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Castle Rest was the first of several "castles" built in the Thousand Islands region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The castle was built in 1888 for George M. Pullman, and was a distinctive architectural work of Solon Spencer Beman. It remained in the Pullman-Lowden family until the mid-twentieth century when the main structure was demolished. Ancillary buildings designed by Beman remain on the island.
The castle was located on Pullman Island in the Town of Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York.
References
Houses in Jefferson County, New York
Castles in New York (state)
Solon Spencer Beman buildings
Thousand Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Rest |
T.TV (initially called Tango TV) was a Luxembourgish satellite, cable, internet, and mobile television channel. It was launched on 2 February 2002 as a competitor to the de facto national broadcaster RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg. The channel was a subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications company Tele 2 which, at the time, owned the second-biggest mobile phone company in Luxembourg, Tango of which the name comes from.
It was broadcast in Luxembourgish, French and German, but also in English and Portuguese.
TTV stopped broadcasting in 2007.
External links
Tango TV website
Television networks in Luxembourg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.TV |
Kefalos (Κέφαλος) is the westernmost town on the Greek island of Kos, 43 km from Kos Town. It is situated on a peninsula, also known as Kefalos, at the south-west side of the island. The town is built on a stone height, dominated by the imposing windmill of Papavasilis and is home to 2,156 inhabitants (2011 census).
Neighbouring settlements, administration and facilities
Beneath the old town of Kefalos is the Bay of Kamari, where the beach resorts of Kamari, Kampos and Onia follow the curve of the bay for approximately 2 kilometres. The name Kefalos is often used for this area as well.
Kefalos town and these smaller beach settlements form together a local community (δημοτική κοινότητα), also called Kefalos (population 2011: 2,638), which is part of the municipal unit of Irakleides and of the Kos municipality.
There are several facilities for visitors (taverns, bars, music, boat trips), but shops are limited; for other than daily purchases, people can go to either the neighbouring Kardamaina or to Kos Town on the other end of the island.
Attractions
Ruins of the medieval castle of Kefalos dating back to the thirteen century
The ancient site of Palatia
Ruins of the early Christian Basilica of Ayios Stefanos at nearby Kamari
The cave at Aspri Petra
Monastery of Ayios Ioannis (Thimianos)
Mikro Limanaki beach at the north of Kefalos peninsula.
The beautiful Isódia Tis Panagías church
External links
Kefalos Holiday Reviews
Kos
Populated places in Kos (regional unit) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefalos |
Longacres was a Thoroughbred horse racetrack in Renton, Washington, United States. Owned by the Gottstein/Alhadeff family and operated by the Washington Jockey Club for the vast majority of its existence, the racetrack was the home of Thoroughbred racing in Western Washington from its opening in 1933 and was the longest continuously running track on the West Coast upon its closure. Until 1971, it was also the only place in Western Washington where gambling was legal. Notable races held at the racetrack include the Longacres Mile Handicap and the Gottstein Futurity.
After several years of losses due to increasing gambling and entertainment competition, the property was sold to Boeing in 1990. Boeing allowed the track to operate for two more years after the sale until the end of the 1992 season; the company demolished its structures in 1995. Boeing eventually built a new headquarters for its Commercial Airplanes division on the property along with a customer-training center; however, the company vacated the property and sold it in 2021 to Unico Partners. Seattle Sounders FC, in partnership with Unico, plans to renovate the site for use as a training facility; it is projected to open in January 2024.
History
Background
Before Longacres, two other racetracks had previously existed within the general vicinity of Seattle. The first, Seattle Race Course, was built in 1869 by Seattle saloon and brothel owner John Pinnell on land rented from pioneer Diana Collins; later known as the Seattle Driving Park after a hiatus from 1878 to 1883, it closed in 1892 to make way for development on the land.
The second racetrack, Meadows, was built south of the city in then-independent Georgetown by the King County Fair Association under the leadership of Republican politician A. T. Van de Vanter. It opened on August 9, 1902, with four events spectated by more than 3,000 visitors; the first event saw Pathmark defeat Daniel J. in a best-of-five series of one-mile heats to win a $1,000 purse. The racetrack held its first program on August 18; Royalty won the first running of its marquee event, the Seattle Derby, on August 23, winning a $1,000 purse before 5,000 spectators. Despite the racetrack's success leading it to host the region's first automobile race in 1905, it met its demise after the 1908 horse-racing season when the Washington State Legislature abolished gambling on horse races in February 1909 with the support of then-Governor Albert E. Mead, with the ban taking effect on June 12. The site of the racetrack was eventually redeveloped in 1928 as Boeing Field, Seattle's first municipal airport.
Founding and early years
The person most responsible for reintroducing horse racing in the state of Washington was Joseph Gottstein (1891–1971), a Seattle real estate magnate whose father, a liquor wholesaler who immigrated from Poland in 1879, had a racing stable and was a stakeholder in Meadows; Gottstein's passion for horse racing started when he was gifted his first Thoroughbred horse at the age of eight. After attending college at Brown University, he returned to Seattle and started investing in the city's downtown real estate market; it was during this time that he met and partnered with fellow magnate William Edris, who shared his passion for horse racing. Together, they lobbied the state legislature to legalize parimutuel betting starting in 1922. After years of lobbying, they got their wish in 1933 when House Bill 59, introduced by Democratic state representative Joseph B. Roberts, was signed into law by then-Governor Clarence Martin on March 3 after passing the state House and Senate respectively on February 20 and 23; the Washington Horse Racing Commission, a three-member commission appointed by the governor, was formed in the process.
Gottstein subsequently formed the Washington Jockey Club with architect B. Marcus Priteca and four other partners for the purposes of owning and operating a racetrack, with the club being issued a permit by the state commission for a one-mile track on June 20, 1933. The club intended to construct the racetrack on the site of the Mountain View Golf Club, a golf course situated along an old section of the Pacific Highway between Renton Junction and Orillia. However, future U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson, then a state Senator, subsequently discovered a dairy farm at Renton Junction that was owned by the family of James R. Nelsen (1915–2013) and convinced the club to negotiate with them; both sides agreed to a 10-year lease three days later. As a sign of gratitude, Gottstein gave a small part of the property to Magnuson, who became an additional investor in the racetrack. With the racetrack's site confirmed, construction commenced immediately. The racetrack, designed by Priteca, was completed in only 28 days by a crew of 3,000 working nonstop; workers were willing to work long hours in the midst of the Great Depression. It opened on August 3 with around 11,000 in attendance and eight races planned that day; Vetsera won the first race, a five-and-a-half furlong affair with a $400 purse, with jockey Herbert "Little Nell" Simmons. The first race meet lasted 40 days, ending on September 17.
Seeking an event that would bring grandeur to the racetrack, the Washington Jockey Club announced a mile race with an initial purse of $10,000 on April 14, 1935. The race, later known as the Longacres Mile Handicap, first took place on August 24; longshot Coldwater finished ahead of favored contender Biff by a nose to pull off the upset and win the title in front of 12,000 spectators. The club then introduced the Washington Futurity (later renamed in 1971 as the Gottstein Futurity) in 1940 with an initial purse of $1,200 to encourage the breeding of Thoroughbreds within the state; Campus Fusser won the first running on August 18.
Edris became increasingly skeptical of the racetrack's financial success as the Great Depression lingered on; Gottstein had lost millions of dollars attempting to maintain the unprofitable racetrack. Eventually, on January 22, 1938, Gottstein announced that Edris would withdraw from the Washington Jockey Club and sell his stake in it to a group of Seattle businessmen led by William E. Boeing Gottstein eventually established Broadacres in 1948 to serve as owner of the family's properties, including the racetrack.
During World War II, the Washington Jockey Club was under pressure from the state commission to cancel all upcoming racing seasons at Longacres for the duration of the war. After Gottstein refused then-Governor Arthur B. Langlie's request to cancel the 1942 season, the state commission denied the club a license for one the following year; it was the only time in the racetrack's history where it did not hold a season. In the meantime, the U.S. Army erected an artillery barracks on the racetrack's infield, the former of which was converted to a cottage afterwards; it also placed anti-aircraft guns at the site to protect the nearby Boeing factory. The racetrack did not reopen until June 24, 1944, when it hosted a meet that lasted 51 days.
Decline
Joseph Gottstein retired from managing Longacres in 1963, handing over duties to son-in-law Morris Alhadeff, who had been part of the staff at the racetrack since 1947; Alhadeff became the track's president upon Gottstein's death at the age of 79 from lung cancer on January 1, 1971. Around the same time, gambling opportunists began to challenge the monopoly horse racing held on legal gambling in the state, with proponents of Greyhound racing among them; all attempts at its legalization between 1969 and 1975 were opposed with the help of horse-racing interests. However, with illegal gambling rampant throughout King County, the state legislature permitted bingo and raffles in 1971. The legislature then passed the Gambling Act (also known as House Bill 711) in 1973, which established the Washington State Gambling Commission to supervise legalized gambling activities within the state. Nevertheless, Longacres did not face serious pressure in the gambling space until the state legislature created a state lottery in 1982, after which point the racetrack began losing business to the lottery. Meanwhile, the racetrack faced competition in the entertainment space with the arrival of professional sports teams in Seattle, having to compete for media coverage with the likes of the NBA's SuperSonics, the NFL's Seahawks, and MLB's Mariners. Longacres was successful such that it underwent expansions in 1972, 1974, 1978, 1982, and 1984; however, with the competition building up, attendance at the racetrack began to decline in 1984.
Attempts to stem the decline in the face of rising operating costs were made to no avail; in 1986, it instituted night racing on April 2 with the installation of lights, and it also experimented with a 146-day meeting, though the latter resulted in the first cancellation in the racetrack's history on October 26 due to safety concerns when a severe rainstorm created sloppy racing conditions during that day's set of races. After three years of continuous decline, the management at Longacres decided to enact a turnaround plan out of desperation in May 1987, intent on making the experience at the racetrack more family-friendly and approachable to casual spectators; this included training on betting and promotions that made the races secondary attractions. The racetrack even embraced its entertainment rivals, converting a restaurant into a room full of televisions intended for watching the local professional sports teams as well as the horse races. It also established satellite wagering in Bellingham on June 8, 1988, allowing betters to participate without being physically present.
The venture was moderately successful in its first year, with Longacres seeing a two-percent rise in attendance by the end of 1987. However, the gambling space became even more crowded with the passage of the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988, with the horse racing industry (and Longacres by extension) contending with the possibility of competing with gambling on Native American reservations in addition to the state lotteries. When Morris Alhadeff was named the track's chairman on November 30, sons Michael and Kenneth respectively assumed the track's president and executive vice president positions; they soon came to the conclusion that competing in an oversaturated gambling and entertainment market was unsustainable, especially with the track needing significant improvement projects to continue operating by 1995. The horse racing industry in general had suffered from the presence of the gambling competition; holding a 63-percent share in the state's legal gambling space in 1972, its share had collapsed to 8 percent by 1997 despite the state's gaming industry growing from $127 million to around $2 billion in the same time.
Furthermore, the area surrounding the racetrack had radically changed since its opening. When the racetrack first opened, it was in a rural area far from Seattle, but rapid development throughout its existence had resulted in the racetrack sitting on prime real estate with its proximity to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and Interstates 5 and 405. Attempting to take advantage of a 1970 law giving tax breaks to farm and forest land owners based on their actual use, the racetrack's owners applied for open-space classification in October 1972 and in May 1973; they were denied both times. Eventually, in May 1979, the county's then-assessor, Harley Hoppe, designated of stable land as farmland against the recommendation of his staff; this resulted in the reduction of the land's assessed value from $1.4 million to $299,000 and saved the racetrack's owners about $26,000 in taxes by May 1983. However, Hoppe's successor, Ruthe Ridder, repealed the classification in January 1984 under an order from the Washington State Department of Revenue, requiring the owners to pay $31,000 in back taxes. With its land becoming more valuable than its revenue, the Alhadeff family ultimately decided to sell the property.
Closure and redevelopment
On September 27, 1990, Kenneth Alhadeff announced that Broadacres had sold the Longacres site to Boeing; the company reportedly paid $80 million in the sale. An investor group led by Mark Dedomenico Sr.—a Thoroughbred owner, heart surgeon, and former overseer of the Golden Grain Macaroni Company—offered to buy Longacres from the Alhadeffs; the group never received a response. The racetrack was set to close on December 31, following the conclusion of a contract showing televised races from Playfair Race Course in Spokane and Yakima Meadows in Yakima, as the Alhadeffs had declined an offer from Boeing to operate it for up to three years as part of a transitional period. However, Boeing eventually reached an agreement with the non-profit Emerald Racing Association to operate the racetrack for two more years; the latter paid annual fees significantly below fair market value during that time.
Despite a last-ditch effort by the racetrack's supporters to keep it open for the 1993 season, the racetrack closed on September 21, 1992; Native Rustler won the final race under jockey Gary Stevens before a record 23,258 spectators, many of whom were involved at some point with the racetrack's operation throughout its history. Until that point, Longacres had been the longest continuously running track on the West Coast. The final Longacres Mile Handicap at the track, the 57th one overall, occurred on August 23, 1992; Bolulight prevailed over Ibero by a half-length to win the $293,800 purse in front of 17,182 spectators. The race was subsequently held at Yakima Meadows from 1993 to 1995 before moving to Emerald Downs in Auburn when that racetrack opened in 1996 as the new home of horse racing in Western Washington.
Meanwhile, on May 10, 1991, Boeing announced their intent to build an office park at the Longacres site, planning to develop the site over a 12-year period. However, the company shelved much of the plans for the park in November aside from a $70 million, customer-training center located on a corner of the property; the center opened in 1993. While Boeing mulled over alternate options for the Longacres site, the company obtained permits from the city of Renton to demolish the racetrack structures in December 1994; demolition began immediately, with the process completed by the following year. The company eventually decided to move its Commercial Airplanes division onto the property with the construction of a $60 million, facility that opened in October 1998, vacating three buildings in Renton that had collectively served as the division's headquarters.
Undertaking heavy cost-cutting measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting impact on aviation, Boeing mulled a potential sale of the property in October 2020, with the Commercial Airplanes division potentially moving to offices on the Plant 2 site or at the Everett plant. Boeing eventually ordered a clear-out of the campus in February 2021, officially listing it for sale on April 6 with no succeeding headquarters location identified; the company cited the viability of remote work in its decision. The company eventually sold it for $100 million to Seattle-based Unico Properties, who announced the transaction in a news release on December 17; Unico stated their intent for transit-oriented development on the site.
On February 16, 2022, Seattle Sounders FC announced that the team had partnered with Unico to renovate the site. The complex, tentatively known as the Sounders FC Center at Longacres, would become the team's headquarters and training facility upon its opening in January 2024; the former was located in Seattle's Pioneer Square before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latter is at Starfire Sports in nearby Tukwila.
Notes
References
Defunct horse racing venues in Washington (state)
Demolished sports venues in Washington (state)
History of King County, Washington | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longacres |
Jonas Kazlauskas (born 21 November 1954) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach of the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
Playing career
Kazlauskas played for Statyba Vilnius from 1973 to 1985. He won a bronze medal in the former USSR Supreme League in 1979.
Coaching career
Clubs
Kazlauskas is considered to be one of the best coaches from Europe. In the past, he has coached Lithuania's top two pro club basketball teams, Žalgiris Kaunas (1994–2000) and Lietuvos rytas Vilnius (2001–2004). In October 2004, he became the head coach of Olympiacos Piraeus, and later moved to CSKA Moscow during the 2010–11 season.
Kazlauskas took a position with the Guangdong Southern Tigers for the latter stage of the 2012–13 Chinese Basketball Association season, serving as "executive coach" to fill the role of experienced mentor for newly appointed head coach Du Feng, and helping guide the team to their record-tying eighth title in the 2013 CBA Finals. He retained his role with Guangdong for the 2013–14 CBA season but the squad lost in the semi-finals of the 2014 CBA Playoffs.
Kazlauskas returned to the Southern Tigers as head coach for the 2017–18 CBA season, while Du was serving as head coach with the "China Blue" version of the country's national team, and led a rebuilding side to third place with 28 wins in 38 regular season games before the youthful squad were eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2018 CBA Playoffs. He handed the head coaching job back to Du after the season.
National teams
In 1997, Kazlauskas became the head coach of the Lithuanian national team with whom he won bronze medals at 2000 Summer Olympics and held that position until the end of EuroBasket 2001. In 2004, he joined the China national team as the assistant coach to Del Harris, and then served as the head coach from 2005 to 2008, winning the 2005 Asian championship.
From 2009 to 2010, Kazlauskas served as the head coach of the Greek national team and guided them to bronze medals at EuroBasket 2009. In 2012, he returned to Lithuanian national team and guided them to consecutive silver medals at 2013 and 2015 EuroBasket tournaments. In 2016, Kazlauskas left the team for the second time after his 4-year contract expired after the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Coaching awards and achievements
Club
6× LKL champion: 1995–1999, 2002
Baltic Cup winner: 1998
FIBA EuroCup champion: 1998
Euroleague champion: 1999
2× NEBL champion: 1999, 2002
2× PBL champion: 2011, 2012
CBA champion: 2013
2× LKL Coach of the Year: 2002, 2013
PBL Coach of the Year: 2012
National team
Lithuanian national team:
Summer Olympic Games : 2000
2× EuroBasket : 2013, 2015
China national team:
FIBA Asia Cup : 2005
Asian Games : 2006
Greek national team:
EuroBasket : 2009
Personal life
Kazlauskas and his wife have two daughters. He likes tennis, crosswords and computer games.
See also
List of EuroLeague-winning head coaches
References
External links
Euroleague.net Coach Profile
Euroleague.net Interview
FIBA 2006 World Championship Profile
2010 FIBA World Championship Profile
1954 births
Living people
BC Rytas coaches
BC Statyba players
BC Žalgiris coaches
EuroLeague-winning coaches
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in China
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Greece
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Russia
Greece national basketball team coaches
Lithuanian basketball coaches
Lithuanian men's basketball players
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in China
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Olympiacos B.C. coaches
PBC CSKA Moscow coaches
Sportspeople from Panevėžys
Soviet men's basketball players
Shooting guards
Olympic coaches for Lithuania
Olympic coaches for China | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Kazlauskas |
This is a list of school districts in Mississippi.
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Leflore County School District
Lumberton Public School District
Montgomery County School District
Mound Bayou Public School District
North Bolivar School District
Oktibbeha County School District
Shaw School District
West Point School District
Winona Separate School District
See also
Choctaw Tribal School System – a non-public district operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
References
Notes
External links
School districts
Mississippi
School districts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20school%20districts%20in%20Mississippi |
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega (FSLN) won the election with 37.99% of the vote, Eduardo Montealegre (ALN) trailing with 28.30%, José Rizo (PLC) with 27.1%, Edmundo Jarquín (MRS) with 6.29%, and Edén Pastora (AC) with 0.29%.
Background
Right-wing political parties had dominated Nicaraguan politics since independence in 1838. Following the dissolution of the Legitimist party in 1851 and the Democratic party in 1936, the Liberals and Conservatives had alternated in government. The only exception to right-wing rule was the Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990.
The traditional two-party system, comprising the Sandinistas and the self-proclaimed Democratic Forces (anti-Sandinistas), has endured over the years.
Prior to the 2006 elections, the Nicaraguan political landscape saw a shift away from the bipartite structure, as the anti-Sandinista forces splintered into two major political alliances, the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC). Similarly, the Sandinistas faced internal divisions, with the dissident Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) gaining significant support from moderate Sandinistas and independent voters.
Electoral reforms in 2000
The electoral reforms introduced in January 2000, as a result of the pact between the PLC and the FSLN, established new rules for the contending parties in the elections.
The required percentages to win the Presidential Election was reduced from 45 to 40 percent. The electoral law states that a participating candidate must obtain a relative majority of at least 40 percent of the vote to win a presidential election. However, a candidate may win by obtaining at least 35 percent of the vote, with at least a five percent margin over the second-place finisher. The law also established a second-round runoff election if none of the candidates won in the first round.
In addition, a party could also lose its legal status if it obtains less than 4 percent of the votes in the general elections.
Presidential candidates
Alternative for Change
President: Edén Pastora
Edén Pastora, the former Sandinista Deputy Defense Minister (1979–1981), was the presidential candidate for the Nicaraguan Democratic Action Party (PAD) in 1996. The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) barred him from running for the presidency on the grounds that he had Costa Rican nationality. In the 2004 municipal elections, Pastora was running for mayor of Managua on the Independent Liberal Party's ticket. Pastora got less than 5% of the votes.
Vice-president: Mercedes Tenorio
Mercedes Tenorio, a Nicaraguan nurse, is Pastora's running mate. Tenorio was an active member of the Sandinista Health Workers' Federation (FETSALUD).
Constitutionalist Liberal Party
President: José Rizo
José Rizo, co-founder of the PLC, and his running mate José Antonio Alvarado, who were also citizens of Chile and the United States, respectively, were prohibited from participating in the 1996 elections by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). In 1997, under the government of Arnoldo Alemán, Rizo was appointed president of the Nicaraguan Institute for Municipal Development (INIFOM). After the reforms to the Electoral Law in the year 2000, part of the pact between the PLC and the FSLN, Rizo was able to contest the 2001 elections where he was elected vice-president, running on the PLC ticket.
Vice-president: José Antonio Alvarado
José Antonio Alvarado, one of the founders of the PLC, and later expelled from it for his dissidence to Alemán, held various ministerial portfolios during both the Alemán and Bolaños administration. Like his running mate, the CSE excluded him from participating in the 2001 elections as the vice-presidential candidate of the Conservative Party. In late August 2005, Eduardo Montealegre, the ALN's presidential candidate, invited Alvarado to join him as his vice-president. Alvarado was elected the presidential candidate of the Alliance for the Republic (APRE) in the primaries held in May 2006 with about 82% of the votes. Shortly after APRE joined the ALN alliance and Alvarado went back to the PLC.
Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
President: Eduardo Montealegre
Eduardo Montealegre, a former banker and economist, is the youngest and wealthiest of the five candidates. Like Alvarado, he held various ministerial portfolios during both the Alemán and Bolaños administration, including Foreign Minister with Alemán and Treasury Minister under Bolaños government. After his expulsion from the PLC he founded the ALN together with other dissidents. Montealgre's adversaries have criticized him for his involvement in the CENI bond operation – now a substantial part of the domestic debt – after several banks got into financial problems due to fraudulent practices over the course of 1999–2001.
Vice-president: Fabricio Cajina
Fabricio Cajina, an agricultural producer, was the Conservative mayor of San José de los Remates (2000–2004) in the department of Boaco.
Sandinista National Liberation Front
President: Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega, coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1985), ascended to the presidency after the 1984 elections. Ortega, general secretary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, was President of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and presidential candidate of the FSLN in 1990, 1996, 2001 and 2006. Prominent Sandinista leaders have left the party or have been expelled for dissenting to Ortega's power. Despite all, Ortega is pulling in first place in the polls.
Vice-president: Jaime Morales Carazo
Jaime Morales Carazo, the civilian chief of the Contras in the 1980s and Alemán's right-hand man for many years, was one of the founders of the PLC and liberal legislator in the National Assembly until 2006. Morales Carazo began to distance himself politically from Alemán and the PLC once Bolaños came to office and launched his “war on corruption.”
Sandinista Renovation Movement
President: Edmundo Jarquín
Edmundo Jarquín was the MRS vice-presidential candidate. He took over as presidential candidate after the initial nominee, Herty Lewites, died suddenly of a heart attack on 3 July 2006. Jarquín founded in 1974, together with Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, editor of newspaper La Prensa, the Democratic Liberation Union (UDEL) in the struggle against the Somoza regime. Jarquín was head of the Ministry of Foreign Cooperation between 1981–84 and ambassador to Mexico (1984–88) and to Spain (1988–1990). In the 1990 elections he gained a seat in the National Assembly. Jarquín worked as an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) official from 1992 to 2005 when he resigned and joined the MRS electoral alliance.
Vice-president: Carlos Mejía Godoy
Carlos Mejía Godoy is an internationally known and popular Nicaraguan singer-songwriter who stepped in as the vice-presidential candidate after Lewites died. Mejía Godoy is the father of Camilo Mejía, one of the most famous conscientious objectors to the US war in Iraq.
Contending parties and electoral alliances
Alternative for Change
The Alternative for Change ( - AC) was part of the MRS Alliance for a few months, but decided to go alone to the elections with presidential candidate Edén Pastora. Alternative for Change was founded by dissidents from the Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (CCN) and a few stray Sandinistas, which first went under the name Christian Alternative led by former Sandinista legislator Orlando Tardencilla.
Constitutionalist Liberal Party
The Constitutionalist Liberal Party ( - PLC) is in alliance with the Worker's Permanent Congress (CPT), a civil organisation formed around several smaller parties, labor unions and political movements.
Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( - ALN) is formed by dissidents of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party and the Conservative Party (PC), Alliance for the Republic (APRE), Independent Liberal Party (PLI), Nicaraguan Resistance Party (PRN) and the Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (CCN).
Sandinista National Liberation Front
After the break-up of the FSLN-Convergence alliance in 2005, the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( - FSLN) formed the United Nicaragua Triumphs alliance. The allied political forces of the FSLN are; Yapti Tasba Masraka Nanih Aslatakanka (YATAMA), the indigenous party from Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, Christian Democratic Union (UDC), Christian Unity Movement (MUC), Popular Conservative Alliance (APC) and a few smaller organisations of dissidents from the Liberal and Conservative Party and a fraction of members from the Nicaraguan Resistance Party, including members of the PLN, Somoza's Liberal Party.
Sandinista Renovation Movement
The Sandinista Renovation Movement ( - MRS), also known as the Herty 2006 Alliance in allusion to Herty Lewites, the alliance original presidential candidate, runs in this election together with the Social Christian Party (PSC), Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN), Ecologist Green Party of Nicaragua (PVEN), Party for Citizen Action (PAC), the Movement for the Rescue of the Sandinismo and the Change-Reflection-Ethic-Action Movement (CREA). Various social groups are also part of the alliance, the most organized and belligerent of which is the Autonomous Women’s Movement.
Campaign
Primaries
Sandinistas
The Sandinista Assembly -FSLN's highest decision-making body- was held on 26 February in Managua. Lewites had announced that he planned a march to the site of the event with his followers in support of his running against Daniel Ortega for the candidacy. Some 200 meters from the gates of the “Olofito” convention center where the Sandinista Assembly was meeting, they were stopped by a larger pro-Ortega demonstration. For several minutes both bands literally went at each other with fists, stones, and even clubs. The police had to intervene, placing themselves between the rival bands. In the Assembly, the official leadership responded by expelling Herty Lewites and his campaign chief Víctor Hugo Tinoco from the party.
A few days later, on 6 March, an extraordinary FSLN congress was held in Matagalpa. The outcome of this congress was the annulment of primary elections and the proclamation of Daniel Ortega as the presidential candidate, successfully blocking Lewites' presidential aspirations. The Sandinista grass roots would no longer be consulted on their choice for presidential candidate through primary elections. As Ortega himself pointed out; "The truth is that primary elections cause a lot of problems due to the enormous erosion and friction they cause among Sandinistas."
Pro-Ortega legislators are running for reelection together with cadres from the party structures and a few political figures from what is left of the FSLN's Convergence alliance, such as Social Christian Agustín Jarquín, Conservative Miriam Argüello and Liberal Julia Mena, all former opponents of Ortega.
Lewites went on to form the Movement for the Rescue of the Sandinismo, who joined the MRS Alliance to support Lewites as the presidential candidate for the Nicaraguan general election, 2006. The MRS Alliance chose their legislative candidates based on surveys and bilateral contacts with their partners in the MRS Alliance.
Liberals
In the light of PLC’s victory in the Atlantic coast elections of March 2006, the PLC announced it would not hold primary elections to select its presidential candidate, arguing lack of finances. Instead the 750 party delegates from all over the country would do the selecting at the PLC National Convention on 2 April. On 22 March, Alemán suddenly announces a form of primary election with 32 simultaneous conventions in the country’s 16 departments on 31 March, and the winner would be ratified two days later during the National Convention.
PLC leaders also invited all dissident Liberals outside the PLC to participate in these primaries, voting for the candidate they consider best able to defeat the FSLN, then rejoining the fold come what may. José Rizo won the PLC primary elections.
The ALN held also primary elections, but gave preference to unelected candidates, among them some of their allies in APRE, PC and the PRN. Montealegre attempted also -up to the last minute- to bring some pro-Alemán leaders over to his side. He was only successful with Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios, son of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and former PLC candidate for Mayor of Managua.
Pre-campaign
The Atlantic coast elections of March 2006 were an opportunity for the parties and candidates competing in the general election to show their strength. The results gave the PLC a significant victory with 40 seats out of 90 in the Regional Councils. The FSLN and its ally YATAMA got 45 seats between them both and the ALN got the remaining five. The MRS Alliance didn't pull enough votes to win a seat in the Regional Council.
Issues
One of the most important issues of the 2006 elections is the economy. The high external debt and internal debt have inhibited growth. Around 75% of the population lives on less than US$2 a day, unemployment and underemployment are close to 50%, and income inequality is very pronounced. However, there have been some recent improvements. Real economic growth declined from 7.4% in 1999 to 1% in 2002, then turned around to grow back to 2.3% in 2003, and about 4% in 2004.
