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Dunrobin Castle railway station is a railway station on the Far North Line in Scotland, serving Dunrobin Castle near the village of Golspie in the Highland council area. The station is from , between Golspie and Brora. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
History
It was originally a private station for the castle, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland. The Arts and Crafts style waiting room was designed by L Bisset and constructed in 1902, and is a category B listed building.
It was described in the Railway Magazine:
The Duke of Sutherland has a beautiful private railway station. As is well known, his Grace owns a large proportion of the North of Scotland, and his famous seat of Dunrobin Castle in that district has its own station for the Duke and his household, called after the Castle, "Dunrobin." The station is one of those on the line of the Highland Railway, and lies between Brora and Golspie, in Sutherlandshire. The Duke has had the place made not only serviceable, but very picturesque in its design and finish.
The general outline seems to be that of a Swiss chalet, and this appearance is not lessened by the surrounding hilly district. The windows are latticed, and look very cosy, whilst all the waiting-rooms and other necessary adjuncts to such a station are well fitted up. With true patriotism his lordship determined that Scotch pine should be used as far as possible in the construction of his station, so that he had it built of that wood. Thus it is extremely strongly made, as it needs to be to resist the ravages of snow and wind that sweep so terribly across the Sutherland moors in winter.
As a rule the platforms of private stations are very small, but this one at Dunrobin is an exception. It is very long, for often the family at the Castle will entertain three or four hundred guests at a time, when important fêtes or events are taking place there.
Facilities
The station has no facilities, save for a small waiting area and the old station buildings, including a privately-owned toilet - the northernmost station in Great Britain to have a toilet on the station platform.
A ‘Request to Stop’ kiosk is expected to be installed at the station in spring 2023.
Services
Unlike other stations on the line, the station is only open when the castle itself is open, and is closed from late October to March every year. On weekdays and Saturdays, the station sees three trains each way, with one train towards Inverness on Sundays. No trains call before 9am or after 6pm due to the station having no lighting.
Cultural References
The station was used in the 4th and 5th Harry Potter films as Hogsmeade. The station was also featured on an episode of Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys in 2012, in which he opened the restored toilet in the former station buildings.
References
Bibliography
External links
Railway stations in Sutherland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1985
Former Highland Railway stations
Beeching closures in Scotland
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Category B listed buildings in Highland (council area)
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Railway request stops in Great Britain
Former private railway stations
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
Laurie Bisset railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunrobin%20Castle%20railway%20station |
Major The Rt. Hon. William Charles Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore (27 September 1824 – 1 April 1883, Biarritz), was an Irish nobleman and soldier. He was the son of The 3rd Viscount Avonmore and Cecilia O'Keeffe. Major William Charles Yelverton gained the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Artillery. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Medjidie 5th class. He was usually known to family and friends as Charles.
Marriages
The Hon. William Charles Yelverton (as he was styled 1824–1870) married, firstly, Maria Theresa Longworth (died 1881) on 15 August 1857 in Rostrevor, County Down, Ireland. The marriage was dissolved. The union was childless.
He married, secondly, Mrs. Emily Marianne Forbes (née Ashworth), daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Ashworth and Mary Anne Rooke, on 26 June 1858, in Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland; Emily Forbes, at the time of the marriage, was the widow of Prof. Edward Forbes, the naturalist.
Thelwall v. Yelverton lawsuit
The validity of his first marriage was tested in the Yelverton case, a 19th-century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland.
Under a Statute of King George II (19 Geo. 2. c. 13), any marriage between a Catholic (Popish) and a Protestant or a marriage between two Protestants celebrated by a Catholic priest was null and void. Between 21 February 1861 and 4 March 1861, the trial of Thelwall v. Yelverton found that even though Major Yelverton was a Protestant, and Miss Longworth a Roman Catholic, and though they had been married by a Roman Catholic priest, the marriage was valid. In March 1861 he was suspended from all military duties. On 28 July 1864 on appeal, the decision of Thelwall v. Yelverton was reversed, and the House of Lords decided that William's first marriage was illegal, and therefore his second marriage was valid.
Children
Major The Hon. William Charles Yelverton and Mrs. Emily Marianne Yelverton (née Ashworth) had four children:
Captain The Hon. Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (1859–1885)
William Walter Aglionby Yelverton (1860–1861)
Olive Ursula Yelverton (1861–1861)
Hon. Algernon William Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (1866–1910)
Later life
Major Yelverton outlived his older brother, thus succeeding his father in the viscountcy in the Peerage of Ireland in October 1870. Henceforth he was styled as The Rt. Hon. The 4th Viscount Avonmore.
Lord Avonmore died in Biarritz in April 1883.
See also
Viscount Avonmore
References
Further reading
Schama, Chloe. Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal. Bloomsbury, London, 2010 (Hardback ).
1824 births
1883 deaths
Royal Artillery officers
British Army personnel of the Crimean War
William 4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Yelverton%2C%204th%20Viscount%20Avonmore |
The 25th World Cup season began in August 1990 in New Zealand (for men only), resumed in December, and concluded in March 1991 in the United States. The overall winners were Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, his fourth title (the third man to reach that milestone) and Petra Kronberger of Austria (her second). This was the first season following the reunification of Germany and the last before the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
During this season, the three men's races at Wengen were cancelled after the death of Gernot Reinstadler of Austria on January 18. Reinstadler crashed during a training run for the downhill race, immediately above the finish line.
A break in the schedule was for the 1991 World Championships, held in Saalbach, Austria between January 22 and February 3, 1991.
Calendar
Men
Ladies
Men
Overall
see complete table
In Men's Overall World Cup all results count. The parallel slalom only counts for the Nationscup (or was a show-event). Marc Girardelli won his fourth Overall World Cup.
Downhill
see complete table
In 1991 all results count.
Super G
see complete table
In 1991 all three results count.
Giant Slalom
see complete table
In 1991 all results count.
Slalom
see complete table
In 1991 all results count.
Combined
see complete table
In 1991 only one competition was held.
Ladies
Overall
see complete table
In Women's Overall World Cup all results count. The parallel slalom only counts for the Nationscup (or was a show-event).
Downhill
see complete table
In Women's Downhill World Cup 1990/91 all results count.
Super G
see complete table
In Women's Super G World Cup 1990/91 all results count. Carole Merle won her third Super G World Cup in a row.
Giant Slalom
see complete table
In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1990/91 all results count. Vreni Schneider won her fourth Giant Slalom World Cup.
Slalom
see complete table
In Women's Slalom World Cup 1990/91 all results count.
Combined
see complete table
In Women's Combined World Cup 1990/91 both results count.
Nations Cup
Overall
Men
Ladies
All points were shown. But without parallel slalom, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slalom was only a show-event.)
References
External links
FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1991
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
World Cup
World Cup | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20FIS%20Alpine%20Ski%20World%20Cup |
The Catholic Church in Armenia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The 2011 census counted 13,843 Catholics in Armenia, representing about 0.46% of the total population. Catholics in Armenia belong to two particular churches, the Latin Rite or Western Rite (which includes the vast majority of Catholics worldwide) and the Armenian Catholic Church.
Territorial jurisdictions and dioceses
Catholics in Armenia are divided into two separate territorial jurisdictions. Latin Rite Catholics are part of an Apostolic Administration, the Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus, and Armenian Rite Catholics belonging to the Armenian Catholic Church are part of an ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite, the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe, which also includes Armenian Catholic Church members in Eastern Europe.
Within Armenia
The Catholics have always lived somewhat separate from the communities of Armenian Apostolic Church (an Oriental Orthodox Church that includes most Armenians as members), and intermarriage is not very common. Some Armenian Apostolic Church members refer to the Armenian Catholics as "Franks," because of the influence of French Catholic missionaries.
The traditional home of Armenian Catholics is the Shirak Province, specifically 7 villages including: Arevik, Panik, Lanjik, Azatan, Dzithankov, Mets Sepasar, Ashotsk. In the Lori Province, Catholics live in 6 localities: Tashir, Katnarat, Katnaghbyur, Petrovka, Saratovka, Blagodarnoye.
In an interview, Aid to the Church in Need's project manager for Armenia, described the Catholic Community and the difficulties it faces. "In Armenia, the Catholic Church can be found almost exclusively in regions located in the northwestern parts of the country, in addition to a number of parishes behind the border in southwestern Georgia. These are poor and inhospitable regions situated at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres. The winters are harsh and can last up to six months. The unemployment rate is very high and the only option left for many of these people is seasonal or permanent migration to neighbouring countries."
The few Poles left in Armenia along with some new immigrants who are Catholics (Latin Rite) live in Yerevan.
See also
Apostolic Nunciature to Armenia
Armenian Catholic Church
Catholic Church by country
Mechitarists
San Lazzaro degli Armeni
References
External links
The Holy See — The Vatican's Official Website
Armenia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Armenia |
Jan Koster (born 8 July 1945 in Delft) is a Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Groningen.
Koster studied at the University of Amsterdam, where, after being a visiting scientist at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976), he received his PhD in 1978. Before being appointed full professor and chair of the linguistics department at Groningen (in 1985), Koster was assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, and associate professor at Tilburg University.
With Henk van Riemsdijk and Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Koster was one of the founders of GLOW, the major European organization of generative linguistics. He was co-founder and editor of The Linguistic Review and was until his retirement co-editor (with van Riemsdijk and Harry van der Hulst) of Studies in Generative Grammar (published by Mouton de Gruyter). He specializes in theoretical syntax and the philosophy and history of linguistics. He made notable contributions to the theories of word order, locality and anaphora.
Selected publications
Locality Principles in Syntax (1978). Dordrecht: Foris.
Domains and Dynasties (1987). Dordrecht: Foris.
(With E. Reuland, Eds.) Long-Distance Anaphora (1991). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
References
External links
Home page Jan Koster (University of Groningen)
1945 births
Living people
Linguists from the Netherlands
Syntacticians
People from Delft
University of Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Tilburg University
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
Academic staff of Utrecht University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Koster |
Geoffrey Howard Bourne (17 November 1909 – 19 July 1988) was an Australian-American anatomist and primatologist. In particular, he studied the adrenal gland, conducting pioneering work in histochemistry.
Bourne was director of Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University from 1962 until 1978. Prior to coming to Emory he had taught histology at the University of London and physiology at Oxford University. He received his doctorates from Oxford University (D.Sc., 1935; Ph.D., 1943) and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Bibliography
(ed.) (1942) Cytology and Cell Physiology
(1949) The Mammalian Adrenal Gland
(1956) Biochemistry and Physiology of Bone
(1957) Vitamin C in the Animal Cell
(ed.) (1961) Physiological and Pathological Aging
(1962) Structure and Function of Muscle
(1970) Ape People
(1974a) Non-Human Primates and Medical Research
(1974b) Primate Odyssey
(1975) The Gentle Giants: The Gorilla Story'
(ed.) (1977) Human and Veterinary Nutrition (ed.) (1988) Sociological and Medical Aspects of NutritionNotes
References
External links
Geoffrey Bourne, Encyclopædia Britannica''
1909 births
1988 deaths
Australian anatomists
Primatologists
20th-century American zoologists
Australian emigrants to the United States
Alumni of the University of Oxford | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20H.%20Bourne |
The 24th World Cup season began in August 1989 in Australia (for men) and Argentina (for women), resumed in November 1989 in the United States and concluded in March 1990 in Sweden. During this season, the Soviet Union's empire collapsed, leading to the reunification of East and West Germany, the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and many other changes in Eastern Europe, which would have a significant effect on future World Cup seasons.
The overall champions were Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland (his fourth, tying the men's record held by Gustav Thöni) and Petra Kronberger of Austria (her first). At the end of the season, Zurbriggen retired, as did former women's World Cup overall champions Tamara McKinney of the United States and Maria Walliser and Michela Figini of Switzerland.
Calendar
Men
Ladies
Men
Overall
see complete table
In Men's Overall World Cup all results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won his fourth Overall World Cup. He became the second male athlete to win four times. Following Gustav Thöni, who won his fourth Overall World Cup 15 years ago.
Downhill
see complete table
In Men's Downhill World Cup 1989/90 all results count. Race No. 17 at Kitzbühel saw the first ever downhill-sprint held in two heats.
Super-G
see complete table
In Men's Super-G World Cup 1989/90 all results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won his fourth Super-G World Cup in a row!
Giant Slalom
see complete table
In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1989/90 all results count. There were 6 different winners in 7 races. Richard Kröll won two consecutive races (in the first, Alta Badia, he had the starting number 34). Ole Kristian Furuseth won this title for a second year in a row (20 points two times).
Slalom
see complete table
In Men's Slalom World Cup 1989/90 all results count.
Combined
see complete table
In Men's Combined World Cup 1989/90 both results count.
Ladies
Overall
see complete table
In Women's Overall World Cup all results count. After 11 years Petra Kronberger was able to bring back the Women's Overall World Cup to Austria.
Downhill
see complete table
In Women's Downhill World Cup 1989/90 all results count.
Super-G
see complete table
In Women's Super-G World Cup 1989/90 all results count.
Giant Slalom
see complete table
In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1989/90 all results count. Anita Wachter won the cup with only one win.
Slalom
see complete table
In Women's Slalom World Cup 1989/90 all results count.
Combined
see complete table
In Women's Combined World Cup 1989/90 both results count.
Nations Cup
Overall
Men
Ladies
References
External links
FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1990
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
World Cup
World Cup | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390%20FIS%20Alpine%20Ski%20World%20Cup |
Brora railway station () is a railway station serving the small town of Brora in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, from , between Dunrobin Castle and Helmsdale. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
History
The station opened on either 1 November 1870, or 19 June 1871. The former station buildings are now unused but together with the cast iron footbridge are a listed building.
In 2019, plans were announced by a local businessperson to redevelop the station building into "a micro gin distillery, café bar, tourist information point and gift shop", at a cost of £500,000.
Facilities
The station has basic facilities, including waiting shelters on both platforms, and a small car park and bike racks adjacent to platform 2. Both platforms have step-free access, but are also connected by a footbridge.
Services
There are four departures each weekday & Saturday, and one each way on a Sunday. Trains run northbound to via Thurso and southbound to , and Inverness.
References
Bibliography
External links
Railway stations in Sutherland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Former Highland Railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Category C listed buildings in Highland (council area)
William Roberts railway stations
Brora | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brora%20railway%20station |
The Carnegie Ridge is an aseismic ridge on the Nazca Plate that is being subducted beneath the South American Plate. The ridge is thought to be a result of the passage of the Nazca Plate over the Galapagos hotspot. It is named for the research vessel Carnegie, which discovered it in 1929.
Extent
The Carnegie Ridge is seen to extend eastwards over 1,000 km from the Galapagos islands to the Colombia-Ecuador trench and is interpreted to continue beneath northern Ecuador for about a further 700 km. The subducted extent is disputed, with some workers arguing that there is no evidence of a subducted ridge beneath Ecuador extending more than about 60 km from the trench.
Structure
The Carnegie Ridge consists of thickened oceanic crust. Wide-angle seismic reflection and refraction data acquired over the central and eastern part of the ridge give crustal thicknesses of 13 km and 19 km respectively for crust that has estimated ages of about 11 Ma and 20 Ma. Layer 2 thicknesses are similar to the neighbouring normal oceanic crust with thickening taking place in layer 3.
History
The formation of the Carnegie Ridge and other aseismic ridges in this part of the Pacific started at about 20 Ma when the Galapagos hotspot formed, following the break-up of the Farallon Plate and the formation of the separate Cocos and Nazca Plates. At about 19.5 Ma, the Galapagos Rise spreading center moved so that most of the hotspot magmatism affected the Nazca Plate, forming the combined Carnegie and Malpelo Ridges. At about 14.5 Ma the spreading center jumped south, such that most of the magmatism affected the Cocos Plate and caused the Malpelo Ridge to rift away from the Carnegie Ridge. This stage caused the narrowing of the Carnegie Ridge now seen between 85° W and 87° W. At about 9.5 Ma rifting between the Malpelo and Carnegie Ridges ceased. The Galapagos Rise moved north again at about 5 Ma, leaving the hotspot entirely within the Nazca Plate, which is the current situation.
Subduction
The onset of subduction of the Carnegie Ridge beneath the South American Plate has been dated variously from about mid-Miocene (15 Ma) to about Pleistocene (2 Ma). Although there is agreement that the ridge is being subducted, there is little agreement on the effect that this has had on either the subducting or over-riding plates. Some models argue that the buoyancy associated with the thickened crust of the ridge has caused the downgoing Nazca Plate to tear, leaving a relatively flat section carrying the ridge, flanked by two sections with steeper dip. The presence of a flat section is not supported by a more recent study of earthquake hypocenters, which found a constant dip of about 25°–35° down to 200 km.
References
Underwater ridges of the Pacific Ocean
Tectonic plates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20Ridge |
The Midas is a British made kit car initially using Mini running gear.
Harold Dermott and his company, D&H Fibreglass Techniques, of Greenfield, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England came to an agreement in 1975 with Marcos cars to take over production of their Mini Marcos model. The car, with its odd-ball looks, was looking outdated so Dermott asked the designer Richard Oakes to come up with a new model. The new car, which was called the Midas, was launched at the 1978 Performance Car Show in London. The car had a composite body with no chassis, using the Mini engine/gearbox and front subframe but replacing the rear subframe with a beam on which the trailing arms were hinged.
In 1981 an updated model was introduced with improvements suggested by Gordon Murray of the Brabham Formula 1 team at the time. The car was available in three versions called Gold and Bronze depending on completeness. Demand for cars was now outstripping the small workshop in Oldham so a move was made to a factory in Corby, Northamptonshire and the company name changed to Midas Cars Ltd.
The September 1981 issue of Motor Magazine carried a review of the new car which was subsequently used for advertising: “100 mph, 41.2 mpg, 0-60 in 9.9 secs, & it will never rust.” In adverts the company claimed the Midas Gold was “Britain’s economy superstar” with a lifetime no-rust warranty, and readers were urged to address enquiries to Harold Dermott himself at the Corby works.
Further improvements were made in 1985 when the Midas Gold was adapted to take Austin or MG Metro parts. A restyle was also made at the same time, again by Richard Oakes, involving wider wings, a "frogeye" front and larger windows. Gordon Murray provided input to improve the aerodynamics. In order to sell complete cars as well as kits a Midas successfully underwent a full ECE12 crash test. A convertible version appeared in 1989 and featured on the front cover of Car magazine, but all production stopped in March 1989 when the premises were destroyed by fire.
New ownership
The rights to the car were purchased in 1990 by Pastiche Cars of Rotherham, Yorkshire who relaunched the range and made a handful of convertibles before the receivers were called in again in 1991 and sold the Gold Convertible on to GTM Cars of Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire. GTM added a series of changes including Hydragas suspension and a hardtop. The range continued to develop with, in 1995 a new 2+2 coupé based on the K-Series engined Metro and Rover 100 models.
The moulds of the Gold coupe were sold to Berlin, Germany by GTM in 1990 where they were used for an unemployment project. In the meantime the old Mini based Midas had reappeared being made by Midtech cars for a short time.
In 2001 the Midas changed hands again when GTM sold it to a new Midas Cars Ltd based in Redditch, West Midlands. The range now consisted of the Coupé, renamed the Cortez, and a K-Series powered convertible named the Excelsior. Although the cars were well received the company went into liquidation in 2003.
A new company, Alternative Cars Ltd was set up in 2003 and in 2004 restarted production of kit form versions of the Gold Convertible, Cortez and Excelsior based in a small workshop unit at Clanfield, Oxfordshire. In 2007 the Midas Owners Club rediscovered the Gold coupe moulds in Germany and bought them and were imported back to England.
References
External links
Midas Cars Forum, A forum for Midas Cars.
Company history at RitzSite
Motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Kit car manufacturers
1978 establishments in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas%20Cars |
The Catholic Church in Austria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope in Rome. The Church's governing body in Austria is the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of the two archbishops (Vienna and Salzburg), the bishops and the abbot of territorial abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau. Nevertheless, each bishop is independent in his own diocese, answerable only to the Pope. The current president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. The Austrian church is the largest Christian Confession of Austria, with 4.73 million members (52.0 % of the total Austrian population) in 2022.
For more than 50 years, however, the proportion of Catholics has decreased, primarily due to secularization and migration (from 89% in 1961 to 52% in 2022). The number of Sunday churchgoers in 2021 was around 3.1 percent (as percentage of the total Austrian population that is 281,131 churchgoers out of a total population of 8,978,929).
Although Austria has no primate, the archbishop of Salzburg is titled Primus Germaniae (Primate of Germany).
Organisation
Ecclesiastical structure
Archdiocese of Vienna with the following suffragan dioceses:
Diocese of Eisenstadt
Diocese of Linz
Diocese of St. Pölten
Archdiocese of Salzburg with the following suffragans
Diocese of Graz-Seckau
Diocese of Gurk
Diocese of Feldkirch
Diocese of Innsbruck
Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau (immediately subject to the Holy See)
Military Ordinariate of Austria (immediately subject to the Holy See)
List of Catholic organisations in Austria
Katholische Jungschar
Katholische Jugend
Statistics
71% of Austrian Catholics support same-sex marriage and 26% oppose it.
Criticism
Call to Disobedience organization
The organization Call to Disobedience (Aufruf zum Ungehorsam in German) is an Austrian movement mainly composed of dissident Catholic priests which started in 2006. The movement claims the support of the majority of Austrian Catholic priests and favors ordination of women, married and non-celibate priesthood, allowing Holy Communion to remarried divorcees and non-Catholics which disagrees with teachings of the Catholic Magisterium. The group also believes the way the Church is governed needs reform.
Notable people
Mozart
Emerich Coreth
Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
Heinrich Maier, important resistance fighter against Nazi terror
Gregor Mendel
Zacharias Traber
Franz Wasner
See also
Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
Old Catholic Church of Austria
Eastern Orthodoxy in Austria
Religion in Austria
Freedom of religion in Austria
Catholic Church by country
References
External links
Catholic Church in Austria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Austria |
The Center of Molecular Immunology (Centro de Inmunología Molecular) or CIM, is a cancer research institution located on the west side of Havana, Cuba.
It opened opened in 1994 in Havana's Science City. CIM focuses on the research and production of new biopharmaceutical products for the treatment of cancer and other nontransmissible diseases.
Facilities
The design and construction of the Center of Molecular Immunology was modeled on current Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines recommended by the World Health Organization and adopted by Cuba, particularly those also adopted by the member countries of the European Union, then known as the European Community.
Research labs, production areas and administrative offices share the 15,000 square meters of the two floor facility.
Approximately 800 employees work at the CIM, most of them scientists and engineers. These personnel are administratively organized in three main areas: Research and Development, Production, and Quality Assurance.
Research
CIM focuses on biotechnology applications of mammalian cells, development of monoclonal antibodies, and cancer vaccines.
Basic research projects are focused on cancer immunotherapy, especially the development of molecular vaccines. These include antibody engineering, cellular engineering, bioinformatics and regulation of the immune response.
CIM conducts clinical trials in diagnostic imaging and cancer therapy of varying origin, as well as other immune system diseases, in highly specialized hospitals.
In August 2011 it was announced that the Center of Molecular Immunology released CimaVax-EGF, the first therapeutic cancer vaccine for lung cancer.
In December 2012, a new therapeutic cancer vaccine was approved by Cuban regulatory agency. CIMAbid (racotumomab or 1E10)obtained conditional approval for the treatment of lung cancer. This vaccine is an antiidiotypic vaccine targeting N-glicolil GM3, a tumor specific antigen. The project leader was Dr Ana María Vazquez. These vaccine has been associated with statistically significant extension of survival of lung cancer patients with excellent safety profile and continues to be investigated in confirmatory clinical trials.
Products
Today CIM produces biopharmaceutical products, such as anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody for the treatment of patients with organ transplant rejection, human recombinant erythropoietin for the treatment of anemia, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for the treatment of neutropenia, and a humanized monoclonal antibody that recognizes the epidermal growth factor receptor for cancer treatment, as well as other monoclonal antibodies for tumor imaging.
As of 2020, over 90,000 Cubans have been treated with CIM products.
Commercialization
Since 1992 CIMAB S.A. has been working on the commercialization of biopharmaceutical products for the Cuban market and abroad, especially monoclonal antibodies and other recombinant proteins for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases related to the immune system.
It was announced in July 2008 that CIM had also received approval from the Cuban regulatory authorities for a lung cancer vaccine, targeting EGFR. The vaccine has been in development since 1992 and the project led by Gisela Gonzalez.
Joint ventures
In 2018, CIM and United States-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center formed a joint venture for a United States trial of the Cuban developed lung cancer immunotherapy treatment CIMAvax-EGF.
As of 2020, CIM had three joint ventures with China.
See also
Healthcare of Cuba
References
External links
Official website
Biotechnology companies of Cuba
Cancer organizations
Medical research institutes in Cuba
Research institutes established in 1994
1994 establishments in Cuba | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20Molecular%20Immunology |
Lawrence Henry White (born November 27, 1954) is an American economics professor at George Mason University who teaches graduate level monetary theory and policy. He is considered an authority on the history and theory of free banking. His writings support the abolition of the Federal Reserve System and the promotion of private and competitive banking.
Career
White earned his BA at Harvard University (1977) and PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles (1982). Before his current role at George Mason University he held a position as F. A. Hayek Professor of Economic History with the University of Missouri–St. Louis Economics department from 2000 to 2009, teaching American Economic History, Monetary Theory, and Money and Banking. Previously, he was assistant professor at New York University and Associate Professor at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
Articles by White on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking as well as other professional journals. White is an associate editor of the "Review of Austrian Economics", a contributing editor to the Foundation for Economic Education's magazine The Freeman, and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.
Economic views
White has been influenced by and writes about the Austrian School of Economics and considers himself an "economist who values the Austrian tradition." He has analyzed the theory and history of free banking, a system under which commercial banks and market forces control the provision of banking services. He supports "depoliticizing the supply of money," considers "free market monetary arrangements" feasible and argues that market monetary institutions "can more credibly be found by contract to perform as desired."
White's Free Banking in Britain analyzes the efficient systems of free banking in Scotland for 128 years until it was suppressed by the British Parliament which was having problems with its own banking system. The book brought respectability in academic economics to the idea of free banking. However, some supporters of free banking who prefer commodity backed currency to private fractional reserve currency disagree with his portrayal of the Scottish banking system as truly free. White has countered their arguments. However, White does not dismiss the possibility that in a free market people might prefer a commodity standard, such as the gold standard.
White's 1999 book The Theory of Monetary Institutions is a theoretical and historical account of both existing and alternative monetary regimes used as an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level economics text. Professor Steve Hanke writes that "White provides a uniquely insightful perspective into a difficult and controversial area, and his arguments and analysis are unbeatable."
White, who has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, frequently has criticized the Federal Reserve System. He has written that the economics profession is greatly influenced by the Federal Reserve because of the millions of dollars in research grants it supplies to academics. White has been quoted as saying that nationalized banks "divert money to the most vote-productive uses rather than the most economically productive uses." White's view on the usefulness of transferring digital money via cellphone and on his criticism of Limited Purpose Banking have been mentioned in mainstream publications.
White received an Honorary Doctoral Degree at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in 2011 due his research on monetary policy and monetary history.
Books
The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012,
Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience and Debate 1800–1845, 2nd ed., London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009,
Editor, The pure theory of capital, Volume 12 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, University of Chicago Press, 2007,
Editor, The History of Gold and Silver, 3 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000.
The Theory of Monetary Institutions, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999
Editor, The Crisis in American Banking, New York: New York University Press, 1993
Editor, Free Banking, 3 vols., Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1993
Editor, African Finance: Research and Reform, San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993
Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money, New York: New York University Press, 1992,
Editor, William Leggett, Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1984
References
External links
Lawrence H. White Curriculum Vitae with full list of publications
White's bio at the Mercatus Center
Faculty page at the University of Missouri – St. Louis
List of published writings at Cato Institute web site
Audiovisual Media, NewMedia Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Austrian School economists
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
American libertarians
Cato Institute people
George Mason University faculty
Harvard University alumni
New York University faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Georgia faculty
University of Missouri–St. Louis people
Mercatus Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20H.%20White |
Helmsdale railway station is a railway station serving the village of Helmsdale in the Highland council area, northern Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line, between Brora and Kildonan, from Inverness. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
History
The Duke of Sutherland's Railway had opened between and (near Gartymore) on 1 November 1870. Extensions of this line southward to and northward to Helmsdale were opened on 19 June 1871. The station buildings were designed by the architect William Fowler.
Another company, the Sutherland and Caithness Railway (S&CR), was authorised on 13 July 1871 to take over the powers of the projected Caithness Railway and link Helmsdale with that line at , and the S&CR opened on 28 July 1874.
The station master's house on the platform was abandoned in the 1980s. In 2013 it was refitted as self-catering holiday accommodation.
Accidents and incidents
On 29 April 1891 there was a collision between a down mixed train from Inverness which ran into an engine which had arrived earlier. Major Marindin of the Board of Trade investigated and found that the driver Robert Lindsay deliberately ignored the signals as he would have had difficulty in restarting the train on the rising gradient of 1 in 59.
Facilities
Both platforms have waiting areas and benches, whilst platform 2 also has a help point. Bike racks and a car park are adjacent to platform 2. There is step free access to platform 2 only; platform 1 can only be accessed via the footbridge.
Platform layout
Platform 1 on the southbound line can accommodate trains having six coaches, whereas platform 2 on the northbound line can hold seven.
Services
Mondays to Saturdays, there are four train each way that call here - southbound to & and northbound to via Thurso. Sundays see a single departure each way.
References
Helmsdale
Railway stations in Sutherland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Former Highland Railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Category B listed buildings in Highland (council area)
William Fowler railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmsdale%20railway%20station |
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is one of Japan's 11 most popular male entertainers, according to an NHK survey taken in 2004. In one survey, he was the second most popular actor after Takuya Kimura in Japan during the Heisei era (1989-2019).
Biography
Oda was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. In the late 1980s, he launched his career with the release of two singles on records.
In 1989, he appeared in the television drama Mama Haha Boogie, from which point he started to gain popularity as an actor, which also brought attention to his singing aspirations.
In 1991, he appeared in the enormously popular television drama Tokyo Love Story, a breakout role. He then became a leading man in Japanese film and television, generally playing the role of a sympathetic character.
His most famous role is Shunsaku Aoshima, a police detective in the Bayside Shakedown film and television drama series.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Albums
Singles
Awards
1991: Blue Ribbon Awards - Most Popular Actor
1999: Blue Ribbon Awards - Best Actor for Bayside Shakedown
2003: Japanese Academy Awards - Best Actor for T.R.Y.
Hochi Film Award - Best Actor
References
External links
Official website
Yuji Oda on JDorama
Yuji Oda on Universal Music Japan
1967 births
Living people
Male actors from Kanagawa Prefecture
Singers from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Japanese male film actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male television actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji%20Oda |
Fort Stevens, formerly named Fort Massachusetts, was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
Location
The fort was constructed in 1861 as "Fort Massachusetts" and later enlarged by the Union Army and renamed "Fort Stevens" after Brig. Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens, who was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862.
