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Christophe Rousset (; born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.
Biography
Rousset was born in Avignon, France on 12 April 1961. He studied harpsichord at La Schola Cantorum de Paris with Huguette Dreyfus, and subsequently at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Bob van Asperen winning the prestigious First Prize in the 7th Bruges Harpsichord Competition at the age of 22. This was followed by the creation of his own ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, in 1991. At the heart of the ensemble is Rousset's research and expertise across the music of the Baroque, Classical and early Romantic periods.
Having initially attracted the notice of the international press and record companies for his proficiency as a harpsichordist, he thereafter made his mark as a gifted conductor, with invitations to perform with his ensemble at venues throughout the world, including among them Paris Opera, De Nederlandse Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Salle Pleyel, Opéra de Lausanne, Teatro Real, Theater an der Wien, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Aix-en-Provence and Beaune festivals.
Alongside this, he has continued to pursue an active career as harpsichordist and chamber musician, performing and recording on the most beautiful period instruments. His complete performances of the works for harpsichord by François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, d’Anglebert and Forqueray and various recordings of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach (Partitas, Goldberg Variations, Concertos for harpsichord, English Suites, French Suites and the Klavierbüchlein), are considered to be landmark references. His most recent album, devoted to a musical monument by the German Cantor, Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier (on Aparté)—recorded at the Château of Versailles on a harpsichord by Joannes Ruckers (1628)—has won numerous awards, including a "Choc" from Classica magazine and "CD of the Week" from BBC Radio 3. In addition, instruments from the collection of the Museum of Music in Paris, have been entrusted to him for the recording of three records devoted to Royer, Rameau and Froberger.
Teaching is also of major importance for Christophe Rousset, who conducts and organises master classes and academies for young people (Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, CNSMD Paris, Académie d’Ambronay, Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroques, Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Britten-Pears Orchestra) and he devotes himself with great energy, alongside the musicians of Les Talens Lyriques, to introducing young secondary school pupils in Paris to music.
Rousset also has enjoyed a career as guest conductor with Liceu Barcelona, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera of Wallonia, Orquesta Nacional de España, London's Royal Opera House, Orchestra of the age of Enlightenment among other orchestras, and has actively pursued musical research, producing critical editions and the publication in 2007, by Actes Sud, of a study on Rameau.
Christophe Rousset has been awarded the French honours of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite.
Recordings
As a harpsichordist
Johann Sebastian Bach, Double Concertos, 1982 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Luigi Boccherini, Quatuor pour deux clavecins, 1986 – Harmonia Mundi
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Intégrale des Pièces de clavecin, 1991 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Johann Sebastian Bach, Italian Concerto BWV 971, French Overture BWV 831, Chromatic Fantazy & Fugue BWV 903, 1992 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Johann Jakob Froberger, Suites et Toccatas, 1992 – Harmonia Mundi
François Couperin, Troisième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1993 – Harmonia Mundi
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Pièces pour clavecin seul, 1993 – Harmonia Mundi
Pancrace Royer, Pièces de clavecin, 1993 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Johann Sebastian Bach, Partitas BWV 825–830, 1993 – L'Oiseau Lyre
François Couperin, Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1994 – Harmonia Mundi
François Couperin, Deuxième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1994 – Harmonia Mundi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations, 1995 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Gaspard Le Roux, Intégrale des pièces de clavecin, 1995 – L'Oiseau Lyre
François Couperin, Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1995 – Harmonia Mundi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Concertos pour clavecins et orchestre BWV1053, 1055, 1058, 1995 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Franz Xaver Richter, Flötenmusik, Takashi Ogawa – RBM, 1996
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Douze Polonaises, 1996 – Veritas/Virgin
François Couperin, Intégrale Pièces de clavecin (1–4 Livres), 1996 – Harmonia Mundi
Johann Sebastian Bach, Concertos pour clavecins et orchestre BWV1052, 1054, 1056, 1042, 1997 – L'Oiseau Lyre
Johann Sebastian Bach, Intégrale des concertos pour clavecin, 1998 – Decca
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonates pour Clavecin, 1998 – Decca
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Intégrale des pièces de clavecin, 2000 – Decca
Antoine Forqueray, Pièces de clavecin, 2001 – Decca
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suites Anglaises, 2003 – Naïve-Ambroisie-Astrée
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suites Françaises, 2004 – Naïve-Ambroisie-Astrée
Johann Sebastian Bach, Klavierbuchlein fürWilhem Friedemann, 2005 – Naïve-Ambroisie-Astrée
Pancrace Royer, Pancrace Royer, 2008 – Naïve-Ambroisie-Astrée
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les Indes Galantes, 2009 – Naïve-Ambroisie-Astrée
Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann Jakob Froberger, 2010 – 2-Astrée
Louis Couperin, Louis Couperin, 2010 – Aparté
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach Fantasy, 2010 – Aparté
Jean-Philippe Rameau & Louis Marchand, Marchand, Rameau, 2012 – Ambronay Editions
Jacques Duphly, Jacques Duphly, 2012 – Aparté
Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier The Well-Tempered Clavier, volume 2, 2013 – Aparté
Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Pièces de clavecin livre I, 2017 - Aparté
Armand-Louis Couperin, Pièces de clavecin, 2017 – Aparté
François Couperin, Première et deuxième suite pour viole, 2018 - Aparté
Louis Couperin, Nouvelles suites, 2018 – Harmonia Mundi
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toaccate e partite, 2019 – Aparté
Marin Marais, Pièces de viole Livre I, 2020 – Aparté
Le manuscrit de Madame Théobon, 2020 – Aparté
As a conductor
Operas
Scipione (George Frideric Handel), 1993 – Fnac / 2010 – Aparté
Armida abbandonata (Niccolò Jommelli), 1994 – Fnac / 2005 – Ambroisie
L’incoronazione di Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi), 1994 – TV : NPS/ 2005 – DVD : Opus Arte
Riccardo Primo (Handel), 1996 – L’Oiseau-Lyre
Les fêtes de Paphos (Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville), 1997 – L’Oiseau-Lyre
Mitridate, re di Ponto (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), 1999 – Decca
Antigona (Tommaso Traetta), 2000 – L’Oiseau-Lyre
Serse (Handel), 2000 – TV / 2005 – DVD : TDK
Persée (Jean-Baptiste Lully), 2001 – Astrée Naïve
La capricciosa corretta (Vicente Martín y Soler), 2004 – Naïve Astrée
Roland (Lully), 2004 – Ambroisie
La grotta di Trofonio (Antonio Salieri), 2005 – CD (with bonus making of DVD) Ambroisie
Philémon & Baucis (Le feste d'Apollo) (Christoph Willibald Gluck), 2006 – Ambroisie-Naïve-Astrée
Zoroastre (Jean-Philippe Rameau), 2006 – TV / 2007 – DVD : Opus Arte
Il burbero di buon cuore (Martín y Soler), 2007 – TV / 2009 – DVD : Dynamic / 2010 : CD : Dynamic
Vénus & Adonis (Henry Desmarest), 2007 – Ambroisie-Naïve
Il Califfo di Bagdad (Manuel Garcia), 2007 – Archiv Produktion (Donwroad only)
Il tutore burlato (Martín y Soler), 2007 – L’Oiseau-Lyre (Spain only)
Les grandes eaux musicales de Versailles (Lully, Rameau, Gluck, Desmarest), 2008 – CD : Ambroisie
Castor & Pollux (Rameau, 2008 – DVD : Opus Arte
Bellérophon (Lully), 2011 – Aparté
Médée (Luigi Cherubini), 2012 – DVD/Blu-ray Bel Air Classiques
Hercule mourant (Antoine Dauvergne), 2012 – Aparté
Renaud (Antonio Sacchini), 2013 – Palazzetto Bru Zane
Phaëton (Lully), 2013 – Aparté
Amadis (Lully), 2014 – Aparté
Les Danaïdes (Salieri), 2015 – Palazzetto Bru Zane
L’affaire Tailleferre, Quatre opéras bouffes (Germaine Tailleferre), 2015 – DVD : Canopé Éditions
Zaïs (Rameau), 2015 – CD Aparté
Les Indes galantes (Rameau), 2015 – DVD : Alpha
Alcina & Tamerlano (Handel), 2015 – Web Streaming / 2016 – Blu-ray : Wahoo
Uthal (Étienne-Nicolas Méhul), 2015 – Web Radio / 2017 – Palazzetto Bru Zane
Armide (Lully), 2015 – Aparté
Pygmalion (Rameau), 2017 – Aparté
Alceste (Lully), 2017 – Aparté
Les Horaces (Salieri), 2018 – Aparté
Tarare (Salieri), 2019 – Aparté
Faust (Gounod), 2019 – Palazzetto Bru Zane
Isis (Lully), 2019 – Aparté
La Morte d'Orfeo (Landi), 2020 – DVD : Naxos
Armida (Salieri), 2021 – Aparté
Psyché (opera) (Lully), 2023 - Château de Versailles Spectacles
Vocal
Henry Du Mont, Motets en dialogue, 1992 – Fnac Music / re-release : Virgin Veritas
Pascal Collasse, Cantiques spirituels de Jean Racine, 1993 – Fnac Music
François Couperin, Motets, 1993 – Fnac Music
Daniel Danielis, Motets, 1993 – Koch Schwann
Farinelli, Il castrato, Original soundtrack (Handel, Riccardo Broschi, Porpora, Johann Adolph Hasse, Pergolesi), 1994 – Astrée-Auvidis / Re-release : Naïve
Farinelli – A portrait, live in Bergen/Ann Hallenberg, Haendel Riccardo Broschi, Giacomelli, Porpora, Johann Adolph Hasse, Leonardo Leo 2016 – Aparté
Daniel Danielis, Motets d’Uppsala, 1997 – Cyprès
Roberto Scaltriti (bariton) : Amadeus & Vienna (Mozart, Haydn, Soler, Cimarosa, Salieri, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Sarti), 1998 – Decca
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater – Salve Regina, 1999 – Decca
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, 2020 - Outhere
François Couperin, Leçons de ténèbres, Motets, Magnificat, 2000 – Decca
Leonardo Leo, Miserere – Musique sacrée, 2002 – Decca
María Bayo (soprano) : Arias de Zarzuela barroca (José de Nebra, Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Martín y Soler), 2003 – Naïve
Sandrine Piau (soprano) : Handel Opera seria, 2004 – Naïve
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Betulia liberata, 2019 - Aparté
Véronique Gens (soprano) : Tragédiennes, de Lully à Gluck, 2006 – Virgin
Sandrine Piau : Mozart Airs sacrés, 2006 – DVD : Armide classics
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) : Furore, Handel Opera Arias , 2008 – Virgin Classics
Véronique Gens : Tragédiennes 2, de Gluck à Berlioz, 2009 – Virgin Classics
Véronique Gens : Tragédiennes 3, Héroïnes romantiques (Méhul, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Salieri, Gluck, Gossec, Meyerbeer, Auguste Mermet, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Verdi), 2011 – Virgin Classics
François Couperin, Couperin et moi, 2018 – Aparté
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus, 2021 - Aparté
Instrumental
Jean-Marie Leclair, Ouvertures et sonates en trio, 1993 – Fnac Music
Lully, Campra, Marin Marais, André Cardinal Destouches, Jacques Cordier, Musiques à danser à la cour et à l’opéra, 1995 – Erato
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Ouvertures, 1997 – Decca
François Couperin, Les goûts réunis, 2001 – Decca
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Six concerts en sextuor, 2003 – Decca
François Couperin, Les Nations, 2018 – Aparté
François Couperin, Couperin et moi, 2018 – Aparté
François Couperin, Concerts Royaux, 2018 – Aparté
Merits and awards
1983—Was awarded first prize at the 7th International Harpsichord Competition at Bruges
1993—Was awarded the "Diapason d’Or" for his interpretation of Royer's Pièces de Clavecin.
1995—Received the "Award for 17th and 18th Century Chamber/Solo Instrumental Music" at the Cannes Classical Awards for his recording of the Bach Partitas.
2004—Received the "médaille de Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite" from the France's Minister of Culture, Donnedieu de Vabres.
2013—Received the Traetta Prize from the Traetta Society for his work in the rediscovery of the roots of European music.
References
External links
http://www.lestalenslyriques.com/
Interview (French) on Anaclase.com
Interview (French) about Traetta's Antigona on Traetta.com
Interview (in French) on Lully's Roland on Odb-opera.com
Interview (in French) on goldbergweb.com
1961 births
Living people
Musicians from Avignon
French harpsichordists
French performers of early music
French choral conductors
French male conductors (music)
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Knights of the Legion of Honour
21st-century French conductors (music)
21st-century French male musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Rousset |
Nizami Bahmanov (; April 4, 1948 – September 13, 2008) was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Head of the Executive Power of Shusha and the Chairman of the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh in Exile.
Early life
Bahmanov was born on April 4, 1948, in Shusha, Azerbaijan to Keykavus Bahmanov (1908–1981) and Sajara Ismailova. He is great-grandson of Bahman Mirza Qajar through his 15th son, Keygubad Mirza (1865–1923). He graduated from Azerbaijan Technical University in Baku. He worked many years in construction and was the executive officer of a renovation and construction union until April 1992.
Political career
On March 24, 1992, he was recognized as an interested party from the Azerbaijani side of Karabakh by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). On April 8, 1992, Bahmanov was appointed the Head of Executive Power of Shusha. Since Shusha was the city with majority Azerbaijani population, its executive officer was chosen to represent the whole Azerbaijani community of Karabakh. He subsequently represented the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh region in peace talks held by OSCE Minsk Group. The status of the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Social Union, co-founded by Nizami Bahmanov, member of Azerbaijani Parliament, Havva Mammadova and Elman Mammadov, was formally confirmed by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan in September 2006. He was also a member of State Commission on POWs, Missing and Citizens taken hostage. As the leader of Azerbaijani community of Karabakh, he believed public diplomacy between Azerbaijan and Armenia would not yield any substantial results and that only after the return of Azerbaijani community to their homes in Karabakh would resolve its final status.
Death
Bahmanov died on September 13, 2008, in his office while holding a meeting. The office of the leader of Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh remained unoccupied until February 27, 2009, when Bayram Safarov was appointed the Head of Executive Power of Shusha, subsequently filling the office of leader of Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh too.
In March 2008, Bahmanov had been awarded with Shohrat Order.
References
External links
Meetings with OSCE Chairman in Office, January 2006-1
Meetings with OSCE Chairman in Office, January 2006-2
1948 births
2008 deaths
Mayors of places in Azerbaijan
Politicians from Shusha
Recipients of the Shohrat Order
Azerbaijani independence activists
Qajar dynasty
Mayors of Shusha | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizami%20Bahmanov |
Scott Manning (15 May 1958 – 16 June 2006) was a Canadian aerobatic pilot of the world's smallest jet, the BD-5J.
He grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, and earned a degree in environmental studies at the University of Waterloo in 1985. Having played for four years on the Waterloo Warriors football team, he pursued a career in professional football, at a weight of 290 lbs. and 6'3". In the 1980s, he attended training camps with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Montreal Alouettes. Scott pursued his football career until a serious knee injury caused a blood clot that almost killed him and rendered him incapable of continuing in the sport. Although told by doctors that he would probably never walk again, Manning slowly regained his mobility.
After two years of recovery, Manning decided that he simply "wanted to fly jets in airshows" and set out pursuing private and commercial pilot's licences and eventually earned flight time in some of the world's most advanced aerobatic aircraft.
In 1990 he purchased and decided to construct "The Stinger" BD-5J Microjet airplane kit. Construction work took over 6000 work hours. At the end of several engine malfunctions, and countless technical hiccups, his BD-5J emerged as a tiny, but formidable competitor in the airshow circuit and aerobatics arena. Manning piloted his own plane, and was known as the tallest BD-5 pilot in the world, and the operator of the only BD-5J model in Canada.
On 16 June 2006 at 12:14 pm Manning was piloting his BD-5J when he crashed and was killed during practice for the Ottawa Air Show. The Canadian Transportation Safety Board issued its final Aviation Investigation Report A06O0141 on Manning's accident on 2 May 2007. The report stated one 'finding' as to the causes and contributing factors of this accident:
"The right flap was incorrectly installed during the wing installation, which allowed the right flap to retract during the fly-past. This created a flap asymmetry that resulted in an uncommanded right roll. The aircraft was at an attitude from which recovery was not possible before the aircraft struck the ground."
The report also stated two 'Findings as to Risk':
"The right-wing taper bolt did not penetrate deep enough through the spars to engage the fibre locking feature of the locknut. Therefore, the taper bolt was not in safety at the time of the accident."
"The fibre locking feature of the left-wing locknut was worn and did not secure the left-wing taper bolt in safety."
See also
List of University of Waterloo people
References
External links
University of Waterloo Obituary
Globe and Mail Article (Subscription required)
1958 births
2006 deaths
Accidental deaths in Ontario
Aerobatic pilots
Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Canada
Canadian aviators
People from Kitchener, Ontario
University of Waterloo alumni
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Manning |
Rosetta is a residential suburb about northwest of Glenorchy, located in local government area (LGA) of City of Glenorchy. In the 2021 census, Rosetta had a population of 2,833. This suburb is part of the Hobart LGA Region, nestled between Berriedale and Montrose and roughly a 15-minute drive from Hobart. Rosetta features a primary school and a high school and is bordered by the Brooker Highway along the east, adjacent to the Derwent River.
History
Historically, the surrounding hills and shoreline of Rosetta was settled by free farmers, establishing an assortment of orchards growing apples, plums, peaches, and apricots. Originally the suburb was part of Montrose. Katoomba Crescent, originally Evacuee Road, was renamed in 1958. Rosetta was gazetted as a locality in 1961.
Marys Hope Farm
The land which became Marys Hope Farm was initially granted to Frederick Bück, a free Prussian immigrant in the 1840s. "Mary" in Mary's Hope most likely refers to Frederick's wife, Marie Henriette Christiana Buck (née Grallert), whose name was anglicised to Mary on her children's birth records. Mary passed away at aged 30, just 10 days after giving birth to her seventh child. The pre-1850s sandstone farmhouse stood atop the hill, overlooking Berriedale and the current MONA site was destroyed in the 1967 bushfires. Today, the main road leading toward the former homestead is called Marys Hope Road.
Hobart Savings Bank residences
Commencing July 1948, the Hobart Savings Bank constructed 38 brick residences near Riverway Road, Montrose. The housing scheme was catered toward young couples, ex-servicemen and women. The housing designs emphasised diversity and quality, gaining popularity with well-tended gardens and enthusiastic homeowners. By June 1951, the bank moved its housing project to a new subdivision on Marys Hope Road, Rosetta, featuring 26 meticulously designed homes by A. Lauriston Crisp. Like the Riverway Road development, these homes were carefully planned for optimal sunlight and scenic views.
Smelter contamination
The Risdon Zinc Works (trading as Nyrstar Hobart) at nearby Lutana, which has been in operation since 1917, continues to produce heavy metal contaminants affecting the air, land and estuary waters surrounding Greater Hobart.
Drawing from data complied in the National Pollutant Inventory, a report by the Australian Conservation Foundation placed Hobart at number 6 of Australia's most polluted cities in 2018. The data identified medium levels of air pollution in postcodes 7009 (Lutana, Derwent Park, Moonah, West Moonah) and 7010 (Glenorchy, Rosetta, Montrose, Goodwood, Dowsing Point) with average air contaminate readings of 40% (nitric oxide () and nitrogen dioxide ()), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) contributing 57% of airborne emissions.
The Tasmanian Planning Scheme does not mandate the Glenorchy City Council to notify prospective buyers about potential land contamination within the City of Glenorchy.
Geography
The River Derwent forms the north-eastern boundary.
Road infrastructure
National Route 1 (Brooker Highway) runs through from north-east to south-east.
Retail/facilities of Rosetta
Rosetta Plumbing
Marys Hope Road, hot food and convenience store
Undine Colonial, bed and breakfast
References
Suburbs of Hobart
Towns in Tasmania
Localities of City of Glenorchy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta%2C%20Tasmania |
There have been four baronetcies created for members of the Acland family, which originated in the 12th century at the estate of Acland in the parish of Landkey, North Devon, two in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Acland baronets, of Columb John (1644/1678)
The Acland Baronetcy, of Colum John (modern: Columbjohn, near Broadclyst) in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 24 June 1644 for John Acland, a supporter of Charles I. However, the letters patent were lost in the confusion of the Civil War. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He died as a minor and was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baronet. On his death the title passed to his son, the fourth Baronet. He also died young and was succeeded by his uncle, the fifth Baronet. On 21 January 1678 he was granted new letters patent, confirming him in the title, with the precedence of 1644. Acland later represented Barnstaple and Tiverton in the House of Commons. He was succeeded by his grandson, the sixth Baronet. He sat as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple. When he died the title passed to his son, the seventh Baronet, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dyke and built Killerton House as the family seat. He represented Devon and Somerset in Parliament.
He was succeeded by his grandson, the eighth Baronet. He died as a child and was succeeded by his uncle, the ninth Baronet. When he died the title passed to his eldest son, the tenth Baronet. He was a successful politician. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the eleventh Baronet. He was also a prominent politician as well as an advocate of educational reforms. On his death the title passed to his eldest son, the twelfth Baronet. He was a Liberal politician and held minor ministerial office under William Ewart Gladstone. He died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the thirteenth Baronet. He was also a Liberal politician and like his elder brother held minor ministerial office. His eldest son, the fourteenth Baronet, was also a Liberal politician and notably served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. On his death the title passed to his eldest son, the fifteenth Baronet. He was one of the founder members of the socialist Common Wealth Party. As of 2018 the title is held by his grandson, the seventeenth Baronet, who succeeded his father in 2009.
Several other members of this branch of the family gained distinction. Sir Wroth Palmer Acland, son of Arthur Palmer Acland, younger son of the sixth Baronet, was a lieutenant-general in the Army. John Acland, younger son of the sixth Baronet, was a clergyman and writer on social issues. Colonel John Dyke Acland, eldest son of the seventh Baronet and father of the eighth Baronet, fought in the American Revolutionary War. Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland (1885–1980), son of John Edward Acland, son of Arthur Henry Dyke Troyte (who assumed the surname of Troyte in lieu of his patronymic by Royal licence in 1852), second son of the tenth Baronet, was a lieutenant-general in the Army. Edward Leopold Dyke Acland (1878–1968), grandson of Reverend Peter Leopold Dyke Acland, fifth son of the tenth Baronet, was a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy. The Right Reverend Richard Dyke Acland, grandson of Reverend Peter Leopold Dyke Acland, fifth son of the tenth Baronet, was a noted clergyman. John Barton Arundell Acland (1823–1904), sixth son of the tenth Baronet, was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. His fourth son Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland (1874–1956), was a prominent surgeon in New Zealand. His son Sir Hugh John "Jack" Dyke Acland (1904–1981) was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
Acland baronets, of Columb John (1644)
Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet (c. 1591 – 1647), English landowner, was the only son of Arthur Acland. Pricked High Sheriff of Devon in 1641, he fought as a Royalist during the English Civil War. He was created a baronet for his service in 1644, but the letters patent were either lost or did not pass the seals; a new grant was made in 1677/8 to the 5th Baronet confirming the 1644 creation. He surrendered to the Parliamentarians when Thomas Fairfax captured Exeter in 1646 and composed for his estate. Upon his death in 1647, he was succeeded by his eldest son Francis.
Sir Francis Acland, 2nd Baronet (died 1649) was the eldest son of Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet. He succeeded his father in 1647, and dying unmarried in 1649, was succeeded by his brother John.
Sir John Acland, 3rd Baronet (died 1655) was the second son of Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet. He succeeded his elder brother in 1649. In 1654, he married Margaret, daughter of Denys Rolle. They had two children: a daughter, Margaret (died 1691), married John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice in 1675, and a son, Arthur (b. 1654), who succeeded to the baronetcy when Sir John died in 1655.
Sir Arthur Acland, 4th Baronet (1655–1672) was the only son of Sir John Acland, 3rd Baronet. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 27 July 1669. Sir Arthur died as a minor in 1672, unmarried, and was succeeded by his uncle Hugh.
Acland baronets, of Columb John (1678)
Sir Hugh Acland, 1st/5th Baronet (died 1714), uncle
Sir Hugh Acland, 2nd/6th Baronet (1696–1728), grandson
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 3rd/7th Baronet (1722–1785), eldest son, known on his estates as "Sir Thomas his Honour".
Sir John Dyke Acland, 4th/8th Baronet (1778–1785), grandson, "Little Sir John", died aged 7.
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 5th/9th Baronet (1752–1794), uncle, as his father known on his estates as "Sir Thomas his Honour".
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 6th/10th Baronet (1787–1871), son
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th/11th Baronet (1809–1898), son
Sir (Charles) Thomas Dyke Acland, 8th/12th Baronet (1842–1919), son
Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, 9th/13th Baronet (1847–1926), brother
Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 10th/14th Baronet (1874–1939), son
Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 11th/15th Baronet (1906–1990), son
Sir John Dyke Acland, 12th/16th Baronet (1939–2009), son
Sir Dominic Dyke Acland, 13th/17th Baronet (born 1962), son
The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Patrick Acland (born 1993).
Acland baronets, of St Mary Magdalen (1890)
The Acland Baronetcy, of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 June 1890 for the leading physician and scientist Henry Wentworth Acland. He was the fourth son of the tenth Baronet of the 1644/1678 creation. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baronet. He was an admiral in the Royal Navy. On his death the title passed to his eldest son, the third Baronet. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Devon Yeomanry and a major in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. He died without male issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. He was a captain in the Royal Navy. As of 2013 the title is held by his grandson, the sixth Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1983.
Several other members of this branch of the family gained distinction. Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930), the only daughter of the first baronet, was a philanthropist and a pioneer of colour photography, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland (1856–1924), fifth son of the first Baronet, was a prominent barrister. Kenneth Francis Dyke Acland (1890–1975), son of Francis Edward Dyke Acland, sixth son of the first Baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Peter Bevil Edward Acland (1902–1993), second son of Alfred Dyke Acland, seventh son of the first Baronet, was a temporary brigadier in the Army and served as Deputy Lieutenant and Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Devon. He was the father of 1) Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland (1928–2006), a major-general in the Scots Guards, and 2) Sir Antony Arthur Acland, British Ambassador to the United States from 1986 to 1991.
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet (1815–1900)
Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet (1847–1924)
Sir William Henry Dyke Acland, 3rd Baronet (1888–1970)
Sir Hubert Guy Dyke Acland, 4th Baronet (1890–1978)
Sir Antony Guy Acland, 5th Baronet (1916–1984)
Sir (Christopher) Guy (Dyke) Acland, 6th Baronet (born 1946)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son Alexander John Dyke Acland, (born 1973), an education consultant and founder of the New Edinburgh Orchestra.
Acland baronets, of Fairfield (1818)
The Palmer-Acland, later Fuller-Palmer-Acland Baronetcy, of Fairfield in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 9 December 1818 for John Palmer-Acland. He was the son of a younger son of the sixth Baronet of the 1644/1678 creation. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Fuller. The title became extinct on his death in 1871.
Sir John Palmer-Acland, 1st Baronet (1756–1831)
Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller-Palmer-Acland, 2nd Baronet (1789–1871)
Notes
References
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
External links
Biography of John Barton Arundell Acland
Baronetcies in the Baronetage of England
Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
1644 establishments in England
1818 establishments in the United Kingdom
Acland family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acland%20baronets |
Edgar Valter Saks (January 25, 1910 Tartu – April 11, 1984, Montreal) was an Estonian amateur historian and author. He was the Estonian exile government's minister of education in exile from 1971 until his death.
His book The Estonian Vikings: a Treatise on Finno-Ugric Viking Activities describes the ancient history of Estonians and other Finnic peoples living on the shores of the Baltic Sea. His etymological works provide information about hypothetical extensive prehistoric Estonian settlement in Northern Europe. In Esto-Europa, Saks finds Baltic-Finnic influences in several regions of Europe. Constructing Estonian etymologies for many toponyms (incl. Warszawa and Sumer), Saks reasoned there must have been extensive prehistoric Finnic influence not only in Europe, but also in neighbouring regions. His works, often based on outdated or incorrect sources, have been characterised as pseudohistory. Linguist Urmas Sutrop has referred to him as "fantasiser and author of pseudoscientific history books".
Works in English
Aestii (Montreal-Heidelberg, 1960)
Esto-Europa (Montreal-Lund, 1966)
Commentaries on the Liber Census Daniae (Montreal-Ann Arbor, 1974)
The Estonian Vikings (London-Montreal, 1981)
References
1910 births
1984 deaths
Writers from Tartu
Estonian expatriates in Canada
Government ministers of Estonia
Hugo Treffner Gymnasium alumni
Historians of Estonia
20th-century Estonian historians
Estonian World War II refugees | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20V.%20Saks |
Frederick Sigfred Franck (April 12, 1909 – June 5, 2006) was a painter, sculptor, and author of more than 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects, who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He became a United States citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade, and worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa from 1958 to 1961.
His sculptures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
His major creation was a sculpture garden and park adjacent to his home in Warwick, New York, which he called Pacem in Terris ("Peace on Earth"). In 1959, he and his wife, Claske Berndes Franck, purchased the six-acre property, the site of an old grist mill which had become a dumping ground, for $800. They opened Pacem in Terris to the public in 1966. Dr. Franck dedicated it to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Pope John XXIII, and the Buddhist teacher D.T. Suzuki. More than 70 sculptures adorn the property, which is now operated by a nonprofit foundation.
Bibliography
Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius, with observations by the ancient Zen masters, (World Wisdom, 2005)
The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and its Contemporaries, (World Wisdom, 2004)
What Matters: Spiritual Nourishment for Head and Heart, (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2004)
Ode to the Human Face: Seeing/Molding the Human Face As Meditation, (Codhill Press, 2004)
A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker, (Codhill Press, 2003)
A Zen Book of Hours, (Codhill Press, 2003)
Seeing Venice: An Eye in Love : An Inner Travelogue With 94 Drawings, (Codhill Press, 2002)
What Does It Mean to Be Human?, (St. Martin's Griffin, 2001)
Pacem in Terris: A Love Story, (Codhill Press, 2000)
Fingers Pointing Toward the Sacred: A Twentieth Century Pilgrimage on the Eastern and Western Way, (Beacon Point Press, 1994)
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action, (Bantam Books, 1993)
A Little Compendium on That Which Matters, (St Martins Press, 1993)
To Be Human Against All Odds: On the Reptile Still Active in Our Brain (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture), (Asian Humanities Pr, 1991)
Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human, (Great River Books, 1989)
Echoes from the Bottomless Well, (Vintage, 1985)
Art As a Way: A Return to the Spiritual Roots, (Crossroad Publishing Company, 1981)
EveryOne: the timeless Myth of "Everyman" reborn, (Wildwood House Ltd, 1979)
The Awakened Eye, (Vintage, 1979)
An encounter with Oomoto "The great origin": A faith rooted in the ancient mysticism and the traditional arts of Japan, (Cross Currents, 1975)
Christ Equals Buddha, (Wildwood Ho, 1974)
Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation, (Vintage, 1973)
Simenon's Paris, (Dial Press, 1970)
Exploding church;: From Catholicism to Catholicism, (Delacorte Press, 1968)
My Eye is in Love: Revelations on the Act of Seeing by Drawing, (Macmillan, 1963)
African Sketchbook, (Peter Davies, 1962)
Days with Albert Schweitzer, (Peter Davies, 1959)
Open Wide, Please!, (Peter Davies, 1957)
References
External links
Pacem in Terris website
An overview about Frederick Frank and his work from SpiritualityandPractice.com's "Remembering Spiritual Masters" Project.
An interview with some excerpts from his writing.
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1909 births
2006 deaths
Dutch emigrants to the United States
Dutch male sculptors
Buddhist writers
20th-century Dutch sculptors
20th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Artists from Maastricht
Buddhist artists
20th-century Dutch male artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Franck |
Helman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abel Helman (1824–1910), American pioneer of Ashland, Oregon
Albert Helman, pseudonym of politician, playwright and poet Lou Lichtveld
Abraham Helman (1907–1952), Canadian chess master
Harry Helman (1894–1971), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Josh Helman (born 1986), Australian television and film actor
Nathaniel T. Helman (1905–1993), New York politician and judge
Pablo Helman (born 1959), Argentine visual effects artist
Reuven Helman (1927–2013), Israeli weightlifting champion
Scott Helman (born 1995), Canadian singer-songwriter
Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman (c. 1855–c. 1938), Romanian songwriter and journalist
Zofia Helman (born 1937), Polish musicologist
See also
Helman Glacier, a tributary glacier in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica
Helman Tor, a tor in mid Cornwall, England
Hellman
Hellmann | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helman |
Gellman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barton Gellman (born 1960), American journalist and author
Cameron Gellman (born 1998), Canadian actor
Yani Gellman (born 1985), Canadian/American actor
See also
Gelman
Murray Gell-Mann, winner of 1969 Nobel Prize in physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellman |
The Landore viaduct is a railway viaduct over the Swansea valley and the River Tawe at Landore in south Wales. It provides a link between Swansea city center and the West Wales Line to the South Wales Main Line. The valley crossing provides a panoramic view of Landore, Kilvey Hill, the Liberty Stadium and the Swansea Enterprise Park.
