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Adishi (Adysh, Hadysh; ) is a highland village, 2,040 metres above sea level, in the Mestia Municipality of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of Georgia. According to the data of 2014, 44 people live in the village. Village is 27 kilometres from the town of Mestia.
History
The landscape of the village is dominated by a number of medieval monuments, and the Greater Caucasus mountains. The important cultural sites of Adishi are: the Church of the Deliverer (10th–11th centuries), two churches of St George (12th century), the Church of the Archangel (12th century) and several typical Svanetian towers.
The well-known Adysh Gospels (AD 897) was preserved here for centuries.
See also
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
References
Churches in Georgia (country)
Populated places in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Populated places in Mestia Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adishi%20%28village%29 |
Elmer Joseph Angsman Jr. (December 11, 1925 – April 11, 2002) was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL).
Early life and career
Angsman was born on the south side of Chicago in 1925, the son of Elmer and Helen Angsman. Elmer attended Mount Carmel High School and also starred for Notre Dame in college from 1943 to 1945 (playing on the 1943 National Championship team 1943 college football season and the College All-Star team that defeated the world champion Cleveland Rams), played seven seasons in the NFL, all with the Chicago Cardinals. After graduating from Notre Dame in three years with a degree in journalism, Angsman was the youngest player ever drafted to play in the NFL at the age of 20 with the 16th overall pick of the 1946 draft.
NFL career
Angsman was part of Charles Bidwill’s "Dream Backfield". Although Bidwill did not live to see it, the talented corps that included Charley Trippi, Paul Christman, Pat Harder, and Angsman went on to achieve great success. In the 1947 NFL championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Angsman scored twice on runs of 70 yards each. The final touchdown, a run up the middle like the first against Eagle coach Greasy Neale's famed 5-2-4 defense, put the game out of reach. Angsman finished the game with 10 carries for 159 yards. His 15.9 yard per carry average is still an NFL post-season record (10 carries or more). The 1947 title was the Cardinal franchise's last championship. Don Paul, a former defensive back for the Cardinals and later the Cleveland Browns, once said, "he was...a straight ahead north and south runner who would just as soon leave cleat marks on your balls as run around you."
Angsman and the Cardinals never reclaimed the glory of the 1947 championship season. In 1948, Angsman led the Cardinals in rushing, with 412 yards and 7 touchdowns, and the Cards edged the Chicago Bears for the West Conference title. They met the Eagles once again in the 1948 NFL Championship Game title game now referred to as "The Blizzard Bowl". The field was covered by snow and the entire game was played in a storm. The Cardinals running attack was greatly hampered and the Eagles star Steve Van Buren was the only player who could run effectively in the conditions. Angsman mustered only 33 yards on 10 carries. Only 5 passes were completed by both teams combined. Van Buren's 5 yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter was the only scoring as the Eagles won their first championship, 7–0.
The Cardinals' visionary coach, Jimmy Conzelman, quit after the 1948 season and the Cardinals drifted into mediocrity. Angsman had his best season in 1949 with 674 yards rushing on 125 carries and 6 touchdowns. He, Pat Harder, and Charlie Trippi shared running duties and combined for 1,674 yards and 16 touchdowns that year (in comparison, Steve Van Buren set the NFL single season rushing record in 1949 with 1146 yards). However, the future of NFL success lay in dynamic passing attacks such as that possessed by the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. Angsman's production fell off significantly in 1950 and 1951, with 363 and 380 yards, respectively, and an average under 3.5 yards per carry. By 1952, with stunning rookie halfback Ollie Matson joining the club, Angsman was relegated to a seldom-used backup role. He retired after the 1952 season at age 27. He finished with career statistics of 683 carries, 2908 yards (4.3 avg), and 27 touchdowns. He caught 41 passes for 654 yards and 5 touchdowns. Angsman was selected to the first ever Pro Bowl 1951 Pro Bowl in 1950.
Commentating and later life
After his NFL career, Angsman was a color commentator beginning in 1958 with CBS Radio, later ABC and finishing with NBC in 1972. Angsman called college and pro games, most notably the 1968 Sugar Bowl and several Orange Bowl games. He is a member of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. Angsman owned various companies after commentating finding success in paper manufacturing and eventually retiring to Juno Beach, Florida. In April 2002, Elmer Angsman died of a heart attack while playing golf.
External links
"The Dream Backfield"
Chicago Tribune Article
New York Times obituary
"NFL Stats"
Chicago Tribune
1925 births
2002 deaths
American Football League announcers
American football running backs
Chicago Cardinals players
College football announcers
Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Players of American football from Chicago
People from Juno Beach, Florida
Players of American football from Palm Beach County, Florida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20Angsman |
Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
Medalists
Bobsleigh
Men & Women
Short track speed skating
Men
Snowboarding
Women
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Winter Olympics 2002, Salt Lake City, full results
Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 2002 Winter Olympics
2002
Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20at%20the%202002%20Winter%20Olympics |
Guru's Jazzmatazz: Streetsoul is the third solo studio album by American hip hop musician Guru. It was released on October 3, 2000, via Virgin Records as the third installment of Guru's Jazzmatazz album series. Production was handled by Gang Starr, The Neptunes, Agallah, DJ Scratch, Erykah Badu, J Dilla, The Roots and Victor Flowers.
Synopsis
As the title seems to suggest, this volume featured a blend of soul with R&B. The decline in jazz inflections that made Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 popular continued on this release (the decline was already noticeable on Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality). According to Billboard's music charts, any aspersions levied by music critics against the album had little (if any) impact on its performance in the marketplace. Streetsoul outperformed previous entries significantly; it peaked at #32 and #8 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts respectively.
As with previous releases, a host of guest performers were featured on this recording. Most of the artists are stalwarts of the neo soul and R&B scene. First-time appearances in the series were made by several contemporary acts, including Amel Larrieux, Angie Stone, Bilal, Craig David, Donell Jones, Erykah Badu, and The Roots. Veterans featured on this release include Herbie Hancock and Isaac Hayes.
Track listing
Sample credits
Track 3 contains a sample of "Here I Am" as performed by the Blue Notes and "It's Not a Game" performed by American Cream Team
Track 8 contains a sample of "Keep Your Head to the Sky" as performed by Earth, Wind & Fire
Track 13 contains a sample of "Walk From Regios" performed by Isaac Hayes
Track 14 contains a sample of "Love Without Sex" performed by Gwen McCrae
Personnel
?uestlove — drummer, producer
Erykah Badu — vocals, producer
Kevin Bergen — engineer, mixing assistant
Big Shug — performer
Black Thought — vocals
Drew Coleman — engineer
DJ Premier — producer
Tom Coyne — mastering
Craig David — vocals
Ryan Dorn — keyboards, vocals
Todd Fairall — engineer
Tameka Foster — stylist
Macy Gray — vocals
Guru — vocals
Herbie Hancock — performer
Isaac Hayes — vocals
Donell Jones — vocals
Caleb Lambert — engineer
Amel Larrieux — performer
Amy Linden — liner notes
Shaun Martin — keyboards
Bill McMullen — art direction, design
Mark Mitchell — engineer
Les Nubians — performer
James Poyser — producer
Junior Reid — vocals
Eddie Sancho — engineer, mixing
Jon Smeltz — engineer, mixing
Ryan Smith — engineer
Tom Soares — mixing
Angie Stone — vocals
Dexter Thibou — engineer, mixing, mixing assistant
Pharrell Williams — producer, multi instruments
Chad Hugo — producer, multi instruments
J Dilla — producer
Patrick Moxey — executive producer
Aaron Seawood — executive producer
Charts
References
External links
2000 albums
Sequel albums
EMI Records albums
Guru (rapper) albums
Virgin Records albums
Albums produced by Guru
Albums produced by Agallah
Albums produced by J Dilla
Albums produced by Questlove
Albums produced by DJ Premier
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by the Neptunes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru%27s%20Jazzmatazz%2C%20Vol.%203%3A%20Streetsoul |
Cachoeira Dourada is municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 8,031 (2020) in a total area of 521.1 km2.
Geographical Information
The municipality of Cachoeira Dourada is located in the extreme south of Goiás at a distance of 258 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. It lies on the banks of the Paranaíba and is 31 kilometers southwest of the important city of Itumbiara. It is part of the geographical microregion designated Meia Ponte Microregion.
There are boundaries on the north and east with Itumbiara, on the south with the Paranaíba, and on the west with Inaciolândia. The main access routes are GO-260, GO-153, GO-452, MG-154 and MG-365.
The distance to state capital, Goiânia, is 228 km. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by BR-153 / Aparecida de Goiânia / Professor Jamil / Serrinha (district) / Itumbiara / BR-452 / GO-206 / BR-483. Source for distances: Sepin
Besides the municipal seat there were the hamlets (Povoados) of Almeirindonópolis, Nilópolis, Pontezinha and Vila Operária da Celg.
Demographic and political facts
Population density in 2007: 14.52 inhabitants/km2
Population growth rate 1996/2007: -0.76.%
Total population in 2007: 7,567
Total population in 1991: 8,502
Urban population in 2007: 5,085
Rural population in 2007: 2,482
City government in 2005: mayor (Lauro Vinicius Ramos), vice-mayor (José Dantas da Silva), and 09 councilmembers
(Sepin/IBGE)
Cachoeira Dourada was first made a district of Itumbiara in 1962, becoming a municipality in 1982
Economic activities
The main economic activities are cattle raising (34,190 in 2006), agriculture, and the hydroelectric energy plant. Cotton, corn, and soybeans are the most important crops.
Retail establishments: 100 in 2007
Industrial establishments: 09
Financial institutions: 03—HSBC, Banco do Brasil S.A., Banco Multiplo
Dairies: Miqueline Ltda.
(Sepin/IBGE)
Planted Area of Main Crops (2006)
Rice: 500 ha.
Corn: 4,000 ha.
Bananas: 80 ha.
Beans: 120 ha.
Soybeans: 4,700 ha.
Cotton: 680 ha. (Sepin)
Farm Data (2006)
Farms: 157
Total area: 31,630 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 132 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 9,013 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 19,073 ha.
Persons dependent on farming: 600
Farms with tractors: 92
Number of tractors: 177 IBGE
Health (2007)
Infant mortality rate in 2000: 16.68
Infant mortality rate in 1990: 29.47
Total health units: 04
Hospitals: 01 with 16 beds
(Sepin/IBGE)
Education (2006)
Literacy rate in 2000: 82.6
Literacy rate in 1991: 73.2
Schools: 08 with 2,667 students
(Sepin/IBGE)
Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
MHDI: 0.759
State ranking: 56 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 1,603 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
(Frigoletto)
Tourism
In tourism, the artificial lake formed by the Itumbiara Dam on the Paranaíba is the main attraction. The lake is navigable between Cachoeira Dourada and Itumbiara, a distance of 64 kilometers. The region has springs of hot, salty water, a unique phenomenon in the country. This water is consumed for its reputed therapeutic qualities.
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
References
Frigoletto
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachoeira%20Dourada |
Vigadó (usually translated as "Place for Merriment") is Budapest's second largest concert hall, located on the Eastern bank of the Danube in Budapest, Hungary.
Although the acoustics are lacking, the building itself, designed by Frigyes Feszl in 1859, makes a bold impression along the Pest embankment. Built to replace another concert hall on the same site (which was destroyed by fire in the 1848 War of Independence) Feszl's Vigadó was also badly damaged, this time during World War II. The post-war reconstruction, which took some thirty-six years to complete, remains faithful to his original design and continues to attract leading conductors and performers from around the world. The facade of the Vigadó was cleaned and restored in 2006.
The Budai Vigadó is the home stage of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble (The House of Traditions), the group having started in 1951 with Hungarian traditional dance and music. The group consists of 30 dancers, a Gypsy band of 14, and a 5-member folk band.
See also
List of concert halls
External links
Official site
Buildings and structures in Budapest
Culture in Budapest
Music venues completed in 1859
Tourist attractions in Budapest
1859 establishments in the Austrian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigad%C3%B3%20of%20Pest |
Otis D. Armstrong (November 15, 1950 – October 13, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the first round with the ninth overall pick in the 1973 NFL Draft. He played for the Denver Broncos for his entire career from 1973 to 1980.
High school
Armstrong attended Farragut High School in Chicago, and was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.
College career
Before his NFL career, Armstrong played for Purdue University becoming the school's all-time leading rusher and leader in all-purpose yards. Armstrong was selected to Purdue's All-Time team in 1987 as part of a celebration of 100 years of football at Purdue. He was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.
Armstrong finished his 3 college seasons with 4,601 All-purpose yards (3,315 rushing yards, 897 yards from kickoff returns and 389 passing yards). He also scored 24 touchdowns (17 rushing and 7 on returns). He was selected the Big Ten MVP in 1972, leading the league in rushing and total offense, while being selected 1st team All-Conference. He participated in 4 All-Star games; the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Game, the Coaches' All-American Game, and the Chicago College All-Star game.
Over the course of his Purdue career, Armstrong became the all-time leading rusher in Big Ten Conference and Purdue history and ranked sixth in NCAA history at the time. His total of 3,315 yards in three years bettered the previous mark of 3,212 yards by Alan Ameche of Wisconsin - established in four years. He still holds the Purdue single game rushing record (276 yds vs. arch-rival Indiana.) Armstrong finished as the all-time leader in All-Purpose yards at Purdue (4,601 yds), he is currently 4th all-time.
On May 16, 2012; Armstrong was selected for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. Armstrong will be the 13th Boilermaker (9 players, 4 coaches) inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Professional career
In his second NFL season, Armstrong led the league in rushing yards (1,407) and yards per carry (5.3). In the 1977 season, he assisted the Denver Broncos to an appearance in Super Bowl XII, which they lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-10.
Armstrong finished his 8 NFL seasons with 4,453 rushing yards, 123 receptions for 1,302 receiving yards, and 879 yards from kickoff returns. He also scored 32 touchdowns (25 rushing and 7 receiving).
Death
Otis Armstrong died on October 13, 2021, surrounded by his family and loved ones. He was 70.
NFL career statistics
References
1950 births
2021 deaths
Players of American football from Chicago
All-American college football players
American football running backs
Purdue Boilermakers football players
Denver Broncos players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
Farragut Career Academy alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20Armstrong |
Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992) was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player.
Biography
Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. A member of a musical family, he started on alto saxophone before switching to tenor during his high school years.
After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook was a member of the Horace Silver Quintet (1958–1964); when Silver left the group in the hands of Blue Mitchell Cook stayed in the quintet for five more years (1964–1969). Later associations included Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, George Coleman, Louis Hayes (1975–1976), Bill Hardman (1979–1989), and the McCoy Tyner big band.
In addition to many appearances as a sideman, Junior Cook recorded as a leader for Jazzland (1961), Catalyst (1977), Muse, and SteepleChase.
He also taught at Berklee School of Music for a year during the 1970s.
In the early 1990s, Cook was playing with Clifford Jordan, and also leading his own group. He died in February 1992 in his apartment in New York City, aged 57.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
Junior's Cookin' (Jazzland, 1961)
Ichi-Ban (Timeless, 1976) with Louis Hayes
Pressure Cooker (Catalyst, 1977)
Good Cookin' (Muse, 1979)
Somethin's Cookin' (Muse, 1981)
The Place to Be (Steeplechase, 1988)
On a Misty Night (Steeplechase, 1989)
You Leave Me Breathless (Steeplechase, 1991)
As sideman
With Horace Silver
Live at Newport '58 (Blue Note, 1958 [2008])
6 Pieces of Silver (Blue Note, 1956–58)
Finger Poppin' (Blue Note, 1959)
Blowin' the Blues Away (Blue Note, 1959)
Horace-Scope (Blue Note, 1960)
Doin' the Thing (Blue Note, 1961)
Paris Blues (Pablo, 1962, [2002])
The Tokyo Blues (Blue Note, 1962)
Silver's Serenade (Blue Note, 1963)
Song for My Father (Blue Note, 1964)
Music to Ease Your Disease (Silverto, 1988)
With Barry Harris
Luminescence! (Prestige, 1967)
With Bill Hardman
Home (Muse, 1978)
Politely (Muse, 1981 [1982])
Focus (Muse, 1982)
What's Up (SteepleChase, 1989)
With Freddie Hubbard
Sing Me a Song of Songmy (Atlantic, 1971) – co-led with İlhan Mimaroğlu
Keep Your Soul Together (CTI Records, 1973)
High Energy (Columbia, 1974)
Polar AC (CTI Records, 1974)
Live At Carnegie Hall 1972 (Stepper Music, 2007)
With Clifford Jordan
Two Tenor Winner (Criss Cross, 1984)
Play What You Feel (Mapleshade, 1990 [1997])
With Blue Mitchell
The Cup Bearers (Riverside, 1962)
The Thing to Do (Blue Note, 1964)
Down with It! (Blue Note, 1965)
Bring It Home to Me (Blue Note, 1966)
Boss Horn (Blue Note, 1966)
Heads Up! (Blue Note, 1967)
With others
Kenny Burrell: Swingin' (Blue Note, 1956 [rel. 1980])
Kenny Burrell: Blue Lights (Blue Note, 1958)
Dave Bailey Sextet: One Foot in the Gutter (Epic, 1960)
Roy Brooks: Beat (Jazz Workshop, 1964)
Barry Harris: Luminescence! (Prestige, 1967)
Cedar Walton: Cedar! (Prestige, 1967)
John Patton: That Certain Feeling (Blue Note, 1968; Mosaic Select, 2003)
Don Patterson: Opus De Don (Prestige, 1968)
Louis Smith: Prancin' (SteepleChase, 1979)
Mickey Tucker: Sojourn (Xanadu, 1977)
McCoy Tyner: Uptown/Downtown (Milestone, 1988)
Walter Bishop Jr.: Hot House (Muse, 1979)
Louis Hayes: Ichi-Ban (Timeless, 1979)
Vibration Society Hilton Ruiz Steve Turre: The Music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Stash, 1986)
Larry Gales Sextet: A Message from Monk (Candid, 1990)
Bertha Hope: Elmo's Fire (Steeplechase, 1991)
References
1934 births
1992 deaths
Musicians from Pensacola, Florida
American jazz tenor saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Florida
Muse Records artists
SteepleChase Records artists
20th-century American saxophonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior%20Cook |
Pixel Chix was a handheld life simulation game released in 2005 by Mattel that was aimed at young children. The game was set in a plastic dollhouse and was similar to Tamagotchi in that they have a LCD screen and control buttons, although they are larger. The game is centered around interacting with a digital girl and doing activities with her, which includes feeding her, playing games, dressing her up, going out, sending her to bed and more. As you played, you would unlock new items and activities.
Other games in the series released featured the "Roomies" which brought 6 characters together in a 3-story apartment complex, a babysitting simulator, and a pet simulator called "The Secret Life of Pets" (no relation to the 2016 movie), which featured a hamster or dog. The Pixel Chix girls are all voiced by Tara Strong, except Miss Sporty who is voiced by Katherine Von Till.
Each house includes a lounge, kitchen and dining area, and steps leading upstairs. The first line of houses includes a cottage, mansion and loft, and a different girl inhabits each. The 2-Story House variant allows you to view and access the second story, and only includes a cottage and loft. Each house also comes in different colors including blue, pink and yellow. A unique purple loft was released only in Europe. Fitted at the bottom sides of every house are USB-like plug-ins that connect the houses together that allows different Pixel Chix to visit and interact with each other.
Pixel Chix were very successful upon release, forming an important part of Mattel's earnings that year.
In 2009, Mattel discontinued the brand, however, Pixel Chix remained on the Everythinggirl.com website until the website shut down in 2015.
Premise
In the game, two or more houses can be connected, allowing the characters (the Pixel Chix) to visit one another. These characters can be controlled in ways similar to other hand-held games, such as Tamagotchi. They can be told to go for a walk, watch television, eat a variety of foods, such as popcorn and hamburgers, and go to sleep.
The more they are played with, the more options appear to the player; higher levels introduce different types of food, more outfits and more games to play. However; if they are ignored, they will decrease in skill level. Eventually, if ignored for too long, the game will "end" by causing the characters to "leave", although they can come back by resetting the game using a mini screwdriver into a reset hole.
The story is based and shown on the Internet of women living in an all-female college and fashionable poses, beginning with a house, then mate's connection and following with cars and babysitting.
Variations and accessories
A number of Pixel Chix accessories have been created including the "Road Trippin' Cars" where one can go to the mall, go to the beach, or do many other things. The cars come in multiple colors. There are also metallic Road Trippin' Cars and a glitter house that were only released in Europe.
Also available is the Pixel Chix Love 2 Shop mall, where the Pixel Chix can work, shop, play games, and take breaks. There are two different malls, a boutique/food court, and a pet shop/salon. Each mall has an LCD flip screen, allowing the Pixel Chix girl to change stores. They are able to connect to the houses, cars, and other malls.
Another available accessory is the Pixel Chix two-story house. It is almost the exact replica of the original Pixel Chix except that it has an upstairs bedroom. There, the Pixel Chix can put on makeup at the vanity, go to the bathroom, and much more. They come in dark and light pink and are connectable to the cars, malls, and other houses. Here, no matter how long she is neglected, the Pixel Chix girl remains happy in the player's house with the player's level skills kept the same.
There is also Pixel Pets (Secret Life of Pets) in which pets can start becoming disco stars, the animal equivalent of Pixel Chix. Dogs and hamsters are available.
Also available is a babysitter house where the Pixel Chix looks after a baby girl. The red light flashes if something is wrong or needs attention.
There is the "Roomies" House with three floors (six rooms in all) with five different roommates - Diva Queen, DJ Hip Hop, Punk Rocker, Super Smarty and Miss Sporty - who are all sold separately, except for Miss Sporty, who comes with the Roomies house.
There is a Pixel Chix TV, which comes with a remote control to switch channels and also unlock channels.
The last Pixel Chix product to be released was the "Fab Life City" where the Pixel Chix girl can go to the bank, mall and amusement park. There is also a piggy bank which can hold coins.
McDonald's Happy Meal toys based on the line were released in 2008 in several countries, including Portugal, France, Australia and New Zealand.
Specification
The toys have an LCD screen display of various sizes, and are powered by four AAA alkaline batteries, while the cars use only 3 AAA batteries.
Since they were distributed in several countries, the voices of the characters were translated depending on where they were sold, being printed on the motherboard what language is programmed onto the ROM of the machine.
Website
There was an official website of Pixel Chix on Everythinggirl.com. There were games, such as "Monster Baby" and four mini-games which could be unlocked, videos of TV commercials, T-shirt graphics, a downloadable desktop buddy, as well as secret codes and a movie maker similar to that of Zimmer Twins. The website closed in 2014 along with the My Scene website.
References
External links
Mattel games
Handheld electronic games
2000s toys | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20Chix |
VF5 or VF5 may refer to:
Virtua Fighter 5, a fighting game
Vanadium(V) fluoride, a chemical compound
Fighting Squadron 5 (VF-5), an aviation unit of the United States Navy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF5 |
VF4 can refer to
Vanadium(IV) fluoride, a chemical compound with a formula VF4
Virtua Fighter 4, a video game | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF4 |
Bohumil Müller (30 June 1915 – 7 November 1987) was a religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in Czechoslovakia during World War II and the communist period, when their activities were banned by the Nazis and later by the communists. He spent fourteen years in concentration camps and communist prisons.
Early life
Müller was born in 1915 to Czech parents in Zbiroh, central Bohemia, some 30 miles west of Prague. His father, Tomáš Müller, was a leading member of the Unity of Brethren church, but the family converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1931. Bohumil was 16 at the time and learning to be a typesetter while his brother, Karel, was learning bookbinding.
Young Bohumil became very active in his faith and shortly after conversion he started working in the main office of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Prague. He progressed very quickly within the organisation, gaining greater responsibility. The Witnesses at that time used two legal corporations to facilitate their religious activities. In 1936, at the age of 21, Müller was elected a director of the International Bible Students Association, Czechoslovak Branch, and vice-director of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Czechoslovak Branch.
Müller was called to report for military service on 1 October 1937. He later wrote: “My conscience, however, told me that God does not want his servants to ‘learn war’ (Isaiah 2: 4).” Consequently he refused to serve and was arrested, becoming the first person imprisoned in Czechoslovakia for his Christian beliefs as a conscientious objector. Between October 1937 and the end of March 1939, he had been arrested four times, serving several months in prison each time.
Nazi period
On 1 April 1939 Müller was released from prison after serving his fourth term. Meanwhile, two weeks previously, on 15 March 1939, Nazi German forces had invaded and occupied all of Bohemia and Moravia. Müller reported back to his office and found many were fleeing Czechoslovakia before the Gestapo could arrest them. He, too, obtained a passport and was preparing to leave when word reached him asking him to stay and to prepare and co-ordinate the underground activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Czechoslovakia. He accepted and took on the responsibility of providing leadership during extraordinarily difficult times.
In 1941 Müller was discovered and arrested, after which he was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. Years later he wrote of his time in the camp. The Witnesses could have been released if they would only sign a form renouncing their faith. The SS tried different tactics to get them to sign, but very few did so. After describing various unspeakable tortures he underwent in the course of his four years in Mauthausen, he said: “Towards the end of 1944 Himmler’s special deputy, SS-Hauptsturmbannfüher Kramer, came from Berlin to try and persuade us to sign, with various promises and smooth talk. When he met with the decisively adverse attitude of the Witnesses, repressions against us started. We were distributed into blocks, so that nowhere would two brothers [Witnesses] live together. The camp commander published an order that kapos and Blockälteste block elders were to watch us so that we would not go out of the blocks, and the other prisoners were allowed by a special command to kill us should they ever see two of us together.” Still he survived, and was released when the camp was liberated.
Communist period
Müller was one of the first Witnesses to return home. He began the process of trying to re-establish contact with Witnesses both inside Czechoslovakia and outside. Once communication with the outside was established, Müller was appointed co-ordinator for the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Czechoslovakia in November 1945.
Thus began a three-year period of relative peace for the Witnesses in Czechoslovakia. After the end of Nazi occupation and before the full imposition of communism they were granted their freedom and took full advantage of it. However, on 28 November 1948 officials of the State Security visited the Witnesses’ office in Prague and arrested Müller and the rest of the office staff, and commandeered their building. However, in July 1949 the State Court stopped the criminal proceedings on account of lack of evidence, and released the prisoners. But as they were leaving the court they were arrested again and informed of a decision by the Communist Political Commission that they were to be sent to a labour camp for two years. Müller was sent to Kladno, where he worked in a coal mine.
Suddenly, early in 1950 all Jehovah’s Witnesses were released from labour camps and they experienced a brief reprieve from their persecution. Then in the early hours of 4 February 1952, in a major crackdown, Müller and 108 other Witnesses were arrested. For the next fourteen months Müller was not allowed out of solitary confinement without a blindfold and subjected to long interrogations. Then on 27 and 28 March 1953 a show trial was held. The Communist Party newspaper Rudé Právo (The Red Law), of 30 March 1953 reported on the results. Under a dateline, Prague, 29 March (CTK), it said: “On trial were the leading members of a religious sect whose adherents call themselves Jehovah’s Witnesses. This organisation, directed in Brooklyn, USA, and which has been banned in our country since 1949 for its destructive tendencies, has smuggled into Czechoslovakia cosmopolitan ideologies which, under the veil of pure Christianity, are designed to undermine the morale of our working masses.” Müller was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment; others were given lesser sentences.
In May 1960 he and the others were freed as part of a large-scale amnesty for political prisoners. He continued to direct the activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Czechoslovakia until his death in 1987.
References
1972 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, 1971.
2000 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, 2000
Adamy, Herbert – Bauer, Zdenek – Sobička, Eduard – Vodička, Karel: Fialové trojúhelníky. Zapomenutá kapitola holocaustu. Praha 2000.
Bauer, Zdenek: Antisemitsky laděné útoky namířené proti svědkům Jehovovým a mimořádný lidový soud s Karl Eichlerem. In: Poválečná justice a národní podoby antisemitismu. Praha – Opava 2002, pp. 204–222.
Bauer, Zdenek: Heftlinci s fialovým trojúhelníkem. In: Národní osvobození 2003, December.
Bauer, Zdenek: Tisk a kolportáž Biblí a náboženských tiskovin badatelů Bible. Preprint. Praha 2005–2006. In: http://www.kolportaz.cz
Hesse, Hans, ed.: Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime 1933-1945. Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2001.
Müller, Bohumil: Z mých vzpomínek. Typescript, 1987.
Müller, Lubomír and Wolfram Slupina: Verfolgung und Unterdrückung der Zeugen Jehovas in der Tsechoslowakei. (Persecution and Suppression of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Czechoslovakia). Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte Contemporary Church History. 17 (1/2004): 171-221.
Müller, Lubomír: Bitvy beze zbraní 1990-2000. Praha, 2000.
The Trial of the Subversive Sect of ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses.’ Rudé Právo, 30 March 1953.
1915 births
1987 deaths
Czech Jehovah's Witnesses
Czech conscientious objectors
Czech Christian pacifists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohumil%20M%C3%BCller |
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms (born 20 November 1974) is a German former speed skater. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit with the German team, and four years later she defended the title in Vancouver. She is married to former speed skater Marian Thoms since December 2005.
Records
Personal records
World records
References
External links
Official website
Photos of Daniela Anschütz-Thoms – At Lars Hagen's DESG photo web site
SpeedskatingBase.eu PB and link to results Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
Daniela Anschütz at SpeedSkatingStats.com
1974 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Erfurt
People from Bezirk Erfurt
German female speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for Germany
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
20th-century German women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Ansch%C3%BCtz-Thoms |
Charles Frederick Briggs (December 30, 1804 – June 20, 1877), also called C. F. Briggs, was an American journalist, author and editor, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was also known under the pseudonym "Harry Franco", having written The Adventures of Harry Franco in 1839, which was followed by a series of works dealing more or less humorously with life in New York City.
Biography
Briggs had been a sailor in Nantucket, Massachusetts, then a wholesale grocer. When his novel The Adventures of Harry Franco was suddenly successful, he pursued a career in journalism. The publication of this humorous adventure story in 1839 was an immediate sensation and led to even his friends nicknaming him "Franco", much to his dismay. In The Knickerbocker, Briggs began a series of humorous stories, including a serialized story that, though incomplete, was produced as the novel The Haunted Merchant in 1843.
Briggs founded the Copyright Club in 1843. The organization sought to spread awareness of the need for international copyright law, though Briggs left the Club when a magazine named Centurion "contrived to monopolize all the credit".
Briggs started the Broadway Journal in 1844 in New York City. He handled editorial duties and solicited for publications while his business partner, former schoolteacher John Bisco, handled publishing and financial concerns. One of his contributors was his friend James Russell Lowell, though Briggs disapproved of Lowell's "hot and excited" abolitionism. In December 1844, Lowell wrote to Briggs to recommend Edgar Allan Poe for a job at the new magazine. Poe became associate editor of the publication in January 1845 and co-editor a month later, also becoming one-third owner. Though Poe was a partial owner of the journal, Briggs never considered him a partner but "only an assistant". Poe called Briggs "grossly uneducated" and said that he "has never composed in his life three consecutive sentences of grammatical English." In June 1845, Briggs resigned due to financial difficulties and, in October, Bisco sold his part of the magazine to Poe for $50 (Poe paid with a note endorsed by Horace Greeley). The magazine's final publication was dated January 3, 1846.
C. F. Briggs later worked as editor for several other publications including Holden's Dollar Magazine and as managing editor for Putnam's Magazine (1853-1856) in connection with associate editors George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. With Curtis and Godwin, he also produced a gift book called The Homes of American Authors (1852). Later he served on the staff of the Times, the Evening Mirror, the Brooklyn Union, and, finally, the Independent. Briggs died on June 20, 1877, in Brooklyn.
Critical response
Lowell wrote of Briggs in his A Fable for Critics: "He's in joke half the time when he seems to be sternest / When he seems to be joking, be sure he's in earnest". He went on:
...as he draws near
You find that's a smile you took for a sneer;
One half of him contradicts t'other; his wont
Is to say very sharp things and do very blunt,
His manners as hard as his feelings are tender
Later, Lowell wrote to him in 1844, "You Gothamites strain hard to attain a metropolitan character, but I think if you felt very metropolitan you would not be showing it on all occasions".