In 1861, it had a perimeter of 168 yards and places for 10 cannon. In 1862, it was expanded to 375 yards and 19 guns.
It guarded the northern approach to Washington City, the Seventh Street Turnpike. By 1864 Fort Stevens was one part of a arrangement of fortifications, consisting of 68 forts intended to defend the capital.
Construction
The fort was constructed as a part of a defensive ring around Washington City. Following the Union Army's defeat at Bull Run, Congress voted to augment the city's defenses, which consisted of a single fort, Fort Washington, to the south on the Potomac River. Eventually, "68 forts, 93 batteries, 20 miles of rifle pits, and 32 miles of military roads surrounded the capital and Washington became the most heavily fortified city in the world", according to the National Park Service.
In September 1861, Union troops took possession of a property owned by a free black family, Elizabeth Proctor Thomas and her siblings, at the Seventh Street Turnpike, seeing it as "an ideal and necessary location for a fort." The soldiers ultimately destroyed her home, barn, orchard, and garden to build what was then named Fort Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Thomas would later often repeat the story that she was, with a baby in her arms weeping, watching Union soldiers destroy her house when "a tall, slender man dressed in black approached her and said, 'It is hard, but you shall reap a great reward.'" Many listening to her story held that the man was President Abraham Lincoln.
Thomas would have to fight for compensation for damage and loss of her property and was eventually awarded $1,835 in 1916, a year before her death.
Civil War
After being delayed by the Battle of Monocacy, Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate forces advanced on Washington, D.C. The cavalry attacked Fort Stevens in the Battle of Fort Stevens on July 11 and July 12, 1864. They were delayed stealing horses in Damascus, Maryland, and staying overnight near Rockville. In response, Major General George Thomas ordered the District of Columbia Militia into the service of the Union army.
On July 11, Confederate sharpshooters successfully shot two of the fort's soldiers, but Union soldiers pushed the Confederate soldiers back to a point from the fort. The Confederate Army used the house of a nearby resident, Francis Preston Blair, as a headquarters and a makeshift hospital for their wounded. The livestock of several nearby farmers was captured by the Confederate Army. By the evening of July 11, pedestrians lined nearby Seventh Street to watch the fighting. Secretary of State William Seward watched from a carriage.
The Union Army destroyed five nearby houses in order to prevent them being occupied by Confederate sharpshooters; the Union Army allowed the homeowners to remove their furniture before destroying the houses. Despite this, Confederate sharpshooters occupied another home, of Mr. Lay, just west of the fort, and fired shots at Union soldiers from there. Union soldiers responded by firing at the cupola of the house, which caused the Confederate sharpshooters to retreat from it. The house was later burned to the ground. Confederate sharpshooters also fired from Morrison's orchard nearby.
Overnight July 12, the Confederate soldiers retreated from the fort. Confederate soldiers were seen crossing the Potomac River from Poolesville, Maryland, to Virginia. They left behind 101 wounded soldiers, including 11 officers. The total number of Confederate casualties was unknown; the number of Union soldiers killed, wounded, and missing was approximately 50.
According to many accounts, President Abraham Lincoln rode out to the fort on both days to observe the attack, and was briefly under enemy fire by sharpshooters. On July 12, he was brusquely ordered to take cover, mostly likely by Union Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright. A story has grown up, probably apocryphal, that future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then an aide-de-camp to Wright, yelled at Lincoln, "Get down, you fool!" Another story attributes this quote to nearby resident Elizabeth Thomas. This is believed to have been only the second time in American history that a sitting president came under enemy fire during a war (the first being President James Madison during the War of 1812). An article published by The Evening Star on July 13 noted, however, that "President Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln passed along the line of the city defences in a carriage last night, and were warmly greeted by the soldiers wherever they made their appearance amongst them." The article makes no mention of Lincoln coming under fire.
Present day
The site was abandoned after the war. By 1900, Lewis Cass White, who had fought with the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry in the Battle of Fort Stevens, led the formation of the Fort Stevens Lincoln Memorial Association. The association raised funds for a stone memorial on the site, which was dedicated on November 7, 1911. In the late 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps restored a portion of the parapet and one magazine.
The site, near Georgia Avenue at 13th Street and Quackenbos Street NW, is now maintained by the National Park Service Civil War Defenses of Washington. The remains of 41 Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Fort Stevens are buried on the grounds of nearby Battleground National Cemetery.
Further up Georgia Ave, a monument to seventeen unknown Confederate Soldiers was erected in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, in Silver Spring, MD. The seventeen soldiers, who died at Fort Stevens, are buried in that cemetery.
See also
Civil War Defenses of Washington
Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War
Bibliography of the American Civil War
Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln
Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant
Notes
References
Cramer, John Henry, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire, the Complete Account of His Experiences During Early's Attack on Washington, Louisiana, State University Press, 1948; University of Tennessee Press, 2009,
External links
The Battle of Fort Stevens: Maps, Histories, Photos, Facts, and Preservation News (CWPT)
Google Maps Aerial View of Fort Stevens
National Park Service page on Fort Stevens
Maureen Dowd column, September 7, 2010 Lincoln’s Forgotten Fort (New York Times, 2010)
1861 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Brightwood (Washington, D.C.)
Stevens
Stevens
Stevens
American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Stevens%20%28Washington%2C%20D.C.%29 |
Johann Tobias Bürg (December 24, 1766 – November 15, 1835), sometimes known as Johannes Burg, was an Austrian astronomer.
Life
Born in Vienna, Bürg worked as astronomical assistant to Franz Xaver von Zach at the Gotha Observatory. From 1791 he served as a professor of physics at the Gymnasium in Klagenfurt, Carinthia. He subsequently became assistant at the Vienna Observatory, where in 1817 he succeeded as director after the death of Franz de Paula Triesnecker.
In 1799 he published astronomical tables on the Orbit of the Moon based on about 3,000 observations, that were praised for their accuracy. For these astronomical tables, Bürg was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He also was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Hanoverian Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1801, of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1812, as well as of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1822.
He died at Wiesenau Castle, near Sankt Leonhard in Carinthia, where he is also buried. In 1834 the crater Bürg on the Moon was named by Johann Heinrich von Mädler in his honour.
Notes
Adolf Drechsler in his Ill. Lexikon der Astronomie (Leipzig, 1881) gives Trier as Bürg's place of birth and 1835 as the year of death. Some sources give November 15 as his date of birth, others November 25, 1834 is sometimes given as his date of death.
References
External links
Aeiou: Johann Tobias Bürg
Chris Plicht, "Johann Tobias Bürg"
Craters
1766 births
1835 deaths
Scientists from Vienna
19th-century Austrian astronomers
Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
18th-century Austrian astronomers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Tobias%20B%C3%BCrg |
César-Egasse du Boulay (died 1678), known as Bulaeus, was a French historian.
Life
He was born at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Saint-Ellier, Mayenne. After teaching humanities in the College of Navarre he occupied important positions in the University of Paris, including those of rector and historian of the university. He died on 16 October 1678.
Works
His main work is the Historia Universitatis Parisiensis covering the period from the supposed foundation of the university by Charlemagne (800) to 1600. The first three volumes published in 1665 were censured by the university. To justify himself the author wrote the Notæ ad censuram ... (Paris, 1667). The censors appointed by the king found nothing blameworthy in the work, and the last three volumes were published in 1673. Du Boulay's history is important on account of the many original documents which it reproduces, but its value is lessened by the poor judgment of the author.
Other writings of Du Boulay refer to the same topic of the university, its foundation, patrons, administration, and privileges:
De patronis quatuor nationum universitatis (1662)
Carlomagnolia . . . (1662)
De decanatu nationis Gallicanæ . . .(1662)
Remarques sur la dignité, rang . . . du recteur (1668)
Remarques sur l'election des officiers de l'Université (1668)
Recueil des privilèges de l'Université . . . (1674)
Fondation de l'Université par l'empereur Charlemagne . . . (1675).
In addition to these Du Boulay wrote Speculum eloquentiæ (1658) and Trésor des antiquités romaines (1650).
External links
Historia Universitatis Parisiensis
Attribution
Du Boulay
Du Boulay
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Year of birth unknown
French male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar-Egasse%20du%20Boulay |
Untamed is the second album by Heather Myles. Most of its songs were either written or co-written by Myles. It includes such tunes as "Cadillac Cowboy," "Indigo Moon," and a cover of the Marty Robbins tune, "Begging to You."
Track listing
"And It Hurts" (Jack Rymes) – 3:32
"Just Leave Me Alone" (Eddy Raven/Sanger D. Shafer) – 2:34
"When You Walked Out on Me" (Heather Myles) – 3:04
"Cadillac Cowboy" (Heather Myles) – 2:31
"Until I Couldn't Have You" (Heather Myles) – 4:08
"Indigo Moon" (Heather Myles) – 3:07
"It Ain't Over" (Heather Myles) – 2:59
"Begging to You" (Marty Robbins) – 2:48
"How Could She?" (Randi Michaels) – 3:11
"Coming Back to Me" (Heather Myles) – 4:12
"Gone Too Long" (Heather Myles/Dickey Lee) – 3:20
"Untamed" (Heather Myles) – 3:00
Reception
Richie Unterberger of AllMusic believed that while Myles's music was moderate, Unterberger believed Myles did not stand out in Californian country music.
References
Heather Myles albums
1995 albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untamed%20%28Heather%20Myles%20album%29 |
The Catholic Church in Azerbaijan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are about 570 local Catholics in the country as of 2016. Azerbaijan is covered entirely by a single Apostolic Prefecture – Apostolic Prefecture of Baku – since 2011. The community is served by seven Salesian priests and two friars. In addition, there is a mission of the Missionaries of Charity.
Origins
Christians have been present on the territories covered by present-day Azerbaijan since the first century AD. Starting from 1320, Catholic missionaries such as Jordanus and Odoric of Pordenone have visited what is now Azerbaijan and have established missions mostly in large cities. In the fourteenth century in Nakhchivan alone, there were 12 missions led by Dominicans, Capuchins, Augustinians, etc. In 1660 Superior of the Capuchin Mission at Isfahan, friar Raphaël du Mans reported Catholic parishes functioning in Baku and Shamakhi. Jesuits arrived and set a mission in Ganja in the 1680s.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, efforts of Bartholomew, a Dominican missionary from Bologna, resulted in the conversion of 28 settlements in Nakhchivan (with Bənəniyar being the largest) into Catholicism. Despite hardships and pressure from the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicism survived here for over three centuries, after which it went into decline and by the 1800s was no longer practiced.
Russian and Soviet period
With the establishment of the Russian rule in the nineteenth century, these lands became a popular destination for members of various Christian denominations. Catholics were represented by ethnic Poles who started immigrating to Baku and Shamakhi in the mid-19th century, Ukrainians, Georgian Catholics, Armenian Catholics, as well as Western Europeans who stayed in Baku on a temporary or permanent basis. The Catholic population of Shamakhi just before the 1859 earthquake and the city's loss of provincial capital status numbered around 250 persons.
The village of Siyaqut in Nakhchivan was founded in the 1850s by Assyrian immigrants from Salmas, Persia and remained the only Chaldean Christian village in the South Caucasus. Beginning in the 1880s, the priest serving in Siyaqut was ordained by the Catholic bishop.
In the early twentieth century there was a community in Baku made up of Polish, German, and Russian immigrants for whose needs the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1912. Two other smaller churches were built throughout the second half of the nineteenth century: in Qusar, where a hussar regiment made up of ethnic Poles had been quartered, and in Zagatala where participants of the 1863 January Uprising had been exiled. In 1916, the number of Catholic church mass attendees in Baku was over 2,500. The arrival of Bolsheviks in 1920 put an end to religious freedoms. In the early 1930s, on the orders of the Stalinist government, the small community's only priest Stefan Demurov was executed. In 1931, the communist authorities demolished the church in Baku. The church in Qusar fell in disuse after the transfer of the hussar regiment in 1918, as few Poles remained in the town. Its building is currently used as an art gallery. The church in Zagatala is now private property.
Post-Soviet period
As Azerbaijan is a secular country the 1996 law stated that foreigners have freedom of conscience, but denied the right to "carry out religious propaganda", i.e., to preach, under the threat of fines or deportation. Rafig Aliyev, head of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations, had declared that this ban for the foreigners to conduct religious work will be amended. The law of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1992) "On freedom of faith" ensures the right of any human being to determine and express his view on religion and to execute this right.
In 1997, a Slovak priest came to Baku to restart the Catholic community. On 11 October 2000, the mission sui iuris of Baku was established covering the whole of the country, with Daniel Pravda as its first superior. Pravda had worked in Siberia for many years when he became head of the mission, and noted that when he was first appointed, the church had no structure, and there were many problems with the government relating to visas, but when a new Religious affairs official was appointed, problems abated and preparations for a Papal visit gained traction. On May 23, 2002, Pope John Paul II visited the country, despite his increasingly fragile health. He was initially invited by Azerbaijan's president, Heydar Aliyev. Thanks to his visit, President Aliyev gave the Catholic Church a plot of land to build a church. The building was funded by proceeds from Pope John Paul II's book sales and foreign donations. Delegates from Azerbaijan attended the first Congress of Catholic Laity of Eastern Europe in 2003. When Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, the apostolic nuncio to Azerbaijan, visited the country he encountered many elderly believers who had waited almost 70 years to receive the sacrament of confirmation. St Mary's Catholic Church of Baku, the only Catholic church in the country, was rebuilt, with work nearing its end in March 2007. It was inaugurated by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone on 7 March 2008, 70 years after it had been shut down by the Soviets. The Mission of Baku became on 4 August 2011 the Apostolic Prefecture of Azerbaijan, with a Catholic population of 520. The Apostolic Prefect is Bishop Vladimir Fekete, a Slovak like his fellow Salesian predecessors Jozef Pravda and Jan Čapla. Only a few of the Catholics are Azeris, and the congregation's working languages are Russian and English. On April 29, 2011, an accord was reached between the Vatican and the government of Azerbaijan concerning the relations of the two states, and the various rights and freedoms of the Catholic Church and its personnel within the country.
In 2016, Behbud Mustafayev was ordained the first Catholic deacon of Azeri origin by archbishop Paolo Pezzi. On 7 May 2017, he was ordained into priesthood by Pope Francis.
In October 2016, Pope Francis visited Azerbaijan on what was the second papal visit in the country's history during which he emphasised Azerbaijan's embrace of religious diversity.
See also
Catholic Church by country
Christ the Redeemer Parish
Christianity in Azerbaijan
Religion in Azerbaijan
References
External links
Catholic Church in Azerbaijan – Official Website
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Azerbaijan |
Captain Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (11 February 1859 – 13 February 1885), was an Anglo-Irish peer and an officer in the 37th Foot, which was renamed as the Hampshire Regiment in 1881.
Life
Avonmore was born at Edinburgh, the son of William Yelverton (later Lord Avonmore) by his marriage to Emily Marianne Ashworth, the daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Ashworth, who had previously been married to Edward Forbes, a botanist, by whom she had several children. This marriage was not welcome to Yelverton's family.
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in Berkshire, and on 30 January 1878 was commissioned into the 37th Foot as a second lieutenant. In February 1879 he was promoted to lieutenant.
He became a British Army instructor in musketry and died of enteric fever at Kirbekan in 1885, while serving in the Sudan. A plaque commemorating him can be found in Winchester Cathedral.
Notes
1859 births
1885 deaths
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
37th Regiment of Foot officers
Royal Hampshire Regiment officers
Deaths from typhoid fever
Infectious disease deaths in Sudan
British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
Barry 5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Yelverton%2C%205th%20Viscount%20Avonmore |
Pruszcz Gdański railway station is a railway station serving the town of Pruszcz Gdański, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1852 and is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway, Pruszcz Gdański–Gdańsk Port Północny railway and Pruszcz Gdański–Łeba railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Praust.
Modernisation
The station was modernised between 2012 and 2014 which included rebuilding the platforms, renewing the tracks and the signalling system.
Train services
The station is served by the following services:
Regional services (R) Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk - Tczew - Malbork - Elblag - Ilawa - Olsztyn
Regional services (R) Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk - Tczew - Laskowice - Bydgoszcz
References
External links
Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gdańsk County
Railway stations served by Przewozy Regionalne InterRegio
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruszcz%20Gda%C5%84ski%20railway%20station |
The Catholic Church in Bahrain is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The first Catholic church built in the Persian Gulf in modern times was constructed in 1939 on land given by the Emir of Bahrain. Sacred Heart Church serves approximately 140,000 Catholics. Bahrain established diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1999.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia located in Awali is the largest Catholic church in the Arabian Peninsula. The land for the church is being provided by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa due to a request from Pope Benedict XVI in December 2008, and will cover 9,000 square meters.
Bahrain forms part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. The seat of the vicariate is in Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia. The Vicar Apostolic Bishop is Aldo Berardi.
21st century
In 2022, approximately 12% of the population were Christian. Almost 10% of the country's population is Catholic, making it the largest Christian denomination in Bahrain.
Protests from various Islamist groups have occurred over the donation of land for the construction of the church. Although Bahrain does have a small native Christian population, most Catholics in Bahrain are expatriates from India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and Western countries. Many parishioners cross the border from Saudi Arabia, where there are no churches and practising Christianity publicly is forbidden. Churches in the country include Sacred Heart Church, Manama, and Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral in Awali in central Bahrain. Also, there are two communities for Eastern Catholic churches, the Syro Malankara Catholic Community and Syro-Malabar Society.
Papal visit in 2022
Pope Francis visited the Kingdom of Bahrain from 3 to 6 November 2022, on the occasion of the "Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence", the first papal visit to Bahrain.
The four-day visit included several important events, beginning on 3 November with the departure of the Pope from Rome's Fiumicino International Airport to Awali, Bahrain. His arrival at Sakhir Air Base in Awali was greeted with an official welcome ceremony. From there, he proceeded to Sakhir Royal Palace, where he paid a courtesy visit to the king, followed by a welcome ceremony and a meeting with the authorities, civil society, and the diplomatic corps.
On 4 November, the Pope presided over the closing ceremony of the "Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence" at Al-Fida' Square of Sakhir Royal Palace. He then had a private meeting with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar in the Papal Residence within the grounds of Sakhir Royal Palace, followed by a meeting with the members of the Muslim Council of Elders at the Mosque of Sakhir Royal Palace. Later in the day, he participated in an ecumenical meeting and prayer for peace at Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral.
On 5 November, the Pope celebrated Holy Mass at Bahrain National Stadium and held a meeting with the youth at Sacred Heart School.
The final day of the visit, 6 November, included a prayer meeting and Angelus with bishops, priests, consecrated persons, seminarians, and pastoral workers at Sacred Heart Church in Manama. The visit concluded with a farewell ceremony at Sakhir Air Base in Awali before the Pope departed by air to Rome.
See also
Catholic Church by country
Christianity in Bahrain
Religion in Bahrain
Sacred Heart Church (Manama, Bahrain)
The Cathedral of our Lady of Arabia, Bahrain
References
Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia
Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Bahrain |
The Reppisch is a river in Switzerland. It rises in the Türlersee and joins the Limmat as its tributary, near the town of Dietikon. The Reppisch flows in the Säuliamt (Affoltern district), canton of Zürich, an area featuring still partially untouched nature.
Between Birmensdorf and Dietikon, the river crosses a narrow valley which is used as a target range by the Swiss army troops stationed in the infantry barracks nearby. Therefore, this valley may be closed to entry during some parts of the week.
Shortly before entering Dietikon, the river underruns the Mutschellenpassstrasse and the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn railway. In the spring of 1999, there were heavy floods in this area, blocking the road and the railway service for several days.
Tributaries
Sixty eight named streams empty into the Reppisch, of which three, namely the Wüeribach, the Rummelbach and the Lunnerenbach, are 4 or more kilometres long. In addition there are 5 tributaries that are 2 kilometres long or more: the Dönibach, the Lättenbach, the Schwandenbach, the Tobelbach near Birmensdorf and the Malefizgraben, if one includes its right hand headstream, the Weidbach.
The most important tributary of the Reppisch is the roughly 8-kilometre-long Wüeribach, which drains the plain of Wettswil and Bonstetten and empties into the Reppisch near Birmensdorf from the left.
References
Rivers of Switzerland
Rivers of the canton of Zürich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reppisch |
Kildonan railway station ( ) is a railway station near Kildonan Lodge in the Highland council area in the north of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line, between Helmsdale and Kinbrace, from , and has a single platform which is long enough for a three-coach train. All services are operated by ScotRail, who manage the station.
History
The station opened on 28 July 1874. In 1952 the station was awarded a special class award in the British Railway (Scottish Region) Best Kept Stations Competition.
Accidents and incidents
On 7 February 1884 there was an accident at the station. A special fish train from Wick approached the station when it derailed and ploughed up several hundred yards of track. The fireman, Alexander Campbell of Wick, died and the engine driver, David Mathieson of Wick was badly injured.
Proposed closure
On 10 June 2018, it was announced that Hitrans had proposed the station for closure, shaving four minutes off journey times on the Inverness to Thurso/Wick route and put application in to Transport Scotland to consider the proposals. However following objections by three local councillors Hitrans withdrew the application.
Facilities
The station has very basic facilities, including a waiting shelter, a bench, a help point and bike racks. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
On , Transport Scotland introduced a new "Press & Ride" system at Kildonan, following successful trials of the system at over the previous four months. Previously, passengers wishing to board a train at Scotscalder had to flag the train by raising their arm (as is still done at other request stops around the country); this meant that the driver needed to reduce the train's speed before a request stop (to look out for any potential passengers on the platform and be able to stop if necessary), even if the platform was empty. The new system consists of an automatic kiosk (with a button for passengers to press) at the platform; this will alert the driver about any waiting passengers in advance and, if there is no requirement to stop, the train can maintain line speed through the request stops, thus improving reliability on the whole line.
Services
It is currently served by four trains each day (Mon-Sat) to Inverness and three trains in the opposite direction to Wick (via Thurso), with one train in each direction on a Sunday.
References
External links
Railway stations in Sutherland
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Former Highland Railway stations
Low usage railway stations in the United Kingdom
Railway request stops in Great Britain
William Baxter railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildonan%20railway%20station |
Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504–1564) was the wife of three major religious reformers, who predeceased her: Johannes Oecolampadius (married, 1528–1531), Wolfgang Capito (married, 1532–1541), and Martin Bucer (married, 1542–1551).
Family life
Rosenblatt was born in 1504 in Bad Säckingen and raised in Basel.
She first married a young scholar and humanist named Ludwig Keller (married, 1524-1526), with whom she had one daughter. Keller died in 1528, and she married Oecolampadius later that year.
She had three children with Oecolampadius, two of whom died in childhood. After Oecolampadius died in 1531, she married his friend Capito (who was also newly widowed) and moved to Strasbourg. She had five children with Capito, but he and several of their children died in the plague of 1541. Rosenblatt's friend Elisabeth Bucer also died in the same plague, but before she died asked her widowed friend to marry her own husband. Rosenblatt married Bucer in 1542, and had two children with him (they did not survive to adulthood). She joined him in his exile to England in 1549.
She was in all the mother of 11 children, and also cared for other children and relatives in her four husbands' households.
After Bucer died she returned to Basel, where she died of bubonic plague in 1564.
References
Sonja Domröse: Frauen der Reformationszeit. Gelehrt, mutig und glaubensfest. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, .
Irina Bossart: Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504–1564) – „euer Diener im Herrn“ oder: Das Wort gewinnt Gestalt im Tun. In: Adelheid M. von Hauff (Hrsg.): Frauen gestalten Diakonie. Band 1: Von der biblischen Zeit bis zum Pietismus (). Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, , S. 321–336.
Susanna Burghartz: Wibrandis Rosenblatt – Die Frau der Reformatoren. In: Theologische Zeitschrift. Bd. 60, Nr. 4, 2004, S. 337–349, (Digitalisat (PDF; 105,63 KB)).
Roland H. Bainton: Frauen der Reformation. Von Katharina von Bora bis Anna Zwingli. 10 Porträts (= Gütersloher Taschenbücher. 1442). 2. Auflage. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 1996, , S. 84–102.
Ernst Staehelin: Frau Wibrandis. A Woman in the Time of Reformation. Translated by E.L. Miller. Wipf & Stock, Eugene, OR., 2009.
Ernst Staehelin: Frau Wibrandis. Eine Gestalt aus den Kämpfen der Reformationszeit. Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern u. a. 1934.
External links
Susanna Burghartz: Wibrandis Rosenblatt – Die Frau der Reformatoren. Zum Andenken an Katharina Preiswerk (1917-2003). ThZ 4/60 (2004), S. 337–349
Helen Liebendörfer: Die Frau im Hintergrund. Historischer Roman. F. Reinhardt, Basel 2013, .
1504 births
1564 deaths
People from Bad Säckingen
People from Basel-Stadt
People of the Protestant Reformation
16th-century deaths from plague (disease)
16th-century German women
German evangelicals
Swiss evangelicals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wibrandis%20Rosenblatt |
Julius David "Slick" Johnson III (February 23, 1948 – February 14, 1990) was an American stock car racing driver. A veteran of short track competition in the Carolinas, he competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series during the 1980s; his best finish in the series, second, came in a non-points consolation race at Daytona International Speedway. He was killed in a racing accident in an ARCA race at Daytona in 1990.
Career
A native of Florence, South Carolina, Johnson started his racing career on dirt tracks at age 16; his racing career was interrupted due to his spending time in the military, however he returned to competition in 1968 at Cooper River Speedway; Johnson also competed at other tracks in the Carolinas during the late 1960s and 1970s including Sumter Speedway.
Moving up from local competition during the 1970s, Johnson made his first start in NASCAR Winston Cup Series competition in 1979 at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina, finishing 27th in his first race in the series. He would go on to compete in a total of 68 Winston Cup Series races between 1979 and 1987, posting a best finish of eighth on two occasions, both in 1980, at North Wilkesboro Speedway and at Rockingham. Johnson also finished second, to Tim Richmond, in a non-points consolation race for Daytona 500 non-qualifiers at Daytona International Speedway in 1982.
Johnson also competed in a single Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series race in his career, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1983; he started 19th and finished 28th in the event.
Death
In 1988 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Johnson was injured in a severe crash during a practice session. Following his recovery, Johnson returned to racing in the ARCA Permatex Super Car Series season-opening 200-mile race at Daytona International Speedway in 1990. Starting last in the 40-car field, Johnson was involved in a crash on the race's 76th lap that left him with a basal skull fracture and crushed chest; Johnson had been hit by three other cars during the course of the accident. Transported to Halifax Medical Center in critical condition, Johnson died three days later; he was the 23rd racing-related fatality at Daytona, and the first stock car driver to be killed since Joe Young in 1987.
The accident in which Johnson was involved, in which paramedic Mike Staley was also injured one lap later, was featured in an episode of Rescue 911 that aired on November 13, 1990 on CBS.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Winston Cup Series
Daytona 500
Late Model Sportsman Series
ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
References
External links
1948 births
1990 deaths
Sportspeople from Florence, South Carolina
Racing drivers from South Carolina
NASCAR drivers
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Racing drivers who died while racing
Sports deaths in Florida
Filmed deaths in motorsport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slick%20Johnson |
Kinbrace railway station is a railway station serving the village of Kinbrace in the Highland council area in the north of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line, from Inverness, between Kildonan and Forsinard. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate the services at the station.
History
had been linked to by rail in 1870. The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was formed in 1871 to carry the railway onward to and , by a route which took it through Strath Ullie. The line opened on 28 July 1874 and included a station at Kinbrace.
Facilities
The station unusually has two waiting shelters, as well as a help point and bike racks. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
On , Transport Scotland introduced a new "Press & Ride" system at Kinbrace, following successful trials of the system at over the previous four months. Previously, passengers wishing to board a train at Scotscalder had to flag the train by raising their arm (as is still done at other request stops around the country); this meant that the driver needed to reduce the train's speed before a request stop (to look out for any potential passengers on the platform and be able to stop if necessary), even if the platform was empty. The new system consists of an automatic kiosk (with a button for passengers to press) at the platform; this will alert the driver about any waiting passengers in advance and, if there is no requirement to stop, the train can maintain line speed through the request stops, thus improving reliability on the whole line.
Platform layout
The single platform is long enough for a four-coach train.
Services
In the December 2021 timetable, there are four trains north to via and three south to from Wick, on weekdays and Saturdays. There is a fourth Wick to Inverness service, but this does not stop at Kinbrace. There is a single train each way on Sundays.
References
External links
RAILSCOT page on Kinbrace
Railway stations in Sutherland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Former Highland Railway stations
Railway request stops in Great Britain
William Baxter railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinbrace%20railway%20station |
Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. In the film, he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap. He was played by actor Christopher Guest.
Character biography
Nigel Tufnel was born in Squatney, East London on 5 February 1948. He was given his first guitar, a Sunburst "Rhythm King", by his father at age six. His life changed when he met David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) who lived next door. They began jamming together in a toolshed in David's garden, influenced by (fictional) early blues artists like Honkin' Bubba Fulton, Little Sassy Francis and particularly Big Little Daddy Coleman, a deaf guitar player, and wrote their first song, "(Cry) All the Way Home." Before long they had formed their first band, The Thamesmen.
Tufnel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy is his Sea Foam Green six-string Fender Bass VI with the price tag still attached, which he has kept in mint condition by not allowing it to be played, touched, pointed at, looked at, or talked about. He also has a Gibson Les Paul 1959 model, whose acoustic properties and carved flame-maple top he praises. He also plays mandolin and piano, and does backing vocals. In the film he is writing a classical piece which he feels combines the musical characteristics of both Mozart and Bach (a "Mach piece") in D minor, which he claims is the "saddest of all keys". The piece is provisionally titled "Lick My Love Pump'".
Tufnel has a great love for Gumby, carrying figurines of Gumby and Pokey in his shirt pocket and wearing Gumby shirts frequently. He is also a self-proclaimed "fish nut," liking cod and canned tuna because they have "no bones." Tufnel sits on the editorial board of his preferred in-flight periodical, Car and Driver. His favorite cookies are Oreos, but without the filling. A rider in his contract requires a large plate of Oreo halves, without frosting. Onstage he wears glam rock-inspired makeup and usually plays a Gibson Les Paul. He is almost always seen chewing gum.
Tufnel has stated that if he was not in the music industry he would like to either enter the field of haberdashery or become a surgeon.
Tufnel's work outside Spinal Tap includes his appearance on the 1979 album Lenny & Squiggy present Lenny and the Squigtones, released on Casablanca Records four years before Spinal Tap. On American Bandstand in 1979 he introduced himself to Dick Clark as being from Swindon. Lenny and Squiggy were fictional characters on the TV series Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny, like Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins, was played by Michael McKean.