The Landore viaduct was constructed as a key element of the West Wales Line during the late 1840s. The structure, which has a length of , was originally designed by the famed engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and incorporated a diverse range of structural design elements and was primarily constructed out of timber. It was officially opened to traffic in 1850. The structure was first updated in 1889, using wrought-iron for the central span. Between 1978 and 1979, the majority of the viaduct was re-decked using steel beams. The structure remains in use to the current day.
History
Background and design
During the mid-1840s, work commenced upon the construction of the South Wales Railway, which was being pursued with the goal of connecting Gloucester and the Great Western Railway to key sites throughout South Wales, especially the envisioned ferry traffic at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Headed by the noted civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the line initially opened during 1850 through to the city of Swansea, although construction activity continued on other sections for decades more. The arrival of the railway had the effect of eclipsed the Swansea Canal as the major transport artery in the region.
To connect what is now commonly known as the South Wales Main Line with both the Swansea city center and the West Wales Line, it was necessary to construct a crossing of the River Tawe. Following the surveying of the local landscape, it was decided that the optimum site was located around north of the river mouth in Swansea Bay. The selected means of crossing the river valley was a viaduct, which was designed by Brunel himself. Its design incorporated two sizable approaches; the western approach, which was curved at a radius of , possessed a gradient of 1 in 264, while the straight eastern approach has a gradient of 1 in 109.
The viaduct possessed a length of , comprising 37 arches in total. The span of these arches varied significantly in places; largest of which being to cross over the River Tawe itself. The arches to the immediate sides of the main span measured ; furthermore, a pair of arches were included to cross over the Swansea Canal and one road, and two spans of crossed other roads. The majority of the arches had widths of between . The deck of the viaduct, which was composed of an arrangement of thick timbers that were topped by and directly fixed to the tracks themselves. The width between the parapets was , which was wide enough to accommodate a pair of broad gauge tracks. Unlike the rest of the structure, the main span of the viaduct was composed of separate structures for each track.
The superstructure of the viaduct was mainly composed of timber, which is believed to have been Canadian pitch pine, augmented with wrought iron fixtures and pinnings. In order that additional headroom could be provided above the Tawe, a requirement of the Act of Parliament associated with the viaduct's construction, a bowspring truss was used for the largest span over the river to provide a peak height of . This span consisting of two concentric polygonal arches composed of double timbers, each being . In comparison, the other spans followed a beam format, placing their trusses beneath the viaduct's deck. Both the viaduct's abutments and the five rectilinear-plan piers located to the west of the river, each featuring two round-arch openings, were composed of masonry. The rest of the piers consisted of timber trestles that were arranged from square uprights, complete with two, three or four legs founded on either timber piles or masonry pads; the difference in the number of legs used being dependent upon the specific ground conditions for each pier.
Construction
The responsibility for overseeing the viaduct's construction was assigned to Lavington Evans Fletcher, who was one of Brunel's assistants. The resident engineer was Robert Brodie and the assistant resident engineer was one Samuel Jones; George Hennet was appointed as the contractor for its construction. The steelwork for the structure was produced by Chepstow-based manufacturer Edward D. Finch & Co., and the wrought iron elements were made locally by Palmer of Neath.
Prior to the commencement of construction, a relatively expensive land acquisition phase had to be conducted; there were a large number of buildings that fell directly in the path of the viaduct. Further difficulties were presented by the ground itself; due to the presence of earlier mining activities, the soil's stability had been negatively affected in some areas. On the eastern bank of the river, the ground was effectively marshland, being historically prone to flooding from the Tawe during the spring. Thus, the design of both the foundations and the piers of the viaduct were designed to achieve the necessary stability in spite of these unfavourable footings.
During October 1847, pile driving for the viaduct's foundations had commenced. By May 1848, work on the masonry of the west abutment was recorded as having been completed. On 30 May 1850, the locomotive Hercules and its tender became the first train to cross over the completed viaduct. On 18 June 1850, the structure was officially opened to traffic, being used by the first train between Chepstow and Swansea during the same day. Reportedly, the Landore Viaduct had cost roughly £28,720 to construct.
Rebuilding and maintenance
Between September 1886 and October 1889, the viaduct was subject to its first modification programme. Dependent upon opinion, this programme could be viewed as an effective replacement of the original structure. During this work, the superstructure was reconfigured to a 22-span configuration, which was supported on additional masonry piers. A reduction in the viaduct's length was achieved via the deliberate embanking of the eastern approach using slag from the nearby Hafod Copperworks. A single steel truss was used to replace the original river span, while the remainder were rebuilt using wrought iron. According to an account in the Western Mail published on 5 October 1889, the cost of these alterations came to £30,000.
Between 1978 and 1979, the nationalised railway operator British Rail undertook another series of modifications, including the replacement of the wrought iron deck girders with new steel beams. As a result of multiple alterations to the structure, all that survives of Brunel's viaduct are the five original masonry piers located to the west of the Tawe. In addition, several stumps of the timber piers can be found the river bed while some sections of hidden timberwork remain but had been entombed by the 19th century extension of the viaduct's eastern embankment.
References
External links
The Landore Viaduct, Swansea - BBC News
Landore Viaduct Looking North: 1960 - Swansea Canal Society
Bridges in Swansea
Railway viaducts in Wales
Bridges completed in 1850
Bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Grade II listed buildings in Swansea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landore%20Viaduct |
Hiller may refer to:
Hiller (surname)
Hiller, Pennsylvania
Hiller Aircraft Corporation:
Hiller Hornet
Hiller Flying Platform
Tanner-Hiller Airport
Hiller Aviation Museum
Hiller X-18
Fairchild Hiller FH-227
YH-32 Hornet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller |
Hillerman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anne Hillerman (born 1949), American journalist and author
John Hillerman (1932–2017), American character actor
Tony Hillerman (1925–2008), American author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillerman |
Derris is genus of leguminous plants. It contains 65 species, which range from eastern Africa to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, and the southwest Pacific islands. The roots of D. elliptica contain rotenone, a strong insecticide and fish poison.
Despite the secondary compounds found in Derris, they serve as food plants for many Lepidopteran larvae including Batrachedra spp.
Species
65 species are currently accepted:
Derris acuminata
Derris alborubra
Derris amoena
Derris andamanica
Derris benthamii
Derris brevipes
Derris breviramosa
Derris canarensis
Derris caudatilimba
Derris cavaleriei
Derris chinensis
Derris cuneifolia
Derris elegans
Derris elliptica
Derris emarginata
Derris entadoides
Derris ferruginea
Derris fordii
Derris gamblei
Derris glabra
Derris hainanensis
Derris hainesiana
Derris harrowiana
Derris henryi
Derris heyneana
Derris kanjilalii
Derris kingdonwardii
Derris lacei
Derris laotica
Derris lasiantha
Derris laxiflora
Derris lianoides
Derris lushaiensis
Derris luzoniensis
Derris macrocarpa
Derris marginata
Derris mariannensis
Derris matthewii
Derris montana
Derris monticola
Derris oblongifolia
Derris oligosperma
Derris ornithocephala
Derris ovalifolia
Derris palmifolia
Derris parviflora
Derris piscatoria
Derris polyantha
Derris polyanthra
Derris pseudomarginata
Derris pubipetala
Derris pulchra
Derris reticulata
Derris rubrocalyx
Derris rubromaculata
Derris scabricaulis
Derris secunda
Derris solorioides
Derris spanogheana
Derris taiwaniana
Derris thothathri
Derris tonkinensis
Derris trifoliata – common derris
Derris yappii
Derris zambalensis
See also
"Derris" insecticides based on rotenone
References
External links
Millettieae
Fabaceae genera
Taxa named by João de Loureiro | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derris |
The Free Software Initiative of Japan are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Free Software growth and development. It was founded on 10 July 2002 and organized the Free Software Symposium in Tokyo on October 22 and 23 of that year. The organization's founding chairman was Prof. Masayuki Ida, and the current chairman is Niibe Yutaka. , FSIJ have been involved in the Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization, CodeFest Kyoto and CodeFest Japan.
References
External links
Free Software Initiative of Japan home page (English version)
Free and open-source software organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Software%20Initiative%20of%20Japan |
A chemical compound microarray is a collection of organic chemical compounds spotted on a solid surface, such as glass and plastic. This microarray format is very similar to DNA microarray, protein microarray and antibody microarray. In chemical genetics research, they are routinely used for searching proteins that bind with specific chemical compounds, and in general drug discovery research, they provide a multiplex way to search potential drugs for therapeutic targets.
There are three different forms of chemical compound microarrays based on the fabrication method. The first form is to covalently immobilize the organic compounds on the solid surface with diverse linking techniques; this platform is usually called Small Molecule Microarray, which is invented and advanced by Dr. Stuart Schreiber and colleagues . The second form is to spot and dry organic compounds on the solid surface without immobilization, this platform has a commercial name as Micro Arrayed Compound Screening (μARCS), which is developed by scientists in Abbott Laboratories . The last form is to spot organic compounds in a homogenous solution without immobilization and drying effect, this platform is developed by Dr. Dhaval Gosalia and Dr. Scott Diamond and later commercialized as DiscoveryDot technology by Reaction Biology Corporation .
Polymer Microarrays
Polymer microarrays have been developed to allow screening for new polymeric materials to direct different tissue lineages. Research has also been directed towards studying the surface chemistry of these arrays to determine which surface chemistries control cell adhesion, although concerns have been raised as to the influence of the substrate on measurements and the questionable statistical interpretation of results.
The lack of control in the production of many of these polymer arrays suggests that any practical application of these technologies will be limited. This is particularly true for the in situ polymerisation of acrylate monomers in minute volumes.
References
Uttamchandani, M. et al. (2005) "Small molecule microarrays, recent advances and applications". Curr Opin Chem Biol. 9, 4–13 .
Walsh, D.P. and Chang, Y.T. (2004) "Recent Advances in Small Molecule Microarrays, Applications and Technology". Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 7, 557–564 .
Hoever, M. and Zbinden, P. (2004) "The evolution of microarrayed compound screening. Drug Discov". Today 9, 358–365.
Gosalia, DN and Diamond, SL. (2003) "Printing Chemical libraries on microarrays for fluid phase nanoliter reactions". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 8721–8726 .
Ma, H. et al. (2005) "Nanoliter Homogenous Ultra High Throughput Screening Microarray for Lead Discoveries and IC50 Profiling". Assay Drug Dev. Technol. 3, 177–187 .
Horiuchi, K.Y. et al. (2005) "Microarrays for the functional analysis of the chemical-kinase interactome", accepted, J Biomol Screen. 11, 48–56 .
Ma, H. and Horiuchi, K.Y. (2006) "Chemical Microarray: a new tool for drug screening and discovery", Drug Discovery Today, 11, 661–668 .
Nanotechnology
Microarrays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20compound%20microarray |
Music Theatre Louisville was a non-profit organization in Louisville, Kentucky, dedicated to producing, presenting, and developing diverse and affordable entertainment. Up through 2008, the company staged several shows during the summer at Iroquois Amphitheater in Iroquois Park. In 2009, the company moved to the Bomhard Theater at The Kentucky Center.
In 2008, the company officially changed its name to Broadway at Iroquois, banking on the name recognition of its Iroquois Park location. However, after its move to the Kentucky Center, they reverted to the Music Theatre Louisville moniker.
After the 2011 season, Music Theatre Louisville merged with Stage One Children's Theatre to form Stage One Family Theatre.
2011 season
Ain't Misbehavin' June 24 - July 2, 2011
Guys and Dolls July 15–23, 2011
Big: The Musical August 5–14, 2011
2010 season
1776 June 25 - July 3, 2010
Nunsense July 16–25, 2010
Annie August 6–15, 2010
2009 season
Mame June 26 - July 3, 2009
Singin' in the Rain July 10–18, 2009
Hairspray July 31 - August 9, 2009
2008 season
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory June 13–22, 2008
Cats July 11–20, 2008
The Wiz August 8–17, 2008
2007 season
A Year with Frog and Toad May 8–18, 2007
Hello Dolly!, June 15–24, 2007
42nd Street, July 6–15, 2007
Disney's High School Musical, August 3–12, 2007
Oliver!, September 7–16, 2007
2006 season
Schoolhouse Rock Live! May 9–20, 2006
West Side Story, June 16–25, 2006
Anything Goes, July 7–16, 2006
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, August 4–13, 2006
Brigadoon, September 8–17, 2006
2005 season
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Seussical the Musical
Jesus Christ Superstar
For the first time in its history, Music Theatre Louisville produced a daytime show, intended mainly for smaller children, with its limited-run matinee production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
The 2005 Rising Stars Production was Floyd Central High School's production of Seussical the Musical. Like the previous Rising Stars show, Seussical had also been presented at the International Thespian Festival.
2004 seasonPeter PanJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatCrazy for YouIn 2004, Music Theatre Louisville added a unique new feature to their lineup, the Rising Stars Program. Beginning this year, one local high school would be selected to present their production from the previous school year, on the Iroquois Amphitheatre stage, in collaboration with the MTL crew.
For the inaugural Rising Stars Program, MTL selected Crazy for You, a production of New Albany High School in nearby New Albany, Indiana. This acclaimed production had also been taken to the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska that same summer.
The production was so successful that the Rising Stars Program became an annual event and a favorite of MTL audiences.
2003 seasonThe Wizard of OzAfter more than two years of renovation, Iroquois Amphitheatre reopened to the public in the summer of 2003. The renovation yielded (among other things) a roof over the front section of seating with multiple ceiling fans, new sound and lighting equipment, new concession areas sponsored by local vendors, a bright new show curtain, increased backstage and scene shop space, and comfortable new seats. Music Theatre Louisville marked the occasion with a premiere song-and-dance review in June 2003 before presenting their summer-long production of The Wizard of Oz.
2001 seasonThe FantasticksBroadway Under the StarsDue to the extensive renovation of Iroquois Amphitheatre, Music Theatre Louisville produced a limited season in the summer of 2001, with only one production on a small stage set up adjacent to the amphitheatre. There was no 2002 season.
Music Theatre Louisville also presented an original Broadway Revue show on the temporary stage in 2001, entitled "Broadway Under the Stars"
2000 seasonAnnieGodspell1999 seasonThe Music ManWest Side Story1998 seasonOnce Upon a MattressOklahoma!1997 seasonThe Sound of MusicTwo By TwoSeven Brides for Seven Brothers1996 seasonBye Bye BirdieA Chorus LineOliver!1995 seasonThe Secret GardenLittle Shop of HorrorsBrigadoon1994 season1776Rodgers and Hammerstein's CinderellaAnything Goes1993 seasonSouth PacificFiddler on the RoofThe Music Man1992 seasonHello, Dolly!Big RiverAnnie1991 seasonYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown1990 season
For the 1990 season, Music Theatre Louisville moved to the Macauley Theatre (now the Brown Theatre) in downtown Louisville.West Side StoryLittle Shop of HorrorsEvita1989 seasonAnnie Get Your GunCamelotThe Wizard of Oz1988 seasonOklahoma!GreasePeter Pan1987 seasonAnnieKismetPirates of Penzance''
References
External links
Iroquois Amphitheater
Arts organizations based in Louisville, Kentucky
Non-profit organizations based in Louisville, Kentucky
1987 establishments in Kentucky
2011 disestablishments in Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Theatre%20Louisville |
Maple Bay is a seaside community located in the Cowichan Valley of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. A narrow inlet and surrounded by smooth, pebbled beaches, Maple Bay is home to marine activity all year round. Maple Bay is a small town with a population of 2,640.
The sheltered haven of Maple Bay is situated halfway up Sansum Narrows, which separates Vancouver Island from Saltspring Island, the largest and nearest of the southern Gulf Islands.
Maple Bay is serviced by floatplane, Salt Spring Air and Harbour Air Seaplanes that fly regular scheduled flights several times a day from Maple Bay Marina, to Ganges (Ganges Water Aerodrome) on Saltspring Island and then on to Vancouver (Vancouver International Water Airport/Vancouver International Airport and Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre).
There are three commercial marinas, a public dock, as well as the Maple Bay Yacht Club and the Maple Bay Rowing Club.
Maple Bay Marina is replacing many older boat sheds with new style, fire resistant yacht enclosures, creating one of the safest and most environmentally responsible marinas in British Columbia. Maple Bay Marina has also been recognised with an Eco-Rating of 5 anchors for their Environmental Best Practices by the Georgia Strait Alliance Clean Marine program.
References
The Maple Bay Yacht Club 75 Year History book 1925-2000 by the members (Maple Bay Yacht Club, Duncan, BC)
Populated places in the Cowichan Valley Regional District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple%20Bay%2C%20British%20Columbia |
A Real Live Dead One is a live album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 22 September 1998. The album tracks were recorded at different venues across Europe during the Fear of the Dark Tour in 1992 and the Real Live Tour in 1993.
Released in 1998 alongside the band's entire remastered discography, this album is a compilation of A Real Live One and A Real Dead One, which were both previously issued individually in 1993.
Track listing
Personnel
Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.
Iron Maiden
Bruce Dickinson – vocals
Dave Murray – guitar
Janick Gers – guitar
Steve Harris – bass, production, mixing
Nicko McBrain – drums
Additional musicians
Michael Kenney – keyboards
Production
Mick McKenna – engineering
Tim Young – mastering
Derek Riggs – cover illustration
Guido Karp – photography
George Chin – photography
Tony Mottram – photography
Hugh Gilmour – reissue design
Rod Smallwood – management
Andy Taylor – management
References
Iron Maiden compilation albums
Iron Maiden live albums
1998 live albums
EMI Records live albums
Live heavy metal albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Real%20Live%20Dead%20One |
Courts is a furniture and electronics retailing brand used by stores in the Caribbean, the United States and Asia. Courts was founded in 1850 in the United Kingdom, and at its peak, Courts had 350 stores worldwide, of which one hundred were in the United Kingdom.
History
Courts was founded in 1850, by William Henry Court, with a single store in Canterbury, England. In 1945, the company was sold to the Cohen brothers, who began to expand the business. Hire purchase terms were offered from 1946. Courts was listed on London Stock Exchange in 1959. By this stage, Courts had thirty four retail stores in the United Kingdom.
In 1959, Courts expanded into the Caribbean, and opened its first store in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1965, a further store was opened in Barbados, and the product range was diversified to include electricals. Courts Jamaica listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange in 1969. In 1978, Courts Barbados listed on the Barbados Stock Exchange.
Courts expanded into Fiji and Singapore in 1971.
Administration in the United Kingdom
In December 2001, after Courts breached a number of its banking covenants, the company's banks appointed PwC to safeguard their debts.
On Monday 29 November 2004, shares in Courts plc were suspended at 13.5p and the company went into administration, with debts of £280 million. PwC earned record fees for both pre administration and post administration work. The reasons given for entering administration were a fall in sales in the country, combined with the financial cost of the damage caused by Hurricane Ivan to the company's Caribbean arm.
The administration caused public controversy, because the sudden store closures had seen a number of outlets almost besieged and in some cases damaged by angry customers and left thousands of customers out of pocket, without the furniture they had ordered and deposits they had paid. SB Capital, owners of Furnitureland, acquired the largest number of branches.
All stores in the United Kingdom were closed, and overseas subsidiaries were sold. Courts plc was dissolved as a company.
Current operations
Courts operates over ninety three stores in eleven Caribbean countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. A store branded Courts Caribbean is located in Jamaica, New York to serve Caribbean immigrants living in the United States wishing to send gifts to family members in their countries of birth. The American store positions itself as an ethnic and nostalgic brand.
Courts branded stores operate in Fiji and Singapore, with the latter having expanded to Indonesia. Courts also makes furniture in Fiji taking advantage of locally grown Mahogany.
Sponsorships
In June 2013, Courts Caribbean announced their sponsorship of the Caribbean Premier League "CPL's partnership with Courts is a very strategic and beneficial one to both parties, and we are thrilled about the possibilities that exist for us from a marketing perspective," said CPL CEO Damien O' Donohoe.
"Combining our advertising and marketing programmes with that of Courts will heighten the awareness of CPL across the region, and increase fan support, which will put people in the stands at matches and customers in the aisles of Courts."
See also
Courts Malaysia
Courts Singapore
References
External links
https://www.courts.com.fj/
https://www.courts.com.sg/
https://www.shopcourts.com/
Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom
Retail companies established in 1850
Companies that have entered administration in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courts%20%28brand%29 |
Combined immunodeficiencies (or combined immunity deficiency) are immunodeficiency disorders that involve multiple components of the immune system, including both humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity.
This category includes conditions such as bare lymphocyte syndrome, as well as severe combined immunodeficiency. Combined immunodeficiencies are commonly distinguished from SCID by low but not absent T-cell function.
ICD-9 divides immune deficiencies into three categories: humoral (279.0), cell-mediated (279.1), and combined (279.2). However, ICD-10 does not include a category for cell-mediated immune dysfunction (antibody is D80, and combined is D81), thus grouping T-cell mediated conditions with combined conditions.
References
External links
Combined T and B–cell immunodeficiencies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20immunodeficiencies |
Trygve Brodahl (20 August 1905 in Hønefoss – 11 April 1996) was a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed during the 1930s.
He won a silver medal at the 1930 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 17 km and a silver in the 4 × 10 km relay as well as a bronze at 50 km in 1935. In 1939, Brodahl won the 18 km cross-country skiing event at the Holmenkollen ski festival. Because of his successes, Brodahl was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1939 (shared with Sven Selånger and Lars Bergendahl).
He also competed in the men's 50 kilometre event at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
3 medals – (2 silver, 1 bronze)
References
External links
Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
1905 births
1996 deaths
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Cross-country skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics
People from Ringerike (municipality)
Skiers from Viken (county) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Brodahl |
Wynberg Boys' High School is a public English medium boys high school situated in the suburb of Wynberg of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Founded in 1841, it is one of the best academic schools in Cape Town, it is believed by scholars and old boys to be the second oldest school in South Africa, however, there are several schools that were established at earlier dates as far back as 1738.
History
In 1841, John McNaughton re-opened the doors of his school, the "Established School at Wynberg", in Glebe Cottage with 16 pupils enrolled. McNaughton's school shared the cottage with the Lady D'Urban School of Industry for young ladies.
Initially a co-educational school, it limited enrollment to boys in 1853. The senior and junior schools operated as one school until 1943 when they separated.
In 1845, the school moved to Bryndewyn Cottage. In 1863, the Government relegated the school to the status of "second class elementary school" and instructed the headmaster, Mr. MacNaughton to close on 27 February. Permission was granted to change Wynberg Boys to a private school on 2 March.
A building was purchased from the Higgs estate in 1876, and in 1891, Sir Herbert Baker designed new buildings that opened in 1892. In 1980, the school moved to its current site on the Hawthornden Estate in Wynberg.
The school has two museums. Two books have been written on Wynberg: The History of a School (1961) by English teacher Doug Thompson, and A School Reflects (1991) by Old Boy Roger Goodwin.
The school's motto, Supera Moras, can be translated from Latin as Overcome Difficulties.
There is an unofficial motto that is used frequently for marketing, "Brothers in an endless chain"
Sporting activities
Wynberg Boys' High School has a competitive sporting tradition. Students take part in sporting competitions, with schools from Western Cape and sometimes from other parts of South Africa, as well as occasional competitions with visiting international teams. Rivals include Rondebosch Boys' High School, Diocesan College, and Paul Roos Gymnasium as well as South African College Schools.
The school offers sporting facilities such as an astro turf area, a swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, four rugby fields, and the WBHS cricket field, which was renamed in 2010 as "The Jacques Kallis Oval" in honour of the World cricketer of the year and former Wynberg Boy.
Culture
The WBHS music department boasts a large collection of bands that play a range of music from jazz to classical. Choir and band members are offered professional training. WBHS has three fundamental school bands: the Concert Band, the Steel Band and the Jazz Band, however also has smaller ensembles for guitarists and string players. With a nod to the Scottish history of the school, Wynberg is one of only a handful of schools in the country that has a bagpipe band. The Wynberg Boys' and Girls' High bands come together every year to form the Combined Band, playing at many inter-school events.
Every year Wynberg Boys' High School holds a memorial day celebrating the school's founding. The school pays tribute to Wynberg Old Boys who died fighting in World War I, World War II and the South African Border War. In World War I, 42 Wynberg Old Boys were killed.
Notable alumni
Rugby
Toskie Smith, Springbok forward (1891–96)
Doug Hopwood
Dave Stewart
Lionel Wilson, Springbok fullback (1960–65)
Rob Louw, Springbok flank (1980–84)
Franklin Bertolini, Namibian prop (2014)
Sikhumbuzo Notshe, Springbok flank (2018)
Gary Gold, Former Springbok, Western Province rugby coach, Current head coach at Worcester Warriors.
Cricket
Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
Allan Lamb, England cricketer
Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer
Charl Willoughby, South African cricketer
Shadley van Schalkwyk, Chevrolet Knights cricketer
Dominic Telo, Cape Cobras and Derbyshire cricketer
Richard Levi, Cape Cobras cricketer and South African cricketer
Kyle Verreynne, Western Province cricket team and South African cricketer
Hockey
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Roy Clark...Springbok hockey team 197.?
Wayne Denne, South African Hockey Team
Rhett Halkett, South Africa Hockey Captain 2013
Lloyd Norris-Jones, South African Hockey Team
Ian Haley, South African Hockey Team
Other
Vic Clapham, founder of the Comrades Marathon
Hendrik Verwoerd, Former Prime Minister of South Africa
Andrew Feinstein, South African politician
Michael Gelfand, distinguished Professor of tropical medicine
Notable staff
Jani Allan, columnist and radio commentator
References
External links
Wynberg Boys' High official site
Schools in Cape Town
Educational institutions established in 1841
Boarding schools in South Africa
Boys' schools in South Africa
1841 establishments in the Cape Colony
Wynberg, Cape Town
Herbert Baker buildings and structures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynberg%20Boys%27%20High%20School |
The 1995 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 109th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 26 June to 9 July 1995.
Prize money
The total prize money for 1995 championships was £6,025,550. The winner of the men's title earned £365,000 while the women's singles champion earned £328,000.
* per team
Champions
Seniors
Men's singles
Pete Sampras defeated Boris Becker, 6–7 (5–7), 6–2, 6–4, 6–2
It was Sampras' 6th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd consecutive Wimbledon title.
Women's singles
Steffi Graf defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 4–6, 6–1, 7–5
It was Graf's 18th career Grand Slam title and her 6th Wimbledon title.
Men's doubles
Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde defeated Rick Leach / Scott Melville, 7–5, 7–6 (10–8), 7–6 (7–5)
It was Woodbridge's 8th career Grand Slam title and his 4th Wimbledon title. It was Woodforde's 8th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Wimbledon title.
Women's doubles
Jana Novotná / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva, 5–7, 7–5, 6–4
It was Novotná's 12th career Grand Slam title and her 4th Wimbledon title. It was Sánchez Vicario's 11th career Grand Slam title and her only Wimbledon title.
Mixed doubles
Jonathan Stark / Martina Navratilova defeated Cyril Suk / Gigi Fernández, 6–4, 6–4
It was Navratilova's 56th career Grand Slam title and her 19th Wimbledon title. It was Stark's 2nd and last career Grand Slam title and his only Wimbledon title.
Juniors
Boys' singles
Olivier Mutis defeated Nicolas Kiefer, 6–2, 6–2
Girls' singles
Aleksandra Olsza defeated Tamarine Tanasugarn, 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Boys' doubles
Martin Lee / James Trotman defeated Alejandro Hernández / Mariano Puerta, 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Girls' doubles
Cara Black / Aleksandra Olsza defeated Trudi Musgrave / Jodi Richardson, 6–0, 7–6(7–5)
Singles seeds
Men's singles
Andre Agassi (semifinals, lost to Boris Becker)
Pete Sampras (champion)
Boris Becker (final, lost to Pete Sampras)
Goran Ivanišević (semifinals, lost to Pete Sampras)
Michael Chang (second round, lost to Petr Korda)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (quarterfinals, lost to Goran Ivanišević)
Wayne Ferreira (fourth round, lost to Jacco Eltingh)
Sergi Bruguera (withdrew before the tournament began)
Michael Stich (first round, lost to Jacco Eltingh)
Marc Rosset (first round, lost to Michael Joyce)
Jim Courier (second round, lost to Cédric Pioline)
Richard Krajicek (first round, lost to Bryan Shelton)
Stefan Edberg (second round, lost to Dick Norman)
Todd Martin (fourth round, lost to Goran Ivanišević)
Andriy Medvedev (second round, lost to Jeff Tarango)
Guy Forget (second round, lost to Greg Rusedski)
Women's singles
Steffi Graf (champion)
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (final, lost to Steffi Graf)
Conchita Martínez (semifinals, lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)
Jana Novotná (semifinals, lost to Steffi Graf)
Mary Pierce (second round, lost to Nathalie Tauziat)
Kimiko Date (quarterfinals, lost to Jana Novotná)
Lindsay Davenport (fourth round, lost to Mary Joe Fernández)
Gabriela Sabatini (quarterfinals, lost to Conchita Martínez)
Anke Huber (fourth round, lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)
Natasha Zvereva (third round, lost to Inés Gorrochategui)
Iva Majoli (first round, lost to Angélica Gavaldón)
Amy Frazier (second round, lost to Irina Spîrlea)
Mary Joe Fernández (quarterfinals, lost to Steffi Graf)
Naoko Sawamatsu (third round, lost to Petra Kamstra)
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (quarterfinals, lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)
Helena Suková (second round, lost to Yone Kamio)
References
External links
Official Wimbledon Championships website
Wimbledon Championships
Wimbledon Championships
June 1995 sports events in the United Kingdom
July 1995 sports events in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Wimbledon%20Championships |
Nezelof syndrome is an autosomal recessive congenital immunodeficiency condition due to underdevelopment of the thymus. The defect is a type of purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency with inactive phosphorylase, this results in an accumulation of deoxy-GTP which inhibits ribonucleotide reductase. Ribonucleotide reductase catalyzes the formation of deoxyribonucleotides from ribonucleotides, thus, DNA replication is inhibited.
Symptoms and signs
This condition causes severe infections. it is characterized by elevated immunoglobulins that function poorly.
Other symptoms are:
Bronchiectasis
Hepatosplenomegaly
Pyoderma
Emphysema
Diarrhea
Cause
Genetically speaking, Nezelof syndrome is autosomal recessive. the condition is thought to be a variation of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). However, the precise cause of Nezelof syndrome remains uncertain
Mechanism
In the mechanism of this condition, one first finds that the normal function of the thymus has it being important in T-cell development and release into the body's blood circulation Hassal's corpuscles absence in thymus(atrophy) has an effect on T-cells.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of Nezelof syndrome will indicate a deficiency of T-cells, additionally in ascertaining the condition the following is done:
Blood test (B-cells will be normal)
X-ray of thymus (atrophy present)
Differential diagnosis
The differential diagnosis for this condition consists of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome
Treatment
In terms of treatment for individuals with Nezelof syndrome, which was first characterized in 1964, includes the following(how effective bone marrow transplant is uncertain) :
Antimicrobial therapy
IV immunoglobulin
Bone marrow transplantation
Thymus transplantation
Thymus factors
See also
List of radiographic findings associated with cutaneous conditions
References
Further reading
External links
PubMed
Immunodeficiency
Noninfectious immunodeficiency-related cutaneous conditions
Autosomal recessive disorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezelof%20syndrome |
Peter Lambeck (1628–1680) was a German historian and librarian.
Life
He was born in Hamburg on April 13, 1628.
In 1644 he entered in the gymnasium where he came under the influence of his mother's brother, Lucas Holstenius, the most distinguished philologian, antiquarian, and critic of his time. The latter had early recognized his nephew's gifts, and entered into a lively correspondence with the lad of barely twelve. On his recommendation, Lambeck went to Holland in 1645 to continue his studies, and at the University of Amsterdam, came in contact with many scholars, especially the philologian Gerhard Johann Vossius. He later left the Netherlands at his uncle's wish and went to Paris, where his relationship with the celebrated Holstenius, as well as his own abilities, secured him access to the most distinguished savants of his time. He here received the degree of Doctor of Laws.
After finishing his studies, Lambeck made a tour through France, Liguria, and Etruria, and spent two years in Rome, where under the special direction of his uncle, who had become papal librarian, he undertook classical and historical researches. When barely nineteen, his learned work had already brought him the approval of the learned public of Paris.
On his return to Hamburg in 1652, he was made professor of history at the gymnasium, and in 1660 became rector of the local college. He had many enemies on account of his success, and, being accused of atheism, decided to give up his position. He was confirmed by his marriage in his decision to leave the country and return to Rome. Here he soon won the favor of Alexander VII. Queen Christina of Sweden, then resident at Rome, also exercised a great influence over him, and soon he entered the Catholic Church. To secure a permanent position he went to Vienna, where Emperor Leopold appointed him librarian and court historiographer. In this position he performed great services by his arrangement of the library, and especially by his catalogues of its treasures. These catalogues are even of value today, being especially important for the numerous contributions they contain to our knowledge of the Old German language and literature. Of great importance for the history of literature is his Prodromus Historiae literariae, of which a second enlarged edition was issued by J. A. Fabricius with a biographical sketch of the author, published separately at Hamburg in 1724. The Prodromus was the first comprehensive history of literature, chronologically arranged. Among other works, Lambeck also published a history of his native town, and researches into the history of the Byzantine Empire.
