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The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry was a psychiatric hospital located on either side of Roosevelt Boulevard (US Route 1) in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was specifically located in the Somerton section of the city on the border with Bucks County. The name of the institution was changed several times during its history being variously named Philadelphia State Hospital, Byberry State Hospital, Byberry City Farms, and the Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases. It was home to people ranging from the mentally challenged to the criminally insane.
The primary buildings were constructed between 1907 and the mid-1920s, and the newer buildings were constructed between 1940 and 1953. The facility included over fifty buildings such as male and female dormitories, an infirmary, kitchens, laundry, administration, a chapel, and a morgue. The hospital's population grew rapidly, quickly exceeding its capacity; the peak patient population was over 7,000 in 1960.
Several investigations into the conditions at the hospital at various points revealed that raw sewage lined the hallways, patients slept in the halls, and the staff mistreated and exploited patients.
The hospital has been featured in the paranormal television series Scared!.
History
The institution began as a small work farm for the mentally ill. Soon, plans were made to turn the farm into a cottage plan asylum. Construction began on the institution in 1906. Shortly after that, it was established in 1907 as the Byberry Mental Hospital and originally followed the theory of physician Benjamin Rush that mental illness was a disease and could be cured with proper treatment, but that the mentally diseased should be kept away from normal people until they were actually cured. Many of the original patients were transferred from Philadelphia General Hospital, which closed in 1977. All personnel were sent to other hospitals, and patients sent to Norristown State Hospital.
State operation
The hospital was turned over to the state in 1936 and was renamed the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Conditions in the hospital during this time were poor, with allegations of patient abuse and inhumane treatment made frequently. The situation came to national attention between 1945 and 1946, when conscientious objector Charlie Lord took covert photos of the institution and the conditions inside while serving there as an orderly. The 36 black-and-white photos documented issues including dozens of naked men huddling together and human excrement lining facility hallways. The photos were shown to a number of people, including then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who subsequently pledged her support in pursuing national mental health reforms. In May 1946, Lord's photos were published in an issue of Life, creating a national "mass uproar".
In his 1948 book, The Shame of the States, Albert Deutsch described the horrid conditions he observed:
"As I passed through some of Byberry's wards, I was reminded of the pictures of the Nazi concentration camps. I entered a building swarming with naked humans herded like cattle and treated with less concern, pervaded by a fetid odor so heavy, so nauseating, that the stench seemed to have almost a physical existence of its own."
During the 1960s, the hospital began a continuous downsizing that would end with its closure. During the mid-1980s, the hospital came under scrutiny when it was learned that violent criminals were being kept on the hospital's Forensic Ward (N8-2A). In 1985, the hospital failed a state inspection, and was accused of misleading the inspection team.
Reports of patient abuse were still rampant through the 1980s. One patient had reported that one of his teeth was pulled without "Novocaine". Another state inspection team was sent to evaluate the hospital in early 1987. By the summer of 1987, five of the Philadelphia State Hospital's top officials were promptly fired after the Byberry facility once again failed the state inspection.
Closing and abandonment
On December 7, 1987, a press conference was held to announce the closure of the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry.
The teams most recently performing investigations described the conditions as "atrocious" and "irreversible." Though originally supposed to close the following year, patient issues delayed the process. Most importantly, two released patients were found dead in the Delaware River in two successive days after their release. The hospital officially closed in June 1990, with the remaining patients and staff having been transferred to Norristown State Hospital or local community centers.
Period of abandonment 1990–2006
It did not take long for people to rediscover Byberry after it closed. The buildings were not demolished at first because of asbestos poisoning concerns. Looters broke in several weeks after the closing and began to steal everything of value, especially copper piping and wiring. After the looters had removed everything of value, vandals trespassed on the grounds, smashed windows, and started fires.
Urban explorers wandered the halls and the extensive underground network that connected each building though tunnel corridors. By 2000, Byberry saw an explosion of people visiting the abandoned hospital. The internet offered extremely exaggerated stories and legends, as well as tips on gaining access to the abandoned buildings while avoiding police and security. Satanists held ceremonies on the grounds, and amid reports of dead animals being found, the police were frequent visitors. By 2003, the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry site was a complete and utter ruin; graffiti covered every buildings exterior and interior, every window was smashed, and anything flammable remaining when the hospital closed was now ashes. The residents of Somerton were now pressuring the City of Philadelphia to end the "Byberry Problem" once and for all. The city responded by sealing the buildings up with plywood and changing security contractors. However, the boarded windows just made it easier for trespassers to conceal themselves.
Demolition
Westrum Development purchased the property and hired Geppert Bros. Inc. to demolish the buildings, while Delta B.J.D.S. Inc. was hired to remove hazardous materials; such as lead paint, and asbestos. Abatement and demolition started with "C" buildings, followed by the "W" buildings, and ended with the "N" buildings. On June 14, 2006, a ceremony was held to celebrate the complete demolition of the former Byberry hospital, and the future construction by Westrum Development of "The Arbours at Eagle Pointe" a 332-unit active adult club house community featuring single homes, town, and carriage homes.
Popular culture
The Byberry facility is a featured location in the Haunted Philadelphia pop-up books series by photographer Colette Fu.
References
External links
The Story of Byberry
Abandoned Photography, Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)
Photographs of Byberry
Philadelphia State Hospital - Asylum Projects
SCARED! Philadelphia State Hospital
Hospital buildings completed in 1907
Psychiatric hospitals in Pennsylvania
Hospitals established in 1907
Hospitals in Philadelphia
Landmarks in Philadelphia
Defunct hospitals in Pennsylvania
Demolished buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
1907 establishments in Pennsylvania
Northeast Philadelphia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20State%20Hospital%20at%20Byberry |
is the highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ippon-wazari contest, usually kendo, judo, karate or jujitsu.
In Judo
In Judo, an ippon may be scored for a throw, a pin, a choke or a jointlock.
For throws, the four criteria to grant an ippon are: speed, force, landing on the back and skilful control until
the end of the landing. For pinning techniques, the pin must be held continually for 20 seconds. For chokes and locks, ippon is scored when the opponent gives up or is incapacitated.
Two consecutive waza-ari by the same athlete also add up to an ippon (waza-ari awasete ippon).
An ippon in judo is often compared to a knockout punch in boxing.
In karate
In shobu ippon kumite, a method of karate competition, an ippon is awarded for a technique judged as decisive. This is usually a move that connects cleanly, with good form and with little opportunity for the opponent to defend against it. Kicks to the head of an opponent or judo throws followed up with a strike to the downed opponent are particularly likely to be considered a winning ippon technique. A competitor is declared the winner upon achieving a judgment of ippon.
Occasionally, shobu nihon kumite is used, in which two decisive strikes (or four less-decisive strikes, scored as waza-ari) are required for a win. In many tournaments, sanbon scoring is used. This promotes a flashier style of fighting more suited to a spectator sport. More traditional tournaments usually use ippon scoring.
See also
Waza-ari
Ippon seoi nage
References
External links
Ippon on Judopedia
Ippon gachi on Judo-Channel
Japanese martial arts terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippon |
Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert and founder of CAMCAT - Citizens Against Marking, Chipping and Tracking, an organization that works to prevent forced human tracking technologies like implantable microchips. She and co-author Katherine Albrecht wrote the RFID privacy book Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move. At one time, McIntyre was the Communications Director for CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization that advocated free-market, consumer-based solutions to the problem of retail privacy invasion.
She and Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, made the term "spychips" synonymous with RFID, and started the anti-RFID website http://www.spychips.com.
McIntyre continues to write and speak out on privacy issues and works as a privacy consultant.
Publications
Books
McIntyre co-authored the book Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with Katherine Albrecht. The book, winner of the 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for advancing the literature of liberty, lays out the privacy and civil liberties implications of RFID. Not surprisingly, RFID industry representatives have criticized the work, claiming it exaggerates some RFID privacy threats. McIntyre and Albrecht have rebutted such criticisms.
McIntyre and Albrecht's second book The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance explores how RFID could bring about a world that resembles the one described in Revelation—a world in which people cannot buy or sell without a number.
The book includes a disclaimer that it explores the connection without calling RFID the "Mark of the Beast," but McIntyre says it hasn't kept some from reading far more into her beliefs.
At the Spychips website, McIntyre states the following: "Could a technology like RFID enslave us? Theoretically, yes. Is the RFID implant the prophesied method of controlling humans and forcing beast worship? I don't think so. Could I be wrong? Yes. I don't believe anyone here on earth knows definitively what the future holds and exactly how events will unfold."
She adds, "There are many smart people--people much smarter than myself--Christians and non-Christians--who hold very strong contradictory beliefs on most matters of religion. I take this as a clue that I should remain humble and reverent when it comes to the mysteries of the universe. It's one thing to explore possibilities and keep a watchful eye. It's quite another to claim a hotline to God and infer that others have an inferior connection to the Almighty."
The authors use public documents and the words and deeds of the industry to support their arguments.
Articles
Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products. Co-authored with Katherine Albrecht and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003.
"RFID: The Big Brother Bar Code" (Co-authored with Katherine Albrecht) ALEC Policy Forum, Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.
Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Schools. Co-authored with Katherine Albrecht. August 21, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20170317015829/http://www.spychips.com/school/RFIDSchoolPositionPaper.pdf
How and Why to Keep the NSA Out of Your Private Stuff ? Even If You've "Got Nothing to Hide" IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, November 27, 2014 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6969183/
Protect Yourself from RFID: Fend off frightening tracking tech. Co-authored with Katherine Albrecht. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, April 13, 2015. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7084753/
When Baby Monitors Go Bad. Co-authored with Katherine Albrecht. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, September 16, 2015. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7270426
RFID: Helpful New Technology or Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties? Co-authored with Katina Michael and Katherine Albrecht. IEEE Potentials, September 4, 2015 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7243414/?reload=true
See also
Microchip implants (human)
References
External links
SpyChips Website
Official CASPIAN Website
American investigative journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Radio-frequency identification | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20McIntyre%20%28writer%29 |
The Parent Game is an American game show that ran in syndication from 1972–1973. The show was hosted by Clark Race, a Los Angeles radio personality, with Johnny Jacobs as the announcer (although Charlie O'Donnell handled these duties on the first two episodes). The answers were commented by child psychologist Dorothy Thompson, who did not appear in-studio.
The series was produced by Chuck Barris Productions. The show's theme song would later be used as a cue on the syndicated versions of Barris-produced The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, and The New Treasure Hunt.
Gameplay
The format was very similar to The Newlywed Game, the difference between Newlywed and this show being that that Race would ask three couples a series of multiple-choice questions about their children. Their job was to match answers with a resident child psychologist.
The first four questions allowed all six players to give individual answers, but on the fifth and final question each couple had to agree on one answer.
Scoring
For the first two questions, a correct response earned five points per teammate. Ten points were awarded per correct answer in the third question, and 15 points each in the fourth question. The final question was worth 30 points.
The couple with the most points won the game and a grand prize. If there was a tie, the Newlywed Game tiebreaker was used.
Revival
A revival, entitled Wait 'til You Have Kids hosted by Tom Parks and produced by Jay Wolpert Productions and MTM Entertainment, aired on The Family Channel from September 30, 1996 – January 30, 1997.
Episode status
At least 23 episodes are known to exist, having aired on GSN as part of their Kids' Zone block from 1997-1999.
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
1970s American game shows
1972 American television series debuts
1973 American television series endings
Television series by Barris Industries
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series created by Chuck Barris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Parent%20Game |
Aileu is the main township in Aileu District, East Timor. It is located 47 km (29 mi) southwest of Dili, the national capital, and had a population of 2,788 in 2015.
