renovation of the Total Rewards Center and adds Dunkin' Donuts.
June 2016 – Harrah's Ak-Chin breaks ground on expansion.
November 2017 – Harrah's Ak-Chin opens Parking Garage & Expanded Gaming Space.
December 2017 – Harrah's Ak-Chin opens renovated Bingo Hall & Wine & Small Plate Bar, Oak & Fork.
March 2018 – Ak-Chin Indian Community opens Ak-Chin Circle Pedestrian Bridge connecting Harrah's Ak-Chin and Ultra-Star Multitainment Center.
July 2018 – Hotel Gym Opens
August 2018 – The Spa & Chop, Block & Brew Open
November 2018 – Addition of a 12-story hotel tower and 730-space parking garage is completed.
February 2019 – Total Rewards becomes Caesars Rewards
April 2019 – Pool Renovation Complete
July 2019 – 18,000 square foot Events Center Opens
January 2020 – Agave's Restaurant Renovation is Complete
March 2020 – Closes due to COVID-19 Pandemic
May 2020 – Reopens with new Health & Safety Procedure
July 2020 – Caesars Entertainment is bought by ElDorado
October 2020 – Ultra-Star Multitainment Center becomes Ak-Chin Entertainment Circle
September 2021 – Opened Live Craps, Roulette & Baccarat
Amenities
Dining
Agave's Restaurant – a casual café with indoor and outdoor seating; it serves traditional breakfast and lunch cuisine daily.
Copper Cactus Grill – open 24 hours a day, this snack bar offers food on the go. Fare includes breakfast burritos, hamburgers and pizza, as well as snacks like nachos and pie.
Dunkin'
The Buffet at Harrah's closed as March 2020. A reopen date has not been established.
Oak & Fork – offers small plates & wine.
Chop, Block & Brew – serving gourmet steaks and seafood, craft beer and hand-crafted cocktails & more.
Entertainment
Guests at Harrah's Ak-Chin can experience an 18,000 square foot entertainment hall. Featuring a variety of live performances from comedy acts to national headliners, there's something for everyone.
Additional amenities
The Ak-Chin property features an outdoor pool, complete with four spas, 12 private cabanas available for rent, daybeds, and a swim-up bar. Cocktail and food service are available for guests.
The Spa at Harrah's Ak-Chin guides guests through traditional and modern treatments, including signature massage experiences, facial treatments, and nail services. The spa features four treatment rooms, including one couple's suite.
In July 2010, the Ak-Chin Indian Community purchased Southern Dunes Golf Club, located near the resort in Maricopa. Southern Dunes is managed by Troon Golf. The course covers more than 320 acres and features an clubhouse. In 2009, Southern Dunes was named among Golfweeks “Best You Can Play, State-By-State” list of courses in the United States.
In the fall of 2012, the Ak-Chin Indian Community opened the 165,000-square-foot UltraStar Multi-Tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle, operated by California-based UltraStar Cinemas. The project cost $50 million and provided restaurants, a bowling alley, and areas for staging events. It neighbors the casino and is located in the city of Maricopa. As of October 2020, the facility has been operated by the Ak-Chin Community and is currently named Ak-Chin Circle Entertainment Circle.
Awards
Harrah's Ak-Chin was named a "2010 Most Admired Company" by Arizona Business Magazine and BestCompanies AZ. *Phoenix Business Journal has ranked the facility as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Valley” in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Ak-Chin Southern Dunes was ranked #5 in 2015 of "Best Courses You Can Play in Arizona" by Golf Magazine & Golfweek
Harrah's Ak-Chin was awarded the 2011 Volunteer Service Award from the Arizona Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism.
Harrah's Ak-Chin was voted the Best Employer of Maricopa for the Creme de la Copa 2021.
References
External links
Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club
UltraStar Ak-Chin
1994 establishments in Arizona
Commercial buildings completed in 1994
Buildings and structures in Pinal County, Arizona
Caesars Entertainment
Casino hotels
Casinos completed in 1994
Casinos in Arizona
Hotel buildings completed in 1994
Hotels established in 1994
Hotels in Arizona
Maricopa, Arizona
Native American casinos
Tourist attractions in Pinal County, Arizona
Native American history of Arizona | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrah%27s%20Ak-Chin%20Casino |
The Genesis is a 2002 album released by Yngwie J. Malmsteen. It consists of very early recordings (around the time when Malmsteen was seventeen years old), and many of these tracks were reworked for compositions on albums throughout his career. This album is the official version of an album released by Marcel Jacob, Birth of the Sun, which was based on a 1980 demo of Malmsteen's.