Another important issue is the pact established by the PLC and the FSLN in 2000 in order to maintain control over key institutions such as the Supreme Court (CSJ) and the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), causing a profound institutional crisis in the Nicaraguan society. Both the two major anti-pact forces (ALN and MRS), and more recently, the PLC candidate, Rizo, made public their intentions to dismantle the pact. Truth is that a "qualified majority" of 2/3 in the National Assembly is needed to revert the 2000 reforms and this is not likely to happen according to the latest polls.
Abortion becomes a Campaign Issue
In late August, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) candidate Edmundo Jarquín stated that he supported therapeutic abortion when the life of the mother is at risk. Abortion under these circumstances had been legal in Nicaragua since 1891. Abortion other than therapeutic is punishable by imprisonment from one to three years.
The religious sector condemned Jarquín's statement, prompting the other four of the five presidential candidates to declare themselves against abortion. The FSLN, which has an important relationship with former Managua Archbishop Miguel Obando, stated in general that they opposed abortion and were pro-life. This was a reversal of traditional Sandinista policy.
The Catholic Church organised a march on the National Assembly on 6 October to demand that therapeutic abortion be criminalized in the penal code. A march took place a few days later, organized by the Autonomous Women's Movement, a pro-choice organization that is part of the MRS Alliance.
On 15 October, President Bolaños sent to the National Assembly a draft on a proposed reform of the penal code in order to penalize therapeutic abortion.
The National Assembly passed the law banning therapeutic abortions on 26 October 2006. It is widely expected that the president will sign it. A section of the law raising prison sentences for women undergoing abortions or doctors performing them from up to six years to up to 30 years was not passed.
Electoral programmes
In Spanish:
Alternative for Change
Constitutionalist Liberal Party
Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Sandinista Renovation Movement
The U.S. and the Nicaraguan elections
U.S. officials have openly opposed Daniel Ortega's and José Rizo's candidacies and supported Eduardo Montealegre and Sandinista dissident Edmundo Jarquín. U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Ambassador Paul Trivelli have all stated that an Ortega victory could scare off foreign investors and threaten Nicaragua's relations with the United States.
The Organization of American States (OAS) mission in Nicaragua told the U.S. government not to meddle in Nicaragua's presidential election in October.
Finances
According to the Nicaraguan Electoral Law, the parties are forced to report most donations, but only those received from the date of the official opening of the campaign (19 August) to the day of the elections (5 November). Minor individual donations do not need to be disclosed. The parties will be refunded after the elections in proportion to the number of votes each of them obtain.
A pre-campaign study carried out by the independent Ethic and Transparency Civic Group between 1 July and 15 August, showed that the FSLN was the party that spent more money during that period; C$ 7,858,120. ALN came in second with C$ 3,153,571 followed by the PLC with C$ 2,622,635. The MRS spent C$ 824,718 and the AC had the smallest budget with C$ 535,624.
According to the ALN official, Eliseo Núñez, the party estimates its budget for the whole campaign in US$6 to 8 million. José Rizo's budget is also estimated in about $6 million. Edén Pastora and his AC will have an austere campaign with a $500,000 budget.
Both the left and the right have made allegations that their political opponents have received funding from the United States and Venezuela respectively.
The United States is investing between $10 and 13 million in the Nicaraguan elections providing support to the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the Organisation of American States (OAS) election observer mission and in the training of ALN and MRS election officials.
On the other hand, the Sandinista Mayor of Managua, Dionisio Marenco, negotiated an agreement with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA that allows Venezuelan oil to be imported directly to Nicaragua with preferential payment conditions. The first shipment of a total of 10 million barrels of oil (equivalent to the total annual demand in Nicaragua) arrived to the country in October 2005. Nicaragua is in the middle of an energy crisis with increasing oil prices and a strict energy rationalization policy that leaves hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguan without power supply for several hours a day.
Forum
Early in September, CNN organized a television encounter between the presidential candidates, inviting all five to participate. Daniel Ortega refused to take part leaving the "debate" to the remaining four; Eduardo Montealegre, José Rizo, Edmundo Jarquín, and Edén Pastora.
Opinion polls
President
Borge & Asociados - Polls Conducted October 15–222, October 5–121, September 13, and August 5, 2006
October poll sample size is 1,800. The margin of error is 3.2%.
June poll sample size is 1,008. The Margin of error is 3.2%.
CID-Gallup - Poll Conducted October, 2006 and August 16 to 19, 2006
The October poll sample size is 5,090. The margin of error is 2%. August poll sample size is 1,258. Methodology: Telephone interviews. Margin of error is 2.8%.
Parliamentary election
The elections of 90 representatives to the National Assembly will also be held on November 5. According to the September poll by M & R Consultores no party will gain enough seats to form a majority.
According to M & R, the FSLN polls first on 7 of the country's 17 departments, mostly on northern and western Nicaragua. ALN-PC is number one on 6 departments in southern and eastern Nicaragua, including the Southern Autonomous Region (R.A.A.S.). The MRS party leads the polls on 3 departments including the nation's capital, Managua, and the PLC polls first in the department of Boaco.
UCA - Sponsored by END, Canal 10, CNC - October, 2006
According to this poll, the FSLN wins in nine departments, four of them with an absolute majority (over 50% of the intended votes). The ALN-PC comes in second place winning in four departments, the PLC third with three departments and in last place, the MRS being number one only in one department (Carazo).
Conduct
The results of the election were recognized by the international community. The Carter Center, an independent observer sent a 62-member delegation and found "the election administration to be adequate, with improvements over past electoral processes."
Results
President
By department
National Assembly
See also
Elections in Nicaragua
List of political parties in Nicaragua
References
External links
La Voz del Sandinismo - News of the FSLN, Nicaragua and the World
Alianza Nicaragua Primero PLC Official site
Rizo 2007 official campaign site
Alianza MRS official site
ALN official campaign site
ALN official site
ALN-PC campaign site
Edén Pastora official site
FSLN official campaign site
FSLN official site
PVEN official site
PVEN site in English
Documentary following the 2006 election
Elections in Nicaragua
Nicaragua
General
Presidential elections in Nicaragua
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
Daniel Ortega | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Nicaraguan%20general%20election |
John Nicholas Shakespeare (born 20 October 1942), known as John Carter, is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Overview
Mainly popular in the 1960s and early 1970s, Carter's craftsmanship can be heard at work with:
Carter-Lewis and the Southerners.
The Ivy League – "Funny How Love Can Be", "That's Why I'm Crying", "Tossing and Turning"
Herman's Hermits – "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat"
Brenda Lee – "Is It True?"
The Music Explosion – "Little Bit O' Soul"
Peter and Gordon – "Sunday for Tea"
The Flower Pot Men – "Let's Go to San Francisco"
The First Class – "Beach Baby"
Sacha Distel – "Vite, Cherie, Vite" (French version of "Beach Baby")
Mary Hopkin – "Knock, Knock Who's There?"
Kincade – "Dreams Are Ten A Penny"
Under the name John Shakespeare, he wrote "Bell Hop," a production library track which became famous as the theme tune to the BBC sitcom Terry and June.
Biography
Carter met his future songwriting partner Ken Hawker at school in Birmingham. They formed a skiffle band in the 1950s called LVI. It was then they began writing songs together: "We began to write real Buddy Holly take-offs. Which was good, it got us excited about songwriting."
In 1960 the duo went to London and presented themselves under their songwriting pseudonyms John Carter and Ken Lewis. Terry Kennedy became their manager and convinced them to start their own band as an outlet for their songs. In 1961 the first single by Carter-Lewis and the Southerners was released, "Back on the Scene". But the band never broke through and their main claim to fame remains a brief stint that Jimmy Page did as their lead guitarist. In 1964 they met Perry Ford, who worked as an engineer in a small recording studio in Denmark Street, London. They noticed their voices blended well and started recording demos together, resulting in a single on Pye Records, "What More Do You Want" as the Ivy League. Their luck changed when Herman's Hermits recorded "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" and took it to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. In the UK it was a smaller hit for Goldie and the Gingerbreads.
They then provided backing vocals for "I Can't Explain", by the Who. In 1965 and 1966, The Ivy League scored four UK chart hits, including "Tossing and Turning", which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and "Funny How Love Can Be" being their other top 10 hit. By early 1966 Carter decided he had had enough of touring and was replaced by Tony Burrows from The Kestrels. That year he married Gill Shakespeare who would later write lyrics for some of his songs. Carter concentrated on songwriting, providing hits for Peter and Gordon and Brenda Lee. He found a new songwriting partner in Geoff Stephens, resulting in "My World Fell Down", recorded by The Ivy League, later to be covered by Gary Usher's Sagittarius and Dutch band The Buffoons.
Carter sang lead on the New Vaudeville Band's hit single "Winchester Cathedral", a traditional pop pastiche that became a U.S. chart-topper. He also released a single "White Collar Worker", recorded with Mickey Keen and Robin Shaw, as The Ministry of Sound. Early in 1967, Ken Lewis quit the Ivy League and started writing and recording again with Carter. One of the first results was "Let's Go to San Francisco", released as the Flower Pot Men. As was the case with "Winchester Cathedral", when the recording, made by session musicians, became a hit, a band had to be assembled for live appearances.
In late 1967, Carter and Lewis formed Sunny Records as their production company. Starting early 1968 Carter's output became more and more confusing. Songs intended for the Flowerpot Men were released as Friends, Haystack and Dawn Chorus, only to be re-released in this century as the Flowerpot Men. The 'touring' Flower Pot Men were forced by Deram Records to record songs by Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook. As Mark Frumento wrote in the liner notes of the retrospective Flowerpot Men album Listen To the Flowers Grow (compiled by Carter): "At this point Deram decided that the Flower Pot Men name was no longer commercial and the next single, "Piccolo Man" was released as 'Friends'.... The final Flowerpot Men single was released in 1969, but this time the writing team Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway were behind the production". After one abortive attempt the remains of the Flowerpot Men changed their name to White Plains.
The 1970s started with a disappointment when Mary Hopkin became runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Knock, Knock Who's There?", which Carter had written with Stephens.
In the following years Carter released records under many names: Stamford Bridge (number 47 with "Chelsea"), Scarecrow and Stormy Petrel. He also released a single "Cowboy Convention" as the Ohio Express, an American bubblegum group. A hit came in 1974 with "Beach Baby" – Carter/Shakespeare by First Class in 1974. The record also charted in Europe, Australia and South Africa. Another song written by Carter and his wife Gill Shakespeare was "Dreams Are Ten A Penny" by Kincade which was successful on in Europe. After two First Class albums, Carter started concentrating on writing advertising jingles. Among his work are commercials for British European Airways, Vauxhall Motors, and, for Rowntree's, the 1974 children's song "Please Yourself" which introduced a band of four toy characters based on the four different types of Tots sweets: Jerry Joe, vocals (Jelly); Tom, guitar (Tiger); Tim, drums (Teddy); Candy-Doll, keyboards (Candy). His last shot at a hit single was in 1977 as Starbreaker with "Sound of Summer", which itself began life as music in a commercial for Butlin's.
Under the name 'John Shakespeare' he also composed scores for British films, including Death Is a Woman (1966), The Hand of Night (1968), Connecting Rooms (1970), Swedish Wildcats (1972), Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973), The Over-Amorous Artist (1974), Confessions of a Sex Maniac (1974), The Great McGonagall (1974), Girls Come First (1975), The Sexplorer (1975), Side by Side (1975), Secrets of a Superstud (1976), The Office Party (1976), Under the Bed (1977), Killer's Moon (1978) and Can I Come Too? (1979).
In more recent times, Carter has been managing the marketing of his back catalogue through Sunny Records, releasing many songs that were never released at the time of recording. These includes Stamford Bridge's albums Come Up And See Us Sometime and The First Day of Your Life (1997).
Carter worked with Micky Keen and Robin Shaw and as a result of this collaboration they released two albums, Men From The Ministry and Midsummer Nights Dreaming (2005).
In late 2005, Carter released the compilation album; John Carter – A Rose by any Other Name (2005).
In the mid-eighties, John served on the Council of the British Academy of Composers and songwriters and the council as a writer-member of the Performing Right Society.
He currently runs with his wife Gill, his own publishing company and record production company, which concentrates on compiling and promoting his enormous back-catalogue of songs and records.
In 2012 Carter teamed up with the Brazilian songwriter Salomao Hamzem, who is also a musician and a producer. As writers, they wanted to try something a bit different so hit on the idea of writing songs together in English and Portuguese. When Carter and Hamzem were thinking about names for the band, they came up with the idea of combining the first part Salomao's surname of Hamzem and the last part of Carter making 'Hamzter'. That's why the hamster has become their mascot. Their first album A Friend in Need (2016) was a result of this collaboration, followed by Coming Home (2017) and their third album, Time Will Tell (2018). In 2019, they are planning to release their next album.
With Ivy League members Perry Ford passing in 1999, and Ken Lewis in 2015, Carter is the last surviving member of the original 1960s trio.
See also
Carter & Lewis
Sources
Mark Frumento, liner notes of Listen To the Flowers Grow (RPM Retro 809), April 2007
Mark Frumento, liner notes John Carter – A Rose by any Other Name (Rev-Ola REV 84), January 2005
Bob Stanley, liner notes The John Carter Anthology – Measure by Measure (RPM rpmd268), 2003
Melody Maker 1962-1979
New Musical Express 1963-1979
Record Mirror 1964-1967
Song list
References
External links
Living people
English record producers
English male songwriters
English male singers
Singers from Birmingham, West Midlands
People from Small Heath, Birmingham
The New Vaudeville Band members
The Ivy League (band) members
White Plains (band) members
The First Class members
1940 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Carter%20%28English%20musician%29 |
Nurse's Song is the name of two related poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794.
The poem in Songs of Innocence tells the tale of a nurse who, we are to assume, is looking over some children playing in a field. When she tries to call them in, they protest, claiming that it is still light and therefore there is still time to play. The poem fits in with the theme of innocence, as it makes no mention of the negative aspects of playing outside; the children are oblivious of the dangers of playing outside late at night that would be considered in a modern society. The language uses various images associated with children's playing and imagination. The nurse is of a jovial and warm-hearted nature, as she allows the children to continue with their games, with no thought for the wider consequences. In his commentary, Sir Geoffrey Keynes wrote that one critic said that "few besides Blake could have written such a successful poem on the delight of being allowed to play a little longer until dusk".
The poem in Songs of Experience portrays the nurse in a different light: she is bitter, and fears the consequences of her actions. For critical interpretations of the poems, see here.
Notes
External links
1789 poems
1794 poems
Songs of Innocence and of Experience | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse%27s%20Song |
Kingdom Blow is the seventh studio album by the American hip hop musician Kurtis Blow, released in 1986.
The album peaked at No. 196 on the Billboard 200.
Production
The album was produced by Kurtis Blow. It contains a few guest appearances. Bob Dylan raps on "Street Rock". He performed his lines in one take, at his Malibu home. Robert Reed, of Trouble Funk, appears on "I'm Chillin"; George Clinton appears on "Magilla Gorilla".
Critical reception
Opining that Blow "is nothing if not open-minded and adventurous," Trouser Press wrote that "the eight long cuts, some more compelling than others, throw in just about everything (TV bites, Donald Duck, party sounds, Emulator gimmickry, etc.)." The Philadelphia Inquirer thought that "the one stand-out song is already looking like a left-field pop hit: 'I'm Chillin' ', which combines a clever rap with the funky go-go music of the Washington band Trouble Funk."
Track listing
References
1986 albums
Kurtis Blow albums
Mercury Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20Blow |
Mahadai Das was a Guyanese poet. She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, in 1954. She wrote poetry from her early school days at The Bishops' High School, Georgetown. She did her first degree at the University of Guyana and received her B.A. in philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and then began a doctoral programme in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Das became very ill and was never able to complete the programme.
Background
She was a dancer, actress, teacher and beauty queen (Ms. Dewali, 1971), served as a volunteer member of the Guyana National Service around 1976 and was part of the Messenger Group promoting ‘Coolie’ art forms at a time when Indo-Guyanese culture was virtually excluded from national life. She was one of the first Indo-Caribbean women to be published. Her poetry explicitly relates to ethnic identity, something which contrasts her with other female Indo Caribbean poets. Another theme in her writing is the working conditions in the Caribbean islands. Das's A Leaf in His Ear was included in an article on "10 Female Caribbean Authors You Should Know". One of Das's last published work of poetry was named "bones" and was published in 1988 by the Peepal Press of London.
Guyana faced big social and political problems dealing with corrupt and unfair laws and government. Das tried to find ways to solve these issues and was a part of the Working People's Alliance whose goal, like Das's, was to find resolutions to the number of problems Guyana faced on a daily basis regarding politics and social issues.
Death
Das died April 3, 2003, in Barbados, from an illness relating to cardiac arrest which was suffered 10 days before her death.
Themes
There are a few reoccurring themes in many of Das's writings including the very poor and unfair working conditions that many Caribbean people sadly have to endure for their entire life. In addition to poor working conditions, another reoccurring themes in Das's writings have to do with is ethnic identity and people finding who they really are and coming to terms with who they are despite all the negativity coming from outside Europeans. These themes, although reoccurring in Das's many writings and poems, also tend to be the theme of a majority of Caribbean authors.
Bones (Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 1988)
A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2010)
Several of her poems were included in The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (Heinemann, 1992).
References
Guyanese writers
Guyanese poets
Indo-Guyanese people
Guyanese women writers
1954 births
2003 deaths
University of Guyana alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Guyanese women poets
20th-century poets
20th-century women writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahadai%20Das |
This is the Finnish men's 100 metres all-time list.
Top 16
References
Tilastopaja Oy
Finnish Athletics (Suomen Urheiluliitto)
100 m | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20men%27s%20100m%20alltime-list |
Letson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Al Letson (born 1972), American poet, journalist, and radio and podcast host
Harry Letson (1896–1992), Canadian engineer and educator
Jody Letson (born 1949), American politician
Tom Letson (born 1952), American politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letson |
The Bearcamp River is a river at the southern edge of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, the United States. It is the largest tributary of Ossipee Lake, part of the Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Bearcamp River rises in Sandwich Notch, at the northeast end of the Squam Mountain Range and the western end of the Sandwich Range, in the town of Sandwich, New Hampshire. It flows to the southeast, dropping over Beede Falls, and quickly reaches the lowlands at the base of the White Mountains. The river flows east through Sandwich, entering Tamworth at the juncture of the Cold River. Passing the villages of South Tamworth and Whittier, the river nears the base of the Ossipee Mountains to the south. It passes the village of West Ossipee and enters Ossipee Lake after flowing through a small delta.
New Hampshire Route 25 follows the river through Tamworth to West Ossipee.
See also
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Rivers of Carroll County, New Hampshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearcamp%20River |
Serbinum, also known as Serbitium or Serbicium, was an ancient Roman city in the province of Pannonia. It was situated in the location of present-day Gradiška in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sources
In Ptolemy’s Geography from the 2nd century, there is mention of (and it is also indicated on a map) a place named Serbinon or Serbinum (This place was located under mountains Biblia ore or Biblini montes or Beby m. which are actually Kozara and Grmeč, according to Hungarian scientists).
In the book Itinerarium Antonini from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, this name is written as Servitium.
In a map known as Tabula Peutingeriana from the 4th century, this name is written as Seruitio.
In the book Notitia Dignitatum from about 400 AD, this name is written as Servitii.
In the book Anonymi Ravennatis Cosmographia from the 7th and 8th centuries, this name is written as Serbitium.
All mentioned forms of the name (including Serbinon, Serbinum, Servitium, Seruitio, Servitii, and Serbitium) refer to a single place, which is identified as present-day Gradiška.
The settlement is primarily believed to have been located on the right bank of the river Savus, but there was also a corresponding settlement on the left bank, near today's Stara Gradiška that some modern-day local sources also identify as Servitium.
History
In Roman times, the Municipium Servicium was an important crossroad between the east and the south of the Balkans, i.e. a port for the Roman river fleet, which speaks for itself about the strategic importance of the settlement at the time.
The city could possibly be named after Serboi, ancient Sarmatian tribe, which perhaps inhabited the Pannonian Plain together with Iazyges.
References
External links
Map of ancient Pannonia from a 19th-century atlas of the Roman world
Roman towns and cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Illyricum (Roman province)
Pannonia Inferior
Populated places in Pannonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbinum |
Ruben of Dairinis (died 725) was an Irish scholar. He was, along with Cú Chuimne of Iona, responsible for the great compendium known as Collectio canonum Hibernensis (Irish collection of Canon law).
Sources
"Hiberno-Latin Literature to 1169", Dáibhí Ó Crónín, "A New History of Ireland", volume one, 2005.
Die irische Kanonensammlung, ed. Hermann Wasserschleben, Leipzig, 1885.
Some seventh-century Hiberno-Latin texts and their relationships, Aidan Breen, Peritia, iii, pp. 204–14, 1984.
725 deaths
8th-century Irish writers
Irish scholars and academics
Irish writers in Latin
8th-century writers in Latin
Irish Christian monks
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Canon law jurists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben%20of%20Dairinis |
Datchet railway station serves the village of Datchet in Berkshire, England. It is down the line from , on the Staines to Windsor & Eton Line.
The station has two side platforms linked by a pedestrian footbridge, and the principal station buildings are to be found on the London bound platform. The station has a central location within Datchet village, and two level crossings cross the line immediately to the west of the station. The presence of these crossings, which carry both road routes from the village to the nearby town of Windsor, can cause traffic delays in the village.
History
The Windsor, Staines & South Western railway was authorised to build a railway line to Windsor in 1847, however Datchet was the temporary terminus after the line was opened from Richmond on 22 August 1848. The finally completed route over the River Thames was opened on 1 December 1849.
The original station had goods facilities on both up and down sides but these were eventually closed by 17 January 1965. This area is now a car park on the down side and industrial units on the up side. The large goods shed next to the station master's house was also demolished in the early 1990s. The up side station building was burnt down in a fire in September 1986 but was rebuilt in a more basic style coupled with flats above it. The station masters house survived and is the only surviving structure left.
The down side wooden building has also been lost. Datchet had a manual signal box which also worked the manual level crossing gates, this and Mays crossing box closed in December 1974 when control was taken over by Feltham power box, this led to the replacement of the manual barriers with the lifting ones we have today.
The ticket office is now open Monday-Friday between 06:15 and 13:05 & Saturday from 07:55 to 14:45 whereas previously it was weekdays peak hours only. In recent years the platforms have been raised and more modern lighting erected. The most recent development has been the relaying of both down & up lines through the station replacing some very worn permanent way.
Services
The station is served by the stopping service between Windsor & Eton Riverside and London Waterloo, operated by South Western Railway. There are generally two trains per hour, taking some 4 minutes to reach Windsor & Eton Riverside, and just under an hour to reach Waterloo.
References
Buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Railway stations in Berkshire
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations served by South Western Railway
Datchet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datchet%20railway%20station |
A bevameter is a device used in terramechanics to measure the mechanical properties of soil. Bevameter technique was developed to measure terrain mechanical properties for the study of vehicle mobility. The bevameter test consists of penetration test to measure normal loads and shear test to determine shear loads exerted by a vehicle. Bevameter area size need to be the size of the wheel or track. DEM analysis can take data from one size and simulate bevameter performance for a different size.
External links
Terrain Trafficability Characterization with a Mobile Robot, Ojeda, L., Borenstein, J., Witus, G.
Soil science
Measuring instruments
Earth observation in-situ sensors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevameter |
Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020) was a Caribbean literary critic, dramatist, poet, filmmaker and university lecturer. He was involved in theatre for more than 40 years, as a director, actor and playwright, winning the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992 and 2006, as well as the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. He was also respected for his insight into and writings on the work of Wilson Harris.
Biography
Gilkes was born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). His involvement with theatre began in his native Guyana when he was about 12 years old, working in school theatre, and he went on to become involved with the Theatre Guild of Guyana.
Gilkes taught at a number of universities in the Caribbean, Canada and the United Kingdom over the past 40 years, including at the University of Kent at Canterbury, the University of Warwick, the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies (where he served as Reader in English and Head of the English department) in Barbados and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia. He was a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. In Bermuda he directed plays and taught a theatre workshop put on by the Department of Community & Cultural Affairs at The Berkeley Institute.
His work includes Couvade: A Dream-play of Guyana (published 1974), Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel (1975), and The Literate Imagination: Essays on the Novels of Wilson Harris (1989). An unfinished project that Gilkes was working on was the film Maira and the Jaguar People, set in the Rupununi in 2016, with a cast mainly featuring the indigenous Makushi population of Surama.
His play Couvade was first performed in 1972 at the first Carifesta, and in 1978 was produced at the Keskidee Centre in London, directed by Rufus Collins, with a cast including Imruh Caesar and others.
Gilkes died in London on 14 April 2020, aged 86, after contracting COVID-19.
Awards
His play A Pleasant Career, about the life and fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, won the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992. Joanstown and other poems, a collection of poetry, won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. Gilkes won the Guyana Prize for Drama again in 2006 for his play The Last of the Redmen.
Selected bibliography
Couvade: a dream-play of Guyana, Longman Caribbean, 1974
Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel, Longman Caribbean, 1975
Racial Identity and Individual Consciousness in the Caribbean Novel, 1975. (Edgar Mittelholzer memorial lectures)
The West Indian Novel, Twayne, 1981
Creative Schizophrenia: The Caribbean Cultural Challenge, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 1987
The Literate Imagination: Essays on the Novels of Wilson Harris, Macmillan Education, 1989,
Joanstown and Other Poems, Peepal Tree Press, 2002,
Two Plays: Couvade & A Pleasant Career (Caribbean Modern Classics), Peepal Tree Press, 2014,
Heart / Land: Poems on Love & Landscape, 2015,
References
External links
Ameena Gafoor, "Michael Gilkes discusses the role of the arts in personal and social development", The Arts Forum, Kaieteur News Online, 15 November 2009.
. "THE LAST OF THE REDMEN is a one-man tour-de-force theatre event about the plus and minus of the colonial experience in Guyana - the 'middle man' experience of growing up in the 40s and 50s. Michael plays everybody."
Kim Lucas, "Dr Michael Gilkes – self-professed Mudhead", Stabroek News, 1 February 2003.
"The autobiography of William Alfred Gilkes".
"Interview with Michael Gilkes", Repeating Islands, 15 March 2010.
1933 births
2020 deaths
20th-century dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Guyanese writers
20th-century male writers
Academic staff of the University of the West Indies
Afro-Guyanese people
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
Guyanese dramatists and playwrights
Guyanese writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gilkes%20%28writer%29 |
The Nantlle Railway (or Nantlle Tramway) was a Welsh narrow gauge railway. It was built to carry slate from several slate quarries across the Nantlle Valley to the harbour at Caernarfon for export by sea. The line provided a passenger service between Caernarfon and Talysarn from 1856 to 1865. It was the first public railway to be operated in North Wales.
A tramway linking the Nantlle slate quarries to Caernarfon was proposed in the 1810s. The Nantlle Railway was authorised by an Act of Parliament in May 1825, and the company began construction of the railway. The line was designed and constructed by George Stephenson and his son, Robert. The line opened in 1828 and was operated using horses. [George Stephenson and his BROTHER Robert, not his son Robert; viz. letters from Robert snr. to his brother in Liverpool quoted by Boyd (N.Caerns Vol.I p.15>). These letters in the Phillimore collection and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.]
During the 1860s and 1870s, a portion of the line was replaced by the standard gauge branch of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) which acquired the line in the late 1860s. The Nantlle Railway was closed in 1963 by British Railways (BR), when it was the last line to be operated by BR using horse traction. Much of the route has been overlaid with roads or obliterated by other developments, but several railway structures remain. Two miles of the northern section of the original Nantlle Railway trackbed, between and the Coed Helen Lane tunnel, are part of the reopened Welsh Highland Railway, although much is off line as was the Carnarvonshire Railway route on which the restored WHR was constructed.
History
Background
The first proposals for a railway in the Nantlle Valley were made during 1813. Slate quarries had developed to north and west of Nantlle, and the slate was transported to wharves at Caernarfon by pack horse. A more efficient system was required to enable the quarries to compete with Dinorwic and Penrhyn.
A route for the line was surveyed, running westwards from tramways linked to the quarries, towards Talysarn and Penygroes. The line then turned northwards, passing through Groeslon, Llanwnda, Dinas and Bontnewydd. The line was also carried copper from the mine at Drws-y-coed, to the east of Nantlle.
The Act of Parliament for the Nantlle Railway was passed on 20 May 1825. The Nantlle Railway Company was incorporated in June 1825 to construct and operate the railway, and in August 1825 it advertised for a sub-contractor to build the line. The company raised a working capital of £20,000 by issuing shares at £100 each. Most of the shareholders were owners of the quarries served by the line. The chief engineer was the railway pioneer George Stephenson, and construction was overseen by his son Robert, who was assisted by John Gillespie.
The line was run as a toll road with customers charged a fee for their goods to be hauled to their destination.