In Portuguese Timor, the city was known as Vila General Carmona, after the Portuguese dictator António Óscar Carmona, but after World War II it was renamed. Aileu means "bent tree" in Mambai.
History
In 1903, a rebellion staged in Aileu against the colonial rulers failed. In January 1912, it served as a Portuguese base against the rebellion of Manufahi.
Between 1942 and 1945, the Japanese occupied Portuguese Timor. On August 31, 1942, the town was invaded by Colunas Negras, the Timorese allies of the Japanese invaders. Five Portuguese soldiers, as well as several civil servants and missionaries, were killed. A memorial in Aileu commemorates the massacre today.
Indonesian soldiers set up a relocation camp in Aileu for the East Timorese at the end of 1979. In early September, during the 1999 East Timorese crisis, residents of various sucos in the area were expelled from their homes by the Aku Hidup dengan Integrasi militia of Indonesia. The Seloi Craic suco was destroyed on September 6, the houses burned down and livestock slaughtered.
At the end of 1999, there were temporary plans to make Aileu the new capital of an independent East Timor. These were rejected in favor of Dili.
Sister Cities
City of Merri-bek, Australia
References
External links
Populated places in Aileu District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileu |
Mike Alexander (born July 31, 1957) is a retired American racing driver. He won the NASCAR Weekly Series national championship in 1983. He also raced in Winston Cup and in the Busch Series.
Career before national racing
Alexander was the 1978 and 1992 track champion at the historic Nashville International Raceway, now known as Fairgrounds Speedway.
In 1983, driving Late Models on paved tracks for car owner Bobby Ray Jones, he won the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series national championship, and won the NASCAR Grand American Stock Car championship in its final year. Alexander won 31 of the 56 races that he entered. Most were at Nashville, Tennessee or Birmingham, Alabama (where he won the track championship), but some ranged as far as South Carolina or Florida. He was born to a family well-known in the Nashville automotive scene who operated several area franchised dealerships.
2020 Brought Alexander back to the fairgrounds with ARCA driver Mason Mingus behind the wheel of the famed 84 throwback to the BRJ days in the 80’s. The two paired up with longtime Fairgrounds member Ben Pruitt and Mark Lawson.
2021 plans are the same as 2020 with Mingus driving and Alexander on top of the box.
NASCAR career
Winston Cup Series
Alexander began his national-level racing career in the Winston Cup Series. He made the field in the Music City 420 in 1980 and performed fairly well, finishing tenth. He ran part of the 1981 season for Bob Rogers. Most of his finishes in 1981 were in the Top 15 (if he was running). He ran most of the first 22 races in 1984 for car owner Dave Marcis with limited success. In 1985 he ran a partial schedule for Sims Brothers and Sadler Brothers. He drove for the Stavola Brothers for the final 16 races in 1988, substituting for the injured Bobby Allison. He had his greatest success in 1988, with six top-ten finishes in 18 starts, including a career best 3rd-place finish at the season finale at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. In 1989, Alexander drove the Stavola Brothers car at Daytona, but he was hampered by the effects of an injury in the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, FL the previous December, and resigned from the ride. His final stint in Cup was the first seven races for Bobby Allison Motorsports in 1990.
Busch Series
Alexander ran a partial season in the Busch Series in 1986. He ran full-time in 1987 and 1988, and had a win in both seasons (1987 Langley Speedway) and (1988 Hickory Motor Speedway). He had three career poles. He had 31 Top 10 finishes in his 71 Busch starts.
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
Busch Series
ARCA Talladega 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
Living people
1957 births
Sportspeople from Franklin, Tennessee
Racing drivers from Tennessee
NASCAR drivers
ARCA Menards Series drivers
American Speed Association drivers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Alexander%20%28racing%20driver%29 |
The 9th battalion of the Madras Regiment (Travancore) is the oldest extant unit in the Indian Army. It has been in service for over 300 years.
History
The battalion was raised in 1704 at Padmanabhapuram, the capital of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore. Raised as personal bodyguards to the Maharaja of Travancore, the unit, though redesigned through the ages, continues to retain its individual identity with no history of disbandment or re-raising.
The Travancore Army, known as the Nair Brigade, completely exterminated the superior and better equipped Dutch Forces which landed at Colachal in July 1741 during the reign of Anizham Thirunal Veer Bala Marthand Varma. In the Battle of Colachel, during the Travancore–Dutch War, Capt Eustachius De Lannoy, a Commander of the Dutch fleet, was captured and was asked later to train the Travancore Army. From 1741 to 1758, Capt De Lannoy remained in command of the Travancore Forces and was involved in annexation of small principalities.
In 1935, the Travancore State joined the Indian State Forces Scheme and the battalion was named 1st Travancore Nair Infantry, Travancore State Forces. The unit was reorganised as an Indian State Infantry Battalion by Lieutenant Colonel H S Steward who was appointed Commandant of the Travancore State Forces.
World War II
In 1940, the battalion left for Padmanabhapuram and arrived at Military Station, Cannanore. The battalion served overseas in the 1940s. In 1945, Major General V.N. Parameswaran Pillai was appointed GOC Travancore State Forces. In the same year, the unit was asked to move to South East Asia Command. Embarked on at Taima, the unit sailed to Hong Kong. Disembarked at Kowloon Harbour, it was placed under the command of the 150th Indian Infantry Brigade. While at Kowloon, the unit was assigned the task of guarding Japanese prisoners of war, airfields and docks. It also looked after the repatriation of POWs to Japan. The unit left Hong Kong, disembarked at Madras and arrived at Trivandrum on 31 January 1947.
Indian Army
In April 1951, the battalion was integrated with Indian Army and on 1 May 1954, it was merged with the Madras Regiment and was re-designated 9th Battalion of the Madras Regiment (Travancore). After the integration of Travancore State Force with the Indian Army, the State Forces Colours were ceremonially laid up at Chetwode Hall, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in 1956. The then-incumbent President of India, V. V. Giri, presented Colours to the battalion on 23 May 1970 at Barrack Square, Wellington at a solemn ceremony.
In fond recognition of their bravery, people started calling them terrors. Post Independence, the battalion served from Siachen to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and from Nagaland to Rajasthan.
Operational Achievement
The battalion actively participated in the Hyderabad Police Action (Operation Polo) during 1948 and was instrumental in restoring peace and tranquility in the riot-torn region.
For the first time, the unit was deployed in high altitude areas in the Sugar Sector in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and occupied forward posts in inhospitable terrain during the 1962 Indo-China War.
During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, the battalion located at Firozpur under the 65th Infantry Brigade fought the famous Battle of Burki and played a leading role in the capture of Barka-Kalan and Ichogil Bund. The battalion was honoured with one Vir Chakra, two Sena Medals, twelve Mentioned in dispatches and the theatre honour Punjab.
In Nagaland, the battalion conducted operations against Naga hostiles. The unit performed extremely well and was awarded one Sena Medal and two COAS commendation cards.
The 9th battalion took part in Operation Cactus-Lilly during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The battalion, deployed under the 330rd Infantry Brigade at Barmer, captured Mahendro Ro Par and Fateh Ro Par on Gadra City-Umraokot axis. It remained deployed at Naya Chor till the announcement of ceasefire on 17 December 1971. During this operation, it suffered ten casualties. In another operation, during the 1971 War, Captain Gopal Kumar Raman Pillai was awarded the Vir Chakra.
The battalion served in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1990 to 1994 where it had the opportunity to undertake anti-poaching operations in conjunction with Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force. The unit was awarded one Vishisht Seva Medal and four GOC-in-C Southern Command commendation cards during these operations.
During the (Operation Rakshak), the battalion conducted counter-insurgency operations in the Bhadarwah and Rajouri Sectors. It neutralised more than 35 militants and captured a large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives including SAM missiles, UMGs and a sniper rifle. Major Sajjan Singh Gahalawat and three ORs (Other Ranks) made supreme sacrifice during these operations. The unit was awarded two Shaurya Chakra, three Sena Medals, two COAS commendation cards and two GOC-in-C commendation cards.
While participating in Operation Meghdoot, the unit served at the world's highest battlefield from 2000 to 2001. It occupied the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in Siachen. During this operation, the battalion suffered two casualties due to adverse weather conditions.
During Operation Parakram, the unit was operationally deployed at Turtuk, Baramulla, Handanbrog, Dras and Kargil.
See also
Nair Brigade
References
Military units and formations of British India
Military units and formations established in 1954
Battalions of India
Thiruvananthapuram
1954 establishments in India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th%20Battalion%2C%20Madras%20Regiment |
The Star Observer is a free monthly magazine and online newspaper that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities in Australia.
Since 20 June 2019 the Star Observer has been owned by media company Out Publications.
History and readership
The newspaper was initially published by Michael Glynn as a tabloid in 1979 under the name The Sydney Star and is the oldest and largest publication of its kind in Australia. In 1982 the paper changed its name, becoming The Star (1982–1985), later undergoing several name changes, including Sydney's Star Observer (1986–1987), Sydney Star Observer (1987–2014; 2019 onwards) and Star Observer (2014-2019).
The typical profile of the audience is aged between 23 years and 50 years, with a higher than average income level. With a 2015 audited circulation in excess of 15,000 per month, the publishers at that time claimed a readership exceeding 41,000 readers in print and 100,000+ online.
In late 2013, Elias Jahshan was appointed editor; shortly afterwards, the publication ceased being a weekly newspaper and became a monthly magazine. Subsequent editors have included Corey Sinclair, Andrew M. Potts and Peter Hackney.
The current editors, as of January 2020, are Douglas Magaletti (print edition) and Shibu Thomas (digital).
On 20 June 2019 it was reported that the Star Observer was saved from voluntary administration by media company Out Publications.
In mid-2019, Out Publications began a sister publication in Melbourne, the Melbourne Star Observer. Its contents are identical to the Sydney title except that local advertisements are inserted. A homonymous masthead, founded in 1985 by Danny Vadasz of Gay Publications Co-operative Ltd., was in circulation until 2000.
Format and content
In hardcopy tabloid format, The Star (as it is commonly known) is published on the third Thursday of each month and is distributed to numerous locations in Sydney and Melbourne. Copies can be found in cafés, libraries, cinemas, theatres, book shops, medical practices and community centres as well as gay and lesbian community outlets such as pubs, nightclubs, gay and lesbian friendly retail shops, gyms and sex on premises venues.
Both the tabloid publication and online version contain local, national, and international coverage related to gay and lesbian news, opinion and lifestyle. Non-specifically gay and lesbian items, such as arts and culture, real estate and technology are also covered. A strong focus of the publication is on community, such as sport, gay and lesbian business events, and opinion.
Each year special publications are produced to celebrate Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Midsumma Festival and Mardi Gras Film Festival.
Notable coverage
The Star Observer extensively covered the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in New South Wales, which was enacted on May 22 1984 by the Parliament of New South Wales.
During the AIDS Epidemic, the Star Observer ran in-depth articles concerning public prejudice, medical treatments and insurance claim problems.
The Star Observer also extensively covered Gay Gang Murders by youths that occurred in Sydney over several decades, including the murder of Scott Johnson, and the murder of Richard Johnson by the 'Alexandria Eight'. Journalist Martyn Goddard who had replaced Tim Carrigan as Star Observer Editor in 1989, covered the story both in the Star, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Community support
The shareholders of the publishing company have never drawn dividends from any profits generated by the Star Observer. Instead, the Star Observer has made donations to support the community through entities such as the AIDS Trust, Victorian AIDS Council, the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation and Twenty10 as well as others.
