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The National Council of the Resistance (also, National Resistance Council; in French: Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) directed and coordinated the different movements of the French Resistance: the press, trade unions and political parties hostile to the Vichy regime, starting from mid-1943.
Background
Various resistance movements had arisen in France since the start of the German occupation in June 1940. With the possible exception of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans and other groups loyal to the Communist Party of France, the maquis groups were mostly unorganised and unrelated to one another. This lack of coordination made them less effective in their actions against the Nazi occupiers.
Founding
Charles de Gaulle, exiled in London and recognized by the UK as leader of a French government in exile, began forming a committee to unify the resistance movements. On January 1, 1942, he delegated this task to Jean Moulin. Moulin achieved the feat on May 27, 1943 with the first meeting of the Conseil National de la Résistance in the apartment of René Corbin on the second floor of 48, Rue du Four, in Paris.
Aside from Moulin and his two assistants, and , representatives of the eight main French resistance movements, members of six of France's major political parties and the two large pre-war trade unions all attended the Rue du Four meeting.
Representatives of the eight major resistance movements:
Pierre Villon (Front National)
(Ceux de la Libération)
(Ceux de la Résistance)
Charles Laurent (Libération-Nord)
(Libération-Sud)
Jacques-Henri Simon (Organisation Civile et Militaire)
Claude Bourdet (Combat)
Eugène Claudius-Petit (Franc-Tireur)
Under Jean Moulin's earlier influence, Combat, Franc-Tireur and Libération-Sud had already agreed to regroup themselves in January 1943 to create the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance, with their joint military arms forming the Armée secrète (Secret Army).
Representatives of the two trade unions which had been outlawed with the creation of the Labour Charter of the 4th of October:
Louis Saillant (Confédération générale du travail)
Gaston Tessier (Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens)
Representatives of the six main political parties of the French Third Republic:
André Mercier (French Communist Party or PCF)
André Le Troquer (French Section of the Workers' International)
Marc Rucart (Radical-Socialists)
Georges Bidault (Parti démocrate populaire)
Joseph Laniel (l'Alliance Démocratique)
(Fédération républicaine)
Arrest of Jean Moulin
However, shortly after the CNR's creation, its president Jean Moulin was arrested at Caluire by the SS. Over the next three days, Moulin was tortured by Klaus Barbie himself, and died during his transfer to Germany. He divulged no information to his torturers and his silence likely allowed the CNR to pursue its activities.
After Moulin's capture and death, the Conseil National de la Résistance decided for security reasons to end its plenary sessions and created an executive office of five members, with each member representing his own group and two others. The new office was under the direction of Alexandre Parodi, delegate-general, and Georges Bidault, the new president. On September 9, 1944, Louis Saillant succeeded Bidault as head of the CNR.
Programme
On March 15, 1944, the CNR adopted, after months of negotiations, the Programme of the Conseil National de la Résistance. The document was strongly influenced by communist groups like the Front National, especially in part II, "Measures to be taken immediately after the liberation of the territory", which envisioned the establishment of a social democracy with a planned economy in France after liberation. Some of the proposed measures were applied, at least to a certain extent, after liberation, including the nationalisation of energy (Électricité de France was founded in 1946), insurance companies (AGF in 1945) and banks (Crédit Lyonnais in 1945, Société Générale in 1946), the creation of social security programs and the independence of trade unions. They are many of the so-called acquis sociaux (social rights) of the second half of the 20th century in France.
References
The text of this article was translated from this version of the French-language Wikipedia article "Conseil National de la Résistance".
External links
List of members of the Conseil National de la Résistance from the archival web site of former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé,
Description of the Conseil National de la Résistance from the Musée de la Résistance Nationale,
Programme du Conseil National de la Résistance from Wikisource,
France Républicaine - Conseil National de la Résistance,
Article in the magazine l'Humanité,
Le Programme du Conseil National de la Résistance.
Charles de Gaulle
French Resistance networks and movements
Military history of France
World War II non-governmental organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20the%20Resistance |
László Szalma (born 27 October 1957) is a retired Hungarian long jumper. He won six medals at the European Indoor Championships—two gold, three silver and one bronze—and finished fourth at the 1980 Olympic Games and the 1983 World Championships. His career best jump of 8.30 metres, achieved in July 1985 in Budapest, is the current Hungarian record.
Career
He was born in Nagymaros. He won a Hungarian title for the first time in 1977, taking the national indoor championship, and first made his mark in international athletics at the 1977 European Indoor Championships. With a jump of 7.78 metres he won the bronze medal. At the 1978 European Indoor Championships the next year he won the gold medal with a jump of 7.83 metres. In 1980 he competed at the Olympic Games in Moscow, finishing fourth. Then, despite jumping even better at the 1981 European Indoor Championships, Szalma only finished fourth with 7.90 metres, eleven centimetres behind the winner Rolf Bernhard. In the summer he won the gold medal at the 1981 Summer Universiade. At the 1982 European Indoor Championships, there was an eleven centimetre gap between first and seventh place; Szalma finished in between at a fifth place. At the 1982 European Championships he dropped slightly to an eleventh place.
In 1983 Szalma competed at the inaugural World Championships. He leapt 7.97 metres to progress from the qualifying round, and finished fourth in the final with 8.12 metres. He missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet-led 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, but repeated the fourth place at the 1985 World Indoor Games. During the 1984–85 indoor season he also won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships. It was a very tight competition, with Szalma tying the winner, his compatriot Gyula Pálóczi, on 8.15 metres but with Pálóczi winning on countback. Also, Szalma was one centimetre ahead of bronze medalist Sergey Layevskiy and two centimetres ahead of fourth placer Ján Leitner. In the summer he jumped a career best of 8.30 metres, in July in Budapest. The result is the Hungarian record, and also the best result in Europe that year. At the end of the season he finished third at the 1985 World Cup, tying with but losing to Robert Emmiyan at 8.09 metres.
At the 1986 European Indoor Championships Szalma won his second silver medal in a row, but this time with a jump of 8.24 metres, which was a career best on the indoor track. In 1987 there were two indoor championships, with Szalma finishing fourth at the European and sixth at the 1987 World Indoor Championships. In 1988 he won his last silver medal at the European Indoor Championships, finishing three centimetres behind Frans Maas and three ahead of Giovanni Evangelisti. In the summer he competed at the 1988 Olympic Games, finishing sixth both in the qualifying round and in the final. In 1989 he finished fourth at both the European and the 1989 World Indoor Championships.
At his final European Indoor Championships in 1990, Szalma only managed a fifteenth place. At his third Olympic participation, two years later, he did not manage to reach the final of the long jump competition.
He became the Hungarian long jump champion in 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1988, rivalling with Béla Bakosi, Gyula Pálóczi, Zsolt Szabó and Csaba Almási. He also became Hungarian indoor champion in the years 1977 through 1990, except for one year, as Gyula Pálóczi won in 1985. Szalma stands tall, and during his active career he weighed .
International competitions
1Representing Europe
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Hungarian male long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Hungary
People from Nagymaros
World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Hungary
Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Pest County
20th-century Hungarian people
21st-century Hungarian people
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Szalma |
Caterina va in città (English title: Caterina in the Big City) is a 2003 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Virzì and written by Virzì and Francesco Bruni.
Plot
Caterina (Alice Teghil) is the 13-year-old only child of Giancarlo Iacovoni (Sergio Castellitto), an aspiring novelist and teacher of accounting at a country school in an area north of Rome that one character describes as "hillbilly country." In spite of his often lucid assessments of modern society, Iacovoni is a typically burned-out teacher whom his job (perhaps among other, undisclosed personal experiences) has imbued with bitterness and social resentment, with a sheer lack of perspective concerning human relations, and with an overbearing, holier-than-thou demeanor that is a major plot point throughout the movie.
He relocates his daughter Caterina and his timid, long-suffering wife Agata (Margherita Buy) to his birthplace, Rome, after having finally secured a long-coveted teaching position. The family settles in Giancarlo's former district, where he reconnects with his neighbor and childhood friend, Fabietto (Silvio Vannucci). Once settled in the Italian capital, Caterina enrolls in a fast-track high school. She immediately finds herself pulled between two competing student cliques: a leftist bohemian contingent headed by Margherita Rossi-Chaillet and a right-leaning group headed by Daniela Germano. Both clique leaders come from socially prominent families. Margherita's mother is a noted intellectual and political writer. Daniela's father is a right-wing government minister (loosely inspired by real politician Gianfranco Fini) who married into a wealthy family.
Margherita instantly adopts Caterina as her new best friend. The two girls attend rallies, visit graves of poets, and listen to Nick Cave records. Margherita kisses Caterina, but it's a bit ambiguous as to whether this is to imply sexuality or a pact between them, as she says, to never betray each other. Caterina eventually has a disagreement with Margherita due to being caught by her father drunk and having just gotten a tattoo from Margherita, and begins to gravitate toward Daniela's group. Daniela invites Caterina to join her at a wedding, where Caterina observes a group of neo-fascists pay homage to Daniela's father Manlio who, it is heavily implied, is a covert fascist himself. There is also a subtle hint at an intimate relationship between Daniela and her father's bodyguard.
Meanwhile, Caterina's father is trying to capitalize on his daughter's connections. While Caterina is friends with Margherita, Giancarlo secretly gives Margherita a copy of his manuscript to pass along to her mother (with instructions not to tell Caterina), a highly placed editor. Once Caterina becomes friends with Daniela, Giancarlo pays a visit to Daniela's father's office to solicit favors, after having become enraged on a talk show and a laughing stock. He was fired due to hitting a student who was mocking his TV performance and lost his job, leading him to his visit with Signor Germano. After failing to get help from this source as well, he slowly becomes more and more despondent. Caterina then finds out that Daniela and her friends don't like her and "tried to make her civilised", a disappointment which is compounded by a failed romantic liaison with a wealthy boy from Daniela's clique whom his grandmother forbids from seeing Caterina again. She then lashes out at Daniela and runs away from home only then taking comfort with her neighbor, a young Australian about her age. He has been watching their family and describes them as a soap opera and that she is his favorite character. She then returns home but her family is still in misery. Her father, then, begins shouting about all that matters in the world is tightly knit groups. This is one of the first moments in the movie where Caterina's mother shows her stress and unhappiness by screaming and smashing plates on the floor.
Caterina's father remains in his miserable life only working on his motorcycle until he fixes it. Once he does, his newfound optimism is cut short when he casually finds out that either his wife and Fabietto are having an affair or it is a mere question of time before they do—a fact all the more surprising to him since he had surmised Fabietto to be gay. Unaware that her husband is listening, Agata concedes to Fabietto that she wants to leave Giancarlo but is unable because she doesn't think he could make it on his own. Upon hearing this, Giancarlo then rides off on his motorcycle and is never heard of again; as phrased by Caterina, he "doesn't bother our family more, we like to think he's in a place that's making him happy".
Caterina graduates middle school and is encouraged by Margherita to apply to the conservatory of music. Before leaving on holiday, her young Australian friend explains that he is going back to Australia because his parents are getting back together. She then tells him that, if they ever meet again, she would like to be his girlfriend. She abruptly kisses him; embarrassed she runs back to her mother's car wanting to speed off. The summer includes her playing with her second cousin on the beach, while spending time with her mother and Fabietto. The last shots are of Caterina singing in a performance at her conservatory of music.
Cast
Alice Teghil — Caterina Iacovoni
Sergio Castellitto — Giancarlo Iacovoni
Margherita Buy — Agata Iacovoni
Federica Sbrenna — Daniela Germano
Claudio Amendola — Manlio Germano
Carolina Iaquaniello — Margherita Rossi Chaillet
Giulia Elettra Gorietti — Giada
Zach Wallen — Edward
Galatea Ranzi — Livia
Roberto Benigni — Himself
Reception
The film received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a "Fresh" approval rating of 90%, based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 7.33/10. The website's consensus reads: "This witty movie succeeds as both a modest teen coming-of-age story and a satirical microcosm of Italy's political climate."
Notes
Caterina in the Big City was shown at film festivals in 2003. Its general release in the United States was in 2005 at Landmark's Sunshine Theater in Manhattan.
The film has English subtitles.
This is Alice Teghil's first major film.
On the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 89% "Fresh" rating.
References
Holden, Stephen. (2005, June 3). Mean Girls (Some Are Even Fascists). The New York Times, p. B18
External links
2000s Italian-language films
2003 films
Films directed by Paolo Virzì
Italian comedy-drama films
2003 comedy-drama films
Films set in Rome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina%20in%20the%20Big%20City |
The Death-Throws are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They first appeared in Captain America #317 (May 1986) and were created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary. Introduced as enemies of Hawkeye, the Death-Throws consists primarily of jugglers who each use various juggling props as weapons.
Publication history
Bombshell and Oddball first appeared in Hawkeye Vol.1 #3-4 (1983) and battled the title character. They later joined the juggling supervillain team known as the Death-Throws to face Hawkeye in the pages of Captain America #317 (1986) and Avengers Spotlight #23-25 (1989). Oddball battled Hawkeye once again in Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1 (1998).
The Death-Throws later appeared in Union Jack Vol.2 #1-2 (2006) and had cameo appearances in Captain America #411-414 (1993) and Avengers: The Initiative #27 (2009).The Death-Throws have also had notable entries in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol.2 (Deluxe Edition) #3 (1985) and Dark Reign Files #1 (2009).
The members of the Death-Throws have made various minor solo appearances. Bombshell has appeared in Captain America #388-392 (1991), Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #12 (1992), Web of Spider-Man Annual #8 (1992), New Warriors Annual #2 (1992) and Villains for Hire #1-4 (2011). Oddball has featured in Captain America #395 (1991), Guardians of the Galaxy #28 (1992) and Wolverine Vol.2 #167 (2001). Knickknack has had cameo appearances in Thunderbolts #53 (2001), Wolverine Vol.3 #26 (2005) and Dark Reign: The Hood #1 (2009).
Crossfire's robotic army of Death T.H.R.O.W.S. have appeared in Hawkeye & Mockingbird #2-5 (2010) and The Heroic Age: Villains #1 (2011).
Fictional team history
The Ringleader and the Healey brothers (Oddball and Tenpin) came together to form the juggling-themed supervillain group, the Death-Throws. Knickknack was later recruited as the fourth member of the group. Oddball, given to his eccentric behaviour, quit the Death-Throws and branched out on his own. Oddball was hired, along with Bombshell, by Crossfire to battle Hawkeye and Mockingbird. The two supervillains subdued the heroes and delivered them to Crossfire. Later, when Hawkeye had managed to escape, Bombshell, Oddball and Crossfire were defeated and handed over to the authorities. Bombshell and Oddball were broken out of prison by Oddball's brother, Tenpin, and became members of the Death-Throws.
Oddball was contacted by Crossfire to break him out of prison. The Death-Throws took the job and were successful in their mission. But when Crossfire couldn't pay them for their services, the Death-Throws held him for ransom to lure Hawkeye into an ambush. The team were later defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Captain America. Sometime later, Crossfire placed a bounty on archer's right arm as he attempted to gain revenge against Hawkeye. The Death-Throws (along with the Brothers Grimm, Bobcat, Bullet Biker, Mad Dog, and Razor Fist) looked to cash in on the reward. The group, along with the rest of the supervillains, were defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Trick Shot.
Johnny Guitar and Doctor Sax, who were minor supervillains known for battling Dazzler, later applied for membership into the Death-Throws. However, the two music-themed supervillains were quickly rejected on the basis that they couldn't juggle.
Going solo
Bombshell underwent a genetic experiment to gain superpowers, gaining the ability to fire explosive energy blasts from her hands. Bombshell then joined an all female team of supervillains called the Femizons. The team were later defeated by Captain America. Bombshell's experimental new powers soon faded. Justin Hammer hired a number of supervillains (including Bombshell) to battle Spider-Man and the New Warriors. Justin Hammer and the supervillains then allied themselves with the Sphinx When Sphinx revealed his true intentions of total world domination, Bombshell panicked and fled.
After being seen playing a game of pool with 8-Ball in the Bar with No Name, Oddball was recruited by Doctor Octopus to join his incarnation of the Masters of Evil. The team were quickly defeated by the Guardians of the Galaxy. Oddball was later hired by Albino and Taskmaster to once again battle Hawkeye. He was defeated by the archer and the young Avengers recruits Justice and Firestar. Oddball was later killed while taking part in the Bloodsport competition in Madripoor. He was slain in the first round of the tournament by a tribal warrior called the Headhunter.
S.H.I.E.L.D. reported that Knickknack was killed and resurrected to serve HYDRA and the Hand as part of their supervillain army. All the supervillains involved were released from the Hand's control and returned to normal.
Return as team
Orville Bock was hired by the Death-Throws to become the new Oddball, adopting the original Oddball's costume and trick juggling balls. The Death-Throws, along with Crossfire, were hired by R.A.I.D to take part in a terrorist attack on London. The team attacked civilians from the top of Tower Bridge, but soon come into conflict with Union Jack and Sabra. Despite gaining the upper hand early in the battle, the Death-Throws and Crossfire were soon defeated. Bombshell, the last member of the team left standing, defused her bombs and surrendered.
The Death-Throws were among the supervillains researched by Quasimodo, on behalf of Norman Osborn, as potential villainous recruits for H.A.M.M.E.R. and the Initiative. Knickknack later appeared as a member of Hood's crime syndicate. Bombshell, along with her previous employer Crossfire, was hired to join Misty Knight's Villains for Hire team in a battle against the Purple Man.
During the "Devil's Reign" storyline, the Death-Throws members Ringleader, Bombshell, and Tenpin were shown as inmates of the Myrmidon. When 8-Ball offered to sit with them, they turn him down.
Members
Bombshell
Bombshell juggles various anti-personnel weapons including hand grenades, stun grenades, and smoke bombs.
Knickknack
Nicholas "Nick" Grossman was born in Secaucus, New Jersey. He later became a circus performer and juggler. Grossman then went to become a juggling supervillain known as the Knickknack and a member of the supervillain team, the Death-Throws. Knickknack was hired along with the Death-Throws by Crossfire to help him escape from prison. The Death-Throws complete their mission, but decide to hold Crossfire hostage instead. The group are defeated and arrested by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Captain America. Later, Knickknack and the rest of the Death-Throws, along with various other supervillains, attempt to claim the bounty put on Hawkeye's right arm by Crossfire. However, all of the supervillains looking to claim the bounty are defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Trick Shot. Later, Knickknack and the Death-Throws are hired by R.A.I.D to take part in a terrorist attack on London. They attack civilians from the top of Tower Bridge, but soon come into battle with Union Jack and Sabra. Knickknack appears as a member of Hood's crime syndicate. In flashback, Knickknack appears alongside Ringleader as he turns down Johnny Guitar and Doctor Sax for membership into the Death-Throws on the basis that the two music-themed supervillains couldn't juggle.
Powers and Abilities: Knickknack juggles an assortment of bladed instruments including meat cleavers, hunting knives and chainsaws.
Elton Healey
Oddball juggles various trick juggling balls including acid balls, smoke balls, and explosive balls.
Orville Bock
Like the original Oddball, this version of Oddball can also juggle various trick juggling balls including acid balls, smoke balls, and explosive balls.
Ringleader
Charles Last was born in San Francisco, California. He went to become a juggling supervillain known as the Ringleader and the leader of the supervillain team, the Death-Throws. Ringleader was hired along with the Death-Throws by Crossfire to help him escape from prison. The Death-Throws complete their mission, but decide to hold Crossfire hostage instead. The group are defeated and arrested by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Captain America. Later, Ringleader and the rest of the Death-Throws, along with various other supervillains, attempt to claim the bounty put on Hawkeye's right arm by Crossfire. However, all of the supervillains looking to claim the bounty are defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Trick Shot. Later, Ringleader and the Death-Throws are hired by R.A.I.D to take part in a terrorist attack on London. They attack civilians from the top of Tower Bridge, but soon come into battle with Union Jack and Sabra.In flashback, Ringleader turns down Johnny Guitar and Doctor Sax for membership into the Death-Throws on the basis that the two music-themed supervillains couldn't juggle.
Powers and Abilities: Ringleader juggles razor-sharp rings.
Tenpin
Alvin Healey was born in Reno, Nevada. He went to become a juggling supervillain known as the Tenpin and a member of the Death-Throws supervillain team. When his brother Elton Healey (known as the supervillain Oddball) was arrested after an encounter with Hawkeye, Tenpin broke his brother out of prison.
Tenpin was hired along with the Death-Throws by Crossfire to help escape from prison. The Death-Throws complete their mission, but decide to hold Crossfire hostage instead. The group are defeated and arrested by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Captain America. Later, Tenpin and the rest of the Death-Throws, along with various other supervillains, attempt to claim the bounty put on Hawkeye's right arm by Crossfire. However, all of the supervillains looking to claim the bounty are defeated by Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Trick Shot.
Tenpin's brother Oddball was killed by Headhunter while taking part in a Bloodsport tournament in Madripoor.
Later, Tenpin and the Death-Throws are hired by R.A.I.D to take part in a terrorist attack on London. They attack civilians from the top of Tower Bridge, but soon come into battle with Union Jack and Sabra.
Powers and Abilities: Tenpin is an expert juggler. He juggles with flaming, specially weighted, bowling pins which he also uses as projectiles. Tenpin also learned to be a street fighter in his younger days with his brother, Elton.
Death T.H.R.O.W.S.
In the past, the supervillain Crossfire was known to employ the Death-Throws as his foot soldiers. However, deciding to leave behind the "fifth rate hacks in ridiculous costumes", Crossfire created a new army for himself. His "Death T.H.R.O.W.S". (Techno Hybrid Remotely Operated Weapons Systems) are robotic constructs that obey only his commands and each carry a small capable arsenal concealed within their armored shells. Crossfire used his Death T.H.R.O.W.S. to battle his old enemies Hawkeye and Mockingbird.
Originally, the robotic Death T.H.R.O.W.S. were known as 'Magnum Z's'. The Magnum Z's were fully automated smart soldiers created for the United States. But the US senate ceased their development when they realised that the Magnum Z's abilities were in conflict with the Geneva Convention. Crossfire acquired some of the defunct Magnum Z's to use in a plot to conquer the Isle of El Guapo, then later adapted them for his own purposes.
Other versions
Mini Marvels
The Death-Throws make a cameo appearance in the Mini Marvels cartoon comic strip storyline "Paperboy Showdown" featured in Spidey and the Mini Marvels #1 (2003) and collected in Mini Marvels: Ultimate Collection (2009). The team can be seen playing basketball in the background in the Daily Bugle's paperboy training facility.
Solo versions
Versions of Bombshell and Oddball have appeared in the Last Avengers Story #1-2 (1995) which is set in an alternative future. In the Ultimate Marvel universe, two characters appear using the Bombshell codename. The Bombshells are a mother/daughter team of criminals. Lori Baumgartner and her young daughter Lana are mutants whose powers are activated when they are close to one another. They have the ability to fire explosive energy beams from their hands. In their first appearance, the foul-mouthed Bombshells attempted to rob a bank vault but are foiled by Spider-Man. Later, they attempted to rob an armored truck until the Human Torch and Spider-Woman arrived on the scene and defeated them.
In other media
A character inspired by Alvin Healy named John Healy appears in season one of the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Daredevil, portrayed by Alex Morf. This version is a veteran assassin under Wilson Fisk's employ. Healy is hired to kill Prohaska, a rival of Fisk's Russian mafia associates Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov. After acquiring a gun from Turk Barrett, Healy approaches Prohaska, disarms the bodyguard, and tries to shoot Prohaska. However, the gun jams, forcing Healy to fight and kill Prohaska before surrendering to the arriving police. James Wesley hires Nelson & Murdock to defend Healy by claiming self-defense. Disliking Healy, Foggy Nelson initially tries to turn down the case, but Matt Murdock overrules the decision to gain information on Healy. When Healy goes to trial, Murdock realizes that several of the jurors are being blackmailed by Fisk. Despite Murdock's best efforts, the jury deadlocks, and Healy is released without a retrial. He is later accosted by Murdock, who interrogates Healy for his benefactor's name. Realizing that neither he nor his loved ones will be safe if he confesses, Healy abruptly kills himself.
Tenpin appears in M.O.D.O.K., voiced by Chris Parnell. This version is an inept supervillain who primarily hangs out at the Bar with No Name.
References
External links
Bombshell at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Knickknack at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Oddball (Elton Healey) at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Oddball (Orville Bock) at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Ringleader at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Tenpin at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Characters created by Mark Gruenwald
Characters created by Paul Neary
Comics characters introduced in 1986
Fictional jugglers
Marvel Comics supervillain teams | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death-Throws |
Morricone may refer to:
Morricone Youth, an American band
152188 Morricone, an asteroid
People with the surname
Andrea Morricone (born 1964), Italian composer and conductor
Ennio Morricone (1928–2020), Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morricone |
Gyula Pálóczi (13 September 1962 – 28 January 2009) was a Hungarian athlete who specialized in the long jump and triple jump. He won two medals at the European Indoor Championships, and due to his versatility the European Athletic Association has called him "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced".
Long jump
Pálóczi first made his mark in international athletics at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Budapest. With a jump of 7.90 metres he won the silver medal, five centimetres behind compatriot László Szalma. Later that year Pálóczi competed at the inaugural World Championships. He leapt 7.70 metres in the qualifying round, which was not enough to reach the final. He missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet-led 1984 Summer Olympics boycott.
In the 1984–85 indoor season, however, Pálóczi won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships. It was a very tight competition, with Pálóczi being tied by László Szalma but winning on countback; also he was one centimetre ahead of bronze medalist Sergey Layevskiy and two centimetres ahead of fourth placer Ján Leitner. The mark of 8.15 metres was his personal best indoor result. In the summer of 1985 he leapt a career best of 8.25 metres, achieved in August in Budapest.
Pálóczi later competed at the 1988 European Indoor Championships in Budapest, and this time finished seventh. He became the Hungarian long jump champion in 1984, 1986 and 1990, rivalling with László Szalma and Csaba Almási. He also became Hungarian indoor champion once; in 1985.
Later career
Pálóczi later concentrated on the triple jump. He became the Hungarian triple jump champion in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1994; his main rivals were Béla Bakosi, Tibor Ordina and Zsolt Czingler. He also became Hungarian indoor champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1993 he recorded a career best jump of 16.87 metres, achieved in July in Tata. Internationally he competed in the triple jump event at the 1993 World Championships, but with only 15.89 metres he finished near the bottom of the list, and did not reach the final.
Pálóczi also recorded 2.11 metres in the high jump. He stood tall, and during his active career he weighed . He died in January 2009 at the age of 46.
References
1962 births
2009 deaths
Hungarian male long jumpers
Hungarian male triple jumpers
World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula%20P%C3%A1l%C3%B3czi |
Inland Revenue Department may refer to the following government departments responsible for taxation:
Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong)
Inland Revenue Department (Nepal)
Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)
Inland Revenue Department (Sri Lanka), housed in Clan House, Galle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland%20Revenue%20Department |
KMMD-CD (channel 39), is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of Court TV. It is owned by CNZ Communications.
History
KMMD signed on as K03HB on January 5, 1993. The station was later granted Class A status in 2003.
On September 25, 2006, KMMD switched to the new MTV Tr3́s network (now simply known as Tr3́s since July 2010), which was created as a result of Viacom's acquisition of Mas Musica.
The station's digital signal was licensed as KMMD-LD on January 20, 2010, and received the Class A designation on September 28, 2011, with its call sign changing to KMMD-CD.
On October 3, 2011, the station surrendered its analog license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); the FCC cancelled the license and deleted the KMMD-CA call sign.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
MMD-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Low-power television stations in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMMD-CD |
Hazeltine Corporation was a defense electronics company which is now part of BAE Systems Inc.
History
1924–1986
The company was founded in 1924 by investors to exploit the Neutrodyne patent of Dr. Louis Alan Hazeltine. Headquartered in Greenlawn, Long Island, New York, since 1955, it had facilities in several other locations in Long Island, including its Wheeler Laboratories facility in Smithtown, New York, manufacturing plants in Riverhead and Little Neck, NY, and a division in Braintree, Massachusetts. Hazeltine Corporation employed 2,600 people by 1981.
The company originally concentrated on the design of electronic circuits and the licensing of patents. Innovations in radio, monochrome and later color television components allowed the company to grow. One particularly lucrative design was the Automatic Gain Control circuit. This was such a useful feature that almost every AM radio made used this feature, by license from Hazeltine, from about 1930 until the patent expired. Hazeltine Corporation also developed and licensed many of the basic concepts of the NTSC color television system.
From 1955 to 1959 the president of the Hazeltine Company was Philip La Follette, former three-term governor of Wisconsin and son of "Fighting Bob" La Follette, who campaigned for president in 1924 as the Progressive Party candidate.
The company flourished into the 1980s as a United States Federal defense contractor with particular success as a designer and manufacturer of "Identification Friend or Foe" (IFF) military detection and identification systems.
During the 1970s, as an outgrowth of its defense work, Hazeltine Corp. developed the Hazeltine Terminal, an early monochrome smart terminal. Several improved models followed, including the popular Hazeltine 1500, which found use in the emerging microcomputer market in the late 1970s. The company eventually sold the terminal line to a short-lived third party called Esprit, which was managed by former Hazeltine employees.
Hazeltine Corporation's terminal division was spun off into Esprit Systems in January 1983. The name of the spin-off refers to the Hazeltine Esprit terminal, which division management felt Hazeltine was not properly marketing.
1986–present
Hazeltine was acquired by the Emerson Electric Company in 1986.
In 1990, Emerson spun off its Government and Defense Group, including Hazeltine, to form ESCO Electronics Corporation.
In 1996, Hazeltine was acquired from ESCO by GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems Corp., a US subsidiary of The General Electric Company, and renamed GEC-Marconi Hazeltine. ESCO was represented by investment banking firm Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc. in a deal which valued Hazeltine at $110 million.
With the 1999 merger of GEC-Marconi and British Aerospace to form BAE Systems, GEC-Marconi Hazeltine was renamed BAE Systems Advanced Systems. In 2002, it was renamed BAE Systems CNIR (Communication, Navigation, Identification and Reconnaissance).
In a 2007 reorganization, the division was folded into BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions and is currently known as BAE Systems Sensor Systems.
References
External links
Richard S. Shuford information on Hazeltine terminals
Description of Hazeltine 2000 video terminal, ca. 1972, at Columbia University
Hazeltine 2000 photo
Molnar, Mike, Hazeltine, the Neutrodyne and the Hazeltine Corporation, The AWA Review (Vol. 26, 2013).
Defunct computer hardware companies
Avionics companies
Defunct companies based in New York (state)
History of radio in the United States
1924 establishments in New York (state)
1986 disestablishments in New York (state)
1986 mergers and acquisitions
1996 mergers and acquisitions
2007 mergers and acquisitions
Computer companies established in 1924
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state)
Electronics companies established in 1924
Electronics companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies established in 1924
Manufacturing companies of the United States
Former defense companies of the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazeltine%20Corporation |
Matthew Carl Lamanna is a paleontologist and the assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where he oversees the dinosaur collection.
Education
Lamanna graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, New York in 1997. He received high honors in biology and geology. Lamanna went on to get his M.A. and Ph.D. in earth and environmental science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Discoveries
Lamanna first gained fame for the 2000 discovery of Paralititan in Egypt, called by some as the "largest dinosaur ever discovered". The sauropod was 80 feet long and weighed between 40 and 50 tons. The discovery was the feature of a 2-hour A&E documentary The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt.
Beginning in 2004, Lamanna began work on a series of digs in China. The result, first published in the journal Science in June 2006, was the discovery of Gansus yumenensis, a missing link in the early evolution of birds.
External links
Lamanna's CV at Carnegie Museum
Lamanna’s biography at Carnegie Museum
“Remarkable Alum” entry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges website
Ancestor of Modern Birds Believed Found – The Washington Post
Ducklike Fossil Points to Aquatic Origins for Modern Birds – Scientific American
American paleontologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scientists from New York (state)
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni
Waterloo, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Lamanna |
Rádio Táxi is a pop rock band from São Paulo, Brazil, who had a string of hit singles in the early/mid 80s. The band was formed in 1981 by guitarist Wander Taffo, drummer Gel Fernandes, bassist Lee Marcucci and singer/keyboardist Willie de Oliveira, all ex-members of Rita Lee's backing band, Tutti Frutti.
Their self-titled first album, released in 1982, featured the hits "Coisas de Casal" (written by Rita Lee with her husband Roberto de Carvalho as a gift to the band), "Dentro do Coração (Põe Devagar)" and "Garota Dourada". The band's popularity skyrocketed with the release of their second album, Rádio Táxi 2, and the first single out of the album, "Eva", a Portuguese version of a song by Italian singer Umberto Tozzi. Willie de Oliveira left the band shortly after recording the second album and was replaced by Maurício Gasperini. With Gasperini now handling vocals and keyboards, they released the albums 6:56 (1985) and Matriz (1986), featuring the hits "Um Amor de Verão" and "Você se Esconde". The band split up in 1987, and all members went back to their successful careers as session musicians. Wander Taffo released three solo albums and opened a music school in São Paulo, following the successful format of the American Musicians Institute.
In 1993, drummer Gel Fernandes and bassist Lee Marcucci revived the band, with Marcinho Eiras on guitars. Despite extensive touring and positive feedback from fans, the new Rádio Táxi soon disbanded without releasing any new material. The reunion of the successful mid-80s lineup happened in 2000, when Brazilian singer and pianist Guilherme Arantes invited Taffo, Marcucci and Fernandes to play with him on a live album. After touring with Arantes, they began working on new Rádio Táxi material with Gasperini and released a live album and DVD, featuring all the old hits alongside the new material.
Guitarist Wander Taffo died in Brazil on May 14, 2008.