Selected list of works
The Adventures of Harry Franco: A Tale of the Great Panic (1839)
The Haunted Merchant (1843)
Bankrupt Stories (1843)
Working a Passage, or Life in a Liner (1844)
The Trippings of Tom Pepper; or, The Results of Romancing, an Autobiography (1847)
Asmodeus; or, The iniquities of New York (1849)
References
External links
Charles Frederick Briggs at Nantucket Historical Society
Charles Frederick Briggs at the Edgar Allan Poe Society online
Charles Frederick Briggs at the Early American Fiction Collection at the University of Virginia
Obituary from the New York Times (June 1877)
’Sconset-born Charles Frederick Briggs: Early New York Novelist and Editor by Bette S. Weidman
American humorists
American magazine editors
American newspaper journalists
1804 births
1877 deaths
Edgar Allan Poe
People from Nantucket, Massachusetts
19th-century American journalists
American male journalists
19th-century American male writers
Journalists from Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Frederick%20Briggs |
Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer and band leader. He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band. He is part of the NEA Jazz Masters awards class of 2023.
Biography
Louis Sedell Hayes was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, to a father, an automaker, who played drums and piano. His mother waited tables and played the piano. She was the sister of John Nelson, the father of the musician Prince. Hayes got his first drum set at age 10. The key influence in his early development was his cousin Clarence Stamps, an accomplished drummer who grounded his technical fundamentals and gave him lessons that stuck for life. He refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially big bands on the radio. His main influence was Philly Joe Jones and he was mentored by Jo Jones. His three main associations were with Horace Silver's Quintet (1956–59), the Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1959–65), and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1965–67). Hayes often joined Sam Jones, both with Adderley and Peterson, and in freelance settings.
When he was a teenager, he led a band in Detroit clubs before he was 16. He worked with Yusef Lateef and Curtis Fuller from 1955 to 1956. He moved to New York in August 1956, to replace Art Taylor in the Horace Silver Quintet and, in 1959, joined the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, with which he remained until mid-1965, when he succeeded Ed Thigpen in the Oscar Peterson Trio. He left Peterson in 1967, and formed a series of groups, which he led alone or with others; among his sidemen were Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, and James Spaulding. He returned to Peterson in 1971.
The Louis Hayes Sextet, formed in 1972, became, in 1975, the Louis Hayes-Junior Cook Quintet and the Woody Shaw-Louis Hayes Quintet (Cook remained as a sideman until Rene McLean joined); in its last form the quintet played successful engagements throughout Europe and (without McLean) acted as the host group when, in 1976, Dexter Gordon visited the U.S. for the first time in many years. After Shaw left the group in 1977, Hayes continued to lead it as a hard-bop quintet.
Hayes has appeared on many records throughout the years, and played with John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Hank Mobley, Booker Little, Tommy Flanagan, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Gary Bartz, and Tony Williams. He also led sessions for Vee-Jay (1960), Timeless (1976), Muse (1977), Candid (1989), Steeplechase (1989–94), and TCB (2000–2002).
He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
Louis Hayes (Vee-Jay, 1960)
Breath of Life (Muse, 1974)
Ichi-Ban with Junior Cook (Timeless, 1976)
The Real Thing (Muse, 1978) – recorded in 1977
Variety Is the Spice (Gryphon, 1979) – recorded in 1978
Light and Lively (SteepleChase, 1989)
The Crawl (Candid, 1989)
Una Max (SteepleChase, 1990) – live recorded in 1989
Nightfall (SteepleChase, 1991)
Blue Lou (SteepleChase, 1993)
The Super Quartet (Timeless, 1994)
Louis at Large (Sharp Nine, 1996)
Quintessential Lou (TCB, 2000)
The Candy Man (TCB, 2001)
Dreamin' of Cannonball (TCB, 2002)
Maximum Firepower (Savant, 2006)
Return of the Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions, 2014)
Serenade for Horace (Blue Note, 2017)
As sideman
With Cannonball Adderley
In San Francisco (1959, Riverside) – live
Them Dirty Blues (Riverside, 1960)
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse (Riverside, 1960) – live
Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners (Riverside, 1961) – recorded in 1959-60
African Waltz (Riverside, 1961)
Plus (Riverside, 1961)
Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley (Capitol, 1961)
Cannonball in Europe! (Riverside, 1962) – live
Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1962) – live
Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1964) – live recorded in 1963
Autumn Leaves (Riverside, 1963)
The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1964)
Cannonball Adderley Live! (Capitol, 1964)
Live Session! (Capitol, 1964)
Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol, 1964)
Domination (Capitol, 1965)
Phenix (Fantasy, 1975)
The Sextet (Milestone, 1982) – recorded in 1962-63
With Nat Adderley
Work Song (Riverside, 1960)
Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)
With Kenny Burrell
K. B. Blues (Blue Note, 1979) – recorded in 1957
Bluesin' Around (Columbia, 1983) – recorded in 1961
With Al Cohn
Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1961) – recorded in 1960
True Blue with Dexter Gordon (Xanadu, 1976)
Silver Blue with Dexter Gordon (Xanadu, 1976)
With John Coltrane
Coltrane Time (United Artists, Blue Note, 1959) – recorded in 1958
Lush Life (Prestige, 1961) – recorded in 1957-58
The Believer (Prestige, 1963)
The Last Trane (Prestige, 1966) – recorded in 1957-58
With Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, and Idrees Sulieman
The Cats (Prestige, 1957)
With Curtis Fuller
New Trombone (Prestige, 1957)
Jazz ...It's Magic! (Regent, 1958) – recorded in 1957
Curtis Fuller Volume 3 (Blue Note, 1961) – recorded in 1957
Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (New Jazz, 1962) – recorded in 1957
With Dexter Gordon
Ca'Purange (Prestige, 1973) – recorded in 1972
Tangerine (Prestige, 1975) – recorded in 1972
With Grant Green
Gooden's Corner (Blue Note, 1961)
Oleo (Blue Note, 1962)
Born to Be Blue (Blue Note, 1962)
With Joe Henderson
The Kicker (Milestone, 1967)
Tetragon (Milestone, 1968)
With John Hicks
Gentle Rain (Sound Hills, 1994)
On the Wings of an Eagle (Chesky, 2006)
With Freddie Hubbard
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse!, 1962)
The Body & the Soul (Impulse!,1963)
The Hub of Hubbard (MPS, 1970)
With Sam Jones
The Soul Society (Riverside, 1960)
The Chant (Riverside, 1961)
Changes & Things (Xanadu, 1977)
Something in Common (Muse, 1977)
With Clifford Jordan
Cliff Craft (Blue Note, 1957)
Inward Fire (Muse, 1978) – recorded in 1977
With Yusef Lateef
Jazz for the Thinker (Savoy, 1957)
Stable Mates (Savoy, 1957)
Jazz Mood (Savoy, 1957)
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (Verve, 1958) – recorded in 1957
With Jackie McLean
Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957)
Makin' the Changes (New Jazz, 1960) – recorded in 1957
With Phineas Newborn, Jr.
A World of Piano! (Contemporary, 1962) – recorded in 1961
The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr. (Contemporary, 1963) – recorded in 1962-63
With Horace Silver
6 Pieces of Silver (Blue Note, 1957) – recorded in 1956
The Stylings of Silver (Blue Note, 1957)
Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note, 1958)
Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note, 1959)
Blowin' the Blues Away (Blue Note, 1959)
With James Spaulding
Songs of Courage (Muse, 1993) – recorded in 1991
Blues Nexus (Muse, 1994) – recorded in 1993
With Lucky Thompson
Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail (Groove Merchant, 1973)
I Offer You (Groove Merchant, 1973)
With Cedar Walton
A Night At Boomers, Vol. 1 (Muse, 1973) – live
A Night At Boomers, Vol. 2 (Muse, 1973) – live
Firm Roots (Muse, 1976) – recorded in 1974
Pit Inn (East Wind, 1975) – live recorded in 1974
With others
Pepper Adams, Conjuration: Fat Tuesday's Session (Reservoir, 1990) – recorded in 1983
Gene Ammons, Goodbye (Prestige, 1974)
Georges Arvanitas, Cocktail for Three (Pretoria, 1959)
James Clay, A Double Dose of Soul (Riverside, 1960)
Richard Davis, Muses for Richard Davis (MPS, 1969)
Kenny Drew, Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1960)
Victor Feldman, Merry Olde Soul (Riverside, 1961)
Ricky Ford,Tenor Madness Too! (Muse, 1992)
Terry Gibbs, Take It from Me (Impulse!, 1964)
Bennie Green, Back on the Scene (Blue Note, 1958)
Wilbur Harden, Mainstream 1958 (Savoy, 1958)
Barry Harris, Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (Riverside, 1960)
Johnny Hodges, Blue Hodge (Verve, 1961)
J. J. Johnson, A Touch of Satin (Columbia, 1962)
Harold Land, West Coast Blues! (Jazzland, 1960)
Johnny Lytle, Nice and Easy (Jazzland, 1962)
Ken McIntyre, Year of the Iron Sheep (United Artists, 1962)
Wes Montgomery, Movin' Along (Riverside, 1960)
Lee Morgan, Take Twelve (Jazzland, 1962)
David "Fathead" Newman,Resurgence! (Muse, 1981)
Freddie Redd, Shades of Redd (Blue Note, 1960)
Woody Shaw, The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (Muse, 1976)
Les Spann, Gemini (Jazzland, 1961) – recorded in 1960
Sonny Stitt, 12! (Muse, 1972)
Idrees Sulieman, Roots with the Prestige All Stars (New Jazz, 1958)
McCoy Tyner, Uptown/Downtown (Milestone, 1988)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Back Door Blues (Riverside, 1962)
Roosevelt Wardell, The Revelation (Prestige, 1960)
Phil Woods, Four Altos with Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, and Hal Stein (Prestige, 1957)
The Young Lions, The Young Lions (Vee-Jay, 1961) – recorded in 1960
Joe Zawinul, Money in the Pocket (Atlantic, 1966)
References
External links
Official website
Hard bop drummers
Post-bop drummers
Mainstream jazz drummers
American jazz drummers
Jazz musicians from Detroit
1937 births
Living people
SteepleChase Records artists
Timeless Records artists
Vee-Jay Records artists
Muse Records artists
Candid Records artists
Chesky Records artists
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Cannonball Adderley Quintet members
HighNote Records artists
Smoke Sessions Records artists
Oscar Peterson Trio members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Hayes |
VF1, or similar, may refer to:
VF-1, a deactivated fighter squadron of the United States Navy
VF-1 (Brazil), a fighter squadron of the Brazilian Navy
VF-1 Valkyrie, a fictional aircraft in the Macross and Robotech series
Virtua Fighter (video game), a 1993 fighting game
NaV1.5, an alias VF1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF1 |
Carlo Zotti (born 3 September 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Zotti was born in Foglianise, Benevento. He started his career at A.S. Roma, but his first-team experience was limited due to the presence of experienced goalkeepers Francesco Antonioli, Ivan Pelizzoli and Cristiano Lupatelli. He also had to compete with other young keepers such as Gianluca Curci. In 2004, he signed a five-year contract with Roma. In 2005, he was loaned to Ascoli Calcio 1898 to seek first team football.
He was back at Roma in the summer of 2006, but because Roma signed Julio Sergio Bertagnoli, Zotti became the 4th choice goalkeeper. Loaning him out proved a difficult task, so Zotti played for the Primavera side in the 2006–07 season. Due to this, he was finally sent on loan to U.C. Sampdoria in January 2007.
Zotti signed for Serie B team AS Cittadella in 2008, which Zotti terminated the contract with Roma by mutual consent, he joined than on 28 January 2009 to AC Bellinzona.
Zotti joined in 2012. In September, during a 3–2 away against FC Winterthur, he was substituted off due to an injury.
International career
Zotti was in the Italy U21 squad that won the 2004 European Under-21 Football Championship, but was an unused sub.
References
External links
National Team stats. at FIGC official site
Carlo Zotti Interview (1)
Carlo Zotti Interview (2)
Zotti: "I could have made another career: AC Milan is my great regret"
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Benevento
Men's association football goalkeepers
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's youth international footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
AS Roma players
Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players
UC Sampdoria players
AC Bellinzona players
AS Cittadella players
FC Wil players
FC Locarno players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Italian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Footballers from Campania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Zotti |
Edixa is a brand of camera manufacturer Wirgin Kamerawerk which was based in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The product line included several 35mm cameras and 16mm Edixa 16 subminiature cameras designed by Heinz Waaske from the 1950s to the 1970s.
35mm cameras
Edixa Reflex, with Steinheil Quinon 1.9/55mm, Isco Travegar 2.8/50mm
Edixa-MAT REFLEX
Edixa REX TTL
Universal edixamat cd
Edixa Stereo
Edixa Electronica
Edixa motoric
16mm subminiature cameras
Edixa 16, with Isco Travegar 2.8/25mm lens
Edixa 16M, with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/25mm lens
Edixa 16MB, black model of Edixa 16M
Edixa 16U
Franka 16
alka 16
Body Alunimiu body with plastic trims。
Lenses: high-end Edixa 16MB/Edixa 16M uses Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar 4-element 3-group lens, mid-range Edixa 16 uses Travegar 25mm f/2.8 Tessar lens, the rest uses TRINAR Cooke triplet lens. *Focusing dial: unit lens movement focusing, 40mm to infinity.
Shutter: four leaves in front of the lens shutter, B, 1/30, 1/60, 1/150.
Film
Edixa 16mm uses Rollei 16 type RADA cartridge, loaded with unperforated 16mm film, film width 16mm， frame format 14x21mm, 20 exposures per cartridge.
Accessories
Chain
Genuine leather case
Lens hood
Color filter set
1m close up attachment lens
0.5m close up lens
0.25m close up lens
AG1 flash
Selenium exposure meter coupled to the shutter
Development tank
Slide projector
References
Jörg Eikmann, Ulrich Vogt: Kameras für Millionen – Heinz Waaske, Konstrukteur. Wittig Fachbuch
External links
Site with photos and history section
German cameras
SLR cameras
Subminiature cameras
Wirgin cameras | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edixa |
Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. He moved to New York City in 1957, after which he recorded three albums for Blue Note. He recorded with Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, and Kenny Dorham, among others. He was part of the Charles Mingus Sextet, with Eric Dolphy, during its 1964 European tour.
Jordan toured Africa with Randy Weston, and performed in Paris while living in Belgium. In later years, he led his own groups, performed with Cedar Walton's quartet Eastern Rebellion, and led a big band.
Jordan was married to Shirley Jordan, a designer and former owner of Clothing Manufacturing Corporation in New York. He later married Sandy Jordan (née Williams), a graphic artist and Honorary Founders Board member of the Jazz Foundation of America.
Death
Jordan died of lung cancer at the age of 61 in New York City.
Discography
As leader
1957: Blowing in from Chicago (Blue Note) co-led with John Gilmore
1957: Cliff Jordan (Blue Note)
1957: Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (New Jazz) with John Jenkins and Bobby Timmons
1957: Cliff Craft (Blue Note)
1960: Spellbound (Riverside)
1961: A Story Tale (Jazzland) with Sonny Red
1961: Starting Time (Jazzland)
1962: Bearcat (Jazzland)
1965: These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (Atlantic)
1968: Soul Fountain (Vortex)
1972: In the World (Strata-East)
1973: Glass Bead Games (Strata-East)
1974: Half Note (SteepleChase)
1975: Night of the Mark VII (Muse)
1975: On Stage Vol. 1 (SteepleChase)
1975: On Stage Vol. 2 (SteepleChase)
1975: On Stage Vol. 3 (SteepleChase)
1975: Firm Roots (SteepleChase)
1975: The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase)
1976: Remembering Me-Me (Muse)
1977: Inward Fire (Muse)
1978: The Adventurer (Muse)
1978: Hello, Hank Jones (Eastworld)
1981: Hyde Park After Dark (Bee Hive) with Victor Sproles, Von Freeman, Cy Touff
1984: Repetition (Soul Note)
1984: Dr. Chicago (Bee Hive)
1984: Two Tenor Winner (Criss Cross) with Junior Cook
1985: The Rotterdam Session (Audio Daddio) with Philly Joe Jones and James Long
1986: Royal Ballads (Criss Cross)
1987: Live at Ethell's (Mapleshade)
1989: Blue Head (Candid, 1990) with David "Fathead" Newman
1989: Masters from Different Worlds (Mapleshade) with Ran Blake and Julian Priester
1990: Four Play (DIW/Columbia) with Richard Davis, James Williams & Ronnie Burrage
1989-90: The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (Mapleshade)
1990: Play What You Feel (Mapleshade)
1991: Down Through the Years (Milestone)
As sideman
With Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers Quintet (Blue Note, 1957)
With Sonny Clark
Sonny Clark Quintets (Blue Note, 1957, the three tracks with Clifford Jordan reissued on My Conception, 2008 CD)
With Richard Davis
Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Muse, 1972)
Dealin' (Muse, 1973)
With Eric Dolphy
Iron Man (1963)
Conversations (1963)
With Art Farmer
Mirage (Soul Note, 1982)
You Make Me Smile (Soul Note, 1984)
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Contemporary, 1987)
Blame It on My Youth (Contemporary, 1988)
Ph.D. (Contemporary, 1989)
Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence, 1992)
With Dizzy Gillespie
To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)
With Slide Hampton
Roots (Criss Cross, 1985)
With John Hicks and Elise Wood
Luminous (Nilva, 1985)
With Andrew Hill
Shades (Soul Note, 1986)
With J. J. Johnson
J.J. Inc. (Columbia, 1960)
With Charles McPherson
Con Alma! (Prestige, 1965)
With Carmen McRae
Any Old Time (1986)
Carmen Sings Monk (1988)
With Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964 (Blue Note, 1964 [2007])
Town Hall Concert (Jazz Workshop, 1964)
Astral Weeks
Revenge! (1964)
The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (America, 1964 [1971])
Mingus in Europe Volume I (Enja, 1964 [1980])
Mingus in Europe Volume II (Enja, 1964 [1980])
Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (Fantasy, 1964)
With Mingus Dynasty
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Soul Note, 1988)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Soul Note, 1988)
With Lee Morgan
Here's Lee Morgan (Vee-Jay, 1960)
Expoobident (Vee-Jay, 1960)
Take Twelve (Jazzland, 1962)
With Pony Poindexter
Pony's Express (Epic, 1962)
With Freddie Redd
Lonely City (Uptown, 1985 [1989])
With Dizzy Reece
Manhattan Project (Bee Hive, 1978) – with Roy Haynes, Art Davis, Charles Davis, Albert Dailey)
With Max Roach
Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse!, 1961)
It's Time (Impulse!, 1962)
Speak, Brother, Speak! (Fantasy, 1962)
With Sahib Shihab
The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Savoy, 1957)
With Horace Silver
Further Explorations (Blue Note, 1958)
With Charles Tolliver
Music Inc. (Strata-East, 1971)
With Mal Waldron
What It Is (Enja, 1981)
With Cedar Walton
Spectrum (Prestige, 1968)
The Electric Boogaloo Song (Prestige, 1969)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 (Muse, 1973)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (Muse, 1973)
The Pentagon (East Wind, 1976)
With Joe Zawinul
Money in the Pocket (Atlantic, 1967)
References
External links
Clifford Jordan Leader discography, accessed November 7, 2012
Clifford Jordan obituary in The New York Times, accessed January 24, 2019
1931 births
1993 deaths
Post-bop saxophonists
Hard bop saxophonists
Big band saxophonists
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Chicago
Strata-East Records artists
SteepleChase Records artists
Muse Records artists
Criss Cross Jazz artists
DIW Records artists
Riverside Records artists
Blue Note Records artists
20th-century American saxophonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Dameronia members
Mingus Dynasty (band) members
Mapleshade Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Jordan |
Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady) is a polyphonic mass composed before 1365 by French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377). Widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of medieval music and of all religious music, it is historically notable as the earliest complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer (in contrast to earlier compilations such as the Tournai Mass).
Structure
The Messe de Nostre Dame consists of six movements, namely the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and the dismissal Ite, missa est. The tenor of the Kyrie is based on Vatican Kyrie IV, the Sanctus and Agnus correspond to Vatican Mass XVII and the Ite is on Sanctus VIII. The Gloria and Credo have no apparent chant basis, although they are stylistically related to one another.
Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame is for four voices rather than the more common three. Machaut added a countertenor voice that moved in the same low range as the tenor, sometimes replacing it as the lowest voice.
Unification
In the liturgy of the Mass, the items of the Ordinary are not performed consecutively, but are separated from one another by prayers and chants. Machaut's unification of these items into an artistic whole is the earliest instance of an Ordinary of the Mass setting that is stylistically coherent and was also conceived as a unit. This gesture imposed on the Ordinary is a previously unconsidered abstract artistic idea and potentially influenced composers throughout the ages to continue setting the Ordinary to stylistically coherent music.
Purpose and style
Machaut composed his Messe de Nostre Dame for the Cathedral at Reims where he served as a canon, a permanent member of the clergy. According to a rubric found at the Cathedral, it would have likely been performed for the Saturday Lady Mass. Some scholars hypothesize that, contrary to popular belief, Machaut did not actually come to work for the Reims Cathedral until the end of the 1350s, composing the mass as an act of devotion and dedication marking his arrival in the precinct. In conformity with the wills of Guillaume and his brother Jean, also a canon at the Cathedral, the mass was believed to have been transformed into a memorial service for them following their deaths. However, neither the specific nature of its performance (if such a performance exists) nor the service the Mass was prepared for has been conclusively ascertained.
It is possible that Machaut was familiar with the Tournai Mass, an even earlier polyphonic 14th-century mass setting in which each movement is believed to have been written independently by different composers. The Gloria and Credo of the Messe de Nostre Dame exhibit some similarities to the Tournai mass, such as textless musical interludes, simultaneous style, and long melismatic Amens. The other four movements of Machaut's mass are composed in motet style with Mass text.
Recordings
It is often stated that the Messe de Nostre Dame was first recorded by Safford Cape in 1956 for the Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion Series. However, earlier recordings were made by the Dessoff Choirs under Paul Boepple, in 1951; and a partial recording by Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean-des-Matines under Guillaume de Van in 1936. More recent recordings include the following:
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame. (1984), Taverner Consort and Taverner Choir directed by Andrew Parrott (EMI ASD1435761)
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame. (1993), Hilliard Ensemble directed by Paul Hillier (Hyperion CDA66358)
Early Music – Machaut: La Messe De Nostre Dame, Le Voir Dit (1996), Oxford Camerata directed by Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 553833)
Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Notre Dame. (1996), Ensemble Organum directed by Marcel Peres
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame. (2000), Ensemble Gilles Binchois directed by Dominique Vellard (Cantus 9624)
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame. (2008), Diabolus in Musica directed by Antoine Guerber (Alpha 132)
Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame. (2016), Graindelavoix directed by Björn Schmelzer (Glossa GCD-P32110)
Notes
References
Guillaume De Machaut's Messe De Nostre Dame
Gilbert Reaney, Machaut (London: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Machaut's Mass: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Anne Walters Robertson. Guillaume de Machaut at Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
External links
Complete discography
Compositions by Guillaume de Machaut
Masses (music)
Medieval compositions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messe%20de%20Nostre%20Dame |
Konstantin Gustavovich Igelström (; 1799 - 1851) Russian Decembrist from the noble Swedish family of Igelström.
Konstantin Igelstrom was born in the city of Shumsk on 8 May 1799. He graduated from the Cadets Corps in 1816 and was made captain in 1825.
Founder and head of the secret Society of Military Friends, who initiated the protest of the Livland Pioneer Battalion, arrested on 27 December 1825 and put under surveillance in Białystok. The military court sentenced Igelstrom to death, but the highest decree of Nicholas I of Russia of 15 April 1827 deprived him of all nobility titles and condemned to penal servitude during 10 years in Siberia. After serving the sentence, he was prohibited from visiting Moscow or Saint Petersburg and settled in the city of Taganrog in 1843, where he worked as the assistant to the supervisor of the Taganrog's Customs' bonded warehouse. He died on 11 November 1851 and was buried at the Taganrog Old Cemetery.
External links and references
Таганрог. Энциклопедия, Таганрог, издательство АНТОН, 2008
1799 births
1851 deaths
People from Shumsk
People from Volhynian Governorate
Baltic-German people
Nobility from the Russian Empire
Swedish nobility
Decembrists
Russian people of Swedish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Igelstr%C3%B6m |
Victor Emery (born June 28, 1933) is a Canadian athlete and businessman. Emery was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is a gold medallist in the four man bobsleigh pilot from the 1964 Olympic Winter Games, as well as the 1965 World Championships.
Involved in diverse athletics from a young age, Emery, was a "Mustang" in swimming, wrestling and skiing at the University of Western Ontario. He later graduated with an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Emery attempted to ski across the mountains from St. Moritz to Cortina in order to watch the 1956 Winter Olympics. However, there was little snow near Merano. By chance, the British Bobsleigh Team gave him a lift the rest of the way. In spite of that long ride on a bobsleigh seat in an open truck at -20, this is where his interest in the bob sport was inspired.
He became a "surrogate" Spaniard on the Marquis de Portago's bob team in St Moritz's Swiss Meisterschaft, which followed the Olympics.
Portago subsequently encouraged Emery to try his hand at piloting a bobsleigh by loaning him a Spanish sled. Emery, who was a Navy Reserve pilot familiar with unusual positions, became immediately hooked on bob sleighing. He and a fellow Western graduate - Lamont Gordon, gained enough competency in Lake Placid to represent Canada in the 1959 World Bobsleigh Championships in St Moritz, accompanied by Vic's brother John and Charles Rathgeb.
Their performance was less than stellar in 1959, however, Emery sought guidance from the great world champion and 1956 Olympic Silver medallist, Eugenio Monti, who became a lifelong friend, mentoring Vic at annual World Championships from there on.
The initial goal of Vic and his teammates was to be the first Canadian bobsleigh team to compete in the Winter Olympic Games. Squaw Valley, host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, did not build a bobsleigh run for the Games, and so, the bobsledders of the time, including Monti and other world champions, chomped at the bit for the eight years from 1956 for another chance at Olympic medals.
Canada's Bobsleigh contingent realized their dream at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Without corporate or government sponsorship, they purchased their equipment and generally paid their own way. And while strong in pre-race practice runs, they were given little chance against Monti's Italian world champion team, and double silver medallist in the 1956 Olympics, also the heavily favoured Austrians, as well as the Swiss, German champions and other long standing bobsledders. In the first heat, however, the Canadians astonished everyone, with a magical run which set a track record, leading the field by over a half second.
Their sled's axle was damaged when hitting a side wall in the finish straight. With little time allotted between heats, if the Canadians had missed their starting slot, the team would have been disqualified. However, Emery's rival and friend, Eugenio Monti and his mechanics, came to the rescue, adequately repairing the sled in time. The team carried on with second fastest second and third heats, and then, on the third day of the competition garnered another first place in the fourth heat to win overall by a full second.
Alongside his comfort with the Igls bob Track, Vic Emery attributes their win to a fantastic team spirit credited to the number two man - Doug Anakin, a former Intercollegiate wrestling finalist, the strength of brakeman Peter Kirby, a former FIS skier for Canada and strong start helped enormously by the speed of Vic's track star brother Dr. John in the awkward #3 slot. John forsook his place as pilot of the other Canadian four man sled in favour of joining Vic's team during the last days before the four man competition. With him on board, Canada's starts became almost as good as those of the Austrian and Italian teams which came second and third.
In the same Olympics, Vic Emery & Peter Kirby earned a fourth-place finish in the two-man bobsled competition.
The following year, 1965, in St Moritz, Vic Emery's team, with new additions Gerald Presley and Michael Young sandwiched between him and brakeman Peter Kirby, won the FIBT World Bobsled Championship. Emery and Young finished third in the two-man event.
In 1966, due to a deteriorating track which precipitated a tragic crash killing the German pilot, the World four man Bob Championships in Cortina were cancelled part way through. By 1967, the Emery team retired from bob sleighing then, however encouraged the young through their example and by recruitment to firmly establish the sport of bobsleigh on Canadian soil, now supported by bobsleigh tracks in both Alberta (1988 Winter Olympics) and British Columbia (2010 Winter Olympics).
Today, after reactivating the Lake Louise Ski area and a number of other entrepreneurial, corporate and philanthropic activities, Vic Emery is retired and living in Europe - London and Oslo.
The two Emery brothers, Anakin and Kirby, were inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1964 and Canada's Olympic Hall of Fame in 1971. Young and Presley also followed into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame after the 1965 win.
References
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
1933 births
Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Canadian male bobsledders
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for Canada
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
University of Western Ontario alumni
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%20Emery |
Cathy Caruth (born 1955) is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature. After graduating cum laude from Princeton University, she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. Before coming to Cornell, she taught at Yale, then Emory, where she developed an archive of Holocaust testimony, co-organized a national interdisciplinary conference on trauma, and significantly expanded the graduate program in Comparative Literature.
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. has described Caruth as “one of the most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon.” According to Jonathan Culler, she was:
[T]he first to realize the importance of trauma theory for the humanities. Working closely with psychoanalysts and psychologists to bring techniques of literary interpretation to bear on questions about the meaning of survival, and the nature of witnessing, she edited two historically important issues of American Imago on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Trauma. Exploring trauma as a model for thinking about relations between history and experience, her books have made her a leader in this field which she partly created.
For a good discussion of Caruth's highly influential work on trauma theory, see , 4–5, and , 173–182, n.3.
Works
Authored
Edited
co-edited with Deborah Esch,
References
Emory University faculty
1955 births
Living people
American academics of English literature
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Cornell University faculty
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American women academics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Caruth |
The Man Who Wasn't There may refer to:
Film
The Man Who Wasn't There (1983 film), an American 3-D comedy
The Man Who Wasn't There (1987 film), a French thriller based on the Roderick MacLeish novel
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film), a Coen brothers thriller
Literature
The Man Who Wasn't There (Gilbert novel), 1937
The Man Who Wasn't There (Barker novel), 1988
The Man Who Wasn't There (MacLeish novel), 1976
See also
"Antigonish" (poem), also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", a poem by Hughes Mearns | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20Who%20Wasn%27t%20There |
Élisabeth Guigou (; born Élisabeth Vallier; 6 August 1946) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017, representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency.
Early life and career
Guigou was born in Marrakesh, Morocco. After attending Sciences Po Aix and ENA, France's elite graduate school of public affairs, she worked in Jacques Delors' staff in 1982 before being hired by Hubert Védrine in François Mitterrand's government. She was appointed Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee on European Economical Matters in 1986 during the period of cohabitation.
Studies
Bachelor of English Language, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III
Master of American Literature, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III
Master of Political Science, Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence
2 years university degree in Economy (DEUG), Aix-Marseille University
Alumna of the École nationale d'administration (ENA), Promotion Simone Weil (1974).
Political career
Guigou first got a taste of front-line politics when she was appointed Minister of European Affairs (1990–1993), during the campaign on the Maastricht Treaty.
Member of the European Parliament, 1994–1997
Guigou was elected to the European Parliament in the 1994 elections. Throughout her time in parliament, she served as vice-chairwoman of the Committee on Institutional Affairs. During 1994–1995 she was member of the Tindemans group. Together with Elmar Brok, she represented the European Parliament in the negotiations that produced the Amsterdam Treaty.
Member of the Jospin government, 1997–2002
In 1997, Guigou was elected to the National Assembly in the Vaucluse département and entered incoming Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, as Minister of Justice (1997–2000) and then as Minister of Employment (2000–2002).
During her time in office, Guigou co-sponsored several bills that became law. She co-sponsored a 1998 law which abrogated the requirement of "manifestation of will" for children born in France of foreign parents to gain citizenship. Also in the late 1990s, she took action to grant investigating magistrates more independence; at the same time, she gave the Justice Ministry the ability to intervene.
Guigou also co-sponsored a 2000 law which articulated the French policy on presumption of innocence in media by prohibiting magazines and newspapers from publishing photographs of accused individuals wearing handcuffs or other scenes which may "jeopardise a victim's dignity". It forbids the publication of photographs of survivors of violent crimes, including terrorist attacks, without their permission. The law, which was unanimously supported by the Senate and later became known as the Guigou law, was openly opposed by leading publications such as Paris Match, which ignores the law.
In 2001, in response to announcements of layoffs ahead of the 2002 presidential elections, Guigou and Jospin developed a proposal that required large employers planning layoffs to double severance-pay packages and provide at least six months' job retraining to laid-off workers.
Member of the National Assembly, 2002–2017
Guigou failed to be elected Mayor of Avignon and, facing possible defeat against Marie-Josée Roig in her district, was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in 2002 in the heavily left-wing département of Seine-Saint-Denis. She was re-elected in 2007.