References
Further reading
External links
Star Observer website
Gay and Lesbian Australian Media Alliance website
1979 establishments in Australia
LGBT culture in Sydney
LGBT-related newspapers published in Australia
Defunct newspapers published in Sydney
Newspapers established in 1979
Free magazines
Publications disestablished in 2013
Magazines established in 2013
Monthly magazines published in Australia
Defunct weekly newspapers
Magazines published in Sydney
LGBT-related magazines published in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Observer |
Great Oaks Career Campuses (formerly Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development and Great Oaks Joint Vocational School District) is a joint vocational school district that has operated in parts of southwestern Ohio since 1970.
History
The Hamilton County Joint Vocational School District was formed in 1970 when 22 school districts came together as the Hamilton County Joint Vocational School District (Hamilton County JVSD). The name was changed to its current name two years later as school districts in Clermont County, Clinton County, and other areas in southwest Ohio joined.
Campuses
During their junior and senior years of high school, students from 36 Ohio school districts have the option to attend one of four Great Oaks campuses, known as Career Campuses:
Diamond Oaks in western Cincinnati, covering the Finneytown, Mt. Healthy, North College Hill, Oak Hills, and Southwest, and Three Rivers school districts
Laurel Oaks in Wilmington, covering the Blanchester, Clinton-Massie, East Clinton, Fairfield Local, Hillsboro, Lynchburg-Clay, Greenfield, Miami Trace, Washington Court House, and Wilmington school districts
Live Oaks in Milford, covering the Batavia, Clermont Northeastern, Forest Hills, Goshen, Indian Hill, Loveland, Madeira, Mariemont, Milford, and West Clermont school districts
Scarlet Oaks in Sharonville, covering the Deer Park, Lockland, Mason, Norwood, Princeton, Reading, St. Bernard–Elmwood Place, Sycamore, Winton Woods, and Wyoming school districts
Great Oaks also provides satellite programs to their affiliate schools.
References
External links
Educational institutions established in 1970
School districts in Ohio
Vocational education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Oaks%20Career%20Campuses |
Lilienthal is a municipality in the administrative district of Osterholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. It borders Bremen (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen).
History
Lilienthal belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen.
Lilienthal monastery
The history of the small town (without Town privileges) of Lilienthal goes back to its founding as a nunnery by the prince-archbishop Gerhard II. In 1232 construction was begun on a convent of the Order of the Cistercians under the name of Vallis Liliorum (), and the finished building was sanctified in 1264. During the 15th century, the cloister enjoyed a time of prosperity. After the Reformation and the conversion of the Cistercian nuns, it became a Lutheran Women's Convent, and until the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 it remained in deplorable conditions. In 1650, the city went through secularization. The land once belonging to the convent, which had become fragmented, developed into the small town of Lilienthal.
Sweden and Hanover
In 1648, according to the terms of the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War (The Peace of Westphalia), the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, ruled together with the Principality of Verden, which were first ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown. Queen Christina sent one of her commanders over, Graf Friedrich von Hessen-Eschwege, to the newly created barony (Herrschaft) of Osterholz, in which the charge of both Lilienthal and Osterholz were combined. After his early death in 1655, his wife Eleonora took over the government of the barony, with her seat in Osterholz, where she took an active role in the improvement of economic and sanitary conditions for the rural population. After her death in 1692, the barony fell back into the hands of the Swedish Royalty. Lilienthal remained a part of Swedish Bremen-Verden until 1712 (which is why the coat of arms contains the blue and yellow of the Swedish Flag), at which time it came under Danish occupation, and then in 1719 it fell under the sovereignty of the Electorate of Hanover, which ruled Bremen-Verden in personal union.
In 1740, the buildings of the convent except of the church were dismantled.
Astronomy in Lilienthal
In 1782, Johann Hieronymus Schröter became chief magistrate (or bailiff, Amtmann). In addition to this administrative office, he also played a large part in the advancement of astronomy during his lifetime. On the grounds of his office in Lilienthal, he constructed an observatory. In the following years, the Lilienthal Observatory would become the best equipped observatory in the world. One of its technological advances was the "Riesenteleskop" (giant telescope), a telescope with a 50.8 cm (20 inch) aperture and an 8.25 m focal length. Due to the telescope, Lilienthal became well-known and was sought out in matters of astronomy by government and military officials. Schröter remained in contact with many of the important astronomers of the time. Together with Wilhelm Olbers and other scholars, he founded the "celestial police" in Lilienthal in 1800. The asteroid 3 Juno was discovered September 1, 1804, by Karl Ludwig Harding at the observatory. After Schröter's death in 1816, the observatory fell into disrepair. In 1850 the remaining structure was destroyed. A large part of the observatory was sent to the University of Göttingen before the demolition.
19th century
The Befreiungskrieg (a series of battles fought between 1813 and 1815 that ended the Napoleonic Wars) hit Lilienthal hard. After an incident during a retreat, French troops set the entire village on fire. Only the church, a few houses, and the observatory escaped the flames (but the observatory was looted, and important records were destroyed).
After the reconstruction, the then-municipality grew steadily. In 1939 there were 3,100 inhabitants, in 1974 12,500. After the incorporation of a neighbouring town in the same year, the population grew to 17,000.
In 1823 Bremen-Verden was united in a real union with the Kingdom of Hanover and its territory became part of the Stade Region. In 1866, the kingdom of Hannover lost its independence. Lilienthal became Prussian, in 1885 the bailiwick of Lilienthal was dissolved and combined with that in Osterholz to form the new district of Osterholz.
20th and 21st century
From 1900 to 1956, Lilienthal was connected to Bremen and to the moorland region north of the town by a narrow-gauge railway. Nowadays, its alignment is used as a bikeway.
Since 1 August 2014, public transport in Lilienthal has been upgraded by a line of Bremen Tramway, passing through its main street.
Today, in Lilienthal there are 6 wind turbines, producing 6.013.246,00 kWh, annually.
Schools
Primary education:
Falkenberg Primary School
Frankenburg Primary School
Schroeterschule
Seebergen Primary School
Trupermoor Primary School
Worphausen Primary School
Secondary education:
All-Day Lilienthal Haupt- and Realschule
Gymnasium Lilienthal
Special education:
Christoph-Tornée-School
Localities
Today, many former independent villages have been merged into Lilienthal.
Some of them had been founded as late as in the moorland cultivation of the 18th century, organized by Jürgen Christian Findorff:
Lüningsee (1763), Lüninghausen (1764), Westerwede (1764), Moorende (1778), Mooringen (1778), Schrötersdorf (1805, named after J. H. Schröter) and Neu Mooringen (1808).
There were several dates of merging:
In 1827, Lilienthal received Butendiek, which was given from Bremen state to the Kingdom of Hanover, in exchange for some ground for the foundation of Bremerhaven.
In 1929, some small Moorland villages were merged.
In 1937,
Lilienthal incorporated Falkenberg, Frankenburg, a part of Moorhausen, Trupe, Truperdeich and Trupermoor,
Sankt Jürgen incorporated another part of Moorhausen, Niederende, Oberende and Wührden,
Worphausen incorporated Moorende and Mooringen
In 1974, Lilienthal incorporated Heidberg, Sankt Jürgen, Seebergen and Worphausen.
Twinned cities
Since 1970, the municipality of Lilienthal has been twinned with the Dutch municipality of Stadskanaal.
In 1993, the city of Émerainville in the vicinity of Paris was added.
References
External links
http://www.lilienthal.de/
http://www.worphausen.de
Osterholz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilienthal%2C%20Lower%20Saxony |
Army of the Coasts of the Ocean or Armée des côtes de l'Océan may refer to:
Army of the Coasts of the Ocean (1796) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20of%20the%20Coasts%20of%20the%20Ocean |
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The West Shore Conference was a high school athletic conference located in northeast Ohio, with member schools stretched across Cuyahoga, Erie, and Lorain counties.
Members when the league folded
See also
Ohio High School Athletic Conferences
Notes
It was reported in November 2012 that Avon sought membership in the Southwestern Conference for the 2013–2014 school year to accommodate the merger of Berea and Midpark. In December 2012, the Southwestern Conference approved Avon's addition for the 2015–2016 school year.
In March 2013, Lakewood and Midview were also approved for admission into the Southwestern Conference for the 2015–2016 school year.
In October 2013, North Ridgeville replaced Brecksville-Broadview Heights in the 2015–2016 school year.
On December 10, 2014, Vermilion announced plans to join the Sandusky Bay Conference beginning with the 2016–2017 school year as part of the SBC's expansion plans.
References
Ohio high school sports conferences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Shore%20Conference |
Mandakini (born Yasmeen Joseph) is an Indian former actress. She is best remembered for her lead role in the 1985 popular film Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
Early life
Mandakini was born in Meerut as Yasmeen Joseph to a British father and a Kashmiri mother. At the young age of 22, she was discovered by legendary film director Raj Kapoor and given the screen name "Mandakini".
Film career
Mandakini got her first movie in the Hindi film industry when she was cast in the lead role in the 1985 movie Ram Teri Ganga Maili by film producer-director Raj Kapoor opposite his youngest son Rajiv Kapoor. The film was a blockbuster, and it earned Mandakini a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. She caused a stir after she was seen partially nude in two sequences of the film. She then acted in a few more successful films, such as Dance Dance with Mithun Chakraborty, Kahan Hai Kanoon with Aditya Pancholi and Pyaar Karke Dekho with Govinda, but could not recreate the success of her first movie. The actress decided to bid adieu to the Bollywood industry after her 1996 film Zordaar.
Controversy
In the early '90s, she was briefly linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim, when she was seen with the gangster in Dubai. While she admitted to meeting him, Mandakini strongly denied the rumours of any affair with him".
Embracing Buddhism & Yoga
Mandakini married a former Buddhist monk, Dr. Kagyur T. Rinpoche Thakur, and embraced Buddhism. Her husband had gained fame in childhood as the baby featured in Murphy Radio advertisements in the 1970s and 1980s. The couple have a son named Rabbil and a daughter Rabze Innaya. After embracing Buddhism and becoming a follower of the Dalai Lama, Mandakini started running classes in Tibetan yoga, while her husband runs a Tibetan Herbal Centre.
Filmography
References
External links
Mandakini's profile on Facebook
Actresses from Uttar Pradesh
Living people
Actors from Meerut
Indian Buddhists
Buddhist activists
21st-century Buddhists
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Hindi cinema
20th-century Indian actresses
Anglo-Indian people
Indian people of English descent
Actresses of European descent in Indian films
1963 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandakini%20%28actress%29 |
David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is an entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Previously, Sacks was the founding COO and product leader of PayPal and founder/CEO of Yammer. In 2016, he became interim CEO of Zenefits for 10 months. In 2017, Sacks co-founded Craft Ventures, an early-stage venture fund. His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, and Airbnb. He is a co-host of the podcast All-In.
Early life and education
Sacks was born in Cape Town, South Africa, to a Jewish family and immigrated to Tennessee, United States, with his family when he was five. Though Sacks did not know he wanted to be an entrepreneur, he did not want to work a profession like his father, who was an endocrinologist. He took inspiration from his grandfather, who started a candy factory in the 1920s.
Sacks attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned his B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 1994 and received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998.
Career
PayPal
In 1999, Sacks left his job as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company to join e-commerce service PayPal, which had been co-founded the year before by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel. As PayPal's COO and product leader, he built many of the company's key teams, and was responsible for product management and design, sales and marketing, business development, international, customer service, fraud operations, and human resources functions.
During his tenure, PayPal grew payment volume from zero to $3.5 billion per year and revenue from zero to over $100 million in 2001. The company introduced business accounts, and expanded into multiple currencies and over 80 countries.