Construction
On 21 March 1827, a second Act was passed, authorising an additional £70,000 of shares to finance construction. The act mortgaged the railway's infrastructure, and restricted the fees it could charge until all debts were paid. On 23 May 1828, in response to slower than expected progress, a third Act was passed extending by five years the time available for construction. Robert Williams of Bangor was appointed the resident engineer and William Owen of Gwaenfynydd, Anglesey was contracted to construct the railway.
The railway required significant civil engineering work, including a long embankment and culvert to the west of Bontnewydd, two tunnels, and a bridge. The short Coed Helen Tunnel carried the line underneath a road on a gentle gradient, rising from north to south. Its walls and roof were built of coursed blocks up to long. The line crossed under the driveway of Plas Dinas house in the long Plas Dinas Tunnel. It was wide and had a semi-circular arched roof, high, made of three rings of brick, supported on walls of stone rubble. The Plas Dinas Tunnel is approached by a pair of deep cuttings.
The Afon Gwyrfai Bridge is long with a single arch that carried the railway over the Afon Gwyrfai to the west of Bontnewydd. It is wide at its base, narrowing towards the crown and above water level. It is built from rusticated stone blocks. In September 1999, the Afon Gwyrfai Bridge was listed as a Grade II structure.
The track was laid with lightweight wrought iron fish-bellied rails to , significantly wider than the gauge found on contemporary quarry railways, and narrower than the which became the standard gauge.
The Nantlle Railway was single track throughout, with 22 passing loops but without any signals. Trains ran from one passing place to the next using line of sight to ensure safe working. This led to disputes when trains met between passing loops. Trains typically consisted of four or five wagons, pulled by a single horse travelling at walking pace of around .
Ownership changes and later use
The Nantlle Railway was acquired by the Carnarvonshire Railway. On 25 July 1867, the line from Pant on the southern edge of Caernarfon at Coed Helen, to Tyddyn Bengam, north of Penygroes, was replaced by a single-track standard-gauge line. The Carnarvonshire Railway ran trains from to .
In July 1870, the Carnarvonshire Railway and the remaining narrow-gauge section of the Nantlle Railway was acquired by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
This left gauge sections at the north and south ends of the line, with of standard gauge in the middle. Slates were loaded onto narrow gauge wagons near the quarries and drawn by horses to Tyddyn Bengam, where the narrow gauge wagons and their contents were loaded onto standard-gauge transporter wagons, three at a time. North of Pant, the narrow gauge wagons were unloaded onto the narrow-gauge tracks and hauled by horses along the last to the quayside at Caernarfon Harbour. This process was slow, costly.
In 1870, the LNWR extended the standard gauge line north from Pant to Caernarfon Station where it met a branch built from Bangor in 1852. In December 1871, the standard gauge tracks were extended onto the quayside, removing the need for transhipment and the isolated Caernarfon section of the Nantlle was abandoned. That same year, the LNWR built a short branch from to a new station at Talysarn, named . This was built partly on a new alignment and partly over the narrow gauge tracks. Extensive transshipment yards were laid out at 'Nantlle' where slate arriving on the narrow-gauge was loaded into standard-gauge wagons.
The remaining approximately of gauge horse-drawn tramway linked Nantlle with the quarries to the west and north. It was operated by the LNWR until 1923 when it was absorbed into the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). From 1948, the line was owned and operated by British Railways (BR).
In its final years, the line attracted enthusiasts' railtours. When the Ffestiniog Railway celebrated its Centenary of Steam on 22 May 1963, a Nantlle horse and handler hauled a demonstration train at Porthmadog.
The railway was closed in 1963, when the branch to which it was connected was shut. The last recorded use of horses by BR was on the Nantlle railway.
Rolling stock
The narrow gauge line was a wagonway constructed to a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) and equipped with four wheeled wagons fitted with double-flanged wheels, which were loose on fixed axles. For many of their later years many wagons had extended axles which protruded beyond the wheels. Some wagons had eyes bolted to the tops of their sides to enable them to be lifted bodily by the Blondins used in some of the quarries. The wagons were owned by the tramway, rather than the quarries and the many that survived into BR ownership had narrow steel plate bodies, which were mounted between the wheels and bolted to the axles. Their shape and structure appears to have changed little from the railway's earliest years.
Modern times
Two miles of the northern section of the original Nantlle Railway trackbed, between and the Afon Seiont, now is part of the reopened Welsh Highland Railway. Much of the route has been built over, but in 2016 the remains of three significant Nantlle Railway structures could still be found:
a tunnel at Coed Helen, just visible from passing Welsh Highland Railway trains
a bridge near
a tunnel at Plas Dinas
See also
Welsh Highland Railway
British industrial narrow gauge railways
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Welsh Highland Railway
Early Welsh railway companies
Slate industry in Wales
Industrial railways in Wales
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Wales
Railway companies established in 1825
Railway lines opened in 1828
Railway companies disestablished in 1865
Horse-drawn railways
British companies established in 1825
1925 establishments in Wales
Railway inclines in Wales | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantlle%20Railway |
Tomșani may refer to several places in Romania:
Tomșani, Prahova, a commune in Prahova County
Tomșani, Vâlcea, a commune in Vâlcea County
Tomșani, a village in Costeștii din Vale Commune, Dâmbovița County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C8%99ani |
Sonblue is a Spanish pop group.
Members
Nacho [born July 10, 1987] (vocals)
Salva [born June 23, 1989] (guitar)
Manu [born December 31, 1987] (guitar)
Carlos [born May 29, 1989] (bass)
Alex [born July 23, 1987] (drums)
Biography
The group was initially consisted of 5 teenagers which were studying in the same school in Córdoba, where they organized their punk-rock group. When Álex received a guitar as his Christmas gift, he decided to commence practicing in playing guitar together with Manu. They convinced Nacho to begin singing in their group, which had been firstly named Someblue before they found their present name Soneblue. During their rehearsal they came to the idea to be dressed in the used school uniform which featured them now. Under the influence of International groups the likes of Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Sum 41, and inspired by their national groups and artistes such as Dickers, El Canto del Loco and others they began writing their own songs.
Sonblue made their debut as a band last 2006 with their first single "Sueños De Ayer" (English: "Yesterday Dreams"), which reached #3 in the official list of Spanish singles Promusicae. After this success, on June 12, they released their first album with the same degree as the single. Their following singles were only promotional: "¿Dónde Está El Amor?" (English: "Where This Love?)") and in the autumn of 2006 they released two double promotional singles: "Ahora Toca Imaginar" (English: "Now It Has To Imagine") and "Lo Mejor De Mi" (English: "The Best of Me").
In February 2007 they continue with their tour performing concerts in Barcelona, Seville, Madrid... They are nowadays preparing what will be their second album, which might be ready for summer 2007.
Discography
Full track listing
"Especial"
"Na Na Na"
"Tu y Yo"
"Sólo Dímelo"
"Mi Mundo De Papel"
"Lo Mejor De Mí"
"En Forma De Estrella"
"Sueños De Ayer"
"Ahora Toca Imaginar"
"Dónde Esta El Amor"
"Mundo Loco"
"Un Día Gris"
References
External links
Official Site
Official MySpace
Yahoo Sonblue Page
Spanish musical groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonblue |
Ménilmontant () is a neighbourhood of Paris, situated in the city's 20th arrondissement. It is roughly defined as the area north of the Père Lachaise Cemetery, south of Parc de Belleville, and between Avenue Jean-Aicard on the west and Rue Pelleport on the east. The neighborhood includes an 87 m (285.4 ft) high hill, making it the third-highest neighborhood in Paris (after Montmartre and neighboring Belleville).
Throughout much of the Middle Ages, what is now known as Ménilmontant was a rural hilltop hamlet within the independent commune (municipality) of Belleville, where wealthy Parisians vacationed. By the 19th century, as a result of the industrial revolution and urbanization, Ménilmontant quickly grew to include a large immigrant and working-class population, and in 1860, it was, like other suburbs surrounding the French capital, annexed into the city of Paris. By the mid-late 20th century, many artists, musicians, students, and hippies began to move into the area, giving the neighborhood a distinctively bohemian, left-wing and counterculture identity.
Today, old factory buildings have been repurposed to house hip live music venues such as :fr:La Bellevilloise and :fr:La Maroquinerie, while grungy bars along hilly :fr:Rue de Ménilmontant lead to warrens of narrow, cobblestone streets and artists’ studios.
The neighborhood is served by metro, with line 2 stations at Ménilmontant, Couronnes, and Père Lachaise, and line 3 stations at Père Lachaise, and Gambetta.
Etymology
The name Ménilmontant is said to derive from Mesnil Mautemps, meaning "bad weather house" in medieval French. By the 16th century mautemps had been corrupted into montant (meaning "climbing"), most likely owing to its situation on a hill overlooking Paris. Thus, Ménilmontant can perhaps be best interpreted as meaning "climbing house".
History
Before its 1860 absorption into Paris, Ménilmontant lay beyond the capital's tax border (octroi). As a result, wine was substantially cheaper in Ménilmontant, leading to Parisians flocking to the area at night, and the development of numerous drinking establishments, known as guinguettes, in the 18th century.
In 1832, Ménilmontant, already urbanized and heavily working-class, served as the location of a Saint-Simonian retreat, established by socialist political theorist Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin and his followers, before being banned by the authorities for "sponsoring an illicit secret society and encouraging practices contrary to public morality."
Ménilmontant also played a pivotal role in the Paris Commune, as the area was a hotbed for working-class radicalism. When the Versailles Army came to reconquer Paris in May of 1871, it faced some of the toughest resistance in Ménilmontant. Bloody street fighting persisted in Ménilmontant, ultimately coming to an end during the semaine sanglante ("bloody week") in Père Lachaise.
Today, references to the Paris Commune remain part of the very fabric of the Ménilmontant, from street art and right down to the local football club, Ménilmontant FC 1871 - whose name and crest are heavily loaded with socialist and communard symbolism.
In popular culture
Literature
Menilmontant is the scene of the first part of Russian-born Andrei Makine's novel La vie d'un homme inconnu.
The Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle (1904) takes place in Ménilmontant.
The Ménilmontant neighborhood is mentioned prominently in Henry Miller's 1956 novel Quiet Days in Clichy as well as in the 1969 film adaptation of that novel by Jens Jørgen Thorsen.
Singing
Film star and singer Maurice Chevalier was born in Ménilmontant.
Ménilmontant is a song by the French singer Charles Trenet. An instrumental version was recorded by Django Reinhardt in 1949/50.
"Rue de Ménilmontant" is a song by the French singer Camille Dalmais.
Cinema
Ménilmontant (1926), written and directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, takes its name from Ménilmontant.
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), the character Garance hails from Ménilmontant.
Casque d'or (1952), starring Simone Signoret, is set in Ménilmontant.
Le Ballon Rouge (1956), the Palme d'Or–winning classic fantasy short film, was set in Ménilmontant.
Gigot (1962), an American comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and starring Jackie Gleason, was filmed in Ménilmontant.
The Bourne Identity (2002), the chase scene, with Franka Potente and Matt Damon in a Mini Hatch, was filmed partly in Ménilmontant.
Un p'tit gars de Ménilmontant (2013), a crime drama movie by Alain Minier, was set in Ménilmontant.
References
Districts of Paris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nilmontant |
Jovem Pan is the main Brazilian radio station based in São Paulo, Brazil. It is also the largest network of radio stations of the southern hemisphere, of Latin America, and one of the biggest radio stations in the world. The network has several bureaus, 109 affiliated stations all over Brazil. Jovem Pan broadcasts through satellite digital quality sound reaching more than 25 million listeners, and throughout the world by the Internet.
History
1940s
Paulo Machado de Carvalho left the station in 1942, going to Rádio Record. The general direction was then assumed by Antonio Augusto Amaral de Carvalho (Tuta), current director president of REDE JOVEM PAN SAT, that at that time was only 21 years old. In that same year, Panamericana left São Bento Street and went to the 275 Riachuelo Street.
1950s
Years later, in 1953, Tuta left the broadcasting station to dedicate himself to TV Record, channel 7 of São Paulo, who were beginning transmissions. In 1954, Panamericana moved again to 713 Avenida Miruna, in the neighborhood of the Airport, where the Group of United Broadcasting stations resided.
1960s
In 1964, still linked to TV Record, Antonio Augusto Amaral de Carvalho assumed the direction of the broadcasting station again. The name Jovem Pan appeared in 1965, given by Paulo Machado de Carvalho. The great transformation of Panamericana began in 1966, under the direction of Tuta. Already with the name of Jovem Pan, to radio it began several programs with idols of the Brazilian popular music that, at that time, they made great success in TV Record. The journalistic programs were created in 1970, 71 and 72, period in that they appeared the Team Seven and Thirty, the Newspaper National Integration and, finally, the Newspaper of the Morning, that is a reference in the journalism of radio in every country until today.
1970s
In 1973, Antonio Augusto Amaral de Carvalho left TV Record to dedicate himself exclusively to Rádio Jovem Pan. In that same year, he acquired the actions of the siblings' broadcasting station Paulo Machado of Carvalho Filho and Alfredo de Carvalho, becoming its only proprietor. In 1976, Jovem Pan left the avenue Miruna and is now situated at 807 Avenida Paulista. In the same year, Jovem Pan FM was inaugurated, located in the same place.
2020s
It was described in 2021 as Brazil's largest conservative radio station.
In 27 October 2021, the Joven Pan Group launched a pay-tv news channel.
Jovem Pan News has been described as practicing partisan reporting in favor of the Republican Party, the Jair Bolsonaro administration, and conservative causes.
Jovem Pan FM stations
Alagoas
Jovem Pan FM - Maceió - 102,7 MHz
Amazonas
Jovem Pan FM - Manaus - 104,1 MHz
Bahia
Jovem Pan FM - Salvador - 91,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Barreiras - 89,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Eunápolis - 90,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Feira de Santana - 100,9 MHz
Ceará
Jovem Pan FM - Fortaleza - 94,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Jijoca de Jericoacoara - 91,7 MHz
Distrito Federal
Jovem Pan FM - Brasília - 106,3 MHz
Espírito Santo
Jovem Pan FM - Vitória - 100,1 MHz
Goiás
Jovem Pan FM - Goiânia - 106,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Caldas Novas - 105,7 MHz
Maranhão
Jovem Pan FM - São Luís - 102,5 MHz
Mato Grosso
Jovem Pan FM - Cuiabá - 94,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Rondonópolis - 102,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Barra do Garças - 91,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Sinop - 93,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Lucas do Rio Verde - 102,3 MHz
Mato Grosso do Sul
Jovem Pan FM - Campo Grande - 95,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Coxim - 90,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Três Lagoas - 104,5 MHz
Minas Gerais
Jovem Pan FM - Belo Horizonte - 99,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Araxá - 93,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Cataguases - 105,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Ipatinga - 102,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Montes Claros - 93,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Muriaé - 98,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Passos - 96,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Varginha - 107,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Uberaba - 103,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Patos de Minas - 103,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Poços de Caldas - 90,9 MHz
Paraíba
Jovem Pan FM - João Pessoa - 102,5 MHz
Paraná
Jovem Pan FM - Curitiba - 103,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Londrina - 102,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Maringá - 101,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Ponta Grossa - 103,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Foz do Iguaçu - 93,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Cascavel - 101,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Arapoti - 103,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Guarapuava - 96,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - União da Vitória - 98,3 MHz
Pernambuco
Jovem Pan FM - Recife - 95,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Caruaru - 101,3 MHz
Rio de Janeiro
Jovem Pan FM - Três Rios - 92,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Itaperuna - 91,3 MHz
Rio Grande do Norte
Jovem Pan FM - Natal - 89,9 MHz
Rio Grande do Sul
Jovem Pan FM - Porto Alegre - 90,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Osório - 103,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Passo Fundo - 106,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Bento Gonçalves - 92,5 MHz
Santa Catarina
Jovem Pan FM - Florianópolis - 101,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Rio do Sul - 93,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Blumenau - 88,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Chapecó - 94,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Criciúma - 104,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Itajaí - 94,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Joaçaba - 103,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Joinville - 91,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Tubarão - 94,9 MHz
São Paulo
Jovem Pan FM - São Paulo - 100,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - São José do Rio Preto - 93,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Apiaí - 92,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Araçatuba - 104,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Jaboticabal - 107,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Itapetininga - 100,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Itapeva - 91,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Presidente Prudente - 101,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Santa Fé do Sul - 92,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - São Carlos - 88,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Tupã - 89,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Campinas - 89,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - São José dos Campos - 94,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Sorocaba - 91,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Ribeirão Preto - 93,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Santos - 95,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Piracicaba - 103,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Taubaté - 98,3 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Marília - 100,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Matão - 88,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Catanduva - 91,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Barretos - 101,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - São João da Boa Vista - 95,9 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Barra Bonita - 97,7 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Bauru - 95,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Dracena - 101,5 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Avaré - 102,1 MHz
Jovem Pan FM - Ourinhos - 88,9 MHz
Sergipe
Jovem Pan FM - Aracaju - 88,7 MHz
Jovem Pan News stations
Ceará
Jovem Pan News - Fortaleza - 92,9 MHz
Espírito Santo
Jovem Pan News - Vitória - 90,5 MHz
Distrito Federal
Jovem Pan News - Brasília - 750 kHz
Minas Gerais
Jovem Pan News - Ituiutaba - 1240 kHz
Rio Grande do Norte
Jovem Pan News - Natal - 93,5 MHz
Rio Grande do Sul
Jovem Pan News - Imbé - 92,3 MHz
Santa Catarina
Jovem Pan News - Florianópolis - 103,3 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Joinville - 1250 kHz
Jovem Pan News - Rio do Sul - 620 kHz
Jovem Pan News - Criciúma - 101,5 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Tubarão - 95,9 MHz
São Paulo
Jovem Pan News - Andradina - 101,3 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Barretos - 103,3 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Bauru - 97,5 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Campinas - 100,3 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Piracicaba - 99,5 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Pompeia - 105,7 MHz
Jovem Pan News - Rio Claro - 106,1 MHz
References
External links
Radio stations in Brazil
Radio stations established in 1944
Mass media in São Paulo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovem%20Pan |
Sunnymeads railway station serves the once separate village of Sunnymeads in Berkshire, England, now subsumed by the neighbouring village of Wraysbury. It is down the line from , on the line between Windsor and Eton Riverside and Waterloo. It was built in 1927, and has been unmanned since 1969. Services to the station are operated by South Western Railway.
A Shere FASTticket machine can be found in front of the disused ticket office. Credit cards can be used to buy tickets. All-day travelcards are also available to buy, as well as tickets for use on underground services in and around the London area. Sunnymeads has one of the lowest passenger usages among stations in South East England with regular services.
It has one island platform which is reached by a pedestrian bridge. On the platform there are eight seats. There are no parking facilities or cycle facilities, as the station is at the end of a private road. Taxis can be arranged to pick up and drop off at this station, but there will be no taxis waiting. (The station can also be reached by a staircase from nearby Welley Road, which is a bus route.) There is a help-point for customer information, and visual displays show live train arrivals on the platform. This station is covered by CCTV which links to the South Western Railway security centre in Wimbledon.
Due to the short platform length, the ASDO beacon fitted to the South Western Railway fleet (with the exception of class 455) only releases the doors of the front 7 coaches.
Service
The typical off-peak service is of two trains per hour to London Waterloo, and two to . There is one train per hour in each direction on Sundays.
References
External links
Buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Railway stations in Berkshire
Former Southern Railway (UK) stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1927
Railway stations served by South Western Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnymeads%20railway%20station |
Audition is the second solo studio album by American rapper P.O.S. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment in 2006. It peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart.
Production
P.O.S titled the album "Audition" because he felt he was auditioning for a national audience for the first time, given that his only prior album, Ipecac Neat, had much smaller distribution. On his second album, he set out to make the "most abrasive possible sound" and "some of the songs difficult to listen to." Although the opening words of the album are "First of all, fuck Bush," P.O.S told The A.V. Club in 2006 that he did not see the album as "overtly political" so much as a social commentary.
P.O.S told City Pages in 2016 that the song "Paul Kersey to Jack Kimball" is about his uncle getting hit and killed by a car and its title is an allusion to the Death Wish film series. The song "P.O.S is Ruining My Life" contains an uncleared sample of an Underoath song; P.O.S had discovered them at Warped Tour before using the sample and later played lead guitar for them at Warped Tour.
Most of the production is credited to both P.O.S and his alias Emily Bloodmobile. Lazerbeak and MK Larada also provide production contributions as well. Guest appearances include Mike Mictlan, Slug, Greg Attonito, Craig Finn, and Maggie Morrison.
Critical reception
Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "a very well-produced album, exciting and musical and intense."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
P.O.S – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, production (1–3, 5, 7, 9–13, 16), executive production
Greg Attonito – vocals (3)
Lazerbeak – production (4, 6, 14, 15)
Slug – vocals (5, 14), executive production
Craig Finn – vocals (7)
Maggie Morrison – vocals (8)
MK Larada – production (8), art direction, design
Mike Mictlan – vocals (12)
Turbo Nemesis – turntables
Tasha Baron – electric piano
Jesse Greene – cello, violin
Bitsy Hanson – cello
Passions – vocals
Joe Mabbott – vocals, recording, mixing
Ian Campbell – vocals, recording, mixing
B. Sayers – executive production
Dan Monick – photography
Jason Miller – photography
Josh Syx – photography
Charts
References
External links
Audition at Bandcamp
2006 albums
P.O.S albums
Rhymesayers Entertainment albums
Albums produced by Lazerbeak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition%20%28album%29 |
Stoll Vaughan is an American singer-songwriter from Lexington, Kentucky. He is the great-nephew of United States Senator John Sherman Cooper. Vaughan began his professional music career as guitar player for the Indiana band Chamberlain. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan.
Vaughan has toured through much of the United States as well as Europe. In the Netherlands, his debut album was named one of "Alternative Country's Top Ten Records of the Year." He has toured with John Mellencamp and John Fogerty's 'Words and Music' tour, Farm Aid, Def Leppard, Journey, Shooter Jennings, Marty Stuart, Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, and Don Williams.
Vaughan's first two CD releases Love Like a Mule, and Hold On Through Sleep and Dreams both landed in the Top 10 of the Americana Music Charts.
Vaughan's music has been featured on television shows such as; True Blood, Friday Night Lights, Shameless (U.S. TV series), and The Office (U.S. TV series) (3 songs in the series finale). He composed original music for the David Lynch Interview Project that won a webbie, as well as music for The Making of There Will Be Blood Blu-ray Release.
Vaughan is actively composing original musical content for a new amazon TV pilot to be released in August 2014. Aside from his own compositions and performances, Stoll Vaughan is currently Head of A&R for CUT Recordings where he is writing and developing various singer-songwriters- including Duane Betts. Vaughan and Betts wrote and produced a song for the movie World Made Straight starring Steve Earle released in February 2015.
In his free time Vaughan guest lectures for the University of Montana Entertainment Management Program where he offers his professional insight in artist development.
Vaughan's latest project The Living Record is a live recording continuation done in CUT Recordings studio in front of a live audience.
Discography
2005 – Hold on Thru Sleep and Dreams [Shadow Dog]
"Desire"
"Nowhere"
"Sounds of the City"
"No Use to Me Now"
"I-75"
"Coming to Me Now"
"Pride Hides"
"American Life"
"Leaf on a River"
"Memories"
2006 – Love Like a Mule [Shadow Dog]
"Alright"
"No Stopping"
"Savior"
"Man That Cares"
"Complain"
"Between You and I"
"Fade Away"
"Lonesome"
"Seen Moments"
"Love Like a Mule"
"Head Above the Wheel"
2010 – The Weatherman Dualtone
"The Weatherman"
"Troubles"
"Coming Back Now"
"Further Down the Line"
"Whistling in the Dark"
"Closer Stoll Vaughan"
"Meet You in the Middle"
"War On Love"
"Maria"
References
External links
Stoll Vaughan on Pure Volume
Stoll Vaughan on Last.FM
Stoll Vaughan Photoblog on Buzznet
Stoll Vaughan Fan Club
Stoll Vaughan Message Board
Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange Review, 2006
Knox News Interview, 2005
Music Rebellion Podcast Interview, 2006
WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour Show 380, 2006
Justin Press Review, July 29, 2006
San Antonio Express-News Interview, July 27, 2006
Flagpole Magazine Article, August 9, 2005|
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American country singer-songwriters
American male singer-songwriters
Musicians from Lexington, Kentucky
Writers from Lexington, Kentucky
Country musicians from Kentucky
Singer-songwriters from Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoll%20Vaughan |
Ace Drummond is a Universal Pictures 1936 film serial based on the comic strip "Ace Drummond" written by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by Clayton Knight. The serial's cast features John King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr. and Jackie Morrow, with Lon Chaney Jr. in a supporting role.
Plot
A mysterious villain who calls himself the Dragon is attempting to prevent International Airways from beginning service in Mongolia, in order to protect the secret of the mountain of jade for himself.
The serial features a dungeon in the nearby monastery, the kidnapping of an archeologist who stumbles onto the secret, his daughter's attempts to rescue him with Ace's help, a death ray the Dragon uses on the airline pilots, a radio system by which The Dragon communicates with his henchmen via the rotation of Buddhist prayer wheels (each transmission concluding "The Dragon commands!"), and a squadron of his own fighter planes.
Cast
John King as Ace Drummond
Jean Rogers as Peggy Trainor
Noah Beery Jr. as Jerry
Jackie Morrow as Billy Meredith
Selmer Jackson as Mr. Meredith
Guy Bates Post as the Grand Lama
C. Montague Shaw as Trainor
Frederick Vogeding as Bauer
Al Bridge as Wyckoff
Chester Gan as Kai-chek
James B. Leong as Henry Kee
James Eagles as Johnny Wong
Arthur Loft as Chang Ho/The Dragon
Lon Chaney Jr. as Henchman Ivan
Stanley Blystone as Henchman Sergei
Edmund Cobb as Henchman Nikolai
Richard Wessel as Henchman Boris
together with:
Sam Ash as LePage; Hooper Atchley as Caldoni; Louis Vincenot as Lo Tan; Eddie Parker as Dmitri; Tom Steele and George De Normand as Other Henchman;
Russell Wade as Pilot; House Peters Jr. as Co-Pilot; Diana Gibson as Stewardess; and Ed Piel Sr. as Passenger.
Production
Ace Drummond was based on a comic strip by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.
Ace Drummond gained good publicity following a set visit by Amelia Earhart. The famous aviator had driven out to the San Fernando Valley, after hearing that the serial was being shot there on location, where she watched the filming of the chapter two cliffhanger.
In the traditional foreword at the beginning of each chapter, Ace Drummond used comic strips to summarise the story so far. This worked well, and Universal who had been trying to get away from using written text in its forewords, used "similar gimmicks" in their succeeding serials.
Music
Ace also regularly performs his theme song, "Give Me a Ship and a Song".
Critical reception
In the words of Cline, Ace Drummond "exuded the futuristic aura of Flash Gordon combined with the eerie mystery of Baron Frankenstein's castle laboratory."
Chapter titles
Chapter 1 - Where East Meets West
Chapter 2 - The Invisible Enemy
Chapter 3 - The Doorway of Doom
Chapter 4 - The Radio Riddle
Chapter 5 - Bullets of Sand
Chapter 6 - Evil Spirits
Chapter 7 - The Trackless Trail
Chapter 8 - The Sign in the Sky
Chapter 9 - Secret Service
Chapter 10 - The Mountain of Jade
Chapter 11 - The Dragon Commands
Chapter 12 - The Squadron of Death
Chapter 13 - The World's Akin
Source for titles:
See also
List of American films of 1936
References
External links
Ace Drummond at Internet Archive
1936 films
1936 adventure films
1930s spy films
American black-and-white films
American aviation films
American spy films
1930s English-language films
Films based on American comics
Films directed by Ford Beebe
Universal Pictures film serials
Articles containing video clips
American adventure films
1930s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20Drummond%20%28serial%29 |
Pinsky is a Belarusian toponymic surname, and means someone from Pinsk in Belarus. When spelled Pinski; it is usually short form of the Polish and Ashkenazi Jewish surname Lapinski. It may refer to:
Charles Pinsky, producer/director
David Pinski (1872–1959), Yiddish-language writer
Drew Pinsky (born 1958), American doctor, medical radio talk show host
Leo Pinsky (born 1926), American baseball player
Mark Pinsky (born in 1940), mathematician.
the Pinsky phenomenon, his discovery
Paul G. Pinsky, American politician
Robert Pinsky (born 1940), American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator
Viktor Pinsky (born 1964), Russian politician
Surnames of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsky |
Pinsk is a city in Belarus. It may also refer to:
Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957), German Roman-Catholic theologian and priest
Pinsk Voblast, a former administrative subdivision of Belarus
Pinsk Raion, an administrative subdivision of Belarus
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk, a diocese at Pinsk
Pinsk Marshes
Pinsk Flotilla, see Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy
Pinsk massacre in Pinsk in April 1919
Ognisko Pińsk, a former Polish football team located at Pinsk
FC Volna Pinsk, a football team located at Pinsk
Pinsk (Hasidic dynasty), a family of rabbis from Pinsk and Karlin
see also Pinsky, a surname meaning "from Pinsk" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The 1984 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden on 3 and 4 March 1984. The track used in the stadium at the time was 196 metres long.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table
Participating nations
(4)
(4)
(10)
(2)
(22)
(1)
(3)
(7)
(15)
(10)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(22)
(1)
(4)
(12)
(22)
(6)
(15)
(11)
(23)
(5)
(3)
(26)
(5)
See also
1984 in athletics (track and field)
References
Results - men at GBRathletics.com
Results - women at GBRathletics.com
EAA
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Indoor
International athletics competitions hosted by Sweden
European Athletics Indoor Championships
International sports competitions in Gothenburg
European Athletics Indoor Championships
1980s in Gothenburg
Athletics in Gothenburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20European%20Athletics%20Indoor%20Championships |
Ah-So is a line of Chinese and East Asian American sauces and marinades from Allied Old English, Inc., Port Reading, New Jersey. This garlicky, sweet, sticky, brightly red marinade is popular in the Northeast United States. A plastic squeeze bottle version exists. This sauce falls into the American Chinese cuisine genre of Chinese cooking and aims to replicate the sweet, smokey flavor of boneless spareribs found on the menus of most Chinese take-out restaurants. The sauce contains corn syrup, fermented soy beans and garlic.