Track listing
Personnel
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - guitars, bass guitar, vocals
Marcel Jacob - bass guitar (According to the liner notes, Malmsteen later re-recorded the bass himself).
Zepp Urgard - drums
References
2002 albums
Yngwie Malmsteen albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Genesis |
James Symington may refer to:
James W. Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman representing Missouri (1969–1977)
James H. Symington (1913–1987), religious leader of the Exclusive Brethren
James Ayton Symington (1856–1939), English book and magazine illustrator
James Symington, Canadian police officer, handler of 9/11 hero dog Trakr | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Symington |
Suzanne Marie "Suzy" Semanick (born May 18, 1967 in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania) is an American former figure skater. She competed in ice dance at the 1988 Winter Olympics with Scott Gregory. The pair won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice. She later paired with Ron Kravette and won two bronze medals at the United States Figure Skating Championships. She is now a coach and choreographer in Newark, Delaware and Aston, Pennsylvania.
Results
With Alexander Miller
With Scott Gregory
With Ron Kravette
References
Navigation
1967 births
Living people
People from Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
American female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Semanick |
At -183m, Actun Box Ch'iich' (Cave of the Black Birds) is the deepest cave in the country of Belize. Located above Roaring Creek in the Cayo District, it is one of several caves explored and documented by British and Canadian cavers during a three-week expedition in 1989. The cave contains a small stream and has both an upper and lower entrance, making a through-trip possible.
References
Caves of Belize
Limestone caves
Wild caves | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actun%20Box%20Ch%27iich%27 |
MEFO was the more common abbreviation for (), a dummy company set up by the Nazi German government to finance the German re-armament effort in the years prior to World War II.
Origins
This dummy company was set up in May 1933, just after appointment of Hjalmar Schacht as Reichsbank President in March 1933, as a front for purchases from four German armament manufacturers, Krupp, Siemens, Gutehoffnungshütte, and Rheinmetall. The four were persuaded to put up the initial share capital of 250,000 Reichsmarks. The German government was not openly involved in any way; on paper, MEFO was entirely a private company, in reality, the company had two directors, one appointed by the Reich Ministry of Defence and the other by the Reichsbank.
The four companies pooled together over 1 billion Reichsmark (equivalent to billion euros) where the National Socialist government agreed to repay the money with five-year promissory notes known as Mefo bills. Soon afterwards, the Nazis discounted these notes (known in German as Mefo-Wechsel), basically turning them into a type of currency.
Between 1934 and 1938, Mefo bills worth a total of 12 billion Reichsmark were issued to pay for rearmament. To put that into context, Germany's national debt in 1932, the year before Hitler took power, was only 10 billion Reichsmark. By 1938 the official admitted national debt was 19 billion Reichsmark -- but the Reichsmark 12 billion in Mefo bills has to be added on top of that. In other words, Hitler and the German Minister of Economics, Hjalmar Schacht, tripled Germany's national debt in just six years, but more than half of the increase was off the books.
When the MEFO notes fell due in 1938, the government discovered a serious cash shortage. To resolve the problem, the Nazi regime employed “highly dubious methods” where “banks were forced to buy government bonds to be used to repay these bills, and the government took money from savings accounts and insurance companies. This made the ordinary German citizen the financier of the German rearmament.” Eventually, the government had to resort to the printing press to help mitigate the cash shortage.
It was one of the key components of Germany's rearmament program and was invented by Hjalmar Schacht, who then was head of the Ministry of Economics, and Plenipotentiary for the War Economy.
After assuming power in 1933, the National Socialists realized that rearming Germany would require funds that were not likely to be generated from taxes or public loans. In addition, the need to keep the rearmament effort secret led to the creation of this dummy company.
Transactions
The transactions that led to the re-armament financing were conducted as follows:
Armaments manufacturers were contracted to produce arms.