Discography
Rádio Táxi (1982)
Rádio Táxi 2 (1983)
6:56 (1985)
Matriz (1986)
Ao Vivo (2006)
References
External links
Official Rádio Táxi website
EM&T, Wander Taffo's music school
Brazilian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1981
Musical groups from São Paulo
Musical groups disestablished in 1987
Musical groups reestablished in 1993
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
1981 establishments in Brazil
1987 disestablishments in Brazil
1993 establishments in Brazil
2008 disestablishments in Brazil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1dio%20T%C3%A1xi |
Roman Schatz (born 21 August 1960 in Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a German-born Finnish journalist and author. He has written more than two dozen books, many of which have also been published in Germany. His first book was called From Finland with love – Suomesta rakkaudella.
Schatz translates, gives talks, hosts events and writes columns for Finnish newspapers and magazines. He has hosted his own TV series (Toisten TV) and appeared on various other TV shows and in movies (e.g. The Border, Better than Andy, Rottatouille). Since 2013, Schatz has hosted his own radio show, Roman Schatzin Maamme-kirja, on Yle Radio 1 Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Roman Schatz met the Finnish woman who would later become his first wife in Berlin in 1986. Later that same year he emigrated to Finland. In 2012, Schatz became a Finnish citizen and thus holds dual citizenship.
Schatz has three children from two former marriages. He resides in Helsinki.
Selected works
Schmid, Max & Schatz, Roman: Finnland (Luzern: Reich, 1993) –
From Finland with love – Suomesta, rakkaudella (Helsinki: Johnny Kniga, 2005) -
Rakasta minut (Helsinki: WSOY, 2006) -
€ (Helsinki: WSOY, 2007) -
Der König von Helsinki (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2007) -
Pravda. The truth about the Leningrad Cowboys (Helsinki: WSOY, 2008) -
Telewischn! (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2009) -
Berliini. Oppaana Roman Schatz (Helsinki: WSOY, 2012) -
Voi maamme Suomi / Finland, what a country (Helsinki: WSOY, 2014) -
Gebrauchsanweisung für Finnland (München: Piper, 2014) -
Asevelipuolet (Helsinki: Gummerus, 2017) -
External links
Home page
Roman Schatz on Internet Movie Database
Roman Schatz in the New York Times
1960 births
Living people
People from Überlingen
Finnish writers
Finnish columnists
Finnish television presenters
Finnish radio presenters
German emigrants to Finland
Naturalized citizens of Finland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Schatz |
Burglengenfeld is a town in the district of Schwandorf, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Naab, 22 km north of Regensburg.
Climate
Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb". (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate).
Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival
The Anti-WAAhnsinns Festivals in Burglengenfeld were political rock concerts, which took place in Germany in the 1980s. Their purpose was to support protests against a planned nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf (German: Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Wackersdorf, abbreviated WAA Wackersdorf) in Wackersdorf.
Personalities
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1281 or 1282–1347), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, lived around 1300 for about two years in the castle
Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766), baroque master builder
Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857), forester, entomologist and arachnologist
References
Schwandorf (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglengenfeld |
This page is a list of species of the branch Cetartiodactyla discovered in the 2000s. This branch contains animals classified under the orders Cetacea and Artiodactyla. See also parent page Mammals discovered in the 2000s.
Moschiola kathygre (2005)
Moschiola kathygre, a new species of chevrotain, was named in 2005. The small deer can be found in the wet zones of Sri Lanka.
Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni (2005)
The Australian snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni), is a species discovered distinct to the closely related Irrawaddy dolphin in 2005. It was the first dolphin species to be named for at least 30 years.
Giant forest peccary (2004)
A possible fourth species of peccary, dubbed the giant forest peccary, was discovered in Brazil in 2004. The peccary is said to be larger and behave differently to the three known species. The creature's discoverers claim to have first encountered the animal being killed and eaten by villagers.
Omura's whale Balaenoptera omurai (2003)
In 2003, Japanese scientists announced the discovery of a new species of rorqual, named Omura's whale (Balaenoptera omurai), after extensive studies of Bryde's whale (B. brydei). The scientists also claimed their research settled a long-standing taxonomic argument, and Bryde's whale and the pygmy Bryde's whale (B. edeni) are in fact two distinct species.
Perrin's beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini (2002)
Perrin's beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini) was named as a new species in 2002. It was originally found in 1975 off the coast of California, but misidentified as Hector's beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori). It is now thought to me more closely related to the pygmy beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus), which was only itself described in 1991.
North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica (2000)
In 2000, DNA testing confirmed the theory that there are three species of right whale, as the North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a distinct species from the North Atlantic right whale (E.glacialis). Strictly speaking, this is not a newly discovered species, but simply an alternative taxonomic treatment, as japonica already was widely recognized, but "only" as a subspecies.
Roosevelt's muntjac Muntiacus rooseveltorum (1999/2000)
In 1999, genetic research was conducted on a mysterious specimen of muntjac found in a Laos menagerie in 1995. The unusual black deer was discovered to be Roosevelt's muntjac (Muntiacus rooseveltorum), a species previously known to science only from a single individual, discovered in 1929.
References
Lists of animals described in the 21st century
. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cetartiodactyls%20described%20in%20the%202000s |
Bhira Hydroelectric Project is an electricity generating complex in Bhira, Maharashtra state, India. It generates power using water from the nearby Mulshi Dam. Bhira lies approximately 150 km from Mumbai. Its construction was completed in 1927.
Specifications
The plant's maximum output capacity is nominally 300 MW, generated by six 25 MW Pelton turbines and a 150 MW pumped storage generator added in 1997. In 2014 two 10 kW microturbine units were added to generate further power from the tailrace after the main turbines.
Awards
In 2007 the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) awarded a Silver Shield to the Bhira facility's operators, Tata Power, as the second best performing power station in the country. The plant received a further Silver Shield in the following year.
Location
Bhira's rural location makes it a leisure destination for Mumbai residents.
Climate
The following climate data is for Bhira village in which the plant is located.
Bhira has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with little to no rainfall from November to May and extremely heavy rainfall from June to September when it is affected by the Arabian Sea branch of the South-west monsoon with moderately heavy rainfall in October.
References
Hydroelectric power stations in Maharashtra
Pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations in India
1927 establishments in India
Energy infrastructure completed in 1927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhira%20Hydroelectric%20Project |
Gerald Mark Diduck ( ; born April 6, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted in the first round, 16th overall, by the Islanders in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. Diduck played 932 games in an NHL career that spanned eight different teams from 1984 to 2001. He played for the New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, Hartford Whalers, Phoenix Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars. He is part of hockey lore as the man who ended the career of Islanders legend and teammate Bob Nystrom with an accidental high stick that almost cost Nystrom his eye. Diduck was born in Edmonton, Alberta and now resides in Texas. He is the brother-in-law of professional musician and CKY bassist Matt Deis. Diduck is of Ukrainian ancestry.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1965 births
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Chicago Blackhawks players
Dallas Stars players
Hartford Whalers players
Lethbridge Broncos players
Living people
Montreal Canadiens players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New York Islanders draft picks
New York Islanders players
Phoenix Coyotes players
Ice hockey people from Edmonton
Springfield Indians players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Vancouver Canucks players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Diduck |
St David's (), previously known as St David's Shopping Centre, is one of the principal shopping centres in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is in The Hayes area of the southern city centre. Following the extension of St David's 2 in 2009, St David's is the third busiest shopping centre in the United Kingdom.
The construction of the extension cost a total of £675m and brought Cardiff within the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom. The centre consists of original the first phase, St David's Centre, adjoining St David's Hall and the second phase, given the development name of St David's 2. The second phase of the shopping centre opened on 22 October 2009, when the first 58 of its 88 stores opened for business.
History
In 2008–9, the annual footfall of the centre was 27 million, and it was expected to rise to 33 million in 2009–10. 20 million people visited the centre during the first six months after the opening of St David's 2.
St David's was crowned the international shopping centre of the year in 2010 by Global Retail Leisure International, beating contenders in Portugal and Singapore.
St David's and other centres were patrolled in 2009 by three paramedics on bicycles between every Friday and Sunday in order to respond rapidly to medical emergencies.
First phase
St David's Shopping Centre was open to the public in January 1981, although it did not officially open until 24 March 1982. The centre has four entrances located on Queen Street, Cathedral Walk, Working Street and Hills Street. The entrance on Hills Street connects to the northern entrance of the second phase of the shopping centre, open at street level and via an enclosed bridge on the first floor. It is also joined internally with Queens Arcade. There are three thoroughfares within the centre: Town Wall, Cathedral Walk and St David's Way.
The centre attracted an average footfall of 39,000,000 per annum and has a core catchment of 2.4 million people. The 12 million tourists that visit the city annually help generate over £7.5 billion in retail spending. There are seventy-five individual shops and stores in the first centre that cater for a broad demographic. The centre was anchored by Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and Primark in 2007. St David's Hall was built on top of the shopping centre.
Second phase (St David's 2)
St David's, and much of the southern end of Cardiff city centre's shopping area, was re-developed as part of the St David's 2 development.
The second phase was a £675 million extension of the centre, in which a large part of Cardiff's south city centre was demolished. Demolished buildings included Oxford Arcade, St David's Market, St David's Link including the Cardiff Central Library, the NCP Tredegar Street multi-storey car park, the Wales National Ice Rink, the NCP Bridge Street multi-storey car park, and Toys "R" Us who relocated to Cardiff International Sports Village. The second phase of St. David's was known as St David's 2 during the construction phase, but both phases were simply named "St David's" when the second phase was completed. The second phase consists of three main buildings in total: the Central Library building, which is built on part of the Marriott Hotel car park, the John Lewis department store, which is built on the former Wales National Ice Rink, and the main shopping area, which is built on the former Oxford Arcade, St David's Link and western side of Bridge Street. It also includes apartments, called Hayes Apartments, above the main shopping centre.
The second phase was made up of different sections, they were:
St David's Walk, leading to the extension of Debenhams and the Grand Arcade.
St David's Way, The original part of St David's.
Grand Arcade, connecting St David's Walk in the original centre to John Lewis. The Grand Arcade was split over two floors.
The Upper Grand Arcade had other shops and stores.
The Lower Grand Arcade
Eastside is the restaurant and café quarter of the second phase of the centre. It is split over two levels.
Working Street, part of the façade of St David's Hall, was converted into store fronts to better blend with the facade of the Working Street entrance of St David's Centre.
The first Welsh branch of the John Lewis department store chain opened in 2009 and is the largest John Lewis store in the UK outside London. The John Lewis department store opened four weeks before the St David's Grand Arcade shopping area was opened.
St David's 2 has added an extra of retail space to the city centre, in addition to the John Lewis department store, nine other large stores, and a further 90 smaller shops in a two-tiered shopping mall have been built. It has also created 3,000 car parking spaces, new bars and restaurants plus the new Central Library and 4,500 permanent jobs. The development has included two new arcades: Grand Arcade and Hayes Arcade to reflect Cardiff's historical Victorian arcades.
The project, that was hoped to make Cardiff one of the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom, topped out on 27 January 2009. Many of the retailers in the second phase of the centre were new to Cardiff, and to Wales, in particular John Lewis, Apple, Hollister, and Victoria's Secret.
Cardiff Central Library
The former Central Library was located a few hundred yards north of the present building and was knocked down to make way for the St David's 2 development. The new Central Library opened on 14 March 2009.
Alliance
Alliance is a -high sculpture in The Hayes. The sculpture consists of a large stainless steel and enamelled metal arrow column and a hoop, which glows in the dark, and falls and rises with the tide. It was paid for by the St David's shopping centre as part of a £1.5m public art scheme in the city centre, was installed in the space between the new shopping centre and Cardiff Central Library.
Hayes Apartments
Hayes Apartments is part of St David's regeneration development by St David's Partnership; it is a joint venture between Land Securities and Capital Shopping Centres. It consists of 304 apartments above the shopping centre in seven blocks known as phases. The apartments are a mixture of studio flats and 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. The architects for the residential Hayes Apartments were Glenn Howells Architects. Hayes Apartments has private courtyard gardens designed by Hyland Edgar Driver and planted above the rooftop of the shopping centre.
In summer 2010, the first residents moved into Hayes Apartments, which was launched by an outdoor garden party on the development's private courtyard gardens. Sales in the first two phases were announced as completed at the end of 2010 and sales began in the third phase, block 4, which is the largest block. The development was due for completion in 2012.
Barrack Lane Retail Quarter
Barrack Lane Retail Quarter is a residential and retail development. It forms part of St David’s and has nine shop units and 27 apartments. It is owned and managed by Linc-Cymru Housing Association, which is an organisation that specialises in affordable housing in Wales.
Logos and identity
Johnson Banks Design Ltd were commissioned by Capital Shopping Centres and Land Securities to provide a new logo and identity for the new St David's shopping centre. The designers said
Rail access
See also
List of places in Cardiff
List of shopping arcades in Cardiff
List of shopping centres in the United Kingdom
List of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom by size
List of largest shopping malls in the world
References
External links
St David’s official site
Barrack Lane official site
Economy of Cardiff
Shopping in Cardiff
Shopping malls established in 1991
Redevelopment projects in Cardiff
Shopping arcades in Cardiff
Castle, Cardiff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20David%27s%2C%20Cardiff |
Samer (, ) is an Arabic male name literally means "informal friendly talk or chat to pass the night", "one to whom you speak", "congregation of those who spend the evening in pleasant conversation", "evening chat companion", "entertainer, companion". The name Samar has the same origin.
The name or adjective itself stems from the root verb samara (سَمَرَ) meaning "chat with one another at the night, having an evening of entertainment".
Notable people with the name include:
Samer Awad (born 1982), Syrian footballer
Samer Tariq Issawi (born 1979), Palestinian activist
Samer Majali, Jordanian businessman
Samer Al Marta (born 1972), Kuwaiti association football player
Samer El Masri, Australian-Lebanese rugby league player
Samer al-Masry (born 1969), Syrian actor
Samer el Nahhal (born 1975), Finnish musician
Samer Saeed (born 1987), Iraqi association football player
Samer Salem (footballer, born 1992), Saudi footballer for Al-Najma
Samer Salem (footballer, born 1993), Syrian footballer for Hutteen
Samer Raimouny, Jordanian poet and activist
Samer Libdeh, Jordanian-English journalist, researcher and policy analyst
Samer Takriti, Syrian management scientist
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer%20%28name%29 |
This page is a list of species of the order Carnivora discovered in the 2000s. The order also contains animals once classified separately in Pinnipedia. See also parent page Mammals discovered in the 2000s.
Bornean clouded leopard, Neofelis diardi (2007)
Neofelis diardi is a medium-sized wild cat found on Borneo, Sumatra and the Batu Islands in the Malay Archipelago and publicised under the name Bornean clouded leopard by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on March 14, 2007. Its coat is marked with irregularly-shaped, dark-edged ovals which are said to be shaped like clouds, hence its common name. Though scientists have known of its existence since the early 19th century, it was positively identified as being a distinct species in its own right in 2006, having long been believed to be a subspecies of the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). WWF quoted Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the U.S. National Cancer Institute as saying, "Genetic research results clearly indicate that the clouded leopard of Borneo should be considered a separate species". Some journalists have pointed out, though, that this taxon is previously known as a subspecies, and claim that the WWF announcement of a new species was more designed to draw attention to its endangered status.
Qinling panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis (2005)
In 2005 it was announced that research had concluded that the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) population in the Qinling Mountains, China, was sufficiently different from other pandas to warrant the creation of a new subspecies, Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis. Among other differences, the Qinling panda has brown and white colouration replacing the familiar black and white fur of typical giant pandas.
"Cat-fox" (2005)
In December 2005, pictures (taken in 2003) were published of a potential new species of carnivoran, known in the press as the "cat-fox". The images were taken by a night-time camera trap set by the WWF, on the Indonesian side of Borneo. At first sight they seem to show some kind of viverrid, slightly larger than a cat, with red fur. Some speculated that the creature could be the rare Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei), or another known species like the bay cat, and that there was not enough evidence to claim that it was a new species. It was later argued that the animal on the photos may in fact be the poorly known Thomas' flying squirrel (Aeromys thomasi), or potentially the red giant flying squirrel (Petaurista petaurista).
Lowe's servaline genet, Genetta servalina lowei (2002)
In 2002 Lowe's servaline genet (Genetta servalina lowei) was photographed by a camera trap in Tanzania. Its rediscovery marks the first time the viverrid had been recorded since its type specimen, a single pelt, was collected in 1932.
Mellivora capensis buechneri (2000)
A new subspecies of the honey badger was discovered in Turkmenistan in 2000. It is similar to the subspecies M. c. indica and M. c. inaurita, but has differences including a larger size.
Civettictis civetta pauli (2000)
A new subspecies of the African civet was described based on a skull found in December 1999 in southeastern Djibouti.
Olinguito (2013)
The olinguito, living in the Andean cloud forest, was categorized as a distinct species in 2013. It had previously been identified as a small olingo.
References
Carnivorans
Carnivorans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20carnivorans%20described%20in%20the%2021st%20century |
Sir Frank Smith, (March 13, 1822 – January 17, 1901) was a Canadian businessman and senator.
He was born in County Armagh in Ireland and in 1832 came to Canada with his family and his father established a farm in Etobicoke. Smith went into commerce, first working as a clerk in several Toronto stores, and then opening his own wholesalers in London, Ontario in 1849. After a few years of limited business, the arrival of the railway in London set off an economic boom and Smith prospered greatly. He expanded his business interests, including becoming the primary shareholder in the Toronto Street Railways.
Smith made his fortune with the streetcar service generating record products by cutting costs, not replacing aged cars and requiring his employees to work 14-hour days, six days a week for $8 to $9 a week. When his workers threatened to join the Knights of Labor trade union he locked them out resulting in three days of violent protests. Mayor William Holmes Howland and the press supported the workers' right to organize but Smith refused to allow a union and criticized the city government for failing to maintain order. In the end, Smith allowed limited pay increases but refused to allow a union and fired the organizers prompting a strike and the establishment of a rival, worker run "Free Bus Company" which was soon out of business when its fleet was destroyed by fire. Smith's actions alienated the Toronto working class, particularly Catholic workers among whom he hoped to build a political base. Smith sold his share of the TSR to the city in 1881 for $500,000.
In 1866, he was elected mayor of London, Ontario.
Originally a supporter of the Reform movement that evolved in the Liberal Party, Sir John A. Macdonald persuaded him to switch his allegiance to the Conservatives and organize support for the Tories among the Irish Catholic community. In 1871, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada as a Liberal-Conservative and served in Sir John A. Macdonald's cabinet from 1882 to 1891 as minister without portfolio. He continued in the cabinet when Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott became prime ministare and served as Minister of Public Works, and Controller of Customs (Acting) from 1891 to 1892 following the resignation of Sir Hector-Louis Langevin. Due to age and poor health he declined to continue in cabinet when Sir John Sparrow David Thompson became prime minister in 1892. Following Thompson's death in December 1892, Governor General Lord Aberdeen invited Smith to become prime minister but he declined. He agreed, however, to return to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mackenzie Bowell and then Sir Charles Tupper until the Conservatives were defeated in the 1896 federal election.
In politics, Smith was an advocate of the rights of Irish Catholics and lobbied for the appointment of Irish Catholics to patronage positions. In 1872, he lobbied Macdonald for the gradual release of Fenian raiders who had attempted military attacks on Canadian soil in order to promote Irish independence.
Smith was created a Knight Bachelor in June 1894.
See also
John B Mather
References
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Thompson, Austin Seton. Spadina Story of Old Toronto Pagurian Press, 1975
1822 births
1901 deaths
Canadian Knights Bachelor
Canadian senators from Ontario
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) senators
Mayors of London, Ontario
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Smith%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 |
The Enclave is a fictional organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Typically depicted as a group of dictatorially-minded scientists, the Enclave is best known for creating the characters Adam Warlock and Kismet.
Publication history
The Enclave first appeared in Fantastic Four #66 and were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Fictional organization history
The organization that would eventually become known as the Enclave was founded by four world-class scientists (each with a different area of expertise): Dr. Jerome Hamilton, Maris Morlak, Professor Wladyslav Shinski, and Carlo Zota. The organization's goal was to use advanced technology to establish a benevolent world dictatorship under the rule of the scientists. The four scientists successfully faked their deaths and disappeared from society, founding the Citadel of Science (a.k.a. the "Beehive"); on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, using their technology and abandoned Deviant technology they had found. Their operations were initially funded by their fortunes, and they hired mercenaries as additional personnel as needed. The scientists began their advanced scientific research and development, achieving various scientific breakthroughs and creating many advanced inventions. Before long, their level of technology was more advanced than most known on Earth.
The scientists' first significant accomplishment was the creation of the superhumanly powerful humanoid being they referred to as "Him" (who would one day become known as Adam Warlock) in an attempt to "create a perfect race of human beings "without evil - without sin." Soon losing control of "Him," the scientists abducted Alicia Masters to sculpt his likeness as this would help them regain control in an unspecified way and would be immune to Him's "blinding power" due to her blindness. Alicia reached "Him" as he was about to emerge from a cocoon in his final metamorphosis. The Fantastic Four discovered the scientists' existence and came to rescue Alicia wrecking the citadel as they battle its security forces. Jerome Hamilton was killed by falling debris as a result of energy bursts that were released by the emergence of Him from the cocoon. The citadel is destroyed when Him builds up enough energy to escape.
The scientists, despite their failure with “Him” or the death of Hamilton, created another superhumanly powerful humanoid they called "Paragon" (Her/Kismet). Although they enlisted Doctor Strange to perform brain surgery on Paragon, they also lost control of her, and she destroyed the rebuilt citadel. The scientists battled the Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Paragon before she departed.
Taking the name Enclave, the scientists financed Security College in New York State in an information-gathering scheme. They hired Monocle (Michael Berman) to acquire students' industrial, military, and political information. However, they uncovered the Security College operation, and the Human Torch and Spider-Man defeated Monocle. Monocle was later killed by the Enclave, who soon abandoned the operation, but learned of the Inhumans.
The Enclave soon abducted Medusa, made an alliance with Maximus, and successfully infiltrated Attilan as part of an attempt to conquer the Inhumans' Great Refuge. The Enclave then attacked the Inhumans, but were betrayed by Maximus and defeated. With Maximus again, they launched an attack on Earth from Attilan in an attempt to foment war between Earth and the Inhumans. This plan failed, and they instead battled the Avengers and Inhumans. Morlak and Zota were captured and imprisoned.
Morlak and Zota were later freed from prison by Shinski. All three were injured in an airplane crash, captured, and hospitalized.
The Enclave obtained both financial backing and an agent named Frank as an assistant from A.I.M. In exchange, they were to capture Kismet and turn her over to A.I.M. Shinski suffered a stroke and he required intravenous therapy after suffering heart and lung damage. The Enclave rebuilt their Transfer Grid in a new base somewhere in the American Midwest. Morlak and Zota traveled to Project Pegasus using the Transfer Grid to obtain a cocoon containing a healing Kismet. After removing Kismet from the cocoon, they used the cocoon to cure Shinsky. Shinsky was overjoyed to see Kismet, but Morlak and Zota planned to extract some of Kismet's DNA to give themselves superhuman powers. Morlak and Zota intended to betray A.I.M. once they gained their superpowers, but Frank assaulted them to stop their plans. Kismet stopped Frank from killing Shinsky, only for Frank to reveal that he was really an Adaptoid and took on Paragon's form and powers. As Kismet and the Adaptoid fight, Shinski infected and destroyed Paragon with a genetic virus. Kismet then made more cocoons to heal Shinski, Morlak, and Zota, and decided to stay with them to nurture them back to health.
Some time later, Shinkski, Morlak, and Zota were transformed into powerful superhumans just as they had hoped. Now, their advanced minds focused on helping humanity rather than conquering the world, although they differed on how to best achieve this goal. They found that they could not travel very far from each other without suffering power loss and great pain. The Enclave tested their powers through actions such as stopping a tornado, saving dying patients, bringing rain to a drought region, curing deadly jungle diseases, disposing of nuclear wastes, and revitalizing rainforests. Their actions brought about long-term effects that they were unaware of, and some places suffered even worse fates due to the Enclave's over-compensations. Although Kismet tried to stop them, their actions caused a volcano to erupt, but they averted disaster with her aid. They accepted Kismet's advice to learn more about their powers by investigating their source, and Kismet accompanied the Enclave into space. They encountered Khatylis during a battle against the Silver Surfer, and the Enclave attacked Khatylis who quickly destroyed them. Kismet caused a dangerous inter-dimensional rift by attacking Khatylis, but Khatylis healed the rift before they were all destroyed, and restored Kismet, Silver Surfer, and the Enclave.
The Enclave's superhuman powers eventually faded. The Enclave later hired Tinkerer to repair their Transfer Grid in order to get their operations running again.
The Enclave operated out of a building in the South Bronx where they have implanted control chips in criminals to use as drones. They also created a robot called Remote which they used to acquire technologies from other companies. While looting Micron Labs, Remote killed a security guard and his silhouette made others think that Spider-Man was responsible. Spider-Man and the Thunderbolts came to investigate, with the Thunderbolts following Remote back to the Enclave and Spider-Man following them. The Enclave completed the Transfer Grid and the Bio-Modem (a beam that would be able to control the minds of others). When the heroes arrived, the Enclave used the Bio-Modem on them. Spider-Man and MACH-I set up interference to the Bio-Modem's power which freed the others. The heroes then destroy Remote and the Enclave fled through the Transfer Grid taking the Transfer Grid and their equipment with them.
Morlak and Shinski created a device to usurp the creative genius of Mister Fantastic to advance their efforts to bio-engineer the human race. They travel to the Tibetan monastery of the Tibetan "Monks of Doom" (the sect that had constructed Doctor Doom's armor) and slaughtered many of the monks, enslaving the rest of the monks to forge a pair of armor suits.
Reporter Isabel Aguirre and photographer Gordon Clay traveled to the monastery to learn why these monks associated with Doctor Doom. They found the monks slaughtered and also find the armored Crucible. Crucible forced Aguirre and Clay on a plane and they are flown to Europe while Crucible states that he was the crucible from which a new world would be formed. Crucible transformed them into stone gargoyles to smuggle them through immigration. In Stockholm, Sweden, Crucible restored them to life, and coerced them into serving him or risk being turned back into stone gargoyles. Crucible then attacked a science symposium to draw out Mister Fantastic. While using a decoy device disguised as a bomb to draw away the Thing, Crucible fought Reed Richards and activated a device that would drain his inventive genius and transfer it into himself before escaping.
Morlak and Shinski relocate to Genosha and began using the war-torn nation to test their weapons and tactics, gathering and experimenting on the Genoshan people in hopes of transforming them into a master race. The two captured Kismet and brainwashed her into serving them. They altered her appearance and powers, and renamed her Ayesha. The Genoshan government sent Trapster to capture Mister Fantastic not knowing that Crucible had stolen Mister Fantastic's inventive genius. The remaining members of the Fantastic Four followed Mister Fantastic's kidnappers to Genosha only to be defeated by Ayesha. She brought them to Crucible who swapped their minds with that of Crucible's three Genoshan accomplices. The powerless heroes escaped from Crucible, but when one of the Genoshans tried to use Human Torch's powers it resulted in an explosion that destroyed the several top floors of a building which killed some civilians. The powerless heroes reunited with Mister Fantastic. Along with Genoshan Chief Magistrate Anderson, the four storm Crucible's base. Thing, Invisible Woman, and Human Torch fought their super-powered counterparts and reclaimed their bodies. Mister Fantastic entered the inner sanctum and discovered the Genoshans that the Enclave were experimenting on. Morlak revealed his face and confronted Mister Fantastic but Morlak became overwhelmed under the stress of the influx of ideas from Mister Fantastic's stolen inventive genius. Shinski appeared in the Crucible armor and apparently killed Morlak, who died happily released from the torment of seeing the world's fate. Shinski pronounced Morlak unworthy of claiming the cosmos and serving as Ayesha's consort, naming himself the true Crucible with Morlak as his lackey. Mister Fantastic was able to stun Crucible and flee with the rest of the repowered Fantastic Four. Crucible found Ayesha but Genoshan Chief Magistrate Anderson surprised both of them with a black hole generator creating a miniature black hole that pulled all three of them in.
The Enclave (with Shinski and Morlak turning up alive) posed as the motion picture company Beehive Productions hiring a young intern named Danny to design a female "Warlock" as a movie character. They created a fail-safe program to gain better control of her. Adam Warlock apparently sensed this new developing being and uploaded a scenario into her to teach her a sense of right and wrong, which allowed her to resist the Enclave's control and escape.
The Enclave later obtained Korvac where they gave him the code name of Adam IV. He was originally supposed to be used by Enclave in their plans for world domination only for Korvac to break free from them and called them arrogant for not planning for a better universe.
Members
Dr. Jerome Hamilton - An American medical biologist. He was killed by Adam Warlock.
Maris Morlak - A Lithuanian nuclear physicist. He briefly possessed cosmic power on the same level as Kismet and the Silver Surfer. He could rearrange matter, manipulate energy, manipulate weather, fly, survive in space, and project energy bolts.
Professor Wladyslav Shinski - A Polish geneticist. He briefly possessed cosmic power on the same level as Kismet and Silver Surfer. He could rearrange matter, manipulate energy, manipulate weather, fly, survive in space, and project energy bolts.
Carlo Zota - A Spanish electronics technician. He briefly possessed cosmic power on the same level as Kismet and Silver Surfer. He could rearrange matter, manipulate energy, manipulate weather, fly, survive in space, and project energy bolts.
Crucible
Crucible is the supervillain identity used by Maris Morlak and Professor Wladyslav Shinski, two members of the Enclave. Crucible went after Mister Fantastic in a plot to steal his inventive genius and kick-start the Enclave's genetics program. They wore identical suits of power armor, forged by the same monks who forged Doctor Doom's armor, which have the ability to transmute the shape and composition of materials.
Other groups
Asmodeus-worshipping Enclave
Another, unrelated Enclave in Marvel Comics first appeared in the pages of The Tomb of Dracula vol. 2 #2 in Dec. 1979. The group consisted of Damian Burnemissza, Druig, Satas, Kirk Druker, and Sondra. This Enclave was an organization of occultists dedicated to the worship of the demon Asmodeus. They were enemies of the Dimensional Man and Dracula. This group was created by Marv Wolfman and Steve Ditko.
Other versions
Ultimate Marvel
In the Ultimate Extinction miniseries in the Ultimate Marvel universe, it was revealed that a group of scientists rented a radio telescope, applied their own algorithms to it, and were able to see a 'processional entity' (the creature known as Gah Lak Tus) which would arrive within 20 years. To fight the entity when it arrived, they hired Heather Douglas, a contract killer, cloned her, and raised the clones to be an army against Gah-Lak-Tus. The clones refer to the scientists as 'the Enclave', but it also operates as the Paragon Corporation.<ref>Ultimate Extinction #1-5. Marvel Comics.</ref>
In other media
Television
The Enclave appear in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur with their leader Maris Morlak voiced by Wesley Snipes. It is established that Miriam "Mimi" Lafayette, grandmother to Lunella, was once a member who used the codename Moon Girl and worked alongside Morlak. They were betrayed by their superiors who attempted to steal their research on inter-dimensional travel, but upon showing the capabilities were all killed by an other-worldly creature, save for Morlak and Mimi. Morlak took over the Enclave while Mimi fled, eventually marrying her husband and starting a family. They attempt to steal the research back when Lunella, now Moon Girl, unknowingly rebuilt the machine and brought in Devil Dinosaur. Realizing that she is related to Mimi, Morlak has the Enclave kidnap Mimi to help finish his project.
Video games
The Enclave appear in The Incredible Hulk'' video game. They are a powerful and secret organization of four, mysterious scientists divided into four sectors that are codenamed Ceres, Minerva, Vulcan, and Jupiter, each one with their own private armies, territory, and research focus. Their leaders hide their identities in full body armor and referred to only as Ceres Leader (voiced by Simbi Khali Williams), Jupiter Leader (voiced by S. Scott Bullock), Minerva Leader (voiced by Courtenay Taylor), and Vulcan Leader (voiced by Dave Wittenberg). Vulcan Sector is the mechanical division, Ceres Sector is the chemical weapon and genetics division, Minerva Sector is the psych-ops branch, and Jupiter Sector does weather manipulation. The Enclave build technology which they test on the people of Manhattan, showing total disregard for human life. Their soldiers consist of normal Legionnaires, flying Centurions, and Barbaria monsters, all equipped with weapons that get more advanced as the story progresses. Other Enclave units include laser turrets, Enclave swarms, scarab robots, flying dropships to spawn troops and enemies, and giant Kyklops robots. Hulk first meets an Enclave assault group attacking the city and trying to silence Rick Jones, who discovered their schemes, saving his life and working together to stop their plans. Around the city, the Enclave hide in buildings with the "Paragon Corporation" front and research labs protected by force fields, and regularly send assault groups to test their weapons and devices on the citizens of Manhattan. They launch many schemes in the story, like setting up engines that drain life energy, chemical attacks to seize territory, building a massive mind control device, stealing high technology, and trying to eliminate the Hulk using Bi-Beast and other weapons. Later, Hulk secretly helps General Ross destroy an Enclave base at Betty's request, stops them from stealing Hulkbusters from the Army, and helps a Hulkbuster overload their F-Pod weapon they unleashed to destroy the city. When the Enclave unleash a bioweapon, Hulk takes Samuel Sterns to destroy it by testing their cure on the infection. After all of their schemes are thwarted, they decide they need to take a more active, personal role in fighting the Hulk, while hoping that the Army does their work for them until the end of the story.
Bonus missions in the game involve wiping out all the Enclave sectors and defeating their leaders. The Hulk attacks a single sector in three phases. In the last phases, that sector's leader will appear to personally fight the Hulk. In battle, each leader's armored suit lets them fly and grants superhuman strength and durability matching the Hulk. They are also armed with powerful war hammers that harness and project energy and make use of their own special attacks. Vulcan Leader attacks with satellite lasers, Ceres Leader summons weaker Bi-Beast androids, Minerva Leader uses illusionary copies to distract Hulk while she recovers health, and Jupiter Leader will call lightning strikes.
