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Vintage Trains is an operator of heritage railtours in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Birmingham Railway Museum Trust, and is based at Tyseley Locomotive Works, the trust's other subsidiary.
Mainline locomotives
Vintage Trains operates many steam and diesel locomotives on its mainline railtours.
Steam locomotives
Locomotives listed here are not all owned by Tyseley Locomotive Works as some are owned by private societies, but are made available to operate on the mainline by their respective owners (assuming they have the appropriate mainline certification).
All engines used on VT's tours are operated under vacuum braking, engines which do have dual/air braking fitted can be used on VT tours but only operated under vacuum braking (71000 being an example as it's fitted with air brakes).
Diesel locomotives
Loco numbers in bold mean their current number.
Also, in previous years, Vintage Trains has operated charters using electric and diesel traction that has not already been mentioned above, now back at other locations, including Class 86 86259 Les Ross, Class 47 47580 County of Essex, Class 50 50049 Defiance, Class 50 50007 Hercules and Class 20 20007. The company has also used various other diesels, such as West Coast Railways' own Class 33 and Class 47 diesels.
Mainline rolling stock
Rolling stock listed here is not all owned by Tyseley Locomotive Works as some is owned by private societies, but is made available to operate on the mainline by their respective owners (assuming they have the appropriate mainline certification).
Vintage Trains Community Benefit Society
Until late 2017, Vintage Trains operated its railtours with West Coast Railways providing the crews, WCRC being the only charter operator available who would operate vacuum braked trains as none of the engines based at Tyseley are fitted with air brakes. But from 2018, it was announced that due to a falling number of crews being available, WCR said they were unable to provide footplate crews to operate VT's trains and as a result of this, the early 2018 railtour programme which had been planned including the planned debut run of 7029 Clun Castle had to be cancelled.
In late 2016, Vintage Trains lodged an application with the Office of Rail & Road to operate trains in its own right. To come up with the £800,000 required for the licence, a share float was launched with Adrian Shooter named as chairman. Vintage Trains Community Benefit Society was set up in late 2017 as a publicly owned company and in order to fund the company began recruiting members of the public to become shareholders in the company by purchasing shares (minimum available for purchase being £500 per share). The licence was granted with its first train being a test of a Class 230 between Bedford and Bletchley on 27 September 2018 for Vivarail.
References
External links
Vintage Trains official site | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage%20Trains |
Cornell Companies (NYSE:CRN) was an American corporation that operated correctional facilities, contracting them to state and local governments. The company's headquarters were located in Houston, Texas. On August 12, 2010, Cornell was acquired by the GEO Group.
History
Cornell Companies, a corporation with roots in predecessor entities, commenced its operations within the juvenile facilities sector in 1973, followed by the establishment of adult-community-based programs in 1974 and adult secure facilities in 1984. The company was officially incorporated in Delaware as a consolidated entity in 1996. As of 2010, Cornell had fostered enduring relationships with several federal and state customers. Cornell maintained an almost two-decade association with the Bureau of Prisons in their Adult Secure division and a 35-year affiliation with the Bureau of Prisons in the Adult Community-Based division. Furthermore, Cornell held significant contracts with the Departments of Corrections in various states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Mississippi, and Arizona.
Business segments
Cornell Companies was a corporation that specialized in a diverse range of services within secure and structured environments, operating through three distinct divisions:
Adult Secure Services: Cornell's Adult Secure Services division was responsible for offering incarceration services that ranged from minimum- to maximum-security levels. These services were provided to federal, state, and local government agencies.
Adult Community-Based Services: Within this division, Cornell focused on supervising adult parolees and probationers. They maintained a national presence with multiple locations in major urban areas across the United States. Cornell held a prominent position as a leading provider of community-based services to both the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons and various state corrections departments.
Abraxas Youth and Family Services: The Abraxas Youth & Family Services division encompassed a variety of services, including residential, detention, shelter care, and community-based services. Additionally, this division offered educational, rehabilitation, and treatment programs designed for juveniles typically falling within the age range of 10 to 18 years old.
Employees
At December 31, 2008, Cornell had 4,109 full-time employees and 300 part-time employees. Cornell employs management, administrative and clerical, security, educational and counselling services, health services and general maintenance personnel.
Controversies
Frank Prewitt, Cornell's consultant in Alaska, acknowledged making a prohibited campaign contribution in 2002 that was actually from Cornell. It could have resulted in a civil fine or written warning if the violation had come to the attention of the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The issue was moot because fines or warnings for Alaska campaign contribution violations can only be issued within twelve months of the alleged violation (Alaska Statutes 15.56.130). Cornell Alaska partner Bill Weimar subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts of corruption and was sentenced to federal prison.
Cornell Corrections was awarded a Mississippi state contract to operate the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) in September 2003. The number of prisoners at the facility increased, but Cornell did not adjust staffing appropriately. A state audit in 2005 showed the guard to prisoner ratio was 1 to 60, which was believed to contribute to the rate of violence and abuses. According to the Council for Juvenile Correctional Administrators, a ratio of 1 to 10 or 12 is more common. In addition, prisoners were ageing; by 2006 prisoners up to age 21 were housed there. Older prisoners in their early 20s were added during expansion of the capacity. These changes made conditions more harsh for younger inmates. As of 2006 the prison housed 950 prisoners ages 12 to 21. The 200 prison guard jobs helped employ townspeople who had been laid off by closure of a local garment manufacturing plant. Walnut Grove received payment in lieu of taxes from the prison corporation, monies that made up 15% of its annual budget. William Grady Sims, mayor of Walnut Grove since 1981, profited from the revenues of 18 vending machines he had installed at the WGCF. By 2009, the prison had 1,225 prisoners. Its prisoner base had aged, and the state had also assigned older prisoners there, endangering younger inmates. Cornell Companies operated the prison until August 12, 2010, when Cornell was bought by GEO Group. In November 2010, plaintiffs represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU National Prison Project filed a federal class-action lawsuit against GEO and the state agencies that contracted for the facility, saying that the prison authorities allowed abuses and negligence to occur at the facility. The lawsuit stated that prison guards engaged in sexual intercourse with the prisoners, tolerated and encouraged violence, smuggled illegal drugs into the facilities, and that prison authorities denied required education and sufficient medical care. As of that month the prison had about 1,200 prisoners ages 13–22; the lawsuit said that half of the prisoners were incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. Weeks prior to the filing of the lawsuit, United States Department of Justice officials informed Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour that the department had started an investigation concerning the prison. In addition to learning about prisoner abuses, investigators found that prison officials were being paid bonuses from federal funds for "administering" education in the prison. That was reviewed separately by the Office of the Inspector General at the US Department of Education.
References
External links
GEO Group web site
"Larger Inmate Population Is Boon To Private Prisons", Wall Street Journal
"Growth in the Total Correctional Population During 2008 was the Slowest in Eight Years", Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice
Private prisons in the United States
Companies disestablished in 2010
GEO Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20Companies |
The Cuneta Astrodome is an indoor arena that is located in Pasay, Philippines. The arena has hosted Philippine Basketball Association games from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2001 onwards, and also currently serves as the home arena of the Pasay Voyagers of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. It also became the permanent home of the now-defunct Philippine Super Liga since 2014. It has also hosted a slew of other political, evangelical gatherings and church anniversaries.
Despite its name, the Cuneta Astrodome is not a dome-shaped indoor arena, since its exterior is rectangular in shape.
History
The Cuneta Astrodome was built to complement the adjacent Pasay City Sports Complex which is in a dilapidated state prior the Cuneta Astrodome's construction. The arena is named after Enrique Cuneta, a prominent Pasay city official in 1816 who is also the ancestor of Pablo Cuneta, who was mayor of Pasay in the 1990s. The indoor arena was built in 1993 from a loan grant from the Philippine National Bank.
Facilities
The Cuneta Astrodome has a 12,000 seating capacity and air-conditioning system is installed to cool its interior.
Basketball
Philippine Basketball Association
Built in 1993, the arena became the PBA's home after the league signed a five-year deal with the Pasay city government, which includes the league's office within the Astrodome's vicinity. The league also manages maintenance and marketing of the Astrodome. During the first two years, the league played all of its games (except those played in provinces) exclusively at the Astrodome before limiting its schedule to Tuesday and Sunday games, as the league played its Friday games at the Araneta Coliseum in 1995.
In 1999, after the agreement expired, the league transferred its offices and most of its games to the PhilSports Arena, the PBA's home from 1985 to 1992. Although the league hosted a few games at the said venue, it was not used for the duration of the 2000 season. Since 2001, the league has hosted a lot of games at the Astrodome, including several recent PBA championship series games.
It has hosted more than 30 PBA championship series, most recently the Game 2 of the 2011 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals.
It is one of the alternate venues of the league, together with the PhilSports Arena in Pasig and Ynares Center in Antipolo if either the Smart Araneta Coliseum and the SM Mall of Asia Arena are not available.
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League
The Pasay Voyagers of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League have played all of their home games in the Astrodome since the team's establishment in the 2018–19 MPBL season.
Metropolitan Basketball Association
The Metropolitan Basketball Association held two games at the Astrodome during the opening game of its 1999 season on February 7, 1999. The first between San Juan Knights led by Bonel Balingit and Chris Calaguio and the Nueva Ecija Patriots led by Willie Miller, the other is between Pasig-Rizal Pirates led by Bong Ravena and the Manila Metrostars led by Rommel Adducul and Alex Compton.
Amateur/Collegiate leagues
Aside from hosting PBA games, it also held several collegiate leagues such as the UAAP, NCAA, NAASCU, WNCAA and the UCAA. The UAAP held the men's senior basketball championships in 1994 and 1999. The NCAA hosted some championship matchups in the 2003 Finals, 2005 and 2008 with the most recent in 2003, when Letran defeated San Sebastian in the third and final game of the series, the only time it was held at the venue during the series.
In 2005 and 2008, the NCAA held majority of its games at the Astrodome while the UAAP played a series of games in the 2004 and 2007 seasons.
It also hosted the Philippine Basketball League during the mid-1990s and during the 2005 PBL Unity Cup Finals between the champion Welcoat Paintmasters and the Montana Jewels.
Other events
Sharon Cuneta, the daughter of former Pasay mayor Pablo Cuneta, held the first concert at the Astrodome in January 1993, one month before the PBA held its opening ceremonies.
Since 1993, the coliseum has held 16 professional boxing programs, most notably Rolando Pascua's win over Dodie Boy Peñalosa and its undercard.
Outside of sports, it also hosted several evangelical and political gatherings, the most recent by a political campaign for late actor and presidential candidate, Fernando Poe Jr. in 2004 and other functions by the opposition party.
It is also a usual gathering for evangelical events. Some religious organizations who have hosted the event are the Jesus is our Shield Worldwide Ministries of Apostle Renato D. Carillo, Doulos for Christ World Harvest, Jesus Miracle Crusade, Eli Soriano's Ang Dating Daan and the frequent user of the astrodome is the JESUS CHRIST To God Be The Glory Church International who held their services every Sunday and some major event such as concert, anniversary among others. The Intercessors For the Philippines (IFP) also organizes meetings there.
The biggest event hosted by far was in 1994, when the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) held a live event at the said venue featuring a WWE World Championship match between the then-champion Bret Hart and his brother, challenger Owen Hart.
The Cranberries also held their "To the Faithful Departed" tour in the Cuneta Astrodome in 1996.
On July 19, 1997, Rage Against the Machine performed live at Cuneta Astrodome as part of their Evil Empire Tour Asian leg. All proceeds after the Concert were given for the benefit of Pasay General Hospital.
Taekwondo competitions of the 2005 Southeast Asian Games were hosted in the venue.
Tau Gamma Phi also held its 39th and 42nd Founding Anniversary on October 4, 2007, and October 4, 2010, respectively.
The grand finals of Talentadong Pinoy was also held here on March 6, 2010. and on August 18, 2013.
From December 7 to 10, 2019, Cuneta Astrodome hosted the kickboxing events of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
SB19's Manila concert dubbed as Get in the Zone: Manila was held on December 28, 2019.
The Cuneta Astrodome was used as a vaccination site during the COVID-19 pandemic. A fire broke out at the venue on November 10, 2021, when medical workers were preparing for the inoculation drive for that day.
Renovation
In 2006, the Astrodome was refurbished with new seats and a new flooring was installed for the basketball games as the venue had shown tremendous signs of deterioration over the past few years. It was the biggest renovation that occurred at the Astrodome, as past events resulted in minor refurbishment of the arena.
The renewed Astrodome debuted on June 30, 2006, during game six of the 2006 PBA Philippine Cup semifinal series as well as the Philippines-Lebanon goodwill series that happened in August that same year.
See also
Pasay
Philippine Basketball Association
List of venues played by the Philippine Basketball Association
References
Sports venues in Metro Manila
Indoor arenas in the Philippines
Basketball venues in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Pasay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneta%20Astrodome |
Polycyclic may refer to:
Polycyclic compound, a cyclic compound with more than one hydrocarbon loop or ring structures, including:
Polycyclic musks
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Chlorinated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Polycyclic group, in mathematics, a solvable group that satisfies the maximal condition on subgroups
Polycyclic spawning, when an animal reproduces multiple times during its lifespan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic |
A Whole New Thing is the twelfth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1977. It was Preston's final album with A&M Records.
Wide Stride was released as a single in 1977 and peaked at number 33 on the US R&B chart.
Track listing
Side One
"Whole New Thing" (Truman Thomas, Jeffrey Bowen, James Ford) – 3:35
"Disco Dancin'" (Billy Preston) – 3:30
"Complicated Sayings" (Preston, Robert "Inky" Incorvaia) – 2:54
"Attitudes" instrumental (Preston) – 2:29
"I'm Really Gonna Miss You" (Preston) – 3:48
Side Two
"Wide Stride" instrumental (Preston) – 3:15
"You Got Me Buzzin'" (Preston, Incorvaia) – 2:42
"Sweet Marie" (Preston, Joe Greene) – 3:40
"Happy" instrumental (Preston) – 2:20
"Touch Me Love" (Preston, Jack Ackerman) – 3:22
"You Don't Have to Go" (Preston, Greene) – 3:00
Personnel
Billy Preston – vocals (1-5, 7-11), keyboards, guitars, bass, percussion
Kenny Moore – keyboards
Truman Thomas – keyboards
Eugene Henderson – guitars
Tony Maiden – guitars
Michael McGloiry – guitars
Welton Gite – bass
Keni Burke – bass
Ollie E. Brown – drums
Manuel Kellough – drums
Alvin Taylor – drums
Bobbye Hall – percussion
Wynell Montgomery – saxophones
Charles Garnett – trumpet
Angelo Richards – trumpet
Andre Crough – backing vocals (1-5, 7-11)
Joe Greene – backing vocals (1-5, 7-11)
Gloria Jones – backing vocals (1-5, 7-11)
Clydie King – backing vocals (1-5, 7-11)
Frankie Spring – backing vocals (1-5, 7-11)
Production
Truman Thomas – producer (1, 3, 7)
Billy Preston – producer (2, 4-6, 8-11)
Michael Schuman – recording, final mix engineer
Roland Young – art direction
Chuck Beeson – design
Moshe Brakha – photography
References
Whole New Thing, A
Whole New Thing, A
Albums produced by Billy Preston
A&M Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Whole%20New%20Thing%20%28Billy%20Preston%20album%29 |
The Singapore Indoor Stadium, known exonymously as the Indoor Stadium, is an indoor arena located in Kallang, Singapore. It is within walking distance of the Singapore National Stadium, and collectively form a part of the wider Singapore Sports Hub. It has a maximum total capacity of 15,000 depending on configuration, with an all-seating configuration of 12,000.
It regularly hosts events such as music concerts, badminton, basketball, netball, tennis, esports, pro-wrestling, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, and monster truck races. The Singaporean ONE Championship regularly hosts its events here. In 2015, the Singapore Indoor Stadium sold 72,342 tickets for the entire year. In 2022, the stadium was the venue for The International 2022, the annual Dota 2 world championship esports tournament and the largest single-tournament prize pool of any esport event. On 16–18 February 2023, Irish pop band Westlife's three shows made them the first international group to perform at the said stadium thrice in one tour.
Both the Stadium MRT station on the Circle line and the Tanjong Rhu MRT station on the Thomson–East Coast line enables visitors to commute to the stadium via train service. Kallang MRT station on the East West line is also within reasonable distance, with a direct connection via sheltered walkways.
History
Construction began on 1 January 1985, and it was built at a cost of S$90 million. The arena was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, and it has a cone shaped roof and a pillarless arena. It was completed on 1 March 1987 and officially opened to public on 1 July 1988.
On 31 December 1989, Singapore Indoor Stadium was officially opened in an inaugural ceremony by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew.
Capacity
Due to its flexible stage configuration, the capacity of the stadium varies from 7,306 to 7,968 during concerts to 8,126–10,786 during sporting events. Its full seating capacity is around 12,000, and its full capacity is 15,000.
Sporting events
Entertainment events
The stadium has hosted major concerts and shows by many famous artists and bands, spanning many different genres.
1990–2010
2011–2020
2021–present
See also
Sport in Singapore
Singapore Sports Hub
Sport Singapore
Kallang MRT station
Stadium MRT station
Tanjong Rhu MRT station
References
External links
Singapore Indoor Stadium official website
ASEAN Basketball League venues
Indoor arenas in Singapore
Badminton venues
Sports venues completed in 1989
Basketball venues in Singapore
Defunct National Basketball League (Australia) venues
Kallang
Venues of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
1989 establishments in Singapore
International Premier Tennis League
Tennis venues in Singapore
Netball venues in Singapore
20th-century architecture in Singapore | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Indoor%20Stadium |
The Sajik Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Busan, South Korea. Built in 1985, the seating capacity of the arena is 14,099. Until 2021, it was the home arena of the Busan KT Sonicboom basketball team. After Busan KT Sonicboom relocated to Suwon, the arena became the home of the Busan BNK Sum women's basketball team.
Events
2012: American pop rock band Maroon 5's first concert of the third Korean tour, a part of Overexposed Tour.
2nd Asia Song Festival, organised by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange, in 2005.
JYJ: JYJ Worldwide Concert – 11 and 12 June 2011
See also
List of indoor arenas in South Korea
References
External links
Busan Sports Complex
Sports venues in Busan
Indoor arenas in South Korea
Basketball venues in South Korea
Suwon KT Sonicboom
Busan KCC Egis
Sports venues completed in 1985
1985 establishments in South Korea
20th-century architecture in South Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajik%20Arena |
Jamsil Arena (), also known as Jamsil Indoor Stadium, is an indoor sporting arena. It is part of Seoul Sports Complex, located in Seoul, South Korea. The capacity of the arena is 11,069 for basketball and was built from December 1976 to April 1979. The Seoul Samsung Thunders are the tenants.
Notable events
Jamsil Arena hosted the basketball events and volleyball finals during the 1988 Summer Olympics.
It has also been used to host various entertainment events, to include World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) events and concerts, by Iron Maiden, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Incubus, and Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel, among others.
2001
Westlife: Where Dreams Come True Tour – 31 May 2001
2003
Mariah Carey: Charmbracelet World Tour - 20 June 2003
2007
Muse: Black Holes and Revelations Tour – 7 March 2007 (MuseWiki)
2011
Sting kicked off the Asian leg of his Symphonicities Tour here on January 11, 2011, along with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
2PM: 2PM "Hands Up" Asia Tour – 2 and 3 September 2011
2012
Kim Junsu: XIA 1st World Tour Concert – 19 May 2012
Wonder Girls: Wonder World Tour – 7 July 2012
2013
2PM: 2PM Live Tour in Seoul – "What Time Is It" – The Grand Finale – 21 and 22 June 2013
DSP Media: DSP Festival – 14 December 2013
2014
23rd Seoul Music Awards – 23 January 2014
Super Junior: Super Show 6 – 19, 20 and 21 September 2014
2PM: 2PM World Tour "GO CRAZY!" – 3 and 4 October 2014
2015
FNC Kingdom in Seoul: F.T. Island, CNBLUE, Juniel, N.Flying, AOA – 2 & 3 May 2015
Apink: Apink second Concert "Pink Island" – 22 and 23 August 2015
CNBLUE 2015 CNBLUE LIVE [COME TOGETHER] in Seoul – 24 and 25 October 2015
2016
BtoB: 2016 BtoB Born to Beat Time Encore – 26 and 27 March 2016
Wheesung & K.Will: 2016 Wheesung & K.Will Tour [Bromance Show] in Seoul – 30 April 2016
Seventeen: Like Seventeen "Shining Diamond" Concert – 30 and 31 July 2016
JYP Nation "MIX & MATCH" 2016 in South Korea: J.Y. Park, Wonder Girls, Jo Kwon, 2PM, Min, Fei, Baek A-yeon, Park Ji-min, Got7, Bernard Park, G.Soul, DAY6, Twice – 6 and 7 August 2016
2017
26th Seoul Music Awards – 19 January 2017
Sechs Kies: Yellow Note Final In Seoul – 21 and 22 January 2017
6th Gaon Chart Music Awards – 22 February 2017
VIXX: VIXX Live Fantasia – 12, 13 and 14 May 2017
Highlight: Highlight Live 2017 – Can You Feel It? – 2, 3 and 4 June 2017
Twice: Twice 1st Tour – Twiceland – The Opening - Encore – 17 and 18 June 2017
Brian McKnight: SUPERSTAGE Concert with Ailee and Zion.T – 21 June 2017
Taeyang: White Night World Tour – 26 and 27 August 2017
With, Antenna: Toy, Jung Jae-hyung, Lucid Fall, Peppertones, Park Sae-byul, Lee Jin-ah, Chai, Jung Seung-hwan, Kwon Jin-ah, Sam Kim – 2 and 3 September
Taemin: Taemin 1st Solo Concert "OFF-SICK〈on track〉" – 14, 15 October 2017
IU: 2017 IU Tour Concert 〈Palette〉 – 9 and 10 December 2017
Super Junior: Super Show 7 – 15, 16 and 17 December 2017
Highlight: Highlight Live 2017 – Celebrate – 21, 22 and 23 December 2017
2018
7th Gaon Chart Music Awards – 14 February 2018
Got7: Got7 2018 Eyes On You Tour – 4, 5 and 6 May 2018
Twice: Twice 2nd Tour – Twiceland Zone 2 – Fantasy Park – 18, 19 and 20 May 2018
Seventeen: Ideal Cut – 28, 29, 30 June and 1 July
Taeyeon: 's...Taeyeon Concert (2018–2019) – 20 and 21 October 2018
2019
8th Gaon Chart Music Awards – 23 January 2019
Z-Pop Dream Live in Seoul – 23 February 2019
Taeyeon: 's...one TAEYEON CONCERT (2019) – 23 and 24 March 2019
2019 LCK Spring Finals – 13 April
Iz*One: Iz*One 1st Concert "Eyes On Me" in Seoul – 7, 8 and 9 June 2019
Day6: You Made My Day Ep.2 Scentographer – 29 June 2019
Day6: World Tour "Gravity" – 9, 10 and 11 August 2019
2020
9th Gaon Chart Music Awards – 8 January 2020
2021
NU'EST: "The Black" Concert - 26, 27 and 28 November 2021
2022
Exo: 2022 Debut Anniversary Fan Event: EXO - 9 April 2022
Stray Kids: Stray Kids 2nd World Tour "Maniac" - 29, 30 April and 1 May 2022
Highlight: Highlight Live 2022 [Intro] - 20, 21 and 22 May 2022
ASTRO: The 3rd ASTROAD 'STARGAZER' - 28, 29 May 2022
28th SBS Dream Concert - 18 June 2022
Tomorrow x Together : Tomorrow x Together World Tour "Act: Lovesick" - 2 and 3 July 2022
Super Junior: Super Show 9: Road - 15, 16 and 17 July 2022
Ateez: The Fellowship: Break The Wall - 29 and 30 October 2022
The Boyz: 2022 The Boyz Fan-Con: The B-Road - 2 and 3 December 2022
2023
aespa: 1st Concert 'SYNK : Hyper Line''' - 25 and 26 February 2023
League of Legends Champions Korea 2023 Spring Season Playoffs - 8 and 9 April 2023
Super Junior: Super Show 9: Road Show - 15 and 16 April 2023
Boys Planet: Finale - 20 April 2023
Peak Time: Peak Time Concert "YOUR TIME" - 5, 6 and 7 May 2023
Shinee: 2023 Shinee Fanmeeting: Every Day is Shinee Day "Piece of Shinee" - 27 and 28 May 2023
(G)I-dle: 2023 (G)I-dle World Tour: I am FREE-TY - 17 and 18 June 2023
Suga: Agust D Tour : D-Day - 24 and 25 June 2023
NCT 127: 7th Anniversary Fanmeeting "ONCE UPON A 7ULY" - 16 July 2023
NCT Dream: 7th Anniversary Fanmmeting "Dream Land" - 22 July 2023
Le Sserafim: 2023 Le Sserafim Tour "Flame Rises" - 12 and 13 August 2023
Ive: 2023 Ive The 1st World Tour "Show What I Have"''- 7 and 8 October 2023
Gallery
See also
List of indoor arenas in South Korea
New Millennium Hall, Konkuk University
References
External links
1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. p. 164.
Indoor arenas in South Korea
Venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball venues
Olympic volleyball venues
Sports venues in Seoul
Seoul Samsung Thunders
Basketball venues in South Korea
Volleyball venues in South Korea
Sports venues completed in 1979
Buildings and structures in Songpa District
Judo venues
Taekwondo venues
Venues of the 1986 Asian Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamsil%20Arena |
The Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women was founded by Sophia Jex-Blake in Edinburgh, Scotland, in October of 1886, with support from the National Association for Promoting the Medical Education of Women. Sophia Jex-Blake was appointed as both the Director and the Dean of the School. The first class of women to study at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women consisted of eight students, the youngest of whom was nineteen years of age. Throughout its twelve years in operation, the school struggled to find financial funding to remain open. A rival institution, the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women, set up by Elsie Inglis with the help of her father John Inglis, attracted several students of Jex-Blake, including Martha Cadell and Grace Cadell. St Mungo's College and Queen Margaret College in Glasgow also accepted women medical students and when the Scottish universities began to do so the Edinburgh School of Medicine could no longer compete. The school closed in 1898. Over the twelve years of its operation, the Edinburgh School of Medicine provided education to approximately eighty female students. Of those eighty students, thirty-three completed the full course of medical training at the Edinburgh School while many others chose to finish their education at outside institutions.
Background about the founder
The first step in Sophia Jex-Blake's journey to obtaining entry into a medical program was by requesting permission from Professor JJ Balfour, who served as the Dean of the Medical Faculty, to participate in the University of Edinburgh Medical College’s summer classes. Following this request, the faculty at the University voted to determine the fate of Blake and future women’s admission into their medical program. On one hand, she received support in her pursuit of medical education as long as women were educated solely in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. However, other faculty members were opposed to allowing females to study medicine on the foundation of intellectual inferiority. One such individual was Robert Christison, who believed that allowing women to study medicine would diminish the quality of the medical field because women were not only less intelligent than men, but also too fragile to endure the rigorous coursework demanded by such a profession. In spite of some opposition to Sophia Jex-Blake’s request, the faculty vote ended in favor of her admission to the program.
The admission of Sophia Jex-Blake into the University of Edinburgh Medical College did not go without controversy and upheaval from university attendees. After the initial vote granted Jex-Blake admission to the program, Claud Murihead, who worked with the Royal Infirmary, brought forward an appeal to overturn the decision. Backed by a petition signed by approximately 200 students, Murihead’s appeal resulted in a reversal of the decision to admit Jex-Blake. The argument that led to the decision was that men and women should be educated separately, and thus providing courses for a single female student would be inefficient and financially unconscionable.
The fight did not end there, however. During the appeal, Jex-Blake was represented by David Masson, who was both a friend and advocate of her cause. Masson argued that the cost of educating men and women separately could be offset by increasing the number of women enrolled. With a greater number of female medical students, the University would have the resources to provide separate courses for women without producing a financial headache. David Russel, who edited a local newspaper The Scotsman, was a friend to Jex-Blake and published the story regarding the admissions debate as well as Masson’s proposed solution. Inspired by Jex-Blake, more women applied to the University of Edinburgh Medical College.
The "Edinburgh Seven"
After over a decade of refusing to admit women into their medical school, some lecturers at the Extramural School in Edinburgh accepted women into their classes. The “Edinburgh Seven,” consisting of Sophia Jex-Blake, Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Mary Anderson, and Emily Bovell were the first women to be admitted into the medical program in 1869. However, acceptance into the program was just the beginning of the challenges they would face. The Edinburgh Seven were charged higher fees than their male counterparts, as a result of smaller class sizes. In addition, while the University had granted their faculty the permission to teach women, it was not a requirement. Professors could refuse to teach female students if they felt it necessary to do so. As a result, these women had to arrange classes on their own instead of being assigned courses by the University program. Furthermore, despite equivalent coursework and lectures, the all-female classes were graded on a different scale than the male classes. This reduced the ability of these women to qualify for scholarships offered by the university based on academic success and achievement.
The grading policy and limitations to available lectures and training were not the only challenges faced by these women. The male students at the university were displeased with the school's decision to admit females into the program. As a result, the male students exhibited aggressive behavior and harassment toward their female counterparts on campus. Tension between the students reached a point of violence, and eventually a riot ensued. As the women arrived to take an anatomy examination, they were met by male student protestors who threw mud at them. The riot was publicized by local newspapers, which fostered public support for the plight faced by the female students. However, the violence had sparked fear at the university and resulted in the decision to allow women to participate in the medical program to be revisited. The university made the decision to revoke the women's admission, and they were declined from the program in the middle of their studies.
Inspiration for establishment
As the opportunity to receive a medical education became increasingly available to women in Edinburgh and abroad, Jex-Blake was inspired to establish her own medical college for female students. Jex-Blake's first step in this endeavor was to notify the National Association for Promoting the Medical Education of Women of her desire to open a school that offered a medical education exclusively to women. However, before she was granted permission to do so by the Association, Jex-Blake began reaching out to potential students and publicizing her medical program. Sophia Jex-Blake's intention for this establishment was to cater to the local community in Edinburgh. Thus, she did not include the price of housing in the proposed cost of tuition and books, as it was assumed that most students would be residents in the Edinburgh area and would be living at home.
History
It was ten years since the first UK women had been licensed to practise as doctors, and it would be another six years before Scottish universities would admit women students. Jex-Blake had friends in Edinburgh, as well as opponents, from her earlier unsuccessful campaign to persuade the University of Edinburgh to educate women in their medical school. Lectures took place in the School's premises in Surgeons' Square. The Royal Infirmary, the main teaching hospital, continued to refuse women students. The Royal Infirmary argued that it would produce an undue burden on the hospital staff to make special arrangements specifically for the female students, as it was the main location for the male students undergoing clinical training. As a result, Jex-Blake was forced to search for another institution for her students to be taught, and arranged for them to have clinical teaching at Leith Hospital.
Closing
Jex-Blake's uncompromising approach to discipline led to problems. She was a strict rule enforcer and maintained high expectations for her students. She established strict guidelines for acceptable behavior and conduct during lectures, examinations, and training at the hospital. The academic demands Jex-Blake imposed on her students and her disciplinary persona created a level of tension between the students and herself. Tension came to a head when Jex-Blake expelled two sisters studying at the School without proper grounds. When the two sisters—Ina (Martha Georgina) and Grace Cadell—won the court case challenging their expulsion, the bad publicity meant that both the school and Jex-Blake herself lost support, and some students moved to Glasgow, London and Dublin; the only other places in Great Britain or Ireland where women could study medicine at that time.
Elsie Inglis left the School and, with the help of her father John Inglis, Ina Cadell, and Grace Cadell, set up an alternative nearby: the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women. Jex-Blake wanted to be involved there too, but met resistance, while her relations with Leith Hospital were also becoming strained. The female students would soon be allowed to gain practical experience at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, previously blocked to them.
In 1892, Scottish universities opened their doors to women. The ESMW continued for a few more years, advertising "Science Classes for Ladies - separate classes in botany, zoology and practical chemistry . . . Qualify for Arts and Science Graduation . . . "
The school was never free of financial troubles. Jex-Blake applied for scholarships to support the institution, and The National Association for the Promoting of Medical Education for Women, along with some missionary organizations, helped fund the school. However, competition with the College of Medicine established by Inglis and the Cadell sisters was difficult, and in 1897 Jex-Blake herself was suffering from exhaustion. The following year the school closed, having educated about 80 women from Great Britain, India and elsewhere, with 33 of them completing the full course.
Jessie Macgregor was one of those who stayed for the whole course, achieving distinctions in her examinations. For many years she practised medicine in partnership with Elsie Inglis, and later was a medical officer at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children.
In December 1909, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, having decided to allow women to admit to their examinations, added the school to their list of recognised medical schools.
Notable lecturers
John William Ballantyne, obstetrician, lectured in midwifery from 1890 to 1916
Notable students
Margaret Ida Balfour: doctor and campaigner for women's health in India
Mona Chalmers Watson: first woman to graduate M.D. from the University of Edinburgh; first Chief Controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Jessie MacLaren MacGregor: second woman to graduate M.D. from the University of Edinburgh; along with Elsie Inglis, co-founder of Muir Hall of Residence for Women Students in Edinburgh, and the Hospice
Annie Wardlaw Jagannadham: first Indian woman registered to practice medicine in Scotland
See also
Women in medicine
London School of Medicine for Women
References
Bibliography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2006) - under various headings.
External links
Somerville, JM Dr Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, 1886–1898 (2005)
The Scotsman archives
Jex-Blake's own description
Educational institutions established in 1886
1898 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct universities and colleges in Scotland
Education in Edinburgh
History of Edinburgh
History of medicine in the United Kingdom
Health in Edinburgh
Higher education colleges in Scotland
Former women's universities and colleges in the United Kingdom
Higher education colleges in Edinburgh
Women's organisations based in Scotland
History of education in Scotland
1886 establishments in Scotland
Women in medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20School%20of%20Medicine%20for%20Women |
The Olympic Gymnastics Arena (), also known as the KSPO Dome since 2018, is an indoor arena located within the Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea. It has a capacity of 15,000.
It was constructed between 31 August 1984 and 30 April 1986, to host the gymnastics competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The roof was designed by David H. Geiger. It is a self-supporting cable dome – the first of its kind ever built – with a four-layer fabric cladding.
History
Since the Olympics it has hosted a variety of events, notably as a concert venue for both South Korean and international artists.
The arena is also infamous due to an incident on 17 February 1992 when American boy band New Kids on the Block abruptly halted their performance after 20 minutes due to a fatal human crush incident where female Korean teenagers swarmed the band to the stage. One person was killed and about 50 people treated for injuries.
Events
1992-2008
New Kids on the Block: No More Games Tour – 17 February 1992
Bryan Adams: So Far So Good Tour – 22 February 1994
Deep Purple: 'The Battle Rages On' Tour – 18 and 19 March 1995
Toto: Tambu World Tour – 14 April 1996
Santana: Dance of the Rainbow Serpent Tour – 22 May 1996
Def Leppard: Slang World Tour – 8 June 1996
Céline Dion: Falling Into You: Around the World – 21 February 1997
Eric Clapton: Change The World Tour – 9 and 10 October 1997
Metallica: Poor RE-Touring Me – 24 and 25 April 1998
Megadeth: Cryptic Writings Tour – 14 November năm 1998
Alanis Morissette: Junkie Tour 1999 – 26 October 1999
Megadeth: Risk Tour – 1 March năm 2000
Linkin Park: Meteora World Tour – ngày 29 tháng 10 năm 2003
Namie Amuro: SO CRAZY tour in Seoul – 13, 14 and 15 May năm 2004
1st Asia Song Festival, organised by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange, 16 November 2001
L'Arc~en~Ciel: ASIALIVE 2005 – 3 September 2005
Backstreet Boys: never gone tour – 14 January 2006
Shinhwa: 2006 Tour: State of the Art – 13 and 14 May 2006
Eric Clapton: Back Home World Tour 2006/7 – 23 January năm 2007
Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics Tour – 23 and 24 June 2007. Opening acts: Ivy (day 1) and Lee Min-woo (day 2)
Big Bang: The R.E.A.L – 30 December 2006
SM Town: 2007 SM Town Summer Concert – 30 June – 1 July 2007
Beyoncé: The Beyoncé Experience – 9 and 10 November 2007
Big Bang: The G.R.E.A.T – 28, 29 and 30 December 2007
Céline Dion: Taking Chances World Tour – 18 and 19 March 2008
Shinhwa: Shinhwa Must Go On: 10th Anniversary Live in Seoul – 29 and 30 March 2008
Maroon 5: It Won't Be Soon Before Long Tour – 7 May 2008
Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre Tour – 17 April 2008
L'Arc~en~Ciel: TOUR 2008 L'7 ~Trans ASIA via PARIS – 17 May năm 2008
Billy Joel: Billy Joel Live in Seoul 2008 – 15 November 2008
2009
Big Bang: Big Show 2009 – 30, 31 January and 01 February
TVXQ: The 3rd Asia Tour: MIROTIC – 20, 21 and 22 February
Rain: The Legend of Rainism – 9 and 10 October
Beyoncé: I Am... World Tour – 20 and 21 October
G-Dragon: Shine A Light Concert – 5 and 6 December
Guns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy Tour – 13 December
2010
Big Bang: Big Show 2010 – 29, 30 and 31 January
Whitney Houston: Nothing but Love World Tour – 6 and 7 February
SS501: 1st Asia Tour "Persona" Encore – 27 February
Bob Dylan: Never Ending Tour 2010 – ngày 31 tháng 3
2PM: Don't Stop Can't Stop – 31 July and 01 August
Super Junior: Super Show 3 – 14 and 15 August 2010
Lee Seung Gi: HOPE CONCERT – 21 November
2011
Shinee: SHINee WORLD – 1 and 2 January
Taylor Swift: Speak Now World Tour – February 11
Eric Clapton: 2011 Tour – 20 February
Big Bang: Big Show 2011 – 25, 26 and 27 February
Santana: Asia / Australia Tour 2011 – 9 March
The Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden Tour – 15 March
Girls' Generation: 2011 Girls' Generation Tour – 23 and 24 July
Linkin Park: A THOUSAND SUNS: 2011 World Tour – 8 September
Super Junior: "Super Show 4 World Tour" – 19 and 20 November
YG Family: YG Family Concert – 3 and 4 December
Lee Seung-gi: Hope Concert 2011 – 10 and 11 December
2012
21st Seoul Music Awards – 19 January
Beast: Beautiful Show – 4 and 5 February
Infinite: 1st Concert Second Invasion – 11 and 12 February
Kara: 2012 The 1st Concert Karasia in Seoul – 18 and 19 February
Big Bang: Alive Galaxy Tour – 2, 3 and 4 March
Shinhwa: 2012 Shinhwa Grand Tour in Seoul: The Return – 24 and 25 March
Super Junior: "Super Show 4 World Tour" Encore – 26 and 27 May
Shinee: Shinee World II – 21 and 22 July
2NE1: New Evolution World Tour – 28 and 29 July
TVXQ: Catch Me: Live World Tour – 17 and 18 November
Elton John: 40th Anniversary of the Rocket Man – 27 November
Lee Seung-gi: Hope Concert 2012 – 1 and 2 December
Sting: Back to Bass Tour – 5 December
2013
Big Bang: Alive Galaxy Tour: The Final – 25, 26 and 27 January
10cm: Fine Thank You and You? – 23 February
Shinhwa: 2013 Shinhwa 15th Anniversary Concert: The Legend Continues – 16 and 17 March
Super Junior: Super Show 5 World Tour – 23 and 24 March
G-Dragon: One of a Kind World Tour – 30 and 31 March
Sigur Rós: Sigur Rós World Tour 2013 – 19 May
Girls' Generation: Girls & Peace World Tour – 8 and 9 June
Beast: 2013 Beautiful Show – 20 and 21 July
Shinhwa: 2013 Shinhwa Grand Tour in Seoul: The Classic – 3 and 4 August (finale shows)
Infinite: One Great Step – 9 and 10 August
VIXX: The Milky Way Global Showcase Finale In Seoul – 17 November
2014
TEEN TOP: 2014 World Tour "HIGH KICK" in SEOUL - 22 and 23 February
Big Bang: BIGBANG+α IN SEOUL 2014 - 24, 25 and 26 January
3rd Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards - 12 February
INFINITE: One Great Step Returns - 28 February and 1 March
SHINee: SHINee WORLD III in SEOUL - 8 and 9 March
Shinhwa: 16th Anniversary Concert 'HERE' - 22 and 23 March
Bruno Mars: The Moonshine Jungle Tour - 8 April
EXO: FROM. EXOPLANET #1 - THE LOST PLANET - 23, 24 and 25 May
Beast: 2014 Beautiful Show – 16 and 17 August
2015
'24th Seoul Music Awards – 22 January
4th Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards – 28 January
WINNER: Worldwide Inner Circle Conference WWIC 2015 – 31 January
Park Hyo Shin: 15th anniversary live tour - HAPPY TOGETHER – 14 and 15 February
Infinite: 2015 Infinite Rally 2 – 28 February and 1 March
EXO: EXO PLANET #2 The EXO'luXion – 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 March
Shinhwa: 17TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT - WE – 21 and 22 March
VIXX: LIVE FANTASIA [UTOPIA] – 28 and 29 March
BIGBANG: WORLD TOUR 'MADE' – 25 and 26 April
SHINee: SHINee WORLD IV in SEOUL – 15, 16 and 17 May
TVXQ: T1STORY SPECIAL LIVE TOUR Seoul Encore – 13 and 14 June
2PM: House Party Concerts – 27 and 28 June
Super Junior: Super Show 6 Seoul (encore) – 11 and 12 July
INFINITE: 2nd World Tour "INFINITE EFFECT" – 8 and 9 August
Beast: 2015 Beautiful Show – 29 and 30 August
iKON: Debut Concert 'SHOWTIME' – 3 October
7th MelOn Music Awards – 7 November
Girls' Generation: 4th Tour Phantasia in SEOUL – 21 and 22 November
UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Masvidal – 28 November
g.o.d: god 2015 CONCERT – ngày 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 tháng 12
2016
25th Seoul Music Awards – 14 January
iKON: iKONCERT 2016 'SHOWTIME' TOUR in SEOUL – 30 and 31 January
Infinite: [INFINITE EFFECT] ADVANCE – 20 and 21 February
Big Bang: WORLD TOUR 'MADE' FINAL in SEOUL – 4, 5 and 6 March
Winner: EXIT TOUR in SEOUL – 12 and 13 March
EXO: EXO PLANET #2 The EXO'luXion (encore) – 18, 19 and 20 March
Shinhwa: 18th Annivesary Concert - HERO – 26 and 27 March
Block B: 2016 LIVE "BLOCKBUSTER" – 2 and 3 April
BTS: 2016 BTS LIVE The Most Beautiful Moment in Life on stage: epilogue – 7 and 8 May
XIA: 5th Asia Tour Concert in Seoul: XIGNATURE – 11 and 12 June
EXO: EXO PLANET #3 – The EXO'rDIUM – 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31 July
VIXX: LIVE FANTASIA 'ELYSIUM' – 13 and 14 August
Beast: 2016 Beautiful Show – 20 and 21 August
Shinee: SHINee World V – 2, 3 and 4 September
Sechs Kies: 2016 CONCERT 'YELLOW NOTE' – 10 and 11 September
2018
Shinee: Shinee Special Party – The Shining – 1, and 2 September
BTOB: 2018 BtoB Time – This Is Us – 10, 11 and 12 August
iKON: iKon 2018 Continue Tour – 18 August
2nd Soribada Best K-Music Awards – 30 August
Seventeen: 2018 Seventeen Concert 'Ideal Cut: The Final Scene' – 3 and 4 November
Blackpink: 2018 TOUR [IN YOUR AREA] SEOUL – 10 and 11 November
IU: 2018 IU 10th Anniversary Tour Concert – 17 and 18 November
Highlight: Highlight Live 2018 [Outro] – 24 and 25 November
2019
NCT 127: NCT 127 1st Tour: Neo City - The Origin – 26 and 27 January
Super Junior: Super Show 8: Infinite Time – 2 and 3 March
NU'EST: NU'EST 2019 Concert: Segno in Seoul – 12, 13 and 14 April
Troye Sivan: The Bloom Tour – 27 April
Twice: Twice World Tour 2019 "Twicelights" – 25 and 26 May
Got7: Got World Tour 2019 "Keep Spinning" – 15 and 16 June
BTS: 5th Muster 'MAGIC SHOP' – 22 and 23 June
Park Hyo-shin : 20th anniversary live tour - 2019 LOVERS (KSPO Dome 360 degree stage) – 29 and 30 June, 5, 7, 11 and 13 July
2nd Genie Music Awards – 1 August
3rd Soribada Best K-Music Awards – 22 and 23 August
Seventeen: Seventeen World Tour 'Ode To You' – 30, 31 August and 1 September
The Chainsmokers : World War Joy Tour – 6 September
Hans Zimmer: Live On Tour – 28 and 29 September
AB6IX: AB6IX 1st World Tour "6ixense" in Seoul – 9 and 10 November
NU'EST: NU'EST 2019 Fanmeeting: L.O.Λ.E Page – 15, 16 and 17 November
IU : IU Tour Concert "Love, Poem" 2019 (KSPO Dome 360 degree stage) – 23 and 24 November
2020
Gmarket Smile Club Concert 2020 – 4 January
BTS: MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E (Online) – 10 and 11 October
2021
Baekhyun: Beyond LIVE - BAEKHYUN : LIGHT (Online) – 3 January
30th Seoul Music Awards (Online) – 16 May
Twice: Twice 4th World Tour 'III' – 25 and 26 December
2022
Street Woman Fighter: On The Stage Encore Concert – 1 and 2 January
Universe: "UNI-KON" 2022 – 2 and 3 July
The Boyz: The Boyz World Tour The-B Zone in Seoul Encore – 5, 6, and 7 August
Girls' Generation: Special Event – Long Lasting Love – 3 September
Stray Kids: 2nd World Tour "MANIAC" Seoul Special (Unveil 11) – 17 and 18 September
2022 The Fact Music Awards – 8 October
Blackpink: Born Pink World Tour – 15 and 16 October
Treasure: Treasure Tour Hello – 12 and 13 November
g.o.d: 23rd Anniversary Concert 2022 – 9, 10 and 11 December
BtoB: BtoB 10th Anniversary Concert 2022 BTOB Time [Be Together] – 30, 31 December 2022 and 1 January 2023
2023
32nd Seoul Music Awards – 19 January
12th Circle Chart Music Awards – 18 February
Conan Gray: Superache Tour – 28 February
Seventeen: 2023 SVT 7th Fanmeeting <Seventeen in Carat Land> – 10, 11 and 12 March
Harry Styles: Love On Tour – 20 March
Tomorrow X Together: Act: Sweet Mirage – 25 and 26 March
Red Velvet: Red Velvet 4th Concert "R to V" – 1 and 2 April
EXO: 2023 Exo Fanmeeting "EXO' CLOCK" – 8 and 9 April
Twice: Twice 5th World Tour 'Ready To Be' – 15 and 16 April
The Boyz: The Boyz 2nd World Tour : "ZENERATION" - 19, 20 and 21 May
Taeyeon: TAEYEON CONCERT - 'The ODD of LOVE' – 3 and 4 June
HYBE Labels: 2023 Weverse Con Festival – 10 and 11 June
SHINee: SHINee WORLD VI [PERFECT ILLUMINATION] – 23, 24 & 25 June
Stray Kids: Stray Kids 3rd Fanmeeting 'Pilot For :☆☆☆☆☆' – 1 and 2 July
Monsta X: Monsta X 7th Fanmeeting "MX Friends" – 8 and 9 July
Enhypen: World Tour 'Fate' – 29 and 30 July
Suga: Suga | Agust D Tour 'D-DAY' THE FINAL – 4, 5 and 6 August
Infinite : Comeback Again – 19 and 20 August
IU : IU Fan Concert "I+UN1VER5E" 2023 (KSPO Dome 360 degree stage) – 23 and 24 September
Charlie Puth: Charlie the Live Experience – 20, 21 and 22 October
Lim Young-woong: Lim Young Woong | Tour <IM HERO> 2023 (KSPO Dome 360 degree stage) – 27, 28 and 29 October, 3, 4 and 5 November
Treasure: 2023 Treasure Concert 'Reboot' In Seoul – 15, 16 and 17 December
See also
List of indoor arenas in South Korea.