2011 Nigel Tufnel Day
Tufnel is especially noted for his amplifier which has numbering going "up to eleven", which he believes makes it louder than amplifiers that only go up to ten ("It's one louder"). When he is asked why the ten setting is not simply set to be louder, Nigel pauses, clearly confused, before responding, "These go to eleven."
In the run-up to 2011 Spinal Tap fans created a movement to make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day." The movement was organised by The Nigel Tufnel Day Appreciation Society and Quilting Bee in Favor of Declaring & Observing 11 November 2011 as Nigel Tufnel Day (in Recognition of Its Maximum Elevenness). The theme of Nigel Tufnel Day was to take whatever you are doing on that day and "turn it up to 11".
Soloing techniques
Using a violin (as opposed to a violin bow, as made famous by Jimmy Page) to play his guitar
Playing a second guitar with his foot
Classical music inspired solos
Playing another guitar from a distance using horseshoes (as in The Return of Spinal Tap)
References
External links
The Ultimate Spinal Tap Discography – an illustrated guide to Tap's albums (both real and imagined)
Fictional rock musicians
Film characters introduced in 1984
Fictional people from London
Fictional guitarists
Spinal Tap (band) members
Male characters in film
Comedy film characters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Tufnel |
Feldschlösschen () is a Swiss beverage and brewing company located in Rheinfelden, in the German-speaking canton of Aargau, Switzerland.
Founded in 1876, the company operates the biggest brewery in Switzerland by production, the Feldschlösschen Brewery. It bought out Cardinal in 1991, and became a division of Carlsberg in 2000. In addition to beer, it also produces non-alcoholic beverages and mineral waters. The following brands are produced:
Feldschlösschen
Feldschlösschen Alcohol Free
Hürlimann (merged in 1996)
Cardinal (acquired in 1991)
Carlsberg
Tuborg
Sommersby
Pepsi
Gurten
Valaisanne
Warteck
Castello (beer)
Schweppes
7up
Lipton Ice Tea
Similarly named German brewer
Feldschlößchen (with the eszett, ß) is the name of a brewer in Dresden, Germany, with no relation. See:
See also
Beer in Switzerland
Calanda Bräu, the main competitor brewery, owned by Heineken
Notes
References
External links
Official site
Beer in Switzerland
Companies based in Aargau
Rheinfelden (Aargau)
Carlsberg Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldschl%C3%B6sschen |
Schwarzenburg District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the town of Schwarzenburg, located in the municipality of Wahlern.
From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Bern-Mittelland (administrative district), whose administrative centre is Ostermundigen.
Since 2010, it remains therefore a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.
The district has an area of 157 km² and consisted of 4 municipalities:
References
Former districts of the canton of Bern | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenburg%20District |
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future is a 1986 video game by Virgin Games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 home computer systems. It is based on the classic British comic strip Dan Dare. The Commodore 64 version was considerably different in gameplay to the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions.
Plot
The Mekon reveals his typically dastardly plan: Earth must submit to his terms or he will propel a hollowed-out asteroid the size of a small planet into Earth. Dan and his sidekick Digby fly to the asteroid in Dan's spaceship, the Anastasia. Arriving at the asteroid they find small buildings and structures and realise it must be inhabited. Digby remains on the ship whilst Dan is lowered down to the asteroid's surface. Once again, Earth is relying on him to defeat the Mekon.
Versions
Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
Dan is armed with only a laser gun. He must progress through the levels, acquiring the five pieces of an explosive device. Each piece is hidden somewhere within a section of the game, the first piece collected unlocks the door to the area containing the second piece and so on. On the way he encounters foot soldiers, also known as Treens (which he can shoot but which shoot back), floorguns (which can be destroyed by jumping on them) and wall guns (which can usually be destroyed by shooting them).
Any enemy contact or getting shot will cause Dan to lose energy. If it reaches zero, Dan is "captured" and returned to a prison cell from which he then escapes, but it is some distance from most of the accessible parts of the complex and also causes lost time. Should Dan fire too much, his gun will run out of ammo (which can be replenished by collecting ammo powerups). Should Dan run out of time before he can assemble the five parts of the bomb, the Mekon has won again.
The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Dragon's Lair.
Commodore 64
Dan does not use a gun in this version, preferring to deal with Treen guards by using his boxing skills. He must progress first through the planet's surface and subterranean lakes, where he must solve various puzzles and collect items to enable him to progress down into the Mekon's heavily guarded base. Here he must fight hordes of Treen guards, find and free Digby and the Professor, before destroying three supercomputers with a giant laser. The final scene sees Dan tackling the Mekon in a hand-to-hand grenade battle. Having destroyed the Mekon, he has just two minutes to return to the planet's surface and escape.
The whole game takes place over 25 minutes in real time. Dan fails the mission if he has not destroyed the Mekon and escaped within this time.
Reception
Zzap!64 enjoyed the Commodore 64 version of the game which was said to be "a highly original and playable arcade adventure". It received an overall rating of 94%.
Legacy
The game was followed by two sequels, Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge and Dan Dare III: The Escape.
References
External links
Review of the Spectrum version from a 1986 issue of CRASH magazine
Review of the Spectrum version from Your Sinclair magazine
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
Dan Dare
Video games based on comics
Virgin Interactive games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Dare%3A%20Pilot%20of%20the%20Future |
Forsinard railway station () is a railway station serving the village of Forsinard in the Highland council area in the north of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line, from Inverness, between Kinbrace and Altnabreac. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate the services at the station.
History
The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was authorised in 1871, and the single-track line, which connected with and , opened on 28 July 1874. One of the original stations was that at Forsinard.
From 1 January 1923 the station was owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway. In September 1925, it was recorded as being from Perth, measured via and Inverness station. The station is from Inverness, and has a passing loop long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the up (southbound) line can accommodate trains having four coaches, but platform 2 on the down (northbound) line can only hold three.
The station building is now used by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as the visitors' centre for the Forsinard Flows National Nature Reserve (which protects part of the Flow Country).
Facilities
Both platforms have waiting areas and benches, whilst platform 2 (towards Wick) also has bike racks and a help point. There is also a small car park adjacent to platform 2. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Services
There are four departures per day in each direction, southbound to and and northbound to via . One train per day each way calls on Sundays.
References
External links
RAILSCOT page on Forsinard
Railway stations in Sutherland
Former Highland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations served by ScotRail
William Baxter railway stations
RSPB visitor centres in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsinard%20railway%20station |
Raimonds Vējonis (born 15 June 1966) is a Latvian politician who served as the 9th President of Latvia from 2015 to 2019 and the president of the Latvian Basketball Association since 2020.
He is a member of the Latvian Green Party, part of the Union of Greens and Farmers. He served as Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in 2002 and in 2011 and as Minister of the Environment from 2003 to 2011, while the Ministry of Regional Development was a separate department. He became Minister of Defence of Latvia in 2014 and held that office until becoming president in 2015. Since 2020 he is the president of Latvian Basketball Association.
Early life and career
Vējonis was born on 15 June 1966 in Pskov Oblast to a Latvian father and a Russian mother, while his father was serving in the Soviet army there. He grew up in Sarkaņi and attended school in the nearby town of Madona. Vējonis became interested in environmental protection because his grandfather had been blinded by chemicals used on a Soviet kolkhoz.
He graduated from Faculty of Biology of the University of Latvia in 1989 and obtained a master's degree from it in 1995. During his studies he worked as a biology teacher in Madona. From 1989 to 1996 he was deputy director of Madona Regional Environmental board. He was a member of Madona city council from 1990 to 1993. From 1996 to 2002 he was director of Greater Riga Regional Environmental board, during this period he also was a board member in Skulte port and served as state representative at Getliņi Eko waste management company.
Political career
In 2002, Vējonis became Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development.
He was elected as President of Latvia on 3 June 2015, receiving the votes of 55 of the 100 members of the Saeima. He used his victory speech to promise to ensure national security, in light of events in Ukraine, while protecting the environment. He became the first head of state in the European Union to be a member of a green party.
Post-presidency
In January 2020, Vējonis was elected to a four-year term as president of the Latvian Basketball Association by a wide margin.
Personal life
In 1986, he married Iveta Vējone, a teacher and former first lady. The couple have two sons, Ivo and Nauris.
Vējonis is a Baltic pagan. He speaks fluent Russian and decent English in addition to Latvian.
Health problems
On 18 January 2016, Vējonis was hospitalized. He was first transported to the Toxicology and Sepsis Clinic of the Riga East Clinical University Hospital branch Gaiļezers, but a day later was transferred to the Latvian Cardiology Center at Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. The press counselor of the president initially did not disclose the nature of the illness and suggested that the president had a viral infection. However, independent medical experts theorized that Vējonis probably had an infective endocarditis. On January 20, Vējonis underwent emergency open heart surgery to eliminate the source of infection in which the heart valve damaged by sepsis was replaced with an artificial heart valve. Later on unnamed sources told the press that the illness was likely caused by untreated tonsillitis, the press counselor of the president, while still refusing to disclose exact diagnosis, confirmed that the president had been having issues with his throat and his voice had been very hoarse.
Vējonis left hospital on February 26 to undergo physical therapy at National Rehabilitation Center "Vaivari". He was reported to be doing some work during his illness, but fully resumed his official duties on 30 March after spending more than two months recovering.
Honours
National Honours
: (Former Grand Master) and Commander Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of the Three Stars (8 July 2015).
: (Former Grand Master) and Grand Cross of the Order of Viesturs
: Former Grand Master of the Cross of Recognition
Foreign Honours
: Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (2 April 2019)
: Grand Cross special class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (22 February 2019)
: Grand cross with Collar of the Order of the Falcon (16 November 2018)
: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (26 June 2018)
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (11 June 2018).
: The First Class of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (22 November 2018).
References
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1966 births
Living people
People from Pskov Oblast
Latvian modern pagans
Latvian people of Russian descent
Latvian Green Party politicians
Presidents of Latvia
Ministers of Defence of Latvia
Ministers of the Environment of Latvia
Deputies of the 9th Saeima
Deputies of the 10th Saeima
Deputies of the 11th Saeima
Deputies of the 12th Saeima
University of Latvia alumni
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Knights Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Recipients of the Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
Grand Crosses Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Order of the Falcon
Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimonds%20V%C4%93jonis |
Emily Saïdy de Jongh-Elhage (born 7 December 1946) is a former Curaçaoan politician who served as the 27th prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 2006 until its dissolution in 2010. Following the 2010 Curaçao general election she was elected to parliament and served until her retirement in 2012.
Personal background
De Jongh-Elhage is of and a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.
External links
Onze Kandidaten voor de Eilandsraad Verkiezingen
BBC Caribbean: Caribbean nationals to flee Lebanon
1946 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles
Members of the Estates of Curaçao
Party for the Restructured Antilles politicians
21st-century women prime ministers
Curaçao women in politics
21st-century Dutch women politicians
21st-century Dutch politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20de%20Jongh-Elhage |
Algernon William Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (19 November 1866 – 3 September 1910), an Irish nobleman, was the son of Major William Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore, and Emily Marianne Ashworth.
He was a captain of the militia of the Dublin City Artillery branch of the Royal Garrison Artillery from November 1901, and resigned this commission in January 1903.
Lord Avonmore married Mabel Sarah Evans, daughter of George Evans and Jane Fitzgerald, on 17 December 1890 in St. Anne's, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, and had issue, an only daughter, Evelyn Marianne Mabel Yelverton (1 December 1893 – 16 January 1956). After his death, the viscountcy has been dormant.
References
1866 births
1910 deaths
Viscounts Avonmore
People educated at Stubbington House School
Royal Garrison Artillery officers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon%20Yelverton%2C%206th%20Viscount%20Avonmore |
Scotscalder railway station is a railway station located in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves several rural hamlets in the historic county of Caithness, including Scotscalder, Olgrinmore, Westerdale and Calder. It is accessed from the B870 road, south of Scotscalder Hall.
The station is situated on the Far North Line, down the line from , between Altnabreac and Georgemas Junction. It has a single platform which is long enough to accommodate a four-carriage train.
The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate all trains serving the station.
History
The station was opened by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway on 28 July 1874.
In 1988 the station house was sold by the British Railways Board for conversion to a residential dwelling. Following the conversion, in 1993, the station house was sold again and renovated further, for which the owner won the Ian Allan Railway Heritage Award. The station house was used as a holiday home during this period, but was available to rent for short periods. The station house is now a private residence and is no longer available to rent or open to the public.
Facilities
The station has minimal facilities, including bike racks, a help point and a small waiting shelter. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
On , Transport Scotland introduced a new "Press & Ride" system at the station on a trial basis. Previously, passengers wishing to board a train at Scotscalder had to flag the train by raising their arm (as is still done at other request stops around the country); this meant that the driver had to reduce the train's speed before a request stop (to look out for any potential passengers on the platform and be able to stop if necessary), even if the platform was empty. The new system consists of an automatic kiosk (with a button for passengers to press) at the platform; this will alert the driver about any waiting passengers in advance and, if there is no requirement to stop, the train can maintain line speed through the station, thus improving reliability on the whole line. Following the successful trial at Scotscalder, this system was expanded on to cover five more request stops on the line, namely , , , and ; the last two kiosks, at and , are expected to be in operation from spring 2023.
Services
On weekdays and Saturdays, the service pattern from the station consists of four trains per day northbound to via and three trains per day southbound to via , , , and . (There is a fourth train bound for Inverness but it is not scheduled to call at Scotscalder.) On Sundays there is just one train per day each way.
This station is designated as a request stop. This means that passengers intending to alight must inform the guard in advance, and any passengers wishing to board must press a "request" button located at the kiosk on the platform.
References
Bibliography
External links
RAILSCOT article on Sutherland and Caithness Railway
RAILSCOT page on Scotscalder
Scotscalder Request Stop video
Railway stations in Caithness
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway request stops in Great Britain
Low usage railway stations in the United Kingdom
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Former Highland Railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotscalder%20railway%20station |
St. Anthony's fire (also known historically as Ignis Sacer and Holy Fire) may refer to:
Ergotism, the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of alkaloids
Erysipelas, an acute infection, typically with a skin rash
St Anthony's Fire (novel), a 1994 Doctor Who novel by Mark Gatiss
Shingles, a painful viral disease, also called herpes zoster
See also
Saint Anthony (disambiguation)
St. Elmo's fire, a weather phenomenon
Obsolete medical terms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Anthony%27s%20fire |
A synapse is a neural junction used for communication between neurons
Synapse may also refer to:
Computing and information systems
Apache Synapse, open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and mediation engine
Azure Synapse, a fully managed cloud data warehouse
Peltarion Synapse, a component-based integrated development environment for neural networks and adaptive systems
Synapse (software), a free and open-source application launcher for Linux
Synapse Audio Software, German software company that develops music production software for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms
Synapse.org, an open source scientific collaboration platform
Science
Chemical synapse, in neurobiology
Electrical synapse, in electrophysiology
Immunological synapse, in immunology
SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), a DARPA project
Synapse, Fujifilm Medical Systems Picture archiving and communication system application
Publishing
Synapse (journal), a neurology journal
Synapse: The Magazine of the University of Nevada School of Medicine (online)
Synapse Magazine, produced by the Chester County (PA) Hospital and Health System (online)
Synapse (magazine), an electronic music magazine published 1976-1979
Synapse Group, Inc., a multichannel marketing company and magazine distributor
The Synapse, Oberlin College science magazine
Entertainment
Synapse Films, a DVD releasing company specializing in cult and hard-to-find movies
Synapse Software, an American computer game development and publishing company active during the early-1980s
Celestial Synapse, musical event held at the Fillmore West on the evening of 19 February 1969
Usurp Synapse, a screamo band from Indiana
Synapse (film), a 2015 science fiction film
Synapse, the fictional communications software in the 2001 film Antitrust (film)
Synapse, song by British post-grunge band Bush on the album Razorblade Suitcase
Synaps, series of Steinberger electric guitars
See also
Synapsid, a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes
Synapsis, the pairing of two homologous chromosomes that occurs during meiosis
Synopsis, a brief summary of the major points of a written work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse%20%28disambiguation%29 |
UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2002 was the 13th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Switzerland between 16 and 28 May 2002.
Czech Republic U-21s won the competition for the first time.
Qualification
The 47 national teams were divided into nine groups (one group of four + five groups of 5 + three groups of 6). The records of the nine group runners-up were then compared. The top seven joined the nine winners in a play-off for the eight finals spots. One of the eight qualifiers was then chosen to host the remaining fixtures.
Venues
Squads
Matches
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Final
Goalscorers
3 goals
Massimo Maccarone
2 goals
Michal Pospíšil
Pierre-Alain Frau
Olivier Sorlin
Alexander Frei
1 goal
Koen Daerden
Tom Soetaers
Zdeněk Grygera
Martin Jiránek
David Rozehnal
Gareth Barry
Peter Crouch
Jermain Defoe
Alan Smith
1 goal, cont.
Sylvain Armand
Sidney Govou
Péguy Luyindula
Steed Malbranque
Xenofon Gittas
Giorgos Kyriazis
Christos Patsatzoglou
Emiliano Bonazzoli
Andrea Pirlo
Ariza Makukula
Hélder Postiga
Filipe Teixeira
Hugo Viana
Ricardo Cabanas
Own goals
Koen Daerden (for France)
External links
Results Archive at UEFA.com
RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
International association football competitions hosted by Switzerland
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
UEFA
May 2002 sports events in Europe
2002 in youth association football | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20UEFA%20European%20Under-21%20Championship |
Dance of the Tiger (Swedish: Den Svarta Tigern) is a novel by Finnish palaeontologist Björn Kurtén, published in 1978 and English translation in 1980. It is a prehistoric novel dealing with the interaction between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. A sequel, Singletusk, published in 1982, continues the story of the family.
Plot
Set 35,000 years ago in Scandinavia, during a thaw in the great Ice Age, the novel follows a Cro-Magnon named Tiger as he tries to defeat Shelk, a tyrant and a hybrid (Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon), the man who killed his father. With his family and much of his tribe dead, Tiger meets, interacts, and allies himself with groups of Neanderthals. He eventually marries a Neanderthal woman.
Depictions
Neanderthals are depicted as white-skinned, while Cro-Magnons are dark. Kurtén's skin color identification for both populations appears to agree with recent DNA studies, including those proposing the African origin of modern humans. His racial presentation of the Cro-Magnon is in contrast to Jean M. Auel's view in her Earth's Children series. Auel's initial book, published a few years later than Dance of the Tiger, portrayed Neanderthals as light-skinned and Cro-Magnons as more racially varied, either light or dark-skinned. The author himself says "The book is not intended to be a 'theory about interaction between Neanderthals and Modern Humans', it is just a fictive description of one possible scenario among several that might have taken place".
Cro-Magnon children and adults are portrayed as having smooth brows and small faces; the characteristic features of childhood act as "innate releasing mechanisms" for feelings of affection.
To the Whites, the Blacks were godlike, tall and eloquent, with a speech as varied and flexible as that of the birds. And there was something else. No White could look at the clear brow of a Black without feeling a mysterious tenderness, such as a child might evoke in the heart of his parents.
— Kurtén, p. 33, 5th printing, paperback
Kurtén postulates that this attraction led to intermarriage between the two people, which produced sterile offspring. He emphasizes the possibility of Neanderthal extinction through inter-breeding rather than through violence. He also presents social differences between the two groups, presenting the Cro-Magnon people as more aggressive, practicing slavery and choosing violence to solve social problems. The Neanderthal society, based on a matriarchal system, is drawn as peace-loving with elaborate social rituals designed to resolve problems.
Reception
The novel is known for its plausibility and accuracy. Kurtén's supposition that Neanderthals and ancestors of modern Homo sapiens occupied same areas in the same time in Europe has been confirmed by fossil evidence.
Kurtén has managed to insinuate into his story—in a way so subtle and natural that we can scarcely recognize he is teaching as well as novelizing—every fact and theory that I know (and several, undoubtedly, that I don't) about Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, human evolution during the Ice Age, glacial geology, and ecology and behavior of the great Ice Age mammals, including mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.
— Stephen Jay Gould, introduction to Dance of the Tiger, 1980.
Kurtén was not the first novelist to examine the subject; for instance author William Golding also examined the issue of Neanderthal extinction in The Inheritors.
Release details
Originally published as Den Svarta Tigern, ALBA Publishing, Stockholm, Sweden, 1978.
English translation copyright, 1980, Björn Kurtén.
English translation, Random House, New York, 1980.
Pantheon Books paperback editions, initially published September 1980, Fifth printing October 1983. .
References
1978 Swedish novels
Fiction about neanderthals
Novels set in prehistory
Swedish historical novels
Early European modern humans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20of%20the%20Tiger |
Georgemas Junction railway station is a railway station located in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves several rural hamlets in the historic county of Caithness, including Georgemas, Roadside and Banniskirk. It is also the nearest station to the village of Halkirk, which lies approximately west of the station.
Georgemas Junction is the penultimate station on the Far North Line from to , down the line from Inverness. Immediately to the west of the station lies a junction of the same name, where the branch to spurs off northwards; mileages on this branch are measured from the station. This junction is the northernmost railway junction in the United Kingdom.
The station has a single platform which is long enough to accommodate a six-carriage train. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate the services at the station.
History
The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway (S&CR). The station buildings were designed by Murdoch Paterson and it opened on 28 July 1874 and on that date the Highland Railway absorbed the S&CR and operated the newly completed line from Helmsdale to Thurso and Wick. A wrought-iron turntable of diameter built by the Railway Steel and Plant Company of Manchester was installed at the station.
In 1902, Donald Mackenzie, station master was appointed first station master of Dornoch railway station.
From 1 January 1923 the station was operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
Accidents and incidents
At the end of February 1937 trains were stranded at Georgemas Junction because of heavy snow. A goods train from Inverness got stuck in a drift deep. An engine with a snow plough was also stuck at the same location.
Trains to and from Thurso
Until diesel multiple unit trains were introduced by British Rail in the early 1990s, all trains on the Far North Line were locomotive-hauled, initially by Highland Railway steam locomotives, then by LMSR steam locomotives and latterly by British Railways steam and finally Class 37 diesel locomotives. Northbound passenger trains would divide at Georgemas Junction, with the rear portion for Thurso and the front portion for Wick. A locomotive was stabled at Georgemas Junction to haul the Thurso carriages.
Following the introduction of Class 156 diesel multiple units on the line, trains were always composed of two trainsets (four cars) and at Georgemas, these would split in half with the front portion heading to Wick, the rear to Thurso. This practice was halted with the introduction of Class 158 sets which operate as single sets - on arrival at Georgemas Junction from Inverness, trains reverse to reach Thurso, and then reverse again from Thurso back to Georgemas Junction (stopping a second time) and on to Wick. An easement to the National Routeing Guide allows passengers for Wick to stay on the train between Georgemas Junction and Thurso, which would otherwise technically be off-route.
Georgemas Junction station has been used for several freight services. In the early 2000s, EWS operated a freight train for Safeway supermarket, running from Mossend to Georgemas. Containers were unloaded at Georgemas, then transported by road to Wick and Thurso, and by ferry to Orkney. In 2012, the former platform 1 and the footbridge was removed when Direct Rail Services constructed a new freight terminal at Georgemas - this has been used by trains taking nuclear material from Dounreay to Sellafield. As this platform was located on a passing loop which did not connect directly to the Thurso branch, it was very little-used by passenger trains, since all services through the station run to or from Thurso. The purpose of the passing loop dates back to the era of loco-hauled trains which divided/attached at the station an Inverness-bound train from Wick would loop around the Thurso portion standing on the second (remaining) platform, and attach to it from behind.
Facilities
Facilities at this station include a payphone that accepts card and coins, a waiting room and designated seating area, a cycle rack with 10 spaces, and a free car park with 2 spaces. The nearest bus stop to the station is located to the north.
Services
On weekdays and Saturdays, there are four trains per day each way between and , resulting in 8 trains per day to Thurso, as all trains in both directions go to Thurso on their way to Inverness or Wick. On Sundays, the frequency is reduced to one train per day each way, meaning two trains go to Thurso.
References
Bibliography
External links
ScotRail North Highlands Timetable (valid from 6 feb 2023)
Railway stations in Caithness
Rail junctions in Scotland
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Former Highland Railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgemas%20Junction%20railway%20station |
Rabbit's Moon is an avant-garde short film by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Filmed in 1950, Rabbit's Moon was not completed (nor did it see release) until 1971. Anger re-released the film in 1979, sped up and with a different soundtrack.
Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the Moon (in which lives a rabbit, according to both East Asian folklore and Aztec mythology), and his futile attempts to jump up and catch it. Subsequently, another clown (Harlequin) appears and teases Pierrot, showing him Columbina, with whom he appears to fall in love.
Production
The sets were borrowed from French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
Music
The 1971 version of Rabbit's Moon features a soundtrack consisting of 1950s and '60s pop: "There's a Moon Out Tonight" by The Capris, "Oh, What a Night" by The Dells, "Bye Bye Baby" by Mary Wells, "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos and "Tears On My Pillow" by The El Dorados. The 1979 version features only a loop of A Raincoat's "It Came In The Night" as its soundtrack.
Legacy
The film is credited by electronic duo Rabbit in the Moon as the inspiration for their name.
See also
Commedia dell'arte
List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
References
External links
1950 films
1950s avant-garde and experimental films
1979 short films
Films directed by Kenneth Anger
1950 short films
1971 short films
1971 films
1979 films
1970s English-language films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
1970s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%27s%20Moon |
The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages refers to the time period between the Roman era and the 15th-century Ottoman conquest. The Early Middle Ages in the Western Balkans saw the region reconquered from barbarians (Ostrogoths) by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (), followed by raids and migrations carried out by Slavic peoples in the 6th and 7th centuries. The first mention of a distinct Bosnian region comes from the 10th-century Byzantine text De Administrando Imperio. By the late 9th and early 10th century, Latin priests had Christianized much of Bosnia, with some areas remaining unconverted. In the High Middle Ages, Bosnia experienced economic stability and peace under the Ban Kulin who ruled over Banate of Bosnia from 1180 to 1204 and strengthened its ties with the Republic of Ragusa and with Venice. The Kingdom of Bosnia emerged in the Late Middle Ages (1377). The kingdom faced internal and external conflicts, eventually falling under Ottoman rule in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Early Middle Ages
The western Balkans had been reconquered from "barbarians" by Byzantine Emperor Justinian (r. 527–565). Sclaveni (Slavs) raided the Western Balkans, including Bosnia, in the 6th and 7th century. According to De Administrando Imperio written in the 10th century, these were followed by Croats and Serbs who arrived in the late 620s and early 630s, the Croats invited by Emperor Heraclius to fend off an invasion by the Pannonian Avars, and both had by this time settled West and East of Bosnia. Croats "settled in area roughly corresponding to modern Croatia, and probably also including most of Bosnia proper, apart from the eastern strip of the Drina valley" while Serbs "corresponding to modern south-western Serbia (later known as Raška), and gradually extended their rule into the territories of Duklja and Hum".
Early medieval polity
The De Administrando Imperio (DAI; ca. 960) mentions Bosnia (/Bosona) as a "small/little land" (or "small country"), inhabited by Slavs along with Zahumlje and Travunija (both with territory in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). This is the first mention of a distinct Bosnian region. Historians have established that the medieval Bosnian polity was situated, broadly, around the Bosna river, between its upper and the middle course: in the south to north direction between the line formed by its source and the Prača river in the south, and the line formed by the Drinjača river and the Krivaja river (from Olovo, downstream to town of Maglaj), and Vlašić mountain in the north, and in the west to east direction between the Rama-Vrbas line stretching from the Neretva to Pliva in the west, and the Drina in the east, which is a wider area of central and eastern modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
By the late 9th and early 10th century, Bosnia was mostly Christianized by Latin priests from the Dalmatian coastal towns, though remote pockets remained unreached. If DAI'''s kastra oikoumena does not designate inhabited towns, but ecclesiastical centers instead, the existence of such centers could be evidence it was an independent state before 822, as theorized by late Tibor Živković. After the East–West Schism (1054) the bishopric of Bosnia was Roman Catholic under jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Split (since the 12th century under Roman Catholic Diocese of Dubrovnik).
Northern and Northeastern Bosnia was captured by Carolingian Franks in the early 9th century and remained under their jurisdiction until 870s. In what is now eastern Herzegovina and Montenegro, semi-independent localities emerged under Serbian rule. In the 910s Petar of Serbia annexed entire Eastern Bosnia by defeating local Slavic lord Tišemir of Bosnia, and pushing into Zahumlje came into conflict with Michael of Zahumlje. Croatian king Tomislav reintegrated parts of Western and Northern Bosnia, battling the Bulgarians in the Bosnian highlands (926). In 949, a civil war broke out in Croatia leading to the conquest of Bosnia by Časlav, but after his death in 960s, it was retaken by Michael Krešimir II of Croatia. Additionally, Duklja absorbed Zahumlje under John Vladmir. In 1019 Byzantine Emperor Basil II forced the Serb and Croat rulers to acknowledge Byzantine sovereignty, though this had little impact over the governance of Bosnia until the end of the 11th century, for periods of time being governed by Croats or Serbs to the East. A later political link to Croatia will be observed "by the Croatian title ban from the earliest times".
Based on semi-mythological Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja (13th century), according to some scholars the earliest known ruler of Bosnia was Ratimir in 838 AD. According to later Annales Ragusini (14-17th century), the death of childless Stiepan in 871 was followed by 17 years war which was ended by Croatian ruler Bereslav's conquest of Bosnia, while in 972 Bosnian ruler was killed and land conquered by certain Sigr. Ducha d'Albania, but another ruler of the lineage of Moravia de Harvati and related to previous Bosnian ruler, expelled Sigr. Ducha and united Bosnia.
Regarding the ethnic identity of the inhabitants of Bosnia until 1180, Noel Malcolm concludes "it cannot be answered, for two reasons":
High Middle Ages
Relations with neighbors and consolidation
Serbian princess ruled in Zahumlje, and later, after integrating with Raška in the 1070s under Constantine Bodin, expanded to conquer all of eastern Bosnia in the 1080s. His kingdom collapsed after his death in 1102. Hungarian authority fell over Bosnia in 1102, though it was ruled through a Ban, who became more independent as the century progressed. In the 1150s, Ban Borić, the first Bosnian ban known in historiography by name, led the Bosnian troops to aid Hungary against the Byzantines in Belgrade, as an ally. By 1180, Bosnia was functionally fully independent, though Hungarians seldom missed to lay the claim on it. Some attempts to reunite Bosnia and Duklja were made, especially by king Kočopar of Duklja (1102–1103) who forged an alliance with Bosnia against Rascia and Zahumlje, but attempt utterly failed with Kočopar's death. Since the early middle ages, it is noted that some Hungarian monarchs included "rex Ramae" into their title, taking a name of a small župa of Rama (central Bosnia and Herzegovina), likely referring to all of Bosnia, and thus indicating its de facto independence. In 1167 Byzantium defeated Hungary at the Battle of Zemun and took all of Bosnia under its domain and would remain there until Manuel I Comnenus died in 1180.