References
External links
Enclave at Marvel.com
Enclave at Marvel Wiki
Enclave at MarvelDirectory.com
Characters created by Jack Kirby
Characters created by Stan Lee
Fictional organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave%20%28comics%29 |
Kraut was a New York City punk rock/hardcore punk band formed in 1981. The original members were Davy Gunner (vocals), Doug Holland (guitar/vocals) Don Cowan (bass/vocals), and Johnny Feedback (drums/vocals).
History
Kraut's first performance was opening for The Clash at Bonds International Casino in New York on June 11, 1981.
Their debut single, "Kill for Cash", and second single, "Unemployed", were both released in 1981 on the band's own Cabbage Records label.
While recording their debut album, An Adjustment to Society (produced by Ryk Oakley), they opened for the Professionals at The Channel in Boston. Former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones became friends with Kraut and recorded extra guitar tracks for three tracks on the album: "Kill for Cash", "Sell Out" and "Onward". The album was again self-released, distributed by Faulty Products. A video clip for "All Twisted" appeared in rotation on MTV, making Kraut the first independent band to be played on the station.
The band released a mini-album, Whetting the Scythe, in 1984, and toured the U.S.
By the mid-1980s, Kraut had added second guitarist Christopher Smith from Battalion of Saints, and developed a more hard rock/metal sound.
Guitarist Holland went on to play for New York hardcore band the Cro-Mags.
A Kraut reunion show with all four original members took place in 2002 at CBGB during the New York Thrash reunion, yielding the Live at CBGB's album.
Discography
Studio albums
An Adjustment to Society (1982, Cabbage Records/Faulty Products)
Whetting the Scythe (1984, Cabbage Records/Enigma Records)
An Adjustment to Society (2023, (Cabbage / Cleopatra Records}
Singles
"Kill for Cash" 7" (1981, Cabbage Records)
"Unemployed" 7" (1981, Cabbage Records)
"Kill For Cash" 7" (2023, Cabbage/Cleopatra Records)
Live albums
Night of Rage (1989, New Red Archives)
Live at CBGB's (2004, New Red Archives)
Compilation albums
The Movie (1990, New Red Archives)
Complete Studio Recordings 1981–1986 (1995, New Red Archives)
Compilation appearances
"Getaway" and "Last Chance" on New York Thrash (1982, ROIR)
"Onwards" on Son of Oi! LP (1983, Syndicate Records)
"Pyramids" on Something to Believe In LP (1983, BYO Records)
"Don't Believe (Live)" on Bang Zoom No. 3 tape (1983, Bang Zoom)
"Flossing With an E String" on Flipside Vinyl Fanzine LP (1984, Gasatanka Records)
"Juvenile Justice" on Enigma Variations (1985, Enigma Records)
Hardcore punk groups from New York (state)
Heavy metal musical groups from New York (state)
Enigma Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraut%20%28band%29 |
Swift River is the name of a Yukon town and several rivers:
Canada
Swift River (Cottonwood River), British Columbia
Swift River (Teslin Lake), British Columbia
Jamaica
Swift River (Jamaica)
New Zealand
Swift River, New Zealand
United Kingdom
River Swift, a tributary of the River Avon (Warwickshire)
United States
Swift River (Alaska)
Swift River (Bearcamp River), a tributary of the Bearcamp River, New Hampshire
Swift River (Maine), a tributary of the Androscoggin River
Swift River (Minnesota)
Swift River (Saco River), a tributary of the Saco River, New Hampshire
Swift River (Ware River), a tributary of the Ware River, Massachusetts
Swift River (Westfield River), a tributary of the Westfield River, Massachusetts
Other
SwiftRiver (software) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift%20River |
Josephine-Joseph () was an American performer who was prominent in circus sideshows and the carnival circuits during the early 20th century.
She is best known for her only film role in the Tod Browning, pre-code production Freaks in 1932. Her body was supposedly split down the middle, one side female and the other male. She claimed to be an intersex person ("true hermaphrodite" as it was called in her times), but there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case; she may have just been a very skilled impersonator, in the style of Albert-Alberta Karas.
Like many sideshow "hermaphrodites" of the early 20th century, she presented a "half and half" trick: woman on the left and man on the right. One side of the body would be exercised, have hair trimmed, and tanned; the other side would be covered and unexercised, making it pale and flabby, so the chest resembled a woman's breast while the hair was grown out. The performer would then wear a split costume: a low-cut, tight top and hotpants on the "female" side and on the "male" side a Tarzan-style loincloth.
In 1937, Joseph had two sexual reassignment surgeries, after which Joseph identified as a woman.
Court case
In 1930, Joseph and her husband George Waas—described only in newspaper reports as "an American couple"— who were presenting a Coney Island-style attraction in Blackpool, England under the title of "Josephine-Joseph", were prosecuted in the United Kingdom for false pretences and conspiracy on account of their "Half Woman-Half Man" circus show.
Joseph claimed to be 27 years of age at the time (although in reality she was 33–34). The court alleged that the show was a fraud, and that she was not a true hermaphrodite. Waas offered to submit X-rays of Josephine to the magistrates, but refused to submit her to a court doctor's physical examination. The Superintendent in charge of the case admitted that the two sides of Josephine's body looked different, although he had "no idea what the medical testimony may be". The court descriptions of her appearance also match her costume as seen in the film Freaks. She was described as a man on the right side, and a woman on the left, with her right arm longer than her left. Her eyebrows were different. She displayed a bare right leg with a sandal, and a black-stockinged left leg with a woman's shoe. Her hair was brushed from the right side to the left, giving the impression of short hair on the right side. In order to avoid a jury trial, Joseph and Waas pleaded guilty. Waas told the court "I am sorry. I will give up this show and leave the country". Waas, who served as her manager, was fined £25, whilst Josephine was acquitted.
Freaks
Josephine Joseph is most prominently remembered for a role in the Tod Browning 1932 classic cult film Freaks. Although she only had two lines of dialogue, she still appeared in a number of scenes, most notably the scene at the wedding reception where she is the one who begins the chant: "We accept her, one of us! We accept her, one of us!". In another notable scene early in the film, "Josephine" gives an alluring look towards the strongman to which another performer responds comically "I think she likes you, but he don't!" She is later seen assembling the rest of the circus freaks for their plan of revenge by saying to them: "Soon, we go".
Personal life
She was married to her manager George Waas, who she possibly married in 1917. Much of the performer's personal life, including birth name, date of birth and death, has never been clearly established. Given her presumed age of 33–34 years old during the initial court date regarding her true status as a half-man half-woman, this would in fact make her year of birth between 1896 and 1897.
References
External links
Sideshow performers
American circus performers
20th-century American women
Intersex women
20th-century American people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine%20Joseph |
Teningen is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen, in the state Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated on the river Elz, 15 km north of Freiburg.
Geography
Location
Teningen is set on the edge of the Black Forest mountain range.
Geology
The geological subsoil consists of sandstone and limestone and is covered by loess layers of different thickness. The Elz river created alluvial gravel and sand sediments that had been used as pastures but were adapted for agriculture in many cases.
Municipal subdivisions
The municipality Teningen comprises four districts: The main town Teningen and the formerly independent towns Heimbach, Köndringen and Nimburg.
Climate
The climate in this area is close to a Mediterranean microclimate, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. However, more year-round rain occurs than in the Rhine plateau because of the closeness to the Black Forest. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate). However, it is close to being humid subtropical (Cfa) due to the mean temperatures in July and August just under 22 °C. The city is close to the Kaiserstuhl, a range of hills of volcanic origin located a few miles away which is considered to be one of the warmest places of Germany and therefore considered as a viticultural area.
Mayors
Friedrich Engler (SPD): 1945-1946
Wilhelm Höfflin (parteilos): 1946–1956
Josef Schmidt (SPD): 1957–1972
Willy Bolz (independent): 1972–1980
Hermann Jäger (SPD): 1980–2009
Heinz-Rudolf Hagenacker (CDU): since 2009
Twin towns
La Ravoire, France, since 1984
Zeithain, Germany, since 1990
Sons and daughters of the place
1603: Johann Conrad Dannhauer, Protestant theologian, professor of eloquence / rhetoric, hermeneutician and poet; † 1666 in Strasbourg
1807: Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger, Protestant theologian; † 1871 in Weimar
1899: Otto Krayer, pharmacologist, opponent against national socialist racism, since 1957 honorary citizen of Köndringen; † 1982 in Tucson / Arizona
References
Emmendingen (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teningen |
KVMM-CD, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 28), is a low-power, Class A Estrella TV-affiliate television station licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings.
History
On July 23, 1992, the station signed on as K19DE and later moved to its present channel with the callsign K41EP on May 25, 1999. On May 9, 2000, it changed to KVMM-LP, and then KVMM-CA on May 20, 2003, as it was granted Class A status. The station changed its callsign to KVMM-CD and was granted Class A digital television station authorization on UHF channel 41 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 14, 2009. The station moved to channel 28 effective May 24, 2018.
On September 25, 2006, KVMM 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. Before it was sold in the summer of 2019 to HC2, it was the final free-to-air asset owned by the 2005-2019 era Viacom entirely (and the only terrestrial Tres station). The remainder of the Más Música stations have been sold off to other parties, along with other transactions involving MTV2 free-to-air stations. Upon taking control of ownership of the station, HC2 made it an owned-and-operated station of its Azteca América network until that network's closure at the end of 2022, and then affiliated it with Estrella TV.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
VMM-CD
Innovate Corp.
Low-power television stations in California
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in California
Former Viacom subsidiaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVMM-CD |
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (December 2, 1922 – August 24, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served in the state senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Michigan.
A member of the Democratic Party, Diggs was an early participant in the civil rights movement. In September 1955, the Michigan Representative garnered national attention when he attended the trial of the two white Mississippians accused of murdering Emmett Till. He was elected the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and was a staunch critic of the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Diggs resigned from the United States House of Representatives and served 14 months of a three-year sentence for mail fraud, although he maintained his innocence.
Early life
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Charles was the only child of Mayme E. Jones Diggs, and Charles Diggs Sr. He attended the University of Michigan, Detroit College of Law (1952-52), and Fisk University. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. After his discharge, Diggs worked as a funeral director. He served as a member of the Michigan State Senate from the 3rd district 1951–54, just as his father had from 1937 to 1944.
He was rooted in his family's business, the House of Diggs, which at one time was said to be Michigan's largest funeral home.
Political career
In 1954, Diggs defeated incumbent U.S. Representative George D. O'Brien in the Democratic Party primary elections for Michigan's 13th congressional district. He went on to win the general election to the 84th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the next twelve Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his resignation June 3, 1980.
The first African American to be elected to Congress in Michigan, Diggs made significant contributions to the struggle for civil rights. In April 1955, three months after he was first sworn in to Congress, he gave a well-received speech to a crowd of about 10,000 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, at the annual conference of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), probably the largest civil rights group in the state. His host was the RCNL's leader, Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a wealthy black surgeon and entrepreneur.
Later that same year, Diggs returned to Mississippi, where he received national attention as the only congressman to attend and monitor the trial of the accused killers of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was murdered during a trip to the state. The outrage generated by the case gave a tremendous momentum to the emerging civil rights movement. Although he was a member of Congress, the sheriff did not exempt him from Jim Crow treatment. Diggs had to sit at a small table along with black reporters. Soon after the trial concluded, white mobs began to search for the witnesses involved in the case, including then-18-year-old Willie Reed. Diggs personally escorted Reed to Detroit, after a nighttime escape from Reed's home in Drew, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. There the young man changed his name to Willie Louis for safety.
Following the trial, Diggs continued the fight for justice, calling upon President Eisenhower to call a special session of Congress to consider civil rights.
In 1969, Diggs was appointed to the post of chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he strongly advocated ending apartheid in South Africa. He was a committed publicist for the liberation cause in South Africa, and his 'Action Manifesto' (1972) displayed his support for the armed struggle against apartheid. In it, Diggs criticized the United States government for decrying the use of such violence when it failed to condemn measures used by the South African government to subjugate the majority of its own people. Diggs also argued that American corporations were propping up the apartheid government through their investments, and he was banned from South Africa by its government for these positions.
Diggs was a founding member and the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, a group of African-American representatives and senators working to address the needs and rights of black constituents. While chairman, Diggs successfully led a caucus boycott of President Nixon's State of the Union Address, following Nixon's refusal to meet to discuss issues relevant to African Americans. This and similar work contributed to Diggs being named on the Master list of Nixon political opponents.
In March 1978, Diggs was charged with taking kickbacks from staff whose salaries he raised. He was convicted on October 7, 1978, on 11 counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms. Diggs insisted he had done nothing wrong, and was re-elected while awaiting sentencing. He was censured by the House on July 31, 1979, and resigned from Congress June 3, 1980. He was sentenced to three years in prison and served 14 months.
Personal life
Diggs died of a stroke at Greater Southeast Community Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is interred at Detroit Memorial Park in Warren, Michigan.
See also
List of African-American United States representatives
List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes
List of United States representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded
References
External links
The Political Graveyard
Congressional Bad Boys
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Béla Bakosi (born 18 June 1957) is a retired triple jumper from Hungary. He won six medals at the European Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics.
Achievements
External links
1957 births
Living people
Hungarian male triple jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Hungary
European Athletics Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Hungary
Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Athletes from Budapest
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Bakosi |
"The Sick Rose" is a poem by William Blake, originally published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience as the 39th plate; the incipit of the poem is O Rose thou art sick. Blake composed the poem sometime after 1789, and presented it with an illuminated border and illustration, typical of his self-publications. Since the 20th century, the poem has been the subject of scrutiny by scholars for its oblique and enigmatic meaning, and bizarre, suggestive imagery.
Text
O Rose thou art sick,
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
Analysis
Nathan Cervo describes the poem as "One of the most baffling and enigmatic in the English language". The rose and worm in the poem have been seen as "figures of humanity", although Michael Riffaterre doubts the direct equivalence of Man as a worm; when Blake makes this comparison in other places, Riffaterre notes, he is explicit about it. Nevertheless, the "lesson of the worm may be applicable to human experience".
The rhyme scheme is ABCB. The scansion is difficult to place, due to a lack of pattern; the stanzas are asymmetrical: the first has syllables of 5,6,5,5, and the second of 5,4,6,5. Punctuation is also irregular: there is no comma after "O Rose", and yet there is a comma [,] after "worm".
The poem was set to music by Benjamin Britten in his 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, where it forms the movement "Elegy". British band Amplifier set the poem to music on their 2011 album The Octopus. Verses of the poem also comprised and inspired the 1991 song "Love's Secret Domain" by English group Coil.
References
External links
1794 poems
Songs of Innocence and of Experience | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sick%20Rose |
KQMM-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 29, is a low-power, Class A Sonlife-affiliated television station licensed to Santa Maria, California, United States. The station is owned by Caballero Television.
History
On November 6, 1990, KQMM signed on as K14IG, and was later granted class A status in 2003.
On September 25, 2006, KQMM switched to the new MTV Tr3s network (now simply known as Tr3́s since July 2010), which was created as a result of Viacom's acquisition of Mas Musica.
On July 31, 2007, KQMM-CA was granted a construction permit to operate a digital companion channel on UHF channel 29. The digital station, KQMM-LD, went on the air on May 5, 2008.
On September 28, 2011, the station transferred their class A license to the digital channel, changing the call sign to KQMM-CD. On October 4, 2011, the station's analog license was cancelled and the KQMM-CA call sign was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
On August 3, 2015, KQMM-CD dropped the MTV Tres affiliation and started broadcasting Spanish religious programming from 3ABN Latino.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
QMM-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Low-power television stations in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQMM-CD |
Prickly Paradigm Press is a new incarnation of Prickly Pear Pamphlets, which was started in 1993, in Cambridge, England, by anthropologists Keith Hart and Anna Grimshaw. Together they published a series of ten pamphlets on a range of topics in anthropology, the history of science, and ethnographic film. In 1998, Mark Harris and Matthew Engelke took over the press, expanding its operations in the world market and adding a select few titles to its list. In 2001, Marshall Sahlins took over the press, renamed it Prickly Paradigm, and re-published his own pamphlet (Waiting for Foucault) and also Richard Rorty's. In 2004, Justin Shaffner scanned the original Prickly Pear pamphlets into a PDF format and made them freely available for distribution on the Internet.
See also
Anthropology
List of anthropologists
Small press
List of small presses
References
Further reading
https://web.archive.org/web/20061119163651/http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/review.htm
https://creativecommons.org/2005/10/01/sahlins/
External links
Prickly Paradigm Press
Prickly Pear Pamphlets
Anthropology organizations
Publishing companies of the United States
Small press publishing companies
University of Chicago
Publishing companies established in 1993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickly%20Paradigm%20Press |
Stahnsdorf is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
Geography
It is situated on the Teltow plateau, about southwest of the Berlin city centre, and east of Potsdam. Neighbouring municipalities are the town of Teltow in the east and Kleinmachnow in the north, both immediately bordering the Berlin city limits.
The municipal area is bound by the Teltow Canal in the north. It comprises Stahnsdorf proper and the villages of Güterfelde, Schenkenhorst, and Sputendorf.
History
Stahnsdorf in the Margraviate of Brandenburg was first documented in a 1264 purchase contract of Margrave Otto III and the Brandenburg bishop. It originally consisted only of its old village green on a formerly important merchant road from Leipzig in Saxony via Güterfelde and Stahnsdorf, crossing the Bäke creek (the present-day Teltow Canal) at Kleinmachnow, and running northwards to Spandau.
With the construction of the Teltow Canal in the early 20th century, the opening of the large Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery in April 1909, the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof and Friedenauer Waldfriedhof in 1913, and the opening of the S-Bahn route from Berlin-Wannsee station in June 1913 the development in a Berlin suburb began. In the following decades, the current site was created by the development of privately owned homes, the connection to Berlin-Lichterfelde by a tram and building a settlement for workers at the Bosch manufactures in Kleinmachnow.
In 1920 the Stahnsdorf Military Cemetery was formalised. It contains 1175 graves, mainly of British POWs who died in captivity. It was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.
1931 Stahnsdorf WWTP was put into operation, where waste water from the south of Berlin was treated. It was one of the first plants to produce biogas.
The construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 severed the connections to the bordering Berlin. In the communist era, the place was dominated economically, especially through the semiconductor business as a major operation and farms. The fall of the Berlin Wall set a renewing development by inflows, opening new home communities, and in recent years by commercial development, particularly in "Green Park", a large industrial park.
On 1 January 2002 Stahnsdorf in its present form was formed by the incorporation of the towns Güterfelde, Schenkenhorst and Sputendorf.
Demography
Politics
Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeindevertretung) as of 2014 local elections:
Bürger für Bürger (Independent): 7
Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): 5
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 3
Wir Vier (Independent): 2
Alliance '90/The Greens: 2
The Left: 2
Alternative for Germany (AfD): 1
Sports
Stahnsdorf is one of the three home towns of the basketball team TKS 49ers.
References
External links
Official website of Stahnsdorf
Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery
Official website of the Stahnsdorf Voluntary Fire Department
Localities in Potsdam-Mittelmark
Teltow (region) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahnsdorf |
Capitol Centre () (previously: Capitol Exchange Centre ()) is an indoor shopping centre in the city of Cardiff, Wales. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, The building is built on the site of the former Capitol Theatre, and is situated at the eastern end of Queen Street near the Dumfries Place bus terminus and Cardiff Queen Street railway station.
It was anchored by a large H&M store, with the front of the centre being dominated by Tesco since Virgin Megastores and Zavvi ceased operations in 2009. Tesco has dominated the front of the Capitol Centre since November 2012.
History
The Capitol Centre was opened in 1990, with attempts to replicate the original architecture. Ceramic tiles from the previous Victorian Dutch Cafe tearooms were incorporated on the eastern exterior. The style of build dated very quickly and, in 1999, the centre underwent a £10 million redevelopment, which included the refurbishment of the pedestrian areas, the removal of the food court and new entrances into the centre (although much of the original external facade still remains). It was completed in November 1999.
There were plans to develop 164 apartments, plus retail and commercial space and additional car parking facilities at the corner of North Edward Street and Station Terrace. This would provide 50 per cent additional spaces, bringing the total car parking spaces up to 632. The scheme architects, Dobson Architects, expected it could be completed by 2012, but this never happened.
In 2015 Capitol Centre was bought by new owner NewRiver Retail.
In 2022 plans were revealed to create a new 14,500 sq ft food court in attempts to revive the centre's fortunes.
Cinema
The centre had originally also housed a five-screen Odeon cinema up until 2001, it has reopened in April 2015 operated by Premiere Cinemas. In October 2022, It was announced that Premiere Cinemas has now closed its doors for the final time, amid a new development that is currently under construction just below the JobCentre Plus (formerly H&M Retail). No release date has been published on this new development as of yet.
See also
List of shopping arcades in Cardiff
References
External links
Capitol Centre official site
Economy of Cardiff
Shopping arcades in Cardiff
Castle, Cardiff
1990 establishments in Wales
Commercial buildings completed in 1990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol%20Centre%2C%20Cardiff |
is a Japanese origami artist. Kamiya began folding at age two. Kamiya began designing origami models in 1995, and has since published hundreds of creations. Kamiya has drawn inspiration for his designs from Manga, nature, and both eastern and western mythologies.
Many of Kamiya's origami designs are complex; his Divine Dragon and Ancient Dragon models require around 275 steps each and need to be made from at least 50 cm squares of thin paper or foil. One of his notable designs is the Ryu-Zin 3.5, an elaborate dragon covered with scales and having feelers, claws, and horns. The work can take up to one month to fold properly. This model is unique in that the crease pattern is asymmetrical yet produces a symmetrical model.
Kamiya has written three books, including Works of Satoshi Kamiya, 1995-2003 includes diagrams of nineteen models of intermediate through complex difficulty. Kamiya's second book, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002-2009, released in 2012, includes 16 models and is a follow-up to his debut. Although most of these were previously published in convention books and magazines, it also includes new, previously unpublished diagrams for the famous feathered, long-tailed phoenix. In June 2019, Kamiya released a third volume of his designs. This book, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 3, contains models previously published in magazines and convention books, as well as models taught in origami classes, like his Tiger and Zero Fighter.
Publications
Works of Satoshi Kamiya, 1995-2003 Origami House, 2005. ,
World of Super-Complex Origami Soshimu, 2010. (in cooperation with other origamists, like Komatsu Hideo and Takashi Hojyo)
Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002-2009 Origami House, 2012 (out November 15)
Works of Satoshi Kamiya 3, Origami House, 2019 (out June 15)
See also
Mathematics of origami
References
External links
Satoshi Kamiya's personal website
Full information on Satoshi Kamiya's book
Japanese artists
Origami artists
1981 births
Living people
Artists from Nagoya | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi%20Kamiya |
The Lethal Legion is the name of seven teams of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
The first version of the Lethal Legion appeared in The Avengers #78 (Jul. 1970).
The second version of the Lethal Legion appeared in Avengers #164 (Oct. 1977)
The third version in West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #1 (Oct. 1985).
The fourth version appeared in Marvel Age Annual #1 (1985).
The fifth version of the Lethal Legion appeared in Avengers West Coast #98 (Sep. 1993)
The sixth version of the Lethal Legion appeared in the limited series Dark Reign: Lethal Legion #1 (Aug. 2009).
History
Grim Reaper's Lethal Legion
The original Lethal Legion are formed by the villain Grim Reaper (the brother of Avenger Wonder Man) and consisted of Man-Ape, Power Man, Living Laser, and Swordsman. Man-Ape attacks Captain America, but is beaten back by the Avengers. However, he captures the Black Panther's girlfriend Monica binding her hand and foot with metal clamps. Black Panther is lured into a trap by Man-Ape, and despite getting past him he is knocked out by an exploding dummy of Monica. Black Panther is chained and with Man-Ape, he meets the other members of the Lethal Legion.
Grim Reaper dispatched the Lethal Legion members to different locations to meet the Avengers. Power Man and Swordsman were sent to the water main below Avengers Mansion, Living Laser and Man-Ape were sent to the nearby power station, and Grim Reaper seemingly departed to Greenwich Village. Black Panther broke free and contacted the Avengers to warn them about the Lethal Legion's plot. Grim Reaper returns and uses the knockout gas in his scythe to knock out Black Panther while revealing that he planned to have the Avengers lured to the locations of which Black Panther knew about. While the other members of the Lethal Legion defeat the different Avengers, Vision defeats Power Man (who had been sent to capture him at Avengers Mansion). He disguises himself as Power Man and Power Man as him and takes him to the base. The Lethal Legion places the Avengers in an hourglass container and then fills it with deadly gas. When "Power Man" arrived with "Vision," Grim Reaper detected the brain patterns of Wonder Man and shattered the hourglass to save Vision's life only to realize that the vision in the hourglass was actually Power Man. At that point, Vision aided the Avengers into defeating the Lethal Legion who are handed over to the authorities.
Count Nefaria's Lethal Legion
A second version, formed by European villain Count Nefaria reappears in the title, composed of Living Laser, Whirlwind and Power Man. He magnifies their powers, but is revealed to be a manipulative ploy to steal their magnified powers in a failed bid to destroy the Avengers. The depowered villains are sent to prison.
Grim Reaper's second Lethal Legion
The Grim Reaper returns in the title West Coast Avengers, leading a third version against the superhero team consisting of Black Talon (Barone), Goliath, Man-Ape, Nekra, and Ultron-12. Grim Reaper has Ultron lead a squadron of robots to spring Goliath from a compound that he is imprisoned in. When Goliath is freed by Man-Ape, the three villains work together to take out the Avengers as Ultron-12 states that he has his own plans for Wonder Man. The three villains escape with an unconscious Henry Pym and Wonder Man. Hawkeye figures out that Grim Reaper is behind this.
The three villains meet up with Grim Reaper. Internal squabbling and personal agendas overtake the villains and they are defeated and scattered.
Porcupine's Lethal Legion
A fourth version appears in the title Marvel Age. They were led by the Porcupine and consisted of Attuma, Batroc the Leaper, Bulldozer, Black Tiger, Kurr'fri of the Saurians, Gorilla-Man (Nagan), Piledriver, Sabretooth, Thundra, Trapster, Unicorn, Whirlwind, and Wrecker. The Lethal Legion tracked down and battle Captain America who is aided by several other Marvel heroes. Their battle with the superheroes was witnessed by the Beyonder. The outcome of the battle was not shown, but it is assumed that the heroes won.
Satannish's Lethal Legion
In the title Avengers West Coast the demon Satannish creates another version using the souls of four infamous historical killers that were found in Mephisto's section of Hell. They have been given powers along with Hangman and the group battle the renamed Avengers West Coast. The group consisted of Axe of Violence (a demonically-enhanced version of Lizzie Borden with an axe replacing one hand), Coldsteel (a demonically-enhanced version of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, now an 8 ft. giant with superhuman strength), Cyana (a demonically-enhanced version of Lucrezia Borgia with poisoned claws), and Zyklon (a demonically-enhanced version of Nazi official Heinrich Himmler who can belch deadly gas fumes from his mouth). This incarnation eventually lost their powers and their souls were destroyed during the struggle between Mephisto and Satannish.
Grim Reaper's third Lethal Legion
A new version of the Lethal Legion appears during the "Dark Reign" storyline in the three-issue limited series Dark Reign: Lethal Legion. The Grim Reaper (now aided by his brother Wonder Man) recruits villains to oppose criminal mastermind Norman Osborn.
Absorbing Man, Grey Gargoyle, Mister Hyde, and Tiger Shark later reformed the Lethal Legion and end up fighting the Avengers.
Challenger's Lethal Legion
An alien version of the Lethal Legion was formed by Grandmaster to go up against Challenger's Black Order in a contest where Earth is the battlefield and they had to collect the Pyramoids. While the Blood Brothers, Mentacle, and Metal Master II faced off against Black Dwarf, Black Swan, and Supergiant's psychic projection in Rome, Glah-Ree of the Kree/Captain Glory, Drall, and Ferene the Other faced off against Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, and Proxima Midnight in Cusco, Peru. Both of these confrontations were interrupted by the Avengers.
Each of its members were revealed to have been saved from their approaching deaths in exchange that they partake in his contest against Challenger.
When Challenger reveals his secret player in the form of a resurrected Hulk, most of the Lethal Legion are defeated with Hulk breaking Captain Glory's spine and presumably killing Mentacle.
After the contest is ended by the Avengers, the Lethal Legion regrouped and fled to Knowhere. As they have nowhere to return to after each one's near-death experience, the Lethal Legion decides to stay together and see what they can accomplish.
Count Nefaria's second Lethal Legion
Count Nefaria forms another version of the Lethal Legion which now consists of Grey Gargoyle, Living Laser, and Whirlwind. The group raids a Project Pegasus facility to look for the Catalyst so that Count Nefaria can regain his powers. He revealed to the scientist that mentioned it was relocated that he got a copy of the information from Chameleon as the scientist knows the Catalyst's full potential. Count Nefaria kills the scientist with his abilities so that he won't tell anyone how to stop him. When Whirlwind and Living Laser stated to Count Nefaria that he should be resting, Count Nefaria stated that he needed the exercise.
At Empire State University, Dr. Curt Connors reveals the Catalyst to the crowd when the Lethal Legion attacks. While Grey Gargoyle and Whirlwind attack the people present, Living Laser helps Count Nefaria to operate the Catalyst. Spider-Man shows up and has a hard time fighting them due to the fact that his mind was focused on what a revived Sin-Eater did to Overdrive. Sin-Eater shows up and starts using the same gun he used on Overdrive on Whirlwind and Grey Gargoyle while taking their powers. Immobilizing Spider-Man with Grey Gargoyle's powers, Sin-Eater proceeded to do the same thing to Living Laser and Count Nefaria. All four of them were sent to Ravencroft where they started to act like model inmates. Norah Winters was allowed by Norman Osborn to interview them about Sin-Eater.
As a side-effect of Sin-Eater's suicide upon copying Madame Web's precognition revealed that Kindred was using them, the Lethal Legion regained their sins and are among the villains that went on a rampage.
Membership
Other versions
Heroes Reborn
In the Heroes Reborn reality, the Lethal Legion was formed by Enchantress and consisted of Executioner, Scarlet Witch, Ultron-5, and Wonder Man The Lethal Legion is later betrayed by Loki who takes the Gamma Core's energy for himself.
In other media
Television
The Lethal Legion appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, founded and led by Doctor Doom and consisting of the Abomination, MODOK, Mole Man, Fin Fang Foom, Megataur, Tricephalous, Manoo, Klaw, Toad, Melter, the Wrecking Crew, Sabretooth, the Juggernaut, Pyro, Whirlwind, Zzzax, Egghead, the Ringmaster, Paste Pot Pete, Mystique, the Crimson Dynamo, and Batroc the Leaper. Additionally, Songbird worked undercover in the Lethal Legion as Screaming Mimi. Doom formed this version of the group to help him collect the Infinity Fractals and rebuild the Infinity Sword. In the second season, Molecule Man and Volcana join the Lethal Legion to help break Doom out of the Vault and combat Thanos and the Dark Surfer.
Video games
The Lethal Legion appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad.
The Lethal Legion appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, co-led by Doctor Doom, Loki, and Magneto.
The Lethal Legion appears in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, led by Captain Glory and consisting of the Blood Brothers. This version of the group are bounty hunters and associates of Lady Hellbender.
Footnotes
External links
Lethal Legion at Marvel.com
Characters created by John Buscema
Characters created by Kurt Busiek
Characters created by John Byrne (comics)
Characters created by Jim Shooter
Characters created by Roy Thomas
Comics characters introduced in 1970
Comics characters introduced in 1977
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Comics characters introduced in 1993
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Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia
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Arthroscopic lavage is the washing out or cleaning out the contents (blood, fluid or loose debris) inside a joint space. Lavage is a general term referring to the therapeutic washing, cleaning or rinsing.
Medical uses
Excessive growth of irritated synovial membrane causes it to increase its surface area by buckling into fronds, and the fronds may become inflamed and pour destructive enzymes into the joint space, causing joint swelling and joint surface destruction. Removing this excess material via lavage frequently resolves arthritic knee inflammation or pain.
Arthroscopic lavage is one of many procedures available to help reverse the damage of early arthritis. There is, however, controversy about the value of simple lavage and debridement for the older patient with established osteoarthritis.
Needle lavage should not be used in an attempt to treat persons seeking long-term relief for symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee. The use of this treatment in this case has not been shown to decrease pain, stiffness, tenderness, or swelling, or to increase 50-foot walking time or body function.
Technique
Arthroscopic lavage is generally combined with arthroscopic debridement, where fronds of joint material or degenerative tissue are removed using a combination of injected fluid and a small vacuum, i.e. both washing (rinsing) and sucking. 'Arthroscopic' means that this is done using a tiny incision at the joint, where a thin arthroscope is pushed into the joint to inspect the structures.
References
External links
progress-report-anthroscopic-lavage
Endoscopy
Orthopedic treatment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthroscopic%20lavage |
Jan Jongbloed (; 25 November 1940 – 30 August 2023) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Netherlands national team, having represented the country at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups, where the Oranje finished as runners-up in both cases.
Club career
Born in Amsterdam, Jongbloed played for DWS (then rebranded as FC Amsterdam), Roda JC and Go Ahead Eagles. He played a total amount of 717 professional games, and made the second-highest number of appearances in the history of the Eredivisie, behind only Pim Doesburg.
Jongbloed retired in 1986, at the age of 45, due to a heart attack he had suffered during an official match between Go Ahead Eagles and HFC Haarlem. After his retirement from playing, he worked as a football coach.