References
Indoor arenas in South Korea
Venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnastics venues
Sports venues in Seoul
Sports venues completed in 1986
Olympic Park, Seoul
Venues of the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games badminton venues
1986 establishments in South Korea
Esports venues in South Korea
20th-century architecture in South Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic%20Gymnastics%20Arena |
Mercury selenide (HgSe; sometimes mercury(II) selenide) is a chemical compound of mercury and selenium. It is a grey-black crystalline solid semi-metal with a sphalerite structure. The lattice constant is 0.608 nm.
HgSe occurs naturally as the mineral Tiemannite, and is a component of the "intimate mixture" of HgSe and Se known as HgSe2.
Along with other II-VI compounds, colloidal nanocrystals of HgSe can be formed.
Applications
Selenium is used in filters in some steel plants to remove mercury from exhaust gases. The solid product formed is HgSe.
HgSe can be used as an ohmic contact to wide-gap II-VI semiconductors such as zinc selenide or zinc oxide.
Toxicity
HgSe is non-toxic as long as it is not ingested due to its insolubility. Toxic hydrogen selenide fumes can be evolved on exposure to acids. HgSe is a relatively stable compound which might mean that it is less toxic than elemental mercury or many organometallic mercury compounds. Selenium's ability to complex with mercury has been proposed as a reason for the lack of mercury toxicity in deep sea fish despite high mercury levels.
See also
Mercury sulfide
Mercury telluride
Cadmium selenide
Zinc selenide
References
.
SNV (1991) Guidelines on measures and methods for heavy metal emissions control. Solna, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – Naturvårdsverket.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20051019034837/http://ctdp.ensmp.fr/species/Tiemannite.html
Mercury(II) compounds
Selenides
Zincblende crystal structure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20selenide |
The Taipei Arena () is a multi-purpose stadium in the capital Taipei, Taiwan, and it is operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC). Built in 2005, the large multi-purpose stadium can accommodate major international sport events such as ice skating, ice hockey, gymnastics, handball, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, indoor soccer, boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo and wrestling.
Building
It was designed by Archasia, an architectural firm based in Taipei, and Populous, a Kansas City, Missouri, design and architectural firm specializing in sports venues.
It is located at the site of the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (built in 1958, opened 1959, demolished 2000). The arena was opened on 1 December 2005.
The main arena has an adjustable floor space: its minimum floor space is 60m × 30m, and can be extended to 80m × 40m.
The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League (CTIHL) plays out of the auxiliary arena, which is a 60m × 30m ice skating rink.
The basement now houses two large gas turbine power generators to be used for the surrounding district during emergencies.
Taipei Arena Sky Screen
Taipei Arena Sky Screen was constructed in December 2006, on the outer glass wall of Taipei Arena.
It was the world's largest LED display at that time.
The screen is a long arc type outdoor dynamic display, featuring a built in light sensor that enables LED to adjust its own brightness according to ambient lighting. It was built by Optotech and currently operated by Nova Media. It is on 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, displaying mainly corporate advertisements, live coverage and visual creativity supplemented content.
The screen also engages its audience though cross-screen interactive events and applications.
Events
Since opening in 2005, the arena has held more art and cultural activities (such as live concerts) than sporting events, which it was originally designed and built for. These have included Disney on Ice, Cirque du Soleil, and Cats.
International Artists in the table below are highlighted in light blue.
Non-Entertainment Events:
Inaugural ceremony and celebrations of President Ma Ying-Jeou and Vice-President Vincent Siew on 20 May 2008.
Dates Unknown:
Jolin Tsai performed her 1st concert in the arena in November 2006 for her Dancing Forever World Tour.
Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's Asia Tour, which had more than 10,000 tickets sold out in 1 hour. That was the 1st concert at the venue to be performed by a J-Pop artist.
Taiwanese Aborigine pop star Chang Hui-mei's STAR TOUR world tour.
Irish-American dancer and musician Michael Flatley reprises his role as Lord of the Dance in the Feet of Flames 2009 tour.
The Indiana Pacers vs Denver Nuggets game was the first (United States) National Basketball Association game held in the country back in 2009.
In the rotation for the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. The venue is a frequent host of the International Skating Union figure skating championship for the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
Annual events:
The annual Chinese New Year eve program, Super Star (超級巨星紅白藝能大賞) was held annually since 2011. The live special is based on the NHK's New Year's Eve special Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
Transport
Taipei Arena is accessible from Taipei Arena Station of the Taipei Metro.
References
External links
CIHL official website
Music venues completed in 2005
Sports venues completed in 2005
Indoor arenas in Taiwan
Culture in Taipei
Sports venues in Taipei
Basketball venues in Taiwan
Handball venues in Taiwan
2005 establishments in Taiwan
Judo venues
Badminton venues
Badminton in Taiwan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei%20Arena |
The Taoyuan Arena () is an indoor sporting arena located in Taoyuan City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. The capacity of the arena is 15,000 and was opened in 1993. It is used to host indoor sporting events, such as basketball and volleyball.
See also
List of stadiums in Taiwan
References
Indoor arenas in Taiwan
Volleyball venues in Taiwan
Basketball venues in Taiwan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoyuan%20Arena |
Valwood School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory segregation academy located outside of Valdosta, Georgia, United States. It offers programs from pre-kindergarten through high school. There were 511 students enrolled in the 2015–2016 school year.
History
Valwood School was founded as a segregation academy by local white people in response to the federally mandated racial desegregation of public schools. Valwood's first classes were inaugurated in September 1969, in the old Central Elementary School building in Valdosta. Classes were offered to white students for grades 1-10, with kindergarten and eleventh grade programs being added in 1970. The first full graduation exercise was held in June, 1972, and the school moved to Gornto Road in the fall of that year. A preschool program was added in 1982. Various improvements to the physical plant were completed over the years, including a gymnasium/cafeteria complex in 1973 and an athletic field in 1989. In 2000, the school received a gift of of pecan grove from the Howard Dasher Company as a relocation site. The school opened its new campus at the location, two miles (3 km) north of Valdosta on Old US Hwy 41, on August 26, 2002.
Accreditation and memberships
The National Association of Independent Schools
The Southern Association of Independent Schools
The National Association for College Admission Counseling
The Southern Association for College Admission Counseling
The Georgia Independent School Association
Quality by the Georgia Accrediting Commission Member
Libraries
The students and faculty at Valwood are served by two libraries. The Corker Giles Library, which is located in the Crane Hall administration building serves the school's Middle and Upper School students in a variety of capacities: as a library, a classroom, a meeting space, and a computer lab. College recruiters and guest speakers use the Corker Giles library when visiting the school, and guest authors use Skype to share their books with the students. Corker Giles library underwent a massive reconfiguration under the guidance of Dr. Darren Pascavage, who had a vision of a Learning Commons for the school.
The Turner Library, located in Foy Anderson Hall, serves the school's Lower School population, which encompasses Pre-K through Fifth grade. Library curriculum includes GALILEO research, Keyboarding, Google apps as well as themed based literature units. The Lower School students participate in the Georgia Book Award program each year, as well as an activity filled Read Across America Week each March. Turner Library is also used as a meeting space for groups such as Odyssey of the Mind, as well as individual tutoring.
Athletics
Valwood is a member of the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) and currently competes in region 3-AAA.
The Valiants football team were the GISA Class A Champions in 1985, 1986, 1999, GISA Class AA Champions in 2012, and GISA Class AAA Champions in 2015 and 2017. The men's tennis team has won four GISA titles: 1992, 2000, 2001, and 2002. The women's tennis team has won four GISA titles: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2014.
References
External links
Valwood School official website
Private high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Educational institutions established in 1969
Schools in Lowndes County, Georgia
Private middle schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private elementary schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Preparatory schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
1969 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Segregation academies in Georgia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valwood%20School |
Turtle Rock may refer to:
Turtle Rock, Irvine, California
Turtle Rock Elementary School, an elementary school in southern Irvine, California
Turtle Rock Light is a lighthouse on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Turtle Rock Studios, an independent video game developer founded in March 2002 by Michael Booth
"Turtle Rock", a song by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones from their 1991 album Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Turtle Rock, a small island in Erebus Bay, Antarctica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20Rock |
Chakma may refer to:
Chakma people, a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India
Chakma language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
Chakma script
Chakma (Unicode block) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakma |
Da Unbreakables is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group Three 6 Mafia. The album was released on June 24, 2003 by Hypnotize Minds and Columbia Records. The album features Lord Infamous, DJ Paul, Juicy J and Crunchy Black. Gangsta Boo and Koopsta Knicca both left to pursue solo careers.
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Track listing
All tracks are produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2003 albums
Three 6 Mafia albums
Loud Records albums
Hardcore hip hop albums
Albums produced by DJ Paul
Albums produced by Juicy J | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%20Unbreakables |
Ginásio do Ibirapuera (), officially named Ginásio Estadual Geraldo José de Almeida is an indoor sporting arena located in São Paulo, Brazil. The seating capacity of the arena is 11,000 people and it was opened on 25 January 1957. It is used mostly for volleyball matches.
Events
Named after famous sports broadcaster and sports commentator Geraldo José de Almeida, in 2004, 2005 and 2006 Ginásio do Ibirapuera hosted the Salonpas Cup matches, and in 2006, the arena hosted the Basketball World Championship for Women. Other notable basketball events include the 1973 Intercontinental Cup, the 1979 edition of the competition in which local E.C. Sírio won the title after a memorable win over Bosna Sarajevo, and the 1984 edition of the same competition in which Banco Roma won the title.
The venue has hosted many international concerts, such as A-ha, Santana, Van Halen, Metallica, Cyndi Lauper, Sade, Michael Bublé, Queen + Adam Lambert and more.
The venue will also host an event of Valorant's esports, the VCT LOCK//IN, featuring all 30 of the tour's partnered teams.
See also
List of indoor arenas in Brazil
References
External links
Stadium info at São Paulo state's government official website
Stadium website
Venue information
Indoor arenas in Brazil
Sports venues in São Paulo
Basketball venues in Brazil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin%C3%A1sio%20do%20Ibirapuera |
Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso or Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, sometimes called just Maracanãzinho ("Little Maracanã" or "Mini Maracanã"), is an indoor arena located in Maracanã in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is used mostly for volleyball. Its formal name, Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso, honors a former Clube de Regatas do Flamengo president. The capacity of the arena is 11,800 and it was opened in 1954. It stands next to the Maracanã Stadium.
History
Maracanãzinho's construction started on April 13, 1954 and lasted for only five months. It was built by Construtora Prolar S.A. The architects were Rafael Galvão, Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos, Orlando Azevedo and Antônio Dias Carneiro, the engineer was Joaquim Cardoso.
The gymnasium was inaugurated on September 24, 1954, with that year's Men's Basketball World Championship, for which it had a capacity for 25,000 spectators. The arena also hosted the 1963 event of the same competition, with the home team, coached by Kanela taking the gold medal, its second Men's Basketball World Championship in a row.
During the 1950s and the 1960s, the Miss Guanabara and Miss Brasil beauty pageants were held in Maracanãzinho.
During the 1960s and the 1970s several national and international music festivals were held in the gymnasium.
The 1960 and 1990 Men's Volleyball World Championship was held in Maracanãzinho.
At the age of 32, Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira became the first female singer to fill the Maracanãzinho Gymnasium in 1981.
The 2013 World Judo Championships was held in Maracanãzinho.
The Maracanãzinho Gymnasium hosted UFC 179 in October 2014 and UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. LaFlare in March 2015.
The Maracanãzinho Gymnasium hosted the volleyball competitions during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
In 2013, WWE.com claimed the arena was the site of the 1979 WWE Intercontinental Championship tournament, an April Fools' Day prank.
Renovations
For the 2007 Pan American Games, the gym was remodeled, with new central air conditioning, an added four-sided scoreboard, a new sound system, a dome which allows natural lighting during the day, new comfortable seating, and adaptions to all international requirements. As a result, the Maracanãzinho became a venue for the volleyball competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games, and many other international competitions. After the renovations, the capacity of the arena was reduced from approximately 13,000 to 11,800 spectators for futsal. The arena became much more comfortable for spectators, as the field of vision was increased for better viewing of the arena floor.
Concerts
The arena has also hosted a number of important rock concerts, including, among others, the following list:
Nat King Cole
Jackson Five
Legião Urbana
Engenheiros do Hawaii
Earth, Wind & Fire
Genesis
Alice Cooper
The Cure
New Order
Deep Purple
The Police
Midnight Oil
Peter Frampton
Van Halen
Megadeth
Metallica
Quiet Riot
Secos & Molhados
Skid Row
Iron Maiden
Information Society (band)
Faith No More
Motörhead
Jethro Tull
Venom
Blackpink
TXT (Tomorrow X Together)
References
External links
Venue information
Sports venues completed in 1954
Indoor arenas in Brazil
Sports venues in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball venues
Mixed martial arts venues in Brazil
Volleyball venues in Brazil
Basketball venues in Brazil
Boxing venues in Brazil
Judo venues | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin%C3%A1sio%20do%20Maracan%C3%A3zinho |
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 is a concert video and the fourth live album by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, released in 2006. It is a full-length recording of their performance on November 18, 1975, at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, during their Born to Run tours. It was first released as a DVD on November 14, 2005, as part of the Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition package, and then several months later on February 28, 2006, released as an audio CD. The album was reissued on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day on April 22, 2017.
Background
The concert was part of Columbia Records' push to promote Springsteen in the UK and Europe following the success of his third album, Born to Run (1975), in the US. The large amount of publicity accompanying these appearances, especially the one in London, famously caused Springsteen to pull down from the front of the Odeon a promotional poster proclaiming "Finally London is ready for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band."
This performance marked the European concert debut of Springsteen and the E Street Band, kicking off a four-date mini-tour which also featured shows in Stockholm, Sweden, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as well as a second concert at the Hammersmith Odeon on November 24 that was added due to the huge ticket demand for the first London gig.
In the liner notes, Springsteen himself writes that after the show had been recorded, "I'd paid no attention to it. I never looked at it ... for 30 years." In his autobiography, Born to Run, he reveals that during and after the concert he experienced an angst-ridden sense of doubt as to performing in general, and his performance that evening in particular. However, in the same book, he recognizes that "whatever happened, that first night at the Hammersmith Odeon became one of our 'legendary' performances", despite calling the return gig on November 24 at the end of the European tour "a blaze of a show" by comparison.
After The Rising Tour, Springsteen had an inkling to dig into film of the early part of his career, the vast majority of which remained "a blank spot," with little or nothing ever released. He found the film and the 24-track audio recordings. The two-and-a-half-hour concert film was spliced together from 32 reels of silent 16-mm footage, digitally restored frame by frame in a painstaking process that took editor Thom Zimny a full year to complete. Bob Clearmountain, a veteran of several Springsteen projects, mixed the audio for the CD and film.
Actor, writer, and Monty Python member Michael Palin was in attendance and devoted an entire diary entry (dated Tuesday, November 18, 1975) to the concert and his first impression of Springsteen and the band. He notes that the hype by CBS Records was met with a certain skepticism by the ticket-buying public. He notes that the concert did not start until 45 minutes after the scheduled start time and that the PA system made it difficult for him to make out the lyrics, but Springsteen and the band "kept the evening alive – and he did three encores." Contemporary and later reports seem to agree with Bruce Springsteen that the first performance on November 18 was in fact the inferior one, and was outshone by the repeat concert at the same venue on November 24 at the end of the European shows. This view may seem to have been borne out by the respective number of encores; three on November 18 and nine on November 24.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on March 18, 2006, at number 93 with sales of approximately 12,000 copies sold. It spent two weeks on the chart. Hammersmith Odeon '75, with the exception of some songs on the Live/1975-85 box set, stands so far as the only full-length, official release that gives a snapshot of Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert at this early point in their musical career.
Track listing
All songs by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted.
Disc one
"Thunder Road" – 5:51
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" – 3:51
"Spirit in the Night" – 7:36
Contains a portion of Lloyd Price's version of the traditional song "Stagger Lee", erroneously credited as "The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)" by Fred Ahlert and Edgar Leslie
"Lost in the Flood" – 6:16
"She's the One" – 5:24
"Born to Run" – 4:17
"The E Street Shuffle/Havin' a Party" – 12:52
Contains a portion of "Having a Party" by Sam Cooke
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" – 5:28
"Backstreets" – 7:23
Disc two
"Kitty's Back" – 17:14
Contains a portion of "Moondance" by Van Morrison
"Jungleland" – 9:35
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" – 9:51
Contains a portion of "Come a Little Bit Closer" by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Wes Ferrell and "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes
"4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" – 7:03
"Detroit Medley" – 7:02
Consists of: "Devil With a Blue Dress On" by William Stevenson and Frederick "Shorty" Long and "Good Golly Miss Molly" by Robert Blackwell and John Marascalco as performed by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, "See See Rider" by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Lena Arant, and "Jenny Take a Ride" by Bob Crewe, Enotris Johnson and Richard Penniman.
"For You" – 8:26
"Quarter to Three/Closing Credits" – 6:44
Originally Recorded by Gary U.S. Bonds
Note
The song that plays over the credits at the end of the DVD is "So Young and In Love".
Personnel
Bruce Springsteen – guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano on "For You"
Roy Bittan – piano, backing vocals
Clarence Clemons – tenor, baritone and soprano saxophones, percussion, backing vocals
Danny Federici – keyboards
Garry Tallent – bass guitar, tambourine on opening of "She's the One"
Steven Van Zandt – guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
Max Weinberg – drums
Charts
References
Bruce Springsteen video albums
Bruce Springsteen live albums
2006 live albums
2006 video albums
Albums produced by Jon Landau
Live video albums
Columbia Records live albums
Columbia Records video albums
Albums recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith%20Odeon%20London%20%2775 |
Carole Joan White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was an English actress.
She achieved a public profile with her performances in the television play Cathy Come Home (1966) and the films Poor Cow (1967) and I'll Never Forget What's 'isname (1967), and by the end of the 1960s, was hailed as "The Next Julie Christie." However, alcoholism and drug abuse damaged her career, and from the early 1970s she worked infrequently.
Early life and education
White, the daughter of a scrap merchant, was born in Hammersmith, London, on 1 April 1943. She attended the Corona Stage Academy.
Career
White played minor roles in films from 1949 until the late 1950s, when she began to play more substantial supporting roles in films such as Carry on Teacher (1959) and Never Let Go (1960) in which she played the girlfriend of Peter Sellers. She also acted the part of Evelyn May, a "girl in the bar" and court witness in Sidney J Furie's The Boys (1962).
After marrying, she became disenchanted with acting due to the quality of her roles. She moved back to her home borough of Hammersmith to settle down to married life. Growing bored with married life, White began to audition for roles again, and was cast in the television version of Nell Dunn's Up the Junction (1965) by director Ken Loach. She followed this up with two other Wednesday Plays for Loach, The Coming Out Party (1965) and Cathy Come Home (1966), which made her a TV star in the UK.
She followed this success with the lead in Ken Loach's film Poor Cow (1967), based on another Nell Dunn book, which brought her international renown. She also appeared in I'll Never Forget What's'isname with Oliver Reed in 1967, by which time her career was approaching its apogee. (1967) White followed this up by co-starring opposite Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm in Hollywood A list director John Frankenheimer's film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's The Fixer (1968), which was a critical success, bringing Bates an Oscar nomination.
Subsequently, she traveled to Hollywood in 1968 to make Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969). Her career started to cool off by the time she appeared in director Andrew V. McLaglen's western comedy, Something Big (1971), which starred Dean Martin at the time his star was going into eclipse. She had major roles in Dulcima, alongside John Mills and Stuart Wilson (1971), and Made (1972), with the singer Roy Harper.
During the late 1960s, White was considered one of the most promising actresses in British cinema, but her alcoholism and substance abuse, as well as unhappy relationships with male stars such as Richard Burton, Frank Sinatra, Oliver Reed and Paul Burke, hindered her career. She did, however, have a prominent role as a hostage in The Squeeze (1977).
After living in Hollywood for several years, White returned to London to star in Nell Dunn's play Steaming at the Comedy Theatre in the West End, and filmed Nutcracker at the same time. Despite receiving excellent reviews for Steaming, she was often late, missed performances, and was finally sacked.
In 1982, a biography, Carol Comes Home, by Clifford Thurlow, was published. Although White received publicity for the play and the biography, she was unable to revive her career. She returned to the United States, where she lived the rest of her life.
Personal life
White dated Terence Stamp, who also had been involved with Julie Christie, the actress she was most compared to. Stamp introduced her to Lionel Bart, who introduced her to her future husband Michael King, of The King Brothers pop group. They settled down in Hammersmith, where she had been born, and raised their two children, Sean and Stephen. Bored with married life, she began to audition for roles again, and achieved success in the works of Ken Loach.
Death
White died in 1991 in Florida, at the age of 48. The cause of her death is disputed, with some sources claiming she took a drug overdose, and others (The Sunday Times in 1991 and Upton writing in 2004) suggesting she succumbed to liver disease from chronic alcoholism. She had two sons from her first marriage.
Legacy
A television film of her life, The Battersea Bardot, was shown in 1994, with White portrayed by Wendy Morgan.
Filmography
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) – Young Sibella (uncredited)
Doctor in the House (1954) – Bit Role (uncredited)
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) – Schoolgirl (uncredited)
A Prize of Gold (1955) – German Refugee (uncredited)
Doctor at Sea (1955) – Bit Role (uncredited)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) – Girl (uncredited)
Now and Forever (1956) – Bit Part (uncredited)
My Teenage Daughter (1956) – Minor Role (uncredited)
Moby Dick (1956) – Young Girl (uncredited)
Circus Friends (1956) – Nan
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) – Minor Role (uncredited)
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) – Schoolgirl (uncredited)
The Golden Disc (1958) – Bit Part (uncredited)
The 39 Steps (1959) – Schoolgirl in Assembly Hall (uncredited)
Web of Suspicion (1959) – (uncredited)
Carry On Teacher (1959) – Sheila Dale – Saboteur
Never Let Go (1960) – Jackie
Beat Girl (1960) – Girl at The Off-Beat Café (uncredited)
Surprise Package (1960) – Sexy Teenager (uncredited)
Linda (1960) – Linda
The Man in the Back Seat (1961) – Jean
A Matter of WHO (1961) – Beryl
All Night Long (1962) – Lucille (uncredited)
Village of Daughters (1962) – Natasha Passoti (A Daughter)
Gaolbreak (1962) – Carol Marshall
Bon Voyage! (1962) – Penelope Walthorne (uncredited)
The Boys (1962) – Evelyn May
Ladies Who Do (1963) – Sandra
Gideon's Way (1964, TV episode "The Rhyme and the Reason") – Winifred Norton
A Hard Day's Night (1964) – Minor Role (uncredited)
The Playground (1965) – Virginia Williams
Up the Junction (1965, TV) – Sylvie
Cathy Come Home (1966, TV) – Cathy
Prehistoric Women (1967) – Gido
Poor Cow (1967) – Joy
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) – Georgina Elben
The Fixer (1968) – Raisl
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969) – Cathy Palmer
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) – Jody Pringle
Dulcima (1971) – Dulcima Gaskain
Something Big (1971) – Dover McBride
Made (1972) – Valerie Marshall
Some Call It Loving (1973) – Scarlett
The Squeeze (1977) – Jill
Nutcracker (1982) – Margaux Lasselle (final film role)
References
External links
1943 births
1991 deaths
English film actresses
English television actresses
20th-century English actresses
Actresses from Hammersmith
20th-century British businesspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20White |
The Sydney SuperDome (currently known as the Qudos Bank Arena for sponsorship reasons) is a large multipurpose arena located in Sydney Olympic Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
The A$190million facility was designed by COX Architecture & Devine deFlon Yaeger, and constructed by Abigroup and Obayashi Corporation Bob Carr, premier of New South Wales, officially opened the stadium in November 1999.
The development of the stadium was part of three subsites which also included a 3,400-space carpark which cost A$25 million, and a plaza with external works, also costing $25 million. The roof's masts reach above ground level, and the stadium occupies a site of .
It is currently managed by AEG Ogden. For three consecutive years the venue was a finalist for the Billboard Touring Awards in the top venue category.
The arena has a total capacity of 21,032 with a seating capacity of around 18,000 making the SuperDome the largest permanent indoor sports and entertainment venue in Australia.
Stadium name history
The arena was known as the Sydney SuperDome from opening in 1999 until 11 May 2006 when it was renamed Acer Arena (after Acer Inc.) as part of a naming rights deal. The naming rights were subsequently purchased by Allphones, the new name Allphones Arena taking effect from 1 September 2011. Since 11 April 2016, the venue has been known as Qantas Credit Union Arena then Qudos Bank Arena (after the rebranded Qudos Bank).
Design
The Sydney SuperDome is designed at an average capacity of 18,000 seated, with a maximum possible capacity of 21,032, according to the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. The SuperDome's bowl is rearrangeable in various modes to accommodate for sports events, concerts, and the like, and the venue's capacity fluctuates depending on the event hosted. The floor of the venue measures by at its maximum extent. The venue is created from 5,696m3 of concrete, 1,884 tonnes of reinforcing steel, and is topped with a 1,235 tonne roof structure. 18 steel masts suspend from the zinc and aluminium-composed and alloy-coated steel roof, which is tensioned by cables stretching from the top of each mast to the center of the roof. The interior ceiling of the venue is decorated in a corrugated steel profile, heavily insulated with materials such as numerous copies of unused Yellow pages telephone directories.
Various measures were made at the request of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) for environmentally friendly design measures. In its early years, the Sydney SuperDome used renewable energy for a fraction of its power supply, provided by EnergyAustralia's green power scheme. The venue saw use of green power through a deal with EnergyAustralia that lasted the duration of the 2000 Summer Olympics and the five years following. The SuperDome's power architecture includes 1,176 photovoltaic solar panels, installed on the arena's roof, which provide 10% of the venue's daily energy consumption, estimated at ~8612MWh annually. Energy efficient lighting and heating/cooling systems were also installed in the venue. The roof's drainage system consists over 2000m of high-density polyethylene pipes, in addition to nearly 3000m of cast iron and copper pipes used in the venue's plumbing system, and 1000m of vitrified clay pipes that make up the SuperDome's surrounding stormwater drainage system. The SuperDome was also one of many venues built at Sydney Olympic Park that made use of recycled timber, used to construct the exterior balconies of the venue. The timber was sourced from Kempsey, and Oberon, along with local sources in Sydney. Additionally, polypropylene seats with nylon arms and mountings make up the SuperDome's stands.
Events
The arena is home to many major entertainment and conference events and is a venue of choice for major entertainment promoters.
Regular or annual events
Hillsong Conference (2001–2010, 2012–2019)
ARIA Music Awards (2002–2009, 2011)
Sydney Kings Home Venue (1999–2002, 2016–present)
NSW Schools Spectacular (2016–present)
Intel Extreme Masters Sydney (2017–2019)
Notable occasional events
On 11 December 1999, a league record 17,803 spectators attended a NBL match between the Sydney Kings and West Sydney Razorbacks. The record has since been eclipsed twice by Kings games at the Superdome. On 10 March 2023 18,049 fans watched the Sydney Kings defeat the New Zealand Breakers in Game 3 of the 2023 NBL Grand Final series. Just five days later the current record of 18,124 attended the deciding Game 5 of the series where the Kings defeated the Breakers to win the Championship.
During the 2000 Olympic Games, the venue hosted the men's and women's basketball finals, and the artistic and trampoline gymnastics events. In the men's basketball, the Bronze medal playoff won by Lithuania 89-71 over host nation Australia, and the Gold Medal playoff, won by the United States 85-75 over France, drew 14,833 fans to the arena. The permanent seating capacity of the SuperDome was reduced to approximately 15,500 during the Olympics due to the usual large number of seats allocated for the media.
In 2001 the SuperDome was the host of the ATP World Tour Finals Tennis Masters Cup won by Australian World number one men's tennis player Lleyton Hewitt, defeating Frenchman Sébastien Grosjean in the Final 6–3, 6–3, 6–4.
On 13 November 2004, the SuperDome attracted the record attendance for a netball game in Australia when 14,339 turned out to see the Australian Netball Diamonds defeat the New Zealand Silver Ferns, 54–49.
On 28 July 2008, an ANZ Championship-record 12,999 fans saw the New South Wales Swifts defeat the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, 65–56, in the ANZ Championship Grand Final at the Acer Arena.
On 3 July 2009, Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou came to Sydney to perform a one-off concert. It became the number one box office record holder for Allphones Arena, and has stayed in this position ever since. In that concert he broke 11 records in Australia including largest audience (15,200), highest total sponsored amount and highest production cost ($480 000). The box office reached US$2.6 million, out-grossing Beyoncé and The Eagles placing him at rank 2 worldwide.
On 17 November 2014, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, addressed Indians residing in Australia.
Matches of the 2015 Netball World Cup were held at Allphones Arena, and the world record for a netball match was broken three times. Day 3 of the World Cup attracted 16,233 spectators. Day 9 attracted 16,244 while the Final held on 16 August 2015 attracted a netball world record attendance of 16,752 to see Australia defeat New Zealand 58–55 to win their third straight INF Netball World Cup and their 11th overall.
In November–December 2014, American singer-songwriter Katy Perry performed at the arena as part of The Prismatic World Tour, breaking the Allphones Arena ticket record with 89,500 patrons over six shows.
In 2021, it was announced that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the arena would be used as a COVID-19 mass vaccination hub, commencing on 9 August 2021.
The UFC hosted UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland at Qudos Bank Arena on 10 September 2023.
Sports teams
The venue is the home of the Sydney Kings who compete in Australia's National Basketball League and play all home matches at the SuperDome. The venue is affectionately nicknamed the 'King-Dome' by fans.
Other NBL teams to play home games at the SuperDome include the West Sydney Razorbacks (as a part of double header with a Kings game after) and Melbourne United. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 28 May 2021, Melbourne announced they would play a home game at the Arena against the Cairns Taipans. Originally to be played at John Cain Arena, then Cairns Pop-Up Arena, the game commenced with no audience three days later.
The venue is also the former home of Suncorp Super Netball clubs Giants Netball and the New South Wales Swifts, both of whom have played finals and high-profile matches at the arena. Both teams have since relocated to the smaller but newly renovated Ken Rosewall Arena nearby.
Attendance Records
The Sydney Kings have set attendance records for the league on five occasions while playing at the Superdome. In the 1999/2000 season, the Kings hosted a double header at the Superdome with the West Sydney Razorbacks playing the Brisbane Bullets and the Kings playing the Canberra Cannons. This double header set a league record of 17,143 fans in attendance.
In a game against the Illawarra Hawks on 17 November 2019, the Kings set the all-time NBL single game attendance record with 17,514 the Superdome. A major drawcard for the game was future NBA star and social media icon LaMelo Ball playing for the Hawks.
In Game Three of the 2022 NBL Grand Final series against the Tasmania Jack Jumpers at Qudos Bank Arena, the team attracted a crowd of 16,149 – then the biggest playoff crowd in NBL history and the third-largest crowd overall in NBL history.
In the Grand Final Series of the 2022/2023 season against the New Zealand Breakers the Sydney Kings set the new single game attendance record and playoff game attendance record twice. With the Kings having home court advantage, Games 1, 3 and 5 were played at the Superdome. On Friday 10 March 2023, a new record of 18,049 attended Game 3 of the series.
Just five days later with the series at tied 2 wins each, the Kings prevailed in Game 5 to win the championship in front of another record attendance of 18,124.
Gallery
See also
2000 Summer Olympics venues
List of sports venues in Australia
List of indoor arenas in Australia
List of National Basketball League (Australia) venues
List of Suncorp Super Netball venues
COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales
WWE Australian Live Shows.
References
External links
Event venues established in 1999
1999 establishments in Australia
Sports venues completed in 1999
Sports venues in Sydney
Music venues in Sydney
Indoor arenas in Australia
Venues of the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball venues
Olympic gymnastics venues
Netball venues in New South Wales
Basketball venues in Australia
National Basketball League (Australia) venues
Boxing venues in Australia
Sydney Kings
New South Wales Swifts
Giants Netball
Sydney Swifts
Philip Cox buildings
Sydney Olympic Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20SuperDome |
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre (AEC) is an indoor arena located in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is used for sporting and entertainment events. It is the principal venue for concerts, events and attractions for audiences between 1,000 and 11,300.
It is located on Port Road in the suburb of Hindmarsh, just north-west of the Adelaide city centre. With modern architecture and acoustics, function rooms and catering, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre provides a live entertainment venue for hundreds of thousands of people each year.
In 2010 the Adelaide Entertainment Centre completed a $52 million redevelopment with a new entry and theatre complex.
History
The AEC was established by the Government of South Australia in response to rising demand from the people of South Australia (primarily Adelaide) for a suitable venue for international and local popular entertainment and sport. The 3,500 capacity Apollo Stadium, which had been Adelaide's primary entertainment and indoor sports venue since 1969, was increasingly considered to be too small to meet this need and by the end of the 1980s many international music acts were bypassing Adelaide (especially in the winter months) on their Australian tours due to the lack of a suitable indoor venue (the only other viable indoor venues in Adelaide were the Adelaide Festival Centre or the Thebarton Theatre, both of which only held 2,000 which was even less than the Apollo's capacity). To meet the demand for a new indoor venue that could hold upwards of 10,000 people, the AEC was announced in late 1989 and would be built at a cost of AU$44 million.
Building for the venue began in early 1990 and involved the excavation of 75,200 tonnes of earth and the pouring of 36,480 tonnes of concrete, the largest concrete pour in South Australia at the time, as well as over 750,000 hours on construction. The Main Arena floor is 65.4 metres by 42.1 metres and the roof height is approximately 20 metres from the Arena floor (approximately the height of a 5-storey building). The clear span of the Arena is 85 metres, the 8 roof trusses weighed a total of 216 tonnes and 980 tonnes of structural steel was used in the construction. The Adelaide Entertainment Centre was officially opened on 20 July 1991 by John Bannon, the then Premier of South Australia.
Before the AEC was built it was generally believed by the people of Adelaide that it would also be the new home of the Adelaide 36ers who played in the National Basketball League as they played their home games at Apollo and a move there when it opened seemed natural as ticket demand for the 36ers was more than twice what the old stadium could hold. This speculation was also fueled by the success of other teams in the NBL, namely the Brisbane Bullets, Perth Wildcats, and Sydney Kings who had all moved into their respective cities larger Entertainment Centres and were attracting record crowds. However, both the 36ers and their then owner the Basketball Association of South Australia wanted their own venue that would provide a home for basketball in SA, and thus the AU$16 million, 8,000 seat Clipsal Powerhouse (Renamed to Titanium Security Arena, and then to Adelaide Arena in 2019) was opened in 1992.
In 2019, the Adelaide 36ers announced that the Adelaide Entertainment Centre would be the new home of the Adelaide 36ers NBL team. The Adelaide Entertainment Centre has capacity to hold 10,000 Basketball fans.
The South Australian Government assigned responsibility for the management of the AEC to the Grand Prix Board in 1989. In August 1998, the Government established the Adelaide Entertainments Corporation. The first board of directors for the AEC was formally appointed on 9 February 1999. The current Board consists of seven Directors.
In 2007, the Rann Government announced plans to renovate the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The Government released the statement: "The State Government is committed to the vision of creating a vibrant entertainment and media precinct on the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Site". On 6 August 2007, the renovation plans were passed and construction began on the $52 million upgrade. Tourism Minister Jane Lomax-Smith said: "the upgrade comes on the back of a record-breaking last 12 months, with more than 370,000 passing through the centre's doors, and record profits recorded."
The renovation included: major upgrades of the foyer, backstage area and corporate facilities; creation of additional car parking; new staging and curtains; renovation of administration areas; and restoration of the heritage-listed Revelations Chapel for use as a wedding and function venue. In the main arena itself 8,000 new seats were also installed.
The centre not only holds music and cultural events, but hosts the occasional sporting event such as netball, as well as Professional Wrestling with the World Wrestling Entertainment using the venue for the Adelaide leg of their Australian tours since 2004.
On 7 November 2010, the centre played host to the ANZ Championship grand final between local team the Adelaide Thunderbirds and the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic team from New Zealand. The Thunderbirds won the grand final 52–42 in front of 9,300 fans. The Entertainment Centre was chosen over the Thunderbirds home venue of ETSA Park which only holds 3,200 and their former alternate venue, Titanium Security Arena, due to its ability to hold more spectators and because ticket demand was more than the Titanium's 8,000 capacity.
The centre also hosted the opening two games of the 2012 Holden Netball Quad-Series in a double header with Australia taking on England and New Zealand taking on South Africa.
On 14 July 2013, the AEC hosted its second ANZ Championship grand final when the Thunderbirds hosted the Queensland Firebirds. The T-Birds kept their winning record at the venue when they defeated the Firebirds 50–48 in front of 9,000 fans. Since 2018, the Thunderbirds have utilised the Entertainment Centre as an alternate home venue.