The physician Edward Browne on his travels while at Vienna in 1677 records -
The worthy Petrus Lambecius his Library Keeper, and who is in great esteem with him,(Emperor Leopold) will usually find out some Books for him which he conceiveth may be acceptable. While I was there he recommended a Translation of Religio Medici unto him, wherewith the Emperour (Leopold) was exceedingly pleased, and spake very much of it unto Lambecius, insomuch that Lambecius asked me whether I knew the Author,(Thomas Browne) he being of my own name, and whether he were living: And when he understood my near Relation to him, he became more kind and courteous than ever, and desired me to send him that Book in the Original English, which he would put into the Emperors Library:
Lambeck died in Vienna on April 4, 1680.
Works Commentariorum de augustissima bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi liber 1-4. Vienna, 1665-1671.Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi. Vienna, 1766-1782. 8 volumes, edited and annotated by Adam F. Kollár.
Prodromus historiae literariae, et Tabula duplex chronographica universalis. Hamburgi, Sumptibus Autoris, 1659. Curante Jo. Alberto Fabricio [...], Hamburgi, 1710.
Notes
Further reading
Theodor G. von Karajan: "Kaiser Leopold I. und Peter Lambeck". In: Almanach der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 18 (1868) 101–156.
Gebhard König: Peter Lambeck (1628–1680). Leben und Werk mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Tätigkeit als Präfekt der Hofbibliothek in den Jahren 1663–1680. Diss. Wien 1975.
Gebhard König: "Peter Lambeck (1628–1680), Bibliothekar Kaiser Leopolds I." In: MIÖG; 87 (1979) 121–166.
Anette Syndikus: "Die Anfänge der Historia literaria im 17. Jahrhundert: Programmatik und gelehrte Praxis". In: Frank Grunert, Friedrich Vollhardt (eds.), Historia literaria: Neuordnungen des Wissens im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert''. Berlin (Akademie-Verlag) 2006, pp. 3–36.
Sources
17th-century German historians
German librarians
1628 births
1680 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
University of Paris alumni
University of Amsterdam alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lambeck |
Lanton may refer to:
Lanton, Gironde, France
Lanton, Missouri, United States
Lanton, Northumberland, England
Lanton, Scottish Borders, Scotland
a trade name of the drug Lansoprazole | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanton |
Dr. Felicia H. Stewart, MD (1943–2006) was a women's health physician and expert in the field of reproductive health.
Education
Stewart was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with honors in Biochemistry. In 1969, she received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Stewart completed her post-graduate training at Cambridge City Hospital and at the UCSF Medical Center.
Career
From 1999 - 2006 Stewart served as Director and Professor at the Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy at the University of California, San Francisco. The Center was established to integrate research, policy development, clinical services and training efforts of UCSF faculty across the disciplines of contraception, abortion, and sexually transmitted infection.
Prior to her appointment at UCSF, Stewart directed the Reproductive Health Program at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation where she was responsible for grant making in the field of reproductive health and in supporting the Foundation’s work with media and public education.
In the mid-1990s, Stewart served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs for the United States Department of Health and Human Services where she helped formulate and implement domestic and international policies on family planning and population issues. In this position, she had direct responsibility for management of the National Family Planning Program (Title X) and the Adolescent Family Life Program (Title XX).
Stewart wrote Understanding Your Body: The Concerned Women’s Guide to Gynecology and Health, a non-technical reference book, and was co-author of Contraceptive Technology, a major reference source in the field of family planning. She was a nationally recognized lecturer and expert in the field of reproductive health. Her special research interest in contraceptive development led to numerous clinical studies carried out in conjunction with her clinical practice.
Legacy
The American Public Health Association presents the Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award in her memory. The American Society for Emergency Contraception presents the Felicia Stewart Award for Lifetime Achievement in EC.
References
External links
Tribute Page to Dr. Stewart
Dr. Stewart's bio on UCSF web site
1943 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American women physicians
20th-century American physicians
Harvard Medical School alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, San Francisco faculty
University High School (Los Angeles) alumni
20th-century American people
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia%20Stewart |
Laona can refer to:
Laona Township, Winnebago County, Illinois
Laona Township, Minnesota
Laona, New York
Laona, Wisconsin, a town
Laona (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community within the town
Laona (gastropod), a genus of sea slugs in the family Philinidae | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laona |
Have a Good Time is the 11th studio album by soul singer Al Green, released in 1976.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Al Green and Willie Mitchell; except where indicated
Side one
"Keep Me Cryin'" – 3:08
"Smile a Little Bit More" – 2:53
"I Tried to Tell Myself" – 3:28
"Something" – 4:24
"The Truth Marches On" – 2:42
Side two
"Have a Good Time" (Green) – 3:38
"Nothing Takes the Place of You" (Toussaint McCall, Alan Robinson) – 4:39
"Happy" – 2:40
"Hold on Forever" (Green) – 2:38
Personnel
Al Green: vocals
Charles Chalmers, Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes: backing vocals
Mabon "Teenie" Hodges: guitars
Michael Hodges, Michael Toles: guitars, sitar
Michael Allen, James H. Brown, Archie Turner: piano
Charles Hodges: organ
Leroy Hodges: bass
Gene Chrisman, Howard Grimes: drums, percussion
Lewis Collins, Bill Easley - tenor saxophone
Andrew Love - alto saxophone
James Mitchell: baritone saxophone
Jack Hale, Jr., Wayne Jackson: trumpet
Jack Hale, Sr., Jackie Thomas: trombone
The Memphis Strings - strings
Strings & Horns arranged by Willie Mitchell & Aarion Nesbit
References
Al Green albums
1976 albums
Albums produced by Willie Mitchell (musician)
The Right Stuff Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have%20a%20Good%20Time%20%28Al%20Green%20album%29 |
David Jewell (24 March 1934 – 21 May 2006) was a British independent school headmaster during the late 20th century.
Life and career
David Jewell was born in 1934 in Porthleven, West Cornwall, the son of a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force.
Jewell was educated at Blundell's School and St John's College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry and met his future wife, Katharine. He then took up his first teaching post as science master at Winchester College. After a brief period working in a state school in Bristol, he returned to the independent sector at the age of 36 as headmaster of Bristol Cathedral School, which he led from direct-grant status to independence.
Later, he became headmaster of Repton School, a boys' school in England, and was subsequently headmaster of Haileybury and Imperial Service College. He presided over significant changes in both these schools. In 1990 he served as chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and as a councillor on Porthleven town council.
Personal and political views
Jewell was a firm supporter of direct-grant schools and was influential in campaigning for the introduction of the assisted places scheme . He was also a committed Anglican Christian.
References
Schoolteachers from Cornwall
1934 births
2006 deaths
Headmasters of Repton School
People educated at Blundell's School
People from Porthleven
Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
Masters of Haileybury and Imperial Service College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Jewell%20%28headmaster%29 |
Sliding may refer to:
Sliding (dance), also floating or gliding, a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques
Slide (baseball), an attempt by a baseball runner to avoid getting tagged out
Sliding (motion)
See also
Slide (disambiguation)
Slider (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding |
Harry Locke (10 December 1913 – 7 September 1987) was an English character actor.
He was born and died in London. He married Joan Cowderoy in 1943 and Cordelia Sewell in 1952. He was a good friend of the poet Dylan Thomas. Their friendship in London and South Leigh, Oxfordshire, has been described by Locke in a 1970s interview with the radio journalist Colin Edwards.
Locke was a familiar face in three decades of British cinema, playing small parts such as assorted cockneys, working men, clerks, porters and cab drivers, with appearances including Passport to Pimlico (1949), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carry On Nurse (1959), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), Alfie (1966) and The Family Way (1966).
His numerous roles on TV included Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as a night porter in 1969. In 1972 he played Platon Karataev in the BBC production of War and Peace, with his final role, playing a gardener, in an episode of Just William, in 1977.
Selected filmography
The Day Will Dawn (1942) - (uncredited)
George in Civvy Street (1946) - (uncredited)
Piccadilly Incident (1946) - (uncredited)
No Room at the Inn (1948) - Tobacconist (uncredited)
Passport to Pimlico (1949) - Sergeant
Private Angelo (1949) - Cpl. Trivet
Treasure Island (1950) - Haggott
The Naked Heart (1950)
High Treason (1951) - Andy - Telephone Engineer (uncredited)
Judgment Deferred (1952) - Bert
Angels One Five (1952) - Look Out
Father's Doing Fine (1952) - Little Man (uncredited)
My Wife's Lodger (1952) - Passer-by
Tread Softly (1952) - Nutty Potts
Time Bomb (1953) - Train Fireman
The Red Beret (1953) - Medical Orderly
Devil on Horseback (1954) - (uncredited)
Doctor in the House (1954) - Jessup
The Teckman Mystery (1954) - Leonard
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - (uncredited)
A Yank in Ermine (1955) - Clayton
The Long Arm (1956) - Secondhand Dealer
Yield to the Night (1956) - Fred Hilton
Reach for the Sky (1956) - Bates
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) - CPO Blades
The Silken Affair (1956) - Tobacconist
Town on Trial (1957) - Sgt. Beale
The Happy Road (1957) - Emerson (uncredited)
Doctor at Large (1957) - Porter
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) - Wine merchant
Barnacle Bill (1957) - Reporter
Nowhere to Go (1958) - George Bendel (uncredited)
The Captain's Table (1959) - Hole
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) - Gaillardian Commentator
Carry On Nurse (1959) - Mick the Orderly
Serious Charge (1959) - (uncredited)
I'm All Right Jack (1959) - Trade Union Official
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) - Train Ticket Inspector (uncredited)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) - (uncredited)
Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) - Amis
Light Up the Sky! (1960) - Roland Kenyon
The Girl on the Boat (1961) - (uncredited)
The Man in the Back Seat (1961) - Joe Carter
Watch it, Sailor! (1961) - Ticket Collector (uncredited)
On the Fiddle (1961) - Huxtable
Never Back Losers (1961) - Burnside
Play It Cool (1962) - Train Guard (uncredited)
She'll Have to Go (1962) - Stationmaster
Crooks Anonymous (1962) - Fred
Two and Two Make Six (1962) - Ted
In the Doghouse (1962) - Sid West
Tiara Tahiti (1962) - (uncredited)
Kill or Cure (1962) - Higgins
The Wild and the Willing (1962) - 2nd Customer
The Amorous Prawn (1962) - Albert Huggin
The L-Shaped Room (1962) - Newsagent
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) - Stage Manager
Heavens Above! (1963) - Shop Steward
What a Crazy World (1963) - George
A Home of Your Own (1964)
The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) - Bragg
The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
The Early Bird (1965) - Commissionaire
Alfie (1966) - Foreman (uncredited)
Arabesque (1966) - Zoo Guard (uncredited)
The Family Way (1966) - Mr. Stubbs
Mister Ten Per Cent (1967) - Theatre Heckler - (uncredited)
Half a Sixpence (1967) - Weight Guesser
Carry On Doctor (1967) - Sam
Subterfuge (1968) - Tramp
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) - Heckler at Pankhurst Speech
Carry On Again Doctor (1969) - Porter
Tales from the Crypt (1972) - Harry the Cook (segment "Blind Alleys")
The Creeping Flesh (1973) - Barman
References
External links
South Leigh residents talk about Dylan Thomas
1913 births
1987 deaths
English male film actors
Male actors from London
20th-century English male actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Locke |
Heliopolitans are a fictional group of gods, based on Ancient Egyptian deities, appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Characters based on ancient Egyptian deities were first mentioned in Captain America Comics #20 (November 1942), published by Marvel Comics' predecessor Timely Comics, in which Captain America and Bucky investigate the murder of Colonel Fitzpatrick, who was studying the Book of Thoth while stationed in Egypt. The Heliopolitans' first full Golden Age appearance was in the story "The Terror That Creeps" by Stan Lee and Werner Roth, published in Marvel Tales #96 (June 1950), and involves a man that fails to convince the public that the Great Sphinx of Giza is slowly moving to the edge of the desert, where it will be empowered by Set and destroy mankind. The goddess Bast would later make her first appearance (as a totem) with the Black Panther in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966), being called only Panther God, in Black Panther vol. 3 # 21 by Christopher Priest and Sal Velutto, it was revealed that the Panther God is Bast. Many of the other deities, including Horus, Isis and Osiris, were introduced in Thor #239 (September 1975). Khonshu, who became associated with Moon Knight, first appeared in Moon Knight #1 (November 1980). Joseph Muszynski argued in his book Everything I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from Marvel Comics that the introduction of Egyptian deities "excited our tendency to enjoy variety" as the pantheon contained multiple gods and personalities as opposed to the Judeo-Christian religions. Ed Strauss contended that Marvel was able to dive into ancient Egyptian religion because it "had long been retired into the realm of mythology" unlike Christianity.
Fictional history
The Heliopolitans were worshipped as deities by the inhabitants of the Nile River Valley from as early as 10,000 BC. According to Heliopolitan legend, the first of these were Gaea (as Neith), the Demiurge (as Nun), and Set (as Apep/Apophis). Neith and Nun sired Atum, the first of the Ogdoad — the old gods. As Neith went about creating mortal life, Set desired to destroy her creations. In turn, Neith called Atum for protection. Atum and Set fought for eons until Atum transformed into the Demogorge and drove Set off. After Set's defeat, Atum begot the Ennead — the new gods, took the name Ra and settled in the sun.
The Ennead resided in the ancient city of Heliopolis until their king Osiris placed mortal pharaohs in charge so that the gods could become less involved with human affairs and relocated themselves to the extradimensional realm of Celestial Heliopolis, known to the ancient Egyptians as "Aaru." A few, including Bast, Sobek, Sekhmet, Thoth, and Ptah choose to remain on Earth, integrating themselves into The Orisha, the pantheon of Wakanda.
Bast would eventually become the patron deity of Wakanda, while Sobek and Sekhmet became patrons of lesser influential Wakandan cults.
In Celestial Heliopolis, Seth murdered his brother Osiris in an attempted coup but Osiris' wife Isis, and his sons Horus and Anubis combined their powers to resurrect Osiris. Osiris then dispatched Horus to exact revenge on Seth in a battle that lasted for several hundred years, ending when Seth gained the upper hand and sealed the gods in a pyramid. The trapped gods remained in the pyramid for several millennia until they managed to reach out to the Asgardian god Odin. With help from Odin's son, Thor, they defeated Seth, severing his left hand as they battled, and freed the Heliopolitans. The Heliopolitans had captured a large creature called the Devourer, who later escaped and fought Thor and the Thing.
Osiris later empowered Thor to revive Asgardians who were harmed by the Destroyer.
The gods of Heliopolis, powerless and calling themselves "Lost Ones", joined Thor and Earth Force in fighting Seth and his forces again, and ultimately regained their powers after the apparent death of Seth.
Members
Anubis — The god of the afterlife
Atum — The god of the sun
Bast — The god of pleasure, poetry and dance
Bes — The god of luck and probability
Geb — The god of the Earth
Horus — The god of the Sun
Isis — The goddess of fertility
Khonshu — The god of the Moon
Neith — The goddess of the Earth
Nun — The god of the watery abyss
Nut — The goddess of the sky
Osiris — The god of the dead
Ptah — The god of craftsmen and architects
Sekhmet — The god of war
Set — The god of chaos and creation
Seth — The god of evil and death
Sobek - The god of rivers
Thoth — The god of wisdom
In other media
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The gods Bast and Sekhmet were both mentioned by T'Challa / Black Panther in the 2016 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: Civil War, with T'Challa explaining, "In my culture, death is not the end. It's more of a stepping-off point. You reach out with both hands, and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into the green veld where you can run forever." Bast is again mentioned in the prologue of the 2018 film Black Panther as having helped the first Black Panther become king of Wakanda, and later appears in person in Thor: Love and Thunder portrayed by Akosia Sabet.
Khonshu appears in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Moon Knight, performed by Karim El-Hakim and voiced by F. Murray Abraham. This version of Khonshu is an outcast amongst his fellow Egyptian gods for waging a "one-god war on perceived injustices", which necessitates him to find and use his avatar, Marc Spector. Additionally, Khonshu was described by the series' head writer Jeremy Slater as an "imperious and sort of snotty and vengeful" deity, who is prone to temper tantrums and is dealing with his own insecurities, adding he was more interested in a version of the character that had "his own moral failings and weaknesses" rather than one who was "always right and impervious to mistakes". Abraham called Khonshu "outrageous" and "capable of doing anything and charming his way out of it". As well, Abraham believed Khonshu was unselfish and willing to sacrifice himself the same way he demands sacrifice from others.
Video games
Horus appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, voiced by Colin McFarlane. He is found in the Egypt area of Chronopolis and helps Captain America, Doctor Strange, and Thor fight an awakened N'Kantu, the Living Mummy while Captain Marvel works to free Hulk from the quicksand. After Loki is defeated, Horus sees to it that Loki puts right what he has wronged in Egypt.
References
External links
Heliopolis at MarvelDirectory.com
Egyptian Gods at Comic Vine
Characters created by Stan Lee
Fictional ancient people
Marvel Comics deities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliopolitans |
Quatsino is a small hamlet of 91 people located on Quatsino Sound in Northern Vancouver Island, Canada only accessible by boat or float plane. Its nearest neighbour is Coal Harbour, to the east, about 20 minutes away by boat, and Port Alice, to the south, about 40 minutes away by boat. The largest town in the region, Port Hardy, is located about an hour northeast by boat and motor vehicle.
Description
The village is known to have one of British Columbia's only still-used public one-room schoolhouses, a two-story wooden building built in 1935. The oldest building on the North Island is also located in Quatsino, a woodland chapel called St. Olaf's Anglican Church, a popular site for weddings. It was built in 1897. Quatsino was originally settled by Norwegian farmers from North Dakota who arrived via steamship in 1894 to homestead and farm thirty lots offered free through Crown Grants- publicized at the Chicago World Exposition of 1893. Soon freight service to Victoria was established, along with a post office and customs office and a government wharf. The area grew as resources were developed and the area boasted numerous mines, canneries, general stores, rental cabins, a hotel, a saloon, telegraph office and an Imperial Oil fuel station. The village was a thriving community up until the 1940s. The post office is still in operation and two cemeteries mark the history of the community. Located approximately north of the community is Colony Lake, a favorite swimming spot and a popular destination for canoeing and lake trout fishing.
High speed internet via satellite arrived in the mid-spring of 2007, replacing slow speed dial up in most of the community. The new destination for visitors to the area is the Quatsino Museum, which opened in the summer of 2007.
Tourism
Since 2003, Quatsino has become an increasingly popular destination for sports fishing, kayaking, bird watching and whale watching. There are numerous sports fishing lodges that have opened as a result.
Featured in media
Alone, an American reality television series, was filmed on Vancouver Island in Quatsino Territory for its first, second and fourth seasons, shot between 2015-2017.
Caiette, a setting in the novel The Glass Hotel, was based on Quatsino.
Climate
Quatsino has a rainy oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) with cool and generally very rainy winters and mild, somewhat drier (though much wetter than Vancouver or eastern island communities) summers. Cold outbreaks that produce cold and dry winter weather over coastal communities are less effective over Vancouver Island.
References
The Quatsino Chronicle by Gwen Hansen
Norwegians in the Northwest by Eric Faa
History of Quatsino Colony by George Nordstrom
Dreams of Freedom by Gordon Fish
Designated places in British Columbia
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Norwegian Canadian settlements
Populated places in the Regional District of Mount Waddington
Quatsino Sound region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatsino |
The Restoration of Chaos & Order is the fourth album released by American punk rock band Against All Authority.
Track listing
"The Restoration of Chaos & Order"
"Sweet Televised Destruction"
"All Ages Show Tonight"
"Collecting Scars"
"Radio Waves"
"Silence Is Golden but Duct Tape Is Silver"
"Shut It Down"
"Sunshine Fist Magnet"
"I Just Wanna Start a Circle Pit"
"War Machine Breakdown"
"Grinding My Life Away"
"The Production of Self Destruction"
"Buried Alive"
"Best Enemy"
"Holiday in Cambodia" (Vinyl exclusive)
Personnel
Danny Lore - Vocals/Bass
Joe Koontz - Guitar/Vocals
References
Against All Authority albums
2006 albums
Hopeless Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Restoration%20of%20Chaos%20%26%20Order |
Joseph Hall may refer to:
Sports
Joe Hall (American football) (born 1979), American football player
Joe Hall (baseball) (born 1966), American baseball player
Joe Hall (ice hockey) (1881–1919), Canadian ice hockey player
Joe B. Hall (1928–2022), American college basketball coach
Others
Joseph Hall (bishop) (1574–1656), English bishop, satirist and moralist
Joseph Hall (metallurgist) (1789–1862)
Joseph Hall (Maine politician) (1793–1859), US Representative from Maine
Joseph Hall (mayor) (1800s–1857), mayor of Adelaide, 1854–1855
Joe Hall (musician) (1947–2019), Canadian singer-songwriter
Joe Hall (trade unionist) (1887–1964), British trade unionist
Joseph M. Hall, Jr., historian, writer and professor
Joseph N. Hall (born 1966), American author
Joe Hall (poet)
See also
Murder of Jeff Hall, by his 10-year-old son Joseph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hall |
Teba is a town and municipality located in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is situated in the northeast of the province, in Guadalteba comarca. As of 2018, its population is 3,818. The town is the site of the Battle of Teba, which took place in 1330 during the Reconquista. Scottish knight and feudal lord Sir James Douglas was killed at Teba during the same campaign.
References
External links
Teba in Andalucia.com
Teba Municipal Website (in Spanish)
Statistical information on Teba (in Spanish)
Michelin Map of Teba
Teba in hisnatiba.com
Municipalities in the Province of Málaga | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teba |
Common Rider/Against All Authority Split is a split album featuring songs by American bands Against All Authority and Common Rider.
Track listing
"Lied To" (Against All Authority)
"War Machine Breakdown" (Against All Authority)
"Barricades" (Against All Authority)
"World Dominator" (Against All Authority)
"Where the Waves Are Highest" (Common Rider)
"Dogtown" (Common Rider)
"Blue Spark" (Common Rider)
"The Only Ones" (Common Rider)
War Machine Breakdown is a different version than that featured on The Restoration of Chaos & Order
References
Against All Authority albums
2005 EPs
Split EPs
Hopeless Records EPs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against%20All%20Authority%20/%20Common%20Rider |
Lanier is a surname, after which various places, schools, etc, are named.
People
Lanier (surname), list of people with the name
Places in the United States
Lanier, Florida
Lanier, Georgia
Lanier County, Georgia
Lake Lanier, an artificial lake on the Chattahoochee River, Georgia
Lanier Mansion, Madison, Indiana, home of James F. D. Lanier
Schools in the United States
Lanier Middle School (Houston), Houston, Texas
Lanier Middle School (Buford, Georgia), Buford, Georgia
Lanier Middle School (Fairfax, Virginia), Fairfax, Virginia
Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama
Lanier High School (Austin, Texas), Austin, Texas
Lanier High School (Jackson, Mississippi), Jackson, Mississippi
Lanier High School, Macon, Georgia (now part of Central High School)
Lanier University, a short-lived Baptist then KKK-run university in Atlanta, Georgia
Lanier Technical College, Gainesville, Georgia
Other uses
Lanier, a brand of printers (subsidiary of Ricoh)
USS Lanier (APA-125), a US Navy attack transport ship, of World War II vintage
See also | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanier |
The Iron Ore Line () is a long railway line between Riksgränsen and Boden in Norrbotten County, Sweden, owned by Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration). The line also contains two branches, from Kiruna to Svappavaara and from Gällivare to Koskullskulle. The term is often colloquially used to also include the Ofoten Line, from Riksgränsen to Narvik in Norway, and the northernmost part of the Main Line Through Upper Norrland from Boden to Luleå. The railway from Narvik to Luleå is long.
The line is dominated by the ore freight trains operated by LKAB's subsidiary Malmtrafik from their mines to the Port of Narvik and the Port of Luleå. In addition, Vy Tåg operates passenger trains and CargoNet operates container freight trains. The Iron Ore Line is single track, electrified at and has a permitted axle load of . The Swedish part of the line is the northernmost railway in Sweden and the Norwegian part outside Narvik is the northernmost railway in the whole of Western Europe at 68.452°N.
The first section of the line, from Gällivare to Luleå, opened in 1888. By 1899, the line was extended to Kiruna, and from 1903, all the way to Narvik. Electrification took place between 1915 and 1923. Operations of the ore trains was taken over by Malmtrafik from SJ in 1996.
Rockfalls from mountains have at times hit the line.
Operations
LKAB operates iron ore mines in Kiruna, Svappavaara and Malmberget in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Most of the output is transported by rail to the ice-free Port of Narvik, a route named the Northern Circuit. A minority of the ore is transported to Luleå on the Southern Circuit. Located on the Baltic Sea, ore is shipped to Baltic customers, or delivered to furnaces operated by SSAB in Luleå and Oxelösund. The Ore and Ofoten Lines are long, including the branch to Svappavaara, with the route from Kiruna to Narvik being , and from Malmberget to Luleå being . Operations are handled by LKAB's subsidiary Malmtrafik i Kiruna (MTAB) in Sweden, and Malmtrafikk (MTAS) in Norway. Daily there operate 11 to 13 trains in each direction on the Northern Circuit, and five to six trains on the Southern Circuit.
The trains hauled by Iore-class locomotives are 68 cars long and weigh . From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border. Although the trains and hopper cars are all owned by LKAB, the line is owned by the Swedish Transport Administration and the Norwegian National Rail Administration. The Ore and Ofoten Lines are also used by passenger and container trains.
Iron ore is also transported from Northland Resources' mine in Kaunisvaara to Narvik, started in small scale December 2012.
CargoNet operates two daily container trains from Alnabru Terminal in Oslo, Norway, named the Arctic Rail Express (ARE). The trains operate via Sweden and take 27 hours. The trains haul mostly food northbound and fish southbound along a distance of . DB Schenker launched a competing service in January 2011. There is about 0.5 million tonnes of non-ore freight transport on the Ofoten Line each year.
Vy Tåg operates three daily trains from Narvik to Kiruna Central Station, of which two continue onwards, either to Luleå Central Station or Stockholm Central Station. Trains to Stockholm are night trains. Travel time from Narvik to Kiruna is 3 hours and 1 minute, travel time to Luleå is 7 hours and 4 minutes, and travel time to Stockholm is 18 hours and 25 minutes.
History
In 1847, a concession was granted to build a railway from the mines at Gällivare to Töre in the Gulf of Bothnia. The line was never built, and in 1882 a new concession was granted to an English company, who between 1884 and 1888 built a railway from Malmberget to the port at Svartön in Luleå. However, the line was built with an inadequate standard, and the mining company lacked sufficient funds to finance the upgrades. In 1891, the line was nationalized and taken over by the Swedish State Railways.
In 1890, Luossavaara–Kiirunavaara AB was established to start mining in Kiruna. By 1899, a railway had been built from Kiruna to Gällivare. In 1898, the Riksdag passed legislation to build a railway from Kiruna to Narvik in Norway. The line was completed in November 1902 and was officially opened on 14 July 1903 by King Oscar II. To begin with, the line used two or three conventional steam locomotives for each ore train. Later dedicated ore-hauling steam locomotives were introduced.
In 1915, the section from Riksgränsen to Kiruna was electrified, with the rest of the line electrified in 1922. The first electric locomotives were Oa, and allowed trains weighing . In the 1950s, SJ introduced the Dm locomotives, which could haul a train. By the 1960s, the Dm had been rebuilt to Dm3, which consisted of a new center section. In combination of upgrades to maximum permitted axle load, this gave a maximum train weight of .
In 1964, the branch from Kiruna to Svappavaara was opened, allowing LKAB to exploit mining there, although this was again closed in 1983. In 1990, a tunnel opened under Nuolja between Abisko and Björkliden. Passenger trains were essential for the region until 1984, when European Route E10 was constructed between Kiruna and Narvik.
Establishment of Malmtrafik
In December 1991, LKAB stated that they wanted to take over the operation of the ore trains from NSB and SJ. This became possible due to new legislation. At the time, they were paying 0.15 Swedish krona (SEK) per tonne kilometer in Sweden and 0.30 Norwegian krone (NOK) per tonne kilometer in Norway, while comparable rates abroad were between SEK 0.03 and 0.10 per tonne kilometer. While SJ had several times during the 1980s agreed to reduce their rates, NSB had not offered the same, and was making a profit of NOK 60 to 70 million per year. LKAB stated that they, by taking over operations themselves, could save SEK 200 million per year. In addition, they stated that they could save between SEK 50 to 100 million in auxiliary fields. LKAB had sent an application to Swedish authorities for permission to take over operations, and had received positive feedback from SJ. NSB, on the other hand, did not support a solution where they did not operate the trains themselves. LKAB stated that if an agreement with NSB could not be reached, they would shift all their transport to the Port of Luleå.
In February 1992, a report ordered by Kiruna Municipality recommended that LKAB, SJ and NSB create a common company to operate the ore trains. At the same time, SJ stated that the consequence of LKAB taking over operation could be that passenger trains on the lines would be terminated. In April 1992, LKAB was awarded traffic rights by the Swedish Rail Administration. There was a disagreement as to whether the agency had the authority to do this, and SJ stated that it was only the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications who had the authority to award traffic rights on the stem lines, in particular along the Main Line in Upper Norrland. The rights also did not affect the Ofoten Line.
The following day, SJ and NSB stated that they were considering establishing a joint venture that would take over the operations of the ore trains. In May 1992, LKAB stated that Norway would, through its membership in the European Economic Area, be required to allow any train operator to run trains on a line, while this was rejected by NSB who stated that this only applied within the European Union, of which Norway was not a member. By August, SJ and NSB had offered to reduce the price from SEK 650 million to 450 million, but LKAB stated that they believed it was possible to reduce the costs further.
In October 1992 the Swedish Ministry of Communications gave the final permission for LKAB to take over operations in their own right. On 26 October, SJ and NSB signed a new five-year contract with LKAB where the latter would purchase transport services from the two state railway. The annual price had then been reduced from SEK 650 to 400 million. Political commentators stated that the agreement allowed LKAB to keep all the profit in the line and introduce new cost savings, while SJ and NSB kept face by keeping the operating contract. The price reduction would mean that both NSB and SJ would have to lay off employees.
In 1993, the state railways were losing money on the ore trains. In January 1994, SJ and NSB stated that they were going to merge the operations of the Iron Ore Line and the Ofoten Line. In May 1994, LKAB applied for traffic rights on the Ofoten Line. This was rejected in December 1994 by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, who stated that the company did not meet the criteria in the law, including that the applicant had to have rail transport as their main activity. On 8 June 1995, LKAB established a Swedish and a Norwegian subsidiary dedicated to rail transport. This would bypass the rationale provided by the Ministry of Transport in denying them traffic rights, and LKAB stated that there was no way the Norwegian authorities now could deny them such rights, given EU Directive 91/440. At this time Norway was part of the European Economic Area (and Sweden of the EU) meaning EU directives were valid in both countries.
On 27 June 1995, LKAB, SJ and NSB reached an agreement where the three would establish a joint venture owned 51% by LKAB and 24.5% each by NSB and SJ. At the time there were 350 employees in the three companies involved in the transport, and the new company would recruit its employees among these, although it would need significantly fewer employees. The plans called for the new companies taking over operations from 1 January 1996. In late January, the committee concluded that LKAB met the criteria to receive traffic rights. The report also showed that 55 jobs would be lost in Narvik and that the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate had concerns regarding the safety of LKAB's operations.
The labor unions protested after LKAB demanded that the employees switch union from Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees to the Swedish Metalworkers Union. This was rejected by the workers, who would both have to reduce their pay and work five more years before retirement. On 28 May, 22 train drivers, all Swedish, took out sick leave in protest towards being forced to switch labor union and receive lower wages and worse pension rights. This caused a third of the ore trains to be canceled. On 28 June , the transfer of operations was finalized following a vote in the Parliament of Norway.
Heavier trains
Malmtrafik took over operations from 1 July 1996. The company bought the Dm3-locomotives from SJ, NSB's six El 15 locomotives, and a number of workshops, depots and shunters. Post-nationalization, it became the first private railway company in Europe to haul international freight trains. from 26 September to 27 October 200 employees in Narvik were on strike regarding the transition rules for employees. While the strike lasted, there was increased shipments to Luleå. In November, the new ore port in Luleå opened, having cost LKAB more than half a billion Swedish kronor and a capacity of six million tonnes of ore per year.
In 1998, LKAB estimated a gradual 35% increase in production until 2005, and demanded that the track owners grant sufficient funding to upgrade the lines from to maximum permitted axle load. Combined with new locomotives, this would give increased efficiency in hauling the ore. The upgrade for the Ofoten Line would cost 180 million Norwegian krone, and would allow LKAB to increase the train weight from . In addition, heavier trains would have to be longer, so sufficient passing loops would have to be upgraded to .
In March, LKAB awarded the contract to build 750 new 100-tonne hopper cars to Transnet of South Africa, after among others Norsk Verkstedindustri had been considered. In August, an agreement was reached whereby LKAB would pay for NOK 100 million of the NOK 130 million needed to upgrade the Ofoten Line. The contract to deliver 18 Iore locomotives was signed with Bombardier on 15 September 1998. LKAB bought SJ and NSB's share of MTAB in 1999, making MTAB a subsidiary.
The first twin unit locomotive was delivered in 2000, and serial delivery was made from 2002 to 2004. In March 2004, LKAB decided to not purchase the option for additional hopper cars from Transnet, and instead purchase 750 heavier cars from K-Industrier.