Guigou campaigned for the Yes side in the referendum on the 2005 Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
From 2010 until 2011, Guigou served as vice-president of the National Assembly. In 2011, she was a supporter of Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry's presidential bid. However, she later helped Aubry's competitor François Hollande to prepare to re-negotiate European fiscal rules.
From 2012 until 2017, Guigou served as chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs since 2012. She was also a member of the Committee on European Affairs and the Working Group on the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest. In addition to her committee assignments, she served as vice-chairwoman of the French-Moroccan Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2012 convention in Toulouse, Guigou publicly endorsed Harlem Désir as candidate to succeed Martine Aubry at the party's leadership.
In 2013, Guigou represented France for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
Shortly after the referendum on the status of Crimea held on 16 March 2014, Guigou and her counterparts of the Weimar Triangle parliaments – Norbert Röttgen of Germany and Grzegorz Schetyna of Poland – visited Kyiv to express their countries' firm support of the territorial integrity and the European integration of Ukraine. This was the first time that parliamentarians of the Weimar Triangle had ever made a joint trip to a third country.
Following the 2014 European elections, Guigou confirmed her interest in succeeding Michel Barnier as France's member of the European Commission, thereby challenging Pierre Moscovici.
From 2015, Guigou served as a member of the European Commission's High-level Group of Personalities on Defence Research chaired by Elżbieta Bieńkowska.
Later career
In December 2020, Guigou was named by Secretary of State for Child protection Adrien Taquet to lead a government-mandated committee on sexual violence against children. Amid revelations about sexual assault involving her friend Olivier Duhamel, Guigou resigned from that role in January 2021.
Overview
Governmental function
Minister of European Affairs : 1990–1993.
Keeper of the seals, Minister of Justice : 1997–2000.
Minister of Employment and Solidarity : 2000–2002.
Electoral mandates
European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament : 1994–1997 (Became minister in 1997, and elected in parliamentary elections).
French Parliament
Member of the National Assembly of France for Vaucluse : June 1997- July 1997 (Appointed Minister of Justice in July 1997).
Member of the National Assembly of France for Seine-Saint-Denis : Elected in 2002, reelected in 2007 and 2012.
Regional Council
Regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur : Elected in 1992, reelected in 1998, resigned in 2001.
Municipal Council
Deputy-mayor of Noisy-le-Sec : 2008–2010.
Other activities
Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures, President (since 2014)
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member of the Council
Femmes d'Europe (Women of Europe), Founder
Europartenaires, founding chairwoman and co-president (with Jean-Noël Jeanneney)
Friends of Europe, Member of the Board of Trustees
Institut de Prospective Economique du Monde Méditerranéen (IPEMED), Member of the Political Sponsorship Committee
Institut du Bosphore, Member of the Scientific Committee
Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), Member of the Board of Directors
Jacques Delors Institute, Member of the Board of Directors
Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Member of the Strategic Committee
Trilateral Commission, Member of the European Group
Political positions
In December 2014, Guigou raised international media attention by sponsoring a resolution to ask the French government to recognise Palestine.
In May 2016, Guigou joined 16 French female politicians – including Christine Lagarde and Fleur Pellerin – in calling for an end to "immunity" for sexist male politicians in an open letter published in the Journal de Dimanche newspaper. The letter came after Denis Baupin, deputy speaker of the National Assembly, resigned over sexual harassment claims.
Personal life
Guigou is married to Jean-Louis Guigou, a professor of economics, former technical adviser to Michel Rocard and civil servant. They have one child.
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Marrakesh
Convention of Republican Institutions politicians
Unified Socialist Party (France) politicians
Socialist Party (France) politicians
French Ministers of Justice
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Women government ministers of France
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
20th-century French women politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Female justice ministers
Alumni of Lycée Descartes (Rabat)
Sciences Po Aix alumni
École nationale d'administration alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth%20Guigou |
Abdul Majid Giaka ( ; born 1960) is an alleged double agent who defected from Jamahiriya el-Mukhabarat (Libyan intelligence service) and became a CIA asset in August 1988.
Giaka's testimony at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in September 2000, which led to the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of sabotaging Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988, was called into question by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in June 2007.
Background
In 1984, Giaka joined the Jamahariya Security Organisation (“JSO”), later named the External Security Organisation. His initial employment was in the vehicle maintenance department for about eighteen months. In December 1985 Giaka was appointed as assistant to the station manager of Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) at Luqa airport in Malta, which he alleged was normally filled by a member of the JSO.
In August 1988 Giaka contacted the US embassy in Malta, and indicated a willingness to provide them with information. He told them that he disapproved of Libyan involvement in terrorism, but the final straw was that he had been summoned back to Tripoli in connection with an incident at the airport involving an Egyptian woman. Giaka said that at that stage he wanted to go to the US, but he agreed to stay in position at Luqa airport to give information to the Americans about terrorist activities. Thereafter he had regular meetings at about monthly intervals with his CIA handlers. Eventually during 1990 he did return to Libya when the Americans stopped making payments to him. In July 1991 however he finally left Libya for Malta from where he was taken on board a US navy ship. Over a period of about three weeks he was questioned by members of the US Justice Department and provided certain information to them. Since then he has been in America on a witness protection scheme.
Giaka endeavoured from the outset to give a false impression of his importance within the JSO in the hope of persuading the CIA that he was a valuable asset who might in the future be able to provide valuable information. Thus he initially told them that when he joined the JSO he was in the secret files section, when in fact he was in vehicle maintenance; he claimed to be related to King Idris, which he was not. He also claimed that Muammar al-Gaddafi and Guido de Marco, former president of Malta, were in an international Masonic conspiracy. His continued association with the American authorities was largely motivated by financial considerations. In addition to receiving a monthly salary, initially $1000 increasing to $1500, he also persuaded the CIA to pay for sham surgery to his arm with a view to preventing the risk that he would have to do military service in Libya, and tried to persuade them to finance a car rental business which at one stage he said he wanted to set up in Malta.
Lockerbie trial
Although most of Giaka's testimony at the Lockerbie trial was rejected by the court, it was his allegation that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, one of the two Libyans indicted for the bombing, was an officer of the JSO intelligence agency which led to Megrahi's conviction. At an early meeting with the CIA in October 1988, Giaka was asked if he knew anything of weapons on Malta. He said that he was aware of eight kilos of explosives which had been stored for months at the LAA office. He understood that they had been introduced some time in 1985 when Megrahi was in Malta. They were not kept in a safe, merely in a locked drawer in the desk. He had been asked to help in transferring them to the Libyan embassy. A further report shortly thereafter indicated that they were kept in the Valletta office. In July 1991, he added the information that the other accused Libyan, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, was the custodian of these explosives. The details of this story only emerged some two and a half years after the initial account, and contained a number of inconsistencies with the first account.
Giaka told investigators that he had seen Megrahi and Fhimah at the luggage carousel, that Fhimah collected a brown Samsonite type suitcase which he took through Customs, that then he met the two accused who were accompanied by two other people one of whom was introduced to him by the first accused as Abougela Masoud, a technician, that Vincent Vassallo (an associate of the second accused) was also present having arrived in the second accused’s new car, and that they then drove off. As other evidence established that the date of delivery of the second accused’s car was 14 December 1988, it follows that if Giaka’s story is true this incident must have occurred on 20 December 1988. He maintained that he had told his CIA handlers about this incident at the time. The respective CIA cables for this period disclose no mention of this incident at all. Furthermore, Mr Vassallo in evidence said that on 20 December 1988 he was not at the airport, and that in fact both accused came to his house that evening.
Giaka told about a conversation in about 1986 with Said Rashid, the head of the operations section of JSO, when the latter asked if it would be possible to put an unaccompanied bag on board a British aircraft. Giaka said he would investigate, and asked his assistant, Ahmed Salah, also said to be a JSO officer, if it could be done. Salah later reported that it could be done, and Abdul Majid wrote a report to Said Rashid to this effect, sending the report through his superior, the first accused. In his evidence Giaka accepted that he had never reported this to the CIA. He said that his reason for not reporting it was for personal security reasons.
The court stated in its judgement: "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid Giaka as a credible and reliable witness on any matter except his description of the organisation of the JSO and the personnel involved there."
References
External links
Lockerbie Case Judgement
Lockerbie: the story and the lessons by Rodney Wallis (2001)
Pan Am Flight 103
Libyan Muslims
People who entered the United States Federal Witness Protection Program
1960 births
Living people
Defectors to the United States
Libya–United States relations
Libyan emigrants to the United States
Libyan defectors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Majid%20Giaka |
EuropaBio ("The European Association for Bioindustries") is Europe's largest and most influential biotech industry group, whose members include leading large-size healthcare and industrial biotechnology companies. EuropaBio is located in Brussels, Belgium. The organisation was initiated in 1996 to represent the interests of the biotechnology industry at the European level, and therefore influence legislation that serves the interests of biotechnology companies in Europe.
Activity and goals
EuropaBio is engaged in dialogue with the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of Ministers to influence legislation on biotechnology.
EuropaBio represents the three traditional sectors of the biotech industry.
White or industrial biotechnology is the application of biotechnology for industrial purposes, including manufacturing, alternative energy (or "bioenergy") biofuels, and biomaterials.
Red or healthcare biotechnology is the application of biotechnology for the production of medicines and therapies.
Green or agrifood biotechnology is a collection of technologies using plant organisms and plant cells for the production or transformation of food, biomaterials and energy.
EuropaBio's stated goals are:
promoting an innovative, coherent, and dynamic biotechnology-based industry in Europe;
advocating free and open markets and the removal of barriers to competitiveness with other areas of the world;
committing to an open, transparent, and informed dialogue with all stakeholders about the ethical, social, and economic aspects of biotechnology and its benefits;
championing the socially responsible use of biotechnology to ensure that its potential is fully used to the benefit of humans and their environment.
EuropaBio's primary focus is the European Union but because of the global character of the biotech business, it also represents its members in transatlantic and worldwide forums.
Organisation
EuropaBio has a board of management made up of representatives from among its industry members. Since September 2020, Andrew Topen Novartis is chairman of the board.
The board is assisted by sectoral councils representing the main segments of EuropaBio – healthcare (red biotech), and industrial (white biotech).
Experts from member companies and national associations participate in EuropaBio's working groups which cover a very wide range of issues and areas of concern of biotech enterprises.
Since November 2020 EuropaBio Director General is Dr. Claire Skentelbery.
Members
In 2021, the association represents 79 corporate and associate members and BioRegions, and 17 national biotechnology associations in turn representing over 1800 biotech SMEs.
See also
CropLife International
European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
Genetically modified food controversies
Regulation of the release of genetic modified organisms
Citations
References
Transforming Europe’s position on GM food - ambassadors programme executive summary The Guardian, Thursday 20 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited.
Biotech group bids to recruit high-profile GM 'ambassadors' John Vidal and Hanna Gersmann, The Guardian, Thursday 20 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited.
Draft letter from EuropaBio to potential GM ambassadors The Guardian, Thursday 20 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited.
External links
EuropaBio
Biotechnology in the EU
Biotech Informa
BIO
GMO Compass
Lobbying organizations
Pan-European biotechnology organisations
Organizations established in 1996
Organisations based in Belgium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuropaBio |
Drew McDonald (born Charles Shaw, name changed via deed poll; 16 June 1955 – 9 February 2015) was a Scottish professional wrestler. He was best known for wrestling in the United Kingdom since the 1980s.
Professional wrestling career
McDonald, born Charles Shaw, first got into wrestling when friend of his who ran a school in Perth for wayward children was promoting a wrestling show to make funds for the school. Ian Law who held a splinter claim to the British Middleweight Championship at the time (the main lineage being held by Brian "Goldbelt" Maxine) was helping his friend run the show. One of the wrestlers had been seriously injured two weeks out from the show and a friend asked McDonald if he would stand in for the injured man. McDonald had a two-week crash course before first pro match against Wild Angus, The match lasted 5 rounds with Angus beating McDonald by the final bell.
McDonald stayed in Scotland wrestling for another year after that first match, in April 1984 he went down to England to work for Joint Promotions, the biggest promoters at that time (in the United Kingdom). The next five years saw McDonald wrestle against the likes of Ray Steele and Gill Singh and become a frequent face on ITV's televised wrestling coverage. Outside of the ring, McDonald would also develop friendships with the likes of Danny Boy Collins, Fit Finlay and referee Jeff Kaye. McDonald at one point would join the army at the Guards Depot at Pirbright where he joined with the Scots Guards. During his time there he met Dave Taylor, later of WCW fame, who had enlisted in the same regiment as McDonald, as a bandsman on the same day.
A match screened as part of ITV's 1984 FA Cup Final coverage saw McDonald team with Big Daddy to defeat Giant Haystacks and Finlay. Three years later, he adopted the persona of the masked Spoiler, managed by the German Doctor Monika Kaiser, played by his lifelong partner, Monika Markwart. Teaming with King Kendo to face Daddy and Andy Blair, he was unmasked by Daddy but preserved his identity due to a black nylon stocking worn over his head and under the mask, concealing his identity so he could get away. A subsequent match pitting the Spoiler and Rasputin (Shawn Doyle) against Daddy and Jason "Kashmir" Singh saw the Spoiler again unmasked and this time identified clearly as McDonald. A rematch between the four with a "Hair vs Hair" stipulation ended in the defeated McDonald being shaved bald. He would retain this look for all his remaining matches on ITV.
After the demise of ITV's wrestling coverage, McDonald moved to All Star Wrestling. For some time, he continued to be managed by Kaiser in All Star. In the early 1990s, he adopted the image of "The Ultimate Chippendale", later forming a tag team of 'Chippendales' with Dale "The Model" Preston. Aside from wrestling for all the top promotions in the UK, McDonald traveled worldwide, wrestling for promotions like Canada's Stampede Wrestling under the name Ben Doon McDonald, and feuding with stars like Chris Benoit.
McDonald won many UK top titles including Scottish Championship Wrestling's Scottish Heavyweight Championship, and All Star Wrestling's British Heavyweight Championship. He won the British title when he defeated Robbie Brookside in Croydon on 7 July 2005.
McDonald teamed up with many long time wrestlers, including Dave Finlay (in the Catch Wrestling Association), Ulf Herman, and Robbie Brookside. Later McDonald would team with rookie stars like Thunder, and Raj Gosh. During a time when both Thunder and Gosh wrestled in Frontier Wrestling Alliance at the same time as McDonald the group banded together under the stable name "The Triad".
In January 2006, Steve Sonic defeated McDonald in a ladder match for All Star Wrestling's British Heavyweight Championship. Throughout 2006 McDonald would continue to wrestle in All Star as well as with other British independent promotions. McDonald also ran his own wrestling school along with former wrestler and referee Jeff Kaye in Stanningley, Leeds. In 2008, he began working for Superstars of Wrestling.
In May 2011, McDonald challenged James Mason for the Union of European Wrestling Alliances European Heavyweight Championship for All Action Wrestling. In 2012, he appeared for Insane Championship Wrestling at Insane in the Membrane where he teamed with Grado and Wolfgang in a losing effort against Damian O'Connor, Jamie Feerick and Scott Maverick.
His last match took place at GL1 Gloucester Leisure Centre in 2013
Drew worked for an independent crowd management company called The SES Group – Show and Event as a security manager
Death
McDonald died at the age of 59 on 9 February 2015 from cancer. He is survived by his partner Monika Markwart aka his manager Doctor Monika Kaiser. WWE Wrestler Paige paid tribute to him on that night's episode of Monday Night Raw with the words "RIP Drew McDonald" written on her arms.
Championships and accomplishments
All Star Wrestling
ASW British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
European Wrestling Promotion
Iron Man Tournament (2005)
Frontier Wrestling Alliance
FWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ulf Herman
Scottish Championship Wrestling
SCW Scottish Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
The Wrestling Alliance
TWA British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Luchas de Apuestas record
References
1955 births
2015 deaths
Sportspeople from Perth, Scotland
Scottish male professional wrestlers
Place of death missing
Stampede Wrestling alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20McDonald%20%28wrestler%29 |
Harold Mabern Jr. (March 20, 1936 – September 17, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as "one of the great post-bop pianists".
Early life
Mabern was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 20, 1936. He initially started learning drums before switching to learning piano. He had access to a piano from his teens, after his father, who worked in a lumber yard, saved to buy him one. Mabern learned by watching and emulating pianists Charles Thomas and Phineas Newborn Jr. Mabern attended Douglass High School, before transferring to Manassas High School; he played with saxophonists Frank Strozier, George Coleman and trumpeter Booker Little at this time, but was most influenced by Newborn, Jr. In 1954, after graduating, Mabern moved to Chicago, intending to attend the American Conservatory of Music. He was unable to afford to attend music college because of a change in his parents' financial circumstances, but had private lessons there for six months and developed his reading ability by playing with trombonist Morris Ellis' big band. He also developed by listening to Ahmad Jamal and others in clubs, and "playing and practicing 12 hours a day" for the next five years, but he remained self-taught as a pianist. Mabern went on to play with Walter Perkins' MJT + 3 and others in Chicago.
Mabern learned orchestration techniques from bassist Bill Lee, and comping and chord voicing from pianists Chris Anderson and Billy Wallace.
1959–1967
Mabern moved to New York City in 1959. According to his own account, he moved there with saxophonist Frank Strozier on November 21, 1959, checked in at a hotel and then went to Birdland, where he met Cannonball Adderley, who asked him if he wanted a gig. Mabern accepted and was shown inside, where trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison, who was looking for a pianist to replace the soon-to-depart Tommy Flanagan, auditioned him and offered him the place. A few weeks later, most of the members of this band then joined Jimmy Forrest for a recording in Chicago that resulted in the albums All the Gin Is Gone and Black Forrest, which were also guitarist Grant Green's debut recordings.
Mabern steadily built a reputation in New York as a sideman, playing with, among others, Lionel Hampton's big band in 1960 (including a tour of Europe), the Jazztet for 18 months in the period 1961–62, accompanying vocalists, including Betty Carter, Johnny Hartman and Arthur Prysock, and working with trumpeter Donald Byrd and drummer Roy Haynes. After completing a 1963 tour with Haynes, he had a six-week engagement at the Black Hawk in San Francisco with Miles Davis. Mabern went on to spend time with J. J. Johnson in 1963–65 after being briefly with Sonny Rollins. In 1965, he also played with Lee Morgan, an association that continued on and off until the night in February 1972 that Morgan was shot dead at Slug's Saloon, with Mabern present. Mabern toured in Europe with Wes Montgomery later in 1965 as part of a band that had been together for around two years before the European tour, traveling as a quartet from gig to gig in one car. From 1965, Mabern also worked with Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Blue Mitchell (1966), Sarah Vaughan, and Joe Williams (1966–67).
1968–2019
Mabern's recording career as a leader began in 1968, after he signed for Prestige Records early that year. His first album, A Few Miles from Memphis, featured several of his own originals. Further dates for Prestige were released, and Mabern recorded approximately 20 albums as leader, for many labels. Mabern worked intermittently over a period of four decades with George Coleman, beginning in the 1960s, and including an appearance at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival. From the early 1970s, he worked with trumpeters Clark Terry and Joe Newman, played jazz-pop electric piano with George Benson and Stanley Turrentine, was part of drummer Walter Bolden's trio (1973–74), and led his own trio with Bolden and bassist Jamil Nasser.
Among other musicians Mabern played with from this period were Milt Jackson in 1977, and Billy Harper for a tour of Japan in the same year. Four years later, Mabern toured Europe with George Coleman, and played with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. The following year, Mabern played with James Moody. There were also performances and recordings with innumerable other musicians, both as leader and sideman. Mabern also worked with two piano-based groups: the Piano Choir, formed and led by Stanley Cowell from the early 1970s and featuring at least six pianists/keyboardists, and the four-player Contemporary Piano Ensemble, the latter being formed in the early 1990s to pay tribute to Phineas Newborn Jr. and touring extensively, including at the Montreal (1991) and Monterey Jazz Festivals (1996).
Mabern had a career resurgence after his album Straight Street was a success in Japan in 1989. He visited Japan in 1990 as a member of a ten-pianist group that toured together but played and recorded separately. In the mid-1990s, Mabern toured with and led a trio of bassist Erik Applegate and drummer Ed Thigpen. In later years, he recorded extensively with his former William Paterson University student, the tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. In 2010, Mabern received the Don Redman Heritage Award.
Mabern's repute in Japan was reflected in his signing by the Japanese label Venus, which resulted in six albums from 2002; Mabern stated in 2004 that his 2002 recording for Venus, Kiss of Fire, featuring Alexander as a guest, was his best seller. A longtime faculty member at William Paterson University (from 1981), Mabern was a frequent instructor at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Mabern's stated piano preference was "naturally the Steinway D, but if you can't get a D, any Steinway".
In 2015, Mabern released Afro Blue, "the first of Mabern's two dozen leader dates to showcase the context in which he worked frequently during the 1960s: accompanying vocalists". "Mabern played in Britain [...] in 2017 and 2018 with a quartet featuring Alexander, and finally for two evenings with his trio at Ronnie Scott's club in May 2019." Mabern, who was a regular at Smoke (jazz club) recorded his final four albums on the club's label Smoke Sessions.
Mabern died of a heart attack in New Jersey on 17 September 2019.
Playing style
Mabern's piano style was described as being "aggressive, very positive, crashing out chords that drop like pile drivers and warming up and down the keyboard with huge, whooping bursts of action", while, at the same time, he showed "a keen sensitivity" as "an extremely perceptive accompanist". Critic Gary Giddins identified some of the characteristics of Mabern's playing as being "blues glisses, [...] tremolos and dissonant block chords", that help to create a style "that marries McCoy Tyner's clustering modality with rippling asides that stem from [Art] Tatum". The influence of Phineas Newborn, Jr. remained noticeable: Mabern employed Newborn's "manner of playing fast lines in a two-handed octave (or two-octave) unison, and uses this device in wildly imaginative ways".
When accompanying vocalists, Mabern stated that he played with "less force, less aggression. I use the soft pedal. You don't voice the chord with the leading tone. You wait for them to sing a phrase, then fill in the space."
Discography
Years refer to the date of recording, unless an asterisk (*) is next to the year; this indicates that it is the date of initial release.
As leader/co-leader
As sideman
References
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[ Allmusic]
Johnson Jr., George V., Talking Jazz with Harold Mabern, Entertainment, Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Smoke Sessions Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Mabern |
Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg (October 5, 1921–March 19, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and university professor. He wrote seven textbooks and numerous scientific publications.
Early life and education
Van Valkenburg was born in Union, Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1943 with a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1952, under advisor Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.
Career
Van Valkenburg was a professor at the University of Illinois from 1955 to 1966, then joined Princeton University as professor and head of electrical engineering until 1974, when he returned to UIUC. He received an endowed position, the W. W. Grainger Professorship, in 1982, and became Dean of the College of Engineering in 1984.
Van Valkenburg was author of seven textbooks and numerous scientific publications. He died in Orem, Utah at the age of 75.
Awards and memberships
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
The Lamme Medal, the highest honor of the American Society for Engineering Education
The IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984
The ASEE George Westinghouse Award (1963)
The IEEE Education Medal (1972)
Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
The IEEE Education Society offers an annual Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award. UIUC established the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award in 1990.
His Ph.D. students have included:
Leon O. Chua ('64; IEEE Fellow and Professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, considered to be the father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks)
Prof. VGK Murthi (Prof. and Dean at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
Franklin Kuo ('58; Prof. at the University of Hawaii), who was instrumental in the development of the Aloha protocol
Jose B. Cruz Jr. ('59; control theorist and Prof. at Ohio State University)
King-Sun Fu ('59; founding president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and Prof. at Purdue University)
S. L. Hakimi ('59; mathematician at Northwestern University)
Shlomo Karni ('60; Prof. at the University of New Mexico, founding dean of engineering at Tel Aviv University '70)
Steven B. Sample ('65; President of University of Southern California).
References
1921 births
1997 deaths
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MIT School of Engineering alumni
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University of Utah alumni
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Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
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Silicon Valley people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Van%20Valkenburg |
Ola Borten Moe (born 6 June 1976) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was an MP for Sør-Trøndelag from 2005 to 2013, and was re-elected in 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he served as Minister of Research and Higher Education. He also served as Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 2011 to 2013.
Early and personal life
Borten Moe was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, on 6 June 1976 to farmer Peder O. Moe (born 1948) and nurse Kari Borten (born 1950). He is the grandson of former Prime Minister Per Borten, and married to fellow MP Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe. As of June 2009 they have two children.
Political career
Borten Moe was a member of the Trondheim city council for three four-year terms from 1995 to 2007. He was elected MP of the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 2005, after serving as deputy MP from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 Borten Moe was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment, and from 2007 to 2009 the chairman of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry. Borten Moe was re-elected to the Storting in the 2021 election. In July 2023, he announced that he wouldn't seek re-election at the 2025 election.
Borten Moe was elected the Centre Party's first deputy leader on 19 March 2011. He has been re-elected at every party convention since, but announced he would be stepping down as deputy leader in July 2023.
Ministerial appointments
Borten Moe was appointed as Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 2011, and held the post until 2013, when Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was defeated in that year's election.
Following the 2021 election, he was mentioned as a leading contender to become minister of defence. Former Chief of Defence Harald Sunde endorsed Borten Moe for defence minister, calling him "wise, not afraid and brave" and that he "recognised the core of cases".
Borten Moe was instead appointed minister of higher education in Støre's Cabinet.
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
Borten Moe became the minister of petroleum and energy on 4 March 2011, following Terje Riis-Johansen's resignation.
In September 2011, he chaired an international conference with his international counterparts in Beijing, China, about carbon capture.
Following concerns from a senior advisor at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate that the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy mixed their role as manager and owner of the Norwegian petroleum fortune, Borten Moe expressed that the ministry knew what its role was. He stated that "here the NPD has an extremely important role. The Directorate does a good job of ensuring that resources are extracted in the best possible way. We place great emphasis on the recommendations from the directorate". The senior advisor in question had further notified the Storting and the Auditor General of Norway. Borten Moe said that the ministry had not been sent letters from the advisor at the time, but that they would answer any questions that could come from the Auditor General.
In November 2012, Borten Moe presented a report about the Lofoten oil field in Svolvær. His report noted that the petroleum field could give up to 1,100 new jobs in both Vesterålen and Lofoten.
Borten Moe met with four students and their teacher from the second year at Stangnes Upper Secondary School, at the annual conference for Norwegian Oil and Gass in late February 2013. The administrative director of Norwegian Oil and Gass, Gro Brækken, described their meeting as "cordially".
After Statoil announced that they would move 1,000 jobs to low cost countries, Borten Moe expressed support for the move in July 2013, and said that the plans were in line with the government's wishes. However, the move caused internal harm for Labour Party and Socialist Left Party, the two other coalition partners.
In September 2013, Borten Moe presented plans to separate the Petroleum Fund's property investments into a separate larger fund. He also expressed that the fund should be administrated from Trondheim. He told the Wall Street Journal that "We want less exposure in bonds and a heavier weighting of real estate", and also stressed that we was referring to the Centre Party, and not the red-green coalition.
Minister of Research Higher Education
Borten Moe was appointed minister of higher education on 14 October 2021 in Støre's Cabinet.
Borten Moe stated that students would not be receiving more student requirements for higher student support. He added that the government would be focusing on offering support to students with children, as they view this group as a group they want to help further.
Opposition politician Henrik Asheim of the Conservative Party and Sivert Bjørnstad of the Progress Party accused the government, and specifically Borten Moe, for overriding the Nord University board's decision to close down the Nesna higher education institution, which the Centre Party had campaigned on to re-establish. Borten Moe explained in an email: "We will now consider in more detail how we can best facilitate a higher education institution at Nesna, with primary and secondary school teacher education. We will also investigate whether we can add other study and education offers there. In addition, the goal is for Nesna to become a center for decentralized and district-oriented education and research."
In November, Borten Moe announced a directive, where he ordered the Research Council of Norway to solve the issue of researches being unable to start up their projects. This included that the council won't be given more money, and that they have to work within the budget that already is.
On 18 December, Borten Moe and health minister Ingvild Kjerkol announced the government's plan to open 500 new study places for nurses, which would happen by autumn 2022. Borten Moe said: "This is a start. We will see in the future that there will be a heavier emphasis within the disciplines we know that we as a society have great needs for". The move was notably praised by both the Conservative and Progress parties.
Borten Moe announced the government's intention to hand out 170 million NOK for schools and other educational institutions to be able to follow up on their students. He stated: "The pandemic is resilient, and this winter there was more digital teaching and fewer opportunities to meet socially. The effect of the pandemic will also not be over as soon as we reopen. Therefore, the Storting has decided to allocate 170 million NOK to follow up the students academically and socially this year. The goal is that educational institutions and organizations can quickly initiate or extend additional measures to help students".
Borten Moe criticised the NMBU for bringing in PR consultants to work on their goal of sustainability. He expressed agreement with their goals for sustainability, but argued that communications work is not how it's done, but rather through practical work. The NMBU principal, Curt Rice, expressed surprise for the criticism, and advised Borten Moe to not address such an issue to the media. He also notified the ministry of education that he was willing to give a full explanation of the NMBU's deal with communications in their work on sustainability.
On 1 March, Borten Moe met with leaders of universities and colleges to discuss the government's work with Russian authorities. He stressed that measures that the government was taking was aimed at Russian authorities and not the country's citizens, and added it was crucial to maintain connection with Russian society. He also expressed that the education sector had individual cases to handle, notably Norwegian students who had been or is presently in Ukraine, Russia or Belarus.
The Student Society in Trondheim voted with 85 in favour, 1 against and 16 abstaining in a motion of no confidence in Borten Moe as higher education minister. Given that a motion needs to be passed with a 100 votes, the confidence motion was not approved. The vote came in reaction to Borten Moe's announcement of cuts in an NTNU campus project. The Student Society leader, Fredrik Akre, expressed that Borten Moe was responsible for repeated offences of broken promises, while also expressing that Borten Moe had the choice of upholding promises or they would demand him to be replaced. A political advisor for Borten Moe, Signe Bjortveit, responded to the criticism, saying: "I note that the motion for a resolution was not passed, and it was perhaps just as well since the Storting is the only one who can remove ministers. The reason why the ministry has asked NTNU and Statsbygg to study alternatives of smaller scope and price is that the previous government left behind extensive plans with many large construction projects that were to be realized in a short time. The sum of the projects that have been started - or planned to be started - is too large. Our goal is still to move the activity at Dragvoll down to Gløshaugen".
In May, Borten Moe announced major cuts to the Research Council of Norway and shortly after fired the entire board. He reasoned that the council's budget had not been used properly and described their economic situation as "serious". His actions were described as "incomprehensible" and "dramatic" by Dagbladet.
In July, he expressed agreement with his predecessor, Henrik Asheim's criticism of the admission system for higher education and praised him for setting down the commission who's task is to look into the system. Borten Moe stated: "Our admissions system is over-mature for a proper review. It makes no sense that resourceful Norwegian youth spend many years improving their diplomas. It is a massive sub-optimization of community resources".
In late September, Conservative MP Aleksander Stokkebø questioned the partisanship of a committee that was set down to evaluate applications for law education. Borten Moe rejected the criticism and expressed that it was necessary to have professionals in the committee because they have experience from the law education used today. The committee was set down to evaluate applications from the universities of Stavanger, Agder and BI Norwegian Business School to establish master's degrees in legal theory.
In October, following the presentation of the 2023 state budget on the 6th, the opposition parties, notably the Conservatives, Liberals and Progress parties criticised the government for reducing the scholarship for students studying abroad. They also accused the government for creating a class system for only the rich to be able to study abroad. Borgen Moe rejected the criticism, saying: "That's not how it is. We still have very good support schemes for those who want to travel abroad, and the amount of support is the same as before. What we have proposed is to adjust the grant share so that it is the same for students at bachelor's and master's level".
On 1 November, Borten Moe assured that the government was implementing measures to secure Norwegian universities against spies. He also warned the public against raising suspicions against someone without proof, but assured them to be on alert; and to not be paranoid. This was in response to a supposed Brazilian university professor who was arrested in Tromsø, on suspicion of espionage and being a Russian spy.
On 24 November, Borten Moe was declared unwanted on campus by the Student Parliament of the University of Oslo. The Parliament's leader explained that the decision was a protest against the students not being prioritised by the government. Four days later, the University of Bergen student parliament also declared Borten Moe unwanted from their campus, citing them same reasons as Oslo. In addition, Liberal Party deputy leader Abid Raja called on prime minister Støre to reconsider Borten Moe's position given the student's distrust.