Kylie Minogue performed here for the first time on 25 and 26 April 2001, during her On A Night Like This. Minogue returned on 30 November and 1 December 2006 as part of her Homecoming Tour. Kylie performed again 18 June 2011 as part of her Aphrodite: Les Folies Tour and 17 March 2015 during her Kiss Me Once Tour. She will return on 11 March 2019, during her Golden Tour.
On 23 July 2007, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for The Love Tour supporting their album The Love Album.
On 4 October 2014, Miley Cyrus performed in the Entertainment Centre during the Bangerz Tour for the second time since her last sold-out show in 2011 during her Gypsy Heart Tour.
On 9 October 2018, Cher performed at the arena as part of her Here We Go Again Tour.
On 28 July 2022, British virtual band Gorillaz performed at the arena as part of their 2022 World Tour and as a part of Illuminate Adelaide.
On 14 November 2022, Dua Lipa performed at the arena as part of her Future Nostalgia Tour.
On 18 October 2023, Paul McCartney performed at the arena for the first show of the Australian leg of his Got Back Tour.
After the centre's success, the number of regular plays and musicals decline in 2010s, as the Adelaide Festival Centre opposite the Adelaide Oval took over with musicals such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music and Matilda (shown in 2014, 2016 and 2017).
Centre features
The footprint of the site is (approx 7 acres), and includes a large foyer area, a event arena, seven function rooms, car parking, logistic facilities and administrative offices. The arena is the largest auditorium in South Australia.
The centre it is capable of operating in several different modes, including an 'intimate' mode (2,000–4,500 patrons), end stage mode (4,500–7,500 patrons) and '360-degree' mode. With a general admission floor and Corporate-level seating, the maximum capacity of the AEC of 11,300, making it the third-largest permanent indoor arena in Australia behind Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena (21,032) and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (14,500), and the fifth-largest Australian arena behind the Sydney Super Dome (Qudos), Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena (16,200), the Perth Arena (14,856) and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (both the Rod Laver and Perth arenas are retractable roof venues).
The AEC has a complete in-house catering operation that provides for audience food and beverage requirements, as well as banquet, function, seminar, tradeshow, corporate suites and backstage requirements. The AEC also provides corporate hospitality in the form of 31 suites that are leased on a 2–5-year basis.
Functions
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre holds various functions throughout the year for corporate clients and private hirers including gala banquets, dinners, breakfasts, conferences, weddings and wedding ceremonies. The Arena can accommodate a banquet for up to 1000 guests.
The AEC is also home to the Revelations Chapel which is heritage listed and non-denominational. This venue can host both wedding ceremonies and functions.
Car parks
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre has more than 1,400 car park spaces available on site for concert-goers. Entry or exit is via Mary Street, Manton Street or Adam Street only. A$15 parking fee applies for event parking.
Transport
A tram service operates from Glenelg via the Adelaide city centre, free of charge to and from the city.
A taxi stand is situated on Port Road next to the main entrance of the AEC. Bus stops are located on Port Road and Manton Street (rear of the AEC). The Bowden railway station is located within a minute's walk from the main entrance of the AEC.
Ticketing
All tickets for concerts or events at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre can be purchased through Ticketek.
See also
List of indoor arenas in Australia
Adelaide concert venues include:
Adelaide Festival Centre
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Showgrounds
Football Park
Memorial Drive Park
Thebarton Theatre
Titanium Security Arena
References
External links
Adelaide 36ers
Adelaide Thunderbirds
1991 establishments in Australia
Sports venues in Adelaide
Sports venues completed in 1991
Music venues in Australia
Indoor arenas in Australia
National Basketball League (Australia) venues
Basketball venues in Australia
Netball venues in South Australia
Modernist architecture in Australia
Boxing venues in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide%20Entertainment%20Centre |
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.
Life
Dicksee's father, Thomas Dicksee, was a painter who taught Frank as well as his sister Margaret from a young age. The family lived in Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury. Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became its president in 1924.
He was knighted in 1925, and named to the Royal Victorian Order by King George V in 1927. In 1921 Dicksee exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London.
Dicksee painted The Funeral of a Viking (1893; Manchester Art Gallery), which was donated in 1928 by Arthur Burton in memory of his mother to the Corporation of Manchester. Victorian critics gave it both positive and negative reviews, for its perfection as a showpiece and for its dramatic and somewhat staged setting, respectively. The painting was used by Swedish Viking/Black metal band Bathory for the cover of their 1990 album, Hammerheart.
A book on Frank Dicksee's life and work with a full catalogue of his known paintings and drawings by Simon Toll was published by Antique Collector's Club in 2016.
Gallery
See also
La Belle Dame sans Merci''
References
External links
"Sir Frank Dicksee, British, 1853 – 1928" ArtMagick image gallery
Phryne's list of pictures in accessible collections in the UK
"Ophelia" Collections Database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium
1853 births
1928 deaths
19th-century English painters
20th-century English painters
English male painters
Artists' Rifles soldiers
English illustrators
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Knights Bachelor
Orientalist painters
Painters from London
Royal Academicians
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Dicksee |
Palau Sant Jordi (, ) is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose installation that is part of the Olympic Ring complex located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, it was opened in 1990. The maximum seating capacity of the arena is 17,960.Since the inauguration, is the largest indoor arena in capacity terms in Spain.
The Palau Sant Jordi was one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics hosting the artistic gymnastics, handball, and volleyball events. Today, it is used for a variety of indoor sport events as well as for concerts and other cultural activities, due to its great flexibility.
Sporting events
The arena was the venue of the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics.
It was the venue of three EuroLeague Final Fours in 1998, 2003, and 2011. It also hosted the EuroBasket 1997, from the quarterfinals on, and the 2012 Copa del Rey.
The final of 2000 Davis Cup was the 89th edition of the most important tournament between nations in men's tennis. Spain defeated Australia at Palau Sant Jordi on 8–10 December, giving Spain their first title. The arena also hosted the finals of 2009 Davis Cup between Spain and Czech Republic with the victory for the Spaniards 5–0.
Palau Sant Jordi was the main venue of the 2003 FINA World Championships. A temporary, regulation swimming pool was installed for the occasion. It played the same role for the 2013 FINA World Championships, since the city of Barcelona hosted the Championships again after 10 years.
It was one of six sites that hosted the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship including the final. It was also one of six sites to host the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain.
On 5 October 2016, the arena hosted an NBA preseason game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and local team FC Barcelona Regal.
It will host matches for the 2028 European Men's Handball Championship.
Sant Jordi Club
The 3,000-seat Sant Jordi Club opened in 2007 and is located behind the main building.
Concerts
See also
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
List of indoor arenas in Spain
List of tennis stadiums by capacity
Notes
References
External links
Indoor arenas in Catalonia
Indoor arenas in Spain
Basketball venues in Spain
Volleyball venues in Spain
Handball venues in Spain
Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnastics venues
Olympic handball venues
Olympic volleyball venues
Sports venues completed in 1990
Event venues established in 1990
Indoor track and field venues
1990 establishments in Catalonia
Sports venues in Barcelona
Arata Isozaki buildings
2000 Davis Cup
Athletics in Barcelona
Montjuïc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau%20Sant%20Jordi |
The City of Glasgow Chorus was founded in 1983 by Graham Taylor MBE, who served as Musical Director for 38 years. In 2021 Paul Kehone was appointed Musical Director.
The chorus has a policy of seeking less familiar pieces in addition to those from the mainstream choral repertoire. The City of Glasgow Chorus Trust is a Company limited by guarantee, with charitable status. It is registered in Scotland (113563), and its Registered Charity number is SC 004791.
Concert series
The Chorus performs a regular series of concerts each season, including the popular Christmas Cracker concert each December in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. In recent years, these have included a string of lesser known works by very well known composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Holst’s Choral Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Malcolm Arnold’s The Return of Odysseus, Bruckner’s Mass in F minor and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, as well as some of the more demanding parts of the repertoire including Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 – the Symphony of a Thousand.
The Chorus has recorded Scots songs with Iain Sutherland, performed and recorded Shaun Davey’s epic Celtic suite – The Pilgrim, taken part in the Star Wars World Tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, backed Russell Watson and Sarah Brightman and appeared with Lesley Garrett in the televised Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 as the interval act. The Chorus appears regularly in concerts of West End and Broadway shows promoted by West End International.
International
Notable overseas performances include concerts in Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres, a tour of the Czech Republic in 1996, where the Chorus performed the Prague premiere of William Walton’s oratorio, Belshazzar's Feast, with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and in October 2013.
As part of their 30th anniversary celebrations, the Chorus travelled to Poland for a week performing in Kraków and Opole including a performance of Verdi's Requiem with the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland.
In 2016 the Chorus travelled to China performing Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Beijing and Brahms’ German Requiem in Nanjing and Shanghai.
In November 2018, the Chorus joined forces with the Leeds Festival Chorus for a performance of Britten’s War Requiem with the BBC Philharmonic in Leeds Town Hall as part of the 100th anniversary of The Armistice. On November 12, 2023 the Leeds Festival Chorus join the City of Glasgow Chorus and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera to perform Verdi's Requiem at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Recordings
The Chorus has made a number of recordings, the most recent of which is a recording of Choral Classics: Something Old, Something New made in the Caird Hall in Dundee, with organist David Hamilton, which was released in November 2014.
References
Scottish choirs
Musical groups from Glasgow
Musical groups established in 1983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Glasgow%20Chorus |
Ampelokipoi or Ampelokipi (, ), meaning 'vineyards', is a large, central district of the city of Athens. Ampelokipoi is in the center of Athens, near Zografou, Goudi, Psychiko and Pagkrati. The area is famous for hosting Panathinaikos's home ground since it was inaugurated in 1922.
Two metro stations are located in the district: the Ambelokipi station and the Panormou station.
History
Before the Greek independence, at the beginning of the 19th century, Ampelokipoi was a village a few kilometers north-east of Athens. The village Ampelokipoi is noted in the maps of this period. In the late 19th century, the village still remained outside the boundaries of Athens agglomeration. Then some cottages of rich Athenians were built in this area. Due to its healthy climate, many hospitals were built in Ampelokipoi in the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Today in this area there are the hospitals Erythros Stavros Hospital (Red Cross), Errikos Dynan Hospital, Ippokrateio Hospital, Elpis Hospital and Agios Sabbas Hospital. The population explosion in Ampelokipoi happened after the Asia Minor Disaster, in 1922, when many refugees settled in this area. For the residence of the refugees, the government had originally chosen the area of the stadium of Panathinaikos that had been built in the same period. So a conflict broke out between refugees and Panathinaikos fans and finally the government changed the place for the settling of refugees. The new district was named Kountouriotika and was located around of Panathinaikos stadium. Few years later the government built a new neighborhood for the refugees opposite of Panathinaikos stadium, known as prosfygika of Alexandras Avenue. These houses were built between 1933 and 1935 and today some of them have proclaimed monuments of historical heritage.
Sports
Ampelokipoi is where Panathinaikos' ground lies today. It as also the home to Ampelokipoi B.C., a basketball club founded in 1929.
Buildings
Important buildings located in the area:
Government buildings
Hellenic Police Headquarters (Αστυνομικό Μέγαρο)
Court of Cassation (Greece) (Άρειος Πάγος)
Athens Prefecture Building (Νομαρχία Αθηνών)
Hospitals
Erythros Stavros Hospital (Red Cross)
Errikos Dunant Hospital (Henry Dunant)
Hippokrateio Hospital
Elpis Hospital
Agios Savvas Hospital
Schools
Formerly the Philippine School in Greece (Katipunan Philippines Cultural Academy)
Other
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium – the traditional athletic center of Panathinaikos A.C.
Athens Tower (Πύργος των Αθηνών) – the tallest building in Greece.
Apollo Tower (Πύργος Απόλλων) – the tallest residential tower in Greece. It is 80m tall and consists of 25 floors.
Prosfygika of Alexandras Avenue
Petraki Monastery
Hotels
President Hotel Athens
Cinemas
Aavora
Alfavil
Astron
Athinaion
Danaos
Galaxias
Nirvana
ODEON Zina
Plaza
Residential streets
This is a list of residential streets in the Ampelokipoi area. Most of these are named after geographic locations:
References
Neighbourhoods in Athens | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelokipoi%2C%20Athens |
"Oranges and Lemons" is a nursery rhyme.
Oranges and Lemons may also refer to:
Oranges & Lemons (band), a Japanese pop band
Oranges & Lemons (album), an album by XTC
Oranges and Lemons (film), a 1923 film starring Stan Laurel
Oranges and Lemons (1991 film), a 1991 British television film by Kay Adshead in the anthology series ScreenPlay
"Oranges and Lemons", an episode of Teletubbies
See also
Orange and Lemons, a Filipino rock band | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges%20and%20Lemons%20%28disambiguation%29 |
AllNight with Jason Smith was a syndicated sports talk radio show on ESPN Radio, hosted by Jason Smith. The show was heard Sunday through Thursday from 10pm PT to 1am PT live from the studios of KSPN in Los Angeles, California, rather than the ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. Smith was named host of the show on September 19, 2005, after former host Todd Wright was fired after almost eight years on the show. It reached more than 500 ESPN affiliate markets across the United States and Canada.
AllNight with Jason Smith was syndicated on WEEI Sports Radio Network.
On September 14, 2011; Smith announced that he is leaving ESPN Radio. Rumors suggested he was leaving to take a job as a reporter on the MLB Network, which Smith refuted with the help of dramatic soundbites. His producer, Ali Bronson, also dispelled rumors about her taking over the show, or the show hiring former Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre. On his last show, taking place on September 16, 2011 he announced that he would move to the NFL Network, and would start the following Sunday. Smith has since returned to radio, hosting a weeknight show for rival Fox Sports Radio.
Guest hosts
Mike Salk and Amy Lawrence were two frequent guest hosts for AllNight. Smith himself was a guest host on The Herd with Colin Cowherd, The Scott Van Pelt Show, Jim Rome is Burning, and The Doug Gottlieb Show.
References
External links
AllNight with Jason Smith
ESPN Radio programs
American sports radio programs
Radio programs on XM Satellite Radio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllNight%20with%20Jason%20Smith |
L-(+)-(S)-Canavanine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid found in certain leguminous plants. It is structurally related to the proteinogenic α-amino acid L-arginine, the sole difference being the replacement of a methylene bridge (-- unit) in arginine with an oxa group (i.e., an oxygen atom) in canavanine. Canavanine is accumulated primarily in the seeds of the organisms which produce it, where it serves both as a highly deleterious defensive compound against herbivores (due to cells mistaking it for arginine) and a vital source of nitrogen for the growing embryo. The related L-canaline is similar to ornithine.
Toxicity
The mechanism of canavanine's toxicity is that organisms that consume it typically mistakenly incorporate it into their own proteins in place of L-arginine, thereby producing structurally aberrant proteins that may not function properly. Cleavage by arginase also produces canaline, a potent insecticide.
The toxicity of canavanine may be enhanced under conditions of protein starvation, and canavanine toxicity, resulting from consumption of Hedysarum alpinum seeds with a concentration of 1.2% canavanine weight/weight, has been implicated in the death of a malnourished Christopher McCandless. (McCandless was the subject of Jon Krakauer's book (and subsequent movie) Into the Wild).
In mammals
NZB/W F1, NZB, and DBA/2 mice fed L-canavanine develop a syndrome similar to systemic lupus erythematosus, while BALB/c mice fed a steady diet of protein containing 1% canavanine showed no change in lifespan.
Alfalfa seeds and sprouts contain L-canavanine. The L-canavanine in alfalfa has been linked to lupus-like symptoms in primates, including humans, and other auto-immune diseases. Often stopping consumption reverses the problem.
Tolerance
Some specialized herbivores tolerate L-canavanine either because they metabolize it efficiently (cf. L-canaline) or avoid its incorporation into their own nascent proteins.
By metabolic detoxification
Herbivores may be able to metabolize canavanine efficiently. The beetle Caryedes brasiliensis is able to break canavanine down to canaline, then further detoxifies canaline by reductive deamination to form homoserine and ammonia. As a result, the beetle not only tolerates the chemical, but uses it as a source of nitrogen to synthesize its other amino acids to allow it to develop.
By selectivity
An example of this ability can be found in the larvae of the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens, which can tolerate massive amounts of dietary canavanine. These larvae fastidiously avoid incorporation of L-canavanine into their nascent proteins (presumably by virtue of highly discriminatory arginine—tRNA ligase, the enzyme responsible for the first step in the incorporation of arginine into proteins). In contrast, larvae of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta can only tolerate tiny amounts (1.0 microgram per kilogram of fresh body weight) of dietary canavanine because their arginine-tRNA ligase has little, if any, discriminatory capacity. No one has examined experimentally the arginine-tRNA synthetase of these organisms. But comparative studies of the incorporation of radiolabeled L-arginine and L-canavanine have shown that in Manduca sexta, the ratio of incorporation is about 3 to 1.
Dioclea megacarpa seeds contain high levels of canavanine. The beetle Caryedes brasiliensis is able to tolerate this however as it has the most highly discriminatory arginine-tRNA ligase known (as of 1982). In this insect, the level of radiolabeled L-canavanine incorporated into newly synthesized proteins is barely measurable. Moreover, this beetle uses canavanine as a nitrogen source (see above).
See also
Canaline
Arginine
References
Bibliography
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Alpha-Amino acids
Toxic amino acids
Non-proteinogenic amino acids
Plant toxins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canavanine |
Yakup Ağa () or Ebu Yusuf Nurullah Yakub (), was the father of the Barbarossa Brothers, Oruç and Hızır. He was a Sipahi of Turkish or Albanian descent from Yenice (modern Greek city of Yanitsa). Yakup was among those who took part in the capture of the Aegean island of Lesbos from the Genoese on behalf of the Ottomans in 1462. For his participation he was granted the fief of Bonova village of the island as a reward and the title of the village's Agha (master).
In Lesbos Yakup married a local Christian Greek woman from Mytilene, the widow of an Eastern Orthodox priest named Katerina. From that union two daughters and four sons were born: Ishak, Oruç, Hızır and Ilyas. Yakup became an established potter and purchased a boat to trade his products. The four sons helped their father with his business, but not much is known about his daughters.
At first, Ishak, the eldest son, was involved with the financial affairs of the family business and remained on Mytilene. Hızır operated in the Aegean Sea and based his operations mostly in Thessaloniki. The other two brothers Oruç and Ilyas soon became seamen engaging in sea trade, later turning privateers in the Mediterranean. When their vessel was captured by a Knights of St. John galley, Ilyas was killed during the battle and Oruç became a slave aboard the galley for two to three years. When he regained his freedom, he and his brother Hızir started engaging in piracy as corsairs entering history as the Barbarossa Brothers. They took part in many Ottoman campaigns around the Mediterranean and gained fame for their skill as commanders. Oruç and Ishak were killed in Oran (Algeria) during the battle for Tlemcen (Algeria) fighting the Spaniards. The last surviving son Hızır became one of the most famous Barbary pirates of his era and a legendary figure as Admiral of the Ottoman navy.
References and sources
Military personnel of the Ottoman Empire
15th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
People from Giannitsa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakup%20A%C4%9Fa |
Adam B. Nimoy (born August 9, 1956) is an American television director. He is the son of actors Leonard Nimoy and Sandra Zober.
Early life
Nimoy was born in Los Angeles, California, to actor Leonard Nimoy and actress Sandra Zober. He has an older sister, Julie. Aaron Bay-Schuck is Nimoy's stepbrother.
Nimoy obtained his Bachelor of Science at University of California, Berkeley, and his juris doctor at Loyola Law School.
Career
Adam Nimoy began his work in the entertainment industry as an attorney in entertainment law, specializing in music and music publishing. According to lead singer Kurt Harland, Adam was instrumental in clearing the many Star Trek samples used on Information Society's self-titled debut record, such as the "Pure energy!" snippet used in the number-three US hit "What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy)".
He was a business-affairs executive for EMI America Records and Enigma Records before becoming a TV director. His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, Nash Bridges, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Gilmore Girls, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, The Outer Limits, for which he directed his father in the episode "I, Robot", and Sliders.
For the Love of Spock
After his father's death in 2015, Nimoy revealed a documentary project the two of them had been working on about the elder Nimoy's famous Star Trek character which the younger planned to direct. Nimoy stated that with his father's passing, the project would now take on a stronger focus on the life and career of Leonard Nimoy, as well as the character of Spock. In March 2015, Nimoy announced plans to crowd-fund the project's $600,000 budget and provide credit and other perks to the fans who contributed. By that June, the project successfully completed funding through Kickstarter.com, raising $621,721, ahead of its July 1 deadline. The documentary, For the Love of Spock, received the support of interview subjects including William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, J. J. Abrams, and Seth MacFarlane. The film was released on April 16, 2016, at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Nimoy appeared as himself in "The Spock Resonance", the November 5, 2015, episode of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, in which he interviews Star Trek fan Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) for the documentary on his father (who had previously lent his voice to the 2012 episode "The Transporter Malfunction", in the series' fifth season).
Nimoy has taught Thesis Film Post Production and Advanced Approaches to Directing at the New York Film Academy.
His memoir, My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life, was published by Pocket Books in 2008.
Special thanks are given to Adam in the liner notes of the album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983, Enigma Records) by the band Rain Parade. "Spock" is also thanked.
Personal life
Nimoy was married to his first wife Nancy for 18 years. They had two children. His second wife, Martha, died of cancer.
In August 2017, Nimoy announced his engagement to actress Terry Farrell, who portrayed Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They married on March 26, 2018, in a civil ceremony at City Hall in San Francisco on what would have been his father's 87th birthday. The marriage ended in divorce in 2022.
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
American television directors
Leonard Nimoy
Loyola Law School alumni
New York Film Academy
People from Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Nimoy |
Pleurotus eryngii (also known as king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster) is an edible mushroom native to Mediterranean regions of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, but also grown in many parts of Asia.
Description
Pleurotus eryngii is the largest species in the oyster mushroom genus, Pleurotus, which also contains the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus. It has a thick, meaty white stem and a small tan cap (in young specimens). Its natural range extends from the Atlantic Ocean through the Mediterranean Basin and Central Europe into Western Asia and India. Unlike other species of Pleurotus, which are primarily wood-decay fungi, the P. eryngii complex are also weak parasites on the roots of herbaceous plants, although they may also be cultured on organic wastes.
Taxonomy
Its species name is derived from the fact that it grows in association with the roots of Eryngium campestre or other Eryngium plants (English names: 'sea holly' or 'eryngo'). P. eryngii is a species complex, and a number of varieties have been described, with differing plant associates in the carrot family (Apiaceae).
Pleurotus eryngii var. eryngii (DC.) Quél 1872 – associated with Eryngium ssp.
Pleurotus eryngii var. ferulae (Lanzi) Sacc. 1887 – associated with Ferula communis
Pleurotus eryngii var. tingitanus Lewinsohn 2002 – associated with Ferula tingitana
Pleurotus eryngii var. elaeoselini Venturella, Zervakis & La Rocca 2000 – associated with Elaeoselinum asclepium
Pleurotus eryngii var. thapsiae Venturella, Zervakis & Saitta 2002 – associated with Thapsia garganica
Other specimens of P. eryngii have been reported in association with plants in the genera Ferulago, Cachrys, Laserpitium, and Diplotaenia, all in Apiaceae.
Molecular studies have shown Pleurotus nebrodensis to be closely related to, but distinct from, P. eryngii. Pleurotus fossulatus may be another closely related species.
Uses
The mushroom has a good shelf life and is cultivated widely. It has little flavor or aroma when raw. When cooked, it develops rich umami flavor and a meaty texture. When cultivating Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) can be used in the mushroom industry for the classification and maintenance of high-quality mushroom spawns. P. eryngii, are commercially produced, edible mushrooms, with P. eryngii making up 30% of the Korean edible mushroom market since its introduction in 1995. It is commonly used as a meat substitute in many vegan recipes.
Pleurotus eryngii may contain chemicals that stimulate the immune system. Dietary intake of Pleurotus eryngii may function as cholesterol-lowering dietary agent.
Like some other Pleurotus species, P. eryngii attacks nematodes and may provide a control method for these parasites when they infect cats and dogs.
It is very frequently used in Apulian cuisine. An example of this is when it is put on top of orecchiette.
Verification of the species
Sequence analysis of the ITS1–5.8S rDNA–ITS2 of P. eryngii and the control strains P. ostreatus and P. ferulae, demonstrated that the DNA regions share almost 99% of sequence identity, indicating closely related mushroom strains. ITS1–5.8S rDNA–ITS2 sequence analysis is DNA sequencing used to confirm the mushroom species at hand, although it does distinguish variants in the mushroom species. RAPD are superior to DNA sequence-based methods with distinguishing strains in species. To verify the mushroom strains RAPD was used, and DNA fragments were amplified from the total cellular DNA. Verification of Pleurotus eryngii strains was assessed using ITS sequence analysis and RAPD fingerprinting. Analysis of the DNA fragment pattern showed that the 22 P. eryngii strains were clearly distinguished from the control strains P. ostreatus and P. ferulae, and could be categorized into five subgroups:
Group 1- commonly showed widely spaced gills under the convex cap. They tended to form small fruiting bodies. Eastern Europe. 24-25C optimum growth
Group 2- funnel-shaped cap phenotype with a stout stem. Members in this group grew faster than other mushrooms. They required 15–16 d from the fructification for harvest whereas the others required 18–21 d.
Group 3- shared similar morphological characteristics; they formed thin fruiting bodies with a small convex cap. Strains KNR2514 and KNR 2522
Group 4- resembled group I mushrooms morphologically but grew at around 27 °C.
Group 5- was collected from Iran; they grew as mycelia but hardly formed fruiting bodies. In this group, we only succeeded in generating fruiting bodies for KNR2517, which had a wide, white, convex cap. Their optimal growth temperature was the lowest among the strains tested (19–21 °C), which may reflect their geographical origin.
Evolution
Pleurotus populations growing on umbellifers seem to have recently diverged through a sympatric speciation process, that is based on both intrinsic reproductive barriers and extrinsic ecogeographical factors.
Pleurotus eryngii is a saprotrophic fungus. Saprotrophic fungi use the process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed organic matter. They are also an NTF, nematode-trapping fungi, that survives by trapping and digesting nematodes working as a natural pesticide. These fungi produce trapping devices to capture, kill, and digest nematodes as food sources. Traps are not only the weapons that NTF use to capture and infect nematodes but also an important indicator of their switch from a saprophytic to a predacious lifestyle. Pleurotus eryngii can live both saprophytically on organic matter and as predators by capturing tiny animals. The development of traps shows their evolutionary importance of them. They provide a crucial role in obtaining nutrients and may confer competitive advantages over non-predatory fungi. This fungal carnivorism diverged from saprophytism about 419 million years ago (Mya), after the origin of nematodes about 550–600 Mya. This following evolution of the fungi after the nematode suggests the co-evolution of the species. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that NTF have a common ancestor and the ability to capture nematodes has been an important trait for speciation and diversification within the clade.
P. eryngii extract reduced the number of Panagrellus sp. larvae after 24 h by 90%. P. eryngii fungus has predatory activity against Panagrellus sp. larvae due to toxin production and negatively affects Meloidogyne javanica eggs and juveniles development.
See also
Medicinal fungi
List of Pleurotus species
Notes
References
Sources
External links
Pleurotus eryngii photos
Pleurotaceae
Fungi of Europe
Edible fungi
Parasitic fungi
Carnivorous fungi
Fungi in cultivation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus%20eryngii |
Jenny Mikakos (born 25 January 1969) is a former Australian politician for the Labor Party who was a Member of the Legislative Council of Victoria from 1999 to 2020. She served as the Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services and Minister for the Coordination of Health and Human Services COVID-19 as well as Deputy Leader of the Government, but resigned these positions and from parliament on 26 September 2020 in the wake of criticism of her role in hotel quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Political career
Mikakos was first elected as the Member for Jika Jika Province in the State of Victoria in September 1999. From 1999 until 2006, she represented the Legislative Council province of Jika Jika. Mikakos' electorate was abolished at the 2006 election as part of major reforms of the Legislative Council introduced after the 2002 election, but she won the second position on the Labor ticket for the replacement electorate, the larger, five-member Northern Metropolitan Region. She was first on the Labor ticket at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 elections.
In Parliament, Mikakos held the roles of Parliamentary Secretary for Justice, Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Shadow Minister for Community Services, Children, Youth Affairs, Youth Justice and Seniors and Ageing, Minister for Families and Children, Early Childhood Education and Youth Affairs, and Minister for Health and Ambulance Services.
In March 2020, she was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council.
In April 2020, Mikakos was appointed as the Minister for the Coordination of Health and Human Services COVID-19 as part of the Victorian Government's response to the coronavirus global pandemic. This appointment followed media coverage of comments which Mikakos made regarding a GP who tested positive for COVID-19 (see Controversies below).
In Parliament, Mikakos voted against the human cloning bill but for stem cell research, for abortion decriminalisation, for assisted reproductive technology reforms and for dying with dignity laws. These bills were subject to conscience votes in the Labor Party.
Mikakos is a member of Labor's left faction.
Mikakos resigned as Minister for Health and from the Legislative Council on 26 September 2020.
Controversies
Misuse of taxpayer funds
In 2003, Mikakos was criticised for nepotism after employing her sister Nikki in her taxpayer-funded electoral office.
In 2005, Mikakos was forced to pay back taxpayer funds spent mailing Labor Party members on Parliamentary stationery for reelection support, which led to Premier Steve Bracks warning Labor MPs regarding the conduct.
In 2014, Mikakos was again involved in applying taxpayer funds for political purposes, and the Victorian Ombudsman found that Mikakos was among a number of Labor MPs who had misused $388,000 in taxpayer funds for election campaigning. Mikakos declined to be interviewed by police in connection with the affair, which became known as the "red shirts rort". The Labor party later repaid the amount.
Youth justice
In 2016, a number of criminals under the age of 18 in custody at Parkville prison engaged in a violent riot and caused significant property damage, forcing staff to flee. Mikakos, then the Minister for Youth Affairs, was criticised for losing control of youth justice. Later, Mikakos illegally moved the relevant inmates to an adult prison, and was forced to reverse that decision by the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Remarks in Parliament
In 2018, Mikakos was suspended from Parliament for a day after accusing Liberal MPs of racism. Suspension involves forfeiture of the member's salary for the day.
Handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Mikakos was criticised for attacking a Melbourne GP who attended work after travelling to the United States. The Minister stated that she was 'flabbergasted' a doctor with 'flu-like symptoms' had presented to work, despite the GP not meeting her own departmental guidelines for testing. The Minister was criticised for inaccuracies, violating patient privacy and maligning frontline health workers, but refused to apologise.
Later, in April 2020, Mikakos was involved in controversy when she defended a comparison between COVID-19 and Captain Cook.
In June 2020, a breakdown in hotel quarantine procedures created a second wave of COVID-19 cases in Victoria, leading to the first total lockdown of residents in homes in Australia, panic buying, and military personnel called in. The resurgence occurred despite a report from experts a month earlier warning of an opportunity to prevent a further outbreak; Mikakos claimed she was unsure whether her government had received a copy of the report and attempted to distance herself from the scandal. In August 2020, Mikakos was stripped of responsibility for hotel quarantine.
In August 2020, Mikakos was criticised for providing inadequate and insufficient PPE to hospital staff. Mikakos claimed that only 10-15% of healthcare workers with COVID-19 became infected through their workplace, and the government was later forced to correct that figure to 70-80%.
Beginning in March 2020, Mikakos resisted calls to resign for her handling of the pandemic, including from the medical profession, the opposition, and the disgraced Health Workers Union. In August 2020, Mikakos was criticised for declining to answer questions in Parliament and for failing to meet Parliamentary deadlines to provide promised written responses to questions. She stated that she was declining to answer questions relating to the breakdown of hotel quarantine until a result came out of the independent inquiry led by former Justice Jennifer Coate. Justice Coate announced that the inquiry did not prevent any person from commenting publicly or answering questions on the matters covered by the inquiry. Under the convention of individual ministerial responsibility in the Westminster system, Ministers are expected to be accountable to Parliament, including by answering questions, and to resign for major failures in their department regardless of whether they were aware of them.
On 24 September 2020, Mikakos appeared before the board of inquiry into the hotel quarantine program, where she stated that she had not made the decision to use private security contractors to manage the quarantine program, and had not been aware of the arrangement until an outbreak at a Melbourne hotel became apparent in mid-May. Footage emerged of Mikakos at a media briefing on 29 March with jobs minister Martin Pakula as he announced that security guards would be used to patrol hotels, and media also reported that the premier's office had sent a briefing note to caucus outlining this arrangement. Mikakos tendered a supplementary statement on 25 September, denying that she had misled the inquiry and reiterating that she had no recollection of the matters raised.
Premier Daniel Andrews faced the inquiry on 25 September, at which he stated that he regarded Mikakos as "accountable" for the program. The following day, Mikakos resigned from cabinet. Mikakos made a statement suggesting that the reason for her resignation was that she disagreed with "elements" of the Premier's statement, and was no longer able to serve in his cabinet.
Personal life
Jenny Mikakos attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then The University of Melbourne where she obtained arts and law degrees. Before her election to Parliament, Mikakos worked as a commercial and tax lawyer at top-tier accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand and law firm King & Wood Mallesons, as well as Jerrard & Stuk. She was briefly a Councillor with the City of Northcote 1993-1994.
References
Further reading
Healy, Ernest (1995), 'Ethnic ALP Branches - The Balkanisation of Labor Revisited,' in People and Place, Vol.3, No.3, Pages 48–53.
Lovell, D.W.; McAllister, I.; Maley, W.; Kukathas, C.; (1998), The Australian Political System, Longman, South Melbourne.
External links
Austin, P., ALP heavies tackle faction fracas before poll, The Age, 27 February 2006
With Crikey's Delia Delegate, all the ALP dirty laundry is on the table, 16 June 2002
Carney, S., Labor supremos back new alliance, The Age, 18 June 2002
Parliamentary handbook
Jenny Mikakos MP Member for Jika Jika Province
Women’s Correctional Services Advisory Committee
Boyle, P., The Australian Political Situation and the Coming Federal Election,
Hannan, E., Pre-election Labor split looming, The Age, 8 June 2002
Parliamentary voting record of Jenny Mikakos at Victorian Parliament Tracker
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
1969 births
Living people
Politicians from Melbourne
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Ministers for Health (Victoria)
Australian women lawyers
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Melbourne women
Australian people of Greek descent
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
Women members of the Victorian Legislative Council
20th-century Australian lawyers
Ministers for Children (Victoria)
Ministers for Youth (Victoria) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Mikakos |
Phillip Arthur Charles Lawrence Oppenheim (born 20 March 1956) is a British businessman and former politician.
Early life
Oppenheim was born in Lambeth in South London, in 1956. He is the son of former Conservative government minister Sally Oppenheim.
Education
Oppenheim was educated at Harrow School, in north-west London, and Oriel College, Oxford.
Political career
Oppenheim was unexpectedly elected with the largest swing in the 1983 election as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the one time safe-Labour coal mining seat of Amber Valley. In the 1987 election he increased his vote share by over 10% in what was picked out by the election analysts David Butler and Robert Waller as being among a few "exceptional results" seen in "individual constituencies" in that election. He represented it until electoral defeat in the 1997 general election to Labour's Judy Mallaber.
During his time in Parliament, Oppenheim served in various ministerial posts in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was also the parliamentary aide to Kenneth Clarke, the former Chancellor. While in parliament, he was known for strong free-market and free trade as well as socially liberal views, including supporting animal welfare issues and opposing the sport of fox hunting. As a Treasury minister, he toughened restrictions on imports of endangered species and introduced tax breaks on less-polluting fuels, including LPG. As a trade minister, he resisted efforts by the fur lobby to loosen restrictions on imports of trapped fur. He was also in favour of an elected House of Lords. An expert on trade policy, Oppenheim wrote two award-winning books (The New Masters in 1990 and Trade Wars in 1992) attacking US and European protectionism against both Japan and Third World countries. He has blamed this policy for contributing to poverty in the developing world.
Along with Humfrey Malins, Oppenheim established the Commons and Lords Rugby Club, which played its first match in 1991.
Life and business career
Before entering Parliament, Oppenheim was a businessman, founding an information technology company which was sold to Reed Elsevier.
After leaving Parliament in 1997, Oppenheim became a columnist for The Sunday Times and other newspapers. He has criticised new Labour's spin culture, along with what he saw as the corrupt sale of peerages, and the Conservative Party for its rightward drift.
Oppenheim is founder and managing director of the Cubana bar and restaurant in London and is credited for introducing Mojitos to the UK from Cuba in the 1990s.
He is also a founder director of Waterloo Quarter, a business-public alliance which aims to improve Waterloo. He trades directly with Cuba, importing rum and coffee and is also a director of Alma de Cuba coffee, a Cuban coffee brand owned by The Cuba Mountain Coffee Company, which has a project to help mountain coffee farmers in Cuba.
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People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire
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The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by English drummer and singer Phil Collins. It was released in May 2004.
The set consists of all three of Collins' number one albums in the UK: Face Value, No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously. The last two also reached number one in the United States.
The individual albums featured several of Collins' most successful singles, including "In the Air Tonight", "One More Night" and "Another Day in Paradise". The collection sold approximately 200,000 copies and reached number four in the UK.
A compilation album covering the band Genesis, of whom Collins is a member, also titled The Platinum Collection and also consisting of three CDs, was released later in 2004.
In 2010 a different collection of the same name was released in some European countries, which consisted of Face Value, Both Sides and Testify.
Track listing
Disc 1 (Face Value)
"In the Air Tonight" – 5:32
"This Must Be Love" – 3:55
"Behind the Lines" – 3:53
"The Roof Is Leaking" – 3:16
"Droned" – 2:55
"Hand in Hand" – 5:12
"I Missed Again" – 3:41
"You Know What I Mean" – 2:33
"Thunder and Lightning" – 4:12
"I'm Not Moving" – 2:33
"If Leaving Me Is Easy" – 4:54
"Tomorrow Never Knows" – 4:46
Disc 2 (No Jacket Required)
"Sussudio" – 4:23
"Only You Know and I Know" – 4:20
"Long Long Way to Go" – 4:20
"I Don't Wanna Know" – 4:12
"One More Night" – 4:47
"Don't Lose My Number" – 4:46
"Who Said I Would" – 4:01
"Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore" – 4:18
"Inside Out" – 5:14
"Take Me Home" – 5:51
"We Said Hello Goodbye" – 4:15
Disc 3 (...But Seriously)
"Hang in Long Enough" – 4:44
"That's Just the Way It Is" – 5:20
"Do You Remember?" – 4:36
"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" – 4:52
"Colours" – 8:51
"I Wish It Would Rain Down" – 5:28
"Another Day in Paradise" – 5:22
"Heat on the Street" – 3:51
"All of My Life" – 5:36
"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" – 1:26
"Father to Son" – 3:28
"Find a Way to My Heart" – 6:08
Reception
AllMusic
References
2004 compilation albums
Phil Collins compilation albums
Albums produced by Phil Collins
Albums produced by Hugh Padgham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Platinum%20Collection%20%28Phil%20Collins%20album%29 |
Francisco I. Madero is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It is located at the southwestern part of the state near the Durango state border, in the economic region known as Laguna at , at a mean height of above sea level. It serves as the municipal seat for the Francisco I. Madero Municipality, Coahuila.
It is named for Revolutionary hero Francisco I. Madero, a native of nearby Parras de la Fuente.
The city is located from the state capital, Saltillo. It had a 2005 census population of 30,084, while its surrounding municipality had a total population of 51,528.
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Coahuila Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
External links
Municipio Francisco I. Madero Official website
Populated places in Coahuila
Populated places established in 1895
1895 establishments in Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20I.%20Madero%2C%20Coahuila |
There were several independent candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election, some of whom were associated with unregistered parties. One independent candidate, Gilles Bernier of Beauce, was elected. Information about other such candidates may be found here.
Ontario
Nickel Belt: Ernie Ashick
Ernie Ashick identified as an auctioneer. He received 122 votes (0.27%), finishing seventh against Liberal candidate Ray Bonin.
Ottawa—Vanier: David Talbot
Talbot was a twenty-year-old university student at the time of the election. He served as a parliamentary page in 1992–1993, and chose to campaign for office after seeing parliamentarians vote the party line on issues they knew nothing about. He printed a number of t-shirts for the campaign, which read "Listen to the voice of youth" (Ottawa Citizen, 19 October 1993). Talbot received 445 votes (0.92%), finishing seventh against Liberal incumbent Jean-Robert Gauthier. He returned to his studies at the University of Ottawa after the campaign (Ottawa Citizen, 24 June 1994), and was an organizer for the Students' Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) (Citizen, 22 November 1994).
Talbot subsequently joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and ran for the party's nomination for a 1995 by-election in Ottawa—Vanier. He lost to Francoise Guenette (Citizen, 15 February 1995). He later worked as a communications specialist for party leader Jean Charest (Citizen, 12 March 1998) and a press aide for Charest's interim successor, Elsie Wayne (Montreal Gazette, 8 August 1998).
Parry Sound—Muskoka: John Farr
John Farr is a paralegal and freelance title searcher based in Bracebridge, Ontario. He was once a lawyer based in Orillia, but was disbarred in 1982 after having been found to have misappropriated funds. He acknowledged his past in a 2010 municipal campaign, saying that these events occurred many years ago and had no bearing on his current activities.
Farr ran for the House of Commons of Canada as an independent candidate in 1993, for the mayoralty of Bracebridge in 1994, and for the Bracebridge town council in 2006 and 2010. On each occasion, he finished well behind the victorious candidate.
Sources: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada; Official results from 1994, 2006, and 2010, City of Bracebridge.
Alberta
Calgary Southwest: Miel S.R. Gabriel
Gabriel is a civil engineer, and owned a catering business at the time of the election. He formed a group called "Canada in a New Century" in 1992 to oppose the Charlottetown Accord, and unsuccessfully sought the Reform Party nomination for Calgary Northeast in the same year. He was forty-four years old in 1993.
He campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 provincial election, running as an independent candidate against Premier Ralph Klein. His candidacy centred on a "contract" which he encouraged all MLAs to sign, promising cuts to government expenditures and to the salaries and pensions of elected officials. Signatories were also pledged to resign if they violated the terms of the agreement. It does not appear that any elected officials chose to sign the contract
Gabriel campaigned for the Calgary City Council later in 1993. He finished eighth out of nine candidates in Calgary Southwest in the 1993 federal election, losing to Reform Party leader Preston Manning.