PayPal had their initial public offering in February 2002. It was one of the first IPOs after the September 11 attacks. The stock rose more than 54% on the first day. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion.
Sacks is a member of the so-called "PayPal Mafia", a group of founders and early employees of PayPal who went on to found a series of other successful technology companies. They are often credited with inspiring Web 2.0 and the re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet companies after the dot com bust of 2001.
Thank You for Smoking
Following PayPal's acquisition, Sacks produced and financed the movie Thank You for Smoking through his independent production company, Room 9 Entertainment.
Based on Christopher Buckley's 1994 novel of the same title and adapted for the screen by director Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking is a satirical look at the culture of spin. The cast included Aaron Eckhart, William H. Macy, Sam Elliott, Rob Lowe, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes, Adam Brody, and Robert Duvall.
Thank You for Smoking was nominated for two Golden Globes in 2007 for Best Picture and Best Actor in the Comedy/Musical category. The movie also won Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards, Audience Awards at both the Munich and Norwegian Film Festivals, Best First Feature at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay at the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards and the San Diego Film Critics Association Awards, and Top Films of the Year at the New York Film Critics Online.
Dalíland
Sacks developed and produced the 2023 film Dalíland about artist Salvador Dalí. After over a decade of development, the film went into physical production in the United Kingdom and France during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Magnolia Pictures acquired the North American rights after Dalíland'''s world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. In June 2023, the film was released theatrically throughout the US, worldwide, and on major streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Fandango Media’s Vudu. Subsequent to its US theatrical release, streaming service Hulu acquired a 3-year license for subscribers.
The film focuses on Dalí's extravagant later years, his tempestuous relationship with his wife Gala, and explores the broad commercialization of modern art. The film has received high audience scores with mixed critical reviews. The film received positive reviews in The Hollywood Reporter, TheWrap, and The New York Times. Sir Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney, Suki Waterhouse, Andreja Pejić, and Ezra Miller star. Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Notorious Bettie Page) directed. Sacks and team collaborated with producer Edward R. Pressman who was an executive producer on Thank You For Smoking.
Geni.com
In 2006, Sacks founded Geni.com, a genealogy website that enables family members to collaboratively build an online family tree. At Geni, he wanted more visibility into what was going on across the organization, so the team created a productivity tool to help employees share information. In 2008, Sacks and co-founder Adam Pisoni spun this internal communications tool into a standalone company called Yammer. Geni was acquired by MyHeritage in 2012.
Yammer
In 2008, Yammer launched the first Enterprise Social Network, a secure solution for internal corporate communication and collaboration, winning the grand prize at TechCrunch50 conference. According to Social Capital, Yammer's viral approach made it among the fastest-growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies in history, exceeding eight million enterprise users in just four years. Yammer received approximately US$142 million in funding from venture capital firms such as Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, Emergence Capital Partners, and Goldcrest Investments.
In July 2012, Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion as a core part of its cloud/social strategy.
Zenefits
In December 2014, Sacks made a "major investment" in Zenefits. In January 2016, Zenefits' board asked him to step in as interim CEO amidst a "regulatory crisis" regarding the company's licensing compliance. Over the next year, Sacks negotiated a resolution with insurance regulators across the U.S. – receiving praise for "righting the ship". Sacks also revamped Zenefits' product line with an initiative he named "Z2", introducing a SaaS business model. Shortly after, PC Magazine would note Zenefits had become "the best HR software on the market" while Buzzfeed reported the company was losing over $200 million per year. After just 10 months in the role, Sacks was succeeded by former Ooyala CEO, Jay Fulcher.
Angel investments
Sacks has been investing in technology companies for twenty years. As an angel investor, his investments include Addepar, Affirm, Airbnb, Bird, Clutter, Eventbrite, Facebook, Gusto, Houzz, Intercom, Mixpanel, Opendoor, Palantir Technologies, PayPal, Postmates, ResearchGate, Rumble, Scribd, Slack, SpaceX, SurveyMonkey, ThirdLove, Uber and Wish.
Craft Ventures
In late 2017, Sacks co-founded Craft Ventures and raised an initial fund of $350 million. Craft raised $1.1B in 2021, which brought total assets under management to $2B, according to a Medium post published by the company. Unicorns in Craft Ventures Fund I and Fund II include Bird, BitGo, ClickUp, Pipe, Reddit, SourceGraph, and SpaceX.
Political views
The Diversity Myth
In college, Sacks was the co-author with Peter Thiel of the 1995 book The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford, published by the Independent Institute. The book is critical of political correctness in higher education and argues that more intellectual diversity is needed on college campuses.
The following year, writing for Stanford Magazine, he argued against affirmative action in the United States, saying that it had hurt the "disadvantaged", not helped them, and had led to increased segregation at Stanford University in the name of "diversity".
In 2016, Sacks apologized for parts of the book including where he called date rape "belated regret" and questioned, "Why is all blame placed on the man?"
Support for political campaigns
According to the Federal Election Commission, Sacks donated $50,000 to Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012. In 2016, he donated nearly $70,000 to Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
In the 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections of members Collins, Moliga, and Lopez, Sacks gave one of the largest contributions to support the recall. He is also a significant booster of Republican candidates, sponsoring a spring 2022 fundraiser for GOP senate hopefuls including J. D. Vance and Blake Masters alongside his former colleague and partner Keith Rabois.
On May 24, 2023, Sacks was the moderator when Ron DeSantis announced his 2024 presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces. He praised DeSantis and donated $50,000 to his campaign. Later in June 2023, Sacks hosted a $10,000/plate fundraiser for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Awards and recognitionSan Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40, David Sacks (2012)Workforce Management Game Changers Award, David Sacks (2011)San Francisco Business Times'' Bay Area's Most Admired CEOs (2011)
Personal life
On July 7, 2007, Sacks married Jacqueline Tortorice. The couple have two daughters and one son.
References
External links
Interviews
PayPal people
Living people
Film producers from Tennessee
20th-century American Jews
Businesspeople from Memphis, Tennessee
Stanford University alumni
University of Chicago Law School alumni
American chief executives
1972 births
American chief operating officers
South African Jews
South African emigrants to the United States
21st-century American Jews
Memphis University School alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20O.%20Sacks |
XST may refer to:
Cross-site tracing, a network security vulnerability exploiting the HTTP TRACE method.
Experimental Survivable Testbed, early versions of F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XST |
Yellow Shirts or yellow shirt may refer to:
People's Alliance for Democracy or Yellow Shirts, a Thai movement protesting against Thaksin Shinawatra and his successors
Yellow Shirts, the armed wing of the Black Hundreds, an ultra-nationalist movement in Russia in the early 20th century
Yellow Shirts, members of the United States Waterskiing Team
The yellow jersey worn by the current leader in some cycling races, including the Tour de France
The yellow vests movement, a French populist grassroots political movement for economic justice
Sportske novosti Yellow Shirt award, annual award for the best footballer in the Croatian league | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Shirts |
Buells Corners is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States, located in the northwestern part of the state. The village is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 89 and Buells Corners Road in Rome Township.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Crawford County, Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buells%20Corners%2C%20Pennsylvania |
Notothenioidei is one of 19 suborders of the order Perciformes. The group is found mainly in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters, with some species ranging north to southern Australia and southern South America. Notothenioids constitute approximately 90% of the fish biomass in the continental shelf waters surrounding Antarctica.
Evolution and geographic distribution
The Southern Ocean has supported fish habitats for 400 million years; however, modern notothenioids likely appeared sometime after the Eocene epoch. This period marked the cooling of the Southern Ocean, resulting in the stable, ice-cold conditions that have persisted to the present day. Another key factor in the evolution of notothenioids is the preponderance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), a large, slow-moving current that extends to the seafloor and precludes most migration to and from the Antarctic region.
These unique environmental conditions in concert with the key evolutionary innovation of Antifreeze glycoprotein promoted widespread radiation within the suborder, leading to the rapid development of new species. Their adaptive radiation is characterized by depth related diversification. Comparison studies between non-Antarctic and Antarctic species have revealed different ecological processes and genetic differences between the two groups of fish, such as the loss of hemoglobin (in the family Channichthyidae) and changes in buoyancy.
They are distributed mainly throughout the Southern Ocean around the coasts of New Zealand, southern South America, and Antarctica. An estimated 79% of species reside within the Antarctic region. They primarily inhabit seawater temperatures between −2 and 4 °C (28 and 39 °F); however, some of the non-Antarctic species inhabit waters that may be as warm as 10 °C (50 °F) around New Zealand and South America. Seawater temperatures below the freezing point of freshwater (0 °C or 32 °F) are possible due to the greater salinity in the Southern Ocean waters. Notothenioids have an estimated depth range of about 0–1,500 m (0–4,921 ft).
Anatomy
Notothenioids display a morphology that is largely typical of other coastal perciform fishes. They are not distinguished by a single physical trait, but rather a distinctive set of morphological traits. These include the presence of three flat pectoral fin radials, nostrils located laterally on each side of the head, the lack of a swim bladder, and the presence of multiple lateral lines.
Because notothenioids lack a swim bladder, the majority of species are benthic or demersal in nature. However, a depth-related diversification has given rise to some species attaining increased buoyancy, using lipid deposits in tissues and reduced ossification of bony structures. This reduced ossification of the skeleton (observed in some notothenioids) changes the weight and creates neutral buoyancy in the water, where the fish neither sinks nor floats, and can thus adjust its depth with ease.
Physiology
Notothenioids have a variety of physiological and biochemical adaptations that either permit survival in, or are possible only because of, the generally cold, stable seawater temperatures of the Southern Ocean. These include highly unsaturated membrane lipids and metabolic compensation in enzymatic activity. Many notothenoids have lost the nearly universal heat shock response (HSR) due to evolution at cold and stable temperatures.
Many notothenioid fishes are able to survive in the freezing, ice-laden waters of the Southern Ocean because of the presence of an antifreeze glycoprotein in blood and body fluids. Although many of the Antarctic species have antifreeze proteins in their body fluids, not all of them do. Some non-Antarctic species either produce no or very little antifreeze, and antifreeze concentrations in some species are very low in young, larval fish. They also possess aglomerular kidneys, an adaptation that aids the retention of these antifreeze proteins.
While the majority of animal species have up to 45% of hemoglobin (or other oxygen-binding and oxygen-transporting pigments) in their blood, the notothenioids of the family Channichthyidae do not express any globin proteins in their blood. As a result, the oxygen-carrying capacity of their blood is reduced to less than 10% that of other fishes. This trait likely arose due to the high oxygen solubility of the Southern Ocean waters. At cold temperatures, the oxygen solubility of water is enhanced. The loss of hemoglobin is partially compensated in these species by the presence of a large, slow-beating heart and enlarged blood vessels that transport a large volume of blood under low pressure to enhance cardiac output. Despite these compensations, the loss of globin proteins still results in reduced physiological performance.
Systematics
Naming
Notothenioidei was first described as a separate grouping, as a "division" he named Nototheniiformes, by the British ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan in 1913., this subsequently has been considered as a suborder of the Percifomes. The name is based on the genus Notothenia, a name coined by Sir John Richardson in 1841 and which means “coming from the south”, a reference to the Antarctic distribution of the genus.
Families
This classification follows Eastman and Eakin, 2000 and includes references to additional classified species. Most species are restricted to the vicinity of Antarctica.