In January 2023, he criticised his own government's plans for hydrogen and called them "light years away from being defendable". He faced criticism for his calculations by petroleum and energy minister Terje Aasland and his statement was further denounced by prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Borten Moe later took self-criticism for his criticism against the government.
In May, Borten Moe presented a proposal for a new universities and college law to more clearly determine the rules regarding recycling of previous assignments. This came in the wake of a student being suspended for two school terms for this exact reason at a college in Innlandet.
In July, NRK revealed that Borten Moe had appointed "an old acquaintance", Karl Eirik Haug, to the board of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in December 2021 and that the Ministry of Education and considered him impartial in the issue. However the nature of the appointment is classified. Borten Moe knew both Haug and his wife Monica Rolfsen, with both he also served with in the Trondheim City Council, and Borten Moe also attended their wedding. Later that month, on 21 July; E24 revealed that Borten Moe had bought weapons stocks in Kongsberg Gruppen. He also admitted that he had breached the government's guidelines for stock trading and had not considered impartiality in the matter. The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime announced that they would open an investigation into his dealings. At a press conference the same day, Borten Moe announced that he would resign as higher education minister. He formally resigned on 4 August and was succeeded by agriculture minister Sandra Borch.
Political views
Since the turning towards the left of the Centre Party in the 2000s, Borten Moe is regarded as being among the "centrist" wing of the party, and has been claimed to have the ambition of moving the party back towards the right. He holds many traditional Centre Party issues strongly, such as opposition to the European Union, holding that "I think that we, within the frame of the Norwegian nation state has the opportunity of building a best possible society". He also believes that too much power, funds and competence have been centralised in the area surrounding the capital, Oslo.
In October 2009, he traveled to Denmark to study the asylum policies of the country. He then said that the number of asylum seekers coming to Norway was far too high, and that Norway should learn from the policies of Denmark, and generally tighten the Norwegian asylum policy. In 2010 he said it was extremely important that Norwegians discuss which values Norwegian society should be based on in the future. He stated as the basic foundations: democracy, human rights, respect for individuals and equality between sexes, and considered it dangerous to think about these values as platitudes. He also compared radical Islam to Nazism, and regarding the granting of asylum to terrorists, he questioned if one would have given asylum to extreme-right Germans after World War II when they also risked death penalties in Germany.
References
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Jean Prouvé (; 8 April 1901 – 23 March 1984) was a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. Le Corbusier designated Prouvé a constructeur, blending architecture and engineering. Prouvé's main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities. His design skills were not limited to one discipline. During his career Jean Prouvé was involved in architectural design, industrial design, structural design and furniture design.
Biography
Early years
Prouvé was born in Nancy, France, the second of seven children of the artist Victor Prouvé and the pianist Marie Duhamel. The Prouvés belonged to a lively artistic circle, which included the glass artist Emile Gallé, and the furniture designer Louis Majorelle. Jean grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of the École de Nancy, the art collective to which his father belonged. Its goals were to make art readily accessible, to forge links between art and industry, as well as between art and social consciousness. Their tenets became ultimately a powerful influence on his body of work. "I was raised," Prouvé says, "in a world of artists and scholars, a world which nourished my mind."
Middle years
Between 1914 and 1917, Jean Prouvé spent three years in the school of fine arts of Nancy. Then, he was first apprenticed to a blacksmith, Émile Robert in Enghien (near Paris), and then to the parisian metal workshop of Aldabert Szabo. In Nancy in 1923 he opened what would be the first in a string of his own workshops and studios. He produced wrought iron lamps, chandeliers, hand rails and began designing furniture like his "Chaise inclinable" of 1924. As a craftsman in wrought iron, he was commissioned between 1923 and 1939 by local architects as Jean Bourgon, Pierre Le Bourgeois, Raphaël Oudeville or Alfred Thomas to contribute to their Art deco projects. He abandoned gradually the decorative style of that time to prefer smooth surfaces of folded metal plates. He used this material to design storefronts, elevators or furniture (for student housing in 1932, for example).
Jean Prouvé was also involved in the activity of the Comité Nancy-Paris between 1923 and 1927 with the architect Jacques André or the painter Etienne Cournault. He became a member of the committee in 1926.
He supplied the gates for the Verdun Memorial in 1928 and various parts for a number of buildings in Paris, including those designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens, for whom he produced the railings and gratings for the private mansions in Rue Mallet-Stevens in 1926.
In 1930 Prouvé helped establish the Union of Modern Artists whose manifesto read, "We like logic, balance and purity," although he shaped his public image around the idea that he was not married to a specific aesthetic. He opened the successful "Ateliers Jean Prouvé" in 1931 and began collaborating with French architects Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods on projects such as the Maison du Peuple in Clichy, an aviation club and an army camp. He also collaborated with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret on a variety of furniture designs. The war kept "Ateliers" in business manufacturing bicycles and a stove called "Pyrobal" that could burn on any fuel. He favored the public sector in the growing areas of health, education and administration, which reflected a social ideal but also offered the economies of scale. By 1936 he was producing a catalogue of standard models for hospitals, schools and offices. The potential for mass production inspired Prouvé to develop and patent industrial products using folded sheet metal for the construction of buildings. These included movable partitioning, metal doors and elevator cages. When the French government announced the initiation of paid vacations for workers, Prouvé responded with the BLPS (1937–39), a prefabricated steel vacation home. Weighing less than two tons, the 3.3 square meter (35.5 square feet) structure could be put up or taken down by five workers in four to five hours. In 1939 he designed portable barracks for the French army. Later, "Ateliers Jean Prouvé" were commissioned by the Reconstruction Ministry to mass-produce frame houses for refugees. At a time when cheap, speedily built housing was needed all over the world, Prouvé was recognized as a leader in the field, alongside the North American designer R. Buckminster Fuller.
During the war Prouvé was also politically active as a member of the French Resistance and he was recognized for this involvement after the war by being named mayor of Nancy. He was also made a member of the Advisory Assembly after Liberation and made the Departmental Inspector for Technical Education.
In the period after World War II (1939–45) there was increased interest in using new methods and materials for mass production of furniture. Manufacturers of materials such as formica, plywood, aluminum, and steel sponsored the salons of the Société des artistes décorateurs. Designers who exhibited their experimental work at the salons in this period included Prouvé, Pierre Guariche, René-Jean Caillette, Joseph-André Motte, Charlotte Perriand, Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq.
In 1947 Prouvé built the Maxéville factory where he produced furniture and undertook extensive architectural research on the uses of aluminum. In the Ferembal Demountable House (1948), designed as the offices of the eponymous tin goods manufacturer, steel portal frames form a structural core. In 1949, Prouvé and his brother Henri won a contract by the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism to build a 14-lot subdivision at Meudon, just outside Paris, to demonstrate his prototype lightweight prefabricated metal building system.
Prouvé's studio built industrial buildings from aluminum and sent hundreds of aluminum sheds to Africa. He also designed an aluminum prefabricated house, the Maison Tropicale, for use in Africa. The Maisons Tropicales were designed to address the shortage of housing and civic buildings in France's African colonies.
Prouvé designed and manufactured three prototype Maisons Tropicales for West Africa between 1949 and 1951. One was shipped to Niamey, capital of Niger, and two to Brazzaville, then capital of the French colony of Middle Congo. The two that went to Brazzaville were assembled on the same property—one as the house, the other as an office for a French company that sold aluminum products, including Prouvé structures. One of the Brazzaville structures and the house in Niamey were eventually disassembled and shipped back to Paris. The second, larger Brazzaville house is made from folded sheet steel and aluminium. For ease of transport all the parts were flat, lightweight and could be neatly packed into a cargo plane.
Prouvé's business failed in 1952, although Le Corbusier, one of his early clients, continued to consult him on technical matters. After Maxéville he started "Constructions Jean Prouvé". In 1953, he designed the facade of the restaurant of the Hotel de France in Conakry, Guinea, consisting of shutters that pivoted and opened on the sea. When clergyman Abbé Pierre made an appeal for donations to build emergency housing for homeless people during the winter of 1954, Prouvé designed the 'Maison des Jours Meilleurs' (A house for better days); measuring 57 square metres, with two bedrooms and a large living area, a few men equipped with simple tools could build the house in seven hours. Prouvé's response to a 1956 commission for a schoolhouse that could be easily dismantled and relocated, the asymmetrical Villejuif Demountable House (1956) is a lightweight project whose sheet-steel props support a cantilevered wooden roof. The school was later disassembled and its components used in other buildings.
The metal furniture of Jean Prouvé was produced copiously in every studio and workshop. His work involved frequent collaboration, most famously with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret. The style is set apart from the Bauhaus steel furniture of the time by his rejection of the steel tube technique. Prouvé had more faith in the durability and form of sheet metal, "bent, pressed, compressed than welded". His designs speak of a work philosophy that includes knowledge of the materials at hand, a commitment to collaboration between artists and craftsmen, an attention to evolving technical developments, and "the principle of never postponing decisions so as neither to lose the impetus nor indulge in unrealistic forecasts". Prouvé was influential in the development of the idea of nomadic architecture, likening a chair to a house, and designing both with portability in mind.
In 1957 Prouvé started the Industrial Transport Equipment Company and built the Rotterdam Medical School, the Exhibition Center in Grenoble and the Orly Airways Terminal façade. In 1958 he collaborated on the design of La maison du Sahara, a modern prototype of a house built for extreme climate conditions. Between 1952 and 1962 he collaborated with Jean Dimitrijevic on the Musée des Beaux Arts du Havre, a glass, steel and aluminum structure that received the prix Reynolds in 1962. In 1958, Prouvé collaborated with sculptor Alexander Calder to construct the steel base of La Spirale, a monumental mobile for the UNESCO site in Paris. Calder later gave Prouvé two mobiles—as well as a gouache with a dedication.
Late years
From 1957 to 1970 Prouvé lectured at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The most ambitious project he worked on during the last years of his life was the building for the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale (1970), a metal skyscraper designed around a vast internal patio, which was to be built at La Défense. In 1971, Prouvé was the president of the Jury for the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Along with fellow jury member Philip Johnson, he played a very important role for the choice of the winning project by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano.
He died in Nancy in 1984.
Legacy
Today, the Maison Jean Prouvé belongs to the City of Nancy, which rents it to an architect and their family on condition that the public can visit at certain times. Prouvé's workshop from his factory has been rebuilt in the grounds.
Art market
In 2007, Christie's announced that André Balazs, the New York hotelier, was the winning bidder in an auction for Maison Tropicale; Balazs reportedly paid $4.97 million for the house. Miuccia Prada and Richard Prince also both have versions of Maison Tropicale. Other notable private collectors include actor Brad Pitt, the gallery owner Larry Gagosian, and the fashion designer Marc Jacobs. In her New York office, Martha Stewart uses shelves and stools Prouvé designed for the French postal service.
Public collections
Prouvé's work is included in private and public collections worldwide, including Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Permanent galleries devoted to Prouvé's work have been installed at the Musée des beaux-arts and Musée de l’Histoire du Fer in Nancy. In 2012, there were an exhibition of his ironwork at Musée de l’École de Nancy, an analysis of his impact on the city during and after World War II at Musée Lorrain and the installation of one of the prefabricated Maisons Tropicales he designed for use in Africa at Musée des beaux-arts.
Exhibitions
Major exhibitions include "Jean Prouvé: Constructeur, 1901–1984," Centre Pompidou, Paris (1990–91); "Three Nomadic Structures", Columbia University (2002); "Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures," Pacific Design Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); "Jean Prouvé: A Tropical House," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2006); "Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object," Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2006–07, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama; Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht; Hotel de Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris; Design Museum, London; and Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Rome, among other venues); "Ateliers Jean Prouvé," Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008–09); a multi-exhibition, multi-venue tribute at Musée des beaux-arts, Nancy (2012); and "A Passion for Jean Prouvé: From Furniture to Architecture," Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2013). The exhibition "Jean Prouvé : Architect for Better Days" exhibited at the LUMA Foundation in Arles from 20 October 2017 to the Spring of 2018.
References
Bibliography
Jean Prouvé 8x8 Demountable house - edition Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2013
Jean Prouvé 6x6 Demountable house - edition Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris 2013
Prouvé/Nouvel-Ferembal House (édition Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris 2011).
Jean Prouvé (éditions Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris - Sonnabend Gallery, New York 2007)
Images
Maison de la Tunisie Bench-Bookshelf 1952
Many houses photos from Gallery Patrick Seguin
External links
Jean Prouve Biography: The metal furniture of French designer Jean Prouvé is among the most sought after of mid-century furnishings.
The meridienne shelter at the Paris Observatory - by Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé Furniture Designs
Jean Prouvé Architectures
1901 births
1984 deaths
Architects from Paris
Members of the Provisional Consultative Assembly
Mayors of Nancy, France
20th-century French architects
French designers
French Resistance members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Prouv%C3%A9 |
Cuz I Can is the first album by the Swedish pop rock singer Ana Johnsson under the name Ana. The album was released exclusively in Sweden on April 14, 2004. It was later worldwide-released as The Way I Am, so that this latter is sometimes considered to be the first album by Johnsson. The latter album has a different cover and track listing; otherwise the albums are identical. The Way I Am contains the first seven songs from Cuz I Can and some new tracks, including the huge hit "We Are", which was the official soundtrack for the Spider-Man 2 film, "Don't Cry for Pain" and "Coz I Can", a remix of "Cuz I Can". The leftover tracks were included as B-sides on the later released singles.
Singles released from Cuz I Can were "The Way I Am", "Life" and "Cuz I Can", of which only "Life" entered the Swedish Singles Chart, at number 17.
Track listing
Singles
Credits
Vocals, backing vocals: Ana Johnsson
Producer, mixer, instruments: Leif Larson
Producer, mixer, instruments: Marcus Black
Producer, mixer, instruments: Ulf Lindström, Johan Ekhé
Producer, mixer, arranged, keyboards, programming, backing vocals: Jörgen Elofsson
Mixer: Bo Reimer
Guitars, bass guitar: Ola Gustavsson
Drums, percussion, Christer Jansson
Drums: Olle Dahlsted
Guitars: Mattias Blomdahl
Programming: Peter Wennerberg, Anders Herrlin
Photography by: Micke Eriksson
Design by: Jennie Eiserman
A&R Joakim Åström
Ana Johnsson albums
2004 debut albums
Articles containing video clips | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuz%20I%20Can%20%28album%29 |
Hugo Jan Huss (January 26, 1934 – February 21, 2006) was an orchestra conductor and music director.
He was born in Timișoara, Romania and died in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He studied at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music where he was the favorite student of Constantin Silvestri. After graduation, he became conductor and music director of the Symphony Orchestra in Arad, a city in western Romania, close to his native town. In 1968, he went to Paris, France, and did not return to Romania. Later he was conductor and music director in Mexico and, from 1977, in Wisconsin. He is buried in Arad's Pomenirea Cemetery.
Notes
Sources
Hugo Huss Memorial Website
A life Remembered: Conductor brought symphony to a new level, Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune
Hugo Jan Huss, obituary, La Crosse Tribune
1934 births
2006 deaths
American male conductors (music)
People from La Crosse, Wisconsin
Musicians from Timișoara
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Romanian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
20th-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American male musicians
National University of Music Bucharest alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Jan%20Huss |
Inger S. Enger (born 6 July 1948, in Trøgstad) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party (SP). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland in 2001.
Previously she was mayor of Gausdal municipality from 1994-2001 (deputy mayor 1991-94). She is the sister of Anne Enger Lahnstein.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 deputy member of the Electoral Committee.
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs.
2001 - 2005 member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment.
External links
1948 births
Living people
Members of the Storting
Women members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
People from Trøgstad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inger%20S.%20Enger |
"Runnin' with the Devil" is a song by the American hard rock band Van Halen, released as the second single from their 1978 eponymous debut album. The lyrics were inspired by Ohio Players 1974 song "Runnin' from the Devil". In 2009, "Runnin' with the Devil" was named the 9th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. Chuck Klosterman of Vulture ranked it the eighth-best Van Halen song, praising the staccato bass playing as well as David Lee Roth's vocal performance.
"Runnin' with the Devil" remains a staple track of classic rock radio and is amongst their most popular songs.
Composition
The song begins with a collection of car horns sounding. The horns were taken from the band's own cars and mounted in a box and powered by two car batteries, with a foot switch. Producer Ted Templeman slowed the horns down before adding them to the track. This same idea was first used during the band's club sets and appeared on the Gene Simmons-recorded demo of the song, as well as the song "House of Pain" which preceded it on the demo. A four-measure guitar solo is played after the second and third chorus.
Initial pressings of the Van Halen compilation Best Of, Vol.1 contained an alternate edit of "Runnin' with the Devil" where the verses, chorus and solos were arranged in a different order than that of the original album version. It was reported that this was accidental and subsequent pressings have replaced this version with the one found on Van Halen.
Background
The song's lyrics have often been misinterpreted as being satanic, yet the band members have never revealed the full meaning of the song. It is usually interpreted as being about the life of a touring young band. The song's verses deal with an individual's experience, including learning that a "simple" lifestyle is not as simple as it appears. The lyrics "Runnin' with the devil" are usually interpreted as being a reference to freedom. In the song freedom is portrayed as a lack of social ties and living in the present. The song's meaning has also been interpreted as being an attempt to convince a person that the theme of a simple life is not wrong as it appears. Therefore, the lyrics of "Runnin' with the devil" would not be serious.
Reception
Cash Box said it has "driving guitar work, tough jaunty beat and excellent lead and backing vocals." Record World said that "The production is extremely hot, with a "live" quality to it, and sets off the screaming guitars quite well.". In March 2023, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 68 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" list.
Personnel
Van Halen
David Lee Roth – vocals
Eddie Van Halen – guitar, backing vocals
Michael Anthony – bass, backing vocals
Alex Van Halen – drums
Charts
References
Further reading
1978 singles
1977 songs
Van Halen songs
Songs written by Michael Anthony (musician)
Songs written by David Lee Roth
Songs written by Alex Van Halen
Songs written by Eddie Van Halen
Song recordings produced by Ted Templeman
Warner Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runnin%27%20with%20the%20Devil |
Lippo Centre may refer to:
Lippo Centre (Hong Kong), formerly named Bond Centre
Lippo Centre (Singapore), a skyscraper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippo%20Centre |
Montorio nei Frentani (Campobassan dialect: Mundòrj) is a small town and comune in the province of Campobasso (Molise), in Southern Italy.
Churches
Santa Maria Assunta
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montorio%20nei%20Frentani |
Philip Marsden, also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley (born 11 May 1961), is an English travel writer and novelist.
Born in Bristol, England, Marsden has a degree in anthropology<ref>Allston Mitchell,
"Interview with Philip Marsden", The Global Dispatches...", 10 October 2012.</ref> and worked for some years for The Spectator magazine. He became a full-time writer in the late 1980s. He was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in 1996.
A review of his work by Guy Mannes-Abbott appeared in The Independent newspaper in November 2007.
He lives in Cornwall with his wife, the writer Charlotte Hobson, and their children.
Awards and honours
1994: Somerset Maugham Award for The Crossing Place 1996: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1999: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for The Spirit-Wrestlers 2013: Honorary Fellowship awarded by Falmouth University
2015: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
Selected publications
Historical and travel writing A Far Country: travels in Ethiopia, Century, 1990, The Crossing Place: a journey among the Armenians, HarperCollins, 1993, (Somerset Maugham Award in 1994). This book is being currently translated into Spanish thanks to an Artist Residency granted by the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts.The Bronski House: a return to the Borderlands, HarperCollins, 1995, – "a story of multi-generational Polish exile involving Zofia Ilinska, friend, neighbour and poet"eCampus blurb: "More than half a century after fleeing the Russians and Nazis, the poet Zofia Ilinska, nee Bronski, went back to the little village of her birth, which was then in Poland but now is part of Belarus. Accompanied by her friend, the travel writer and author Philip Marsden, she was looking for her home, though hoping to find much more -- a key to her childhood, and to her family. Marsden narrates the story of Zofia's return movingly but without sentimentality. And when she gives him her mother's diary, and letters, he begins to peel away the layers of Bronski history. From Zofia's journey we move back in time to the beautiful, courageous Helena, Zofia's mother, whose own family had had to uproot itself during the catastrophic events of 1914. From this chronicle of lost times and displaced souls emerges a passionate, magnificent epic of mother and daughter, a stirring elegy for the worlds that our century has left behind, and an unforgettable testament to love's power to reconstruct and forgive."The Spirit-Wrestlers: a Russian journey, HarperCollins, 1998 (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 1999)The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance, HarperCollins, 2005, The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy, HarperPress, 2007, (A life of Tewodros II).Aida Edemariam, "Birth of an empire: Aida Edemariam is moved by Philip Marsden's vivid exploration of the founding of Ethiopia, The Barefoot Emperor" (review), The Guardian, 12 January 2008.The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail, HarperPress, 2011, Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place, Granta, 2014, The Summer Isles: A Voyage Of The Imagination, Granta, 2019,
Novels The Main Cages, Flamingo, 2002, - set in Cornwall during the mid-1930s.
Spectator anthologies Views from Abroad: the Spectator book of travel writing, edited by Philip Marsden-Smedley and Jeffrey Klinke, London: Grafton, 1988 Articles of War: the Spectator book of World War II, edited by Fiona Glass and Philip Marsden-Smedley, London: Grafton, 1989 Britain in the Eighties: the Spectator’s view of the Thatcher decade'' edited by Philip Marsden-Smedley, Grafton, 1989
References
External links
Official website
Philip Marsden at United Agents
English travel writers
21st-century English novelists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
1961 births
Living people
Writers from Bristol
English male novelists
21st-century English male writers
English male non-fiction writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Marsden |
HC Fribourg-Gottéron is a professional ice hockey team based in Fribourg, Switzerland, which competes in the National League (NL). The team is the sixth most attended team in Switzerland for the 2015–16 season with 6,156 spectators.
History
The club was originally started as HC Gottéron by the citizens of the town of Auge in 1938. They competed on an outdoor rink, most notably at Les Augustins, until 1982 when Patinoire St-Léonard was constructed.
In 1980, the name HC Fribourg-Gottéron was adopted upon promotion into the National League (NL). In spite of the club's financial struggles for the better part of their existence in the NL, they managed to reach the league's championship finals three years in a row (1992–94), but have never won a championship in their long history.
The team was saved from bankruptcy in 2006.
Honors
Champions
The team has never won a NL Championship .
Runner-up
National League (5): 1983, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2013
Players
Current roster
References
External links
Fribourg
Ice hockey clubs established in 1937
Ice hockey teams in Switzerland
1937 establishments in Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC%20Fribourg-Gott%C3%A9ron |
Ponthieva is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), commonly known as the shadow witch. They are named after Henry de Ponthieu, an English merchant of Huguenot ancestry who sent West Indian plant collections to Sir Joseph Banks in 1778.
Ponthieva is widely distributed in the southeastern United States, the West Indies, and Latin America from Mexico to Argentina.
They are mainly terrestrial plants with sympodial growth, but some are epiphytes. Their fibrous root show long and soft hairs. Some of the branches are thickened. The simple stem grows from rhizomes and carries thin, basal leaves with a slight to a somewhat longer stalk. The few to many, erect flowers grow on bracteate peduncles in a terminal raceme. Their dorsal sepal is slightly joined to the petals at the apex. The petals are free or sometimes fused to lower flanks of the column. The lateral sepals are distinct or joined.
The clawed lip is fused to the base of the short column. This is semiterete, i.e. in the form of a cylinder, rounded on one side and flat on the other. It is slightly winged towards the pointed apex.
There are four, yellow, club-shaped pollinia that are joined in pairs.
Species
Species accepted as of June 2014:
Ponthieva andicola Rchb.f. (1876) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva appendiculata Schltr. (1915) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva bicornuta C.Schweinf. (1951) (Peru)
Ponthieva brenesii Schltr. (1923) (Costa Rica, Panama)
Ponthieva brittoniae Ames (1910) : Britton's Shadow Witch (Florida, Bahamas, Cuba)
Ponthieva campestris (Liebm.) Garay (1995) (Mexico)
Ponthieva collantesii D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1998) (Peru)
Ponthieva cornuta Rchb.f. (1876) (Bolivia)
Ponthieva curvilabia Garay (1978) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva cuyujana Dodson & Hirtz (1989) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva diptera Linden & Rchb.f. (1854) : Two-winged Ponthieva (Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva disema Schltr. (1915) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva dunstervillei Foldats (1968) (Venezuela)
Ponthieva elegans (Kraenzl.) Schltr. (1912) (Bolivia)
Ponthieva ephippium Rchb.f. (1857) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva fertilis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Salazar (2009) (Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva formosa Schltr. (1923) (Mexico, Central America)
Ponthieva garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez (1989) (Bolivia)
Ponthieva gimana Dodson (2003) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva gracilis Renz (1948) (Colombia)
Ponthieva hameri Dressler (1998) (El Salvador)
Ponthieva hassleri Schltr. (1920) (Paraguay)
Ponthieva hildae R.González & Soltero (1991) (Mexico)
Ponthieva inaudita Rchb.f. (1876) : Unheard Ponthieva (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva insularis Dressler (2005) (Galapagos Islands)
Ponthieva keraia Garay & Dunst. (1976) (Venezuela, Ecuador)
Ponthieva lilacina C.Schweinf. (1941) (Peru)
Ponthieva maculata Lindl. (1845) : Spotted Ponthieva (Venezuela, Ecuador)
Ponthieva mandonii Rchb.f. (1878) (Peru to NW Argentina)
Ponthieva mexicana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Salazar (2009) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva microglossa Schltr. (1920) (Colombia)
Ponthieva nigricans Schltr. (1917) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva oligoneura Schltr. (1921) (Peru)
Ponthieva ovatilabia C.Schweinf. (1961) (Venezuela, Guyana)
Ponthieva parvilabris (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (1878) : Small-lipped Ponthieva (Venezuela, Ecuador)
Ponthieva parvula Schltr. (1912) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva pauciflora (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle (1910) (Caribbean)
Ponthieva petiolata Lindl., Bot. Reg. 9: t. 760 (1824) (Lesser Antiles)
Ponthieva phaenoleuca (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) (1895) (Brazil)
Ponthieva pilosissima (Senghas) Dodson (1996) : Hairy Ponthieva (Ecuador)
Ponthieva pseudoracemosa Garay (1978) (Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva pubescens (C.Presl) C.Schweinf. (1970) (Ecuador, Peru, Brazil)
Ponthieva pulchella Schltr. (1918) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva racemosa (Walter) C.Mohr : Hairy Shadow Witch, Racemose Ponthieva (SE USA, Mexico, tropical America)
Ponthieva rinconii Salazar (2005) (Mexico)
Ponthieva rostrata Lindl. (1845) (Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva schaffneri (Rchb.f.) E.W.Greenw. (1990) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva similis C.Schweinf. (1941) (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva sprucei Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) (1895) (Peru)
Ponthieva sylvicola Rchb.f. (1876) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva triloba Schltr. (1910) : Three-lobed Lip Ponthieva (Mexico, El Salvador)
Ponthieva trilobata (L.O.Williams) L.O.Williams (1972) (Mexico, Guatemala)
Ponthieva tuerckheimii Schltr. (1906) (Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama)
Ponthieva tunguraguae Garay (1978) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva unguiculata Ames & C.Schweinf. (1925) (Bolivia)
Ponthieva vasquezii Dodson (1989) (Bolivia)
Ponthieva ventricosa (Griseb.) Fawc. & Rendle (1910) : Smooth Shadow Witch (Caribbean)
Ponthieva venusta Schltr. (1921) (Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva villosa Lindl. in G.Bentham (1845) (Ecuador, Peru)
Ponthieva viridilimbata Dressler (2005) (Ecuador)
Ponthieva weberbaueri Schltr. (1921) (Peru)
References
External links
Cranichideae genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponthieva |
Loria may refer to:
Places
Loria, Veneto, a town in the province of Treviso, northern Italy
Loria (Buenos Aires Underground), a station on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground
River Loria, Grenada
Persons
Achille Loria (1867–1943), Italian Jewish economist and sociologist
Christopher Loria (born 1960), American astronaut
David Loria (born 1981), Kazakh football goalkeeper
Frank Loria (1947–1970), American football player
Gino Loria (1862–1954), Italian mathematician and historian of mathematics
Giorgi Loria (born 1986), Georgian footballer
Jeffrey Loria (born 1940), art dealer and baseball club owner
Lamberto Loria (1855–1913), Italian ethnographer
Leonardo Loria (born 1999), Italian footballer
Mariano Sánchez de Loria (1774–1842), Bolivian statesman
Marvin Loría (born 1997), Costa Rican footballer
Simone Loria (born 1976), Italian footballer
Vincenzo Loria (1850–1939), Italian painter
Other
Loria, Formula 1 racing driver Sebastian Vettel's 2018 car (Ferrari SF71H)
Loria, a French computer science research laboratory located in Nancy, France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loria |
Alf Ivar Samuelsen (28 February 1942 – 16 September 2014) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Flakstad as a son of smallholder and fisher Ingleiv Samuelsen (1908–1964) and housewife Amy Pedersen (1906–2002). He received his teacher's education at Bodø Teacher's College from 1972 to 1974, and studied history there as well from 1983 to 1984.
Samuelsen was a member of Flakstad municipal council from 1975 to 1987, serving as mayor from 1986 to 1987. He chaired the local chapter of his party from 1990 to 1994, and the regional chapter from 1994 to 1995. He was a county council member in Nordland from 1991 to 1999, and was county mayor of Nordland from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the county cabinet.
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Nordland in 2005, having previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1993–1997. He was a member of the Preparatory Credentials Committee and the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs during his entire term, and also the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (until 2008) and the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs (from 2008). He was not re-elected in 2009.
Samuelsen died in a tractor accident on 16 September 2014 in Flakstad. He was 72.
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21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Ivar%20Samuelsen |
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run is a baseball video game developed by Rare for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is named after the baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. It is the follow-up to Nintendo's previous Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. Two years later, Nintendo released another game featuring Griffey, Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr., for the Nintendo 64.
The game's title is derived from the final play of the 1995 American League Division Series featuring the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees. On a play that is sometimes credited with "saving baseball in Seattle," Griffey scored the game's winning run all the way from first base, on a close play in the bottom of the 11th inning.
Due to the lack of a Major League Baseball Players' Association license, Griffey is the only player in the game to use his actual name.
Gameplay
The game features the 28 MLB teams in existence at the time, though playing through a full 162 game season unlocks the option to play against the two 1998 expansion teams, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The game includes a franchise mode, MLB Challenge mode, exhibition (single-game) play, and All-Star Game mode, which includes a home run derby mode. Unlike its predecessor, most of the stadiums in the game are generic and the Houston Astros play on natural grass at the Astrodome. From the batter's box most of the other stadiums look authentic but once the ball goes towards the warning track, the outfield walls on either side have a big wall and left center/centerfield/right center have a small outfield wall. At Wrigley Field the ivy is visible from the batters box, but once the ball goes towards the outfield wall there is no signature green ivy.
This was one of the first video games to have alternate uniforms for a sports game. The computer randomly selects either the standard home and away, or a "colored" alternate. In some cases the home team will be in their gray uniform while the away team will be in an alternate or standard home white.
Homeruns are much harder than in its predecessor, as pitching is the main key to this game.
Reception
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run was well received by critics.
Air Hendrix gave the game a nearly perfect score in GamePro: 5 out of 5 in both graphics and sound, and 4.5 out of 5 in control and FunFactor. He summarized that "With realistic, action-packed gameplay and superb graphics, Winning Run strolls easily over home plate." He felt that the game retains its authentic feel despite Griffey being the only real player, since the abilities and appearances of the fictitious players are modeled after their real world counterparts.
The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a unanimous score of 8 out of 10, saying that it has greatly improved graphics and player animations over the original (Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball). A reviewer for Next Generation lauded the rich color, smooth and "seriously wacky" animation, immersive sound, easily mastered interface, and the retention of the solid arcade-style gameplay of the original game. He concluded, "If you own a Super NES and even just kind of like baseball, then this is the one." IGN ranked the game 52nd on their Top 100 SNES Games.
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External links
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run at NinDB
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run at GameFAQs
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run at MobyGames
Instruction booklet at Giant Bomb
1996 video games
Ken Griffey Jr. video games
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
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Video games scored by Eveline Fischer Novakovic
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Video games developed in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Griffey%20Jr.%27s%20Winning%20Run |
The Body is a 2001 mystery thriller drama film written and directed by Jonas McCord. Based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Richard Sapir, it stars Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Lillian Lux, John Wood, and Derek Jacobi. It is a joint American-Israeli-German co-production, shot on-location in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The plot follows Father Matt Gutierrez (Banderas), a Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to investigate an archaeologic finding by Dr. Sharon Golban (Williams) which is suspected to be the remains of the body of Jesus Christ. This finding puts Gutierrez's faith and his doubts in constant confrontation with Golban's scientific views, and stirs political tensions between Palestine and Israel, while also shaking the foundations of Christianity itself.