Since 1969 the ore trains have been using the Soviet SA3 coupler. However, LKAB wanted to try Janney couplers (also known as AAR coupler, used in much heavier trains in USA and South Africa), as the SA3 couplers were not much tested with the new weights. Later LKAB went back to SA3 couplers which now are used on all ore trains. In 2003, the Iron Ore Line from Kiruna to Riksgränsen and the Ofoten Line were finished upgraded to 30 tonne axle load, allowing half the trains to operate with maximum capacity.
The Northern East West Freight Corridor is an initiative by the International Union of Railways aiming to establish a freight corridor from the Far East to North America. The route would use the Ofoten Line and transship from rail to ship at Narvik. The main report for the project was made in 2004, but since there had been limited funding for the project.
On 23 August 2007, LKAB ordered another four twin units, with delivery in 2010 and 2011, and costing €52 million. This will replace all remaining Dm3. After delivery, six locomotives are used from Kiruna to Luleå, and twenty are used from Kiruna to Narvik. By 2009, sufficient passing loops had been built along the whole line from Narvik to Luleå to allow all trains to operate with full capacity. By 2011, LKAB's will be able to replace all the Dm3, and convert all the ore trains to 68 cars. This will increase the capacity from 28 to 33 million tonnes per year, and at the same time reduce the number of departures per day from 21 to 15.
A well managed ore train going downhill may have an electricity consumption of around zero due to regenerative braking.
Resignalling
In March 2021 it was announced that Hitachi Rail had been awarded a contract by Trafikverket to roll out ERTMS level 2 signalling system on the line between Gällivare and Boden.
Equipment
Locomotives
To cope with the heavy ore transports this line was first equipped with the most powerful steam locomotives in Sweden and later powerful electric locomotives, the most famous being the Dm+Dm3+Dm that today are being replaced with modern Iore locomotives after serving on the line for over 40 years.
Other equipment
Apart from special locomotives, the iron ore trains have some special equipment to allow the high train weights, higher than anywhere else in Scandinavia, and probably anywhere in the European Union. They use special brakes and SA3 couplers instead of the screw couplings otherwise standard in Sweden. After extension of passing loops to 750 m in 2008 and 2009, the trains will have 68 cars, weighing 8600 tonnes including the locomotive, with 6800 tonnes of iron ore.
The railway also carries passenger services. Vy Tåg operates a daily overnight service from Narvik to Stockholm. This route is operated as a public service obligation and used to be operated by SJ but was transferred to Vy at the 2021 timetable. There are further regional services between Kiruna and Luleå under the Norrtåg concession, which have also been operated by Vy since 2016, at which time they used the name (Svenska) Tågkompaniet as a sub-brand for their Swedish operations.
Driver Advisory System are installed on board to improve eco-friendliness of driving.
A new snow blower entered service in 2016.
See also
Swedish iron ore during World War II
Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line
References
External links
, illustrated description of the Iron Ore line
Railway lines in Sweden
Iron ore railways
Mining in Sweden
Transport in the Arctic
Railway lines opened in 1888
1888 establishments in Sweden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Ore%20Line |
Yuquot , also known as Friendly Cove, is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, just west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It was the summer home of Chief Maquinna and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) people for generations, housing approximately 1,500 people in 20 traditional wooden longhouses. The name means "Wind comes from all directions" in Nuu-chah-nulth.
The community is located within the Strathcona Regional District but like all Indian Reserve communities is not governed by nor represented in the regional district. The Mowchaht/Muchalaht First Nations are rather part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which unites the governments of the indigenous communities of the Island's West Coast.
The Canadian government declared Friendly Cove a National Historic Site in 1923, with recognition of the significance of the Spanish colonial settlement that was once there and First Nations history following in 1997.
History
The meaning of the name Yuquot is “where the winds blow from many directions”. It has been dubbed "the birthplace of British Columbia".
Early exploration and settlement
Yuquot had been occupied for over 4,300 years by First Nations peoples of the Nootka Sound region. In the late 18th century, Nootka Sound became an important site of early contact between First Nations of the Pacific Northwest and European explorers, and developed into a centre of maritime fur trade.
In 1774, Spanish explorer Juan José Pérez Hernández became the first European to spot Yuquot. The region was formally claimed as part of the Spanish Empire in a subsequent voyage by Spanish-Basque explorer Bruno de Heceta in 1775.
In 1778, the English Captain James Cook arrived at the bay on HMS Resolution, on his expedition in search of the North-West Passage. This marked the first recorded landing by Europeans, and a period of sustained contact between the Mowachaht people and these foreigners ensued for a while.
On 5 May 1789, Spanish navigator and explorer Esteban José Martínez established the settlement of Santa Cruz de Nuca. It was the first European colony in what is now British Columbia, the only Spanish settlement in what is now Canada, and the northernmost verified Spanish settlement in the Americas. The colony was protected by the cannon of Fort San Miguel and was maintained until the resolution of the Nootka Crisis in 1795.
Nootka Crisis
Yuquot was the scene of the Nootka Crisis, which nearly led to war between Spain and Britain. Negotiations in Europe calmed the situation and led to the first Nootka Convention. Each nation sent a commissioner to Nootka Sound in order to carry out the terms of the Nootka Convention and related diplomatic issues. Arriving in 1792, George Vancouver was commissioner for Britain and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra for Spain. Quadra also served as the commandant of the Spanish settlement at Yuquot, hosting Vancouver and his crew. Quadra and Vancouver had to engage in diplomatic negotiations due to the Nootka Convention's vagueness and lack of detail over how it was to be implemented. In addition both commissioners had been given incomplete, differing, and confused instructions by their governments. They negotiated for months but in the end failed to reach an agreement. The matter was sent back to the British and Spanish governments.
The primary problem was a differing interpretation of the Nootka Convention. Vancouver's position, as instructed, was that the entire Spanish settlement was to be turned over to him. Quadra's position was that there was nothing left to turn over in accord with the Nootka Convention, but he made various offers, such as turning over a small cove in Nootka Sound, where John Meares had built the North West America in 1788, or turning over the entire settlement in exchange if Britain agreed to set the boundary between Spanish and British territory at the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Chief Maquinna played a role in the negotiations, identifying the cove where Meares had built his vessel, swearing that no land had ever been sold to the British and that the Spanish were the rightful occupants at Yuquot—and that only on the condition that the site be restored to his people as soon as possible. Unable to reach an agreement, Vancouver and Quadra left in late 1792 and the settlement at Yuquot remained under Spanish control until 1795, when the terms of the third Nootka Convention, calling for the "mutual abandonment" of Nootka, were carried out, after which the site was reoccupied by the Maquinna and the Mowachaht people.
19th century
John R. Jewitt, an English blacksmith, was held there for three years 1803-1805 as Maquinna's slave, following the capture of the trading ship Boston and the deaths of the captain and all but one other crew members. Jewitt's memoirs form an important record of Yuquot at that period.
20th century
In 1911, the government of Canada erected the Nootka Lighthouse atop San Rafael Island, a small rocky island that overlooks Yuquot and forms part of its natural harbour. The original lighthouse was later replaced with the current lighthouse in 1958. It serves as a navigational aid to vessels transiting Nootka Sound.
21st century
Recently, the lighthouse has been home to a seasonal Canadian Coast Guard Inshore Rescue Boat station with a crew of three (two deckhands and a coxswain) and an fast rescue craft at their disposal.
See also
History of the west coast of North America
''The Indian Church (painting)
References
External links
Further reading
Nuu-chah-nulth
History of Vancouver Island
Nootka Sound region
National Historic Sites in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuquot |
César Omar Monasterio (born 28 November 1963) is an Argentine professional golfer.
Monasterio was born in Tucumán. He turned professional in 1990.
Since 2003 Monasterio has played extensively in Europe on the European Tour and its development tour, the Challenge Tour. He won the 2005 Abierto Telefonica Moviles de Guatemala on the Challenge Tour, and in 2006 captured his first European Tour title at the Aa St Omer Open, which was an official money event on both tours.
Professional wins (12)
European Tour wins (1)
1Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour
Challenge Tour wins (2)
1Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas
2Dual-ranking event with the European Tour
Challenge Tour playoff record (1–1)
TPG Tour wins (2)
Other wins (8)
1994 Abierto del Litoral (Arg)
1996 Palermo Grand Prix (Arg)
1997 Praderas Grand Prix (Arg)
1999 Abierto del Litoral (Arg)
2002 Acantilados Grand Prix (Arg), Santiago Open (Chile), Santiago del Estero Open (Arg)
2010 Viña del Mar Open (Chi)
European Senior Tour wins (1)
Team appearances
Professional
World Cup (representing Argentina): 1995
References
External links
Argentine male golfers
European Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Sportspeople from San Miguel de Tucumán
1963 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar%20Monasterio |
Li Pi-Hua (; born 1959 as 李白 Li Pak), also known as Lilian Lee, Lillian Lee and Lee Pik-wah, is a prolific Hong Kong novelist, screenwriter and reporter.
Lee's writing is known for blending traditional Chinese, supernatural and everyday Hong Kong elements into her narratives. Her works, Rouge, Farewell My Concubine, and Green Snake, were adapted for films in the 1980s and 1990s, giving her greater international visibility. In those instances, Lee also co-wrote the screenplays. Her novels and essays have appeared in newspapers across Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
One of Hong Kong's best-selling authors, Lee has published more than 120 titles (as of 2018) through Hong Kong's bookseller Cosmos Books (天地圖書). With the exception of Farewell My Concubine and Kawashima Yoshiko, most of her books have yet to be translated from Chinese into English or made widely available.
Biography
Family and early life
Lee's ancestral homeland is Taishan, Guangdong Province, China. She was born Li Pak (李白) to a rich and big family in Hong Kong. Her wealthy paternal grandfather had four wives and passed the family business of traditional Chinese medicine to her father. She was brought up in a large old house and heard many stories which would later become her source of inspiration.
Education and occupation
Since her youth, Lee has developed a strong passion for literature. As a student of True Light Middle School of Hong Kong, she actively contributed to Happy Family and Chinese Student Weekly (中國學生周報). She once studied at Kyoto University, Japan, and has had various jobs. She was a primary school teacher while working as a reporter. Lee has worked as a screenwriter for TV series, movie and dramas.
At a young age, she learned Traditional Chinese Dance for about ten years. Lee has danced for a dance company in New York. With her experience as a dancer, Lee helped organize several dance dramas for the Hong Kong Dance Company. In 2001, Lee directed a dance drama adapted from her novel Fen Mo Chun Qiu (粉墨春秋), performed by Hua Jin Dance Company. In 2013, she worked with the National Theatre Company of China and adapted her novel Green Snake into a dance drama.
Literary style
Lee's novels depict romantic relationships and tensions between men and women that are tinged with sadness. She has said they are inspired by personal experience. Lee often adapts elements of early Chinese vernacular literature and the supernatural, to retell a well-known theme or story from an underdog perspective. Her novel Green Snake was based on White Snake, an ancient Chinese novel in which two snakes become humans and learn about love and suffering. This treatment is an evolution from the original story, White Snake, where Green Snake is only a supporting character. Green Snake, the emotional and beautiful Green Snake is the main character, who is in love with Xu Xian.
In Rouge, the main character Fleur, who worked in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses," and comes back to life 50 years later to be reunited with her lover Chan Chen-Pang whom she involved in a double suicide. In Terracotta Warrior, the immortal Mong Tiang Fong wakes up after 2000 years. Golden Lotus in The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus is a spirit.
Lee believes that to make an impression on the reader, good writers must express their emotions.
Novels
Rouge (胭脂扣)
Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬)
Green Snake (青蛇)
Sheng Si Qiao (生死橋)
The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus (潘金蓮之前世今生)
Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (秦俑)
Kawashima Yoshiko (滿洲國妖艷——川島芳子)
Temptation of a Monk (誘僧)
Dumplings (餃子)
Films adapted from Lee's novels
Father and Son (1982)
Rouge (1987)
The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus (1989)
Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (1990)
Kawashima Yoshiko (1990)
Red and Black aka Gui Gan Bu (Ghost Cadre) (1991)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Green Snake (1993)
Temptation of a Monk (1993)
Dumplings (2004)
Sheng Si Qiao (2007)
Tales from the Dark 1 (2013)
Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
Awards
Father and Son, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film, 1982
Rouge, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay 1985
Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay (Nominated), 1989
Kawashima Yoshiko, Asian Pacific Film Festival, Academy Award for Best Art Direction, 1990
Temptation of a Monk, Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay (Nominated), 1993
Farewell My Concubine, Palme d'Or, 1993
Farewell My Concubine, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1993
References
External links
HKMDB entry
Hong Kong women writers
Living people
1959 births
20th-century Chinese women writers
21st-century Chinese women writers
Hong Kong novelists
Chinese women novelists
20th-century Chinese novelists
21st-century Chinese novelists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian%20Lee |
Stolen is a fantasy novel by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong. It is the second book in the Women of the Otherworld series.
Plot summary
The story begins with Elena travelling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to follow up a lead the Pack have come across on believe.com which purports to be able to prove the existence of werewolves. However, when she meets her contact, a young witch named Paige Winterbourne, she has information that Elena finds extremely disturbing. Not only does she claim to know about werewolves, but more specifically about her. It is clear that the posting on the website was a lure designed to bring Elena to Pittsburgh because of problems other supernaturals have been having with a group headed by Tyrone Winsloe. Elena is skeptical, having given no credence up to this point that other supernatural beings such as witches and vampires could exist. The claims of Paige and her mother, Ruth, sound like conspiracy theories that Elena finds hard to believe.
Unable to sleep, she goes out that night for a run, but is followed by a stalker with military training. Elena evades him only to discover that he has colleagues and that they are trying to capture not only herself, but also the Winterbournes. In the fight, Elena kills one of the men, Mark, and the three women find themselves confronting a half-demon able to teleport whom Elena nicknames 'Houdini', who works for Tyrone Winsloe. Ruth casts a spell which traps him temporarily and the three women make their escape.
Elena calls Jeremy and, the next morning, the two of them attend a meeting of the Inter-racial Council. There they are told about a shaman who had been kidnapped and taken away from his home in Virginia to a compound run by Tyrone Winsloe and Lawrence Matasumi. With his abilities of Astral projection, the shaman is able to not only determine that he is not the only captive, but also to contact the shaman on the Inter-racial Council, Kenneth.
Following the discussion about how to handle matters, Jeremy declines to return to the meeting after dinner. His priority is first and foremost to the Pack and its safety. Whilst he is prepared to join forces with the Council if necessary, it is only a temporary measure as the Pack has always fought its own battles.
That night Clay arrives. The three werewolves are attacked by men working for Winsloe, but they are all killed. The Pack are suspicious because the only people who knew they were in the area where the members of the Council. So, the following day, when they arrive at the meeting, they do so with the head of one of the men in a bag. They decline any offer to align themselves with the Council and leave.
On the way back, Elena is kidnapped and taken to the compound. There she becomes involved with many of the other residents, being 'befriended' by Leah and Sondra, as well as helping Doctor Carmichael in the infirmary. She discovers Ruth has also been kidnapped. The witch is particularly interested in another prisoner, Savannah Levine. However, 'poltergeist activity', that many of those in the compound associate with Savannah, plays a role in the death of Ruth.
Sondra Bauer becomes obsessed with turning herself into a werewolf and injects herself with some of Elena's saliva. Her body reacts as if she has been bitten, and she is taken to the infirmary. While there, Bauer kills Carmichael and Elena is forced to sedate her. Bauer is transferred to the cell beside Elena's.
Tyrone Winsloe takes an interest in Elena, wanting her to wear skimpy clothing as well as watch, and participate in, his 'hunts'. Prisoners such as Patrick Lake and Armen Haig are killed during these and it becomes clear that Elena is next. Winsloe brings her photographs that he claims are of Clay and that Clay is now dead.
An apparent system malfunction provides the opportunity for Elena, Sondra, Leah and Savannah to attempt escape. Bauer loses control and is killed by the guards. Leah and Savannah get left behind when an elevator door closes on Elena. She makes a run for it, Changing into a wolf, and is chased by dogs. Clay finds her and takes her back to Jeremy and the others who are in New Brunswick, Canada.
After telling her story, the group devise a plan to free the others from the compound and to put a stop to Ty Winsloe and his associates. Clay, Paige, Adam and Elena enter the compound first. They kill the dogs and disable the vehicles before entering the building itself. Tucker and the guards are killed or disabled before they enter the cell block. There they find Savannah. Curtis Zaid is revealed to be Isaac Katzen when he attacks Paige and the others. Katzen is killed. Leah is shown to be the one really responsible for the poltergeist activity. She attempts to snatch Savannah, but is prevented and escapes. Clay and Elena track Winsloe and kill him.
Characters
Pack & Interracial Council
Clayton Danvers - Jeremy's foster-son-turned bodyguard, and the werewolf who bit Elena. Also Elena's lover/partner/mate.
Jeremy Danvers - Alpha werewolf and leader of the Pack.
Cassandra DuCharme - Vampire representative to the interracial council. Aloof, cold, and very powerful.
Elena Michaels - Journalist and the world's only known female werewolf.
Kenneth Okalik - Shaman representative to the interracial council. Very quiet, very shy.
Adam Vasic - Half-demon and best friend of Paige Winterbourne. His father was an Exustio demon, and his mother a human (Talia Vasic). His stepfather is Robert Vasic (his mother married Vasic when Adam was a child). Has fire-related powers.
Robert Vasic - Half-demon and Adam's stepfather. Half-demon representative to the interracial council. Son of a human woman and a Tempestras demon. Has powers over storms, weather.
Paige Winterbourne - Witch, best friend of Adam Vasic. said to be niece of Ruth Winterbourne, although she is in fact Ruth's daughter.
Ruth Winterbourne - head of the American Coven and witch representative to the interracial council. She states in the beginning of the novel she is Paige Winterbourne's aunt, although she is in fact Paige's mother.
Prisoners at the Compound
Aaron Darnell - Former lover of vampire delegate Cassandra. Captured during Elena's time at the compound.
Armen Haig - called a "human chameleon." Is not a half-demon, but possesses the ability to change minor facial features at will.
Leah O'Donnell - Half-demon (father was a Volo demon). Extremely powerful telekinetic, very friendly. In the human world is police officer
Patrick Lake - Werewolf mutt, disfigured by Clayton in the past.
Eve Levine - dead by the beginning of the book (murdered by the scientists after she tries to escape with her daughter). Non-coven witch (though she was part of the coven earlier in Paige's life, until Eve decided she wanted to learn black magic. She then quits the coven. Paige's memory is wiped of all memories of Eve in her early childhood. Eve is deeply sad because Ruth would do something like that), extremely powerful, teaches black magic. Mother of Savannah Levine. Also half-demon (father was an Aspicio demon, mother was a witch).
Savannah Levine - Teenage daughter of witch/half-demon Eve Levine. Very powerful witch, although has not reached her full potential yet.
Curtis Zaid - Vodoun Priest. Mentally insane.
Roger - Shaman, lived in Virginia.
Qiona - Spirit guide of Roger.
Compound workers
Sondra Bauer - Wealthy daughter and figurehead of powerful paper-mill family company.
Carmichael - Doctor at the compound, convinces herself it is ethical to work at compound because it is "for the benefit of the humanity."
Isaac Katzen - Sorcerer, leading the scientists to the supernaturals.
Lawrence Matasumi - Scientist, interested in psychic abilities.
Xavier Reese - Half-demon (father was Evanidus demon) with teleportation powers, limited to approximately 10 feet. Saves Elena on several occasions while at the compound, then takes off after giving her the advice to do the same.
Colonel Tucker - Military, runs security at the compound.
Tyrone Winsloe - Billionaire and computer geek, runs company called "Promethean Fire." Very attracted to Elena, very crazy.
Awards and nominations
Romantic Time Reviewers Choice Award 'Best Contemporary Paranormal' 2003
U. S. Release details
First released in May 2003 in hardcover by Viking Press ().
Released in September 2004 in Mass Market Paper by Plume Press ().
References
External links
Author's Official Website
Novels by Kelley Armstrong
Werewolf novels
2002 Canadian novels
Random House books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen%20%28Armstrong%20novel%29 |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a villain in the James Bond series of novels and films. The name may also refer to:
Henry Blofeld (born 1939), British sports journalist
John Blofeld (1913–1987), British writer on Asian thought and religion
John Blofeld (judge) (born 1932), English barrister and former High Court judge
Nick Blofeld (born 1963), English sports businessman
Tom Blofeld (born 1964), writer, owner and CEO of Bewilderwood, an adventure park in Norfolk, England
Waldorf Blofeld, synthesizer manufactured by Waldorf Music
See also
Blofield
Blomfield (disambiguation)
Bloomfield (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blofeld%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Larned can refer to:
Benjamin Larned (1794–1862), Paymaster General of the United States Army
Charles Larned (died 1834), lawyer, military officer, and politician
Josephus Nelson Larned (1836-1913), American journalist, educator, librarian, historian
Larned B. Asprey
Scott Larned (1969–2005), keyboardist
Simon Larned (1753–1817), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
William Larned, American tennis player
See also
Larned, Kansas, a small city in the United States
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Fort Larned (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larned |
The Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, branded by its sponsored name as the Libéma Open since 2018, (formerly known as the Continental Grass Court Championships, Heineken Trophy, Ordina Open, UNICEF Open, Topshelf Open and RICOH Open), is a professional tennis tournament held in the town of Rosmalen, on the outskirts of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), the Netherlands. The men's and women's tennis matches are played on outdoors grass courts at the Autotron convention center, and constitute a stage on the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour.
In 1989 a two-group round robin invitational tournament with eight players was organized in Rosmalen which was won by Miloslav Mečíř. The next year, 1990, the tournament became part of the newly founded ATP Tour and was officially called the Continental Grass Court Championships. At the time of its founding it was the only grass court event held in continental Europe. The tournament is used by tennis pros as a preparation for the Wimbledon Championships and was held the week prior to Wimbledon until 2014. From 2015 onwards it is held the week following the French Open. In 1996 a women's singles and doubles event dubbed Wilkinson Championships was added to the tournament.
It is classified as an ATP 250 event on the men's ATP Tour and a WTA 250 event on the women's WTA Tour.
Past finals
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Notes
References
External links
Tennis tournaments in the Netherlands
Grass court tennis tournaments
WTA Tour
ATP Tour 250
Recurring sporting events established in 1990
1990 establishments in the Netherlands
International sports competitions hosted by the Netherlands
Sports competitions in 's-Hertogenbosch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosmalen%20Grass%20Court%20Championships |
An electric eye is a photodetector used for detecting obstruction of a light beam. An example is the door safety system used on garage door openers that use a light transmitter and receiver at the bottom of the door to prevent closing if there is any obstruction in the way that breaks the light beam. The device does not provide an image; only presence of light is detectable. Visible light may be used, but infrared radiation conceals the operation of the device and typically is used in modern systems. Originally, systems used lamps powered by direct current or the power line alternating current frequency, but modern photodetector systems use an infrared light-emitting diode modulated at a few kilohertz, which allows the detector to reject stray light and improves the range, sensitivity and security of the device.
Examples
Highway vehicle counter
In the 1930s, an electric eye vehicle counter was introduced in the US using two IR lamps set apart so that only cars and not pedestrians would be counted.
First compact commercial unit
A compact type of electric eye was offered in 1931 that was enclosed in a small steel case and much easier to install compared to older models.
Automatic wrapping machines
In the 1930s, an electric eye apparatus was developed to help a wrapping machine wrap 72 boxes a minute.
Automatic door opener
In 1931, General Electric tested the first automatic door openers now popular in hospitals. They called their electric eye the Magic Eye.
Business alarm system
In 1931, an electric eye that used invisible UV wavelength was offered to businesses in need of a 24-hour alarm system. A system of this type is demonstrated in the first scene of the 1932 film Jewel Robbery.
Automatic cameras
In 1936, Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Gustav Bucky received a patent for a design which applied the electric eye to a camera. The camera was capable of automatically determining the proper aperture and exposure.
See also
Photoelectric sensor
Machine vision
References
External links
"Latest Way Beams Of Light Are Put To Work" Popular Mechanics, April 1931
Optical devices
Garage door openers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20eye |
Latimore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Latimore (musician) (born 1939), Benny Latimore, American R&B musician
Jacob Latimore (born 1996), American R&B singer, SS7 Records
Deandre Latimore (born 1985), American boxer
Frank Latimore (1925–1998), American actor
Jeremy Latimore (born 1986), Australian Rugby League player
Thomas C. Latimore (1890–1941), United States Navy officer
See also
Latimore Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Lattimore (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latimore |
Meningie ( ) is a town on the south-east side of Lake Albert in South Australia. It is on the Princes Highway near The Coorong and was surveyed in 1866. At the , the locality of Meningie had a population of 1118 with a median age of 51 while its town centre had a population of 852.
History
The word Meningie is derived from "the Aboriginal word 'meningeng' meaning 'place of mud'".
The town was surveyed between March and June 1866 by W. Farquhar without any proclamation. Land was offered for sale on 23 August 1866. The name also was used for an "adjoining private subdivision of sections 104, 106/9 and 111" in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bonney.
A school was opened in 1869. A jetty was erected in 1867, with paddle steamers operating between Meningie and other ports on Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina until 1927/1928. The town ceased to operate as a port in December 1936.
Boundaries for the locality were created for the "long established name" on 24 August 2000 and which include the Government Town of Meningie.
Meningie was the first place in Australia to have ADSL broadband installed without using a Telstra DSLAM. Agile Communications installed their own DSLAM in Meningie in October 2003, following on from having established a microwave network connecting to Adelaide in May 2001. Agile's associated internet service provider, Internode Systems offered services through this DSLAM.
Climate
Meningie experiences a warm-summer mediterranean climate, bordering on a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification: Csb/BSk), Trewartha: Csbl/BSbl); with warm, dry summers; mild, relatively dry springs and autumns; and mild winters with moderate precipitation.
Tourism
Meningie has attractions and amenities for travellers and is the closest township to the Coorong National Park. The Lake provides visitors with many scenic locations and places to fish, swim, kayak, jet ski and water ski / wake-board. Bird watchers also enjoy coming to see the range of rare and vulnerable wildlife that the Lake and wetlands support. There are local 4WD tracks, bush walking trails, and indigenous cultural journeys at Camp Coorong. The Meningie Cheese Factory Museum Inc. is wholly owned and operated by volunteers, and is both educational and a tourist attraction for the town. It is alongside the Cheese Factory Restaurant and the Lake Albert Caravan Park which is directly opposite.
In May 2013, a statue of an ostrich wearing a saddle was unveiled to commemorate the story of a local Irish bushranger, John Francis Peggotty, also known as "Birdman of the Coorong".
Media
Meningie is home to The Lakelander, a regional community newspaper whose geographical coverage includes Tailem Bend, Salt Creek, Narrung, Coonalpyn and Tintinara. The newspaper, first issued on 25 June 1976, is published in a magazine format.
Sports
Meningie has a strong sporting culture, and has a well maintained oval, a fully watered, par 72, 18-hole golf course, bike tracks/ motocross jumps, sailing club, and also an airstrip for gliders, light aircraft and balloons.
Meningie has a local Australian rules football club, founded around 1890, known as the Meningie Bears. On 12 December 2007, Meningie player Brodie Martin was rookie listed to Australian Football League (AFL) club Adelaide, becoming the first player from Meningie to be play for an AFL club. the league coach is Alex Scott.
Other sporting clubs in Meningie include the Meningie Motorcycle Club, Lake Albert Golf Club, Meningie Sailing Club, Meningie Bowling Club, Meningie Pony Club, Meningie Netball Club, Meningie Aero Club and Lake Albert Gun Club. There is also a Meningie Garden Club, Meningie & Districts Lions Club, and several church groups that meet regularly.
Governance
Meningie is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop, and the local government area of the Coorong District Council.
References
External links
Meningie Cheese Factory Museum Inc
Meningie History
Towns in South Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningie%2C%20South%20Australia |
Phoenix Equity Partners is a United Kingdom mid-market private equity firm. It specialises in working with management teams to help grow their businesses. It invests in companies valued at up to £150m.
History
Phoenix was co-founded in 2001 by Hugh Lenon, Sandy Muirhead and James Thomas. The firm is a result of a spin-off of DLJ European Private Equity from Credit Suisse First Boston.
The first iteration of Phoenix Equity Partners was a private equity management business through Phoenix Group, established in 1991 as a sister company to Phoenix Securities Limited. In 1997, when Phoenix Group was sold to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), this asset followed and the team was renamed DLJ European Private Equity. When Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) acquired DLJ in November 2000, the DLJ European Private Equity team spun off to form Phoenix Equity Partners.
The firm's first fund as Phoenix Equity Partners was called the Phoenix Continuation Fund, which raised £250 million from investors it retained from DLJ European Private Equity. In addition, CSFB committed £20 million to this new fund. The firm continued to manage the Phoenix Development Capital Fund, Phoenix Equity Partners II Fund, and DLJ Phoenix Equity Partners III fund.
References
External links
Homepage
Company information
Financial services companies established in 2001
Private equity firms of the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Equity%20Partners |
Warp Brothers is the electronic dance music group started by German DJs Oliver Goedicke and Jürgen Dohr in 1999. Their style includes house, trance, breakbeat and electro in early days, lately hard dance, trance and psytrance.
At the beginning of their career their most successful hits were "Phatt Bass", "We Will Survive" and "Blast the Speakers", which charted in several countries.
The original version of "Phatt Bass" was by Warp Brothers vs. Aquagen, based on New Order's "Confusion" (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix), and should not be confused with Public Domain's "Operation Blade", which was based on the same song. "Blast the Speakers" was featured on the 2005 techno album Radikal Techno 6.
In 2010 Jürgen Dohr left the group. In 2015 Peter Sildegren is joining Oliver Goedicke and making come back for Warp Brothers.
The success of “Phatt Bass 2016” vs. Wolfpack (#1 at Beatport and amongst the three most played club and festival tunes of the year) gave them support from Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Afrojack, David Guetta, Hardwell, W&W, and Dash Berlin.
Singles
2000: "Phatt Bass" (vs. Aquagen)
2001: "We Will Survive"
2002: "Blast the Speakers"
2002: "The Power"
2002: "Cokane"
2003: "Going Insane" (feat. Red Monkey)
2005: "Phatt Bass"
2006: "Push Up"
2007: "Dominator"
2008: "Phatt Bass" (vs. Ali Payami)
2016: "Phatt Bass" (vs. Wolfpack)
2017: "Cokane"
2018: "Husten" (vs. Dj Bonebreaker)
2018: "Time & Space"
2019: "Warped Jump"
2019: "Ska Train" (vs. Dj Quicksilver feat. The Beatmasters)
2020: "Dreamworld" (vs. Pablo Quinones)
2021: "Trippin In Goa"
2021: "Kanlaon" (with Maharlika Muiska)
Selected discography
Warp 10 (2002)
Warp Factor (2003)
TranzWorld, Vol. 6.0 (2003)
TranzWorld, Vol. 7 (2004)
TranzWorld, Vol. 8 (2004)
TranzWorld, Vol. 9 (2005)
Live in Sydney (2005)
Big in Japan (2006)
Remixes
References
External links
Official Facebook page
Official Web
Official YouTube channel
Club DJs
DJ duos
Electronic dance music duos
German musical duos
German house music groups
German trance music groups
Musical groups established in 1999
1999 establishments in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp%20Brothers |
The Club is a third-person shooter video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Sega. The story of the game centers on The Club, an underground blood sport controlled by a wealthy elite who place their bets on who will survive the gladiatorial-style combat.
Plot
The player chooses from a roster of characters who are forced to compete in The Club, a modern form of gladiatorial combat. They are under the watchful eye of a middle-aged man known as The Secretary. There are 8 characters to choose from; each with its own attributes and ending:
Dragov: A Russian convict who is rescued by The Club after attempting an escape across the Siberian tundra. He is the strongest of the competitors, but also the slowest. The game ends with Dragov escaping The Club compound through a helicopter, killing the guards in the process.
Renwick: A former New York detective, who lost his job after repeated attempts to locate The Club, and continued the search on his own. He is fairly well balanced, with particular attention to speed. The ending shows Renwick waking up in a derelict building - dazed and confused. He then receives a phone call from The Secretary saying he is released from The Club unharmed but is now a fugitive to law enforcement, a small price to pay for meddling with The Club's affairs.
Finn: A gambler whose debts landed him in trouble with the mob, and resulted in his Club membership. He is also well balanced, but with a little extra emphasis on stamina. After completing The Club, he sends the money he owes to the mob with a bomb inside the briefcase, killing them in the process.
Seager: A Canadian extreme sports junkie, who joins The Club in search of that next high. He sacrifices strength for above average speed and stamina. The Secretary thanks him for his participation and gives him his cash reward, to which he declines and simply says, "I want to play."
Kuro: A Japanese double agent posing as a Triad Society assassin. Kuro is among the fastest competitors in The Club. He is last seen being interrogated by law enforcement, who are actually The Club members in disguise, suggesting that they intend to recruit Kuro again.
Killen: An Australian man who survived through The Club once, only to be forced back when his daughter's life is threatened. Killen is well balanced, with an extra bump to strength. As promised, his daughter is released from custody and Killen is seen exiting the Club compound on a motorcycle.
Adjo: An African giant who seeks to redeem his violent past, but is ultimately forced to participate in the tournament. Adjo is also one of the strongest competitors in The Club. He rudely refuses his reward money in the end, saying he wants his village to be left in peace and marches out of The Club.