The expression "ah so" comes from the Japanese ā sō desu ka? ("oh, is that so?"), which is sometimes shortened to "ah so". Although sometimes used as mock-Chinese, the phrase is Japanese in origin.
See also
List of brand name condiments
References
External links
Allied Old English
American Chinese cuisine
Barbecue sauces
Brand name condiments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah-So |
Hastamalakacharya (IAST ) (c. 8th century CE) was a disciple of Adi Shankara, the Advaita philosopher. He was made the first Jagadguru (head) of the Dvāraka Pīṭhaṃ, the monastery founded by Adi Shankara in Dwaraka. Hastamalaka founded a matha by name Idayil Matham in Thrissur, Kerala.
Meeting Adi Shankara
The Mādhavīya Śaṃkaravijayam states that when Adi Shankara was at Kollur, he accepted invitations by brāhmaņas to have Bhikşa (alms or food) at their houses. On such an occasion he visited a village called Śrīvalli (near Chitrapur, Uttara karnataka), where every house was said to emit the holy smell of the smoke of Agnihotra sacrifice, to accept Bhikşa. That place was inhabited by about two thousand brāhmaņas who were learned in the Vedas and performed the Yajnas prescribed in the Vedas. There was also a temple dedicated to Shiva and Parvati.
In that village there lived a brāhmaņa, Prabhākara, who was noted for his learning. He had a son who though appearing quite handsome, behaved rather like an idiot. Though upanayanam was performed for him, he did not take to studying the Vedas, instead preferred to sit around doing nothing. Hearing about Adi Shankara's visit, Prabhākara approached the Acharya (teacher) with a load of fruit and prostrated before him. He also made his son prostrate before him. Prabhākara explained to Adi Shankara that his son behaved rather like an idiot and sat idly throughout the day.
Then, Adi Shankara addressed that young boy and asked him who he was. The boy replied in 12 verses containing the gist of the Advaita philosophy. Thus Adi Shankara was immensely impressed with him and accepted him as his disciple. He was named Hastāmalaka (one with the amalaka fruit in his hand) since the knowledge of the Self was natural to him like an Amalaka fruit in one's hand. Adi Shankara took the boy into his party and started towards his next destination.
See also
Adi Shankara
Advaita Vedanta
References
Madhava Vidyaranya, Sankara-Digvijaya, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2002, . Purchase online at www.sriramakrishnamath.org
External links
Hastamlakam Side by side translation in Hindi and English
Sri Hastamalakacharya
Sri Hastamalakacharya
Advaitin philosophers
8th-century Indian philosophers
People from Thrissur district
Scholars from Kerala | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastamalakacharya |
Batau may refer to:
Lablab purpureus, a bean species
Batau, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Batau F.C., a South African football (soccer) club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batau |
Wraysbury railway station serves the village of Wraysbury in Berkshire, England, as well as the larger villages of Stanwell Moor and Poyle. It is down the line from .
The station is on the line between Windsor and Eton Riverside and Waterloo. Services are operated by South Western Railway.
As part of the proposed AirTrack rail link, a new station, to be called Staines High Street railway station would be built between Wraysbury and Staines railway station. This proposal (involving rebuilding a former station) has been in doubt for some years.
Services
The typical off-peak service is of two trains per hour to London Waterloo, and two to . There is one train per hour in each direction on Sundays.
References
External links
Buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Railway stations in Berkshire
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1861
Railway stations served by South Western Railway
1861 establishments in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wraysbury%20railway%20station |
Kirton Lindsey railway station serves the town of Kirton in Lindsey in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. The station was opened in 1849 on the former main line of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway which became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
The station was built with two flanking platforms with the main station building on the Sheffield-bound side at the top of a long approach road. The Grimsby-bound platform had a simple waiting shelter and the platforms were linked by a latticed footbridge. The footbridge and Grimsby bound platform have since been removed and the route reduced to a single track at this point.
Service
All services at Kirton Lindsey are operated by Northern Trains.
As of 21 May 2023, this station is served by only two trains per day on weekdays only, one to and one to . There is no weekend service.
Between October 1993 and May 2023, the station was served by 3 trains in each direction between and on Saturdays only, with no services running on weekdays or Sundays.
References
External links
Timetable for train services on Northern Rail's website
Railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Central Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Northern franchise railway stations
Low usage railway stations in the United Kingdom
1849 establishments in England
Kirton in Lindsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirton%20Lindsey%20railway%20station |
John Graham Haggart, (November 14, 1836 – March 13, 1913) was a Canadian politician.
Haggart served as a Member of Parliament from 1872 to 1913. This forty-year period of service in the Commons is the second-longest in Canadian history, exceeded only by Wilfrid Laurier, whose period of service (1874-1919) mostly overlaps with Haggart's. He was appointed as Postmaster General, serving in the cabinets of John A. Macdonald and John Abbott until 1892, when he switched portfolios, serving as Minister of Railways and Canals until the defeat of the Conservative government in 1896.
Prior to being elected to the House of Commons, Haggart was elected Mayor of Perth, Ontario three times: in 1867, 1869 and 1871.
There is a John Haggart fonds at Library and Archives Canada.
References
External links
1836 births
1913 deaths
Canadian Ministers of Railways and Canals
Canadian Presbyterians
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Mayors of places in Ontario
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Graham%20Haggart |
Parda may refer to:
Lablab purpureus, a species of bean
L-DOPA, a chemical also known by the trade name Parda
Parda (grape), a Spanish wine grape
Parda (surname), people with this name
See also
Purdah, a religious and social practice of female seclusion prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities
Purdah (film), 2018 Indian documentary against the practice
Purdah (pre-election period), election rules in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parda |
The Somali Youth League (SYL, , Arabic: رابطة الشباب الصومالي, or Lega Somala della Gioventù), initially known as the Somali Youth Club (SYC), was the first political party in Somalia.
It played a key role in the nation's road to independence during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
History
British Military Administration
Formation of Somali Youth League
At its foundation in 1943, the party had thirteen founding members. The Harari would become members in 1946 when SYL opened an office in Harar. SYL supported Greater Somalia with Harar being the capital and a combined Harari-Somali representatives were commissioned to reveal this proposal to the U.N office in Mogadishu. Somali Youth League members were significantly influenced by the earlier religious rebellion at the turn of the century of various religious figures such as Uways al-Barawi, Sheikh Hassan Barsane and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.
To empower the new party, the better educated police and civil servants were permitted to join it. By 1948, following an official visit to the territory by the Four Power Commission, the SYC was a well-structured political unit, Abdullahi Issa was elected as its secretary general and renamed itself as the Somali Youth League (SYL) and began to open offices not only in Italian and British Somaliland, but also in the Ogaden and in the Northern Frontier District (NFD). The SYL's stated objectives were to unify all Somali territories, including the NFD and the Ogaden; to create opportunities for universal modern education; to develop the Somali language by a standard national orthography; to safeguard Somali interests; and to oppose the restoration of Italian rule. SYL policy banned clannishness so that the thirteen founding members, although representing four of Somalia's five major clans, refused to disclose their clan affiliations. Although the SYL enjoyed considerable popular support from northerners, the principal parties in British Somaliland were the Somali National League (SNL) and National United Front (NUF), mainly associated with the Isaaq clan, and the United Somali Party (USP), which had the support of the Dir (Gadabuursi) and Darod (Dulbahante and Warsangali) clans.
Trust Territory of Somaliland
In 1945, the Potsdam conference was held, where it was decided not to return Italian Somaliland to Italy. The Somali Youth League had proposed a UN Trusteeship to lead Somalia to independence, under the condition that it was not under Italian administration and that the Trusteeship managed all Somali territories. In a memo to the UN the SYL stated: "We do not pretend we can stand on our own feet for the moment, but ask the United Nations Trusteeship council to decide questions relating to the formation, boundaries, and administration of a Somali Trust Territory known as Somalia, this territory to consist of all areas present predominantly populated by Somalis."In November 1949 the United Nations granted Italy trusteeship of the former Italian Somaliland.
The Somali Youth League was firmly against Italian return to Somalia in any form, and campaigned against the return of Italian rule with the slogan, "No matter what the color, a wolf is always a wolf." Before the Italians returned to Somalia, the SYL held a major summit in order to formulate a common policy and unified attitude toward the Trusteeship government. It was initially decided to launch an armed resistance, but after serious deliberation the league came to the conclusion that a more temperate course would be better for Somali citizens. Following the summits conclusion the SYL delivered a paper to the chief Italian administrator explaining its position. The League informed the administration that it would continue to agitate for independence and expressed hope that the new government would not resist SYL efforts. It was made clear that the organization was willing to cooperate with the Trusteeship authorities if they reciprocated. The League demanded that Arabic be made the official language of the Trusteeship instead of Italian and further requested that Italian government not bring back officials from the fascist era.
The first half of AFIS's decade long rule would be marked by animosity and conflict between the Italian authorities and the Somali Youth League. Numerous SYL officials who had gained positions of prominence during the era of British Military Administration were either demoted, removed from their positions or imprisoned by Italians officials. These attempts to marginalize the league would lead to demonstrations across the country which were strongly repressed by the government, who had at the time come to decision not cooperate or concede to the SYL's plans.
Independence and formation Somali Republic
British Somaliland remained a protectorate of Britain until June 26, 1960, when it became independent. The former Italian Somaliland followed suit five days later. On July 1, 1960, the two territories united to form the Somali Republic, albeit within boundaries drawn up by Italy and Britain. A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa Mohamud and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal with Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as the first President of the Somali Republic, and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister, later to become President (from 1967-1969). On July 20, 1961 and through a popular referendum, the Somali people ratified a new constitution, which was first drafted in 1960.
In the first national elections after independence, held on 30 March 1964, the SYL won an absolute majority of 69 of the 123 parliamentary seats. The remaining seats were divided among 11 parties. Five years from then, in general elections held in March 1969, the ruling SYL led by Mohammed Ibrahim Egal returned to power. However, in the same year, then President of Somalia Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke was assassinated.
1969 Coup d'etat and dissolution
In 1969 military coup ensued, with Siad Barre now assuming leadership. Barre's Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) subsequently renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic, arrested members of the former government, banned political parties, dissolved the parliament and the Supreme Court, and suspended the constitution.
Political leaders
Founders and leaders
The following is a list of the SYL's 13 original
Mohamed Jama
Yasin Haji Osman Sharmarke
Dahir Haji Osman Sharmarke (Dhegaweyne)
Mohamed Hirsi Nur (Seyedin)
Aden Isaaq Ahmed (Borama)
Haji Mahamed Hussein Mahad
Osman Geeddi Rage
Dhere Haji Dhere
Ali Hasan Maslah
Mohamed Ali Nur,
Mohamed Farah Hilowle
H. Mohamed Abdullahi Hayesi
Marwan Osman Mohamed
Notable members
The following is a list of other notable public officials that emerged from the SYL's ranks:
Presidents
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar: July 1, 1960 – June 10, 1967;
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke: July 6, 1967 – October 15, 1969;
Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein: October 15, 1969 – October 21, 1969
Prime Ministers
Abdullahi Issa Mohamud: February 29, 1956 – July 12, 1960
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke: July 1, 1960 – June 10, 1964
Abdirizak Haji Hussein: June 14, 1964 – July 15, 1967
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal: July 15, 1967 – October 21, 1969
Aden Isaaq Ahmed: October 21, 1969 to Siad's coup
Umar Arteh Ghalib: January 24, 1991 – May 1993
Presidents of the Somali National Assembly
Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf: July 1, 1960 – mid-July 1960
Jama Abdullahi Qalib: mid-July 1960 – May 26, 1964
Ahmed Mohamed Obsiye: May 26, 1964 – 1967
Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein: 1967 – October 15, 1969
Ministers
Abdillahi Mohammed Ahmed: Minister of National and Coordination
Sheekh Cabdiqani Sheekh Axmed: Minister of Justice and Religion Affairs
Haji Farah Ali Omar: Minister of Economic Affairs
Hirsi Bulhan Farah: Minister of livestock
Mohamed Said Samatar: Minister of State
Sheikh Ali Jimale: Minister of Health, Labour and Veterinary Service
Michael Mariano: Minister of Economic Planning
Parliamentarians
Osman Haji Mohamed: MP for El Dheer
Other
Ali Shido Abdi: Vice-Chairman of the SYL
Lewis Clement Salool: Lewis designed the SYL flag in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1942
Ali Herzi Farah: Honourable speaker & Central committee member
Somali Youth Day
The Somali Youth League's establishment on May 15, 1943 is annually commemorated in Somalia. Official celebrations are organized throughout the country on this Somali Youth Day to honour the SYL's members and their key role in the nation's path to independence. In 2014, government representatives, youth associations, women's groups, singers and local residents celebrated the Somali Youth League's 71st anniversary.
See also
History of Somalia
List of political parties in Somalia
Elections in Somalia
References
Sources
External links
SYL election results
Political history of Somalia
1943 establishments in Somalia
Political parties established in 1943
Defunct political parties in Somalia
Somali nationalism
Banned political parties | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Youth%20League |
Sven-Ingvars is a Swedish pop/rock group from Slottsbron, Sweden. The band was formed in 1956 by Sven Svärd (drums), Ingvar Karlsson (guitar and accordion), Sven-Erik Magnusson (vocals, guitar, and clarinet). Later the band were joined first by Rune Bergman on bass guitar and then by Sven-Olof Petersson on tenor and baritone saxophone. The group made their first EP as a quartet in the early 1960s (Guitar Boogie). In the mid-1960s the group was popular in Sweden with hits such as "Te' dans me' Karlstatösera", "Ett litet rött paket", "Fröken Fräken", "Börja om från början", "Säj inte nej, säj kanske, kanske, kanske", "Vid din sida", Önskebrunnen and many others. They were so popular that in 1963, the opening act for the group was The Beatles.
Biography
Ingvar Karlsson is the only remaining member of the band since the start in 1956. Since the 1970s, they have often been classified as a dansband. In 1990, Sven-Ingvars was awarded a Grammis for "Dansband of the year". In 2005, Sven-Ingvars was awarded the "special prize from the jury" at the Grammis awards.
Former member, Sven-Erik Magnusson, died on 22 March 2017 of cancer. The band continued with his son as a singer.
On 6 July 2019 keyboardist Thommy Gustafsson died at the age of 71.
Discography
Te' dans mä Karlstatösera (1963)
Sven Ingvars (1964)
Dans ikväll (1966)
Nu är vi här... igen (1968)
Sven-Ingvars i Carnegie Hall (1970)
Sven-Ingvars i Frödingland (1971)
Man borde inte sova (1972)
På turné (1973)
Allt går igen (1973)
Guld (1975)
Playa blanca (1976)
Åh, va skönt (1977)
Ett vykort från Sven-Ingvars (1978)
Apropå (1980)
Sven-Ingvars jubileums à la carte (1981)
Å vilka tider (1982)
Våga - vinn (1983)
Exposé (1985)
Nya vindar (1987)
Sven-Ingvars kvartett rainbow music (1989)
Dansparty (1992)
Allt går igen (1993)
Två mörka ögon (1994)
På begäran (1994)
Byns enda blondin (1994)
En dröm om våren (1995)
Du flicka med vind i ditt hår (1995)
Septemberbarn (1995)
Kärlekens alla färger (1995)
Lika ung som då (1996)
Hus till salu (1997)
Nio liv (1998)
Älskar du mig (1999)
Retro aktiv (2000)
Här nere på jorden (2001)
Musik vi minns (2003)
Guld & Glöd (2005)
Citations
External links
Grammis awards of 1990
Grammis awards of 2005
Musical groups established in 1956
Dansbands
Swedish pop music groups
1956 establishments in Sweden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven-Ingvars |
Chalkboard is a font released by Apple in 2003. It was released as part of Mac OS X v10.3 and the 10.2.8 update. It is regularly compared to Microsoft's Comic Sans font, which has shipped with Mac OS since Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, although it is not a perfect substitute font since the two are not metrically compatible. Chalkboard was used in all season 2 episodes of "Signing Time!".
References
See also
Kristen (typeface)
Comic Sans
Casual script typefaces
Apple Inc. typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard%20%28typeface%29 |
Imad Moustapha (; born 11 March 1959) is the Syrian Ambassador to China and his country's former Ambassador to the United States.
Biography
Imad Moustapha was born in Aleppo on 11 March 1952.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology (IT) at the University of Damascus, and Secretary General of the Arab School on Science and Technology. He is a co-founder of the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA). This organization was involved in establishing Meedan, "a non-profit social technology company which aims to increase cross-language interaction on the web, with particular emphasis on translation and aggregation services in Arabic and English."
Media
Imad Moustapha regularly writes in the print media and appears on television, representing the Syrian government position. He has also occasionally appeared at public lectures, think-tanks, and world-affairs councils.
Personal
His wide range of interests include: globalization, cultural identities, social and economic impacts of the Internet, and Western classical music.
Allegations of espionage
On June 25, 2011, the Washington Bureau chief of a major Kuwait newspaper (Al Rai), reported in NOW Lebanon that Ambassador Mustapha is engaged in various espionage activities, as well as threats to Syrians living in the US.
See also
University of Damascus
United Nations Development Program
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
References
External links
Imad Moustapha discusses The U.S., Syria and the New Old Middle East: Confrontation or Cooperation?
The Washington Diplomat Newspaper - Ambassador Profile
Murder in Abou Kamal
(Other information in this article as of 26 August 2006 is from Imad Moustapha's personal blog - https://web.archive.org/web/20100105115626/http://imad_moustapha.blogs.com/ - Accessed 19 June 2006. And from Forward Magazine where he is a regular contributing writer.)
1952 births
People from Aleppo
Damascus University alumni
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Ambassadors of Syria to the United States
Ambassadors of Syria to China
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad%20Moustapha |
The list of Druze includes prominent Druze figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.
Literature
Naim Araidi – Israeli writer and poet in Hebrew and Arabic.
Reda Mansour – Israeli Hebrew poet and writer and former ambassador in Ecuador
Rami Zeedan- Israeli Druze political scientist, historian, and author.
Salman Masalha – Israeli poet, essayist and researcher
Samih al-Qasim – Palestinian-Israeli poet.
Sami Makarem – Lebanese-American writer and painter
Media
Mona Abou Hamza – Lebanese TV presenter
Raghida Dergham – Lebanese American journalist.
Casey Kasem – American TV & radio presenter, of Lebanese descent.
Nahida Nakad – Lebanese French senior correspondent and TV executive
Faisal al-Qassem – Syrian television talkshow host
Asmahan (Amaal al-Atrash) – Syrian Lebanese Egyptian female singer, and actress.
Farid al-Atrash – Syrian Lebanese Egyptian male singer, composer, and actor.
Ramy Ayach – Lebanese singer
Fahd Ballan – Syrian male singer.
Politics
Canada
Ziad Aboultaif – Canadian MP for Edmonton Manning.
Israel
Labib Hussein Abu Rokan – Israeli MP and religious judge.
Abdullah Abu Ma'aruf – Israeli MP and physician.
Hamad Amar – Israeli MP.
Assad Assad – Israeli MP, army colonel, and diplomat
Zeidan Atashi – Israeli MP and diplomat
Amal Nasser el-Din – Israeli MP and author
Salah-Hassan Hanifes – Israeli MP
Ayoob Kara – Israeli MP, deputy speaker, and deputy minister
Jabr Moade – Israeli MP and deputy minister
Gadeer Mreeh – Israeli MP and former television anchor
Mohamed Nafa – Israeli MP
Said Nafa – Israeli MP and lawyer
Shachiv Shnaan – Israeli member of parliament
Salah Tarif – Israeli minister, MP, and army captain
Majalli Wahabi – Israeli MP, IDF lieutenant-colonel, and acting president
Lebanon
Akram Chehayeb – Lebanese Minister and MP
Ghazi Aridi – Lebanese minister and MP
Majid Arslan – Lebanese Defense Minister for over 40 years
Shakib Arslan – Lebanese politician, writer, poet and historian
Talal Arslan – Lebanese minister and MP
Fakhr-al-Din II – Ruler (emir) of Lebanon from 1590 to 1633; united Lebanon and parts of Syria and Palestine under his rule
Kamal Jumblatt – Lebanese MP, minister, writer, author, and poet
Walid Jumblatt – Lebanese minister and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party
Marwan Hamadeh – Lebanese minister and MP
Marwan Kheireddin – Lebanese minister
Faisal Al Sayegh – Lebanese MP
Wiam Wahhab – Lebanese Politician
Hadi Aboul-Hosn – Lebanese MP
Syria
Sultan Pasha al-Atrash – Syrian Leader & Commander of the Syrian Revolt.
Mansur al-Atrash – Syrian politician, Interim head of state.
Shibli al-Aysami – former Syrian Vice president and Gen Sec of the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party
Issam Zahreddine – Major General of the Syrian Republican Guard who has played a major role in the Syrian Civil War, leading Syrian Government forces on several fronts.
Jordan
Ayman Safadi – Deputy Prime Minister and Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Venezuela
Tarek El Aissami – Venezuelan interior and justice minister.
Religion
Suliman Bashear – Palestinian-Israeli scholar of Islam
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah – central religious figure of the faith and sixth Imam-Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad – founding religious leader
Amin Tarif (1898–1993) – Israeli religious leader
Mowafak Tarif – Israeli religious leader
Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (1916–2012) – Head of Authority of Senior Sheikhs
Security
Imad Fares – Israeli Brigadier General
Salim Hatoum – Syrian Major. Led overthrow of the government of Amin al-Hafez in 1966.
Yousef Mishleb – Israeli general
Nada Nadim Prouty – Lebanese security agent
Ghassan Alian – Commander of Golani brigade in IDF
Sports
Zidan Amar – Israeli footballer.
Ahad Azam – Israeli footballer
Wiyam Amashe – Israeli footballer
Amir Nasar A Din – Israeli footballer
Sari Falah – Israeli footballer
Amir Halaby – Israeli footballer.
Mahran Lala – Israeli footballer
Nazar Mahmud – Israeli figure skater
Raja Rafe – Syrian footballer
Kenny Hasan Sayef – American-Israeli footballer.
Visual arts
Farid Mansour – Lebanese sculptor and painter
Nabil Kanso – Lebanese-American painter
Michael Netzer (Nassar) – American-Israeli graphical artist
Others
Azzam Azzam – Israeli textile worker, former Israeli prisoner in Egypt
Angelina Fares – Israeli beauty pageant.
Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant.
Majdi Halabi – disappeared and discovered Israeli soldier
Amal Clooney – Lebanese-British lawyer, married to George Clooney
Khaled Camil Abou Chakra – Lebanese Architect, LEED Green Associate / Researcher in Construction & Architectural Sciences
Nadia Aboulhosn – Lebanese-American plus-size model and blogger
Emin Arslan – Born in current-day Lebanon (Ottoman Syria), diplomat, writer and editor
See also
List of Israeli Druze
References
Druze
+
Druze
Druze | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Druze |
Gharib Amzine () (born May 3, 1973 in Montbéliard, Doubs) is a Moroccan professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He played for Mulhouse, Racing Strasbourg and Troyes AC.
Career
Amzine made over 200 competitive appearances for Troyes, making him the club's most capped player as of March 2008.
Whilst at Strasbourg, Amzine played in the 2001 Coupe de France Final in which they beat Amiens SC on penalties.
International career
Born in France, Amzine played for the Morocco national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Managerial career
Amzine is managied Mulhouse from 2013 to 2015.
International career
International goals
Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Montbéliard
Footballers from Doubs
Moroccan men's footballers
Moroccan football managers
Morocco men's international footballers
French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
French men's footballers
French football managers
FC Mulhouse players
RC Strasbourg Alsace players
ES Troyes AC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2002 African Cup of Nations players
FC Mulhouse managers
Men's association football midfielders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharib%20Amzine |
Heraea or Heraia () was the most important town of ancient Arcadia on the Lower Alpheius. It was situated near the frontiers of Elis, and on the high road from Arcadia to Olympia. Its territory was called the Heraeatis or Heraiatis (Ἡραιᾶτις). According to Greek mythology it was said to have been founded by Heraeus, a son of Lycaon, and to have been called originally Sologorgus. At an early period the Heraeans concluded a treaty with the Eleians for mutual protection and support for one hundred years; the original of which treaty, engraved on a bronze tablet in the old Peloponnesian dialect, was brought from Olympia, and is now in the British Museum. This treaty is placed about the 50th Olympiad, or 580 BCE, since it belongs to a time when the Eleians exercised an undisputed supremacy over the dependent districts of Pisatis and Triphylia; and the Heraeans consequently were anxious to avail themselves of their support.
Heraea was, at that time, the chief village among eight others which lay scattered upon the banks of the Alpheius and its tributaries the Ladon and Erymanthus; but the inhabitants of these separate villages were transferred to Heraea, and a city there was founded by the Spartan king Cleombrotus I or Cleonymus. In consequence of their close connection with Sparta, the Heraeans incurred the hostility of the other Arcadians, who laid waste their territory in 370 BCE. At a later time Heraea was a member of the Achaean League; and, as Elis was one of the chief places of the Aetolian League, it is frequently mentioned in the contests between these two powers. It was afterwards in the hands of Philip V of Macedon, but it was restored to the Achaeans. Heraea is mentioned by Strabo as one of the deserted cities of Arcadia; but when it was visited by Pausanias, it was still a place of some importance. The latter writer describes its temples, baths, plantations of myrtles and other trees along the banks of the Alpheius: among its temples he mentions two sacred to Dionysus, one to Pan, and another to Hera, of the latter of which only some ruins were left.
The site of Heraea is fixed by its distance from the mouth of the Ladon, which, according to Pausanias, was 15 stadia. The same writer says that the greater part of the city lay upon a gently sloping hill, and the remainder upon the banks of the Alpheius. The remains of Heraea are visible on a hill west of the village of Agios Ioannis (St. John), bounded on either side by a ravine, and sloping down towards the river. These ruins extend along the summit of the hill and the slope towards the river; but they are inconsiderable, and have for the most part been cleared away in consequence of the fertility of the land. The wine of Heraea was celebrated in antiquity, and was said to make women fruitful.
Heraea was favourably situated in several respects. Its territory was fertile, and it was situated on the high road from Olympia into the interior of Arcadia. From the north of Arcadia a road led into the valley of the Alpheius, near Heraea; and two roads led into the Heraeatis, one from Megalopolis, and the other from Messene and Phigalia, which joined the former close to the town. There was a bridge over the Alpheius close to Heraea, which Philip restored in 219 BCE. The Heraeatis was separated from Pisatis by the river Erymanthus, and from the territory of Megalopolis by the river Buphagus. The famous Tabula Peutingeriana shows a road system connecting Heraia with ancient Olympia, Melaneae and Megalopolis.
It is located on the Alpheios river near Agios Ioannis, a few miles south-west of the modern village of Loutra Iraias, in the municipality of Gortynia in the western Peloponnese, Greece. The modern municipal unit of Iraia is named after it.
People
Famous Olympic champions from Heraia include Demaretos (520 BCE), his son Theopompos (516 BCE), his grandson Theopompos and others.
Religion
The cult of Pan in Heraia differed from similar cults in central Arcadia. A famous statue of Pan with the face of Apollo, created by Polykleitos, was located in Heraia and can be seen stamped on gold coins from the region dating to the 4th century BCE. Silver coins of that era represented Hera, the city's patron goddess.
Excavation
The site of Heraia was excavated by archeologist Alexander Philadelpheus in 1931. Today, the site remains generally closed to the public.
References
Populated places in ancient Arcadia
Former populated places in Greece
Arcadian city-states
Buildings and structures in Peloponnese (region)
Cities in ancient Peloponnese
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraea%20%28Arcadia%29 |
Robert Rene Joseph Picard (born May 25, 1957) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player.
Career
Robert Picard established himself as a highly regarded defensive prospect with the Montreal Juniors and Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge from 1973 to 1977. He was selected 3rd overall by the Washington Capitals in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft.
In Washington, expectations were high due to the team's abysmal performance, and Picard was expected to single-handedly reverse the losing fortunes. Picard played well, but after three seasons of unrealistic expectations he was traded to Toronto in exchange for goaltender Mike Palmateer. Toronto management gave Picard little opportunity to show what he was capable of, sending him to his hometown Montreal Canadiens in exchange for Michel Larocque in March, 1981. In his hometown, the expectations were raised even higher and, as before, Picard, in his sensitivity, tried to do more than he could.