The film was released on April 20, 2001, by TriStar Pictures and received mixed critical reviews.
Plot summary
Dr. Sharon Golban finds an ancient skeleton in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Coloration of the wrist and ankle bones indicates the cause of death was crucifixion. Several artifacts, including a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and a jar dating to 32 AD, date the tomb to the year Jesus died. Faint markings on the skull consistent with thorns, the absence of broken leg bones, occupational markers suggesting the deceased was a carpenter, and a nick on the ribs from a pointed object lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus. The different reactions of politicians, clerics, religious extremists—some prepared to use terror to gain their ends—to the religious, cultural and political implications of the find, make life difficult and dangerous for the investigators as they seek to unearth the truth.
Father Matt Gutierrez is assigned by the Vatican to investigate the case and to protect the Christian faith. He sets out to prove that the bones are not those of Jesus, but as there is more and more evidence to support the claim, his faith begins to waver. Troubled by the case, he turns to Father Lavelle who commits suicide because he cannot reconcile the scientific evidence with his faith. This event causes Father Gutierrez to turn from his faith, but he comes back to it in the end when it is revealed that the body is in fact not Jesus's body but one of his followers who died in a similar way during the First Jewish–Roman War. He also comes to understand that it is the power of the cardinals of the Catholic Church that he is protecting and not the faith, and decides to resign from his priesthood.
Cast
Antonio Banderas as Father Matt Gutierrez
Olivia Williams as Dr. Sharon Golban
Jason Flemyng as Father Walter Winstead
John Shrapnel as Moshe Cohen
Derek Jacobi as Father Lavelle
Lillian Lux as Mrs. Kahn
John Wood as Cardinal Pesci
Mohammed Bakri as Abu Yusef
Makram Khoury as Nasir Hamid
Sami Samir as Ahmed
Vernon Dobtcheff as Monsignore
Jordan Licht as Dorene Golban
Limor Goldstein as Galic
Ariel Horowitz as Reb Nechtal
Arieh Elias as Fahri
John Glover as Street Performer
Themes
The film deals mainly with two subjects:
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the region where the body is found. Both sides believe that control of the site will give them an upper hand in the conflict.
The importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Christian faith.
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Films about Christianity
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2000s American films
2000s German films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Body%20%282001%20film%29 |
Count Georg Ludwig Cancrin (; 16 November 1774 – 10 September 1845) was a Russian German aristocrat and as a politician best known for spearheading reforms in the Russian financial system early in the 19th century.
Biography
Cancrin was born in Hanau.
In 1797, at the age of 23, Cancrin accompanied his father, the mineralogist Franz Ludwig von Cancrin, to Russia, joining the imperial service and changing his name to Georg.
In 1823, at the age of 49, Cancrin was appointed Minister of Finance and held that office for 21 years. As a politician, Cancrin was a conservative who opposed the construction of railways and the emancipation of the serfs.
Cancrin died in Pavlovsk.
Legacy
In 1827, Cancrin wrote Alexander von Humboldt, the famous Prussian scientist, asking if he would visit Russia at the monarchy's expense to identify areas where Russia could develop economically. Although Russia had played a major role in defeating the armies of Napoleon, in the postwar period Russia's position in the world had not risen and potentially Humboldt's visit could identify mining areas to exploit. The Russian government had already invited experts in mining from Germany and France for this task, perhaps not surprising since Cancrin's father, a mining expert himself, had come to Russia for similar reasons. From April to December 1829, Humboldt traveled through Russia, reaching the Chinese border in the east and the Caspian Sea in the south, before returning to St Petersburg. Cancrin had taken pains to guarantee the success of Humboldt's trip, arranging for his expenses to be paid as well as assuring the cooperation of Russian officialdom. "I shall not fail to send instructions to all governors and mining officials, with orders to put you up. Customs will be instructed to facilitate your entry into Russia." Humboldt accurately predicted that diamonds would be found in the Ural Mountains. Cancrin had initially contacted Humboldt to get his opinion about the feasibility of using Russian platinum in coinage. Humboldt recommended against it.
In 1839 cancrinite, named after the Minister of Finance, was found in the Ural Mountains.
Among Cancrin's writings, The Military Economy (published in German) is the best regarded.
Cancrin's policies often sought to maintain the status quo due to the limitations of the Russian government in carrying out large scale economic reform. His policies have been characterized as being aimed at reducing budget deficits through curtailment of government expenditure rather than attempts at stimulating the economy. He advanced loans to the gentry class in order to preserve, in the words of historian Walter Pintner, "the social status quo". With a view toward limiting state expenditure, he refused to credit the Russian industry, thus eliminating the budget deficits that plagued the Russian economy for decades. Private banks were forbidden, and he took steps was to stymie the development of capitalism.
Financial reforms of 1839–1843
Cancrin's major achievement was the monetary reform of 1839–43 which sanitized the Russian fiscal system. The reform started with the issue of a new silver ruble equal to 3.5 of the older Assignation ruble. Then, based on the silver rubles, new deposit notes were issued. Finally, the old Assignation rubles were removed from circulation in 1843, and replaced with the new banknotes. These reforms stabilized the Russian financial system considerably.
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Bream (historically known as Breem) is a village in the Forest of Dean, west Gloucestershire, England. The population was around 3,170 in the 2011 census.
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. Its area and total population are the same as quoted above.
History
Human activity at Bream dates back to the Iron Age, when iron ore was being mined in the local area.
The first dwellings in Bream were recorded in 1452. In 1505, the St. James' church, Bream or St. James chapel as it was then known, was built. In 1712, the population of Bream was 300.
In 1822, the church was reconstructed.
The main employment in the village in the past was coal mining, farming, and forestry. Today with the mines closed, there is very little employment now in the village, although there are two garages and several shops. Bream is one of the largest villages in the Forest of Dean District with a population of just under 3,200 as of January 2011. It is just one of a number of settlements which make up the Forest Ring of settlements on the fringes of the statutory Royal Forest. Positioned on the southern edge of the forest core between the towns of Lydney and Coleford, the village is set on a ridge of high ground, falling away on three sides.
Sport
Bream has a rugby union team and a sports club, which hosts cricket and association football.
Notable residents
Wayne Barnes (born 1979) - International rugby union referee. Lived in Bream and played for Bream Rugby Club.
Warren James (1792–1841) - Miners' leader who led the Foresters to action against the Crown, in 1831. Lived in Bream.
Ron Moore - rugby union (RU) and rugby league (RL) footballer of the 1930s for Bream RFC (RU), Wakefield Trinity, and Bramley lived in Bream.
William "Billy" Stone - rugby union (RU) and rugby league (RL) footballer of the 1910s, and 1920s for Bream RFC (RU), Great Britain (RL), England, and Hull F.C. lived in Bream.
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Information
Old photos and information about Bream
Photos of Bream and area
Forest of Dean
Villages in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bream%2C%20Gloucestershire |
Jiufen, also spelled Jioufen or Chiufen (), is a seaside mountain area in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Jiufen Old Street is a narrow, winding alleyway in the town of Jiufen, offering a glimpse into traditional Taiwanese life, with its shops, teahouses, and restaurants. It is a great place to experience the best of Taiwanese culture.
History
During the first years of the Qing Dynasty, the isolated village housed nine families, thus the village would request "nine portions" every time shipments arrived from town. Later Káu-hūn-á () would become the name of the village.
Despite the earliest reference to the production of gold in the island dating to 1430, and multiple rediscoveries by early inhabitants, visiting Japanese, Dutch occupiers, and Koxinga's retainers, awareness of the wealth of Taiwan's gold districts did not develop until the late Qing era. In 1890, workmen discovered flakes of gold while constructing the new Taipei-Keelung railway, and in 1893 a rich placer district was discovered in the hills of Kau-hun that produced several kilograms of gold a day. In the next year, the promise became greater than ever after a Chinese "expert" with experience gained in California found gold-bearing quartz in the said hills.
The resulting gold rush hastened the village's development into a town, and reached its peak during the Japanese era. In The Island of Formosa, Past and Present (1903), American diplomat James W. Davidson wrote, "Kyu-fun [Kau-hun] is as odd looking a settlement as one could find. [...] never before has the writer seen so many houses in such a small space. Some appear to be partially telescoped in adjoining buildings, other standing above as though unable to force their way to the group, and each structure seems to be making a silent appeal to its neighbor to move over." Water ran "in many small streams, directed so as to provide each building with a little rivulet, passing sometimes by the doorway or even over the floor of the building." The claim was owned by the Fujita Company, the first Japanese company to mine quartz in Taiwan and which occasionally made an income of a few thousand yen per month from the Kau-hun gold operations.
Many present features of Jiufen reflect the era under Japanese colonization, with many Japanese inns surviving to this day. During World War II, a POW camp named Kinkaseki was set up in the village, holding Allied soldiers captured in Singapore (including many British) who worked in the nearby gold mines. Gold mining activities declined after World War II, and the mine was shut off in 1971. Jiufen quickly went into decline, and for a while the town was mostly forgotten.
In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first film to touch on the February 28 Incident, then a taboo subject in Taiwan, won acclaim around the world. As a result, Jiufen, where the film was set, revived due to the film's popularity. The nostalgic scenery of Jiufen as seen in the film, as well as appearances in other media, charmed many people into visiting Jiufen. For the beginning of the 1990s, Jiufen experienced a tourist boom that has shaped the town as a tourist attraction. Soon retro-Chinese style cafés, tea houses, and souvenir stores bearing the name "City of Sadness" were built.
Jiufen also became popular in 2001 due to its resemblance to the downtown in the Japanese anime movie Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli. Jiufen soon attracted Japanese tourists. Many Japanese travel magazines and guide books about Taiwan introduced Jiufen. It became a must visit place among Japanese tourists. However, Miyazaki himself denied that Jiufen was the model city of the movie.
At present, Jiufen is a renowned tourist attraction representative of Taiwan. It draws many tourists from Taipei during the weekends.
Gallery
Transportation
As Jiufen is a mountain town, the roads that lead there are mostly steep, curving, narrow, and possibly dangerous.
The town is served by buses that run from Keelung, Taipei, etc.
The nearest train station is Rueifang Station of the TRA Yilan Line, which is 15 minutes away by bus.
Foods
A-Zhu Peanut Ice Cream Roll
Ah Gan Taro Balls
A-Mei Tea House
Wu Di ‘Flower Lady’ Taiwanese Sausages
Zhang Ji Traditional Fish Balls
Ah Lan Glutinous Rice Cake
See also
Mining in Taiwan
Notes
References
Bibliography
This article uses translated material from the equivalent Japanese-language Wikipedia article (retrieved 26 February 2006). Both articles are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
External links
Jiufen attractions, from the Rueifang government website
Article on AmCham Taipei site
Geography of New Taipei
Tourist attractions in New Taipei
Former gold mines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiufen |
Sunset Beach is on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii and known for big wave surfing during the winter season. The original Hawaiian name for this place is Paumalū. It is a two-mile (3.3 km) stretch of mostly beige sand located at 59-104 Kamehameha Highway in Pupukea, 39 miles (63 km) driving distance from Waikiki. Lifeguards are usually present.
Like many beaches on Oahu's North Shore, Sunset Beach is considered dangerous for inexperienced surfers, due to extensive coral formations near the surface that present the risk of serious injury. Trade winds will be an advantage and a disadvantage, at the same, as the offshore breeze will make paddling for a wave a difficult task. Conditions for swimming change depending on the particular location and season. Generally speaking, the water is flat as a lake in the summers and has waves in the winters. All the surfing contests take place in the winter around December and January, that being the time of the largest and best waves for surfing. Swimming conditions change from spot to spot along the beach. There is usually a place to swim somewhere, except during stormy weather.
Severe erosion of the sand at Sunset occasionally occurs during sets of extremely large surf episodes. During December in 2017 following several long lasting episodes with at least 30' to 40' waves for several days, severe sand erosion, which formed a more than 20' cliff along the edge of bicycle trail, closed the beach the week before Christmas. This catastrophic erosion caused the bike path to be rerouted closer to Kamehameha Highway when large concrete portions of the bike path fell off the cliff into the shore break area, forced the lifeguard tower to be relocated more inland, and required the city of Honolulu to demolish and remove the 11-by-11-foot lifeguard storage shed. During extremely large surf in October 2013 and in December 2013 to January 2014, backyards, staircases, and swimming pools were swept out to sea.
Surfing competitions
Sunset Beach will pump perfect waves with West-to-Northeast swells coming from the North Pacific. The spot is located two miles (3.3 km) east of Banzai Pipeline. It was home to the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship until 1985. The Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational in honor of Eddie Aikau started at Sunset Beach in 1984. Today Sunset Beach is home to the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, which is part of the World Cup of Surfing. It also holds contests such as the Pipe Masters and a stop on the WSL Championship Tour
Gallery
See also
Big wave surfing
References
Surfing locations in Hawaii
Big wave surfing
Beaches of Oahu
Tourist attractions in Honolulu County, Hawaii | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset%20Beach%20%28Oahu%29 |
Eli Sollied Øveraas (born 15 August 1949 in Ørskog) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party (SP). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1993. Failing to get re-elected in 1997, she still served as a deputy representative and was elected again in 2001.
She previously worked with local politics in Vestnes.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
2001 - 2005 member of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs.
1993 - 1997 secretary of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs.
1993 - 1997 deputy member of the Electoral Committee.
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Living people
People from Vestnes
Møre og Romsdal politicians
Members of the Storting
Women members of the Storting
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21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian women politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Sollied%20%C3%98veraas |
Humanitas () is an independent Romanian publishing house, located at Piața Presei Libere 1 (House of the Free Press), Bucharest. It was founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politică. Its slogan is Humanitas, bunul gust al libertății ("Humanitas, the good taste of freedom").
During its first years, Humanitas mainly published authors from the Romanian diaspora, whose works had been subject to censorship or banning in Communist Romania; they include Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, and Eugène Ionesco.
Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion, social and political sciences, history, memoirs, popular science, children's literature, and self-help books.
Main Romanian authors published by Humanitas
Lucian Blaga
Ana Blandiana
Lucian Boia
Matei Călinescu
Mircea Cărtărescu
Emil Cioran
Lena Constante
Petru Creția
Neagu Djuvara
Mircea Eliade
Paul Goma
Virgil Ierunca
Eugène Ionesco
Gabriel Liiceanu
Monica Lovinescu
Constantin Noica
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Horia-Roman Patapievici
Andrei Pleșu
Queen Anne of Romania
Dumitru Stăniloae
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Publishing companies established in 1990
Companies based in Bucharest
Book publishing companies of Romania
Mass media in Bucharest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitas%20%28publishing%20house%29 |
This is a list of haplogroups of historic people. Haplogroups can be determined from the remains of historical figures, or derived from genealogical DNA tests of people who trace their direct maternal or paternal ancestry to a noted historical figure. Some contemporary notable figures have made their test results public in the course of news programs or documentaries about this topic; they may be included in this list too.
MtDNA results indicate direct maternal descent while Y-DNA results indicate direct paternal descent; these are only two of many lines of descent. Scientists make inferences of descent as hypotheses which could be disproved or modified by future research.
Ancient samples
These are results from 'ancient' samples, those collected from the remains or reputed remains of the person. Because mtDNA breaks down more slowly than nuclear DNA, it is often possible to obtain mtDNA results where other testing fails.
Birger Magnusson
Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm, the modern capital of Sweden, belonged to Y Haplogroup I-M253, according to Andreas Carlsson at the National Board of Forensic Medicine of Sweden. Birger Magnusson was the ancestor of a line of kings of both Sweden and Norway, starting with his son, Valdemar, King of Sweden.
Gaodang King Korguz (高唐王=趙王 闊裏吉思)
Noble burials of Mongols in the Yuan dynasty in Shuzhuanglou Site (northernmost Hebei, China, 700YBP) were excavated. All three men excavated belong to Y haplogroup Q, with subclade not analysed.
The most principal occupant, Gaodang King Korguz, had mtDNA of haplogroup D4m2. Two others' mtDNA are A
Korguz () was the son of a princess of Kublai Khan and he was the king of the Ongud and a descendant of Gok-Turk. The Ongud claimed descent from the Shatuo, prominent in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. His two wives were all princesses of Yuan Dynasty. It was very important for the Yuan dynasty to maintain marriage-alliance with the Onguds, which had been very important assistant since Genghis Khan. About 16 princesses of Yuan dynasty were married to khans of the Ongud.
Jean-Paul Marat
In 2020, a genetic study showed that the figure of the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat killed in 1793, had the haplogroup H2 (mtDNA).
Luke the Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist is a Christian saint and apostle born on 1st century A.D. in Roman Syria and died in Roman Greece. Remains reputed to have been his had haplogroup H2 (mtDNA).
Louis XVII
Louis XVII was the younger son of King of France Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. His maternal haplogroup is H.
Queen Marie Antoinette
The maternal haplogroup of Marie Antoinette is H.
Mary Magdalene
A lock of hair kept at a reliquary at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume basilica, France, which local tradition holds belonged to the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, was allegedly assigned to mitochondrial haplogroup K. Ancient DNA sequencing of a capillary bulb bore the K1a1b1a subclade according to the author Gérard Lucotte, who concluded that she was likely of Pharisian maternal origin. Gérard Lucotte, the controversial geneticist in charge of analyzing the hair material, also publicly claimed in France in 2005 to have "discovered" the DNA of Jesus Christ from the Argenteuil Tunic relic.
Mummy Juanita
The mummy "Juanita" of Peru, also called the "Ice Maiden", has been shown to belong to mitochondrial haplogroup A.
Nicholas II of Russia and family
The last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup T, based on mutations 16126C, 16169Y, 16294T, 16296T, 73G, 263G, and 315.1C. His results matched those of a cousin, Prince Nikolai Trubetskoy, but showed a heteroplasmy – a mix of two different sequences – indicating a recent mutation. To further confirm the identity, the tsar's brother, Grand Duke George, was exhumed and found to have the same mitochondrial heteroplasmy.
Empress Alexandra of Russia and her children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were identified as belonging to mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C). This identity was confirmed by match to that of her grand-nephew, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
As part of the same analysis, mitochondrial types were determined for four further individuals, thought to have been the Royal Physician and servants.
Nicholas II has been predicted as having a Y-DNA R1b haplotype.
Oseberg ship remains
The remains of the younger of the two women buried with the Oseberg Ship were tested and discovered to have mtDNA of U7.
Petrarch
The purported remains of Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch, were tested for DNA in 2003. Another analysis revealed that purported skull of Petrarca belonged to a woman, the DNA from rib belonged to mtDNA haplogroup J2.
Ramesses III
In December 2012, a genetic study conducted by the same researchers who decoded King Tutankhamun's DNA predicted using an STR-predictor that Ramesses III, second pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt and considered to be the last great New Kingdom regent to wield any substantial authority over Egypt, belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup E-M2, alternatively known as haplogroup E1b1a.
Richard III of England
Richard III's mitochondrial haplotype was inferred from living descendants and then the identity of his remains confirmed through a multidisciplinary process including genetic analysis of both his mitochondrial and Y-DNA. In 2004 British historian John Ashdown-Hill traced a British-born woman living in Canada, Joy Ibsen (née Brown), who is a direct maternal line descendant of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, a sister of Richard III of England. Joy Ibsen's mtDNA was tested and belongs to mtDNA haplogroup J. Joy Ibsen died in 2008. On 4 February 2013, University of Leicester researchers announced that there was an mtDNA match between that of a skeleton exhumed in Leicester suspected of belonging to Richard III and that of Joy Ibsen's son, Michael Ibsen, and a second direct maternal line descendant named Wendy Duldig. They share mtDNA haplogroup J1c2c.
The Y haplogroup of Richard III, last king of the House of York and last of the House of Plantagenet, was identified as Y-DNA G-P287, in contrast to the Y haplotypes of the putative modern relatives.
Sweyn II of Denmark
In order to verify whether the body of a woman entombed near Sweyn II of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral is that of his mother Estrid, mtDNA from pulp of teeth from each of the two bodies was extracted and analysed. The king was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H and the woman was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup H5a. Based on the observation of two HVR1 sequence differences, it was concluded that it is highly unlikely that the woman was the king's mother.
Yuya
Yuya was Tutankhamun's great grandfather. Predicted Y-DNA haplogroup G2a, based on ancient Y-STR profiles. Yuya served as a key adviser for Amenhotep III, and held posts such as "King’s Lieutenant" and "Master of the Horse"; his title "Father-of-the-god" possibly referred specifically to his being Amenhotep's father-in-law. In his native town of Akhmin, Yuya was a prophet of Min, the chief "god" of the area, and served as this deity's "Superintendent of Cattle".
Tutankhamun
There is controversy regarding Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. It was not discussed in a 2010 academic study that included DNA profiling of some of the male mummies of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The team that analysed the Eighteenth Dynasty mummies disputed a claim later made by the personal genomics company iGENEA regarding Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. Staff from iGENEA examined images from news coverage of the above study, that purportedly showed data from Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. Based on the unverified images, iGENEA claimed that Tutankhamun belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a2, a claim that was rejected as "unscientific" by members of the team that had actually analysed the Eighteenth Dynasty mummies. The original researchers also stated they had not been consulted by iGENEA before it published the haplogroup information. However, in a 2020 publication, those same researchers confirmed that the y-haplogroup of Tutankhamun was, indeed, R1b.
Gleb Svyatoslavich
The genetic study "Population genomics of the Viking world" was published September 16, 2020 in Nature, and showed that Gleb Svyatoslavich (sample VK542), an 11th century Rurikid Prince of Tmutarakan and Novgorod in Kievan Rus', was found to belong to Y-DNA haplogroup I2a1a2b1a1a (I-Y3120) and mtDNA haplogroup H5a2a. In YFull's YTree a more detailed position is given for his Y-DNA under I-Y3120's subclades Y4460 > Y3106 > Y91535.
Deduction by testing of descendants or other relatives
Because mtDNA is carried through the direct female line, some researchers have identified the haplotype of historic persons by testing descendants in their direct female line. In the case of males, their mother's direct female lineage descendants are tested. Y-DNA testing may be carried out on male relatives.
Bure kinship from Sweden
The male lineage of the medieval Bure kinship from Sweden has been identified as Y-DNA haplogroup G2a, based on several BigY tests carried out in 2014 on people living today. Descendants of two of the sons of Old Olof (who was born about 1380) were identified as G-Y12970*, and descendants of his alleged brother Fale as G-Y16788. The test result supports genealogical information recorded in about 1610 by Johannes Bureus. The DNA results also disproved a branch that was later added to the family book.
Cao Cao, the Cao Wei State of Ancient China
Chinese warlord Cao Cao, who was posthumously titled Emperor Wu of the state of Cao Wei, belonged to Y-DNA Haplotype O2-M268 according to DNA tests of some documented present-day descendants with lineage records. Ancient DNA analysis of the tooth of Cao Cao's granduncle, Cao Ding, showed that Cao Cao belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup O-M175. A followup publication precisely identified the haplogroup more precisely as a subgroup of O-M175, designated O1b1-F1462(xPK4).
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin belonged to Y haplogroup R1b based on a sample from his great-great-grandson.
Edward IV of England
Edward IV of England and his brother Richard III of England, both sons of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, would have shared the same mtDNA haplogroup J1c2c.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is alleged to belong to Y Haplogroup E. Tested Einsteins from Germany belong to E1b1b1b2* (cluster SNP PF1952, formerly known as the E-Z830-B or "Jewish cluster"). A patrilineal descendant of Naphtali Hirsch Einstein (1733–1799), Albert Einstein's great-grandfather, was tested and belonged to E-M35 (E1b1b1).
Fath Ali Shah Qajar
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (1772–1834), the second emperor and shah of the Qajar dynasty of Iran belonged to Haplogroup J-M267 with DYS388 = 13 as deduced from testing of descendants of several of his sons.
Benjamin Franklin
Doras Folger, one of Benjamin Franklin's mother Abiah Lee Folger's six sisters, passed on her mtDNA to her 9th-great-granddaughter, Charlene Chambers King, indicating that Franklin belonged to mitochondrial haplogroup V, with the following mutations: T16298C, 315.1C, 309.1C, A263G, and T72C.
Genghis Khan
Several scientists have created their own theories about the Y-chromosomal haplogroup (and therefore the patrilineal ancestry) of Genghis Khan. The proposed candidates include haplogroup C3, haplogroup Q, haplogroup R1b and haplogroup C2.
Y chromosome haplogroup C2c1a1a1-M407 is carried by Mongol descendants of the Northern Yuan ruler from 1474–1517, Dayan Khan, who is a male line descendant of Genghis Khan which was found out after geneticists in Mongolia conducted tests on them. This is a different haplogroup from the infamous widespread C2b1a3a1c2-F5481 clade of C2*-ST which is widespread in Central Asia among Kazakhs, Hazaras and ordinary commoner Mongols since Kazakhs and Hazaras were descended from ordinary Mongol soldiers during the Mongol empire conquests but not from Genghis himself. The Kerey clan of the Kazakhs have a high amount of the C3* star-cluster (C2*-ST) Y chromosome and is very high among Hazaras, Kazakhs and Mongols in general.
Toghan, Genghis Khan's sixth son has claimed descendants who have Y haplogroup C2b1a1b1-F1756 just like the first son of Genesis Khan, Jochi's descendants in the Kazakh Tore clan.
Numerous studies by teams of biochemists led by M. V. Derenko (2007), based on the Y-DNA of people who claim to be modern descendants of Genghis Khan, have indicated that Genghis Khan may have belonged to a subclade of Haplogroup C-M217 (C2) such as C-F4002 (C2b1a3).
However, research published in 2016 analyzed DNA from a Borjigin burial site in Mongolia, and suggested that Genghis Khan may have belonged to the West Eurasian haplogroup R-M343 (R1b) instead of haplogroup C. The remains of the burials were described as having an East Asian appearance, which the authors attributed to their East Eurasian mitochondrial DNA haplogroups.
A 2019 study proposed that the Y lineage of Jochi (Genghis Khan's eldest son) may have been haplogroup C2b1a1b1 (C2), which they identify as a new potential candidate for Genghis Khan's true Y-DNA lineage.
Gia Long
Gia Long, who was the first emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam founded by the Nguyễn-Phuoc family may have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup O-M95 according to the DNA tests of one documented descendant (if paternity matches genealogy). Given the sample size, however, this result cannot be regarded as conclusive and further testing of other documented descendants is necessary to help confirm or refute this finding.
Adolf Hitler
In 2010, journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren publicised analysis of samples taken from 39 patrilineal relatives of Adolf Hitler which revealed that Hitler belonged to Y-DNA Haplogroup E (Y-DNA) (E1b1b) the subclade being undisclosed.
Mulders contradicted interpretations of his research by some media outlets, which claimed that Hitler definitively had Jewish ancestry. Mulders commented:
The accuracy of some of the coverage arising from this study was questioned. Professor Michael Hammer of Family Tree DNA said that "scientific studies as well as records from our own database[,] make it clear that one cannot reach the kind of conclusion featured in the published articles." Citing Family Tree DNA's own data that shows that no more than 9% of the German and Austrian population have the Haplogroups E1b1b, and that about 80% of these are not Jewish, Hammer concluded, "[t]his data clearly shows that just because one person belongs to the branch of the Y-chromosome referred to as haplogroup E1b1b, that does not mean the person is likely to be of Jewish ancestry."
In 2019, Leonard Sax published an article titled "Aus den Gemeinden von Burgenland: Revisiting the question of Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandfather". In this article, Sax states that the methods by which the DNA samples were taken from Hitler's relatives in this study would be disqualified from a reputable journal. Sax commented:
Thomas Jefferson
Direct male-line descendants of a cousin of United States president Thomas Jefferson were genotyped to investigate historical assertions that Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings.
An extended 17-marker haplotype was published in 2007, and the company Family Tree DNA has also published results for other markers in its standard first 12-marker panel. Combining these sources gives the consolidated 21-marker haplotype below. The Jeffersons belong to Haplogroup T (M184) (formerly known as K2).
Louis XVI
Analysis of a handkerchief with blood traces said to have been obtained at the execution of Louis XVI of France, suggested that he may have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup G-M201. However, testing on some of his supposed relatives show he might have belonged to haplogroup R-U106 (a subclade of R1b).
Martin Luther
Tested relatives of Protestant reformer Martin Luther belonged to Haplogroup I2a-Din-N (L147.2+).
Napoleon
Analysis of two beard hairs revealed that Napoleon Bonaparte belonged to Y haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (E-M34*).
Niall of the Nine Hostages
A study conducted at Trinity College, Dublin, found that a striking percentage of men in Ireland (and quite a few in Scotland) share the same Y chromosome. Niall established a royal dynasty which dominated the island for six centuries. Niall belongs to Haplogroup R1b1c7 (M222). Dr. Moore's results examined some different parts of DNA (loci) from the result given here. More recently, however, it has been determined that the emergence of R-M222 predates Niall and may be more than 2,000 years old. Therefore, not all men who belong to this haplogroup are descendants of Niall. A history of the lineage of Irish kings that was compiled by Irish monks, known as "the Annals of the Four Masters" lists "Conn of the Hundred Battles" among the ancestors of Niall. So, it may be that the haplogroup previously attributed to Niall is actually attributable to Conn of the Hundred Battles.
Brian Boru
The Irish King Brian Boru, founder of the O'Brien Dynasty is associated with the Dalcassian haplogroup R1B-L226.
Nurhaci
Y Haplogroup C3b2b1* (C-M401*, (xF5483) has been identified as a possible marker of the Aisin Gioro (who were founders of the Qing dynasty) and is found in ten different ethnic minorities in northern China, but completely absent from Han Chinese.
Asano Soichiro
's Y-DNA is D1a2a1a2b1a1a8a (D-CTS4093). He was a Japanese businessman responsible for founding a number of companies, including what became today's Sapporo Breweries, Toa Construction Corporation, Oki Electric Industry, JFE Group and Taiheiyo Cement (formerly Asano Cement).
Somerled
In 2003 Oxford University researchers traced the Y-chromosome signature of Somerled of Argyll, one of Scotland's greatest warriors, who is credited with driving out the Vikings. He was also paternal grandfather of the founder of Clan Donald. Through clan genealogies, the genetic relation was mapped out. Somerled belongs to haplogroup R1a1.
In 2005 a study by Professor of Human Genetics Bryan Sykes of Oxford University led to the conclusion that Somerled has possibly 500,000 living descendants. Sykes deduced that despite Somerled's reputation for having driven out the Vikings from Scotland, Somerled's own Y-DNA closely matched that of the Vikings he fought.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), the 18th century scientist and mystic from Sweden likely belonged to the haplogroup I1-BY229, a haplogroup with a common ancestor about 1500 years ago who lived somewhere in central Scandinavia.
Nikola Tesla
The testing of actual relatives’ Serb scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), published on the Serbian DNA Project at Poreklo, showed that his Y-DNA line was R1a-M458 (L1029 subclade).
Rothschild Family
Men of the Jewish Rothschild family, who established an international banking business, acquired the largest fortune in modern world history and established a true dynasty in the 19th century, apparently belong to haplogroup J2a1-L210.
Haplogroup J2 is commonly found within Asia Minor, Persia, Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains and is frequent in modern and historical inhabitants of the Levant and Fertile Crescent especially among Jews and in Lebanon. Subclade J2a is very common amongst Ingush, and has been found in West Eurasian corpses discovered in the Altai mountains.
Queen Victoria
mtDNA Haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C):
Empress Alexandra of Russia's identity was confirmed by matching her mtDNA with that of her grand-nephew, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Their common maternal ancestor, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, and her mother, Queen Victoria, must therefore have shared this haplotype. Genealogies show that Charles II of England had the same matrilineal ancestress as Queen Victoria, namely Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. Catherine the Great is 11-knee relation of Queen Victoria on this lineage.
Alexander Hamilton
He is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His Y-DNA Haplogroup was I1a.
John Adams
He was the first Vice President and second President of the U.S. His Y-DNA Haplogroup was R1b1.
John Quincy Adams
He was the sixth President of the U.S. His Y-DNA Haplogroup was R1b1.