Nemo: A psychopathic Englishman who only lives to kill. Nemo is extremely fast and quite strong, but has very low stamina. It is revealed that Nemo is The Secretary's son, but when asked by the guard his true identity, The Secretary replies he is "no one."
Gameplay
The Club is played from a third-person perspective. The player must make their way through a level as quickly as possible, or defend one location and survive attacks from respawning enemies for a set amount of time. Gameplay is centered on a score mechanic where each kill acts as a bonus multiplier. Various kill methods, such as ricochets, head shots, and long range shots earn extra points. After each kill, the player has several seconds to get another kill before the bonus multiplier starts to reduce. This interval also reduces the higher the multiplier gets. Icons are scattered throughout each level, offering bonuses. Weapons, ammunition and health are present but the player is not rewarded for picking them up. The Club incorporates elements from racing video games, including time attack events.
Multiplayer
The game includes eight multiplayer modes, with online leaderboards to compare scores. Online games can feature up to seven opponents on-line, or four-player local split screen.
Development
The lead designer of the game was Matt Cavanagh who described the title as "a racing game with guns". At first the game was literally a shooting gallery with limited AI. After 6 months of development a new prototype was created with an emphasis on scoring rather than narrative. The gameplay was designed before any setting and back story was created. Many publishers declined to take on the title before Sega chose to back it.
The title was released globally in 2008. Composer Richard Jacques wrote the score for the single player levels, Chris Chudley from Audioantics wrote the score for the multiplayer levels, while Jesper Kyd scored the main theme.
Reception
The Xbox 360 version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PC and PlayStation 3 versions received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Eurogamers Tom Bramwell complimented the Xbox 360 version as "a shooter that turns tired genre conventions around with a bullet to the shoulder", but stated that it would be "divisive" due to its run and gun mentality, which went against the contemporary trend towards tactical shooters. Bramwell pointed out that the game "does for the third-person shooter what no one else has even bothered trying to do: moving it closer to the 2D shoot-'em-ups of old in a manner that appeals anew." Andrew Reiner, writing for Game Informer, mentioned Bizarre Creations' background and its influence on The Club, saying: "The speed-first mentality of the racing genre is cleverly infused into the framework of a run-and-gun shooter...And to truly capture the racing atmosphere, some of the levels have players running laps in specific environments...It may sound odd, but the racing shooter formula works amazingly well." Reiner called it "a nice change of pace, and hopefully the beginning of a new genre." GamePro reviewer Cameron Lewis wrote of the Xbox 360 version: "What might be most impressive about The Club is that despite the many disparate elements that it cherry-picks from genres as diverse as racing, skateboarding, and first-person shooters, the whole never bears the disjointed feel of a Frankenstein creation." IGN UKs reviewer Alec Meer stated that the scoring system "will prove an immediate turn-off for some" and went on to blame the "fairly dismal" graphics for putting potential players off, saying that "it's about how it plays, not how it looks. But if it looked better, more people would want to play it." He praised the gameplay as "it does the job it sets out to do very well", but said the game only had "specialist appeal". Edge gave it seven out of ten, calling it "a heavily structured and well-considered score-attack game."
References
External links
2008 video games
Bizarre Creations games
Games for Windows
Mobile games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
Sega video games
Split-screen multiplayer games
Third-person shooters
Video games about death games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Jesper Kyd
Video games scored by Richard Jacques
Windows games
Xbox 360 games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Club%20%28video%20game%29 |
The Crop Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is an international nonprofit organization with a secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Its mission is to conserve and make available the world's crop diversity for food security.
Established in 2004, the Crop Trust is the only organization whose sole mission is to safeguard the world’s crop diversity for future food security. Through an endowment fund for crop diversity, the Crop Trust provides financial support for key international and national genebanks that hold collections of diversity for food crops available under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). The organization also provides tools and support for the efficient management of genebanks, facilitates coordination between conserving institutions, and organizes final backup of crop seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Since its establishment, the Crop Trust has raised more than USD 300 million for the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund and supports conservation work in over 80 countries.
Mission
Crop diversity is the biological foundation of agriculture, and is the raw material plant breeders and farmers use to adapt crop varieties to pests and diseases. In the future, this crop diversity will play a central role in helping agriculture adjust to climate change and adapt to water and energy constraints.
History
In 1996, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognized the need for global coordination for the conservation of the world’s crop diversity. At a conference organized by the FAO, 150 countries launched a Global Plan of Action to coordinate efforts at halting the loss of the world’s agrobiodiversity. The Global Plan of Action formed a major pillar of what would become the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, known as the Plant Treaty. The Plant Treaty brings the diversity of 64 food and forage crops into a multilateral system where the genetic material is protected and accessible to all who needed it. To protect the collections that housed that genetic material, however, a stable system of funding was needed.
To partly address this need, the Crop Trust was established in October 2004. Its mission was to help build a global system of ex situ crop diversity conservation, funded through an endowment for crop diversity. The Plant Treaty recognizes the endowment fund as an essential element of its funding strategy and confirms the autonomy of the Crop Trust as a scientific organization in raising and disbursing funds. Geoff Hawtin was appointed the Interim Executive Director of the new organization, housed at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The Crop Trust began its work gathering contributions for the endowment fund from various foundations, corporations, and governments that had ratified the Plant Treaty. In 2007, the Crop Trust signed its first long-term grant agreement with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Philippines.
In 2005, Cary Fowler was appointed the first permanent Crop Trust Executive Director. Under Fowler’s leadership, the Crop Trust initiated the Global System Project and joined the three-party management agreement for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which opened in 2008 as a partnership between the Crop Trust, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Norway, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). In 2011, the Crop Trust launched the Crop Wild Relatives Project, a 10-year project to collect and conserve crop wild relatives, a project funded by the Government of Norway.
In 2012, the Crop Trust appointed Marie Haga as the new Crop Trust Executive Director. A new target for the Crop Trust endowment fund was set at USD850 million to finance a global system for the conservation of crop diversity, centered around key international, regional and national collections, as well as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
In 2013, the Crop Trust opened its new headquarters in Bonn, Germany, through a hosting agreement with the Government of Germany. Shortly thereafter, the Crop Trust launched the five-year CGIAR Genebank CRP, taking on financial responsibility and oversight for the 11 CGIAR genebanks. In 2017, the CGIAR Genebank Platform replaced the Genebank CRP program and the Food Forever Initiative was launched to raise awareness of efforts to achieve Target 2.5 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2018, the Crop Trust signed the first long-term funding agreement with the IRRI genebank, pledging to fully fund essential operations in perpetuity. The Crop Trust celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2019 and crossed the USD 300 million threshold in the endowment fund.
In 2020, Stefan Schmitz was appointed Executive Director. With support from the German government, the Crop Trust launched the Seeds4Resilience Project project in 2020. The project will upgrade five national genebanks in sub-Saharan Africa. In February 2020, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault reached one million accessions of seed samples for more than 6,000 species.
Management
The Crop Trust is headquartered in Bonn, Germany, after relocating there from Rome, Italy.
The executive board is chaired by Catherine Bertini. The Crop Trust's Donors' Council is chaired by Dr. Taek-Ryoun Kwon of South Korea.
Main donors include: Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia). A number of developing countries have also provided support, including Egypt, Ethiopia and India. Further contributions have been received from private corporations, foundations, industry associations, and from private individuals.
Leadership
Executive Director
2004-2005 – Geoff Hawtin (Interim)
2005-2012 – Cary Fowler
2013-2019 – Marie Haga
2020–present – Stefan Schmitz
Executive Board Chair
2007–2012 – Margaret Catley-Carlson
2013–2017 – Walter Fust
2018–2019 – Amb. Timothy Fischer
2019–2021 – Sir Peter Crane
2022–present – Catherine Bertini
Grants
Since its establishment, the Crop Trust has funded work in over 80 countries, and made its first grant for long-term conservation of a collection in late 2006. By 2011, the Crop Trust had established in-perpetuity support (i.e. grants funded through the Crop Trust's endowment) for collections of 15 crops: rice, cassava, wheat, barley, faba bean, pearl millet, maize, forages, banana, aroids, grass pea, sorghum, yam and lentil.
In 2007, the Crop Trust began a global initiative to rescue threatened, high-priority collections of crop diversity in developing countries and to support information systems to improve their conservation and availability. These efforts included providing support to developing countries and international agricultural research centers to deposit shipments of seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for safety duplication purposes.
In 2010, the Crop Trust launched a global 10-year program to find, gather, catalog and save the wild relatives of 22 major food crops. These wild species contain untapped diversity to help address future challenges to agriculture.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Crop Trust joined the Government of Norway and the Nordic Gene Bank in the 2008 establishment of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "fail-safe" facility located at Svalbard, Norway. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world. This provides security of the world’s food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, and natural disasters. It is designed to hold the seeds of some 4.5 million samples of different varieties of agricultural crops. Primarily through the endowment fund, the Crop Trust provides most of the annual operating costs for the facility. With support from donors, the Crop Trust also assists selected genebanks in packaging and shipping seeds to the Seed Vault.
References
External links
Crop Trust website
Vimeo.com: "Securing Our Food Forever" — Crop Trust video.
Agricultural organisations based in Germany
Biodiversity
Seed associations
Sustainable agriculture
International charities
Non-profit organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%20Trust |
Michael Holt is an American musician based in Truro, Massachusetts. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968, and raised in New York City, where he learned to play the piano as a child.
Early life
In high school (Hunter College High School) in the early 1980s, he formed a band called The Connotations, which played regularly at CBGB and other downtown clubs in New York. Holt played keyboards, sang, and wrote most of the group's songs. Other members included (at various times) Dan Seiden (guitar, vocals), Dan Fisherman (drums, vocals), Simon Walsh (bass guitar, vocals), Bob Dee (guitar), Sam Bardfeld (violin, percussion, vocals), Oren Bloedow (bass guitar), Jenny Wade (bass guitar), and Alexis Stern (vocals). The band's style was a combination of ska, new wave, reggae, pop, and a dissonant, angular style they called "Bug Music."
In 1988, The Connotations broke up and Holt formed a new band called Pajama Garden, with Connotations drummer Dan Fisherman, and bassist Oren Bloedow. In 1990, Holt began playing with progressive pop band The Mommyheads, and in 1991 released his first solo album, the experimental pop "Pajama Garden."
The Mommyheads
In 1992, Holt and Fisherman moved to San Francisco, California, to join The Mommyheads as permanent members. Other members of The Mommyheads included Adam Cohen (now Adam Elk) (guitar), Jeff Palmer (bass), and Matt Patrick (now Devin Patrick) (bass, guitar). Through the 90's The Mommyheads toured North America extensively and released several albums, the last co-produced by Don Was for Geffen Records. In 1996 Holt married Cora Simone, a Canadian woman he had met on tour, who had come to live with him in San Francisco.
In 1998, The Mommyheads broke up and Holt released his contemplative folk album "I'm Here With You," featuring just voice and a single nylon-stringed guitar. (The Mommyheads would reunite in 2008.) Shortly after, he began work on his alternative power-pop album "Pilot Single," and moved with Simone to her native Toronto.
Toronto
In Toronto, Holt started a band called The Kids, with bassist Peter Murray, guitarist David Celia, and longtime Ron Sexsmith drummer Don Kerr. All four members were singers, songwriters, multi-instrumentalists, and record producers in their own right.
While living full-time in Toronto, Holt finished and released "Pilot Single," released his classical-influenced album "Windows," made a low-fi split-CD with American indie-rock band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and toured Germany with San Francisco–based psychedelic jam-band Mushroom. He played and recorded with numerous Canadian artists, including Ron Sexsmith, David Celia, Owen Pallett, Michelle Rumball, Waleed Abdulhamid, The Hidden Cameras, Ronley Teper, Ben Gunning, Wooden Stars, Tanya Philipovich, Brian MacMillan, Karyn Ellis, and Adam Warner. He played the title track at the 20th anniversary of Bob Wiseman's record "In Her Dream," a song he would later record for his own album "Jubilation!"
In his first years in Canada, Holt became involved with a Toronto-area community called Living Circle, which explored holistic health, spirituality, and community-building, in intimate groups called "circles."
On the road
In 2007, Holt began spending an increasing amount of his time on the road, mainly as a solo artist, and also with The Mommyheads, who reunited in 2008. In 2010, he made his folk-rock flavored album "The Dawn Chorus" with his band The Kids. Discovering a passion for house concerts, he began focusing his tours on them. His 2011 "Make Our Own Culture Tour" consisted of 60 intimate living room gatherings across North America and Europe, featuring a variety of other performers and participatory activities. In 2012, he released his '70s-pop tinged album "Jubilation!" and played on Bob Wiseman's record "Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying." He also played a European "Transition Culture Tour" of 40 intimate concerts followed by talking circles, in support of the Transition Towns sustainability movement.
In 2009, with https://marcelaucoin.bandcamp.com/, Holt founded music and conversation series called The Piano Salon. It occurred each month in a different Toronto home, featuring two sets by local acts, and between them, a conversation led by a guest speaker. The series lasted for nine years.
"Slow" Music
In 2010, Holt began work on a book applying the principles of the Slow Food movement, and the Slow movement in general, to music, advancing ten practices by which the ordinary consumer can discover a more mindful, socially conscious, community-oriented, and fulfilling relationship to music.
Cultural activities
Holt's interest in house concerts widened to include all kinds of cultural activities in the home. In 2014, he co-organized Toronto's First Annual Festival of House Culture, a weekend of theater, music, visual arts, poetry, comedy, film, food, conversations, and workshops, all in people's homes. Ten events were programmed within walking distance of each other, to build community by encouraging neighbors to connect through culture in their own homes.
In 2013, with Luke Jackson, Holt founded Catweazle Toronto, a monthly, public, no-microphones performance gathering based on the weekly Catweazle Club in Oxford, England.
24 Preludes for Piano
In 2015, Holt released "24 Preludes for Piano," a double album of original classical pieces inspired by early 20th Century composers such as Maurice Ravel, Alexander Scriabin, and Erik Satie. He also put on Toronto's Second Annual Festival of House Culture, this time with 19 events, and simultaneous programming in two different neighborhoods.
In 2016, Holt mounted Toronto's Third Annual Festival of House Culture, with 45 events all over the city. In 2017, he moved to Truro, Massachusetts, to provide live-in care for his aging parents.
References
Hunter College High School alumni
American emigrants to Canada
Canadian rock keyboardists
Canadian rock singers
Canadian male singers
Living people
1968 births
Musicians from Boston
Canadian male singer-songwriters
Canadian singer-songwriters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Holt%20%28musician%29 |
Somewhere Out in Space is an album by German power metal band, Gamma Ray. It was released on 25 August 1997 and is the band's fifth studio album. Continuing in the tradition of the previous four albums, it contained yet another different lineup, but would also be the first album to feature the band's longest standing lineup. The album featured Dirk Schlächter on bass for the first time since his guest appearance on Heading for Tomorrow, Henjo Richter on guitar and Dan Zimmermann on drums.
The track "Watcher in the Sky" was recorded by Iron Savior and appears on their self-titled 1997 album. It features Piet Sielck on guitar and additional
vocals, and Thomen Stauch on drums.
The track "No Stranger (Another Day in Life)" was originally written as a contribution to Michael Kiske's solo album, but since Kiske rejected it as "too heavy" Hansen instead decided to record it with Gamma Ray.
"Miracle" is effectively a stylized version of "Man on a Mission" from Land of the Free, Gamma Ray's previous album. It has very similar lyrics, an identical chorus, and similar chord progressions, but at a slower tempo.
The song "Men, Martians and Machines" begins with the "five tones" from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind played on strings.
Lyrical concepts
"Beyond the Black Hole" is about travelling the unknown space to discover black holes.
"Somewhere Out in Space" is about the science fiction franchise Star Trek.
"The Landing" and "Valley of the Kings" is about the arrival of aliens on Earth millions of years ago.
"Pray" is about the end of hope for the human race to be saved from extinction.
"Shine On" is about the theory that extraterrestrial life visited Earth long before and planted the seeds of mankind.
Track listing
"Miracle" also appears on the Silent Miracles EP.
"Victim of Changes" also appears on the Valley of the Kings EP.
Credits
Gamma Ray
Kai Hansen – vocals, guitars, producer, engineer, mixing on tracks 4, 7, 9
Henjo Richter – guitars, keyboards
Dirk Schlächter – bass, guitar, producer, engineer, mixing on tracks 4, 7, 9
Dan Zimmermann – drums
Guest musicians
Piet Sielck – vocals and guitars on track 12
Thomen Stauch – drums on track 12
Production
Charlie Bauerfeind – mixing
Ralf Lindner – mastering
Charts
References
1997 albums
Gamma Ray (band) albums
Noise Records albums
Alien invasions in music
Albums produced by Kai Hansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere%20Out%20in%20Space |
Meningie may refer to the following.
Meningie, South Australia, a town and locality
District Council of Meningie, a former local government area in South Australia
See also
Meningie East, South Australia
Meningie West, South Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningie |
Dime Store Magic is a fantasy novel by Canadian writer Kelley Armstrong. It is the third in the Women of the Otherworld series featuring Paige Winterbourne. First seen in Stolen, Paige is a witch, the only daughter of the now deceased Coven leader and expected to follow in her mother's footsteps. Guardian of young teenage witch, Savannah, following the events of Stolen, Paige finds herself confronting a telekinetic half-demon and a powerful cabal of sorcerers as she attempts to protect her ward.
Plot summary
Set nine months after the events of Stolen, or as Paige observes at the beginning of the novel "nine months, three weeks and two days", Dime Store Magic begins with Paige receiving complaints from the Elders about Savannah, clearly not for the first time. The Elders hate trouble and object to anything that might draw attention to the Coven. The same day Paige receives a petition for custody of her ward from Leah O'Donnell, a half-demon involved in events at the compound the previous year.
Paige meets Leah and her lawyers, Gabriel Sandford, at the Cary Law Offices in East Falls. There she recognises Gabriel as a sorcerer. It is revealed that the custody claim comes not from Leah, but Savannah's father, Kristof Nast. Nast is the head of the Nast Sorcerer Cabal in Los Angeles, California.
After she gets home, Paige is confronted by Victoria and the other Elders who are concerned because Leah's intent to use Paige's status as a witch in the custody battle threatens to expose the Coven. Paige persuades them to give her three days to clear matters up. She then arranges a meeting with Grantham Cary Jr., the local lawyer. It is decided to request that Nast submit to DNA testing to prove his paternity claim. Sandford, as Paige expected, refuses on behalf of his client.
In order to force her to submit, Leah and associates begin a dirty tricks campaign that includes placing a hand of glory on her property and setting up satanic altars in the fields behind. Paige comes under investigation by the town sheriff's department and also the social services.
At this point, Lucas Cortez turns up on Paige's doorstep and offers his services. His offer is refused as witches do not trust sorcerers. The media set up camp outside Paige's house and, on a drive into town to pick up a takeaway, Paige's car is deliberately run into by Grantham Cary Jr because she refused his offer of paying his fees by sharing his bed. Furious, she confronts his wife at his house and then returns home. Cary leaves a message on her answering machine asking her to come to his office to talk. However, when she gets there it is to discover Leah is there too. The half-demon uses her powers to throw Cary out of a window, framing Paige for his murder.
Paige is taken to the police station, from where she is released by Lucas Cortez, despite Paige's protests. They then go to a Coven meeting, but receive little support from the other members. Angry, Paige agrees to talk to Lucas and he provides her with background information on the Cabals.
The next day Paige receives a call telling her to come to the funeral home to pick up her file from Cary's people. Thinking this is strange, as it is currently Cary's visitation, Paige nonetheless agrees and she and Savannah go to the home. However, whilst they are there Nast employees stage a scene that involves bodies raising from the dead and illusions. Paige and Savannah are rescued by Lucas. The police arrive but are forced to let them go.
Events continue to escalate with other incidents occurring. The Coven get increasingly anxious, and Social Services turn up to check on Savannah. However, the interview does not go well as Savannah is upset - at least until she discovers that she has begun to menstruate. Cortez grows concerned because the menses ceremony associated with a witch's first period can be vital to ensuring her loyalty to her Cabal and he believes that this will increase the urgency of any action Leah and her colleagues take.
Paige also grows curious about the differences between witch and sorcerer magic. She starts to realise that there were once several grades of spell: primary, secondary and tertiary. However, at some point the higher level spells were lost or deliberately destroyed, only a few surviving in old grimoires that the Coven Elders refuse to let the other witches use. These grimoires are kept by Savannah's aunt, Margaret. When they visit her to borrow her car, Paige takes the grimoires. She, Savannah and Lucas then drive to Salem, Massachusetts. There, the two witches argue. Savannah insists on the ceremony her mother wished to use, not the Coven approved one Paige underwent. Paige finally agrees to Savannah's wish, but the ceremony requires them to get certain ingredients which requires them to go to the cemetery. Afterwards, Paige shares the knowledge of the grimoires with Lucas and they become lovers.
The next day Paige's house is fire-bombed, and she and Savannah are kidnapped by the Nast Cabal. Nast presents his claim to Savannah. Savannah agrees to it provided she can have Paige do the originally planned ceremony and also that Paige can stay. Kristof Nast accepts. They then meet Greta and Olivia Enwright. They are supposed to be teaching Savannah, however during this lessons they force her to sacrifice a boy and drink his blood. Savannah is deeply upset. Nast denies any knowledge. Sandford observes that the Cabal Witches had expected Greta's daughter to succeed her, not Savannah, and that the ritual might have been a form of revenge.
Paige is secured and gagged so that she can't spellcast. Sandford brings her to the notice of Lucas' family and one visits her. He orders her death by sundown. Friesen takes her away to kill her, but Paige manages to escape. When she returns to Nast's house, it is to find all hell has broken loose in her absence. Savannah has called a demon as she attempts to raise her mother from the dead. Nast is killed trying to save his daughter. Lucas tells Paige a spell that will permit her to look like Eve Levine temporarily. They use this to get Savannah out of the house.
Characters
Major characters
Paige Winterbourne - Witch and Guardian of Savannah
Lucas Cortez - Sorcerer and Lawyer
Savannah Levine - Witch, daughter of Eve Levine (now deceased) and ward of Paige.
Other characters
Abigail Alden - Coven Witch
Adam Vasic - Exustio Half-demon
Anton - Half-demon employed by Nast Cabal
Brittany - 14-year-old daughter of Grace
Detective Flynn - Human detective investigating murder of Grantham Cary Jr
Elena Michaels - Journalist and the world's only known female werewolf.
Friesen - Employed by Nast Cabal
Gabriel Sandford - Sorcerer and Lawyer at Jacobs, Sandford and Schwab.
Grace - Coven Witch, older sister of Abigail
Grantham Cary Jr - Human Lawyer
Greta Enwright - Nast Cabal Witch
Kristof Nast - Sorcerer, heir to Nast Cabal and father of Savannah
Kylie - 17-year-old daughter of Grace
Lacey Cary - Human Wife of Grantham Cary Jr
Leah O'Donnell - Volo Half-demon
Margaret Levine - Witch Coven Elder and Aunt of Savannah
Megan - Neophyte Coven Witch
Olivia Enwright - Witch and mother of Greta
Peggy Dare - Human Social Worker
Robert Vasic - Tempestras Half-demon
Roberta Shaw - Necromancer
Sophie Moss - Coven Witch
Therese Moss - Witch Coven Elder
Todd - Igneus half-demon and employee of Kristof Nast
Travis Willard - Human Deputy Sheriff for East Falls
Victoria Alden - Witch Coven Elder
Characters mentioned only
Eve Levine - Half-demon/witch hybrid. Savannah's mother. Deceased.
Ruth Winterbourne - Witch, former Coven Leader. Paige's mother. Deceased.
Jamie Vegas - Celebrity spiritualist.
Release details
Released by Bantam Spectra in paperback in 2004 ().
External links
Author's website
References
2004 Canadian novels
Novels by Kelley Armstrong
Viking Press books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime%20Store%20Magic |
Madeline Willemsen (September 28, 1915 - May 9, 1982) was an actress and comedian, born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico to a Dutch father and a Puerto Rican mother. She was the first cousin of Lucy Boscana, considered by some Puerto Rican theater critics to be the finest Puerto Rican actress of all time.
Her full name was Madeline Willemsen Bravo, and her maternal family was of Jewish origin. She lived in Mexico and studied acting in the United States, and worked for some time as a teacher in her hometown, when she returned to Puerto Rico. She used to cause scandals with her neighbours, smoking publicly, when it was not well seen for women. She started working in radio soap operas during the 1950s, especially in the Puerto Rican public radio station. When commercial television started operating on the island, her well-bred looks assured her a position as a leading lady. She was also a competent scriptwriter.
She was in "Rappaccini's Daughter" on PBS's American Short Stories in 1980.
Madeline Willemsen is buried at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan.
References
See also
List of Puerto Ricans
Burials at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
20th-century Puerto Rican actresses
Puerto Rican soap opera actresses
Puerto Rican stage actresses
Puerto Rican television actresses
20th-century American actresses
Actors from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
1915 births
1982 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline%20Willemsen |
Phosphoric monoester hydrolases (or phosphomonoesterases) are enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of O-P bonds by nucleophilic attack of phosphorus by cysteine residues or coordinated metal ions.
They are categorized with the EC number 3.1.3.
Examples include:
acid phosphatase
alkaline phosphatase
fructose-bisphosphatase
glucose-6-phosphatase
phosphofructokinase-2
phosphoprotein phosphatase
calcineurin
6-phytase
See also
phosphodiesterase
phosphatase
External links
Metabolism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoric%20monoester%20hydrolases |
The South River is a river in eastern New Hampshire and western Maine in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ossipee River, which flows east to the Saco River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean.
The South River begins at the outlet of Province Lake in the town of Effingham, New Hampshire, and proceeds north past the village of Center Effingham. Jogging east, the river enters Parsonsfield, Maine, then turns north again to reach the Ossipee River.
See also
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Rivers of Maine
Saco River
Rivers of York County, Maine
Rivers of Carroll County, New Hampshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20River%20%28Ossipee%20River%20tributary%29 |
The Paraguayan Basketball Federation (in Spanish: Confederación Paraguaya de Básquetbol) is the governing body of basketball in Paraguay. The PBF organizes male and female competitions for both the National League (for teams outside of Asunción) and the Metropolitan League (only for teams from Asunción), and runs the Paraguay national basketball team.
History
In 1936, no governing body of basketball existed in Paraguay, so basketball was part of the Paraguayan Sports Association until 1947, the year in which the Paraguayan Basketball Federation was founded. That same year, it joined the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
References
External links
Paraguayan Basketball Info
National members of FIBA Americas
Basketball in Paraguay
1947 establishments in Paraguay
Paraguay
Basketball
Sports organizations established in 1947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan%20Basketball%20Federation |
WMLL (96.5 FM; "96.5 The Mill") is an American radio station licensed to Bedford, New Hampshire, with studios located on Commercial Street in Manchester. WMLL is owned by Saga Communications, and operates as part of its Manchester Radio Group.
History
The 96.5 FM frequency first signed on in May 1996 with test broadcasts under the call letters WAEF. Regular broadcasting began on June 27, with a rock format branded "96.5 The Fox;" the call letters were soon changed to WOXF. The station was originally owned by Donna MacNeil.
On July 1, 1997, Saga Communications announced that it had signed a time brokerage agreement to take over WOXF's operations; on July 29, Saga relaunched the station as "Cool 96.5," an oldies station. The call letters were changed to WQLL on August 15, 1997; that month, Saga bought the station outright in a $3.3 million deal that was concluded on November 21, 1997. The station switched to classic rock, branded as "96.5 The Mill", in March 2005; on March 17, the call letters became WMLL. In August 2011, WMLL shifted to a classic hits format. In October 2016, WMLL returned to classic rock, branded as "Iconic Rock".
References
External links
MLL
Manchester, New Hampshire
Bedford, New Hampshire
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in New Hampshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMLL |
The 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus, Attica, Greece, on 2 and 3 March 1985.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table
Participating nations
(10)
(5)
(13)
(4)
(21)
(17)
(2)
(18)
(17)
(7)
(12)
(5)
(21)
(3)
(5)
(6)
(14)
(5)
(7)
(22)
(22)
(13)
(8)
(1)
(26)
(6)
See also
1985 in athletics (track and field)
References
Results - men at GBRathletics.com
Results - women at GBRathletics.com
EAA
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Indoor Championships
Sports competitions in Piraeus
International athletics competitions hosted by Greece
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Athletics Indoor Championships | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20European%20Athletics%20Indoor%20Championships |
The Jubilee Building is part of the Western Australian Museum in Perth, Western Australia. Designed in the Victorian Byzantine style by George Temple-Poole and supervised by his 1895 successor John Harry Grainger, it was opened in 1899.
The building was originally planned as a combined library, museum and art gallery to be sited in St Georges Terrace to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. However, by 1894, enthusiasm for the project had waned and the St Georges Terrace site had been abandoned. After several years, a site was selected near the corner of James Street and Beaufort Street to adjoin several other buildings including the old Perth Gaol which was being used for museum displays and storage. It was still termed the "Victoria Public Library" when it was being built in 1897.
The Hackett Hall that housed the Public Library is immediately west of the building.
Construction started in 1897. The museum moved into the basement prior to the building's completion in 1899.
It has been included in the redevelopment of the Western Australian Museum, as part of the Perth Cultural Centre. The entire building has been refurbished, with the terrace and grand entrance reopened.
Notes
External links
Register Entry, Place No 01962 Heritage Council of Western Australia
Assessment Documentation Heritage Council of Western Australia
Landmarks in Perth, Western Australia
Government buildings completed in 1899
Federation style architecture
George Temple-Poole buildings
1899 establishments in Australia
Perth Cultural Centre
State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Perth
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee%20Building |
Industrial Magic is a fantasy novel by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong. The fourth book in the Women of the Otherworld series, features the witch Paige Winterbourne.
Plot summary
The story starts with the attack upon Dana MacArthur, daughter of a Cabal employee. Dismayed by her inability to persuade other witches to form a new coven because of their disapproval of her relationship with Lucas Cortez, Paige Winterbourne is not entirely happy to find his father - Benicio Cortez - on her doorstep with news of the new case.
Lucas and Paige decide to travel to Miami to visit his father and introduce Paige to the family, as well as to hear further details about the attack. They discover that Dana's is only one of a series of similar attacks upon the children of Cabal employees. That night another child, the son of Benicio's bodyguard is killed. The father, Griffin, asks Paige and Lucas to investigate.
Concerned about Savannah, they arrange for her to stay with the werewolf Pack. They then arrange to meet up with Jaime Vegas, a necromancer. Jaime manages to contact Dana, who is believed to be in a coma, getting what details she can from her about the attack. In the process she discovers the girl is dead.
Investigation leads them to the home of Everett Weber. They are unable to find him, but do find a lot of encrypted computer files. Paige breaks the code to reveal a list of the children of Cabal employees. They track down Weber, but before they can persuade him to come with him peacefully, a Cabal SWAT team cause a hostage situation. Paige is injured and Everett taken into custody.
The trial results in Weber's swift execution, but almost immediately another child is killed - the grandson of Thomas Nast.
Jaime, Lucas and Paige go out to the swamp where Weber would be buried to contact him. They meet Esus. He gives them details about the man who hired Weber. When they continue to investigate, they start to be plagued by a ghost, but Jaime struggles to contact it. Eventually, they discover that the ghost is that of a vampire.
Their search leads them to the home of Edward and Natasha, two immortality-quester vampires. Natasha has been killed, she is the ghost, and Edward is looking for revenge. They set a trap, but it backfires. Lucas is shot, and both he and Paige find themselves in the land of the dead. There Paige meets Savannah's mother, Eve, who guides her. The Fates offer them a choice, and their decision returns them to the land of the living, where they find the werewolves have begun to search for them.
A trap is set for Edward at a charity ball, but it goes wrong. Jaime is kidnapped and Benicio ignores the plan in order to save his son. Jeremy, Savannah and Paige help to save everyone. Benicio executes Edward.
Characters
Major characters
Lucas Cortez - Sorcerer, lawyer, and lover of Paige Winterbourne. Son of Benicio Cortez and heir of Cortez Cabal.
Paige Winterbourne - Witch and Former Head of American Coven. Lover of Lucas Cortez.
Savannah Levine - 14-year-old witch and ward of Paige Winterbourne. Daughter of Eve Levine (Witch & Aspicio half Demon) & Kristof Nast (Sorcerer & heir to Nast Cabal)
Members of the Cortez Cabal
Benicio Cortez - Head of Cortez Cabal and Father of Lucas
Carlos Cortez - Youngest legitimate son of Benicio Cortez
Delores Cortez - Wife of Benicio Cortez
Dennis Malone - Half-Demon and Head of Cortez Cabal investigative unit
Dorinda - Cortez Cabal Secretary
Erin - Cortez Cabal Employee
Faye Ashton - Clairvoyant
Gloria - Cortez Cabal Employee
Griffin - Ferratus Half-demon bodyguard of Benicio
Hector Cortez - Eldest son of Benicio
Jim - Half-Demon Cortez Cabal employee who previously worked for St Clouds.
Morris - Half-demon bodyguard for Benicio.
Randy MacArthur - Exaudio Half-Demon employed by Cortez Cabal
Reuben Aldrich - Necromancer and Head of Actuarial Department
Simon - Shaman working for Cortez Cabal
Troy Morgan - Tempestras Half-demon employed by Benicio as bodyguard
William Cortez - Middle son of Benicio Cortez
Other characters
Aaron - Vampire and former lover of Cassandra.