International career
Jongbloed made 24 appearances for the Netherlands senior national team, winning his first cap in 1962 and the last in the 1978 FIFA World Cup final.
Jongbloed represented the Netherlands at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups.
Personal life and death
Jongbloed was married twice and twice divorced; he had a daughter, Nicole, and a son, Eric. The latter also went on to play football as a goalkeeper for DWS; however, during a match on 23 September 1984, he was fatally struck by lightning, aged 21.
Jongbloed died on 30 August 2023, at the age of 82.
Honours
DWS
Eredivisie: 1963–64
Netherlands
FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1974, 1978
UEFA European Championship third place: 1976
References
External links
1940 births
2023 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Footballers from Amsterdam
Men's association football goalkeepers
Netherlands men's international footballers
1974 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1976 players
1978 FIFA World Cup players
Eredivisie players
AFC DWS players
FC Amsterdam players
Roda JC Kerkrade players
Go Ahead Eagles players
Dutch football managers
Association football coaches
SBV Vitesse managers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Jongbloed |
Operation Texas was an alleged undercover operation to relocate European Jews to Texas, USA, away from Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948. The following are some of the key arguments of the dissertation:
In 1938, Lyndon B. Johnson, then a Congressman and later the 36th President of the United States of America, worked covertly to establish a refuge in Texas for European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Johnson helped hundreds of European Jews enter Texas through Cuba, Mexico and South America.
In part, Johnson was influenced in his attitude towards the Jews by the religious beliefs that his family, especially his grandfather (Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr.), who was a member of the Christadelphian church, shared with him. Christadelphians believe that the Jews are God's chosen people, and LBJ's grandfather once said to him, "Take care of the Jews, God’s chosen people. Consider them your friends and help them any way you can."
Various details of Gomolak's dissertation have been cited by other historians. In 2008, Larry Ben David began an online campaign to collect documentation to submit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem to have LBJ awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations, often referred to as a Righteous Gentile.
Additional primary research on Operation Texas was done for a 1998 Houston Chronicle article and a 2016 article on the aish.com website.
More recently, many of the arguments of Gomolak's thesis have been disputed following extensive research by Claudia Wilson Anderson, an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Although his research materials (e.g., written interview notes, interview recordings and primary documents not located in archives) could support his arguments, Gomolak has not made them available for external review.
References
1938 in American politics
1938 in international relations
Jews and Judaism in Texas
Jewish-American history
Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
Religion and politics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Texas |
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902) was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the northwest coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships among the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait.
The multi-year expedition was sponsored by American industrialist-philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was among other things the president of the American Museum of Natural History). It was planned and directed by the American anthropologist Franz Boas. The participants included a number of significant figures in American and Russian anthropology, as well as Bernard Fillip Jacobsen (brother of Johan Adrian Jacobsen), a Norwegian, who settled in the Northwest coast in 1884 where he collected artifacts as well as the stories of the local indigenous people. Local people of the tribes, such as George Hunt (Tlingit), served as interpreters and guides.
The expedition resulted in the publication of numerous important ethnographies from 1905 into the 1930s, as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs.
Fieldwork sites
The ethnic groups studied by members of the expedition include:
Ainu
Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin, British Columbia)
Chukchi (Chukchee)
Evens (Lamut)
Evenk (Tungus)
Haida
Heiltsuk (Bella Bella)
Itel'men (Kamchadal)
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
St'at'imc (Lillooet) (British Columbia)
Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) (British Columbia)
Syilx (Okanagan) (British Columbia)
Official publications
Many of the scientific results of the expedition were published in a special series, Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903 [and] Leiden : E.J. Brill ; New York : G.E. Stechert, 1905–1930). The titles of these publications give a good idea of the huge scope of the expedition:
Other results of the expedition were published separately. Waldemar Bogoras's grammar of Chukchi, Koryak and Itelmen (misleadingly titled just Chukchee) was delayed by the onset of the First World War and Russian Revolution. It was eventually published (heavily edited by Boas) in the Handbook of American Indian Languages.
Expedition direction
Franz Boas
Franz Boas, one of the pioneers of modern anthropology, was the scientific director of the expedition. At the time of the expedition he was assistant curator of the anthropology department at the American Museum of Natural History. He planned the research to address three questions:
the origin of the early inhabitants of America
the biological relationship between the peoples of America and the peoples of Asia
the relationships between the cultures of the peoples of America and the peoples of Asia
Boas was an active fieldworker on the northwest coast in the American part of the expedition.
Morris Jesup
Morris Ketchum Jesup, a wealthy industrialist and director of the American Museum of Natural History, initially invited contributions from benefactors to the museum, but ended up assuming the entire expense of the project himself.
Fieldworkers in Russia
The Siberian fieldwork began a year later. There were three teams, one in the south and two in the north. The southern team comprised Berthold Laufer and Gerard Fowke. Bogoras and Jochelson each had a team in the north.
Berthold Laufer
Berthold Laufer was an ethnologist. He worked on the Amur River and Sakhalin Island during 16 months over 1898-1899. He studied the Nivkhi, Evenk and Ainu, and published a monograph in the expedition series, The decorative art of the Amur tribes.
Gerard Fowke
Gerard Fowke, an archaeologist,
Waldemar Bogoras
Waldemar Bogoras was an exiled Russian revolutionary; ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork with the Chukchi and Siberian Yupik peoples of the western side of the Bering Strait. He was accompanied on the expedition by his wife Sofia Bogoraz, who acted as photographer.
Dina Brodsky
Dina Brodsky (aka Jochelson-Brodskaya)
was a trained medic. She compiled an ethnography and photographic record of Koryak and Itelmen communities (with husband Waldemar Jochelson). She took the majority of the expedition's 1,200 pictures. Her work was unpaid. Her 900 anthropological measurements contributed to her doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich and to her writings about the women of northeastern Siberia.
Waldemar Jochelson
Vladimir Jochelson
(with wife Dina Jochelson-Brodskaya)
Fieldworkers in Canada and the United States
Livingston Farrand
Livingston Farrand
George Hunt
George Hunt; much info at recorded Kwakiutl texts
Harlan I. Smith
Smith involved himself in archaeological work, and began by digging in the Thompson River district of British Columbia in 1897. In successive years, he worked a little farther east, and also around Puget Sound, and down the west coast of the state of Washington. The interest was in the people who inhabited these regions in prehistoric times. One small section east of the city of Vancouver was found to reveal traces of a people with a much more highly developed technology than others of the region. Some of the regions explored revealed the remains of coast tribes, others of interior tribes. At some points these characteristics merged, producing a different type.
New discoveries of one season explained things not understood in previous explorations, so to gather up missing links and further elucidate the whole region, especially the people of the small section near Vancouver, it was necessary to take up some new territory and thoroughly explore it. Smith, therefore, went into the Yakima River Valley in northern Washington in 1903. On the map, this section does not look far from the Thompson River district in British Columbia, but Smith found not only their culture, but their skulls were different.
These ancient tribes seemed to have lived, each in its nook of coast or river valley, for unnumbered ages, never going to see what was on the other side of the mountain, each developing its own morsel of civilization in its own way, its life and culture and development modified by the portion of the earth's surface where it sat down, seemingly to stay forever. Shell heaps were found miles in length, with tree stumps six feet in diameter standing on nine feet of layers, of which each layer was only an inch or two in thickness. It took a good many generations to pile up those successive layers with discards from shellfish dinners. A stump of Douglas fir, over six feet in diameter, stood on a shell heap eight feet below the surface which contained human remains. The tree indicated the top layers of the shell heap were more than 500 years old.
The material brought back included carved and sculptured pipes, stone mortars, pestles, and sinkers, bone implements used on spears, deer antlers used as handles, stone adzes differing from those found anywhere else, bone needles, shell ornaments, and the like. In addition, many paintings and sculptures on rock walls were photographed.
John Swanton
John Swanton
James Teit
James Teit see: and
Bruno Oetteking
Bruno Oetteking
References
External links
More biographical information about the Jesup North Pacific Expedition members is also available from the AMNH website
Pre-statehood history of Alaska
History of British Columbia
History of Siberia
North American expeditions
Asian expeditions
Expeditions from the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesup%20North%20Pacific%20Expedition |
Walter Butler (1703–1783), also known as Walter Butler of Kilcash, and Walter Butler of Garryricken, was the de jure 16th Earl of Ormond and 9th Earl of Ossory. He did not assume these titles, as he thought them forfeit as a result of the attainder of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde. In the peerage of Ireland, the titles were successfully claimed in 1791 by his son John, the 17th Earl.
Birth and origins
Walter was born on 10 June 1703, probably at Garryricken House, the only son of John Butler and his wife Frances Butler. His father was the younger brother of Thomas Butler of Garryricken and part of a cadet branch of the Butler dynasty that started with Richard Butler of Kilcash (died 1701), a younger brother of the 1st Duke of Ormond. Walter's mother was a daughter of George Butler of Ballyragget, who belonged to another branch of the same wide-branched family. The Butler Dynasty is Old English and descends from Theobald Walter, who had been appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177.
Marriage and children
On 19 December 1732 he married Ellen (Eleanor) Morres, the eldest daughter of Nicholas Morres of the Court, County Dublin, granddaughter of Sir John Morres, 7th Baronet Morres of Knockagh.
By his wife he had a son and three daughters:
Frances, married Morgan Kavanagh, of Ballyhale, County Kilkenny
Susanna (born 1733) married Thomas Kavanagh, The MacMorrough in 1755;
Eleanor Charlotte (1739–1829) was the elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen
John (1740–1795) became the 17th Earl of Ormonde
Inheritances and succession
He inherited his father's estate at an unknown time near the middle of the century and was then known as Walter Butler of Garryricken, a member of the landed gentry.
In 1766, his cousin John Butler of Kilcash, the de jure 15th Earl of Ormonde, died without an heir. As a result, Walter Butler inherited the Ormond estate that his cousin had in turn inherited from Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran along with the lands that his cousin had inherited from Thomas Butler of Garryricken, his father. In consequence, the two halves of the lands of the Garryricken Manor were reunited in Walter's hand. It had been divided between his father and his uncle Thomas at the death of Richard Butler of Kilcash in 1701.
Unknowingly, Walter Butler also inherited his cousin's title and became de jure the 16th Earl of Ormond.
Kilkenny Castle
Having inherited the estates, Walter decided to move into Kilkenny Castle, which was in a dilapidated state. In 1769, his son John married the heiress Anne Wandesford of Castlecomer. Walter and John spent much of her dowry on improving the castle. They re-routed the old approach road away from the castle, built a new road, and then landscaped and planted the Castle Park and the road much as it is today. They built the beautiful stables and courtyards across this road and finally, Walter moved to his newly built dower house, Butler House beyond those stables.
Death and succession
Walter Butler died in Kilkenny Castle in 1783. After his father's death, his son reclaimed the title of "Earl of Ormonde". This was confirmed in 1791. The Butlers rapidly re-established their position and prestige. They always owned large areas of land in counties Kilkenny and Tipperary, and now became the largest landowners in the southeast of Ireland.
Ancestry
Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, the eldest son of the 11th Earl, who predeceased his father.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the eldest son of Viscount Thurles.
Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, the eldest son of the 1st Duke who predeceased his father.
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, grandson of the 1st Duke.
Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, grandson of the 1st Duke, brother of the 2nd Duke.
Richard Butler of Kilcash, the youngest son of Viscount Thurles, brother of the 1st Duke.
Walter Butler of Garryricken, the eldest son of Richard, great-grandson of the 11 Earl. Garryricken is a townland in the barony of Kells, County Kilkenny.
Colonel Thomas Butler of Garryricken, the eldest son of Walter.
John Butler, 15th Earl of Ormonde, son of Colonel Thomas, great-grand-nephew of the 1st Duke.
John Butler of Garryricken, second son of Walter and brother of Colonel Thomas, grand-nephew of the 1st Duke.
Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde, son of John, great-great-great-grandson of the 11th Earl and the first cousin of the 15th Earl.
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Sources
– N to R (for Ormonde)
– Scotland and Ireland (for his son's marriage)
1703 births
1783 deaths
Walter
Earls of Ormond (Ireland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Butler%2C%2016th%20Earl%20of%20Ormonde |
Gennadiy Valyukevich (; 1 June 1958 – 30 December 2019) was a triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships.
He was the father of Dmitrij Valukevic, who currently represents Slovakia.
Achievements
External links
1958 births
2019 deaths
Belarusian male triple jumpers
Soviet male triple jumpers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy%20Valyukevich |
The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel Ulysses take place here,
and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday. Admission is free.
History
The tower was leased from the War Office by Joyce's university friend Oliver St. John Gogarty, with the purpose of "Hellenising" Ireland. Joyce stayed there for six days, from 9 to 14 September in 1904. Gogarty later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure to a midnight incident with a loaded revolver.
The opening scenes of Ulysses are set the morning after this incident. Gogarty is immortalised as "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan" (the opening words of the novel).
The tower now contains a museum dedicated to Joyce and displays some of his possessions and other ephemera associated with Ulysses (e.g., "Plumtree's Potted Meat" pot). The living space is set up to resemble its 1904 appearance, and contains a ceramic panther to represent one seen in a dream by a resident. It is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.
It was purchased in 1954 by architect Michael Scott who, in 1937, built his house, Geragh, next door, on a former quarry. In 1962, he donated the tower for the purpose of making it a museum. Michael Scott is co-founder, with financial assistance by John Huston, of the James Joyce Museum at the Joyce Tower.
The Tower became a museum opening on 16 June 1962 through the efforts of Dublin artist John Ryan. Ryan also rescued the front door to 7 Eccles Street (now at the James Joyce Centre) from demolition and organised, with Brian O'Nolan, the first Bloomsday Celebration in 1954.
The James Joyce Tower is open Thursday-Sunday, 10am-4pm Admission is free, though visits can be booked in advance on the website for a small donation. The museum is run by the Friends of Joyce Tower Society on a voluntary basis.
See also
Forty Foot, an ocean swimming place, one hundred yards from the tower
References
External links
Official website
Towers completed in 1804
Buildings and structures in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Museums in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Biographical museums in the Republic of Ireland
James Joyce
Towers in the Republic of Ireland
Literary museums in Ireland
Martello towers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Joyce%20Tower%20and%20Museum |
The Caves of King "Cintolo" (Galician: Covas do Rei Cintolo, Spanish: Cueva del Rey Cintolo) are a group of caves, of more than 7,500 meters length, in the outskirts of the City of Mondoñedo, Spain.
Of limestone formation, they include numerous stalactites and stalagmites. They were discovered by archaeologist José Villaamil y Castro in 1870.
External links
Descriptive Web-site of The Caves of King "Cintolo" in Mondoñedo
Cintolo
Cintolo
Cintolo
Landforms of Galicia (Spain) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves%20of%20King%20Cintolo |
The Lion's Game is a 2000 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It is the second of DeMille's novels to feature the detective John Corey, now working as a contractor for the fictional FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force in New York City. The 2000 novel The Lion's Game is the sequel to Plum Island and is followed by the 2004 book Night Fall. The book also briefly mentions events from other DeMille novels like The Charm School and The Gold Coast, that aren't strictly part of the Corey-universe.
Plot
"The Lion" will be landing. And at New York's JFK Airport, an elite American task force waits as the notorious Libyan terrorist prepares to defect to the West. Then, aboard Flight 175, something goes eerily, horribly wrong - a mere prelude to the terror that is to come. Ex-NYPD cop, now Task Force contract agent John Corey - together with his formidable and beautiful new partner, Kate Mayfield - will follow a trail of smoke and blood across the country. His quarry: a foe with the cunning of a man and all the bloodlust of a lion . To win a desperate game with no rules at all, Corey must invent a strategy that leaves room for no luck at all.
Film adaptation
According to the official Nelson DeMille website, a movie about The Lion's Game (and Plum Island) will be released. The rights to the novel were bought by Columbia Pictures in January 2000.
Critical reception
George Hackett, writer for The Press of Atlantic City, said that "for sheer suspense, there's nothing better than the opening of Nelson DeMille's latest thriller".
References
External links
The Lion's Game on Nelson DeMille's Official Website
2000 American novels
Novels by Nelson DeMille
Novels set in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%27s%20Game |
Under the Influence of Giants (sometimes abbreviated UTIOG) was an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. They released their major label debut album in August 2006, which was a number one hit on the Top Heatseekers chart. Among their influences are the Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the Bee Gees, Prince, WHAM!, Chicago and Todd Rundgren. UTIOG have performed on Last Call with Carson Daly and Jimmy Kimmel Live! as well as opening for acts such as Aerosmith, Darrell DMC, Crowded House, Angels and Airwaves and The Sounds.
History
Aaron Bruno and Drew Stewart formed a band called Home Town Hero and signed to the now defunct Maverick Records from 2002-2004. In 2004, after several member changes and label woes, the band went on hiatus. Around this time, Bruno and Stewart reconnected with childhood friend and former Audiovent drummer Jamin Wilcox and began to play music together. All three had experienced turmoil with major record labels and wanted to create music on their own terms. The music from these sessions would later be recorded and released free over the internet under the album title Bitch City. While the band was still called HomeTown Hero at this point, they felt the evolution of the music did not fit the name so they dropped the name. Since HomeTown Hero was still contractually obligated to Maverick, the label held the legal rights to HomeTown Hero's music. The members of the band quit the label, forced to leave their music behind.
The band continued under the name "Under the Influence of Giants", a name meant to reflect of their continuous struggle to operate free of authority. They recruited keyboardist Katie Logan and bassist David Amezuca and began to play shows in the Los Angeles area in mid-2005, selling out venues like the Roxy and Key Club several times. In the spring of 2006, after a short West Coast tour, Logan decided to amicably leave the band and created the duo Katie and Katie with a friend.
In the winter of 2005 they signed with Island Records. They released their debut in summer of 2006 on Island Records.
In November 2006, they headlined the halftime show at Major League Soccer's MLS Cup championship game at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas.
They have headlined and sold out numerous club tours in the US and UK. They have also gone on tour in the UK and Europe with The Sounds, as well as opening for them on select dates in the United States.
Aaron Bruno is currently in the band Awolnation, and David Amezcua as well as Drew Stewart were in the band until each left. They released their debut EP Back from Earth in 2010 on iTunes. Jamin Wilcox has released a solo album on iTunes,Spotify,Apple Music etc. Wilcox used the name J-man in his solo career. J-man has a song entitled “We can dance now” with over one million plays on Spotify. Wilcox also produced and did song writing for artists like Robbie Williams and Dizzee Rascal- with the song “Going Crazy” reaching the top 5 spot on the UK iTunes.Wilcox wrote and produced the song “How I want ya” for artists Hudson Thames and Hailee Steinfeld and the song has over 30 million plays on Spotify.David Amezcua is currently in the band Hotstreets, who released their self-titled debut album in 2010 on iTunes.
Discography
As Home Town Hero
Home Town Hero LP (2002)
Bitch City LP (2004)
As Under the Influence of Giants
Heaven Is Full EP (2006)
Under the Influence of Giants LP (2006) U.S. No. 134
Singles
"Mama's Room" (2006)
"In the Clouds" (2006)
In other media
The song "Robbers" from the Bitch City LP is featured in MVP Baseball 2004 by EA Sports.
A few songs from the Under the Influence of Giants album were played at a Halloween party scene in an episode ("The Middle-Earth Paradigm") of The Big Bang Theory.
The song "Hi Lo" was featured in "Credit Where Credit's Due", an episode of the American drama television series Veronica Mars.
References
External links
Alternative rock groups from California
Musical groups established in 2002
2002 establishments in California
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Musical groups disestablished in 2008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20the%20Influence%20of%20Giants |
Petr Svoboda (born February 14, 1966) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning. He was the first Czech to play over 1,000 games in the NHL.
He is currently the director of hockey operations for Lausanne HC.
Playing career
In 1984, Svoboda had participated in the world Under-18 ice hockey championships in then-West Germany as a part of the Czechoslovak team, and after playing one game, he defected to the West in order to play hockey at a higher professional level. That spring, he was selected fifth overall in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. His career highlights include winning the Stanley Cup with the Canadiens in 1986, and participating with the Czech team in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where he scored the only goal in the gold medal game against Russia. He retired from professional hockey in 2001 and then worked as a player agent. In May 2020, he became co-owner and director of hockey operations for Lausanne HC in Switzerland.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
See also
List of NHL players with 1000 games played
References
External links
1966 births
Living people
Buffalo Sabres players
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Czechoslovak defectors
HC Litvínov players
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Montreal Canadiens draft picks
Montreal Canadiens players
National Hockey League All-Stars
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic
Olympic ice hockey players for the Czech Republic
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Ice hockey people from Most (city)
Philadelphia Flyers players
Sports agents
Stanley Cup champions
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Czechoslovak ice hockey defencemen
Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Czechoslovak expatriate ice hockey people
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20Svoboda |
Holy Thursday is a poem by William Blake, from his 1789 book of poems Songs of Innocence. (There is also a Holy Thursday poem in Songs of Experience, which contrasts with this song.)
The poem depicts a ceremony held on Ascension Day, which in England was then called Holy Thursday, a name now generally applied to what is also called Maundy Thursday: Six thousand orphans of London's charity schools, scrubbed clean and dressed in the coats of distinctive colours, are marched two by two to Saint Paul's Cathedral, under the control of their beadles, and sing in the cathedral.
The children in their colourful dresses are compared to flowers and their procession toward the church as a river. Their singing on the day that commemorated the Ascension of Jesus is depicted as raising them above their old, lifeless guardians, who remain at a lower level.
The bleak reality of the orphans' lives is depicted in the contrasting poem, "Holy Thursday" (Songs of Experience).
The poem
References
External links
A comparison of extant copies of the original hand painted copies of "Holy Thursday" available from the William Blake Archive
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
1789 poems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Thursday%20%28Songs%20of%20Innocence%29 |
Royal Garrison Church may refer to:
Royal Garrison Church, 'home' church for the Anglican military personnel serving at Aldershot in Hampshire in the UK
Domus Dei, an almshouse and hospice at Portsmouth in Hampshire, UK, also known as the Royal Garrison Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Garrison%20Church |
Mykola Musiyenko (, – Nikolay Musiyenko; born 16 December 1959) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. He won four medals for the Soviet Union at the European Indoor Championships, being the champion in both 1983 and 1989. He competed at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but failed to record a valid mark in the final. He was also a finalist at the 1986 European Athletics Championships. He was a bronze medallist at the 1986 Goodwill Games, held on home soil in Moscow.
He set his personal best mark of at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial in Leningrad in 1986. This mark is a former European record and made him the fourth best jumper ever at the time (after Willie Banks, João Carlos de Oliveira and Charles Simpkins). The European mark was beaten later that year by Bulgarian Khristo Markov and it remained the Soviet national record until 1990, when it was beaten by Vladimir Inozemtsev. As of January 2017, Musiyenko remains second on the Ukrainian lists after Inozemtsev and within the twenty best outdoor triple jumpers on the all-time lists.
He was twice national champion at the Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships, taking the title in 1982 and 1986 – both with meet record performances. At the Soviet Athletics Championships outdoors, his best finish was third, which he achieved at the 1981 and 1987 meets.
International competitions
See also
List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (men)
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
Soviet male triple jumpers
Ukrainian male triple jumpers
Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola%20Musiyenko |
Leslie Ransselaer Holdridge (September 29, 1907 – June 19, 1999) was an American botanist and climatologist. He was the father of composer Lee Holdridge as well as the father of Leslie A. Holdridge, Lorena Holdridge, Marbella Holdridge, Marly Holdridge, Marisela Holdridge, Thania Holdridge, John Holdridge, Ida Holdridge, Reuseland Holdridge, Leythy J. Holdridge and youngest son Gregory Holdridge whom he fathered with Costa Rican Clara Luz Melendez.
Career
In his famous 1947 paper, he defined "life zones" using three indicators:
Mean annual biotemperature (average temperature, after data values below 0 °C or above 30 °C have been eliminated)
Total annual precipitation
The ratio of mean annual potential evapotranspiration to mean total annual precipitation.
Holdridge participated in the Cinchona Missions, a United States effort to search for natural sources of quinine during World War II.
See also
Climate classification
References
1907 births
1999 deaths
American climatologists
20th-century American botanists
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment alumni
People from Ledyard, Connecticut | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Holdridge |
The Saratoga International Theater Institute (also known as SITI) was an ensemble-based theater company based in New York City and Saratoga Springs, New York. SITI was founded in 1992 by American director Anne Bogart and Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki on the campus of Skidmore College to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI has expanded to encompass a year-round program based in New York City, with a summer season in Saratoga. The company believed that contemporary American theater must incorporate artists from around the world and learn from a cross-cultural exchange of dance, music, art, and performance experiences.
SITI is noted for combining the Viewpoints process of Anne Bogart with the Suzuki Method of Actor Training of Tadashi Suzuki. Both techniques are alternatives to the Stanislavski-based Method training which has dominated American stage and screen for generations. Over their history, the company produced more than forty shows.
In October 2020, SITI announced they would stop producing shows in 2022, although classes would continue. Its final performances were of A Christmas Carol at Bard College.
References
External links
SITI Company
Postmodern theatre
Theatre companies in New York (state)
Defunct Theatre companies in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga%20International%20Theater%20Institute |
Shamil Abbyasov (born 16 April 1957) is a retired athlete, who represented the USSR and later Kyrgyzstan. He specialized in the long jump and triple jump.
Abbyasov won a bronze and a gold medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble. His gold medal was in triple jump with an indoor world record of 17.30, that lasted for three weeks.
Abbyasov is married to Tatyana Kolpakova and has three children. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and has worked in the field after retiring from sports.
External links
1957 births
Living people
Soviet male long jumpers
Soviet male triple jumpers
Kyrgyzstani long jumpers
Kyrgyzstani male triple jumpers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil%20Abbyasov |
Philosophy of the World is the only studio album by the American band the Shaggs, released in 1969.
The Shaggs formed at the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame. Philosophy of the World was recorded in 1969 in Revere, Massachusetts, and released in limited quantities by a local record label. It received no attention and the Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after Austin's death.
The Shaggs had no interest in becoming musicians and never became proficient in songwriting or performing. Philosophy of the World features bizarre songs with badly tuned guitars, erratically shifting time signatures, disconnected drum parts, wandering melodies and rudimentary lyrics about pets and families. It has been described as both among the worst records of all time and a work of "accidental genius".
Over the decades, Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and attracted fans including NRBQ, Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. After it was reissued on Rounder Records in 1980, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice.
Background
The Shaggs were formed in 1965 by the teenage sisters Dorothy ("Dot"), Betty and Helen Wiggin in the small town of Fremont, New Hampshire. They formed at the behest of their father and manager, Austin Wiggin, Jr. When Austin was young, his mother had read his palm and made three predictions: he would marry a strawberry-blonde woman, he would have two sons after she had died, and his daughters would form a popular band. When the first two predictions proved accurate, Austin set about fulfilling the third. Dot later said the sisters thought their father was "nuts", but they did not want to do anything to insult their grandmother in his eyes.
Austin withdrew his daughters from school, bought them instruments and arranged for them to receive music and vocal lessons. He designed their schedule and had them practice as a band for hours every day. The sisters had no interest in becoming musicians and did not enjoy the rehearsals. Dot later said: "[Our father] was stubborn and he could be temperamental. He directed. We obeyed. Or did our best." Austin arranged for the band to perform at the Fremont town hall every weekend for several years.
Recording
In March 1969, Austin took the Shaggs to record at Fleetwood Studios in Revere, Massachusetts. The studio was mainly used to record local rock groups and school marching bands. Austin dismissed the engineer's opinion that the Shaggs were not ready to record, saying: "I want to get them while they're hot."
One producer, Bobby Herne, recalled: "We shut the control room doors and rolled on the floor laughing. Just rolled! It was horrible. They did not know what they were doing, but they thought it was okay. They were just in another world." He said the girls "smelled like cows. Right off the farm. Not a dirty smell — just smelled like cows."
Shortly afterwards, Herne and another Fleetwood employee, Charlie Dreyer, bought the Third World recording studio in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. They were enlisted to remix the Shaggs' recordings, and hired session musicians to rerecord parts. The attempt was abandoned when the musicians were unable to follow the Shaggs' erratic timing.
Release
Austin paid to have Third World press 1000 copies of Philosophy of the World. He wrote the album's liner notes, which said the Shaggs "loved" making music and described them as "real, pure, unaffected by outside influences".
According to many accounts, Dreyer delivered only 100 copies of the album and disappeared with the remaining 900. Dot recalled: "He took my father's money, gave us one box of albums, and ran. My father couldn't get in touch with him. He tried telephone calls, but no one knew where he was." However, according to the music executive Harry Palmer, Dreyer said Austin had refused to distribute the extra copies because he feared someone would copy the Shaggs' music. Dreyer kept boxes of the records in the studio and would give them to anyone who asked. The journalist Irwin Chusid argued that it was unlikely Dreyer had stolen the records, as they were valueless at the time; many copies may have simply been disposed of. Philosophy of the World received no media coverage.
The songs "My Pal Foot Foot" and "Things I Wonder" were released as a 45 rpm single on Fleetwood Records. In 1975, Austin died of a heart attack at the age of 47. The Shaggs disbanded and sold most of their equipment. The Wiggins had never profited from their music and took blue-collar jobs to support their families.
Reissues
In the 1970s, copies of Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and it developed a cult following. In 1980, Terry Adams and Tom Ardolino of the American band NRBQ convinced the Wiggin sisters to reissue Philosophy of the World under their record label, Rounder Records. The sisters were cautious, and asked how much it would cost. Adams told them: "No, we'll be paying you." Adams and Ardolino curated a new release, the 1982 compilation Shaggs' Own Thing, comprising unreleased recordings made between 1969 and 1975. In 1988, Philosophy of the World and Shaggs' Own Thing were remastered and rereleased by Rounder Records as the compilation The Shaggs. In 1999, RCA Victor reissued Philosophy of the World with the original cover and track listing. Despite the increasing interest in outsider music and airplay on college radio stations, the reissue sold poorly.
Reception
"Philosophy of the World is the sickest, most stunningly awful wonderful record I've heard in ages: the perfect mental purgative for doldrums of any kind," wrote Debra Rae Cohen for Rolling Stone in a review of the 1980 reissue. "Like a lobotomized Trapp Family Singers, the Shaggs warble earnest greeting-card lyrics (...) in happy, hapless quasi-unison along ostensible lines of melody while strumming their tinny guitars like someone worrying a zipper. The drummer pounds gamely to the call of a different muse, as if she had to guess which song they were playing — and missed every time." "Without exaggeration," Chris Connelly wrote in a later Rolling Stone article, "it may stand as the worst album ever recorded." An article for The New Yorker describes how one internet reviewer described the album as "hauntingly bad".
Due to its sloppy playing and mostly nonsensical lyrics, the album became a favorite among collectors and has been called "proto-punk" by some critics. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain listed Philosophy of the World as his fifth favorite album of all time.
The album is ranked number 100 in Blender's 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever. In 2010, it was included in NME's "The 100 Greatest Albums You've Never Heard" list. In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked the album at 17 on its list of "40 Greatest One-Album Wonders". In 2018, Paste listed the album in "The 50 Best Garage Rock Albums of All Time" at number 30.
Track listing
All songs written and arranged by Dorothy Wiggin.
Personnel
Dorothy (aka Dot) Wiggin – lead guitar, vocals
Betty Wiggin Porter – rhythm guitar, vocals
Helen Wiggin – drums
Rachel Wiggin – bass guitar on "That Little Sports Car"
Production
Original recordings produced by Austin Wiggin, Jr. (and Charlie Dreyer, uncredited)
Recorded and engineered by Bob Olive and Austin Wiggin, Jr.
References
Bibliography
Chusid, Irwin. Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. (Chicago) A Cappella, 2000. .
External links
Official YouTube playlist
Album retrospective by Alfo Media
1969 debut albums
Red Rooster Records albums
Rounder Records albums
RCA Victor albums
The Shaggs albums
Outsider music albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy%20of%20the%20World |
Kosse refers to:
Kosse, Texas
Kosse (Königsberg) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosse |
Confuzion is a puzzle game developed and published by Incentive Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron. The object is to guide a spark along a fuse wire. It is similar to the 1982 arcade game Loco-Motion. Confuzion was written by Paul Shirley who later wrote Spindizzy.
Zzap!64 magazine considered Confuzion to be the best arcade-puzzle game available at the time for the Commodore 64.
Audio track
The cassette tape on which the game was supplied also contained an audio track also titled "Confusion", which was composed by the band Private Property (Matt Smith Lyrics, Joanne Holt/Steve Salt Music) and performed by Joanne Holt, Matt Smith, Steve Salt, Chris Weller and Gary Seaward. Rob Hubbard translated the original track into the game's soundtrack. Rob Hubbard's version of the music is mentioned in the book Bits and pieces: a history of chiptunes by Kenneth B. McAlpine
The band persuaded Incentive Software to change their audio cassette duplication process from monophonic to stereophonic, so that the music could be better appreciated (mono was fine for the computer program data which was distributed on cassette tapes in the 80s).
Matt Smith, Ph.D. has now switched from playing music on computer games to teaching and writing books about computer games. He is senior lecturer in computing at the TUDublin, Blanchardstown Campus, Dublin, Ireland.
Joanne married Steve, and is a teacher. Steve is a cabinet maker in Oxfordshire.
The graphic design for the cover of the cassette was created by Matthew Tidbury.
References
External links
Commodore 64 Website includes a link to an MP3 file of the Confuzion theme song
1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 64 games
Incentive Software games
Single-player video games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Rob Hubbard
ZX Spectrum games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confuzion |
Things Are Swingin' is an album by singer Peggy Lee with music arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall.