See also
Ancient DNA
Genealogical DNA testing
Paleogenetics
References
External links
Evidence of the Past: A Map and Status of U.S. Ancient Remains
Royal DNA of Europe
List of ancient DNA
List of haplogroups of famous Japanese people
DNA
Genetic genealogy
Haplogroups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20haplogroups%20of%20historic%20people |
Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)
was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat, American Fluxus, and minimalism.
Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and as president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre national du livre.
He organised the first international festival of sound poetry in 1976 and the event Rencontres Internationales 1980 de poésie sonore which took place in Rennes, in Le Havre and at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Bibliography
Sitôt dit, Seghers, 1955.
B2B3, Éditions du Castel Rose, 1964.
"Trois biopsies" et "Un passe - partout", 1970
Portraits-Pétales, Guy Schraenen, 1973,
D2 + D3Z, Poèmes-Partitions, Collection Où, Henri Chopin Éditeur, 1973.
Partition V, Éditions du Soleil Noir, 1973.
Encoconnage, avec Françoise Janicot, Guy Schraenen, 1975
Foules, Guy Schraenen Éditeur, 1975 (Belgique).
Poésie action / Poésie sonore 1955-1975, Atelier Annick Le Moine, 1976.
Participation à Tanger I et Tanger II, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1978, 1979.
Dis-moi ton utopie, Éditions Eter, 1975.
Poésie sonore et caves romaines suivi de Poème-Partition D4P, Éditions Hundertmark, RFA, 1984.
Heidsieck et Hubaut, (cassette) avec Joël Hubaut, 1984
P puissance B, avec Radio Taxi(c), Lotta Poetica and Studio Morra, 1984
Au delà de la poésie, with Julien Blaine and Servin, with drawings by Jean Touzot, L'Unique, 1985
Canal Street, SEVIM/ B. Heidsieck, 1986
Poésie et dynamite (with a text by Jean-Jacques Lebel), Factotumbook 38, Sarenco-Strazzer, 1986
Derviche / Le Robert, Éditeurs Évidant, 1988.
Poème-Partition "A", Électre Éditeur, 1992.
D'un art à l'autre (Poésure et Peintrie), Ville de Marseille, 1993
Poème-Partition "R", Cahiers de nuit, Caen, 1994.
Poème-Partition "N", Les Petits classiques du grand pirate, 1995.
Morceaux choisis supplément à Bernard Heidsieck Poésie Action, Jean-Michel Place, (CD), 1996
Coléoptères and Co, with P.A. Gette, Yéo Éditeur, Paris, 1997.
Poème-Partition "T", with a CD, Derrière la Salle de bains, 1998.
Vaduz, avec un CD, Francesco Conz Éditeur/Al Dante éditeur, 1998.
La Fin d'un millénaire, catalogue Ventabrun Art Contemporain, 2000
Poème-Partition "Q", Derrière la salle de bains, 1999 + une autre édition en 2001.
Bonne Anée, avec Yoland Bresson, Éditions du toit, 1999
Respirations et brèves rencontres, with 3 CDs, Al Dante Éditeur, 2000. ( aussi en K7)
Nous étions bien peu en ..., Onestar Press, 2001.
Partition V, with 1 CD, réédition, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2001
Canal Street, with 2 CDs, Al Dante Éditeur, 2001.
Poème-Partition "F", with 1 CD, Le Corridor bleu Éditeur, 2001. (aussi en K7)
Le carrefour de la chaussée d'Antin, with 2 CDs, Al Dante, 2001
Partition V, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2001
Notes convergentes, Al Dante Éditeur, 2001. ( aussi en K7)
La poinçonneuse, with 1 CD, Al Dante Éditeur, 2003.
Ca ne sera pas long, fidel Anthelme X, 2003.(CD)
Lettre à Brion, CD, Al Dante Éditeur, 2004.
Derviche ; Le Robert, with 3 CDs, Al Dante éditeur, 2004.
Démocratie II, with 1 CD, Al Dante éditeur, 2004.
Spermatozoïdes I (Collection Acquaviva / Derrière la Salle de Bains), 2008
Bernard Heidsieck, Ici Radio Verona (edited by Frédéric Acquaviva, Editions Francesco Conz, Verona), 2010
Spermatozoïdes II, Editions AcquAvivA, 2012
Spermatozoïdes III, Editions AcquAvivA, 2012
References
External links
Archivio Conz
Heidsieck is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian, 1991
Heidsieck Page at Ubuweb
1928 births
2014 deaths
Poets from Paris
French male poets
20th-century French poets
20th-century French male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Heidsieck |
Goiatuba is a municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 34,202 (2020 IBGE) in a total area of 2,470.3 km2. Goiatuba is a large producer of grains, especially soybeans and corn.
Climate and Location
The average elevation is 775 meters, with an annual temperature average of 22 °C. The climate is typically tropical, moist and hot, with well-defined dry and rainy seasons. Average temperatures vary between 19 °C and 30 °C.
Goiatuba is about 50 kilometers north of the Paranaíba River, which forms the boundary with the state of Minas Gerais. It is 10 kilometers from the important interstate highway BR-153, which links Itumbiara with the state capital, Goiânia. The distance to Goiânia is 176 kilometers.
Municipal boundaries are:
North: Vicentinópolis and Joviânia;
Northeast and East: Morrinhos and Buriti Alegre;
South: Itumbiara and Panamá
Southwest: Castelândia and Bom Jesus de Goiás;
West and Northwest: Porteirão and Edéia
Districts: Marcianópolis.
Hamlets: Rochelândia, Santo Antônio, Serrinha and Venda Seca.
Demographics
Population density: 12.62 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Population growth rate 1996/2007: 0.04.%
Total population: 31,225
Total population: 26,937
Urban population in 2007: 28,548
Rural population in 2007: 2,677
Economy
The economy is based on agriculture and cattle raising, but Goiatuba has several large enterprises. The areas are diverse: poultry processing, automobile sales, dairy products, and agricultural equipment. There is an alcohol distillery—Goiasa (Goiatuba Álcool ltda.), a seed producer—Sementes Selecta, a bed clothing factory—Bouquet, a dairy—Laticínio Polenghi (which produces most of the ice cream sold by McDonald's in Brazil), and two fertilizer plants—Adubos Sul Goiano, Adubos Terra Verde.
Economic data
Industrial units: 55 (06/2007)
Retail units: 413 (08/2007)
Banking institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF - Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A. - HSBC Bank Brasil S.A.-Banco Multiplo.. (01/06/2005)
Industrial Dairies
Polenghi Indústrias Alimentícias Ltda.;
Goiatuba Álcool S/A(GOIASA);
Bom Sucesso Agroindústria Ltda.;
LogSeed Sementes Ltda.;
Sementes Magnólia Ltda.;
Agrex do Brasil S/A;
Globoaves São Paulo Agroavícola Ltda.;
São Salvador Alimentos S/A - ;
Frangoiano Indústria de Alimentos S/A - ;
AgroBom Armazéns Gerais Ltda.;
Gaia Agribusiness Armazéns Gerais Ltda.
AgroBom Armazéns Gerais Ltda.;
Industrial Park: Distrito Agroindustrial - DIAGO;
Main agricultural activities
Cattle raising: 98,100 head (2006)
Poultry: 301,000
Agriculture: rice, sugarcane (13,000 hectares), sorghum, soybeans (62,000 hectares), and corn (10,750 hectares). There is modest production of citrus fruits, bananas, manioc, beans, and tomatoes. Statistics are from IBGE
Number of farms: 745
Total area: 152,077
Area of permanent crops: 991
Area of perennial crops: 71,500
Area of natural pasture: 56,773
Persons dependent on farming: 2,500 IBGE
Education and health
Literacy rate: 88.8%
Infant mortality rate: 13.30 in 1,000 live births
Schools: 24 (2006)
Students: 9,253
Higher education: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas de Goiatuba- FAFICH - Pólo Universitário da UEG.
Hospitals: 03 (2006)
Hospital beds: 139
(Sepin/IBGE)
Political information
Mayor: Reinaldo Cândido da Silva (January 2013)
City council: 9
Prosperity
The municipality is one of the most prosperous in the state. Goiatuba got a score of 0.812 on the UN Human Development Index, putting it in 4th place out of 242 municipalities in the state. Nationally it was ranked 350 out of 5,507 municipalities. For the complete list see Frigoletto
Origin of the name
Goiatuba became a city in 1931, and the origin of the name is curious: "Goia" comes from the Goia Indians and "Tuba" is a Tupi-Guarani word meaning "big". So, Goiatuba is the same as "big Goiás".
History
The settlement of the region took place in 1860 when ranchers from Minas Gerais settled to raise cattle and grow crops. In 1892 land was donated to establish a town. The first name was "Bananeiras" because of the abundance of this fruit in the region. With the building of the first chapel the town was called São Sebastião das Bananeiras. In 1900 it was elevated to a district and became a municipality in 1931.
See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
References
Frigoletto
Prefeitura Municipal de Goiatuba
Municipalities in Goiás | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiatuba |
Alboran or Alborán may refer to
Alboran Sea, the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea
Alboran Island, an islet of Spain
Battle of Alborán, a 1540 islet off the island
Alboran Trio, an Italian jazz piano trio
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (born 1997), American tennis player
Pablo Alborán (born 1989), Spanish musician and singer-songwriter
See also
Alborn (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alboran |
Rune J. Skjælaaen (born 23 January 1954 in Bergen) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party (SP). He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 2001.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.
2005 - 2009 member of the Electoral Committee.
2001 - 2005 member of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs.
2001 - 2005 deputy member of the Electoral Committee.
External links
1954 births
Living people
Members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune%20J.%20Skj%C3%A6laaen |
The Botswana National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gaborone, Botswana. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 25,000 people.
Overview
The pitch is surrounded by an athletics track, the stadium is coupled with a rugby venue, which has fallen into disuse, and a tennis facility.
The stadium was made up of a total of 10 stands, three of which are covered. The three large stands on each end of the stadium made up the north and south ends. The west side of the stadium is made up of three covered stands, while the east end is made up of one giant uncovered stand. After the 2016 renovations, the 3 north stands were joined together. The same was done for the 3 south stands, increasing the stadium capacity by 3 000 seats from 22 000 to 25 000. From 22 to 31 May 2014, the stadium hosted the 2nd African Youth Games, Gaborone 2014 opening and closing ceremonies as well as the track and field events. A giant screen was erected on the middle north stand in August 2014.
The stadium is home to the Botswana national football team, the Zebras. It is also currently home to Gaborone based Botswana Premier League clubs Township Rollers F.C., Gaborone United S.C. and Notwane F.C. Mochudi side, Mochudi Centre Chiefs SC also uses the ground as their home base.
Apart from sports, the stadium also hosts other events like Botswana Police Service Day and Botswana Defense Force Day, as well as Botswana Independence Celebrations. Music festivals and church services are also held at this multi-use facility.
Renovation of the National Stadium
Hitecon construction company won the tender to renovate the stadium. The purpose for renovating the National Stadium was for Botswana to accommodate some teams that were competing in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The tournament was held in neighboring South Africa.
In 2008 the national stadium was closed for refurbishment with the hope that it would be used for the 2010 World Cup as a training camp for teams competing in it. This never materialized as the teams were instructed to train inside South Africa, and the stadium renovations were behind schedule.
Since its closure in 2008, the stadium had turned into a white elephant as it couldn't be used for sporting activities. The Premier League and athletics were among the sports that were most affected by the unavailability of the stadium. The premier league teams which rely mostly on gate takings were hard hit as they used sadist around Gaborone which are much smaller and cannot accommodate teams with large followings, thus limiting their revenue.
In June 2013, the stadium was finally handed over to the BNSC after being closed for about five years. It hosted its first activity in August 2013, where Township Rollers F.C. hosted rivals Extension Gunners in the opening match of the 2013/14 Botswana Premier League season. Gunners went on to win 1–0.
In 2016, the stadium was closed again to increase its capacity to 25 000 in anticipation of the country's 50th independence celebrations on 30 September 2016.
The National Stadium is currently open and continues to host various sporting and non-sporting events.
References
External links
Photos at cafe.daum.net/stade
Photos at worldstadiums.com
Photos at fussballtempel.net
Football venues in Gaborone
National stadiums
Multi-purpose stadiums in Botswana
Athletics (track and field) venues in Botswana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana%20National%20Stadium |
George Psychoundakis BEM (, 3 November 1920 – 29 January 2006) was a member of the Greek Resistance on Crete during the Second World War and after the war an author. Following the German invasion, between 1941 and 1945, he served as the dispatch runner for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) operations on Crete, as part of the Cretan resistance. During the postwar years he was at first mistakenly imprisoned as a deserter. While in prison he wrote his wartime memoirs, which were published as The Cretan Runner. Later he translated key classical Greek texts into the Cretan dialect.
He had been a shepherd before the war and after it a charcoal burner and later caretaker of a German military cemetery on Crete.
Early life
George Psychoundakis was born in Asi Gonia (), a village of a few hundred people high in the Mouselas valley in western Crete. The village was not serviced by a road until the 1950s. He was the penultimate son of Nicolas and Angeliké. One of the poorest families in the village, they lived in a one-room home with an earth floor. After a minimum of education in the village school, he became a shepherd, tending his family's few sheep and goats. He developed an intimate knowledge of his part of the island.
During the Second World War, people used the caves to live in and to store weapons. They traveled the goat tracks to carry messages, goods and people. Crete had a tradition of resistance to rule by outsiders; the island had, about 40 years previously in 1898, obtained its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Numerous insurrections during the long occupation, together with the mountainous terrain, helped maintain an independence of character and willingness to bear and use arms.
Wartime service
As an airborne Nazi invasion began on 20 May 1941, Psychoundakis immediately went to the nearest town (Episkopi, Rethymno) about 15 km away. He took part in an ill-armed resistance to the invasion. The Cretans hid many hundreds of British and other Allied soldiers left behind, and the resistance organised their movement to the south coast. From there the British were shipped to Egypt. Psychoundakis helped in guiding groups from village to village. By the autumn of 1941, the SOE were beginning to organise with British liaison officers on the island, one of whom was Patrick Leigh Fermor. He arrived clandestinely by sea in July 1942. Psychoundakis acted as Fermor's runner, carrying messages between resistance groups and guiding parties unfamiliar with the territory.
Leigh Fermor described the man in his introduction to The Cretan Runner:
The Cretan runners performed exceptional feats and made essential contributions to the British operations in the Mediterranean. In 490 BC Pheidippides ran 42 km from the battle of Marathon to tell about the victory over the Persians, and died just after delivering his message. In comparison, Psychoundakis ran from Kastelli-Kissamou on the northwestern coast of Crete to Paleochora on the southwestern coast in one night. The distance along the present main road is 45 km. Through a rugged landscape with deep ravines, where he had to run to avoid the Germans, the distance may have been twice as far.
The resistance fighters faced baking Cretan summers and severely cold winters, particularly in the hills. Food was often short and fighters suffered from hiding in cold, dripping caves with deep snow outside. The island's fighters were never put to the ultimate test; they had hoped Crete might be a starting point for the invasion of southern Europe. The island was liberated in 1945. The British offered Psychoundakis payment for his work, but he turned them down. He said that he had worked for his country and not for money.
Postwar life
After the liberation, Psychoundakis was arrested as a deserter and was confined for 16 months despite having been honoured by the British with BEM (Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service) and £200 as an award for his services during the war. While in confinement he wrote his memories of service in the SOE and the Cretan resistance movement. His former superior Patrick Leigh Fermor, later Sir Patrick, discovered his plight by accident and managed to secure his release by clearing up the misunderstanding.
After reading his manuscript, Leigh Fermor translated it into English, and assisted in getting it published, under the title The Cretan Runner in 1955. The book has since been translated into a number of European languages. After his release from prison, Psychoundakis was first forced to fight in the civil war. Then he worked as a charcoal burner in the Cretan mountains to support his family until his book was published. During this period, he wrote the book The Eagle's Nest, which deals with the life and customs of the mountain people in the villages near his home of Asi Gonia. This book was translated into English by Dr Barrie Machin, the social anthropologist, who worked with George Psychoundakis in 1967 and 1968 on an anthropological study of Asi Gonia. Barrie returned on numerous occasions to work with George, and they became very close friends. Machin made a video based on his research, Warriors and Maidens: Gender Relations in a Cretan Mountain Village (1988). Psychoundakis was a natural anthropologist as well as a gifted writer, with a phenomenal memory. His poverty was so great that he could not even afford pen and paper. In 1968 Barrie left him an enormous pile of 5" by 4" cards and pens so he could write. He started his translation of the Iliad that year.
Psychoundakis made considerable contributions to Cretan culture. He learned much of Crete's tradition of oral poetry and also wrote. Psychoundakis translated Homer's works, Iliad (560 pages) and Odyssey (474 pages), from ancient Greek into Cretan dialect. For this he was honoured by the Academy of Athens.
From 1974 until his retirement, Psychoundakis, together with another fighter in the Greek resistance, Manolis Paterakis, were caretakers at the German war cemetery on Hill 107 above Maleme. George Psychoundakis buried Bruno Brauer when he was re-interred on Crete later in the 1970s.
Sources
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George Psychoundakis obituary, Times Online, 23 February 2006.
George Psychoundakis obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 18 February 2006.
George Psychoundakis obituary, The Guardian, 21 February 2006.
The Trireme Trust – Newsletter 18
Bibliography
Ομήρου Ιλιάδα, Ψυχουντάκης, Γεώργιος. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, Ηράκλειο 2003.
Ομήρου Οδύσσεια, Ψυχουντάκης, Γεώργιος. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, Ηράκλειο 2003.
Αετοφωλιές στην Κρήτη: Λαογραφία της Ασή-Γωνιάς. Γεώργιος Ψυχουντάκης, Δημοτική Πολιτιστική Επιχείρηση Χανίων. Χανιά 1999.
References
Greek Resistance members
Greek translators
Special Operations Executive personnel
1920 births
2006 deaths
Crete in World War II
Cretan Resistance
Writers from Crete
Recipients of the British Empire Medal
20th-century translators
Greek male writers
20th-century male writers
People from Chania (regional unit) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Psychoundakis |
All Cannings Cross is the name of farm and an archaeological site close to All Cannings, near Devizes in the English county of Wiltshire. The site is a scheduled ancient monument.
It is notable as the first site where the emergence of Iron Age technology in Britain was identified by archaeologists. In 1911 it was first investigated by Ben and Maud Cunnington after they were informed of finds of numerous hammerstones in a ploughed field in the Vale of Pewsey. Subsequent excavation by the Cunningtons encountered a thick layer of humic material containing a high concentration of pottery and animal bone as well as both bronze and iron tools. The date of the site was estimated at c. 500 BC, a time of transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.
The Cunningtons returned to the site between 1920 and 1922, and study of the wide range of pottery they excavated became influential on the understanding of the period. From the eighth century to the seventh century BC, the area (Wessex) boasted an elaborate array of different vessel types, often highly decorated and well made. Some were covered with iron oxide and fired in oxidising conditions which produced pottery which could be burnished to shine like bronze vessels. This pottery, which has All Cannings Cross as its typesite, has since been found in an area of southern Britain from the Somerset Levels to eastern Hampshire. This suggests a high degree of interaction during the period and some kind of shared values which indicate that communities in the region were in close contact with another, likely through exchange networks used to trade bronze.
There is evidence for some post-built buildings and other settlement features such as hearths and floors.
More recent work by the University of Sheffield in 2003 and 2004 has interpreted the humic deposit as being part of a group of large middens, analogous to similar sites at nearby Potterne or East Chisenbury. The nature of the settlement itself is still poorly understood and it is uncertain whether the middens represent waste materials from a farming economy of whether the midden pits were perhaps ritually created through group feasting activities.
References
Sources
External links
Iron Age sites in England
Archaeological sites in Wiltshire
Former populated places in Wiltshire
Scheduled monuments in Wiltshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Cannings%20Cross |
Deadly Dozen is a 2001 World War II oriented squad-based first-person shooter video game developed by nFusion Interactive. The title refers to the famous World War II film The Dirty Dozen. As in the movie, the main protagonists are military misfits sentenced to death or long term imprisonment who are given a chance to redeem themselves by going on dangerous missions. The game was followed by a sequel titled Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater.
Gameplay
The twelve characters have different specializations: sniper, demolition expert and so on. For every mission, the player selects four of European theater.
Reception
Deadly Dozen received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 56/100 based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". On GameRankings, the game holds a score of 61.33% based on 12 reviews.
Re-release and remaster
In July 2013, Tommo purchased many assets from Atari during their bankruptcy sale, including Deadly Dozen. The company later re-released it on Steam under their "Retroism" brand in 2015. In March 2020, the ownership of the title, alongside other Retroism games, was transferred over to the newly formed Ziggurat Interactive, who currently publish the game.
Ziggurat Interactive published Deadly Dozen Reloaded, a remaster of the original game for PCs and consoles. It was released for the PC via Steam and GOG.com in April 2022. Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions were released in later half of the year.
References
External links
nFusion's listing
2001 video games
Infogrames games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
Single-player video games
Tactical shooter video games
Tommo games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Belgium
Video games set in France
Video games set in Germany
Video games set in Libya
Video games set in Norway
Video games set in the Netherlands
Windows games
World War II first-person shooters
Xbox One games
Ziggurat Interactive games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly%20Dozen |
BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA in Wales or WAFTA) is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was founded in 1987.
The British Academy Cymru Awards were established in 1991, with the first annual awards ceremony held on 30 November 1991. The annual ceremony takes place in Cardiff to recognise achievement in production, performance and craft categories in Welsh-made films and television programmes and by those of Welsh birth or residence. These are separate from the UK-wide British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Film Awards, although films and programmes recognised by BAFTA Cymru may also feature at BAFTA's national awards.
Categories
Television Drama
Factual Series
Entertainment Programme
News and Current Affairs
Children's Programme
Single Documentary
Short Film
Game
Presenter
Director: Fiction
Writer
Editing
Actor
Actress
Photography Factual
Photography and Lighting
Sound
Original Music
Costume Design
Siân Phillips Award
Outstanding Contribution to Television
References
External links
Organizations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Wales
Television in Wales
Cinema of Wales
Cymru
Welsh awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA%20Cymru |
Intwari Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bujumbura, Burundi. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 10,000. It was formerly named after former Burundian prime minister and independence hero, Louis Rwagasore before being renamed on 1 July 2019.
References
External links
Cafe.daum.net/stade – Stadium Pictures
StadiumDB.com pictures
Football venues in Burundi
Burundi
Athletics (track and field) venues in Burundi
Buildings and structures in Bujumbura
Multi-purpose stadiums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intwari%20Stadium |
Dagfinn Sundsbø (born 11 December 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Lindås as a son of farmers. He is the brother of politician Svein Sundsbø.
He worked in the Norwegian Agrarian Association from 1980 to 2001 and was the general secretary of the Centre Party from 2001 to 2005. He has also been involved in Nei til EU. In local politics, Sundsbø was a member of Fet municipal council from 1987 to 1991, and of Akershus county council from 1991 to 2005.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Akershus during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. During the fourth term he met as a regular representative meanwhile Åslaug Haga was appointed to the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. Haga left the cabinet in June 2008, meaning that Sundsbø lost his parliament seat. He was not re-elected either in the 2009 general election. Instead Sundsbø was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care Services. He left office in September 2012, being relieved of the position following a cabinet reshuffle. He went on to become a political adviser for the Centre Party parliamentary group.
He has been a deputy member in Norway's Contact Committee for Immigrants and the Authorities since 2006, and was a member of two committees that delivered the Norwegian Official Reports 2001:05 (leader of the committee) and 2000:22.
References
1946 births
Living people
People from Lindås
People from Fet
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Akershus politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagfinn%20Sundsb%C3%B8 |
Estádio da Várzea is a multi-purpose stadium in Praia, Cape Verde just west of the city center's plateau in the subdivision of Várzea and on Avenida Cidade de Lisboa on its east side. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000 people. The stadium is owned by the city of Praia and is operated by the Santiago South Regional Football Association and serves its headquarters of the association. The other stadium operated by the association in the south of the island is Calabaceira. The entrance is on the west side of the stadium where most of the seat is. The stadium has seat rows in the left and right sides, 200 meters east is the Plateau of Praia. Its size is 108 by 69 m, the longest part of the field goes north to south with a 15 degree angle facing east at the top. Its elevation is about 4 meters above sea level. A smaller practice field lies due south. The stadium is home to the four best football clubs in Cape Verde, Sporting, CD Travadores, Académica and Boavista FC the Santiago Island first division alongside Vitória FC, one of the region's best, it also home of Desportivo da Praia which is a military club and the lesser club Benfica Praia. Other teams that base in another part include ADESBA located in the nearby neighborhood of Craveiro Lopes some hundreds of meters north but play in the stadium.
Competition
The regional Premier Division matches are played in the afternoon and the early evening hours starting, on Fridays, its matches starts at 16:00 (4 PM) and during the weekends its matches starts at 14:00 (2 PM). Four regional Second Division matches are played in the morning hours starting at 8:00 (8 AM), the other match are played at nearby Calabaceira further northwest.
Training ground
Southwest of the stadium is a small training ground. The clubs mainly train at that part of the stadium, some like Sporting Praia, Travadores, Académca da Praia, Desportivo Praia, ADESBA and Celtic Praia train there. The size is 69 x 43 meters. It was built on a former concrete basketball court in 2004.
Other landmarks
Other landmarks around the stadium includes the National Library in the north, the government building, home of the National Assembly in the south and recently since 2013, the stock market building. Further east is the headquarters of Cabo Verde Telecom, a building south is Cape Verde's tallest building built in around 2010, it is used for finances, banking and investments.
Other nearby sports complexes are its tennis complex and Gimnodesportivo Vava Duarte about two buildings south.
History
The stadium (then commonly as Estádio Municipal da Praia) was constructed around the mid-20th century.
From 1953 to 2002, the stadium was solely operated by the Santiago Regional Football Association before its breakup into two zones.
On February 5, 2004, the management of the stadium was done by the Santiago South Regional Football Association, newly separated then, while the ownership remains to be the city itself. Currently the ARFSS is the operator of the stadium, they also operate Calabaceira and a part of its training grounds in other parts of the city.
The stadium was reopened in 2006, Campo de Coco formerly occupied the site until the area would be renovated. Campo do Coco was one of the first football (soccer) fields opened in around 1930, around the 1990s, the stadium name became Várzea.
The stadium twice hosted the Amilcar Cabral Cup, the first was in 1982 which it also canceled the national championships that season but not the first national cup, and the last one was in 2000 where the team defeated Senegal 1-0 and won the only title. In 1998, the field started to deteriorate, one of the reasons that the Santiago regional competitions were cancelled for the 1999 and the 2001 seasons, it was restored briefly in 2000. Another reason of the deterioration was that in the 1980s and the 1990s, more matches were played especially the Second Division at the stadium with an addition of a few clubs. The stadium underwent renovations for November 1999, heavy rains delayed renovations and was not completed until April in the following year. Later, Praia's clubs between 2001 and 2004 were played at Sucupira, weeds were grown inside the stadium, the stadium was being renovated and the field sorted again at the time. The adjacent Sucupira field became disused, a building is now built on the former field. On March 15, 2007, the field became artificial and synthetic turf. Before, the grass was dry and in bad shape due to the climate that is not favorable for natural grass, the replacement costed about CV$60 million (545,000 euros). Music concerts also took place in the stadium especially in February 2007. The first Cape Verdean Cup final took place in September 2007 which was won by Académica Praia. More improvements along with artificial grass were made in late 2010 and artificial light were added.
With the improved 2017 national season, the first with two meetings each, 3 out of 6 matches were at the stadium and had three consecutive matches played, the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th rounds.
Cape Verdean Colonial/Provincial Championships
The final matches between the winners of the islands of Santiago and São Vicente before independence in 1975 took place at Campo do Coco, one of them was in 1972, the predecessor to Várzea, they were held each year with the exceptions of 1955, 1957 to 1959 and in 1970.
Cape Verdean Football Championships
Several final matches of the Cape Verdean Football Championships took place in the stadium, one of two finals matches featuring a club from Santiago or outside the island of São Vicente took place at the stadium until 1985. Four of its matches was held at Sucupira while the stadium was being repaired, Sporting Praia won their fourth title at the stadium in 2002 with a record total of 19 points and scored 22 goals. The 2004 final took place in the stadium with the first match of two where Academica lost to Sport Sal Rei Club 0–2 on June 26, 2004. The first of two match of the 2005 finals was in the stadium with FC Derby and ended in a one-goal draw, Derby later won their third and recent title for the club. In 2006, the second final match took place on July 2 and Sporting was tied with Académico do Aeroporto with two goals, Sporting won their fifth title, their first of four consecutive titles. In 2007, the second match was at the stadium on July 21 and had a one-goal draw with Académica do Mindelo and Sporting claimed their sixth title under the away goals rule. Sporting faced Derby in the 2008 finals, the second rescheduled match featured Sporting who defeated Derby with 3 goals and claimed their seventh title. The 2009 finals was the first in the country that featured two clubs from the same city, the clubs were Sporting and Académica da Praia and Sporting won all four consecutive titles. Again, the 2009 finals would feature clubs from the same city, Boavista FC defeated Sporting Praia in two of its final matches and claimed their third and recent title for the club. The 2011 edition of the finals had its first match held at the stadium and the first with artificial grass, Sporting played against CS Mindelense and lost the match by a goal, later Mindelense won their eighth title. In the 2012 finals, Sporting challenged against SC Atlético in the second match and ended scoreless, Sporting under the away goals rule claimed their ninth and recent title for the club, one of the notable finals of the decade. The 2017 national football championship finals had the second leg took place in the stadium, the next in five years where Sporting Praia won their recent title, also its long-awaited celebrations made by Sporting Praia fans took place at the stadium. The 2018 National Division has the first three of the six matches with Académica Praia in the stadium while Sporting played its first match in the stadium and will play the last six inside Várzea.
Cape Verdean Cup
The knockout stage of the Cape Verdean Cup took place at the stadium in 1982, 2007, 2009, 2010 and in 2012. The 2007 season had all matches played and the final round with three matches in 2010. No new national cup competitions have been made until 2018, where the third round matches will be playing in June.
Clubs at the continental level
African championship and cup league competitions took place at the stadium, seven championship editions took place with eleven matches and three cup competitions with three matches.
In the championship portion, Sporting held the most with seven matches the latter five being the CAF Champions League with ASC Port Autonome and Tunisia's Club Africain in the 1992 African Cup of Champions Clubs which was the first Cape Verdean club to appear, in the 2000 CAF Champions League with AS Tempête Mocaf of Bangui, Guinea's Fello Star in 2007, FAR Rabat and Inter Luanda in 2008 and again with FAR Rabat in 2009, the 2009 edition was the recent that the Cape Verdean champion competed at the continental level. The other two are Travadores with two matches held, first in the 1995 African Cup of Champions Clubs with Real de Banjul and the 1997 CAF Champions League with USM Alger and Boavista in 1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs.
In the cup portion each of the three clubs held it once, Travadores was the first Cape Verdean club to compete at the continental competition in 1993 where Boavista lost to ASC Air Mauritanie, then Boavista in 1994 with Diamond Stars from Sierra Leone and lastly Sporting held it once in 2001 with Gazelle FC from N'Djamena, Chad.
Architecture
The architectural type is early modernism. The exterior of the architecture at the front is colored stucco-peach, it has eight modernized square columns, on the bottom inside are colored white where the entrance gates are and the offices are located. In the middle is colored light brown with two flaw windows on its edges with four in the middle at the upper third floor, a circular window at the second floor is in the middle, it is bordered by two balconies at the third floor and bordering it are two thick glass staircase windows with three small squared windows each side on its two upper floors.
Panoramics
The stadium can be viewed from the hills in the outskirts including Achada Santo António and especially the Plateau of Praia.