Mefo bills of exchange were drawn by these contractors as payment for their invoice from the German Reich, and accepted by MEFO Company.
The bills of exchange were received by all German banks for possible re-discounting with the Reichsbank.
The bills of exchange were guaranteed by the German Reich for five years after issue.
This system continued to be used until April 1938, when almost 12 billion Reichsmark (equivalent to billion euros) of such bills were outstanding. At that time the first of these bills, which were guaranteed for five years, would come due in 1939 when the holders would likely present them to the Reichsbank for payment.
This method of financing enabled the Nazi government to obtain large loans from the Reichsbank which was prohibited under then existing statutes. Direct lending to the Government by the Reichsbank had been limited by statute to 100 million Reichsmark.
The large nature of these outstandings led eventually to a bureaucratic confrontation between the Reichsbank and the Finance Ministry in 1939, leading to the resignation of Hjalmar Schacht, the author of the whole strategy on 20 January 1939.
See also
German rearmament
Quotes
Our armaments are also financed partly with the credits of our political opponents. – Hjalmar Schacht in a memorandum to Adolf Hitler dated 3 May 1935.
References
External links
Forgotten Lessons from Hjalmar Schacht
Drittes Gesetz zur Neuordnung des Geldwesens (Umstellungsgesetz)(German)
Row Over ECB Handling of Euro Crisis – The Lonely Fight of Monetary Dogmatist Axel Weber
International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 2, p. 232
Economy of Nazi Germany
Covert organizations
1930s economic history
1934 in economics
it:Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEFO |
Jimmy Lee Youngblood (born February 23, 1950) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles and was selected in the second round of the 1973 NFL Draft.
Early life
Youngblood was born in Union, South Carolina. He attended Jonesville High School in Jonesville, South Carolina, where he was all-conference in football, basketball, and baseball.
College career
Youngblood attended Tennessee Technological University from 1969 to 1972, and set a school record with 476 tackles. The Ohio Valley Conference named him Defensive Player of the Year in 1971 and 1972. He was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team linebacker on the 1972 Little All-America college football team.
Professional career
Youngblood played in the NFL for twelve seasons. He became the Rams' starting left-side linebacker during the 1976 season. Youngblood was part of one of the steadiest linebacking corps in the NFL, with Jack Reynolds in the middle and Isiah Robertson and Bob Brudzinski patrolling the right side. Youngblood had a nose for the football, recording 14 career interceptions and returning four touchdowns, two in the 1979 season.
Personal life
Youngblood's father was a standout semi-pro baseball player, and his mother was a star basketball player in high school in Jonesville. Contrary to common belief he is not related to former teammate and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Jack Youngblood. However, since both Youngbloods had first names beginning with the same letter, the Rams had to include the entire names of both players on the back of their jerseys. Since their last names were so long, neither Jack nor Jim's first names could fit in the same line as their surnames, so the Rams simply put their first names above their last names when they ordered the jerseys.
References
External links
World News Inc.: Jim Youngblood
databasefootball.com: Jim Youngblood
1950 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Los Angeles Rams players
Washington Redskins players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football players
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
All-American college football players
People from Union, South Carolina | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Youngblood |
The Deutsches Theater is a theater in Berlin, Germany. It was built in 1850 as Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater, after Frederick William IV of Prussia. Located on Schumann Street (Schumannstraße), the Deutsches Theater consists of two adjoining stages that share a common, classical facade. The main stage was built in 1850, originally for operettas.
Adolf L'Arronge founded the Deutsches Theater in 1883 with the ambition of providing Berliners with a high-quality ensemble-based repertory company on the model of the German court theater, the Meiningen Ensemble, which had been developed by Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his colleagues to become "the most widely admired and imitated company in Europe", thanks to its historically accurate sets and costumes, vividly-realized crowd scenes, and meticulous directorial control.
Otto Brahm, the leading exponent of theatrical Naturalism in Germany, took over the direction of the theater in 1894, and applied that approach to a combination of classical productions and stagings of the work of the new realistic playwrights.