In 1983, he was traded to the Winnipeg Jets and was paired with fellow defender Randy Carlyle, with whom he found an opportunity to play within his means. The time in Winnipeg was good but short. Just over two seasons later, he was again on the move, this time to the Quebec Nordiques, where he was a regular on the blueline for four seasons before retiring after a 20-game stint with the Red Wings in 1990.
Trivia
On November 4, 1983, Picard was traded to the Winnipeg Jets by the Montreal Canadiens for Winnipeg's 3rd round choice in the 1984 Entry Draft, Montreal would use that draft pick to select goaltender Patrick Roy, who would go on to a Hall of Fame career.
Robert Picard signed with the Capitals after he was drafted with the team’s first choice (third overall) in the 1977 NHL amateur draft. He later realized he could make more money in the World Hockey Association and signed a five-year deal for $625,000 with the WHA’s Quebec Nordiques in Sept., 1977. But the WHA barred Picard from playing with the Nords, realizing that the league would face a lawsuit from the NHL if he suited up. An angry and frustrated Picard said "I’d rather deliver pizzas in Quebec City" than play hockey in Washington. A few days later he reported for his first Capitals training camp.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com
1957 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Detroit Red Wings players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge players
Montreal Canadiens players
Montreal Juniors players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Quebec Nordiques (WHA) draft picks
Quebec Nordiques players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Washington Capitals draft picks
Washington Capitals players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Picard |
Terramechanics is the study of soil properties, specifically the interaction of wheeled or tracked vehicles on various surfaces.
The rolling resistance of a tire on soft soil consists mainly of the following components:
soil compaction
the bulldozing-effect
displacement of soil particles
sidewall friction
See also
Mieczysław G. Bekker
Bevameter
Jo Y. Wong
Bevameter
References
External links
Journal of Terramechanics
The International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems
Soil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terramechanics |
The following is a list of marsupials which have been taxonomically described in the 2000s.
Species of the infraclass Marsupialia of mammals discovered and described in the 2000s.
New species list
Arfak pygmy bandicoot — Microperoryctes aplini (2004).
Mountain brushtail possum — Trichosurus cunninghami (2002).
Short-eared possum — Trichosurus caninus (2002).
Red-bellied gracile opossum Cryptonanus ignitus (2002).
Taxonomy
In 2002 it was discovered that the originally named mountain brush-tailed possum of Australia actually consists of two separate species. Due to taxonomic rules, the northern population has been renamed with the common name short-eared possum but will keep the scientific name Trichosurus caninus, while the southern population has been named with the common and scientific names mountain brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus cunninghami). This is because the original type specimen of the species was from the northern population, and therefore must keep the original scientific name.
See also
References
described in 2000s
Marsupials• described in 2000s
Marsupials | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20marsupials%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, generally known as Oldham Council, is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, 60 councillors have been elected from 20 wards. New ward boundaries are due to come into effect from the 2023 election.
Political control
From 1889 to 1974 Oldham was a county borough, independent of any county council. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory enlarged and became a metropolitan borough, with Greater Manchester County Council providing county-level services. The first election to the reconstituted borough council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. Greater Manchester County Council was abolished in 1986 and Oldham became a unitary authority. Political control of the council since 1973 has been held by the following parties:
Leadership
The leaders of the council since 1974 have been:
Council elections
1998 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
1999 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2000 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2002 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2003 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2004 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election (whole Metropolitan Borough Council elected after boundary changes)
2006 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2007 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2008 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2010 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2011 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2012 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2014 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2015 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2016 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2019 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2021 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2022 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
2023 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
Changes between elections
Pre-2004 boundaries
2004 boundaries
References
By-election results
External links
Oldham Council
Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
Elections in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
Council elections in Greater Manchester
Metropolitan borough council elections in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldham%20Metropolitan%20Borough%20Council%20elections |
Beryl Agatha Gilroy (née Answick; 30 August 1924 – 4 April 2001) was a Guyanese educator, novelist, ethno-psychotherapist, and poet. The Guardian described her as "one of Britain's most significant post-war Caribbean migrants." She emigrated to London in 1951 as part of the Windrush generation to attend the University of London, then spend decades teaching, writing, and improving education. She worked primarily with Black women and children as a psychotherapist and her children's books are lauded as some of the first representations of Black London. She is perhaps best known as the first Black head teacher in London.
Early years
Beryl Gilroy was born in Springlands, British Guiana on 30 August 1924 into a very large family. Her father died when she was young and she grew up in the care of her maternal grandparents as a sickly child. Both were influential: her grandfather taught her how to read and her grandmother, Sally Louisa James, was affected her deeply. She was an herbalist who managed the family smallholding. Gilroy spent a lot of time listening to woman chatting as they worked; her grandmother in particular told her folkloric tales and Guyanese proverbs. Gilroy began creative writing during her childhood and was homeschooled, as her grandparents did not think a formal education was good enough for her. At the age of 12, she was sent to Georgetown for schooling, in part to allow her to discover her independence.
Gilroy earned a first-class diploma from a teacher training college in Georgetown in 1945, then taught and lectured for a UNICEF nutrition program. She was also the school head of the infant section of the local governmental school. In 1951, she moved to the United Kingdom and earned a diploma in Child Development from the University of London. In a 1986 interview, she shared that she had to "relearn English because [she] spoke with Guyana idioms and Guyana expressions."
Education career
Being both Black and Caribbean made finding a teaching job difficult for Gilroy. She and E. R. Braithwaite were two of a handful of Caribbean teachers looking for jobs in London and were met with terrible stereotyping from British employers, namely their beliefs that Caribbeans were cannibals and lacked good hygiene. In the meantime, she worked in a mail order factory, as a maid, and as a dishwasher in a café to support herself. She was eventually employed by the Inner London Education Authority in 1953, making her the first Black female teacher in London. Her first teaching job was at a poor Catholic school in Bethnal Green where her third year pupils had already been taught racist stereotypes by their parents. In her 1976 memoir Black Teacher, she recalls the children whimpering and hiding under the table when she first arrived. During this time, she met and married Patrick Gilroy, a British scientist of German heritage who was an active anti-colonialist. She stepped away from teaching between 1956 and 1968 to raise their children, Darla-Jane and Paul, and to earn her master's degree in psychology.
She returned to teaching in 1968, this time as the deputy head at Beckford Primary School (renamed West Hampstead Primary School in 2021). Schools had become more racially diverse during her time away; she variably estimated that between 33 and 55 different nationalities now filled the classrooms. The British Parliament passed the Race Relations Act in 1965, making it possible for her to serve on the Race Relations Board. In 1969, she became the first-ever Black head teacher in London. Despite her rank, she received a lower wage than her oftentimes prejudiced colleagues. In 1980, she took an MA in education at the University of Sussex. She left Beckford in 1982 and moved to the Centre for Multi-Cultural Education, which was run by University of London's Institute of Education and the Inner London Education Authority. In the early 1980s, she co-founded Camden Black Sisters, an information and support group for local Black women. She started her PhD in 1984 at Century University in the United States and completed her doctorate in counselling psychology in 1987. She left the centre in 1990.
Writing
Gilroy's early work examines the impact of life in Britain on West Indian families and her later work explores issues of African and Caribbean diaspora and slavery. Many of her stories, both fiction and non-fiction, came from her time as a teacher or the stories her grandmother told when she was a child. While she was home with her children from 1956 to 1968, she began writing what would become the Nippers series. These are considered the first children's stories about the Black British presence in London and were meant to replace the outdated Janet and John books. She felt that the series was relatable to children of all races because "they have the same problems, only they don't know it or won't accept it." New People at Twenty-Four, one of the books in the Nippers series, discussed interracial marriage. This was a first for a children's book by an author of any race.
She finished her first novel, In Praise of Love and Children, in 1959, but had difficulty getting it published. It centred on the experiences of a young female Guyanese immigrant in London. Some publishers called it "psychological, strange, way-out, [and] difficult-to-categorise" while others regarded it as too colonial. The book was not published until 1994, more than 30 years later. Meanwhile, male Guyanese writers, such as Sam Selvon, George Lamming, E. R. Braithwaite, and V. S. Naipaul flourished. The one male writer she felt supported by was Andrew Salkey, who had a history of offering encouragement and assistance to women writers. Courtman suggests that Gilroy tried hard not to be "marginalised by any literary for black-feminist political label. In her life, she often had to carry the burden of representation in a way that white British-born writers have not." She has been considered by 21st-century scholars as the victim of "writing at the 'wrong' time and in the 'wrong' gender." It wasn't until the 1980s, when women were able to pursue publishing opportunities more readily, that any of her writing was legitimately read.
Black Teacher, Gilroy's 1976 memoir about her experiences as a Black teacher in London, was described by Sandra Courtman as an "experiment with an intermediary form – somewhere between fiction and autobiography, with a distinct non-linear structure. She felt compelled to write about her experiences as a teacher so a woman's story could be heard alongside books like Braithwaite's To Sir, With Love; she also wanted "to set the record straight." Marina Warner notes in the London Review of Books that, even though the books were both about being a Black Guyanese teacher in a poor, white London classroom: "Gilroy was accused of boasting and of exaggerating the prejudice she had faced; for her part, she complained her account had been softened in the editing. In To Sir, with Love Braithwaite had glowingly described his eventual success in an East End classroom, but he wasn't censured. A black woman's claims, however, were seen as vanity." Reviewing the book for Times Educational Supplement, a teacher from Stockwell Manor Comprehensive School argued that her rise to head teacher was easier than portrayed in the book. Edward Blishen's 1976 review for The Guardian concluded: "If in writing about her work in this multiracial school she doesn't always avoid mere splendid assertion, she makes up for it, again, with anecdotal details more splendid than any assertion." Since first publication, Black Teacher has been republished twice: by Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in 1994 and in 2021 by Faber and Faber, the latter edition featuring an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo.
Personal life and death
Gilroy met her husband Patrick at the library at University College London. They married in 1954 and had two children: Darla-Jane and Paul. Inspired by the way her grandparents had raised her, she homeschooled both kids. Patrick died suddenly on 5 October 1975. She attended therapy to cope with her grief and came away even more interested in psychology and counselling than she already had been. She earned her doctorate in psychology and counselling 12 years later. Gilroy died on 4 April 2001 at the Royal Free Hospital in Camden, London, from an aortic aneurysm. She is buried at Highgate Cemetery. She had been scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the 4th annual Caribbean Women Writers Association Conference two days after her death.
Gilroy liked fashion and enjoyed dressing up, even for teaching. The orange skirt suit she was wearing when she arrived in the UK was on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Black British Style exhibition in 2004. She identified as a feminist throughout her life, something she felt was particularly important for Black women.
Honours and awards
1982: Greater London Council's Creative Writing Prize
1986: Greater London Council's Creative Writing Prize for Frangipani House
1987: Guyana Literary Prize for Frangipani House
1989: Guyana Literary Prize for Boy Sandwich
1990: Greater London Council award for services in education
1992: Guyana Literary Prize for Stedman and Joanna
1995: Honorary doctorate in psychology from the University of North London
1996: Honoured by the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
1996: Guyana Literary Prize for Inkle and Yarico
2000: Honorary fellowship from the University of London's Institute of Education for major contributions to educational psychology in London
2004: Gilroy's orange skirt suit was included in an exhibition entitled Black British Style at the Victoria and Albert Museum
2022: A mural of Gilroy by Fipsi Seilern outside West Hampstead Primary School, formerly Beckford Primary School
Bibliography
1967–1971: Green and Gold Readers for Guyana - Longman, Green & Co.
1973–1976: Nippers series - Macmillan Publishers
1973: A Visitor from Home
1973: Knock at Mrs. Herbs'''
1973: New People at Number 24
1973: The Paper Bag
1975: No More Pets
1975: Outings for Everyone
1975: The Present
1975: Rice and Peas
1976: Arthur Small
1976: New Shoes
1975: Little Nippers series - Macmillan Publishers
1975: In Bed 1975: Bubu's Street
1975: Once Upon a Time 1976: Black Teacher - Cassell (reprinted Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1994; Faber and Faber, 2021)
1978: In for a Penny 1980: Carnival of Dreams 1986: Frangipani House - Heinemann
1989: Boy Sandwich - Heinemann
1991: Steadman and Joanna: A Love in Bondage - Vantage Press
1991: Echoes and Voices - Vantage Press
1994: In Praise of Love and Children - Peepal Tree Press
1994: Sunlight and Sweet Water - Peepal Tree
1994: Gather the Faces - Peepal Tree
1994: Inkle and Yarico - Peepal Tree
1998: Leaves in the Wind - Mango Publishing
2001: The Green Grass Tango (published posthumously)
See also
Caribbean literature
Betty Campbell, the first Black headteacher in Wales
External links
Courtman, Sandra. Women Writers and the Windrush Generation: A Contextual Reading of Beryl Gilroy's In Praise of Love and Children in Andrea Levy's Small Island''.
References
1924 births
2001 deaths
20th-century British novelists
20th-century poets
20th-century Guyanese women writers
Academics of the UCL Institute of Education
Afro-Guyanese people
Alumni of the University of London
Black British schoolteachers
Black British women writers
Caribbean women writers
Guyanese emigrants to the United Kingdom
Guyanese novelists
Guyanese women novelists
Guyanese women poets
Heads of schools in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl%20Gilroy |
Didier Angibeaud-Nguidjol (born 8 October 1974) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer played as a midfielder.
He played for Le Havre, FC Istres, Toulon and OGC Nice in France and also for Sturm Graz in Austria.
He played for Cameroon national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Douala
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian men's footballers
French men's footballers
Cameroon men's international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
FC Istres players
Le Havre AC players
OGC Nice players
SC Toulon players
SK Sturm Graz players
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Angibeaud |
Michael Kelleher is an American poet. He is the author of four collections of poems, Visible Instruments (Chax Press, 2017), Museum Hours (BlazeVOX Books, 2016) Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared at The Brooklyn Rail, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Colorado Review, ecopoetics, and many others. He has read his work throughout the U.S., in Canada, the U.K., and Africa, and also as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba, in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay, he founded OlsonNow, a project devoted to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. From 2008-2013, he produced a blog project called "Aimless Reading", in which he daily photographed, catalogued, and wrote about the more than 1200 titles in his personal library. He is the former Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center, where in 2007 he founded Babel, an international author lecture series, at which he conducted live, on-stage interviews with authors such as Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. In 2012, he was appointed the founding Director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
External links
Pearlblossom Highway Kelleher's personal blog and the home of the Aimless Reading Project
OlsonNow a blog on the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson, edited by Michael Kelleher and Ammiel Alcalay
Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005) edited by Michael Kelleher, with contributions by Amiri Baraka & Susan Howe among others
American male poets
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kelleher |
Jo Y. Wong is a Chinese mechanical engineer who is a professor emeritus and distinguished research professor at Carleton University.
Education
Wong earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Tsinghua University and a PhD from Newcastle University. In 1986, Newcastle University awarded him an honorary D.Sc. in recognition of his research achievements.
Career
After earning his PhD, Wong joined the Faculty of Engineering at Carleton University in 1968. He has been a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. Wong has been presented with numerous awards including the George Stephenson Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Wong retired from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in 1999 and became Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor.
His book, Theory of Ground Vehicles, is a seminal work, is widely cited. Wong's research interests include terramechanics, off-Road vehicle mobility, road vehicle dynamics, computer simulation of vehicle systems, computer-aided methods for design evaluation of transport vehicles, air cushion technology, and advanced guided ground transportation systems.
The J.Y. and E.W. Wong Research Award in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering is awarded annually, when merited, to outstanding full-time PhD candidates in either mechanical or aerospace engineering. The recipient must have demonstrated excellence in research with potentially significant impact on engineering practice.
External links
Official faculty page of Jo Y. Wong (Carleton University website)
List of Jo Y. Wong publications (Carleton University website)
References
Canadian mechanical engineers
Canadian educators
Academic staff of Carleton University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tsinghua University alumni
Alumni of Newcastle University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Y.%20Wong |
Karl Ove Knausgård (; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp). He has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".
Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. He has won the 2009 Brage Prize, 2017 Jerusalem Prize, and 2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize.
Biography
Born in Oslo, Knausgård was raised on Tromøya in Arendal and in Kristiansand, and studied arts and literature at the University of Bergen. He then held various jobs, including teaching high school in northern Norway, selling cassettes, working in a psychiatric hospital and on an oil platform, while trying to become a writer. He eventually moved to Stockholm and published his first novel in 1998.
Literary career
Debut and follow-up
Knausgård made his publishing debut in 1998 with the novel Out of the World, for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. This was the first time in the award's history that a debut novel had won.
His second novel, A Time for Everything (2004), partly retells certain parts of the Bible as well as the history of angels on earth. The book won a number of awards, and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. It was also nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. It was called a "strange, uneven, and marvelous book" by The New York Review of Books.
The Min Kamp books
While Knausgård's two first books were well received, it was the six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels that made Knausgård a household name in Norway. Published from 2009 to 2011 and totaling over 3,500 pages, the books were hugely successful and also caused much controversy. The controversy was caused partly because the Norwegian title of the book, Min Kamp, is the same as the Norwegian title of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and partly because some have suggested Knausgård goes too far in exposing the private lives of his friends and family—including his father, ex-wife, uncle, and grandmother. The books have nevertheless received almost universally favorable reviews, at least the first two volumes. In a country of five million people, the Min Kamp series has sold over 450,000 copies.
The Min Kamp series is translated into numerous languages. The books were published to great critical acclaim in Denmark, Sweden, and several other countries. All six have been translated into English by Don Bartlett for publication by Archipelago Books (US) and Harvill Secker (UK), and have been retitled in Britain as A Death in the Family, A Man in Love, Boyhood Island, Dancing in the Dark, Some Rain Must Fall, and The End (The End translated by Bartlett and Martin Aitken). The audiobooks of the English translations were recorded by Edoardo Ballerini.
In a long and largely positive review of the first Min Kamp books, James Wood of The New Yorker wrote that "There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgård's book: even when I was bored, I was interested."
Later works
Knausgård served as a consultant to the new Norwegian translation of the Bible. In 2013, he published a collection of essays, Sjelens Amerika: tekster 1996–2013 (""), and as of September 2013 he is adapting his novel Out of the World into a screenplay.
Between 2015 and 2016, Knausgaard published his Seasons Quartet, a series of four books entitled Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. These books are also autobiographical in nature, consisting of diary excerpts, letters, and other personal materials. These books were released in English between 2017 and 2018.
Knausgaard has also written works devoted to the visual arts. He co-authored Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm, a book in 2018 on the German artist Anselm Kiefer with James Lawrence. In 2019, Knausgaard published a monograph on the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, and his interview about Munch also appeared as a highlight of the British Museum's 2019 exhibition catalog, Edvard Munch: Love and Angst, by curator Giulia Bartrum.
In October 2019 Knausgård became the sixth writer chosen to contribute to the Future Library project.
Knausgård's essay collection, In the Land of the Cyclops (2018), was first published in English in January 2021.
Novel series 2020-2023
In September 2020 Knausgård's novel Morgenstjernen ("The Morning Star"), a story about a number of peoples' everyday life in southern Norway while a mysteriously bright star appears in the sky, was published to critical acclaim in Norway. Danish and Swedish translations were published a few months later to great critical acclaim.
It was sold in advance to fifteen countries.
In 2021 Ulvene fra evighetens skog, a sequel to Morgenstjernen mainly set in Norway and the Soviet Union in the 1980s, was published in Norway. The English translation The Wolves of Eternity was published in September 2023. A third book in the series with the title Det tredje riket followed in 2022. A fourth book, Nattskolen, was published (in Norwegian) in October 2023.
Critical reception
Following the publication of Min kamp, Knausgård has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations" by the Wall Street Journal. Some consider him the greatest Norwegian writer since playwright Henrik Ibsen. His deliberately prolix and minutely detailed style drew comparison to that of French novelist Marcel Proust and his seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time.
Knausgård's 2020 novel The Morning Star was a critical success in Scandinavia. While reviewers of the English translation of the novel were more ambivalent, Knausgård was acknowledged as "one of the finest writers alive" by Dwight Garner in New York Times and "a writer of supreme interest" by Charles Arrowsmith in Los Angeles Times.
Editing career
Between 1999 and 2002 Knausgård was co-editor of Vagant, a Norwegian literary magazine founded in 1988. He was part of the first editorial team of Vagant in Bergen; until 1999 the magazine had been based in Oslo. Knausgård contributed essays about the writings of Don DeLillo and The Divine Comedy by Dante. He also conducted in-depth interviews with the Norwegian writers Rune Christiansen and Thure Erik Lund for the magazine. Just after he left Vagant and Bergen, his former co-editor Preben Jordal wrote a very negative review of Knausgård's second novel in the magazine, with the title «Mellom Bibel og babbel» ("Between the Bible and babble")—an episode discussed in the second volume of Min Kamp.
Publishing career
In 2010, he founded a small, eclectic publishing house, Pelikanen (Pelican), with his brother Yngve Knausgård and Asbjørn Jensen. Pelikanen has so far published Denis Johnson, Peter Handke, Christian Kracht, Ben Marcus, Curzio Malaparte and Stig Larsson in Norwegian translations.
Personal life
Knausgård is currently married to his third wife, Michal Knausgård. She is the publishing director of Fern Press in London, and previously worked as editorial director of Harvill Secker, where she edited and published Knausgård's novels. Shavit and Knausgård have one child, and live together in London, along with their children from prior marriages.
Knausgård lived in Österlen, Sweden, with his second wife, the writer Linda Boström Knausgård, and their four children until November 2016 when he and his wife separated.
He now lives between London and Sweden.
In a radio interview with his estranged first wife, Tonje Aursland, who plays a part in several of the Min Kamp books, Knausgård admitted that he sometimes feels that he has made a "Faustian bargain"—that he has achieved huge success by sacrificing his relationships with friends and members of his family. In October 2010, Aursland presented her perspective on involuntarily becoming a subject of her ex-husband's autobiography in a radio documentary broadcast on NRK. Knausgård's uncle, who is represented as Gunnar in the Min Kamp books, has been highly critical of the whole project in the Norwegian press.
Bibliography
1998: Ute av verden, Tiden Norsk Forlag, 1998,
Out of the World, Archipelago, 2023, translated by Martin Aitken,
2004: En tid for alt, Oktober
A Time for Everything 2004
2009–2011: My Struggle (Min Kamp), six volumes
A Death in the Family. My Struggle 1, Penguin
A Man in Love. My Struggle 2, Penguin
Boyhood Island. My Struggle 3, Penguin
Dancing in the Dark. My Struggle 4, Penguin
Some Rain Must Fall. My Struggle 5, Penguin
The End. My Struggle 6, Penguin
Sjelens Amerika, Oktober, 2013,
2014: Nakker
Necks Photographs by Thomas Wagstrom, Max Strom, Bokforlaget, 2015,
2015–2016: Årstid encyklopedien (Seasonal Encyclopedia)
Om høsten (Autumn), 2015, Illustrated by Vanessa Baird,
Autumn, Penguin, 2017,
Om vinteren (Winter), 2015 Illustrated by Lars Lerin,
Winter, Penguin, 2018,
Om våren (Spring), 2016, Illustrated by Anna Bjerger,
Spring, Penguin, 2018,
Om sommeren (Summer), 2016, Illustrated by Anselm Kiefer,
Summer, Penguin, 2018,
2015: Hjemme – Borte With Fredrik Ekelund
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game, 2017 (English translation), with Fredrik Ekelund, translated by Don Bartlett and Sean Kinsella,
2018: Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm with James Lawrence,
2019: So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch,
2020: Morgenstjernen, Oktober
The Morning Star, Penguin, 2021, translated by Martin Aitken,
2021: Ulvene fra evighetens skog, Oktober
The Wolves of Eternity, Penguin, 2023, translated by Martin Aitken,
2022: Det tredje riket, Oktober
2023: Nattskolen, Oktober
Articles in English
2015:
2020:
Awards and nominations
Nominations
Nominated for the 2004 Nordic Council's Literature Prize
Awards
1998 Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
2009 Brage Prize
2009 NRK P2 Listeners' Prize
2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet
2015 Welt-Literaturpreis
2017 Jerusalem Prize
2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize
2023 Lenin Award
See full list of Awards and honours of My Struggle
References
External links
Karl Ove Knausgård at Aschehoug Agency
Karl Ove Knausgård at Forlaget Oktober
Karl Ove Knausgård Proust Questionnaire at Portobello Books
Karl Ove Knausgård Bibliography
(Audio)
(Audio)
Karl Ove Knausgård interview in English for Canada's CBC radio
Karl My First Time Paris Review interview
Reviews
Ben Lerner on Knausgård in London Review of Books
"My Struggle vol. 1" in Politiken (Danish)
"My Struggle vol. 2" in Politiken (Danish)
"My Struggle vol. 1–4" in Göteborgs-Posten (Swedish)
"My Struggle vol. 1" in Dagbladet Information (Danish)
"A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven" in The Independent
1968 births
Living people
Norwegian male writers
20th-century Norwegian novelists
21st-century Norwegian novelists
The New Yorker people
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners
Norwegian expatriates in Sweden
People from Arendal
University of Bergen alumni
Prix Médicis essai winners
Controversies in Sweden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ove%20Knausg%C3%A5rd |
Joseph Cirella (born May 9, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in 828 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He has additionally served as assistant coach and assistant general manager of the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. Cirella was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but grew up in Stoney Creek, Ontario.
Playing career
Cirella joined the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) at the age of 17 and served as team captain as the Generals won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions in 1983. He was selected fifth overall in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Rockies.
He was traded along with Claude Loiselle from the New Jersey Devils to the Quebec Nordiques for Walt Poddubny on June 17, 1989.
Cirella played for the Rockies, Devils, Nordiques, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers and Ottawa Senators during an NHL career that lasted 14 seasons. He scored the first goal, and also registered an assist on the game-winning goal in the 36th National Hockey League All-Star Game, played in his home arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1984. He was the last former Colorado Rockies player in the NHL at the time of his final game. He retired in 1997 after playing one year in Germany with the Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Coaching
After retiring as a player, Cirella served as an assistant coach with the NHL's Florida Panthers during the 1997-98 season before returning to the Ontario Hockey League where he served in the same capacity with the Oshawa Generals for five seasons. After spending the 2009–10 season in the Peterborough Petes' front office, he returned to the Generals as assistant general manager and assistant coach.
References
External links
Joe Cirella's Hockey Camps
1963 births
Canadian sportspeople of Italian descent
Colorado Rockies (NHL) draft picks
Colorado Rockies (NHL) players
Florida Panthers coaches
Florida Panthers players
Kölner Haie players
Living people
Milwaukee Admirals (IHL) players
National Hockey League All-Stars
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New Jersey Devils players
New York Rangers players
Oshawa Generals players
Ottawa Senators players
Quebec Nordiques players
Ice hockey people from Hamilton, Ontario
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian ice hockey coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Cirella |
Stanley Greaves (born 1934) is a Guyanese painter and writer who is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists. Writing in 1995 at the time of a retrospective exhibition to celebrate Greaves's 60th birthday, Rupert Roopnarine stated: "It may be that no major Caribbean artist of our time has been more fecund and versatile than Stanley Greaves of Guyana." Greaves himself has said of his own creativity:
I still don't talk about myself as making art! Other people do that. I am a maker of things. In the early days, I found empty matchboxes, cigarette boxes, bits of string, wire, empty boot-polish tins, whatever, and made things. Drawing was just another activity, and it still is. My favorite medium is still wood, of course. My hitherto secret preoccupation with writing poems, which has now come to light, is another form of making. Recently at the University of Birmingham, where I did a reading, I was asked if the paintings influenced the poetry, and I said, "No, they come from the same source."
Biography
Greaves was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He studied art in Guyana with Edward Burrowes in the Working Peoples' Art Class (1948–61) and from 1963 to 1968 attended University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK, where he studied painting, majoring in sculpture for the B.A.Hons degree in Fine Art. He also earned a Diploma in Art Teaching. He was a Fulbright Scholar from 1979 to 1980 at Howard University, where he did printmaking and sculpture for the MFA degree.
In Guyana, Greaves taught at Sacred Heart Primary, St. Stanislaus College (his old schools), Berbice High School, Queen's College, from 1971 to 1975, and was the first Head of the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Guyana from 1975 to 1986. He left Guyana in 1987 and has been resident in Barbados since that time. He now lives in North Carolina.
Before and while in Barbados he served on the first art and craft panel designing the syllabus for the Caribbean Examinations Council and has been a part-time tutor at the Barbados Community College. He was elected a Distinguished Honourable Fellow at University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus in 2003 and it was extended.
Work as an artist
As an artist Greaves works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. He was awarded the Guyana national honour of the Golden Arrow of Achievement in 1975. He has exhibited at national level, winning several prizes, and has had one-man shows. He represented Guyana twice at the São Paulo Biennial and once at the Medellin Bienniale in Colombia. He has had major exhibitions in the UK (in 1999 his work was shown in the landmark exhibition curated by Gottfried Donkor, The Elders, alongside that of Brother Everald Brown of Jamaica) and elsewhere in Europe, as well as throughout the Caribbean. He won a gold medal for painting in the Barbados entry at the Santo Domingo Bienniale. He has been exhibiting since arriving in North Carolina, USA, in 2008, at the Fayetteville Museum of Art, Moruca Gallery Washington, the University of Fayetteville, the State University of North Carolina. and Claflin University in South Carolina, the OAS in Washington, and Castellani House in Guyana.