Track listing
"It's a Wonderful World" (Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson) – 2:14
"Things Are Swingin'" (Peggy Lee, Jack Marshall) – 2:12
"Alright, Okay, You Win" (Mayme Watts, Sidney Wyche) – 2:53
"Ridin' High" (Cole Porter) – 2:10
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:19
"Lullaby in Rhythm" (Benny Goodman, Walter Hirsch, Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson) – 2:16
"Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:07
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 1:48
"It's a Good, Good Night" (Lee) – 1:56
"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:42
"You're Mine, You" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 1:48
"Life Is for Livin'" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:13
The 2004 CD re-release includes the non-album single "Fever" and its B-side "You Don't Know" as bonus tracks.
Personnel
Peggy Lee – vocals
Uan Rasey – trumpet
Pete Candoli – trumpet
Don Fagerquist – trumpet
Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
Mannie Klein – trumpet
Milt Bernhart – trombone
Bob Enevoldsen – valve trombone
Justin Gordon – reeds
Joe Harnell – piano
Howard Roberts – guitar
Barney Kessel – guitar
Joe Mondragon – double bass
Shelly Manne – drums
References
1959 albums
Peggy Lee albums
Capitol Records albums
Albums arranged by Jack Marshall (composer)
Albums produced by Milt Gabler
Albums conducted by Jack Marshall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things%20Are%20Swingin%27 |
Timothy C. Evans (born June 1, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, former alderman and the current Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. Evans is noted as the first African-American Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. A graduate of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Evans was first elected to the bench in 1992, and was selected by his fellow judges as Chief Judge in 2001.
Biography
Early life and education
Born the middle of three children in Hot Springs, Arkansas to George and Tiny Marie Evans, his family relocated to Chicago sometime during the great migration. Having attended elementary school in Arkansas, Evans attended Hirsch Metropolitan High School; graduating in 1961. After high school, Evans went on to study at Illinois State University, and later transferred to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a B.S. in zoology. Evans earned his J.D. degree at John Marshall Law School in 1969 and joined the Democratic Party.
Alderman (1973–1991)
Evans was elected alderman of the city's south side 4th Ward in a November 27, 1973 special election to fill the vacancy created six months earlier by the death of Ald. Claude Holman on June 1, 1973. Evans defeated Hattie B. Kay Williams, a 50-year-old executive of the Girl Scouts and civil rights activist by a vote of 6,784 to 3,136.
An ally of mayors Daley, Bilandic, Byrne and Washington, Evans served as floor leader and Chicago City Council Finance Chair during Harold Washington's mayoral administration. Following Washington's death, Evans sought to fill Washington's unexpired term. The Chicago City Council voted to choose Alderman Eugene Sawyer to serve in the interim. Evans continued to serve as alderman. Evans ran as an independent candidate during a special election was held for Mayor of Chicago to fill Washington's term in 1989. Evans received 482,000 votes but eventually lost to Richard M. Daley, son of former multi-term mayor Richard J. Daley. After 18 years in office, in 1991 Evans was defeated for re-election as alderman in the 4th Ward by Toni Preckwinkle.
Cook County Circuit Judge
In 1992, Evans was elected to the bench as judge of Cook County Circuit Court. In September 2001, Evans was elected as the first black Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court succeeding Donald O'Connell.
Personal
Evans has been married to his wife Thelma Evans since November 1969. Evans met his wife during his time at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Together, they have two twin daughters; Cynthia and Catherine Evans (b. 1970 or 1971). Evans was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 2010.
References
1943 births
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
African-American judges
African-American people in Illinois politics
Chicago City Council members
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law alumni
Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Living people
Politicians from Hot Springs, Arkansas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20C.%20Evans |
"Laura" is a song by American pop rock band Scissor Sisters, included as the lead track on their self-titled debut album (2004). The song was released as the band's first single on October 27, 2003, in the United Kingdom, placing at number 54 on the UK Singles Chart. It was later re-issued in June 2004, charting at number 12 on the same chart. In Australia, the song was ranked number 58 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.
Music video
There are two music videos for the song: "Version 1" and "Version 2". Version 1 was directed by Andy Soup and Version 2 was directed by Alex and Liane.
Track listings
Initial UK release
12-inch picture disc and enhanced CD single
"Laura" – 3:35
"Laura" (City Hi-Fi vocal mix) – 4:24
"Available (For You)" – 3:40
"Laura" (video—CD only)
UK re-issue
12-inch single
A1. "Laura" (original mix) – 3:35
A2. "Laura" (acappella) – 3:35
B1. "Laura" (Paper Faces remix) – 7:49
CD single
"Laura" – 3:35
"Laura" (Craig C's Vocal Dub Workout) – 6:09
European and Australian release
Enhanced maxi-CD single
"Laura" – 3:35
"Borrowed Time" – 4:10
"Laura" (Riton Re-Rub) – 6:22
"Laura" (video)
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
Official website
Underground Illusion - The Ultimate Scissor Sisters Database
2003 singles
2003 songs
2004 singles
Polydor Records singles
Scissor Sisters songs
Songs written by Babydaddy
Songs written by Jake Shears
Universal Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20%28Scissor%20Sisters%20song%29 |
Catholic spirituality includes the various ways in which Catholics live out their Baptismal promise through prayer and action. The primary prayer of all Catholics is the Eucharistic liturgy in which they celebrate and share their faith together, in accord with Jesus' instruction: "Do this in memory of me." The Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council decreed that "devotions should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the liturgical seasons, accord with the sacred liturgy, are in some fashion derived from it, and lead the people to it, since, in fact, the liturgy by its very nature far surpasses any of them." In accord with this, many additional forms of prayer have developed over the centuries as means of animating one's personal Christian life, at times in gatherings with others. Each of the religious orders and congregations of the Catholic church, as well as lay groupings, has specifics to its own spirituality – its way of approaching God in prayer to foster its way of living out the Gospel.
Catholic devotional piety
Catholic piety takes its inspiration from the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. Most fundamentally, Jesus prayed to God the Father, in the Holy Spirit, and recommended that we do the same. In the Gospels, his prayer starts with "Father" and the prayer he taught his disciples begins with the words "Our Father". From this the Catholic Church has developed a piety that for the most part mirrors Jesus's attitude. The prayers of the Mass, the public prayer of the Church, are characteristically addressed to God the Father. The Catholic bishops declared in 1963: "Devotions should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the liturgical seasons, accord with the sacred liturgy, are in some fashion derived from it, and lead the people to it, since, in fact, the liturgy by its very nature far surpasses any of them."
In the Catholic Church, the laity are encouraged to pray daily the canonical hours contained in the Liturgy of the Hours, which are done at seven fixed prayer times. Clergy and religious are obligated to pray the Daily Office. Sources commonly used to pray the Liturgy of the Hours include the full four volume set of The Liturgy of the Hours, the one volume Christian Prayer book, and various apps on mobile devices.
Desert spirituality
Desert spirituality is a way of seeking God that is characterized by the "desert theology" of the Old Testament that remains central to the Judeo-Christian tradition, namely God keeping his people wandering for 40 years in the desert and in subsequent centuries calling them into the desert as a testing ground, where they may experience a change of heart and, by proving themselves obedient to his ordering of human living, again accept him their Creator as also their Lord.
In New Testament times it is likewise for the reason of discerning God's will and proving his obedience that Jesus of Nazareth retired to the desert after his vocation call (cf. , , ).
The Christian eremitic vocation has the same purpose, as the name hermit applied to those that embrace it indicates.
Among those most widely known for living a desert spirituality during the early Christian centuries is St Anthony of Egypt (251-356). He lived as a hermit for ten years, practiced asceticism for his whole life, and grew his own food for sustenance.
From the life of someone alone being dedicated to seeking God in the desert, which is the earliest form of Christian monasticism, the monastic life in community has emerged, although the eremitic vocation continues as a distinct way of seeking God even today.
In practical terms this spiritual quest is pursued through prayer in solitude and asceticism.
Some adherents of desert spirituality – whether as eremitic or cenobitic monastics, or as Christian faithful outside the religious life – practise centering prayer. One form of this prayer has one meditate on a single, sacred word to draw the believer closer to God by withdrawing compulsive infatuation with particular sensory objects and conceptual constructions. This practice was prominent in Catholic practice (at least) as early as the 13th century, as evinced by works such as The Cloud of Unknowing – written anonymously in Middle English by a Catholic monastic.
Monastic orders
Benedictine spirituality
Benedictine spirituality is characterized by striving towards Christian perfection in community, liturgical prayer, and separation from worldly concerns. St. Benedict (480-550) is considered to be the Father of Western Monasticism. He wrote The Rule and established his first monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy. Lectio Divina is a Benedictine prayer form based on praying with the Word of God. Lectio Divina has four "moments": Lectio (Reading Scripture), Meditatio (Reflection on the Word), Oratio (Praying), and Contemplatio (Silently listening to God). As practiced today it includes coming together several times daily to sing God's praises, so that gratitude to God might fill all one's work. Key people involved in the 20th and 21st century include Thomas Merton and Basil Pennington.
Franciscan spirituality
Franciscan spirituality is characterized by a life of poverty, love of nature, and charitable deeds towards those in need. St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) was the son of a wealthy merchant. He rejected all of his possessions and founded a community of brothers (friars) who lived in poverty and served the poor. Franciscan prayer recognizes God's presence in the wonder of creation, as expressed in St. Francis' Canticle of the Sun. Franciscan spirituality is focused on walking in Christ's footsteps and sharing one's experience of God.
Dominican spirituality
Dominican spirituality is characterized by poverty, preaching God's Word, and defense of Catholic doctrine. St. Dominic (1170–1221) encountered heretics on a journey in France. His opinion was that the people were not to blame, the preachers were. If there are good, orthodox preachers, then the people will be good and orthodox also. And so he founded the "Order of Preachers" or "Dominicans", who draw their inspiration from contemplating Christ's humanity. One of the ways of praying that goes back to the Dominicans is the Rosary. There is a tradition that states that Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to Dominic in a mystical vision. The Rosary is characteristic of Dominican spirituality because it focuses attention on the principal mysteries of the life of Jesus Christ, can lead to contemplation, and is a way of proclaiming the truths of faith. Some members of the Dominican Order have made significant contributions to Catholic thought as did St. Thomas Aquinas, the most prominent scholar in the Scholastic tradition. He argued that teaching the faith was a superior form of contemplative prayer.
Ignatian spirituality
Ignatian spirituality is characterized by examination of one's life, discerning the will of God, finding God in all things (hence their motto "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam" or "For the Greater Glory of God"), and living the Resurrection. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) was a wounded soldier when he first began to read about Christ and the saints. He had a conversion experience while healing which led over time to his founding the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits. His classic, the Spiritual Exercises, is a guide for making a retreats, for which he is the Church's patron. Jesuits are quite diverse, despite rumors to the contrary, but are united by a zeal that comes from every Jesuit making the Spiritual Exercises. Lay Catholics make a shortened version of the Exercises at retreat houses wherein the director, as did Ignatius, guides each retreatant separately through reflections and "application of the senses" to Jesus' life, for discernment as to what God is asking of them.
Ignatian Spirituality incorporates elements from earlier spiritual traditions: finding God in all things, or being a contemplative in action, has been likened to the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi whom Ignatius admired. Meditation/contemplation on the Gospels has roots in the Benedictine Lectio Divina. However, Ignatian Spirituality is adaptable as is clear from Ignatius' book on the Exercises. For instance, Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991), a prominent Superior General of the Jesuits from 1965 to 1983, was known for incorporating Zen meditative techniques to assist in his concentration. Another example of adaptability is the extent to which the individual exercitant applies imagination, quite presence, or discursive reasoning to the events of Jesus' life, to arrive at closer knowledge and following of the Lord.
Carmelite spirituality
Carmelite spirituality is characterised by interior detachment, silence, solitude, the desire for spiritual progress, and insight into mystical experiences. The roots of the Carmelite Order go back to a group of hermits living on Mt. Carmel in Israel during the 12th Century. Saints John of the Cross (1542–1591) and Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) were Carmelite mystics whose writings are spiritual classics. In Ascent of Mount Carmel John of the Cross teaches that purgation of the soul through mortification and suppression of desires is necessary for the transition through darkness to divine union with God. Teresa of Avila emphasized the importance of mental prayer which she defined as "spending time with a friend whom we know loves us."
Other important figures in Carmelite Spirituality include Thérèse of Lisieux (Doctor of the Church), Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Sister Lúcia of Fátima, Nuno of Saint Mary, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Marie-Antoinette de Geuser known as "Consumata", Edith Stein, Teresa of Los Andes, Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, Joaquina de Vedruna, Angelus of Jerusalem, and Brother Lawrence.
Redemptorist spirituality
Redemptorist spirituality consists of the Crib, the Cross, and the Sacrament. In other words, the Redemptorists follow Christ in his incarnation, death, and resurrection and believe that he is always with them. They emphasize the encounter with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, and have their founder's popular version of the Way of the Cross and the Christmas carols which he composed. With a practical focus, Redemptorist spirituality would render help to the those in dire spiritual or material need, based on Jesus' invitation to follow him. One of the most tangible ways they do this is to proclaim the Gospel in simple ways to ordinary people, taking as their motto Jesus' words when he quoted Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…. to preach Good News to the poor,… liberty to captives,… sight to the blind,… to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour (Luke 4:18-19).
Servite spirituality
The spirituality of the Servite order is focused on contemplating Mary at the foot of the cross as a model for Christian life and service to the suffering. Moreover, because the order has Seven Holy Founders rather than one individual founder, there is a particular emphasis on the communal aspect of Christian life. This spirituality finds expression particularly in the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows.
Montfortian spirituality
God Alone was the motto of Saint Louis de Montfort and is repeated over 150 times in his writings. God Alone is also the title of his collected writings. Briefly speaking, based on his writings, Montfortian spirituality can be summed up by the formula: "To God Alone, by Christ Wisdom, in the Spirit, in communion with Mary, for the reign of God." Although St Louis is perhaps best known for his Mariology and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, his spirituality is founded on the mystery of the Incarnation and is centered on Christ, as is clear in his famous Prayer to Jesus.
Post-Vatican II lay movements
See also Laity in the Catholic Church
The Second Vatican Council popularized spiritual movements among Catholics, and some lay Catholics now engage in regular contemplative practices such as the Rosary or Lectio Divina. Consistent with Vatican II, contemporary spiritual movements usually emphasize the necessity both of an interior relationship with God (private prayer) and works of justice and charity. Major 20th century writers who sought to draw together the contemplative and active poles of Christian spirituality have been Dorothy Day and Richard Rohr.
The purpose of all lay movements in the Catholic Church is to spread in society a deep awareness that every person is called by Baptism to live be a holy life and each in his own way to become an ambassador of Christ, For the majority of Christians, God calls them to sanctify through their ordinary lives by an ever-growing charity in the way they think, speak, and act, beginning at home, the domestic church, but extending to the local Christian community, the workplace, and to all peoples, all God's children.
Christian Life Community
The Christian Life Community (CLC) is an international association of lay Christians who have adopted an Ignatian model of spiritual life. The 'Community' is present in almost sixty countries. The CLC traces its foundation to 1563, when the Jesuit John Leunis gathered a group of lay students at the Roman College to form the Sodality of Our Lady. The Sodality grew and was confirmed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584. When the Second Vatican Council urged groups like the Sodality to rediscover their original roots, some sodalities continued as before, while others became Christian Life Communities. The main difference is in the size (6 to 12) and the regularity of meeting (weekly or biweekly).
The CLC draws its inspiration from the teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and receives spiritual guidance from the Jesuits. The experience of making the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius is of paramount importance to the members of the CLC. Members are encouraged to adhere to a lifestyle which is gospel-based and simple, to serve the poor and to integrate contemplation and action. As Ignatian spirituality has an essential apostolic dimension, members of the CLC do reflect also on how to bring Gospel values into all aspects of life in today's world.
Charismatic spirituality
Charismatic spirituality reflects a belief that the spiritual gifts present in the early Christian communities are still available to the Church today. More active sharing of spiritual experiences in community characterizes this spirituality.
Schoenstatt Movement
Schoenstatt emphasizes a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, upholding her as a perfect example of love and purity. Schoenstatt seeks to invite the Blessed Mother (and hence her divine Son, Jesus Christ) into the home by establishing a spiritual Covenant of Love with her. It encourages its members to have the faith and purity of children, and to think of Mary as their mother.
Focolare Movement
In 1943 in northern Italy during World War II, Chiara Lubich, together with a small group of friends, concluded that God is the only ideal worth living for. The Focolare movement was founded as a result. The goal was to strive towards the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer to the Father: “That they all may be one” (John 17:21). A spirituality of unity resulted and gave rise to a movement of spiritual and social renewal. Now embracing over 5 million members in 182 countries, Focolare (which means hearth) draws together groups of families, neighbors, and friends to build community and to extend the works of the Gospel.
Sant'Egidio Movement
The Sant'Egidio community began with a group of high school students in the 1960s who were convinced by a local priest in Rome to try an experiment: live for a time as the early Christian disciples did, gathering for prayer and shared meals daily in their neighborhood as well as joining in the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The community thrived and has now become a global movement of communities working for peace and justice, strengthened by daily life in common and prayer.
Opus Dei spirituality
Opus Dei predated the Second Vatican Council in its emphasis on the laity. Founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei's spirituality is based on life in the secular world. The "sanctification of work" consists in offering all work, however ordinary, to God. This implies that one always does one's best. To be a contemplative is to integrate one's life ("unity of life") in faithfulness to the Catholic Church and in solidarity with all those with whom one comes into contact, living a life of faith in all circumstances of each day. As John Allen says: people who follow this spirituality enter a church and leave it for the same reason – to get closer to God. The members of Opus Dei and its cooperators have committed to convert their daily work into prayer. Pope John Paul I, a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical than other saints who taught about the universal call to holiness. While others emphasized monastic spirituality applied to lay people, for Escrivá "it is the material work itself which must be turned into prayer and sanctity," thus providing a comprehensive lay spirituality. Expressed this way, Opus Dei builds on "finding God in all things" from Ignatian spirituality and emphasizes the universality of this path to holiness.
Regnum Christi spirituality
Regnum Christi focuses on the mission of every baptized person to evangelize. Each member is called to pray, meet in community, and do some form of apostolate (which varies from member to member). Their motto is "Love Christ, Serve People, Build the Church." They express their ethos as loving Christ, Mary, Souls, the Church, and the Pope. Regnum Christi is somewhat unusual among the lay movements as it is bound to a religious community, the Legion of Christ.
See also
Christian mysticism
French school of spirituality
Movement of the Word of God
Lay spirituality
Communion and Liberation
Emmanuel Community
Neocatechumenal Way
Regnum Christi
Christian Life Community
References
External links
The Mysticism of Catherine of Siena
Spirituality
Women's congregations following Ignatian spirituality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20spirituality |
Automatic layout is an option in graph drawing toolkits that allow to lay out the Graph according to specific rules, such as:
reducing the length of the arcs between the Graph vertices
reduce the number of edges crossing (to improve the graph readability)
See also
Methods in graph drawing
Graph drawing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20layout |
Radomir Kovačević (20 March 1954 in Drvar — 14 June 2006 in Belgrade) was a Serbian and Yugoslav Olympic judoka and coach. He participated in three Olympic Games (Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984) and was an Olympic medalist. He was well known in judo circles and was close friends with world-famous Japanese judo champion Yasuhiro Yamashita. He was a member of the NYC 2012 Olympic Bid Committee.
Biography
Radomir Kovačević was born in Drvar, Bosnia on 20 March 1954. His father was a World War II veteran. Kovačević grew up in and began practicing sports in Drvar. He started Track and Field in 1967, at the age of thirteen. By age fifteen he tried basketball, but said "I was very angry because regardless of how good I was, my opponent always scored."
The very next year Kovačević became a wrestler in the Greco-Roman style in which one is only allowed to use the upper half of his body. In one year, he became champion of Yugoslavia, which was quite an accomplishment, considering that Yugoslavia was a world powerhouse in wrestling, at the time.
In the summer of 1971, after wrestling practice, Kovačević had decided to change sports yet again, when he saw small Japanese man "throwing people like paper airplanes", as he put it, at a local Judo club. The same day he resigned from his wrestling club and joined the judo club. After training for six months at that club he managed to throw the Japanese on one knee. On the spot, the Japanese offered to send him to Japan to study judo.
Two days later, he was flown off to Japan, where he enrolled in Tokai University and continued to practice Judo. He competed for the college and on his fourth year became captain of the judo team. He was one of the few foreigners to become captain of a Japanese judo team. During his time in Japan he also gained interest in Eastern religion and philosophy.
In 1980, he became a bronze-medalist at the Moscow Olympics. He was a coach at The Dwight School in Manhattan and trained many champions in various sports including wrestling, tennis, basketball, and sailing, among others.
Starting in the late 1990s, Kovačević held a three-to-four-hour-long Judo class on Saturdays at the Spartak Judo Club, in Forest Hills. Despite the fact that the classes were usually between three and seven people full they were effective in building and attracting champion judo players.
Death
On 15 June 2006, after eighteen months of fighting cancer, Kovačević died in Belgrade. He was cremated and his ashes were divided into two urns. One stayed in Belgrade while the other one was taken to Tōkai University in Tokyo.
References
External links
1954 births
2006 deaths
Tokai University alumni
Yugoslav male judoka
Serbian male judoka
Judoka trainers
Olympic judoka for Yugoslavia
Olympic medalists in judo
Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
Judoka at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Deaths from cancer in Serbia
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Sportspeople from Canton 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radomir%20Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87 |
Indian Neck Hall was a country residence of Frederick Gilbert Bourne, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Located on the Great South Bay in Oakdale, New York, it was reputed to have been the largest estate on Long Island when it was built in 1897.
The Georgian-style home was designed by a noted architect, Ernest Flagg. In 1926, the property was sold and became La Salle Military Academy. St. John's University acquired the property in 2001 and offers a number of its graduate degree programs from the Oakdale campus.
See also
List of Gilded Age mansions
References
Malo, Paul. Fools' Paradise: Remembering the Thousand Islands (Fulton, NY: Laurentian Press, 2003)
Islip (town), New York
Houses in Suffolk County, New York
Houses completed in 1897
1897 establishments in New York (state)
Georgian architecture in New York (state)
Gilded Age mansions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Neck%20Hall |
Petr Sýkora (born December 21, 1978) is a Czech former ice hockey player. He played 12 games in the National Hockey League with the Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals between 1999 and 2005. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2020, was mainly spent in the Czech Extraliga. Internationally he played for the Czech national team at the 2007 World Championships. He is the younger brother of former NHL defenceman Michal Sýkora.
Playing career
Sýkora was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft in the 3rd round, 76th overall. On July 14, 1998, the Red Wings traded him (along with future considerations and a third-round pick in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft) to the Nashville Predators for Doug Brown. Sýkora suited up for two games for the Predators in the 1998–99 season and did not play in the NHL again until the 2005–06 NHL season. That season, he played ten games for the Washington Capitals, ultimately leaving the United States after finding the cultural transition difficult.
In his time away from the NHL, Sýkora played for HC Pardubice in the Czech Extraliga and HC Davos of the Swiss Nationalliga A.
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HC Dynamo Pardubice players
Milwaukee Admirals (IHL) players
Nashville Predators players
Ice hockey people from Pardubice
Washington Capitals players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20S%C3%BDkora%20%28ice%20hockey%2C%20born%201978%29 |
In Inca mythology, one of the main Inca creation myths was that of the Ayar Brothers who emerged from a cave called Paqariq Tampu (also spelled Paqariqtampu) (Quechua paqariy to dawn / to be born, -q a suffix, tampu inn, lodge, hispanicized and mixed spellings Pacaritambo, Paccarectambo, Paccarec Tambo, Paccarictambo, Paccaric Tambo, Paqariq Tambo, Paccaritambo).
This "house of production" was located on the hill called Tampu T'uqu (Quechua t'uqu a niche, hole or gap in the wall, today also the modern word for window, hispanicized Tambotoco, Tamputoco). It had three windows. According to the myth, the tribe of Maras emerged from one of the niches, called Maras T'uqu (Maras tocco) by spontaneous generation. The tribe of Tampus emerged from the sut'i t'uqu window. Manco Capac, his three Ayar brothers, and his four Mama sisters, emerged from the chief window in the middle, the qhapaq t'uqu.
Another theory, tending to dwell on the mysticism of South American Indians is that Paqariq Tampu is a quasi-mythical place believed by these historians to have been flooded by Lake Titicaca. Chronicles like the one of Guaman Poma (Quechua for hawk puma) mention Paqariq Tampu: "They say they came from Titicaca lake and from Tiahuanaco and they entered Tambo Toco and from there eight Inca brothers and sisters came out... Those eight brothers and sisters came out of Pacari Tanbo and they went to their idol huaca of Uana Cauri, coming from Collau towards the city of Cuzco". Theories base themselves mainly on tales of the Chasa, another race or tribe thought by most to be as mythical, proclaim the name to actually come from the chasa word Pàchacambo (meaning birthing place of the gods Chaca, who they believed themselves to be.)
Pachacuti visited the site and "venerated the locality and showed his feeling by festivals and sacrifices. He placed doors of gold on the window qhapaq tu'uqu, and ordered that from that time forward the locality should be venerated by all, making it a prayer place and wak'a, whither to go to pray for oracles and to sacrifice."
References
G. Urton, The History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas (Univ. of Texas Press, 1990)
Inca mythology
Cusco Region
Indigenous American philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paqariq%20Tampu |
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is a large amphitheatre located in Saratoga Springs, New York, on the grounds of Saratoga Spa State Park. It presents summer performances of classical music, jazz, pop and rock, country, comedy, and dance. It opened on July 9, 1966, with a presentation of George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream by the New York City Ballet.
The Center is the official summer home of the New York City Ballet, which is in residence for one week in July, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is in residence for three weeks in August.
SPAC also serves as the common venue for high school graduations, particularly for Saratoga Springs, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake, Shenendehowa, and Ballston Spa High Schools. Skidmore College commencement exercises also take place at the venue.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Inc. is a non-profit charitable corporation that runs the arts center. It holds a 50-year renewable lease with the State of New York, which owns the land, theaters and buildings that comprise the center. SPAC subcontracts with Live Nation, which organizes and presents the popular music and rock concerts every summer. The income derived from the Live Nation contract goes towards supporting the classical arts presentations.
History
In early February 1961, Albany newspaperman Duane La Fleche noted a wire service report about a group hoping to entice the New York Philharmonic to make Stowe, Vermont its summer residence. La Fleche proposed that the group stay in New York State and perform in Saratoga Springs. Local civic, cultural, and legislative leaders, who had previously considered a Saratoga Arts Center an interesting possibility, began to design the facility. Within a week, they held their first meeting; within a month they were focusing on Saratoga Spa State Park as the site, had won the support of State Conservation Commissioner Harold Wilm, and began discussions with both the New York Philharmonic and New York City Ballet.
By summer 1963, contributions from Rockefeller Brothers Fund and New York State supplemented community support to create Saratoga Performing Arts Center. In June 1964, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller mounted a bulldozer to break the first yard of ground. More than 410 workdays followed: 300 workers clocked 136,000 hours to complete the 5,103-seat, 10-story amphitheater (original layout of the venue did not include a festival lawn; the lawn, which holds 20,000, was added later).
Harry Belafonte was the first non-classical performer to perform at SPAC, in 1967. Then on September 1, 1968 the Doors gave a performance at SPAC, which began a tradition of bringing top pop and rock acts to the amphitheater including Jackson Browne (who recorded "Rosie" backstage in 1977), Whitney Houston (who filmed her televised MTV VMA performance of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", as well as the official music video for "Didn't We Almost Have It All" on stage in 1987). Other notable pop-rock acts that have performed at SPAC include Phish, Pretenders, Santana, Olivia Newton-John,Tina Turner, Guns N' Roses, Coldplay, Aretha Franklin, O.A.R., Rush, Demi Lovato, KISS, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Aerosmith, Toby Keith, Train, Maroon 5, Britney Spears, Ray LaMontagne, Prince, Missy Elliott, Pearl Jam, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Nicki Minaj, Sheryl Crow, 50 Cent, Paul Simon, Selena Gomez, Tom Petty, Drake, the Cars, Snoop Dogg, the B-52's, Def Leppard, the Black Eyed Peas, Ray Charles, Dire Straits, Christina Aguilera, the Beach Boys, 5 Seconds of Summer, Foreigner, Heart, Alter Bridge, Imagine Dragons, Breaking Benjamin, Saint Asonia, Disturbed, Slipknot, Gojira, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Journey, Wiz Khalifa, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Steve Winwood and the Grateful Dead (1983 being considered one of their classics).
Farm Aid was held here in 2013. Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson headlined.
Past presidents of SPAC include Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller and Lillian Bostwick Phipps. Currently, the President of the non-profit corporation also acts as the executive director.
Present-day performances
SPAC has been the summer home for the New York City Ballet and The Philadelphia Orchestra for several decades. Well-known classical music soloists, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Yuja Wang, and Sarah Chang, annually perform major concerts at this venue.
The Philadelphia Orchestra's most well-attended performance is its annual Festive Fireworks performance, which includes the 1812 Overture and one or two well-known works.
A feature of each summer is the Jazz Festival, which presents major and emerging jazz artists on two stages.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents programs in the Spa Little Theatre.
SPAC is also a venue for non-classical concerts, which are booked exclusively by Live Nation, a leading concert promotion company in America. Acts such as Cardi B, Imagine Dragons and Legend Jennifer Lopez have performed at the Center.
Popular rock band Phish has played the venue 20 times beginning in 1992. The band has played at SPAC multiple times since its 2009 return including three-night runs in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016.
Sting performed during his Symphonicities Tour on July 31, 2010, along with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dave Matthews Band has played at the venue a total of 44 times. They recorded the live album Live Trax 11 in 2000 and Live Trax 38 from June 8,1996. The band has sold out more concerts than any other artist at the venue, with eleven.
For at least two decades, SPAC has hosted the School of Orchestral Studies (SOS) for the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) program. Approximately 115 high school-age students of NYSSSA's SOS attend concert performances during the summer as part of an intensive study of music performance, study with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and give a culminating performance in the amphitheater.
SPAC is headed by Elizabeth Sobol. Over 200 seasonal employees keep the venue running through the summer season.
SPAC's largest attended performance in its history was by The Grateful Dead in 1985, where a total of 40,231 fans showed up to see the band. Since the show, SPAC limits its capacity to 25,103.
See also
List of contemporary amphitheaters
Live Nation
References
External links
Venue seating charts
Amphitheaters in the United States
Theatres in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Saratoga Springs, New York
Performing arts centers in New York (state)
Tourist attractions in Saratoga Springs, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga%20Performing%20Arts%20Center |
Plum Island is a 1997 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. This is the first novel to feature recurring character, detective John Corey. Plum Island is followed by the 2000 novel, The Lion's Game.
Plot
In 1997, NYPD detective John Corey is on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront home on the North Fork of Long Island recovering from three gunshot wounds while working in his town of Manhattan, NY. He enjoys the fact that the tourist season is just about over so that it's just him and the locals. He listens to music while sitting in a chair and using binoculars to spy on people in a distant boat who are enjoying themselves. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, comes to the back porch and asks Corey to act as consultant in a local murder investigation, as Corey is personally acquainted with the two victims, Tom and Judy Gordon, both employees on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a facility suspected of carrying out biological warfare research. They go to the house the victims owned, a waterfront property that appears to have been robbed or searched, and where the two victims have been shot in the head on their own dock. Corey concludes that the victims were near their killer because it is hard to hit a person in the head with one shot at such a range. They cannot find the bullet shells, but by the direction of the wounds conclude that the bullets are in the bay. Max is unhappy because although he's not a homicide detective, his expectations of Corey's findings were high. Beth Penrose, the Suffolk County police detective, arrives. Corey instantly figures out she's in charge of the case without her stating it. She yells at him a bit for being on the crime scene because he appears to be a civilian. He ignores Beth and searches the speed boat that the Gordons temporary docked. When he gets out of the boat she pulls his own gun on him and makes him state who he is. Just before he goes, he asks if they found the chest in the boat that the Gordons used as a trunk while boating; they reply that it's missing.
Corey goes to the local bar and orders junk food. He is watching the game as Beth comes in. She invites him to come back to the Gordon house with her to see the government agents involved.
They return to the crime scene and go into the kitchen, where they meet George Foster, an FBI agent, and Ted Nash, who claims to represent the Department of Agriculture but whom Corey immediately recognises as a CIA agent due to being at a crime scene at the late hour. They discuss theories of the deaths, such as the Gordons trading the deadly diseases to which they have access for money and using the boat chest as a container for the items. The TV shows news coverage of the murder and exaggerates the importance of the Gordons' work. Corey silently dislikes how the reporter exaggerates it because there is no public evidence of the work connecting them to biological warfare or theft. Corey is jealous of Beth liking Ted Nash. The two clash over who is the alpha male of the room. Beth, Corey, and Max are able to make Ted cave in to letting them go on Plum Island the next day. Corey then goes through the Gordons' book shelves and pulls out a map of the local boating water. He notices a mysterious code written on one of the pages. The next day he arrives early at the ferry station and sees George and Ted with the security director and other people in suits coming off the ferry, confirming his thoughts of a cover up. They do not see him and he gets on the ferry to Plum Island with the rest of the group from the previous night with Paul Stevens, the security director, who pretends he doesn't know Foster or Nash. They are brought to the island and given a bus tour. The group then walk through the long hallways with the head of the research center who has some humor, but seems to be scripted. The group meets a few scientists who are friends of Tom and Judy who were directing a project. The scientists also act like they are on a script and give cover up theories that suggest that the Gordons were underpaid government workers who stole a vaccine so they could "discover" it elsewhere and become rich and famous.
Ultimately, the killer is proven to be Frederick Tobin, owner of a local winery, whose motive was financial.