He later challenged Al Duerr for Mayor of Calgary in 1995, promising to take a 50% pay cut in his first year and to encourage more popular participation in government. By this time, he had changed the name of his political advocacy organization to the Canada Modern Empire Strategic Institute. He refused to use campaign signs in this election, commenting "I'll have no election signs on the streets. Pollution is not part of my religion". He also called for the city to distribute money to companies on the condition that it be used to create jobs.
The 1993 municipal results are taken from the Calgary Herald, 21 September 1993, B1, and the 1995 results are taken from the Calgary Herald, 17 October 1995, A1. Italicized numbers are unofficial.
Candidates in subsequent by-elections
Brome—Missisquoi, February 13, 1996: Yvon V. Boulanger
Yvon V. Boulanger identified as a manufacturer. He received 107 votes (0.29%), finishing seventh against Liberal Party candidate Denis Paradis. There was a Union Nationale candidate named Yvon Boulanger in the 1981 Quebec provincial election, but it is not clear if this was the same person.
Hamilton East, June 17, 1996: George Ambas
George Ambas was an entrepreneur in Hamilton. During the 1990s, he operated a footwear store on King Street East. He became politically active in 1995, after his brother Louis was killed by a seventeen-year-old offender at another of the family's stores in Toronto. He and a third brother, Tom Ambas, started a national petition calling for reforms to Canada's Young Offenders Act, such that youths accused of murder would be publicly identified and tried and sentenced as adults.
In 1996, Ambas ran as an independent candidate against prominent national politician Sheila Copps in a Hamilton East by-election. His campaign was centered on the Young Offenders Act. He was quoted as saying, "I am not a heartless human being — I am all for extra spending on prevention and everything that goes with that. But I'm also for real punishment for those few who rape, murder and commit armed robbery." Ambas also indicated that he never contemplated running for public office before his brother's death and had always voted for the Liberal Party.
He received 160 votes (0.60%), finishing sixth in a field of thirteen candidates, and returned to private life after this time. His brother Tom later ran in Scarborough Southwest as a Reform Party candidate.
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20candidates%20in%20the%201993%20Canadian%20federal%20election |
Centennial Communications and its subsidiaries (Centennial Wireless and Centennial de Puerto Rico) provided wireless and broadband telecommunications services to wireless telephone subscribers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On March 13, 2007, Centennial Communications completed the sale of Centennial Dominicana to Trilogy International Partners for approximately $80 million in cash.
Overview
Centennial Communications Corp. and its subsidiaries were a wireless and broadband telecommunications services company. The company provided wireless network access and other services to wireless telephone subscribers in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. It provided various custom calling features, such as voice mail, caller ID, call forwarding, call waiting, and conference calling, as well as messaging services, including text messaging, picture messaging, and multimedia messaging services. Centennial Communications also offered its customers with Internet access directly from their handsets as well as AirCards for laptops and computers and the ability to download games, ring tones, and other applications. It provided various handsets employing TDMA and GSM/GPRS technology in the United States; and CDMA technology in the Caribbean. In addition, the company offered a range of communications services, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Frame Relay, Wi-Fi, gigabit Ethernet dedicated access, dedicated Internet ports, international long distance, switched access, High Speed Internet Access, dial-up Internet access, and private line services over its own fiber-optic and microwave network in Puerto Rico. Further, it offered various types of data center services, such as server and storage collocation, Web hosting, and managed services.
In February 1997, former Centinental chief Emanuel Pinez was arrested on charges of unlawful insider trading and for running a fraudulent scheme to overstate results. By the time of Perez's trial in 1999, Centinental has lost the Wall Street prestige which the company had previously had in 1996. In March 2000, he was given a five year prison sentence and ordered to pay $150 million in restitution. Two other business executives, including former Centennial chief financial officer James Murphy, would be convicted with Perez as well. The fallout from the Pinez scandal resulted in Centinental seeing its stock delisted and profit being wiped out. By March 14, 2007, Centennial Communications provided wireless and integrated communications services in the United States and Puerto Rico to only approximately 7.1 million wireless subscribers, and 387,500 access lines and equivalents. The company was founded in 1988. It was formerly known as Centennial Cellular Corp. and changed its name to Centennial Communications Corp. in 2000. At the time of the closure, Centennial Communications was headquartered in Wall, New Jersey.
Centennial Wireless
Centennial Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centennial Communications, was a regional wireless telecommunications provider that operated a GSM network in the Midwest states of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as well as the Southeastern states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Centennial also operated CDMA networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Centennial Wireless had approximately 1.1 million subscribers as of October 2007. It was the ninth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States.
Centennial Wireless launched its BlackBerry service on September 27, 2007.
AT&T buyout
AT&T announced a $944 million buyout of Centennial Communications Corp. on Nov, 11 2008. The acquisition was subject to regulatory approval, the approval of Centennial’s stockholders and other customary closing conditions. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, Centennial’s largest stockholder, agreed to vote in support of the transaction. AT&T hoped to obtain approvals by the end of the second quarter of 2009. In an attempt to quell regulators, on May 9, 2009 AT&T entered an agreement with Verizon Wireless to sell off certain existing Centennial service areas in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi for $240 million pending the successful merger of AT&T and Centennial.
On July 8, 2009, AT&T announced a delay in the acquisition of Centennial, being postponed to by the end of the third quarter of 2009. The delay was announced shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice began an investigation on AT&T and Verizon Communications for anti-competitive behavior due to both carriers' massive growth.
On November 6, 2009, the FCC gave final approval to AT&T's buyout of Centennial Communications. AT&T divested five markets in Louisiana and Mississippi to Verizon Wireless. Three additional markets were divested to an unknown buyer. AT&T temporarily continued to operate Centennial's CDMA networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, rather than immediately move all customers to GSM/UMTS. On July 18, 2010, AT&T absorbed Centennial in the Caribbean and the Centennial brand became AT&T.
As of 2020, AT&T sold its wireless networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to Liberty Puerto Rico with the sale completed in 2020.
References
External links
Centennial Wireless Coverage
Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States
Private equity portfolio companies
Companies based in Monmouth County, New Jersey
AT&T subsidiaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial%20Communications |
ALOPEX (an acronym from "ALgorithms Of Pattern EXtraction") is a correlation based machine learning algorithm first proposed by Tzanakou and Harth in 1974.
Principle
In machine learning, the goal is to train a system to minimize a cost function or (referring to ALOPEX) a response function. Many training algorithms, such as backpropagation, have an inherent susceptibility to getting "stuck" in local minima or maxima of the response function. ALOPEX uses a cross-correlation of differences and a stochastic process to overcome this in an attempt to reach the absolute minimum (or maximum) of the response function.
Method
ALOPEX, in its simplest form is defined by an updating equation:
Where:
is the iteration or time-step.
is the difference between the current and previous value of system variable at iteration .
is the difference between the current and previous value of the response function at iteration .
is the learning rate parameter minimizes and maximizes
Discussion
Essentially, ALOPEX changes each system variable based on a product of: the previous change in the variable , the resulting change in the cost function , and the learning rate parameter . Further, to find the absolute minimum (or maximum), the stochastic process (Gaussian or other) is added to stochastically "push" the algorithm out of any local minima.
References
Harth, E., & Tzanakou, E. (1974) Alopex: A stochastic method for determining visual receptive fields. Vision Research, 14:1475-1482. Abstract from ScienceDirect
Classification algorithms
Artificial neural networks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOPEX |
Arwi or Arabu-Tamil (Arabic: , ; ) is an Arabic influenced dialect of the Tamil language written with an extension of the Arabic alphabet, with extensive lexical and phonetic influences from the Arabic language. Arwi was used extensively by the Muslim minority of the Tamil Nadu state of India and Sri Lanka.
History
Arwi was an outcome of the cultural synthesis between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims of Tamil Nadu. This language was enriched, promoted and developed in Kayalpattinam. It had a rich body of work in jurisprudence, Sufism, law, medicine and sexology, of which little has been preserved. It was used as a bridge language for Tamil Muslims to learn Arabic. The patrons of Arwi seem to have been the Nawab of the Carnatic, they were Islamic and were part of the Mughal Empire. Many hadith manuscripts have been found. Most of the fiqh books, particularly those of Imaam Abu Hanifa and Imaam Shaafi, have been found in Arwi.
There was also a translation of the Bible into Arwi in 1926.
Arwi still has a place among the more Arwi Muslim and Sri Lankan Moor families.
Script
The Arwi alphabet is the Arabic alphabet, with thirteen additional letters used to represent the Tamil vowels e and o and several Tamil consonants that could not be mapped to Arabic sounds.
Vowels
Consonants
See also
Jawi Alphabets
Swahili language
Arabi Malayalam
Arabic Script
References
Shu’ayb, Tayka. Arabic, Arwi and Persian in Sarandib and Tamil Nadu. Madras: Imāmul 'Arūs Trust, 1993.
Yunush Ahamed Mohamed Sherif ARABUTTAMIL/ARWI: THE IDENTITY OF THE TAMIL MUSLIMS TJPRC Publication.
Dr. K. M. A. Ahamed Zubair. The Rise and Decline of Arabu–Tamil Language for Tamil Muslims IIUC STUDIES, 2014
DR. S.M.M Mazahir. அறபுத் தமிழும் அறபுத்தமிழ் ஆக்கங்களும் 2018
External links
Arwi: Comments, Questions and Answers
Islamic Cultural Values of Arwi Southeastern university of Sri Lanka. Research and publication (2014).
For a cultural synthesis Book review in The Hindu
Arwi or Arabu-Tamil Book on Arwi
What is Arwi (Arabic Tamil)?
Arwi (அரபுத்தமிழ் / لسانالأروي)
'Arusi branch of the Qadiri path
Some Arwi Books in Internet Archive
Tamil dialects
Arabic alphabets
Sri Lankan Moors
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West Edmonton may refer to:
Edmonton West (federal electoral district), from 1917 to 1988 and from 1997 to 2004
Edmonton West (provincial electoral district), from 1917 to 1921 and from 1963 to 1971
West sector, Edmonton, a region encompassing numerous neighbourhoods
West Edmonton, Alberta, incorporated as a village in 1910, annexed by Edmonton in 1917
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Karl Otto Paul Weinrich (2 December 1887 – 22 July 1973) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was Gauleiter of Gau Kurhessen.
Early life
Weinrich was born in Molmeck (today, Hettstedt) the son of a shoe manufacturer. After attending volksschule and a mining vocational school there, he worked briefly as a mining trainee of copper, silver and iron ore. He then volunteered for the Prussian army in 1906, assigned to the 28th Infantry Regiment, "von Goeben," working as an administrative clerk and attaining the rank of Sergeant by 1912.
During the First World War he was employed in an army provisions office in Germany. After the war, Weinrich worked in a government supply office from 1920, first in Cologne and from 1920 in Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate. Becoming politically active, he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, the largest and most influential anti-Semitic, völkisch organization in Germany.
In February 1922 Weinrich joined the Nazi Party and founded local groups (Ortsgruppen) in Landau and other towns in the Palatinate. At this time he was active in opposition to the French occupation of the Rhineland. In May 1923, Weinrich was sentenced by a French military court to four months imprisonment due to his nationalist activities and anti-French agitation. However, Weinrich fled across the Rhine, settled in Kassel and found employment as a laborer. In 1924 he joined the Reich Compensation Office as a tax secretary.
Nazi Party career
Meanwhile, the Party had been banned in the wake of the failed Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. After the ban was lifted, Weinrich immediately rejoined it in February 1925 (membership number 24,291). He co-founded the Ortsgruppe in Kassel, becoming the Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader). He also served from 1925 to 1927 as Treasurer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau North. On 1 September 1927 he became Acting Gauleiter, when Walter Schultz was placed on leave of absence, and was named permanent Gauleiter on 1 February 1928. The Gau was renamed Gau Kurhessen on 1 January 1934.
Weinrich failed in his bid to be elected to the Prussian Landtag on 20 May 1928. However, on 17 November 1929 he became a City Councilor in Kassel, a member of the Kassel Municipal Parliament and the Hesse-Nassau Provincial Parliament. On 14 October 1930 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag, serving until October 1933, and was a member of its executive committee from May 1932. From 1933 he was a member of the Prussian Provincial Council for the Province of Hesse-Nassau, and also was the Deputy Representative of the Province to the Reichsrat until its abolition on 14 February 1934. From 11 July 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Prussian State Council, and from 12 November 1933 to 1945, he was a member of the Reichstag for electoral constituency 19, Hesse-Nassau.
A member of the paramilitary National Socialist Motor Corps (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, NSKK), he reached the rank of NSKK-Obergruppenführer on 30 January 1939. He was a holder of the Golden Party Badge.
The war years
After the outbreak of World War II, Weinrich was made a member of the Defense Committee for Wehrkreis (Military District) IX which included Gau Kurhessen. On 15 November 1940, he was made the Housing Commissioner for his Gau, and on 6 April 1942 became the Gau representative of the Plenipotentiary for Labor Allocation, Fritz Sauckel. On 16 November 1942, when the jurisdiction for the Reich Defense Commissioners was changed from the Wehrkreis to the Gau level, he was appointed Commissioner for his Gau. In this capacity, he had responsibility for civil defense and evacuation measures, as well as control over the war economy, including rationing and suppression of black market activities. Shortly after the massive incendiary air raid on Kassel of 22 October 1943, which destroyed the entire city center, Weinrich was charged with failing in Kassel's war preparations and abandoning the city to its fate during the bombing, returning only to check on the condition of his own property.
Reichsminister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, wrote a scathing report to Hitler and commented in his diary:
”Weinrich has in no way proven equal to the demands made on him by the recent air raid. The entire center of the city and most of the outlying sections have been destroyed. A gruesome picture strikes the eye … Much may have been prevented or at least mitigated if suitable preparations had been taken by the Gau leadership … Weinrich played a very sorry role … I shall certainly report to the Führer the pitiful role he played as Gauleiter and urge that he be quickly replaced.”
Weinrich was placed on extended leave from his posts on 6 November 1943 and was retired to his farming estate in Trendelburg for the remainder of the war. His successor was Karl Gerland, then the Deputy Gauleiter in Reichsgau Lower Danube. Gerland was made the permanent Gauleiter on 13 December 1944.
Postwar life
After the war ended, Weinrich was interned in the Eselheide internment camp from 1945 to 1950. He underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged to be in Category I, Major Offenders. On 6 July 1949, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a labor camp by the Kassel Chamber of Justice. In November 1950 he was released, in consideration of time served. He returned to Trendelburg, then to Hausen (today, Obertshausen) and finally back to Kassel at the beginning of the 1960s. In 1960, the court in Kassel denied his request for compensation for loss of property during the wartime air raid. He died on 22 July 1973.
References
Sources
Lengemann, Jochen: MdL Hessen. 1808–1996. Biographischer Index (= Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Bd. 14 = Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen. Bd. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, .
Karl Weinrich in the Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank
External links
"Goebbels: „Der gute Weinrich ist keine Leuchte“ – vor 80 Jahren wurde Karl Weinrich Gauleiter der NSDAP von Kurhessen", by Thomas Schattner
1887 births
1973 deaths
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German Army personnel of World War I
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Anna Savva is an actress who has appeared in many British TV shows since 1985.
Anna plays series regular, Lugaretzia, across all four series of Simon Nye's The Durrells in 2016
She originated the role of Martha in the world-premiere of Howard Brenton's JUDE at The Hampstead Theatre.
She has had roles in Minder, EastEnders, Prime Suspect and Planespotting.
She also helped puppeteer "Audrey II" in Little Shop of Horrors.
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Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows the route of the Great North Road. The village falls within the Knottingley ward of Wakefield City Council.
The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and means bridge by the ferry. It appears as Ferie in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as Ferybrig in 1198.
Geography and geology
Geologically, Ferrybridge and Knottingley are located on rich soil, over a bed of Magnesian Limestone.
The area is close to junctions of the M62 and A1(M) motorways; as well as junctions on the rail network, including northward to York, south to Pontefract (and Rotherham), west to both Wakefield and Leeds, east to Goole and south-east to the East Coast Main Line; the River Aire meets the Aire and Calder navigation close to the east of the town.
The area is famous for the Ferrybridge power stations and the M62 services which offers a Burger King, an M&S Simply Food, a Cotton Traders, a WH Smiths, a Greggs, and a Travelodge.
The Ferrybridge power stations to the north dominated the skyline around the village prior to their demolition.
The village
The village has two public houses; "The Golden Lion" which sits by Ferrybridge lock and is steeped in colourful history during its time as a coaching Inn and "The Magnet Inn".
The village has two primary schools, one of which is in the top 250 schools in the country: The Vale Academy was described as "outstanding" in a 2013 Ofsted report. The other is Willow Green Academy, previously known as Roundhill Junior School and Ferrybridge Infant School.
History
An archaeological feature at Ferrybridge is Ferrybridge Henge, a prehistoric ceremonial monument dating back to the Neolithic period, constructed during the period 4,500-1,500 BC, additionally a 2,400-year-old chariot burial has been discovered in the area.
The history of Ferrybridge - and its neighbour, Knottingley - dates back to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon settlements along this stretch of the river. The respective histories of the two settlements of Ferrybridge and Knottingley are closely linked, bringing glassmaking, shipbuilding, brewing and potteries to the area.
Ferrybridge stands where the Great North Road crosses the River Aire. In 1198, a bridge was built over the river. The first recorded crossings of the river at Ferrybridge date from the bridge's construction. [In 1228 the bridge collapsed, resulting in the drowning of crusaders passing over at the time. See Christopher Tyerman How To Plan A Crusade (2017), p. 182, citing Calendar of Close Rolls 1227–31, p. 34-35.] The bridge was rebuilt at the end of the 14th century with seven pillars and a chantry chapel at one end.
The present bridge, which is a Grade I listed building, was designed by John Carr of York in 1797 and built by Bernard Hartley of Pontefract in 1804. Until 1810, a toll was payable to cross the bridge.
In March 1461, on the eve of the battle of nearby Towton, an engagement between the Lancastrians and Yorkists ended in a Lancastrian victory, and Lord Fitzwalter, the Yorkist leader was killed. This is known as the Battle of Ferrybridge.
Up to the end of the 17th century, Knottingley was an important inland port in the West Riding as the River Aire was not navigable beyond it. The construction of the Aire and Calder Navigation Canal (by a 1699 Act of Parliament; this was the first navigation scheme passed by Act of Parliament) diminished Knottingley's importance as a port by allowing barges on the river to navigate further upstream to Leeds.
Parliament authorized a new canal in 1820. Cutting through the centre of Knottingley, the new Aire and Calder Navigation Canal was opened in 1826 and connected the new port of Goole with the River Aire at Ferrybridge. The lock at Ferrybridge opened at 10 a.m. on 20 July 1826.
By the end of the Industrial Revolution, Ferrybridge had become a centre for glass production. The Ferrybridge railway station opened in 1882 on the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway (1879) and closed in 1965.
In the 20th century, three power stations were built, all on the same site - the first in the 1920s, the second in the 1950s, and the third, Ferrybridge 'C' Power Station, in the 1960s; three of the latter's cooling towers collapsed during construction in high winds in 1965. A fourth natural gas power station was expected to be built but because of soaring gas prices this did not go ahead. (see Ferrybridge power stations).
See also
Listed buildings in Knottingley and Ferrybridge
Kellingley Colliery, situated at the other side of Knottingley, West Yorkshire's last operational colliery.
References
External links
Villages in West Yorkshire
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In thoracic surgery, a pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE), also referred to as pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA), is an operation that removes organized clotted blood (thrombus) from the pulmonary arteries, which supply blood to the lungs.
Indication
Surgery is indicated in patients with pulmonary artery emboli that are surgically accessible. Thrombi are usually the cause of recurrent/chronic pulmonary emboli and therefore of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). PTE is the only definitive treatment option available for CTEPH.
Due to the nature of the procedure, patients with significant hemodynamic or ventilation complications or impairments may be unable to undergo PTE.
Description of the surgery
A PTE has significant risk; mortality for the operation is typically 5%, but less in centers with high volume and experience. Individuals with favorable hemodynamic risk profiles also demonstrate lower mortality rates (1.3%). PTEs are risky because of the nature of the procedure. PTEs involve a full cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), deep hypothermia and cardioplegia (a crystalline fluid which stops the heart from beating). Actual removal of the embolus is carried out in a standstill operation (deep hypothermia and periods of cessation of circulation).
There are a number of reasons why these high-risk elements of the procedure are necessary. CPB is needed to divert blood from the heart and lungs and supply the body with oxygen and blood while the pulmonary vasculature is operated on. Cardioplegia is initiated as the approach to the pulmonary arteries is performed through the pericardium, a fibrous sac surrounding the heart. Furthermore, movement from the heart makes delicate work on the closely attached pulmonary arteries complex. Hypothermia is necessary as the embolus is very delicate and the risk of disruption is high, in order to appropriately visualize the clot and remove it a bloodless field is required. Clot visualization is achieved through dissection of the pulmonary arteries which is technically challenging. If possible the clot is removed in a single piece to avoid the formation of mobile emboli. In order to achieve this CPB is periodically stopped, resulting in a complete cessation of blood circulation. This is only feasible if the patient is hypothermic (cooled to 18–20 °C) as metabolism is slowed and the body can better tolerate the resulting lack of blood supply. Circulatory arrest is limited to 20 minute intervals to protect brain function. Typically an experienced surgeon can perform an entire unilateral procedure in this time. After each interval of arrest circulation is continued for 10 minutes or until pulmonary venous oxygen saturation is at least 90%. Bypass time is typically 345 minutes.
There are emerging alternative options available that seek to limit neurologic complications resulting from hypothermia and circulatory arrest. Currently these options have not been shown to be superior to the previously described technique. They include use of moderate hypothermia, antegrade cerebral artery perfusion without total circulatory arrest, and negative pressure application to the left ventricle.
It is important to note that acute pulmonary embolectomy is a dramatically different procedure. It's typically performed without hypothermia as the structure of the clot is different, and the emergent nature presents different operative priorities.
Recovery and complications
Recovery from this procedure can be complex. Thoracic surgery, CBP and cardioplegia are associated with their own complications and management challenges, as is hypothermia. Specifically, endartectomy is associated with reperfusion pulmonary edema and "pulmonary artery steal". Reperfusion pulmonary edema occurs in up to 30% of patients and is a result of changes in permeability to the vascular endothelium. Management of this condition may require the use of supportive ventilation including BiPAP (bidirectional positive airway pressure) and fluid management with diuretics. In patients who are non responsive to this management extra corporeal circulation may be indicated. Each of these strategies are complex and require careful consideration of patient physiology.
Pulmonary artery steal occurs in 70% of patients. It is related to changes in blood flow over areas of pulmonary vasculature that have been newly exposed from the endarectomy. The result is insufficient oxygenation though the mechanism causing this remains obscure. Treatment is supportive with oxygen, and ventilation, and the condition is typically self limiting.
Post-surgery
The benefits of PTEs are significant. Most patients after surgery no longer suffer from shortness of breath and therefore have a much improved quality of life. Further, pulmonary vascular resistance usually drops back to close normal levels. Since the pulmonary resistance is proportional to the pressure driving the pulmonary flow (), it follows that the pulmonary pressure decreases. This in turn means that the work per time (power) decreases because it is equal to the pressure gradient times the volumetric flow, which in this case is the cardiac output. As a result of the operation, patients are spared from pulmonary hypertension and further right ventricular hypertrophy. Most pleasing is that patients who previously had right heart dysfunction often recover function.
History and development
As of 2008, the UCSD Medical Center's cardiothoracic surgery department, led by Stuart W. Jamieson, was widely recognized as a pioneer in the relatively new surgery, having performed more PTEs than the rest of the world combined (over 3000 since 1970 out of a total of 4500 worldwide) with the lowest mortality rate.
In the UK, PTE is offered only at one centre, Royal Papworth Hospital, led by surgeon Mr David Jenkins. He is one of just four surgeons in the UK qualified to perform pulmonary endarterectomy surgery, all based at Royal Papworth, which is one of the most active centres in the world for this operation with approximately 190 operations performed each year and a total caseload since 1996 of more than 2,000.
The operation features in a BBC Two documentary called 'Surgeons: At the Edge of Life', broadcast on Tuesday 6 October 2020. The footage shows the patient's entire body being drained of blood and cooled to 20 degrees Celsius – half the normal temperature – in order to enable the surgery to occur.
Relation to pulmonary thrombectomies
PTEs and pulmonary thrombectomies are both operations that removed thrombus from the lung's arterial vasculature. Aside from this similarity they differ in many ways.
PTEs are done on a nonemergency basis while pulmonary thrombectomies are typically done as an emergency procedure.
PTEs typically are done using hypothermia and full circulatory arrest.
PTEs are done for chronic pulmonary embolism, thrombectomies for severe acute pulmonary embolism.
PTEs are generally considered a very effective treatment, surgical thrombectomies are an area of some controversy and their effectiveness a matter of some debate in the medical community.
See also
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest
References
External links
UCSD Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program - UC San Diego Medical Center
Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy - Doctors of Thoracic Surgery Canada
Pulmonary thoracic surgery
Vascular surgical procedures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary%20thromboendarterectomy |
Sociedad Deportiva Indautxu is a Spanish football club based in Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1924, it plays in Vizcaya Group of Territorial Preferente, holding home games at Campo Iparralde.
Apart from football, the club also promotes other sports such as boxing and swimming.
History
Indautxu was founded in 1924, was disbanded in 1929, and then reformed in 1940, also being referred to as Sociedad Deportiva Indauchu.
In 1955–56's second division, with former Athletic Bilbao players Telmo Zarra and José Luis Panizo in the squad, and with another, Rafael Iriondo, as coach, the team made its debuts in the Spanish second division, finishing third in 1956–57 and 1958–59, and fourth in 1957–58.
Indautxu maintained its division status until the Segunda Division status until the 1966–67 season, returning for the last time in 1968–69, and meeting the same fate.
Season to season
13 seasons in Segunda División
18 seasons in Tercera División
Famous players
José Eulogio Gárate
Unai Laka
Raimundo Lezama
José Luis Panizo
Chus Pereda
Telmo Zarra
Famous coaches
Rafael Iriondo
Serafín González
External links
Official website
Sports clubs and teams in Bilbao
Football clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol clubs
Association football clubs established in 1924
1924 establishments in Spain
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William Lawrence Dunn (August 14, 1941 – August 5, 2013) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, film director and politician. Born in Montreal, he was of mixed Mi'kmaq and Scottish/Irish background. Dunn often highlighted indigenous issues in his work.
Music career
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dunn was a singer and acoustic guitarist. He released several full-length albums of recorded music including Willie Dunn (1971), The Pacific (1980) and Metallic (1999). Metallic reprises material from both earlier releases. Dunn's most famous song, "I Pity the Country", was a criticism of colonialism and anti-indigenous racism; he was also known for the song "Son of the Sun", which Kashtin covered on their second album Innu. In 2004 Dunn released the album Son of the Sun with sixteen songs (including three live recordings).
His songs "I Pity the Country", "Son of the Sun" and "Peruvian Dream" are featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1.
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies, a compilation of songs from throughout his career, was released in 2021 on Light in the Attic Records.
Film
He wrote a song entitled "The Ballad of Crowfoot" and directed a ten-minute National Film Board of Canada (NFB) film of the same name in 1968. Both the song and video are about inhumane and unjust colonial treatment of indigenous Canadians, as well as their taking charge of their destiny and becoming politically active. The first NFB film directed by an indigenous filmmaker, the film received several awards including a Gold Hugo for best short film at the 1969 Chicago International Film Festival. His other films include The Eagle Project, The Voice of the Land and Self-Government, and his music was used for the films Incident at Restigouche, about a 1981 police raid on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation, and Okanada, about the 1990 standoff in Oka, Quebec between police and native protesters.
The Ballad of Crowfoot has sometimes been credited as the first known Canadian music video. In 2020 the Prism Prize, Canada's annual award for innovations in music video, introduced a lifetime achievement award named in Dunn's memory, with choreographer and video director Laurieann Gibson named as the first winner of the award.
Politics
A longtime member of the New Democratic Party, Dunn defeated Mohamed Bassuny to win the party's federal nomination for Ottawa—Vanier in the 1993 federal election. He received 3,155 votes (6.50%), finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Jean-Robert Gauthier. He participated in the Culturally Diverse First Peoples Arts Showcase tour in 1998, and the Nations in a Circle spotlight of 2002. He was inducted into the Aboriginal Walk of Honour in 2005. Dunn died in Ottawa on August 5, 2013, aged 71.
Discography
Albums
Anthologies
Singles
References
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1942 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Canadian male singers
20th-century Canadian guitarists
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21st-century Canadian male singers
21st-century Canadian guitarists
21st-century Canadian male musicians
21st-century First Nations people
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Canadian folk singer-songwriters
Canadian folk guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Canadian people of Irish descent
Film directors from Montreal
First Nations filmmakers
First Nations musicians
Mi'kmaq people
New Democratic Party candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament
Singers from Montreal
Canadian male singer-songwriters
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Andrew Jonathan Morrell (born 28 September 1974) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, Morrell played 359 games in the Football League for Wrexham, Coventry City, Blackpool and Bury, scoring 96 goals.
Initially handed the manager's role on an interim basis at Wrexham, after Dean Saunders left to manage Doncaster Rovers, Morrell was given the job until the end of the season after a run of seven wins in nine games, he continued his playing career serving as a player-manager, leaving the position in February 2014 after two and a half years as manager with a win record at over 52%.
Morrell has also served as assistant manager at Shrewsbury Town.
Career
Newcastle Blue Star
Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire and brought up in Market Bosworth, and attending Twycross House School, he played for the Leicestershire County Cricket Club from under-15 to under-19 level. He started his football career as a youth team player at Nuneaton Borough, before deciding to make the move north to Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne to study Sports science. It was then that he started playing for Newcastle Blue Star making 31 appearances scoring 25 times in his season.
Wrexham
Morrell's first big break came when he started talking to Sky Sports presenter Rob McCaffrey, who was helping to write the autobiography of Joey Jones, Wrexham's first-team coach at the time. McCaffrey arranged for Morrell to have a trial at the club. After a week's trial he was kept on at Wrexham and was coached by their striking coach Ian Rush, from whom he learnt a great deal. With his new strike partner Lee Trundle he scored 34 league goals in 45 games in the 2002–03 season, making him top scorer in all four divisions that year, having only scored two goals the entire previous season.
Coventry City
After a very impressive spell with Wrexham, Morrell caught the eye of Coventry City manager Gary McAllister, who signed him on a free transfer in the summer of 2003. Morrell scored nine goals in 19 starts in his first season with Coventry; however, this decreased to six goals the following season following a transition to a wide midfield position.
Blackpool
Morrell signed for Blackpool on a free transfer on 15 August 2006, after failing to make an appearance for Coventry during the first three games of the 2006–07 season. On 5 May 2007, he scored four goals in Blackpool's 6–3 victory at Swansea City. He also scored against Oldham Athletic in the second leg of the play-off semi-final, which put his league goals in his nine months with Blackpool at 17, which was the total he scored in three years with Coventry. He finished the 2006–07 season as Blackpool's top scorer with 20 goals in all competitions.
Bury
On 7 May 2008, Morrell was offered a new contract by Blackpool. But Morrell declined the offer instead joining Bury on 9 August. He signed a two-year contract with the League Two club. In his two seasons with the Gigg Lane club Morrell made 78 appearances scoring 18 goals.
Return to Wrexham and start of managerial career
After his two seasons with Bury, Morrell left the club and on 28 June 2010, and signed a two-year contract with his former club Wrexham. Morrell scored the winning goal on his debut, a 1–0 win over Cambridge United in the first game of the season. Morrell took a major part in Wrexham's first team and played in the Conference Play-off semi-finals of the 2010–11 season but lost to rivals Luton Town.
On 23 September 2011, Morrell took over as caretaker player-manager at Wrexham, following the departure of Dean Saunders to Donaster Rovers. After leading Wrexham to seven wins in nine games, he was appointed player-manager on a permanent basis on a contract until the end of the 2011–12 season on 29 October. During his first season as Wrexham manager he led the reds to an FA Cup 3rd round match against Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion, with Wrexham taking the Albion to a replay in front of a packed Racecourse Ground. Wrexham lost the game on penalties 5–4 with Brighton keeper Peter Brezovan saving the first penalty taken by Wrexham captain Dean Keates. Also Morrell guided Wrexham to the Play-offs after narrowly missing out on automatic promotion to Fleetwood Town even after gaining 98 points in the season. Morrell's side lost in the semi-final for the second year running once again to Luton Town who went on to lose to York City in the final.
In April 2012, Morrell signed a new two-year deal with Wrexham, one year as a player then an additional year as manager, working alongside assistant and goalkeeper coach Michael Oakes and Assistant Billy Barr. In 2013 Morrell led his Wrexham team to Wembley on two occasions. The first against Grimsby Town, in the FA Trophy Final. Wrexham won the game on penalties after it finished 1–1 after extra time. The second occasion was for the Conference Play Off Final. Wrexham had beaten Kidderminster harriers 5–2 on aggregate to get to the final, but were beaten by fellow Welsh side Newport County 2–0. The following season began terribly for Morrell's Wrexham which saw them in the bottom half for most of the first half of the 2013–14 campaign, Morrell decided not to play in most games although on 23 November he came on as a sub in the first half for injured Brett Ormerod and scored a fantastic volley and earned the man of the match award against Forest Green Rovers.
On 23 February 2014, Morrell left his position as manager of Wrexham FC by mutual consent after a meeting with the board members, leaving the club after four years as a player, and two and a half years as player-manager.
Shrewsbury Town
Morrell was appointed as assistant manager to his former Blackpool teammate Mike Jackson at Shrewsbury Town on 7 March 2014, on a deal that ran until the end of the season. Following the club's relegation to League Two, Morrell left the club, with Jackson assuming assistant duties under new manager Micky Mellon.
Tamworth
On 23 September 2014, Morrell made his return to football management by taking over at Conference North side Tamworth. He took over the side and quickly turned around their league campaign by taking them to the play-off spots, to the delight of the fans. He also played regularly for them, contrary of the previous seasons lack of games.
Redditch United
In February 2018, Morrell departed Tamworth. Later in the same month, he joined Redditch United, scoring on his début in a 4–2 win over Gosport Borough on 20 February.
Hednesford Town
Morrell was appointed manager of Hednesford Town in April 2020. He was sacked in October of that year after three defeats and a draw from the opening four games of the season.
Career statistics
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Blackpool
Football League One play-offs: 2006–07
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2002–03 Third Division
Manager
Wrexham
FA Trophy: 2012–13
Individual
Conference Premier Manager of the Month: October 2011
Conference North Manager of the Month: December 2014
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Doncaster
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Nuneaton Borough F.C. players
Newcastle Blue Star F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Bury F.C. players
Tamworth F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
English football managers
Wrexham A.F.C. managers
Tamworth F.C. managers
Redditch United F.C. players
Hednesford Town F.C. managers
National League (English football) managers
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Milan Kangrga (1 May 1923 – 25 April 2008) was a Croatian and Yugoslav philosopher who was one of the leading thinkers in the Praxis School of thought which originated in the 1960s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Biography
Kangrga was born in Zagreb, where he attended elementary and grammar school. In 1950, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he commenced his work as a teaching assistant working in the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Between 1962 and 1964, he studied in Heidelberg, Germany. He became a tenured professor in 1972 and he held this position until his retirement in 1993.
Kangrga started his confrontation with the Yugoslav communist leadership during his undergraduate studies in February 1948, before the clash of Joseph Broz Tito with Joseph Stalin. Then, he published his first philosophical article entitled On Ethics in Studentski list (Zagreb), which the League of Communists of Yugoslavia bureaucrats found provoking. In 1953, Kangrga became a member of the LCY but in 1954 he was expelled from the party because he announced that he was inspired to become a communist by the works of Miroslav Krleža, who still wasn't wholly rehabilitated by the regime.
In 1964, Kangrga was one of the founders of the journal Praxis. Together with Rudi Supek, he has established the Korčula Summer School, which was a unique meeting place for philosophers from the East and the West between 1964 and 1974. It is around these two institutions that the Praxis school took shape. The defining features of the school were: 1) emphasis on the writings of young Marx; and 2) call for freedom of speech in both East and West based upon Marx's insistence on ruthless critique of everything existent. Milan Kangrga emphasized creativity as well, but also the understanding of human beings as producers humanizing nature.
While he was critical of the Communist party in Yugoslavia, mainly for not implementing self-management socialism, he rejected non-Socialist reactions against SFR Yugoslavia, the most notable one being the Croatian Spring.
Milan Kangrga has lectured in Bonn, Munich, Prague, Budapest, Moscow, and Kyiv among other cities. His articles have been published in Germany, Italy, the United States, France, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Mexico.
Major works
Kangrga has published 15 books. The most important are:
The Ethical Problem in Karl Marx's Works (1963)
Ethics and Liberty (1966)
The Meaning of the Historical (1970)
The Man and the World (1975)
Ethics or Revolution (1983)
Praxis-Time-World (1984)
Hegel-Marx: some basic problems of Marxism (1988)
The Meaning and the Reality (1989)
Smugglers of Own Life (2001)
Nationalism or Democracy (2002)
Ethics: the basic problems and tendencies (2004)
Classical German Idealism (2008)
References
External links
Autobiography
Marx's Understanding of Revolution, an article by Kangrga
Reality and Utopia, an article by Kangrga
2004 Danas interview with Kangrga
2005 H-Alter interview with Kangrga ,
Hrvoje Jurić In memoriam
Lino Veljak In memoriam
Marko Vešligaj In memoriam
1923 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Croatian philosophers
21st-century Croatian philosophers
Writers from Zagreb
Marxist theorists
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
Scholars of Marxism
Social philosophers
Yugoslav philosophers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Kangrga |
Grand Traverse Light is a lighthouse in the U.S. state of Michigan, located at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula, which separates Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay. It marks the Manitou passage, where Lake Michigan elides into Grand Traverse Bay. In 1858, the present light was built, replacing a separate round tower built in 1852. The lighthouse is located inside Leelanau State Park, north of Northport, a town of about 650 people. This area, in the Michigan wine country, is commonly visited by tourists during the summer months.
History
Some call this "Cat's Head Point Light." It is also locally called Northport Light, in honor of the nearby town of Northport.
The first version of this light, which no longer exists, was ordered built by President Millard Fillmore in July 1850. A brick tower with separate keeper's quarters was constructed at a site east of the present Lighthouse in the state park campground. This first house and tower were deemed inadequate and razed in 1858 when the present structure was built. Still visible is a portion of the lighthouse foundation and the original tower site was located in 1999.
The 1858 light is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Reference #84001799, Name of Listing: GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHT (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT LAKES TR). It is also on the State List/Inventory having been listed in 1991. Alpena, Michigan's Fourth Order Fresnel Lens is on display in the lighthouse keeper's house. The complex is listed as Michigan Registered Site S0615, and a state historical marker was erected in 1993.
Today, one can tour the restored lighthouse resembling a keeper's home of the 1920s and 1930s. Exhibits on area lighthouses, foghorns, shipwrecks and local history are located in the Lighthouse and Fog Signal Building. The restored air diaphone foghorn is demonstrated throughout the year, and visitors can climb the tower for views of Lake Michigan. The surrounding shoreline has accessible albeit rocky beaches one can visit. The lighthouse is inside of Leelanau State Park which contains campsites and other amenities, and requires either payment or a Michigan Recreation Passport to enter. A separate admission fee is charged to enter the lighthouse itself.
References
Further reading
Crompton, Samuel Willard & Michael J. Rhein, The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses (2002) ; .
Hyde, Charles K., and Ann and John Mahan. The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. .
Jones, Ray & Bruce Roberts, American Lighthouses (Globe Pequot, September 1, 1998, 1st Ed.) ; .
Jones, Ray,The Lighthouse Encyclopedia, The Definitive Reference (Globe Pequot, January 1, 2004, 1st ed.) ; .
Noble, Dennis, Lighthouses & Keepers: U. S. Lighthouse Service and Its Legacy (Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1997). ; .
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) .
Penrod, John, Lighthouses of Michigan, (Berrien Center, Michigan: Penrod/Hiawatha, 1998) .
Penrose, Laurie and Bill, A Traveler’s Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses (Petoskey, Michigan: Friede Publications, 1999).
Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
United States Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation, (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945).
Wagner, John L., Michigan Lighthouses: An Aerial Photographic Perspective, (East Lansing, Michigan: John L. Wagner, 1998) .
Wargin, Ed, Legends of Light: A Michigan Lighthouse Portfolio (Ann Arbor Media Group, 2006). .
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) .
External links
Detroit News, Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses.
Grand Traverse Lighthouse official site
Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy, Grand Traverse Light.
National Park Service Maritime Heritage, Inventory of Historic Light Stations Grand Traverse Light.
Terry Pepper, Grand Traverse lighthouse at Seeing the Light.
Lighthouses completed in 1852
Houses completed in 1852
Lighthouses completed in 1858
Houses completed in 1858
Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
1852 establishments in Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Leelanau County, Michigan
Lighthouse museums in Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Traverse%20Light |
Batu may refer to:
Geography
Batu, East Java, a city in Indonesia
Batu Islands, an archipelago of Indonesia
Batu, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Batu, Kuala Lumpur, an area in Malaysia
Batu (town), Ethiopia
Batu Lintang camp, a World War II Japanese POW and civilian internee camp at Kuching, Sarawak
Batu Tara a small isolated island in the Flores Sea
Mount Batu, Ethiopia
Batu (federal constituency), represented in the Dewan Rakyat
People
Batu (given name), a Turkic given name
Batu Khan ( – 1255), a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde
Batu (group), a Brazilian-influenced music group from London
Batu or Batupuei people in Matupi, Chin State, Myanmar (Burma)
İnal Batu (1936–2013), Turkish diplomat and politician
Osman Batur (1899-1951), Kazakh warrior who fought against the Chinese and Russians in East-Turkestan.
Pelin Batu (born 1978), Turkish actress
Saru Batu Savcı Bey (died 1287), elder brother of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
Trade unions
Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unionists, former trade union federation
Building and Allied Trades' Union, Irish trade union
Other uses
Batu, slang used in Hawaii to describe crystal methamphetamine
Batu, abbreviation for Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, Raigad, Maharashtra, India
Batu, ball game of Taíno origin, similar to volleyball.
Batu, a fictional character in the book Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu |
Keven Filipo Mealamu (born 20 March 1979) is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played at hooker for the Blues in Super Rugby, Auckland in the National Provincial Championship, and the New Zealand national team. He was a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only 21 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions.
In a Bledisloe Cup test match against Australia on 20 October 2012, Mealamu became the third All Black to reach 100 test appearances. He clinched the 2003 Super Rugby Title.