Adam Vasic - Exustio Half-demon and friend of Paige.
Brigid - Vampire
Cassandra DuCharme - Vampire on Inter-Racial Council.
Clayton Danvers - Werewolf and lover of Elena.
Elena Michaels - Female werewolf and friend of Paige.
Eve Levine - Witch, Aspicio Half-demon and mother of Savannah. Now dead.
Esus - Druid deity. God of woodland and water.
Fates, The - Deities in charge of the afterlife (see Moirai)
Jaime Vegas - Necromancer
Jeremy Danvers - Pack's Alpha Werewolf
John - Vampire also known as Hans.
Julie Aiken - Witch and younger sister of Wendy
Lionel St Cloud - Head of St Cloud Cabal
Natasha - Ghost vampire.
Robert Vasic - Half-demon, husband of Talia and stepfather of Adam.
Ronald - Vampire.
Sean Nast - Son of Kristof Nast and Savannah's half-brother.
Talia Vasic - Mother of Adam and Wife of Robert.
Thomas Nast - Head of Nast Cabal.
Wendy Aiken - Witch
Death Toll
Dana MacArthur - Witch, Daughter of Randy MacArthur
Jacob - Son of Griffin
Matthew Tucker - 19-year-old son of Lionel St Cloud's personal assistant
Everett Weber - Druid and Cabal Computer specialist. Executed by Cabals after being found (incorrectly) guilty of attacks on Cabal children.
Joey Nast - Grandson of Thomas Nast. Killed outside courthouse after Everett's execution.
Tyler Boyd - 17-year-old son of Boyd Cabal CEO
Stephen St Cloud - Son of Lionel St Cloud
Edward - Vampire lover of the now deceased Natasha, both immortality questers.
Allusions/references to other works
Kelley Armstrong says the inspiration for the Cabals was "a cross between the Mafia and a corporation, kind of a tongue in cheek poke at corporate North America."
Jaime is looking for a copy of Christine by Stephen King when she is attacked by copies of 'Salem's Lot and the Iliad.
Mentioned obliquely as "that damned writer" (p. 302), Anne Rice and The Vampire Chronicles are blamed for the New Orleans vampires considering themselves to be 'special'.
Michael Corleone of The Godfather movies is held up as a comparison to Lucas' own position within the Cortez cabal.
Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
Esus, known in this novel as the god of woodland and water, was a Gaulish god known from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan's Bellum civile.
The World Trade Center in New York City, which was one of the foci of the September 11, 2001 attacks is referred to (p. 240) as the home of the Nast Cabal's New York Office:
"Until last month, the Nasts' New York office was in the World Trade Center."
"Did they lose-?"
"Twenty-seven people, out of a staff of thirty-five..."
Awards and nominations
Romantic Time Reviewers Choice Award 'Best Contemporary Paranormal' 2004
Critical reception
"Set in a supernatural but credible underworld of industrial baron sorcerers and psychologically crippled witches... breakneck action is tempered by deep psychological insights, intense sensuality and considerable humor." - Publishers Weekly
"Dark, snappy, and consistently entertaining... Armstrong never loses the balance between Paige's sardonic narration, the wonderfully absurd supporting characters and the nicely girlie touches that add a little lightness to the murder and mayhem... There's never anything that could be described as a dull moment or filler for nearly 600 pages, that's quite an achievement. The series, in general, is developing into something more interesting and less predictable with every installment." -SF Crow's Nest
"Armstrong's world is dangerous and fun, her voice crisp and funny... a solidly engaging novel." -Contra Costa
"Not to be missed. The action is fantastic and the drama is very intense." -Huntress Reviews
"I found a lot to like in the humor and diversity of Armstrong's world." -Denver Post
"Industrial Magic is a book not to be missed. The action is fantastic and the drama is very intense. Kelly Armstrong creates such fun characters that really jump off the pages. The book is fast paced with a lot of unexpected turns. Like the other books in the series, I wanted more after reading Industrial magic." -SFsite.com
"One of Armstrong's strengths is the creation of plausible characters, which is a real bonus in a series based on the premise that there are supernatural beings walking and working beside us in our contemporary world. Industrial Magic is a page turner and very hard to put down." -Bookslut.com
References
External links
Author's website
2004 Canadian novels
Novels by Kelley Armstrong
Viking Press books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Magic |
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet.
After substantial reworking, a revised edition of a portion of the text was published in 1816 under the title The Daemon of the World.
History
This poem was written early in Shelley's career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution. It is his first major poem. In this work, he depicts a two-pronged revolt involving necessary changes, brought on by both nature and the virtuousness of humans.
Shelley took William Godwin's idea of "necessity" and combined it with his own idea of ever-changing nature, to establish the theory that contemporary societal evils would dissolve naturally in time. This was to be coupled with the creation of a virtuous mentality in people who could envision the ideal goal of a perfect society. The ideal was to be reached incrementally, because Shelley (as a result of Napoleon's actions in the French Revolution), believed that the perfect society could not be obtained immediately through violent revolution. Instead it was to be achieved through nature's evolution and ever-greater numbers of people becoming virtuous and imagining a better society.
He set the press and ran 250 copies of this radical and revolutionary tract. Queen Mab is infused with scientific language and naturalising moral prescriptions for an oppressed humanity in an industrialising world. He intended the poem to be private and distributed it among his close friends and acquaintances. About 70 sets of the signatures were bound and distributed personally by Shelley, and the rest were stored at William Clark's bookshop in London. A year before his death, in 1821, one of the shopkeepers caught sight of the remaining signatures. The shopkeeper bound the remaining signatures, printed an expurgated edition, and distributed the pirated editions through the black market. The copies were–in the words of Richard Carlisle– "pounced upon," by the Society for the Prevention of Vice. Shelley was dismayed upon discovering the piracy of what he considered to be not just a juvenile production but a work that could potentially "injure rather than serve the cause of freedom." He sought an injunction against the shopkeeper, but since the poem was considered illegal, he was not entitled to the copyright. William Clark was imprisoned for 4 months for publishing and distributing Queen Mab.
The British bookseller Richard Carlile issued a new edition of the poem in the 1820s. In spite of prosecution from the Vice Society, Carlile was encouraged by the popularity Shelley's poem enjoyed with the working classes, progressives, and reformers into producing four separate editions of Queen Mab during the 1820s. Between 1821 and the 1830s over a dozen pirated editions of Queen Mab were produced and distributed among and by the labouring classes fuelling, and becoming a "bible" for Chartism.
When Shelley's widow, Mary Shelley, published her husband's Poetical Works in 1839, the dedication and several atheistic passages of the poem were omitted, but were restored in a second edition less than a year later. As a response to his own pending trial in 1840 for blasphemous libel, the first such case in 17 years, the Chartist Henry Hetherington brought similar blasphemous libel charges against Edward Moxon, the publisher, over the restored passages. The resulting trial, in which the prosecuting counsel "eulogized the genius of Shelley; and fairly admitted the respectability of the defendant," and Moxon was defended by Serjeant Talfourd, resulted in a guilty verdict, but the prosecution chose not to pursue any punishment beyond a payment of costs, and "there were no further attempts to impede the circulation of Queen Mab".
Synopsis
The poem is written in the form of a fairy tale that presents a future vision of a utopia on earth, consisting of nine cantos and seventeen notes. Queen Mab, a fairy, descends in a chariot to a dwelling where Ianthe is sleeping on a couch. Queen Mab detaches Ianthe's spirit or soul from her sleeping body and transports it on a celestial tour to Queen Mab's palace at the edge of the universe.
Queen Mab interprets, analyses, and explains Ianthe's dreams. She shows her visions of the past, present, and the future. The past and present are characterised by oppression, injustice, misery, and suffering caused by monarchies, commerce, and religion. In the future, however, the condition of man will be improved and a utopia will emerge. Two key points are emphasised: 1) death is not to be feared; and, 2) the future offers the possibility of perfectibility. Humanity and nature can be reconciled and work in unison and harmony, not against each other.
Queen Mab returns Ianthe's spirit or soul to her body. Ianthe then awakens with a "gentle start".
Of the seventeen notes, six deal with the issues of atheism, vegetarianism, free love, the role of necessity in the physical and spiritual realm, and the relationship of Christ and the precepts of Christianity.
The theme of the work is the perfectibility of man by moral means.
Shelley's objective was to show that reform and improvement in the lot of mankind were possible. In her notes to the work, Mary Shelley explains the author's goals:
He was animated to greater zeal by compassion for his fellow-creatures. His sympathy was excited by the misery with which the world is bursting. He witnessed the sufferings of the poor, and was aware of the evils of ignorance. He desired to induce every rich man to despoil himself of superfluity, and to create a brotherhood of property and service, and was ready to be the first to lay down the advantages of his birth. He was of too uncompromising a disposition to join any party. He did not in his youth look forward to gradual improvement: nay, in those days of intolerance, now almost forgotten, it seemed as easy to look forward to the sort of millennium of freedom and brotherhood, which he thought the proper state of mankind, as to the present reign of moderation and improvement. Ill health made him believe that his race would soon be run; that a year or two was all he had of life. He desired that these years should be useful and illustrious. He saw, in a fervent call on his fellow-creatures to share alike the blessings of the creation, to love and serve each other, the noblest work that life and time permitted him. In this spirit he composed Queen Mab.
Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus the "Wandering Jew" appears in Queen Mab as a phantom, but as a hermit healer in Shelley's last major work, the verse drama Hellas.
References
Sources
Baker, Carlos. (1941). "Spenser, The Eighteenth Century, and Shelley's Queen Mab." Modern Language Quarterly, 2(1):81–98.
Morton, Timothy. “Queen Mab as Topological Repertoire,” in Neil Fraistat, ed., Early Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics and Fractals. Romantic Praxis, 1997.
Forman, H. Buxton. The Vicissitudes of Shelley's Queen Mab; A Chapter in the History of Reform. London: Clay and Sons, 1887.
Grimes, Kelly. (1995). "'Queen Mab', the Law of Libel and the Forms of Shelley's Politics." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
Duffy, Cian. Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Fraistat, Neil. (2002). "The Material Shelley: Who Gets the Finger in Queen Mab?" Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 33.
Burling, W. J. (1984). "Virginia Woolf's 'Lighthouse': An Allusion to Shelley's Queen Mab?" English Language Notes, 22, 2, pp. 62–65.
Hecht, Jennifer Michael. Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. NY: HarperCollins, 2004.
Morton, Timothy. (2006). "Joseph Ritson, Percy Shelley and the Making of Romantic Vegetarianism." Romanticism, 12.1, pp. 52–61.
Morton, Timothy. Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Curtin, John. (1918). "Shelley, the Revolutionist." Westralian Worker.
Raisor, Philip. "'Palmyra's Ruined Palaces!': The Influence of Shelley's 'Queen Mab' on Browning's 'Love Among The Ruins'." Victorian Poetry, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1976), pp. 142–149.
Schwartz, Lewis M. "Two New Contemporary Reviews of Shelley's 'Queen Mab'." Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 19, (1970), pp. 77–85.
Scrivener, Michael Henry. Radical Shelley: The Philosophical Anarchism and Utopian Thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Sloan, Gary. (July/August 2003). "Shelley: Angelic Atheist." Eclectica Magazine, 7, 3.
Smith, Jessica. "Tyrannical Monuments and Discursive Ruins: The Dialogic Landscape of Shelley's Queen Mab." Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 47, (1998), pp. 108–141.
Welsh, Dennis M. "Queen Mab and An Essay on Man: Scientific Prophecy versus Theodicy." College Language Association Journal, 29.4 (1986): 462–82.
External links
Audiorecording of extracts from Queen Mab by the BBC.
Queen Mab at Archive.org
Complete text of the poem at Marxists.org
"Poet of Revolution," Time Magazine, December 16, 1940.
1813 poems
Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mab%20%28poem%29 |
Lattimore can refer to:
Lattimore, North Carolina
People
Cedrick Lattimore (born 1998), American football player
DeDe Lattimore (born 1991), American football player
Harlan Lattimore (1908–1980), singer with various jazz orchestras
Kenny Lattimore (born 1970), American rhythm and blues singer
Jonita Lattimore, American soprano
Marcus Lattimore (born 1991), American football player
Marshon Lattimore (born 1996), American football player
The children of David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore:
Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American educator, author and target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1904–1986), American author and illustrator of children's books
Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984), American poet and translator of the Iliad and Odyssey
Sir Lattimore Brown (1931–2011), American R&B singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimore |
Latta may refer to:
Places
Port Latta, Tasmania, Australia, an iron ore port
Latta Plantation in Huntersville, North Carolina, US
Latta, Oklahoma, U.S.
Latta, South Carolina, U.S.
People with the surname
Alexander Bonner Latta (1821–1865), American manufacturer and inventor
Bob Latta (born 1956), American politician
Christopher Collins (born Christopher Latta; 1949–1994), American voice actor
David Latta (politician) (1869–1948), Canadian politician
David Latta (ice hockey) (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
Del Latta (1920–2016), American politician
Frank Forrest Latta (1892–1983), American oral historian and ethnographer
Ivory Latta (born 1984), American basketball player
James P. Latta (1844–1911), American politician
John Latta (politician) (1835-1913), American politician
Sir John Latta, 1st Baronet (1867-1946), Scottish shipping magnate
Reg Latta (1897–1970), Australian rugby league footballer
Robert Latta, 1985 intruder in the White House
Thomas Latta of Leith (1796–1833), father of intravenous therapy
See also
Lotta (disambiguation)
Lata (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latta |
Operation Hell Gate (2005) by Marc Cerasini is the first of the 24: Declassified novels based on the FOX television series 24. It takes place before season 1, and Jack Bauer's story is set in New York City. Co-authors for the novel are Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran.
Plot summary
Jack Bauer has a bit of a problem with a recent mission. Subsequently, he must accompany the prisoner, FBI agent Frank Hensley (who was later revealed to be an Iraqi agent) and other government officials. The plane crashes and all chaos breaks loose - Frank Hensley frames Jack Bauer for the murder of two FBI agents, Ryan Chappelle has trouble helping Jack from LA, and a weapon has been stolen that could potentially release a virus deadly to the whole of America.
Jack Bauer must use all his skill and recruit the help of some Irish woman (Caitlin) in order to break down a highly complicated conspiracy that leads to the government.
Characters
Characters from the Show
Jack Bauer- The protagonist of 24, Jack goes undercover to take down the terrorist attack that threatens the country. A subplot involves Jack being framed by Frank Hensley for killing two Federal Marshals and helping a fugitive escape.
Nina Myers- Nina provides CTU support for Jack in Los Angeles.
Tony Almeida- Tony has his own subplot involving characters in Los Angeles related to the terrorist plot.
Jamey Farrell and Milo Pressman- The main CTU tech analysts.
Ryan Chappelle- Comes in from Division to help lead the operation on thwarting the days events.
Richard Walsh- Appears in the Prologue and the Epilogue, debriefs Jack on Operation Hell Gate.
New Characters
Caitlin O'Connor- An immigrant and girlfriend of Shamus, she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy and ends up aiding Jack.
Liam O'Connor- Caitlin's 15-year-old brother. Has his own sub-plot of delivering a case to Taj.
Dae Soo Min (Doris)- A female Korean analyst brought in to help aid Jack.
Georgi Timko- Russian immigrant who owns Tatiana's Tavern. At the end of the novel, it is revealed Timko gave CTU-Los Angeles the tip-off about the attack at the beginning of the novel.
Yuri- Timko's trusty henchman. He doesn't say much but is skilled at gun-fights.
Saito- undercover police agent for the LAPD
Captain Jessica Schneider- A former marine who is called into CTU for help working on the computer chip. She is also there for field work.
Villains
Frank Hensley - A war hero who was thought to be killed in Iraq by the Iraqi Special Forces. One of his captors assumed his identity and joined the FBI, allowing them to attempt an act of terror.
Taj Ali Kahlil- brother of Khan Ali Kahlil. An Afghan who wants revenge on America for betraying his people in the Soviet-Afghanistan War.
Khan Ali Kahlil- brother of Taj Kahlil. When Jack pretends to be Shamus Lynch to meet Taj, Khan pretends to be Taj to test Jack. When Jack fails that test, he attempts to kill Jack by choking him. The attempt fails and Khan commits suicide by throwing himself over the bridge.
Shamus and Griffin Lynch- Two brothers who have a rough past in their home country. They both have aliases in America and aides in terrorism on US soil. Shamus tries to provide for Caitlin's family.
Omar Bayat- henchman of Taj Kahlil and assassin to kill Felix Tanner.
Dante Arete- Part of a Spanish gang involved in terrorist activity to launch a missile strike. He is caught by Jack Bauer but escapes after the plane crash lands. He helps terrorists to earn money, but is killed when the bomb inside the suitcase full of money is activated.
Dennis Spain- Chief of staff of Senator Cheever of New York.
External links
Book excerpt and author information (Official publisher web page)
References
2005 American novels
American thriller novels
24 (TV series)
Novels set in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Hell%20Gate |
Dennis Hotels Pty Ltd v Victoria, is a High Court of Australia case that deals with section 90 of the Australian Constitution, which prohibits States from levying customs or excise duties. Although some of the judges used the now-discredited criterion of liability approach, this case remains authority for cases that are factually similar to it.
Background
The Licensing Act 1958 (Vic) contained two sections of contention. Section 19(1)(a) imposed fees for the grant or renewal of liquor licences, and the fee was calculated as 6 percent of the value of liquor purchased during the 12 months up to June 30 of the previous year. Section 19(1)(b) imposed fees for temporary licences, and the fee would be 1 pound per day together with 6 percent of the value of liquor purchased.
Decision
Three judges, Fullagar, Kitto and Taylor JJ, used the highly formalistic criterion of liability approach (which has since been discredited) to decide this case. In this approach, the fees were not viewed as excise duties because the criterion of liability does not fall in a step between the production of the good and the receipt of the good by the consumer due to the backdating (per Kitto J). The payment of the fee is seen as occurring as part of business generally; also, because the fee is not payable at the time of the purchase of the liquor, and because the retailer may choose not to renew his licence, the fee does not necessarily become an indirect cost for the consumer. The distinction, therefore, is that the fees were imposed not on goods, but on licences, and thus not an excise duty. These three judges held that the fees were not excise duties and hence were not invalid.
However, three judges, Dixon CJ, McTiernan and Windeyer JJ, held that the fees were excise duties. Dixon CJ asserted that it is a tax upon goods, because it is a cost that is bound to be recovered by the person paying the tax. The provisions of the Act, when taken together, burdened liquor as a commodity, regardless of the channel through which the tax flowed. Dixon CJ disregarded the argument that licensees may not renew their licences and hence not fall within the ambit of the provisions, by stating that the provisions "deal with the distribution of liquor in Victoria as a continuous operation and impose the tax accordingly"; it is immaterial that the tax on the goods is paid at a later date. These three judges held that the fees were excise duties and hence invalid by virtue of section 90.
Menzies J was the decisive judgment, although he followed the narrow approach to excise duty. His Honour found that the backdated fee was not a tax on production or manufacture, and was therefore not a duty of excise, applying the minority judgment in Parton v Milk Board (Vic). However, in deciding the character of the fee for the temporary licence, he felt constrained by Parton, and held that it was an excise duty.
An appeal to the Privy Council was dismissed as incompetent as the High Court had not issued a certificate under section 74 of the Constitution.
Criticism
This case caused a great deal of criticism in the academic community due to the split in the Court and the uncertainty it created. The Zelman Cowen Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Professor Michael Crommelin , remarked that the decision "was one of the worst in the Court's history" and "certainly not its finest hour". According to Professor Crommelin, this was due to the "utter confusion" and "complete absence of reasoning" in the various judgments.
See also
Section 90 of the Constitution of Australia
Australian constitutional law
References
Winterton, G. et al. Australian federal constitutional law: commentary and materials, 1999. LBC Information Services, Sydney.
High Court of Australia cases
1960 in Australian law
Australian constitutional law
Excise in the Australian Constitution cases
1960 in case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Hotels%20Pty%20Ltd%20v%20Victoria |
Deoxyribonuclease V (, endodeoxyribonuclease V, DNase V, Escherichia coli endodeoxyribonuclease V) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
Endonucleolytic cleavage at apurinic or apyrimidinic sites to products with a 5'-phosphate
See also
Deoxyribonuclease
References
External links
EC 3.1.21 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyribonuclease%20V |
Marjorie Rhodes (9 April 1897 – 4 July 1979) was a British actress. She was born Millicent Wise in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Career
One of her better-known roles was as Lucy Fitton, the mother in Bill Naughton's play All in Good Time. She played the role on Broadway, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1965. She reprised the role in the 1966 film version, titled The Family Way. She was featured singing a track "The World Is for the Young" with Stanley Holloway in the Herman's Hermits 1968 film Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter.
Her television appearances included The Army Game (as Edith Snudge), The Adventures of William Tell episode "The Boy Slaves" (1958), Dixon of Dock Green (1961–1962), the episode "For the Girl Who Has Everything" of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Doctor at Large (1971) and Z-Cars (1974).
Selected filmography
Poison Pen (1939) – Mrs. Scaife
Just William (1940) – Cook (uncredited)
Love on the Dole (1941) – Mrs. Bull
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) – Nurse (uncredited)
Squadron Leader X (1943) – Mrs. Agnew
When We Are Married (1943) – Mrs. Northrup
Old Mother Riley Detective (1943) – Cook
Theatre Royal (1943) – Agnes
Escape to Danger (1943) – Mrs. Pickles
The Butler's Dilemma (1943) – Mrs. Plumb
On Approval (1944) – Cook
Tawny Pipit (1944) – Mrs. Pickering
It Happened One Sunday (1944) – Mrs. Buckland
Great Day (1945) – Mrs. Nora Mumford
School for Secrets (1946) – Mrs. Arnold
Uncle Silas (1947) – Mrs. Rusk
This Was a Woman (1948) – Mrs. Holmes
Escape (1948) – Mrs. Pinkem
Enchantment (1948) – Mrs. Sampson
Private Angelo (1949) – Countess
The Cure for Love (1949) – Mrs. Sarah Hardacre
Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) – Miss Mouncey
Decameron Nights (1953) – Signora Bucca
Those People Next Door (1953) – Mary Twigg
The Yellow Balloon (1953) – Mrs. Stokes
Street Corner (1953) – Mrs. Foster
The Girl on the Pier (1953) – Mrs. Chubb
The Weak and the Wicked (1953) – Suzie, bigamist inmate
To Dorothy a Son (1954) – Landlady
Children Galore (1955) – Ada Jones
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) – Mrs. Park
Room in the House (1955) – Betsy Richards
It's a Great Day (1955) – Landlady
Lost (1956) – Mrs. Jeffries
Now and Forever (1956) – Farmer's wife Aggie
Yield to the Night (1956) – Matron Brandon
It's Great to Be Young (1956) – Landlady
The Passionate Stranger (1957) – Mrs. Poldy
There's Always a Thursday (1957) – Marjorie Potter
The Good Companions (1957) – Mrs. Mounder
Hell Drivers (1957) – Ma West
No Time for Tears (1957) – Ethel
After the Ball (1957) – Bessie
Just My Luck (1957) – Mrs. Hackett
The Naked Truth (1957) – Lady on Phone (uncredited)
Gideon's Day (1958) – Mrs. Saparelli
Alive and Kicking (1959) – Old Woman
Watch it, Sailor! (1961) – Emma Hornett
Over the Odds (1961) – Bridget Stone
I've Gotta Horse (1965) – Mrs. Bartholemew
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) – Waitress
The Family Way (1966) – Lucy Fitton
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) – Grandma Gloria Tulley
Spring and Port Wine (1970) – Mrs. Gasket
Hands of the Ripper (1971) – Mrs. Bryant
External links
1897 births
1979 deaths
English film actresses
English television actresses
Actresses from Kingston upon Hull
20th-century English actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Rhodes |
Haunted is a 2005 fantasy novel written by Kelley Armstrong.
Synopsis
Haunted, the fifth in the Women of the Otherworld series, is a novel written by Kelley Armstrong featuring Eve Levine. Half-demon, black witch and devoted mother, Eve has been dead for three years. However, whilst the afterlife isn't too bad, Eve is desperate to find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, now the ward of Paige Winterbourne and Lucas Cortez.
The Fates, though, have other plans, and they call in a favour. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. Feeding on chaos and death, she is an expert at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage. The Nix is a dangerous enemy, however. Previous hunters have been sent mad in the process.
Detailed synopsis
Eve Levine has spent her afterlife watching over her daughter, Savannah, and is frustrated, now that she is dead, by her inability to help her. However, she is prevented from continuing this obsession when the Fates call in the favour she owes them for saving the lives of Paige and Lucas (Industrial Magic). She is to track down the Nix, a demi-demon with a penchant for chaos whose particular trick is to provide the will power women need to commit murder.
Assisted by her lover, Kristof Nast, and the Angel Trsiel, Eve sets out to hunt the Nix. But the demi-demon will not be easy prey. Using Jaime Vegas to contact the Nix's previous partners, Eve discovers that the Nix is willing to go to any lengths to secure the chaos she feeds upon—putting the people Eve cares about most at risk. Eve must stop her before it is too late, even if that means taking the last resort—becoming an Ascended Angel and giving up her life with Kristof.
Characters
Main characters
Eve Levine - Witch, Aspicio Half-demon and mother of Savannah. Now dead.
Fates, The - Deities in charge of the afterlife (see Moirai).
Jaime Vegas - Necromancer.
Kristof Nast - Sorcerer father of Savannah. Now dead.
Lucas Cortez - Sorcerer Lawyer and husband of Paige Winterbourne, Son of Benicio Cortez and heir of Cortez Cabal.
Nix, The—Demi-demon.
Paige Winterbourne - Witch and Former Head of American Coven. Wife of Lucas Cortez.
Savannah Levine - Fifteen-year-old witch and ward of Paige Winterbourne and daughter of Eve Levine (Witch & Aspicio half Demon) & Kristof Nast (Sorcerer & heir to Nast Cabal).
Trsiel - Angel charged with the task of assisting Eve.
Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed The Untouchables. His inability to capture the Cleveland Torso Murderer (said in the novel to be surgeon Agnes Miller, assisted by the Nix) may have contributed to his exit from what was otherwise a reasonably successful career in Cleveland.
"The Nix didn't ask who the "arrogant boy" was... she didn't want to sit through another diatribe on the ineptitude and inexperience of Eliot Ness. The year before, Mayor Burton had appointed the young man as Cleveland's safety director, head of the police and fire departments." (p. 154)
Lizzie Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster and a central figure in the case surrounding the brutal axe double-murder of her father and stepmother on a sweltering day, August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. The case was memorialized in a popular jump-rope rhyme, which also features on p. 183 of the novel:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis in Angus, Scotland. Glamis Castle was the childhood home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, best known as the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her daughter, Princess Margaret, was born there. The legend of the Monster of Glamis is in this novel related to the demon Dantalian.
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630 – July 17, 1676) was a French serial killer.
External links
Author's website
References
2005 Canadian novels
2005 fantasy novels
Novels by Kelley Armstrong
Viking Press books
Ghost narrator
Nixies (folklore)
Cultural depictions of Eliot Ness
Cultural depictions of Lizzie Borden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted%20%28Armstrong%20novel%29 |
Tiffany Lam or Tiffany Lam Man Lei (, born 25 October 1980) is a former beauty queen from San Francisco. She held the title of Miss Hong Kong 2002 and Miss Chinese International 2003 runner up.
Early life
Lam was born in Hong Kong in 1980. During her childhood, she immigrated to San Francisco, California, where she studied for many years. Lam later attended the University of California, Davis. She is a member of Sigma Omicron Pi sorority, Delta Chapter. She then returned to Hong Kong to compete in the Miss Hong Kong 2002 pageant. Her younger cousin, Sandy Lau, won the 2009 Miss Hong Kong.
Miss Hong Kong 2002
She was chosen out of many delegates from USA and Canada to go back to Hong Kong to compete. She made the top 12 of the Miss Hong Kong 2002 pageant in early July. Three weeks later, she competed and won the Miss Hong Kong pageant final on its 30th anniversary, also winning two side awards, "Miss International Goodwill" and "Miss Modern Style".
Miss Chinese International 2003
After winning the Miss Hong Kong title, Lam became an ambassador for Hong Kong, representing Hong Kong at the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2003 in January 2003, where she finished second behind Rachel Tan of Kuala Lumpur.
Post-pageant
Lam subsequently starred in two TVB dramas, Net Deception and Not Just A Pretty Face. Her 1st runner up and friend, Victoria Jolly, also appeared in Not Just A Pretty Face. After she crowned her successor, Mandy Cho Man Li, Lam returned to San Francisco to continue her studies. She returned to Hong Kong to crown the 1st runner up of the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004.
As of 2007, Lam works for her family restaurant business in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Awards
Miss Hong Kong 2002: Winner, Miss International Goodwill, and Miss Modern Style.
Miss Chinese International 2003: 1st runner up.
TVB Dramas
Net Deception (2002)
Not Just A Pretty Face (2003)
References
External links
Miss Hong Kong 2002 site
Miss Chinese International 2003 site
1980 births
Actresses from the San Francisco Bay Area
Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses
Living people
Miss Hong Kong winners
TVB actors
University of California, Davis alumni
21st-century American beauty pageant contestants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%20Lam |
HMS Nymph was a 14-gun Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Israel Pownoll and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 27 May 1778. She was accidentally burnt and sank in the British Virgin Islands in 1783.
Construction and commissioning
Nymph was ordered from Chatham Dockyard on 8 January 1777 and laid down there in April that year under master shipwright Israel Pownoll. She was launched on 27 May 1778 and completed by 27 July 1778. She cost a total of £8,640.13.4d to build, including money spent on fitting and coppering her. She was later fitted to carry 16 6 pounder guns by Admiralty orders of 1779 and 1780.
Career
Nymph was commissioned in May 1778 under Commander William Denne, and served in the English Channel. She came under Commander John Blankett in January 1779 and sailed for the East Indies on 8 March that year to join Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes' East India fleet. Her role was to protect English interests and island inhabitants from French and American privateers and her duties included protecting interests in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras and serving as an escort to East India merchant convoys. In January 1780 she came under Commander William Stevens, who went on to capture the American letter of marque Racoon on 9 October 1781, and, while sailing in company with , took the American privateers Royal Louis on 9 October and Rambler on 30 October 1781.
She remained in the East Indies into 1782, during which time Commander John Sutton took over. Nymph returned to Britain later in the year and was refitted and re-coppered at Plymouth between August and October 1782. Commander Richard Hill then took command, and Nymph sailed for the Leeward Islands on 5 December to join Admiral Hugh Pigot and Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, of the Lesser Antilles squadron.
While at Tortola, in the Virgin Islands, a fire broke out on 28 June 1783. The crew abandoned ship and she burnt out and sank in Road Town's harbour, with the loss of three men.
Later discovery and loss
In February 1969, dredging in Road Town harbour revealed the remains of the Nymph. Artefacts were removed, but no archaeological survey or site excavation was conducted. The location of the wreck was subsequently lost for many years, and remains a mystery. Since 2005, the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol have been surveying Road Harbour in an effort to locate and survey the remains of HMS Nymph.
References
External links
Virgin Islands daily news
University of Bristol website
BBC news
Famous shipwrecks in the BVI
Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Shipwrecks of the British Virgin Islands
Sloops of the Royal Navy
Maritime incidents in 1783
Ships built in Chatham
1778 ships | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Nymph |
In directional statistics, the Kent distribution, also known as the 5-parameter Fisher–Bingham distribution (named after John T. Kent, Ronald Fisher, and Christopher Bingham), is a probability distribution on the unit sphere (2-sphere S2 in 3-space R3). It is the analogue on S2 of the bivariate normal distribution with an unconstrained covariance matrix. The Kent distribution was proposed by John T. Kent in 1982, and is used in geology as well as bioinformatics.
Definition
The probability density function of the Kent distribution is given by:
where is a three-dimensional unit vector, denotes the transpose of , and the normalizing constant is:
Where is the modified Bessel function and is the gamma function. Note that and , the normalizing constant of the Von Mises–Fisher distribution.
The parameter (with ) determines the concentration or spread of the distribution, while (with ) determines the ellipticity of the contours of equal probability. The higher the and parameters, the more concentrated and elliptical the distribution will be, respectively. Vector is the mean direction, and vectors are the major and minor axes. The latter two vectors determine the orientation of the equal probability contours on the sphere, while the first vector determines the common center of the contours. The 3×3 matrix must be orthogonal.
Generalization to higher dimensions
The Kent distribution can be easily generalized to spheres in higher dimensions. If is a point on the unit sphere in , then the density function of the -dimensional Kent distribution is proportional to
where and and the vectors are orthonormal. However, the normalization constant becomes very difficult to work with for .
See also
Directional statistics
Von Mises–Fisher distribution
Bivariate von Mises distribution
Von Mises distribution
Bingham distribution
References
Boomsma, W., Kent, J.T., Mardia, K.V., Taylor, C.C. & Hamelryck, T. (2006) Graphical models and directional statistics capture protein structure . In S. Barber, P.D. Baxter, K.V.Mardia, & R.E. Walls (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics, pp. 91–94. Leeds, Leeds University Press.
Hamelryck T, Kent JT, Krogh A (2006) Sampling Realistic Protein Conformations Using Local Structural Bias. PLoS Comput Biol 2(9): e131
Kent, J. T. (1982) The Fisher–Bingham distribution on the sphere., J. Royal. Stat. Soc., 44:71–80.