Family Bovichtidae Gill, 1862
Genus Bovichtus Valenciennes, 1832
Genus Cottoperca Steindachner, 1875
Genus Halaphritis Last, Balushkin & Hutchins, 2002
Family Pseudaphritidae McCulloch, 1929
Genus Pseudaphritis Castelnau, 1872
Family Eleginopsidae Gill, 1893
Genus Eleginops Gill, 1862
Family Nototheniidae Günther, 1861
Genus Aethotaxis H. H. DeWitt, 1962
Genus Cryothenia Daniels, 1981
Genus Dissostichus Smitt, 1898
Genus Gobionotothen Balushkin, 1976
Genus Gvozdarus Balushkin, 1989
Genus Lepidonotothen Balushkin, 1976
Genus Lindbergichthys Balushkin, 1979
Genus Notothenia Richardson, 1844
Genus Nototheniops Balushkin, 1976
Genus Pagothenia Nichols & La Monte, 1936 P
Genus Paranotothenia Balushkin, 1976
Genus Patagonotothen Balushkin, 1976
Genus Pleuragramma Balushkin, 1982
Genus TrematomusBoulenger, 1902
Family Harpagiferidae Gill, 1861
Genus Harpagifer Richardson, 1844
Family Artedidraconidae Andriashev, 1967
Genus Artedidraco Lönnberg, 1905
Genus Dolloidraco Roule, 1913
Genus Histiodraco Regan, 1914
Genus Pogonophryne Regan, 1914
Family Bathydraconidae Regan, 1913
Genus Acanthodraco Skóra, 1995
Genus Akarotaxis DeWitt & Hureau, 1980
Genus Bathydraco Günther, 1878
Genus Cygnodraco Waite, 1916
Genus Gerlachea Dollo, 1900
Genus Gymnodraco Boulenger, 1902
Genus Parachaenichthys Boulenger, 1902
Genus Prionodraco Regan, 1914 (one species)
Genus Psilodraco Norman. 1937
Genus Racovitzia Dollo, 1900
Genus Vomeridens DeWitt & Hureau, 1980
Family Channichthyidae Gill, 1861
Genus Chaenocephalus Richardson, 1844
Genus Chaenodraco Regan, 1914
Genus Champsocephalus Gill, 1861 (two species)
Genus Channichthys Richardson, 1844
Genus Chionobathyscus Andriashev & Neyelov, 1978
Genus Chionodraco Lönnberg, 1905
Genus Cryodraco Dollo, 1900
Genus Dacodraco Waite, 1916
Genus Neopagetopsis Nybelin, 1947
Genus Pagetopsis Regan, 1913
Genus Pseudochaenichthys Norman, 1937
References
Further reading
Macdonald, J. A. (2004). "Notothenioidei (Southern Cod-Icefishes)". In M. Hutchins, R. W. Garrison, V. Geist, P. V. Loiselle, N. Schlager, M. C. McDade, ...W. E. Duellman (Eds.), Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (2nd ed., Vol. 5, pp. 321–329). Detroit: Gale.
Ray-finned fish suborders
Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notothenioidei |
Moravian Academy is a preschool through 12th-grade independent, co-educational, college preparatory school in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Moravian Academy is the ninth oldest independent school in the nation.
The school has more than 900 students and 200 employees from across the region located on three campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Downtown Campus: (preschool – 8th grade), situated among the national historic site in the heart of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Swain Campus: (preschool – 8th grade), a 22-acre contemporary campus in the west end of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Merle-Smith Campus: (grades 9- 12), situated on a 120 acres green expanse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
History
The History of Moravian Academy:
1742: Countess Benigna Von Zinzendorf opens Moravian Seminary for Girls.
1971: Moravian Preparatory School and Moravian Seminary for Girls merged to create Moravian Academy. Each spring, this merger is celebrated during the school Birthday Love Feast.
June 10, 1972: First joint graduation ceremony with thirty nine graduating students.
1987: The first issue of the Moravian Academy Journal was published.
1991: Moravian Academy publishes “Mind, Body, and Spirit: Moravian Academy 1742-1992.”
1992: 250th Anniversary Celebration of the forming of Moravian Academy.
2014: Moravian Academy opens Athletic and Wellness Center, a 40,000 square foot environmentally friendly building with two basketball courts with spectator stands; a multipurpose gym with rubber composite floor; a wellness center with strength and cardiovascular training equipment as well as a stretching area.
The History of the Swain School
1929: D.Esther Swain opens the Swain School. The opening of the school is celebrated annually on Founder's Day. Dogwood trees are planted in honor of D.Esther Swain.
1990: The Swain School celebrates 60 years
Post Moravian Academy and Swain School Merge
2020: Moravian Academy and the Swain School Merge to form a three campus school, Moravian Academy. Each campus is named: Merle-Smith Campus, Downtown Campus, and Swain Campus.
2022: Moravian Academy installs the first women head of school, Adrianne Finley Odell.
Beginning School
The Beginning School consists of preschool - kindergarten classes on the Downtown and Swain Campuses. Students in the Beginning School learn through responsive classroom techniques, experiential learning, and learning through play.
Lower School
The Lower School consists of students in grades 1 - 5 on the Downtown and Swain Campuses. The Lower School focuses on foundations skills, field trips, interdisciplinary project-based learning. Curriculum is built to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, and perseverance.
Upper School
The Upper School consists of students in grades 9-12 on the Merle-Smith Campus. Students in the Upper School learn how to learn, building the skills, judgement, grit, and self-motivation to reach their potential as they become experienced, self-directed learners. The Upper School provides guidance from college counselors as they take ownership of their college search and gain admissions to excellent right-fit institutions.
Administration
School Leadership History
Henrietta Benigna Justina von Zinzendorf, founded first school in 1742
Moravian Academy Heads of School:
President, Reverend Edwin Sawyer (1971-1973)
Headmaster, David J Devey (1973-1988)
Headmaster, Dr. Peter Sipple (1988-1998)
Headmaster, Barnaby Roberts (1998-2007)
Headmaster, George King (2007-2016)
Head of School, Jeffrey M. Zemsky (2016-2022)
Head of School, Adrianne Finley Odell (2022-present)
Notable alumni
Sally Kohn, liberal political commentator
Santo Loquasto, actor and Tony Award winner
Gilmer McCormick, actress
References
External links
Moravian Academy athletics official website
Moravian Academy profile at Niche
Moravian Academy sports coverage at The Express-Times
1742 establishments in Pennsylvania
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1742
Educational institutions established in 1971
Educational institutions of the American (North) Province of the Moravian Church
Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania
Private elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Private high schools in the Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in Pennsylvania
Schools in Northampton County, Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian%20Academy |
St Leonard's College is an independent co-educational school in Melbourne, Australia. Located in Brighton East, the school caters for students in all year levels from ELC for three-year-olds to Year 12.
Curriculum
St Leonard's was the first school in Victoria, and second in Australia, to offer the International Baccalaureate in addition to the more widely used Victorian Certificate of Education. The school is also authorised to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme in the Junior School from ELC to Year 4. The ELC also uses the Reggio Emilia approach to learning.
St Leonard's IB program is considered one of the strongest in Victoria with a median ATAR of 97.60 and a combined VCE and IB median ATAR of 87.00 in 2022
Location
St Leonard's College is located in Brighton East, Melbourne, Australia. The school is in close proximity to Port Phillip Bay and 11 kilometres south east of the Central Business District.
Facilities
Facilities include a performing arts centre, systems engineering centre, theatre, visual arts centre, music centre, Junior, Years 5 and 6, Middle and Senior School buildings, Junior School STEM laboratory, two libraries, sports centre with indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, dance and aerobics studio, basketball and netball courts, playing fields and multipurpose sports courts.
Leonardian Centre
The Leonardian Centre is a giant beehive-shaped theatre located in the centre of the school grounds. Opened in January 2021, the theatre features an auditorium (seating up to 600) with a half fly tower housing a curtain rigging system and lights, and an orchestra pit. Behind the theatre is located an agora with a large screen and an outdoor stage approximately 30 metres in diameter.
The theatre was designed with inspiration from the Globe Theatre, as its gabled roof resembled that of nearby Harefield House. The building was completed by ARM Architecture and, in 2021, received a commendation for educational architecture from the AIA 2021 Victorian Architecture Awards.
Previous events hosted at the Leonardian Centre include:
March 2021: Grease
April 2021: David Hobson - Live in Bayside
May 2021: Victorian All-State Jazz Championships
March–April 2022: Chicago - High School Edition
August 2022: A Midsummer Night's Dream
October 2022: Doctor Dolittle Jr.
December 2022: The Wizard of Oz
March–April 2023: Mamma Mia!
May 2023: Picnic at Hanging Rock
June 2023: Bugsy Malone
August 2023: Our Town
Technology
St Leonard's College has a "bring your own device" (BYOD) technology program. Students in the middle years bring their own iPad to school every day while students in the senior years are able to bring any device of their choosing as long as it meets specifications.
While the BYOD program enables most students to complete all of their digital learning, the school also has computers. Students studying Information Technology, Media and Visual Design do so using the school-owned computers and software.
Hart Theatre Company
In 2012, St Leonard's College launched the Hart Theatre Company, named after long-time drama teacher Roma Hart. The college hosts five productions a year: a year 5/6 musical, Middle School play, Middle School musical, Senior School play and Senior School musical. Recent productions have included Our Town, Mamma Mia, The Wizard of Oz, Dr Dolittle Jr., A Midsummer Night's Dream, Chicago - High School Edition, and Grease.
Hart Theatre productions have received awards from the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria. The 2012 production of Barnum was awarded Junior Production of the Year and Direction of a Junior Production.
In 2013 the Hart Theatre Company won Junior Production of the Year for a second year straight, this time for its production of Sweet Charity. The production was also awarded Junior Female Performer in a Leading Role. In the same year the Middle School production of Beauty and the Beast was awarded Junior Male Performer in a Supporting Role.
Music
The House Music Competition is an annual event for students in years 5 to 12. Held at The Plenary, each house presents two choir pieces, a small vocal piece and a small instrumental piece. Specialist judges from other schools are invited to select a winner in each category and overall.
Students from years 5 to 7 are required to learn an instrument. Private lessons are offered to students wishing to continue with their instrument onwards. Students can join ensembles, including orchestras (St Leonard's Symphony Orchestra and STL Pops), choirs (Middle and Senior School), bands (Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Wind Band, and Concert Band), jazz bands (Big Band, Stage Band, Jazz Band and Swing Band) and other specialist ensembles.
St Leonard's College offers VCE and IB music subjects. In this students are assessed on music performance and composition.
The St Leonard’s College Big Band achieved 1st place in the premier division of the Victorian All-State Jazz Championships in 2021 and 2022. 8 of the band members were awarded a place in the all-star band in 2022.
Sport
In years 5 and 6, St Leonard's students participate in the Coeducational Independent Primary Schools Sports Association competition, competing in a range of team sports against other coeducational independent primary schools.
The college is part of the Association of Coeducational Schools (ACS) sports competition which involves other independent co-educational schools around Melbourne. Participation is mandatory in years 7-11, and optional for year 12 students. Students participate in a range of team sports, through the summer and winter seasons, as well as the carnival sports of cross country, swimming and athletics.
St Leonard's College also has a community sport program, providing a number of opportunities for students, parents, staff and alumni to be involved in sport and fitness activities. Yoga, aerobics, gymnastics, adventure racing, surf ski paddling, cheer sports and triathlon are some of the activities available. There are also community basketball and netball clubs and a touch football group.
In 2014 the sailing team won the Victorian Schools Team Sailing Championships for the seventh time, and also regularly competes at the National Championships.
The Hawkes Sports Centre has a large indoor pool, tennis courts, aerobics room, gym, multi-purpose hall and change rooms. The college also has outdoor hard courts and an oval.