External links
1998 American novels
Novels by Nelson DeMille
Novels set in Long Island
Plum Island (New York)
Warner Books books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%20Island%20%28novel%29 |
Terry Kenneth Carkner (born March 7, 1966) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings and Florida Panthers. He was selected fourteenth overall in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. Carkner was born in Smith Falls, Ontario, but grew up in Winchester, Ontario. Carkner was a fearless, tough defensive defenseman. He got over 100 penalty minutes 8 times in his NHL career.
Carkner was the head coach of the club ice hockey team for Villanova University, the Icecats, for the 2004–05 season. The Villanova team is a member of the ACHA (American Collegiate Hockey Association) Division 1 and the ECHA (Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association). He is currently (09–10) an assistant coach for the Great Valley Ice Hockey Varsity Team.
Carkner is an honorary member of the Nordmont (Pennsylvania) Sport & Social Club.
Playing career
Carkner played major-junior for the Peterborough Petes, an Ontario Hockey League team based in Peterborough, Ontario. He played 184 games for that club, amassing 130 points (0.71 points per game) and 322 penalty minutes. He would also play for team Canada in the 1986 World Junior Hockey Championships, where he won a silver medal.
In the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, Carkner was chosen 14th overall by the New York Rangers. In that draft, the NHL Central Scouting bureau ranked him as the 17th best prospect, while the Hockey News ranked him 11th.
He would play one season with the Rangers, sharing time between them and the New Haven Nighthawks, their AHL affiliate. Before the start of the 1987–88 season, he was traded to the Quebec Nordiques with Jeff Jackson for John Ogrodnick and David Shaw.
Carkner would play the entire 1987–88 season for Quebec, getting 27 points and 159 penalty minutes in 63 games. Once again, before the start of the next season, he was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for Greg Smyth and a draft pick.
With the Flyers, Carkner would play 5 seasons, getting 376 games, 132 points (0.35 points per game), and 867 penalty minutes. In 1989, the Flyers named him an alternate captain. He was later traded to the Detroit Red Wings for Yves Racine and a draft pick. After playing two years in Detroit, he signed as a free agent for the Florida Panthers on a two-year, 1.2 million dollar deal. He would finish his NHL career in Florida after four seasons with the Panthers.
In total, Carkner played 858 games in the NHL, amassing 230 points (0,27 points per game) and 1588 penalty minutes.
Personal
Carkner's father, Robert Carkner, was a major junior hockey player in his youth. He is a third cousin of former NHL defenceman Matt Carkner. He is also active with the hockey club ShinnyUSA.(Rink 4)
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Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Detroit Red Wings players
Florida Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New Haven Nighthawks players
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
People from Smiths Falls
Sportspeople from Lanark County
People from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
Peterborough Petes (ice hockey) players
Philadelphia Flyers players
Quebec Nordiques players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Carkner |
Rositsa Stamenova (, born 6 March 1955) is a retired sprinter from Bulgaria. She won two medals at the European Indoor Championships. Her personal best time was 50.82 seconds, achieved in August 1984 in Prague. She also competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Achievements
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
Bulgarian female sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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Olympic female sprinters
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20th-century Bulgarian people
21st-century Bulgarian women
21st-century Bulgarian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rositsa%20Stamenova |
Ahmad Batebi (; born July 25, 1977) is an Iranian activist who was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. During his studies at the University of Tehran he gained international fame for his appearance on the July 17, 1999, cover of The Economist magazine, holding up a shirt splattered with the blood of a fellow protester.
The photo, which has been called "an icon for Iran's student reform movement", was taken during the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999 in Tehran. Following its publishing, Batebi was arrested, tried in closed-door proceedings, found guilty of "creating street unrest", and sentenced to death.
This was reduced to 15 years after domestic and international outcry. Less well-known are persistent reports of torture and ill-treatment of Batebi in prison and his resulting poor physical and mental health. While temporarily released from prison to receive medical attention, Batebi was assisted by the KDPI, to flee Iran for Iraq. He finally entered the United States on June 24, 2008, on humanitarian parole. He was then granted asylum status by the United States government.
The protest
The student protests of 1999 began on July 7 with peaceful demonstrations in Tehran against the closure of the reformist newspaper, Salam. This was followed by an attack on a student dormitory that night by vigilantes and riot police in which a student was killed. This sparked six days of demonstrations and rioting in which at least three more people were killed and more than 200 injured.
A photojournalist for Jame'e newspaper, Jamshid Bayrami, took the Economist cover photo then. In the photograph, Batebi waves a bloody T-shirt above his head.
The shirt belonged to the student standing next to Batebi, who had been shot. "The bullet hit the wall and ricocheted back into my friend's shoulder. I heard the bullet go by my face," Batebi recalled. "It sounded like a bumblebee going by my ear."
To staunch the bleeding, Batebi removed his friend's shirt to put pressure on the wound. He then helped transport his friend to a medical facility. Returning to the protest with the bloody shirt, he displayed it to the protesters to warn them of the shooting.
Trial and prison life
Batebi was initially arrested in connection with the protests several days after the publication of the Economist photograph. He was held without charges for about seven months when he was brought to trial. At the trial, the judge showed Batebi the Economist photograph. It was the first time he had seen it.
"With this picture, you have signed your death sentence," Batebi recalls the judge told him. Batebi describes the trial as follows:
"[The judge] said, 'You have defaced the face of the Islamic Republic that represents God on earth. You have defaced it around the world. And therefore, you have to be sentenced to death.' It took less than three minutes."
He and many other protesters were brutally tortured. In prison, Batebi wrote of beatings by guards:
I resisted and punched one of them in the face. At this point, they took me and ducked my head into a closed drain full of excrement. They held me under for so long I could not hold my breath any longer, and excrement was inhaled through my nose and seeped into my mouth.During the interrogations, they threatened several times to execute me and to torture and rape my family members as well as imprison them for long terms.
He was one of four people who received a death sentence in a closed-door trial by a Revolutionary Court on charges relating to "creating street unrest" and "agitating people to create unrest," and "endangering national security" following the demonstrations. Batebi, in an open letter addressed to the judiciary, wrote that he had been beaten in his "testicles, legs, and abdominal area. When I protested, they answered that this is the land of the Velayat and that I should be blinded and not live here."
Following an outcry from Iranians and international human rights groups, his death sentence was commuted to a 15-year prison term by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Upon appeal in early 2000, the sentence was further reduced to 10 years.
Around March 2005, Batebi was temporarily released from Evin Prison to get married. He failed to report back to prison. On June 23, 2005, a newspaper interview reported him "currently on the run, avoiding the authorities in Iran". Batebi was re-arrested on July 27, 2006, and re-imprisoned. He continued to serve his sentence. However, his family was not told where he was detained until August 12, 2006, when he was permitted to telephone his wife.
He was held in Section 209 of Evin Prison, which is run by the Ministry of Intelligence.
During a hunger strike in August 2006, "his doctor wrote an open letter to the prison authorities" stating that Batebi "required specialist care", and that "there was a risk he could die if he was not released." Also adding to the fears for his life was the fate of another July 1999 protester, Akbar Mohammadi, who died in custody under suspicious circumstances in July 2006.
By September 20, 2006, his relatives were permitted to visit him in prison thrice. During their first two visits, Batebi's family was accompanied by four prison guards, although their third visit, on September 18, was reportedly less heavily supervised. Batebi was not permitted to see his lawyer.
Amnesty International reported that Batebi's physical and mental health was deteriorating further.
"He suffers from a number of medical problems due to being tortured and ill-treated during his previous detention, including stomach and kidney problems. He has lost some of his teeth, permanent hearing problems, and poor vision."
Despite the seriousness of his medical condition, prison authorities are allegedly not permitting Ahmad Batebi to receive any medical treatment beyond a few painkillers. According to a press report, Dr Hesam Firouzi, Ahmad Batebi's doctor, wrote to the authorities on 6 August stating that his patient was at risk of paralysis or heart attack, and needed to receive specialist treatment outside prison.
Psychological abuse is reported to include denying Batebi "the opportunity to see daylight", forcing him "to wear a blindfold during exercise sessions in the prison yard."
In February 2007, Batebi was reported to have suffered two brain strokes over a few days, having several seizures on February 16, spending "three hours in a coma" and suffering another two days later after being released from the hospital. He was returned to the prison following his second stroke over the reported objections of hospital doctors who are said to have told prison officials that he requires follow-up care in a hospital. Following the strokes, Batebi reportedly told his father in a telephone call on February 22 that the prison authorities do not care about him and that if he dies, his father should "hold a celebration of my life, rather than a funeral".
Somaye Bayanat, Batebi's wife, was detained at her house outside Tehran on February 21, 2007. "Her whereabouts are not known to Amnesty International. Amnesty International fears she may risk intimidation, harassment or ill-treatment because of her connection to Ahmad Batebi."
Escape
While being temporarily released from Evin Prison to receive medical attention, Batebi fled the country into Iraq. Batebi's escape from Iran and eventual transfer to the United States began when he contacted internationally recognized immigration and human rights, lawyer and activist Lily Mazahery, on March 13, 2008, on the then-existing Yahoo 360 social media site. He was further assisted by the KDPI and the Kurdish underground network who moved him to the northwestern border with Iraq and then to Arbil.
Batebi's lawyer, Lily Mazahery, reported his critical situation in Arbil to the United States government, which provided Humanitarian Parole for his entrance to the U.S. Although Sweden had granted him asylum through UNHCR, after consulting his friends and lawyer in the U.S., Batebi preferred to reside there. On June 23, 2008, Batebi left Iraq for the United States. After a short airport transit through Austria, he arrived in Washington Dulles International Airport on June 24, 2008, where officials escorted him from the National Security Council from his plane to the international section of the airport, where the White House officials transferred his custody to his then-lawyer, Lily Mazahery.
Aftermath
Following his escape to the U.S., Batebi appeared in an interview with Voice of America (VOA) Persian TV in which he explained the story of his escape. He announced that he intended to represent Iran's human rights activists in the U.S. Some also criticized him for his frequent presence on VOA programs. Batebi was eventually hired by Voice of America Persian TV.
See also
Human rights in Iran
Iranian reform movement
References and notes
Specific references:
General references:
Amnesty International Urgent Action to get Batebi Medical Treatment, Wife Detained
Amnesty International: Iran: Further information on fear for safety/ medical concern/ incommunicado detention: Ahmad Batebi (m)
Amnesty International: "Five Years of injustice and ill treatment: Akbar Mohammadi - case sheet", July 7, 2004. Accessed May 4, 2007.
Ahmad Batebi Profile The Alliance for Essential Liberties in the Middle East's profile of Ahmad Batebi Dead link
External links
Ahmad Batebi's official website
Ahmad Batebi's 360 Blog from Yahoo!
1977 births
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Iran
Escapees from Iranian detention
Iranian democracy activists
Iranian dissidents
Iranian bloggers
Iranian escapees
Iranian prisoners and detainees
Living people
People from Shiraz
Iranian journalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Batebi |
Erewhon is David Thomas and Two Pale Boys' debut album, as well as Thomas' first record outside the Pere Ubu banner since that group's reformation in 1987. The Two Pale Boys are a duo consisting of Keith Moliné on guitar and Andy Diagram on trumpet and other instruments.
Critical reception
The Chicago Reader wrote that the trio "create a sparser and more spontaneous format that allows Thomas to do his thing; their improvised accompaniment encompasses elements of techno, garage rock, and sea chanteys." The Los Angeles Times deemed the album "a veritable cacophony" and "heartily irritating." The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded that it "sounds pretty much like vintage Ubu without a rhythm section."
Track listing
All tracks composed by David Thomas, Keith Moliné and Andy Diagram; except where indicated
"Obsession" (David Thomas, Keith Moliné) – 4:33
"Planet of Fools" (David Thomas, Keith Moliné) – 2:58
"Nowheresville" – 3:47
"Fire" (Pere Ubu) – 6:01
"Lantern" – 3:21
"Morbid Sky" – 5:44
"Weird Cornfields" – 3:52
"Kathleen" (Pere Ubu) – 8:30
"Highway 61 Revisited" (David Thomas, Keith Moliné) – 11:15
Personnel
David Thomas and Two Pale Boys
David Thomas
Keith Moliné
Andy Diagram
References
David Thomas (musician) albums
1996 albums
Tim/Kerr Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon%20%28album%29 |
Alexander Appolonovich Manuilov (; April 3, 1861 in Odessa – July 20, 1929 in Moscow) was a Russian economist and politician. He was one of the founding members of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets) and was the Rector of Moscow State University between 1908 and 1911.
He was the Minister of Education in the first Provisional Government and from 1924 was in the central administration of Gosbank, the Soviet state bank.
Sources
Izvestia Article & Notes
Photograph & Notes (in Russian)
1861 births
1929 deaths
Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government
Economists from Moscow
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Rectors of Moscow State University
Economists from the Russian Empire
Soviet economists
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members
People from Odesa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Manuilov |
Godlove Stein Orth (April 22, 1817 – December 16, 1882) was a United States representative from Indiana and an acting Lieutenant Governor of Indiana.
Biography
Of German ancestry, he was born near Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, on April 22, 1817. He attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg for about one year and then studied law with the office of James Cooper. He entered the bar in 1839.
His political career started with public speeches in 1840 supporting William Henry Harrison for president. He started as a Whig but as that party collapsed, he looked elsewhere. For a time he was the Indiana leader of the Know-Nothings (called the American Party) and later aligned himself with the Republican Party.
He served in the Indiana Senate from 1843 to 1849, as acting-Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1845, and U.S. House representative from Indiana in 1863-1871, 1873-1875, and 1879-1882.
"Godlove S. Orth is a fat, fluffy, pudgy-cheeked, good-humored old boy, with a volubility co-equal with the necessities of a politician, and a smile that is broad, bewitching, childlike, and bland," the Chicago Times reported in 1876. "He has a good head, well stocked with information and experience, and is no fool." He was, in fact, a politician skilled at political survival, and had to be: as was so often the case with congressmen, local jealousies kept even the most able members from serving more than one or two terms, before some other county in the district demanded the nomination in recognition. Those jealousies and factional feuds nearly prevented his re-election in 1866, and in 1868 he had to fend off a serious challenge from General Lew Wallace. Survival therefore took assiduous cultivation of his constituents. In his district, as he informed another Republican, he kept a list of the top hundred party leaders for each county, and a file on some ten thousand other constituents, "pretty much all the reading Republicans and some Democrats in the District." When he sent out public documents and books, or speeches from other House members, he would mail them to names on the first list; when he sent pamphlets and his own speeches, it went to the second. Naturally, he had a hearty appreciation of the franking system, as a way of not having to pay the postage costs.
Orth therefore made a reliable second-string leader for the House Republicans in the late 1860s. He stood at the more conservative end of his party during Andrew Johnson's administration: supporting Reconstruction, but trying to bring the President and Congress back into harmony, if it were possible. On the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he became the Grant Administration's most reliable point-man, and in 1871 the one to manage a resolution appointing a fact-finding commission sent to Santo Domingo to prepare the way for possible annexation. A Chicago Tribune correspondent described him as "as good a man as can be found, without prejudice, without notions, without fixed ideas upon any question. He is one of those men, who, upon large, general irresponsible principles are always right, but who are unpronounced upon little, local, and special questions." That was not meant in criticism; the reporter thought him "one of the most law-observing, conservative, neighborhood constructions of manhood we know".
Despite his history with the Know-Nothings, near the end of his life, Orth stood as one of a small number of congressmen defending racial equality. He condemned the racial discrimination of the first Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), declaring that he would vote against the bill because "I am opposed to all legislation founded on 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude.' We have no such odious laws now upon our statute-book, and no vote of mine shall ever be given to place any there."
After his retirement from the House, Orth was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria. He resigned in the late spring of 1876, having been nominated in February for governor by the Republican party. Members of the reform wing distrusted Orth automatically, because he stood well with Senator Oliver Morton's political machine, and they doubted his personal integrity. They were strengthened in their suspicions when a newspaper charged him with participating in a ring of speculators that shook down Venezuelan claimants in disputes between injured parties in Venezuela and the United States and with lobbying the Congress to confirm those claims. With the ex-Congressman refusing to make a full explanation or convincing denial and with rumors of incriminating letters waiting to be released in what promised to be a hot campaign, Morton withdrew his public support. On August 2, Orth withdrew as candidate for governor, and was replaced by Benjamin Harrison.
Orth was married twice, and had a daughter and two sons.
He died in office in December 1882 in Lafayette, Indiana, just after losing a re-election bid to Thomas B. Ward, and is interred at Greenbush Cemetery in that city.
See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)
Notes
References
Retrieved on 2008-10-30
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1882 deaths
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Indiana Whigs
Lieutenant Governors of Indiana
People from Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Union Army officers
1848 United States presidential electors
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Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godlove%20S.%20Orth |
Thomas Pitt (c. 1705 – 17 July 1761), of Boconnoc, Cornwall, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1761. He was Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 1742 to 1751.
Pitt was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt and the son of Robert Pitt, MP, of Boconnoc, near Lostwithiel in Cornwall. He was the elder brother of William Pitt the Elder. He succeeded his father in 1727 to his estates, including Boconnoc.
As head of the family, Pitt inherited both his grandfather's immense fortune and his parliamentary boroughs - he had the complete power to nominate both MPs at Old Sarum and one of the two at Okehampton, as well as considerable influence in at least two Cornish boroughs, Camelford and Grampound. He had himself elected Member of Parliament for Okehampton in 1727, the first election after he came of age, and represented the borough until 1754; but on a number of occasions he was also elected for Old Sarum, which meant that when he chose to sit for Okehampton the Old Sarum seat was free to offer at a by-election to somebody else who had failed to get into Parliament.
Pitt was Assay master of the Stannaries from March 1738 to February 1742 and Lord Warden of the Stannaries from February 1742 to March 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament met for the last time.
Pitt was ambitious for political influence and, attaching himself to the retinue of Frederick, Prince of Wales, managed the general elections of 1741 and 1747 in Cornwall in the Prince's interests; but this involved massive expenditure - especially at the notoriously-corrupt Grampound, where he spent huge sums both on bribing the voters and on lawsuits attempting to deprive the most rapacious of their votes. By 1751 he had bankrupted himself, and the death that year of the Prince of Wales destroyed his hopes of securing influence or patronage for his efforts. He mortgaged his boroughs to the Treasury, allowing the government to name two MPs at Old Sarum and one at Okehampton in return for a pension of £1000 a year. After sitting briefly for Old Sarum in the 1754 Parliament, he resigned his seat and fled the country.
Returning to England in 1761, however, Pitt persuaded the government to allow him to be once more elected for Old Sarum - a temporary measure, he promised, to prevent his being arrested for debt until he was able satisfy his creditors. (MPs were immune from civil arrest.) He promised to relinquish the seat at the earliest possible moment and allow the government to name his replacement in accordance with the original arrangement; but he died a few months later, still MP for Old Sarum.
Pitt had married, c.1731, Christian, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, M.P., of Hagley, Worcestershire and the sister of Lord Lyttelton. They had two sons and two daughters. He afterwards married, in 1761, Maria, the daughter of General Murray.
Pitt died on 17 July 1761. His only surviving son was the first Baron Camelford, who repudiated his father's arrangement for Old Sarum, and chose himself as MP when he inherited the borough.
References
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
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1700s births
1761 deaths
Pitt
Politicians from Cornwall
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
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British MPs 1747–1754
British MPs 1754–1761
Thomas
Pitt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Pitt%20of%20Boconnoc |
Astronaut High School is located in Brevard County, in the city of Titusville, Florida, United States. It is part of the Brevard County School District. The school's name comes from its location, near the Kennedy Space Center. The school was built in 1972. The school's motto is "pride in community, passion in learning". The current principal is Krista Miller.
Academics
Astronaut High School offers two academies within the school. The Health Sciences Academy offers courses for students who are interested in the medical field after graduations. Students within this academy also have the opportunity to test to become Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). The Fine Arts Academy is an academy offered to students who are interested in the fine arts such as music and theater. Astronaut High School also offers AVID which offers students college preparatory courses to ensure enrollment to a four-year college. The school also offers dual enrollment courses through Eastern Florida State College where students can become eligible to complete their Associate of the Arts degree at the time of graduation.
The library was recognized as one of the top ten in the state in 2010.
Athletics
Its primary sports rival is Titusville High School.
State champion teams
Girls' Basketball Champions (Class 4A) in 2006 and 2009
Boys' Track and Field State Champions 1976 (Class 3A) and 2000 (Class 2A)
Boys' Cross Country State Champions 1978, 1979 and 1980 (Class 3A)
Boys' Tennis State Champions 1990, 1992 and 1994 (Class 3A)
Wrestling State Champions 1999 (Class 4A)
Girls' Cross Country State Champions 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1985 (Class 3A)
Girls' Volleyball State Champions (Class 3A) 1980
Girls' Track and Field State Champions (Class 3A) 1979*
Girls Softball State Champions (class 3A)
Notable alumni
John Bostic - Class of 1980; professional football player
Cris Collinsworth - Class of 1977; professional football player
J.T. Hassell - Class of 2014; professional football player
Javian Hawkins - Transferred; professional football player
Wilber Marshall - Class of 1980; professional football player
Anil Menon - NASA Astronaut Group 23
Daniel Tosh - Class of 1993; stand-up comedian
Aaron Walker - Class of 1998; professional football player
Notable faculty
Elijah Williams - former professional football player and college football coach
References
External links
Astronaut High School FOCUS Homepage
Brevard County Schools website
Brevard Public Schools
Buildings and structures in Titusville, Florida
High schools in Brevard County, Florida
Public high schools in Florida
Educational institutions established in 1972
1972 establishments in Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut%20High%20School |
Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev or Shingaryov () (August 18, 1869 – January 20, 1918) was a Russian medical doctor, publicist and politician. He was a Duma deputy and one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets).
Biography
Shingarev's mother, Zinaida Nikanorovna was born into an aristocratic family. His father, Ivan Andreevich Shingarev, was a prosperous merchant, first in the Tambov Governorate and then in Voronezh. When Andrei Shingarev was ten years old, he entered a secondary school in Voronezh, graduating in 1887. Then he continued his studies at Imperial Moscow University in the faculty of physics and mathematics and graduated in 1891, in 1894 getting a further degree in medicine.
In 1895–1897, Shingarev was a practicing doctor. In 1898 he became a country doctor and started managing the Voronezh medical district. Shingarev published in many newspapers and magazines, for example in the newspaper The Russian Idea. He participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution while he was in Voronezh.
Shingarev was several times elected to the State Duma. After the February revolution, he led the food committee; in the first cabinet of the Provisional Government he was the Minister of Agriculture, and later he held the post of Minister of Finance. In July 1917 Shingarev resigned from the Provisional Government, as he was against the agreement with the Central Rada of Ukraine. He was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge called Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples.
On November 28, 1917, Shingarev was arrested at the home of Sofia Panina by the Bolsheviks.
As a leader of the opposition, he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. On January 19, 1918, he was transferred, along with his fellow Kadet Fyodor Kokoshkin, to the Mariinskaya Hospital after becoming seriously ill. Both "were brutally murdered there on the following night by a group of Baltic sailors, who broke into the hospital. The Ministry of Justice later revealed that the murders had taken place with the connivance of the Bolshevik Red Guard and the Commandant of the Hospital, Stefan Basov, who justified the murder on the grounds that there would be 'two less bourgeois mouths to feed'. Basov was brought to trial and convicted, but none of the murderers was ever caught and the Bolshevik leaders, who at first condemned the murders, later sought to justify them as an act of political terror."
References
Sources
SHINGAREV, Andrei Ivanovich
Izvestia Article & Notes
Photograph & Notes (in Russian)
1869 births
1918 deaths
People from Voronezh
People from Voronezhsky Uyezd
Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members
Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government
Members of the 2nd State Duma of the Russian Empire
Members of the 3rd State Duma of the Russian Empire
Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire
Russian Freemasons
Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia
Executed people from Voronezh Oblast
Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress
Physicians from the Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Ivanovich%20Shingarev |
Château Haut-Bailly is a Bordeaux wine from the Pessac-Léognan appellation, ranked among the Crus Classés for red wine in the Classification of Graves wine of 1953 and 1959. The winery and vineyards are located south of the city of Bordeaux, in the commune of Léognan.
Château Haut-Bailly's vineyard is located along the left bank of the Garonne river. Neighboring estates include Château Malartic-Lagravière, Château Smith Haut Lafitte and Château Carbonnieux. The estate's second wine is named La Parde de Haut-Bailly.
History
The vineyard is believed to have been created during the 16th century by a rich family from the Pays Basque region. By 1630 it was acquired by the Parisian banker Firmin Le Bailly, who gave his name to the estate. A classification of the leading Graves châteaux by Wilhelm Franck in 1845 illustrates that Haut-Bailly had become known by then, but came to be famous in 1872 when it was bought by Alcide Bellot des Minières, a known viticulturist at the time. Followed by a period of prosperity, such as the 1878 vintage judged outstanding among its peers, there came a decline. With the onset of phylloxera, Bellot des Ministères also neglected to follow the examples of other estates who combated the disease, and instead of grafting, relied on spraying with copper ammonia solution. After Bellot des Ministères' death in 1906, the estate came to his widow, and then her daughter.
After two decades, Haut-Bailly was sold to Franz Malvesin who during his ownership experimented with some questionable techniques, such as pasteurization and early bottling. After his death in 1923 practices were reverted to normal, though under the various following owners, the results were unremarkable.
In 1955, the property was bought by the Belgian wine merchant Daniel Sanders, beginning a prosperous period of quality and restored reputation. Though known for his meticulous control, there was near the end of Sanders' life a perceived dip in quality in the 1970s, as he was reluctant to release management control to his son, but this eventually happened at his death in 1980, and Jean Sanders was able to resume progress. For several years the late oenologist Émile Peynaud was retained at Haut-Bailly.
The current owner, since 1998, is the estate of the late American banker Robert G. Wilmers who died on 16 December 2017, with Daniel Sanders' grand daughter Veronique Sanders functioning as general manager, and Gabriel Vialard employed as technical manager.
Production
The soil consists of sand mixed with the gravel that gives the Graves appellation its name. From a estate, the vineyard area extends with the plantings are divided up as 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc.
The grapes for Haut-Bailly are harvested by hand, processed, and then fermented for up to ten days in both temperature controlled stainless steel and concrete vats of varying sizes. After maceration the wines are aged for eighteen months in oak barrels, many of which are new.
In total the estate produces 150,000 bottles annually. In a typical vintage, between thirty and forty percent of the wine is relegated to the estate's second wine, Haut-Bailly II, produced since 1967, under the name Domaine de la Parde until 1979, then La Parde de Haut-Bailly until 2018. A generic Pessac-Léognan third wine, titled HB, has been produced since 1987 and was known as Pessac-Léognan by Chateau Haut-Bailly until 2018. Unlike many producers from the Graves appellation, no white wine is made at Haut-Bailly.
The estate has also produced a wine for the duty-free market, Harmony de Haut Bailly, with Gebr. Heinemann. The estate also oversees the wine production at the neighboring Château Le Pape.
Gallery
References
Château Haut-Bailly press kit chateau-haut-bailly.com
Footnotes
External links
Château Haut-Bailly official site
Bordeaux wine producers
Châteaux in Gironde | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20Haut-Bailly |
Sulpicius Florus was a 1st-century Briton who served as an auxiliary infantryman in the Roman Army. He was given Roman citizenship by the emperor Galba and adopted his benefactor's gentile name, Sulpicius. However, he took part in Otho's coup against Galba in 69, and was one of the murderers of Galba's heir, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus.
See also
Sulpicia (gens)
Sources
Tacitus, Histories 1.43
Briton people
Celtic warriors
1st-century Romans
Sulpicii | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulpicius%20Florus |
Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed the California Court of Appeal's ruling that suspicionless searches of parolees are lawful under California law and that the search in this case was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it was not arbitrary, capricious, or harassing.
This case answered in the affirmative a variation of the question the Court left open in United States v. Knights, 534 U.S. 112, 120 n.6 (2001), "whether a condition of release can so diminish or eliminate a released prisoner's reasonable expectation of privacy that a suspicionless search by a law enforcement officer would not offend the Fourth Amendment."
Background
Police search
In the afternoon of September 6, 2002, San Bruno Police Officer Alex Rohleder observed "two adults and a little baby walking down the street." One of the adults, whom Rohleder recognized "from a prior contact" was the defendant in the case, Donald Curtis Samson. Rohleder knew that Samson was on parole and had heard from other officers that Samson "might have a parolee at large warrant." Rohleder then parked his police vehicle and approached Samson and "made contact" with him.
When Rohleder asked Samson if he had a warrant, Samson replied that he did not and "was in good standing with his parole agent." Rohleder confirmed over his police radio that Samson was not subject to a parole warrant, but was on parole for a prior parole violation. Rohleder conducted a search of Samson due to his status as a parolee. One of Samson's conditions of parole stated that he had agreed to "search and seizure by a parole officer or other peace officer at any time of the night or day, with or without a search warrant or with or without cause." This condition is required by California Penal Code Section 3067.(a).
Rohleder found a cigarette box in Samson's left breast pocket that held a plastic baggie containing methamphetamine. Samson was arrested and later charged with violating California Health and Safety Code Ann. §11377(a), for possessing the methamphetamine.
State court trial and appeal
At trial, Samson moved to suppress the methamphetamine evidence, which was denied by the trial court. The court found that Cal. Penal Code Ann. §3067(a) authorized the search and that the search was not "arbitrary or capricious." The jury convicted Samson and the trial court sentenced him to seven years in prison.
Samson appealed his conviction on the grounds the trial court improperly admitted the evidence from the search. The California Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's ruling, relying on People v. Reyes, 19 Cal. 4th 743, 968 P. 2d 445 (1998), in which the court held that: suspicionless searches of parolees are lawful under California law; that " '[s]uch a search is reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment as long as it is not arbitrary, capricious or harassing' "; and that the search in this case was not arbitrary, capricious, or harassing.
References
External links
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court
United States Fourth Amendment case law
2006 in United States case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson%20v.%20California |
Linkenheim-Hochstetten () is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, 17 km north of Karlsruhe.
The towns of Linkenheim and Hochstetten merged their municipal governments 1975, newly elected burgermeister (29.01.2023): Michael Möslang.
The town is served by routes S1 and S11 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn, which is operated by the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft over the Hardtbahn. Seven stops are served, at Linkenheim Süd, Linkenheim Friedrichstrasse, Linkenheim Rathaus, Linkenheim Schulzentrum, Hochstetten Grenzstrasse, Hochstetten Altenheim and Hochstetten.
Demographics
Population development:
References
Karlsruhe (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkenheim-Hochstetten |
Ivana Kubešová (née Kleinová, then Walterová; born 26 May 1962 in Šumperk) is a retired middle distance runner who represented Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic. She won three medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
International competitions
References
1962 births
Living people
Czech female middle-distance runners
Czechoslovak female middle-distance runners
European Athletics Championships medalists
People from Šumperk
World Athletics Championships athletes for Czechoslovakia
Sportspeople from the Olomouc Region
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana%20Kube%C5%A1ov%C3%A1 |
A picador is one of the two horsemen in a Spanish bullfight.
Picador may also refer to:
The Picador (film), a 1932 French drama
Picador (imprint), a British publishing brand
Picador (Picasso), 1889, his earliest extant painting
Vincent Picador, an early 1950s aircraft engine
"The Picadore", an 1889 march by American composer John Philip Sousa
See also
Picador Travel Classics, a 1990s series of travel literature re-prints | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picador%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Sussex County Interscholastic League (SCIL) was a high school athletic conference located in Sussex County and Morris County, New Jersey. The league was formed in 1976 when a number of new high schools opened up in the previous year. The formation of the league was to promote athletics and to cut down on travel time and costs. The league operated under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA), the statewide organization for high school sports.
In 2009, all SCIL member schools merged with other Morris County member schools to form the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, as a result of the realignment of conferences by the NJSIAA.
Former participating schools
NOTE: Sussex Tech was an Associate Member
League sports
The SCIL offered a total of 21 sports (12 boys; 9 girls). In the sport of swimming, Wallkill Valley and Sussex Tech competed as one team known as Wall-Tech. Additionally, Sussex Tech participated in the SCIL in bowling.
Fall sports
Cheerleading
Cross Country (Boys)
Cross Country (Girls)
Field Hockey
Football
Soccer (B)
Soccer (G)
Volleyball (G)
Marching Band
Winter sports
Basketball (B)
Basketball (G)
Bowling
Skiing (B)
Skiing (G)
Swimming (B)
Swimming (G)
Wrestling
Ice Hockey (B)
Indoor Track (B&G)
Spring sports
Baseball
Golf
Softball
Volleyball (B)
Track & Field (B)
Track & Field (G)
Lacrosse (G)
Lacrosse (B)
Tennis(B)
External links
Sussex County Interscholastic League
Standings presented by High Point Regional High School
NJSIAA
New Jersey high school athletic conferences
Sports organizations established in 1976
Sussex County, New Jersey
Morris County, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex%20County%20Interscholastic%20League |
Snake Eater is a 1989 action/adventure film starring Lorenzo Lamas. It was directed by George Erschbamer and written by Michael Paseornek and John Dunning. Snake Eater was actor Lorenzo Lamas's first action film.
Plot
Jack "Soldier" Kelly (Lorenzo Lamas), a police officer who served in the Marine Special Forces "Snake Eaters" team in Vietnam. Kelly uses the talents that he learned from the Boss to hunt down the criminals who killed his parents and kidnapped his sister.
The criminals covered their crime, using a bear costume "The Bear". This fooled authorities for their various murders and arson. They also attempted to rape women over the course of many days of captivity, but always failed.
Cast
Sequels
Lamas also starred in two sequels to Snake Eater: Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1991), which entered production before the first film was released, and Snake Eater III: His Law (1992).