In 2014 he celebrated his 80th birthday with an exhibition of 24 paintings based on his reading of the novels of the renowned Guyanese author Wilson Harris.The paintings were also shown at the OAS in 2015. He also won the gold medal for painting in the 2017 Guyana Visual Arts and Craft Exhibition where he declared it was his last showing in that exhibition. 2018 he showed photographs of 14 sculptures -The El dorado Series sponsored by Diamond distilleries. The actual works were shown at the OAS 2019.
Over the years his paintings have appeared on the cover of several books. He has also done pen and ink illustrations for poems of Martin Carter, Ian Mc David, both distinguished Poets of the Caribbean.
Writing
His collection of poems Horizons, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2002, won the Guyana Prize for Literature in the first book of poems category. His most recent collection is The Poems Man (Peepal Tree Press, 2009). He co-authored, with Anne Walmsley, Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction, published in 2010 by New Beacon Books. "Haiku" is his third book. Each contains pen and ink drawings. He has also collaborated with Akima Mc Pherson of the University of Guyana to write a series of articles in the Sunday Stabroek on individual works in the Guyana National Collection.
Personal life
Greaves was for a time married to the painter Alison Chapman-Andrews.
Selected awards
1979: Fulbright Award
1994: Gold medal, Santo Domingo Biennale of Painting (for triptych There Is a Meeting Here Tonight)<ref>Rosaliene Bacchus, "On the Anniversary of Guyana’s Independence Day: A Tribute to Stanley Greaves", Three Worlds One Vision ~ Guyana – Brazil – USA", 26 May 2013.</ref>
2002: Guyana Prize for Literature for best first book of poems (Horizons: Selected Poems 1969–1998)
2014: Guyana National Lifetime Award for Art
2017: Gold Medal First Prize (painting) Guyana National Art & Craft Competition
References
External links
Vibert C. Cambridge, PhD, "Profiles of Caribbean Artistry – Stanley Greaves: The Guyanist", 4 January 2004, eCaroh Caribbean Emporium.
Author information at Peepal Tree Press.
"Stanley Greaves Art", CaribNation interview on YouTube.
Rupert Roopnarine, "Master Maker: Stanley Greaves" (interview), Caribbean Beat'', Issue 72 (March/April 2005).
"Stanley Greaves" at Diaspora Artists.
Guyanese poets
Living people
Barbadian painters
People from Georgetown, Guyana
Alumni of Newcastle University
Howard University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Guyana
20th-century Guyanese painters
21st-century Guyanese painters
21st-century poets
Guyanese male writers
Male poets
21st-century male writers
1934 births
Recipients of the Wordsworth McAndrew Award | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Greaves |
Alban wine is a notable wine of Ancient Rome that was grown in the Colli Albani (Alban Hills) region, Southeast of Rome, at the foot of Mt. Albus. The area is now occupied by the modern day papal residence of Castelgandolfo. The land was praised by Columella: "For there is no doubt that, of all the vines that the earth sustains, those of the Massic, Surrentine, Alban, and Caecuban lands hold first place in the excellence of their wine" (De re rustica, III.8.5).
Dionysius of Halicarnassus noted the quality of the area's wine as he wrote: "Lying below the city are plains marvelous to behold and rich in producing wines and fruits of all sorts in no degree inferior to the rest of Italy, and particularly what they call the Alban wine, which is sweet and excellent and, with the exception of the Falernian, certainly superior to all others." (Roman Antiquities Book 1).
Reputation and characteristics
In AD 77, Pliny the Elder rated Alban wine third in reputation after Caecuban wine and Falernian wine. (Natural History Book XIV) Pliny described the wines as "extremely sweet and occasionally dry". It was known as one of the preferred wines of the Roman upper class and was commonly made as several varieties-very sweet, sweetish, rough, and sharp. The wine was considered best after aging.
Horace
Alban wine earned several mentions in the work of the Roman poet Horace. It was listed as one of the fine wines served at Nasidienus' dinner party in Satires 2.8. In Satire 4, Horace makes the note that
Venuculan grapes are best when preserved:
Alban are better smoked.
In Ode 4:9, Horace presents as gift to his friend Maecenas, on his birthday, a jar of Alban wine that was over 9 years old.
See also
Ancient Rome and wine
References
External links
Penelope Project U. Chicago
Ancient wine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban%20wine |
Charles Carroll Colby, (December 10, 1827 – January 10, 1907) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician.
He was born in Derby, Vermont in 1827, the son of Moses French Colby, and came to Stanstead, Quebec with his family in 1832. He studied at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He studied law, was called to the Quebec bar in 1855 and entered practice at Stanstead. In 1858, he married Harriet Child. Colby was elected as a Liberal-Conservative MP in the House of Commons of Canada in 1867 representing Stanstead and remained in parliament until his defeat in 1891. He served as President of the Privy Council under Sir John A. Macdonald from 1889 to 1891 and was previously Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons. Colby supported the introduction of tariffs to reciprocate against those imposed by the United States. He was a trustee of Stanstead College and a director for several railway companies. Colby served as vice-president of the Quebec Temperance and Prohibitory League.
Colby was the author of Parliamentary government in Canada, published in Montreal in 1886. He died in Montreal at the age of 79.
In 1859, Colby built Carrollcroft, his residence at Stanstead, which now serves as the site of the Colby-Curtis Museum.
Electoral record
References
External links
The Colbys of Stanstead
The Colbys of Stanstead - Charles Carroll Colby
1827 births
1907 deaths
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
People from Derby, Vermont | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Carroll%20Colby |
Henry John Woodcock (born 23 March 1967 in Taunton, England) is an Italian prosecutor currently based in Naples
Background and early life
Woodcock's father was British and worked as a teacher at Livorno's Naval Academy in northern Italy and his mother was from the southern Italian city of Naples.
Woodcock worked in Potenza for about ten years where he was a colleague of the former magistrate Luigi De Magistris, mayor of Naples until 2021, and they cooperated in anti-mafia investigations.
Some high-profile prosecutions
Woodcock became a prosecutor in 1996 and has become noted for his investigations in high-profile scandals including the Italian "Vip Gate" in 2003, and "Savoiagate" in 2006.
On 16 June 2006, Woodcock asked for, and obtained from the Judge of the preliminary investigation an arrest warrant against Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy in Varenna accusing him of participating in corruption, forgery, and organization of prostitution in relation to an investigation of the Casino of Campione d'Italia. The arrest was made after wire taps had been intercepted between Vittorio Emanuele and other suspects during a two-year investigation. Thirteen of 24 people investigated were arrested. Seven of these were jailed, while six were placed under house arrest. Among the other suspects were Salvatore Sottile, the spokesman of former foreign minister Gianfranco Fini and casino managers from Messina, Sicily. Italian television also indicated that Vittorio's cousin Simeon II of Bulgaria, the last Tsar and former prime minister of Bulgaria, was under investigation. Vittor Emanuele was acquitted in Rome in 2010.
Woodcock moved to Naples in September 2009.
See also
Luigi de Magistris (politician)#Famous investigations
References
1967 births
Living people
British emigrants to Italy
English people of Italian descent
Italian people of English descent
Italian prosecutors
People from Taunton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Woodcock%20%28magistrate%29 |
Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.
Life and career
He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.
The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers.
His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.
He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.
Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.
In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.
Awards and honours
2011: Costa Book Awards, shortlist, Flip
Bibliography
Acts of Revision (Doubleday, 1996)
Exit, Orange & Red (Bantam, 1997)
The Houdini Girl (Random House, 1999)
Black Cat (Viking, 2000)
The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam (digital narrative, 2000)
The Island of Lost Souls (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Flip (Walker, 2011)
Never Ending (Walker, 2014)
Twenty Questions for Gloria (Walker, 2016)
References
External links
Official website
1959 births
Living people
English male journalists
21st-century English novelists
People from Ilkley
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with Leeds Trinity University
English male short story writers
English short story writers
English male novelists
21st-century British short story writers
21st-century English male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Bedford |
Perpetuus is Latin for "continuous, entire or universal", and can refer to:
People
Saint Perpetuus, sixth bishop of Tours
L. Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus II, a Roman consul (see List of late imperial Roman consuls)
Titles
dictator perpetuo, Latin for "dictator in perpetuity"
A parish priest of a particular type was called a perpetual curate (curatus perpetuus)
Other
Perpetuum mobile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetuus |
Birdie King (バーデイー・キング) is a golf arcade video game released in 1982 by Taito. It was followed by two sequels: Birdie King 2 in 1983, and Birdie King 3 in 1984.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Birdie King 2 on their June 1, 1983 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
References
1982 video games
Arcade video games
Square Enix franchises
Golf video games
Taito arcade games
Trackball video games
Video games developed in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdie%20King |
Frank Pietri (born Francisco Pietri; July 6, 1934 — March 26, 2020) was an American choreographer and performer in New York City.
History
The Ponce, Puerto Rico-born son of Amalia Vega and Dr Augustin Pietri, Frank Pietri's career spanned more than four decades. A protégé of Matt Mattox, he appeared as a member of the original casts of numerous Broadway musicals, including Ballroom, Seesaw, and Promises, Promises, choreographed by Michael Bennett, I Remember Mama, Golden Rainbow, What Makes Sammy Run?, Wildcat, and Destry Rides Again. He choreographed, directed, and appeared in television shows, nightclub acts, industrials, cruise ships, and films, including Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.
Pietri was on faculty at Matt Mattox School, Morelli School of Dance, Ballet Hispanico School, Peridance Center, Joe Davis Dance Center, Joyce Trisler Dance Studio, Dance Concepts, Inc., Marymount College and New Dance Group Arts Center. As a guest teacher, Pietri took his Free-Style Jazz Technique throughout the U.S. and Europe. He taught at New Dance Group until its closure in February 2009, and also taught at Roy Arias studios in New York City.
References
External links
American male musical theatre actors
American choreographers
Singers from New York City
Place of birth missing
1934 births
2020 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Pietri |
Marcel Mahouvé (born 16 January 1973) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is a cousin of the mother of the Berlin-born siblings Francis, Sylvie and, Nicole Banecki.
Mahouvé played for Tonnerre Yaounde, Dynamo Douala, Putra Samarinda, Montpellier HSC, Clermont Foot Auvergne, FC Inter Turku, Hamilton Academical and 1. FC Saarbrücken. He was also playing for SS Capricorne in the Réunion Premier League. Mahouvé finally joined Persita Tangerang, one of the Liga Indonesia clubs.
He played for Cameroon national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He was part of the victorious 2000 African Cup of Nations squad. In addition to his Cameroonian nationality, he also has French nationality.
He is now playing as an amateur for the FC Miami City Champions in Miami the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southeast Division.
Honours
Montpellier
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999
Cameroon
2000 African Cup of Nations
References
External links
Living people
1973 births
Footballers from Douala
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian men's footballers
Cameroon men's international footballers
Tonnerre Yaoundé players
Montpellier HSC players
1996 African Cup of Nations players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
1. FC Saarbrücken players
Clermont Foot players
FC Inter Turku players
Persita Tangerang players
Ligue 1 players
Veikkausliiga players
2. Bundesliga players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Indonesian Premier Division players
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in France
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Réunion
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Mahouv%C3%A9 |
Egyptian bean is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Lablab purpureus
Nelumbo nucifera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20bean |
Randall W. Moller (born August 23, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted in the first round, eleventh overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1981 National Hockey League (NHL) entry draft. The majority of his career was spent with the Quebec Nordiques. Moller also played with the New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres and the Florida Panthers. Randy is the brother of Mike Moller. He is currently a color commentator for the Panthers.
Broadcasting career
He was featured on the cover of NHLPA Hockey '93 along with goaltender Mike Richter. Moller has been the Panthers' television color analyst since 2015, following eight seasons as the team's radio play-by-play announcer and nine years as a radio analyst before that. He is known for screaming a pop culture reference after Florida Panther goals, though not every goal, and not when the Panthers are out of the game. Examples such as references to Tracy Morgan on 30 Rock, a Christian Bale tirade, film quotes from Wedding Crashers, Jaws, and Forrest Gump are included on a YouTube clip produced by The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.
The goal calls by Moller were done in conjunction with The Dan Le Batard Show, which shared the radio station that hosts the Florida Panthers radio play-by-play. The show and listeners provide Moller with numerous pop culture references, and he then chooses what he likes and uses it during games. He is also the president of the Panthers Alumni Association.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards
WHL Second All-Star Team – 1982
References
External links
1963 births
Billings Bighorns players
Buffalo Sabres players
Florida Panthers announcers
Florida Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Red Deer, Alberta
Lethbridge Broncos players
Living people
National Hockey League broadcasters
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New York Rangers players
Quebec Nordiques draft picks
Quebec Nordiques players
Red Deer Rustlers players
Rochester Americans players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Moller |
This page is a list of species of the order Primates described in the 2000s.
2000
Rio Acari marmoset (Callithrix acariensis) and Manicore marmoset (C. manicorensis), two species of marmoset described from Brazil in 2000, the Manicore marmoset has since been downgraded to a subspecies of Marca's marmoset (M. marcai).
The Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis), Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (M. berthae) and northern rufous mouse lemur (M. tavaratra) were three species of tiny lemur discovered in Madagascar in 2000.
2001
In 2001 several new species of dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus) were named, including the furry-eared dwarf lemur (C. crossleyi), lesser iron-gray dwarf lemur (C. minusculus), and Sibree's dwarf lemur (C.sibreei). However, the southern fat-tailed dwarf lemur (C. adipicaudatus) was later deemed synonymous with the fat-tailed dwarf lemur (C. medius), and the greater iron-gray dwarf lemur (C. ravus) was synonymous with the greater dwarf lemur (C. major)
Another new woolly lemur was described as the Sambirano woolly lemur (Avahi unicolor).
2002
Prince Bernhard's titi (Callicebus bernhardi) and Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi) were two new species of titi discovered in Brazil in 2002.
2004
The Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala), discovered in India in 2004. Known to the locals as Munzala, it is thought to be most closely related to the Assam macaque and Tibetan macaque, and is the first macaque species to be discovered since 1908.
2005
Kipunji, or highland mangabey, (Rungwecebus kipunji), discovered in Tanzania in 2005. Originally grouped within the genus Lophocebus, the distinctive monkey with mohawk-style hair was declared as a member of a new genus in 2006.
In 2005 a new species of woolly lemur, or avahi, which was discovered in the 1990s, was named Bemaraha woolly lemur (Avahi cleesei), after the British comedian John Cleese.
The GoldenPalace.com monkey (Callicebus aureipalatii), a type of titi from Bolivia, was so named following a charity auction held in 2005 to name the species. The auction was won by online casino Goldenpalace.com, which bid $650,000 to name the monkey (aureipalatii is Latin for 'of the Golden Palace'). The money went towards maintaining the monkeys' home, the Madidi National Park.
Goodman's mouse lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara), discovered in Madagascar and presented in 2005. The northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza), was also discovered to be a distinct species to Coquerel's giant mouse lemur (Mirza coquereli), and announced at the same time.
2006
The blond capuchin (Cebus queirozi) was discovered near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2006. However, it was found to be a rediscovery of a monkey named Simia flavia, known only from a drawing by German taxonomist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber. It has since been officially renamed Sapajus flavius.
In 2006, researchers announced three new species of sportive lemur have been identified. Genetic tests revealed the red-tailed sportive lemur (Lepilemur ruficaudatus) is in fact three separate species, and the gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis) was split into two. The lemurs show no obvious morphological differences, but are in communities separated geographically by rivers.
2008
Aracá uakari (Cacajao ayresii), a new species of uakari.
Neblina uakari (Cacajao hosomi), a new species of uakari.
Siau Island tarsier (Tarsius tumpara), a new species of tarsier.
See also
List of primates described in the 2010s
List of primates described in the 2020s
Mammals described in the 2000s
References
Primates
described in the 2000s
History of primatology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20primates%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
Caroline Ellis (born 12 October 1950) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in Only Fools and Horses as Michelle and her other roles in a 1968 TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Jill Rowles in the Southern TV adventure series Freewheelers in 1972, and a "Brummie" holiday camper (Glad) in the raunchy 1977 comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp.
Ellis was best known to American audiences for her role as the character Joy in The Bugaloos (1970).
Ellis is divorced and the mother of one daughter, Sasha, born in 1985. As of 2006, Ellis was no longer acting but was working in real estate in Spain, where she lived with her daughter.
A sampled excerpt of Ellis singing a line from the Bugaloos appears on "The Darkness That You Fear", a 2021 single from The Chemical Brothers.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
The Bugaloos: Caroline "Joy" Ellis
1950 births
Living people
Actresses from London
English television actresses
English film actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Ellis |
John Woo's 7 Brothers is a 2006 five-issue comic book limited series published under the Director's Cut imprint of Virgin Comics. The series was produced by John Woo, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Jeevan Kang. In 2007, the series was followed by a sequel, John Woo's 7 Brothers II, written by Ben Raab and Deric Hughes, with art by Edison George.
Plot summary
Six hundred years ago, a mighty treasure fleet set out to sail the oceans of the world. They reached every continent, discovered every land long before history's great explorers stole the credit for their feats. Now, in modern-day Los Angeles, seven men with nothing in common but their destinies are drawn together in the service of a mysterious young woman. An ancient prophecy must be fulfilled. Something terrible is reaching out across the centuries. There's a world to be saved... and the only hope for us all is a motley crew of so-called brothers and a power too terrifying to be used.
Similar books
The graphic novel Seven Sons, by Alexander Grecian and Riley Rossmo and released through AiT/Planet Lar, was based on the same folktale about seven Chinese brothers with unique powers. The original title of Seven Sons was 7 Brothers, but it was changed to avoid confusion with the Woo/Ennis book.
Publications
Seven Brothers (by Garth Ennis and Jeevan Kang, based on a concept by John Woo, 5-issue mini-series, Virgin Comics, 2006, tpb, 144 pages, July 2007, )
See also
Indian comics
References
External links
Seven Brothers at Liquid Comics
Review of issue #1, Comics Bulletin
Garth Ennis on Seven Brothers
2006 comics debuts
Comics by Garth Ennis
Virgin Comics titles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Brothers%20%28comics%29 |
Truth N' Time is a studio album by the soul singer Al Green, released in 1978. It was Green's last album of mainly secular music for several years.
The album peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Production
Truth N' Time was recorded at Green's American Music studio. Green produced the album.
Critical reception
The Bay State Banner wrote: "The inclusion of 'To Sir With Love' and 'Say A Little Prayer' can be questioned, but Al stomps and cuts through them just like a thoroughbred racer. Some really tremendous session work also, though minus the quiet excellence of drummer Howard Grimes."
In a 2006 review of a reissue, Rolling Stone stated that Truth n' Time "contains too much filler for an album not even twenty-seven minutes long."
Track listing
"Blow Me Down" (Bernard Staton, Carol Staton) - 3:10
"Lo and Behold" (Bernard Staton, Fred Jordan) - 3:15
"Wait Here" (Green, Reuben Fairfax, Jr., Fred Jordan) - 2:45
"To Sir with Love" (Don Black, Mark London) - 4:09
"Truth N' Time" (Green) - 3:41
"King of All" (Bernard Staton, Carol Staton) - 2:23
"I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 2:13
"Happy Days" (Green) - 5:13
Personnel
Al Green - vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, arrangements
Bernard Staton, James Bass - guitar
Brian Batie, Errol Thomas, James Turner - bass
Fred Jordan, Gary Lax, Jesse Butler, Johnny Brown, Purvis Leon Thomas, Charles Renard Webb - keyboards
John Toney - drums, percussion
Ron Echols - tenor and baritone saxophone
Buddy Jarrett - alto saxophone
Darryl Neely, Fred Jordan - trumpet
Buddy Jarrett, Harvey Jones, Linda Jones - backing vocals
Fred Jordan - engineer
Kinji Nishimura - photography
References
Al Green albums
1978 albums
Hi Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20n%27%20Time |
The 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 5 and 6 March 1983 at Sportcsarnok in Budapest, Hungary [1]. Sportcsarnok, also known as Budapest Sports Arena, served as the venue for this prestigious event. Athletes from various European countries participated in the championships, competing in a range of indoor track and field disciplines. The event provided an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills and compete for titles and medals in front of an enthusiastic audience.
Reference:
[1] European Athletics. (n.d.). Budapest 1983.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table
Participating nations
(8)
(4)
(12)
(18)
(15)
(7)
(19)
(13)
(3)
(31)
(2)
(16)
(3)
(1)
(10)
(1)
(6)
(34)
(10)
(10)
(5)
(3)
(25)
(5)
See also
1983 in athletics (track and field)
References
Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Indoor Championships
International sports competitions in Budapest
International athletics competitions hosted by Hungary
European Athletics Indoor Championships
European Athletics Indoor Championships
1980s in Budapest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20European%20Athletics%20Indoor%20Championships |
The clockbug, or eupcaccia, is a fictional insect created by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe that features in his 1984 novel, The Ark Sakura.
The clockbug is an insect species whose legs have atrophied, mobility being unnecessary for its existence since it lives by consuming its own feces, merely using its antennae to rotate in a counter-clockwise fashion, continuously manifesting a circular trail of excretion and ingestion. The organism's slow metabolic rate allows time for nutrients in its feces to be replenished by bacterial action. It eats from dawn until sunset and sleeps through the night, and since it is heliotropic – with its head always pointing towards the Sun – it also functions as a timepiece.
The protagonist of The Ark Sakura, known as Pig (though preferring to be called Mole), identifies with the clockbug and marvels at the resemblance he sees between himself and the insect. At one point he remarks:
I believe that the eupcaccia is symbolic of a certain philosophy or way of life. However much you may move around, as long as the motion is circular you haven't really gone anywhere; the important thing is to maintain a tranquil inner core.
The clockbug's variant name, eupcaccia, suggests a combination of the prefix eu-, meaning good and the Italian word caccia, meaning hunt, in other words, good hunting. The name also suggests a combination of caccia and eupeptic, meaning having good digestion and cheerful, optimistic. Considerable irony follows from the latter suggestion, as Pig/Mole is a paranoid survivalist who has built and inhabits an enormous nuclear fallout shelter in an abandoned quarry.
References
The Ark Sakura (方舟さくら丸) "Hakobune Sakura-maru" (1984) (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1988).
Keffer, David. Kobo Abé. In The Scriptorium. Accessed 19 June 2006.
Fictional insects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockbug |
This page is a list of species of the order Lagomorpha discovered in the 2000s. See also parent page Mammals discovered in the 2000s.
Black pika Ochotona nigritia (2000)
The black pika is a new species of pika.
Venezuelan lowland rabbit Sylvilagus varynaensis (2000)
The Venezuelan lowland rabbit is a new species of cottontail rabbit described in 2000, and named Sylvilagus varynaensis. It is the largest and darkest of the Venezuelan rabbits.
Annamite striped rabbit Nesolagus timminsi (late 90s/2000)
The Annamite striped rabbit Nesolagus timminsi was discovered in the mountain forests in Vietnam and Laos. Its existence was first made known as food for sale on a market stall. It is a member of a genus previously only known from the Sumatran striped rabbit (N. netscheri''). Since its discovery, the Annamite striped rabbit has been found in many locations throughout Vietnam.
References
Lagomorphs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lagomorphs%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
Sea Shells is an album by jazz singer Peggy Lee that was released in 1958.
Track listing
"Sea Fever" (Friedrich Silcher, Eleanor Chaffee) – 2:03
"Nine Thorny Thickets" (Rolfe Humphries, Johnny Mercer) – 4:59
"Little Old Car" (Henry Beau, Peggy Lee) – 1:11
"Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 1:58
Chinese Love Poems: "The Fisherman"/"Autumn Evening" (Li Po)/(Po) – 2:18
"The Happy Monks" (Lee) – 1:00
"The White Birch and the Sycamore" (Lee, Willard Robison, Hubert Wheeler) – 4:00
"Of Such Is the Kingdom of God" (Ernest Holmes, Irma Glenn) – 3:13
"A Brown Bird Singing" (Royden Barrie, Haydn Wood) – 2:59
"I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" (Henry W. Petrie, Philip Wingate) – 2:32
"The Maid With the Flaxen Hair" (Claude Debussy) – 1:00
"The Wearing of the Green" (Traditional) – 2:32
"Chaconde (Le Bon Petit Roi d' Yvetot)" (Marcel Grandjany) – 1:38
Chinese Love Poems: "Going Rowing"/"Like the Moon"/"The Music" (Po)/(Po)/(Po) – 2:46
"The Riddle Song" (Traditional) – 3:55
"The Gold Wedding Ring" (Lee, Harry Sukman) – 2:16
Personnel
Peggy Lee – vocals
Stella Castellucci – harp
Gene DiNovi – harpsichord
References
1958 albums
Peggy Lee albums
Albums produced by Milt Gabler
Decca Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Shells |
GU10 is a triple CD 10th anniversary release from Global Underground Ltd. celebrating their Global Underground series. Discs 1 and 2 feature tracks from the past ten years whereas the third features tracks produced from earlier. Aside from the standard three CD package, there is also a three LP edition as well as a special limited edition which features a bonus unmixed fourth disc.
Track listing
Disc one
Underworld - Two Months Off
Laurent Garnier - Man With The Red Face (Jan Driver Mix)
Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird Of Prey)
Pascal F.E.O.S. - I Can Feel That
Jark Prongo - Movin Thru Your System
Alex Dolby - Psiko Garden
Albion - Air
Libra Presents Taylor - Anomaly (Calling Your Name)
Polaroid - So Damn Beautiful (Amethyst Mix)
Pako - Steel Blue (GUX 2006 Re-Edit)
Gipsy - I Trance You (Pappa & Gilbey Mix)
Planisphere - Deep Blue Dream/PQM - You Are Sleeping (Acappella)
PQM - You Are Sleeping (Luke Chable Vocal Pass)
Private Productions - Sexdrive (M & B's Instructor Mix)
Chable & Bonnici - Ride (Mashtronic Remix)
Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene (Thin White Duke Remix)
Steve Lawler - Rise In (Original Vocal Mix)
Billie Ray Martin - Honey (Deep Dish Hoojee Dub)
Layo & Bushwacka! - Let The Good Times Roll
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. (UNKLE Remix)
Disc two
Dark Globe - Break My World
Lustral - Everytime (Nalin & Kane Remix)
Sander Kleinenberg - Sacred (Dub)
Alcatraz - Give Me Luv (That Kid Chris Tribute Mix)
Breeder - Sputnik (New York FM Mix)
Cass & Slide - Perception
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One (Pariah Mix)/(Total Separation Mix)
Lostep - The Roots
The Forth - Reality Detached (K Roxx 06 Separation Mix)
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Frank Sinatra
Moonface - Overactive
KC Flightt vs. Funky Junction - Voices (Pete Heller Mix)
Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Jens Mahlstedt Mix)/(Quivver Mix)/(Original Mix)
Talisman & Hudson - Leaving Planet Earth (GUX 2006 Re-Edit)
Danny Tenaglia - Turn Me On (Bedrock Mix)
Tilt - I Dream (Tilt's Resurrection Mix)/(Casa De Angeles Mix)
Disc three
Slam - Eterna
The Beloved - Your Love Takes Me Higher (Chillum Willum Mix)
Uncle Bob - Uncle Bob's Burly House
280 West - Scattered Dreams (Boom Chocka-Boom Mix)
The Reese Project - Colour Of Love (Deep Reese Mix)
De Melero - Night Moves (En El Calor De La Noche Mix)/De Melero's Groove/Night Moves (Moniapella)
Double FM - The Sound Of Amnesia (Amnesia Mix)
Andronicus -Make You Whole (Freashly Squeezed Mix)
Alfredo - Inspiration (0224 Mix)
Furry Phreaks - Gonna Find A Way (Major Dude Mix)
The Good Men - Make Up Your Mind
Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It
Band In A Box - Get Dynamite
Egma - Let The Bass Kick
Mental Cube - Q (Santa Monica Mix)
Reese & Santonio - Rock To The Beat
Ralphi Rosario - You Used to Hold Me
Rejuvenation - I.B.O.
Caspar Pound - Fever Called Love (Ambient Mix)
LFO - LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix)
SAS - Amber Groove (Toxic Hijack Remix)
Sublime - The Theme
S.S.R. - To Be House
Play Boys - Mindgames (You Keep Playing Guitar)
Salt City Orchestra - The Book (Bookin' Da Beats)
Slacker - Scared (The Lonely Traveller)
PKA - Temperatures Rising (Music For The Masses)
Sasha & Maria - Be As One
External links
Feature on Progressive-Sounds
Global Underground
2006 compilation albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GU10%20%28album%29 |
Several species of rodent have been newly identified in different parts of the world since 2000.
References
Lists of animals described in the 21st century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rodents%20discovered%20in%20the%202000s |
"Kansas City" is a song from the 1943 musical Oklahoma!. The plot set-up for it is the return of cowboy Will Parker from an excursion to the city of the same name. He describes his experiences in song. The song describes the wonders of the city and its entertainments (from the viewpoint of a country bumpkin), all reprising with the concept that the conditions (in 1906) represent the ultimate in progress, with little more expected.