Banate
With Croatia acquired by the Hungarian Kingdom, and the Serbian state in a period of stagnation, control over Bosnia was subsequently contested between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine empire. In 1154, Borić was appointed ban by pro-Hungarian nobility. Under the pressure of the Byzantines, a subsequent King of Hungary appointed Kulin as a Ban to rule the province under the eastern vassalage. However, this vassalage was largely nominal.
Kulin's nearly three decades of rule over the country was characterized by economic stability and peace, during which he strengthened Bosnia's economic ties with Dubrovnik in 1189 and Venice through treaties and trade agreements. His sister married the ruler of Hum, Miroslav brother of Stephan Namanja, founder of the Nemanjić dynasty, with whom he also established a positive diplomatic relationship. However, he had poor relations with Hungary and her ally Zeta for religiopolitical reasons. His rule also marked the start of a controversy with the Bosnian Church, an indigenous Christian sect considered heretical by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. In response to Hungarian attempts to use church politics regarding the issue as a way to reclaim sovereignty over Bosnia, Kulin held a council of local church leaders to renounce the heresy in 1203. Despite this, Hungarian ambitions remained unchanged long after Kulin's death in 1204, waning only after an unsuccessful invasion in 1254. Miroslav died in 1198 and Andrew, brother of the King of Hungary and appointed by him to be duke of Croatia and Dalmatia as well as Hum, jumped at the opportunity. He took northwestern Hum after defeating a local force but he withdrew in 1203 either because his brother, King Emeric, declared war on him or he was pushed out by Peter. Peter was chosen by the local nobles of Hum to succeed Miroslav and was likely his son. He soon ousted a brother named Andrew from Eastern Hum, but Stefan the First-Crowned sided with the exiled Andrew and returned Hum to the Neretva in 1216, and Andrew became a puppet prince of Hum. He was later removed by Stefan and replaced by a governor, possibly his son, Stefan Radoslav. This meant Andrew only had Popovo and the coastline remaining, and by 1218, Peter had taken it and Andrew had disappeared. The Pope called for Hungary to crusade against heretics in Bosnia in 1225, and the call was met a decade later. It is likely that Hungary was putting political pressure on the papacy to invade Bosnia for territorial gain, as there is no concrete proof of Bosnian heresy at this time, just ignorance of certain catholic practices. Hungary invaded starting in 1235 and reached Bosnia in 1238, when they captured Vrhbosna. In 1241 they retreated back to Hungary when it came under threat of the Tartars. The commander of the crusaders, Koloman, brother of the king, was slaughtered by the Tartars along with his army at Sajó river on April 11, 1241, thus allowing the Bosnian Ban, prince of Split Matej Ninoslav to regain control of all Bosnia. With the death of the Great Khan, the Tartars returned to Karakorum, pillaging along the way. They circumnavigated Bosnia, so its leaders had time to reassert power without interference or outside threat.
Late Middle Ages
Kingdom of Bosnia
In the 1280s a minor noble from northern Bosnia named Stephan Kotroman married the daughter of Stefan Dragutin, son-in-law to the King of Hungary. The ruler of Mačva gained control of northern Bosnia, under the supervision of the Croatian Šubić family who were eventually ousted from power during a war with Venice over the town of Zadar. His son, Stjepan II Kotromanić became Ban of Bosnia in 1322. He took parts of Croatia and the Dalmatian coast between his ascension and 1326, when he annexed Hum. He signed peace treaties with Ragusa in 1334 and Venice in 1335. He died in 1353 and his nephew, Stephen Tvrtko, succeeded him at age 15. Stjepan II had not properly consolidated his banate, so when he died, his state fractured as the nobles felt no obligation to young Tvrtko I. Just before Kotromanić died, he had married his daughter, Elizabeth, to Louis, King of Hungary, which gave Louis the excuse to demand the rich lands of Hum from Tvrtko. Having no real support from his nobles, Tvrtko submitted to the King's demands and in 1357, Hungary regained its territory in Hum. In 1363, war broke out between the two kings. Louis invaded the northern provinces, which were divided in loyalty between the two kings. An ally of Tvrtko, Vukac Hrvatinić defended Sokograd and a month later, repelled a second invasion at Srebrnik in Usora. In 1366, his nobles expelled him and Tvrtko fled to the court of Hungary, which surprisingly accepted him. The revolting nobles plopped Tvrtko's brother, Vuk, on the throne. Tvrtko was soon back in Bosnia with troops from Hungary to take back his realm, and by the end of the year Vuk was exiled and Tvrtko was back on the throne. After the death of Stefan Dušan and the collapse of his Serbian empire, competing factions tried to carve their own chunks of territory from it. Lazar Hrebljanović received troops from Tvrtko, and thus gave some of the spoils and land to him. In 1377 Tvrtko I crowned himself King of Bosnia.
In 1388 an Ottoman raiding party was wiped out in Hum by a local noble named Vlatko Vuković, who was later sent along with a Bosnian army to help Lazar at the Battle of Kosovo Polje. After Tvrtko's death in 1391, the kingship was severely weakened by local nobles vying for power, though the kingdom did not splinter. In 1404 King Ostoja was ousted by the nobles and replaced by the illegitimate son of Tvrtko, Tvrtko II. Ostoja returned with a Hungarian army and retook part of the country, and for ten years slowly regained authority in Bosnia. In 1414 the Ottomans declared the ousted Tvrtko II the rightful king of Bosnia and invaded. A year later, the Ottomans won a decisive battle against the Hungarian and Bosnian forces under Ostoja with the aid of a powerful Bosnian nobleman called Hrvoje. They agreed to keep Ostoja on the throne, but the king of Bosnia would never again be outside of the Turkish sphere of influence. In 1418 Ostoja died and his son was exiled two years later by Tvrtko II. War over the mining district of Srebrenica.
Between 1433 and 1435 southern parts of central Bosnia was taken from the Hungarians by the Turks with the help of Stephen Vulkčić, Sandalj's nephew and lord of Hum. Turks seized Srebrenica in 1440. Tvrtko II died in 1443. Three year civil war between Stephen Vukčić and Tvrtko II's successor, Stephen Tomaš. War ended when they came to an agreement but Vukčić still supported the Serbian ruler George Brancović, a semi independent vassal of the Ottoman Turks who was contesting the Bosnian king for Srebrenica. In the early 1450s Vukčić became embroiled in a civil war with Ragusa and his eldest son. 1461, Stephen Tomaš died and his son Stephan Tomašević ascended to the throne. He quickly asked Pope Pius II for help, and again in 1463 against the looming threat of Ottoman invasion. No help came, and Mehmet the Conqueror's invading army took the stronghold of Bobovac. Stephan Tomašević fled north to Jajce and then to the nearby fortress of Ključ where he was besieged, captured, and beheaded. The main Ottoman army withdrew in the fall of that year, only leaving scant garrisons to guard what they had conquered. King Matthias of Hungary then invaded and took parts of northern and northwestern Bosnia by besieging and taking both Jajce and the nearby fortress of Zvečaj. Matthias created a Bannate loyal to him and renamed the Ban, King of Bosnia in 1471. The kingdom's territory was soon smashed to almost nothing by the returning Turks. In 1526, the Turks obliterated the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohács and year later took Jajce, finally crushing the last hold out of Hungary in Bosnia. Vulkčić reclaimed his kingdom after the Turks withdrew, but lost it again two years later, staking out in the port town of Novi, where he died in 1466. He was succeeded by his son Vlatko who tried to gain help from Venice and Hungary but to no avail. The last fortress in Hum was taken in 1482.
Medieval sites
Trading centers
Drijeva
Podvisoki, 14th-15th c.
Doboj
Foča (at the time "Hoča"'')
Fortifications
Blagaj Fort, 10th–15th c.
Bobovac, 14th–15th c.
Borač, 15th c.
Bužim Fort, 12th–15th c.
Doboj Fortress, 13th–15th c.
Glamoč Fortress, 14th c.–?
Hodidjed, –15th c.
Jajce Fortress, 14th c.–?
Komotin Fort, 14th c.–?
Maglaj Fortress, 14th c.–?
Visoko, 14th c.–1503
Srebrenik Fortress, 14th c.–?
Zvornik Fortress, 13th c.–?
Religious buildings
Places of worship built before Ottoman conquest of medieval Bosnian Kingdom and abolition of the state in 1463.
Orthodox
Dobrićevo Monastery
Dobrun Monastery
Sase Monastery
Catholic
Kraljeva Sutjeska Monastery
St. Mary's Church
St. Nikola Church (ruins)
Islamic
Fethija (1266/1592)
Emperor's Mosque (1457)
Mehmed II Fatih Mosque in Kraljeva Sutjeska (1463)
Šerefudin's White Mosque (1477/1980)
Dživar Mosque, Trebinje (1512)
Sultan-Sulejmanova Mosque, Blagaj (1520)
Muslihudin Čekrekčija Mosque (1526)
See also
Bosnian Cyrillic
Stećak
Bosnian Church
References
Sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
External links
* | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%20in%20the%20Middle%20Ages |
The 1990–91 Yugoslav First League season was the 45th season of the First Federal League (), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. The title was won by Red Star Belgrade, the club's 18th in its history. It also turned out to be the last season in which teams from SR Croatia and SR Slovenia participated. In 1991, these states left Yugoslavia and created their respective leagues.
Two points were awarded for a win, while the tied matches were decided by a penalty shootout with the winner getting a point.
Incidents
Ethnically motivated violent pitch invasion
The season featured a huge politically and ethnically motivated incident during the Hajduk Split vs. FK Partizan tie on Wednesday, 26 September 1990 at Poljud Stadium, when a mob of hardcore Hajduk fans invaded the pitch during second half in an attempt to lynch Partizan players. All of the Partizan players managed to run away into the dressing room, thus escaping unharmed. While chanting anti-Serb slogans, the violent mob then set fire to the Yugoslav flag that was displayed on the stadium's official mast. They then proceeded to raise the Croatian chequerboard flag (at the time not in official use and thus considered a Croatian nationalist symbol). At the moment of the incident, Partizan was leading 0-2 courtesy of a Milan Đurđević brace. The match was never resumed and eventually registered 0–3 in Partizan's favour.
Eternal derby: Red Star v. Partizan incidents
On Saturday, 27 April 1991, only three days after making the European Cup final by advancing against favoured Bayern Munich via managing a hard-fought home draw in the famous emotional rollercoaster semifinal return leg in front of 90,000 fans, league leaders Red Star hosted their heated cross-town rival FK Partizan in the 88th league edition of the Eternal derby. Following an entertaining first half played in front of some 35,000 spectators, at the end of which Red Star led 3–1, the match was halted for 10 minutes at the beginning of the second half due to FK Partizan ultras, the Grobari, rioting in the Marakana stadium's south stand by pelting the pitch and athletic track with construction material found in front of the stand.
The match play resumed before being interrupted several more times throughout the second half due to Partizan ultras continuing to riot despite increased police presence around the south stand and even, at one point, pleas of the team's striker Predrag Mijatović sent by the head coach Miloš Milutinović in an attempt of calming them. The match ended 3-1 for Red Star.
Dinamo v. Red Star match-fixing allegations
On Saturday, 18 May 1991, Dinamo Zagreb hosted champions-elect Red Star Belgrade at Maksimir Stadium. The match was of no competitive importance since Red Star had already clinched the league title as it prepared to travel to Bari for the European Cup Final some ten days later while Dinamo had cemented its hold on the second place that ensured a UEFA Cup spot. However, the match still carried a degree of tension due to pitting a marquee Croatian side versus a marquee Serbian at a time when ethnic conflicts, some of them deadly, had started taking place in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season's Dinamo–Red Star riot in the stands, with that match being called off.
This time the match began as scheduled and finished without interruption with Red Star going 0–2 in front before Dinamo mounted a spirited come-back for a 3–2 win at full time. However, more than 20 years later, allegations appeared that the contest had been fixed via confessions from two of the match's protagonists.
Speaking to Globus magazine in September 2012, Robert Prosinečki, Red Star midfielder back in 1991, said his team "let Dinamo win that day".
Prompted by Prosinečki's claims, Ljupko Petrović, Red Star's head coach in 1991, expanded: "We didn't lose that match by arranging with someone from Dinamo beforehand to let them win. No. We were simply forced into losing by the political circles that wanted to ensure Dinamo's win that day. The war had practically already begun, Croatia was about to declare independence, and the match was taking place only a year after the previous incident when Zvonimir Boban assaulted a policeman—our first away match versus Dinamo since then. I remember Franjo Tuđman being at the match and watching it from the luxury box with his cronies and the overall atmosphere within the stadium being extremely hostile such that no result but Dinamo's win was going to be acceptable. We got up 0-2, but towards the end of the first half Dinamo got a penalty on a scandalous and very obvious dive by Davor Šuker. Later, they managed to tie the score. At halftime I protested vehemently with the referee, a Montenegrin guy whose name I can't recall at the moment, and from what he told me it was apparent between the lines that it had already been decided we had to lose that match for political reasons. Because Tuđman is sitting in the stands and because he doesn't want a Serbian team winning in the middle of Zagreb right in front of his eyes at a time when he's creating an independent state. I got thrown out of the match, we conceded once more, we lost the match and that's the whole story".
League table
Results
Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.
Winning squad
Top scorers
See also
1990–91 Yugoslav Second League
1990–91 Yugoslav Cup
Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot
References
External links
RSSSF
Yugoslavian First Division 1990-91; by Jonathan Wilson, WSC, July 2007
Yugoslav First League seasons
Yugo
1990–91 in Yugoslav football | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20Yugoslav%20First%20League |
New York State Route 85 (NY 85) is a state highway in Albany County, New York, in the United States. It is in length and runs from CR 353 in Rensselaerville to Interstate 90 (I-90) exit 4 in Albany. It also has a loop route, NY 85A, which connects NY 85 to the village of Voorheesville. The portion of NY 85 north of NY 140 to the Bethlehem–Albany town/city line is known as the Slingerlands Bypass. From there north to I-90, the road is a limited-access, four-lane highway named the Crosstown Arterial.
Route description
NY 85 begins at the north end of the County Route 353 (CR 353; Delaware Turnpike) bridge over the Ten Mile Creek in the hamlet of Rensselaerville. In the center of the hamlet, NY 85 turns north at the intersection with CR 351 (Medusa Road), NY 85 proceeds northward along Delaware Turnpike, a two-lane residential road through the town of Rensselaerville. The route soon becomes a woods road, turning east and passing the southern terminus of CR 6. NY 85 bends northeast through Rensselaerville, crossing through valleys until Stevens Road, where it bends southeast and soon east into the town of Westerlo. Still known as Delaware Turnpike, NY 85 continues east through the valleys past a junction with CR 408.
East of CR 408, NY 85 winds south of Onderdonk Lake, soon crossing a junction with CR 1 (Switzkill Road). Bending northward through Westerlo, NY 85 remains a two-lane rural road, soon reaching a junction with the western terminus of NY 143. NY 85 continues northeast from NY 143, becoming more residential as it approaches a junction with CR 14 (Joslyn School Road). Crossing into the town of Berne, NY 85 meets a junction with CR 11 (Cass Hill Road) west of the hamlet of Reidsville. The route then bends northward at this junction, bypassing the hamlet and soon reaching the northern terminus of CR 11 (North Road) nearby.
After CR 11, NY 85 continues northward through Berne, bending northeast into a junction with NY 443 (Helderberg Trail). NY 443 and NY 85 become concurrent, proceeding eastward and south of Helderberg Lake as Delaware Turnpike. NY 85 and NY 443 continue winding eastward, crossing into the town of New Scotland, crossing through the Letter-S, a hill named for a former S-bend alignment of Route 85 that is preserved in two town roads of similar names. Climbing down the hill, the routes bend southward, reaching a junction with New Scotland Road. At this junction, NY 443 continues southeast on Delaware Turnpike while NY 85 turns east on New Scotland. Still a two-lane road through New Scotland, NY 85 passes multiple residences before making a large curve to the north.
The route bends northeast and enters the area of New Salem Hill, where it intersects with the eastern terminus of NY 157 (Thacher Park Road). Continuing north, NY 85 soon bends southeast and enters the hamlet of New Salem, where it intersects with the western terminus of NY 85A (New Salem Road). Through New Salem, NY 85 is a two-lane residential street, soon leaving the hamlet after Mountain View Estates Road. Running northeast through New Scotland, NY 85 remains a two-lane residential road, crossing under CSX railroad tracks before reaching the hamlet of New Scotland. The route runs northeast through the hamlet, becoming a two-lane residential and commercial mix and intersects with CR 308 (New Scotland South Road).
NY 85 quickly crosses the eastern terminus of NY 85A (Maple Road), bending southeast through New Scotland. Leaving the namesake hamlet, NY 85 continues southeast until reaching the town of Bethlehem. Through Bethlehem, NY 85 reaches the hamlet of Slingerlands, becoming a two-lane residential street and crossing the eastern terminus of CR 306 (Font Grove Road). Passing a junction with Kenwood Avenue, NY 85 crosses through the commercial center of Slingerlands, soon turning northeast into another residential portion of Slingerlands. Near the northern end of the hamlet, the route enters a roundabout with NY 140 (Cherry Avenue Extension) and New Scotland Road (former NY 910E).
NY 85 turns northwest at the roundabout, bending into another one with Vista Boulevard. Continuing northeast, NY 85 reaches a third roundabout with Maher Road (former NY 915L), which connects to New Scotland Road and the hamlet of Karlsfeld. After crossing another roundabout, this time with Blessing Road, NY 85 crosses through the Normanskill section of Bethlehem, crossing over the New York State Thruway (I-87). Just after the overpass, NY 85 widens from a two lane road to a four lane divided controlled-access highway, crossing into the city of Albany and passing a ramp for Krumkill Road. Crossing over Buckingham Road, NY 85 interchanges with the local street, soon reaching an interchange with Cortland Street, which connects to US 20 (Western Avenue).
Almost immediately after US 20, NY 85 continues past another interchange, serving Washington Avenue and the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus. Just north of this interchange, Route 85 ends at trumpet interchange with I-90.
History
Origins
The path of modern NY 85 west of Slingerlands roughly follows that of the Albany, Rensselaerville, and Schoharie Plank Road, a plank road established to connect the city of Albany with the town of Schoharie by way of passing through Rensselaerville. The Albany, Schoharie, and Rensselaerville Plank Road Company was organized on October 10, 1849, with Lansing Pruyn as president. On March 25, 1850, the company was given a 30-year charter; and the road from Lydius Street in Albany (today Madison Avenue) to the hamlet of New Salem—now New Scotland Avenue in the city of Albany and New Scotland Road in Bethlehem and New Scotland—and the portion of the road from Bernville to Gallupville were planked with wooden boards. Portions of the plank road were already long established roads, such as the Beaverdam (or Beaver Dam) Road in western Albany County near New Salem, which had already existed for quite some time prior to moving to an easier grade around New Salem in 1806. The plank road/turnpike spurred the development of many places along its path, such as a hotel at what would evolve into the hamlet of Hurstville and a post office at what would become the hamlet of Slingerlands.
In 1854 the state authorized the fiscally unsound plank road company to abandon or sell portions of the road and to turn other sections into a turnpike and charge tolls. The section from New Salem east to the hamlet of New Scotland subsequently had its planks removed and the portion from Bernville to Gallupville was also abandoned. In 1881 the charter was renewed for another 30 years. In 1896 the turnpike company opposed the construction of a railroad that would have been in direct competition to the turnpike from Albany to Schoharie.
Designation
In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 7, an unsigned legislative route extending from Binghamton to Albany via Oneonta and Schoharie. Route 7 entered the town of New Scotland on what is now NY 157 and followed it to its eastern end at modern NY 85. At this point, the route turned onto the old Albany–Schoharie plank road and continued east to Albany on New Scotland Road and New Scotland Avenue. The section of legislative Route 7 east of modern NY 157 was not assigned a posted designation until the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York when it became part of NY 85, which initially extended from NY 81 in the hamlet of Oak Hill in the town of Durham to US 20 in Albany.
When it was first assigned, the route followed Makley and Siebert Roads north from Oak Hill to Medusa, then continued northeast to Westerlo on CR 351, CR 402, CR 404, and CR 401. Past Westerlo, NY 85 was routed on what is now NY 143 to the Delaware Turnpike near Reidsville, where it joined its current alignment. Northeast of Slingerlands, NY 85 followed New Scotland Avenue into downtown Albany, where it terminated at US 20. The portion of the route between Medusa and Reidsville was realigned to serve the hamlet of Rensselaerville. Instead of heading east from Medusa, NY 85 was rerouted to follow CR 352, CR 360, CR 359, and CR 353 north to Rensselaerville, where it met its modern routing. NY 85 was truncated to Rensselaerville .
Construction on the Slingerlands Bypass, a new highway bypassing the hamlet of Slingerlands, began in the early 1960s. The first section of the bypass from Washington Avenue to Buckingham Drive (the Krumkill Road exit) was completed by 1964. The remainder of the highway was open by 1968 as a realignment of NY 85. Between Blessing Road and the Albany city line, the bypass was constructed as a two-lane highway. This section was originally planned to be four lanes wide as well, but was constructed with only two lanes due to community activism by an anti-sprawl group known as the Bethlehem Lincoln Republicans in the early 1960s. The old alignment of NY 85 along New Scotland Road from where NY 85 turns onto the bypass to the Albany city line (a distance of as of 2008) was designated as NY 910E, an unsigned reference route.
A four-lane extension of the bypass was constructed in 2007 between NY 140 and Maher Road. Four roundabouts were built, the southernmost where NY 85 currently meets NY 140 at Cherry Avenue Extension. After the roadway opened to traffic on November 7, 2007, NY 85 was rerouted onto the newly constructed portion of the bypass while the section of New Scotland Road between NY 140 and Maher Road became part of an extended NY 910E. The new highway, four lanes divided, meets the existing highway portion of the bypass at the same Maher Road (NY 915L), at the third roundabout. Between 2017 and 2018, NY 910E and NY 915L were decommissioned.
NY 85 was once proposed to be extended to the unbuilt I-687.
Major intersections
Suffixed Route
NY 85A () is an alternate route of NY 85 in New Scotland, accessing Voorheesville. It was assigned .
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
Capital Highways – New York 85
085
Transportation in Albany County, New York
Limited-access roads in New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%2085 |
Anthon () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.
Geography
Anthon stands on the left bank of the river Rhône opposite its confluence with the Ain, about 30 kilometres upstream from the centre of Lyon. Its inhabitants are Anthonois.
History
The place was originally established as a town by one Antonius Nepos. The only one we have named in Roman history was the fellow consul of Cicero in 62 BCE. He was Caius Antonius Nepos, uncle of the triumvir Marcus Antonius and second son of Marcus Antonius Orator.
Caius Antonius Nepos was condemned for misappropriation of public funds and exiled in 59 BCE. He found refuge in Cephellenia according to some and in Gaul according to others. We might assume therefore that Anthon was the place.
A poem of about 450 CE, by Sidonius Apollinaris celebrates the wines of Anthon.
The Lords of Anthon have been from time immemorial, the tenants of this land. Nowhere in the period of Charlemagne's empire, nor in those around that period is there an indication of their having obtained it. We are therefore left to conclude that they have held the land since Antiquity.
Guichard I brought fame on himself during the First Crusade in 1096. His distant descendant, Louis d'Anthon disappeared in 1326; the manor was awarded to his younger sister, who ceded it to her aunt, spouse of Hugues de Genève.
It passed next to the Saluces. The d'Anthons had as a coat of arms (blazon): "gules, dragon or with human head."
The d'Anthon family survived some time through a cadet branch, the Varaxs which died out in the fifteenth century. The descent of Louis d'Anthon is not known. Several branches of the d'Anthons or Dantons claim descent from him.
There was also the "Battle of Anthon" which took place on 11 June 1430. Louis de Chalon, strengthened by his impressive numerical superiority with his 4 000 men, calmly advanced to the aid of the château de Colombier but he did not know that it had already been captured. He set out on the way from Anton to Colombier which winds through the woods but there were 1,600 soldiers from the Dauphiné (that is to say his enemies) lying in ambush in the thickets near the village of Janneyrias.
The Orangist (supporting the House of Orange), strung out along the narrow path, was sorely surprised throughout. The powerful Orangist cavalry was caught in a trap. Soon, there was general confusion and they were heading for Anthon; every man for himself. The fugitives abandoned arms and baggage and ran away through the wood. More than 200 men drowned themselves in trying to cross the tumultuous Rhône. That is how the 'Battle of Anthon' ended, with the Dauphiné saved.
Administration
Population
Sights
Ancient tower
19th century church
Personalities
Caius Antonius Nepos
See also
Communes of the Isère département
Georges Danton
References
External links
Anthon on the Quid site
Communes of Isère
Dauphiné | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon%2C%20Is%C3%A8re |
Mephiskapheles is a ska band based in New York City. Their name is a portmanteau of "ska" and "Mephistopheles", of the Faust legend. As their name suggests, their lyrics are often playfully satanic in nature.
Career
1989–1994: Formation and early years
The band began when New York hardcore band The Shaved Pigs split up, and guitarist Brendan Tween and his roommate (drummer) Mikal Reich, both residents of New York City's East Village, decided to start a ska band. Over the next year, and after recruiting several friends, including keyboardist Brian "Underpants" Martin, the band was formed under the name Skatterbrains. It was changed to Mephiskapheles once the band realized that another band had already taken the name. And, named by Reich, when the founders found a new "lower calling." Birthing the world's first Satanic Ska band.
On January 3, 1991, the band played its first show at Ugo's, a bar in Locust Valley, NY. After a lineup shuffle that saw Andre A. Worrell (as The Nubian Nightmare) emerge as lead singer and frontman, the band recorded its 4-song debut, released only as cassette tape, titled The DEMOn. The tape contained the songs, Doomsday, Eskamoes, Dansmenot, and a cover of the ska classic, Shame & Scandal. The cassette became a pre-viral, viral hit, played on many ska, punk and college radio stations. The song Doomsday had also been widely heard on television in New York as the soundtrack to a fitness-center commercial.
In summer 1991, trombonist Greg Robinson joined alto saxophonist Alexander McCabe and trumpeter Osho Endo in the horn section, completing the section that would tour and record for the next six years. The band continued to play live, winning the Brooklyn Lager Band Search in the World Beat category in 1992 and building a devoted fan base throughout the Northeast by performing frequently at colleges and bars. In 1993, bass player Michael Bitz joined, replacing Vattel Cherry, who had taken over from original bassist Victor Rice soon after Mephiskapheles got started, in early 1991. Cherry left to tour with avant-garde saxophonist Charles Gayle.
In late 1994, Mephiskapheles released its debut album, God Bless Satan, produced by Bill Laswell and Robert Musso. Which, in 2022, Brooklyn Vegan named, “Top 64 Essential Ska Albums, 1964 - Present". Originally released on the band's own label Pass The Virgin, it saw wider release after being licensed by Moon Ska Records for national distribution starting in 1995. A video the band produced for the song "Doomsday" began receiving airplay on MTV around this time. Mephiskapheles was among the bands that regularly attracted capacity crowds to Wetlands during the New York City nightclub's golden era in the mid-1990s. Other New York City clubs where Mephiskapheles headlined during its 1990s rise included S.O.B.'s, New Frontier, New Music Café, The Cooler, Tramps, Palladium, Bond Street, Cat Club, Lone Star Café, Don Hill's, West End Gate, Pyramid Club, Kenny's Castaways, Café Wha?, Nightengales, and Tilt.
1995–2001: Tours and break-up
After completing its first cross-country tour in 1995, Mephiskapheles toured extensively through the U.S. and Europe in 1996, including a triumphant trip to Honolulu, Hawaii to celebrate a string of three hit singles on the Hawaiian Island Charts: "Doomsday," "Saba," and "Bumble Bee Tuna." Mephiskapheles began playing frequent shows with the Blue Meanies, from Chicago, and Inspecter 7, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, during this time. Soon after Mephiskapheles' first European tour, in late 1996, drummer and creative force in the early phase, Mikal Reich, left the band to pursue a career outside of music. He was replaced by Wayne Dunton who recorded on the band's 1997 album, Maximum Perversion, and all subsequent releases. With support from Moon Ska Records, a video was filmed for the track "Break Your Ankle Punk" which featured hip-hop DJ Lyvio G.
As the band's profile continued to rise, the band embarked on a national tour with British pop-punk icons the Buzzcocks in the spring of 1997. McCabe, one of Mephiskapheles' main composers during the fertile mid-1990s period, had ceased touring with the band prior to the recording of Maximum Perversion, the band on the road opting for a two-piece section with Endo and Robinson. However, McCabe, Endo, and Robinson were reunited when they recorded on Moby's version of John Barry's "James Bond Theme" for the soundtrack of the film Tomorrow Never Dies. In its various remixes, "James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)" became a hit in several countries, and was included on Moby's greatest-hits albums I Like to Score and Go - The Very Best of Moby. In late 1998, Mephiskapheles shocked some fans' sensibilities when they toured the U.S. opening for heavy-metal shock rockers Gwar.
By 1999, the band had gone through a major lineup change with Tween, Bitz, and Endo all leaving the band, for various reasons. New members, bassist Dan Jeselsohn, guitarists Bill McKinney and Dave Hahn and saxophonist Ian Hendrickson-Smith were brought in to record an album, Might-Ay White-Ay, that fused reggae, hardcore, and metal with some straight-ahead ska included. Longtime Skatalites trumpeter Nathan Breedlove played on the album, but he did not tour with Mephiskapheles. After continuing to play live performances for two more years, the band stopped playing shows without any official announcement of a breakup.
After Mephiskapheles, Worrell, McKinney, Robinson, and Bitz played in the band Skull-A-Ball. Robinson played guitar in this project. The band self-released three songs on CD and played several shows before disbanding. Worrell also appeared with Bitz and Jeselsohn in the band Burn Guitars. The band featured three bass players, a drummer, and no guitars. This band also played numerous shows but disbanded after recording one demo. A third band, named Tirade, spun off from Mephiskapheles and featured McKinney, Jeselsohn, and future Joan Jett drummer Michael McDermott, performing more heavy metal-based material. This band also recorded one demo.
2012–present: Reformation
In spring of 2012, Tween and Worrell led separate Mephiskapheles reunion shows. Worrell's lineup resurrected the 8 Iron Men-era band of 2000-01, and consisted of Worrell, Dunton, Hahn, McKinney, Jeselsohn, and Robinson, plus saxophonists Bourbon Zeigler Jr., who had toured with Mephiskapheles in the late 1990s, and Neil Johnson, who the band knew from his having been a member of The Planet Smashers and The Toasters. Tween's group, Doomsday: The Ultimate Mephiskapheles Tribute, boasted a lineup of Tween, Reich, Jeselsohn, Endo, Robinson, and McCabe, plus keyboardist Jerica Rosenblum, and performed one night in April 2012, thrilling the small crowd in an Upper West Side bar with a recital of Mephiskapheles classics. Subsequent "Doomsday" shows have included Tween, Reich, and Rosenblum with new members, and have featured other music besides Mephiskapheles songs.