External links
1989 films
1980s action adventure films
English-language Canadian films
Films shot in New Brunswick
Canadian action adventure films
Films produced by John Dunning
1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake%20Eater%20%28film%29 |
KVPS-LD, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a low-powered NewsNet-affiliated television station licensed to Indio, California, United States. The station is owned by Esther Arenas. KVPS-LD's transmitter is located on Edom Hill in Cathedral City.
History
The station was founded August 19, 1998 as K63CG. It aired Spanish-language programming, mostly televangelist Christian shows and Mexican music videos. Its callsign was changed in 2000 to K08MX, and in 2002 to KVPS-LP.
KVPS-LP went dark on April 10, 2015; its license was canceled on February 16, 2017. The station's license was reinstated on July 13, 2018; it had flash-cut to digital and became KVPS-LD.
Digital channel
References
External links
VPS-LD
Indio, California
NewsNet affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in California
VPS | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVPS-LD |
The first lady or first gentleman of the Philippines () is the courtesy title given to the host or hostess of Malacañang Palace, the residence of the head of state and head of government of the Philippines.
The title is traditionally held by the consort of the president of the Philippines, and as such is used to interchangeably refer to the spouse of the incumbent; however, this is rarely the case, especially for presidents without a living spouse at the time of their tenure. The position, which is customary in nature and dignity, merits no official remuneration from the state.
Liza Araneta Marcos is the current first lady of the Philippines, as wife of the 17th and current president of the Philippines, Bongbong Marcos.
Terminology
The host of the Malacañang Palace, who is usually the consort of the president, has been referred to in English as the "first lady" (Filipino: Unang Ginang). As Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took office as the first female president who is not a widow, the masculine form "first gentleman" (abbreviated FG; Filipino: Unang Ginoó) was used for her husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo.
Role
The position of first lady or first gentleman is not an elected position, carries no official duties, and has no personal remuneration. Nonetheless, the title holder participates in humanitarian and charitable work on behalf of the president, often in line with his or her policies and programmes. Furthermore, many of the holders of this post have taken an active role in campaigning for the president, or have participated in public life through some other manner.
Imelda Marcos was given a formal job as Governor of Metro Manila and as Minister of Human Settlements by her husband Ferdinand Marcos during his 21-year rule. She is also the first incumbent first lady to enter politics by winning a seat in the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978.
Two former first ladies later won seats in Congress after their husbands' tenures in office. In 1995, Marcos herself became the first former first lady to win a seat in the House of Representatives. In 2001, Loi Ejercito became the first former first lady to win a seat in the Senate.
List
Non-spouses who held the distinction
On a few occasions, individuals who are not spouses of the incumbent president have temporarily performed tasks reserved for the first lady or first gentleman, effectively rendering them as the de facto holder of the position; most often they are a direct relative of the president. To date, only Elpidio Quirino, Corazon Aquino, and Benigno Aquino III had no spouse to assume the title of First Lady or First Gentleman. Rodrigo Duterte did not appoint a first lady despite having Honeylet Avanceña as his common-law wife. In the case of Quirino, his daughter received the title as he was a widower upon his accession.
By president
Elpidio Quirino
Victoria Quirino-Gonzalez was the first lady for her father, Elpidio Quirino. She was made the official host of the Malacañang Palace. However Victoria is regarded as the first to be named with the role of first lady. The spouses of previous presidents, from Emilio Aguinaldo to Manuel Roxas, were not given the title during their respective husbands' terms.
Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Aquino III never married, so the palace hired professionals to manage tasks and duties customarily reserved for the first lady, such as organizing state dinners.
On some occasions, he charged one or more of his sisters with entertaining local and foreign dignitaries. During the 2015 APEC summit hosted in Pasay, his youngest sister, Kris Aquino served as temporary first lady for the event. Their other sisters, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz, Pinky Aquino-Abelleda, and Viel Aquino-Dee, also assisted him in his various duties.
Rodrigo Duterte
Prior to his inauguration, incumbent Rodrigo Duterte declared his eldest daughter Sara would be the first lady despite having Honeylet Avanceña as his common-law wife. He was previously married to Elizabeth Zimmerman; their marriage was annulled in 2000.
However, Sara Duterte was already mayor-elect of Davao City, and declined the offer. Following her filing of a 10-day leave of absence until June 22, there were speculations that she did so to assume the role of first lady, but she neither denied or confirmed speculations. Former Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary Rafael Alunan suggested that Vice-President Leni Robredo serve as de facto first lady but this never materialised.
Avanceña nevertheless would fulfill roles usually conducted by the first lady such as during the official visit of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, and the 30th ASEAN Summit in 2017.
Lifespan
See also
President of the Philippines
List of presidents of the Philippines
List of ancient Philippine consorts
Malacañang Palace
First lady
Notes
References
First Spouses of the Philippines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20ladies%20and%20gentlemen%20of%20the%20Philippines |
KVPS may refer to:
Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport (ICAO code KVPS)
KVPS-LD, a low-power television station (channel 8) licensed to serve Indio, California, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVPS |
A cunicularium is an establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. This enterprise is known as cuniculture.
Etymology
The term was coined in mediaeval Latin as cunicularium (plural cunicularia), from Classical Latin cunicularis "pertaining to the rabbit", itself from cuniculus, from which the English "cony" (the European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus) derives. The Latin is taken from the Greek κύνικλος kúniklos (kýniklos) (compare modern Greek κουνέλι kouneli). The earliest known use of this word is in Polybius:
An etymology has been proposed for the Greek word deriving it from a word meaning "burrow"; but it is more probable that evolution was to "(rabbit) hole" from "rabbit", rather than the reverse. It is most likely that the word is ultimately borrowed from the Iberian language.
History
Ancient history
Polybius first described the cony at about the time that Ancient Greece fell under the sway of the Romans. However, the cony was introduced to the Romans from Iberia, as they quickly developed a taste for laurices after their conquest of Hispania. Rabbits are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia in the 1st century. The Romans are known to have raised rabbits in stone pens, probably to facilitate the harvesting of laurices. However, they seemingly did not use the term cunicularium; and the industry apparently collapsed as the Roman Empire fell.
Early Middle Ages
With the rise of monasticism several centuries later, a renewed interest in cunicularia arose, in part because they were productively and easily implemented within the monastic economic context. It was during this period that the cunicularium became established.
Late Middle Ages
Cunicularium was borrowed into Middle English as conygere, conyger, giving rise to numerous later variants such as conygarye, conyrie, and conygree.
Difference between a warren and a cunicularium
Although the words have become nearly synonymous in modern English, the two institutions followed parallel, but separate paths in their development. The common, or domestic warren developed out of the free warren hunting franchise. This was because only by creating a close, or enclosed area for the freeholder's domestic stock of rabbits, could that person claim ownership of the rabbits in it. A domestic rabbit which escaped into a nearby free warren could not be claimed as property, even if the freeholder held title to the soil over which the warren extended, unless that individual also possessed the royal warrant of them, or unless it had escaped from a close. Such a close was called a "cony-garth". A rabbit escaped from the cony-garth was the property of the freeholder.
Note that in the following quote from a medieval law forbidding commoners the means to hunt, warrens are still distinct from connigries.
References
Animal breeding
Animal husbandry
Leporidae | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunicularium |
The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is a Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is four to six feet long with nine frets made of hardened beeswax. The instrument is carved out of solid soft wood such as that from the jackfruit tree.
Common to all kudyapi instruments, a constant drone is played with one string while the other, an octave above the drone, plays the melody with a kabit or rattan pluck (commonly made from plastic nowadays). This feature, which is also common to other related Southeast Asian "boat lutes", also known as "crocodile lutes", are native to the region.
It is the only stringed instrument among the Palawano people, and one of several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
Regional names
In various Philippine languages, the instrument is also called: kutyapi, kutiapi (Maguindanaon), kotyapi (Maranao), kotapi (Subanon), fegereng (Tiruray), faglong, fuglung (B'laan), kudyapi (Bukidnon and Tagbanwa), hegelong (T’boli), kuglong, kadlong, kudlong or kudlung (Manobo, Mansaka, Mandaya, Bagobo and Central Mindanao), and kusyapi (Palawan).
In Palawan
For the Palawano, it is possible to arrange the beeswax frets into different patterns resulting in two different scales for the instrument. These are the binalig, a higher pitched scale similar to the pelog and accompanying style used to imitate that of the kulintang, and the dinaladay, a lower pentatonic scale used for teaching pieces of an abstract nature.
In dinaladay, several tiers of difficulty revolve around main compositions: Patentek, Patundug, Banutun and Minudel; Patentek being the most straightforward, Minudel being the most-challenging.
Binalig scale pieces include several archaic compositions now not played on the kulintang, and of these pieces Malapankuno (cock crowing) and Mapalendad are included.
Any piece with a kinukulintangan affixed to its name is one that imitates the style of the kulintang instrument, of which the Sinulog a kinukulintangan; a piece that embellishes the main melody of the kulintang's Sinulog a kangungudan, is the most popular.
The Kutiyapi may or may not be accompanied by one of several types of flutes; the palendag, suling, insi or tumpong. Singing is usually reserved for courtship purposes.
Among the Bangsamoro peoples
Maranao
Among the Maranao, pieces played by using bagu and andung scales (equivalents of the binalig and dinaladay scales used by the Maguindanao), and in contrast to Maguindanao pieces, the kutiyapi is also used as an accompanying instrument to bayoka or epic chants. Examples of older andung pieces include Kangganatan and Mamayog Akun.
The Kudyapi (kotyapi) has also been as one of the instruments in several older light ensembles, including that of the kasayao-sa-singkil/kasingkil ensemble, the original musical accompaniment to the singkil dance (now rarely used in favour of conventional kulintang ensembles). This ensemble pairs the kotyapi with a jaw harp (kubing), suling, a pair of small double-headed drums known as gandangan (a drum now rarely used among the Maranao in favor of the single-headed dadabuan) and a single kulintang, in accompaniment to the bamboo poles used in the dance.
Another archaic ensemble where the kotyapi was included was the Kapanirong, or courtship ensemble, in which the kotyapi was used with a kubing, small insi flute, a two-stringed bamboo zither serongagandi, and a brass-tray tintik.
Dayunday performances
Among both the Maguindanao and Maranao, a much more recent informal styles are also used. Dayunday is a performed in front of an audience using an improvisational vocal style based on both sangel sa wata (traditional lullaby) and bayok (epic chant sung in a cappella) genres, played in either binalig or dinaladay scales, that is used during weddings, election campaigns, religious celebrations such as Eid or other large gatherings. The dayunday generally sets well known musicians from both genders against each other in verbal jest and competition.
With the advent of globalization, the importance of the kutiyapi has waned as artists have taken up the guitar instead, as it is louder.
Among Lumad groups
Among the T'Boli, Manobo and other Lumad groups, the instrument (known as hegelung, kudyapi or fedlung) is tuned to a major pentatonic scale. Among groups like the Bagobo, the kutiyapi (kudlung) is also used as a bowed instrument and is generally played to accompany improvised songs.
A characteristic difference between Mindanaon Moro kutiyapi and the non-Islamized Lumad equivalents is the style and set up of vocal accompaniment. Among the Lumad groups, the kudyapi player and vocalist are separate performers, and vocalists use a free-flowing method of singing on top of the rhythm of the instrument, whereas among the Maguindanao and Maranao, there are set rhythms are phrases connected with the melody of the kutiyapi, with the player doubling as the vocalist (bayoka), if need be.
In the Visayas
The kudyapi has been found among groups such as the Bisayans whose prevalence just like the kubing and other musical instruments are or were found in other parts of the Philippines.
The Tagalog kutyapi
While kutyapi was already a forgotten instrument among Tagalogs, with traces only remaining in folk songs like Sa Libis ng Nayon, a stringed instrument was historically used by Tagalogs as mentioned in the Jesuit friar Pedro Chirino's Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (1604) which is called kutyapi. Unlike its southern counterparts, the Tagalog kutyapi was a four-stringed instrument. According to Chirino:
Subsequent records by Spanish friars Diego de Bobadilla, S.J. (1590–1648), and Francisco Colin, S.J., who were both in the Philippines during the first half of 17th century, echoed the same thing in their writings when describing the instrument and its use by Tagalogs, but unlike the first two, Colin only mentioned the instrument having "two or more strings", not explicitly four. The instrument's spelling has varied among the different dictionaries and records made by Spaniards, with Chirino originally using the term culyapi, de Bobadilla's cutiape, and finally in the Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala where it is variably written as coryapi and codyapi. Pedro de San Buenaventura's Vocabulario compared the instrument to both viola and guitar. Francisco de San Antonio who came to Pila, Laguna, in 1624 also equated kutyapi to rabel, writing "Rabel de los naturales (rabel of the natives)".
It was never known when did the instrument finally faded into history, as most dictionaries until the 20th century still has entries of coryapi/codyapi.
Similar Southeast Asian instruments
Similar instruments played throughout the region include the Sape of Sarawak and the Crocodile lutes of Mainland Southeast Asia. Although they share a similar name, the Kacapi of Sunda on Java is a zither, and not a lute.
See also
Lute
String instrument
List of string instruments
References
Philippine musical instruments
Necked lutes
String instruments
Culture of Maguindanao del Norte
Culture of Maguindanao del Sur
Culture of Lanao del Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiyapi |
Peruvian art has its origin in the Andean civilizations. These civilizations rose in the territory of modern Peru before the arrival of the Spanish.
Pre-Columbian art
Peru's earliest artwork came from the Cupisnique culture, which was concentrated on the Pacific coast, and the Chavín culture, which was largely north of Lima between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Negra and the Cordillera Blanca. Decorative work from this era, approximately the 9th century BCE, was symbolic and religious in nature. The artists worked with gold, silver and ceramics to create a variety of sculpture and relief carvings. These civilizations were also known for their architecture and wood sculpture.
Between the 9th century BC and the 2st century CE, the Paracas Cavernas and Paracas Necropolis cultures developed on the south coast of Peru. Paracas Cavernas produced complex polychrome and monochrome ceramics with religious representations. Burials from the Paracas Necropolis also yielded complex textiles, many produced with sophisticated geometric patterns.
The 3rd century BCE saw the flowering of the urban culture, Moche, in the Lambayeque region. The Mochica culture produced impressive architectural works, such as the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna and the Huaca Rajada of Sipan. They were expert at cultivation in terraces and hydraulic engineering and produced original ceramics, textiles, pictorial and sculptural works.
Another urban culture, the Wari civilization, flourished between the 8th and 12th centuries in Ayacucho. Their centralized town planning was extended to other areas, such as Pachacamac, Cajamarquilla and Wari Willka.
Between the 9th and 13th centuries CE, the military urban Tiwanaku empire rose by the borders of Lake Titicaca. Centered around a city of the same name in modern-day Bolivia, the Tiwanaku introduced stone architecture and sculpture of a monumental type. These works of architecture and art were made possible by the Tiwanaku's developing bronze, which enabled them to make the necessary tools.
Urban architecture reached a new height between the 14th and 15th centuries in the Chimú Culture. The Chimú built the city of Chan Chan in the valley of the Moche river, in La Libertad. The Chimú were skilled goldsmiths and created remarkable works of hydraulic engineering.
The Inca Civilization, which united Peru under its hegemony in the centuries immediately preceding the Spanish conquest, incorporated into their own works a great part of the cultural legacy of the civilizations which preceded it. Important relics of their artwork and architecture can be seen in cities like Cusco, architectural remains like Sacsahuaman and Machu Picchu and stone pavements that united Cusco with the rest of the Inca Empire.
Colonial art
Peruvian sculpture and painting began to define themselves from the ateliers founded by monks, who were strongly influenced by the Sevillian Baroque School. In this context, the stalls of the Cathedral choir, the fountain of the Main Square of Lima both by Pedro de Noguera, and a great part of the colonial production were registered. The first center of art established by the Spanish was the Cuzco School that taught Quechua artists European painting styles. Diego Quispe Tito (1611-1681) was one of the first members of the Cuzco school and Marcos Zapata (1710-1773) was one of the last.
Painting of this time reflected a synthesis of European and indigenous influences, as is evident in the portrait of prisoner Atahualpa, by D. de Mora or in the canvases of the Italians Mateo Pérez de Alesio and Angelino Medoro, the Spaniards Francisco Bejarano and J. de Illescas and the Creole J. Rodriguez.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Baroque Style also dominated the field of plastic arts.
The image of Mary in Our Lady of Bethlehem hosts a lot of European styling and representations of the Western Mary. She is elevated from the ground, and is wearing a crown and has the faint image of a circular halo behind her head. She is being presented as cherubic figures pull back drapery, as if she is being "showcased." Surrounding her are small cherubic heads, often referred to as "puti's" in Southern American culture. They represent the innocence of children and act as a nod to her maternity and Jesus. She is dresses in obvious western, high-culture garments - highly adorned. Even the infant Christ is portrayed in western apparel.
19th century
In the 19th century, French neoclassic and romantic currents es in L. Montero, Ignacio Merino, Daniel Hernández Morillo and Francisco Masias.
Modern and contemporary
Indigenous movement
The establishment of the Fine Arts School of Lima (1919) had a decisive influence on Peruvian sculpture and painting.
In sculpture, some of the most remarkable artists include Luis Agurto, L. Valdettaro, Joaquin Roca Rey, J. Piqueras, Alberto Guzmán, Victor Delfín and F. Sánchez. Among the painters, Daniel Hernández, R. Grau, Cesar Quispez Asin and Jose Sabogal are particularly notable. Sabogal headed the indigenous movement, which was one of the main influences on Peruvian contemporary painting. Among the most notable painters in the indigenous movement was Julia Codesido. Some of the most widely recognized painters are Fernando de Szyszlo, Alberto Davila, Armando Villegas, Sabino Springett, Bernardo Rivero, J. Alberto Tello Montalvo, Victor Humareda, M. A. Cuadros, Ángel Chávez, Milner Cajahuaringa, Arturo Kubotta, Venancio Shinki, Alberto Quintanilla (wiki Es), G. Chávez, Tilsa Tsuchiya, David Herskowitz, Óscar Allain, Carlos Revilla, Sérvulo Gutiérrez and Amilcar Salomon Zorrilla (Peru).
In the field of photography, Martín Chambi made major contributions.
Contemporary Art
Teresa Burga was a multimedia artist that works with conceptual art since the 60s and 70s. She was a pioneer in media art, art and technology and installation art in Peru. She was one of the most important non-objectualist artists of those decades in Peru.
In sculpture Cristina Gálvez was one of the most influential artists and art educators.
In the 1980s after the art festival Contacta 1979 the group Huayco was created by Charo Noriega, Mariella Zevallos, Maria Luy, Armando Williams, Herbert Rodriguez and Juan Javier Salazar. This group appropriated the means of production and iconography of popular aesthetics.
Within the history of Contemporary Art in Peru the Third Biennial of Trujilo in 1990 played an important role. This biennial included local artists as well as artists from neighboring countries. Jorge Eduardo Eielson and Jorge Piqueras were among the exhibiting artists that returned to Peru from Europe to participate within this biennial. It was the last biennial in Trujillo. In 1992 the artist Jaime Higa presented an exhibition at The Museum of Italian Art in Lima curated by Gustavo Buntinx. The 80s were marked by the civil war and artists responded to the political situation. Among these artists are Eduardo Tokeshi, Ricardo Wiesse and Alfredo Marquez.
Later on in 1997 the First Ibero American Biennial was produced in Lima directed by Luis Lama. This biennial allowed for the exchange of ideas and a wider exposure for Peruvian artists. A memorable moment within this biennial was the unexpected performance by Elena Tejada-Herrera, which became an milestone within the history of Peruvian performance art. In 1999 Tejada-Herrera was awarded the first prize in the contest Passport for and Artist with a performance for which she hired street sellers performing on the streets of Lima.
Another milestone in the history of contemporary Peruvian art is the Travestite Museum created by the philosopher and drag queen Giussepe Campuzano in 2003.
Folk art
Chulucanas pottery originates in the Piura Region. Inspired by pre-Incan ceramics, the bold, graphic pottery is now exported all over the world. Designs are varied, but are predominated by black and white. There are several bigger companies but a lot of small manufactures are in Chulucanas itself and in the nearby villages of Quatro Esquinas.
The Ayacucho Region is known for its retablos, or devotional paintings. San Pedro de Cajas in Ayacucho produces collectible looms. Cusco artistans create stuffed animals and dolls. Cochas-Huancayo is known for its gourd art.
Further reading
Americas Society, Art Gallery. Potosí: Colonial Treasures and the Bolivian City of Silver. New York 1997.
Banco Crédito del Peru. Colección arte y tesoros del Perú: Escultura en el Perú. Lima 1999.
Banco Crédito del Peru. Colección arte y tesoros del Perú: Pintura en el Virreinato del Perú. Lima 2001.
Banco Crédito del Peru. Colección arte y tesoros del Perú: Pintura mural en el sur andino. Lima 1999.
Banco Crédito del Peru. Colección arte y tesoros del Perú: Pintura virreynal. Lima 1973.
Benavente Velarde. Historia del arte cusqueño: Pintores cusqueños de la colonia. Cuzco 1995.
Castedo, Leopoldo. The Cuzco Circle. New York 1976.
Cummins, Thomas B.F. Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels. Ann Arbor 2002.
Damian, Carol. The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco. Miami Beach 1995.
Dean, Carolyn. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press 1999.
Kennedy, Alexandra, ed. Arte de la Real Audiencia de Quito, siglos XVII-XIX. Quito 2002.
Museo del Arte de Lima. Art in Peru: works from the Collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima. Lima 2000.
Navarro, José Gabriel. El arte en la provincia de Quito. Mexico City 1960.
Palmer, Gabrielle G. Sculpture in the Kingdom of Quito. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1987.
Urton, Gary. Signs of the Inka Khipu. Austin: University of Texas Press 2003.
Wethey, Harold E. Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru. Cambridge MA 1949.
See also
List of Peruvian artists
Latin American art
References
External links
Ancient Peruvian ceramics: the Nathan Cummings collection by Alan R. Sawyer, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Peruvian art
Art by country
Peruvian culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian%20art |
Q & A is a 1990 American crime film written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by New York State Supreme Court judge Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante and Lumet's daughter, Jenny Lumet.
Plot
Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated New York City Police Department detective lieutenant, has a dark side and a partnership with certain organized crime figures. Brennan executes a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense. The head of the District Attorney's Homicide Bureau, Kevin Quinn, assigns the case to Deputy District Attorney Aloysius "Al" Francis Reilly, a young lawyer and past police officer and the son of an NYCPD cop killed in the line of duty. Reilly collects a deposition from Brennan, who claims to have been acting on an informant's tip and to have fired in self-defense. Reilly's information leads him to "Bobby Tex", a Puerto Rican crime boss called Texador, whose wife Nancy Bosch is an ex of Reilly's. She ended their relationship years ago after interpreting Al's surprise when she introduced him to her black father as racism. Al tries to rekindle their romance, but she rejects him because with Bobby she feels loved, protected and accepted for who and what she is.
Al, along with detectives Sam "Chappie" Chapman and Luis Valentin, has doubts about the shooting, knowing the environment of the Puerto Rican underworld. Investigations reveal a link between Quinn and Brennan. Brennan seeks out Roger "the Dodger" Montalvo, the only witness who can disprove his testimony. Brennan tries bribing and threatening Valentin and Chappie for help in finding and silencing Montalvo. Meanwhile, Bobby Tex is "invited" by the Mafia to step aside as a drug dealer, as Brennan's support remains useful to them. Bobby, in turn, begins looking for Montalvo as leverage against Brennan. He also begins shutting down his business to retire with Nancy in Puerto Rico.
Bobby finds Montalvo before Brennan does and they leave for Puerto Rico, where Bobby owns a mansion and a yacht. Bobby summons Al to Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, Brennan finds Montalvo's lover, the transgender José Malpica, and kills Malpica after listening to a message from Montalvo on his answering machine that reveals his location on a boat in Puerto Rico. Al, after informing Chief Deputy District Attorney Bloomenfeld, flies to the island, pursued by Brennan. There Bobby tells Al that Quinn (nicknamed "Skinny") was once part of Bobby's street gang and shot a rival gang member. Brennan is hunting down the gang's former members on Quinn's orders; Quinn wants to erase his past so he can fulfill his ambition to run for New York State Attorney General. Brennan has no choice because Quinn holds an abuse of authority charge over him from his early years on the force.
Brennan finds Montalvo and strangles him. He then slices the boat's fuel line and waits for Bobby to arrive. A phone call made by Al saves Nancy, but Bobby is killed in the explosion. Al procures an arrest warrant for Brennan but fails to catch him at the airport. He returns to the District Attorney's office to find Brennan waiting. Brennan reveals the truth about Al's father: that he was a bagman and bigot who was part of a "line" to keep minorities down. Brennan shoots Chappie when he tries to intervene; Brennan in turn is then shot dead by another officer during the resulting gunfight.
Al is summoned by Quinn, who informs him that he is aware of his activities, but the Department is going to hush up the incident to avoid embarrassment given the upcoming mayoral election. When Al threatens to go to the papers, Bloomenfeld tells him that he has ways of preventing that and reminds Al that sources in the mayor's office could leak evidence of misconduct on the part of his late father, which would deny his mother her widow's service pension. Feeling betrayed and disillusioned, Al trashes his office and resigns. He searches for Nancy in Puerto Rico, hoping she will return to him, but when he finds her, she meets his marriage proposal with silence as she is mourning Bobby's death.
Cast
Nick Nolte as Lieutenant Mike Brennan
Timothy Hutton as Deputy District Attorney Aloysius Francis "Al" Reilly
Armand Assante as Roberto "Bobby Tex" Texador
Lee Richardson as Leo Bloomenfeld
Patrick O'Neal as Kevin Quinn
Jenny Lumet as Nancy Bosch
Charles S. Dutton as Detective Sam "Chappie" Chapman
Luis Guzmán as Detective Luis Valentin
Paul Calderón as Roger Montalvo
Fyvush Finkel as Preston Pearlstein
John Capodice as Hank Mastroangelo
Dominic Chianese as Pesch
International Chrysis as Josè Malpica
Vincent Pastore as Man sitting at bar
Production
To prepare for his role in the film, Timothy Hutton went on squad-car runs with New York City Police officers in order to get an idea of the challenges they faced on the streets. Hutton said, "In many cases the hands of the officer on the street are tied". Nick Nolte put on for the film because he felt that the character he played required it: "Just the sheer mass of brutality. I felt that would be the right kind of thing. He had to be on the edge of his own dissipation".
Reception
Q & A received positive reviews from critics, as the film holds an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews.
Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "It is fascinating the way this movie works so well as a police thriller on one level, while on other levels it probes feelings we may keep secret even from ourselves". In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, "Great little scenes overshadow bigger, more important ones. Characters come and go at speed. Watching the movie is an entertaining ride, but when it is over it is difficult to remember where, exactly, one has been".
Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers wrote, "Lumet tries to cram too much in ... But he's onto something, and you can sense his excitement. This is Lumet's boldest film in years -- a combustible drama with a vivid, shocking immediacy. The director is back at the top of his game".
In his review for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson praised Nick Nolte's performance: "This actor doesn't flinch in the least from his character's unsavoriness; instead he seems to glory in his crumpled suits and unwashed hair, as if they were a kind of spiritual corollary. Nolte gives Brennan a kind of monumental brutishness -- he makes him seem utterly indomitable".
USA Today gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "Overkill ultimately wears Q & A down, despite two bravura performances and some Hutton understatement that's adequate to the task. So, too, does unrelenting sordidness, a deadly love angle and a score (Ruben Blades) almost as awful as Cy Coleman's sabotage of Lumet's Family Business".
In his review for The Globe and Mail Rick Groen praised Armand Assante's performance: "in a role that could easily descend into cliche – the crook with a moral code – Assante does his best work to date, always keeping on the safe side of the stereotype". Newsweek magazine's David Ansen wrote, "Nolte, with a big paunch and a walrus mustache, is a truly dangerous presence here; he uses his threatening body and a high, strained voice to stunning, scary effect. Like the movie, Nolte really gets in your face and, for a long time afterwards, sticks in your craw".
Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A−" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Q & A is a major film by one of our finest mainstream directors. As both a portrait of modern-day corruption and an act of sheer storytelling bravura, it is not to be missed".
References
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1990 crime drama films
1990 films
1990 LGBT-related films
American crime drama films
American police detective films
Films about police misconduct
Films directed by Sidney Lumet
Films set in Miami
Films set in New York City
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Films produced by Arnon Milchan
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English-language crime drama films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20%26%20A%20%28film%29 |
A picador (; pl. picadores) is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullfight.
Function
The picador has three main functions in a traditional bullfight:
To pierce the muscle on the back of the bull's neck in order to straighten the bull's charge.
To fatigue the bull's neck muscles and general stamina as it tries to lift the horse with its head.
To lower the bull's head in preparation for the next stage.
If the public feels that a picador is better than the bull the public will whistle, boo or jeer as they see fit. This is because they do not want the bull to lose all its strength and energy as this can lead to a dull bullfight.
The picador is obliged to give the bull two lances in a first category bullring (Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Zaragoza etc.), but the matador may request that the second be waived in second and third category rings. The bull may receive three lances if it is particularly ferocious.
The aim of the bull to charge the picador is often cited as the biggest test of its courage. A bull that does not charge may be punished with a black banderilla, which although somewhat longer than a normal banderilla is largely symbolic and a mark of shame for the breeder.
History
Horses did not wear protection since 1928 and the bull would on occasion disembowel the horse during this stage. In Seville, Spain they retain two teams of muleteros, one to drag out the dead bull and the other to drag out any dead horses. The horse is surrounded by a peto, a mattress-like protection that greatly minimizes damage taken. Injuries to the horses often include broken ribs and damage to internal organs.
In the original days before bullfighting became recognizable in today's form, the picador was the central attraction and his name would be billed on the promotional flyers. In these bullfights the bull would charge the horse and the spectacle was watching the rider's skill in protecting his horse whilst lancing the bull. The picador would lance the bull as many times as necessary. The matador and other bullfighters were on hand to help the picador, to direct the bull to the picador, and finally to finish off the injured bull. It was not until certain foot bullfighters started to bring some flair to their minor roles, to the pleasure of the crowd, that matadors started to become the main attraction, ultimately relegating the picador to a relatively unpopular and minor function.
See also
Torero
Rejoneador
Spanish-style bullfighting
Women in bullfighting
References
Bullfighters
Culture of Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picador |
Crosville Motor Services was a bus operator based in the north-west of England and north and mid-Wales.
History
On 27 October 1906, Crosville Motor Company was formed in Chester by George Crosland Taylor and his French business associate Georges de Ville, with the intention of building motor cars. The company name was a portmanteau on the names of the founders.
In 1909, Crosville commenced its first bus service, between Chester and Ellesmere Port. By 1929 Crosville had consolidated an operating area covering the Wirral and parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Flintshire.
The Railways (Road Transport) Act, 1928 gave the four railway companies the opportunity to provide bus services. But rather than run in competition they bought into or purchased outright existing bus companies. In February 1929, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway made an offer of £400,000 to purchase Crosville, which was effected in November 1929. The new LMS (Crosville) company then in the next few months purchased Holyhead Motors, and UNU Motor Services of Caernarfon.
Shortly afterwards, the four railway companies reached an agreement with the Tilling Group and British Automobile Traction (T&BAT) to complete a cross-holding deal, whereby each organisation held a 50% share in a series of jointly-held and consolidated regional bus companies. LMS (Crosville) was therefore merged with T&BAT's Royal Blue of Llandudno, and renamed Crosville Motor Services on 15 May 1930, after only nine months of outright LMS ownership.
In the next few months the company consolidated its majority share of the North Wales coastal services, buying up various smaller private companies that operated in the Crosville area, including: White Rose Motor Services of Rhyl, Red Dragon of Denbigh, Burton of Tarporley, North Wales Silver Motors and Llangoed Red Motors. On 1 May 1933, the Great Western Railway's northern Welsh service Western Transport was amalgamated with Crosville.
In 1930 All-British Travels Ltd was formed by coach operators George Taylor of Chester, Alfred Harding of Birkenhead and J.W. Scott of Edinburgh, with sleeping partner Evan R. Davies, a solicitor in Pwllheli. Under the fleet name of 'All-British Line' the initial intention was to run express coach services to and from Liverpool and Llandudno to London via Taylor's Market Square car showroom in Chester and to operate a central London travel agency to advertise those services and the other coach services of the respective companies. This express coach service to London commenced on 14 April 1930. Crosville had also started an express coach service between Liverpool and London in 1929, and by 1933 tried with All-British Travels Ltd to co-ordinate the Liverpool to London service, thereby complying with the North Western Traffic Commissioner's decree to reduce the duplication of that service. A joint timetable was worked on but problems co-ordinating the service proved impossible to surmount. In January 1933 the coach operator, Red & White Services of Chepstow in South Wales, purchased All-British Travels Ltd and in September of that year the remaining All-British Line express coach service between Liverpool and London operated by Taylor ceased. Taylor continued in the coach excursion business and car trade in Chester up to 1972.
Second World War
Although the start of the Second World War brought about cuts in the company timetable, by the end of the war the company had increased passengers by 50% and revenues by 90%. This was through North Wales being seen as a safe area from Luftwaffe bombing, resulting in a number of shadow factories and munitions factories being built in the area. This resulted in the expansion of a number of formerly quiet villages, and hence the route map changed quite dramatically. In example, ROF Wrexham, Marchwiel needed over 200 buses daily.
This passenger demand brought about a change in fleet policy, with the relatively small double deck fleet being considerably expanded, mostly with second-hand vehicles as production capacity at most bus manufacturers had been given over meet the requirements of the military. On 3 December 1942, Crosville became a subsidiary of the Tilling Group, resulting in a change from maroon to Tilling-green livery, and Bristol-chassised buses replacing Leyland as the manufacturer of choice.