For the 1955 motion picture, a few lyrics about a burlesque stripteaser had to undergo minor changes to pass film censorship. In the original Broadway musical, Will sings:
For the film, these were changed to:
Building
The song includes the lyrics:
The tallest buildings there in 1906 (the era when the musical is set) were the 12-story New York Life Insurance Building and the newly built 17-story Commerce Trust Tower. A major seven-story building at the time was The Jones Store at 12th and Main which took up an entire block and was .
Covers
Political satirist Randy Rainbow did a parody of the song, changing it to "Ted and Lindsey!" about public dislike of Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham.
References
Songs about Missouri
Songs from Oklahoma!
Songs about cities in the United States
1943 songs
Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Songs about Oklahoma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20City%20%28Oklahoma%21%29 |
Perk may refer to:
Places
Perk, Belgium, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel
Perk Castle, a castle near there
Perk Summit, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
August Perk (1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter
Brian Perk (born 1989), American soccer player
Ralph Perk (1914–1999), American politician
nickname of Percy Galbraith (1898–1961), Canadian National Hockey League forward
nickname of Kendrick Perkins (born 1984), American National Basketball Association player
Other uses
Employee benefit, also known as a perk, from perquisite: various non-wage compensations provided in addition to cash wages
Tetrachloroethylene, a chemical used for dry-cleaning, referred to in British English as Perk
Thermodynamic beta, a fundamental quantity in statistical mechanics
EIF2AK3, a human enzyme, often abbreviated as PERK
Perk, a bonus which gives a video game character a special ability
See also
PERC (disambiguation)
Perks (disambiguation)
PERQ, a workstation computer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perk |
"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. "Kansas City" is one of Leiber and Stoller's "most recorded tunes, with more than three hundred versions", with several appearing in the R&B and pop record charts.
Original song
"Kansas City" was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two nineteen-year-old rhythm and blues fans from Los Angeles. Neither had been to Kansas City, but were inspired by Big Joe Turner records.
Through a connection to producer Ralph Bass, they wrote "Kansas City" specifically for West Coast blues/R&B artist Little Willie Littlefield. There was an initial disagreement between the two writers over the song's melody: Leiber (who wrote the lyrics) preferred a traditional blues song, while Stoller wanted a more distinctive vocal line; Stoller ultimately prevailed. They taught the song to Littlefield at Maxwell Davis' house, who arranged and provided the tenor sax for the song. Littlefield recorded the song in Los Angeles in 1952, during his first recording session for Federal Records, a King Records subsidiary. Federal's Ralph Bass changed the title to "K. C. Loving", which he reportedly considered to sound "hipper" than "Kansas City". Littlefield's record had some success in parts of the U.S., but it did not reach the national chart.
Little Richard versions
In 1955, Little Richard recorded two rather different versions of "Kansas City", both of which were not released until years later. The first version, which was close to the original song, was released in November 1970, on the compilation album Well Alright!. Little Richard substantially re-worked the song for his second version, particularly the refrain starting with words "Hey, hey, hey, hey; Hey baby, hey child, hey now". It was released in late 1958 on The Fabulous Little Richard and in April 1959 as a single.
On May 9, 1956, Little Richard recorded "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey", also known as "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Goin' Back to Birmingham)", which was similar to a part of the second version of "Kansas City" recorded six months earlier. Credited to Richard, it was released in January 1958 as the B-side of "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and in July 1958 on Little Richard.
Wilbert Harrison version
In 1959, after several years of performing Littlefield's "K. C. Loving", Wilbert Harrison decided to record the song. In March 1959, after Little Richard's version was released, Harrison, with a trio including guitarist Wild Jimmy Spruill, recorded it in a New York studio for producer Bobby Robinson of Fury Records. "Kansas City" was released on a single by Fury later that year.
Although the song's arrangement varied little from Littlefield's, it "struck such a solid shuffle groove that it was unforgettable", with inspired rhythm and solo guitar work by Spruill. Harrison's song was issued with Leiber and Stoller's original name, "Kansas City", but changed the refrain to "They got some crazy little women there, and I'm gonna get me one" and dropped one twelve-bar section.
Shortly after the song's release, several other versions appeared. Billboard magazine's pop song pick of the week for March 30, 1959, listed five different releases of "Kansas City": Harrison's and versions by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Rocky Olson, Rockin' Ronald & the Rebels, and a reissue by Littlefield. A week later, the magazine announced the single release of a version by Little Richard. Although Ballard's and Richard's versions both appeared in the lower reaches of the Billboard charts, Harrison's was a runaway hit, reaching number one in both the R&B and pop charts, where it remained for seven weeks, and became one of the top selling records of 1959. In Belgium, the single reached numbers 18 in Flanders and 24 in Wallonia.
Harrison also recorded an answer song to the same tune as "Kansas City", called "Goodbye Kansas City", which was released on a single by Fury Records in 1960.
The Beatles' version
In October 1964, the Beatles recorded Little Richard's "Kansas City" (titled "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"), a song they began performing in Spring 1961 while in Hamburg.
Background
Paul McCartney discovered the track in the first half of 1959 when Little Richard's 1955 medley "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" was re-released as a 45 in Britain. McCartney revered this particular rendition and was unaware of Wilbert Harrison's version. The Beatles' earliest performance of the song can be dated to the early summer of 1960 with its appearance on a set list McCartney copied to a piece of scrap paper.
During their first professional recording session in June 1961, the Beatles likely recorded the song with Tony Sheridan, though outtakes of this track likely no longer exist. The Beatles made their first appearance on television on August 22, 1962, performing "Some Other Guy" and "Kansas City"/"Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey" at The Cavern Club. The audio is the earliest surviving instance of McCartney's "Little Richard voice", which Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn notes is "impressive", with "the high notes sung loud, strong, melodically and excitingly for two and a half minutes." The song is again heard during their December 1962 performance at the Star-Club in Hamburg, officially released in 1977 as Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. They recorded the medley for a BBC Light Programme on July 16, 1963, released in 1994 on Live at the BBC. Musicologist and writer Ian MacDonald describes this rendition as "one of the highlights of this generally mediocre collection, featuring a strong McCartney vocal and an attacking Harrison solo."
A month before recording the track in the studio, they performed it during a September 17, 1964 concert at Kansas City Municipal Stadium, a one-time addition to their usual setlist. MacDonald writes, "the reaction it drew ensured its place on the LP."
Recording
On Sunday, October 18, 1964, during a day off from their 1964 UK Tour, the Beatles recorded a medley of "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey". While rehearsing the song, McCartney found some parts difficult to sing. He later recalled that John Lennon pulled him aside and encouraged him, saying, "Come on man, you can do it better than this, get up there!". Recorded in only two takes, take one was marked "best". Each take includes a different guitar solo from George Harrison, indicating he improvised. Harrison plays his Country Gent guitar and Lennon plays his 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri. Producer George Martin overdubbed a piano contribution on his Steinway and Ringo Starr provided the drums. Lewisohn describes the part as "barely discernible on record." Martin and engineers Norman Smith and Tony Clark mixed the track for mono and stereo on October 26.
The track differs from Little Richard's in its simplified walking bass and triplet piano chords, which MacDonald writes, "[imparts] a sassy swing to a performance let down only by its lightweight mono mix." MacDonald concludes that it is "one of the Beatles' best covers."
Release
The Beatles released the track in the UK on December 4, 1964, on their album Beatles for Sale. Release in the US came the following year on June 14, 1965 on Beatles VI. As part of Capitol Records' "Starline" series, the track was the B-side of "Boys" on an October 1965 single.
The Beatles released take two on the 1995 compilation album Anthology 1, a version MacDonald calls "only slightly less successful". This version does not include Martin's piano overdub. A live version, recorded in Hamburg in December 1962, is included on the 1977 release Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. Other live versions appear on the albums Live at the BBC and On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 and in the film Let It Be. The Beatles appeared on the American television program Shindig! performing the medley live in October 1964.
James Brown version
James Brown recorded a version of "Kansas City" in 1967. The single reached number 21 on the R&B chart and number 55 on the Hot 100 singles chart. A later, funkier version appears on the 1975 album Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump. Brown recorded live performances of the song for his albums Live at the Apollo, Volume II (1968) and Say It Live and Loud (1998; recorded 1968), and in his concert films James Brown: Man to Man and Live at the Boston Garden. This was also James Brown's first single to be reissued by Polydor Records.
At Brown's request, singer Marva Whitney performed "Kansas City" at the conclusion of his public funeral in Augusta, Georgia in 2006.
Recognition and influence
In 2001, Harrison's "Kansas City" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and it is included on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". At various times, Harrison's and the Beatles versions have been played over the loud speakers at Kauffman Stadium following Kansas City Royals baseball games.
In 2005, Kansas City adopted "Kansas City" as its official song, dedicating "Goin' to Kansas City Plaza" in the historic 18th and Vine Jazz district. Due to redevelopment, the "12th Street and Vine" intersection mentioned in the song no longer exists, but a park roughly in the shape of a grand piano and with a path in the shape of a treble clef exists at the former location, marked by a commemorative plaque. Some versions have substituted "Eighteenth and Vine" for "12th Street and Vine," which sings just as well, and recognizes Kansas City's jazz history.
See also
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1959 (U.S.)
List of number-one R&B singles of 1959 (U.S.)
References
Sources
1952 songs
1959 singles
1963 singles
1967 singles
Bill Haley songs
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Cashbox number-one singles
Blues songs
Brenda Lee songs
Dion DiMucci songs
Fury Records singles
Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
James Brown songs
Jan and Dean songs
Jay and the Americans songs
Gene Summers songs
King Records (United States) singles
Little Willie Littlefield songs
Sammy Davis Jr. songs
Song recordings produced by George Martin
Songs about cities in the United States
Songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
The Beatles songs
The Everly Brothers songs
Trini Lopez songs
Songs about Missouri
Federal Records singles
Specialty Records singles
1952 singles
Little Richard songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20City%20%28Leiber%20and%20Stoller%20song%29 |
Launde Abbey is located in Leicestershire, England, 14 miles east of the city of Leicester and 6 miles south west of Oakham in Rutland. The house was built on the site of the Augustinian Launde Priory. The Grade II* listed building is predominantly used as a conference and retreat centre by the Church of England dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough.
History
The abbey is an Elizabethan manor house, extensively modified, built on the site of an Augustinian priory, Launde Priory. The original priory was founded before 1125 (in 1119 according to a modern inscription in the reception hall) by Richard Basset and his wife Matilda (née Ridel). Its revenues at the dissolution of the monasteries were £510-16-1d and payments £117-12-10d (annual value almost £400).
Launde is set in countryside in the valley of the River Chater. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, so liked its position that he wrote in his diary "Myself for Launde" but Cromwell never occupied the house as he was executed in 1540. In that year the building of the new house commenced. His son, Gregory, lived at Launde Abbey for ten years after its construction with his wife, Elizabeth, the sister of Jane Seymour the third wife of Henry VIII. In 1603 Launde was acquired by William Smith and in 1763 Dorothy Jennings sold it to John Simpson; in 1828, Mary Finch Simpson married Edward Dawson (1802-1859) of Long Whatton who by this marriage acquired Launde. They engaged Thomas Rickman to restore the house from 1829 to 1839. The Dawsons continued to own the estate throughout the 19th century.
In 1957, Cecil Coleman and his wife bought the abbey and presented it to the Diocese of Leicester. They paid for the conversion works to make it into a retreat house.
The chapel is thought to be all that remains of the original priory church. Some of its stained glass is mediaeval and Nikolaus Pevsner has described the monument to Gregory Cromwell as "one of the purest monuments of the early Renaissance in England". There are numerous memorials of the Simpson family who bought Launde in 1763 and enlarged the house and laid out the plantations. The chapel is used for daily worship by the resident community and guests and is an attraction for visitors. There is a small, 5-stop pipe organ, built by Henry Speechly in c. 1880, and restored by Roy Young in 1989.
In 2009 the abbey launched a successful £1 million appeal to bring the house up to the standards required by legislation. If the money had not been raised, the abbey would have been forced to close. Both the abbey and the associated chapel
are Grade II* listed buildings.
References
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1530s disestablishments in England
Augustinian monasteries in England
Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
Church of England church buildings in Leicestershire
Country houses in Leicestershire
Elizabethan architecture
Grade II* listed buildings in Leicestershire
Monasteries in Leicestershire
Scheduled monuments in Leicestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launde%20Abbey |
Valentin Atanasov (, born 7 May 1961) in Kjustendil, Bulgaria is a retired Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.
His personal best time was 10.15 seconds, achieved in August 1982 in Sofia. This ranks him second among Bulgarian 100 metres sprinters, only behind Petar Petrov.
He also competed in the bobsleigh at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics.
International competitions
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Bulgarian male sprinters
World Athletics Championships athletes for Bulgaria
Bulgarian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Bulgaria
Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Kyustendil
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Atanasov |
This page is a list of species of the order Insectivora discovered in the 2000s. See also parent page List of mammals described in the 2000s.
Notiosorex cockrumi (2004)
In 2004, a new species of desert shrew was identified in Arizona, and named Notiosorex cockrumi. The tiny shrew, which is as light as a penny, is the first new mammal species to be found in Arizona since 1977. It is one of at least four species of the genus Notiosorex.
References
Mammals
Eulipotyphla | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20shrews%20and%20moles%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
Perpetuus () (died 30 December 490 AD) was the sixth Bishop of Tours, serving from 460 to 490.
Life
Born of a senatorial family of the Auvergne, Perpetuus became bishop of Tours around 460. He succeeded his relative, possibly an uncle, Eustochius, and was succeeded by another close relative, Volusian. He was a student of sacred literature and a friend of the poet Sidonius Apollinaris.
It is said of him that he dedicated his considerable wealth to the relief of those in need. He guided the Church of Tours for thirty years, developing and consolidating Christianity in Touraine.
In 461, Perpetuus presided at a council in which eight bishops who were reunited in Tours on the Feast of St. Martin had participated, and at this assembly an important rule was promulgated relative to ecclesiastical discipline. He maintained a careful surveillance over the conduct of the clergy of his diocese, and mention is made of priests who were removed from their office because they had proved unworthy. In 465, he presided over the Council of Vannes, which condemned the use of the Sortes Sanctorum.
Perpetuus actively promoted the cult of Saint Martin of Tours. He replaced with a beautiful basilica (470) the little chapel of SS. Peter and Paul that Britius had constructed, to protect the tomb of Saint Martin. Euphronius of Autun sent marble for the cover of Martin's tomb. Perpetuus commissioned murals for the walls and inscriptions that explained them. Sidonius contributed a poem for the apse. Built 550 paces from the city, Martin's body was translated with great ceremony in July 473. Perpetuus effectively popularized the cult by making it more accessible, both to the educated classes "...and to ordinary people who could visit the church, view its murals, participate in the festivals, and listen to readings about the saint."
He built monasteries and a good many other churches, notably one in honour of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which he constructed to receive the roof of the old chapel, as it was of elegant workmanship.
Gregory of Tours states that Perpetuus decreed that all of the members of his diocese should fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, except for a few church festivals. He set aside several Mondays as fasts as well, especially from the Feast of St. Martin until the Nativity, a precursor of Advent. These fasts were still being observed in the 7th century.
At his death, Perpetuus left his vineyards, gold, and houses to benefit the poor.
He was buried in the Church of St. Martin, which he had built.
See also
Saint Perpetuus, patron saint archive
Notes
References
5th-century births
490 deaths
Bishops of Tours
5th-century bishops in Gaul
5th-century Christian saints
Gallo-Roman saints | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Perpetuus |
Continua Health Alliance is an international non-profit, open industry group of nearly 240 healthcare providers, communications, medical, and fitness device companies.
Continua was a founding member of Personal Connected Health Alliance which was launched in February 2014 with other founding members mHealth SUMMIT and HIMSS.
Overview
Continua Health Alliance is an international not-for-profit industry organization enabling end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of devices and services for personal health management and healthcare delivery. Its mission is to empower information-driven health management and facilitate the incorporation of health and wellness into the day-to-day lives of consumers. ts activities include a certification and brand support program, events and collaborations to support technology and clinical innovation, as well as outreach to employers, payers, governments and care providers. With nearly 220 member companies reaching across the globe, Continua comprises technology, medical device and healthcare industry leaders and service providers dedicated to making personal connected health a reality.
Continua Health Alliance is working toward establishing systems of interoperable telehealth devices and services in three major categories: chronic disease management, aging independently, and health and physical fitness.
Devices and services
Continua Health Alliance version 1 design guidelines are based on proven connectivity technical standards and include Bluetooth for wireless and USB for wired device connection. The group released the guidelines to the public in June 2009.
The group is establishing a product certification program using its recognizable logo, the Continua Certified Logo program, signifying that the product is interoperable with other Continua-certified products. Products made under Continua Health Alliance guidelines will provide consumers with increased assurance of interoperability between devices, enabling them to more easily share information with caregivers and service providers.
Through collaborations with government agencies and other regulatory bodies, Continua works to provide guidelines for the effective management of diverse products and services from a global network of vendors. Continua Health Alliance products make use of the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data (PHD) Standards.
Continua design guidelines are not available to the public without signing a Non-disclosure agreement. Continua's guidelines help technology developers build end-to-end, plug-and-play systems more efficiently and cost effectively.
Milestones
Continua Health Alliance was founded on June 6, 2006
Continua Health alliance performed its first public demonstration of interoperability on October 27, 2008 at the Partners Center for Connected Health 5th Annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston.
Continua Health Alliance certified its first product, the Nonin 2500 PalmSAT handheld pulse oximeter with USB, on January 26, 2009.
By the end of December 2014 there are more than 100 certified products.
Continua selected Bluetooth Low Energy and Zigbee wireless protocols as the wireless standards for its Version 2 Design Guidelines which have been released. Bluetooth Low Energy is to be used for low-power mobile devices. Zigbee will be used for networked low-power sensors such as those enabling independent living.
Beginning in 2012, Continua invites non-members to request a copy of its Design Guidelines after signing a non-disclosure agreement.
Continua has working groups and operations in the U.S., EU, Japan, India and China.
Members
Continua Health Alliance currently has nearly 220 member companies.
Continua's Board of Directors is currently composed of the following companies:
Fujitsu
Intel Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Orange
Philips
Qualcomm
Roche Diagnostics
Sharp
UnitedHealth Group
Organisational structure
The organisation is primarily staffed by volunteers from the member organisations that are organised into working groups that address the goals of the alliance. Below the board of directors sit the following main working groups:
Emerging Markets Working Group
EU Working Group
Global Development and Outreach Working Group
Marketing Council
Market Adoption Working Group
Regulatory Working Group
Technical Working Group
Test & Certification Work Group
Use Case Working Group
U.S. Policy Working Group
Relevant standards
ISO/IEEE 11073
ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data (PHD) Standards
Bluetooth
USB
HL7
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Zigbee
Website
The Continua Alliance website contains a full listing of member organisations, a directory of qualified products, and a clear statement of their mission.
See also
Connected Health
eHealth
Telehealth
Telemedicine
Health 2.0
H.810
References
External links
Continua Health Alliance website
New Website: Personal Connected Health Alliance
Health informatics organizations
Interoperability
Telehealth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continua%20Health%20Alliance |
Erol Sabancı (born 1938) is a billionaire Turkish banker and a member of the Sabancı family. Sabancı is the honorary chairman of Akbank. He has been board member of Akbank since 1963, Turkey's most valuable and profitable bank.
Early life
Sabancı was born in Akçakaya village in central Turkey near the town of Kayseri in 1938, the fifth son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı, who laid the foundation of one of the greatest fortunes in the world, and Sadıka.
Sabancı completed his secondary education at the Tarsus American College. In 1956, he went to England to study at Manchester College of Commerce. Sabancı returned to Turkey in 1958 and the following year joined the army for his two-year military service.
Career
In 1960, he joined his elder brothers at the holding company as manager of the family flour mill and the financial director of the textile firm Bossa.
In 1963, he was elected a board member of Akbank as representative of the Sabancı shares. At that time Akbank, which was formed by a group of industrialists in 1948, had 63 branches and was the smallest of the four large private banks. In 1966, the Sabancıs acquired majority control of Akbank.
In 1970, Sabancı quit his other positions in Sabancı Holding, except his chair at the board, and moved to Istanbul to become the managing director of Akbank. Four years later the headquarters of Sabancı Holding were moved to Istanbul.
Serving as a member of the board of directors and the vice chairman of the board since 1967, Sabancı held the position of chairman of the board from March 1998 to March 2008. Sabancı was elected honorary chairman and consultant to the board on March 28, 2008. Sabancı also serves as the vice chairman of the board of Sabancı Holding.
Personal life
Sabancı is married to Belkıs and has two daughters, one of whom, Suzan Sabancı Dinçer, is chairman and executive board member of Akbank. Sabancı is a grandfather of four.
References
Biography at Sabancı Holding website
Biography at Akbank website
Turkish bankers
Turkish billionaires
Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University
People from Kayseri
Erol Sabanci
1938 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol%20Sabanc%C4%B1 |
This page is a list of species of the order Chiroptera discovered in the 2000s. See also parent page Mammals described in the 2000s.
2008
Desmalopex microleucopterus (2008)
A new species of flying fox found on Mindoro Island, Philippines.
Triaenops pauliani (2008)
A new species discovered from the Picard Island (Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles).
2007
Barbastella beijingensis (2007)
A new species found only in Fangshan District, about 100 km southwest of Beijing (China).
Styloctenium mindorensis (2007)
This species of stripe-faced fruit bat is known only from the type locality in western Mindoro Island, Philippines.
Hipposideros boeadii (2007)
A new species of Hipposideros described from South-East Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is currently only known from Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park, an area of semi-disturbed lowland rainforest.
Kerivoula krauensis (2007)
A new species of small Kerivoula described from peninsular Malaysia.
2006
Eptesicus taddeii (2006)
A new species of Eptesicus from Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Zootaxa 2006
Lonchophylla pattoni and L. cadenai (2006)
Two new species described from western South America. L. pattoni is known only from the type locality in the Amazon lowlands of southeastern Peru. L. cadenai was found only on the central Pacific coastal plain, Valle del Cauca, southwestern Colombia.
Khasian Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros khasiana (2006)
A species of horseshoe bat from north-east India (Meghalaya state), proposed as distinct from the Intermediate Roundleaf Bat (H. larvatus) in 2006. It differs from H. larvatus in having a call at a lower frequency, and having longer ears and forearms.
Phou Khao Khouay Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros khaokhouayensis (2006)
This is a species from Laos of the H. bicolor subgroup within the family Hipposideridae, with long brown dorsal fur and very light brownish ventral fur, large ears, relatively small and narrow nose-leaf without supplementary leaflets. It is further distinguished by cranial characters and the frequency of its echolocation calls.
Marovaza House Bat Scotophilus marovaza (2006)
A new species of house bat discovered in 2004 and named in 2006. It was discovered living in palm-thatched roofs in the Madagascar village of Marovaza.
Harpiola isodon (2006)
A new species was found in mountainous coniferous plantations and mixed forests of coniferous and broadleaf trees in Taiwan.
Plecotus strelkovi (2006)
This new species inhabits the xeric mountain ranges in Central Asia (Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan).
Carollia benkeithi (2006)
A species described from the lowland forests of eastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia.
2005
Anoura fistulata (2005)
This new species inhabits montane cloud forests in the Andes of northern Ecuador, and the slopes of the Cordillera de Cóndor and Cordillera del Cutucú in southern Ecuador at elevations 1,300–1,890 m on the eastern and 2,000–2,275 m on the western slopes.
Xeronycteris vieirai (2005)
A new genus and species in the tribe Lonchophyllini, subfamily Glossophaginae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) was described based on the analysis of 4 specimens collected in 3 different localities in a semiarid area of northeastern Brazil.
Greater monkey-faced bat Pteralopex flanneryi (2005)
This is the largest known monkey-faced bat, found on the northwestern Solomon Islands of Bougainville, Buka, Choiseul and Isabel, and some adjacent smaller islands. It has a forearm length of 159mm or more, and a condylobasal skull length of 71 mm or more. Its fur is black with occasional light tipping on the breast.
Rhinolophus chiewkweeae (2005)
A new species classified in the R. pearsoni species group inhabits a dipterocarp forest of peninsular Malaysia.
Lonchophylla orcesi (2005)
A species described from the Chocó region of Ecuador.
Kock's Mouse-eared Bat Myotis dieteri (2005)
A very small Subsaharan Myotis, with a forearm length of 37 mm, brown dorsal and greyish ventral pelage.
Harrison's Murine Bat Murina harrisoni (2005)
This bat was collected in a degraded gallery forest in Kirirom National Park in Cambodia. It differs from all other Murina species by its second upper incisor being shorter than the first, and from all but one by the insertion of its tail membrane on the base of the first toe.
Scotophilus tandrefana (2005)
This new species is known from three localities in western Madagascar (Bemaraha, Mahabo, and Sarodrano).
2004
Ansell's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus anselli (2004)
This new fruit bat was discovered in two bat collections from Malawi. The species is intermediate in size between the sympatric species E. labiatus and E. crypturus. Its wings are relatively broad, its tail membrane is narrow. In females, the 5th palatal ridge is partly between the first upper molars.
Red or Chocolate Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon jobimena (2004)
This species was caught in northern Madagascar and consists of two typical colour morphs, a reddish one and a medium chocolate brown one.
Kachin Woolly Bat Kerivoula kachinensis (2004)
This bat was found in forests in North Myanmar. It is characterized by the combination of its large size – it is larger than most other Asiatic Kerivoula species – and its unique flattened skull.
Hanaki's Dwarf Bat Pipistrellus hanaki (2004)
This new dwarf bat from Libya differs from its nearest relatives P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus chromosomally, and by its larger skull and teeth, and a number of other characters.
Lonchophylla chocoana (2004)
A new species currently known only from northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.
Lophostoma yasuni (2004)
A new species is known only from the type locality in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.
Lophostoma aequatorialis (2004)
A new species from the Pacific coast of northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, and Pichincha provinces).
Carollia manu (2004)
A new species is known from southeastern Peru and northern Bolivia.
2003
Linduan Rousette Rousettus linduensis (2003)
This species was discovered in Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Shield-nosed Bat Hipposideros scutinares (2003)
This is a large leaf-nosed bat from Laos and Vietnam, with a known forearm length of 77.9–82.7 mm and a condylobasal length of 26.5–27.9 mm. It is intermediate between its two nearest relatives and further differs from these in a number of body and skull characters.
2002
New Caledonian Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus nebulosus (2002)
This species is only known from the area of Nouméa on New Caledonia and is considered vulnerable by its author.
Sowell's Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli (2002)
This species occurs from San Luis Potosi in Mexico to West Panama.
Matses Big-eared Bat Micronycteris matses (2002)
Known from a single locality in Peru.
Sakeji Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sakejiensis (2002)
A species discovered in Zambia.
New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat Pteralopex taki (2002)
A species from New Georgia Island and Vangunu Island, Solomon Islands, considered by its author to be critically endangered.
Sardinian Long-eared Bat Plecotus sardus (2002)
This bat is distinguished by its large tragus, its brownish dorsal pelage, its large thumb and thumb claw, and the form of its penis and penis bone.
Rhinolophus ziama (2002)
A member of the R. maclaudi species group. Was described in 2002. This horseshoe bat species is known from a few specimens taken from Ziama Classified Forest in southeastern Guinea. It is also known from Liberia.
Moa Island Fruit Bat Pteropus banakrisi (2002)
Was described as the smallest of Australian Pteropus species, but in 2004 Helgen found that the specimens on which P. banakrisi is based are all subadult individuals of the Black Flying Fox (P. alecto). The name banakrisi becomes a synonym.
2001
Annami Myotis Myotis annamiticus (2001)
Only known from a single locality in Vietnam.
Alcathoe Myotis Myotis alcathoe (2001)
This species is known from Greece, Hungary and France.
Colombian Short-tailed Bat Carollia colombiana (2001)
This species is known only from the central Cordillera in Colombia.
Antioquian Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx antioquensis (2001)
A species discovered in the Central Cordillera of North Colombia.
Nijhoff's Tube-nosed Bat Paranyctimene tenax (2001)
This fruit bat species was described in 2001, based on 1 specimen from Papua New Guinea, 7 from Vogelkop, Indonesia, and 1 from Waigeo, Indonesia. It is characterized by its long upper and lower canines and distinguished from its close and sympatric relative P. raptor by its larger size and stronger built.
Curry's Butterfly Bat Glauconycteris curryae (2001)
This new butterfly bat from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo is distinct from other African species of its genus by the combination of the characters size, skull shape, fur colour, and the absence of spotting or reticulation. The authors named the bat G. curryi but later in 2001 the name was corrected to G. curryae.
2000
Bale Long-eared Bat Plecotus balensis (2000)
This species was discovered in the Bale Mountains National Park of Ethiopia, at an altitude of 2760 m.
Mistratoan Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira mistratensis (2000)
A species discovered in the western Andes of Colombia.
Maendeleo Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus maendeleo (2000)
Described on the basis of two specimens from Tanzania.