Since regrouping, Mephiskapheles has continued to stay active both on tour and in the studio. Notable appearances in 2013 included featured sets at the Apple Stomp ska festival in New York and at Riot Fest in Chicago, where the band preceded T.S.O.L., Rancid, and Blink-182 on the Riot Stage. Bassist Michael Bitz returned to the band in 2013, replacing Jeselsohn who left to focus on the Brooklyn Attractors, a band he cofounded with members of Westbound Train. Guitarist Bill McKinney also departed the band in 2013, going on to found The West Kensingtons, a Philadelphia-based ska band with former members of Inspecter 7. Mephiskapheles rounded out an eventful year with gigs in support of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the Bouncing Souls, in addition to being the headliner for several shows.
In late 2013, founding keyboardist Brian Martin rejoined Mephiskapheles. The band played in Honolulu in February 2014 and also made tours through the Southeast and Midwest. Mephiskapheles entered the recording studio in mid-2014 to begin recording its fourth album, a self-titled EP featuring music composed by Hahn, Bitz, Worrell, and Robinson, with lyrics by Worrell. The band was joined in the studio and subsequently onstage by former Burning Spear trumpet player James K. Smith. Highlights of 2014 also included a sold-out show at Irving Plaza with British punk band the Anti-Nowhere League and the Cro-Mags. Mephiskapheles finished 2014 with a holiday tour supporting the Slackers.
Mephiskapheles played several Northeast dates in early 2015 before travelling to Denver, Colorado to perform along with Hepcat at Skalorado Fest. In April 2015, Mephiskapheles recorded two new songs as part of the Converse Rubber Tracks project, at Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn. In June, Mephiskapheles released its eponymous EP, the first new Mephiskapheles music in 16 years, on Meph Records, in 12-inch vinyl and online digital formats. The EP was produced by Mephiskapheles, mixed by Gabe Kirchheimer, and mastered by Stephen Egerton, and can be downloaded from the band's Bandcamp page. Mephiskapheles also made successful headlining tours to the Midwest and Florida, in 2015, as well as hosting its annual Devil's Night party (i.e., the night before Halloween) at the Mercury Lounge in New York. A handful of shows supporting the Voodoo Glow Skulls filled out a busy and productive year.
Saxophonists Neil Johnson and Bourbon Zeigler had both left the band by early 2016, clearing the way for their longtime sub, tenor saxophonist Fernando Leon to join. Leon also played on the band's 2015 EP but was not credited. Mephiskapheles continued to share the stage with established punk and ska-punk bands in 2016, making separate East Coast runs with Less Than Jake and NOFX in the early part of the year. After Meph Records released a promotional video for the song "Friends Like You", in April, the band announced work was ongoing on another video, for the song "Satan Stole My Weed". Returning from a well-received tour of Texas, in May, Mephiskapheles headlined in Asbury Park, New Jersey as part of the Punk Rock Bowling & Music festival in June 2016. Later that month, Mephiskapheles traveled to Montreal and played in support of legendary British glam rockers The Adicts at the official after-party for the Amnesia Rockfest.
After a frantic five years of activity since regrouping, Mephiskapheles slowed the pace slightly in 2017, playing several shows, occasionally venturing off the Atlantic seaboard such as to play a series of shows in the Midwest with Mustard Plug. God Bless Satan was released in a limited edition on cassette for Cassette Store Day by Jump Up in September. The sixth annual Mephiskapheles Devil's Night Danse was held in late October in two locations, at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park and the Bowery Electric in New York. Jump Up released a 20th-anniversary colored vinyl LP edition of Maximum Perversion to mark the occasion. In November, Mephiskapheles made its first-ever tour to Central America, playing successful shows in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Santa Tecla, El Salvador.
Discography
The DEMOn (cassette 1991; reissued vinyl 2013 Jump Up Records)
God Bless Satan (1994 Moon Ska Records; reissued online 2010; reissued vinyl 2013 Jump Up Records; reissued cassette 2017 Jump Up Records)
Maximum Perversion (1997 Moon Ska Records CD; reissued online 2013; reissued vinyl 2017 Jump Up Records)
Might-ay White-ay (1999, Koch Records)
Mephiskapheles EP (2015, Meph Records)
Never Born Again EP (2019, Meph Records)
References
Third-wave ska groups
American ska musical groups
American ska punk musical groups
Musical groups from New York City
Musical groups established in 1990
Musicians from New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephiskapheles |
Between the Heart and the Synapse is the debut studio album by American post-hardcore band the Receiving End of Sirens. It was released on April 16, 2005 via Triple Crown Records. The band signed to Triple Crown in October 2004, and began recording with producer Matt Squire later that month. Between the Heart and the Synapse uses elements of metal, progressive rock, and electronica, and has been compared to the works of Coheed and Cambria, Tool, and The Mars Volta.
Between the Heart and the Synapse received generally positive reviews from music critics, with particular compliments going towards the vocal harmonies and melding of genres, but it received some criticism for an overambitious runtime. It is the only release by The Receiving End of Sirens to feature Casey Crescenzo, who joined the band in January 2004, replacing Ben Potrykus, and left in May 2006. Following his departure, Cody Bonnette of As Cities Burn and Brian Southall of Boys Night Out filled Crescenzo's role on tour.
Background
Bassist Brendan Brown and guitarist Alex Bars formed The Receiving End of Sirens during their first year of college at Northeastern University in 2003. The pair, who first started playing music together in their high school band Settle for Nothing, soon brought in guitarist Nate Patterson, drummer Andrew Cook, and vocalist Ben Potrykus. They played their first show together in March of that year, and embarked on a brief tour with Hidden in Plain View in August. As the band's success increased, Cook, Brown, and Bars elected not to continue their studies.
In November 2003, Potrykus, uncomfortable with signing to major label Atlantic Records and with the prospect of abandoning his studies at Emerson College, left the band, and Casey Crescenzo was hired as his replacement in January 2004. In October, the band signed to independent label Triple Crown Records to record their debut full-length record, set to be released between March and April 2005.
Composition
Overview
Between the Heart and the Synapse has been described as a post-hardcore release, incorporating elements of punk rock, metal, progressive rock, and electronica, and earning the band comparisons to Coheed and Cambria, Tool, Refused, The Mars Volta, and The Artist in the Ambulance (2003)-era Thrice. Rather than following the verse–chorus form, the band prefers songs with free form structures, with the notable exception of "Planning a Prison Break." The use of multiple vocalists and guitarists allows The Receiving End of sirens to create three-part harmonies and riffs, occasionally supplemented by Crescenzo's screaming.
The band also incorporated programming, vocal manipulation, and programmed drums into the album, using clips of ambient electronic sounds. The studio in which Between the Heart and the Synapse was recorded was connected to a room where an orchestra was recording, and Crescenzo said in a 2013 interview with Alternative Press that he "had a backdoor to that room," and "bootlegged everything they were doing" to turn it into samples.
The album's title is taken from a line in the track "This Armistice." Brown has said that the album explores internal battles between the heart and the mind, and between the real and ideal self. The lyrics, predominantly written by Brown and Crescenzo, with some help from Cook, use wordplay and alliteration to tackle the themes of love, prison break, war, masturbation, the departure of Potrykus, and the tale of Romeo and Juliet. Members of Lux Courageous and Driving Silence contribute guest vocals to "Planning a Prison Break," "This Armistice," and "Epilogue," while Anthony Green of Circa Survive provided guest vocals on "Flee the Factory" and "Epilogue."
Tracks
Crescenzo sings the verse sections on "Planning a Prison Break," with Brown handling the first chorus, and Bars the second. All three sing the refrain, "This is the last night in my body," which is used as a motif throughout the album. Brown has said that the line is about being "unsatisfied with how I am living and vowing to my self to never just settle or accept the way I am living." "Planning a Prison Break," as well as parts of "This Armistice," were written while Potrykus was a member of the band, and were re-worked with Crescenzo. "The Rival Cycle" utilized electronic sounds following the song's breakdown, and features two different chorus sections being sung simultaneously. The pop punk-indebted "The Evidence" is followed by "The War of All Against All," which opens with a tribal drum pattern before shifting to a chorus section of changing rhythms that crescendo to the end.
The background chorus, guitar octaves, and slow percussion at the end of "The War of All Against All" provide a clean segue into "... Then I Defy You, Stars," which is in turn followed by the piano-driven, slow-building track "Intermission," and the hard rock number "This Armistice." "Broadcast Quality" begins with pop punk melodies before shifting into a breakdown and ending with a choral-esque vocal performance. The up-tempo piano track "Flee the Factory" ends in a jazzy interlude that segues into the opening synthesizer riff of "Dead Men Tell No Tales." Brown said that "Dead Men" was written about Potrykus, and that after he left, the band were "all really scared and felta s though we had dropped everything for this and now it was gone." The penultimate track, "Verona," was likened to Thrice, and is followed by the 13-minute closing post-rock track "Epilogue," which features a hidden track.
Release
The band began 2005 on a US tour with As Tall as Lions and Cartel. Between the Heart and the Synapse was released on April 26, 2005 via Triple Crown Records. To promote the album, the band went on a US headlining tour in April and May, including an appearance at the Flipside Festival. This was followed by a three-week stint in May and June with Gatsbys American Dream and the Rocket Summer, and two shows at the Vans Warped Tour. After Warped Tour, the band joined Acceptance, Cartel, and Panic! at the Disco on the Take Cover tour in September and October. In November, they toured with Alexisonfire, and later played a few shows with Saves the Day and Senses Fail.
A music video for "Planning a Prison Break," was posted online on September 20, 2005. This was followed by a video for "This Armistice," which was filmed in February 2006 in Somers, Connecticut. Crescenzo directed the video for "This Armistice," and Brown called his former school principal, who in turn contacted the Recreation Department, to get permission to film in Somers. The video, which debuted on MTV2 and MTVu in April, depicted Adrian Amodeo, the band's manager, walking through a series of doors before passing through the final one, where the band is performing for a crowd of students.
After filming the "This Armistice" video, the band performed on the 2006 Taste of Chaos tour. In March 2006, Bars fell down a flight of stairs, where he suffered a scapular fracture, three fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and damaged vertebrae. In spite of this, the band chose not to cancel their spring headlining tour, with support from A Thorn for Every Heart, As Tall as Lions, the Blackout Pact, Yesterdays Rising, My American Heart, I am the Avalanche, and Hit the Lights. In May 2006, they played at The Bamboozle festival in New Jersey.
On May 21, 2006, Crescenzo left the band, citing "many factors, personal and creative." He was temporarily replaced by a friend, with Brown and Bars handling vocal duties for the remainder of the year. Over the summer, the band supported Boys Night Out on their headlining Canadian tour and Circa Survive on their US headlining tour. Following this, they toured the UK with Fightstar, and performed on the MTV2 Dollar Bill Tour in October and November. Cody Bonnette of As Cities Burn filled Crescenzo's role for three months, and was replaced by Brian Southall of Boys Night Out, formerly the band's touring manager. A music video for "The Evidence" was released on January 22, 2007. Between the Heart and the Synapse was released on vinyl in 2010, with a bonus track titled "Weightless Underwater" and new artwork from Matt Adams, who was inspired by the original while he was in college.
Reception
Between the Heart and the Synapse was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. Sputnikmusic staff member Rowan5215 found it difficult to "nail down just what makes [it] such a goddamn great record," and praised the "amazingly co-ordinated and fierce" vocal harmonies, with each member "shining in their respective rights," while still "working as a flawless part of the team." AllMusic reviewer Bret Love wrote that it was "a pretty rare thing" to discover an act with an original sound, while proclaiming the band's genre-bending as "an engaging aural assault that is uniquely their own." He complimented producer Matt Squire for doing an "impressive job of capturing" the guitar work in a "crisp, clean mix that ensures not a single detail goes unnoticed." JR of IGN wrote that the band was "invested with a capacity for intriguing songwriting and an undeniable musicianship ... The music itself defies comprehensive description." He was also astounded by the varying mix of genres, saying that "the sound is too ethereal, too uniquely nuanced."
Some criticism was levied at the album's length. Punknews.org staff member Brian Shultz gave credit to the band's "potential and likewise developing talent," but considered Between the Heart and the Synapse "a tad overambitious for a debut," even if the band was able "to keep your attention intact for the disc's duration." Kaj Roth of Melodic, meanwhile, decried the album as adding "nothing new to the genre," and declared that "70 minutes is way too long for any emo band."
Track listing
Track listing per booklet.
Personnel
Personnel per booklet.
The Receiving End of Sirens
Andrew Cook – drums, additional percussion
Alex Bars – guitar, vocals
Brendan Brown – bass, vocals
Nate Patterson – guitar
Casey Crescenzo – guitar, vocals, sequencing, piano, electric sitar
Additional musicians
PJ Tepe – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Jani Zubkovs – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Justin Williams – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Archie Jamieson – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Ian Dexter – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Matt Flanders – guest vocals (tracks 2, 8 and 13)
Anthony Green – guest vocals (tracks 10 and 13)
Production and design
Matt Squire – producer
The Receiving End of Sirens – producer
Casey Crescenzo – additional production (tracks 1 and 7)
Changethethought – album art, design
References
External links
Between the Heart and the Synapse at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
The Receiving End of Sirens albums
2005 debut albums
Triple Crown Records albums
Albums produced by Matt Squire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between%20the%20Heart%20and%20the%20Synapse |
Millennium Park is the largest urban park in West Michigan, located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids. Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area together, including Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville, and Walker. When completed, the park will be twice as large as New York City's Central Park, at approximately 1,500 acres (6 km²).
The project began in 1998 when the Parks Department director Roger Sabine began planning for an expansion of Johnson Park. Sabine expanded the Johnson Park expansion into the 1,500 acre (6 km²) park project. The project was finally submitted to the Secchia Millennium Commission (SMC) later that year and later approved the project by which the Kent County Board of Commissioners named the park Millennium Park. The park celebrated its grand opening in July 2004.
The park is built on the former location of gypsum mines and gravel pits, including the former location of the Domtar mine. About 50 pumps continue to extract petroleum in locations across the parkland.
Park features
Beach and splashpad
Boardwalk
Boating center
Fishing dock
Picnic shelters
Trails
Recreational fishing
The park offers a unique fishing experience in an urban community. With a very short commute from downtown Grand Rapids, fishermen are able to enjoy a plethora of fishing locations and many off-season parking lots, which are free of charge. The lakes are home to a variety of panfish, both large and smallmouth bass, and even the occasional northern pike. The park offers boat rentals in the summer that can help fishermen reach their desired trophy fish. With very few visitors in the early spring, the area is a delicacy for anglers during the most ideal season to seek out largemouth bass.
It is important to note that the DNR will often stop by to ensure that participants have purchased proper licenses. Additionally, for the health and safety of both the park and its visitors, everyone is encouraged to keep a safe distance from the native swan and goose populations.
Norovirus outbreak
In July 2010, more than 120 visitors contracted norovirus. An epidemiologist stated the most likely cause was that someone who was sick with the virus brought it into the park environment. Tests by the Kent County Health Department confirmed that norovirus was the causative agent.
References
External links
Millennium Park webpage
Buildings and structures celebrating the third millennium
Parks in Grand Rapids, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Park%20%28Grand%20Rapids%29 |
Sportverein Sandhausen 1916 e.V., commonly known as simply SV Sandhausen or Sandhausen, is a German association football club that plays in Sandhausen, immediately to the south of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg. It is Germany's smallest professional football club.
The club's greatest success came in 2011–12 when it won the 3. Liga and earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time.
History
After a shaky start financially, the club advanced steadily through the lower leagues until it earned promotion to the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1931, but only played for a single season at that level before descending again. In 1943, it was merged with TSV Walldorf and VfB Wiesloch to form the wartime squad KSG Walldorf-Wiesloch. The combined squad was dissolved at the end of the conflict and SG Sandhausen was reestablished as an independent club late in 1945. A half dozen years later it re-claimed its original name. Sandhausen played football in the Landesliga or 2.Amateurliga until 1956 when it advanced to the 1.Amateurliga Nordbaden. In 1977, the team finished runner up in the German amateur championship and progressed to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 1978 where it consistently earned finishes in the upper half of the table. Sandhausen claimed three Oberliga titles through the 1980s and the German Amateur Championship in 1993. It won back-to-back Oberliga titles in 1995 and 2000 and, with its latest title in 2007, gained promotion to the Regionalliga Süd (III).
Negotiations held in late 2005 and on into early 2006 to merge Sandhausen with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and FC Astoria Walldorf to create FC Heidelberg 06 were abandoned due to resistance to the idea on the part of both Sandhausen and Walldorf, and the failure to agree on whether the new side's stadium should be located in Heidelberg.
The 2007–08 season was a success for the club, being in contention for 2. Bundesliga promotion almost until the end of season and comfortably qualifying for the new 3. Liga. In 2012, the club won the 3. Liga and thus promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. The club finished its inaugural 2. Bundesliga season in a relegation position but was saved when MSV Duisburg was refused a licence and played a much stronger 2013–14 campaign, finishing 12th.
Players
Current squad
Honours
The club's honours:
League
German amateur championship
Champions: 1978, 1993
Runners-up: 1977
3. Liga
Champions: 2012
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (III/IV)
Champions: 1981, 1985, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2007
Amateurliga Nordbaden (III)
Champions: 1961
Cup
North Baden Cup (Tiers III-VII)
Winners: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1995, 2006, 2007, 2010‡, 2011
Runners-up: 1996, 2003, 2009‡
‡ Won by reserve team.
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
SV Sandhausen
SV Sandhausen II
With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
Key
References
External links
SV Sandhausen at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
Association football clubs established in 1916
1916 establishments in Germany
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
2. Bundesliga clubs
3. Liga clubs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV%20Sandhausen |
Thurso railway station is a railway station located in Thurso, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town of Thurso and its surrounding areas in the historic county of Caithness. It is also the nearest station to the port of Scrabster (about to the northwest), which has ferry services linking the mainland with Stromness on the Orkney Islands. It is the northernmost station on the National Rail network.
The station is situated at the end of a short branch line off the Far North Line. It is down the line from (the other end of the branch), and from .
Thurso station is managed by ScotRail, which also operates all trains serving the station.
History
The station opened on 28 July 1874. A wrought-iron turntable, in diameter, was built at the station by the Railway Steel and Plant Company of Manchester.
The station was threatened with closure in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe.
Until 2000, trains from would split in half at , with one portion going to and the other to Thurso. In the age of locomotive-hauled trains prior to the introduction of diesel multiple units by British Rail, a locomotive was based at Georgemas Junction to take the Thurso portion to and from the junction. The practice of splitting trains ended when s were introduced on the line since then all services run in full between Inverness and Wick via Thurso, in both directions, meaning they call at Georgemas Junction twice.
Facilities
There is one platform, which is long enough to accommodate a nine-carriage train. The station is fully wheelchair-accessible, but it is not monitored by CCTV. The station has a ticket office, although there are no self-service ticket machines , except for some smartcard validators. Other facilities include: a small car park, a sheltered bike stand, a payphone, waiting rooms, toilets and a post box.
There is a bus stop located directly outside the station, although the majority of bus services call at the nearby Miller Academy stop, to the north.
Services
Despite being located at the end of the branch line, Thurso is not the terminus for any passenger services. On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is served by eight trains per day to , of which four continue to (via , , , and ), and four continue to . On Sundays the frequency drops to just two trains per day to Georgemas Junction, of which one goes to Inverness and one to Wick.
An hourly shuttle between Wick and Thurso making use of Vivarail's Class 230 Battery Multiple Units was proposed by the Friends of the Far North line.
References
Bibliography
External links
RAILSCOT article on Sutherland and Caithness Railway
RAILSCOT page on Thurso
ScotRail North Highlands Timetable
Railway stations in Caithness
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Former Highland Railway stations
Railway stations serving harbours and ports in the United Kingdom
Category B listed buildings in Highland (council area)
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Thurso
Cardinal points of the Great British railway network | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurso%20railway%20station |
Cytochalasins are fungal metabolites that have the ability to bind to actin filaments and block polymerization and the elongation of actin. As a result of the inhibition of actin polymerization, cytochalasins can change cellular morphology, inhibit cellular processes such as cell division, and even cause cells to undergo apoptosis. Cytochalasins have the ability to permeate cell membranes, prevent cellular translocation and cause cells to enucleate. Cytochalasins can also have an effect on other aspects of biological processes unrelated to actin polymerization. For example, cytochalasin A and cytochalasin B can also inhibit the transport of monosaccharides across the cell membrane, cytochalasin H has been found to regulate plant growth, cytochalasin D inhibits protein synthesis and cytochalasin E prevents angiogenesis.
Binding to actin filaments
Cytochalasins are known to bind to the barbed, fast growing plus ends of microfilaments, which then blocks both the assembly and disassembly of individual actin monomers from the bound end. Once bound, cytochalasins essentially cap the end of the new actin filament. One cytochalasin will bind to one actin filament. Studies done with cytochalasin D (CD) have found that CD-actin dimers contain ATP-bound actin upon formation. These CD-actin dimers are reduced to CD-actin monomers as a result of ATP hydrolysis. The resulting CD-actin monomer can bind ATP-actin monomer to reform the CD-actin dimer. CD is very effective; only low concentrations (0.2 μM) are needed to prevent membrane ruffling and disrupt treadmilling. The effects of many different cytochalasins on actin filaments were analyzed and higher concentrations (2-20 μM) of CD were found to be needed to remove stress fibers.
In contrast, latrunculin inhibits actin filament polymerization by binding to actin monomers.
Uses and applications of cytochalasins
Actin microfilaments have been widely studied using cytochalasins. Due to their chemical nature, cytochalasins can help researchers understand the importance of actin in various biological processes. The use of cytochalasins has allowed researchers to better understand actin polymerization, cell motility, ruffling, cell division, contraction, and cell stiffness. The use of cytochalasins has been so important to understanding cytoskeletal movement and many other biological processes, researchers have created two synthetic cytochalasins.
Cytochalasin has found practical application in thromboelastometry (TEM) whole blood assays for the assessment of fibrinogen and fibrin polymerization disorders in the FIBTEM assay on ROTEM. This test is based on the principle that cytochalasin D very effectively inhibits platelet function by inhibition of the contractile elements. The platelet inhibition is more effective than when platelets are blocked by GPIIb/IIIa antagonists. In vitro and clinical data indicate that the clot strength in FIBTEM increases in a fibrinogen concentration-dependent manner independent of platelet count. Therefore, fibrinogen deficiency or fibrin polymerization disorders can be rapidly detected.
Chemical structures
See also
Cytoskeletal drugs
References
Mycotoxins
Actin inhibitors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochalasin |
Hugo Viktor Österman (5 September 1892, Helsinki – 17 February 1975) was a Finnish lieutenant-general during World War II. He was commander of the Finnish Army 1933–1939.
When the Winter War started Österman was made commander of the Army of the Isthmus, but was dismissed on 19 February 1940 after the Finnish lines had been breached.
Österman served as Deputy Minister of Defence from 10 June 1930 to 21 March 1931.
Further reading
Hartikainen, Pertti. Leader, Builder and Defender of the Armed Forces Jaeger General Hugo Viktor Österman (1892–1975). Helsinki, 2001.
External links
1892 births
1975 deaths
Military personnel from Helsinki
Military personnel from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Swedish-speaking Finns
Ministers of Defence of Finland
Finnish lieutenant generals
German military personnel of World War I
People of the Finnish Civil War (White side)
Finnish military personnel of World War II
Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour
Jägers of the Jäger Movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20%C3%96sterman |
Augustin Theiner, Cong.Orat., (11 April 1804, in Breslau – 8 August 1874, in Civitavecchia) was a German theologian and historian.
He was the son of a shoemaker. As a boy, he was a pupil at the gymnasium of St. Mathias at Breslau, Silesia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, and studied theology in the same city. Together with his brother Anthony he wrote, Einfuhrung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den Geistlichen (1828). At the advice of this brother he abandoned theology and turned his attention to law, which he studied at Breslau and Halle, and in 1829 he obtained a degree in law at the latter university. He then received a scholarship from the Prussian Government, which enabled him to make researches in Belgium, England, and France as to the sources of Canon law. He finally went to Rome, where he settled permanently.
Here, under the influence of Count Reisach, then rector of the Propaganda and later cardinal, the change in his opinions was completed. In 1835, he wrote the Geschichte der geistlichen Bildungsanstalten, and in 1836 the Disquisitiones criticae, on the sources of canon law. Soon after this he became a priest and entered the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.
In the succeeding years he wrote the following works:
Die neuesten Zustände der kath. Kirche in Polen und Russland (1841)
Die Rückkehr der regierenden Hauser Braunschweig und Sachsen zur kath. Kirche (1843)
Zustände der kath. Kirche in Schlesien 1740-58 (1846)
Kardinal Frankenberg (1850)
He was commissioned by Pope Pius IX, who had given him a position in the Vatican Library in 1850, to write the Geschichte des Pontifikats Klemens XIV (1853; Italian translation, 1855). In this work he showed himself an opponent of the Jesuits, with whom he had been on good terms until 1844, so that the work was forbidden in the States of the Church.
In 1855, Pius IX appointed Theiner as Prefect of the Vatican secret archives. He now published his collections of authorities drawn from these:
Die Fortsetzung der Annalen des Baronius (3 vols., 1856)
Vetera monumenta Hungariae (2 vols., 1859–60)
Poloniae et Lithuaniae (4 vols., 1860–64)
Slavorum meridionalium (2 vols., 1863)
Hibernorum et Scotorum (1864)
Codex dominii temporalis apostolicae sedis (3 vols., 1861–62)
Monumenta spectantia ad unionem ecclesiarum Graecae et Romanae (1872).
Both before and during the First Vatican Council he was in close connection with the opponents of papal infallibility. Because he communicated to them the order of business of the Council, that had been kept secret, he was deposed from his dignities and offices.
Whether he died at peace with the Church is questionable. His correspondence with the Old Catholic scholar, Johann Friedrich, during the years 1870-73 shows that he held the same views as the latter; on the other hand Count Hermann Stainlein asserts that he knew Theiner during this period as a loyal Catholic priest. In any event, he was buried at the Teutonic Cemetery, adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica, which is reserved for German-speaking residents of the city in service to the institutions of the Catholic Church.
There is no doubt as to his large scholarship and his services to history. After his death appeared the work, Acta genuina Concilii Tridentini (1874), very imperfectly edited.
Works
References
1804 births
1874 deaths
19th-century German historians
Historians of the Catholic Church
Clergy from Wrocław
19th-century German Roman Catholic priests
Burials at the Teutonic Cemetery
Oratorians
Prefects of the Vatican Secret Archives
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni
Clergy from the Province of Silesia
German male non-fiction writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin%20Theiner |
Vinyl is a 1965 American black-and-white film directed by Andy Warhol at The Factory. It is an early adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, starring Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Ondine, and Tosh Carillo, and featuring such songs as "Nowhere to Run" by Martha and the Vandellas, "Tired of Waiting for You" by The Kinks, "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones and "Shout" by The Isley Brothers.
Plot
The film is about the youth perpetrator Victor, who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people. When he hits his friend Scum Baby, he calls the police. Victor gets the choice to go to jail or undergo a behavioral change. Victor decides on the treatment and is bound to a chair by a doctor. He has to watch violent videos and describe what is happening on the screen while warm wax from a candle runs over his hand. After a while Victor swears off the violence and is unbound. He rejects the doctor's request to beat him and take drugs. Victor is cured.
Cast
Gerard Malanga as Victor
Edie Sedgwick as Extra
Ondine as Scum Baby
Tosh Carillo as The Doctor
Larry Latrae
J.D. McDermott as Cop
Jacques Potin as Extra
Background
Vinyl was the first adaptation of the novel, which was filmed six years later by Stanley Kubrick (see A Clockwork Orange). Warhol bought the book in the spring of 1965 and forwarded it to his screenwriter Ronald Tavel. He had claimed that he had secured the right to the story for $3,000. The film is solely based on the original and reproduces the plot in a very condensed form and the names of the characters have also changed.
The recording of Vinyl took place on a day in April / early May 1965 with a very low budget and without samples. The only location in the film is a corner in Warhol's Factory while the 16mm black and white camera, the Auricon brand, stood on a stand and was barely moved.
Vinyl was originally supposed to consist of a purely male casting and bring out Gerard Malanga; but since the model Edie Sedgwick, who Warhol had met earlier the same year, coincidentally showed up for photography, Warhol gave her the last minute role in the strip. Some of the extras in Vinyl did not even realize that they were filmed and had no connection to the plot.
The movie features the songs "Nowhere to Run" by Martha and the Vandellas, "Tired of Waiting for You" by The Kinks, "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones and "Shout" by The Isley Brothers. "Nowhere to Run" is played twice in full length while the artists dance to it.
Vinyl was shown the first time on June 4, 1965 as part of Jonas Mekas' Film-Makers' Cinematheque listing.
Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, as well as Vinyl, begins with a close-up of the protagonist's face. Why the movie is called Vinyl is unclear.
Production
Vinyl is often credited as Edie Sedgwick's first appearance in film, although she actually appeared in a non-speaking role in the earlier Warhol movie Horse (1965). Sedgwick has no lines of dialogue in the entire film. Vinyl was filmed unrehearsed and was also performed live in various stage productions.
Legacy
Vinyl is included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
Coincidentally, a HBO series by the name of Vinyl had Warhol as a recurring character; despite this the series has nothing in common with the Warhol film because it is about music in New York rather than art.
See also
List of American films of 1965
Andy Warhol filmography
References
External links
Brows Held High episode about the 1965 film
On MOMA website
A Clockwork Orange
1965 films
1960s science fiction films
American avant-garde and experimental films
American science fiction films
Films directed by Andy Warhol
American black-and-white films
Films based on British novels
Films based on science fiction novels
1960s avant-garde and experimental films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
English-language science fiction films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl%20%281965%20film%29 |
Laupen District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the municipality of Laupen.
From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Bern-Mittelland (administrative district), whose administrative centre is Ostermundigen.
Since 2010, it remains therefore a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.
The district has an area of 88 km² and consisted of 11 municipalities:
The municipalities of Clavaleyres and Münchenwiler are enclaved within the canton of Fribourg.
External links
Official website of Laupen
References
Former districts of the canton of Bern | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laupen%20District |
Wick railway station is a railway station located in Wick, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town of Wick and other surrounding areas in the historic county of Caithness, including Staxigoe, Papigoe and Haster. The station is the terminus of the Far North Line, from . It is managed by ScotRail, who operate all trains serving the station.
History
The station was designed by Murdoch Paterson and built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening the line in 1874. A wrought-iron turntable, in diameter, was installed at the station by the Railway Steel and Plant Company of Manchester, along with an engine shed capable of housing four engines and a special loading bank for the loading of herring for the southern markets.