ACS championships
Athletics (9) – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2022
Cross-Country (11) – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016
Swimming (11) – 2000, 2005, 2006, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Chess (7) – 2009, 2010, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
ACS premierships
St Leonard's has won the following ACS premierships:
Combined:
Beach Volleyball (4) – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
Touch Football (6) – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021
Boys:
Basketball (7) – 2001, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021
Cricket (3) – 2012, 2014, 2016
Football (2) – 2016, 2022
Hockey (3) – 1998, 2020, 2021
Soccer (3) – 2003, 2009, 2014
Softball – 2020
Tennis (2) – 2006, 2019
Table Tennis (2) – 2022, 2023
Girls:
Basketball (3) – 2004, 2011, 2012
Football (3) – 2019, 2022, 2023
Netball (11) – 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Soccer (4) – 2004, 2013, 2019, 2020
Softball (5) – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2019
Tennis – 2015
Volleyball (7) – 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2020, 2021
Debating
St Leonard's students have the opportunity to participate in the Debaters Association of Victoria (DAV) schools competition from year 8 under the Brighton division. The college's A grade (year 12) team won in 2023 and 2015, as did its C grade (year 10) in 2013. Its A grade team were runners up in 2018.
Students also have the opportunity to compete in public speaking competitions such as the DAV's Public Speaking competition, British Parliamentary debate and the Australian Individual Debating and Public Speaking Competition, where the college's students were the Australian champions in 2014 and 2022. It has also competed in the Bond University Mooting Competition and rotary competitions such as Bayspeak and MUNA.
Social responsibility
The St Leonard's College community is involved in a range of social justice activities. The College aims to support children and education in local, national and international settings.
Since 1992, St Leonard's College has been involved in Bangladesh, funding and building three schools. Each year, senior students organise a Bangladesh Dinner to raise funds for the ongoing operational expenses of these schools. The college also supports schools in Timor Leste and Nepal.
Lennie's van is a community social action project run by St Leonard's since 2018. It provides breakfast, lunch and dinner to residents of social housing in the neighbouring area. Students are given the opportunity to assist with the cooking and distribution of this food from year 10–12.
All year 9 students complete local service activities as part their experiential learning program – CUE (Community, Urban, Environment). The CUE program culminates in Big Experience trips, in which year 9 students take part in an international journey to a country in South East Asia, with the exception of 2022, when all trips were too Australia or New Zealand due to COVID-19. During 2020 and 2021, these trips did not occur. These trips have a strong emphasis on global sustainability and community service.
Outdoor education
Outdoor education is compulsory for students in years 3 to 10. Students attend year level camps at the college's dedicated campsite, Camp Ibis, located on the Gippsland Lakes where they take part in a range of adventure activities including sailing, mountain biking and canoeing.
There is also a voluntary Outdoor Education Extension Program. Students can elect to take part in adventure camps, white water rafting, adventure racing, snowsports (primary to year 12) and hikes (years 10–12). In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 the St Leonard's College adventure racing team won the national Hillary Challenge, an interschool competition which tests basic outdoor skills and competencies.
Notable alumni
Kerry Armstrong – actor
Hamish Blake – comedian, radio presenter
Kaarin Fairfax – actor, director and singer
Beverly Jane Fry – international ballet dancer
Noni Hazlehurst AO – actor
Stephanie Hickey – Olympian, Australian snowboard slalom and snowboard cross competitor
Geoff Ogilvy – golfer, winner of the 2006 US Open
Ryan Shelton – comedian
Mark Turnbull – sailor, gold medal winner at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Chris Judd – former professional Australian rules footballer
See also
List of schools in Victoria
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
References
External links
St Leonard's College website
Educational institutions established in 1914
Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools
Private schools in Melbourne
International Baccalaureate schools in Australia
1914 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Bayside | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Leonard%27s%20College%20%28Melbourne%29 |
The Battle of Ichogil Bund also known as the Battle of BRB Canal was a skirmish fought from 22 September to 23 September 1965 as part of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 in which approximately two Pakistani companies attempted to re-occupy the eastern bund of the Ichhogil Canal. However, the Pakistani forces were routed, resulting in an Indian victory, and the contested section of the canal was re-captured by the 9th Battalion Madras Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B.K. Satyan.
The battle was notable for being fought after the cease-fire had been signed on September 22. Fighting began around midnight and lasted for about 2 and a half hours. Accounts differ: between 27 and 49 Indian soldiers died. Pakistani casualties included 48 dead, 11 captured and 80 jumped into the canal and were washed away (presumably dead).
The Ichogil Canal was constructed by the Pakistanis in the 1950s partly as a defensive obstacle to prevent an invasion of Lahore. At wide and deep, it presents a serious obstacle for military forces. Much of the battle was fought from across the canal, with tanks providing fire support to a ground team which had crossed the canal.
See also
Battle of Asal Uttar
Battle of Chawinda
Battle of Chumb
Battle of Kasur
References
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Battles of Indo-Pakistani wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Ichogil%20Bund |
Dezider Hoffmann (1912 – 1986), also known as Dezo Hoffmann or Dežo Hoffmann, was a Slovak photographer, photojournalist and cameraman from Czechoslovakia. In the 1960s he photographed pop and showbiz personalities, including the Beatles.
Biography
Hoffmann was born on 24 May 1912 in Banská Štiavnica, Austria-Hungary, now Slovakia. After studying journalism in Prague, he worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Paris as a photojournalist. During Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia he was sent to make a documentary of the invasion. After returning from Africa he was sent to Spain to film the 1936 People's Olympiad (a protest against the official Olympic games in Berlin under Hitler's propaganda). Soon after he arrived in Spain, the civil war broke out and Dezo found himself on the barricades. In this period he met personalities such as Hemingway and Robert Capa.
Dezo was injured a few times in war. The third injury was serious, leaving him without memory for several months. After recovery he moved to England and joined the squadron of Czechoslovak pilots flying with the RAF during World War II.
After the war he remained in London, working for various newspapers and magazines. In 1955 he began his collaboration with Record Mirror magazine, which was the start of his career photographing show-business celebrities.
In 1962 he went to Liverpool to photograph an unknown group—the Beatles. Mutual appreciation and sympathy led to a long-lasting relationship between Hoffmann and the group. Dezo also made an 8 mm colour film during this first Beatles assignment, also featuring scenes shot by the Beatles. His photo collection of the Beatles has been shown in the Egri Road Beatles Múzeum in Hungary since 2015.
Most of the photos used in the Beatles' Live at the BBC CD/LP, including the front cover photo, were taken by Dezo.
Besides the Beatles, Dezo photographed many other celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elton John, Bob Marley, Cliff Richard, Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as musical acts such as the Animals, The Jeff Beck Group and the Rolling Stones.
In 1982, Omnibus Press published With the Beatles - The historic photographs of Dezo Hoffmann, with photographs taken by Dezo during the height of Beatlemania. Hoffmann sold 100 of his Beatles negatives to Australian Colin Kaye. The remainder of Dezo's archive of approximately 1 million photographs of pop musicians and showbiz personalities was acquired by Rex Features.
Hoffmann died on 29 March 1986, aged 73, in the Harley Street Clinic, London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
Publications
With the Beatles - The historic photographs of Dezo Hoffmann. Omnibus, 1982. .
Collections
Hoffmann's work is held in the following permanent collection:
National Portrait Gallery, London
Further reading
Fotograf Beatles: Dezo Hoffmann, biography by Marián Pauer
References
External links
Slovak journalists
1910s births
1986 deaths
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
Slovak photographers
Hungarian photographers
20th-century journalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezo%20Hoffmann |
Social Security (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:
Ratifications
The convention was ratified by seven states. It never came into force because the criteria set out in the convention were not met.
Revision
The convention was revised into and superseded by Social Security (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1987.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
International Labour Organization conventions
Social security
Treaties concluded in 1946
Treaties not entered into force
Admiralty law treaties
1946 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Security%20%28Seafarers%29%20Convention%2C%201946 |
(literally "The Professor's Beloved Equation") is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by Shinchosha. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder was published.
Background
The story centers around a mathematician, "the Professor," who suffered brain damage in a traffic accident in 1975 and since then can produce only 80 minutes' worth of memories, and his interactions with a housekeeper (the narrator) and her son "Root" as the Professor shares the beauty of equations with them. The novel's bibliography lists the book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, a biography of the mathematician Paul Erdős. It has been said that Erdős was used as a model for the Professor.
The novel received the Hon'ya Taisho award, was adapted into a film version in January 2006, and after being published in paperback in December 2005, sold one million copies in two months, faster than any other Shinchosha paperback.
Plot summary
The narrator's housekeeping agency dispatches her to the house of the Professor, a former mathematician who can remember new memories for only 80 minutes. She is more than a little frustrated to find that he loves only mathematics and shows no interest whatsoever in anything or anyone else. One day, upon learning that she has a 10-year-old son waiting home alone until late at night every day, the Professor flies into a rage and tells the narrator to have her son come to his home directly from school from that day on. The next day, her son comes and the Professor nicknames him "Root". From then on, their days begin to be filled with warmth.
Characters
The Professor
64 years old. A former university professor who specializes in algebraic number theory. He loves mathematics, children, and the Hanshin Tigers (especially Yutaka Enatsu, who was playing for the Tigers at the time of the Professor's accident and whose uniform number was 28, the second smallest perfect number). After being in an auto accident at the age of 47, he can retain new memories for only 80 minutes. He keeps important information on notes that are attached all over his suits. He keeps baseball cards and other important mementos in a cookie tin. He has trouble interacting with other people and a habit of talking about numbers when he does not know what else to say. He has a talent for reading things backwards and finding the first star in the sky. His 80 minutes of memory eventually begins to fail, and thus he is moved to a nursing home where he spends the rest of his remaining days. But the Housekeeper, her son Root, and his sister-in-law continue to visit him. While the Housekeeper is working for him, he teaches her and Root about many of the math skills he knows and loves.
The Narrator/Housekeeper
The Professor's housekeeper and a single mother. She was hired by the Professor's sister-in-law through the housekeeping agency and is the tenth housekeeper the Professor has gone through. She initially feels frustration at the Professor, who shows interest only in mathematics, but through observing the Professor's kindness and his passion for mathematics, comes to feel respect and affection for him. She first manages to connect with the Professor when he discovers that her birthday is February 20 (220), which is an amicable number with the number 284, which is imprinted on the underside of his watch, which he received as the University President's Award for a thesis he wrote in university on transcendental number theory. She cannot pronounce the title of the Journal of Mathematics (to which the Professor submits contest entries) very well, so she refers to it as "Jaanaru obu." Towards the end of the novel and at a pivotal point in the story, she and Root give the Professor a rare baseball card of Yutaka Enatsu as a congratulatory present.
Root
Ten years old. The Housekeeper's son. The Professor refers to him as "Root" on account of the top of his head being flat like a square root () symbol. He is the only character given something close to a name. He is an avid fan of baseball as well as the Hanshin Tigers just like the Professor, and gets the Professor to repair his old radio so that they can listen to baseball broadcasts together. His relationship with the Professor is close to that of a father and son, for the Professor is the first fatherly figure in his life. He eventually grows up to become a junior high school mathematics teacher.
The Widow/Sister-in-Law
Sister-in-law of the Professor (wife of the Professor's brother). Initially, she fired the Housekeeper for disregarding the employment contract rules (bringing her child into a client's home, staying past her assigned hours) and accused the Housekeeper's affection as an attempt to extort money from the Professor. However, after the Professor writes down Euler's formula during this confrontation, the Widow immediately comes to accept the Housekeeper and Root. She cannot walk well, which the Housekeeper later discovers was a result of her being in the same auto accident as the Professor. While browsing through the Professor's baseball card collection in the cookie tin, the Housekeeper discovers an old photograph of a younger Professor and his sister-in-law. It is hinted that perhaps long ago the Professor and his sister-in-law once had romantic feelings for each other.