Kent, J. T., Hamelryck, T. (2005). Using the Fisher–Bingham distribution in stochastic models for protein structure . In S. Barber, P.D. Baxter, K.V.Mardia, & R.E. Walls (Eds.), Quantitative Biology, Shape Analysis, and Wavelets, pp. 57–60. Leeds, Leeds University Press.
Mardia, K. V. M., Jupp, P. E. (2000) Directional Statistics (2nd edition), John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Peel, D., Whiten, WJ., McLachlan, GJ. (2001) Fitting mixtures of Kent distributions to aid in joint set identification. J. Am. Stat. Ass., 96:56–63
Directional statistics
Continuous distributions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20distribution |
New Dance Group, or more casually NDG, is a performing arts organization in New York City, United States.
History
New Dance Group was established in 1932 by a group of artists and choreographers dedicated to social change through dance and movement. The founders – Nadia Chilkovsky, Fanya Geltman, Miriam Blecher, Edith Lambert, Edna Ocko, Rebecca Rosenberg, Pauline Schrifman and Grace Wylie – were students at Hanya Holm's dance studio in New York City, and soon their philosophy attracted a wide student base of ordinary workers and dancers. For just a dime, students received an hour-long dance class, an hour of improvisation based on a social theme, and an hour of discussion on social issues. Those members wishing to choreograph followed two rules: dance about something important to you, and create work so that the audience could understand the dance's thrust. As one of many groups performing under the umbrella of the leftist Workers Dance League, the New Dance Group quickly established itself as a leader in the field, presenting dances that not only spoke forcefully about social ills but also adhered to high artistic standards.
New Dance Group soon expanded to include dancers, choreographers, and teachers from different techniques. Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, Jean Erdman, and Jane Dudley came from Martha Graham's company; Bill Bales and Joe Gifford hailed from the Humphrey-Weidman group; and Eve Gentry and Mary Anthony, like the original founders, first worked with Hanya Holm. Modern techniques were not the only staple at the New Dance Group's studio. Erdman taught Hawaiian dance, Hadassah taught Indian dance forms, and Pearl Primus and Beryl McBurnie offered classes in Caribbean and African dance forms. Ballet was eventually added to the roster as well, with some classes taught by Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb. Paul Draper taught tap, and Al Brooks taught the Holm technique. The diversity in dance was indicative of a greater philosophy: at a time when American society was laced with discrimination, New Dance Group welcomed people of all races and religions.
Just as the founders of the New Dance Group were dedicated to working collectively, the members who strengthened the organization into the 1940s and 1950s frequently collaborated with one another. Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow, and Bill Bales teamed together in the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio, which toured very successfully in the 1940s. New Dance Group festivals featured varied programs with choreography by many of the abovementioned artists as well as newcomers Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Daniel Nagrin.
From its inception during the Great Depression through the early 1960s, New Dance Group was a major hub of activity in the vibrant New York City dance scene; indeed, the studio's array of offerings made it a popular destination for aspiring dancers, while the roster of choreographers offered scores of dancers with performance opportunities. Although the organization gradually faded from prominence and was rarely given its due in the annals of dance scholarship, the rich history of New Dance Group has been uncovered and celebrated in recent years. The American Dance Guild presented a retrospective New Dance Group Gala concert in 1993, assembling works by Mary Anthony, Ronne Aul, Talley Beatty, Valerie Bettis, Irving Burton, Jane Dudley, Jean Erdman, Eve Gentry, Joseph Gifford, Hadassah, Sophie Maslow, Donald McKayle, Daniel Nagrin, Pearl Primus, Anna Sokolow, Joyce Trisler, and Charles Weidman. On July 28, 2000, the Library of Congress, along with the Dance Heritage Coalition, identified New Dance Group as one of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100". From 2005–2007, the National Museum of Dance featured the New Dance Group in the exhibit "Dancing Rebels: The New Dance Group," which focused on the organization's activities and membership from 1932 until 1960. While some members of New Dance Group were inducted into the museum's Hall of Fame individually, the group itself was given this honor in 2006. Many of the choreographers who presented work with New Dance Group are featured in the American Dance Legacy Institute's "Dancing Rebels" anthology, and some of their masterpieces are preserved in the Institute's documentaries.
Although there is currently a studio and company in New York City called New Dance Group, the dancers and choreographers who built the original institution and contributed to its heyday through the 1960s are not affiliated with this new entity. The later New Dance Group fosters the arts through multiple disciplines and focuses on four program areas: Arts and Education, Presentation and Production, Media Communications, Fund-Raising Program. Information below pertains to this more recently founded entity and not to the original New Dance Group.
New Dance Group 2006–2009
On September 18, 2006, the New Dance Group officially opened the doors to a new state-of-the art studio located at 305 West 38th Street just west of 8th Avenue. Nearly double the size of its prior location (where it had resided for 55 years), New Dance Group's renovated upgrade, led by architect Howard Spivak, included two floors of studios complete with sprung wood or Marley flooring, pianos, floor to ceiling mirrors, a recording studio and vocal room, sound systems, large dressing rooms, teacher lounge, stretch area, private entrance, art exhibit gallery, merchandise boutique, and two performance spaces complete with raked seating for over 100 people. This space was used for all NDG programming but was also available for rentals.
New Dance Group offered classes for the novice to the professional in dance, fitness and theatre arts seven days a week.
Classes for teens and adults included modern, hip-hop, ballet, tap, jazz, Latin, ethnic, yoga, pilates, voice, and acting. Performance programs included The Exchange, an emerging artists series, and the Teacher Performance Series.
In 2007, New Dance Group became part of the biggest collaboration in the history of American Theatre. Over 600 theaters joined a grassroots premiere of plays in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Colorado, Greater Texas, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York City, The Northeast, San Francisco, Seattle, The Southeast, Washington D.C., the Western U.S. and Universities The 365 National Festival was produced by Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar. The company toured many productions through 2007 and 2008, including pieces by Anabella Lenzu and Rick Schussel.
New Dance Group operations closed permanently in 2009, due in large part to the Artistic Director, Schussel, stealing large sums of money from the organization. Hadassah collection of New Dance Group Studio, Inc. records, The New York Public Library.
References
Further reading
External links
Hadassah collection of New Dance Group Studio, Inc. records Manuscripts and Archives, New York Public Library.
Phillips, Victoria. "New Dance Group (1932-2009)." Dance Heritage Coalition: America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures (2012).
1932 establishments in the United States
Dance companies in New York City
Contemporary dance companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Dance%20Group |
WZXZ-CD, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 20), is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Orlando, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the L4 Media Group.
History
The station originally signed on as an affiliate of The Box. Following The Box's acquisition by Viacom in 2001, it began carrying programming from MTV2. In 2005, Viacom sold WZXZ to L4 Media Group.
From 2004 to late summer of 2006, WZXZ carried the Spanish music video channel Mas Musica, now known as MTV Tr3́s. However, when Mas Musica became MTV Tr3́s, WZXZ resumed simulcast of MTV2 for a short period of time, rather than picking up MTV Tr3́s, for unknown reasons.
For some part of later 2006, it had shown a repeated loop of a religious infomercial. This was the last actual programming shown on the channel. For most of 2007, the station was broadcasting nothing but the screensaver from a DVD player, accompanied by an outdated severe weather warning crawl across the screen.
Most recently, sometime around the start of January 2008, the station was transmitting a color bar test pattern with call letters displayed via CHARGEN overlay. This is presumably due to no station ID being displayed per FCC requirements for some time (aside from when the EAS-triggered warnings would occasionally be scrolled).
As of September 2008, the station started airing Caribevision, a Spanish television network based out of Miami and New York City. On August 13, 2012, WZXZ-CA began broadcasting América Tevé programming after America CV folded. The station switched to Soul of the South Network in 2014.
On August 12, 2014, L4 Media Group reached a deal to sell WZXZ-CA to OTA Broadcasting, a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital; the deal was not filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) until November.
The station was licensed for digital operation on May 26, 2015, changing its call sign to WZXZ-CD.
References
External links
ZXZ-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1989
ZXZ
YTA TV affiliates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZXZ-CD |
Lavell may refer to:
People
LaVell Edwards (1930–2016), American football coach
LaVell Boyd (born 1976), American football player
Lavell Crawford (born 1968), American comedian
Lavell, American singer (Baton Rouge, La)
David Banner (né Lavell Crump, born 1974), American musician
Businesses
Lavells Newsagents Ltd, a former British retail chain
Places
Lavell Township, Minnesota, USA | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavell |
Chaotic, part of the Women of the Otherworld series, is a novella written by Kelley Armstrong. It was published in an anthology of supernatural-themed novellas, called "Dates From Hell." This novella takes place between Haunted and Broken in the Women of the Otherworld series.
Plot summary
Half-demon Hope Adams loves her job. Granted, working for True News tabloid isn't quite the career her high-society family had in mind for her. What they don't know is that the tabloid job is just a cover, a way for her to investigate stories with a paranormal twist, and help protect the supernatural world from exposure. When Hope's “handler” sends her and a date to a museum charity gala, Hope suspects there's more to it than a free perk. He's tested her before. This time, she's ready for whatever he throws her way. Or so she thinks...until she meets her target: werewolf thief, Karl Marsten...
Characters
Karl Marsten - werewolf and professional thief.
Hope Adams - half-demon and tabloid writer.
Footnotes
American novellas
American fantasy novels
2006 American novels
Werewolf novels
Viking Press books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaotic%20%28novella%29 |
HMS Aurora was an light cruiser that saw service in World War I with the Royal Navy. During the war, the cruiser participated in the Battle of Dogger Bank and was a member of the Grand Fleet when the main fleet of the Imperial German Navy surrendered to it in 1918. Following the war, Aurora was placed in reserve and in 1920, the cruiser was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. Her service with the Royal Canadian Navy was brief, being paid off in 1922. The cruiser was sold for scrap in 1927 and broken up.
Design and description
Designed to augment the destroyer flotillas of the fleet, the Aurora-class cruisers displaced normal and at deep load. They were long overall with a beam of and a mean draught of . The cruisers were propelled by four shafts driven by Parsons turbines powered by steam from eight boilers creating . This gave the ships a maximum speed of . The cruisers carried of fuel oil.
Aurora had an armoured belt of that tapered to . The cruiser also had an armoured deck of . The cruiser was armed with two breech-loading (BL) /45 calibre Mk XII guns and six quick-firing (QF) /45 calibre Mk IV guns. For secondary armament the cruiser sported a single 3-pounder gun for anti-aircraft purposes and four torpedo tubes in two twin mounts. The class had a maximum complement of 282.
Service history
Royal Navy
The cruiser's keel was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 24 October 1912 and Aurora was launched on 30 September 1913. The ship was commissioned into the Royal Navy in September 1914.
Aurora saw service as part of Harwich Force from September 1914 to February 1915, as leader of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla. Based at Harwich under the command of Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, the unit was ordered to sea on 14 December 1914 as part of the force sent to intercept a German fleet under Admiral Franz von Hipper raiding towns on the east coast of England. However, the flotilla was prevented from intervening in the resulting engagement due to poor weather and returned to Yarmouth.
In January 1915, German command ordered a reconnaissance mission of the Dogger Bank by Hipper. At his disposal were three battlecruisers, one armoured cruiser, four light cruisers and nineteen destroyers. The message ordering the German mission was intercepted by the Admiralty and Tyrwhitt's force was among the units deployed for the coming battle. Tyrwhitt's force began to depart Harwich at 5:30pm on 23 January. Aurora was among the ships that had departed after their commander and when Tyrwhitt met with Admiral David Beatty's force the next morning, Aurora and the majority of Tyrwhitt's force was astern. However, Aurora and the majority of Tyrwhitt's force encountered Hipper's fleet at 7:05am on 24 January, with the cruiser spotting a three-funneled cruiser and four destroyers on the horizon. Aurora closed to and challenged the ship, believing it to be Tyrwhitt's flagship, . The German cruiser opened fire on Aurora in response, hitting the ship three times. Aurora returned fire and sent a signal to the fleet that she was in battle. The German armoured cruiser was sunk. The light cruisers were ordered to standby to assist the crew of the sunken German cruiser. However, they came under air attack and the rescue efforts were cancelled.
In February 1915, she was assigned as leader of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel. While a member of this unit, the cruiser was fitted with an aircraft flying-off platform over the forecastle allowing Aurora to launch a French monoplane. This was installed to counter the Zeppelin threat that harassed the Harwich Force. The design was ultimately unsuccessful as the aircraft could not intercept the Zeppelin fast enough and was uninstalled in August. The cruiser left the 10th Destroyer Flotilla in June and joined the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, which Aurora remained with until the end of the war. That year, the cruiser also had her 3-pounder gun replaced with a QF 20 cwt gun placed on the centreline aft.
In August 1915 she took part in sinking of the German raider . In September/October, the cruiser captured two naval trawlers In March 1916, Aurora covered the seaplane raid on Hoyer. In May 1917 the cruiser was fitted with chutes and rails for naval mines, which discharged over the stern. The ship carried 74 mines. Over the course of three mine-laying missions, the cruiser laid 212 mines. In 1917, the cruiser had her pole foremast replaced with a tripod carrying a light director and her torpedo tube armament was further augmented by a pair of tubes placed on the upper deck in front of the 6-inch gun. They were later moved ahead of the other torpedo tubes. In March 1918 Aurora was again reassigned, to the 7th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. Aurora was one of the ships present at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in November 1918.
Between 1918 and 1920, Aurora was decommissioned to relieve financial pressures of the Home Fleet by the Admiralty. Her manning was reduced to a custodian crew and the relieved personnel were sent to other units. The cruiser remained in commission at Devonport from March 1919 to August 1920 and was paid off in September after being transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy.
Royal Canadian Navy
On 25 March 1920, the Canadian government accepted a British offer of one light cruiser and two destroyers to replace the two decrepit cruisers currently owned by Canada. Originally a Bristol-class cruiser was offered, however they ran on coal and the Canadian government negotiated for an oil-burning cruiser. In 1920 Aurora was re-activated to outfit her for transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy. The cost of fitting out the cruiser for service in the northern Atlantic cost $10,495, exclusive of machinery and a refrigeration plant.
The Royal Canadian Navy commissioned her on 1 November 1920. She sailed shortly afterward from the United Kingdom for Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving on 21 December with two ex-Royal Navy destroyers that had also been transferred.
After a minimal time in port at HMC Dockyard, the three ships set out for a training cruise via the Caribbean Sea to Esquimalt, British Columbia. The cruise masked the secret mission of carrying secret documents from the Admiralty to British consulates throughout Central and North America. While on the cruise, the squadron was ordered to Puntarenas, Costa Rica, where their presence was used to strengthen the Canadian government position in negotiations over oil concessions. Aurora returned to Halifax on 30 July 1921 via the same route.
In August 1921, drastic budget cuts resulted in the decommissioning of Aurora. She was paid off on 1 July 1922 and disarmed. Her weapons were placed ashore in training facilities and on other active ships. Her crew was reduced to non-manned, much of her up-to-date equipment was salvaged for use in other Canadian warships. Auroras hulk was left alongside a jetty at the Canadian naval base in Halifax until 1927 when her deterioration resulted in city officials demanding the navy move her. The Royal Canadian Navy immediately sold her for scrap in August 1927 to A.A. Lasseque of Sorel, Quebec, and she was broken up.
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Ships of the Arethusa class
Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy
Cruisers of the Royal Canadian Navy
Arethusa-class cruisers (1913)
1913 ships
World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom
Ships built in Plymouth, Devon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Aurora%20%281913%29 |
Phosphomonoesters (or phosphoric esters) are chemical compounds containing one ester bond and a phosphate group.
In biology, phosphomonoesters are needed as the building blocks for the synthesis of Phospholipid cellular membranes, especially those found on neurons. Enzymes which cleave these bonds are known as phosphomonoesterases, or phosphatases.
See also
Phosphoric acid
Phospholipid
References
External links
CRISP
Organophosphates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphomonoester |
Romas Lileikis is a Lithuanian poet, musician, film director, and the president of The Republic of Užupis, which is part of Lithuania.
Career
Lileikis is a director of five movies: Aš esu (I Am) (1990), Olandų gatvė (Dutch Street), Anapus (Beyond) (1995), K+M+B (2001), and Saša (Sasha) (2006), and author (composer and lyricist) of three music albums: Kiaulės sakmė (The Pig's Saga), Evangelija nuo Romo (Gospel of Romas), and Requiem.
Lileikis has also been titled President of Užupio Respublika. Užupio Respublika (Republic of Užupis) is a social and artistic community based in area of Užupis, Vilnius. Užupio Respublika has its own constitution and government. Užupio Respublika has four honorary citizens - Jonas Mekas, Dalai Lama, Ugnė Karvelis, and Zenonas Šteinys. You can meet the President in the legendary Uzhupis cafe in Vilnius, just beyond the bridge on the left.
References
Living people
Lithuanian male poets
Lithuanian film directors
Lithuanian musicians
Micronational leaders
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romas%20Lileikis |
Exodeoxyribonuclease I (EC 3.1.11.1, Escherichia coli exonuclease I, E. coli exonuclease I, exonuclease I) is an enzyme that catalyses the following chemical reaction:
Exonucleolytic cleavage in the 3′- to 5′-direction to yield nucleoside 5′-phosphates
Preference for single-stranded DNA. The Escherichia coli enzyme hydrolyses glucosylated DNA.
Punjabi
References
External links
EC 3.1.11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodeoxyribonuclease%20I |
Bury Manor Castle is an early 19th-century house in the village of Wick, South Gloucestershire, England. It was built in Gothic Revival style.
The three-storey stone building has a slate roof and embattled parapet.
The site was an earlier manor house and the cellars date back to the 13th century. It has had a variety of uses: as a school, offices and health spa. Since 2006 it has been a private residence.
References
Buildings and structures in South Gloucestershire District
Castles in Gloucestershire
English Heritage sites in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury%20Manor |
Lavina may refer to:
Lavina, California, former name of La Vina, California
Lavina, Montana, United States
Lavina, Rezzo, a village of Liguria, Italy
Ferran Laviña, Spanish basketball player
Lavina Fielding Anderson (born 1944), Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist
Lavina Dawson (1937–2015), writer and stage producer; see A Christmas Held Captive
The Czech name for the 1946 film The Avalanche
See also
Lavena (disambiguation)
La Viña (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavina |
John Spencer-Barnes is a radio broadcaster and journalist for the BBC.
He was born in Dudley, England in 1961 and educated at Wolverhampton University.
He began his career as a freelance broadcaster at BRMB in Birmingham and then moved to the experimental BBC service WM Heartlands in East Birmingham between 1989 and 1991.
He was involved in the campaign for community radio and was News Editor of the UK's first community radio station, Wear FM in Sunderland. He later broadcast with the Chiltern Radio Network at Northants 96, Chiltern FM and Severn Sound.
He was the launch manager of Welsh commercial station Radio Maldwyn and 107.9 Huddersfield FM in West Yorkshire. He also spent a period as manager of the commercial radio station at Freetown in Sierra Leone.
In 1994 he became News Editor of 97.4 Rock FM and Red Rose 999 in Preston, Lancashire. While at Rock FM, he co-ordinated the EMAP Radio response to the IRA bombing of Manchester. The bomb had taken Manchester's Key 103 and Piccadilly Magic 1152 off air. He arranged an emergency news service for the Manchester stations and a replacement radio service from a studio in Preston.
His more recent career has been at the BBC where he has broadcast at BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Radio Berkshire and was the presenter of the Late Show on BBC Radio Lancashire, which was simulcast to BBC Radio Manchester, for more than a decade. He is now the BBC reporter for Lancaster, Lancashire and Morecambe Bay.
He is a Director of the Maritime Volunteer Service and the Director of Communications for the organisation. He is a Trustee of the search and rescue charity Bay Search & Rescue which operates on the sands of Morecambe Bay and elsewhere in the country. He is also the town crier of St Anne's on the Sea.
In February 2021, it was reported that Spencer-Barnes was moving to a freelance status and would also present a regular slot on the Lancashire station Rossendale Radio.
References
1961 births
Living people
English radio presenters
People from Dudley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Spencer-Barnes |
NDG may refer to:
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada
New Dance Group, a performing arts organization from New York City, United States
IATA code for Qiqihar Sanjiazi Airport, China
National Democratic Gathering, an alliance of Syrian political parties | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDG |
Upper Clements Parks was a seasonal theme park located in Upper Clements, Nova Scotia, Canada owned and operated by a non profit community group, The Upper Clements Parks Society. It was composed of two parks; Upper Clements Theme Park and Upper Clements Adventure Park.
Upper Clements Parks was open daily from the beginning of June until the end of September. The park had a wooden coaster and a water coaster and over 40 rides and attractions.
History
Upper Clements Park was built by the province and opened in 1989 at a cost of $23 million. In 1993, in response to rumours that the park might be doomed to closure, a group of local businesses made a bid to run the park. However, a group of 16 businessmen from Hong Kong, under the name Amsdale Resources Management, were awarded a three-year lease instead. The Amsdale businessmen were motivated by fears surrounding the impending 1997 handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty, and their $500,000 investment in the park was a way to enter Canada through an immigration program centred on entrepreneurship. Amsdale made numerous cuts and annual attendance dropped from 90,000 to 70,000. The tunnel connecting the theme park and the wildlife park was also closed at this time.
Notably, CFB Cornwallis, the nearby Canadian Forces base, was decommissioned in 1995, markedly reducing the area population and potential for visitors to the park formerly generated by regularly scheduled recruit graduation ceremonies. Due to the closure, Royal Canadian Sea Cadet summer training operations at CSTC HMCS Acadia also gradually reduced its presence until its closure in 2021. The cadet summer camp had provided a reliable audience of over 1,000 cadets and staff per year, as in addition to family excursions, cadet course schedules included at least one visit to the park.
Another advertisement for expressions of interest in the park was issued in 1996, and the same group of Annapolis Valley businesses, calling themselves the Hanse Society (after the Hanseatic League), made a second bid for which there was no competition. They were awarded a 10-year lease in 1997. The new operators had to cut the locks to enter the premises. By this time, the park was "ravaged by neglect" with crumbling buildings and numerous missing inventory. The park received $1.37 million in funding from the government in 1998, and a further $1 million in 2003. The tunnel connecting the theme park and the wildlife park was reopened in 2000. Attendance rose to 100,000 in 2006 and the new management turned the park's operating deficit into an annual surplus of nearly $200,000.
In 2007, the theme park was purchased by the non-profit Hanse Society (Upper Clements Parks Society) for $1 million, with the province paying $1.3 million for capital improvements and to fund the transition. In 2007, the society declared the park debt-free. The manager Gregg Gaul stated that Upper Clements generated 200 direct and 200 indirect jobs, and that it drives the local economy.
The park eventually closed after the 2019 season due to falling visitor numbers and a need for significant repairs. In March 2020 the land was purchased by Annapolis County municipal council for $600,000. The intention was to build a $62M boarding school under the Gordonstoun name. The subdivision for the land took place in November 2020, during an election period by the exiting council. In 2021 the sale and lease of the land was overturned by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, an application brought forth by the newly elected council.
Description
The Theme Park featured over 30 rides and attractions. In 2012, a new "Adventure Park" was opened, replacing the wildlife park, and featured 2 ziplines and 14 bridges.
The park's mascot was called Clementine, joined by her friends Clarence the train engineer and Captain Kid Ryerson the pirate.
References
External links
Nova Scotia.com
Upper Clements Parks on Guide-O-Parc.com
Defunct amusement parks in Canada
Buildings and structures in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
Tourist attractions in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
1989 establishments in Nova Scotia
Amusement parks opened in 1989
2019 disestablishments in Nova Scotia
Modern ruins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Clements%20Parks |
Broken is a fantasy novel by written by Kelley Armstrong. It is the sixth in her Women of the Otherworld series and has the return of Elena Michaels as narrator.
Plot summary
In this story the half-demon Xavier calls in a favour - steal Jack the Ripper's From Hell letter away from a Toronto collector who had himself stolen it from the British police files. It seems simple, but in the process Elena accidentally triggers a spell placed on the letter which opens a portal into the nether regions of Victorian London. With thieving vampires, killer rats and unstoppable zombies on the loose, Elena and the Pack must find a way to close the portal before it is too late. To add to the confusion, Elena herself is pregnant with Clay's child (actually twins).
The story begins with Elena worrying about her current pregnancy. She has concerns about what effect her werewolf nature will have on the unborn child, something with no recorded precedent in Pack knowledge. Clay and Jeremy, also concerned, have imposed a number of restrictions on her actions too, which Elena accepts but is also frustrated by. She is, therefore, not entirely displeased to hear from Xavier Reese who offers her a deal: he will hand over information about a rogue mutt the Pack have been seeking in exchange for the Pack's help in stealing an artefact from a sorcerer - the From Hell letter.
The deal is agreed to and, after the mutt has been dealt with, Jeremy steals the letter. As they leave, however, Clay squashes a mosquito and smears Elena's blood on the document. This activates an inter-dimensional portal, which releases individuals previously entrapped there during the Victorian era. Now zombies, these track Elena, putting her and her unborn offspring at risk.
Attempting to rescue her, the Pack kill these zombies, but to their shock they keep returning. In addition, cholera has infected the Toronto water-supply and the city's rats have become diseased and aggressive. Modern individuals disappear through the portal by accident, whilst murders take place that lead them to suspect that they have released Jack the Ripper himself upon an unsuspecting public.
Characters
Elena Michaels - Pack werewolf, Clayton's mate, pregnant with Clayton's child(ren).
Clayton Danvers - Pack werewolf, foster son of Jeremy Danvers, top fighter in the pack, mate of Elena.
Jeremy Danvers - Alpha werewolf of the Pack, foster father of Clayton Danvers.
Antonio Sorrentino - Pack werewolf, best friend of Jeremy.
Nicholas (Nick) Sorrentino - Pack werewolf, best friend of Clayton.
Jaime Vegas - Necromancer, works in Hollywood as a "fake" necromancer on TV, but is a real necromancer. Has a crush on Jeremy Danvers.
Katherine Danvers - Daughter of Elena and Clay (Born at the end of the story).
Logan Danvers - Son of Elena and Clay (Born at the end of the story).
Xavier Reese - Half-demon (father was an Evanidus demon) with teleportation abilities (limited to approximately 10 feet). Gets Elena to agree to steal the "Ripper letter" by giving her information on a rogue mutt. Elena met him in Stolen (book number two in the series) when she was captured. Xavier saved her twice while she was imprisoned, once from being killed, and once from being raped by guards, and he comes back to get her to return the favor.
Zoe - Vampire who helps Elena deal with her zombie problem.
Release details
Published May 2006 in paperback by Bantam Spectra in the United States.
Published the same month in paperback by Seal Books in Canada ().
Published the same month in paperback by Time Warner Orbit in the United Kingdom ().
External links
Book at publisher's website
Book review at thebestreviews.com s
Book review at sfsite.com
Book review at bookreporter.com s
References
2006 Canadian novels
Novels by Kelley Armstrong
Werewolf novels
Novels set in London
Novels set in Toronto
Bantam Spectra books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20%28Armstrong%20novel%29 |
Laverne or La Verne may refer to:
Places
La Verne, California, a city
University of La Verne, a private research university in La Verne
Laverne, Oklahoma, a town
Other uses
Laverne (name)
See also
Verne (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne |
Telegraph Cove is a community of about 20 inhabitants, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, located approximately northwest of Campbell River. It is a former fishing and cannery village that has become a launch point for eco-tourism. It shares the inlet with Beaver Cove which is up the inlet.
The community grew out of a one-room station at the northern terminus of the Campbell River telegraph line built by the federal government in 1911–12.
Next to the arts and crafts gallery stands the home of community pioneer Fred Wastell, whose father purchased most of the land around the cove. Together with Japanese investors, he established a chum salmon saltery and a small sawmill.
Economy
Today, Telegraph Cove's economy is based primarily on tourism due to its prime location on Johnstone Strait and its proximity to Robson Bight ecological reserve. Telegraph Cove serves as the send-off point for kayakers and other whale-watchers who are interested in sightings of the large number of orca whales that spend the summer months in Johnstone Strait, which separates the northern part of Vancouver Island from the rest of British Columbia.
The old fishing village of Telegraph Cove has been turned into a resort where numerous small businesses head up operations that take tourists into Johnstone Strait. Stubbs Island Charters (Telegraph Cove Whale Watch) helped put the cove on the whale watching world's radar nearly 30 years ago.
Telegraph Cove Marina and RV Park is also located at Telegraph Cove and is owned by Telegraph Cove Holdings (TCH). Since 1991, TCH has owned 127 hectares in and surrounding Telegraph Cove excluding the old village of Telegraph Cove and excluding Telegraph Cove Resort's marina and RV park. The Telegraph Point strata subdivision is located across the cove from the historic village, and will ultimately consist of sixty-six residential homesites and six commercial sites located directly on the cove designed to match the character of the historic old town. The first three phases of residential homesites (24 lots) have been marketed and sold and there are nine houses at Telegraph Point with new homes built every year.
Improvements
In the summer of 2006, the Telegraph Cove Road improvement project was completed, bringing a widened, realigned, and paved road all the way to Telegraph Cove.
Telegraph Cove Marina's 130 slip marina underwent a complete rebuild in 2007/2008 and has moorage for small and large vessels with potable water and power. Both Telegraph Cove Marina and Telegraph Cove Resorts' marina primarily cater to trailerable boats.
Telegraph Cove Resorts has one slip available for 100+ foot yachts, while Telegraph cove Marina has moorage for boats up to and 8 commercial moorage slips for vessels 40–60 feet.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20060319073135/http://www.vancouverisland.com/regions/towns/?townID=76
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/story?id=3470108&page=1
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Populated places in the Regional District of Mount Waddington
Northern Vancouver Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph%20Cove |
Arvède Barine (17 November 1840 – 14 November 1908), was a French writer and historian. Arvède Barine was the pseudonym of Mme. Charles Vincens, born Louise-Cécile Bouffé on 17 November 1840. She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel, the political issues of the day, and the fantastic literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann. She died on 14 November 1908 in Paris.
Works
Translation of Tolstoy's "Souvenirs" (1886)
"Portraits de Femmes" (1887, 3rd. ed. 1902)
"Essais et Fantaisies" (1888)
"Névrosés" (1898)
"Princesses et Grandes Dames" (1890, 6th. ed. 1902)
"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre" (1891)
"Alfred de Musset" (1893, 3rd. ed. 1900)
The Life of Alfred de Musset, English translation by Charles Conner Hayden, (1906), Published by Edwin Hill Co.
"Louis XIV et la Grande Mademoiselle (1652-1693)" (1905)
References
External links
1840 births
1908 deaths
Writers from Paris
19th-century French women writers
French art historians
19th-century French essayists
Pseudonymous women writers
Members of the Ligue de la patrie française
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Women art historians
French women historians
19th-century pseudonymous writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arv%C3%A8de%20Barine |
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their debut studio album, Please (1986). It was released as a single in 1985 and re-recorded and reissued in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the United Kingdom and United States with its second release, reaching number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. After a Super Bowl ad in February 2021, featuring the song, it re-entered the charts claiming the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Songs No. 1 spot on 27 February, 2021, among others.
Background
The song was written during the Pet Shop Boys' formative years, in 1983. According to Neil Tennant, the main lyrical concept came while in a recording studio in Camden Town when Chris Lowe asked him to make up a lyric based around the line "Let's make lots of money".
The first version of the song, recorded with the duo's first producer, Bobby Orlando, was not released; upon signing with record label Parlophone, they re-recorded the song with J. J. Jeczalik (of Art of Noise) and Nicholas Froome.
The original single release charted at number 116 in the UK, to be exceedingly outdone by the number-one spectacle of the second release of "West End Girls" in multiple countries. With producer Stephen Hague still on board from that release, a new single version for the duo's debut album, Please, was mixed with reprogramming done by Hague and re-recorded vocals from Tennant. The second release of "Opportunities", following the album's release, resulted in better chart performance. It is the only single from the band to chart higher in the US than the UK, becoming the duo's second top-10 single in the US, peaking at number 10, and just missing out (number 11) in the UK. In Australia, the first version was the one to chart (although outside the top 40).
Please also included a brief, cacophonic track titled "Opportunities (Reprise)", which was the original middle section to the song proper before it was edited out.
Composition
The lyrics depict, in Tennant's words, "two losers". The song is written from the perspective of a man who describes himself as being intellectual and educated. The lyrics are addressed towards another character, identified as having "looks" and "brawn", and who is invited to join the song's protagonist in a scheme to "make lots of money".
Tennant has made it clear that the schemes are doomed to failure. The protagonist's claimed accreditations, a PhD in mathematics from the Sorbonne and knowledge of computer programming, are conceited fabrications. The punchline of the song, he says, is that "the people in it are not going to make any money".
The lyrics' meaning is taken at face value by some listeners, and this subsequent interpretation of the song as a materialistic anthem receives mixed reactions. The satirical interpretation, on the other hand, has cemented the Pet Shop Boys' reputation as ironists for many, to the band's chagrin since often their more-sincere songs are ignored as a result.