On 1 July 1903, the Wick and Lybster Light Railway was opened, and Wick became a junction station. The last trains to Lybster ran in 1944, although the line was not officially closed until 1951.
Until 2000, trains from would split in half at , with one portion going to Wick and the other to . This practice ended when s were introduced on the line since then all services run in full between Inverness and Wick via Thurso, in both directions, adding up to 30 minutes to journey times to and from Wick.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited the station in 2002, as part of a tour for Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee.
Accidents and incidents
On 30 June 1909, Peter Doull, a coal trimmer, was killed by a train in the coal siding.
On 3 May 1941, a goods train pulling into the station collided with an empty carriage at the platform. The buffers failed to stop the carriage, which carried forward and piled up onto the platform, where one end crashed into the Menzies bookstall. The platform buffers were found buried beneath the wreckage of the bookstall.
Location
The station lies adjacent to Caithness General Hospital and Wick police station; it is also the nearest station to Wick Airport (about to the north) and to the village of John o' Groats (approximately to the north) at the northeastern tip of mainland Britain.
Facilities
The station has a single platform, which is long enough to accommodate a ten-carriage train. The station is fully wheelchair-accessible, but it is not monitored by CCTV.
The station has a ticket office, staffed between 10:10 and 17:15 every day except Sundays. There are no self-service ticket machines or smartcard top-up facilities, although there are smartcard validators. Other facilities include: a free car park with 12 parking spaces, a sheltered bike stand with 10 spaces, a payphone that accepts both cash and card, waiting rooms with designated seating areas, toilets (only open during staffing hours) and a post box.
There is no bus stop located directly outside the station.
Services
On weekdays and Saturdays Wick station receives four trains per day in each direction, to and from (via , , , , and ). On Sundays this drops to just one train per day each way.
Cultural References
On 19 August 2017, Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe, presenters of the documentary series All the Stations, completed their 14-week journey at Wick, having started at Penzance on 7 May 2017. That marked the end of their successful project to visit all 2,563 railway stations in Great Britain.
References
Bibliography
ScotRail North Highlands Timetable
External links
Railway stations in Caithness
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Former Highland Railway stations
Wick, Caithness
Category B listed buildings in Highland (council area)
Listed railway stations in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%20railway%20station |
Abertillery was a county constituency centred on the town of Abertillery in Monmouthshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election. From 1950 up to (and including) 1970, it was the safest Labour seat in the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the urban districts of Abercarn, Abertillery and Nantyglo and Blaina.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
Labour: George Daggar
Conservative:
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
References
History of Monmouthshire
Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983
Politics of Monmouthshire
Abertillery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abertillery%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
Theiner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Augustin Theiner (1804–1874), German theologian and historian
Wojciech Theiner (born 1986), Polish high jumper
See also
Theiler
German-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theiner |
Junkarsborg was a medieval castle in Karis, Raseborg, Finland. Today, only rectangular earth walls remain. Archaeologists suppose that the castle was built in the early 14th century and was used until the beginning of the 15th. It probably was a predecessor of the Castle of Raseborg only a few kilometers away. Some coins from late 14th century have been found. The site has been excavated 1891–92, 1937, and 1950–54.
The ruins are on a forested island in the middle of the Svartå river and can only be reached on foot. Some reconstruction work has been done during 2005–06 to improve the access to the island and its visual appearance.
References
External links
Junkarsborg today
Castles in Finland
Ruins in Finland
Raseborg
Buildings and structures in Uusimaa
14th-century establishments in Finland
Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century
History of Uusimaa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkarsborg |
B. Wongar (born 1932 as Sreten Božić) is a Serbian-Australian writer. For most of his literary career, the concern of his writing has been, almost exclusively, the condition of Aboriginal people in Australia. His 1978 short story collection, The Track to Bralgu, was released to critical acclaim by the foreign press, who were led to believe by publisher Little Brown that Wongar was of Aboriginal ethnicity. The revelation that Wongar was a Serbian immigrant, as well as inconsistencies in his life story, have led to controversy and allegations of literary hoax and cultural appropriation.
Early life
Božić grew up in the village of Gornja Trešnjevica, near Aranđelovac, Serbia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the mid-1950s, he started his writing career by writing poetry which he published in the Mlada kultura and the Novi vesnik literary journals. He was a member of the "Đuro Salaj" workers-writers group in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. At the same time he worked as a journalist in Serbia. Yugoslav communists found his writing politically incorrect and banned him from journalism for life. In 1958 he moved to Paris, France, where he lived in a Red Cross refugee camp. There he met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir who helped him to publish his literary works in Les Temps Modernes.
Literary career
Božić arrived in Australia in 1960. In his search for a job (as a construction worker or miner), he bought a camel in order to cross the Tanami Desert. He got lost and was close to death when he was saved by a tribal man. Božić lived with tribal Aboriginal people for ten years. The name B(anumbir) Wongar, which means morning star and messenger from the spirit world, was said to be given to him by his tribal wife Dumala and her relatives. However, he later stated in an interview that "B." is in recognition of his Serbian name.
From Dumala he learned about Aboriginal poetry and their traditional way of life in the bush. This way he was introduced to the Aboriginal culture that had been suppressed and delegitimized by British colonial power for centuries. His book The Track to Bralgu is a collection of stories based on traditional Aboriginal stories belonging to the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, NT, Australia. The book was translated into French as Le Chemin du Bralgu, from the original manuscript and published in Les Temps Modernes (1977), a magazine which was edited by Sartre and de Beauvoir. When the book appeared in the English edition a year later, it heralded a new genre of creative writing and brought international fame to the author. In Australia, however, Wongar was criticized for his portrayal of Aboriginal people, and there was a campaign to discredit his work as fake.
He was not allowed to stay any longer in the Northern part of Australia and had to move to Melbourne. His wife Dumala and the children were to follow but they died from drinking water from a poisoned well, as claimed later in Dingoes Den, his autobiography (at the end of Chapter 12).
While he was in the Northern part of Australia, Wongar worked on his Totem and Ore photographic collection, also known under the title Boomerang and Atom. The collection contained several thousand black-and-white photographs portraying the impact of uranium mining and the British nuclear testing on tribal Aborigines. In 1974, Wongar was asked to send some of the Totem and Ore photographs for an exhibition in the Parliament House Library in Canberra. The exhibition was shut down two days after the official opening.
Wongar settled on his bush property Dingo Den in Gippsland, south of Melbourne where, helped by photographic images from his Totem and Ore collection, he wrote his "Nuclear Trilogy", comprising the novels, Walg, Karan, and Gabo Djara. The trilogy was first published in Germany, translated from the original manuscript by Annemarie and Heinrich Böll. The English language edition first appeared in 1988. It was launched at the Aboriginal Research Centre, Monash University, where Wongar at the time was serving as writer-in-residence. While he was at work, police raided Wongar's home at Dingo Den and took some of his work, including the sole copy of the manuscript of his new novel Raki. In 1990, the Australian author Thomas Shapcott spoke about the case at the opening of the Adelaide Arts Festival. He circulated a petition asking the state authorities to see that the confiscated manuscript Raki be returned to Wongar. About 200 writers at the festival signed the petition. It took Wongar about 5 years to write Raki again. This was followed by his new book Didjeridu Charmer, which will complete his nuclear series, thus making the series a quintet.
For not knowing any English when he arrived to Australia, when he begin writing in the early 1970s, his written English followed no standards.
Wongar's books have been translated into 13 languages with over one million copies sold (as of 2006). His books are the most widely known literary representation of Australian Aboriginal culture.
Reception of Wongar's work in Australia
Reception of Wongar's work has oscillated between praise, sceptical inquiry and moral condemnation. Within Australia there is a widespread obsession with Wongar's biographical credentials to the extent that it eclipses any review of the fictional texts as part of Australian writing. There are a variety of Wongar's moral indictments ranging from being a white who usurped Aboriginal culture to the claim saying that all artists are charlatans, who con the public. Susan Hosking claimed that Wongar did not speak as an Aboriginal person but pretended to be one. Aboriginal writers were finding their own voice and, she claims, there was a strong resistance against such a European writer, because it was seen as a cultural imperialism. Australian critic Maggie Nolan responded that a reductive demand for an authentic Aboriginality functions as cultural imperialism. Far from being labelled as a cultural imperialist, Wongar shall be congratulated for subtly manipulating expectations of authenticity in his work. Wongar questions the systematic closure of Aboriginality as an imperial construct, its pretensions to its authenticity, autonomy, and purity.
Wongar has received criticism to the point of being labelled a fake, literary hoax and accused of cultural appropriation. Australian novelist and playwright Thomas Keneally has said, "Time might prove him to be a highly significant Australian writer, but his deception has soured his reception in the English-speaking world." Much of this centres around his identify, as there are many discrepancies regarding the identify of Wongar in the forewords of his books. In his book, The Track to Bralgu, the foreword states that Wongar is part Aboriginal, while in his book The Sinners, the foreword states that Wongar is in fact a mixed race American Vietnam veteran.
Comparing the German translation of the Walg by Annemarie Böll (Der Schoß) to its English version published by Brazier in 1990, T. Caiter wrote that the English edition was censored. The English edition was substantially and carefully purged of colonialist pornography and pseudo-Aboriginal mythology. In his autobiography, Dingoes Den, Wongar wrote that the German translation remains the only complete text and unabridged version.
Awards and honors
Arvon Foundation Poetry Award. UK, 1980
The American Library Association Award (USA), 1982
Senior Writer's Fellowship, Australian Literature Board, 1985
The P.E.N. International Award (USA) for Nuclear Cycle 1986
Writer-in-residence at the Aboriginal Research Centre at Monash University in the late 1980s
Australia Council Writers’ Emeritus Award, 1997
Honorary Doctorate, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, 2009
Works by B. Wongar
Diddjeridu Charmer, Dingo Books 2015,
Manhunt, B. Wongar 2008,
Dingoes Den, ETT Imprint 2006,
The Last Pack of Dingoes, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) 1993
Gabo Djara: A Novel of Australia, George Baziller 1991,
Raki: a novel (1997), London: Marion Boyars
Totem and ore: a photographic collection (2006), Dingo Books, Carnegie, Victoria 2006
The New Guinea Diaries (1997) — English translation of "The New Guinea Diaries 1871–1883" by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Dingo Books, Victoria, Australia
Walg: A Novel of Australia, George Braziller 1983,
Karan, Dodd Mead 1985,
The Trackers: a novel (1975), Outback Press, Collingwood, VIC.
Appearances on television and film
"Dingoes, Names and B. Wongar" – interview with Jan Wositzky, for ABC Radio National's 'Books and Writing' program
Sorena Productions, Australia, Director/Writer John Mandelberg (1994) "A Double Life. The Life and Times of B.Wongar" 56-minute video documentary on his life.
All Inclusive Films, Art & Popcorn, Melbourne, Australia, Director Andrijana Stojkovic (2018) "Wongar" 60-minute documentary on his life
References
Sources
External links
Sreten Božić Vongar by Dragoslav Simić, Audio i foto arhiv
Museum Victoria Collections: B. Wongar, Author (circa 1932 -)
Australian writers
Australian people of Serbian descent
Serbian writers
1932 births
Living people
People from Aranđelovac
Indigenous cultural appropriation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20Wongar |
The discography of Ozzy Osbourne, an English heavy metal vocalist, consists of 13 studio albums, five live albums, seven compilation albums, five extended plays (EPs), 65 singles, nine video albums and 41 music videos. After being fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, Osbourne started his solo career with a band consisting of guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake. The group released their debut album Blizzard of Ozz in 1980, which reached number 7 on the UK Albums Chart, number 8 on the Canadian Albums Chart, and number 21 on the US Billboard 200. Singles "Crazy Train" and "Mr Crowley" reached the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart, and the album has been certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 1981's Diary of a Madman reached the top 20 in the UK, Canada and the US, and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The album was the last to feature Daisley and Kerslake, both of whom were fired before its release and replaced by Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge, respectively, as well as the last to feature Rhoads, who died in a plane crash on 19 March 1982.
Osbourne's first live album Speak of the Devil, featuring touring guitarist Brad Gillis, reached number 21 in the UK and number 14 in the US. Jake E. Lee joined in 1983, with Bark at the Moon released later in the year. The album reached number 24 in the UK and number 19 in the US, spawning UK top 40 singles "Bark at the Moon" and "So Tired". The Ultimate Sin followed in 1986, reaching the top ten in the UK and the US. Lead single "Shot in the Dark" reached number 20 on the UK Singles Chart and number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1987 live album Tribute charted in the top 20 in the UK and the top ten in the US. After Lee was replaced by Zakk Wylde, No Rest for the Wicked was released in 1988 and reached number 23 in the UK and number 13 in the US. The following year, Osbourne reached the top ten of the Hot 100 with Lita Ford on "Close My Eyes Forever", peaking at number 8. 1991's No More Tears reached the UK top 20, the US top ten, and was certified four times platinum by the RIAA. Singles "No More Tears" and "Mama, I'm Coming Home" both reached the UK top 50 and charted on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1992, Osbourne reached the UK Singles Chart top ten for the first time with Was (Not Was) and Kim Basinger on "Shake Your Head", which peaked at number 4.
After briefly retiring, Osbourne returned with Ozzmosis in 1995, which was his first album to reach the top five of the Billboard 200 when it peaked at number 4. Lead single "Perry Mason" reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. 1997 compilation The Ozzman Cometh reached the US top 20 and was certified double platinum. In 2001 he released Down to Earth, which reached number 19 in the UK and number 4 in the US. The album spawned the successful single "Dreamer", which was certified gold in Austria and Germany. In 2003, Osbourne collaborated with daughter Kelly on a recording of Black Sabbath's "Changes", which was both artists' first (and to date, only) number-one single in the UK. The Essential Ozzy Osbourne was released the same year, reaching number 21 in the UK. In 2005, Osbourne released an album of cover versions entitled Under Cover, which charted in the UK at number 67. 2007's Black Rain reached number 8 in the UK and number 3 in the US, while 2010's Scream reached number 12 in the UK and number 4 in the US. The compilation Memoirs Of A Madman charted in the UK at number 23 in 2014.
As of 2014, Osbourne has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including those during his time in Black Sabbath.
Albums
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Videos
Video albums
Music videos
Other appearances
See also
Black Sabbath discography
Footnotes
References
External links
Ozzy Osbourne official website
Discography
Heavy metal discographies
Discographies of British artists no | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy%20Osbourne%20discography |
Hell Is a City is a 1960 British crime thriller film starring Stanley Baker, based on the 1954 novel of the same title by Maurice Procter.
Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed on location in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films and resembles American film noir.
Plot
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Harry Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.
Cast
Stanley Baker as Inspector Harry Martineau
John Crawford as Don Starling
Donald Pleasence as Gus Hawkins
Maxine Audley as Julia Martineau
Billie Whitelaw as Chloe Hawkins
Joseph Tomelty as Furnisher Steele
George A. Cooper as Doug Savage
Geoffrey Frederick as Detective Devery
Vanda Godsell as Lucky Luske
Charles Houston as Clogger Roach
Joby Blanshard as Tawny Jakes
Charles Morgan as Laurie Lovett
Peter Madden as Bert Darwin
Dickie Owen as Bragg
Lois Daine as Cecily Wainwright
Warren Mitchell as Commercial Traveller
Sarah Branch as Silver Steele
Alister Williamson as Sam
Russell Napier as Superintendent
Philip Bond as Headquarters PC (uncredited)
John Comer as Plainclothes Police Driver (uncredited)
John Harvey as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
Doris Speed as Older Nursing Sister in Hospital (uncredited)
Production
In a 1988 interview, Val Guest said: "Mike Carreras fell for the book, he liked it very much and gave to me to read, then he bought the rights from ABP [Associated British Picture Corporation] ‘cos they were never going to make it, and we made it on location, and the whole thing was this Detective Inspecor Martineau… and this very human detective, tough, rough, but human with his own problems at home, with a wife who nagged, falling for a barmaid who was part of his investigation, it was a real slice of life, putting the police down as human beings."
Critical reception
In contemporary reviews,Variety said "Val Guest’s taut screenplay, allied to his own deft direction, has resulted in a notable film in which the characters are all vividly alive, the action constantly gripping and the background of a provincial city put over with authenticity."
Kine Weekly wrote: "The tale is fiction, but its types, expertly portrayed by a hand-picked cast – Stanley Baker adds another commanding portrait to his already long and impressive gallery as the hero – thoroughly convince, while apt asides, embracing sentiment and sex, subtly punctuate the rough stuff. [...] The picture sharply cross-sections north country life and effectively employs warm sentiment and shrewd comedy touches to underline violent action, culminating in the villain's spectacular apprehension.."
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Any British crime picture that forswears the sleazy bars and pseudo-luxury flats of London and the sinister country houses of the Home Counties deserves some welcome, even if the road to the industrial North is by now well and diversely pioneered. This film may not re-create the atmosphere of Manchester any more effectively than Violent Playground (1958) did that of Liverpool, but in the coin-tossing game on the dingy moor outside a little factory town it has a most striking outdoor sequence, thanks in great measure to Arthur Grant's stark photography and the choice of extras who really look their parts. [...] Elsewhere, Val Guest's script and direction maintain a hectic pace, with frequent scene changes, mobility of camera and performers, and much rapid, loud, intense dialogue, all making most recent American gangster films seem weakly constructed and slow-moving. There is a perpetual feeling of barely suppressed savagery, submerged in the excitement and rush of the early scenes, but undisguised later with a near-rape and the hunting and shooting of the deaf-mute blonde, Silver – almost the only character who is neither depraved nor at least coarsened."
Writing in The Guardian, Philip French said: "Guest's dialogue is abrasive and unsentimental, the editing (to a modern jazz score) rapid without being self-consciously smart, the accents mostly convincing."
Leslie Halliwell called the film: "Lively semi-documentary, cameo-filled cop thriller filmed on location."
In British Sound Films David Quinlan writes: "With its tough approach and patchwork of small scenes, this exciting thriller was the forerunner of much British TV cops-and-robbers to follow."
Empire said: "[Baker and Pleasance] turn in fierce performances and Guest's direction gives the movie a splendidly wrought realism, capturing a nasty underworld Britain rarely envisioned since."
Time Out said: "A persuasively sweaty crime thriller set in Manchester [...] The atmosphere is persuasively seedy and downbeat, and there's a striking performance by Billie Whitelaw".
The Manchester Evening News said " With its panoply of bantering barmaids, silver-tongued felons and lush wives, a clipped camera style and hard-boiled sensibilities (which seem a little bit Z-Cars now), Hell Is A City is probably a film which deserves to have featured more prominently in British movie memory."
References
External links
Hell Is a City at ReelStreets
Levenshulme: Hell Is a City File
1960 films
British crime thriller films
1960s crime thriller films
Films shot at Associated British Studios
1960s English-language films
British black-and-white films
Hammer Film Productions films
Films based on British novels
Films set in Manchester
Films directed by Val Guest
Films shot at Bray Studios
Police detective films
Films shot in Greater Manchester
1960s British films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%20Is%20a%20City |
Sara Caroline Seger (born 19 March 1985) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a midfielder and club captain for FC Rosengård in the Damallsvenskan league. She is the current captain of the Swedish national football team.
Club career
Linköping
An industrious central midfielder, Seger played for Linköpings FC from 2005 to 2009 and served as the club's captain. Linköping finished in the top four of the Damallsvenskan in four of Seger's five seasons with the team. Their highest finishes were second place in 2008 and first place in 2009. The team also captured the Svenska Cupen on three occasions in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
While playing for Linköping, Seger was honoured as the Damallsvenskan's Rookie of the Year in 2005 and Midfielder of the Year in 2006 and 2009.
After the team finished second and qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League, Seger signed a new one-year contract with Linköping in the autumn of 2008. She was proud to lead the club to a league and cup "double" in her final campaign with the team. Seger also won the 2009 Diamantbollen, awarded to the year's best Swedish women's soccer player.
Seger's last game for Linköping was a 2–0 defeat by Duisburg in the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League.
United States
In September 2009, the expansion team Philadelphia Independence of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announced their intention to draft Seger with their first pick in the 2009 international draft. In December 2009, she signed a three-year contract with Philadelphia. Her first season with the Independence began in April 2010 and culminated in a 4–0 defeat to FC Gold Pride in the WPS Championship game. Seger scored one goal and posted five assists in her 18 appearances. She underwent surgery on a heel injury after the season.
Seger was traded to Western New York Flash in December 2010 in exchange for draft picks. She joined the franchise in their first season in the WPS and wore the captain's armband. On 14 August 2011 the Seger-led Flash secured the best record in the league, a bye in the playoffs, and played at home for the league championship on 27 August. They beat Seger's former club Philadelphia Independence in the Championship game, 5–4 in PKs after a 1–1 draw.
Seger played just 12 matches for the Flash, as the FIFA Women's World Cup took place during the season. She scored five goals and served one assist. Coach Aaran Lines was very happy with Seger's contribution, but her contract contained a release clause which allowed her to leave for a team outside the United States after one year.
Tyresö FF
In August 2011 Seger announced that she would join LdB FC Malmö on a short-term contract to cover the remainder of the 2011 Damallsvenskan season, although she remained undecided about her subsequent destination. Later that same month it was confirmed that Seger would join Tyresö FF on a two-year deal to start in the 2012 Damallsvenskan season. Her three goals in seven league games helped Malmö secure the 2011 Damallsvenskan title.
Seger collected her third Damallsvenskan title in 2012, after Tyresö's dramatic last day win over Malmö. Madelaine Edlund scored the winning goal after Seger's shot had hit the post. Seger and Tyresö were upset in the final of the Svenska Cupen, by Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC who won 2–1 after extra time. In early 2014 it became clear that Tyresö were in financial difficulty and could not afford to keep Seger and their other leading players.
In May 2014 Seger had been approached by Seattle Reign FC, who had obtained her rights for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), and two other American teams had expressed interest. She was also in transfer negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain Féminines.
Paris Saint-Germain
Seger sealed her move to Paris Saint-Germain in June 2014, signing a two-year contract. She left as Tyresö withdrew from the league and released all their players.
Olympique Lyon
On 2 July 2016, Lyon announced the signing of Seger. In the 2016/17 season Seger helped Lyon win the Division 1 Feminine, the Coupe de France Feminine and the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
FC Rosengård
In 2017 Seger returned to Sweden by joining FC Rosengård in the Damallsvenskan league. She helped Rosengård win the Svenska Cupen Damer and finish second in the league.
International career
Seger made her first appearance for the senior Swedish national team in March 2005; a 2–1 defeat by Germany at that year's Algarve Cup. She intended to score the winning goal at UEFA Women's Euro 2005 in North West England. Although Seger was part of the team, she failed to score as Sweden lost to rivals Norway in extra time of the semi-final.
Seger continued to be selected under new coach Thomas Dennerby and was part of the Sweden team surprisingly eliminated in the first round of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. After that failure some experienced players retired and Seger was given a prominent role in the team. In July 2008 she overcame a thigh injury to take her place in the squad for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China she participated in the Swedes' 2–0 quarter-final defeat by Germany.
Impressed by Seger's work rate and positive attitude, Dennerby had appointed her as national team captain for a qualifying match with Italy in May 2008, when regular captain Victoria Sandell Svensson was injured. Sandell Svensson retired after Sweden's 3–1 defeat by Norway in the quarter-final of UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and Seger took over as full-time captain.
Seger led Sweden to third place at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. She featured in Sweden's 3–1 semi-final defeat to eventual winners Japan in Frankfurt. Sweden secured third place by beating France 2–1 in Sinsheim, although Seger missed the game with a calf injury. Third place also ensured Sweden's qualification for the 2012 Olympic football tournament in London. Dennerby kept Seger in Sweden's Olympic squad for London, where they lost to France in the quarter-finals.
In October 2012, new national team coach Pia Sundhage decided that Seger and Lotta Schelin would share the captaincy. Sundhage named Seger in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013, which Sweden hosted. Seger was disappointed when Sweden lost 1–0 to Germany in the semi-final.
Seger appeared in all 6 matches for Sweden at the 2016 Summer Olympics and won the Silver Medal after a 2–1 loss to Germany.
Seger became the sole captain of the National team after Lotta Schelin’s retirement from international football.
Seger led Sweden to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup hosted in France. On 6 July 2019, Seger played her 200th match with Sweden, facing England. The match was a 2–1 victory for Sweden, giving them third place in the World Cup.
On 13 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.
International goals
Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments
Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments
Personal life
Seger is an out lesbian, telling QX magazine in December 2013 that she was proud of her girlfriend. In previous years Seger had concealed her orientation, but decided to speak out to be a role model for others. She used to be in a relationship with fellow professional football player Malin Levenstad. She is currently in a relationship with her Rosengård-teammate Olivia Schough.
Honours
, Linköpings FC
Damallsvenskan: 2009
Svenska Cupen: 2006, 2008, 2009
Svenska Supercupen: 2009
Western New York Flash
Women's Professional Soccer: 2011
LdB FC Malmö
Damallsvenskan: 2011
Svenska Supercupen: 2011
Tyresö FF
Damallsvenskan: 2012
Olympique Lyon
Division 1 Féminine: 2016–17
Coupe de France Féminine: 2017
UEFA Women's Champions League: 2016–17
Sweden
FIFA Women's World Cup Third place: 2011, 2019
Summer Olympics Silver Medal: 2016, 2020
Algarve Cup: 2009, 2018
Sweden U19
Nordic Cup: runner-up 2004
Sweden U17
Nordic Cup: runner-up 2001, 2002
Individual
Sweden Breakthrough Player of the Year; 2005
Best Swedish Midfielder: 2006, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015
Diamantbollen: 2009
FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Team: 2011
UEFA Squad of the Tournament: UEFA Women's Euro 2013
References
Match reports
External links
(archive)
(archive)
(archive)
Caroline Seger at statsfootofeminin.fr
Caroline Seger at Paris Saint-Germain
Caroline Seger at Linköpings FC
Swedish women's footballers
1985 births
Olympic footballers for Sweden
Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Helsingborg
Living people
Sweden women's international footballers
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Philadelphia Independence players
Western New York Flash players
FIFA Women's Century Club
Tyresö FF players
Damallsvenskan players
Linköpings FC players
FC Rosengård players
Swedish lesbians
Swedish LGBT footballers
Lesbian sportswomen
Expatriate women's footballers in France
Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players
Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in football
Women's association football midfielders
Division 1 Féminine players
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Swedish LGBT people
Women's Professional Soccer players
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Seger |
Most na Soči (; formerly Sveta Lucija or Sveta Lucija na Mostu, ) is a town in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is located on a rocky crest above the confluence of Soča and Idrijca rivers. In the past these two riverbeds, deeply carved into the rocky slopes, provided the settlement with excellent protection from intruders. Due to the nearby Doblar hydro plant, the basins of the river were entirely inundated and below the settlement a vast reservoir was formed, which now attracts both fishermen and visitors, who can stroll along some well-kept panoramic paths.
Name
Most na Soči was first attested as In Ponte Sancti Mauri (literally, 'at Saint Maurus' bridge') in reference to the local church. In the 17th century, the name ad Pontem 'at the bridge' was recorded, and a church built between 1584 and 1612 was the source of the name Sveta Lucija (na Mostu) 'Saint Lucy (on the bridge)'. Under Italian administration, the settlement was known as Santa Lucia (di Tolmino) 'Saint Lucy (of Tolmin)', and after the Second World War the Slovene name Sveta Lucija ob Soči 'Saint Lucy on the Soča River' was established. Other historical names include German St. Luzia and Maurus Brücke. The name of the settlement was changed from Sveta Lucija ob Soči to Most na Soči (literally, 'bridge on the Soča River') in 1955. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.
History
Exceptional archaeological finds – more than 7,000 grave sites discovered so far – rank this location among the most important prehistoric settlements in Europe. Rich finds date back in the period from the late Bronze Age to Roman period. Most of them originate from an Iron Age community which was named the Sveta Lucija Culture. The finds are on display at many museums, i.e. in Vienna, Trieste, and Tolmin. Archeologists from the Tolmin Museum are still discovering stunning finds.
Cultural heritage
The restored and protected remains of a Roman house are located in Most na Soči. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Lucy and belongs to the Diocese of Koper. A second church in the parish is dedicated to Saint Maurus (). The first written record of the church dates from 1192. Another interesting site is a monument to soldiers from World War I at Postaja.
The birthplace of the writer Ciril Kosmač is part of the Genius Loci European program, which connects birthplaces of famous artists: Giotto, Goya, Lorca, Novalis, and Kosmač.
Natural heritage
The principal natural feature of Most na Soči is its lake. Although artificial, it is the same unique color as the Soča. It gives the settlement an atmosphere of tranquility and softness and offers many opportunities for recreation.
Flat limestone layers at Pod Ključem are a feature of geological interest.
References
External links
Most na Soči on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Tolmin
Populated places in the Soča Valley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20na%20So%C4%8Di |
Rogelio Sicat (June 26, 1940 – 1997) sometimes referred to as “Rogelio Sikat”, was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story writer. Sikat is best known for his classic masterpieces particularly Impeng Negro, a short story based on a half-black, half-Filipino boy and Moses, Moses, a play in one act that depicts the social injustices and the abuse of the country's oppressive politicians. He uses "Sikat" as a pen name to reflect on his Filipino identity (The Filipino alphabet originally does not have the letter c) as his real surname is "Sicat".
Apart from being one of the Philippines’ finest modern literary figures, Sikat was also a distinguished educator. He was a former university professor and former college dean of the University of the Philippines’ College of Arts and Letters.
Sikat was born on June 26, 1940, in the town of San Isidro in the province of Nueva Ecija, as the sixth of eight children of Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez. For his college education, Sikat went to Manila to study in the University of Santo Tomas.
During his time at UST, Sikat served as a writer for the university's official newspaper, The Varsitarian. Sikat's love for literature further heightened and his writing skills flourished with his stint with The Varsitarian.
After finishing his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Sikat continued his love for writing. Despite the country's love for western culture, Sikat took the path less traveled and wrote and succeeded with the Filipino language.
In 1962, Sikat's Impeng Negro won the first prize in Liwayway magazine's best short story and the prized Carlos Palanca Award both in the same year. The short story Impeng Negro catapulted Sikat into the upper echelons of Philippine literature. Impeng Negro touches critical social issues including racism and bullying.
Impeng Negro was adapted into a short film entitled, Impen, the Negro. The short 30-minute film won 1st prize in the Short Feature Film Category in the 12th Gawad CCP for alternative film and video.
Sikat wrote several other short stories during his lifetime including Tata Selo, a fictional narrative based on the real-life land reform issues and recurring political cruelties in the Philippines. It won the second prize in the Carlos Palanca Award for 1963.
In 1969, Sikat's socio-critical play Moses, Moses won the Carlos Palanca Award, further solidifying Sikat's position among the titans of Philippine literature.