Transportation
Two nearby bus stops are located by the stadium. One is at Avenida Cidade de Lisboa to the south and another is on the old road between the city center and Cidade Velha. These stops are also served by minibuses and taxis. Bus lines of the city's transit system that is nearby the stadium include:
São Filipe – Plateau - Achada Santo António (sometimes)
Palmarejo - Plateau – Achada Grande [Line 2] (sometimes)
São Filipe – Plateau - Achada Santo António - second route
Palmarejo – Plateau – Eugénio Lima
Terra Branca – Plateau – Pensamento (sometimes)
See also
List of football stadiums in Cape Verde
List of buildings and structures in Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago South Regional Football Association
Santiago South Premier Division
Santiago South Second Division - most matches takes place at the stadium
References
External links
Cafe.daum.net/stade: Stadiums in Cape Verde
Fussballtempel: Stadiums in Cape Verde
Soccerway: Estádio da Várzea
Stadium Database: Estádio da Várzea
Wildstat: Cape Verde, Praia, Estádio da Várzea
World Stadiums: Estádio da Varzea
Worldstadia: Estadio da Varzea
Football venues in Cape Verde
Várzea, Praia
Sport in Praia
Buildings and structures in Praia
Sports venues in Santiago, Cape Verde
Multi-purpose stadiums in Cape Verde
Académica da Praia
AD Bairro
Boavista FC (Cape Verde)
Desportivo da Praia
Sporting Clube da Praia
CD Travadores
Sports venues completed in 2006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1dio%20da%20V%C3%A1rzea |
The 2004–05 Divizia A was the eighty-seventh season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in July 2004 and ended in June 2005. Steaua București became champions on 11 June 2005.
Team changes
Relegated
The teams that were relegated to the Divizia B at the end of the previous season:
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Petrolul Ploiești
Bihor Oradea
Promoted
The teams that were promoted from the Divizia B at the start of the season:
Politehnica Iași
Sportul Studențesc
CFR Cluj
Venues
Personnel and kits
League table
Positions by round
Results
Attendances
Top goalscorers
Champion squad
References
Liga I seasons
Romania
1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Divizia%20A |
Ficus retusa is a species of evergreen woody plant in the fig genus, native to the Malay Archipelago and Malesia floristic region. The species name has been widely mis-applied to Ficus microcarpa.
Description
Ficus retusa is a rapidly growing, rounded, broad-headed, evergreen shrub or tree that can reach in height with an equal spread. The smooth, light grey trunk is quite striking, can grow to around in diameter, and it firmly supports the massively spreading canopy.
The tree has glabrous obovate leaves, usually longer than and spirally arranged. It has a gray to reddish bark dotted with small, horizontal flecks, called lenticels, that are used by woody plant species for supplementary gas exchange through the bark. The name is commonly used to refer to ornamental indoor plants (for example bonsai) widely cultivated in temperate regions, but such plants generally belong to another species, Ficus microcarpa. The two species can be distinguished from the length of the leaf blade (usually for F. retusa, and usually less than for F. microcarpa but rarely up to ).
F. retusa is commonly used as a beginner's bonsai.
Notes
retusa
Flora of Malesia
Indomalayan realm flora
Garden plants of Asia
Ornamental trees
Plants used in bonsai
fi:Malaganviikuna | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20retusa |
Starland County is a municipal district located in southern Alberta, Canada.
History
The municipality was incorporated in 1912, and established in the current boundaries in 1943, under the name Municipal District of Morrin No. 277. The name was changed the same year to Municipal District of Starland No. 277. Its name was changed again to Starland County in 1998.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following urban municipalities are surrounded by Starland County.
Cities
none
Towns
none
Villages
Delia
Morrin (location of municipal office)
Munson
Summer villages
none
The following hamlets are located within Starland County.
Hamlets
Craigmyle
Michichi
Rowley
Rumsey (dissolved from village status in 1995)
The following localities are located within Starland County.
Localities
Dinosaur
Dowling Lake
Gartly
Rainbow
Stonelaw
Verdant Valley
Victor
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Starland County had a population of 1,821 living in 588 of its 679 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,066. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Starland County had a population of 2,066 living in 611 of its 693 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 2,057. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Starland County's 2013 municipal census counted a population of 2,071.
Attractions
McLaren Dam Recreation Area
Michichi Dam Recreation Area
Starland Recreation Area
See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of municipal districts in Alberta
References
External links
Municipal districts in Alberta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starland%20County |
Stade Nacional, also named Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya (Arabic: ملعب وطني), is a multi-use stadium in N'Djamena, Chad. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000 people and it has artificial grass. It is currently the home ground of the Chad national football team. It is named after former Chadian highjumper Mahamat Idriss (1942—1987).
The stadium is located on Avenue Bezo, also known as Avenue Bokasa.
It is the home field of several clubs including Gazelle, Renaissance N'Djamena, CotonTchad (or CotonTchad N'Djamena), Tourbilllon, Postel 2000, DGSSIE and Foullah Edifice.
References
Football venues in Chad
Athletics (track and field) venues in Chad
Chad
Buildings and structures in N'Djamena
Gazelle FC | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Omnisports%20Idriss%20Mahamat%20Ouya |
The 17th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia, in 1970.
Cathy Rigby won the first medal for the United States women at the World Championships with a silver on balance beam.
Results
Medals
Men
Team Final
All-around
Floor Exercise
Pommel Horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel Bars
Horizontal Bar
Women
Team Final
All-around
Vault
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise
References
External links
Gymn Forum: World Championships Results
Gymnastics
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Sport in Ljubljana
International gymnastics competitions hosted by Yugoslavia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20World%20Artistic%20Gymnastics%20Championships |
Erling Sande (born 8 November 1978 in Bremanger) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He represents Sogn og Fjordane in the Norwegian Parliament, where he deputised for Liv Signe Navarsete, who served in government between 2005 and 2013. He was elected as a regular representative following the 2021 election. Sande has served as minister of local government since 2023.
Political career
Parliament
Sande was elected as a deputy member for Sogn og Fjordane at the 2005 parliamentary election. He was re-elected in 2009, and from 17 October 2005 until the end of the 2009-13 term, he deputised for Liv Signe Navarsete, who served in government. Concurrently to deputising for Navarsete, he led the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment from 2009 to 2013. He was a member of the committee from 2007. He also served as the second vice chair of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the Election Committee from 2005 to 2009. In 2012, he announced that he wouldn't seek re-election at the 2013 election.
Sande returned to parliament following the 2021 election. He served as the chair of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications between 2021 and 2023, when he was appointed minister of local government.
Minister of local government
Sande was appointed minister of local government on 16 October 2023, following a cabinet reshuffle.
2023
A week after assuming office, Sande rejected criticism from Kristiansand mayor Mathias Bernander that the government's proposed law to intervene to approve local referendums would weaken local democracy. Sande argued that in the case of Søgne and Sogndalen, they were simply listening to the local population and reiterated that the government would pay for a potential break-up of the merged municipality.
Personal life
Sande is married and has two sons.
References
1978 births
Living people
Sogn og Fjordane politicians
Members of the Storting
Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians
People from Bremanger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling%20Sande |
The El Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Djibouti City, Djibouti. It is currently reserved mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of hosting up to 20,000 fans. The stadium was designed by prolific Malaysian architect, Michael KC Cheah. As of April 2007, the Stade has an artificial turf pitch courtesy of FIFA's Win in Africa development programme. It is currently the home ground of the Djibouti national football team. The stadium is home to many sports federations in Djibouti, including the Djiboutian Football Federation.
History
The stadium opened on June 26, 1993. It is named after the first President of Djibouti, Hassan Gouled Aptidon. The facility was built with the assistance of Chinese engineers. Renovation work at the stadium commenced in 2002. The stadium has also benefited from the Goal program established by FIFA. A new artificial turf was established again in 2007.
Infrastructures
The stadium includes an eight-lane athletic track and a synthetic turf. It has two stands, one covered, which can accommodate 10,000 spectators. The complex also has three rooms for the practice of martial arts and table tennis.
Competitions
It hosts meetings of the Djibouti football team, the Djibouti championship, cups and super cups and athletics competitions. The first official international match played in this stadium opposes Djibouti to the Democratic Republic of Congo during the qualifiers for the 2002 World Cup on April 7, 2000. At the end of this match played in front of 2,700 spectators, the two teams split up on a draw, a goal everywhere. In athletics, it is the place of departure and arrival of the international semi-marathon of Djibouti which takes place each year in March.
References
External links
Photos at cafe.daum.net/stade
Photo at worldstadiums.com
Football venues in Djibouti
Athletics (track and field) venues in Djibouti
Buildings and structures in Djibouti (city)
Djibouti | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Hadj%20Hassan%20Gouled%20Aptidon%20Stadium |
Estadio Internacional is a multi-purpose stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 6,000.
Football venues in Equatorial Guinea
Buildings and structures in Malabo
Multi-purpose stadiums in Equatorial Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio%20Internacional |
Truls Aronsen Wickholm (born 15 October 1978) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Oslo during the terms 2005–2009, 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. He became a full member of Parliament in 2005, when Jens Stoltenberg became Prime Minister; then continued from 2009, now as the deputy of Jonas Gahr Støre. He remained MP until October 2013, when the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet lost office.
References
1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Oslo
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls%20Wickholm |
Tung Lo Wan (銅鑼灣) may refer to:
The transliteration of the Chinese name of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, as in Tung Lo Wan Road
Tung Lo Wan (Sha Tin), a village in Tai Wai, Sha Tin District, Hong Kong | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung%20Lo%20Wan |
Crescent Station is a hamlet of the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, United States that straddles US Route 9.
History
Crescent Station takes its name from a stop on the Schenectady and Troy Railroad (T&S), later a branch of the New York Central Railroad. The T&S Line was completed in 1842, and owned by the nearby city of Troy. Passenger service ended in 1942, though a Ford tractor branch in Crescent continued to receive service. In 1965, service between Crescent Station and Niskayuna was cut, and then when the Green Island Bridge was converted from rail to automobile use service was cut to Troy in 1958. Service between Crescent Station and Green Island was abandoned in 1976. It is now part of the Mohawk Hudson Hike/Bike Trail.
Geography
Colonie's town landfill is located at the north end of the hamlet, near the border with Cohoes and the Mohawk River. The Colonie Town Park is to the west, between Crescent Station and the Colonie hamlet of Dunsbach Ferry.
Location
References
External links
Town of Colonie (includes Crescent Station)
Colonie, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Albany County, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent%20Station%2C%20New%20York |
Cell were a New York–based rock band. They were often labeled as a grunge band due to the time frame of their existence, though they could be considered college rock or alternative rock. The band formed in 1990 and disbanded in 1995. Championed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, they released a 7 inch on his Ecstatic Peace label, and later signed to Geffen.
Members
Ian James (vocals, guitar)
Jerry DiRienzo (vocals, guitar)
David Motamed (bass)
Keith Nealy (drums)
Discography
Slo*Blo (1992)
Track listing
"Fall" (3:34)
"Wild" (3:46)
"Cross the River" (2:56)
"Dig Deep" (3:29)
"Stratosphere" (5:35)
"Two" (2:58)
"Everything Turns" (4:11)
"Tundra" (3:06)
"Bad Day" (2:24)
"Hills" (4:08)
Milky single 1992
“milky”
“two weeks”
“deranged”
Fall single 1993
“fall”
“circles”
“August wiedersehen”
Cross the river single 1993
“cross the river”
“China Latina”
“so cool”
“free money”
Living Room (1994)
Track listing
"Milky" (3:22)
"China Latina" (3:36)
"Sad & Beautiful" (4:04)
"Goodbye" (3:38)
"Chained" (3:18)
"So Cool" (LP-Only)
"Come Around" (3:32)
"Living Room" (4:42)
"Fly" (4:05)
"Halo" (3:04)
"Soft Ground" (4:44)
"Camera" (4:08)
"Blue Star" (6:22)
References
External links
Trouserpress entry for Cell
[ Cell at AMG]
1995 disestablishments in New York (state)
Musical groups established in 1990
Musical groups disestablished in 1995
Alternative rock groups from New York (state)
1990 establishments in New York City
Geffen Records artists
Musical quartets from New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20%28American%20band%29 |
Deadlock is a situation in computing where two processes are each waiting for the other to finish.
Deadlock or deadlocked may also refer to:
Film
Deadlock (1931 film), a British crime film featuring Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume and Warwick Ward
Deadlock (1943 film), a British crime film starring John Slater
Man-Trap or Deadlock, a 1961 American crime film featuring Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen
Deadlock (1970 film), a West German Western starring Mario Adorf
Wedlock (film) or Deadlock, a 1991 American science fiction film featuring Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers and Joan Chen
Deadlock (2021 film), an American action thriller starring Bruce Willis
Television
The Bold Ones: The Protectors or Deadlock, a 1969–1970 American crime drama television series
"Deadlock" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
"Deadlock" (Battlestar Galactica), an episode of Battlestar Galactica
Deadloch, an eight-part 2023 Australian comedy television series
A "Deadlock seal" is a type of nearly impregnable security in Doctor Who.
Music
Deadlock (band), a German melodic death metal band
Deadlock (EP), a 2023 EP by South Korean rock band Xdinary Heroes
"Deadlock", a 1970 song by Can from track from Soundtracks
"Deadlock", a 1998 song by Front Line Assembly from Cryogenic Studios Compilation
"Deadlocked", a 2012 song by F-777, used as the soundtrack for the 20th level in Geometry Dash
Computer games
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest, a computer game by Accolade
Ratchet: Deadlocked, a game in the Ratchet & Clank video game franchise
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, a 2017 turn-based strategy game
Print
Deadlock (novel), a detective novel by Sara Paretsky starring private investigator V. I. Warshawski
Deadlocked (novel), a Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris
Deadlock, a character in ABC Warriors
Politics and law
Deadlocked jury or hung jury
Political deadlock or gridlock
Other uses
Dead lock or deadbolt, a physical door locking mechanism
Deadlock (game theory), a type of game in game theory, where the action that is mutually most beneficial is also dominant
See also
Impasse
Deathlok
Dreadlock | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock%20%28disambiguation%29 |
William Ellis Atkins (November 19, 1934 – November 5, 1991) was an American football professional safety and punter who played for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL), and in the American Football League (AFL) for the Buffalo Bills, the New York Titans / Jets, and the Denver Broncos. He was an AFL All-Star in 1961. He played college football at Auburn.
Head coaching career
On January 8, 1966, Atkins was named the head coach of the Troy State Trojans football team. In 1968, he coached Troy State to an NAIA National Championship and was named the NAIA Coach of the Year. Atkins finished at Troy State with a 44–16–2 record before leaving in 1971. He is the second-most winningest coach in Troy history, only behind Larry Blakeney.
Personal life
Atkins' son, author William Ellis "Ace" Atkins Jr., also played football at Auburn and was member of the 1993 undefeated team.
Head coaching record
See also
List of American Football League players
References
External links
1934 births
1991 deaths
American football safeties
American football punters
Auburn Tigers football players
Buffalo Bills players
Denver Broncos (AFL) players
New York Titans (AFL) players
New York Jets players
San Francisco 49ers players
Troy Trojans athletic directors
Troy Trojans football coaches
American Football League All-Star players
People from Lamar County, Alabama
Coaches of American football from Alabama
Players of American football from Alabama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Atkins%20%28American%20football%29 |
George Gavan Duffy (21 October 1882 – 10 June 1951) was an Irish politician, barrister and judge who served as President of the High Court from 1946 to 1951, a Judge of the High Court from 1936 to 1951 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from January 1922 to July 1922. He served as a Teachta Dála
(TD) for the Dublin County constituency from 1921 to 1923. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dublin South constituency from 1918 to 1921.
Family
George Gavan Duffy was born at Rose Cottage, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England, in 1882, the son of Charles Gavan Duffy and his third wife, Louise (née Hall). His half-brother Sir Frank Gavan Duffy (1852–1936) was the fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, sitting on the bench of the High Court from 1913 to 1935.
His sister Louise Gavan Duffy came to Ireland in 1907, taught in Patrick Pearse's St Ita's school for girls (Scoil Íde), was along with Mary Colum first Secretary of Cumann na mBan, and was out in the Easter Rising of 1916 in the GPO and Jacob's garrisons. She founded and ran Scoil Bhríde, a bilingual school in Dublin, which is still in operation. Louise came originally to Dublin, as her mother died in 1889. George was raised by three half-sisters travelling from Austria and Germany, at Guilloy, Nice, France. He spoke fluent Italian and French received education from Petit Seminaire. From there he was sent to Stonyhurst College.
He qualified with a solicitor's firm in London in 1907. He married Margaret Sullivan, on 13 December 1908. They had two children, a son (Colum) and a daughter (Máire). Colum Duffy was a legal scholar and law librarian at the Law Society of Ireland.
Early career
Gavan Duffy qualified as a solicitor and practised in London. He defended Sir Roger Casement at his trial for high treason after the Easter Rising. Although the case was unsuccessful and Casement executed, the trial had an enormous effect on Gavan Duffy and in 1917, when he was called to the Irish Bar, he came to live in King's Inns, Dublin, where he became immersed in Irish political life.
Political life
Recognition efforts
During the 1918 Westminster election, he was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Dublin South.
He was sent to Paris to join Seán T. O'Kelly as an envoy of the newly declared Irish Republic. Gavan Duffy published articles and pamphlets urging recognition of Ireland as a sovereign nation at the Paris Peace Conference, which caused increasing embarrassment to the French establishment, who believed his publications were damaging Anglo-French relations.
Gavan Duffy and O'Kelly sought France's help against Britain when the treaties ending the First World War had not yet been signed; Britain had been France's main ally for most of the war, in which France had suffered enormous losses. In January 1919, the Irish Republican Army had also started the Irish War of Independence against Britain, and the new Dáil had declared independence from the United Kingdom.
Further, the British position was that it was preparing a revised system of Irish Home Rule which would be effected after the Peace Conference, and that it had tried to solve the Irish Question at the Irish Convention in 1917, which Sinn Féin had boycotted. Sinn Féin had joined in the campaign against conscription in 1918.
In consequence, all the Allies of World War I saw the Sinn Féin movement as more or less hostile. A final letter of June 1919 demanding recognition and addressed to the French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, the chairman of the Peace Conference, was not replied to.
Finally, after publishing a letter he had sent to Clemenceau in protest against the former mistreatment of Terence MacSwiney in prison in 1917, Gavan Duffy was banished from Paris. He was declared persona non grata in December 1920. He then went to Rome and from there travelled through Europe on behalf of the Ministry of the Irish Republic, without securing its recognition.
Anglo-Irish Treaty
When Éamon de Valera chose his plenipotentiaries to negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, Gavan Duffy was chosen due mainly to his legal expertise. He protested against signing the Treaty but did so reluctantly, becoming the last person to sign. During the debates which followed in Dáil Éireann, Gavan Duffy stated that he would recommend the Treaty reluctantly but sincerely as he saw no alternative for the desired aim of independence.
I do not love this Treaty now any more than I loved it when I signed it, but I do not think ... that it is an adequate motive for rejection to point out that some of us signed the Treaty under duress, nor to say that this Treaty will not lead to permanent peace. It is necessary before you reject the Treaty to go further than that and to produce to the people of Ireland a rational alternative. My heart is with those who are against the Treaty, but my reason is against them, because I can see no rational alternative.
Gavan Duffy placed the onus on the people who were responsible for drafting the Constitution of the Irish Free State to frame it in accordance with the terms of the Treaty. He disagreed, however, with Griffith's decision to show the draft constitution to British Prime Minister Lloyd George, who immediately ordered that references to the King had to be inserted as well as an Oath of Allegiance. Lloyd George threatened to start a war if the Irish refused to sign, but Gavan Duffy did not believe it.
On 21 December 1921, he gave his main reason for supporting the treaty in the Dáil, the impact of a potentially renewed war on the people, concluding:
You may gamble on the prospects of a renewal of that horrible war, which I for one have only seen from afar, but which I know those who have so nobly withstood do not wish to see begun again without a clear prospect of getting further than they are to-day. We are told that this is a surrender of principle. If that be so, we must be asked to believe that every one of those who have gone before us in previous fights, and who in the end have had to lay down their arms or surrender to avert a greater evil to the people, have likewise been guilty of a breach of principle. I do not think an argument of that kind will get you much further. No! The solid principle, the solid basis upon which every honest man ought to make up his mind on this issue, may be summed up in the principle that we all claimed when it was first enunciated by the President, the principle of government by the consent of the governed. I say that no serious person here, whatever his feelings, knowing as he must what the people of this country think of the matter, will be doing his duty if, under these circumstances, he refuses to ratify the Treaty. Ratify it with the most dignified protest you can, ratify because you cannot do otherwise, but ratify it in the interests of the people you must.
Resignations
This prompted him to resign but he was compelled to remain in office, serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs from January 1922 to July 1922. On the outbreak of the Irish Civil War he resigned when the Provisional Government refused to effect a court order for habeas corpus in favour of George Plunkett (a son of Count Plunkett), who was detained without charge with other republicans.
His tenure in office was cut short by his decision to resign again when the Executive Council of the Irish Free State abolished the Republican Courts and executed his good friend Erskine Childers.
He stood in the 1923 general election as an independent candidate but failed to be re-elected.
Barrister and judge
Gavan Duffy returned to the Irish Bar and built up a large practice and was engaged in some notable constitutional cases such as the Land Annuities controversy in which he claimed that the Irish Free State could not be bound either in honour or in law to hand over annuities to Britain. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1930 and Judge of the High Court in 1936. He acted as an unofficial legal advisor to Éamon de Valera during the drafting of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland and was consulted on many issues pertaining to it. He was also a member of the commission to set up the second house of the Oireachtas, Seanad Éireann, in 1937. As president of the High Court, he issued the ruling in State (Burke) v. Lennon that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Ireland.
In 1946, at the height of his legal career, he was appointed President of the High Court, a position he held for the rest of his life. He heard the controversial Tilson Case in 1950, one year before his death. His judgement applied the ne temere decree to the letter, as de Valera's 1937 Irish Constitution gave the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland a "special position". The Supreme Court of Ireland concurred but Gavan Duffy was criticised in some quarters for his ruling.
At the time of his death, Gavan Duffy was writing a judgement in favour of Ernie O'Malley in a property case brought before the court of equity by O'Malley's estranged wife Helen Hooker. Although Gavan Duffy died before he could deliver judgement, Hooker decided not to pursue the case further.
He was a longstanding member of the Catholic organisation An Ríoghacht.
Death
George Gavan Duffy died in a nursing home in Leeson Street, Dublin, on 10 June 1951.
References
External links
Golding, G.M. George Gavan Duffy 1882–1951: a legal biography (Dublin, 1982)
Gavan-Duffy's speech on 21 Dec 1921, pp.86–89
Letter to Clemenceau demanding recognition, June 1919
1882 births
1951 deaths
Early Sinn Féin TDs
Ministers for Foreign Affairs (Ireland)
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1918–1922
Members of the 1st Dáil
Members of the 2nd Dáil
Members of the 3rd Dáil
20th-century Irish judges
Irish Senior Counsel
Presidents of the High Court (Ireland)
Alumni of King's Inns
Lawyers from Dublin (city)
People from Birkenhead | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gavan%20Duffy |
Thomas Breen (born 13 September 1972) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He represented Hedmark in the Norwegian Parliament from 2009 to 2013, where he was elected to deputise for Knut Storberget, who was appointed to a government position. He previously served as a deputy representative from 2005 to 2009, during which he deputised for Storberget.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005–2009: Member of the Standing Committee on Justice.
External links
1972 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Breen |
The first series of British reality television series The Apprentice (UK) was broadcast in the UK on BBC Two, from 16 February to 4 May 2005. After securing the rights to creating a British version of American original, the BBC commissioned a total of twelve episodes, a standard that would be used for consecutive series. It is the only series not to feature a boardroom scene after a candidate quit the programme following a task. Alongside the twelve episodes that were produced, two specials were also created and aired alongside this series – "The Story so Far" on 2 April, aimed at bringing viewers up to speed on the series; and "You're Hired!" on 7 May, aired after the series finale, with a format that would be later adapted for use in The Apprentice: You're Fired when it began the following year.
Fourteen candidates took part in this programme's first series, with Tim Campbell becoming the overall winner of the series. Excluding specials, the series averaged roughly around 2.5 million viewers during its broadcast.
Series overview
Work on the series began in Autumn 2004, after the BBC successfully secured the rights to creating a British version of the American original, followed by the broadcaster receiving an agreement of acceptance from Alan Sugar to be at the head of the new programme. Involved in development of the format, Sugar worked with the production staff to determine what tasks would be faced by those participating in the series, and how he would be given feedback on these. Amongst the discussions undertaken with him, it was decided that two of Sugar's close business associates, Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, would star alongside him in the role of his aides, and that one of the tasks would focus on interviewing candidates who reached the penultimate stage of the process, with both Hewer and Mountford overseeing this, alongside other business associates of Sugar – Paul Kemsley, Claude Littner, and Bordan Tkachuk.
Applicants for the show were whittled down by the production staff and researchers until around fourteen candidates, consisting of a balanced mix of male and female participants, were chosen to appear in the series. As part of their first task, the candidates formed teams consisting of their respective genders – the women named their team First Forte, while the men named their team Impact. This series is unique for being the only series to date in the show's history, not to feature an extensive boardroom scene after a candidate chose to leave the programme following the fourth task, and to feature a charity-based challenge with no proper reward for the winning team. In addition, the Final of the series only allowed six "fired" candidates to return and provide assistance to the series' two finalists. The schedule for episodes was fixed towards Wednesday evenings, after the watershed period, as final edits of episodes maintained a level of content that included swearing more suitable for mature viewers than young family audiences.
Of those who took part, Tim Campbell would become the eventual winner of the series, and go on to become Project Director of Amstrad's new Health and Beauty division at the time, with his time there documented in a special episode prior to the second series, entitled "Tim in the Firing Line". In 2006, Campbell would leave the company to pursue other interests, and would go on to found the Bright Ideas Trust in 2008, offering funding and support for young people wishing to start their own business.
Candidates
Performance chart
Key:
The candidate won this series of The Apprentice.
The candidate was the runner-up.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team, for this task.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team, for this task.
The candidate was on the winning team for this task / they passed the Interviews stage.
The candidate was on the losing team for this task.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom for this task.
The candidate was fired in this task.
The candidate lost as project manager for this task and was fired.
The candidate left the competition on this task.
Episodes
References
External links
Amstrad
Saira Khan
James Max
Paul Torrisi
Rachel Groves
2005 British television seasons
01 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Apprentice%20%28British%20series%201%29 |
Estádio Nacional 24 de Setembro is a multi-purpose stadium in Bissau, Guinea Bissau. The stadium opened its doors in 1989. It is currently used primarily for football matches, and the stadium holds 15,000 people. It is currently the home ground of the Guinea-Bissau national football team.
Usage
Football (soccer) clubs compete in the stadium including the city's chief teams of Benfica Bissau and Sporting Bissau which are also the country's popular teams. Other clubs playing at the stadium includes Inter Bissau and Portos de Bissau. Athletics is also used in the stadium.
References
External links
Cafe.daum.net/stade: Guinea-Bissau
World Stadiums: Guinea-Bissau
Football venues in Guinea-Bissau
Athletics (track and field) venues in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Multi-purpose stadiums
Buildings and structures in Bissau
Sports venues completed in 1989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1dio%2024%20de%20Setembro |
Svein Gjelseth (born 2 February 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in the term 2005–2009, meeting as a regular representative for two years meanwhile Karita Bekkemellem was appointed to the Cabinet. Gjelseth was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
Gjelseth held various positions in Herøy municipality council from 1979 to 2003, serving as mayor from 1989 to 1991.
References
1950 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svein%20Gjelseth |
The Setsoto Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Maseru, Lesotho. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. It is currently the home ground of the Lesotho national football team. It has been renovated and enlarged in 2010–2011.
In August 2017, the stadium served as the venue for the wedding ceremony between former Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane and Maesiah Thabane.
References
External links
Photo at cafe.daum.net/stade
Photo at worldstadiums.com
Photos at fussballtempel.net
Soccerway Profile
Football venues in Lesotho
Athletics (track and field) venues in Lesotho
Lesotho
Buildings and structures in Maseru
Multi-purpose stadiums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsoto%20Stadium |
Legal naturalism is a term coined by Olufemi Taiwo to describe a current in the social philosophy of Karl Marx which can be interpreted as one of natural law. Taiwo considered it the manifestation of Natural Law in a dialectical materialist context. The concept recognizes the existence of legal priorities or principles, which form an intrinsic part of an economic system.
Taiwo distinguished legal naturalism from Marxism by faulting the latter's bifurcation of the canon between the economic "substructure" of a society and the humanitarian, moral, cultural "superstructure". However, he acknowledged that legal naturalism is, ultimately, "a novel synthesis of the Marxist theory with the natural law theory". According to Taiwo, legal naturalism is both natural law and positive law, constituting a duality of legal existence. The theory is distinctive from other theories under naturalism in the sense that it views natural law as part of social formation or mode of production.
A related concept to legal naturalism is iusnaturalism, which holds that the ideas of nature and divinity or reason validate natural and positive laws.
See also
Marxism
Legal positivism
Natural law
Books
Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law (Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University Press, 1996)
References
Naturalism (philosophy)
Philosophy of law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20naturalism |
Vympel NPO is a Russian research and production company based near Moscow, mostly known for their air-to-air missiles. Other projects include SAM and ABM defenses. It was started in the Soviet era as an OKB
(experimental design bureau).
History
Vympel started out after World War II as OKB-134, with leading the team. The first product they designed was the K-7 missile. Their first missile built in serial production was the K-13 (R-13) in 1958. Toropov moved to Tushino Aviation Facility in 1961 and was replaced by . Somewhere between 1966 and 1968 the OKB got renamed to Vympel. In 1977 Matus Bisnovat of OKB-4 Molniya died, and all missile related work was passed to Vympel. G. Khokhlov led the team until 1981, when Genadiy A. Sokolovski succeeded him.
In 1992 the GosMKB Vympel got started on the basis of the OKB and in 1994 Sokolovski became the director of development at the company.
In May 2004 the Tactical Missiles Corporation was formed and Vympel became a part of it, as the design and development facility.
Notable projects
Air-to-air missiles
K-13/R-13 (AA-2 "Atoll")
R-4 (AA-5 "Ash")
R-23/R-24 (AA-7 "Apex")
R-27 (AA-10 "Alamo")
R-33 (AA-9 "Amos")
R-37 (AA-13 "Arrow")
R-40 (AA-6 'Acrid')
R-60 (AA-8 "Aphid")
R-73 (AA-11 "Archer")
R-77 (AA-12 "Adder")
Air-to-surface missiles
Kh-29 (AS-13 "Kedge")
Terra-3 laser
Surface-to-air missiles
3M9 SA missile (SA-6 "Gainful") for Kub missile system.
ABM-1 Galosh
References
External links
«Vympel NPO» official site
Tactical Missiles Corporation
Guided missile manufacturers
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Aerospace companies of the Soviet Union
Companies based in Moscow
Electronics companies of the Soviet Union
Design bureaus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vympel%20NPO |
Kianja Barea Mahamasina is a rugby union and football (multi-purpose) stadium, also used for concerts and athletics, in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Usage
It is used mostly for rugby and football matches. The stadium has a 40,880 capacity for football and rugby matches.
Incidents
In 2005, the stadium was the site of a stampede that killed two people during a match between South African side Kaizer Chiefs and Madagascar's USJF Ravinala. It was also the stadium of the 2007 Indian Ocean Games.
On 26 June 2016, during a free concert, a bomb detonated in the stadium, killing two people and injuring around 80.
On 8 September 2018 a stampede to enter the stadium killed one person and injured 37. Long queues had formed to see the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Senegal with some news sources stating that there had been lines kilometers long vying to enter the stadium from its only entrance.
On 26 June 2019, at least 16 people were killed and 101 injured in a human crush before the concert of Rossy at the stadium on independence day. The show was about to start, and people heard that they could enter the stadium, but the police had left the doors closed. People tried to force the doors but they remained closed; the crowd kept pushing.
Malagasy stadiums
The Mahamasina Municipal Stadium is the largest stadium in Madagascar.
References
External links
Stadiums Pictures
Photo at worldstadiums.com
Photos at fussballtempel.net
Football venues in Madagascar
Athletics (track and field) venues in Madagascar
National stadiums
Buildings and structures in Antananarivo
Multi-purpose stadiums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamasina%20Municipal%20Stadium |
Arild Stokkan-Grande (born 5 April 1978 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party (AP). He represents Nord-Trøndelag in the Norwegian Parliament, where he meets in the place of Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, who was appointed to a government position.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration.
External links
1978 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Politicians from Nord-Trøndelag
People from Levanger
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arild%20Stokkan-Grande |
Thomas Taber II (May 19, 1785 – March 21, 1862) was an American farmer, businessman, and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1826 and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1828 to 1829.
A native of Dover, New York, Taber was educated locally and became active in farming and businesses, including insurance, banking, and railroads. Taber was long active in politics as a Democratic-Republican, Jacksonian, and Democrat, and during his life attended numerous local, county, and state party conventions as a delegate. In 1825, Taber appeared to win election to the New York State Assembly, and he took his seat in January; John Fowks Jr. successfully contested the result and replaced Taber after Taber had served just a few days. In 1828, Taber won a special election to fill a vacancy in the United States House of Representatives, and he served in the second session of the 20th United States Congress, November 1828 to March 1829.