Early life
The grandson of Samoan immigrants, Mealamu was raised in Tokoroa where his father, a body building champion, worked at the local timber mill. The family eventually moved to Auckland due to the decline of the timber industry. He is a former student of Aorere College, where his brother and former Manu Samoa player Luke Mealamu currently works as a social worker. As a schoolboy he played as a flanker for New Zealand Under-16s and New Zealand Schools before switching to hooker in 1998. After finishing school he worked as an apprentice signwriter in case his rugby career did not work out.
Career
Mealamu made his provincial debut for Auckland in 1999 against North Harbour. He first played for the Blues in 2000, but had a stint with the Chiefs in 2002 – the same year he debuted for the All Blacks. Mealamu also made a fine contribution to the start of the All Blacks' 2006 Tri Nations campaign with two tries against the Wallabies during the first match. Mealamu captained the Blues through their 2006 Super 14 campaign, but was forced to relinquish the captaincy in 2007 due to his commitments to the All Blacks. In 2014, he made his 150th appearance for the Blues, becoming the first player in Super Rugby history to make 150 appearances for one team.
International
Mealamu made his debut for the All Blacks on 23 November 2002, against Wales at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He was made test captain in the test match against Scotland during the All Blacks 2008 Grand Slam tour, as regular captain Richie McCaw was a reserve for that match. He was a part of New Zealand's 2011 Rugby World Cup winning squad.
Mealamu was known for his hard-tackling approach to the game
The 2015 Rugby World Cup final on 31 October was his last match as an All Black. He was one of six senior players who retired from International rugby after the competition.
In the 2016 New Year Honours, Mealamu was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to rugby.
Leading of the haka
Mealamu became an important part of the leadership team of the national side and led the haka for the All Blacks 31 times. He led the Ka Mate version 23 times and the newer Kapa o Pango version 8 times. He first led the team in September 2007 against Italy. In his final international test he led the Kapa o Pango haka before the final against Australia during the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Local politics
Mealamu was elected to the Papakura Local Board in 2019. In the 2022 Auckland local elections, Mealamu ran for the position of Franklin ward councillor, losing to Andy Baker.
Personal life
Mealamu is a skilled artist and has illustrated several books to raise money for the Starship Children's Hospital. A practising Catholic, Mealamu and his wife Latai, whom he married in 2003, have two children.
References
External links
Blues profile
1979 births
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
New Zealand international rugby union players
Auckland rugby union players
Chiefs (rugby union) players
Blues (Super Rugby) players
Rugby union hookers
Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Rugby union players from Tokoroa
Living people
People educated at Aorere College
New Zealand Roman Catholics
2003 Rugby World Cup players
2007 Rugby World Cup players
2011 Rugby World Cup players
2015 Rugby World Cup players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keven%20Mealamu |
This is a list of official symbols of the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Official symbols of the commonwealth are codified in Chapter 2 of the Massachusetts General Laws.
State symbols
United States quarter dollar – Massachusetts 2000:
See also
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
List of Massachusetts-related topics
List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones
Lists of United States state insignia
Sacred Cod
Notes
Chapter 162 of the Acts of 1997: An Act Designating the Song "The Great State of Massachusetts" as the State Glee Club Song
Chapter 17 of the Acts of 2003: An Act Designating the Bay State Tartan as the Official Tartan of the Commonwealth
Chapter 407 of the Acts of 2004: An Act Designating the Official Colors of the Commonwealth
Chapter 19 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Designating Taj Mahal as the Official Blues Artist of the Commonwealth
Chapter 215 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Designating Basketball as the State Sport
References
External links
General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 2: Arms, Great Seal, and Other Emblems of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts State Symbols
State symbols
Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Massachusetts%20state%20symbols |
Ildephonse Hategekimana (born 1 February 1964) is a Rwandan soldier who participated in the Rwandan genocide.
An ethnic Hutu, Hategekimana was born on 1 February 1964 in Mugina commune in Gitarama prefecture. In 1994, he held the rank of lieutenant in the Rwandan Armed Forces, and was the commander of the Ngoma camp in Butare prefecture.
On 27 November 2000, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) issued an indictment against Hategekimana, charging him with "genocide, or in the alternative complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and crimes against humanity."
Hategekimana was the chief of security in a Rwandan refugee camp in Loukoléla in Congo-Brazzaville for some years prior to his arrest. He lived with his wife there and was a respected leader living under the alias "Isidore Balihafi".
Hategekimana was arrested in the Republic of Congo on 16 February 2003, and then transferred to the ICTR. He was convicted of three counts of genocide and one count of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by the ICTR on 6 December 2010. The conviction was upheld by the Appeals Chamber on 8 May 2012.
References
External links
U.S. State Department press release on Hategekimana's arrest, 20 February 2003
UN Tribunal Confirms Arrest of Former Rwandan Military Officer in Congo Brazzaville, Hirondelle, 14 April 2012
Rwandan soldiers
People from Kamonyi District
Living people
1964 births
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildephonse%20Hategekimana |
Thomas Hornsby (1733 in Durham – 11 April 1810 in Oxford) was a British astronomer and mathematician.
Life
Hornsby became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1760.
He occupied the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at Oxford University from 1763. In the same year, he became Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy.
Hornsby was especially concerned with the observation of the transit of Venus. In 1761, he observed the transit of Venus from Shirburn Castle, in Oxfordshire, the seat of the Earl of Macclesfield. George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (ca. 1695–1764), celebrated as an astronomer, had spent most of his time conducting astronomical observations at Shirburn Castle; here he had built an observatory and a chemical laboratory.
On the 1st April 1764 Hornsby observed the partial phases of an annular solar eclipse.
Despite the international efforts made to observe the 1761 transit, poor weather conditions hampered observations. In 1766 Hornsby informed the Royal Society that preparations needed to begin for the 1769 transit, his publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society focusing attention on the "cone of visibility" indicating some of the better places to observe the transit.
Hornsby himself viewed the 1769 transit at the Tower of the Five Orders, the entrance to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
In the periodical Philosophical Transactions, Hornsby published a comparative analysis of 1761 transit (1763); a plan for suitable viewing stations for 1769, including possible locations in the Pacific (1765); a description of organising and reporting observing groups in Oxford (1769); and a comparative analysis of the 1769 transit (1771). Using the solar parallax values obtained from the 1769 transit, he wrote in Philosophical Transitions December 1771 that "the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (is) 93,726,900 English miles." The radar-based value used today for the astronomical unit is . This is only a difference of eight-tenths of one percent. The work was within the bounds of the aphelion and perihelion distances to the sun, ~95 million miles and ~91 million miles respectively. These results have been described as "absolutely remarkable" considering what the astronomers had to work with.
Hornsby was instrumental in the establishment of the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford in 1772, and was made Radcliffe Observer in the same year. In 1782, he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy. In 1783, he became Radcliffe Librarian. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788.
Hornsby made tens of thousands of astronomical observations. These were not published, however, until 1932, and were donated to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1935. They include a determination of the rate of change of the axial inclination of the Earth and the proper motion of Arcturus, both close to the modern values, whose combination of visual magnitude and large proper motion led Hornsby to argue (incorrectly) that "We may, I think, fairly conclude that Arcturus is the nearest Star to our System visible in this Hemisphere".
The crater Hornsby on the Moon is named after him.
N.B. His death announcement in the Kentish Gazette 24 April 1810 quotes his death as "Wednesday (11th Apr. 1810) at the Observatory Oxford, aged 76, the Rev. Thomas Hornsby D.D. & F.R.S. Savalian Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Natural Philosophy, & Librarian of the Radcliffe Library."
The O.D.N.B gives this information:
"Hornsby, Thomas (1733–1810), astronomer, the son of Thomas Hornsby (bap. 1704, d. 1771), an apothecary and later alderman, and his wife, Thomasine Forster, née Coulson (bap. 1705, d. 1775), was baptized in the parish of St Nicholas, Durham, on 27 August 1733. Hornsby died in Oxford on 11 April 1810, and was buried at St Giles' there on 19 April."
Sources
Thomas Harriot's manuscripts
History of transit observing
Stephen Johnston, "Blast from the Past: Measurement and morals in the early Transits of Venus," Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, at http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/phystat05/Talks/johnston.ppt (accessed July 2006)
Kentish Gazette 24 April 1810
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1733 births
1810 deaths
18th-century British astronomers
18th-century British mathematicians
19th-century British mathematicians
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Royal Society
Savilian Professors of Astronomy
Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hornsby |
50 Cent is an American rapper. After releasing his mixtape Guess Who's Back? in 2002, he was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. His commercial debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) earned him a Best New Artist nomination at the 46th Grammy Awards, a Billboard Music Award for Album of the Year, and the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award. 50 Cent's second album The Massacre (2005) earned him five Grammy nominations, six Billboard Music Awards, and another ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award. His third album Curtis made him the Best-Selling Hip-Hop Artist at the 2007 World Music Awards. Currently, 50 Cent has received 86 awards from 135 nominations.
American Music Awards
50 Cent has won three awards from six nominations at the annual American Music Awards.
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ASCAP Awards
The ASCAP Awards are held annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Pop Music Awards
The annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs. 50 Cent has won four awards.
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1 Awarded for "21 Questions", "In da Club", and "Magic Stick".
2 Awarded for "Candy Shop", "Disco Inferno", "Hate It or Love It", "How We Do", and "Just a Lil Bit".
Rhythm & Soul Music Awards
The annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards honors songwriters and publishers of top R&B, hip hop, and reggae music. 50 Cent has won seven awards.
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3 Awarded for "21 Questions", "In da Club", "Magic Stick", "P.I.M.P.", and "Wanksta".
4 Awarded for "Candy Shop", "Disco Inferno", "Hate It or Love It", "How We Do", and "Just a Lil Bit".
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN (Adult Video News). 50 Cent has won two awards from four nominations.
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BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET. 50 Cent has won four awards from eight nominations.
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BET Hip Hop Awards
The BET Hip Hop Awards are hosted annually by BET for hip hop performers, producers, and music video directors. 50 Cent has been won first, but from his second nominations.
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Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine and is held annually in December. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. 50 Cent has won thirteen awards from eighteen nominations.
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Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards reflect the performance of recordings on the R&B/hip-hop and rap charts. 50 Cent has won all sixteen awards from the sixteen nominations.
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BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony presented by the British Phonographic Industry, related to popular music. 50 Cent has been nominated for a total of three Brit Awards and has won one of them.
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Danish Music Awards
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GAFFA Awards
Denmark GAFFA Awards
Delivered since 1991, the GAFFA Awards are a Danish award that rewards popular music by the magazine of the same name.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 50 Cent has been nominated 14 times and won 1.
World Music Awards
The annual World Music Awards, founded in 1989, is an international awards show that honors recording artists based on their worldwide sales figures, which are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. 50 Cent has won six awards.
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References
Awards
50 Cent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%2050%20Cent |
Michiel "M.C.A." van den Bos (born 23 May 1975) is a Dutch musician who composes primarily for Epic Games and Triumph Studios. He began composing on the Commodore 64 and Amiga before making the transition to composing professional soundtracks for video games such as Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, and the Overlord series. His most recent project is the soundtrack of Age of Wonders 4 (2023).
According to an interview, his influences are LTJ Bukem, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Martin Galway, Underworld, Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Ben Daglish, Carcass, At the Gates, Insomnium, PFM and Artemis.
Van den Bos is also an active indie/alternative DJ.
Video game credits
1998 – Unreal (and the mission pack, Return to Na Pali)
1999 – Age of Wonders
1999 – Unreal Tournament
2000 – Deus Ex
2007 – Overlord
2007 – Overlord: Raising Hell
2009 – Overlord: Dark Legend
2009 – Overlord II
2012 – Samurai Beatdown
2014 – Age of Wonders III
2016 – Voidrunner
2019 - Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Cancelled – Unreal Tournament
2023 – Age of Wonders 4
Discography
2014 – Taking the Fifth
2014 – Drifting Through Static
2020 – Conspiravision: Deus Ex Remixed
References
External links
Michiel van den Bos on YouTube
Michiel van den Bos at The Mod Archive
1975 births
Living people
Video game composers
Tracker musicians
Dutch composers
Demosceners
Rock DJs
Musicians from Rotterdam
Dutch electronic musicians
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Karl Gerland (14 July 1905 – 21 April 1945) was a Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Kurhessen and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Kurhessen. On 21 April 1945, Gerland was killed in action against the Soviet Red Army at Frankfurt (Oder).
Early years
Gerland was born in Gottsbüren (now a part of Trendelburg) near Kassel. He graduated from the gymnasium in Kassel in 1923 and then was employed as a mechanical engineer by the German National Railway. He pursued additional training in engineering at the University of Hanover until 1928 and then worked in various commercial and technical businesses.
Nazi career
Gerland joined the Nazi Party in December 1929 and became Kreisleiter (County Leader) in Kreis Hofgeismar from September 1930 to January 1932. From January to July 1932, he was Beziksleiter (District Leader) in Fulda-Gersfeld-Hünfeld and Deputy Propaganda Leader of Gau Hesse-Nassau North. In July 1932, he advanced to Gau Propaganda Leader. After the Nazi seizure of power, he became head of the provincial office of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda from May to November 1934. He then worked as a department head in the office of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess in the Party Reichsleitung (National Leadership) in Munich from November 1934 to November 1938. In March 1936, Gerland was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 8, (Liegnitz). On 30 January 1938, he was awarded the Golden Party Badge. Gerland joined the SS on 16 March 1938 with the rank of Hauptsturmführer. From 1 June 1938 until 6 November 1943, he was Deputy Gauleiter in Reichsgau Lower Danube.
The war years
From May to September 1940, Gerland saw military service as an Unteroffizier of Reserves, and was wounded in the battle of France. On 9 November 1940, he was promoted to SS-Oberführer and assigned to the staff of the Reichsführer-SS. In November 1943, Gerland was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and, on 6 November, he was appointed Gauleiter and Reich Defense Commissioner in Gau Kurhessen. He succeeded Karl Weinrich, who had been removed from these posts for abandoning the city of Kassel during an air raid on 22 October. Gerland served as acting Gauleiter from 6 November 1943 until being named permanent on 13 December 1944. From 1 July 1944 Gerland was also Oberpräsident (High President) of the newly formed Prussian Province of Kurhessen, which formerly had been part of the Province of Hesse-Nassau. Gerland thus united under his control the highest party and governmental offices in the province. On 1 August 1944 Gerland was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer.
In the spring of 1945, with the American Army invading his Gau, he received high praise from Joseph Goebbels. In his diary entry of 2 April 1945, Goebbels noted that Gerland was conducting himself "superbly," adding, "I would have expected this from [him] anyway." When his capital, Kassel, fell to American forces on 4 April 1945, Gerland fled eastward and joined German forces fighting in Brandenburg. On 21 April, Gerland was killed near Frankfurt (Oder) during fighting on the Eastern Front.
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Dixon Elementary School may refer to:
United States
Arthur Dixon Elementary School in Chicago, a part of Chicago Public Schools
Dixon Elementary School in Irvington, Alabama, a part of the Mobile County Public School System
Dixon Elementary School in Dixon, Kentucky, a part of Webster County School District
Dixon Elementary School in Holly Ridge, North Carolina, a part of Onslow County Schools
Dixon Elementary School in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a part of Elmbrook Schools
Canada
Alfred B. Dixon Elementary School, in Richmond, British Columbia, a part of the Richmond School District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon%20Elementary%20School |
Wavelength is a 1967 Canadian-American short subject by experimental filmmaker and artist Michael Snow. Considered a landmark of avant-garde cinema, it was filmed over one week in December 1966 and edited in 1967, and is an example of what film theorist P. Adams Sitney describes as "structural film", calling Snow "the dean of structural filmmakers."
Wavelength is often listed as one of the greatest underground, art house and Canadian films ever made. It was named #85 in the 2001 Village Voice critics' list of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century. The film has been designated and preserved as a masterwork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. In a 1969 review of the film published in Artforum, Manny Farber describes Wavelength as "a singularly unpadded, uncomplicated, deadly realistic way to film three walls, a ceiling and a floor... it is probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence."
Synopsis
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the four "character" scenes. Snow's intent was "a summation of my nervous system, religious inklings and aesthetic ideas". The 45-minute-long zoom–which nonetheless contains edits–that incorporates in its time frame four human events in the room, including a man's death and a woman calling emergency later on, is intended to be symbolic of his intent. In the first scene, a woman in a fur coat enters the room accompanied by two men carrying a bookshelf or cabinet. The woman instructs the men where to place this piece of furniture and they all leave. Later, the same woman returns with a female friend. They drink the beverages they have brought, and turn on the radio, which plays "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles. Long after they leave, what sounds like breaking glass is heard. At this point, a man (Hollis Frampton) enters and inexplicably, although in a way to indicate his death, collapses on the floor. Later on, the woman in the fur coat reappears and makes an emergency phone call, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.
Around the end, one can hear what sound like police sirens, but could just as well be a part of the musical score, a distinct piece of minimalist music that pairs tones at random. These tones shift in frequency (and in "wavelength"), becoming higher-pitched as the camera further analyzes the space of the anonymous apartment. What begins as a view of the full apartment zooms (the zoom is not precisely continuous as the camera does change angle slightly, noticeably near the very end) and changes focus slowly across the forty-five minutes, only to stop and come into perfect focus on a photograph of the sea on the wall. The film ends with the camera going completely out of focus and fading to white, as the soundtrack finally raises to a pitch too high to be heard.
Cast
Hollis Frampton
Lyne Grossman
Naoto Nakazawa
Roswell Rudd
Amy Taubin
Joyce Wieland
Amy Yadrin
Structure
According to P. Adams Sitney, the trend in American avant-garde cinema during the late 1940s and 1950s (such as the work of Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage) was towards "increased complexity". Since the mid-1960s, filmmakers such as Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad and Joyce Wieland produced works where simplicity was foregrounded. Sitney labeled this tendency "structural film." The four characteristics of structural film are "fixed camera position…the flicker effect, loop printing, and rephotography off the screen." Sitney describes Snow as the "dean of structural film-makers" who "utilizes the tension" of Wavelength'''s use of a "fixed-frame and…the flexibility of the fixed tripod". Where Sitney describes structural film as a "working process," Stephen Heath in Questions of Cinema finds Wavelength "seriously wanting" in that the "implied…narrative [makes Wavelength] in some ways a retrograde step in cinematic form". To Heath, the principal theme of Wavelength is the "question of the cinematic institution of the subject of film" rather than the apparatus of filmmaking itself.
In 2003, Snow released WVLNT (or Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time), a shorter (1/3 of the original time) and significantly altered version by overlaying multiple forms of the original film upon itself.
Reception and legacy
The screening of Wavelength in 1967 was, according to filmmaker Jonas Mekas, "a landmark event in cinema." Considered a canonical avant-garde film along with Léger and Murphy's Ballet mecanique (1924), Buñuel and Dalí's Un chien andalou (1929), Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Stan Brakhage's Mothlight (1963) and Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1964), Wavelength's 45-minute running time nevertheless contributes to a reputation for being a difficult work:
[G]iven the film's durational strategy, we feel every minute of the time it takes to traverse the space of the loft to get to the infinite space of the photograph of waves—and the fade to white—at the film's end. The film inspires as much boredom and frustration as intrigue and epiphany....
The film won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Knokke Experimental Film Festival, Knokke, Belgium. and in a 1968 Film Quarterly review, Jud Yalkut describes Wavelength as "at once one of the simplest and one of the most complex films ever conceived." In a 1968 L.A. Free Press review of the film, Gene Youngblood describes Wavelength as "without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a triumph of contemplative cinema.'"
Wavelength ranked 102nd in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made, and also received three directors' votes.
Distribution
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Art Metropole
See also
Minimalist film
Cinema of Canada
References
Bibliography
Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs of Michael Snow. Toronto: PMA Books, 1980.
Elder, R. Bruce. Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989.
Farber, Manny. Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies. London: Studio Vista, 1971.
Heath, Stephen. Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Legge. Elizabeth. Michael Snow: Wavelength. Cambridge, MA: Afterall (One Work Series), 2009.
Michelson, Annette. "About Snow." October Vol. 8 (Spring, 1979): 111-125.
Shedden, Jim (ed.) The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence (The Films of Michael Snow 1965-1991). Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1995.
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Zryd, Michael. "Avant-Garde Films: Teaching Wavelength." Cinema Journal 47, Number 1 (Fall 2007): 109-112.
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Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta (), shortened as UAJY, is a university located in Depok, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. UAJY is one of the 50 most promising university and one of the best six universities in Indonesia in quality assurance according to Directorate of Higher Education, Department of National Education. Currently the university offers 12 undergraduate and 7 graduate programs, with an estimated ±11.307 students. There are four main campus buildings: Alfonsus Building in Mrican, Thomas Aquinas Building in Babarsari, Bonaventura Building in Babarsari, Teresa Building in Babarsari.
History
The university was established on 27 September 1965 by the Yogyakarta branch of the Atma Jaya Catholic University Institute of Indonesia. The founders were R.A. Soehardi, A.J. Liem Sioe Siet A., Sutijoso, Oey Liang Lee and Leo Sukoto. The name of “Atma Jaya” is taken from Sanskrit. Atma means soul, Jaya means superior. Thus, Atma Jaya means a superior soul. UAJY’s aspiration from the beginning is to provide higher education with excellence in academics and education with high moral values.
Originally an extension of the Universitas Atma Jaya in Jakarta, it became an independent university under the auspices of the Slamet Rijadi Foundation on 31 August 1973. The university borrowed classrooms from the IKIP (Teaching and Education Institute) Sanata Dharma, now the Universitas Sanata Dharma, until its own campus buildings, at Mrican Baru Street, were finished in 1980.
Growing student numbers led to the Faculty of Engineering and the Administration department being moved to a new building in Babarsari Road in 1990, in conjunction with the celebrations of the silver anniversary of the founding of the university. In 1995, the Economics Faculty and the Postgraduate Program moved into a new building beside the existing building in Babarsari Road. In 2005 a new building was built adjacent to the Faculty of Engineering and the Administration department to host the Faculty of Social and Political Science. The University also acquired the former BHS Bank building to host administrative department.
An integrated four-story library was built next to the Faculty of Social and Political Science building. It will host library and Information Systems Center. The library building officially opened in a Mass led by Mgr. Ignatius Suharyo (archbishop) in October 2009.
In the late part of 2010, a project for the construction of a new building was started. In the original plan, it was planned to be an addition to the Faculty of Social and Political Science Building. On the east side of the current building there is a newer building that is next to it.
Faculties
Engineering (Thomas Aquinas Building)
Civil Engineering (offering international class)
Architecture
Economics (Bonaventura Building)
Management (offering international class)
Accounting (offering international class)
Economic and Development studies
Law (Alfonsus Building)
Economics and Business Law
Criminal Justice
Land and Environmental Law
Constitutional and Government Law
International Relations Law
Social Welfare Law
Technobiology (Thomas Aquinas Building)
Environmental Technobiology
Industrial Technobiology
Food Technobiology
Industrial Technology (Bonaventura Building)
Industrial Engineering (offering international class)
Informatics Engineering
Information Systems
Social and Political Science (Teresa Building)
Communications
Sociology
Motto
The motto of the university is "Serviens in lumine veritatis" (serving in the light of truth).
Reputation and Rankings
Since 2018, Universitas Atma Jaya is accredited A by BAN-PT (National Accreditation Board for Higher Education of Indonesia).
See also
Education in Indonesia
List of universities in Indonesia
References List
External links
Official site
Catholic universities and colleges in Indonesia
Sleman Regency
Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia
Universities in the Special Region of Yogyakarta
Private universities and colleges in Indonesia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atma%20Jaya%20University%2C%20Yogyakarta |
Gilmore Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Los Angeles, California. It was opened in May 1934 and demolished in 1952, when the land was used to build CBS Television City. The stadium held 18,000. It was located next to Gilmore Field. The stadium was located west of Curson Avenue, surrounded by Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax Avenue and Third Street.
The Stadium was used in a 3 Stooges 1934 short Three Little Pigskins.
The stadium was built by Earl Gilmore, son of Arthur F. Gilmore and president of A. F. Gilmore Oil, a California-based petroleum company which was developed after Arthur struck oil on the family property. The area was rich in petroleum, which was the source of the "tar" in the nearby La Brea Tar Pits.
Uses
Opening
The first event staged at the Stadium was a series of shows featuring prominent Hollywood actors of the day, led by Screen Actors Guild president Eddie Cantor, on the weekend of May 18-19-20, 1934. This "Film Stars Frolic" sought to raise money for less fortunate Hollywood actors such as extras. [Los Angeles Daily News, May 19, 1934, p.12]
Football venue
The Stadium was used for American football games at both the professional and collegiate level.
It was the home of the Los Angeles Bulldogs, the first professional football team in Los Angeles. The Bulldogs competed as an independent team before joining the second American Football League in 1937 and winning its championship with a perfect 8–0–0 record, the first professional football team to win its championship with an unblemished record. After the collapse of the league, the Bulldogs returned to being an independent team before joining the American Professional Football Association in 1939. The Bulldogs then became charter members of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1940 and played in Gilmore Stadium until 1948, when the team moved to Long Beach, California, for its (and the league's) final season.
The Stadium was also home to the Los Angeles Mustangs of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League.
Several teams in the Pacific Coast Professional Football League labeled as "Hollywood" also used the Stadium as their home during the early 1940s: The Stars, the Bears and the Wolves.
The Stadium was home to the collegiate Loyola Marymount Lions football team and Pepperdine Waves football team.
Gilmore Stadium was the site of two 1940 National Football League (NFL) Pro Bowls.
1940 NFL All-Star Game (1939 season)
On January 14, 1940, the 1939 NFL champion Green Bay Packers met an All-Star team consisting of players from the nine other NFL clubs in the second NFL All-Star game in history. The Packers won 16–7.
1940 NFL All-Star Game (1940 season)
Extra seating was added to accommodate 21,000 fans for the Pro Bowl for the 1940 NFL season. The crowd set a record as the largest to view a Los Angeles pro game. The event was held on December 29, 1940. The game pitted the 1940 NFL Champion Chicago Bears against an All-Star team from the other NFL clubs in the third NFL All-Star game. The Bears won 28–14.
Baseball venue
The Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League played here early in the 1939 season, while awaiting completion of Gilmore Field's construction. The diamond was situated in the southwest "corner" of the stadium, with right field so close that baseballs hit over the fence in that area were ground-rule doubles.
Midget car venue
While the first modern-day midget car racing program took place at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California in June 1933, and Loyola Stadium became the starting point in Southern California in August 1933, Gilmore Stadium is often billed as the first track purposely built for the new style of racing. The track hosted midget car racing from the track's debut in May 1934 until 1950. The 1939 Turkey Night Grand Prix was held at the track.
Rodger Ward drove Vic Edelbrock's midget car in a famous August 10, 1950 event at Gilmore Stadium. Ward shocked the racing world by breaking Offenhauser engine's winning streak by sweeping the events at Gilmore Stadium that night.
Notable drivers that raced at the track include Bill Betteridge, Fred Friday, Walt Faulkner, Perry Grimm, Sam Hanks, Curly Mills, Danny Oakes, Roy Russing, Bob Swanson, Bill Vukovich, Rodger Ward, and Karl Young. Drivers that were killed at the track include Ed Haddad, Swede Lindskog, Speedy Lockwood, Frankie Lyons, and Chet Mortemore.
In the sixteen years of the stadium's existence, over 5 million fans attended races at the track. The stadium drew crowds over 18,000 people each race. Attendance dropped to below 9,000 at normal weekly races by the late 1940s. The attendance drop and increased demand for property in West Hollywood led to the track's sale in 1950. It was torn down in 1951. Some of its grandstand was installed at Saugus Speedway.
Other uses
It also hosted donkey baseball, dog shows, rodeos, and at least one cricket match. Esther Williams performed in a diving and water ballet performance. A temporary above ground pool was constructed for the event. Several professional boxing title matches were held in the stadium. U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivered his "stiff upper lip" speech in the stadium.
Gilmore Stadium was featured in a 1934 Three Stooges short featuring a football game, and fittingly titled Three Little Pigskins. The scoreboard, with the name of the stadium, appears prominently in several shots, as does a billboard advertising Gilmore products. A sign for the nearby Fairfax Theater, across Beverly Boulevard at the north (open) end of the stadium, is also visible in the background a couple of times.
On May 19, 1947, Gilmore Stadium was packed with people waiting to hear a speech by Progressive Party candidate for President Henry A. Wallace. Wallace served as vice president under FDR and was also the Secretary of Agriculture (his specialty) and Secretary of Commerce. Also speaking at the event was actress Katharine Hepburn, whose speech stole the show.
It was there on September 23, 1948, that Ronald Reagan introduced President Harry S. Truman at a campaign rally, the first time that Reagan personally met a U.S President.
References
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A collection of pictures of Gilmore Stadiums various usages
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The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher.
The theatre was added to the list of historical monuments in 1975 and is always in activity, putting on a new performance each year. Performances take place on every Sunday of July and August.
The Théâtre du peuple is constructed entirely of wood and can seat up to 1,200 people.
The Théâtre du peuple was the first people's theatre to be established in France after the Revolution. Originally it was an open-air theatre, in which Pottecher staged folk and morality plays, often performed by locals in dialect. Its low costs, low ticket prices and the offer of a free performance per season proved a successful formula for Sunday-afternoon theatre. Pottecher used his success as a platform to launch a people's theatre campaign (soon taken up by Nobel-prize winner Romain Rolland). The proscenium arch of the theatre bore the motto "Through Art for Humanity". Pottecher worked at the Théâtre du Peuple until his death in 1960, after which members of his family continued the tradition. Its current director is Pierre Guillois.
Notes
Works cited
Bradby, David, and John McCormick. 1978. People's Theatre. London: Croom Helm and Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. .
External links
Official website (in French)
Theatres in France
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Helga Pedersen may refer to:
Helga Pedersen (Denmark) (1911–1980), Danish politician
Helga Pedersen (Norway) (born 1973), Norwegian politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga%20Pedersen |
The Kay K-161 ThinTwin is an electric guitar made from 1952 to 1959, was one of the longest produced guitars by Kay Musical Instrument Company. The K161 Thin-Twin was commonly referred to as the "Jimmy Reed" guitar. Introduced not long after Gibson's Les Paul, the ThinTwin was a semi-hollow body guitar and larger than its name "thin" implied. The guitar's body was deep. "ThinTwin" was a reference to the unique appearance of the dual pickups, having a very slim profile.
There was also a Silvertone-branded version of this guitar, with a slightly more 'regal' appointment in ts decorated pickguard and headstock logo, coupled with a deeply finished 'flamed' grain top and so-called 'sunburst' finish. Both the pickguard and the headstock's decorated laminate on early versions of this model sported a shield-type engraving and coloring, with later versions of the guitar losing the shield from the headstock of later models, but with the sky-blue-trimmed pickguard never losing the shield, which sat right in the middle of the strumming field. The earliest model of this guitar, the model #1381 had the shield device on both the pickguard and the headstock laminate. Later versions of that model would only have the gold filled free-form script "Silvertone' logo within an headstock edge-tracing blue border, much like the appearance in width and color of the blue line trimming the pickguard. The very last-produced of the 1381 guitars and into the versions sold as the model #1369, were topped with a thin metal script Silvertone set in a glossy black field.
Model 1381/1369 "Thin Twin" Manufactured by Kay was available from the Spring/Summer Sears catalog of 1954 through the Fall/Winter version going into early 1958. In the Spring/Summer catalog of 1957, the model number changed to 1369, and that number lasted until the retirement of the model in early 1958, being available in the Fall/Winter 1957 catalog.
Description of shield: A front view drawing of a crown ringed around the edge we can see with three fleur-de-lis-like tips. Across the face of the ring between the tips and the edge of the crown that would sit on the head when worn, are three round circles representing jewels. From left to right, the circles are colored red, blue, red. Under this drawing of a crown is a long shield just slightly narrower than the crown device. This shield is bisected from approximately 1/3 the way down on its right side, on a 45 degree angle line that has a width appropriate with extending the width of that line so as to reach the bottom third of the device on its left side. The fields this wide band separates are brown with a gold musical note within its borders on the top and bottom fields.
Started in 1890 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the Kay Musical Instrument Company introduced, in 1957, the Gold "K" line of guitars. These included electric guitars as well as archtop and flattop acoustics. Before then, the company's guitars had been known mostly for student and department store grade instruments. They made instruments for many companies under different names; "Old Kraftsman", "Airline" and "Silvertone" were just a few of them used. They stopped making the "K" Gold line in 1962. Kay had got Barney Kessel, the top guitarist in the late 1950s, to endorse three models (Jazz Special, Artist, and Pro) of the series. This only lasted for three years then Kessel left to join Gibson.
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Frank William "Menty" Keaney (June 5, 1886 – October 10, 1967) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. As a college men's basketball coach, he was known as the architect of modern "run-and-shoot" basketball and the inventor of the fast break.
Keaney was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Cambridge Latin School, graduating in 1906. He graduated from Bates College, where he played several sports, in 1911. He was the head football coach at Everett High School in Massachusetts from 1917 to 1919. He coached at Rhode Island State College (now the University of Rhode Island) from 1920 to 1948 and taught a style of basketball using a fast-breaking offense and a full-court defense. In his 28 years at Rhode Island, Keaney's basketball Rams won eight conference championships and had only one losing season. In 1939, Keaney's Rams became the first college team to score more than 50 points per game, and in 1943 the team had an average of more than two points per minute (80.7 points per game), which led to the Rams being dubbed "The Firehouse Gang". During his tenure the URI team had four National Invitation Tournament appearances. Keaney's career record with the men's basketball team was 401–124 (.764).
After retiring from coaching collegiate basketball, Keaney was offered the position of head coach of the Boston Celtics. Keaney's doctor, however, refused to let him take the job. He remained at URI as athletic director until 1959. The university named the Frank W. Keaney Gymnasium-Armory in his honor in 1953. Keaney was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960.
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is a railway station on the Keio Inokashira Line in Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation.
The station's name is a combination of Komaba, the name of the suburb in which it is located, and Todai-mae - which means "in front of University of Tokyo".
Lines
Komaba-tōdaimae Station is served by the 12.7 km Keio Inokashira Line from in Tokyo to . Located between and , it is 1.4 km from the Shibuya terminus.
Service pattern
Only all-stations "Local" services stop at this station.
Station layout
There are two main exits from the station, East and West. The East Exit is close to the main entrance to the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo, and to the central part of Komaba. The West Exit leads to Komaba 2, 3, and 4 chōme.
The station has one island platform, serving two tracks. Because the station is located on a slope, on the western end, toward Kichijoji, it is effectively an elevated station; the eastern end is an ordinary ground-level platform. The ticket gate at the western entrance is located on ground level, below the level of the platform, and the gate at eastern gate is located in an above-track station building, higher than the platforms.
There is an elevator between the platform and ground-level at the western entrance.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 11 July 1965.
From 22 February 2013, station numbering was introduced on Keio lines, with Komaba-tōdaimae Station becoming "IN03".
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 39,813 passengers daily.
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Surrounding area
University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
National Center for University Entrance Examinations
Japanese Folk Crafts Museum
Komaba Park
References
External links
Komaba-tōdaimae Station information (Keio)
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1965
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Alive! is the fourth album overall, and the first live album, by American hard rock band Kiss. It is considered to be their breakthrough, and a landmark for live albums. Released on September 10, 1975, the double-album contains live versions of selected tracks from their first three studio albums, Kiss, Hotter Than Hell and Dressed to Kill. It was recorded at concerts in Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Wildwood, New Jersey; and Davenport, Iowa on May 16, June 21, July 20 and 23, 1975.
The album's title was an homage to the 1972 live album Slade Alive! by the English rock group Slade, a band that heavily influenced Kiss.
Background
From 1974 to 1975, Kiss released three albums: Kiss, Hotter Than Hell, and Dressed to Kill. Although the three albums helped establish a cult following for the band in the Rust Belt, they were commercial failures. Guitarist Paul Stanley attributed the low sales to Kiss' weak sound when they were in the studio versus when they were in concert. According to Stanley: "I never thought any of our first three albums captured the intensity of what the band was going for or was. And it was a problem because people would come to see us and many of them weren't buying our albums." Kiss was famous for its elaborate stage performances, where the band members would wear kabuki-style makeup, use pyrotechnics, and spit fake blood. Bassist Gene Simmons said that because of Kiss's notoriety, they were kicked off of multiple tours with groups like Argent, Black Sabbath, and Savoy Brown because they were afraid to play after Kiss.
Kiss's record label, Casablanca Records, had similar financial issues. By 1974, Casablanca's profits were declining, so CEO Neil Bogart decided to release a double album of audio highlights from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, a show that averaged fourteen million viewers a night. Casablanca shipped 750,000 copies, but the album was an enormous failure. Distributors mailed back their free copies, and Casablanca co-founder Larry Harris said: "It hit the floor with a lifeless, echoing thud." The failure negatively affected many acts signed with Casablanca, including Kiss; the band only received a $15,000 advance for the first three albums, and had yet to receive any royalties. As a result of the breach of contract, Kiss began looking at other labels to sign with, and a lawsuit was eventually filed against Bogart.
In a last-ditch effort to save the label, Bogart decided to capitalize on Kiss's onstage notoriety and have the band record a live album. Kiss's manager Bill Aucoin was receptive toward the idea, as he felt the band could finally achieve the sound they strove for. He also liked the fact that a live recording would be less expensive than a studio recording. The band members also liked the idea, and within a few days, Bogart arranged the Dressed to Kill Tour. Bogart could not finance the tour, however, so Aucoin paid for the entire tour with his own money, a total of $300,000.
Recording
Alive! was recorded over four stops on the Dressed to Kill Tour: May 16 at Cobo Arena in Detroit; June 21 at Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland; July 20 at RKO Orpheum Theater in Davenport; and July 23 at Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwood. The seventy-eight-minute double album comprises sixteen songs from the band's first three albums. The live performances featured elaborate setups. For example, during the song "100,000 Years", crew members used flamethrowers to engulf the stage in a ring of fire, and Peter Criss's drum kit rose high above the other band members.
Kiss's wild and energetic stage presence did not translate well to the live recordings. Stanley and Simmons had several miscues, such as playing the wrong chords, knocking over mics, and not singing directly into the mic. Producer Eddie Kramer knew that significant dubbing was needed to make the album sound good. For many years, Kiss denied the use of dubbing on Alive!. In Simmons' 2001 autobiography, Kiss and Make-up: A Memoir, he admitted the band had done some post-production alterations: "There have always been rumors that the Alive! record was substantially reworked in the studio. It's not true. We did touch up the vocal parts and fix some of the guitar solos, but we didn't have the time or money to completely rework the recordings. What we wanted, and what we got, was proof of the band's rawness and power." In a 2003 episode of Ultimate Albums, Kiss fully admitted to overdubbing the album. Stanley said: "What we felt was necessary was to capture the energy of the performance, not necessarily having it note for note of what actually happened." Simmons said: "Most people assume it was all live. It wasn't." Criss said: "We touched up what we had to do and I think it only made it better."
Kiss rerecorded parts of the album at Electric Lady Studios in August. The live recordings were so heavily altered, only Criss' drum tracks remained untouched. Even the audience was doctored, as Kramer spliced together the best cheers and screams from various Kiss performances. The band wanted the listener to feel like they were in fact in the audience watching the show, and since directly recording an audience would not sound good, this was considered to be the next best solution. Speaking about the heavy studio redubs years later, Kramer said: "Who cares if it was overdubbed? The energy still comes through."
Release
Alive! was released on September 10, 1975. The packaging featured a gatefold sleeve, a tour program with photos, and handwritten notes from the four band members. The first stop for the tour supporting the Alive! album was on its release day in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Five days after its release, Aucoin informed Bogart that Kiss were going to leave Casablanca. In response, Bogart signed a two million dollar check to retain the band.
Re-releases
Alive! was originally reissued as a double-CD set in what has now become known as a "Fatboy" 2CD case. When the Kiss back catalog was remastered, it was housed in a slimline 2CD case and, in keeping with the rest of the reissue program, had the artwork restored. Alive! was re-released in 2006 as part of the Kiss Alive! 1975–2000 box set. The short running time of Alive! allowed for a single, unedited CD edition in that release. The remastered CD edition eliminated the breaks between the four sides of the original LP release, resulting in that version of the album playing as one continuous performance. The 72-page booklet packaged with the CD set erroneously credited songwriting for "Cold Gin" to Stanley instead of Ace Frehley.
The album was reissued in 2014 on vinyl with the original artwork and sleeve. The album was reissued again in 2020 for its 45th Anniversary on colored vinyl.
Reception
Critical
Alive! received negative and mixed reviews from contemporary critics. Alan Niester of Rolling Stone judged the band's music to be "awful, criminally repetitive, thuddingly monotonous... and mildly entertaining for about ten minutes", remarking how Casablanca promoted Kiss as "new bad-boy teen idols". Village Voice critic Robert Christgau manifested "bemused curiosity" for the album and stated that, while many considered the album to be either "a de facto best-of" or "sludge", he and "the multimillion kids who are buying it don't fall into either category".
Modern reviews have generally been highly positive. Greg Prato of AllMusic considered Alive! to be "Kiss' greatest album ever." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, the album was called "a nonstop Kiss-Krieg of two-note guitar motifs, fake-sounding audience noise, and inspirational chitchat," but also "the next best thing to being there, clearly." Jason Josephes of Pitchfork wrote that "the album may seem like a joke, mainly because it contains every arena rock cliche in the book," but called it "total sonic proof of Kiss climbing their apex." Canadian journalist Martin Popoff remarked how Alive! "turned Kiss into an insane rock 'n' roll phenomenon" by elevating what were "economical and low-key hard rock ditties for kiddies" to "larger-than-life status, each now a bombastic track enveloped in fire-breathing mayhem, exploding smokebombs and screaming, hysterical crowds way too high in the mix."
Commercial
Alive! peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 album charts, and charted for 110 weeks, by far the longest chart run in the band's history.
Legacy
In 2003, the album was ranked No. 159 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 update, and dropping to number 305 in the 2020 revision. In 2006, it was placed at No. 26 on Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time. In 2009, the same magazine placed it at No. 3 on their list of Top 10 Live Albums.
"Alive! was the first album I ever bought," Soundgarden's Kim Thayil told Guitar World in 1992. "And I wasn't alone: you can hear their influence all over metal and punk." Scott Ian and Charlie Benante of Anthrax were immediate fans of the album and "loved every single song on that record."
The RIAA only acknowledge 500,000 units sold in the United States, even though the album has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. The album has not been re-certified by RIAA after December 4, 1975, 3 months after it was originally released. Soundscan figures from 2007 add another 258,000 in US sales between 1991 and 2006, making it the band's fourth best selling pre-1991 album.