Sikat worked in the newspaper and magazine industry, serving as a feature writer for the long-running Liwayway magazine.
References
1940 births
1997 deaths
Filipino writers
Writers from Nueva Ecija
University of Santo Tomas alumni
International Writing Program alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio%20R.%20Sikat |
William House may refer to:
People
William John House, British soldier, VC recipient
William F. House, U.S. doctor, pioneer of cochlear implants
William Pendleton House, U.S. rock climber, first technical ascent of Devil's Tower National Monument.
Will House (cricketer), English cricketer
William House, British miners' leader
Places
H. B. William House, Sarasota, Florida, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The William Forst House, an historic building in Russellville, Kentucky.
William House (building), a heritage building in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
See also
Williams House (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20House |
Welcome Home: Live at the Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara 1992 is a live album by alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket. Released by Columbia Records in 2004, it followed up the band's reunion tour in 2003, and is a chronicle of their first show in Santa Barbara, California following the success of their tour behind the platinum album fear.
Track listing
All songs written by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
"Walk on the Ocean" – 3:17
"One Little Girl" – 3:42
"Scenes from a Vinyl Recliner" – 4:26
"All I Want" – 3:06
"Jam" – 3:16
"Before You Were Born" – 3:27
"Butterflies" – 4:49
Closing interpolation of "Within You Without You" (The Beatles)
"Torn" – 3:06
"Chile" – 4:40
"Nightingale Song" – 2:35
"Brother" – 4:10
"Hold Her Down" – 3:12
"Come Back Down" – 3:05
"Stories I Tell" – 5:03
"Know Me" – 6:09
Opening interpolation of "Spirit" (Mike Scott)
Closing interpolation of "Unsatisfied" (The Replacements)
"Way Away" – 3:21
"Is It for Me" – 3:39
"Fall Down" – 3:43
"I Will Not Take These Things for Granted" – 5:33
References
2004 live albums
Toad the Wet Sprocket live albums
Columbia Records live albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome%20Home%3A%20Live%20at%20the%20Arlington%20Theatre%2C%20Santa%20Barbara%201992 |
Lilla Värtan () or simply Värtan is a strait in Stockholm, Sweden. Separating mainland Stockholm from the island and municipality Lidingö, it stretches from Blockhusudden in the south to Stora Värtan in the north, and is joined by the Stocksundet mid-way. Two bridges, collectively called Lidingöbron ("Lidingö Bridge") stretch over the strait.
While most of the coasts surrounding the strait are occupied by industries and the ferry terminals and oil tanks in the harbour area of Värtahamnen, natural beaches are found in both the southern and the northern end of the strait and the strait forms part of the Royal National City Park.
Most common fish species are Baltic herring, sea trout, and salmon. Stationary predator fishes, e.g. northern pike and perch, are exposed to raised levels of mercury.
The area is considered an important wintering location for several birds species, including swans, Eurasian coot, common pochard, tufted duck, black-headed gull, lesser black-backed gull, gadwall, and common tern. The strait constitutes an important locale, especially ice-free winters, besides the lake Isbladskärret on Djurgården.
Vegetation on the shore lines of Lilla Värtan includes alder, purple loosestrife, common valerian, yellow loosestrife, reed canary-grass, tall fescue, lesser periwinkle, and giant knotweed.
Levels of heavy metals and organic waste are high in the bottom silt and nutrient levels high in the water. The level of phosphorus was 29 µg/L in 2005.
See also
Geography of Stockholm
Stora Värtan
References
Geography of Stockholm
Straits of Sweden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla%20V%C3%A4rtan |
Stoltenhoff Island is a small uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the Nightingale Islands. It is the smallest of the Nightingale Islands, and is to the north west of Nightingale Island itself. They are governed as part of Tristan da Cunha, an archipelago and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The island is part of the Nightingale Islands group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International as a breeding site for seabirds and endemic landbirds.
The island is named after the two Moscow-born German brothers Gustav and Friedrich Stoltenhoff who tried to settle on nearby Inaccessible Island. Their attempt was abandoned after two difficult years.
See also
Coins of Stoltenhoff Island (a legal tender coinage that caused controversy after being struck at Commonwealth Mint in the UK and declared legal tender by the Government of Tristan da Cunha).
References
Islands of Tristan da Cunha
Uninhabited islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Important Bird Areas of Saint Helena
Seabird colonies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoltenhoff%20Island |
was a Japanese film and theatre actor.
Profile
Masakazu Tamura was born 1 August 1943 in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese actor Tsumasaburō Bandō. Tsumasaburō Bandō died when Tamura was only nine years old. His brothers Takahiro and Ryō are also actors. He had been thinking of becoming an actor in the future since he was a child. He was thus trained in fighting with swords and more traditional forms of Japanese theatre like Kabuki and Nihon Buyō. He graduated from Seijo University.
In 1960, he made a cameo appearance in the film Hatamoto Gurentai, in which his older brother Takahiro starred. The following year, he signed a contract with the Shōchiku Ōfuna company while he was still in university. In the same year, he made his official film debut in the film Eternal Woman directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. His first leading film role was Kono koenaki sakebi directed by Hirokazu Ichimura in 1965. He left Shōchiku in 1966 and established his own agency. In 1967, He released the first and last song in his career "Sora Ippai no Namida". His breakthrough came in 1970 after landing a role in the television series Fuyu no Tabi on TBS. From 1970s, Tamura focused predominately on television with occasional film appearances including Yasuharu Hasebe's film Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song and Yasuo Furuhata's film Nihon no Fixer . From the mid-1960s to the 1970s, Tamura was called the Japanese Alain Delon.
He appeared in many period dramas (jidaigeki) such as Naruto Hichō on NHK and most of his roles were skilled swordsmen.
He played the role of "Nemuri Kyoshirō" and won great popularity in 1972; it is Tamura's most famous role in jidaigeki. Later, five special version of the drama were made. He played the same role on the stage in 1973 and 1981. From 1963 to 1967,Tamura appeared in the Taiga drama 5 years in a row. He also appeared in the Taiga drama in Haru no Sakamichi (1971) and Shin Heike Monogatari (1972).
From the late 1980s he began to appear in comedy dramas such as Papa wa Newscaster or home dramas and gained new popularity.
In 1993, Tamura played the role of "Ogami Ittō" in Akira Inoue's film Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict by Kazuo Koike's strong request. His photo book of the film was also released.
He is most famous for his role as the polite and highly idiosyncratic police detective "Furuhata Ninzaburō" in a self-titled drama by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani. This drama was one of the most popular in its time and one of the most popular dramas in the history of Japanese television. The drama started in 1994 and Tamura continued playing Detective Furuhata until 2006.( In 1997, Tamura and Mitani worked together again in Sōrito Yobanaide on Fuji TV.)
In 2007, Tamura appeared in the film for the first in 14 years in Last Love.
Tamura won "Outstanding Actor" at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his work in the TV special Ah, You're Really Gone Now in 2009. Tamura appeared in several television dramas related to Chushingura and finally he played the role of "Ōishi Kuranosuke" for the first time in the special drama Chushingura Sono Otoko Ōishi Kuranosuke in 2010.
In 2018, he played the role of "Nemuri Kyoshirō" for the first time in about 20 years in Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final on Fuji TV. But he hinted at his retirement from acting soon after appearing in that TV movie.
He died of heart failure on 3 April 2021 at the age of 77.
Selected filmography
Films
Television dramas
Awards
References
External links
NHK Archives Actor /Masakazu Tamura人物録 田村正和 俳優
Masakazu Tamura, Agency for Cultural Affairs
1943 births
2021 deaths
Male actors from Kyoto
Seijo University alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masakazu%20Tamura |
Provincial Secretary of Prince Edward Island v Egan, [1941] S.C.R. 396 is a famous constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.The Court upheld a provincial Act, which provided that anyone who was convicted of an impaired driving offence under the Criminal Code will have their licence suspended, on the basis that the law was in relation to the regulation of highway safety which is a valid provincial subject.
The case later became central to another key constitutional decision of O'Grady v. Sparling, [1960] S.C.R. 804.
See also
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court)
External links
Canadian federalism case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
Supreme Court of Canada case articles without infoboxes
1941 in Canadian case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial%20Secretary%20of%20Prince%20Edward%20Island%20v%20Egan |
Insider is a Philippine television documentary and investigative television program, hosted by the news anchors of News5. It aired every Thursdays at 11:30pm-12:00 midnight (PST) between February 2 to August 2, 2012, on TV5. Its Producer's Cut airs every Friday at 7:30-8:30 PM (PST) on AksyonTV.
List of Insider episodes
See also
List of programs aired by TV5 (Philippine TV network)
List of programs aired by AksyonTV/5 Plus
References
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
News5 shows
Philippine documentary television series
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
AksyonTV original programming
Filipino-language television shows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 |
Bedard v Dawson, [1923] S.C.R. 681 is a leading constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court held that the provinces could legislate in matters related to the prevention of crime even though the federal government had exclusive power over criminal law.
The law was passed by the Quebec legislature and allowed for private citizens to apply to the Court to close down a premises if it was being used as a "disorderly house". The Court upheld a provincial Act on the grounds that the law was in relation to property and civil rights and not criminal matters as was the case for an equivalent provision in the criminal code regarding "disorderly houses".
Justice Idington, writing for the majority, held that:
Indeed, the duty to protect neighbouring property owners in such cases as are involved in this question before us renders the question hardly arguable. There are many instances of other nuisances which can be better rectified by local legislation within the power of the legislatures over property and civil rights than by designating them crimes and leaving them to be dealt with by Parliament as such. (p. 684)
In a concurring opinion, Justice Anglin added:
I am of the opinion that this statute in no way impinges on the domain of the criminal law but is concerned exclusively with the control and enjoyment of property and the safeguarding of the community from the consequences of an illegal and injurious use being made of it--a pure matter of civil right. In my opinion in enacting the statute now under consideration a legislature exercises the power which it undoubtedly possesses to provide for the suppression of a nuisance and the prevention of its recurrence by civil process. (p. 685)
See also
Nova Scotia Board of Censors v. McNeil (1978) - similar case.
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court)
Canadian federalism case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
1923 in Canadian case law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedard%20v%20Dawson |
Crianlarich railway station is a railway station serving the village of Crianlarich in Scotland. It is located on the West Highland Line, sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh, with Ardlui to the south, and Tyndrum Lower and Upper Tyndrum to the north west, on the routes to Oban and Mallaig respectively, which diverge immediately north of the station. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate most services (along with Caledonian Sleeper).
History
Crianlarich station opened concurrently with the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894, doubling the number of railway stations in the village. The lines and station were eventually built by the state under compulsory purchase arrangements sought after the persistent rejection by the landowners the Place family of Loch Dochart House and Skelton Grange, Yorkshire, who even turned down the offer of having all the proceeds from the two station tea-rooms in perpetuity. The Places felt that the project would spoil their shooting grounds; the family sold their house and estate shortly after their defeat and retreated to Yorkshire.
The station was laid out with a crossing loop around an island platform and sidings on both sides. On the east side there was an engine shed and a turntable. Three years after opening, in 1897, a junction and link line down to the Callander and Oban Railway, which passed below the West Highland route, was added. Originally, the junction incorporated a scissors crossover, allowing simultaneous moves through the junction. However until 1931 the link line was only used to exchange goods wagons between the two lines. From 1931 onwards, it was also used for excursion traffic from Glasgow and the surrounding areas to the Oban line.
The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1937 to 1939.
In 1951, British Rail added the suffix "Upper" to the station's name, in order to distinguish it from the nearby station (only about walk along the north east access road) on the Callander and Oban Line which then became known as .
Since closure of the Callander and Oban Line east of Crianlarich in 1965 due to a landslide that submerged the railway in Glen Ogle, all trains to Oban have been routed up the West Highland Line as far as Crianlarich Upper station. They then join the remaining part of the Oban line by means of the link line, which had formerly been infrequently used.
Crianlarich Lower station closed on 28 September 1965, and on 1 November 1965 the Upper station's name reverted to "Crianlarich".
The late 19th century 13-bay brick engine shed still stands and Historic Scotland have designated it as a category C listed building.
Freight facilities
The area around the station is forested. The sidings on the west side of the station were used for loading timber until December 2008 when the carriage of Scottish timber by rail ceased in connection with the recession. As of June 2015, there is still no sign of the service being reinstated. Timber trains leaving the sidings at Crianlarich often paused at Arrochar and Tarbet to attach further wagons, the sidings at both stations are now used by the Area Civil Engineer for the storage of materials.
Facilities
The station is equipped with a tea room, a waiting room, benches, an accessible toilet and bike racks. Access to the platform is via a flight of stairs from a subway that runs underneath the tracks, from two car parks. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Passenger volume
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
Northbound, Crianlarich is where the combined trains for Oban and Mallaig divide, with each of the services leaving roughly five minutes apart. Southbound, when each train arrives from Oban or Mallaig, it joins with the other and they go down as one train from Crianlarich.
On weekdays and Saturdays, there are a total of seven southbound ScotRail trains to Glasgow Queen Street. Northbound, there are three trains which divide, with portions to go to Oban and Mallaig, as well as three trains which only go to Oban. On Sundays, there are three services to Oban and two to Mallaig, and there are three trains to Glasgow Queen Street. On Summer Sundays, an extra train from Edinburgh to Oban and back runs, which does not go via Glasgow.
The Caledonian Sleeper runs southbound to London Euston on Sunday and weekday nights, and northbound to Fort William on weekday and Saturday mornings. The Sleeper conveys seats to carry regular passengers as far as Edinburgh.
References
Bibliography
External links
Video footage of Crianlarich station
Railway stations in Stirling (council area)
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
James Miller railway stations
1894 establishments in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crianlarich%20railway%20station |
Teresa "Teri" Austin (born April 17, 1957) is a Canadian animal activist and former actress. She had her greatest acting success in the 1980s and 1990s, and is best known for her role as Jill Bennett in the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing, and as co-host of the Canadian reality series Thrill of a Lifetime.
Early life
Austin was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from York University in Toronto. She attended North Albion High and was escorted to and from school by John Smith.
Career
Austin began her acting career in Canada where she worked in television, film radio and theatre and co-hosted the show Thrill of a Lifetime before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career there.
Austin is best known for her performance as Jill Bennett on CBS series Knots Landing. She played the role from 1985 to 1989, and in 1990 won Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villain: Prime Time. She also appeared in Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, and returned to soap roles in Beverly Hills, 90210 and Models Inc.. In film, she appeared in The Vindicator (1986) and Raising Cain (1992).
In 2001, Austin left acting and began working as animal activist in Los Angeles, creating The Amanda Foundation.
Filmography
References
External links
1957 births
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Living people
York University alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri%20Austin |
Ropsten is a cape at the eastern part of Stockholm mainland at the inner part of Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. Two bridges named Lidingöbron extend from Ropsten over to the island of Lidingö. Ropsten area is located between Hjorthagen and the Stockholm city main port Värtahamnen. Ropsten is the terminal station for the eastern part of Stockholm Metro system and is also the terminal station for Lidingöbanan, the railway for public transportation, covering the area of Lidingö.
History
Ropsten has been the communication center for the traffic between Stockholm and Lidingö since the 13th or 14th century, when the first inhabitants settled on Lidingö and began farming, 200–300 years after the end of the Viking Age.
The name "Ropsten" stems from the fact that in old times, going back to the 13th or 14th century, people used to shout out loud from this area to Lidingö, a distance of about 750 meters, to call for a boat transport over to Lidingö, before the first regular rowboat ferry line was introduced and before the first bridge was built. In the old times, the part of the Ropsten area close to the waterfront was named Ropudden (corresponding to "cape shout"). The large rock or islet in the water close to this cape gave the place its name, "the rock at cape shout", Ropsten. The rock itself, however, was probably not used as a place to shout from, as it was surrounded by water (during average sea level conditions) according to old maps from the end of the 17th century, in particular a map from 1696. When there was an extreme low sea level it was probably possible to reach the rock by foot, as indicated on the painting by Piere Joseph Trere from 1795.
The entire area, named Ropsten, dramatically changed appearance in just a few years when the first bridge between Ropsten and Lidingö and the main port for Stockholm was built in this area from around 1884. Today nothing remains of the old Ropsten as it appears on the painting from 1795.
Image gallery, Ropsten year 1696-2008
Footnotes
Geography of Stockholm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropsten |
Bert Metz (born 15 August 1945) is a Dutch climate policy expert. He was co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on mitigation on climate change for the third and fourth assessment report of the IPCC. Currently, he is a fellow at the European Climate Foundation.
Biography
Metz was born in The Hague. He obtained an engineer's degree in chemical engineering at Delft University of Technology and subsequently his Ph.D. degree at the same university. From 1976 to 1987, he worked for Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment in the fields of air pollution, external safety, noise pollution, chemical waste and the enforcement of environmental laws.
From 1987 until 1992, he was Counsellor for Health and Environment at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC. In 1992 he became deputy director for Air and Energy of the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, with responsibility for climate policy. He led the Netherlands delegation to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Convention.
In 1997, he moved to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency at RIVM to head the group on climate change and global sustainability and was elected as co-chairman of the Working Group on Climate Change Mitigation of the IPCC for the preparation of the Third Assessment Report. In 2002 he was re-elected in that position for the 4th Assessment Report cycle.
Although formally retired, Bert Metz is still very active in the climate policy arena, among others as advisor for the European Climate Foundation and as steering group member of UNEP's annual Emissions Gap Report. In 2008 he was named Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau..
References
1945 births
Living people
Dutch climatologists
Delft University of Technology alumni
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Scientists from The Hague | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Metz |
A doula is an assistant providing non-medical support during and after childbirth.
Doula may also refer to:
Doula (anatomy) or dulla, a sac that is inflated when the male dromedary is in rut
People
Doula Mouriki (1934–1991), Greek Byzantinist and art historian
Siraj ud-Daulah, an eighteenth-century ruler of Bengal, often spelled Siraj-ud-Doula in older literature
Sayf al-Dawla, a medieval ruler of Aleppo, frequently spelled Saif al Doula
See also
Douala, a city in Cameroon
Doulos (disambiguation), the masculine form | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doula%20%28disambiguation%29 |
A Bullet for the General (; original title means "Who knows?", in the Spanish language), also known as El Chucho Quién Sabe?, is a 1966 Italian Zapata Western film directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Gian Maria Volonté, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski and Martine Beswick. The film, a Zapata Western, tells the story of El Chuncho, a bandit, and Bill Tate (or El Niño/The Kid), a counter-revolutionary contract killer in Mexico. Chuncho soon learns that social revolution is more important than mere money.
Plot
During the Mexican Revolution, a Durango-bound government munitions train is forced to stop due to the presence of a crucified federal army officer on the tracks. El Chucho/Chuncho Muños, an arrogant gun runner and guerrilla figure who is loyal to the revolutionary leader General Elías, leads his gang in an assault on the train. Lieutenant Alvaro Ferreira, who is commanding the rurales' escort of the train attempts to save the officer, but after being fatally wounded by Chuncho he orders the train to run the captain and him over and escape the bandits. Bill Tate, a quiet and mysterious American passenger on the train, kills the engineer and stops the train again, allowing Chuncho and his gang to kill the remaining rurales and take their weapons. Posing as a former prisoner of the army, Tate joins the gang, and is quickly befriended by Chuncho, who nicknames him "Niño" (which means "Kid" in Spanish language).
After several heists, the gang travels to the town of San Miguel, where Chuncho meets with his old friend Raimundo to overthrow the weakhearted town boss, Don Felipe. Rosaria, Felipe's spirited wife, attempts to defend him; when Chuncho's men assault her, Tate angrily berates them for their behaviour. Chuncho shoots Guapo, a gang member, for attempting to kill Tate. Don Felipe is made to drive Chuncho and his gang back to San Miguel, and he is eventually executed.
Chuncho prepares to stay in San Miguel, drilling the villagers in the hopes of becoming a General himself; Tate convinces much of the gang to leave San Miguel so they can sell their weapons to Elías. Eventually missing his bandit lifestyle, Chuncho leaves San Miguel under the care of El Santo, his priestly half-brother, on the pretext of recovering a gold-plated Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun from his former gang. After killing one of them, Picaro, Chuncho resumes leadership of the others, hoping to sell the weapons to Elías before returning to San Miguel.
Elías' emissary arrives, but is pursued by army troops. Tate and Chuncho use the machine gun to decimate the troops, but nearly all of Chuncho's remaining gang is killed in the firefight. Unseen by the others, Tate also kills the emissary. Adelita, Chuncho's last surviving loyal gang member, abandons the pair after her lover, Pepito, is killed in the battle. During the ride to Elías' camp, Tate falls victim to a malaria attack. While getting quinine pills for Tate, Chuncho finds a golden bullet among his possessions; Tate later claims that the bullet is a good luck charm.
Chuncho and Tate arrive at Elías' camp the next morning, where they encounter several starving revolutionaries. Chuncho sells the guns and is paid five thousand pesos, before learning from Elías that the people of San Miguel were massacred by the army. Realising his irresponsibility, Chuncho allows himself to be taken away to be executed by Santo, one of the sole survivors of the attack. Meanwhile, Tate, from a high vantage point, shoots Elías and kills Santo before Chuncho's sentence can be carried out. Tate escapes as Elías' doctors pronounce his death: shot in the head with a golden bullet.
Weeks later, Chuncho, now an impoverished beggar, tracks Tate to a hotel in Ciudad Juarez and tries to shoot him. Tate, insisting that he has been waiting for him, gives him a half-share of the reward he received from the Mexican Government for assassinating Elías: 100,000 pesos in gold. Chuncho, astonished by Tate's apparent loyalty and friendship, visits a barber, a tailor and a brothel.
The next morning the pair prepare to leave for a new life in the United States. However, when Chuncho watches as Tate cuts through a line to buy their train tickets, he begins to reconsider their relationship and his responsibilities. Learning that he had been further manipulated by Tate through his pretending to be an army prisoner, Chuncho suddenly declares that, although they are friends, he must kill him. Tate asks why, to which Chuncho replies "¿Quién sabe?" before shooting him. Tate's body begins its return to the United States, while Chuncho, laughing manically, tosses his bag of money to a group of peasants and flees from the authorities down an external corridor of carriages, exhorting the poor to buy dynamite instead of bread.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté as Chucho/El Chucho/Chuncho Muños
Lou Castel as Bill "Niño" Tate/El Niño/Taylor
William Berger as Bill "Niño" Tate
Klaus Kinski as El Santo
Martine Beswick as Adelita
Jaime Fernández as General Elías
Andrea Checchi as Don Felipe
Spartaco Conversi as Eufemio
Joaquín Parra as Picaro
Aldo Sambrell as Lieutenant Alvaro Ferreira
José Manuel Martín as Raimundo
Santiago Santos as Guapo
Valentino Macchi as Train Engineer
Guy Heron as Pepito
Carla Gravina as Rosaria
Rufino Inglés as Captain Enrique Sanchez Compoy
Vicente Roca as Hotelier
Antoñito Ruiz as Chico
Sal Borgese as Bandit
Damiano Damiani as Journalist with Elías
Aysanoa Runachagua as Paymaster
Richard McNamara as Opening Narrator
Production
The screenplay and story for A Bullet for the General is credited to Salvatore Laurani while Franco Solinas is credited with the adaptation and dialogue. Film historian Howard Hughes noted that A Bullet for the General was the first Italian Western to seriously deal with the Mexican revolution and credited Solinas with the political aspects on the film. Solinas was a Marxist writer best known in film for his screenplays for Salvatore Giuliano and The Battle of Algiers.
A Bullet for the General was directed by Damiano Damiani and shot in Almería between July and August 1966. Damiani had originally wanted to shoot the film in Mexico which proved to be impossible.
Release
A Bullet for the General was released in Italy in December 1966.
Reception
In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin declared the film to be "a lively sortie into the Mexican Revolution with a good deal of boisterous action and a spirited performance from Gian Maria Volonte". The review noted the running time cut from 135 minutes to 77 minutes, stating "substantial pruning unfortunately plays havoc with the continuity (a character who was clearly of some importance in the original is here reduced to a few marginal references)."
Damiano's film has been called a "serious statement about the Mexican Revolution" and has been recognised as an accomplished blend of "tension, action, politics and history".
References
Footnotes
Notes
Sources
External links
1966 films
1960s Italian-language films
Spaghetti Western films
Films directed by Damiano Damiani
1966 Western (genre) films
Mexican Revolution films
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
Films shot in Almería
1960s Italian films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Bullet%20for%20the%20General |
Cheek augmentation is a cosmetic surgical procedure that is intended to emphasize the cheeks on a person's face. To augment the cheeks, a plastic surgeon may place a solid implant over the cheekbone. Injections with the patients' own fat or a soft tissue filler, like Restylane, are also popular. Rarely, various cuts to the zygomatic bone (cheekbone) may be performed. Cheek augmentation is commonly combined with other procedures, such as a face lift or chin augmentation.
Implants
Materials
Cheek implants can be made of a variety of materials. The most common material is solid silicone. In addition, two popular options are high-density porous polyethylene, marketed as Medpor, and ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene), better known as Gore-Tex. Both Medpor and ePTFE are inert substances, providing better integration with the underlying tissue and bone than solid silicone. However, in the case of Medpor, the implants' integration and ingrowth with the underlying tissue causes difficulty removing the implant if revisions are needed.
Shapes
There are three general shapes to cheek implants: malar, submalar, or combined. Malar implants, the most common shape, are placed directly on the cheekbones. The result is more projection to the cheekbones, providing a "higher" contour to the side of the face. In contrast, submalar implants are not placed on the cheekbones. They are intended to augment the midface, especially if the person has a gaunt or "sunken" appearance to this area. Combined implants or malar/submalar combination, are an extended implant intended to augment both the midface and the cheekbones.
Incisions
A surgeon will usually make an incision in the upper mouth near the top of the gum line and slide the implants into place. Another method is to make an external incision near the eye, but most patients do not choose this method since it can create a visible scar. However, the intraoral (inside the mouth) approach carries a higher risk of infection since the mouth contains more bacteria. Cheek implant surgery is usually performed under sedation or general anesthesia and take about one to two hours. Recovery from this surgery usually takes about ten days.
Risks
As with any surgery there is a risk of infection, postoperative bleeding, formation of a blood clot, and severe swelling. Asymmetry is a risk with all forms of cheek augmentation. This can occur due to uneven resorption, implant displacement, or shifting. This shift can happen due to swelling, trauma or scarring. Although a temporary loss of sensation is common, an extended loss of sensation can occur with any surgery, especially cosmetic plastic surgery.
Fillers or injections
Injections to the cheekbones to provide a less invasive and less expensive approach to cheek augmentation. A hyaluronic acid, such as Restylane or Juvederm, can be injected to the cheek area. Autologous fat is considered a "more permanent" option, but all are eventually completely resorbed.
Zygomatic osteotomy
A zygomatic "sandwich" osteotomy is far less common. The procedure is often indicated during reconstructive surgery for birth defects or traumatic injury. During this procedure, the zygoma, or cheekbone, is separated by bone cuts near the orbital rim and maxilla. The bone is then moved outward and a solid material, such as hydroxylapatite, is wedged in place to hold the new position of the zygoma.
References
Oral and maxillofacial surgery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek%20augmentation |
Huntington Macdonald Block (born February 16, 1954) is an American actor.
Career
Block was discovered selling Buick Century automobiles at the Chicago Auto Show. Early in his career, he made numerous TV commercials, short films, and experimental theater pieces. While living in Tribeca in New York City, he performed in Off-Off Broadway and Broadway productions for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, and Doric Wilson. He appeared in William Shakespeare's As You Like It, Forever After, A Loss Of Memory, Provicante di Saliva, The Bald Soprano, and Make Mine Kafka!.
Block has worked with film directors Arthur Hiller, Peter Medak, Lee Katzin, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Noyce. Block played the roles of U.S. President Howard Lewis in the film Salt, Sebastian Weinberg in My Best Day, Walter Hill in Only I..., the U.S. Olympian Robert Garrett (1875–1961), a young scion of a wealthy Baltimore railroad and financier family in the TV miniseries The First Olympics: Athens 1896. He had starring roles in several other TV movies and pilots, and he has appeared steadily in lead roles in several dramatic serials, such as Knots Landing, and numerous TV daytime dramas, including Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live. He has voiced multiple commercial and digital campaigns, performed with the Indonesian poetry forum Yang Mengatakan, in Balinese Shadow plays, and in the Norwegian Arctic Rights Group Vakne Opp's production of Ballong. He is a regular contributor to Sweet Dreams, an audio series of bedtime stories.
Personal life
Block is the son of Huntington T. Block, an insurance underwriter, and is the brother of film producer and CEO of Miramax Bill Block.
Filmography
Movies
Television
References
External links
1953 births
Living people
Harvard University alumni
American male television actors
American male soap opera actors
People from Glen Burnie, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt%20Block |
Bridge of Orchy railway station is a railway station in the village of Bridge of Orchy in the west of Scotland. The station is on the West Highland Line, between Rannoch and Upper Tyndrum, from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh. ScotRail manage the station and operate most services, with others provided by Caledonian Sleeper.
History
This station opened by the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894.
The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939 and possibly one for some of 1934.
Facilities
The island platform is only equipped with shelters and bike racks, although there is a car park. The only access to the station is via a stepped subway, so there is no step-free access. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Passenger volume
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
Monday to Saturday, Bridge of Orchy has three ScotRail services to Mallaig and three services to Glasgow Queen Street. Caledonian Sleeper operate one service each day, each way to Fort William and London Euston (except Saturday nights). On Sundays, there are two services northbound to Mallaig and two southbound to Glasgow Queen Street, as well as the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston. This can also be used by regular travellers to and from stations towards Edinburgh, as it is booked to set down at some stations and carries seating coaches as far as Edinburgh.
References
Bibliography
External links
Video footage of the station on YouTube
Railway stations in Argyll and Bute
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
James Miller railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Category B listed buildings in Argyll and Bute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20of%20Orchy%20railway%20station |
Five Live is a live EP by alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket. The EP was a limited pressing of 5,000 copies bundled with the first pressing of the album fear. Recorded live on December 19, 1991, at the Whisky a Go Go, Hollywood, CA, and on December 21, 1991, at the Anaconda Theater, Santa Barbara, CA. Mixed at Master Control, Burbank, CA. It contains 4 live songs from their prior albums as well as a live version of "Hold Her Down" which is from the "Fear" album.
Track listing
"Jam" – 3:08
"One Little Girl" – 3:19
"Scenes from a Vinyl Recliner" – 4:31
"Come Back Down" – 2:50
"Hold Her Down" – 2:53
References
1992 EPs
Toad the Wet Sprocket live albums
Live EPs
1992 live albums
Albums recorded at the Whisky a Go Go
Columbia Records live albums
Columbia Records EPs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Live%20%28Toad%20the%20Wet%20Sprocket%20EP%29 |
Lidingöbron (Swedish: "The Lidingö Bridge") is the name of two existing and two historical bridges across the strait of Lilla Värtan between the mainland Norra Djurgården at Ropsten, at the eastern part of Stockholm, and the island of Lidingö.