In his later years, Taber moved to Roslyn, New York, to live near his son, Stephen Taber. He died in Roslyn on March 21, 1862, and was buried at Friends Cemetery in Westbury, New York.
Early life
Taber was born in Dover, New York, on May 19, 1785, one of ten children born to William Taber and Martha (Akin) Taber, and the grandson of Thomas Taber (1732–1783). William Taber was a successful farmer who also served as a judge and a member of the New York State Assembly. Thomas Taber attended the common schools of Dutchess County and became active in farming and business ventures.
Start of career
In 1811, Taber was appointed a justice of the peace. The Dutchess County Agricultural Society was organized in May 1819, and Taber was a charter member. He remained active in the society for most of his life, and served as a vice president in the 1840s. In March 1815, Taber was one of several Dutchess County Democratic-Republicans who requested that New York's council of appointment rescind the appointment of Philip Spencer Jr. as county clerk. Spencer, the brother of Ambrose Spencer and brother-in-law of DeWitt Clinton, had been accused of crimes including arson, and had developed an unsavory reputation as a result. His appointment proved so unpopular that he resigned later that year.
In March 1817, Taber was a delegate to the county Democratic-Republican nominating convention that appointed state convention delegates pledged to DeWitt Clinton for governor and John Tayler for lieutenant governor, and he was selected as a delegate to the state convention. In June 1818, Taber was appointed one of the state's commissioners for Dutchess County; commissioners were responsible for officially acknowledging the transfer of deeds and other sale documents. Clinton and Tayler were elected, and in 1819, Taber was an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Assembly, running as a Clinton supporter during a factional split in New York's Democratic-Republican Party. In October 1822, Taber was a delegate to the Dutchess County Democratic-Republican convention that chose candidates for county sheriff, clerk, coroner, the state legislature, and the U.S. House.
In September 1824, Taber was a delegate to the Dutchess County Democratic-Republican convention which met to select delegates to the state party convention scheduled for Utica. In October 1824, he was a delegate to the county nominating convention that chose candidates for Congress, the New York State Senate, and the state assembly. In January 1825, Taber chaired a meeting of Dutchess County Democratic-Republicans that resolved to support Andrew Jackson for president in the 1825 contingent election and requested that their U.S. House member, William W. Van Wyck, vote for Jackson. Taber served briefly in the New York State Assembly beginning on January 1, 1826; his election to the 49th New York State Legislature was contested by John Fowks Jr., who was seated on January 10.
In April 1828, the Dover and Union Vale Turnpike Company was created with the intent of constructing a toll road from the Connecticut state line in Dover west through Poughkeepsie to the town of Union Vale, and Taber was an original incorporator. Later in 1828, Taber won a special election as a Jacksonian to fill the U.S. House of Representatives seat left vacant by the resignation of Thomas Jackson Oakley. He served for one session of the 20th United States Congress, November 5, 1828, to March 3, 1829.
Continued career
When the Bank of Poughkeepsie was chartered in 1829, Taber was elected to its first board of directors. Taber was a delegate to the September 1830 county Democratic-Republican convention that chose delegates to the state party nominating convention that was scheduled for later that month, which chose Enos T. Throop for governor and Edward Philip Livingston for lieutenant governor. In 1831, Taber was a delegate to a nationwide protectionist convention that took place in New York City and met to argue for high tariffs and opposition to free trade. The convention's position on the issue was codified at the national level with passage of the Tariff of 1832.
On February 7, 1832, delegates to a convention of Dutchess County farmers chose Taber as one of the county's delegates to a state agricultural convention which took place in Albany on February 14. In September 1832, Taber was a delegate to the county Democratic-Republican convention that nominated delegates to the party's state convention, and he was chosen as a state convention delegate. When the New York and Albany Railroad was incorporated in June 1833, Taber was an original incorporator and was one of the commissioners appointed to oversee the corporation's initial stock subscription. In October 1835, Taber was a delegate to the county Democratic convention that nominated candidates for the state senate.
In January 1836, Taber was chosen as a Dutchess County delegate to a statewide agricultiural convention that took place In February. In May 1836, the Dutchess County Mutual Insurance Company was organized in Poughkeepsie, and Taber was elected to its first board of directors. In September 1838, Taber was a delegate to the Democratic county convention that selected delegates to the state party's nominating convention, and won election as a delegate to the state convention. In 1839, Taber was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the state assembly. In September 1840, Taber took part in a mass Democratic rally that was held in Poughkeepsie with the intent of building statewide support for that year's elections. He was subsequently appointed one of the campaign's vice presidents for Dutchess County.
In September 1843, Taber was a delegate to the state Democratic convention. In October 1844, Taber was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress, but lost to William W. Woodworth, who went on to win the general election. In May 1846, he was appointed one of the judges of the Dutchess County Court. In October 1846, he was a delegate to the state Democratic convention.
In 1848, New York's state Democratic convention chose Taber as a presidential elector, and he was later selected as an elector by the Free Soil Party, but Whig nominee Zachary Taylor won New York's electoral votes. In July 1849, Taber was one of the prominent Democrats who attempted to resolve the dispute between New York's Barnburners and Hunkers by serving as vice president of a union convention in Dutchess County. The county convention called for a statewide union convention, and Taber was chosen as a delegate. In August 1854, the shareholders and directors of the New York and Harlem Railroad were victimized by a fraud involving counterfeit stock certificates. During the company's response, Taber was one of the shareholders appointed to the nominating committee that proposed candidates for a reorganized board of directors.
Later life
In his later years, Taber moved to Roslyn to live with his son Stephen. He died in Roslyn on March 21, 1862 and was buried at Friends Cemetery in Westbury.
Family
On February 2, 1820, Taber married Phebe Titus. They were the parents of two sons, Samuel and Stephen. Stephen Taber also served in the state assembly and as a member of Congress.
Taber was the uncle of George T. Pierce, a member of the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate.
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The Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí is a purpose-built parade area built for the Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue is also known as Passarela Professor Darcy Ribeiro or simply the Sambódromo in Portuguese or Sambadrome in English. It is located in the downtown area of Cidade Nova in Rio de Janeiro, and is the place where samba schools parade competitively each year during the Rio Carnival. The parades attract many thousands of Brazilians and foreign tourists each year, and the structure is also used as a multi-purpose performance venue. The structures of the Sambadrome were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012), and represent his first major work after the end of the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964–1985.
History
The Sambódromo was commissioned in 1983 and completed in 1984. It is one of two works designed by Oscar Niemeyer upon his return to Brazil after exile during the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964–1985. The democratic election of regional governors, notably in the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1982, signaled a return to civilian rule and renewed work for artists whose work was suppressed by the regime. Governor Leonel Brizola, a longtime Niemeyer associate, commissioned the Sambadrome to reflect socialismo moreno, or multicultural socialism. Niemeyer worked closely with vice-governor Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), a Brazilian anthropologist, on the location and building concept. The Sambadrome was not only to function as the centerpiece of the Rio Carnival, but also house a primary school with 115 classrooms underneath the bleachers of the structure. Niemeyers's Praça da Apoteose (Apotheosis Square), a trilegged arch, became a noted symbol of the Rio Carnival.
The venue
The Sambódromo consists of a stretch of Marquês de Sapucaí street converted into a permanent parade ground with bleachers (grandstands) built on either side for spectators. Its capacity is 90,000. The parade avenue is painted gray each year before Carnival. The complex includes an area located at the end of the parade route, the Praça da Apoteose (Apotheosis Square) near the Morro da Mineira, where the bleachers are set further back from the parade area, creating a square where revelers gather as they end their parade.
Outside the Carnival season, Apotheosis Square is occasionally used as a major concert venue in Rio de Janeiro. Artists who have performed in Apotheosis Square of the Sambadrome include Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Supertramp, the Black Eyed Peas, Pearl Jam, Elton John, Coldplay, Whitney Houston, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Hillsong, Jonas Brothers, Nirvana, A-ha, Janet Jackson, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Marshmello, David Guetta, Hardwell, Martin Garrix, DJ Snake, Alok and many more.
In December, the samba schools begin holding technical rehearsals at the Sambadrome, leading up to Carnival.
The Carnival parade events
The official Carnival parades take place just before the start of Lent. They are held for four consecutive nights, during which schools parade one after another from 8pm until the morning. The A Series samba schools are hosted on Friday and Saturday, and the elite Special Group marches on Sunday and Monday. The Special Group nights are by far the biggest attractions. The parades are televised nationally and are watched by large audiences.
Each samba school has a preset amount of time (75 minutes) to parade from one end of the Sambadrome to the other with all its thousands of dancers, its drum section, and a number of floats. Each school has its own unique qualities according to its own traditions. Schools are graded by a jury, and the competition is ferocious. On Ash Wednesday (quarta-feira de cinzas), grades are gathered and one school is declared the winner. The Parade of Champions is held the following Saturday featuring the five winning samba schools in the Special Group category and the A Series division winner, which joins the Special Group come the next year.
In 2008, ticket prices for normal bleacher, or Grandstands, seats in the Sambadrome on Special Group nights ranged between R$10 and R$500 (US$6.50 to US$312.50), with VIP Cabins, or Covered Boxes, seating (which includes open bar, buffet - dinner, dessert and more) and scalped tickets costing much more (starting from US$2,500.00, in the best locations).
Inflated prices to watch star samba schools exclude many Brazilians from attending. As a reaction to high levels of commercialization, Rio de Janeiro has experienced a resurgence in free block parties (Street Bands and Groups: Blocos) that take place in suburbs all over the city.
It is possible for a person who is not a member of any samba school to buy a costume and arrange for a spot as a dancer in one of the parade groups.
Upgrade for 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
For the 2016 Summer Olympics, the venue hosted archery and the athletics marathon event, and for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, the venue hosted archery.
In preparation for the Olympics, an old Brahma beer factory nearby was demolished and extra bleachers were built on the site, increasing spectator capacity by around 18,000 seats in accordance with Niemeyer's original vision of making the Sambadrome complex symmetrical. The reopening occurred on February 7, 2012. Mayor Eduardo Paes and architect Oscar Niemeyer attended the ceremony.
See also
LIESA
LIERJ
Anhembi Sambadrome
List of Oscar Niemeyer works
References
Rio Carnival
Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic archery venues
Olympic athletics venues
Sambadrome
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National heritage sites of Rio de Janeiro (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambadrome%20Marqu%C3%AAs%20de%20Sapuca%C3%AD |
The Anjalay Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Belle Vue Harel, Pamplemousses District, Mauritius. At present, it is used mostly for football matches. The parking area of the stadium is used for car racing and motorcycle racing. The stadium holds 16,000 and was renovated in 2003 for a cost of $15 million.
References
Football venues in Mauritius
Rugby union stadiums in Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjalay%20Stadium |
Arne L. Haugen (born 25 July 1939 in Meldal) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party (AP). He represents Sør-Trøndelag in the Norwegian Parliament, where he meets in the place of Trond Giske, who was appointed to a government position.
He was mayor in Meldal from 1979 to 2005.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry.
External links
1939 births
Living people
People from Meldal
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20L.%20Haugen |
Sam Nujoma Stadium (also called the Sam Nujoma Soccer Stadium or SNSS) is a football (soccer) stadium in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia. The stadium holds 10,300 and was finished in 2005. It is named after the former Namibian president Sam Nujoma.
the stadium is not in use due to safety concerns from "structural defects". The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decommissioned the stadium in 2021 for it being sub-standard, and no other Namibian stadium meets CAF's requirements. As a result, international games of the Namibia national football team will have to be played abroad.
See also
Independence Stadium (Namibia), the other large football stadium in Windhoek
References
Football venues in Namibia
Sports venues in Windhoek
2005 establishments in Namibia
Sports venues completed in 2005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Nujoma%20Stadium |
The Bintang Mountains (Malay: Banjaran Bintang) is a mountain range, part of the Tenasserim Hills, that encompasses the states of Kedah and Perak, Malaysia. It runs from the province of Yala, southern Thailand in the north, straddling along the Kedah–Perak border and ends in the south near Beruas, Manjung District, western Perak. Within Perak, the mountain range forms a natural boundary between the districts of Kuala Kangsar and Hulu Perak in the east and Larut, Matang and Selama in the west. It borders the Titiwangsa Mountains, Peninsular Malaysia's chief mountain range, to its east.
Mount Bintang, the range's namesake, is the highest peak at 1,882 m (6,174 ft) above sea level. Several of other prominent peaks that are part of the range are Bukit Bokbak (1,199 m [3,933 ft]), Gunung Inas (1,801 m [5,909 ft]) and Gunung Ulu Jernih (1,577 m [5,174 ft]).
Tourist attractions
In the vicinity of Taiping, Bukit Larut, formerly Maxwell Hill, is a famous hill resort nestled on the western slopes of the mountain range.
See also
Geography of Malaysia
Mountain ranges of Malaysia
Mountains of Perak
Tenasserim Hills | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintang%20Mountains |
The Amahoro Stadium (; ; Kinyarwanda for "Peace Stadium"), officially known as Amahoro National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in the Gasabo district of Kigali, Rwanda. With a capacity of 25,000, it is the largest stadium in Rwanda and hosts football matches, concerts, and public events. The football clubs Armée Patriotique Rwandaise F.C. and Rayon Sports F.C. are the tenants. The venue is also sometimes used for rugby union.
During the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, it was temporarily a "UN Protected Site" hosting to up to 12,000 mainly Tutsi refugees.
History
The stadium was constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, at a cost of US$ 21 million. Construction began in March 1984, and was completed in January 1989.
In 1990, the Rwandan Civil War broke out between the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi rebel group, and President Juvenal Habyarimana's government forces. The war ended in 1993 with a cease-fire and the signing of the Arusha Accords, which gave the RPF positions in a Broad-Based Transitional Government (BBTG) and the national army, and also provided for a United Nations peacekeeping force. This force was known as the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), and was headed by Canadian general Roméo Dallaire. UNAMIR's initial headquarters was in the Hotel des Mille Collines, but the upmarket hotel did not welcome the presence of soldiers, and Dallaire quickly sought an alternative location; after some days of searching, UNAMIR chose the Amahoro Stadium, which was large enough to host an entire battalion of soldiers. The headquarters was opened on 17 November 1993, with an official ceremony attended by Dallaire and President Habyarimana.
The cease-fire ended abruptly on 6 April 1994 when Habyarimana's plane was shot down and he was killed; the assassination served as the catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide, which began within a few hours. The interim government began killing Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu, in well-planned attacks across the country. Tutsi civilians began seeking refuge in United Nations premises, and thousands of refugees gathered inside the Amahoro Stadium.
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Amahoro
Multi-purpose stadiums in Rwanda
Sports venues in Kigali | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amahoro%20Stadium |
Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States. It was founded in the 1930s as part of a general consolidation in the retail sector by B. E. Puckett. See also Associated Dry Goods. It was the successor to Hahn's Department Stores, a holding company founded in 1928. In 1935 Hahn's was reorganized into Allied Stores.
In 1981, Allied Stores acquired the 24-year-old retail conglomerate Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, Inc. for $228 million (~$ in ). With that transaction they acquired 178 department stores and 48 specialty shops in 28 states. In 1986 the chain was acquired by Campeau Corporation under Canadian entrepreneur Robert Campeau. In 1988 it merged with Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's, Inc.), and the chains were consolidated in 1990 under the Federated name after Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Stores
Department stores divisions at time of Campeau buyout
Jordan Marsh founded in 1841, acquired by Hahn's in 1928, retained by Campeau. Merged with Federated's Abraham & Straus in 1992 becoming A&S/Jordan Marsh. Merged into Macy's in 1994 and renamed Macy's in 1996.
Jordan Marsh Florida (offshoot of the New England chain) founded in 1956, consolidated with Maas Brothers in 1987.
William H. Block, Indianapolis, Indiana, acquired by Allied 1962, sold to Federated in 1987 prior to merger; Several stores became F&R Lazarus & Co. locations, others were sold or closed.
The Bon Marché of Seattle, Washington, founded 1890, acquired by Hahn's in 1927, retained by Campeau. Renamed Bon-Macy's in 2003 and changed to Macy's in 2005
Cain Sloan, Nashville, Tennessee, acquired by Dillard's 1987.
Dey Brothers, Syracuse, New York, sold to Wilfree Property 1987.
Donaldson's of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was founded in 1883 and acquired by Allied Stores Corp. in 1928. Later acquired Powers Dry Goods, it was sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1987.
Herpolsheimer's, Grand Rapids, Michigan, sold along with the William H. Block stores to Federated in 1987 (prior to merger); Stores briefly became Lazarus stores and later closed.
Heer's, Springfield, Missouri.
Joske's of San Antonio, Texas, taken over 1932, after 1987 acquired by Dillard's after Allied merged with Federated.
Maas Brothers, Tampa, Florida, founded in 1886, acquired by Hahn's in 1929, retained by Campeau. Consolidated with Jordan Marsh Florida in 1987. Renamed Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh in 1989. Merged into Burdines in 1991.
Miller & Rhoads, Richmond, Virginia.
Miller's, Johnson City, Kingsport, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee; Bristol, Virginia – sold to Hess's 1987.
Pomeroy's, Reading, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and Levittown, Pennsylvania, Willingboro, New Jersey, Acquired by Hahn's on 9/18/1934, sold to The Bon-Ton in 1987.
Read's Department Stores, Bridgeport, Connecticut, merged into Jordan Marsh 1987.
Stern's (Stern Brothers) of New Jersey was acquired by Allied in 1951. Division closed and most stores converted to Macy's or Bloomingdales 2001.
L.H. Field & Co. (Field's) Jackson, Michigan, established in 1891, became part of Allied Stores in 1933. Field's was successful for many years with three local stores. With Allied, Field's was a sister store to Herpolsheimer's (Herp's) in Grand Rapids, MI. Also, L.H. Field was a cousin of Marshall Field, who established the famed department store in Chicago, IL in 1881. Allied/Federated was acquired by Campeau Corporation of Toronto, ON in 1986. Campeau announced the closure of all Field's unit stores December 24, 1986, and the store was officially closed May 23, 1987.
Specialty stores divisions at time of Campeau buyout
Ann Taylor, New York, initially retained by Campeau, sold off in 1989.
Bonwit Teller, New York, acquired 1979, sold to Hooker Corporation in 1987.
Brooks Brothers, New York, initially retained by Campeau, sold in 1988 to Marks & Spencer of London, acquired by Retail Brand Alliance in 2001.
Catherine's, Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Leonard.
Garfinckels, Washington, D.C., sold to Raleigh's 1987.
Plymouth, New York, sold to Tribeca Holdings 1987. By the mid-1990s the chain was closed.
Other Stores
Almart, Discount department store operating in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York
Barnes – Woodin, Yakima, Washington, Merged with Draper's in 1953, eventually became the Bon Marché.
James Black Company (also known as Black's), Waterloo, Iowa, Three locations, downtown Waterloo, Crossroads Mall and College Hills Mall in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Transferred to Donaldson's in 1978 and name change. Downtown store closed July 3, 1981, as Donaldson's. Two mall locations operated as Donaldson's then Carson Pirie Scott until 1989.
Gertz, Jamaica, New York, merged into Stern's
Golden Rule, Saint Paul, Minnesota, acquired by Hahn's in 1928, became Donaldson's Golden Rule, eventually fully merged into Donaldson's.
C. C. Anderson's, Boise, Idaho, acquired by Allied in 1937, eventually part of Bon Marché.
A. M. Jensen's, Walla Walla, Washington, acquired by Allied in 1946, became the Bon Marché in 1951.
Laubach's, Easton, Pennsylvania, acquired 1947 and merged into Pomeroy's. Closed 1970s.
Levy's, Savannah, Georgia, merged into Maas Brothers, February 1986.
Rollman & Sons, Cincinnati
Rumbaugh-MacLain of Everett, Washington, in 1944, acquired and merged into The Bon Marché. Southwest corner of Wetmore & California. Designed by Portland architects Doyle & Merriam, specialists in larger store buildings. Opened just six months before the Wall Street Crash (1929) that began the Great Depression.
Titche-Goettinger of Dallas, Texas, later name changed to Joske's, Dallas.
Wren's, Springfield, Ohio, merged into Block's.
Quackenbush, Paterson, New Jersey (merged with Stern's in late 1960s).
Troutman's, eight locations in Western Pennsylvania: Butler, Connellsville, Greensburg – Downtown (Flagship Store), Greensburg – Westmoreland Mall (now The Bon-Ton), Indiana, Latrobe, New Castle, Washington Crown Center (now The Bon-Ton). Merged with Pomeroy's in 1984.
Mabley & Carew, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stores sold to Elder-Beerman; now closed.
Polsky's, Akron, Ohio; acquired by Allied in 1929, eventually expanded to four stores in Northern Ohio. This chain was shut down in December, 1978, as Allied wanted to concentrate investment in their Southwest region stores.
Harzfeld's, Kansas City, Missouri, acquired 1981, closed 1984.
Sterling-Lindner Co., Cleveland, Ohio; acquired Lindner & Davis Co. in 1947; merged with Sterling & Welch in 1950; closed in 1968.
The Fashion (Columbus, Ohio), purchased by Allied Stores in 1949; later merged with Morehouse Martens to form Morehouse Fashion; Name later shortened to The Fashion. Closed in 1969; Space taken over by The Union department store and later Halle's.
The Palace, Spokane, Washington; purchased from Kemp & Hebert stores in 1951, divested soon after.
The Paris of Montana, Great Falls, Montana, acquired 1937, when owned by C. C. Anderson's, merged into The Bon Marché; The Bon closed the former location in 1999.
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Dag Ole Teigen (born 10 August 1982 in Volda) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party (AP). He represented Hordaland in the Norwegian Parliament, where he met from 2005-2009 in the place of Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, who was appointed to a government position. He was elected on his own right to serve a full term from 2009-2013.
Teigen was a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services from 2005-2009, and a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs from 2009-2013.
He holds a master's degree in public policy and management from the University of Agder (2014), and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Bergen (2004). He participated at The Oxford Experience in 2013.
He was elected to the municipality council of Fjell in 2003. He is a member of Mensa.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.
2009 - 2013 member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.
External links
1982 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Mensans
21st-century Norwegian politicians
People from Volda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag%20Ole%20Teigen |
Estádio Nacional 12 de Julho is a multi-use stadium in the neighbourhood of Ponta da Mina southeast of the centre of São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe and is located on Avenida das Nações Unidas. The building is classified as a Heritage of Portuguese Influence and Origin (SIPA). It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium can hold 6,500 people and the field size is 105 × 68 m. The surface is Artificial turf.
Stadium details
The stadium is home to Andorinha, Sporting Praia Cruz and Sporting São Tomé, other clubs that play at the stadium include Vitória Riboque, Agrosport and 6 de Setembro. A former club that once played at the stadium is Porto Folha Fede who once played as Porto de São Tomé.
The stadium is equipped with floodlights and a scoreboard. The stand located where the main entrance is has a roof over it Its interiors and exteriors are coloured pink with its entrance section coloured orange and blue. Before its recent renovations in 2015 the entrance section was coloured pink and had white columns and brown rims. Its doors are of neoclassical style with a mixture of Mediterranean architectural styles; the remaining things are modernistic.
The stadium also has a running track, and track events are sometimes held at the stadium.
History
The stadium was built around the 1920s as a football field. The building was opened in 1950. It was the first football stadium in the nation. The stadium was formerly named Estádio Sarmento Rodrigues. It was renovated in 2002 and expanded in 2003.
The Taça Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe (Santomean Cup) is played here annually.
Some continental football competitions were played at the stadium including the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup with CD Guadalupe and the 2014 CAF Champions League. Since Sporting Praia Cruz withdrew, the 2016 edition was not played here.
See also
List of buildings and structures in São Tomé and Príncipe
References
External links
Estádio Nacional 12 de Julho
Football venues in São Tomé and Príncipe
Athletics (track and field) venues in São Tomé and Príncipe
Buildings and structures in São Tomé
Sport in São Tomé
São Tomé and Príncipe
Andorinha Sport Club
GD Cruz Vermelha
Sporting Praia Cruz
Vitória FC (Riboque) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1dio%20Nacional%2012%20de%20Julho |
Stephen Dennis Kember (born 8 December 1948) is an English former footballer who played in the centre of midfield during his career, before going into management. He has a long affiliation with Crystal Palace, where he is currently the chief scout.
Playing career
In 1963, Kember joined Crystal Palace, as an apprentice, and in 1965, on his 17th birthday, he was rewarded with a professional contract.
By the end of the decade, he was a regular in the Palace midfield, and became a fans' favourite by scoring the winning goal in the home tie with Fulham, in 1969, that secured promotion to the First Division for the first time in the club's history. That season, Kember was one of only three players who played in every game.
In the top flight, Kember continued to impress, gaining England U23 caps, and in the summer of 1971, having helped Palace to survival, he replaced John Sewell as captain, following Sewell's departure to Orient.
However, the captaincy was short-lived, and Kember joined Chelsea for a record fee of £170,000 in September.
At Chelsea, Kember quickly stamped his authority on a place in the starting line-up, playing most of the West-London club's games, that season.
However, Chelsea then fell into decline, and were eventually relegated to the Second Division, at the end of the 1974–75 season. Relegation led to a sell-off of players, and Kember moved back to the top-flight with Leicester City.
At first, he was a regular in Leicester's first team line up, but after two seasons, he was little more than a squad player, only appearing in half of Leicester's games in the 1977–78 season.
Early in the 1978–79 season, Terry Venables signed him back to Crystal Palace. While Kember had been away, the south London club's fortunes had taken a dramatic turn for the worse, being relegated to the Second Division in 1973, and again, to the Third, the following year. They had been promoted in the 1976–77 season, but were still a long way behind where they were when Kember left.
Venables' signing of Kember was intended to be as a squad player, but his experience added so much to the side that he quickly became a regular in the first XI. So much so that Palace were promoted back to the First Division, at the end of the season.
Venables then decided that Kember was not good enough for the First Division, so he moved on again, this time to Canadian side, the Vancouver Whitecaps.
He had a largely un-noteworthy couple of seasons in Canada, and in the summer of 1981 he returned to Palace again (who had a new chairman, Ron Noades), this time as a coach for the Youth setup.
Management
Noades quickly became tired of manager Dario Gradi, who had only been appointed in the summer. With the club facing successive relegations once again, Gradi was dismissed in November, and Kember got his first taste of management.
He had a relatively successful period, taking the club on an FA Cup run to the Sixth Round, and achieving Second Division survival with a game to spare.
However, for reasons unknown, he was replaced with the highly unpopular Alan Mullery. Kember said of the matter that he was "away on holiday at the time" and thus wasn't even notified of his dismissal.
He then joined non-league Whyteleafe in November 1986, as manager, helping them to the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Cup in the 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons. In the former, "The Leafe" were also promoted, to the Isthmian League Division One.
In the summer of 1993, Kember resigned (to be replaced by former Palace teammate Paul Hinshelwood) and once again went back to Palace, as a member of the coaching staff.
He stayed in that role until April 2001, when, with Palace once again facing relegation to the third tier, manager Alan Smith was sacked by new chairman Simon Jordan, and Kember was made caretaker for the remaining two games of the season. Palace were six points short of survival, and it seemed unlikely that relegation could be avoided.
However, Kember made changes to the side, and after a last-gasp win at Stockport County, Palace survived.
In honour of this achievement, chairman Jordan said that Kember would now have a "job for life" at Palace.
However, this was not the managerial job just yet. Steve Bruce took over, and Kember was made his assistant.
Bruce's tenure only lasted a couple of months, and, after Kember was again made caretaker (this time with Terry Bullivant), Trevor Francis took over. Francis was unpopular with the fans in his 14 months with the club, and was eventually sacked in February 2003, with Kember again being made caretaker, this time alone.
At the end of the season, Kember was made manager full-time, and Palace's 2003–04 season got off to a flying start, the club winning all three of their opening games, to top the table. However, this excellent form soon ended, and by November, Palace were in 20th, and only two points above the drop-zone after losing 5–0 at newly promoted Wigan Athletic. Jordan saw this as the final straw, and Kember was sacked, clearly revoking Jordan's "job for life" pledge.
Kember coached at Cumnor House School in Purley, and later coached football and cricket at Whitgift School, South London, alongside scouting for Fulham initially, and then returning to Crystal Palace as Chief Scout after the departure of Jordan. Currently manages the Old Mid Whitgiftian Vets who won the Surrey Vets Cup season 2018-2019, his sons play in the team.
Family
Kember has three sons, Matthew, Robbie, and Paul. Robbie and Paul came through the Youth system at Palace, and went on into non-league football, while Matthew started out at Whyteleafe. Paul had trials with Middlesbrough while Robbie had spells with Woking, Basingstoke, Crawley, Lewes, Tonbridge Angels, Eastbourne Borough, Hampton and Richmond. In May 2009 Robbie moved to Bromley. Matthew and Paul are believed to be retired.
Business
In the early 1990s Kember owned a wine bar in his native Croydon called Kember's Wine Bar however the bar closed in 1993 after he was declared bankrupt.
References
● Playfair football annuals for the league clubs
External links
Crystal Palace FC
Steve Kember Bob's '70-'71 Footballers
1948 births
Men's association football midfielders
English Football League players
Chelsea F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. managers
Crystal Palace F.C. players
English expatriate men's footballers
English expatriate sportspeople in Canada
English football managers
English men's footballers
England men's under-23 international footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Leicester City F.C. players
Living people
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Footballers from Croydon
Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–1984) players
Brentford F.C. non-playing staff
Crystal Palace F.C. non-playing staff
Fulham F.C. non-playing staff
Association football scouts
Association football coaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Kember |
Dunsbach Ferry is a hamlet of the town of Colonie, in Albany County, New York, United States. The hamlet sits to the east of, and below, the Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge (also known as "The Twin Bridges"), where Interstate 87 (I-87) crosses the Mohawk River. There are numerous private and public docks and landings between the Twin Bridges and the Colonie Town Park. Dunsbach Ferry was once an important river crossing and a stop on the Schenectady and Troy Railroad (T&S), later a branch of the New York Central Railroad. The ZIP code is 12047 (Cohoes).
History
In 1718, an early settler and ferry owner, Cornelius Claes Vandenburgh, built a landmark stone house on the Mohawk west of Crescent. Cornelius Claes Ferry was later called Dunsbach Ferry.
Dunsbach Ferry originated, as the name suggests, as a ferry crossing over the Mohawk River. The ferry was replaced for a short time by the Dunsbach Ferry Bridge, a bridge that had an unusual pier construction method involving cylinders with piles driven inside with heavy crib work outside. This bridge was constructed by the Dunsbach Ferry Bridge Company in 1898 in three spans; two were carried away by ice in 1903, and the third in 1905. When the creation of the New York State Barge Canal moved the Erie Canal to the Mohawk River in 1910, the hamlet became home to many barge captains and as a stop for provisioning the barges. A gauging station was established at Dunsbach Ferry in 1898 by D.J. Howell for measuring the discharge flow of the river and the record continued on at the West Troy Water Company dam and pumping station at the hamlet, it was located roughly 200 feet south (upstream) of the bridge. The dam was built in order to supply West Troy (later Watervliet) with water, and was partially removed in 1912.
The bucolic nature of the surroundings made it a natural summer resort village. As year-round residents have become more common summer homes have become remodeled and winterized with additions built on, though some summer cottages remain and farms and undeveloped woodlands still shelter the inland side of the hamlet from the developments in Latham along U.S. Route 9 (US 9).
Geography
While Colonie's hamlets do not have specifically demarcated borders, Dunsbach Ferry is generally considered to include the areas along the Mohawk River from I-87 to the Colonie Town Park. It is accessible by road from the Colonie hamlets of Boght Corners, Crescent Station, and Latham.
Location
Architecture
Dunsbach Ferry has architectural styles ranging from colonial, ranch, and cape, with sidings finished in a range of different materials including aluminum, clapboard, and shingles. Many of the homes along the river began as summer cottages and have been winterized and enlarged while some still remain in strictly summer-camp style.
Education
Dunsbach Ferry is a part of the North Colonie Central School District (NCCS) and the children attend Boght Hills Elementary School for kindergarten through sixth grade; and Shaker High School for seventh through twelfth.
References
External links
Town of Colonie (includes Dunsbach Ferry)
Colonie, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Albany County, New York
Populated places on the Mohawk River | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsbach%20Ferry%2C%20New%20York |
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