Mathematical terminology that occurs in the story
root
imaginary number
factorial
amicable number
prime number
twin prime
perfect number
abundant number
deficient number
triangular number
Ruth-Aaron pair
Mersenne prime
Napier's constant
Euler's formula
Fermat's Last Theorem
Artin's conjecture
Film
A film based on the novel was released on January 21, 2006. It was directed by Takashi Koizumi.
In contrast to the original work, which is told from the perspective of the narrator, the film is shown from the perspective of 29-year-old "Root" as he recounts his memories of the Professor to a group of new pupils. Though there are a few differences between the film and the original work (for example, the movie touches on the relationship between the Professor and the widow, while the book does not give much detail), the film is generally faithful to the original.
Notes and references
2003 Japanese novels
Japanese novels adapted into films
Shinchosha books
Novels by Yōko Ogawa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Housekeeper%20and%20the%20Professor |
is a Japanese vocalist, most famously featured on Final Fantasy: Pray and Final Fantasy: Love Will Grow albums. She sings in at least five languages: Japanese (her primary language), English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian (on Genso Suikoden Vocal album "La passione commuove la Storia").
She also sang an image song for Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon, which was called "Inisharu U" (Initial U.) However Ohki was not the voice actress for the character, she was filling in whilst Megumi Ogata was busy with her role as Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion. She sang as part of a six-member backing choir for the song "At the Gala" in the Japanese dub of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and voiced the mother of Whale in the Japanese dub of Magic Adventures of Mumfie.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa%20Ohki |
The Volkswagen Microbus/Bulli concept vehicles are a series of concept cars that are styled to recall the original Volkswagen Microbus built by Volkswagen AG. The first of these was the Volkswagen Microbus Concept Car (also known as the New Microbus and Microbus Concept), first presented at the 2001 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).
Later concepts included the Bulli (2011), BUDD-e (2016), and ID BUZZ (2017), all battery electric vehicle concepts, and the ID BUZZ has now gone into production after its launch in 2022.
Design
The new Microbus Concept was completely modern compared to the Type 2, featuring a 7-inch screen in the center console and a second ceiling-located 7-inch screen that allowed the driver to see behind the vehicle. Passengers had 8-inch screens mounted in the seatbacks for video entertainment. The Microbus Concept was approximately the same size as the contemporary Volkswagen Eurovan, and was powered by a newly developed 3.2L V-6 engine with stated output of and .
Styling of the Microbus Concept was handled by Volkswagen's California Design Studio in Simi Valley.
History
The Microbus Concept debuted at the 2001 NAIAS in Detroit. In June 2002 Volkswagen announced the Microbus Concept, using the platform of the forthcoming T5 light van, was slated for production commencing during 2003 at the company's Hannover plant, ramping up to 80,000 units annually by 2005. The launch was deferred, however, and the project was canceled in spring 2004.
In 2005, VW instead announced that Chrysler would build minivans for Volkswagen in the United States, while in Europe the VW Transporter Multivan would fill the niche previously intended for the reborn Microbus.
The Chrysler built Volkswagen Routan was released to the North American market in September 2008. Unrelated to the new Microbus, the Routan is a seven-seat minivan and is a rebadged variant of the Chrysler RT platform, fifth-generation Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country.
Battery electric successors
Bulli (2011)
In September 2008, Autoblog reported that the Microbus Concept might actually yet be produced, and at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen unveiled a second, smaller concept van (also reminiscent of the first generation Transporter) called the Bulli.
In the event, the Bulli also was not actually produced as envisioned in 2011.
The Bulli concept was powered by a motor that developed of torque, drawing from a battery for up to of range. Rear seats may be folded, expanding cargo room from . The interior featured two rows of bench seats and could accommodate six people; dimensions were similar to the earlier Space Up! concept car.
BUDD-e (2016)
Volkswagen announced that it was developing an all-electric platform in October 2015, as part of its response to the diesel emissions scandal. The platform was eventually named the MEB platform. The BUDD-e was revealed on January 5, 2016, at the Consumer Electronics Show, as the first concept based on the forthcoming MEB platform. That was the day after the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Volkswagen AG for its role in the diesel emissions scandal.
Like the earlier Bulli concept of 2011, the BUDD-e used two rows of seating. The battery in the BUDD-e gave it an estimated range of . The MEB-based BUDD-e used two motors, one each on the front and rear axle for a total mechanical output power of . It was also fitted with photovoltaic panels in the roof.
ID. BUZZ (2017)
The Volkswagen ID. Buzz debuted at the January 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. It was also based on the MEB platform. Unlike the Bulli and BUDD-e, the ID. Buzz featured three rows of seating.
References
External links
Volkswagen Microbus :: Concept Car Database
Article in the autochannel.com news
4 Volkswagen Microbus Concepts From the Past and Present - Motor Trend
Automotive.com, First Look: Volkswagen Microbus, 2007
Concept Cars (UK), Concept Car Database, Volkswagen Microbus
Volkswagen concept vehicles
Minivans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen%20Microbus/Bulli%20concept%20vehicles |
The Egebergs Ærespris ("Honorary Prize of Egeberg") is a prize awarded to Norwegian athletes who excel in more than one sport. The prize was created by Ferdinand Julian Egeberg, and consists of a bronze statuette modelled by sculptor Magnus Vigrestad.
History
In 1917 a donation of was given by Cabinet Chamberlain Ferdinand Julian Egeberg to the sports association Norges Riksforbund for Idræt. His donation was basis for the sports prize Kabinetskammerherre Egebergs ærespris for alsidig idrett. The statutes for the award were agreed on 10 February 1920. The basic capital was not to be touched, while the fund's interests should be used for a prize given to a sportsperson who, during the last two years, had excelled in one sport and also showed eminent performances in another, completely different sport. The prize is a bronze statuette modelled by sculptor Magnus Vigrestad, who won the design competition. The prize was regarded the highest achievement in Norwegian sport at the time. The statutes have changed slightly over the years. Today the prize is awarded by the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, and given to Norwegian sports people who have excelled nationally in at least two sports, and excelled internationally in at least one of these. The first awardee was skier and football player Gunnar Andersen, who received the prize for 1918. The first female recipient was Laila Schou Nilsen, who received the prize for 1936 for her achievements in skiing, speed-skating and tennis. In 1983 Cato Zahl Pedersen received the prize (for 1981) for disabled sports.
Award winners
The award has been given to the following athletes:
1918 Gunnar Andersen - football and ski jumping
1919 Helge Løvland - track and field and gymnastics
1921 Harald Strøm - speed skating and football
1922 Ole Reistad - cross-country skiing and track and field
1926 Johan Støa - cross-country skiing and track and field
1928 Bernt Evensen - speed skating and cycling
1929 Armand Carlsen - speed skating and cycling
1929 Reidar Jørgensen - cross-country skiing and track and field
1931 Fritjof Bergheim - gymnastics and track and field
1934 Otto Berg - gymnastics and track and field
1935 Bjarne Bryntesen - cross-country skiing and track and field
1936 Laila Schou Nilsen - cross-country skiing, speed skating and tennis
1937 Johan Haanes - tennis and cross-country skiing
1938 Henry Johansen - cross-country skiing and football
1939 Arne Larsen - cross-country skiing and track and field
1946 Godtfred Holmvang - athletics and alpine skiing
1947 Sverre Farstad - speed skating and weightlifting
1949 Martin Stokken - cross-country skiing and track and field
1950 Egil Lærum - cross-country skiing and football
1951 Hjalmar Andersen - speed skating and cycling
1952 Hallgeir Brenden - cross-country skiing and track and field
1956 Roald Aas - speed skating and cycling
1960 Reidar Andreassen - cross-country skiing and track and field
1961 Arne Bakker - football and bandy
1962 Magnar Lundemo - cross-country skiing and track and field
1965 Ole Ellefsæter - cross-country skiing and track and field
1967 Fred Anton Maier - speed skating and cycling
1971 Frithjof Prydz - tennis and ski jumping
1971 Bjørn Wirkola - ski jumping and football
1973 Ivar Formo - cross-country skiing and orienteering
1975 Eystein Weltzien - orienteering and cross-country skiing
1980 Bjørg Eva Jensen - speed skating and cycling
1981 Cato Zahl Pedersen - disabled sports
1987 Oddvar Brå - cross-country skiing and track and field
1988 Ragnhild Bratberg - cross-country skiing and orienteering
1990 Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo – cross-country skiing and biathlon
1991 Birger Ruud – ski jumping and alpine skiing
1992 Ingrid Kristiansen - track and field and cross-country skiing
1996 Anita Andreassen - mushing, cycling and cross-country skiing
2000 Anette Bøe - cross-country skiing, triathlon, mountain biking and ice hockey
2001 Anders Aukland — cross-country skiing, triathlon, sled dog racing and track and field
2002 Ole Einar Bjørndalen - biathlon and cross-country skiing
2002 Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen - ski orienteering and cross-country skiing
2004 Trond Einar Elden – Nordic combined, cross-country skiing and track and field
2005 Stein Johnson – former multi-sports coach
2006 Lars Berger - biathlon and cross-country skiing
2009 Frode Andresen - biathlon and cross-country skiing
2009 Helge Bjørnstad - sledge hockey and swimming (disability sports)
2010 Jens Arne Svartedal - cross-country skiing and duathlon
2010 Hedda Berntsen – skiing (telemark, alpine, ski cross).
2011 Kristin Størmer Steira - cross-country skiing and track and field
2012 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset – cross-country skiing and track and field
2013 Mariann Vestbøstad Marthinsen - sitski and swimming
2015 Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen - cross-country skiing and Track and field
2018 Nils Erik Ulset – biathlon and cross-country skiing (disability sports)
2019 Birgit Skarstein – rowing and cross-country skiing
2020 Therese Johaug – skiing and track and field.
References
External links
Verdensmester reagerer: – Hvis vi skal holde på sånn, kan vi bare legge ned antidopingarbeidet [World champion reacts: – If we are going to continue like this, then we might just as well retire (all) anti-doping effort] (4 December 2020) NRK
Norwegian sports trophies and awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egebergs%20%C3%86respris |
Dana Hall School is an independent boarding and day school for girls in grades 5-12 located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1881 by Henry F. Durant, Dana Hall originally served as Wellesley College's preparatory program.
Notable alumnae
Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein (1986), princess of Jordan
Alice Balch Abbot (1880s), children's writer
Dorcas Brigham (1914), botanist and horticulturist
Margaret Wise Brown (1928), children's author of Goodnight Moon
Rosario Ferré (1956), author, contributing editor of The San Juan Star, and former First Lady of Puerto Rico
Nina Garcia (1983), fashion director at Elle magazine, judge on Project Runway, and author
Helen Hartness Flanders (1909), folklorist
Busty Heart, entertainment personality
Ange Kagame, First Daughter of Rwanda
Opal Kunz (1914), aviator
María Corina Machado, Venezuelan activist and politician
Lila Mayoral, former First Lady of Puerto Rico
Alley Mills, actress
Sharon Olds (1960), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Madelyn Renee, soprano opera singer
Hillary Bailey Smith (1976), Daytime Emmy-winning soap opera actress
Frances Simpson Stevens (1911), painter associated with the Futurist movement
Karen Stives (1968), gold and silver equestrian medalist at the 1984 Olympics
Alexandra Wentworth (1983), actress and comedian
Latanya Sweeney (1977), computer scientist known for her work in data privacy
See also
Pine Manor College
References
External links
The Association of Boarding Schools profile
Boarding schools in Massachusetts
Educational institutions established in 1881
Girls' schools in Massachusetts
Schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Private high schools in Massachusetts
Private middle schools in Massachusetts
1881 establishments in Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Hall%20School |
Charlottenhof Palace or Charlottenhof Manor () is a former royal palace located southwest of Sanssouci Palace in Sanssouci Park at Potsdam, Germany. It is best known as the summer residence of Crown Prince Frederick William (later King Frederick William IV of Prussia). Today it is maintained by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg.