History
First pontoon bridge
At a parish meeting in 1802, the inhabitants of Lidingö, at the time a mostly agricultural district, decided to open a venture to realize a pontoon bridge connecting the island to Stockholm. The 50 shares of the company had to be redeemed by contributing to the project with timber, work, or money and the bridge was completed in 1803; almost long, wide and financed by tolls. It was one of the longest bridges in Europe, and it was located around south of the present bridges. It had a hard time surviving the annual ice break-up, and a third of it was demolished in 1811, and most of it in 1858 — each time raising the price for milk in the capital, as most of it was produced on Lidingö at the time.
Second pontoon bridge
With the creation of the harbour of Värtahamnen, the original bridge obstructed shipping in the strait, and it was therefore bought by the city of Stockholm in 1883 who replaced it 1884 with a new pontoon bridge, wide and with two moveable sections at each end for the passage of ships. This bridge was located near the present bridge. The level of the roadway was only over the water surface however, so even moderate winds made crossing the bridge a tough experience. The lateral stability of the bridge was ensured by means of logs attached to the bridge every and anchored to the bottom. The use of logs instead of chains effectively increased the bridge's general buoyancy at the cost of its stability during low tide - the bridge often serpentined its way across the water while the inclination of the roadway at the two ends made use of extra horses necessary. Heavy trucks started to use the bridge, for which it was not constructed. Ice break-up destroyed a third of the bridge in 1918.
Old Lidingöbron
By the end of World War I, the increasing number of motor cars made a more able bridge necessary, and by 1925 a steel truss bridge, wide with a long roadway, finally replaced the second pontoon bridge. It had two railway tracks in the same carriageway as the road.
To avoid foundation work at the maximum depth a long truss arch was used, and the bridge was provided with a simple long bascule leaf in order to allow a vertical navigation clearance of .
After the new bridge was built, cars were no longer allowed on the old bridge. It has one rail track which is now considered a tramway (or light rail line), the Lidingöbanan. The other half of the bridge is used for bicycles and pedestrians.
New Lidingöbron
The population of Lidingö as well as the traffic continued to grow however, and by the 1950s the old bridge had become insufficient. The two municipalities met in 1961, and the following year it was settled a new bridge should be located south of the old. The new bridge, inaugurated in 1971, is long, wide, and offers a navigation clearance of while the roadway passes above the bottom of the strait. The part of the bridge passing over water, long, is made of double box girders with a maximum span of , the entire construction resting on steel poles filled with concrete.
Image gallery
Sources
Lidingöbron in Swedish.
Footnotes
See also
List of bridges in Stockholm
Bridges in Stockholm
Bridges completed in 1803
Bridges completed in 1884
Bridges completed in 1925
Bridges completed in 1971
Former toll bridges in Sweden
Rail infrastructure in Stockholm County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liding%C3%B6bron |
Thiéfosse () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
See also
Communes of the Vosges department
References
Communes of Vosges (department) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thi%C3%A9fosse |
The Victims were an Australian punk band from Perth, Western Australia, active from 1977 to 1979. The founding mainstay members were James Baker on drums, Dave Flick (Dave Faulkner) on guitar and vocals, and Rudolph V (Dave Cardwell) on bass guitar. Their debut single, "Television Addict", was issued in April 1978 and was followed by a five-track extended play, The Victims, in August of that year. The group disbanded early in the next year. In 1989 Timberyard Records released a compilation album, All Loud on the Western Front, of their material. In late 2014 and early 2015 Baker and Faulkner were joined by Ray Ahn (of Hard-Ons) as the Television Addicts to perform the Victims material. The 2014 and 2015 shows were so well received that the trio assumed the band name The Victims and played sold-out shows at Rosemount Hotel and Mojo's Bar.
History
The Victims were formed in Perth in mid-1977 with James Baker on drums (ex-Beheaded/The Geeks), Dave Flick (real name Dave Faulkner) on guitar and vocals (ex-Beagle Boys) and Rudolph V (real name Dave Cardwell) on bass guitar. Earlier in that year Baker and Cardwell had founded another punk band, the Geeks, with Ross Buncle on guitar and a vocalist, Lloyd. That group folded in May and their original songs formed the core of the Victims' initial repertoire. The group's sound was based on United States punk pioneers, the Flamin' Groovies, the Heartbreakers, New York Dolls, and the Stooges. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt that "with their frantic, explosive sound backed by a solid melodic bent, The Victims became the premier punk band on the Perth scene."
In 1977 the Victims recorded their debut single, "Television Addict" (Faulkner/Baker) / "I'm Flipped Out Over You" (Baker/Buncle), of which only 1,000 copies were pressed. In August 1978 they released a five-track extended play, The Victims (also known as No Thanks to the Human Turd), with: "I Understand", "Open Your Eyes", "TV Freak", "High School Girls" and "Disco Junkies". Baker was one of the writers of the latter four tracks; the identity of his co-composer was disputed – some sources attributing Faulkner and others citing Buncle – the situation was later resolved, with Buncle acknowledged as co-writer. Only 500 copies of the EP were released. Some versions had hand-drawn sleeves, which McFarlane described as "ultra-rare and highly prized collector's items."
Their performance at Hernando's Hideaway in Perth in January 1978 was recorded: it was issued on the live album, Culture Shock, in 2014. By mid-1978 the Victims had disbanded, they briefly reunited in early 1979 to provide a farewell gig. Baker was a founder of The Scientists (1978–81). Flick reverted to using his surname, Faulkner, and briefly joined Midget and The Farrellys. In late 1979, he joined Mannikins. Baker and Faulkner reunited in January 1981 and founded Hoodoo Gurus in Sydney. Rudolph V became a member of Love Assassins with Mark Hutchinson on guitar, John Rowlings on vocals and Marc Siddall on drums.
In December 1989 the Victims material was issued as a compilation album, All Loud on the Western Front, on Timberyard Records. This included all the tracks from their first single and EP, as well as a previously unreleased track, "Perth Is a Culture Shock". It was re-issued on CD in 2005.
"Television Addict" has been covered by Hoodoo Gurus (both live when Baker was still a member and on record for Crank, 2005 re-issue) and recorded by You Am I, The Hellacopters and Teengenerate. It is also a mainstay of Australian punk compilations. The song was also played live by United States band The Bronx on their 2007 Australian tour. The 2011 compilation, Sleeping Dogs Lie, was issued by Japanese label 1977 Records and distributed in Australia by the Fuse label. In addition to the tracks on All Loud on the Western Front it added two demo songs.
In August 2014 Baker and Faulkner were joined by Ray Ahn (of Hard-Ons) on bass guitar as the Television Addicts at the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth. They performed the Victims material and in February of the following year gigged in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. According to Faulkner, Cardwell was not asked to join as "we ended up not liking the third Victim very much and didn't want to have anything to do with him."
Discography
Albums
All Loud on the Western Front Timberyard Records (compilation album, 1989)
Sleeping Dogs Lie (compilation album, 2011)
Culture Shock (live album, 2014)
Extended plays
The Victims (aka No Thanks to the Human Turd) Independent (August 1978)
Singles
"Television Addict" Independent (1977)
Compilation appearances
Murder Punk, Volume 1: The Australian Years (1997)
Murder Punk, Volume 2: The Australian Years (1997)
Do The Pop! The Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-87 Shock Records (2002) (Song: "Television Addict")
Tales from the Australian Underground: Singles 1976-1989 (2003) (Song: "I'm Flipped Out Over You")
References
General
Note: Archived [on-line] copy has limited functionality.
Specific
Western Australian musical groups
Musical groups established in 1977
Musical groups disestablished in 1979
Australian punk rock groups
Musical groups from Perth, Western Australia
Timberyard Records artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Victims%20%28Australian%20band%29 |
Tulloch railway station is a rural railway station in the remote Tulloch area of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Corrour and Roy Bridge, sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh.
History
When the railway opened on 7 August 1894 the station was named Inverlair, after the nearby Inverlair Lodge. It was renamed Tulloch on 1 January 1895.
The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are sidings on the north side of the station.
The station buildings are now used as a hostel. The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939.
During the construction of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme in the 1930s, a small halt was located at Fersit, a short distance south on the line towards Corrour.
Signalling
The signal box, which had 15 levers, was situated on the Up platform. From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system. The semaphore signals were removed on 23 February 1986 in preparation for the introduction of Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) by British Rail.
The RETB system was commissioned between and Fort William Junction on 29 May 1988. This resulted in the closure of Tulloch signal box and others on that part of the line. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.
The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.
Facilities
The facilities here are incredibly basic, consisting of benches on both platforms, and a car park adjacent to platform 1. Both platforms have step-free access, but the only access to platform 2 is via a barrow crossing. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Passenger volume
With 266 entries and exits in the 2020/21 period, Tulloch is the least busy station in Scotland with direct London services, and the least busy station along the line from Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William.
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
Monday to Saturday, Tulloch has three northbound services to and one service to Fort William (the Highland Caledonian Sleeper). Southbound, there are three services to Glasgow Queen Street and one service to London Euston (except Saturday nights). On Sundays, there are two services northbound to Mallaig, two services southbound to Glasgow Queen Street, and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston. The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used by regular travellers to both Glasgow and Edinburgh Waverley.
References
Bibliography
External links
Video footage of the station on YouTube
Railway stations in Highland (council area)
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
James Miller railway stations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulloch%20railway%20station |
New York State Route 416 (NY 416) is a state highway located entirely within the towns of Hamptonburgh and Montgomery in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It extends for in a north–south direction from an intersection with NY 207 in Hamptonburgh to a junction with NY 211 in Montgomery. It does not intersect any other state routes besides those at its termini, nor pass through any settlements. NY 416 is a two-lane highway for its entire length, and mainly serves to allow traffic from the northwestern corner of the county to get to Goshen, the county seat, more easily. Despite its minimal length, the route passes a number of places of interest and is a quite scenic country road. The route was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
Route description
NY 416 begins at an intersection with NY 207 in Hamptonburgh just north of a tunnel carrying NY 207 under railroad tracks shared by the Metro North and Norfolk Southern railroads. From its south end, the route heads uphill across open, rolling fields, passing the former headquarters of Local Media Group, once publishers of the local daily, the Times Herald-Record. A bit further on, it passes the Hill–Hold historic site on the east and provides the main access to Thomas Bull Memorial Park, one of the county's most popular. After the park, the road begins a descent to the lowlands around the Wallkill River, a stretch surrounded by several horse farms.
It draws alongside the Wallkill as it approaches a cluster of shipping warehouses along the south side of Interstate 84 (I-84). The river and the highway pass under the freeway with no connection, and NY 416 continues alongside the river while meandering past some more farmland as it enters the town of Montgomery. The river makes a turn to the west across the town line; however, NY 416 stays on a generally northward track to a restored slave cemetery situated on the west side of the highway. Another short stretch of fields brings NY 416 to its northern terminus at a junction with NY 211 just south of the Montgomery village line. This intersection is right next to Orange County Airport and two other historic sites. The Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery is on the east side of the road, and the Johannes Miller House lies across from it on the opposite side of NY 211.
History
The origins of NY 416 date back to 1902 when the state of New York awarded a contract on June 20 to improve of roads in Goshen and Hamptonburgh to state highway standards. The stretch cost $35,712 to reconstruct (equivalent to $ in ) and was added to the state highway system on August 5, 1904, as unsigned State Highway 65 (SH 65). SH 65 did not receive a posted route number until the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, when hundreds of state-maintained highways were given signed designations for the first time. The southern half of SH 65 became part of NY 207 while the northern part was designated as NY 416. Originally, NY 416 followed then-NY 84 northeast into Montgomery, where both routes terminated at NY 17K. In the mid-1960s, the NY 84 designation was eliminated to avoid confusion with the new I-84, and its former alignment east of Middletown became an extension of NY 211. NY 416 was truncated to its current length by 1970.
In 2021 two traffic lights were erected to manage increased truck traffic to the newly built Medline warehouse on Route 416 north of I-84. One is just south of the interstate at the junction with County Route 99; the other is at the entrance to the warehouse complex just north of the interstate.
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
416
Transportation in Orange County, New York
Wallkill River | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%20416 |
Summers (さまぁ〜ず) are a Japanese comedy duo. They were frequent guests on the former late night conte show Uchimura Produce (Uchi-P) and the variety show Lincoln, as well as many other Japanese variety and quiz shows.
They were two members of the musical comedy group NO PLAN, along with Teruyoshi Uchimura. The group disbanded in 2006.
Otake and Mimura
The group consists of Kazuki Ōtake (大竹一樹), born December 8, 1967, and Masakazu Mimura (三村マサカズ), born June 8, 1967. Both comedians were born in Sumida, Tokyo.
Usually functioning as the boke, Ōtake is famous for his ability to spontaneously spurt out meaningless, yet funny lines, and for his crude jokes (shimoneta). His amazing ability to entertain audiences with strange, nonsensical gags was dubbed "Ōtake World" on Uchi-P. He was told many times that he looked like his partner Mimura, and decided to wear glasses in order to distinguish himself. He does not, however, normally wear glasses. He enjoys wearing short sleeves over long sleeved T-shirts, and has been given the title "King of Sexual Harassment".
As the tsukkomi of the group, Mimura is also known to perform tsukkomi on himself, and was given the nickname "Kantō's #1 Tsukkomi King". He attempted to become a boke once on Uchi-P but couldn't pull it off as he continually resorted to using shimoneta. He is a prolific game show contestant, and once won ¥1,000,000 on Quiz$Millionaire, the Japanese equivalent of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. He is also considered a decent manga artist.
Mimura is also a frequent target of dokkiri subjected on him by Ōtake and the rest of the crew on Uchi-P. He jokes that he has become so accustomed to being surprised by dokkiri that he can predict when he is going to be fooled in the morning before he leaves his home to go to work.
History
As friends, Ōtake and Mimura decided to become manzai-shi on a leisurely trip to Horipro in 1988. They began performing under the name "Bacardi", but in 2000, after numerous appearances on the "New Un-Nan's Feel So Nice" show, they were forced to change their name to "Summers" by Teruyoshi Uchimura. Cream Stew was also forced to change their name in the same way.
Mimura's style of tsukkomi became famous—he frequently suffixes his sentences with kayo!, a very strong question form, comparable to the English, "The hell?"—and Summers has become increasingly successful ever since their big break in 2001. They also enjoyed moderate success with their books さまぁ〜ずの悲しいダジャレ (Summers' Sad Bad Dajare) and さまぁ〜ずの悲しい俳句 (Summers' Sad Haiku), published by Takarajimasha.
References
External links
Official Profile Page
Sony NOPLAN Artist Page
Japanese comedy duos
Living people
People from Sumida
Comedians from Tokyo
Year of birth missing (living people)
Japanese YouTube groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers%20%28owarai%29 |
Krstur may mean:
Ruski Krstur, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia
Srpski Krstur, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krstur |
Ty Votaw (born February 1962) is an American lawyer and golf executive.
Career
Votaw worked in corporate law for a Cincinnati-based firm before joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association as general counsel in 1991. He served as its Commissioner from 1999 to 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Executive Vice President, International Affairs of the PGA Tour. In 2013 Votaw was named Executive Vice President and Chief Global Communications Officer for the PGA Tour, and in September 2014 was named the Tour's Chief Marketing Officer where is responsible for all of the organization's communications, marketing, branding and advertising. Votaw also serves as Vice President of the International Golf Federation.
Votaw also coordinated the 2016 Olympic golf movement on behalf of the International Golf Federation's Olympic Golf Committee and other golf organizations around the world. Votaw served in a newly created position as executive director, IGF Olympic Golf Committee. Golf was subsequently included in the 2016 Summer Olympics. In June 2022, Votaw retired as Executive Vice President, International, of the PGA Tour.
Personal life
Votaw was born in Greenford, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1984 with a degree in journalism and public relations and earned his J.D. degree at the University of North Carolina in 1987.
While Votaw was at the LPGA, he and tour golfer Sophie Gustafson became personally close, sparking press coverage because he was still married, though separated (since 2003) from his first wife, Paula Keiffer. The couple were married on June 16, 2006. They divorced in January 2010. As of 2013, Votaw was married to the former Kelli Suire.
References
LPGA Tour commissioners
Ohio University alumni
University of North Carolina School of Law alumni
People from Mahoning County, Ohio
People from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
1962 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty%20Votaw |
Roy Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Roybridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Tulloch and Spean Bridge, sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh. ScotRail manage the station and operate most services, along with Caledonian Sleeper.
History
This station opened by the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894. The station was originally a two platform station, with sidings to the north. The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1952 to 1960.
Facilities
The station is equipped with a waiting room, a bench, a help point and some bike racks. The station is only accessible from a stepped overbridge and thus has no step-free access. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Passenger volume
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
Mondays to Saturdays, the station is served by three Scotrail trains per day in each direction, northbound to and southbound to , along with the Highland Caledonian Sleeper between London Euston and via Edinburgh Waverley (the latter doesn't run southbound on Saturday nights or northbound on Sunday mornings, and only calls at the station on request). Sundays see just two trains per day call, as well as the southbound sleeper. The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used by regular passengers from/to Glasgow (Queen St Low Level) and Edinburgh.
References
External links
Railway stations in Highland (council area)
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
Railway request stops in Great Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Bridge%20railway%20station |
Dry Drayton is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England, listed as Draitone in the Domesday Book in 1086. It covers an area of .
History
The ancient parish of Dry Drayton formed between the Roman Via Devana (now the A14) to the north, and the Cambridge to St Neot's road to the south, covering an area of 2421 acres. In 1966 around 350 acres were removed from the north west of the parish to create the new civil parish of Bar Hill. Now completely cleared of ancient woodland, the village has been used for arable farming for centuries.
Listed as Draitone in the Domesday Book, the village became known as Dry Drayton by the start of the 13th century to distinguish it from Fen Drayton (5 miles to the north west) and the fact that it was susceptible to times of drought. The name "Drayton" means "farmstead where drays or sledges are used".
Church
The parish church in the village has been dedicated to St Peter and St Paul since the 15th century. The building dates from the 13th century, and consists of a chancel, an aisled and clerestoried nave with north porch, and a three-storey west tower. The tower is the oldest part of the present building and dates from the 13th century, as does the majority of the chancel and nave, though the church was restored in the 19th century. The plain octagonal font dates from the 13th century.
Village life
Dry Drayton has an Anglican church, a Methodist church, a primary school and a cricket ground.
The village has one remaining public house, The Black Horse, that opened around 1780. Former pubs include the Three Horseshoes, that opened in the mid-18th century and closed in the mid-20th century. Away from the village was the Five Bells, that opened in the early 19th century where the Oakington road met the Huntingdon turnpike (now the A14). It became a farmhouse in the first decades of the 20th century.
The village High Street once was the main focus of the village but with expansion the focus has moved towards the area closer to the field called 'The Park', despite not being a play park or recreational area. Most of the village services and shops closed following the opening of the Tesco superstore in Bar Hill.
Dry Drayton is connected to Bar Hill by a cycle path and pedestrian path known as "The Drift".
There is currently a campaign to improve the cycling facilities between Bar Hill, Dry Drayton, Madingley and Cambridge by providing an off-road cycle track www.bhddmadcycle.com
Nearby villages
Oakington to the northeast
Hardwick to the south
Madingley to the southeast
Bar Hill to the north
References
External links
DryDrayton.net Village website
Dry Drayton Village Hall website
Villages in Cambridgeshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20Drayton |
, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 Katō Masahiko; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director.
Career
Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at the age of 16 in the Kō Nakahira film Crazed Fruit in 1956. Tsugawa's family was heavily involved in the film industry since before his birth. Tsugawa attended school until dropping out of Waseda University Graduate School to pursue acting alone.
He gradually grew in popularity by playing villain roles in such television jidaigeki drama series as the Hissatsu series and appeared in films like Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no Tora-san and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. He was eventually adopted as one of director Juzo Itami's favourite actors, and went on to appear in nearly every one of his movies since Tampopo.
In television Tsugawa portrayed Tokugawa Ieyasu five times. He played Ieyasu in the 2000 Aoi Tokugawa Sandai and became the oldest actor who played a lead role in the Taiga drama.
Tsugawa recently debuted as a director under the pseudonym Makino Masahiko with his film Nezu no Ban. He chose this name because he is the nephew of the Japanese director Masahiro Makino, his mother's brother. Legend has it that Tsugawa was so awed by the director while watching him at work as a young child that he asked if he could use Makino as his last name should he ever be a director, because of the similarities of the first names.
Tsugawa comes from an illustrious film family. His older brother Hiroyuki Nagato was an actor. His wife Yukiji Asaoka was an actress. His grandfather is the director Shōzō Makino, his father, Kunitarō Sawamura, and his mother, Tomoko Makino, were both actors. His aunt and uncle through his father are the actors Sadako Sawamura and Daisuke Katō.
Tsugawa died August 4, 2018, due to heart failure. He was 78.
Filmography
Director
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)
Film
Kojiki Taishō (1952) - Hanawaka
Sansho the Bailiff (1954) – Zushiō as a Boy
Crazed Fruit (1956)
Farewell to Spring (1959)
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
The Sun's Burial (1960)
Rokudenashi (Good-for-nothing) (1960)
Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
Drunkard's Paradise (1961)
The Sun's Burial (1964)
Cuban Lover (1969)
Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san (1973)
Time and Tide (1984)
The Funeral (1984)
Tampopo (1985)
Hitohira no yuki (1985)
A Taxing Woman (1987) – Hanamura
A Taxing Woman 2 (1988) – Hanamura
A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
Heaven and Earth (1990) – Takeda Shingen
Minbo (1992)
The Strange Story of Oyuki (1992)
Daibyonin (1993) – Dr. Ogata
Crest of Betrayal (1994) – Ōishi Kuranosuke
A Last Note (1995)
Supermarket Woman (1996) – Goro
Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu (1996)
Marutai no Onna (1997)
Pride: The Fateful Moment (1998) – Prime Minister Hideki Tojo
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
The Man in White (2003)
What the Snow Brings (2005)
The Uchōten Hotel (2006)
Death Note (2006) – Police Chief Saeki
Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006) — Police Chief Saeki
A Long Walk (2006)
Hideo Nakata's Kaidan (2007)
Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)
Aibō the Movie (2008)
Postcard (2011)
Strawberry Night (2013)
0.5mm (2014)
Lady Maiko (2014)
The Boy and the Beast (2015) – Sōshi (voice)
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015)
Black Widow Business (2016) – Kōzō Nakase
Ikitoshi Ikerumono (2017) – narrator
Television
Ryōma ga Yuku (1968) – Kusaka Genzui
Shinsho Taikōki (1973)
Katsu Kaishū (1974) – Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Ōgon no Hibi (1978) – Tsuda Sōgyū
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) – Ōkubo Nagayasu
Ōoku (1983) - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Miyamoto Musashi (1984–85) – Takuan Sōhō
Hissastu Hashikakenin (1985) – Ryūji
Hagoku (1985) – Keizaburō Suzue
Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) – Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa bugeichō: Yagyū sandai no ken (1992) – Tokugawa Ieyasu
Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (1995) – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Kenpō wa Madaka (1996) – Jōji Matsumoto
Ieyasu ga mottomo osoreta otoko, Sanada Yukimura (1998) – Tokugawa Ieyasu
Furuhata Ninzaburō (1999)
Aoi (2000) – Tokugawa Ieyasu
Chūshingura 1/47 (2001) – Kira Kōzukenosuke
Shounen wa Tori ni Natta (2001)
Furuhata Ninzaburō The Spanish Embassy Murder (2004)
Sengoku Jieitai: Sekigahara no Tatakai (2006) – Tokugawa Ieyasu
The Family (2007) – Finance minister Nagata
Ultraman Ginga (2013) – Hotsuma Raido
Samurai Rebellion (2013)
Akagi (2015) – Iwao Washizu
Nobunaga Moyu (2016) – Kaisen Joki
Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final (2018)
Dubbing
The Little Prince, the Aviator
Awards and honors
Honor
2006 Awarded Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from H.M. The Emperor of Japan
2014 Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from H.M. The Emperor of Japan
Awards
1982 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor
1986 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination for Hitohira no yuki
1987 Mainichi Film Award Best Actor
1987 Hochi Film Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for A Taxing Woman
1988 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Wakarenu riyu
1988 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting actor for A Taxing Woman
1993 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination Bokuto kidan
1994 Nikkan Sports Film Award Best Supporting Actor
1995 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination for Shudan-sasen
1999 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Puraido: Unmei no toki
2014 Hochi Film Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for 0.5mm
References
External links
Granpapa Pro Profile
1940 births
2018 deaths
People from Kyoto
Japanese male film actors
Japanese film directors
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
Taiga drama lead actors
Male actors from Kyoto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiko%20Tsugawa |
Carl Dwayne Norris (born January 8, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played briefly in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 1990s with the Quebec Nordiques and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He was a member of Canada's silver medal-winning team at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics.
Playing career
Norris started his hockey career with the St. John's Capitals (Caps) of the Avalon Junior Hockey League, eventually leaving home at the young age of 14 to play with the Notre Dame Hounds. He then went on to play college hockey with Michigan State. From there Norris joined the AHL's Cornwall Aces after being drafted by the Quebec Nordiques (127th overall) in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. The Aces then moved their team to Halifax in 1994 under the name Halifax Citadels. Norris appeared in 20 National Hockey League regular season games for the Nordiques and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, scoring 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points and collecting 8 penalty minutes.
In 1996 Norris moved to Germany and joined the Kölner Haie (Cologne Sharks) of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. In 2002, he won the German Championship with Köln when they beat perennial rivals Adler Mannheim 3–2 in the best-of-five final series with Norris netting the game winner in each of Colognes victories. Before the 2003/04 season he signed with league rivals Frankfurt Lions and immediately helped the Lions win the league title in his first season in Frankfurt. There Norris played until 2007, when he finished his playing career.
Norris's most memorable moment may have occurred during the 1990 Junior World Hockey Tournament in Helsinki when he scored the winning goal to help Team Canada beat Czechoslovakia and win the gold medal. He won a silver medal in 1994 with Team Canada at the Lillehammer Winter Olympics.
Coach and managerial career
General Manager on the Frankfurt Lions (2007—2010).
Assistant coach on the Oakland Jr. Grizzlies U16 (2017—2018).
In 2007 Norris retired from active play and, in a surprise move by his last club, was hired as the Lions' general manager in 2007, a position he held until the team filed for bankruptcy in May 2010.
He then became the hockey director of an elite youth hockey program in Michigan, the Oakland Junior Grizzlies. He currently coaches the Bantam Major and PeeWee Major Grizzly AAA hockey teams.
Family
Norris and his wife Traci have three sons, Joshua, Coale and Dalton. All three have been involved in the Oakland Junior Grizzlies AAA program. Son Josh Norris was a first-round selection of the San Jose Sharks in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and is currently a player for the Ottawa Senators. His younger brother Warren Norris played professionally with the St. John's Maple Leafs and Grand Rapids Griffins.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
The source:
Awards and honours
The source:
References
External links
Dwayne Norris (team staff) at EliteProspects.com
1970 births
Living people
Baltimore Bandits players
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Cornwall Aces players
Frankfurt Lions players
Halifax Citadels players
Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Los Angeles Ice Dogs players
Kölner Haie players
Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey players
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim players
Notre Dame Hounds players
Olympic ice hockey players for Canada
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Quebec Nordiques draft picks
Quebec Nordiques players
Ice hockey people from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne%20Norris |
Tonya Crowe (born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, best-known for her role as Olivia Cunningham in the CBS prime time soap opera, Knots Landing.
Life and career
Crowe was born in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of school principal and a real estate agent. She is best known for playing Olivia Cunningham, the daughter of Donna Mills's Abby Cunningham, in the CBS prime time soap opera, Knots Landing, a role she played from 1980 to 1990 as well as in the reunion miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997). She received three Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Prime Time., and well as Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Nighttime Drama Series. Crowe received ten total Young Artist Award nominations during the 1980s for her television performances.
Crowe also had a recurring role on the ABC sitcom Who's the Boss?, and guest starred on CHiPs, Trapper John, M.D. and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Since leaving television, Crowe went to college and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles. She starred and wrote 2001 independent film Only in Venice. Since then, Crowe not acted on film or television.
Filmography
References
External links
American television actresses
American child actresses
Living people
1971 births
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya%20Crowe |
Kusans is a village in the municipality of Ingå in Southern coastal Finland.
Villages in Finland
Ingå | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusans |
Spean Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Spean Bridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Roy Bridge and Fort William, sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh. ScotRail manage the station and operate most services, along with Caledonian Sleeper.
History
The station opened on 7 August 1894 and was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There were sidings on the north side of the station. The station buildings were designed by James Miller.
Between 1903 and December 1933, there was a branch line from this station which offered service north up the Great Glen to Fort Augustus, terminating at a pier on Loch Ness. The North British railway extended Spean Bridge adding a bay platform at the west end at a cost of £303 0s 5d () to accommodate Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway trains. The signalling instruments were moved from the I&FA box at the junction to the booking office at the insistence of the Board of Trade inspector.
The I&FA line was not successful. Passenger services stopped in 1933 and the line was eventually abandoned completely in 1947.
The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939. A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1961 until all camping coaches in the region were withdrawn at the end of the 1969 season.
Signalling
From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system. Alterations in connection with the construction of the line to Fort Augustus saw the original Spean Bridge signal box replaced by two new boxes in 1901. Spean Bridge Junction box was subsidiary to Spean Bridge Station box. The Junction box closed on 20 September 1921. The most recent signal box at Spean Bridge, which opened on 28 August 1949, was located on the Up platform (which is now the Down platform). It contained 30 levers.
Spean Bridge lost all its semaphore signals on 2 March 1986, in preparation for Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) signalling. The RETB system was commissioned by British Rail between and Fort William Junction on 29 May 1988. This resulted in the closure of Spean Bridge signal box and others on that part of the line. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.
The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.
Facilities
The station buildings are on platform 1, which passengers can use for shelter, whilst platform 2 only has a rudimentary glass structure. The help point is on platform 1, and the car park and bike racks are also adjacent to this platform. Both platforms have step-free access. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
Passenger volume
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
Mondays to Saturdays, the station is served by three ScotRail trains per day in each direction, northbound to and southbound to , along with the Highland Caledonian Sleeper between London Euston and via Edinburgh Waverley (the latter doesn't run southbound on Saturday nights or northbound on Sunday mornings). Sundays see two trains per day call each way, as well as the southbound sleeper. The sleeper also carries seated coaches and thus can be used by regular travellers to/from Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) and Edinburgh.
References
External links
Video and commentary on Spean Bridge railway station
Railway stations in Highland (council area)
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
Category C listed buildings in Highland (council area)
James Miller railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spean%20Bridge%20railway%20station |
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