Track listing
All credits adapted from the original releases.
Personnel
Kiss
Paul Stanley – vocals, rhythm guitar
Gene Simmons – vocals, bass
Peter Criss – drums, vocals
Ace Frehley – lead guitar, backing vocals
Additional personnel
J.R. Smalling – spoken word introduction
Production
Eddie Kramer – producer, engineer, mixing
George Marino – remastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Sources
External links
1975 live albums
Albums produced by Eddie Kramer
Kiss (band) live albums
Casablanca Records live albums
Music controversies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive%21%20%28Kiss%20album%29 |
The Visit may refer to:
Film and television
The Visit (1964 film), a 1964 adaptation of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt play starring Ingrid Bergman
The Visit (2000 film), directed by Jordan Walker-Pearlman
The Visit (2015 American film), a 2015 film by M. Night Shyamalan
The Visit (2015 Nigerian film), a 2015 film starring Nse Ikpe Etim and Femi Jacobs
The Visit (2015 film), a 2015 film by Danish director Michael Madsen
The Visit (TV series), a 2007 BBC sitcom
Literature and theatre
The Visit (play), a 1956 play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Visit (poetry collection), a 1970 collection by Ian Hamilton
The Visit (musical), a 2001 Kander and Ebb musical adaptation of the Dürrenmatt play
Music
The Visit (Pat Martino album), a 1972 album by Pat Martino, and its title track
The Visit (EP), a 1980 EP by Ludus
The Visit (Loreena McKennitt album), 1991
"The Visit" (song), a 2000 song by Chad Brock
See also
Visit (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Visit |
The Clinton House is a historic building located in downtown Ithaca, New York. It is built primarily in the Greek Revival style, common in older buildings in Ithaca. It currently houses offices and a local charter school. It is directly adjacent to the Ithaca Commons.
History
The Clinton House was originally built in 1828–1829 as an upscale hotel and Ithaca's first professional office building, with 150 rooms, an immense undertaking for the then 4,000-strong population of Ithaca. It was named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York from 1817 to 1822 and again from 1824 to 1827.
Upon its opening Clinton House was reputed to be "the most imposing hotel" between New York and Buffalo.
At least four U.S. presidents have stayed in its rooms, as well as numerous film actors from Ithaca's brief heyday as a center for the film industry.
The Clinton House was built in 1831, which was during the Greek Revival Stage of America (1820–1860). The columns out front and the enormous windows and doors are sure signs of the style.
Today, The Clinton house houses many business offices and the New Roots Charter School.
See also
List of Registered Historic Places in New York
List of places named for DeWitt Clinton
References
External links
Historic Ithaca Buildings
Buildings and structures in Ithaca, New York
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
Hotel buildings completed in 1829
Hotels established in 1828
National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%20House%20%28Ithaca%2C%20New%20York%29 |
A pulmonary thrombectomy is an emergency surgical procedure used to remove blood clots from the pulmonary arteries.
Mechanical thrombectomies can be surgical (surgical thrombectomy) or percutaneous (percutaneous thrombectomy).
Surgical thrombectomies were once popular but were abandoned because of poor long-term outcomes. Recently, in selected patients, they have gone through a resurgence with the revision of the surgical technique.
Relation to PTE
Pulmonary thrombectomies and pulmonary thromboendarterectomies (PTEs) are both operations that remove thrombus. Aside from this similarity they differ in many ways.
PTEs are done on a nonemergency basis while pulmonary thrombectomies are typically done as an emergency procedure.
PTEs typically are done using hypothermia and full cardiac arrest.
PTEs are done for chronic pulmonary embolism, thrombectomies for severe acute pulmonary embolism.
PTEs are generally considered a very effective treatment, surgical thrombectomies are an area of some controversy and their effectiveness a matter of some debate in the medical community.
See also
Pulmonary embolism
Heart-lung machine
References
External links
Pulmonary thoracic surgery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary%20thrombectomy |
Linden is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa - situated towards the north western suburbs of the city on the border of the former independent town of Randburg. This established suburb between to north-west of the Johannesburg CBD was designed so that most of the streets and avenues form similar sized blocks. A number of shops, churches and schools can be found on 3rd Avenue and 4th Avenue. Attractions include arts, crafts, studios, coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and small shops. Bordering suburbs include Northcliff, Blairgowrie, Victory Park, Greenside and Cresta.
History
Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called Klipfontein. It became a suburb in 1901 and possibly named Johannes van der Linde who laid out the land with Lourens Geldenhuys. Prior to the land being surveyed, it was used to grow fruit. In 1937, it became part of the City of Johannesburg.
References
External links
Map of Linden
Johannesburg Region B | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden%2C%20Gauteng |
Berberis vulgaris, also known as common barberry, European barberry or simply barberry, is a shrub in the genus Berberis native to the Old World. It produces edible but sharply acidic berries, which people in many countries eat as a tart and refreshing fruit.
Description
It is a deciduous shrub growing up to high. The leaves are small oval, long and broad, with a serrated margin; they are borne in clusters of 2–5 together, subtended by a three-branched spine long. The flowers are yellow, across, produced on long panicles in late spring. The fruit is an oblong red berry long and broad, ripening in late summer or autumn.
Distribution and habitat
The shrub is native to central and southern Europe, southern England, northwest Africa and western Asia; it is also naturalised in northern Europe and North America. In the United States and Canada, it has become established in the wild over an area from Nova Scotia to Nebraska, with additional populations in Colorado, Idaho, Washington state, Montana, and British Columbia. It is also cultivated in many countries.
Ecology
The berries are an important food for many small birds, which disperse the seeds in their droppings.
B. vulgaris is the alternate host species of the wheat stem rust fungus (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici), a grass-infecting rust fungus that is a serious fungal disease of wheat and related grains. For this reason, cultivation of B. vulgaris is prohibited in Canada and some areas of the US (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Hampshire).
Uses
The edible berries, though rich in vitamin C, have a very sharp or sour flavor and are not widely consumed because the thorny shrubs make them difficult to harvest.
In Europe, the berries have been traditionally used as an ingredient in making jam. The berries are high in pectin which makes the jam congeal as it cools after having been boiled. In southwestern Asia, especially Iran, the berries are used for cooking, as well as for jam-making. In Iran, barberries are commonly used as a currant in rice pilaf.
zerešk is the Persian name for the dried fruit of Berberis spp., particularly also that of Berberis integerrima called zerešk bi-dâne, literally 'seedless barberry', which is widely cultivated in Iran. Iran is the largest producer of zerešk.
The South Khorasan province in Iran is the main area of zerešk and saffron production in the world, especially around Birjand and Qaen. About 85% of production is in Qaen and about 15% in Birjand. There is evidence of cultivation of seedless barberry in South Khorasan two hundred years ago. A garden of zerešk is called zerešk-estân. Zerešk is widely used in cooking, imparting a tart flavor to chicken dishes. It is usually cooked with rice, called zerešk polo, and provides a meal with chicken.
Other uses
The plant has been widely cultivated for hedges in New Zealand.
Salishan people have used "barberry" to treat acne in their traditional medicine, although bark of the native Berberis aquifolium (Oregon grape) and other related species was used. Native American Indians used the roots or berries as a general herbal tonic to stimulate appetite. A decoction of the plant has been used as a folk medicine to treat gastrointestinal ailments and coughs, although its use has been limited due to the bitter taste of the bark and root.
See also
Berberis microphylla, calafate (a related shrub with similar berries, native in temperate South America)
References
External links
Flora Europaea: Berberis vulgaris distribution
vulgaris
Medicinal plants of Africa
Medicinal plants of Asia
Medicinal plants of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Spices
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20vulgaris |
Henry Joseph Mansell (born October 10, 1937) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut from the fourth Archbishop of Hartford from 2004 to 2013.
Mansell previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in New York from 1995 to 2003 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in New York City from 1992 to 1995.
Biography
Early life
Henry Mansell was born on October 10, 1937, in the Bronx section of New York City to Henry and Bridget (née Finn) Mansell, and baptized at St. Augustine's Church in the Bronx three weeks later. He has a sister, Ann. Mansell attended Cathedral College in Manhattan from 1951 to 195. He then entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1959.
Priesthood
Mansell was ordained to the priesthood in Rome for the Archdiocese of New York by Archbishop Martin O'Connor on December 19, 1962. He earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1963, and did postgraduate work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. until 1965.
Mansell served as a parish priest at parishes in Harrison, New York, the Bronx, and Saints John and Paul Parish in Larchmont, New York. He was appointed director of the Office of Parish Councils on June 9, 1972, and vice chancellor of the archdiocese on July 1, 1985. On March 17, 1986, Mansell was raised by the Vatican to the rank of honorary prelate. He later became director of priest personnel and chancellor (1988) of the archdiocese.
Auxiliary Bishop of New York
On November 24, 1992, Mansell was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and titular bishop of Marazanae by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1993 from the pope, with Archbishops Giovanni Re and Justin Rigali serving as co-consecrators, in Rome. He selected as his episcopal motto, "Blessed be God" ().
Bishop of Buffalo
John Paul II appointed Mansell as the twelfth bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo on April 18, 1995. Succeeding the retiring Bishop Edward D. Head, Mansell was installed on June 12, 1995, at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Buffalo.
During his tenure, Mansell visited every parish in the diocese, most of them multiple times. He also promoted Catholic education, and health care and social service institutes within the diocese. Mansell established the Catholic Health Care System of Western New York, uniting the resources of local Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. In 1996, Mansell instituted the diocese's vicariate structure, and in 1997 he led the diocese in celebrating its 150th anniversary. He instituted a televised "Daily Mass" celebrated from a chapel at St. Joseph Cathedral for the homebound.
Mansell received honorary doctorates from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York in May 1996, from St. Bonaventure University in Saint Bonaventure, New York in August 1996, and from Canisius College in Buffalo in May 1997. In September 2003, New York Governor George Pataki named Mansell to the State Commission on Education Reform.
In Mansell's farewell letter to parishioners of the dioceses in 2003, he said that, "Buffalo is a very strong diocese," and that its parishes, schools, and social service agencies "guarantee strength...for years to come." In 2006, Buffalo Business First reported that Mansell's successor, Bishop Edward Kmiec said that some statistics were too optimistic, and that church and parochial school closures would be necessary to address declining attendance and enrollment, as well as $3 million in debt.
Archbishop of Hartford
Pope John Paul II appointed Mansell as the fourth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford on October 20, 2003. He was installed on December 18, 2004. On June 29, 2004, Mansell received the pallium from Pope John Paul II in Rome.
In 2005, the archdiocese paid $22 million to settle sexual abuse claims brought by 43 people against 14 priests, the majority of cases occurring in the 1960s and 1970s. Mansell made a statement regarding the settlement. Of the settlement of the sexual abuse case regarding the 14 priests in the Archdiocese, Mansell was quoted in a New York Times article by William Yardley, stating: "[It is] part of a healing process for the persons whose lives have been severely harmed by the evil of sexual abuse and for the Church itself."
Mansell is a proponent of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Retirement
Having reached the mandatory retirement age, Mansell submitted his letter of resignation as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford to Pope Francis. Mansell was succeeded by Bishop Leonard P. Blair in December 2013.
See also
Catholic Church in the United States
Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
List of Catholic bishops of the United States
Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
References
External links
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford
Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo
Episcopal succession
1937 births
Living people
Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) alumni
Catholic University of America alumni
Roman Catholic bishops of Hartford
Roman Catholic bishops of Buffalo
American Roman Catholic archbishops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20J.%20Mansell |
The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1988 after J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, and his wife Alice following their $15 million endowment gift to the school.
The school is housed in the N. Eldon Tanner Building and supports 137 full-time faculty and approximately 200 adjunct, part-time or visiting faculty, full-time staff and students who teach. It has approximately 2,100 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students, and approximately 62 percent of its student body are bilingual. As of 2019, its alumni base numbers 55,000.
Description
Going by several different names since its inception in 1891, the business school at BYU had been known as the Marriott School of Management since 1988, when Marriott International founders J. Willard and Alice Marriott made a $15 million (equivalent to $ million in ) donation to the school. In 2017, the name was changed to the Marriott School of Business. The Marriott School is housed in the N. Eldon Tanner Building and offers five undergraduate and six graduate degrees.
Ethical decision-making is strongly emphasized at the school: undergraduate students are required to complete 14 hours of religion coursework for graduation, all Marriott School students must take at least one course in management ethics, and both students and faculty must commit to abide by the university's honor code. The school also exhibits a unique culture because the majority of its student and faculty are members of the LDS Church.
Many Marriott School students obtain a level of foreign language proficiency while serving as LDS missionaries. (Sixty-five percent of the student body is bilingual.) Consequently, the Marriott School sponsors high-proficiency business language courses in 11 languages. The school claims over 53,000 alumni and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
History
In 1891, Brigham Young Academy, the predecessor to BYU, formed the Commercial College, which offered coursework in business education. A decade later (1901), the college began offering its first four-year degree program. After Brigham Young Academy was separated into Brigham Young High School and Brigham Young University in 1903, the college was renamed the College of Commerce and Business Administration as part of the university. The next decade was tough for the college, as "BYU struggled through the World War I, a flu epidemic [that] closed the school during the fall term of 1918, and school indebtedness that resulted in the 1918 LDS purchase of both BYU's assets and debts." Starting in 1921, the college was housed in the Maeser Building, where it would remain for 13 years.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 significantly depleted LDS Church funds, which caused the church to consider closing BYU. However, "the transference of a number of church junior colleges allowed BYU to remain in operation." By 1935 the church regained its financial footing and provided more aid to BYU, the school growing slowly over the next ten years. The business college subsequently began offering master's degrees in 1939; however, the programs were hit hard beginning in 1941 when its enrollment (particularly that of men) dropped due to U.S. involvement in World War II. But later that decade, U.S. military veterans returned to school, and in 1945 enrollment doubled. William F. Edwards oversaw the college's growth over the next several years until 1957, when the school was re-branded as the College of Business and Weldon J. Taylor was appointed as its first dean. A year later (1958) the business school held its first management conference, and in 1960 the school was moved to the newly completed Jesse Knight Building.
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was added in 1961, and the school formed its National Advisory Council in 1966. In 1973, the school bestowed its first International Executive of the Year Award on AT&T president Robert D. Lilley. Bruce B. Orton served as interim dean of the school for a year until 1975, when Merrill J. Bateman was recruited from a management position at candy-maker Mars, Inc. to become the dean. That same year, the school was separated into the School of Management for undergraduate studies and the Graduate School of Management, which grouped together the MBA, MPA, MOB, and MAcc programs. A year later (1976), the business school created a School of Accountancy within its jurisdiction and printed its first issue of Exchange magazine (now Marriott Alumni Magazine). In 1977, the BYU Management Society was organized.
In 1979, William G. Dyer became dean of the school. Dyer oversaw the construction of the N. Eldon Tanner Building, which was dedicated in 1982. In 1983, an Executive MBA program was added, and in 1984 Paul H. Thompson was appointed dean of the school. Two years later (1986), the International Student Sponsor Program was started, which continues to provide financial assistance to married LDS international students to this day. In 1988, the name of the school was changed to Marriott School of Management in honor of its benefactors—Marriott International founders J. Willard and Alice Marriott—following their $15 million donation to the school. That same year, the Army and Air Force ROTC programs became a part of the Marriott School.
In 1989, K. Fred Skousen became dean of the school. In that year, the school's endowment exceeded $10 million, and the school was awarded a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) grant by the U.S. Department of Education. In 1993, the Organizational Leadership and Strategy Department was created, and a year later the school instituted a limited-enrollment policy. Also in 1994, the school began offering a minor in management. By 1998, the school's endowment had reached $40 million and the Institute of Public Management was renamed in honor of George W. Romney, who during his lifetime served as chairman of American Motors Corporation, Governor of Michigan, and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. That same year, Ned C. Hill was named dean of the Marriott School.
The Melvin J. Ballard Center for Social Impact was formed in 2003, and the Information Systems Department was created in 2005. That same year the CESR also participated in the production of the microcredit documentary Small Fortunes, which aired nationwide on October 27, 2005, on PBS. In 2006 the school's worldwide initiatives were organized under the Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center, named for former Kodak CEO Kay Whitmore and his wife.
In 2006, members of the school's faculty were involved in controversy surrounding the U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries. On October 9, Dean Hill and Associate Dean W. Steve Albrecht sent an e-mail to 50 BYU Management Society members and 100 members of the school's National Advisory Council asking them to support Mitt Romney's bid for the U.S. presidency. Hill and Albrecht signed the message with their official BYU titles, sent the e-mail from a BYU e-mail address, and began the message "Dear Marriott School Friend." Both the LDS Church and BYU, as tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations, are prohibited by federal law from endorsing a particular candidate or political party. Albrecht said that he should not have sent it in his capacity as a BYU dean: "It wasn't something BYU did, it wasn't something I probably should have done, and it was bad judgment."
By 2007, the school's endowment reached $130 million, and in 2008, the Tanner Building Addition was dedicated. For 2013, the endowment reached $182.1 million. Also during this year, the Finance Department was formed in an effort to strengthen curriculum and placement; the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology was created in honor of former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins and his wife Debra; and administrators announced the addition of a Recreation Management and Youth Leadership (RMYL) Department to the school. The latter department was formerly under BYU's College of Health and Human Performance and comprises the academic disciplines of leisure services management, therapeutic recreation, Scouting administration, non-profit management, and youth leadership. In 2017, the Recreation Management program was converted to the Experience Design & Management program, and the Therapeutic Recreation emphasis was retired.
In August 2017, BYU announced the name would be changed from the Marriott School of Management to the Marriott School of Business.
In May 2018, Brigitte C. Madrian, a behavioral economist from the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, was named the ninth dean of the Marriott School of Business and is the first female to serve as dean.
Campus
The Marriott School is located on the campus of BYU, which is situated in the urban, Wasatch Front area of Provo, Utah. The school is principally housed inside the N. Eldon Tanner Building (TNRB). At the building's construction announcement in 1980, BYU president Dallin H. Oaks said that the Board of Trustees named it in honor of N. Eldon Tanner (a Canadian politician and counselor to four LDS Church presidents) because he was known in Canada as "Mr. Integrity"—a title wished upon every Marriott School graduate. At the groundbreaking for the building on November 8, 1980, "explosives that were used to remove the soil showered unsuspecting spectators with dust and pebbles." The Tanner Building was completed in late 1982 and dedicated on April 5, 1983, by Gordon B. Hinckley. Today, the seven-story, granite building houses Marriott School classrooms as well as professor and administration offices. A addition, costing $43 million and funded by donations, was dedicated on October 24, 2008, by alumnus Thomas S. Monson. The addition increased the building's capacity by 53 percent and provides 10 tiered classrooms, one network teaching room, one large assembly room, and 39 study rooms.
The Tanner Building is located directly west of central campus. To its immediate north is the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center and on-campus housing Helaman Halls. Its western and southern sides are covered by athletic facilities. Close by is also the newly renovated Jesse Knight Building (JKB), where some business school classes are held. Additionally, a parking garage is located adjacent to the Tanner Building.
Academics
Organization and research
As part of the larger institution of BYU, the Marriott School is ultimately administered by BYU's President and Board of Trustees. Under them, the school is directly managed by a Dean (currently Brigitte C. Madrian), who is advised by three associate deans and the school's National Advisory Council. The school has nine academic departments, each overseen by a department chair. The Marriott School student body has its own student council, which serves an umbrella organization for Marriott School clubs. The school houses student chapters for national associations including the Society for Human Resource Management, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization, Rotaract, and Net Impact. There is also a chapter of the honorary association Beta Alpha Psi.
Faculty are grouped in one or more of seven "academic areas": accounting, business management (including management communication, business law, and international business), finance, information systems, organizational leadership and strategy, public management, and experience design and management. The school is also home to four research centers that organize research in different fields of business administration and establish liaisons between the Marriott School and the corporate world. Both undergraduate and graduate students may be invited to work as teaching and research assistants, and some MAcc students teach accounting classes during the spring or summer terms, as well as at the BYU's Salt Lake Center. However, research productivity is hampered by the fact that the Marriott School has no doctoral programs, and therefore, no doctoral students focused on research. The Marriott School faculty was ranked #64 nationally and #71 globally in 2008 for its research productivity in the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Ranking.
The Marriott School oversees two perennial publications: Economic Self-Reliance (a semi-annual, practitioner-focused publication that highlights research and best practices) and Marriott Alumni Magazine (a tri-annual publication that showcases innovative business research and ideas as well as news from the school and alumni). Marriott School students and faculty are serviced by the Business and Economics Library within the Harold B. Lee Library, which houses an accounting lab and several Bloomberg Terminals. The MSM is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Curriculum and degrees offered
The Marriott School offers ten Bachelor of Science degree programs: Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Global Supply Chain Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurial Management, Experience Design and Management, and Business Management. Seven minors are also offered: Business, Entrepreneurship, Global Business and Literacy, Healthcare Leadership, Information Systems, Global and Community Impact, and Strategy.
The school offers six graduate degrees: the MAcc, MBA, EMBA, EMPA, MISM, and MPA. MBA students choose a major (Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, OBHR, or Product Development) and a minor (Entrepreneurship, International Business, Strategy) if desired. MAcc students choose either audit, tax, or PhD Prep.
Matriculation into the Marriott School as an undergraduate requires an application independent from normal acceptance to BYU. Once in the program, students go through a one-semester "core" where students in the block are in the same classes together as teams. All undergraduates must also complete a one-semester mentoring program where each student selects a Marriott School alumnus to converse with over the course of the semester. The Marriott School's class schedules mirror those of the university: two 16-week semesters (fall and winter) and two terms over the summer break (spring and summer). Students must carry 12 credit hours in order to be considered a full-time student, and 18 credit hours is the maximum unless permission is granted to take more.
About 70% of student tuition is funded by LDS Church tithing funds, making tuition less expensive for church members than at similar private universities. Students not members of the church pay double the LDS tuition rate. For the 2014–2015 school year, Marriott School tuition for full-time LDS undergraduates is $2,500 per semester; for Marriott School graduate students, it is $5,810 per semester. All Marriott School students may apply for several school-specific and university-wide financial aid opportunities. Some are program-specific, others are need-based. The Hawes Scholars program is the highest scholarship distinction given to MBA students at the school. The program awards $10,000 to second-year students who are nominated by students or faculty, and who are then selected based on academic performance, leadership maturity, and a commitment to high ethical standards.
All Marriott School students may also earn the Global Management Certificate. To earn the certificate, students are required to take a business language course, pertinent international business classes, and participate in an international field study or study abroad program. Undergraduate students may also qualify for graduation honors. University Honors is the highest distinction BYU awards its graduates. Overseen by Honors Program, the distinction requires students to complete an honors curriculum requirement, a Great Works requirement, an Advanced Languages requirement, a service requirement, an honors thesis requirement, a graduation portfolio that summarizes the student's honors experiences—all while maintaining at least a 3.5 GPA. The Marriott School designates a faculty member as its honors coordinator, who aids students in finding faculty with whom to begin honors thesis research. The university also awards Latin scholastic distinctions: summa cum laude, top 1 percent; magna cum laude, top 5 percent; and cum laude, top 10 percent.
Rankings, awards, and admissions
Many of the Marriott School's degree programs have received high rankings from independent sources. In 2014, the Marriott School's undergraduate programs were ranked #13 by BusinessWeek. The Marriott School's MBA program received rankings from several sources for 2016–2017: #23 ranking by BusinessWeek, #17 by Forbes, and #27 by U.S. News & World Report. Among regional schools the program was ranked #1 by The Wall Street Journal's most recent ranking (2007); and among business schools worldwide the MBA program was ranked #93 for 2014 by Financial Times. The undergrad program was also ranked #2 for return on investment (BusinessWeek, 2013) and #2 for its emphasis on ethics (The Wall Street Journal, 2007).
The Marriott School's accounting program is the only program in the country to receive the American Accounting Association's Innovation in Accounting Education Award twice. The first award, received in 1993, was for the development of an integrated approach to teaching accounting. The second award, received in 2007, was for the development of a PhD Prep Track to prepare MAcc students to enroll in a PhD program after graduation. For 2013, the bachelor's degree in the School of Accountancy received two #3 rankings, one by Public Accounting Report and the other by U.S. News & World Report. The same two reporting agencies also ranked the school's MAcc program #2 and #7 in the nation, respectively.
The Information Systems department was ranked #26 in the nation in 2003 for research, and its MISM program was ranked "among the top ten" by TechRepublic in 2008.
The Marriott School is one of the few colleges at BYU that requires application from undergraduate students post-matriculation to the university itself. In addition to essays and pre-baccalaureate academics, students are evaluated on performance in 13 credit hours of "pre-management" coursework at BYU. For 2008, the MSM admitted 69 percent of undergraduate applicants, comprising a class of 1,783 students.
Applicants to the MBA program are evaluated based on commitment to the mission of BYU and the LDS Church, undergraduate academic performance, Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) standardized test scores, essays, work experience, recommendations, written applications, and interviews, if applicable. For 2009, the MBA program admitted 51 percent of applicants or 478 students. The class averaged 672 on the GMAT, 3.54 GPA, and 45 months of work experience post-baccalaureate.
People
Students
The Marriott School student body comprises approximately 1,900 undergraduate and 1,100 graduate students. Nearly 75 percent of the students are bilingual and about 30 percent speak a third language, most having lived abroad while serving a mission for the LDS Church. Approximately 16 percent of students are international students, 66 percent are married, and whites (non-Hispanic) comprise 91 percent of the student body as of 2009. Eighty-seven percent of domestic students hail from the West. The mean and median ages of undergraduate students is 23, 21 percent of whom are female. Female MBA students only account for 13 percent of the graduating class.
The Marriott School embodies a distinct culture due to its affiliation with the LDS Church. "Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not required for admittance into the [school], but an understanding of and a commitment to support the Church's mission is necessary." All students must adhere to the university's honor code, which prescribes standards of morality, dress and grooming, academic honesty, and drug and alcohol non-consumption. Undergraduate students must also take 14 credit hours of religion courses in order to fulfill the university's religious education requirement for graduation.
Students find diversion in clubs sponsored by the MSM and in university-wide intramural sports. Students interested in careers in academia can participate in the Marriott School of Management Pre-doctoral Student Organization. Students also compete in academic competitions at various campuses and venues. A BYU student team placed #1 at the University of Arizona's annual ethics competition (Duel in the Desert) in 2006 and 2007, and a team of undergraduate accounting students placed #1 in the 2007 Deloitte Tax Case Competition—marking BYU's seventh consecutive first- or second-place finish in this division. The BYU chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization also received three first-place national chapter awards at the organization's national conference in Chicago, including "Best in Teaching Entrepreneurship" and "Best Chapter Marketing." Additionally, a BYU student team was #3 at the 2007 International Venture Capital Investment Competition finals, finishing behind MIT and the University of Virginia.
Faculty
The Marriott School has 130 full-time faculty with more than 90 percent holding PhDs. Faculty have included former Academy of Management president David Whetten, WordPerfect co-founder Alan Ashton, FranklinCovey co-founder Stephen Covey, University of Oxford professor Teppo Felin, and Steve Albrecht, former President of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and of the American Accounting Association.
Several Marriott School faculty have been awarded for their efforts in teaching and research, as well as in the community. Kevin Stocks was awarded the 2007 Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Award of Merit by the Federation of Schools of Accountancy for displaying excellence in accounting education, and Warner Woodworth received the 2007 Faculty Pioneer Award in External Impact from The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education in recognition for the integration of social issues in research and teaching. Gary Cornia also received the 2006 Stephen D. Gold Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, while Chyleen Arbon was appointed to the Utah Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Alumni
Numbering 55,000, graduates from the Marriott School have been deemed "first among recruiters" by BusinessWeek in 2008. Top recruiters include Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, HP, Intel, Cisco, and Goldman Sachs. For 2009, MBA graduates averaged $87,769 in post-graduation salary, MPA graduates $48,294, MAcc graduates $51,900, MISM graduates $58,785, and management undergraduates $48,995.
There is also a strong contingency of Marriott School alumni who pursue a career in academia, with BYU being ranked #8 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs. This is due in part to the MAcc PhD Prep Track and the BYU Honors Program.
Alumni of the Marriott School of Management who are prominent in business include Citigroup CFO Gary Crittenden 1976, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins 1984, former Intermountain Health Care CEO Bill Nelson '67, and Krispy Kreme president Jeffrey B. Welch '84. In education, Alison Davis-Blake '82 is president of Bentley University, John Grout '84 is Dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College. Alumni in other fields include Thomas S. Monson '74, former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and chairman of the BYU Board of Trustees, violinist Lindsey Sterling '15, and three-time NFL Super Bowl champion Bart Oates '82.
Many alumni also choose to participate in the BYU Management Society, which was founded in 1977 by Dean Merrill J. Bateman. The organization is an alumni association "with inclusivity", inviting non-alumni to join as well. The fourfold mission of the society is networking, career development, supporting BYU and the Marriott School, and community service. The Society membership is now at 6,000 members in 40 U.S. cities and 10 countries.
See also
List of United States business school rankings
List of business schools in the United States
List of deans of the Marriott School of Management
References
External links
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Business schools in Utah
Universities and colleges established in 1891
Universities and colleges established in 1961
University subdivisions in Utah
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A Rubik's Snake (also Rubik's Twist, Rubik's Transformable Snake, Rubik’s Snake Puzzle) is a toy with 24 wedges that are right isosceles triangular prisms. The wedges are connected by spring bolts, so that they can be twisted, but not separated. By being twisted, the Rubik's Snake can be made to resemble a wide variety of objects, animals, or geometric shapes. Its "ball" shape in its packaging is a non-uniform concave rhombicuboctahedron.
The snake was invented by Ernő Rubik, better known as the inventor of the Rubik's Cube.
Rubik's Snake was released during 1981 at the height of the Rubik's Cube craze. According to Ernő Rubik: "The snake is not a problem to be solved; it offers infinite possibilities of combination. It is a tool to test out ideas of shape in space. Speaking theoretically, the number of the snake's combinations is limited. But speaking practically, that number is limitless, and a lifetime is not sufficient to realize all of its possibilities." Other manufacturers have produced versions with more pieces than the original.
Structure
The 24 prisms are aligned in row with an alternating orientation (normal and upside down). Each prism can adopt 4 different positions, each with an offset of 90°. Usually the prisms have alternating colors.
Notation
Twisting instructions
The steps needed to make an arbitrary shape or figure can be described in a number of ways.
One common starting configuration is a straight bar with alternating upper and lower prisms, with the rectangular faces facing up and down, and the triangular faces facing towards the player. The 12 lower prisms are numbered 1 through 12 starting from the left, with the left and the right sloping faces of these prisms are labeled L and R respectively. The last of the upper prisms is on the right, so the L face of prism 1 does not have an adjacent prism.
The four possible positions of the adjacent prism on each L and R sloping face are numbered 0, 1, 2 and 3 (representing the number of twists between the bottom prism and the L or R adjacent prism). Numbering is based on always twisting the adjacent prism so it swings towards the player: position 1 turns the adjacent blocks towards them, position 2 makes a 90° turn, and position 3 turns the adjacent block away from the player. Position 0 is the starting position, therefore it is not explicitly noted in step-by-step instructions.
Using these rules, a twist can be simply described as:
Number of the downward-facing prism (from the left): 1 to 12
Left or right sloping side of the prism: L or R
Position of the twist: 1, 2 or 3
Machine processing
The position of the 23 turning areas can also be written directly after each other. Here the positions 0, 1, 2 and 3 are always based on the degrees of twist between the right-hand prisms relative to the left-hand prism, when viewed from the right of the axis of rotation.
However, this notation is impractical for human readers, because it is difficult to determine the order of the twists.
Fiore method
Rather than numbers, Albert Fiore uses letters to refer to the direction the second (rightward) section is turned in relation to the first (leftward) section: D, L, U, and R. These are listed consecutively rather than numbered, so that a completely straight figure rather than being presumed as a starting point is notated DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
Mathematical formulation
The number of different shapes of the Rubik's Snake is at most 423 = ( ≈ 7×1013 or 70trillion), i.e. 23 turning areas with 4 positions each. The real number of different shapes is lower, since some configurations are spatially impossible (because they would require multiple prisms to occupy the same region of space). Peter Aylett computed by an exhaustive search that (≈ 1.3×1013 or 13 Trillion) positions are possible when prohibiting prism collisions, or passing through a collision to reach another position; or (≈ 6.7×1012) when mirror images (defined as the same sequence of turns, but from the other end of the snake) are counted as the one position, and likewise for rotational symmetries in loops (where the sequence of turns in a loop is cycled).
See also
Combination puzzles
Mechanical puzzles
Nonplanar flexagons
References
/
External links
Rubiks Snake Fansite, collection of shapes and figures of Rubik's Snake
glsnake - open-source cross-platform implementation of Rubik's Snake (also ported to XScreenSaver)
^RecbixSnake - open-source cross-platform implementation of Rubik's Snake in Rec Room's visual programming language “Circuits”
1980s toys
Mechanical puzzles
Combination puzzles
Hungarian inventions
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Area codes 209 and 350 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of California. Their service area includes Stockton, Modesto, Turlock, Merced, Winton, Atwater, Livingston, Manteca, Ripon, Tracy, Lodi, Galt, Sonora, Los Banos, San Andreas, Mariposa, and Yosemite, the northern San Joaquin Valley (part of the Central Valley), and the Sierra Foothills.
Area code 209 was created in an area code split of area code 415 on October 26, 1957. On November 14, 1998, the southern half of this numbering plan area received the assignment of area code 559.
On October 24, 2021, 209 was transitioned to 1+10-digit dialing despite not being part of an overlay complex at that time. The area code had telephone numbers assigned for the central office code 988, which was designated as a nationwide three-digit dialing code for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in 2022. This created a conflict for all NPAs with central office codes of 988 that still permitted seven-digit dialing, requiring all such NPAs to transition to ten-digit dialing.
On November 28, 2022, the 209 numbering plan area was assigned a second area code, 350, to form an overlay complex to address the impending central office code exhaustion in 209 from growth in telecommunication services. The network preparation period was able to be expedited since ten-digit dialing was already in effect.
Service area
Counties
Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Merced, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne
Towns and cities
Acampo, Big Oak Flat, Burson, Ceres, Chinese Camp, Coarsegold, Clements, Columbia, Crows Landing, Dardanelle, Delhi, Denair, El Portal, Empire, Escalon, Farmington, French Camp, Galt, Groveland, Hathaway Pines, Herald, Hickman, Hilmar, Holt, Hornitos, Hughson, Jamestown, Keyes, Kit Carson, La Grange, Lathrop, Le Grand, Linden, Lockeford, Lodi, Long Barn, Manteca, Mi Wuk Village, Midpines, Moccasin, Modesto, Mount Aukum, Mountain House, Newman, Oakdale, Patterson, Pinecrest, Planada, Ripon, River Pines, Riverbank, Salida, Santa Rita Park, Sheep Ranch, Sonora, Soulsbyville, Standard, Stevinson, Stockton, Thornton, Tracy, Tuolumne, Turlock, Twain Harte, Vernalis, Victor, Waterford, Westley, Wilseyville, Woodbridge, and Yosemite National Park
Alpine County
Kirkwood
Amador County
Amador City
Buckhorn
Buena Vista
Drytown
Fiddletown
Ham's Station
Ione
Jackson
Martell
Pine Grove
Pioneer
Plymouth
Sutter Creek
Volcano
Calaveras County
Altaville
Angels Camp
Arnold
Avery
Calaveritas
Campo Seco
Cave City
Copperopolis
Dorrington
Douglas Flat
Forest Meadows
Fourth Crossing
Glencoe
Jenny Lind
Jesus Maria
Mokelumne Hill
Mountain Ranch
Murphys
Paloma
Rail Road Flat
Rancho Calaveras
San Andreas
Sandy Gulch
Vallecito
Valley Springs
Wallace
West Point
Mariposa County
Bootjack
Buck Meadows
Catheys Valley
Coulterville
Mariposa
Wawona
Yosemite Valley
Merced County
Atwater
Ballico
Cressey
Delhi
Dos Palos
El Nido
Gustine
Hilmar
Le Grand
Livingston
Los Banos
Merced
Planada
Santa Nella
Snelling
South Dos Palos
Winton
Sacramento County
Galt
Herald
San Joaquin County
August
Banta
Country Club
Escalon
Farmington
French Camp
Garden Acres
Kennedy
Lathrop
Lincoln Village
Linden
Lockeford
Lodi
Manteca
Morada
Mountain House
North Woodbridge
Ripon
South Woodbridge
Stockton
Taft Mosswood
Tracy
Victor
Stanislaus County
Bystrom
Ceres
Del Rio
Denair
East Oakdale
Empire
Grayson
Hickman
Hughson
Keyes
Knights Ferry
Modesto
Newman
Oakdale
Patterson
Riverbank
Riverdale Park
Salida
Shackelford
Turlock
Waterford
West Modesto
Westley
Tuolumne County
Bret Harte
Chinese Camp
Columbia
Confidence
East Sonora
Groveland-Big Oak Flat
Jamestown
Mi-Wuk Village
Moccasin
Mono Vista
Phoenix Lake-Cedar Ridge
Pine Mountain Lake
Sonora
Soulsbyville
Strawberry
Tuolumne City
Twain Harte
See also
List of California area codes
References
External links
209
Amador County, California
Calaveras County, California
El Dorado County, California
Mariposa County, California
Merced County, California
San Joaquin County, California
Stanislaus County, California
Tuolumne County, California
San Joaquin Valley
Sierra Nevada (United States)
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1958
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Hassan El Fakiri (, born 18 April 1977) is a Norwegian former professional footballer, and the current head coach of 3. divisjon club Os TF.
Career
Born in Amezzaourou, a town in the commune of Temsamane, Morocco, El Fakiri started his career with the Norwegian, Oslo-based club Lyn. He made his debut in game against local rivals Skeid on 28 May 1995. As a young and talented midfielder, El Fakiri earned the admiration of the Lyn fans, who made him player of the year in 1997.
El Fakiri joined SK Brann in 2000, instantly catching the eyes of scouts from the French-registered, Monaco based football club, AS Monaco FC. Due to SK Brann's dire financial straits at the time, El Fakiri was sold to the French Ligue 1 team before he had actually played a league game for SK Brann. El Fakiri played nine league games for SK Brann, scoring three goals, before leaving Bergen in the transfer window. One of the most notable contributions from El Fakiri was a sterling performance in midfield in the first game of the 2000 Tippeliga season, a 4–1 home drubbing of local rivals Viking FK. Two of the goals in this game was scored by the striker Mons Ivar Mjelde, who later re-signed El Fakiri, this time as the manager of SK Brann.
El Fakiri's stay in Monaco started off slowly, being sent out on loan to both his boyhood Norwegian team Lyn and Rosenborg BK. The 2002–03 French League 1 season saw El Fakiri's fortunes change, with AS Monaco coach Didier Deschamps' preferring to use the midfielder as a right back. El Fakiri was an unused substitute in the 2004 Champions League final between Monaco and Portuguese side FC Porto.
El Fakiri's contract with Monaco expired in 2005, and he chose to continue his career with Borussia Mönchengladbach, joining the Bundesliga side on a Bosman free transfer. At Borussia, he returned to his favoured midfield berth, helping the side to tenth place in the 2005–06 Bundesliga. However, the next season Borussia were relegated from the Bundesliga after losing 1–0 at home to VfB Stuttgart on the last matchday.
The relegation coincided with El Fakiri's contract expiring, and after considering several contract proposals from Norwegian clubs, he returned to Brann seven years after he left Brann for Monaco. His return to Bergen was a happy one, helping SK Brann to their first Norwegian championship in 44 years.
International career
El Fakiri was capped eight times by the Norway national football team.
Career statistics
Source:
Honours
Monaco
Coupe de la Ligue: 2002–03
UEFA Champions League: Runner-up 2003–04
Brann
Norwegian Premier League: 2007
References
1977 births
Living people
Moroccan emigrants to Norway
Naturalised citizens of Norway
Norwegian people of Moroccan descent
Footballers from Oslo
Norwegian men's footballers
Norway men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Lyn Fotball players
SK Brann players
AS Monaco FC players
Rosenborg BK players
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Eliteserien players
Ligue 1 players
Bundesliga players
Norwegian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
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No. 515 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force formed during the Second World War. It ushered in Electronic countermeasures (ECM) warfare, jamming enemy radar installations from October 1942 as the only such squadron in the RAF initially. Later in the war 515 Sqn was joined by other squadrons as part of No. 100 Group RAF. The squadron disbanded after VE day, when the need for such a specialised squadron had reduced.
History
Fighter Command
The squadron was formed from Defiant Flight, also known as Special Duties Flight – an electronic countermeasuress unit equipped with the Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.II – at RAF Northolt on 1 October 1942, It moved to RAF Heston later that month. As part of 11 Group, 515 Sqn performed radar jamming duties, using Moonshine and Mandrel equipment.
From May 1943, 515 Sqn re-equipped with the Bristol Beaufighter Mk.IIF.
Bomber Command
The squadron transferred to No. 100 Group RAF in December 1943 as part of Bomber Command, and moved to RAF Little Snoring in Norfolk. There they re-equipped with de Havilland Mosquito Mk.VIs in March 1944, and operated these for the remainder of the war. At the time of its disbandment on 10 June 1945, 515 squadron had carried out 1,366 operational sorties with the Mosquito with a loss of 21 aircraft, with most of its aircrew transferring to No. 627 Squadron RAF. T
Moonshine
Moonshine was the code-name for ARI TR1427, (Airborne Radio Installation Transmitter Receiver), a British airborne spoofer/jammer installed in the 20 modified Boulton Paul Defiants of No. 515 Squadron RAF to defeat Freya radar and was developed at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE).
Mandrel
Mandrel was the code-name for a jammer deployed against Freya and Würzburg radars used by aircraft of 515 sqn and 100 Group. Developed at the TRE, Mandrel was also built in the United States as AN/APT-3.
Aircraft operated
Squadron bases
Commanding officers
See also
List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
Boulton Paul Defiant Operational history
Freya radar, the German early-warning radar that was jammed using "Moonshine" and "Mandrel"
List of World War II electronic warfare equipment
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Squadron history 1 on MOD site
Squadron history 2 on MOD site
No. 515 Squadron RAF movement and equipment history
squadron histories for nos. 500–520 sqn on RafWeb's Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation
unofficial website for no. 515 Sqn
515
Aircraft squadrons of the Royal Air Force in World War II
Electronic warfare units and formations
Military units and formations established in 1942
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John Timon, C.M. (February 12, 1797 – April 16, 1867) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of the new Diocese of Buffalo in Western New York and founder of the brothers of the Holy Infancy religious order.