A notable change between the original and re-recorded versions of "Opportunities" is the omission of the spoken outro "All the love that we had / And the love that we hide / Who will bury us / When we die?" According to Tennant, the lyrics were removed from the second version of the song as the duo feared the passage would be construed as "too pretentious". The first two lines of the outro, however, are sung within the lyrics of "Why Don't We Live Together?" from the Please album. The original single version of "Opportunities" was unavailable on compact disc until the 1998 U.S.-only Essential compilation album, and was subsequently published on compact disc in the U.K., in a longer edit of the mix, on the 2-disc expanded 2001 remaster of Please.
Release
12-inch remixes for the 1985 release were produced by Ron Dean Miller of Nuance, while those for the 1986 release were produced by noted 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. Some of Miller's overdubs went on to be incorporated into the 1986 single version. The 1986 7" single version, which reached #11 UK and #10 US, bears the following production credit: "Original Production by J.J. Jeczalik & Nicholas Froome; New York overdubs by Ron Dean Miller; Remix and Additional Production by Stephen Hague."
"In the Night"
The B-side of the 1985 release, "In the Night", is about the subculture known as the Zazous, which appeared in France during the German occupation of France in World War II; concerned with fashion and music, and allied with neither the Nazis and Vichy France nor the French Resistance, they were distrusted by both sides. Tennant, having read about the movement in a book by David Pryce-Jones, asks, in the song, the question of whether this apathy essentially amounted to collaborationism.
The Arther Baker remix from Disco became the opening theme music of the BBC fashion programme The Clothes Show from the second season in 1987 (the original 1986 theme was Five Star's "Find the Time (Shep Pettibone Remix)"). This continued for a decade until 1995 saw a fully instrumental re-recording of the song, "In the Night '95", for the purpose of replacing the old theme.
Music videos
First version
The music video for the first single release was directed by Eric Watson and Andy Morahan. A Cadillac stands in an underground parking garage, the headlights switching on by themselves as Lowe walks away from it. The cover of a ground-level service hatch in front of the car vanishes, leaving a rectangular hole in which Tennant materialises, standing with only his head and shoulders visible. He is dressed in a hat, eyeglasses, and a suit by British fashion designer Stephen Linard with a dollar-sign pin on the lapel. As he sings amid occasional washes of steam from the car, his face begins to jitter and his neck inflates in similar fashion to a frog. Lowe appears at intervals, wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket and standing/walking around the garage. At the end of the video, Tennant's body disintegrates to dust within his suit, leaving it upright on a coat hanger and his hat on the pavement. The suit disappears as Lowe drives away in the car.
Watson was partly inspired by the images of preachers in Wise Blood, the film adaptation of the Flannery O'Connor novel of the same title, in designing Tennant's appearance.
Second version
For the re-release, Polish director Zbigniew Rybczyński was recruited. Tennant wears a suit, hat, and white gloves, while Lowe is dressed as a manual labourer in a dirty shirt, red baseball cap, and jeans with a pair of work gloves stuffed in the back pocket. As Tennant sings, paper money showers onto him and Lowe from above and a background of city skylines and clouds scrolls past, rendered as neon outlines. Duplicates of the two appear repeatedly, passing objects back and forth that represent their characters' respective statuses, such as a brick, sledgehammer, briefcase, stack of books, and top hat.
In popular culture
The song was the opening theme for the American reality television series Beauty and the Geek which premiered in 2005, running for 5 seasons.
The song was used in a commercial for Allstate in 2021 that aired during Super Bowl LV. In the weeks following the Super Bowl, the ad was in heavy rotation and triggered a wave of renewed interest in the Pet Shop Boys. The song re-entered the US charts after 35 years on Billboard'''s Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart at No. 5, and by the last week of February it had surged to No. 1. The song stayed atop that chart for four straight weeks, totaling six consecutive weeks in the top five. The song climbed back to No. 1 on the chart for the week of April 17, 2021. It also reached No. 12 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart and No. 25 on the Billboard Digital Songs chart. The surge in interest also affected other Pet Shop Boys songs with "West End Girls" vaulting to No. 6 on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart.
Other credits
2007, Psych episode "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (Season 2, Episode 15).
2013, Raising Hope, S4 E2 - Burt Bucks
2015, Fresh Off the Boat, S1 E13 - So Chineez
2018, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, S2 E7 - Look, She Made a Hat
2022, WeCrashed, S1 E7 - The Power of We
2023, Tetris, in a remix incorporating "Korobeiniki", the Tetris'' theme
Track listings
7" (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone R6097)
A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" – 3:45
B. "In the Night" – 4:50
12" #1 (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone 12R6097)
A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Dance Mix) – 6:44
B. "In the Night" – 4:50
12" #2 (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone 12RA6097)
A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Version Latina) – 5:29
B1. "Opportunities" (Dub for Money) – 4:54
B2. "In the Night" – 4:50
7" (UK) (1986 release) (Parlophone R6129)
A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" – 3:36
B. "Was That What It Was?" – 5:18
12" (UK) (1986 release) Parlophone (12R6129)
A1. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) – 7:18
A2. "Opportunities" (Reprise) – 4:27
B1. "Opportunities" (Original Dance Mix) – 6:45
B2. "Was That What It Was?" – 5:18
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
1985 songs
1985 singles
1986 singles
Music videos directed by Andy Morahan
Music videos directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński
Parlophone singles
Pet Shop Boys songs
Song recordings produced by Stephen Hague
Songs written by Chris Lowe
Songs written by Neil Tennant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunities%20%28Let%27s%20Make%20Lots%20of%20Money%29 |
Paultons Park is an amusement park located in the New Forest National Park, near the village of Ower, in Hampshire, England, with over 70 rides and attractions. The Peppa Pig World themed area is based on the children's animated television series Peppa Pig. The Lost Kingdom themed area includes 27 animatronic dinosaurs. The park name is derived from the former Paultons Estate, on which the park is situated. The park covers 140 acres of land and features a collection of around 80 species of birds and animals, in addition to the rides. Most of the theme park rides are designed for children and families, which is why the park considers itself a family theme park. The nearest railway station is Totton which is 5.64 km away from the attraction.
History
Estate and house
The park is located on land on the Paulton's Estate. In 1269 the land was in the possession of the Abbot of Glastonbury, who sold it to John de Palton. The estate has since been named after him. The land then passed down to John Touchet, who in 1497 led a rebellion against King Henry VII; Touchet was defeated, beheaded and his lands confiscated by the crown. The lands left royal ownership in 1547, when the newly crowned King Edward VI gave the estate to John Paulet. This continued until 1780 when Hans Sloane inherited the estate from Hans Stanley, who changed his name to Hans Sloane Stanley as a sign of gratitude. The estate, now covering , was modelled and designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century.
Around 1945 the house was converted to a hotel. This use came to an end in 1954. The house was destroyed by fire in 1963.
In 1979, John and Anne Mancey (parents of the current director, Richard Mancey) bought the derelict 500-acres Paultons Estate, restored the gardens and lake to their former glory and opened a fun park. Four years later, in 1983, Paultons Park opened as a country park and bird garden.
1983–1999
The theme park opened as Paultons Park and Bird Gardens on 17 May 1983. The park covered , with four staff members and attractions featuring only an adventure playground, the Village Life Museum located in a converted barn, and the numerous birds and animals.
Three years after the launch, the attractions were expanded with the Railway Station, Station Tea Rooms and Rio Grande Railway being constructed, alongside the Magic Forest, Kids Kingdom and Captain Blood's Cavern. 1988 saw the Land of the Dinosaurs, the Rabbit Ride and the Trampolines being completed, with the Astroglide and Crazy Snooker added the following year. The Bumper Boats attraction was added in 1990 alongside a Pets Corner area, with a maze with large clock at the centre added for 1991 and the Flying Saucer ride installed in 1992.
In 1993, the Runaway Train roller coaster was installed, becoming the park's first major ride. It was accompanied by a mirror maze and the Sky Diver the following year and allowed visitors to break the 400,000 mark in 1995. In 1996, the Tiny Tots playground was constructed along with a walkthrough tableaux entitled The Wonderful World of Wind in the Willows, following the story of the same name. The year also saw the introduction of Santa's Wonderland, an event in every festive season to this day.
In 1997, the Tea Cup Ride became another popular addition to the park, and the following year the Percy's Play Park play area and the Go-Karts were constructed, with the latter providing older children with an attraction.
1999–2009
In 1999, the park began expanding, with a new ride built most years since. In 1999, this was the Raging River Ride, the largest ride at the time and costing £500,000. For the new millennium, the Runaway Train ride was dismantled and replaced with the Stinger roller coaster. The Runaway Train was relocated to Dunes Leisure Park in Lincolnshire.
2001 saw three new rides added to the park: The Pirate Ship, Viking Boats and the Dragon Ride, which replaced the Crazy Karts ride located on the same area. In recent years, the rides had become more focused on attracting older audiences, and so to compensate two rides were built for 2002 solely for children under seven: The Digger Ride and Seal Falls. Two rides were constructed in 2003 – the Wave Runner entertained thrill seekers, while The Flying Frog catered for children by being the younger version of the Stinger.
2004 saw two drop rides installed; Jumping Jack for younger audiences and the taller Jumping Bean for older visitors. The Bumper Boats ride was removed and replaced with a penguin enclosure on the same site, as well as an upgrade in the animal areas. The Kontiki ride was built in 2005, with the Magic Carpet built on the site of the Wirly Copters ride the same year.
In 2006, the park was expanded when Paultons in the previous season of 2005, construction started at a cost of £2million on the custom made Cobra. The coaster is built on land unused before by the park and to house a new, bigger roller coaster: the Cobra. This later became a difficulty for the park due to the lands status and legal rights, however, action only began in 2009. Paultons had shifted its ride investment towards the older visitor market, and to compensate opened the Trekking Tractors ride in 2007, in which children could see growing in progress with farming machinery around. The Crazy Snooker, Crazy Golf and Panning for Gold attractions, were removed, and replaced by Gold Rush Falls, consisting of new and re-themed Crazy Golf and Panning for Gold attractions.
2008 saw the 25th anniversary of the park. As a result, a traditional style ride was installed: The Sky Swinger, and the entrance plaza was remodelled. As the new ride would be built on the site of the clock maze, the clock was transported to the entrance plaza to become the centrepiece of a new side garden. However, the most striking part of the new plaza is a Kugel ball added to celebrate the anniversary. It is the largest in the UK, at 1.5 metres diameter and weighing 6.5 tonnes.
Soon after the anniversary, the park undertook a major rebranding project in which the logo was changed, the previous slogan "It's a Hoot! Hoot!" was dropped and the owl mascot was seen less.
The park's expansion continued in 2009 with the addition of The Edge ride, located next to the Cobra on land not used until Cobra opening in March 2006, and of the Water Kingdom, replacing the Kids Kingdom play area. However, the park was told they may have to move the Cobra and Edge after an application to grant them retrospective planning permission was narrowly turned down by the national park planning committee by seven votes to five. The area where these rides were situated is designated 'Country Park' and not 'Amusement Park' in planning terms, whereas all other areas of the park are now recognised as an amusement park and therefore have permitted development rights. After a separate application for the Cobra was made it was announced on 22 December 2009 that the ride had now been granted retrospective permission and could remain in its current location.
Another planning application was lodged with the New Forest National Park Planning Authority to retain the Edge ride. This application received public support and Paultons were granted permission by the New Forest NPA to retain the Edge ride in its current location on 16 March 2010.
2010–2019
No new rides were opened in 2010, instead, all efforts were put into 2011's new opening: Peppa Pig World. This features three large rides and several more smaller rides and attractions all contained within a themed area. This is the world's first Peppa Pig theme park. The area also includes the largest Peppa Pig toy shop in the world selling Peppa Pig themed merchandise. This new development was heavily promoted through the Internet, television and radio adverts. The area opened on 6 April 2011 and visitor numbers to the park increased from 500,000 per year to 1 million after the year of opening.
In 2012 the park opened a new drop and twist 25m tower ride called Magma. A volcano theme surrounds the ride and there is an animatronic dinosaur inside the mountain where the queue line is. Smoke and rumbling sound effects occur when the ride moves up out of the volcano.
In 2013 the park opened a 4D cinema showing "Curse of Skull Rock" which replaced the Village Life Museum and as part of a 1950 New Orleans-themed area called Show Street.
In 2014, the park began demolishing its old entrance to make way for a new gateway building consisting of the Big Toy Shop and Wildwoods restaurant. New Admissions and Guest Information kiosks were also built as part of the development. The park also added a new ride, a Victorian Double Decker Carousel, as well as that a new footpath was constructed along the main entrance.
In 2015, the park began a rebranding of various areas of the park. The area surrounding the Stinger and Wind in the Willows attractions was named Critter Creek and themed around the discovery of a number of whimsical animals and plants by Professor Stanley Blast. The Stinger was renamed Cat-O-Pillar to reflect its new half-cat-half-caterpillar theme, and Wind in the Willows was replaced by Beastie Burrow, a live insect and amphibian exhibit. A new miniature train ride called Professor Blast's Expedition express was also installed. A four-acre area encompassing the Rabbit Ride, Astroglide, Land of the Dinosaurs and Kiddies Play Village was also cleared in order to begin development of the Lost Kingdom, a dinosaur-themed land due for completion in spring 2016.
On 17 May 2016 the park opened Lost Kingdom – a dinosaur-themed park land suitable for younger and older children aged 6–12. The land cost £9 million to build and is home to 8 new rides and attractions including: Flight of Pterosaur, a Vekoma family suspended coaster, Velociraptor, a Vekoma family boomerang coaster, Temple Heights Zamperla magic carpet, Dino Chase, a Zierer Tivoli junior coaster, Boulder Dash, a Zamperla demolition derby ride, Meteallbau Emmeln, track ride, Alive – a dinosaur meet and greet character experience and the Little Explorers play ground.
A new discovery trail also opened on 17 May 2016 to encourage native species from the New Forest to reside. This includes interactive boards along the route and over 40 bird and bat boxes.
In January 2017 Paultons announced on the Peppa Pig World website that a new project had started to make Peppa Pig World "Bigger and Better". The statement on the website simply stated "New Attractions Under Construction". This was later revealed to be a new water ride, new monorail-ride and an expansion to the pedestrian areas. Park signage states that the attractions are to open in spring 2018.
At the start of the 2018 winter season, a new animal area named "Little Africa" opened next to Peppa Pig world. This features a walk-through aviary, nocturnal house and several new animal enclosures. At the same time, the Jumping Bean and Jumping Jack rides were retired and removed.
2020s
It was announced that Tornado Springs, a western-themed area, would be installed for 2020. There are 8 rides in this area including a Mack Rides spinning coaster, which is located next to the Buffalo Falls water ride, which has received an overhaul. In April 2020, the park announced that the opening of the new area and its attractions would be delayed until 2021, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that had halted all work with contractors and placing the park's operating season in jeopardy. The Farmyard Flyer junior coaster opened in April 2022 as part of Tornado Springs.
In November 2021, Peppa Pig World was mentioned by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a speech given to the Confederation of British Industry. Johnson revealed that he had previously visited the theme park with his wife and their children, and referred to it as "very much my kind of place". The following month opposition leader Keir Starmer confirmed that he too had visited Peppa Pig World - “it’s dreadful," he said.
Rides and attractions
Paultons Park is split into various themed areas, composing of rides and attractions for the whole family to enjoy.
Tornado Springs
Lost Kingdom
Critter Creek
Peppa Pig World
Main Park
Former Attractions
Future Attractions
Lost Kingdom Water Ride 2024
A new water ride will be 'splashing into the Lost Kingdom' for the 2024 season to replace the removed Temple Heights ride. Rumored to be a Hafema rapids or flume ride.
Certificate of Lawfulness
Paultons Park have submitted an application to confirm the lawful use of land to the west of existing attractions Cobra and The Edge as 'amusement park', indicating a future attraction is planned for this area.
Animals
Little Africa- home to African birds including turacos, Cape teal, white-faced whistling ducks and guineafowl.
Meerkat Manor- an enclosure including indoor and outdoor areas for meerkats.
Penguin Pool- Humboldt penguins in a pool with underwater viewing areas, housed in the former bumper boat pool. There are feeding sessions with keepers daily.
Birds of Prey- including the great grey owl.
Hornbills- a large hornbill collection including silver-cheeked, black-casqued wattled, trumpeter, Von der Deckens and red-billed hornbills.Tropical Birds- including laughing thrush, Spreo and starlings.
Flamingos and Pelicans in enclosures.
Tortoises- including Aldabra tortoises that arrived at the park in 1995.
Gardens
The Main Garden located on the site of Paultons House, which no longer remains.
Lake & Weir – horseshoe-shaped lake fed by a tributary of the River Test.
Tropical Plants including a Wollemi pine which was thought to be extinct until discovered in Australia in 1994.
Rockery – parts of the old cellars of the original Paultons house that have been retained.
Spring Garden with snowdrops and drifts of yellow daffodils in the spring.
Rhododendrons and Azaleas blooming in late spring.
Trekking Tractor Garden – a farm garden created in the middle of a ride with a vegetable plot.Donoughmore Cross monument situated on the far side of the lake marks the site of what was once a pets' cemetery.
Jungle Falls – African-themed Jungle Falls Garden, with a topiary elephant, giraffe and crocodile.Snakes and Ladders Garden with a large cobra made from 5000 Sedums.
Anne and John's Garden – opened in 2008 as part of the entrance plaza, enhanced in 2015 with the addition of a glass fountain 7 history of Paultons digital screens.The Floating Globe – a kugel ball which is also part of the entrance plaza developed for the 2008 season, it is the largest of its type in the UK, weighing over 6 tonnes and 1.5 metres in diameter.
Water Wheel – a genuine Victorian Brestshot waterwheel which drives a sawmill and was part of the original Paultons Estate (the land on which the park is now situated).
Planning permission issues
In 2009, Paultons Park were told they may have to move two of their biggest rides (The Cobra and Edge) after an application to grant them retrospective planning permission was turned down by the national park planning committee by seven votes to five. The area where these rides were situated is designated 'Country Park' and not 'Amusement Park' in planning terms, whereas all other areas of the park are now recognised as an amusement park and therefore have permitted development rights.
After a separate application (for the Cobra only) was made it was announced on 22 December 2009 that The Cobra (The park's biggest ride) had now been granted retrospective permission and could remain in its current location.
Another planning application was lodged with the New Forest National Park Planning Authority to retain the Edge ride. The application received public support and Paultons were granted permission by the New Forest NPA to retain the Edge ride in its current location on 16 March 2010.
Awards
Visit England Gold Accolade 2022
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award - No.1 Theme Park in the UK, No.8 in Europe and No.24 in the World
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award – No. 1 Theme Park in the UK and No.11 in Europe 2017
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award – No. 1 Theme Park in the UK and No.6 in Europe 2016
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award – No. 2 Theme Park in the UK and No.6 in Europe 2015
TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award – No. 1 Theme Park in the UK 2014
TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2015
TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2013
Netmums Best UK Theme Park for Family Fun 2013
Netmums Best UK Theme Park for Pre-Schoolers 2013
Netmums Best UK Theme Park Kids Favourite Category 2013
Loo of the Year 2021
References
External links
Official Peppa Pig World site
Official Lost Kingdom site
Official Peppa Pig site
Paultons Park news
Animal theme parks
Amusement parks in England
Tourist attractions in Hampshire
Animatronic attractions
Mazes
Gardens by Capability Brown
1983 establishments in England
Amusement parks opened in 1983
Romsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paultons%20Park |
The 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1970 at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, the capital of Austria, between 14–15 March 1970. It replaced the European Indoor Games, an indoor athletics competition which had been held since 1966.
Medals
Men
Women
Table
Participating nations
(21)
(6)
(7)
(14)
(4)
(15)
(4)
(21)
(12)
(1)
(8)
(3)
(8)
(3)
(7)
(26)
(10)
(44)
(8)
(7)
(5)
(4)
(33)
(8)
References
Results - men at GBRathletics.com
Results - women at GBRathletics.com
Results at Todor
EAA
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Indoor Championships
European Athletics Indoor Championships
A
A
1970s in Vienna
March 1970 sports events in Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20European%20Athletics%20Indoor%20Championships |
Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is a United States clearing house based in Chicago. It specializes in equity derivatives clearing, providing central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 16 exchanges. Started by Wayne Luthringshausen and carried on by Michael Cahill. Its instruments include options, financial and commodity futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions.
Like all clearing houses, the OCC acts as a guarantor between clearing parties, ensuring that the obligations of the contracts it clears are fulfilled. It currently holds approximately $100 billion of collateral deposited by clearing members and moves billions of dollars a day. In 2011, OCC became the largest equity derivatives clearing organization in the United States. Furthermore, in 2016, it cleared contract volume totaled 4.17 billion, making it the fifth highest annual total in OCC's history.
OCC currently operates under the jurisdiction of both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Under its SEC jurisdiction, OCC clears transactions for put and call options on common stock and other equity issues, stock indexes, foreign currencies, interest rate composites, and single-stock futures. As a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) under CFTC jurisdiction and a designated Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU) under the Dodd-Frank Act, OCC offers clearing and settlement services for transactions in futures and options on futures contracts.
OCC is overseen by a clearing member dominated board of directors and operates as a financial market utility, receiving most of its revenue from clearing fees charged to its members.
History
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) was founded in 1973, initially as a clearing house for five listed markets for equity options. Prior to its establishment, due to a great deal of encouragement from the SEC, the Chicago Board Options Exchange had its clearing entity, the CBOE Clearing Corporation.
Clearing volumes had increased dramatically since its launch, reflecting the growing use of equity options. In October 2000, for example, the clearing house reported a clearing monthly volume record of 75.3 million contracts. In August 2011, OCC reported a record monthly volume of 550 million contracts.
However, on August 8, 2011, Standard & Poor's lowered the ratings on clearing facilities, including the OCC, to double-A-plus, one step below the triple-A rating. OCC issued a statement in response to the downgrade that included this quote from OCC's then-chairman and CEO Wayne P. Luthringshausen: “This rating change will have no negative impact on OCC’s operations or our ability to meet our obligations to OCC’s clearing members."
Also in 2011, Standard & Poor's and OCC announced a licensing agreement whereby OCC would clear over-the-counter (OTC) options based on the S&P 500. The deal marked the first time a clearing house would clear OTC options on S&P indexes. It also included the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600. In July, 2012 the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) designated OCC as a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU) as a part of a part of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.
In September 2013, OCC filed to become compliant with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, which will enable banks registered in the region to trade U.S. options without incurring higher capital costs for firms there who want to trade U.S. equity derivatives. In the same month, OCC appointed Craig Donohue as executive chairman. In an interview with Crain's Magazine, Donohue considered himself a change agent in the industry and will continue to be at OCC. His role designated him to oversee a transition of Cahill's responsibilities to other OCC executives during the search; additionally, Chief Operating Officer Michael McClain, 46, took on the additional title of president as part of the transition. In January 2014, OCC officially received regulatory approvals to clear OTC equity index options. The launch of the OTC S&P 500 equity index option clearing services took place in April 2014.
On September 29, 2014, OCC and the U.S. options exchanges announced the adoption of new principles-based risk control standards. The new standards included price reasonability checks, drill-through protections, activity-based protections and kill-switch protections, with its regulatory approval impending. The reforms were designed to reduce the risk of errors or unintended activity that could cause or contribute to a financial loss to market participants and OCC. On June 30, 2016, OCC imposed an additional $.02 charge per contract side on clearing members for transactions that have been executed at exchanges that have not demonstrated compliance with the exchange risk control standards. OCC also announced a $39 million refund to clearing members and the dividend of approximately $17 million to Stockholder Exchanges to be dispersed in Q1 of 2016 along with OCC financial statements.
During February 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order against OCC. The order found that OCC did not establish and implement policies and procedures designed to manage risk related to the company's automated systems. The order carried a $5 million penalty for the violations which the OCC agreed to fulfil.
Participant exchanges and clearing members
OCC's participant exchanges include: BOX Options Exchange LLC, Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc., Cboe C2 Exchange, Inc., Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc., Cboe Exchange, Inc., Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC, MIAX PEARL, LLC, Nasdaq GEMX, LLC, Nasdaq ISE, LLC, Nasdaq BX, Inc., Nasdaq MRX, LLC, Nasdaq PHLX, LLC, Nasdaq Options Market, LLC, NYSE American Options, LLC, and NYSE Arca, Inc. Its clearing members serve both professional traders and public customers and are approximately 115 of the largest U.S. broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and non-U.S. securities firms.
OCC also serves other markets, including those of trading commodity futures, commodity options, and security futures. OCC clears futures contracts traded on CBOE Futures Exchange, NYSE Liffe, NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange and ELX Futures, in addition to security futures contracts traded on OneChicago and options on futures contracts traded at NYSE Liffe US. Furthermore, OCC provides central counterparty services for two securities lending market structures, OCC's OTC Stock Loan Program and AQS, an automated marketplace for securities lending and borrowing.
OCC is also a sponsor of the Options Industry Council, an industry resource that is funded and managed by OCC to promote exchange-listed options. OIC's Roundtable is the independent governing body of the council and is composed of representatives from the U.S. options exchanges, member brokerage firms and OCC.
Margining
Key to a clearing organization is margin requirement, which manages its credit risk (risk of member default).
Since the 1980s, OCC had used margining system which were known as TIMS (Theoretical Intermarket Margin System). In 2006, however, this system was replaced by a new system called STANS (System for Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Simulations).
See also
Securities market participants (United States)
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 1973
Financial services companies of the United States
Securities clearing and depository institutions
Companies based in Chicago
1973 establishments in Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options%20Clearing%20Corporation |
Tommi Mikael Hartonen (born May 12, 1977 in Helsinki) is a retired Finnish sprinter. He holds the Finnish national records at men's 100 m and 200 m. He won national championship in 100m run four times, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. He also was 400m champion once. His personal trainer was Markus Hartonen. He is nicknamed Suomen nopein.
Progression
100m
200 m
Personal bests
60 m (indoor): 6.71 in Turku, 2005
100 m: 10.21 in Vaasa, 2001
200 m: 20.47 in Sydney, 2000
400 m: 47.22 in Helsinki, 1997
Physical characteristics
Height: 189 cm (6'2"ft)
Weight: 85 kg (187lbs)
References
Tilastopaja Oy
sports-reference
External links
1977 births
Living people
Athletes from Helsinki
Finnish male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Finland
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommi%20Hartonen |
Kulasekhara (Tamil: குலசேகரர்; IAST: Kulaśekhara) (fl. 9th century CE), one of the twelve Vaishnavite alvars, was a bhakti theologian and devotional poet from medieval south India. The Trikkulasekharapuram Temple in Kodungallur is considered as the Alvar's birth place. (Kerala). He was the author of Perumal Tirumoli in Tamil and "Mukundamala" in Sanskrit. The Perumal Tirumoli, whose second decade is known as "Tetrarum Tiral", is compiled as a part of Nalayira Divya Prabandham. The Trikkulasekharapuram Temple in Kodungallur is considered as the Alvar's birth place.
Vaishnavite traditions describe the Alvar as a king of the Chera royal family of the western coast (Kerala). Scholars identify Kulasekhara with royal Chera playwright Kulasekhara Varma and Sthanu Ravi Kulasekhara (ruled 844/45 – c. 870/71 AD), the earliest known Chera Perumal king of Kerala.
Sources
Scholars generally identify Kulasekhara with Sthanu Ravi Kulasekhara, the earliest known Chera Perumal king of Kerala.
It is known that "Perumal Tirumoli" was recited in Srirangam Temple in 11th century AD. An inscription dated in the 18th regnal year of Chola king Kulottunga I, i. e. 1088 AD, mentions the daily recital of "Tetrarum Tiral" in the Srirangam Temple.
A record from Kulasekhara Alvar Koyil, Mannarkoyil, says that it was consecrated to the memory of Kulasekhara Perumal (by certain Vasudevan Kesevan of Mullappalli, Malai Mandalam). The earliest known inscription from the temple is dated to c. 1015 AD.
An inscription in Trikkulasekharapuram Temple in Kodungallur (dated in temple era 195) has been dated palaeographically to the 11th or 12th century AD.
A 13th century Tamil inscription from Bagan in Mandalay is prefaced by a sloka from Mukundamala. The inscription describes the construction of a mandapa for god Vishnu and the endowment for a lamp by Rayiran Chiriyan Kulasekhara Nampi from Makotayar Pattanam in Malai Mandalam.
Biography
The following is the traditional biography of king Kulasekhara from sources generally dated to 12th-14th century AD.
Kulasekhara was born at Vanchi, in the western country, in Kali Era 28 to the Chera ruler Dridhavrata. When the prince came of age, his father abdicated the kingdom and retired from public life, and the new king Kulasekhara ascended the throne.
Kulasekhara was a great devotee of god Vishnu. His piety was so great that on one occasion when the story was being narrated as to how demon king Ravana abducted princess Sita, he at once issued orders to marshal out his army for the invasion of Lanka. In another instance, a minister who felt jealous of the favor showered by the king on Vaishnavites, trumped up on the devotees a false charge. The king vindicated their innocence by inserting his own hand in a pot containing snakes and drawing it out unscathed.
Kulasekhara later threw off the reigns of kingdom and started out on a pilgrimage to the holy site of Srirangam. He spent there some years, worshiping his deity, and married his daughter Cherakula Valli Nachiyar to the Srirangam Temple. He also gave away his whole wealth as dowry, built the Chenaivenran Mandapa and repaired the prakara of the temple (which was thereafter called "Kulasekhara Tiruvidi"). He then visited the holy temples of Tiruvenkatam, Tiruvayodhya, Tillai-Chitrakutam, Tirukannapuram, Tirumalirunjolai and Tiruvitruvakkode and finally settled down at Brahmadesam near Tirukkurukur, the birthplace of Namma Alvar (where he died at the age of sixty seven).
The shrine of Cherakula Valli Nachiyar within the Srirangam Temple complex commemorates the daughter of king Kulasekhara.
Literary contributions
Kulasekhara was the author of "Perumal Tirumoli" in Tamil and "Mukundamala" in Sanskrit.
Kulasekhara Alvar's poems are devotional in nature, being dedicated to the most prominent avataras of god Vishnu - Rama and Krishna. He identifies himself with several roles in the events of their lives. A devotee of god Rama, he considered the painful experiences of Rama or his aging father Dasaratha to be his own. His devotion was so intense that he worshipped the devotees as forms of Vishnu. In one song, he identifies himself with Devaki, the real mother of Krishna, from whom Krishna was taken away to Gokula where Nanda and Yasoda, the foster parents, looked after him. Kulasekhara expresses Devaki's desolation at being separated from her child and for union with him. In some poems, Kulasekhara also identifies himself with a gopi in love with god Krishna.
Kulasekhara Varma
Kulasekhara Alvar is generally identified with Kulasekhara Varma, the medieval dramatist from the Chera royal family. Kulasekhara Varma describes himself as the Keralakula-chudamani or "the Crown Jewel of the Chera dynasty", the Keraladhinatha or "the King of the Chera Country" and Mahodayapura-paramesvara or "the Lord of the City of Makotai". He is known as the author of two Sanskrit plays called "Tapatisamvarana" and "Subhadradhananjaya" and the Sanskrit champu kavya "Ascharya Manjari" (perhaps also the author of the Sanskrit play "Vicchinnabhiseka"). An inscription from Chembra (954/55 AD) also mentions the performance of the play "Tapatisamvarana".
The art-form known as Kudiyattam is traditionally associated Kulasekhara Varma and his courtier Tolan. "Dhananjaya Samvarana Dhvani", or the "Vyangyavyakhya", also mentions king Kulasekhara of Mahodayapuram. Kulasekhara Varma is sometimes identified with king Rama Kulashekhara (and as the patron of poet Vasubhatta). This identification is generally found unacceptable on several counts.
In popular culture
The name of the British rock band Kula Shaker was inspired by Kulasekhara.
Notes
Further reading
Perumal Tirumoli (ed. by M. Raghava Aiyangar, Ceraventar Ceyyutkovai, Trivandrum, 1951)
Mukundamala (1, ed. by T. A. Gopinatha Rao, Travancore Archaeological Series, II, II)
Mukundamala (1, ed. by K. R. Pisharoti, Annamalai, 2. ed. with commentary by V. V. Sharma, Trivandrum, 1947)
Tapatisamvarana (Trivandrum Sanskrit Series No. 11)
Subhadradhanjaya (Trivandrum Sanskrit Series No. 13)
References
Noburu Karashima (ed.), A Concise History of South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, The Colas (Madras, revised 2nd ed. 1955)
M. G. S. Narayanan, Perumals of Kerala. Thrissur (Kerala): CosmoBooks, 2013.
S. K. Aiyengar, The Early History of Vaisnavism in India (Madras, 1920)
R. G. Bhandarkar, Vaisnavism, Saivism and other Minor Religious Systems (Poona, 1913).
A. S. R. Ayyar, "Kulasekhara Perumal", Travancore Archaeological Series, Volume, II.
K. R. Pisharoti, Kulasekharas of Kerala, Indian Historical Quarterly, VII.
K. G. Sesha Iyyer, "Kulasekhara Alvar and his Date", Indian Historical Quarterly, VII.
Kerala Society Papers, Volume I (Trivandrum, 1928–32)
S. V. Pillai, History of Tamil Language and Literature (Madras, 1956)
K. K. Raja, The Contribution of Kerala to Sanskrit Literature (Madras, 1958)
Alvars
Bhakti movement
Sri Vaishnava religious leaders
Medieval Kerala
People from the Kodungallur Chera kingdom
9th-century Indian monarchs
Vaishnava saints
Kodungallur Chera kings
Tamil Hindu saints | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulasekhara%20Alvar |
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