Crosville emerged from the war far stronger in many ways, with healthy cash reserves in the bank or accumulating nicely in property assets, unable to replace their fleet at their normal renewal rate. However, although Crosville focused on replacing its single-deck fleet with double deckers, Tilling had a group policy against investment in coaches, resulting in a rise across the geography of a number of new coach operators. By the time that the post-war government of Clement Attlee merged both Tilling and the railway companies into the British Transport Commission on 1 January 1948, and Crosville was nationalised, the coach operators were a sustainable competitive entity.
1948–67
New Bristol double-deckers had become the standard fleet purchase for all Tilling/BET fleets, which allowed the company to serve the post-war boom until 1950, when traffic began to fall again thanks to the increase in the number of private cars. The combination of this, plus the Suez Crisis of 1956 and a lack of staff due to low wages, led to a general contraction of the network of countryside routes and reduced services by at least half on a Sunday. The network continued to decline, except in the provision of a new service to replace railways removed by the Beeching Axe, with the 1965-introduced "Cymru Coastliner," between Chester and Caernarfon anticipating the closure of that British Rail route and the intermediate stations.
1968–85
The Transport Act 1968 created the National Bus Company (NBC), and introduced the principle that rural bus services could be subsidised by councils. Although they had reduced costs by the introduction of one-man operation, Crosville submitted a list of 196 routes that required financial assistance.
With the transfer of routes of the North Western Road Car Company within Greater Manchester to the local Passenger Transport Executive in 1971, NBC split the residual services of NWRCC between Trent and Crosville, with the latter company taking over 119 vehicles and depots in Northwich, Macclesfield and Biddulph in March 1972. A consolidation of companies within NBC resulted in Crosville taking over services in parts of West Wales from Western Welsh, including those from the depots in New Quay, Newcastle Emlyn and Lampeter.
The company continued to consolidate and reduce its network through the 1980s, making losses of £1M in 1980 and £2M in 1981. Rebranding of local services in metropolitan areas assisted in flattening the rate of decline in revenues, but losses continued to mount.
Deregulation
On 13 February 1986, the Secretary of State for Transport decided that, because of their size, the four largest NBC companies would be split, as they provided too great a competitive threat to deregulation. Crosville was split into two, with the English and Welsh operations divided between two businesses. Ultimately, both businesses were acquired by the Drawlane Group.
Crosville Cymru was to remain generally in one piece, but most of the remainder of Crosville based in England was split between then-sister companies Midland Red North and the new North Western company based in Liverpool. The latter move was quite a reversal of fortunes, as much of Crosville's territory in the eastern half of Cheshire had been gained from the original North Western company at its dismemberment in 1972.
On 25 March 1988, Crosville was sold to ATL (Western). In 1989 Crosville was sold to National Express passing with the business in 1991 to the Drawlane Group, which in 1992 restructured to become British Bus. On 1 August 1996 British Bus was purchased by the Cowie Group. It traded as Arriva Cymru until February 2002, when it merged with Arriva North West to form Arriva North West & Wales.
The remaining Crosville operations in the Wirral and Chester area were sold in February 1990 to Potteries Motor Traction who retained the Crosville name, but the name passed into history ten years later when rebranded as First Chester & The Wirral. Following losses, the business was sold with depots in Chester, Rock Ferry and Wrexham to Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire in December 2012.
Revival
The Crosville Motor Service name was resurrected by a new operator that operated in Weston-super-Mare from 2011 until 2018. As well as modern vehicles, it had a heritage fleet which included several vehicles from the original Crosville fleet.
The Crosville Cymru / Crosville Wales Limited name also exists but not with Arriva. Gwasanaethau Cerbyd Crosville Motor Services Limited also exists. The word ‘Gwasanaethau’ is the Welsh for ‘Services‘ and the word 'Cerbyd’ is Welsh for ‘Vehicle’. Both company names are registered as dormant companies in Wales.
References
Further reading
Anderson, RC; History of Crosville Motor Services; David & Charles plc 2001;
Banks, John; The Prestige Series – Crosville; Venture Publications; 2001;
Carroll, John; 75 Years of Crosville; Transport Publishing Company; 1981;
Carroll, John & Duncan Roberts; Crosville Motor Services : Part 1 – The First 40 Years; Venture Publications; 1995;
Crosland-Taylor, WJ; Crosville: The Sowing and The Harvest; Transport Publishing Company; 1987;
Crosland-Taylor, WJ; Crosville: State Owned Without Tears; Transport Publishing Company; 1987;
Hillmer, John; Exploring Crosville Country: Part 1: England; Past & Present Publishing; 2005;
Hillmer, John; Exploring Crosville Country: Part 2: Wales; Past & Present Publishing; 2005;
Jenkins, Martin & Charles Roberts; The Heyday of Crosville; Ian Allan; 2009;
Maund, TB; Crosville on Merseyside; Transport Publishing; 1992;
Maund, TB; Motor Coach Services from Merseyside 1920 – 1940 Part 2 – The Independents; The Omnibus Society; 1980;
Roberts, Duncan; Crosville Motor Services : Part 2 : 1945 – 1990; NBC Books; 1997;
Roberts, Duncan; Crosville 3 – The Successors; NBC Books; 2001;
External links
History of Crosvile Motor Services 1911–1990
Companies based in Chester
Former bus operators in Wales
Historic transport in Merseyside
Transport companies established in 1906
1906 establishments in England
Former bus operators in Cheshire
Former bus operators in Lancashire
Former bus operators in Merseyside | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosville%20Motor%20Services |
Ta-Dah is the second studio album by American alternative band Scissor Sisters, released on September 15, 2006. It was produced by the band and includes collaborations with Elton John, Carlos Alomar, and Paul Williams. The album debuted at number 19 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, Ta-Dah received positive reviews from most music critics.
Release and promotion
The album's release in the United Kingdom, on September 18, 2006, was preceded by the release of the single, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'". The song reached number one on both the UK Singles and Download charts in September 2006.
"Land of a Thousand Words" was released as the second single from the album, peaking at number 19 in the UK. "She's My Man" was the third single released in early March 2007 and managed to chart at number 29. The next single that was released was "Kiss You Off" on May 28. This was the poorest charting of the singles of Ta-Dah, only being able to reach number 43. This has, so far, been the lowest charting UK single on initial release. "I Can't Decide" charted at number 64 on downloads alone, on the strength of being used in the Doctor Who episode "Last of the Time Lords".
Reception
The album entered the Irish Albums Chart at number one on September 21, followed three days later by a number one entry in the UK Albums Chart. In the United States, it debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 42,000 copies. As of May 2010 it has sold 181,000 copies in United States.
Ta-Dah received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 30 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
NME gave the album a score of six out of ten and said, "Scissor Sisters sound under so much pressure to follow up a monster hit that they're not actually having any fun." Similarly, Paste gave it a score of six out of ten and said that the songs "tend to dull the excitement." Tiny Mix Tapes gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and said, "So what if Scissor Sisters aren't challenging the conventions of pop music?... [Ta-Dah is] great and will please their fans." musicOMH gave it four out of five stars and said, "There's a darker lyrical side to the album at once incongruous and ingenious when placed in such celebratory music."
However, some reviews varied from mixed to negative. PopMatters gave the album five stars out of ten and said, "Despite its title, Ta-Dah offers few surprises." Now gave it two stars out of five and said, "Somehow, Ta-Dah feels like the Sisters covering themselves, and the glitter and gloss have worn off." In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave it a "dud" rating (), indicating that it was "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought."
Track listing
The UK edition of the album has a pregap, consisting of two minutes of silence after "Everybody Wants the Same Thing". Subsequently, what seems to be the sound of an elevator reaching its destination floor is heard as an 8-second interlude at the end of the pregap. "Transistor" then begins.
Deluxe edition bonus disc
"Hair Baby" (Hoffman/Sellards/Gruen/Alomar) – 4:06
"Contact High (Demo)" (Hoffman/Sellards/Lynch) – 3:37
"Almost Sorry" (Hoffman/Sellards/Williams) – 3:15
"Transistor" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:51
"Making Ladies" (Hoffman/Sellards) – 4:39
"I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Paper Faces Remix)" (Hoffman/Sellards/John) – 6:34
Personnel
Jake Shears – vocals
Babydaddy – bass guitar, keyboards, vocals, guitar
Ana Matronic – vocals
Del Marquis – guitar, bass guitar
Paddy Boom – drums, percussion
Elton John – piano on "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" and "Intermission"
J.J. Garden – additional piano on "She's My Man", piano on "I Can't Decide", "Land of a Thousand Words", "The Other Side" and "Everybody Wants the Same Thing"
Gina Gershon – Jew's harp on "I Can't Decide"
Carlos Alomar – additional guitar and bass on "Lights", "Paul McCartney" and "Hair Baby", additional guitar on "Transistor"
Paul Leschen – piano on "Lights", "Ooh" and "Everybody Wants the Same Thing"
Crispin Cioe – saxophone and horn arrangement on "Lights", "Paul McCartney" and "The Other Side"
Bob Funk – trombone on "Lights", "Paul McCartney" and "The Other Side"
Larry Etkin – trumpet on "Lights", "Paul McCartney", "The Other Side"
Joan Wasser – string arrangement and violin on "Land of a Thousand Words"
Jeff Hill – cello on "Land of a Thousand Words"
Van Dyke Parks – string arrangement on "Intermission"
Peter Kent – concert master on "Intermission"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
Release history
References
External links
Ta-Dah at Discogs
2006 albums
Scissor Sisters albums
Polydor Records albums
Universal Motown Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Dah |
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Krupskiy (; born 4 January 1960) is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Russia. He won the 1982 European Athletics Championships as well as three medals at the European Indoor Championships.
Achievements
External links
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
1960 births
Living people
Soviet male pole vaulters
Russian male pole vaulters
European Athletics Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Irkutsk
Friendship Games medalists in athletics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Krupskiy |
On the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, locomotives were always considered of great importance, and the railroad was involved in many experiments and innovations.
History
Early locomotives
The name Tom Thumb is forever associated with the B&O, as the first steam locomotive built in the United States for an American railroad. It was built strictly as a demonstrator, but it was succeeded by a series of similar locomotives (the "Grasshoppers" and the "Crabs") designed by Ross Winans, the first head of motive power on the railroad. Early B&O designs were quite unlike those used on other roads, due to in-house design and the emphasis of pulling power. 4-2-0 locomotives from Norris (represented by the "Lafayette" reproduction in the B&O museum's collection) were the anomaly on a railroad which was already building eight-coupled (0-8-0) locomotives well before the Civil War. By the beginning of the war, new power on the railroad had become more conventional, though many of the older, unconventional designs remained.
Up until 1884 locomotive numbers were reused when locomotives were retired; numbers were not allocated sequentially (unless lower numbers were used up). In 1884, in order to reduce confusion, all locomotives were renumbered to group like locomotives together, and thereafter numbers were retired along with the locomotive to which they referred.
The Baltimore Belt Line and electrification
John W. Garrett's desire to have a line to New York led to the construction of the Baltimore Belt Line in order to bring the railroad across Baltimore. The most important feature of this was the Howard Street Tunnel, which began at Camden Station and headed north to Mount Royal Station. Objections to use of steam led, in 1895, to the first main line electrification in North America. Trains in one direction were pulled through the tunnel, by a series of electric locomotives that lasted until the end of steam; in the other direction, the train simply drifted down the slope. Dieselization made the electrification unnecessary and it was discontinued in 1952.
"Old Maude"
Another innovation was the introduction of Mallet locomotives. Economies in haulage could be achieved by reducing the number of locomotives and trains needed, so ever more powerful locomotives were always sought. In 1904 #2400, a 0-6-6-0 design, was introduced, and quickly became known as "Old Maude" after a mule in a cartoon. "Old Maude" was renumbered to #7000 in 1915, and it boasted an impressive 71,500 pound tractive effort and was a great success at a Maximum speed of only 21 mph. It was the first Mallet in North America. Mallets were built in large numbers for the B&O, culminating in the huge EM-1 2-8-8-4.
"Uncle Dan" and Colonel Emerson
In the presidency of Daniel Willard, the motive power department, headed by Col. George H. Emerson, entered on a long series of experiments intended to improve the performance of the steam locomotive. Particular emphasis was placed on the water tube boiler, as opposed to the fire tube boiler used from the earliest days of steam. (In practice, only the firebox used water tubes.) The culmination of these experiments was the duplex #5600 George H. Emerson, the first of its kind. It was to be succeeded by a visionary locomotive of a unique design, of which very little was built before the whole project was cancelled.
Many other trials were conducted of steam locomotive appliances, very few of which had any lasting impact.
At the turn of the 20th century various compound locomotives were tried, particularly of the Vauclain and tandem patterns. As on other roads, they presented maintenance problems, and only the Mallets were repeated. Some engines had scoops to take on water from track pans, which were found on the line to New York.
The P-7 "president" engines were originally painted olive green, with the name of a United States president in gold on the cab; later they were painted a dark blue. Certain experimental engines had a British-style firebox door instead of the usual American Type.
Diesels
Other trials, it can be said, changed the face of railroading. In 1925 the B&O was one of the buyers of the first model of diesel locomotive, of which CNJ 1000 was the first example. These were used as yard engines in areas where smoke abatement led to restrictions or bans on the use of steam. In 1935 a single unit mainline diesel-electric engine (#50) was constructed; this was eventually transferred to the Chicago and Alton Railroad, an affiliated line.
Finally in 1937 the B&O bought the first multiple unit diesel locomotives to power its passenger trains. And in 1937 they ran the first coast to coast use of diesel electric locomotives. The railroad put an end to the steam locomotive experiments, though wartime pressures would lead to purchase of many other new steam locomotives. Dieselization took many years, and in the meantime a long program of upgrading older locomotives was continued. The P-7 Pacifics were particularly targeted for improvements, culminating in the Cincinnatian, for which four of the engines were upgraded and streamlined to a design by Olive Dennis, who also supervised the refurbishment of the rolling stock.
The B&O did not emphasize standardization, and when road diesels were bought, they were purchased from nearly every manufacturer. By the time of the railroad's purchase in 1963, though, they were well on their way to becoming the all-EMD line which they remained to the end.
In 1954 a group of steam switchers was renumbered to free up numbers in the 600s and 700s for diesels. Then in 1956 all locomotives were renumbered again. All steam locomotives were renumbered below 1000, thus freeing all four digit numbers for use by the growing numbers of diesels.
Locomotive Classification
Before the Civil War, the B&O organized its locomotives into four classes, based upon relative power. After the war this was felt to be inadequate, and a classification scheme was devised, based upon wheel arrangement. Each wheel arrangement was assigned a letter, except for 4-4-0 locomotives, which were subdivided according to cylinder size. When articulated steam locomotives were first introduced, they were assigned a single class ("O"). This proved inadequate almost immediately and a two letter code was used instead, based on treating the locomotive as if it were two engines coupled back-to-back.
Within each letter class, a number was assigned for each successive design. Usually the first class was numbered "1". Locomotives acquired through mergers were renumbered and reclassified to fit into the sequences of numbers and classes.
Lowercase letter suffixes were used to denote successive modifications of a design. The "t" suffix was also used to indicate that the locomotive was assigned an extra large tender. In the 20th century, such modifications were common, and the pattern of suffixes could become confusing. At one point there was even a class "Qodd" Mikado (2-8-2).
Diesel locomotives were initially classified according to intended service and model. Eventually this was dropped in favor of using the manufacturer's model designations.
Steam classes were as follows:
A initially 4-6-0 camelback locomotives; later 4-4-2
B 4-6-0
C 0-4-0
D 0-6-0
E 2-8-0
F 4-4-0 with 16" dia. cylinders or less
G 4-4-0 with 17" dia. cylinders
H 4-4-0 with 18" dia. cylinders
I 4-4-0 with 19" dia. cylinders
J 4-4-0 and 4-4-4 with Wootten fireboxes
K 2-6-0
L 0-8-0
M 4-4-0 with 20" dia. cylinders
N 4-4-4-4 — One locomotive: #5600 George H. Emerson
O originally for any Mallet type; replaced by two letter code
P 4-6-2
Q 2-8-2
R 0-4-4 Forney locomotives
S 2-10-2 – Two classes S and S-1
T 4-8-2
U 0-10-0
V 4-6-4 – Four locomotives in four classes: V-1, V-2, V-3, and V-4.
W 4-2-2-2-2-4 geared locomotive (never built)
Y 2-10-0
Articulated classes:
DD 0-6-6-0
EE 2-8-8-2
EL 2-8-8-0
EM 2-8-8-4
KB 2-6-6-4
KK 2-6-6-2
KL 2-6-8-0
LL 0-8-8-0
MK 4-4-6-2
Electric locomotive classes were as follows:
LE-1 the original Bo+Bo motors
LE-2 Bo-Bo motors intended for freight haulage
OE-1, OE-2, 'OE-3 Bo-Bo
CE-1 Bo switcher
There was one gasoline-powered locomotive:
CG 0-4-0
Notable classes and locomotives
Tom Thumb was the first steam locomotive used in the United States
2400 Old Maude (Class O) was the first Mallet in the United States
5600 George H. Emerson (Class N-1) was the first duplex locomotive
Class Q-3 was the USRA Light Mikado including the very first built (#4500)
Class P-7 was the "president" series of pacifics (4-6-2)
Class C-16 was the "Little Joe" or "Dockside" switchers
Class LE-1 locomotives were the first mainline electric locomotives
The class EM-1 simple articulated locomotives were the largest locomotives run on the B&O
William Mason is currently the oldest operating example of the 4-4-0 type locomotive in the United States.
Preservation
0-6-0 D-44 No. 1190. Currently on display inside the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio as a reminder of the results of leaving a steam locomotive outside to deteriorate for a number of years. It was originally built by Alco's Brooks Works in 1904 as Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway No.152 before becoming B&O No. 390 in 1932, and then it was soon renumbered again to 1190. It was sold to the Ohio River Sand and Gravel Company for the remainder of its career before being donated to the city of New Martinsville. From 1979 to 2008, No. 1190 deteriorated in the outdoor elements at the Mad River and NKP Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. It was subsequently sold to a private owner in Dunkirk, New York, who sold it in 2014 to the AOSR.
2-8-0 No. 476. Currently on static display at the Oakland B&O Museum in Oakland, Maryland. (Note: This locomotive never operated for the B&O, as the Oakland Museum only repainted it to represent a typical B&O locomotive. It was initially built by Baldwin in 1920 as for the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad as No. 40, and in 1925, the Railroad was obsorbed into the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, and it was renumbered to 76. It spent its final years in revenue service working on branch lines for the Mississippian Railway from 1947 to 1967. It was subsequently used to pull tourist trains on the Penn View Mountain Railroad, the Blairsville and Indiana Railroad, and the Gettysburg Railroad, before it was sold in 1998 to the Ohio Central Railroad for storage. It was then sold in 2005 to the Steam Railroading Institute for a restoration that never came to full fruition, and the locomotive found its way to Oakland in 2018.)
2-8-2 Q-3 No. 4500. Currently on static display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Built by Baldwin in 1918, No. 4500 was the very first USRA standard 2-8-2 locomotive ever built, and it operated on the B&O's Ohio Division mainly hauling freight until it was retired from service in 1958, but not before being renumbered to 300 in order to make way for four-digit numbered diesel locomotives. In 1960, the locomotive was donated to the B&O Railroad Museum, and it has remained on static display there since 1964.
4-6-2 P-7 No. 5300 President Washington. Currently awaiting a cosmetic restoration at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Built by Baldwin in 1927 as the prototype locomotive of the famous P-7 class, No. 5300 served the B&O while pulling the Royal Blue train, as well as the Capitol Limited train, until it was removed from the B&O's active list in 1957, one year after being renumbered to 100. The locomotive was put on static display in its original 1927 appearance in 1968 while being put on static display at the B&O Railroad Museum.
References
Sagle, Lawrence W. B&O Power: Steam, Diesel and Electric Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1829 - 1964, Alvin F. Staufer, 1964
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio locomotives | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20and%20Ohio%20Railroad%20locomotives |
Thomas Goulard (1697–1784) was a French surgeon famous for Goulard's extract, a solution of lead(II) acetate and lead(II) oxide which was formerly used as an astringent. Goulard was a surgeon and anatomist in Montpellier who specialized in genitourinary disorders. His best known written work is titled Oeuvres de Chirurgie.
References
1697 births
1784 deaths
French surgeons
18th-century surgeons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Goulard |
West Farms is a residential neighborhood in The Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries, are: Bronx Park to the north, the Bronx River Parkway to the east, the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the south, and Southern Boulevard to the west. East Tremont Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through West Farms.
West Farms is part of Bronx Community Board 6, and its ZIP Code is 10460. The area is patrolled by the NYPD's 48th Precinct. NYCHA property in the area is patrolled by P.S.A. 8 at 2794 Randall Avenue in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx.
History
West Farms was separated from the town of Westchester, New York, by an act of the legislature in 1846, formed from the settlements of West Farms, Morrisania, and Fordham, which survive as recognizable neighborhoods of The Bronx to this day. The patent of the "West Farms", which were the farthest western section of Westchester, were granted by letters patent in 1666 to Edward Jessup and John Richardson, both of Westchester, who had jointly purchased it "of the Indyan proprietors". It was bounded on the east by the "river commonly called by the Indians Aquehung, otherwise Broncke river". Jessup was dead within a year, and his widow conveyed his share to Thomas Hunt of Westchester, whose family is commemorated in the name of Hunts Point. In 1711, the heirs of the patentees joined in a second division of the lands in twelve lots with immutable boundaries, which were subsequently divided up. During the American Revolution numerous engagements occurred here; there were too few able-bodied men to form a company of continental militia, so West Farms formed a joint company with Fordham.
In 1848 the village of West Farms was described as "pleasantly situated at the head of the navigable waters of the Bronx, three miles from the East river, and twelve from New York". The rapidly growing village already had about 1000 inhabitants, in about 200 houses. There were three district schools, for boys and girls, and a ladies' seminary and a boys' private school. The railroad depot of the Harlem & Westchester Rail Road stood a mile north of the village, where there were four churches, "4 taverns, a temperance house, 12 stores of different kinds, and a post office." In addition to seven sloops moored on the Bronx River, there were manufactories: a Brussels carpet and spinning factory, another carpet manufactory, and a grist mill and a lumber mill, formerly de Lancey's Mills, converting the last stands of timber accessible to the Bronx River upstream.
Rail service to the city was on an almost hourly schedule, and West Farms was developing into a railroad suburb like Yonkers, which bounded it on the north. In 1848 the Hunt house (built in 1688) still stood on Hunts Point at the end of "Planting Neck", and the high ground along the neck was dotted with villas. Poet Joseph Rodman Drake found inspiration in the views of Long Island Sound and is buried nearby. Some of the soldiers buried at West Farms Soldiers Cemetery on East 180th Street served in the American Civil War.
Demographics
West Farms has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Almost half the population lives below the poverty line and receives public assistance (AFDC, Home Relief, Supplemental Security Income, and Medicaid). The vast majority of households are renter occupied. Many households in the area are headed by a single mother which contributes to its high poverty rate. Many parents had children at a young age, and many West Farms families have been in poverty for generations. The incarceration rate in the area is also very high. In 2012, the 10460 zip code had the 17th highest number of incarcerated residents of any New York City zip code.
Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of West Farms-Bronx River was 35,011, an increase of 469 (1.4%) from the 34,542 counted in 2000. Covering an area of , the combined neighborhood had a population density of .
The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 26.6% (9,312) African American, 3.2% (1,136) Asian, 2.5% (878) White, 0.3% (121) Native American, 0.0% (10) Pacific Islander, 2.1% (743) from other races and 1.4% (482) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 63.8% (22,329) of the population.
The entirety of Community District 6, which comprises West Farms and Belmont, had 87,476 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 77.7 years. This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 29% are between the ages of between 0–17, 28% between 25 and 44, and 20% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 14% and 9% respectively.
As of 2017, the median household income in Community Districts 3 and 6, including Crotona Park East and Morrisania, was $25,972. In 2018, an estimated 31% of West Farms and Belmont residents lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of the Bronx and 20% in all of New York City. One in six residents (16%) were unemployed, compared to 13% in the Bronx and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 60% in West Farms and Belmont, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 58% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, , West Farms and Belmont are gentrifying.
Land use and terrain
West Farms is dominated by five and six-story tenement buildings, older multi-unit homes, vacant lots, and newly constructed subsidized attached multi-unit townhouses and apartment buildings. Most of the original housing stock was structurally damaged by arson and eventually razed by the city. The total land area is less than one square mile. The terrain is somewhat hilly.
The West Farms Bus Depot is located along East 177th Street next to a terminated Sheridan Expressway; it opened on September 7, 2003, on the site of the former Coliseum Depot.
There are two NYCHA developments located in West Farms.
1010 East 178th Street; a 21-story building.
Twin Parks East (Site 9); a 14-story building.
Police and crime
West Farms and Belmont are patrolled by the 48th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 450 Cross Bronx Expressway. The 48th Precinct ranked 56th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. , with a non-fatal assault rate of 152 per 100,000 people, West Farms and Belmont's rate of violent crimes per capita is greater than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 1,015 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.
The 48th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 60.9% between 1990 and 2022. The precinct reported 14 murders, 26 rapes, 447 robberies, 646 felony assaults, 252 burglaries, 467 grand larcenies, and 304 grand larcenies auto in 2022.
Many social problems associated with poverty, from crime to drug addiction, have plagued the area for decades. Despite declines in crime from its peak during the crack and heroin epidemics, violent crime continues to be a serious problem in the community. West Farms has significantly higher drop out rates and more incidents of violence in its schools than in other parts of the city. Other problems in local schools include low test scores and high truancy rates. Drug addiction is also a serious problem in the community. Peer pressure among children who come from broken homes contributes to the high rate of usage.
Fire safety
West Farms contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 45/Ladder Co. 58/Battalion 18, at 925 East Tremont Avenue.
Health
, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in West Farms and Belmont than in other places citywide. In West Farms and Belmont, there were 113 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 30.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). West Farms and Belmont has a relatively average population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 12%, equal to the citywide rate of 12%.
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in West Farms and Belmont is , more than the city average. Sixteen percent of West Farms and Belmont residents are smokers, which is higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In West Farms and Belmont, 36% of residents are obese, 22% are diabetic, and 32% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 20% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.
Eighty-one percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is less than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 69% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," lower than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in West Farms and Belmont, there are 37 bodegas.
The nearest hospitals are St Barnabas Hospital in Belmont and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in Claremont.
Post office and ZIP Code
West Farms is covered by the ZIP Code 10460. The United States Postal Service operates the West Farms Station at 362 Devoe Avenue.
Education
West Farms and Belmont generally have a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . While 19% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 36% have less than a high school education and 45% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. The percentage of West Farms and Belmont students excelling in math rose from 19% in 2000 to 44% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 25% to 30% during the same time period.
West Farms and Belmont's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is more than the rest of New York City. In West Farms and Belmont, 35% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, higher than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 61% of high school students in West Farms and Belmont graduate on time, lower than the citywide average of 75%.
Schools
Public:
PS 6: West Farms (East Tremont and Bryant Avenues)
PS 66: School Of Higher Expectations (Jennings Ave.)
PS 67: Mohegan (East 178th Street and Mohegan Avenue)
JHS 98: Herman Ridder (East 173rd Street and Boston Road)
CS 214: Lorraine Hansberry Academy (West Farms Road and East Tremont Avenue)
Explorations Academy (East 173rd Street and Boston Road)
Bronx Envision Academy (East 173rd Street and Boston Road)
Wings Academy (East 180th Street and Bronx Park Avenue)
Emolior Academy
Parochial:
St. Thomas Aquinas School (Daly Avenue)
Library
The New York Public Library operates the West Farms branch at 2085 Honeywell Avenue. The branch opened in 1929 and moved to its current location in 1954.
Transportation
The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve West Farms:
: to Riverdale (via Kingsbridge Road)
to Riverbank State Park or New York Botanical Garden (via Southern Blvd) (Border of West Farms and East Tremont)
: to Westchester Square station or Third Avenue–138th Street station (via Boston Road and Morris Park Avenue)
to Castle Hill or George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (via Tremont Avenue)
/: to Throggs Neck or Morris Heights (via 180th Street, Burnside Avenue, Tremont Avenue)
BxM10 Express Bus Service to Midtown Manhattan
SBS: to Jamaica, Whitestone, Flushing (via Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road and Main Street in Queens)
The following New York City Subway stations serve West Farms:
East 180th Street ()
West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue ()
References
External links
Bronx River Art Center
Former towns in New York City
Neighborhoods in the Bronx | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Farms%2C%20Bronx |
The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ekphrasis, of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem the Iliad.
Description
Auden's poem is written in two different stanza forms, one form with shorter lines, the other with longer lines. The stanzas with shorter lines describe the making of the shield by the god Hephaestus, and report the scenes that Achilles' mother, the Nereid Thetis, expects to find on the shield and which Hephaestus, in Auden's version, does not make. Thetis expects to find scenes of happiness and peace like those described by Homer.
The stanzas with longer lines describe the scenes of a barren and impersonal modern world that Hephaestus creates in Auden's version. In the first scene described by these stanzas, an anonymous, dispassionate army listens. In the second scene, a crowd of ordinary people watch passively as three "pale figures" are dragged towards and tied to posts. In the third scene, a "ragged urchin" throws a stone at a bird; he takes it for granted "that girls are raped, that two boys knife a third," and "has never heard of any world where promises are kept / Or one could weep because another wept." In the closing stanza, composed of short lines, Thetis cries out in dismay at what Hephaestus has made for her son, "who would not live long."
In these contrasting stanzas, Auden reflects on the differences between the vital, lyrical Achaean world described by Homer where, even amid warfare, imagination naturally ran to scenes of peace, and the violent, barren world, lacking any hope and meaning, that Auden himself imagines.
Collection
The poem is the title work of The Shield of Achilles, a collection of poems in three parts, published in 1955, containing Auden's poems written from around 1951 through 1954. It begins with the sequence "Bucolics", then miscellaneous poems under the heading "In Sunshine and In Shade", then the sequence Horae Canonicae.
It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1956.
References
John Fuller, W. H. Auden: A Commentary (1999)
Edward Mendelson, Later Auden (1999)
External links
The W. H. Auden Society
Text of the poem, quoted with copyright permission
The Shield of Achilles at the British Library
Books by W. H. Auden
Poetry by W. H. Auden
National Book Award for Poetry winning works
1952 poems
1955 books
Faber and Faber books
Achilles
Poetry based on the Iliad
Hephaestus
Thetis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shield%20of%20Achilles |
Querelle Jansen (born October 14, 1985, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch model. Her real name is Lisette Jansen; Querelle is her professional name, chosen by an agent who had been looking for a model to name after her favourite literary character, Jean Genet's Georges Querelle.
Querelle's androgynous features and austere aura landed her a series of editorials with several mainstream publications, including Vogue Italia and Paris, Numéro, i-D, Mixt(e), and V magazine. Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Costume National, H&M, Hugo Boss, Prada, and Miu Miu all chose her for their advertisement campaigns. The quirky personal style she presented at castings inspired Marc Jacobs' aesthetic for the spring 2005 Louis Vuitton prêt-à-porter collection .
Her runway appearances include Valentino, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Chloé, Prada, Rochas, and Burberry. Her image has graced the covers of Zoo magazine (Germany) and Vogue (Russia).
Jansen's friends include Tasha Tilberg, Anouck Lepere, and Marta Bērzkalna.
References
External links
Style.com - Querelle Jansen
1985 births
Living people
Models from Rotterdam
Dutch female models | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querelle%20Jansen |
Beth Webb is a British author of books for children and teenagers. She has written fifteen books, including the Star Dancer tetralogy, a fantasy series published by Macmillan, as well as the Fleabag Trilogy. She is also the co-founder of Books Beyond Words, and has illustrated more than twenty titles for adults with learning disabilities. She lives in Somerset, near Glastonbury Tor.
Early life and education
Webb started writing as a teenager, with her first story published in a magazine when she was fourteen years old. She studied sociology and psychology at university, and traveled around Europe for three years, at one point living in a houseboat in Amsterdam. After returning to the UK, she worked in London as a journalist and radio broadcaster, and later moved to Somerset, where she earned an MFA in creative writing from Bath Spa University.
Career
Illustrator
Since founding Books Beyond Words with Sheila Hollins in 1989, Webb has illustrated more than 20 titles for the series, which features wordless picture stories covering difficult life events. As the artist for the book Getting On With Cancer (2002), Webb was closely involved in the development process, working with an editorial committee including advisers with learning disabilities, clinicians, and health services representatives, as well as trial readers. In 2005, Learning Disability Practice commended her "simply drawn and carefully crafted illustrations" in the books When Dad Died and When Mum Died.
Writer
Webb has taught creative writing to young people since 1990, in schools and in workshops for ages eight up to 80 years old. She dedicated her book Star Dancer to the "Kilvites", a group of young writers who attended her creative writing course at the Kilve Court Residential Educational Centre.
Over the years, she has written books for children across different age groups, including six- to eight year olds, older children, and teens. Her four-book series starting with Star Dancer, published by Macmillan in 2006, was her first major commercial success. For the Star Dancer series, she did extensive research into British folklore, archaeology, and history.
She has also worked as a performance storyteller.
Bibliography
Disbelieved (2018)
Stone Keeper (2013)
Wave Hunter (2008)
Fire Dreamer (2007)
Junkyard Dragon (2007)
Star Dancer (2006)
The Dragons of Kilve (2004, 2nd Edition)
Boo Hoo the Ogre (2003)
Fleabag and the Ring's End (2000)
Wanted: One Dragon (1999)
Fleabag and the Fire Cat (1997)
The Witch of Wookey Hole (1997)
Foxdown Wood (1997)
Fleabag and the Ring Fire (1995)
The Magic in the Pool of Making (1992)
References
External links
Beth Webb official website
20th-century British novelists
20th-century British women writers
21st-century British novelists
21st-century British women writers
British children's writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British women children's writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20Webb |
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