Biography
Early life
John Timon was born in Conewago, Pennsylvania on February 12, 1797, to James Timon and Margaret Leddy Timon, immigrants from County Cavan in Ireland. In 1803 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where James Timon started a dry goods store. In 1811, John Timon was enrolled in St. Mary's College in Baltimore. After graduation he worked in the family dry goods business. In 1818, the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky. They relocated a year later to St. Louis, Missouri.
A financial panic in 1823 ruined the family finances. Timon was also shaken by the death of a young woman that he was in love with. As he later said, the panic made him think about what was really important to him and decided to enter the priesthood. That same year, he entered the St. Mary of the Barrens Seminary in Perrysville, Missouri, where he studied philosophy and theology. One of his professors was the Reverend Jean-Marie Odin, later Bishop of Galveston. Timon himself taught English and the natural sciences.
In 1824, Timon accompanied Odin on a missionary trip through Texas and then Arkansas. This trip included many nights sleeping on floors, traveling through rough terrain, and patiently dealing with prejudice from some non-Catholics. In dealing with one host who thought Catholics were idolaters, Timon asked her if she worshipped a picture of George Washington on her wall She said certainly not, that it was a source of inspiration. Timon then showed the woman a crucifix. He said that he did not worship the crucifix, but instead used it to remind him of the suffering of Christ. That conversation opened a new understanding between them. Timon professed his vows to the Vincentians order on June 10, 1825. While in Arkansas, Odin and Timon met with a Quapaw tribe, where the two missionaries asked about their religious beliefs.
Priesthood
Timon was ordained into the priesthood by Bishop Joseph Rosati on September 23, 1826 for the Vincentian order. After his ordination, Timon served as a professor at the seminary and as a missionary, visiting communities around Cape Giradeau, Missouri, and Jackson, Missouri. In 1828, Timon was called to Jackson to visit a criminal to be hanged the next day. The man had steadily refused any religious counseling. Entering the cell, Timon lay down on the prisoner's bed and started talking to him. By the end of his talk, the prisoner was crying and expressing remorse. He later requested baptism before his execution.
In 1835, the Vicentians meeting in Paris appointed Timon as "visitor" (superior) of the new Vicentians province in the United States, His initial thought was to refuse the position, but was persuaded to take it. The Vincentians wanted Timon to close the seminary as it was in deep debt, but Timon worked to save it. He visited the superior general of the order in Paris in 1837. The next year, Timon spent time in Galveston and Houston, Texas on missionary work.
In 1839, he was named coadjutor bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis but declined the appointment. Timon was very reluctant to take on a position that would take him away from the missionary work that he enjoyed. On July 18, 1840, Timon was named the prefect apostolic of the Republic of Texas. Timon returned to France in 1841, where he met with the superior generals and visited many Vincentian congregations near Paris. Between 1842 and 1847, Timon received requests from prelates in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Louisville and New York to visit their seminaries and enact necessary reforms.
Bishop of Buffalo
On April 23, 1847, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Buffalo and appointed Timon as its first bishop. In September 1847, Timon learned about his appointment. Lacking money for appropriate clothing and transportation to New York, he was helped out by some friends. Timon was consecrated on October 17, 1847 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City by Archbishop John Hughes.
Timon was fluent in several languages including Gaelic, which served him well among the Irish community in the city.Timon spent the remaining 20 years of his life building the Church there. Beginning with 16 priests for 16 counties, he immediately began to build churches, and establish schools. He appointed Reverend Bernard O'Reilly as his vicar-general.
During his tenure, many religious orders were recruited to establish ministries in the newly formed diocese including the Daughters of Charity, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, the Franciscans, the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur, the Jesuits, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Sisters of St. Joseph, the Vincentians, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of St. Francis, the Passionists, and the Christian Brothers.
St. Bonaventure University was founded by Utica, New York financier Nicholas Devereux with assistance from Timon. The two invited the Franciscan order to Western New York, and a small group under Father Pamfilo of Magliano OFM arrived in 1856.
Death and legacy
John Timon died in Buffalo on April 16, 1867, at the age of 70. He was buried in the crypt of Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Buffalo. Bishop Timon - St. Jude High School in Buffalo is named in his honor.
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A clome oven (or cloam oven) is a type of masonry oven. It has a removable door made of clay or alternatively a cast-iron door, and was a standard fitting for most kitchen fireplaces in Cornwall and Devon. The oven would be built into the side of the chimney breast, often appearing as a round bulge in the chimney. This bulge consisted of the masonry surrounding the oven, and was intended to be dismantled should the oven ever need to be replaced. During installation, they are surrounded by packed clay to prevent the actual oven cracking.
A clome oven is used by building a fire inside it after entering the fireplace. Typically, dried gorse or blackthorn is used to ignite the fire. As there is no internal chimney, the smoke exits through the oven door and passes through the main chimney in the adjacent fireplace. When the oven is sufficiently heated, hot ashes are either removed or pushed to the side, and baking is placed inside. The oven door is then propped open for access.
As cast-iron range cookers were brought into common use, it became standard practice to build a dividing wall to split the fireplace into two separate fireplaces, thus allowing access to the clome oven, as well as providing a space of the correct dimensions to fit a Cornish range or similar. Bricks were the most common building material for this task, since the installation of a Cornish range required a brick flue to be built up the back of the fireplace. Many clome ovens were preserved in situ in this way.
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Darrenwood is a suburb in Randburg, South Africa. It lies against the boundary of Johannesburg. Neighbouring suburbs include Linden, Cresta (and the Cresta Shopping Centre), Aldara Park and Blackheath.
Darrenwood is predominantly residential, although the Darrenwood Sports Centre, Darrenwood Shops and the Darrenwood Dam also exist.
It was really only in the 1960s that a substantial number of people started setting up home in Darrenwood.
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Anasol is the third album by Colombian pop singer Anasol.
The album was released on August 30, 2005. The album contains 12 songs, including her first hit single "Sentimiento", which reached number 31 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.
Track listing
All songs written by Anasol Escobar, except where noted.
"Sentimiento" – 4:18
"Nace" – 3:57
"Sube el Alma" (Escobar, Luis Fernando Ochoa) – 3:30
"Dame" (Escobar, Ochoa) – 3:28
"Sin Miedo a Caer" (Escobar, Ochoa) – 3:40
"Amantes Invisibles" (Escobar, Ochoa) – 4:17
"Voy Volando" – 3:36
"Buscame" (Escobar, Ochoa) – 3:36
"Siluetas" – 3:11
"Astros" – 3:17
"Si No Llego" (Escobar, Ochoa) – 3:54
"Sentimiento" (Club Mix) – 7:51
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Herbert Tremenheere Hewett (25 May 1864 – 4 March 1921) was an English amateur first-class cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. A battling left-handed opening batsman, Hewett could post a large score in a short time against even the best bowlers. Capable of hitting the ball powerfully, he combined an excellent eye with an unorthodox style to be regarded at his peak as one of England's finest batsmen.
Hewett was educated at Harrow School, won a blue at Oxford in 1886 and played for Somerset from 1884. As an inconsistent middle-order batsman he made little impact during this period. Even so, he was appointed captain of Somerset in 1889. Over the next two years, his leadership and performances as an opening batsman were instrumental in the county regaining first-class status and admission to the County Championship in 1891. He remained Somerset captain for a further three seasons, usually opening the batting with Lionel Palairet. In 1892, they shared a partnership of 346 for the first wicket, of which Hewett scored 201. The stand remains the county's highest first-wicket partnership. In that season, Hewett made 1,405 runs at an average of more than 35, and was named as one of the "Five Batsmen of the Year" by Wisden. His highest accolade was being selected to play for the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's in 1894. A disagreement over whether play should take place on a sodden pitch in the match against the Australians in 1893 led to Hewett's departure from Somerset at the end of that season.
He played first-class cricket for three more years, during which time he scored centuries against both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, appearing for a variety of amateur and representative sides. Having been selected to captain an "England XI" at Scarborough in 1895, Hewett was involved in another incident caused by a wet pitch. Feeling insulted by shouts of derision from the crowd, he left the match at lunch-time on the first day. Hewett made only one further first-class appearance: playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University in 1896. Hewett practised as a barrister, having been called to the bar at the Inner Temple.
Early life
Herbert Tremenheere Hewett was born at Norton Court in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton on 25 May 1864, the only son of William Henry and Frances M. Hewett. Although he was the couple's only son, they had at least four daughters; in 1871 two older sisters, Emily Louisa and HelenG. Hewett are listed in the census, along with one younger sister, Florance Ethel Hewett. By 1891, Mary W. Hewett is also listed as a younger sister, although by this date both older sisters are no longer registered at the address nor their father William Henry. He was initially educated at Hillside, Godalming where he was captain of the cricket and rugby teams. On leaving Hillside in 1879 he went to Harrow School. In 1881 he had a trial for the school cricket eleven mainly on the strength of his bowling, having taken all ten wickets for 22 runs in a house match. Hewett was part of the school's cricket first eleven in 1882 and 1883, and appeared in the annual contest against Eton College in both years, but did little on either occasion, his highest score being six, made in the first-innings in 1882. In all matches for Harrow he had a batting average of just 7.4 in 1883 and 9.5 in 1884 while his bowling average in 1884 was 32.10. Hewett also appeared in the school association football eleven in 1883. On completion of his studies at Harrow, he attended Trinity College, Oxford. In his reminiscences, W. G. Grace suggests that Hewett "first won some little renown in Public School and 'Varsity cricket, but it was not until he joined Somersetshire that he forced himself to a prominent place in County Cricket."
Oxford and Somerset (1884–1888)
After appearing in The Freshman's Match in 1884, during which he scored zero and eight and took two wickets, Hewett made little impact in his first season at Oxford and was not selected for the university eleven. His debut in first-class cricket came later that season for Somerset County Cricket Club at Tunbridge Wells, when he was 20 years old. Against Kent in late August, he scored 14 and0 batting as part of the middle order, and claimed his only two wickets in first-class cricket. He made one other appearance in 1884, against Lancashire.
In 1885 Hewett played in a trial match at Oxford without success. He did, however, play in four of Somerset's six first-class matches that summer. In his first game of the season for Somerset, in mid-July, Hewett scored his maiden half-century; he remained 50 not out in the second-innings of a five-wicket victory over Hampshire. He passed 50 for Somerset on two more occasions during 1885, and finished the season with 247 runs at a batting average of 35.28, one of seven seasons in which his average was in excess of 30.
He started the 1886 season well, scoring 151 for his college and 164 not out for Perambulators against Etceteras. An 1893 write-up in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack said: "early in the season of 1886 [Hewett] showed signs of the brilliant hitting which has since made him famous". Although he top-scored in the Seniors Match, he was not selected for the eleven until the university's third game. He made scores of 49 and 77 in successive matches for Oxford University against Lancashire and gained his blue, scoring 0and7 in the University Match against Cambridge. He finished the season fourth in the Oxford University batting averages with his 160 runs being scored at 22.85, and was described in James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual as being: "Sometimes a most dashing left-handed hitter, but not at all dependable; hard-working field."
Poor results in 1885 saw Somerset lose their first-class status for the following seasons. Somerset played just six matches in 1886 of which Hewett played two, top-scoring with 69 against Devon. An injury to his hand prevented him from playing all but one match for the university in his final year at Oxford, 1887, when "he would have had a good chance of retaining his place in the University eleven", according to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, although he was fit enough to score a century with a broomstick in a college match. During 1887, in a second-class match for Somerset against Warwickshire, Hewett scored 98 to help Somerset to an innings victory, scoring the first 92 runs in less than an hour, an unusually high rate of scoring.
The next year, 1888, he scored successive half-centuries for Somerset early in the season against Warwickshire and Staffordshire before making his debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Facing Oxford University, Hewett made zero and eight for the London club. The same summer, Hewett was selected to play for an England XI against the touring Australians, and in a ten wicket win for the tourists, he scored 12 and 1. Between 1884 and 1888 Hewett had limited success at the first-class level, establishing a reputation as a useful, if erratic, hard-hitting middle-order batsman. He played a lot of club cricket, being a regular for Harrow Wanderers, and scoring 201 not out for Senior Common Room against Christ Church in 1888.
Captaining Somerset
Second-class county
Hewett's appearances for Somerset in 1889 were more successful. Having previously appeared in the middle-order, Hewett switched to opening the innings at the start of the season, and took on the captaincy. He scored three half-centuries in the season: two against Warwickshire, and one against Staffordshire. He comfortably headed the Somerset batting with an average of 38 in matches against the other second-class counties. In his history of Somerset cricket, Sunshine, Sixes and Cider, David Foot describes Hewett's selection policy as captain as being one that was more dependent on the cricketing ability of the player than "of [the player's] social charm and ability to drink into the early hours"—unlike some of his predecessors.
In 1890, his side were unbeaten against county opposition, winning the "Second-class County Championship". In an early season first-class appearance for A. J. Webbe's XI, Hewett scored his maiden first-class century, reaching 114 against Cambridge University. Later in May, for the MCC against Oxford University, he scored 71. Hewett top-scored with 65 in the second-innings of Somerset's opening county match of 1890, and two matches later scored 64 during a first-wicket partnership of 115 with Lionel Palairet against Leicestershire. A string of lower scores followed for just under a month before Somerset hosted Staffordshire at Taunton. Having dismissed the visitors for 43, Hewett remained 203 not out when he declared the Somerset innings closed, scored in four hours, "a remarkable display of powerful and well-timed hitting". He did not pass 100 again that season, but came close during the Scarborough Festival, being bowled for 99 in the second-innings for the Gentlemen of England. Hewett led Somerset's batting averages in 1890, during which the club won twelve and tied one of their thirteen matches against county opposition. Due to this record the county were admitted to the County Championship for 1891 after a unanimous vote, regaining their first-class status.
While Red Lillywhite assessed him as "a dangerous left-hand bat, very free, but somewhat uncertain; good point", after the 1889 season, a year later he was described as "one of the very best left-hand bats in England, hitting hard all round; excellent point. Captain in 1889–1890, which post he filled with wonderful judgement." At the end of the 1890 season he was presented with a handsome silver flask by members of Somerset County Cricket Club.
County Championship cricket
Hewett led his side in their first County Championship match starting on 18 May 1891. Although the club had played first-class cricket a few years earlier, the championship had only been formed the previous season. Their debut in the competition was interrupted by rain and finished a draw; Hewett top-scored in Somerset's only innings with 31. Somerset's next match was against reigning county champions Surrey. Lionel Palairet, Bill Roe and Sammy Woods were all missing for various reasons, leaving Hewett with a depleted side and only two real bowlers; Ted Tyler and George Nichols. Surrey reached 449, and then bowled Somerset out twice, for 37 in each innings. When Surrey travelled to Taunton later that season, most likely expecting an easy win to secure a second consecutive championship, Hewett top-scored for his team with 55 in the first-innings as Somerset reached 194. Woods, Nichols and Tyler then secured a 40 run first-innings lead for the home side who added another 331 runs in their second-innings, Hewett contributing 42. The same trio of Somerset bowlers proceeded to bowl the champions out for a second time, the final wicket falling two minutes from the close of play, and their team recorded a 130-run victory. Hewett had a quiet season with the bat, in addition to his 55 against Surrey he passed 50 on only one other occasion; against Middlesex two weeks later. He totalled 514 runs during the season at an average of 19.76; his lowest average when playing eight or more innings in a season.
Touring North America
Following the close of the 1891 County Championship, Hewett was part of Lord Hawke's party which toured North America, playing six matches in the United States and two in Canada. Sammy Woods wrote that Hewett, along with Charles Wreford-Brown and George Ricketts, became very seasick on the journey there. The first two matches were first-class fixtures against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia. Hewett scored 30 and 49 in the first, an eight wicket loss which Woods blamed on taking place too soon after their arrival, saying the team "had hardly found our land-legs." The first match had yielded an aggregate of 861 runs, the second contained only 352, of which Hewett scored 10 and 29. His captain, Lord Hawke, was the only other batsman to reach double figures in both innings as the touring side won by four wickets. None of the remaining fixtures on the tour had first-class status, and not all were eleven-a-side contests. Hewett scored 113 against the sixteen man All New York on Staten Island, a match in which he was standing in as captain due to Lord Hawke being ill. Woods rated Hewett, along with Lord Hawke and Brown, as the best batsmen on the tour.
Batsman of the Year
Hewett's first three matches of the 1892 season were for representative sides against the universities. He reached double figures in each of his six innings, and scored a half-century for the Gentlemen of England against Cambridge. On returning to Somerset, he did not score a half-century until his third match, making 54 against Oxford University. He passed 50 on twelve occasions during the season, the most during any season of his career. In late August, playing Yorkshire, Hewett scored 201 out of a partnership of 346, establishing a record for the first wicket in first-class cricket, surpassing W. G. Grace and Bransby Cooper's 1869 total of 283. Although their record has since been beaten in first-class cricket, it remains Somerset's record partnership for the first wicket. Their partnership was described as "Pure grace at one end, sheer force at the other", in H. S. Altham and E. W. Swanton's A History of Cricket. At the time, The Daily Telegraph reported that the pair remained together for three and half hours, during which Hewett scored 30 fours.
Hewett finished the season with 1,047 runs for Somerset, making him the only batsman in England to score 1,000 runs in county matches. In total he scored 1,407 first-class runs, the most by any batsman, and was third in the amateur batting averages. He was named as one of the Five Batsmen of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1893, in which it was claimed that "had it been necessary last August [1892] to put a representative England eleven into the field, Hewett would undoubtedly have been given a place." Under Hewett's captaincy, Somerset won eight, drew three and lost five matches in 1892, finishing third in the County Championship, which would remain their highest position for over 100 years, until the county were runners-up in the competition in 2001. The Times praised the county's achievements during the year, and reserved special praise for Hewett; "Somerset's many brilliant feats, and the fine play of Messrs. Hewett and Palairet in particular, were a marked feature of this year's cricket." After the close of the County Championship, Hewett appeared in three representative matches, captaining the West to victory over the East, and appearing under the captaincy of W.G. Grace for both the South and the Gentlemen vPlayers.
Departure from Somerset
Hewett began the 1893 season in good form, reaching his half-century in each of his first three matches for the county, including a total of 94 against Oxford University in late May. Hewett missed most of the match against Kent shortly after, returning to Taunton due to the death of his brother-in-law, during which time George Wood replaced him as a substitute. In July 1893, the touring Australians played Somerset at Taunton for the first time since 1882, when both the ground and the county team were barely established. After the success of the 1892 season, and because talented, Australian-born Sammy Woods was playing for Somerset, the match was eagerly anticipated. Thousands arrived in Taunton for the match, but after overnight torrential rain, the umpires inspected the pitch at 11:00 and abandoned play for the day. In his history of the county club, Roebuck suggest that they may have been put under pressure by the Australians or by Hewett himself. The Somerset fans and members were angry at the decision, but the Australians packed picnic baskets and after exchanging strong words with the locals, departed for the Quantock Hills. Hewett, along with Woods and Vernon Hill, arranged to play golf in Minehead. The crowd continued to show their dismay at the decision, and eventually the Somerset officials asked the umpires to take another look at the ground. Woods supported this decision in his reminiscences, claiming that "the decision not to play was premature." At 14:00, after their second inspection, the umpires retracted their previous decision and announced that play could start. Hewett reacted angrily, and argued unsuccessfully against the decision with the Somerset committee. The Australian players were recalled from their picnic, and play began at 16:00, although neither team particularly wanted to play. Roebuck recorded that "Hewett, in particular, was in high dudgeon and... he threw away his wicket for 12 runs, having been dropped once." David Foot offered a more tempered opinion, saying simply that Hewett's "mind wasn't on the game." No play was possible on the second day, and on the third, Australia won the match by six wickets. Hewett felt let down by the Somerset committee, who he felt had undermined his authority, prompting him to say that "if a captain can't lead at Taunton, this is no place for him." Although friends thought he was overreacting, he declared that he would resign from the captaincy and the club at the end of the season. Both Foot and Roebuck suggested that Hewett reacted in an over-sensitive and extreme manner, but that his lack of self-control may have limited his long-term captaincy prospects.
In his five further games for Somerset before the end of the season Hewett hit two centuries. He reached 120 runs against Nottinghamshire and against Gloucestershire, on his final appearance for the county, he scored 112 runs in just under two hours; according to James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual, it "was a splendid display". He scored 1,092 runs in total during 1893, of which his 669 for Somerset in the championship were scored at an average of 31.85, topping the county's batting charts. During his five seasons of first-class cricket for Somerset, he played 51 matches and scored 2,592 runs at an average of 30.85.
Later cricket career and life
After leaving Somerset, Hewett did not continue in county cricket at all, opting to play first-class cricket only for amateur and representative sides. At the tail-end of the 1893 season, he played three times for the South, scoring two half-centuries. In July 1894, Hewett made the second of his two appearances for the Gentlemen against the Players. Unlike his first appearance, made at Hastings, the match was played at Lord's Cricket Ground, which was generally considered to be the more prestigious Gentlemen v Players fixture of the season, being the more representative. These matches were keenly contested during the 1890s, and were considered to be second in prestige only to gaining a Test cap. Batting at number three, Hewett scored 12 runs out of the Gentlemen's total of 254, before Stanley Jackson and Hewett's former Somerset colleague, Sammy Woods, bowled the Players out for 108 and 107. He appeared 11 times in 1894, scoring 579 runs at an average of 34.05, higher than the previous season. Woods described Hewett as being "in splendid form" when he played, and lamented that he was no longer playing for Somerset. He scored his only century of the season for A. J. Webbe's XI, reaching 110 after opening the innings against Oxford University. He continued his form with the bat into 1895, twice scoring centuries for the Gentlemen against the universities, making 109 against Cambridge, and 102 against Oxford. During this season Hewett appeared in his first match for the amateur side I Zingari, who had strong links with both Harrow School and Somerset president Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane.
Hewett played all three matches of the 1895 Scarborough Festival; he opened the innings for the MCC against Yorkshire, and then captained the South in their loss against the North. In the third match, Hewett was named captain of an England XI, a compliment for the former Somerset captain. However, rain meant the start was delayed. Unlike a couple of years earlier, Hewett was happy to ignore the puddles in the field and start the match at the scheduled time. The umpires disagreed with him, and the crowd, wanting cricket, blamed Hewett for the delay and lack of sport. When he belatedly led his side onto the field, the spectators threw insults at him until the Yorkshire captain, Lord Hawke, angrily shouted "Keep quiet or I'll think about calling the game off". Hewett did not bother with such threats, and left the field, got changed and departed from the ground, taking no further part in the game. Fred Spofforth replaced him in the match which the England side went on to win by nine wickets.
During the English winter of 1895–96, Hewett once again toured with Lord Hawke, travelling to South Africa. Arriving too late to take part in the first match of the tour, he then played the next four matches, but was summoned back to England by important business. The tour included three matches against a South African national team which were deemed to be Tests, but by this stage of the tour Hewett had left South Africa, and he thus completed his cricket career without any Test appearances. He played his final first-class match in 1896, scoring 86 for the MCC against Oxford University. In this match, for unknown reasons, he appeared as "Mr. H Herbert".
When Mr 'Herbert' came in to bat... many of the spectators in the free seats did not recognise him, but after he had sampled an over or two, an old gentleman, who had shown some knowledge of the game, hit the nail on the head when he remarked: I don't remember to have seen this Mr 'Erbert' before but he's 'class'. He continued to play cricket for the Harrow Wanderers, MCC and I Zingari until 1901. At the time of the 1901 Census, Hewett was living in Westminster. He was listed as head of the household, the only other resident being a servant.
Hewett practised as a barrister, having trained at the Inner Temple, where he passed at least one exam in 1890. During the First World War, he served in the Territorial Force Reserve as an Assistant Provost Marshal, an appointment which he held from 7September 1915 until 24 May 1918. He died in Hove, Sussex, on 4March 1921, and his funeral was held in Norton Fitzwarren four days later. His obituary in The Times describes only Hewett's cricket career, and does not give any details about his later life. It does not mention a spouse or any children. The notice of his funeral in the same paper says: "The whole village [of Norton Fitzwarren] was in mourning and among those present at the graveside were Mr H. E. Murray Anderdon, president, and Mr S. M. J. Woods, secretary of the Somerset Cricket Club."
Personality and style
When Hewett was named as one of the Five Batsmen of the Year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1893, the publication described him as "the finest left-handed batsman in England". He played in an unorthodox but attractive fashion, which prompted W.G. Grace to praise "his dashing and fearless hitting", while remarking that he had an awkward style. In Somerset, Cider and Sixes, David Foot described that he was "possessed of an eagle eye, considerable meat and the ability to make his forcing shots attractive." In Peter Roebuck's From Sammy to Jimmy, he offered a similar portrait of Hewett's batting style, adding that "he saw it as his task to conquer". Hewett's batting received praise in H. S. Altham and E. W. Swanton's A History of Cricket, where he is described as a "singularly determined and venomous" batsman who "hit the ball in unexpected and demoralizing directions." He frequently scored his runs rapidly, as described by the Reverend R. S. Holmes, who wrote of his batting against Nottinghamshire; "the Captain scored at his usual rate – three out of four runs notched, represent his pace. Against Surrey he got 61 out of 81, this time 60 out of the same total. That's the kind of example every captain should set – a run a minute, or thereabouts." In summary of the 1892 season The Cricket Annual notes that "the Somerset player, in fact, had established the reputation of being the most punishing batsman and rapid scorer of the day, and on last season's form no representative eleven could be considered complete without him." Sammy Woods claimed that Hewett disliked fielding, but offered the view that he was good at point. Woods also related how Hewett would chew on a toothpick, which he always had in his mouth when fielding, when his team was losing.
As evidenced by the manner in which Hewett left Somerset and walked off during the Scarborough Festival of 1895, he possessed a short fuse. Teammate Frederic John Poynton characterised his captain as a player who suffered "from a deep, difficult nature, which once upset, took long to recover". He was a strong leader who was both respected and feared by his colleagues. In 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club had failed to field eleven players for some of their first-class contests, and in most of their other matches were a poor side. Hewett took on the county captaincy in 1889, and in his second year led his side unbeaten against fellow county opposition to win the 'Second-class County Championship', and gain re-admission to the first-class game. Hewett's batting and captaincy were aided by the emergence of Woods and Palairet, both of whom were named as Wisden Cricketers of the Year between 1889 and 1893. In 1891, Somerset finished joint fifth among the nine first-class counties, while the subsequent year they rose to third. Hewett's final season at Somerset was the county's least successful under his captaincy; they won just four of their sixteen matches to finish in eighth.
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Helicon or Helikon may refer to
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Helicon (river), a former river in the Macedonian city Dion, mentioned in Greek mythology
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Helikon Park, a park in Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Torre Helicon, the fourth tallest building in Monterrey, Mexico
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Inger Helga Pedersen (24 June 1911 – 27 January 1980) was a Danish Chief Justice and politician. She served as Justice Minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and was a member of the liberal party, Venstre.
Biography
Pedersen was born on her parents' farm as one of 6 siblings in Tårnborg, Denmark to Jens Peder Nicolaj Pedersen (1877-1955) and Vilhelmine Sofie Kolding (1884-1973). Helga never married and had no children. She became a student from Slagelse Gymnasium in 1930 and earned her M.Sc. from the University of Copenhagen in 1936.
Beginning in 1936, she worked for the Ministry of Justice in the government of Erik Eriksen (1950-1953). She was Secretary to the Ministers of Justice KK Steincke, Svend Unmack Larsen, Harald Petersen, Eigil Thune Jacobsen, Niels Busch-Jensen and Aage Elmquist, among others, during the years of World War II and the Nazi occupation. After Denmark's liberation, Pedersen attended Columbia University in New York, which was funded by an International Study Grant from the American Association of University Women.
After returning to Denmark, Pedersen became the Copenhagen District Court judge from 1947 to 1950. In 1949–1950, she was named chairman of the Danish Women's National Council. In 1950, she participated in United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and until 1974, she was also a delegate at the UNESCO General Assembly, from 1962 as chair of the Danish delegation.
She was elected to the Parliament in 1950 and remained a member until 1964. She was appointed Minister of Justice for the government of Erik Eriksen. She was also a judge for the District Court and the Appeals Court. In 1964, she was appointed judge to the Supreme Court, only the second woman to hold that position.
She was against the death penalty.
She had a wide influence on issues in Parliament (called in Danish, Folketing).As a Member of Parliament, she served as the Liberal Party's rapporteur in a number of legal cases. On the issue of an amended abortion law in 1956, she was the only one in her party to vote in favor of the proposal that Mødrehjælpen should have an increased influence on abortion permits at the expense of doctors. She was one of the few members of the Liberal Party who opposed the handing over of the Icelandic manuscripts from Copenhagen University, and was already, while sitting in the Folketing, interested in the work of protecting authors 'and artists' rights and in establishing the Statens Kunstfond [Danish Arts Foundation]. She was a member of the Copyright Council 1963-72, by the Planning Council for Higher Education 1964-73 and by the Prison Board 1968-73 and chairman of the Board of Representatives of the Statens Kunstfond 1964-73. In 1971, Pedersen became the first female judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a position she held until her death.
Awards
In 1951, Pedersen became the first female commander of the Order of the Dannebrog.
In 1976, she became Commander of the 1st Degree.
References
1911 births
1980 deaths
Danish Justice Ministers
Members of the Folketing
Danish judges
Venstre (Denmark) politicians
Chief justices of Denmark
20th-century Danish women politicians
Female justice ministers
Women members of the Folketing
Women chief justices
Women government ministers of Denmark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga%20Pedersen%20%28Denmark%29 |
TV Travel Shop was a British television channel that sold holidays.
It launched in April 1998, primarily on satellite and cable, broadcasting between 6am and 5pm, sharing space with Challenge. In 1999, the channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day.
In 2000, the channel launched on ONdigital, using capacity from ONrequest 2 (later ITV Select 2), and broadcast 6am-12pm weekdays, and 6am-10am weekends, free to air on channel 44. Its hours were extended in January 2002 to be broadcast from 6am-6pm daily. However, after the demise of ITV Digital, TV Travel Shop made a deal with the multiplex operator, SDN, to carry the channel 24 hours a day using the newly freed up capacity. It moved to channel 17 at the launch of Freeview.
However, by December 2003, Top Up TV were looking to buy slots for their new subscription platform, and acquired the slot and LCN occupied by TV Travel Shop. The channel went off air on 16 April 2004, and its stream was replaced in April 2004 by a Top Up TV subscription stream.
TV Travel Shop 2
From 2000, TV Travel Shop 2 was introduced broadcasting on cable and satellite, offering late bargains, new places and repeats of shows from TV Travel Shop. This was positioned next to TV Travel Shop on Sky Digital and NTL.
By late 2004, the channels were suffering from lack of customers and were scheduled for a shut down.
Previously, in 2003 TV Travel Shop was taken over by the IAC Corporation and all sales were moved to an Expedia call centre in Belfast, whilst the cruise department remained in Bromley until the channels were permanently closed in March 2005. They were replaced by auction channels iBuy and iBuy2 on Sky Digital.
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
2004 disestablishments in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Travel%20Shop |
Borden Grammar School is a grammar school with academy status in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, which educates boys aged 11–18. A small number of girls have also been admitted to the Sixth Form. The school holds specialist status in sports.
History
Plans for a boys' school in Borden began in 1875, as a new way of using some of the accumulated funds from the Barrow Trust, established from the estate of William Barrow (d. 1707), a local farmer, for the benefit of the poorer inhabitants of the village. The trustees of the Barrow Trust became the new school's governors, and they began organising a suitable sum of money to allow the project to go ahead. Within a few years, they had amassed £9,500 and the building of the school began on a seven-acre site in Riddles Road, which belonged to the trust. The Barrow Boys' School, Borden, was to be an independent day and boarding school, designed to have some fifty boarders and some 150 day pupils. The school formally opened in October 1878, with just twenty-three pupils (nine of them from the village of Borden) and one full-time member of staff (the headmaster, Rev. William Henry Bond). A full-time assistant master was recruited in 1880, followed by a second full-time assistant master in 1883.
In 1893, Rev. Bond left to become headmaster of Churcher's College, and was replaced by James Williamson Thurnham, who was keen to increase the number of boarders at the school, which by now was known as Barrow School, Borden. Boarders came from all parts of the country and, indeed, the world, with some hailing from France, Spain, India and Jamaica. Thurnham left to establish New College, Herne Bay in 1906, and took most of the 120 boarders and the majority of the school's staff with him, leaving the next headmaster, William Murdock, with the difficult task of building up numbers once more. Soon after Murdock's appointment, the school began to be referred to as Borden Barrow's Boys' School and was taken into the state education system in 1906. The school now became known as Borden School, a name that had appeared as part of the school badge since at least 1885, but, by 1910, there were six annual scholarships to 'Borden Grammar School', the name by which the school has been known ever since. Up until the 1914, there had still been a few boarders at the school but, after the First World War, it became a day grammar school.
In the early summer of 1929, the school moved to its present site on the Avenue of Remembrance, Sittingbourne, not only because of the rising maintenance costs of the original premises and the fact that it was no longer possible to attract suitable numbers of boys with the school being so far from the centre of Sittingbourne. The new building was formally opened by George, Lord Harris in October 1929, but the school retained its original name despite no longer being located in Borden. The old school building was used for a time as an agricultural college, and is now an Adult Education Centre.
In January 1931, work began on the construction of a cricket pavilion as a memorial to all those Old Bordenians who were killed in the First World War, most of the money being provided by the Old Bordenian Association. The original pavilion was replaced by a modern structure in 2004, which continues to serve as a memorial to all those old boys who were killed in the First World War.
In May 1940, the Government announced that a number of towns on the Southeast Coast were to have their children evacuated: Sheerness was one such town, and some sixty-five pupils from Borden, accompanied by three masters, were evacuated to Pengam, South Wales, where the boys were to attend the Lewis School. Meanwhile, air raid shelters were built on the east side of the school site in Sittingbourne and, later, to the north of the cricket pavilion. In May 1949, a clock tower was unveiled by the Bishop of Dover as a memorial to all those Old Bordenians who lost their lives in the Second World War, the funds once again being provided by the Old Bordenian Association.
The word 'Grammar' was removed from the school's name in 1972, in accordance with a change in the local education system, and there were fears that Borden might be turned into a Sixth Form college. These fears were, however, not realised, and Borden remained a selective school, admitting pupils at thirteen rather than after the 11+ Examination. In 1982, the word 'Grammar' was restored to the school's name, and entry at eleven resumed in 1994.
In 1979, a new teaching block, the Hardy Block (named for the school's fifth headmaster, George Hardy), was opened by Commander John Bostock, DSC, RN, chairman of governors. The first phase of another new teaching block, the Short Block (named for the school's sixth headmaster, Bryan Short), was opened in 1995 and completed in 1998; the finished building was formally opened by Robin, Lord Kingsdown, the great-grandson of the school's first chairman of governors, Sir Edward Leigh Pemberton. One of the science laboratories, the Hooker Advanced Physics Laboratory, was named for and opened by Sir Stanley Hooker, an Old Bordenian and aeronautical engineer.
The School looks forward to the sesquicentenary of its foundation, and the centenary of relocating to its present site, both in 2028.
Modern School
On 1 September 2006 the school was awarded Specialist status for Sports and Modern Foreign Languages. With this status and an associated increase in funding, the school has built many new facilities, including a multi use games area (MUGA) and the William Barrow Library. In 2011 the school also received a sports bursary, with which it used to construct a climbing wall in the gym.
In 2011, three updated war memorials were installed in the school vestibule, commemorating all those Old Bordenians known to have given their lives in the conflicts of the twentieth century (forty casualties in the First World War, sixty casualties in the Second World War, and single casualties in the Boer War, Korean War and Northern Ireland).
Borden became an academy in 2012, which changed the flexibility of the curriculum able to be taught at the school as well as increased funding.
The school, along with other Sittingbourne-based secondary schools, Fulston Manor School and Highsted Grammar School for Girls, maintain a close community and share teaching responsibilities of specialised subjects at A-Level, with Borden teaching Economics and Psychology.
School badge, motto and song
The school's badge, which in heraldic terms is blazoned as 'azure, a chevron or between three crescents of the last', is believed to have been derived from the coat of arms of William Barrow; however, no proof of this connection has been uncovered, despite extensive efforts in the 1930s. Some sources fancifully state that the three crescents represent successive generations of pupils at the school, but the badge was in use as early as 1885, when the school was still in its infancy. The gold border that surrounds the shield is believed to have been added when a navy blazer became part of the school uniform, so that the blue field of the shield would stand out.
The school has a Latin motto, 'Nitere Porro', which translates as 'Strive Forward'. Adopted during the headmastership of William Claydon, it was taken from a speech by Julius Caesar quoted in Horace's Epistles.
'Forty Years On' was also adopted as the school song under William Claydon. This replaced an earlier school song, which began with the words 'Borden, you merit all our praise, Our home through countless happy days.'
Houses
In common with many secondary schools in England, Borden has long had a house system. At the time of the First World War, the houses were 'Blue', 'Buff' and 'Red'.
These were later replaced with 'Barrow', 'Borden' and 'School', to which 'Swale' was added in the 1930s. Aside from the references to the school's location and benefactor, the etymology of 'Swale' can be explained by reference to the local stretch of water, The Swale, which runs between Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey and also lends its name to the local Borough Council.
This house system was brought to an end by headmaster Stephen Wright in 2002.
The house system was reinstated at the start of the school year beginning September 2007, under Harold Vafeas. The new house names are Lord's, Wimbledon, Wembley and Twickenham, named after the homes of cricket, tennis, football and rugby in England; ironically, the school predates the namesakes of two of its houses, Wembley and Twickenham.
With the loss of Barrow House, there is no longer any reference to the school's founding benefactor, William Barrow.
Uniform
No formal uniform existed for the first few decades of the school's existence. Prior to the First World War, some pupils wore a cap that carried a metal badge depicting the school shield; this badge later became embroidered. In the 1920s, pupils wore a tie with horizontal stripes in navy blue and gold, the school's colours. Members of the school's Cadet Corps wore khaki military uniform. By the end of the Second World War, a uniform was in place that continues to be worn, with minor modifications, to the present day: navy blazer with the school shield on the left breast pocket; grey trousers; white shirt; and tie with diagonal stripes in navy blue and gold. This tie was formerly worn by all pupils in Lower and Middle school; members of the Sixth Form wore a navy blue tie with small representations of the school shield arranged diagonally, while prefects wore a plain red tie. However, following the introduction of lounge suits for the Sixth Form in 2002, the former Sixth Form tie was adopted by Middle School and the former Lower and Middle School tie adopted by Lower School only. The school scarf is navy blue in colour with two narrow yellow stripes.
Old Bordenian Association
The Old Bordenian Association (OBA) is a charitable association, open to all former pupils and staff of Borden Grammar School.
The OBA was established in 1912 and re-established in 1925, following a period of abeyance during the First World War. The Association's badge is similar to the School badge, but with three crescents on a maroon rather than blue background.
The Association supports the School financially by funding extra-curricular enrichment, and practically with the skillset of its membership. In recent years, the OBA has provided a minibus for the School, and contributed toward the costs of refurbishing the school's William Barrow Library and the foundation of a well-being garden, in addition to offering career mentoring to current pupils and recent leavers.
The OBA has long honoured the memory of the School's military casualties. In 1931, a brick-and-timber sports pavilion was constructed and dedicated to the fallen Old Bordenians of the First World War; this was replaced by a modern brick building, which was rededicated in 2004. The School's clock tower was unveiled in 1949, and commemorates the fallen Old Bordenians of the Second World War. In 2011, the OBA funded two war memorials that record the names of all those Old Bordenians who fell in armed conflict in the Twentieth Century. Since then, wooden plaques have been placed over the entrances to individual classrooms within the School and commemorate the names of the Old Bordenians killed in the First World War. The OBA formerly held a Remembrance Service on the Saturday closest to Remembrance Sunday, honouring all those Old Bordenians who have lost their lives in the armed conflicts of the Twentieth Century.
The Association's annual journal, The Maroon, was first published in 1937 and replaced by a website, the eMaroon in 2009. The origin of the name ‘Maroon’ is unclear: the first edition of the magazine suggests that it might have been derived from a signal rocket of that name, used to summon crew or assistance, or simply from the colour that was already in use by the Association.
The OBA holds an annual reunion dinner each spring, held inside the Old Hall. The OBA maintains the Old Bordenian Football Club and retains a strong association with the Sittingbourne Hockey Club (formerly the Old Bordenian Hockey Club), which has a clubhouse and pitch onsite.
Cadet Corps
The school's first cadet corps was formed in 1903, affiliated to 4th Volunteer Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and commanded by one of the masters. The Cadet Corps was removed from the Army List in 1906, following the transfer of the headmaster, James Thurnham, and most of the school's staff and boarders, to New College, Herne Bay. It was then revived in 1917, this time affiliated to 4th The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and commanded by the then headmaster, William Murdock. It appears to have been finally wound up by the time the school moved to the Avenue of Remembrance in 1928.
Headmasters
1878-1893: (15 years service) Rev. William Henry Bond, MA (Cantab.) – Left to become headmaster of Churcher's College.
1893-1906: (13 years service) James Williamson Thurnham, MA (Cantab.) – Left to become headmaster of New College, Herne Bay.
1906-1936: (30 years service) William Murdock, MA (Oxon.), BSc (London) – retired.
1936-1941: (5 years service) William Arthur Claydon, MA (Oxon.) – Left to become headmaster of Maidstone Grammar School. Appointed CBE, 1956.
1941-1968: (27 years service) George Ernest Hardy, BSc (Hons.) (Birmingham) – retired. Appointed OBE, 1969.
1968-1998: (30 years service) Bryan Richard Short, MA (Oxon.) – retired.
1998-2004: (6 years service) Stephen Neill Wright, MA (Cantab.) – Left to become headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood.
2004-2013: (9 years service) Harold Sofronios Vafeas, MA (Cantab.) – retired.
2013-2019: (6 years service) Jonathan R[?]. Hopkins, BA (Hons.) (unknown university), NPQH – Left to become headmaster of Barton Court Grammar School, Canterbury.