One of Brahm's ensemble, the legendary theater director Max Reinhardt, took over the directorship in 1904. Under his leadership, it acquired a reputation as one of the most significant theaters in the world. In 1905, he founded a theater school and built a chamber theater. Reinhardt remained the artistic director of the theater until he fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
The Deutsches Theater remains one of the most prominent companies in Berlin.
References
Cited references
Other references
Banham, Martin, ed. 1998a. "Deutsches Theater." In The Cambridge Guide to Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . p. 294.
---. 1998b. "Meiningen company." In The Cambridge Guide to Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . p. 718.
Willett, John and Ralph Manheim. 1970. Introduction. In Collected Plays: One by Bertolt Brecht. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser. London: Methuen. . p.vii-xvii.
External links
1850 establishments in Prussia
Theatres in Berlin
Theatres completed in 1850
Theatre companies in Germany
Frederick William IV of Prussia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches%20Theater%20%28Berlin%29 |
Richard Brook was Chief Executive of the UK deafblind charity Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association. He was appointed in July 2008 and left in September 2010. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of the Public Guardianship Office and then first Public Guardian and Chief Executive of the Office of the Public Guardian when this was established on 1 October 2007, until July 2008. He was previously the Chief Executive of Mind, the mental health charity, and has many years experience in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
References
External links
http://www.sense.org.uk
http://www.publicguardian.gov.uk
English chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Brook%20%28chief%20executive%29 |
Scott Chase Gregory (born July 31, 1959 in Auburn, New York) is an American former competitive ice dancer. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics with Elisa Spitz. He then paired with Suzanne Semanick, with whom he won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and competed at the Olympics in 1988. He retired from skating that year due to back injuries.
Gregory is married to former figure skater Pam Gregory, who now coaches Kimmie Meissner. Scott Gregory was born and raised in Skaneateles, New York.
Results
With Elisa Spitz
With Suzanne Semanick
References
Navigation
American male ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
1959 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Gregory%20%28ice%20skater%29 |
LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation. It is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.
LifeType is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
LifeType began as a project to create a flexible blogging platform. LifeType was built with the intention to have a scalable architecture while keeping the core as light as possible, hoping to ensure an efficient and
fast web-publishing engine. However, many features have allowed LifeType to be comparative to other more established blog software. LifeType borrows from several Open-Source components. These functional components together help make LifeType more fully featured.
LifeType offers support for multiple blogs and multiple users in one installation. Each blog can be run in its own language and can be customized using a template engine. LifeType also features Bayesian spam filtering, media uploads, file handling, a customizable search engine friendly URLs and an administration area.
Lifetype integrates a web based wizard to help users to set up and configure their own blog.
With the integration of the template editor plug-in, users can make custom adjustments to LifeType's templates. As an open source project, LifeType is built, maintained and adjusted by the Lifetype community of designers.
Features
Multiple Blogs per Installation (suitable for blog hosting)
Sub-domains
Multiple Users per Blog
Multiple Blogs per User
Integrated Media Management (Podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, a filebrowser and custom descriptions for each file)
Extensible plug-in support
Anti-Spam features (bayesian spam filter, comment moderation, Captcha (including the accessible ReCaptcha), trackback validation)
Localization
XML-RPC
Mobile features (moblogging)
History
The LifeType project started in February 2003 under the name pLog. pLog was renamed to LifeType after Amazon.com, the holder of the "plog" trademark requested it to change its name.
See also
list of blogging terms
External links
LifeType Home Page
Demo version of LifeType
coldtobi's blog Accessible ReCaptcha Plugin
References
Blog software
Free content management systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeType |
Elisa Hope Spitz-Iuliano (born May 17, 1963 in Short Hills, New Jersey) is an American former figure skater. She competed in ice dance at the 1984 Winter Olympics with Scott Gregory. Elisa is the mother of two sons, Joe Iuliano and Mike Iuliano. Elisa's eldest son Joe is a former NCAA Div. I Football player at Morehead State University. Mike is currently a musician featuring in songs alongside DJ4B, Kyle Woodcock, and many other well-known artists in the industry. Mike's stagename is DJ M.I and is a member of Secret Sauce.
Results
(with Scott Gregory)
References
American female ice dancers
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Essex County, New Jersey
1963 births
Living people
People from Millburn, New Jersey
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa%20Spitz |
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