References
Bats | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bats%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
The Collectio canonum Hibernensis () (or Hib) is a systematic Latin collection of Continental canon law, scriptural and patristic excerpts, and Irish synodal and penitential decrees. Hib is thought to have been compiled by two Irish scholars working in the late 7th or 8th century, Cú Chuimne of Iona (died 747) and Ruben of Dairinis (died 725).
Overview
Age and manuscript tradition
Hib is one of the oldest systematic canon law collections in Europe. It was compiled in Ireland between 669 and 748. Its compilers are believed to have been Cú Chuimne of Iona (†747) and Ruben of Dairinis (†725). The attribution of Hib to these two men is problematical, however, because it is based solely on a garbled colophon found in a ninth-century manuscript from Brittany with a Corbie and Saint-Germain provenance (now in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Lat. 12021). The earliest manuscript witness, according to Rob Meens of Utrecht University, is an early eighth-century collection preserved in Copenhagen (KB 58); Meens in fact refers to the manuscript as a "forerunner" of the Hibernensis. Several recensions of the collection may have circulated in the early Middle Ages, but the two main recensions (called A and B), containing between 65 and 69 books (the division of books varies between manuscripts), seem to date from an early stage of the collection's circulation. Hib circulated widely on the Continent in the eighth and ninth centuries, particularly in Brittany, and had a particularly strong influence on Italian canonistic thought after the ninth century. It may have played a role in the anointment of Pepin the Short as king of Francia in 751, on the advice of Vergilius of Salzburg.
Contents
Beyond topics typically covered by canon law collections, Hib touches on prayer, consecrated places, martyrs, the ‘substances of men’, blessings, and the soul; indeed, certain chapters often verge on essays on morality. Maurice P. Sheehy said of Hib, ‘as a single document, [it] is probably the most ambitious endeavour to codify Christian life of all the medieval canonical compilations.’ A relatively small portion of the work comprises excerpts from ancient canons and decretals; far more common are citations of Scripture and the Church Fathers―Origen, Jerome, Augustine, Pope Gregory I, and Gregory Nazianzenus being most prominent among these. Its use of Greek Fathers as sources for canon law has been called ‘unique’. Not including quotations inside excerpted patristic writers, Hib contains about 1,000 quotations of Scripture, two-thirds of which come from the Old Testament.
Thomas Charles-Edwards considered the methods by which the compiler(s) of this collection organized their material: "the Hibernensis both contains and relies on exegesis to a far greater extent than do such collections as those of Dionysius Exiguus". The compiler, or ‘exegete’ as Charles-Edwards calls him, was interested not only in presenting decisions, but in finding answers to questions on morality; it was the compiler’s own moral preoccupations, as well as his own interpretation of his sources that determined the shape and content of the collection. The compiler’s use of testimonia and exempla to prove a rule sometimes led him to take a ‘dialectical’ approach to legal questions, in which he would present opposing rules on a single topic and attempt some sort of crude reconciliation, though usually this reconciliation is only ever implied. For some scholars, this has qualified Hib as something of a summa discordantium.
The exegetical and essaic qualities of Hib were signalled by Gabriel le Bras when he argued that Hib is ‘more than a canonical collection, but a repository of scriptural and patristic texts on discipline, which the author accepted as the principal sources of the law. This characteristic of the Hibernensis quite naturally results in its embracing a much wider domain than the other collections: not only the entire domain of the ecclesiastical institution, but also the realm of the social and spiritual life.’
Hib was not the only form of law available in medieval Ireland. A secular law, more commonly known as the Brehon Laws, existed and is often at variance with Hib, although perhaps more surprising is their tendency to overlap.
Sources for the Collection Canonum Hibernensis
Hib was an attempt to make available diverse authorities for use by Canon Jurists. Among the sources included are:
the Collectio canonum Turonensis
collections of Gallic and other Continental canons
ecclesiastical histories
a definition by Virgil Maro Grammaticus
a compusticial tract by Pseudo-Theophilus
spurious 'Acts' of the council of Caesarea
several quotes from all but one of the works of Isidore of Seville
so-called dicta of Saint Patrick.
Editions
Hermann Wasserschleben, Die irische Kanonensammlung (1874, revised 1885). Archive
Roy Flechner, The Hibernensis: Volume 1. A Study and Edition (2019). Google Books
Roy Flechner, The Hibernensis: Volume 2. Translation, Commentary, and Indexes (2019). Google Books
Addenda and Corrigenda to the Editions
Wasserschleben, 1874
p. 2 note 12: FOR 2 Timoth. READ 1 Timoth.
p. 64 lines 6–7: FOR contrixisse READ constrinxisse
p. 105 lines 15–16: FOR angelio READ angelo
p. 134 line 3: AFTER Isaac filio suo ADD Isaac servavit hereditatem Iacob. Item: Iacob servavit partem filio suo Ioseph
p. 142 lines 22–24: FOR Si debes aliquid fratri non habenti, quod reddat tibi, sume pignus ab eo, et custodi, ut accipias, quod debeas READ Si debet tibi aliquid frater tuus et non habet, quod reddat tibi, sume pignus ab eo, et custodi, ut accipias, quod debet
p. 200 line 17: FOR malitia READ malitiam
p. 205 line 19: FOR occidisse READ accidisse
p. 209 line 13: FOR item in habitu READ item: Debent esse in habitu
p. 233 line 12: FOR dicitur ut READ dicitur: tolle calciamenta locus enim in quo et reliqua. Ita et Iosue ut
Wasserschleben, 1885
p. 47 line 25: FOR evangelico READ evangelio
p. 105 line 12: FOR READ
p. 112 line 22: FOR Isaac Iacob READ Isaac servavit hereditatem Iacob
p. 204 line 2: FOR dicitur ut READ dicitur: tolle calciamenta locus enim in quo et reliqua. Ita et Iosue ut
Flechner, 2019
p. 206 line 20: ADD cf. Gen. 9:25
p. 207 line 1: ADD cf. Gen. 25:6
p. 282 line 2: ADD cf. Jerome, Ep. 53 (CSEL 54/1, p. 448)
p. 307 line 10: ADD cf. Num. 10:29–32
p. 460 line 9: FOR apostolus READ apostolos
p. 460 line 15: FOR Hiromonus READ Hironimus / Hieronimus (as in app. crit.)
p. 820 line 8: FOR apostle READ apostles
p. 983 line 1: FOR ennarationes READ enarrationes
References
External links
Wasserschleben's edition of Hib (Die irische Kanonensammlung, second edition, ed. F. W. H. Wasserschleben (Leipzig, 1885))
The Collectio canonum Turonensis, one of the major sources for the Hib
Excerpts from Hib (interspersed with the Isidorian Epistula ad Massonam) in Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, Ny kgl. Sam. 58 (8°)
8th-century Latin books
Latin texts of medieval Ireland
Legal history of Ireland
8th century in Ireland
Irish non-fiction books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectio%20canonum%20Hibernensis |
Alois Walde (November 30, 1869 – October 3, 1924) was an Austrian linguist.
Alois Walde studied classical philology and comparative linguistics at the University of Innsbruck where he was awarded a PhD in 1894. The year after, he became a state employee at the university library. In 1895, he was awarded his habilitation and became a professor in 1904 at the University of Innsbruck. 1909-1912, Walde was Professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Giessen, but returned in 1912 to Innsbruck where he became the dean of faculty in 1914 and rector of the university in 1916. The year after, he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1922, he took up a professorship at Albertina University Königsberg. In the same year, Walde accepted a professorship at Breslau University for 1924, but he died before he could take the new position.
Walde contributed widely to the research on laryngeal theory and Indo-European lexis. His multi-volume dictionaries were printed in many editions, and are still in print today.
Selected academic works
Alois Walde. Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (= Indogermanische Bibliothek. Abteilung 1: Sammlung indogermanischer Lehr- und Handbücher. Reihe 2: Wörterbücher, 1). Heidelberg: Winter University Press, 1906 (3rd revised and expanded edition by Johann Baptist Hofmann 1938–1954; 6th reprint edition 2007-8. 2 volumes. (vol. 1: A – L), (vol. 2: M – Z)).
Alois Walde. Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen. 3 vols. Edited by Julius Pokorny. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1927–1932 (reprint 1973, ).
References
Linguists from Austria
1869 births
1924 deaths
People from Austria-Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois%20Walde |
KMMA-CD, virtual and digital channel 41, was a low-power, Class A 3ABN Latino-affiliated television station licensed to San Luis Obispo, California, United States. The station was owned by Caballero Television.
History
On May 15, 1996, KMMA-CD signed on as K18FF, and the station was later granted Class A status in 2003.
On September 25, 2006, KMMA-CA switched to the new MTV Tres network (now simply known as Tres since July 2010), which was created as a result of Viacom's acquisition of Mas Musica.
On August 3, 2015, KMMA-CD dropped the MTV Tres affiliation and started broadcasting Spanish religious programming from 3ABN Latino.
On September 30, 2016, KMMA-CD added a digital subchannel with Lifehacks DRTV, which features a near-all paid programming schedule.
On April 13, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that KMMA-CD was a successful bidder in the spectrum auction, and would be surrendering its license in exchange for $173,076. Caballero Television surrendered KMMA-CD's license to the FCC for cancellation on July 27, 2017.
References
External links
MMA-CD
Low-power television stations in California
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in California
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
2017 disestablishments in California
MMA-CD | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMMA-CD |
KMMA may refer to:
KMMA (FM), a radio station (97.1 FM) in Green Valley, Arizona, United States
KMMA-CD, a defunct television station (channel 41) in San Luis Obispo, California, United States
KOND, a radio station (107.5 FM) in Hanford, California, which held the KMMA call sign from April to October 1991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMMA |
Fringe benefits tax (FBT) within the system of taxation in New Zealand is the tax applied to most, although not all, fringe benefits ("perks"), including the ones provided through someone other than an employer. FBT is paid to Inland Revenue by the employer and is calculated with reference to the taxable value of the benefit provided to the employee or associate.
Legislation
Legislation governing what a fringe benefit is, and is not, is contained within part CX of the Income Tax Act 2007. The imposition of FBT is contained within part RD of the Income Tax Act 2007.
The categories of benefits include motor vehicles, low-interest loans, free, subsidised or discounted goods and services, employer contributions to funds, insurance and superannuation schemes and other benefits.
Paying FBT
FBT filing may be quarterly, finance year, or annual tax returns. Taxpayers must pay quarterly unless they qualify for, and have elected to, use another period for filing.
Since 1 April 2001, FBT has been payable using one of two options. The Single Rate Option (whereby FBT is paid at the highest FBT rate on all employees), or the alternate rate option (formerly the multi-rate option, which involves attribution of benefits to individual employees and pooling of non-attributable benefits and certain de minimis benefits). There is a 'short form' way of calculating under the alternate rate option, which is simply to pool non-attributable and de minimis benefits but pay the highest rate of FBT on remaining benefits rather than attribute to employees.
New Zealand FBT rates are determined by grossing up personal income tax rates. As such, FBT rates are updated when personal income tax rates are changed.
2011 FBT (1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011)
Due to a change in income tax rates from 1 October 2010 (mid tax year), the FBT rates for 2011 are blended for the year.
Single rate option – 61% for Q1-Q2, 49.25% for Q3-Q4
Alternate rate option – 49% or 61% for Q1-Q2, 43% or 49% for Q3, Alternate rate calculation in Q4
Alternate rate option pooling – 45.99% for employee pool and 55.04% for shareholder pool
2010 FBT (1 April 2009 – 31 March 2010)
Single rate option – 61% for all quarters
Alternate rate option – 49% or 61% for Q1-Q3, Alternate rate calculation in Q4
Alternate rate option pooling – 49% for employee pool and 61% for shareholder pool
Prior years
As of 2006, there are three methods of rate calculation for FBT: flat rate (64%), multi-rate and short form multi-rate options. .
References
External links
Inland Revenue Department: FBT
Taxation in New Zealand
Employee benefits | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20benefits%20tax%20%28New%20Zealand%29 |
Black Tiger, known in Japan as , is a hack-and-slash platform game released for arcades by Capcom in 1987.
Plot
The land is under the cruel control of three evil demonic dragons, who descended on a kingdom to bring darkness and destruction. From the ruins emerged a barbarian hero, who seeks to slay the dragons and restore the kingdom to its former glory.
Gameplay
The game is presented in a side-scrolling format, with eight-way scrolling (like Bionic Commando). The player controls the barbarian hero to navigate through eight levels infested with enemies and destroying the levels bosses. The player can find a number of "wise men" who give rewards when rescued. Though the wise man rewards often consist of self-evident "advice", most come in the form of "Zenny coins", currency that allows the player to buy various items, such as an upgrade to their weapons and armour, keys for treasure chests, and anti-poisoning potions. Hidden special items that reveal coins, grant upgraded armour, full vitality, extra lives, extra time, or simply bonus points may be found by attacking certain walls. The player's vitality bar will also increase up to four times as a reward for reaching score benchmarks. The player can also find hidden dungeons in the level for extra points and items.
The Japanese version has a few changes that makes it more challenging than its American counterpart:
Several of the "falling rock" obstacles are added
The prices of many items are higher
More points are needed to increase maximum vitality
It is not possible to avoid taking damage from bosses by crouching under them
Development
Black Tiger was planned for released around October 1986, but programming placement difficulties delayed it. During conversion, the game was one of ten games included in a $2,000,000 deal between U.S. Gold and some Japanese coin-op specialists.
Ports
Europe-based U.S. Gold released versions of Black Tiger for Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum in 1989. A version for the Commodore 64 was released in 1990, developed by Softworx.
An emulation of the arcade game is included in the compilations Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed for PlayStation Portable and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The arcade version of Black Tiger was released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on December 7, 2010, the PAL region on January 21, 2011, and in North America on January 24.
The game is included as the initial game in Capcom Arcade Cabinet for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on February 19, 2013.
SonSon II for the PC Engine was a game heavily based on Black Tiger, but targeted at a younger audience.
The game is one of 32 available in Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium that was released on July 22, 2022.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed the game on their October 15, 1987 issue as being the sixth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
Black Tiger received a number of positive reviews. Computer and Video Games put the Atari ST, Amiga and Commodore 64 ports as among the top 20 games of the respective computers of 1990.
See also
Magic Sword (video game)
References
External links
1987 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Arcade video games
Atari ST games
Cancelled Nintendo Entertainment System games
Capcom games
Commodore 64 games
Hack and slash games
Platformers
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Romstar games
U.S. Gold games
Video games developed in Japan
Virtual Console games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
ZX Spectrum games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games scored by Tamayo Kawamoto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Tiger%20%28video%20game%29 |
Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein () (July 19 (31 (N.S.), 1857, Warsaw – October 28, 1921, Berlin) was a Russian monarchist politician and Minister of Agriculture under Pyotr Stolypin.
Life
Graduate in law of St. Petersburg University. Worked in the Ministry of Justice and later in the Ministry of the Interior (1884–1896). Assistant Head of the Department of Peasant Colonization (1896–1904), and Head (1904–1905). Assistant Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture (1905–1906). Member of the State Council (1906). Assistant Minister of Finance (1906–1908).
Krivoshein served as Russia's Minister of Agriculture between 1908 and 1915. He was one of the few ministers, who was respected by the Emperor and government circles, as well as the educated public. Most of the commissioners appointed by him were the members of the public, rather than administrators or businesspersons. Krivoshein was one of the principal ministers involved in the implementation of the Stolypin agrarian reforms. He supported large private capital in industry, because he believed that the private investment would free up more state funds for agriculture. However, for agriculture, he favored the individual peasant and the noble landowner. During the ministerial debates in 1913–14, his ministry did not oppose the expansion of joint-stock companies in the industry, but fought to limit their role in the land purchases. His ministry also got a ban on Jews holding managerial positions in stock companies involved in the land purchases.
In 1915, Krivoshein headed the "Special Council for Discussion and Coordinating Measures for Food Supply". He was a moderate politician, and tried to persuade Nikolai Maklakov (the Minister of the Interior) to take more account of the Imperial Duma in determining policy. He supported the moderate parliamentary reform in 1915. He was one of several ministers to be dismissed for opposing Nicholas II's decision to take command of the Russian Army. Krivoshein rejected the February Revolution of 1917. After the October Revolution of 1917, he joined the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Crimea. He tried to save the Russian emperor, when the latter was moved from Tomsk to Yekaterinburg, organizing an anti-Bolshevik conspiracy in Moscow, and barely escaping arrest. He also served as the head of General Wrangel's government in Crimea.
Later, he went into exile in France. His son, Igor A. Krivoshein, was an engineer and high-ranking Freemason in France.
References
1857 births
1921 deaths
Politicians from Warsaw
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Politicians from the Russian Empire
Members of the Russian Assembly
Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia)
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian)
Monarchists from the Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Krivoshein |
Rielasingen-Worblingen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the border with Switzerland, 4 km south of Singen, and 20 km east of Schaffhausen. This town is twinned with the French town of Nogent-sur-Seine in the Aube department and the Italian city of Ardea.
Rielasingen-Worblingen has five kindergartens, three elementary schools and two secondary schools.
References
Konstanz (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rielasingen-Worblingen |
Ipecac Neat is the first studio album by American rapper P.O.S. It was released on Doomtree Records in 2004. It was re-released on Rhymesayers Entertainment in 2005.
Production
P.O.S began his hip hop career as half of a rap duo called Cenospecies. After the duo broke up, they were still booked to play at several more shows. Because P.O.S was contractually obligated to perform at these shows, he had to write songs that he could perform solo. He told City Pages in 2014 that Ipecac Neat consisted of "pretty much every solo song" that he had written up to that point. Half of the album was recorded in P.O.S's own basement and the other half in a neighbor's living room, as opposed to a recording studio.
Critical reception
Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, describing it as "an energetic, angry, intense record with dark, engaging Aesop Rock-like beats that incorporate guitar and strings loops, purposeful drums, and ominous scratches." She added, "The melodies and harmonies switch from song to song, but there's a consistency in the production, so much so that it, along with the heaviness and anger, begins to sound a bit repetitive and even weighs down the album."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
P.O.S – vocals, production (3–5, 7–14, 16), recording, engineering
MK Larada – production (1, 6)
Lazerbeak – production (2, 10, 15), vocals (10)
Sims – vocals (2, 12)
Crescent Moon – vocals (3, 14)
Sean McPherson – bass guitar (4, 10)
Toki Wright – vocals (8)
Cecil Otter – vocals (11)
I Self Devine – vocals (16)
Turbo Nemesis – turntables
Joe Mabbott – mixing
Christopher Blood – mastering
References
External links
Ipecac Neat at Bandcamp
2004 debut albums
P.O.S albums
Rhymesayers Entertainment albums
Doomtree Records albums
Albums produced by Lazerbeak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecac%20Neat |
The Swift River is an river located in eastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Bearcamp River, part of the Ossipee Lake / Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The Swift River is located only four miles south of the larger and longer Swift River which parallels the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountain National Forest.
The Swift River begins at the confluence of Paugus Brook and the Wonalancet River in the northern part of Tamworth, New Hampshire, south of Mount Chocorua. The river flows southeast through a narrow valley, which opens up as it reaches Tamworth village. The Swift River slows before joining the Bearcamp River between the villages of Whittier and West Ossipee. Mill Brook joins near the Swift River's mouth.
See also
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Rivers of Carroll County, New Hampshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift%20River%20%28Bearcamp%20River%20tributary%29 |
Robert Errey (born September 21, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left wing and former sportscaster for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 15th overall by Pittsburgh in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft and played 895 NHL games over the course of his career.
Playing career
Errey was born in Montreal, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1977 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Peterborough, Ontario.
Errey played junior ice hockey with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League from 1980 to 1983. During that time he teamed with Steve Yzerman to form the top line, and led the team in goals with 53 in 1983. Errey would eventually reunite with Yzerman in Detroit for one full season and two half seasons in the mid 1990s.
Errey played most notably for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but also played for the Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks, Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars and New York Rangers. He won two Stanley Cups as a member of the Penguins in 1991 and 1992. He was also a member of Team Canada in 1997 winning a gold medal at the World Championships and appeared in the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals with Detroit. With the Penguins, he originally wore jersey #10 then settled with #12. He retired in 1999 after playing the entire 1998–99 season with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League.
Errey served as the captain of the San Jose Sharks for the 1993–94 NHL season and part of the 1994–95 season.
Broadcast career
Errey is a former TV colour analyst for the Pittsburgh Penguins broadcasts on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh alongside Steve Mears. He also appeared as an analyst on the NHL Network's nightly highlight show, NHL on the Fly during the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He occasionally appears on TSN as an analyst during the network's coverage of the IIHF World Hockey Championships.
Personal life
Errey was born in Montreal, grew up in Peterborough, Ontario, and attended Crestwood Secondary School.
Errey and his wife Tracy have two sons, Connor and Chad.
Errey is a cousin of the Indy Champ, Tom Geoghegan of the Kinloch racing team and a third cousin to hockey legend Ted Lindsay.
Awards
Stanley Cup
Pittsburgh Penguins – 1991, 1992
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Anglophone Quebec people
Baltimore Skipjacks players
Buffalo Sabres players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Canadian television sportscasters
Dallas Stars players
Detroit Red Wings players
Hartford Wolf Pack players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
National Hockey League broadcasters
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New York Rangers players
Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players
Pittsburgh Penguins announcers
Pittsburgh Penguins draft picks
Pittsburgh Penguins players
San Jose Sharks players
Ice hockey people from Peterborough, Ontario
Stanley Cup champions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Errey |
Heart Attack was an American early New York hardcore band formed in 1980 and active until 1984.
History
Formed in the suburban area of Whitestone, Queens, in New York City, they were probably the youngest punk band in the New York City area at the time, according to some flyers and fanzines, as the first line-up was formed by people from 12 to 16 years old. Their first demos (Hitler Demo and The Mojo Sessions) was heavily influenced by English punk rock, especially Sex Pistols and The Clash, with hilarious lyrics, but soon after attending a CBGB show of the Bad Brains, singer Jesse Malin and guitarist Jackie Flanagan decided to switch genres to the latest wave of punk, hardcore.
Heart Attack existed for less than four years, part of the NYC hardcore scene with other bands such as the Beastie Boys, Kraut, Bad Brains, The Undead, The Mad, Reagan Youth, The Misguided, and Even Worse. Heart Attack was the first band of the area to go on tour in the rest of the United States. Their final show was on July 4, 1984, at CBGB. All of their songs are now published on "The Last War 1980–84" CD.
Malin went on to form the bands The Finger and D Generation (also with later Heart Attack guitarist Danny Sage), and later, a successful solo career. Flanagan went on to play in the New York group The Mob. Drummer Javier Madriaga later joined Reagan Youth. The band is mentioned in the film American Hardcore.
Members
Jesse Malin – guitar, vocals (later of Hope, the Steps of Sounds, D Generation and The Finger)
John Frawley – bass (1980 – April 1982)
Javier Madriaga – drums (ex-Lujuria, later in Reagan Youth)
Paul Praver – bass (April 1982 – July 1984)
Jack Flanagan – guitar (later of The Mob)
Danny Sage – guitar (later of Hope, D Generation, now a solo artist)
Missy – guitar (earliest incarnation)
Richie Ferrara – drums (1978–80)
Ron Torina – guitar
Brandon Lewis – bass
Discography
God Is Dead 7-inch EP, Damaged Goods Records (1981)
New York Thrash compilation cassette, CD and vinyl (1982; contains "God Is Dead" and "Shotgun")
Keep Your Distance, 12-inch EP, Serious Clown Records (1983)
Subliminal Seduction, 12-inch EP, Rat Cage Records (1984)
FLIPSIDE VIDEO FANZINE NUMBER 5, VHS, songs: "MAN'S WORLD" & "BRAINWASHED HEROES" recorded at Olympic, LA-Perkins, Pasadena (1984)
The Last War '80–'84, CD, Broken Rekkids Records (2001)
Hardcore punk groups from New York (state)
Musical groups from Queens, New York
Punk rock groups from New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Attack%20%28band%29 |
Carbon monofluoride (CF, CFx, or (CF)n), also called polycarbon monofluoride (PMF), polycarbon fluoride, poly(carbon monofluoride), and graphite fluoride, is a material formed by high-temperature reaction of fluorine gas with graphite, charcoal, or pyrolytic carbon powder. It is a highly hydrophobic microcrystalline powder. Its CAS number is . In contrast to graphite intercalation compounds it is a covalent graphite compound.
Carbon is stable in a fluorine atmosphere up to about 400 °C, but between 420-600 °C a reaction takes place to give substoichiometric carbon monofluoride, CF0.68 appearing dark grey. With increasing temperature and fluorine pressure stoichiometries up to CF1.12 are formed. With increasing fluorine content the colour changes from dark grey to cream white indicating the loss of the aromatic character. The fluorine atoms are located in an alternating fashion above and under the former graphene plane, which is now buckled due to formation of covalent carbon-fluorine bonds. Reaction of carbon with fluorine at even higher temperature successively destroys the graphite compound to yield a mixture of gaseous fluorocarbons such as tetrafluorocarbon, CF4, and tetrafluoroethylene, C2F4.
In a similar fashion the recently found carbon allotrope fullerene, C60 reacts with fluorine gas to give fullerene fluorides with stoichiometries up to C60F48.
A precursor of carbon monofluoride is the fluorine-graphite intercalation compound, also called fluorine-GIC.
Other intercalation fluorides of carbon are:
poly(dicarbon fluoride) ((C2F)n);
tetracarbon monofluoride (TCMF, C4F).
Graphite fluoride is a precursor for preparation of graphene fluoride by a liquid phase exfoliation.
Application
Carbon monofluoride is used as a high-energy-density cathode material in lithium batteries of the "BR" type. Other uses are a wear reduction additive for lubricants, and weather-resistant additive for paints. Graphite fluoride is also used as both oxidizing agent and combustion modifier in rocket propellants and pyrolants.
Carbon monofluoride is commercially available as Carbofluor-brand materials.
References
Fluorides
Inorganic carbon compounds
Nonmetal halides | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20monofluoride |
Jagriti () is a 1954 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Satyen Bose. It was based on the 1949 Bengali film Paribartan that Bose had also directed. The film stars Rajkumar Gupta, Abhi Bhattacharya, and Ratan Kumar in the lead roles. The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Film at the 3rd Filmfare Awards in 1956. Bhattacharya received the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his outstanding performance in Jagriti at the same ceremony. Jagriti still considered one of the best children-centric films of India.
The film was screened retrospectively on 14 August 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating the 70th Indian Independence Day.
Plot
The film is about a spoiled rich kid, Ajay (Rajkumar Gupta), who is sent away to a boarding school by his uncle. In the hostel, Ajay meets mischievous boys like him. They have a superintendent called "King Kong". Ajay then meets Shakti, a boy with a leg missing. Shakti is a poor boy. Ajay befriends him.
The days pass and the naughtiness of the boys is only increasing day by day. One day, a man called Shekhar becomes the new superintendent. He is a calm man who hardly loses his temper.
When the results of an exam are out, most fail. Shekhar then introduces a new scheme of learning where the children are given leniency. All the boys listen to Shekhar barring Ajay. He starts doing the opposite of whatever Shekhar tells. Shakti tries his best to change him.
One Day, Ajay kicks a boy in the stomach while playing a football match.
Seeing this, Shekhar becomes furious and tells everyone to boycott Ajay and suspends him. Hurt, Ajay decides to leave the hostel and go away.
Shakti tries to persuade him to not leave. He starts going after Ajay on the road to stop him. A car hits Shakti and he is taken to the hospital. Later, Shakti passes away and Ajay realises that his stubbornness was the cause of Shakti's death.
Many months later, Ajay is a changed boy who stands first in class thereby fulfilling his promise to Shekhar and Shakti. Shekhar decides to leave the hostel and go. He regrets boycotting Ajay and leaves. The film ends in a song sung by Shekhar as he leaves.
Cast
Abhi Bhattacharya as Shekhar
Pranoti Ghosh
Bipin Gupta
Mumtaz Begum
Rajkumar Gupta as Ajay
Ratan Kumar as Shakti
Chandan Kumar
Dilip
Raja
Mohan Choti
Ghanshyam
Navneet
Girish
Padmakar (as Padmaker)
Nanda
Soundtrack
This movie is known for its classic patriotic songs, written by one of the greatest Indian poets and lyricists of all time, Kavi Pradeep, and set to music by Hemant Kumar.
Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Movie
National Film Awards
1954 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi - Certificate of Merit
Remake
The Pakistani film Bedari had an identical plot and the songs, with replacement of some words, and music taken directly from Jagriti. Ratan Kumar (Syed Nazir Ali), who had moved to Pakistan with his family, acted in Bedari also. When Bedari was released in Pakistan in 1956, it too made fabulous business in the first few weeks of exhibition. However, it dawned upon the Pakistani cinemagoers that they were watching a plagiarized film. There was a mass uproar that caused public demonstrations against exhibition of the plagiarized film. The Censor Board of Pakistan immediately put a ban on this film.
References
External links
Jagriti at ultraindia.com
1954 films
1950s Hindi-language films
Indian children's films
Films scored by Hemant Kumar
Filmfare Awards winners
Films directed by Satyen Bose
Indian black-and-white films
Indian comedy-drama films
1954 comedy-drama films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagriti |
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