2020–present: Ashley Tomlin, BSc (Hons.) (Kent), NPQH
Notable former pupils
Lloyd Amsdon, Matthew Bowling and Stuart Hennell, founders of Watchfinder
Francis Baker, CBE, Governor of St. Helena, 1984–88; chief secretary to the Government of the Falkland Islands, 1979–84 (including the Argentine invasion of 1982)
Geoff Beynon, trade union leader
James Bostock, RE, ARCA, painter and engraver
Steve Brown, Paralympian
Peter Butler, FRS, FInstP, physicist
Frank Cassell, CB, UK Executive Director of the IMF and World Bank, 1988-90
Roger Chapman, professional golfer
Brigadier John Clemow, late Royal Artillery, director of guided weapons projects, Ministry of Supply
Trevor Dadson, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary University of London; encomienda del Orden de Isabel la Católica
Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton, GBE, KCB, Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, 2001–07, and Third Sea Lord, 1989–94
Brigadier Ernest Goode, CBE, late Royal Army Service Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force, 1935–43; ADC to The Queen, 1959-62
John Hale, Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter, whose work includes Anne of the Thousand Days and Mary, Queen of Scots
Major William Hayward, farmer and political figure in British Columbia
Simon Honey, known as Ben Dover, pornographic actor and director
Sir Stanley Hooker, CBE, FRS, FRAeS, aeronautical engineer who designed the early jet engines, culminating with the Rolls-Royce Pegasus
Adrian Howells, performance artist
Kevin Keohane, CBE, Professor of Science, Chelsea College of Science and Technology 1967-76; rector, Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1976-88
Sir Alexander King, 6th Baronet of Charlestown, Co. Roscommon
Sir Peter Kitcatt, CB, intelligence officer and secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons, 1986-93
Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Knott, CB, DSO, DFC, AFC and Bar, RAF, Station Commander of RAF Gütersloh, 1959–61
Jason Lee, field hockey coach and former international player
Commodore Douglas Littlejohns, CBE, RN, submarine commander, adviser to Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising and former CEO of Red Storm Entertainment
Colonel Brian Luck, CMG, DSO, late Royal Artillery, Commander Royal Artillery Gibraltar, 1925-26
Hon. Brigadier-General Cyril Montagu Luck, CMG, DSO, late Royal Engineers, director-general of Inland Water Transport, France, 1917-19
Sean McGinty, professional footballer
Peter Millican, philosopher
Brigadier Noel Muddiman, CBE, late Royal Corps of Transport, Commander Transport and Movements, First Gulf War; former director of Motability
Sir Alfred Road, CBE, Chief Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue, 1952-56
Nicholas Sims-Williams, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS
Patrick Sims-Williams, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University
Michael Smith, author
Nicholas Vincent, FBA, FRHistS, FSA, professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia
Edward Wakeford, geometer
Sir Cecil Wakeley, 1st Baronet of Liss, KBE, CB, FRCS, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1949–54; Surgeon Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy
George Zucco, character actor
Notable former staff
Robert Ladds (ex-Chemistry staff), Bishop of Whitby, 1999-2008
Notable people associated with Borden Grammar School
Sir Edward Leigh Pemberton, KCB, JP, DL, first chair of governors
References
External links
Educational institutions established in 1878
Boys' schools in Kent
Sittingbourne
Grammar schools in Kent
1878 establishments in England
Academies in Kent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden%20Grammar%20School |
Hanni Julius Bjartalíð (born 1968) is a Faroese painter.
Born in Klaksvík, he attended art school in Kokkola in Finland. He has held exhibitions in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Finland, Germany and has featured in Biennial shows in the United Kingdom. He is currently living in Helsinki, Finland.
Originally a painter he has been compared to the Italian Arte Povera artists by using found materials close at hand. Bjartalíð recycles his canvases to such an extent that they are almost always heavy with paint, even the small paintings. The majority of his work now takes the form of 3d sculptures created from found materials. Just as with his paintings Bjartalíð recycles his sculptural objects often reusing parts from works shown in exhibitions to create new, larger works.
In 2008 he won the Faroese award Barnamentanarheiðursløn Tórshavnar býráðs which means Children's Cultural Prize of Tórshavn City Council.
His largest work to date was featured in the 2012 Liverpool Biennial as part of the North Atlantic Pavilion in the City States gallery.
See also
Art of the Faroe Islands
External links
- The Faroe Islands National Art Museum
The North Atlantic Pavilion - Liverpool Biennial 2012
Video - Bjartalíð at Liverpool Biennial
1968 births
Living people
Faroese painters
People from Klaksvík
Faroese Children's Literature Prize recipients | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanni%20Bjartal%C3%AD%C3%B0 |
Isaia "Ice" Toeava (born 15 January 1986) is a professional rugby union player from New Zealand.
Early career
Toeava was born in Samoa but moved to New Zealand in 1994 to live with his grandmother. He attended De La Salle College, Mangere East, he played alongside Taniela Moa in the school's First XV rugby team. He represented New Zealand U-19 where he was named the IRB's Under-19 2005 player of the year. He played at second-five for New Zealand Under 19. Other early career highlights include playing second five for the Championship-winning Auckland Marist Under 21 side, coached by Peter Tubberty. His sister, Peta is an international netball player having debuted for the Silver Ferns in 2018.
Career
Toeava played for the All Blacks and represented New Zealand in Sevens rugby.
In 2005 Toeava was a shock selection for the All Blacks Grand Slam tour at only 19 years of age. He had had no Super 14 experience, and limited Provincial experience with just eight games for Auckland, and only a solitary start at first-five against Northland.
He played his first-class rugby mainly at centre, wing and fullback. He played his provincial rugby for Auckland in the Air New Zealand Cup and was drafted to the Hurricanes in the 2006 Super 14 season. He played for the Blues for the 2007 season.
He was instrumental in the success of the Blues in the 2007 Super 14 season, scoring four tries and setting up many others from the outside centre position. He was later nominated for Rebel Sport Super 14 Player of the Year at the 2007 Steinlager Rugby Awards.
Toeava played the final two games of the 2011 Tri-Nations tournament. At the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Toeava played in pool matches against Tonga (at left wing), Japan (at fullback) and Canada (coming of the bench in the second half).
In July 2012, Toeava signed a two-year contract with the Tokyo-based Canon Eagles.
In March 2016 Toeava joined Clermont as a medical joker to cover an injury crisis and has held his place at the powerful club. His form helped guide Clermont to the French Top 14 championship and to the lead in their pool of the Champions Cup in January 2017, before an arm injury that required surgery sidelined him for the rest of the season.
On 16 June 2020, Toeava signs for Top 14 rivals Toulon ahead of the 2020–21 season. On 25 November 2021, he signed for another French side Bayonne in the second-tier Pro D2 ahead of the 2021–22 season.
NZRU Annual Awards
NZRU Age-Grade Player of the Year, 2005
New Zealand Representative Teams
New Zealand Secondary Schools in 2003
New Zealand Sevens rugby in 2005
New Zealand Under 19 in 2005
All Blacks in 2005–07, 2010
Career Notes
Played every match in his first Super 14 season for the Hurricanes.
Scored two tries against Northland in his only start of the season for Auckland in the 2005 Air New Zealand NPC.
Received the 2005 IRB Under 19 Player of the Year award announced in November 2005 in Paris.
Scored 62 points in four matches for New Zealand Under 19 at the IRB Under 19 World Championships in South Africa in 2005, including five tries and 37 points from the boot.
References
External links
Auckland Rugby profile
Statistics from Fox Sports
ESPN Scrum profile
1986 births
Living people
Samoan rugby union players
New Zealand rugby union players
Auckland rugby union players
Blues (Super Rugby) players
Hurricanes (rugby union) players
Yokohama Canon Eagles players
Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay players
Rugby union centres
Rugby union fullbacks
New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
Rugby union wings
New Zealand international rugby union players
World Rugby Awards winners
People from Tuamasaga
Expatriate rugby union players in Japan
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Japan
New Zealand expatriate rugby union players
People educated at De La Salle College, Māngere East
2007 Rugby World Cup players
2011 Rugby World Cup players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaia%20Toeava |
The inferior temporal gyrus is one of three gyri of the temporal lobe and is located below the middle temporal gyrus, connected behind with the inferior occipital gyrus; it also extends around the infero-lateral border on to the inferior surface of the temporal lobe, where it is limited by the inferior sulcus. This region is one of the higher levels of the ventral stream of visual processing, associated with the representation of objects, places, faces, and colors. It may also be involved in face perception, and in the recognition of numbers and words.
The inferior temporal gyrus is the anterior region of the temporal lobe located underneath the central temporal sulcus. The primary function of the occipital temporal gyrus – otherwise referenced as IT cortex – is associated with visual stimuli processing, namely visual object recognition, and has been suggested by recent experimental results as the final location of the ventral cortical visual system. The IT cortex in humans is also known as the Inferior Temporal Gyrus since it has been located to a specific region of the human temporal lobe. The IT processes visual stimuli of objects in our field of vision, and is involved with memory and memory recall to identify that object; it is involved with the processing and perception created by visual stimuli amplified in the V1, V2, V3, and V4 regions of the occipital lobe. This region processes the color and form of the object in the visual field and is responsible for producing the "what" from this visual stimuli, or in other words identifying the object based on the color and form of the object and comparing that processed information to stored memories of objects to identify that object.
The IT cortex's neurological significance is not just its contribution to the processing of visual stimuli in object recognition but also has been found to be a vital area with regards to simple processing of the visual field, difficulties with perceptual tasks and spatial awareness, and the location of unique single cells that possibly explain the IT cortex's relation to memory.
Structure
The temporal lobe is unique to primates. In humans, the IT cortex is more complex than their relative primate counterparts. The human inferior temporal cortex consists of the inferior temporal gyrus, the middle temporal gyrus, and the fusiform gyrus. When looking at the brain laterally – that is from the side and looking at the surface of the temporal lobe – the inferior temporal gyrus is along the bottom portion of the temporal lobe, and is separated from the middle temporal gyrus located directly above by the inferior temporal sulcus. Additionally, some processing of the visual field that corresponds to the ventral stream of visual processing occurs in the lower portion of the superior temporal gyrus closest to the superior temporal sulcus. The medial and ventral view of the brain – meaning looking at the medial surface from below the brain, facing upwards – reveals that the inferior temporal gyrus is separated from the fusiform gyrus by the occipital-temporal sulcus. This human inferior temporal cortex is much more complex than that of other primates: non-human primates have an inferior temporal cortex that is not divided into unique regions such as humans' inferior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, or middle temporal gyrus.
This region of the brain corresponds to the inferior temporal cortex and is responsible for visual object recognition and receives processed visual information. The inferior temporal cortex in primates has specific regions dedicated to processing different visual stimuli processed and organized by the different layers of the striate cortex and extra-striate cortex. The information from the V1 –V5 regions of the geniculate and tectopulvinar pathways are radiated to the IT cortex via the ventral stream: visual information specifically related to the color and form of the visual stimuli. Through comparative research between primates – humans and non-human primates – results indicate that the IT cortex plays a significant role in visual shape processing. This is supported by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data collected by researchers comparing this neurological process between humans and macaques.
Function
Receiving information
The light energy that comes from the rays bouncing off of an object is converted into chemical energy by the cells in the retina of the eye. This chemical energy is then converted into action potentials that are transferred through the optic nerve and across the optic chiasm, where it is first processed by the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus. From there the information is sent to the primary visual cortex, region V1. It then travels from the visual areas in the occipital lobe to the parietal and temporal lobes via two distinct anatomical streams. These two cortical visual systems were classified by Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982, see two-streams hypothesis). One stream travels ventrally to the inferior temporal cortex (from V1 to V2 then through V4 to ITC) while the other travels dorsally to the posterior parietal cortex. They are labeled the "what" and "where" streams, respectively. The Inferior Temporal Cortex receives information from the ventral stream, understandably so, as it is known to be a region essential in recognizing patterns, faces, and objects.
Single-cell function in the inferior temporal gyrus
The understanding at the single-cell level of the IT cortex and its role of utilizing memory to identify objects and or process the visual field based on color and form visual information is a relatively recent in neuroscience. Early research indicated that the cellular connections of the temporal lobe to other memory associated areas of the brain – namely the hippocampus, the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, among others. These cellular connections have recently been found to explain unique elements of memory, suggesting that unique single-cells can be linked to specific unique types and even specific memories.
Research into the single-cell understanding of the IT cortex reveals many compelling characteristics of these cells: single-cells with similar selectivity of memory are clustered together across the cortical layers of the IT cortex; the temporal lobe neurons have recently been shown to display learning behaviors and possibly relate to long-term memory; and, cortical memory within the IT cortex is likely to be enhanced over time thanks to the influence of the afferent-neurons of the medial-temporal region.
Further research of the single-cells of the IT cortex suggests that these cells not only have a direct link to the visual system pathway but also are deliberate in the visual stimuli they respond to: in certain cases, the single-cell IT cortex neurons do not initiate responses when spots or slits, namely simple visual stimuli, are present in the visual field; however, when complicated objects are put in place, this initiates a response in the single-cell neurons of the IT cortex. This provides evidence that not only are the single-cell neurons of the IT cortex related in having a unique specific response to visual stimuli but rather that each individual single-cell neuron has a specific response to a specific stimuli. The same study also reveals how the magnitude of the response of these single-cell neurons of the IT cortex do not change due to color and size but are only influenced by the shape. This led to even more interesting observations where specific IT neurons have been linked to the recognition of faces and hands. This is very interesting as to the possibility of relating to neurological disorders of prosopagnosia and explaining the complexity and interest in the human hand. Additional research from this study goes into more depth on the role of "face neurons" and "hand neurons" involved in the IT cortex.
The significance of the single-cell function in the IT cortex is that it is another pathway in addition to the lateral geniculate pathway that processes most visual system: this raises questions about how does it benefit our visual information processing in addition to normal visual pathways and what other functional units are involved in additional visual information processing.
Information processing
The information for color and form comes from P-cells that receive their information mainly from cones, so they are sensitive to differences in form and color, as opposed to the M-cells that receive information about motion mainly from rods. The neurons in the inferior temporal cortex, also called the inferior temporal visual association cortex, process this information from the P-cells. The neurons in the ITC have several unique properties that offer an explanation as to why this area is essential in recognizing patterns. They only respond to visual stimuli and their receptive fields always include the fovea, which is one of the densest areas of the retina and is responsible for acute central vision. These receptive fields tend to be larger than those in the striate cortex and often extend across the midline to unite the two visual half fields for the first time. IT neurons are selective for shape and/or color of stimulus and are usually more responsive to complex shapes as opposed to simple ones. A small percentage of them are selective for specific parts of the face. Faces and likely other complex shapes are seemingly coded by a sequence of activity across a group of cells, and IT cells can display both short or long-term memory for visual stimuli based on experience.
Object recognition
There are a number of regions that work together within the ITC for processing and recognizing the information of "what" something is. In fact, discrete categories of objects are even associated with different regions.
The fusiform gyrus or Fusiform Face Area (FFA) deals more with facial and body recognition rather than objects.
The Parahippocampal Place Area (PPA) helps differentiate between scenes and objects.
The Extrastriate Body Area (EBA) helps differentiate body parts from other objects.
And the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC) is used to determine shapes vs. scrambled stimuli.
These areas must all work together, as well as with the hippocampus, in order to create an array of understanding of the physical world. The hippocampus is key for storing the memory of what an object is/what it looks like for future use so that it can be compared and contrasted with other objects. Correctly being able to recognize an object is highly dependent on this organized network of brain areas that process, share, and store information. In a study by Denys et al., functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) was used to compare the processing of visual shape between humans and macaques. They found, amongst other things, that there was a degree of overlap between shape and motion sensitive regions of the cortex, but that the overlap was more distinct in humans. This would suggest that the human brain is better evolved for a high level of functioning in a distinct, three-dimensional, visual world.
Clinical significance
Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a disorder that results in the inability to recognize or discriminate between faces. It can often be associated with other forms of recognition impairment, such as place, car, or emotional recognition. A study conducted by Gross et al. in 1969 found that certain cells were selective for the shape of a monkey hand, and they observed that as the stimulus they provided began to further resemble a monkey hand, those cells became more active. A few years later, in 1972, Gross et al. discovered that certain IT cells were selective for faces. Although it is not conclusive, 'face-selective' IT cortex cells are assumed to play a large role in facial recognition in monkeys. After the extensive research into the result of damage to the IT cortex in monkeys, it is theorized that lesions in the IT gyrus in humans result in prosopagnosia. Rubens and Benson's 1971 study of a subject in life with prosopagnosia reveals that the patient is able to name common objects on visual presentation flawlessly, however she cannot recognize faces. Upon necropsy conducted by Benson et al., it was apparent that a discrete lesion in the right fusiform gyrus, a part of the inferior temporal gyrus, was one of the main causes of the subject's symptoms.
A more in depth observation can be seen with the example of patient L.H. in the study conducted by N.L. Etcoff and colleagues in 1991. This 40-year-old man was involved in an automobile accident when he was 18, which resulted in severe brain injury. Upon recovery, L.H. was unable to recognize or discriminate between faces, or even recognize faces that were familiar to him before the accident. L.H. and other patients with prosopagnosia are often able to live relatively normal and productive lives despite their deficit. L.H. was still able to recognize common objects, subtle differences in shapes, and even age, sex, and "likeability" of faces. However, they use non-facial cues, such as height, hair color, and voice to differentiate between people. Non-invasive brain imaging revealed that L.H.'s prosopagnosia was a result of damage to the right temporal lobe, which contains the inferior temporal gyrus.
Deficits in semantic memory
Certain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia, are characterized by a patient's inability to integrate semantic memories, which results in patients being unable to form new memories, lacking awareness of time period, as well as lacking other important cognitive processes. Chan et al 2001 conducted a study that used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to quantify the global and temporal lobe atrophy in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The subjects were selected and confirmed to be in the middle of the spectrum of their respective disorders clinically, and then further confirmation came from a series of neuropsychological tests given to the subjects. The study treated the inferior temporal cortex and the middle temporal cortex as one and the same, because of the, "often indistinct," border between the gyri.
The study concluded that in Alzheimer's disease, deficits in inferior temporal structures were not the main source of the disease. Rather, atrophy in the entorhinal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus was prominent in the Alzheimer's inflicted subjects of the study. With respect to semantic dementia, the study concluded that "the middle and inferior temporal gyri [cortices] may play a key role" in semantic memory, and as a result, unfortunately, when these anterior temporal lobe structures are injured, the subject is left with semantic dementia. This information shows how, despite often being grouped in the same category, Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia are very different diseases, and are characterized by marked differences in the subcortical structures they are associated with.
Cerebral achromatopsia
Cerebral achromatopsia is a medical disorder characterized by the inability to perceive color and to achieve satisfactory visual acuity in high light levels. Congenital achromatopsia is characterized the same way, however it is genetic, while Cerebral Achromatopsia occurs as a result of damage to certain parts of the brain. One part of the brain that is particularly integral to color discrimination is the inferior temporal gyrus. A 1995 study conducted by Heywood et al. was meant to highlight the parts of the brain that are important in achromatopsia in monkeys, however, it obviously sheds light on the areas of the brain related to achromatopsia in humans. In the study, one group of monkeys (group AT) received lesions in the temporal lobe anterior to V4 and the other group (group MOT) received lesions to the occipito-temporal area that corresponds in cranial location to the lesion that produces cerebral achromatopsia in humans. The study concluded that group MOT had no impairment of their color vision while the subjects in group AT all had severe impairments to their color vision, consistent with humans diagnosed with cerebral achromatopsia. This study shows that temporal lobe areas anterior to V4, which includes the inferior temporal gyrus, play a large role in patients with Cerebral Achromatopsia.
Additional images
See also
Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Face perception
Neural processing for individual categories of objects
Visual cortex
References
External links
Image at University of Utah
Gyri
Temporal lobe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20temporal%20gyrus |
Shipwrecked is the past tense of shipwreck.
Shipwrecked may also refer to:
Shipwrecked (TV series), a UK reality television show (2000–2012)
Shipwrecked (1926 film), a 1926 film
Shipwrecked (1939 film), a 1939 film
Shipwrecked (1990 film), a 1990 film
Shipwrecked (album), a 2004 album by Sultans
Shipwrecked, a 1977 album by Gonzalez
"Shipwrecked" (Genesis song), 1997 album
"Shipwrecked", a song by the Gothic Archies
"Shipwrecked" (I Shouldn't Be Alive episode), an episode from the Discovery Channel program I Shouldn't Be Alive
The Shipwrecked, a 1994 Chilean film
"Shipwrecked", the fourth downloadable content expansion of the video game Don't Starve
See also
Shipwreck (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwrecked |
Adriano Tilgher (8 January 1887 – 3 November 1941) was an Italian philosopher and essayist.
Biography
Tilgher was born in Resina (now Ercolano, Campania).
After studying law, he dedicated himself to journalism and essay writing. He was a theatre critic for various daily Roman newspapers between 1915 and 1925, proving himself a sharp interpreter of dramatic texts. He is known for his view of the theatre of Luigi Pirandello, which he interpreted as an expression of the contrast between Life (la Vita) and Form (la Forma), a view Pirandello adopted as his own.
He wrote the book "Storia del concetto di lavoro nella civiltà occidentale (homo faber)", Rome 1924 (reprinted) 1944 and Bologna 1983; English translation (by Dorothy Canfield Fisher); "Work, what it has meant to men through the ages", New York 1931 (reprinted 1958, 1977).
He died in Rome in 1941.
Works
Relativisti contemporanei (1923), Rome: Libreria di scienze e lettere
References
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1941 deaths
People from the Province of Naples
20th-century Italian philosophers
Italian anti-fascists
Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriano%20Tilgher%20%28philosopher%29 |
John Gavin (or John Gaven) (1829 – 6 April 1844) was the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. He was executed for murder at the age of fifteen.
Life
Born in 1829, Gavin was convicted of an offence while still a juvenile, and was transported to Western Australia as a Parkhurst apprentice, arriving on board Shepherd in October 1843.
On 3 April 1844, he was tried for the murder of his employer's son, 18-year-old George Pollard. He confessed to killing the sleeping victim with an adze, but he seemed unaware of a rational motive. Three days later he was publicly hanged outside the Round House in Fremantle. After a death mask had been taken and his brain studied for "scientific purposes" he was buried in the sand hills to the south without a ceremony.
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1829 births
1844 deaths
Convicts transported to Western Australia
Executed children
Executed Australian people
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People executed by Western Australia
Australian people convicted of murder
Australian murderers of children
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People executed by Australian colonies by hanging | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gavin%20%28convict%29 |
Jakestown was a radio show hosted by Brian Jacques on BBC Radio Merseyside. One regular feature of this show concerned "The Mystery Tenor" which allowed Brian to indulge in his great enjoyment of tenor voices. Brian Jacques retired from radio in October 2006, and Jakestown is no more.
The programme's theme tune was a song, the words of which were:
"I come from the city where the cats don't sleep, they howl the whole night long,
And the sparrows give a cough on the windowsill, in lieu of a mornin' song,
And the buskers in the subway sound as good as the fellers off TV,
And I'm not bad when I've had a few, you should come and listen to me.
Well the tug boats on the River Mersey have a song all of their own,
And the Goodison Choir and the Anfield Army sing 'You'll never walk alone',
When the sun comes out the Liver Birds stand up and stretch their wings,
And there's a song in a thousand hearts,
And that's when Liverpool sings.
A bustling city, open wide,
The North West gate to Merseyside."
References
BBC Radio programmes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakestown |
Reed Elley (born 22 July 1945) is a retired Baptist minister who was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1997 as a member of the Reform Party. He was reelected in 2000 and retired in 2004.
Elley was born in Simcoe, Ontario and was educated at McMaster University in Hamilton, where he obtained a BA in History and an M.Div. in theology. He pastored several churches in the Baptist denomination in three provinces, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. In 1967, he married Louise Plester from Chemainus, British Columbia and they raised eight children—four children of their own as well as four foster children, three of whom are First Nations. Along with his wife, they fostered more than 155 children.
Elley joined the Reform Party of Canada, then led by Preston Manning, in 1988 discovering that his political, social and faith views were very much aligned with Manning whom he admired. His first political activity was in 1992, when he ran a Vote No campaign on behalf of the Reform Party in the federal riding of Calgary Centre during the Charlottetown Accord constitutional referendum which he and the Party won. He then became an area manager for the Reform candidate Jim Silye. During that time he and his family moved to Vancouver Island, where he became involved in the winning campaign of Bob Ringma in 1993. After the election, he was asked to become president of the Nanaimo—Cowichan constituency association for the Reform Party.
He was nominated as the Reform candidate in Nanaimo-Cowichan in 1997 and won in that year's federal election. He was re-elected in 2000 in what the local press described as a landslide win as a member of the Canadian Alliance and ended his career as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. As MP, he served as deputy critic for Health and Vice-Chair of the Health Committee for three years. He became the senior critic for Indian Affairs and Northern Development under Stockwell Day's leadership. When Stephen Harper became the leader of the Party in 2002, Elley became senior critic for Labour and continued on the Committee for Persons with Disabilities.
Elley was a social conservative whose staunch opposition to same-sex marriage became a source for controversy when he was in Parliament. In 2000, as Parliament debated extending rights to same-sex couples, Elley suggested homosexuality should never have been legalized. Elley blamed former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's decision to decriminalize homosexuality in 1969 for what he said was an assault on the traditional family. Elley said: "He and his cohorts passed omnibus legislation which legitimized behavior which up until then had been considered outside the realm of normal." Elley stood by those remarks, later telling a Vancouver Sun reporter: "I presented my views on the breakdown of society as I saw it. … I had deep concerns about the erosion of traditional values and I ... still continue to stand up for traditional family values."
He ran in the 2008 general election but was not successful, finishing second to New Democratic Party candidate Jean Crowder by more than 4,000 votes.
In 2011, he was elected president of the fledgling BC Conservative Party and held the position for a year. Since his retirement from federal politics in 2004, he has held interim pastoral positions in Port Alberni, West Vancouver, Cobble Hill, and Chemainus. He is still active politically and is a past President of the Cowichan—Malahat—Langford Conservative EDA. He resides in Chemainus, BC with his wife Louise.
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21st-century Canadian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%20Elley |
Area codes 408 and 669 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area comprises most of Santa Clara County and Northern Santa Cruz County, and includes Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, and San Jose.
Area code 408 was split from area code 415 in 1959. The numbering plan area was reduced in geographic extent in 1998 for the creation of area code 831. In 2012, area code 669 was assigned as a second area code for same numbering plan area by overlay.
History
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. California area codes were reorganized geographically in 1950, so that 916 was assigned to a numbering plan area that comprised only the northeastern part from the Sierra Nevada to the Central Valley. The coastal area to the west was assigned area code 415.
Area code 408 was split from numbering plan area 415 in a flash-cut (without permissive dialing period) on March 1, 1959. The new numbering plan area included most of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties.
In 1997, the California/Nevada Code Administrator (C/NCA) advised the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) of the need for area code relief in the 408 numbering plan area. A geographic area code split had been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) which would install area code 831 for a new numbering plan area comprising the communities of Santa Cruz, Salinas, Monterey, and Hollister. Area code 408 would be retained in Sunnyvale, San Jose, Los Gatos, and Gilroy. The area code split became effictive on July 11, 1998, with a permissive dialing period ending on February 20, 1999.
Months later, by late 1998, continued growth in telecommunication services in Northern California required further area code relief for the 408 numbering plan area. A November 1998 relief plan was approved by the CPUC that proposed an overlay complex for NPA 408, with the new area code 669. However, by December 1999, the CPUC suspended the 408 overlay, along with all other then-scheduled overlay relief actions (NPAs 415, 510, 650, 714, and 909), due to the implementation of telephone number pooling, a more efficient number allocation method.
Telephone number pooling staved off exhaustion for over a decade. but by 2011, the 408 area code was forecast to require relief by the second quarter of 2012. From May to October 2011, public feedback was solicited in the area. On October 20, 2011, the California Public Utilities Commission confirmed implementing 669 as an overlay to the existing 408 numbering plan area, the first in the San Francisco Bay Area. The new area code's official in-service date was November 20, 2012, when new central office codes could be activated. A six-month permissive dialing period was conducted from April 21 to October 20 during which calls could be initiated by seven- or ten-digit dialing. Ten-digit dialing also required the prefix digit 1 (1+10-digit dialing).
AT&T telephone bills, shortly before the overlay was to go into effect, included the following information for 408 area code customers:
Effective April 21, 2012, you should begin the new dialing procedures ([i.e., to use the area code) whenever you place a call from the 408 area code. If you forget and dial just seven digits, your call will still be completed.
Beginning October 20, 2012, you must use the new dialing procedures (...) for all calls. After this date, if you do not use the new dialing procedures, your call will not be completed and a recording will instruct you to hang up and dial again.
Beginning November 20, 2012, new telephone lines or services may be assigned numbers using the 669 area code.
Los Gatos
Los Gatos is one of three cities in Santa Clara County that were not served by the Bell System. Gilroy and Morgan Hill were also served by independent telephone companies.
According to historian Willys I. Peck, the Los Gatos Telephone Company was the first company to offer telephone service in town. Later, the Western California Telephone Company provided service to Los Gatos and to Novato, Morgan Hill, and Kenwood. In the 1970s, the utility was acquired by General Telephone and Electronics, which changed its name to GTE, and merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to become Verizon Communications. Verizon served these areas until April 1, 2016, when Frontier Communications acquired the service.
Los Gatos was served by three central offices. Historically, these were called the Six Office (356), the Four Office (354), and the Mountain Office (353). The first two of these designations come from the addition of an extra digit when to the historic exchange name (ELgato) when the town converted from manual to dial service. Telephone numbers had the prefix ELgato-6 and ELgato-4, respectively (dialed as ELx-xxxx.) By 1975, 358 had been added as an additional central office prefix.
The Mountain Office served the Summit Road community and areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains west of town. Although the office code or prefix for service from this switch was ELgato-3 (353), it was not referred to as the Three Office. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the area was served by Automatic Electric step-by-step (SXS) electromechanical switching equipment. The step office was a maintenance headache; it being in a rural area made the problem more difficult. Users noticed crosstalk, and dial pulsing was audible during at least some of their calls. The outside plant in the mountain area was subject to a variety of tough environmental factors, including long loop lengths and the high humidity of the redwood forest. The area is now served by remote equipment on Summit Road connected to the central office on Los Gatos Boulevard.
Before the late 1980s and the arrival of cellular and PCS mobile phone service, GTE offered Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) on VHF (152 MHz) and UHF (454 MHz) frequencies in Los Gatos. The service included full-duplex dial service. Tight restrictions were imposed on call durations because there were only a few channels available. In the late 1970s, daytime calls longer than three minutes were billed at over $1 per minute to discourage the long-winded. The VHF equipment was located near the Santa Clara Valley Water District's Rinconada Water Treatment Plant on More Avenue at NAD27 coordinates . The IMTS system included General Electric mobile radio voting equipment. (Voting is a form of diversity combining used in mobile radio systems on land.) One receiver for at least one of the voted IMTS channels was located in a pole mount-cabinet on a utility pole along Montevina Road off California State Route 17. These IMTS systems were dismantled after cellular systems became available to subscribers in the Bay Area.
San Jose
Manual service
Before 1949, San Jose telephone service was manual. A subscriber would lift the receiver and wait for the operator to inquire, "Number Please?" Most telephone numbers started with Ballard or Columbia. Mayfair numbers served the east side. The City manager's telephone number was Ballard 1 while most numbers had four digits and a letter, (for example: Ballard 2345 W). One of four letters was appended to telephone numbers: J, M, R, or W to designate each station connected to the four-party line.
Dial service and numbering plan
After the conversion to dial service in 1949, San Jose telephone numbers started with names including ALpine-, ANdrews-, BAldwin-, CLayburn-, and CYpress-. As the North American Numbering Plan evolved in the 1950s, these became today's 25x-, 26x-, 22x-, 258-, and 29x-numbers, respectively.
Until the late 1970s, central office code protection was maintained between area codes 415 and 408, so that Telephone numbers were not duplicated across, and subscribers could dial seven-digit San Francisco or Berkeley numbers without dialing an area code. Population growth, facsimile machines, and pagers caused demands for numbers to outrun the capacity of this arrangement. The additional demands for PCS and cellular phone numbers helped necessitate the 831/408 area code split, the 650/415 split, and the earlier 510/415 split.
Part of the previous dialing plan included a mass calling prefix for radio station contests, introduced in the 1960s because some contests put unacceptable loads on the Bay Area's telephone switches. Until the 1980s, radio station call-in contests throughout the Bay Area used 575-numbers. Electromechanical switching equipment of the day had been engineered to accommodate large call volumes to 575-numbers. Large numbers of calls would otherwise have overloaded switching equipment causing slow dial tone and blocked long-distance circuits.
A patchwork quilt of electromechanical switching equipment handled San Jose calls between 1949 and the 1980s. There were about eight Western Electric Crossbar switches, at least one Number 1 and mostly Number 5. There was a Western Electric 4A Crossbar that took up two floors of the Main telephone exchange. In the mid-1980s, the 4A crossbar was replaced with a digital switch which took up part of a single floor and quadrupled calling capacity.
The 408 area code was the last area code in the United States to institute the requirement of dialing "1" before making a long-distance call.
Mobile service
Before the existence of cell phones, Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) was offered. As of 1983, three VHF and two UHF channels were available. Subscribers had either a VHF or UHF vehicle-mounted phone, consequently they could access only two or three channels over the entire San Jose area. On VHF, the maximum system capacity for the San Jose system was three simultaneous calls. There was a roaming feature, but no registration scheme like the ones used by modern PCS and cell phones.
Service area
Alum Rock, Bell Station, Buena Vista, Burbank, Campbell, Casa Loma, Loma Chiquita, Chemeketa Park, Cupertino, East Foothills, Fruitdale, Glenwood, Gilroy, Holy City, Laurel, Lexington Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, a small part of Mountain View, Redwood Estates, Rucker, San Antonio Valley, San Jose, San Martin, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sargent, Seven Trees, Sunnyvale (except the westernmost edge), Sunol-Midtown, Sveadal, Zayante
See also
List of California area codes
List of North American Numbering Plan area codes
References
External links
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1959
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2012
408 and 669
408 and 669
Northern California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20codes%20408%20and%20669 |
The Cáin Adomnáin (, , "Law of Adomnán"), also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dál Riatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697. It is named after its initiator Adomnán of Iona, ninth Abbot of Iona after St. Columba. It is called the "Geneva Accords" of the ancient Irish and Europe's first human rights treaty, for its protection of women and non-combatants, extending the Law of Patrick, which protected monks, to civilians. The legal symposium at the Synod of Birr was prompted when Adomnáin had an Aisling dream vision wherein his mother excoriated him for not protecting the women and children of Ireland.
History
During almost two centuries, and more precisely the years AD 697–887, nine different ordinances were promulgated and kept in the record of the annals of Ireland. Each ordinance was issued either by a saint or monastic group. Three texts of these legislations have come to us, the earliest being Cáin Adomnáin - Lex Innocentium - proclaimed by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, at the synod of Birr in 697.
According to D.N. Dumville, it is suspected that the promulgation of this law in 697 was a centennial commemoration of Columba, who died in 597. The Cáin Adomnáin includes a guarantor-list featuring 91 political and ecclesiastical figures from Ireland, Dal Riata, and Pictland, which has been shown to be near contemporaneous to the promulgation of the Law in 697. As a successor of Columba of Iona, Adomnán had sufficient prestige to assemble this group of chieftains and clerics. The list of secular rulers is headed by Loingsech mac Óengusso, who was the Cenél Conaill King of Tara. Adomnán was related to this king, and it has been suggested that an alliance with Uí Néill royal power helped ensure widespread support for the Law. As well as being the site of a significant monastery, associated with Saint Brendan of Birr, Birr was close to the boundary between the Uí Néill-dominated northern half of Ireland, and the southern half, where the kings of Munster ruled. It, therefore, represented a form of neutral ground where the rival kings and clerics of both sides of Ireland could meet.
Various factors, including Marian devotion in seventh- and eighth-century Ireland, are supposed to have contributed to inspire Adomnán to introduce these laws, but it may also be that as Columba's biographer, he was prompted by the saint's example. It was originally known as the Law of the Innocents and focused on the beneficiary noncombatants. Upon its renewal in 727, it referenced its author.
Content
The indigenous Brehon Laws were committed to parchment about the 7th century, most likely by clerics. Most scholars now believe that the secular laws were not compiled independently of monasteries. Adomnan would have had access to the best legal minds of his generation.
This set of laws were designed, among other things, to guarantee the safety and immunity of various types of noncombatants in warfare. It required, for example, that "whoever slays a woman... his right hand and his left foot shall be cut off before death, and then he shall die."
If a woman committed murder, arson, or theft from a church, she was to be set adrift in a boat with one paddle and a container of gruel. This left the judgment up to God and avoided violating the proscription against killing a woman.
The laws also provided sanctions against many things like the killing of children, clerics, clerical students and peasants on clerical lands; rape; impugning the chastity of a noblewoman and women from having to take part in warfare. Much repeated traditional Irish laws.
The law described both the secular fines which criminals must pay and the ritual curses to which lawbreakers were subject. Bystanders who did nothing to prevent the crime were as liable as the perpetrator. "Stewards of the Law" collected the fine and paid it to the victim or next of kin.
Legacy
According to the Irish Annals, in 727 the relics of Adomnán were brought to Ireland for the renewal of the Law. and these relics returned to Iona in 730.
Adomnán's initiative appears to be one of the first systematic attempts to lessen the savagery of warfare among Christians, a remarkable achievement for a churchman on the remote outer edge of Europe. In it, he gave local expression, in the context of the Gaelic legal tradition, to a wider Christian movement to restrain violence.
It was an early example of international law in that it was to be enforced in Ériu and Albu, (Ireland and Britain) although Britain refers to only what is now northern Scotland for it was the kings of that region who were guarantors of the Law.
As with later clerical efforts, such as the Peace and Truce of God movement in millennial France, the law may have been of limited effectiveness. Fergus Kelly notes that no cases relating to the Cáin Adomnáin have been preserved. Thus, it is unknown whether the harsh penalties which it mandates, which may have contradicted the general character of Irish law, were rigidly enforced.
There are annalistic examples of the justice of the Cáin Adomnáin being applied, such as here by Cenél nEógain High King Niall Glúndub, for whom the O'Neill Clan of Ulster are named.
In 907 the sanctuary of Ard Macha was violated by Cearnachan mac Duilgen who took a captive from the church and drowned him in Lough Cier nearby.
This perpetrator was taken by Nial Glundub mac Aedha, Righ an Tuaisceirt, having replaced his brother Domnall as king of the north, and he drowned Cearnachan in the same lake Lough Cier in revenge for the violation of Padraicc.
Notes
Further reading
Cáin Adomnáin, 697: the Irish ‘Geneva Convention’, History Ireland. Issue 1 (January/February 2015), Volume 23.
Adomnán's Law of the Innocents - Cáin Adomnáin: A seventh-century law for the protection of non-combatants, translated by Gilbert Márkus. Kilmartin, Argyll: Kilmartin House Museum, 2008.
Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba, edited & translated Richard Sharpe. London: Penguin, 1995.
Adomnán at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents. Edited by Thomas O'Loughlin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2001)
External links
translation of the Cáin Adomnáin by Kuno Meyer at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Early Gaelic legal texts
Medieval legal codes
7th century in Scotland
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7th century in Ireland
Law of war
7th century in law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1in%20Adomn%C3%A1in |
Jason was a Norwegian whaling vessel laid down in 1881 by Rødsverven in Sandefjord, Norway, the same shipyard which later built Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. The ship, financed by Christen Christensen, an entrepreneur from Sandefjord, was noted for his participation in an 1892-1893 Antarctic expedition led by Carl Anton Larsen.
The vessel reached 68°10'S, and set a new record for distance travelled south along the eastern Antarctic Peninsula. The ship's first mate during the expedition was Søren Andersen, also of Sandefjord.
Jason was sold to an Italian company in 1899 and rechristened Stella Polare.
Usage as Jason
In 1888, Fridtjof Nansen captained Jason to Greenland in order to attempt the first documented crossing of the island.
From 1892 to 1894, the ship was used on scientific whaling expeditions to the Antarctic, funded by A/S Oceana. The purpose of these expeditions were to map the presence of whales and seals in the area. During this mission, Jason achieved a record of going the furthest south in the area, reaching 68°10'S.
Geographical locations named after Jason
Jason Peninsula
Jason Harbour South Georgia
Jason Island South Georgia
Jason Peak South Georgia
=== Antarctic discoveries during Jason'''s 1892-1893 voyage ===
Cape Framnes
Christensen Island: 65°5'S, 58°40'W
Foyn's Land
Larsen Ice Shelf
Mount Jason: 65°44'S, 60°45'W
Norway Sound (Norske Sund)
Robertson Island: 65°10′S 59°37′W
Seal Islands (Sel Øerne)
Veier Head (Reclassified from Veierø, or Weather Island): 66°26'S, 60°45'W
Usage as Polar Ship renamed Stella Polare
In 1898 the Italian prince and explorer Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi wanted to do polar expeditions. He travelled to Norway and consulted the famous polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen that had sailed the furthest north with the Colin Archer built polar ship Fram in 1893–96. In 1899 Amedo bought Jason, renamed her Stella Polare and took her to Colin Archer's shipyard. The interior was stripped out and beams, diagonals and knees heavily strengthened the ship. At the same time, Colin Archer fitted out Southern Cross for polar expeditions and the two ships lay side by side at the yard in Larvik.
Amedeo gathered an expeditionary crew of Italian and Norwegian civilians and sailed from Christiana on 12 June of that year. By the 30th, they had reached Archangel, Russia to load sled dogs onto the ship. Leaving Russia, they headed for Franz Josef Land. They landed in Teplitz Bay in Rudolf Island, with a hope to establish a winter camp for the expedition. From here, they established a string of camps designed to supply each other with food and men. During the expedition, Amedeo lost two fingers to frostbite, and had to hand command of the voyage over to Captain Umberto Cagni. On 25 April 1900, Cagni planted the Italian flag at 86°34'N, claiming the title of "Farthest North."
Amedo's uncle was murdered and the widow made a silver replica of Stella Polare at a cost of 12.000 lire and placed it at the Virgin Mary's wonder-working picture in the cathedral of Torino, Italy.
In July 1909 the Stella Polare was given as training ship for an association in Rome. She was taken under tow from the arsenal in La Spezia and anchored at Ripa Grande in the river Tiber, a little upstream of the Aventine Hill. There she caught fire, but a part of the bow was saved and put in the museum of Milano.
References
Larsen, C.A. "The Voyage of the "Jason" to the Antarctic Regions." The Geographical Journal'', Vol. 4, No. 4. (Oct., 1894), pp. 333–344.
Exploration ships
Ships built in Sandefjord
Tall ships of Norway
1881 ships
Whaling ships
Graham Land
History of Franz Josef Land
Fridtjof Nansen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20%28ship%29 |
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