Location
Charlottenhof Palace and its surrounding park are located in the Brandenburger Vorstadt district of Potsdam's Westliche Vorstädte borough. Being located adjacent to Sanssouci Park, it is part of the Berlin-Potsdam Palaces and Parks system.
Transport
The palace is located between the Potsdam-Park Sanssouci and Potsdam-Charlottenhof railway stations, both offering direct DB Regio regional rail connections to Potsdam Central Station and Berlin Central Station.
Several Potsdam Tram lines connect the palace to central Potsdam at Schloss Charlottenhof and Bahnhof Charlottenhof/Geschwister-Scholl-Straße stations.
Overview
The park area with its various buildings can be traced back to the 18th century. After it had changed hands several times, King Frederick William III of Prussia bought the land that borders the south of Sanssouci Park and gave it to his son Frederick William and his wife Elisabeth Ludovika for Christmas in 1825.
The Crown Prince charged the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel with the remodeling of an already existing farm house and the project was completed at low cost from 1826 through 1829. In the end, Schinkel, with the help of his student Ludwig Persius, built a small Neoclassical palace on the foundations of the old farm house in the image of a Roman villa.
With designs he created himself the artistically inclined Crown Prince participated in the planning process for the palace and surrounding park. He referred to this summer residence as "Siam", which at the time was considered "the Land of the Free", and to himself jokingly as the "Siam House architect".
Officially the palace and park were named "Charlottenhof" in honor of Maria Charlotte von Gentzkow who had owned the property from 1790 to 1794.
The interior design of the ten rooms is still largely intact. The furniture, for the most part designed by Schinkel himself, is remarkable for its simple and cultivated style.
The palace's most distinctive room is the tent room fashioned after a Roman Caesar's tent. In the tent room both ceiling and walls are decorated with blue and white striped wallpaper and the window treatments and bed tent and coverings continue that design. The room was used as a bedroom for companions and guests.
The blue and white theme is continued throughout on the palace's window shutters, it seems, in deference to the Bavarian heritage of then crown princess Elisabeth.
Between 1835 and 1840 the explorer and world traveler Alexander von Humboldt was invited and stayed in the tent room during the summer months.
Charlottenhof Park
The landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné was charged with the design of the Charlottenhof gardens.
He completely recreated the originally flat and partly marshy area into an English garden with trees, lawn and water features. He also linked the new park at Charlottenhof to the older one at Sanssouci from the time of Frederick the Great.
World Heritage Site
Since 1990, Charlottenhof Palace has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin". The palace is administered by the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg.
See also
List of sights of Potsdam
List of castles in Berlin and Brandenburg
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
References
Wolfgang Fabian: Potsdam. Die Stadt-Die Könige und ihre Bewohner. Vision Verlag, Berlin 1997, .
Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen und Lucas Elmenhorst, Architekturführer Potsdam – Architectural Guide, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2006, .
Gert Streidt, Klaus Frahm. Potsdam. Die Schlösser und Gärten der Hohenzollern. Könemann Verlagsgesellschft mbH, Köln 1996 .
External links
Potsdam Park Sanssouci – Charlottenhof Palace
1829 establishments in Prussia
Houses completed in 1829
Buildings and structures in Potsdam
Castles in Brandenburg
Palaces in Brandenburg
Karl Friedrich Schinkel buildings
Royal residences in Brandenburg
Prussian cultural sites
Museums in Potsdam
Historic house museums in Germany
World Heritage Sites in Germany
Frederick William IV of Prussia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottenhof%20Palace |
The Sam Merrill Trail is a major hiking trail in the Las Flores Canyon of the San Gabriel Mountain Range north of Altadena, California, which leads to the top of Echo Mountain. It was built by Charles Warner and the Forest Conservation Club of Pasadena during the 1930s. After the deluge of 1938 most of the trails that accessed the mountain sides around Echo Mountain and the Mount Lowe Railway had been all but washed away. Sam Merrill found it important to maintain public hiking access to the railway ruins and other portions of the treacherous foothill. During the 1940s he overhauled and maintained the trail.
As a young man Merrill had lived with John Muir for a summer, which inspired a lifetime commitment to the outdoors and the Sierra Club. Merrill, who served as Clerk of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, was an active volunteer in the Sierra Club, leading outings for almost twenty years, serving on the Executive Committee of the Angeles Chapter from 1926 to 1935 and on the National Board of Directors of the Sierra Club from 1936 to 1937. When Sam Merrill died in 1948 the Sierra Club named the Echo Mountain Trail after him.
The trail originated at the old railway's right of way just above a point called Hygeia Station and climbed by switchback up the steep face of the Echo promontory. In the late 1960s a housing development was established over the trail, and the trailhead was moved to an access alongside the Cobb Estate gateway at the top of Lake Avenue.
The portion of the trail which was maintained by Merrill leads an approximate 2-mile trip directly to Echo Mountain and the ruins of the White City of the Mount Lowe Railway. It is also sometimes referred to as Lower Sam Merrill Trail because a section of the Mount Lowe 8, an old mule trail from the days of the Mount Lowe Tavern, was reopened, giving a continued hike into Grand Canyon and the site of the Tavern, and is referred to as Upper Sam Merrill Trail.
In 1996 the national USA Today newspaper published a list of "10 Great North American Hikes", which included the Sam Merrill Trail as one of them. The list had originally appeared in the October 1996 issue of Men's Fitness magazine.
Deaths
This is a partial list of deaths on this trail.
June 2016 Margaret Cihocki collapsed and died.
January 2017 Lee Brian Tracy, co-organizer and hike leader of So Cal Happy Hour Backpacking, fell off the trail and died.
References
Robinson, John W. Trails of the Angeles (Wilderness Press, 1971) pp. 87–89.
McKinney, John. "History and great views near Altadena" Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2003, p. L8
"Scenic sites to hike" USA Today, October 18, 1996, p. 10D
Roster of Sierra Club Directors at
Honor Roll of Great Leaders of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club at
Hiking trails in California
Altadena, California
Protected areas of Los Angeles County, California
San Gabriel Mountains | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Merrill%20Trail |
Chris Prynoski (born November 1, 1971) is an American film and television producer, animator, and director, known for his work on TV programs such as Downtown, Metalocalypse, Freaknik: The Musical, Motorcity and Megas XLR and films such as Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
Early life
Prynoski was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in Bordentown, New Jersey. He attended local public schools in Bordentown and then Notre Dame High School, and remembers doodling constantly in class. After high school, he pursued art school and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1994.
Career
Prynoski began his career working in New York City, mostly on his own or through MTV's in-house studio on shows like Daria and Beavis and Butt-Head. He also created his own show, Downtown, which was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award in 2000. His directorial work in the hallucination sequence of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America was nominated for "Best Animated Sequence in a Feature Film" by the National Cartoonists Society.
In the same year, he moved to Hollywood, California, where he opened his own studio Titmouse, Inc. with his wife Shannon Prynoski.
Prynoski's animation can be seen in opening title sequences for The Osbournes and The Simple Life and his directorial work can be seen in a number of media, from commercials to feature films to television. He has directed animation for the animated commercial "Foot Long Hot Dog Inventor" for Budweiser, many music videos for artists including Velvet Revolver, Snoop Dogg and George Clinton, and among other projects, a Dexter's Lab spoof with They Might Be Giants for Cartoon Network. His directing credits also include The Amazing Screw-On Head starring Paul Giamatti, Megas XLR for Cartoon Network, Happy Monster Band for Disney, Metalocalypse for Cartoon Network, Motorcity for Disney XD, and Downtown for MTV.
Prynoski has also directed Adult Swim's Freaknik: The Musical and executive produced Black Panther for Marvel and G.I. Joe: Resolute for Hasbro. He created and executive produced of the animated series Motorcity, which premiered on Disney XD in April 2012. He directed the 2016 animated film Nerdland.
His animation studio, Titmouse, Inc., is best known for their work on the Guitar Hero game cinematics, the short film Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation, and television series work on such shows as Metalocalypse, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Big Mouth, Afro Samurai, DJ & the Fro, Community, The Venture Bros., Freaknik: The Musical, and Superjail!.
He is currently an executive producer for the Amazon animated series The Legend of Vox Machina.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
American animators
American animated film directors
American animated film producers
Notre Dame High School (New Jersey) alumni
People from Bordentown, New Jersey
Artists from Trenton, New Jersey
School of Visual Arts alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Prynoski |
Chiffonade () is a slicing technique in which leafy green vegetables such as spinach, sorrel, or Swiss chard, or a flat-leaved herb like basil, are cut into long, thin strips. This is accomplished by stacking leaves, rolling them tightly, then slicing the leaves perpendicular to the roll. The technique can also be applied to thin crepes or omelets to produce strips.
This technique is not suited to small, narrow, or irregularly shaped herb leaves such as coriander, parsley, thyme, or rosemary. It requires a consistent, flat surface area for the knife to accomplish the ribbons.
"Chiffonade" means little ribbons in French, referring to the little ribbons formed from finely cutting the leaves in this technique.
See also
Brunoise
Julienning
References
External links
Chiffonade
Article describing chiffonade of omelet to add to soup
Cutting techniques (cooking)
Culinary terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffonade |
Seafarers' Pensions Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:
Ratifications
As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 13 states.
External links
Text.
Ratifications
International Labour Organization conventions
Pensions
Treaties concluded in 1946
Treaties entered into force in 1962
Treaties of Algeria
Treaties of Argentina
Treaties of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Treaties of Djibouti
Treaties of Egypt
Treaties of the French Fourth Republic
Treaties of Greece
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Lebanon
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of Norway
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Peru
Admiralty law treaties
Treaties extended to French Guiana
Treaties extended to Guadeloupe
Treaties extended to Martinique
Treaties extended to Réunion
1946 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafarers%27%20Pensions%20Convention%2C%201946 |
Newborough is a town in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria, Australia which shares a border to its west, mostly along the Narracan Creek, with the town of Moe. It can be divided into three areas, Old Newborough, East Newborough and North Newborough. The latter two areas were developed by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in the 1950s as residential housing for workers at the nearby Yallourn coal mining, power generation and briquette making works. Newborough now has a higher than average proportion of retirees and aged residents, and it has been suggested that it owes its generally quiet character to this fact. At the , Newborough had a population of 6,763.
Newborough Post Office opened on 1 October 1942 and Newborough East Post Office opened on 1 March 1951. A Newborough North Post Office opened on 1 July 1965 but was closed a little more than a year later.
The town is also home to a vibrant artist community, perhaps drawn by the picturesque Gippsland area and the quiet country lifestyle the town offers. Many artists and crafts partisans have set up small businesses.
Newborough is serviced by the Princes Freeway and is within a few kilometres of the Yallourn Power Station and the township of Yallourn North
Newborough is the closest town to Lake Narracan, a storage reservoir for the nearby power stations, but also a popular recreational area.
Education
Primary schools:
Newborough East Primary School
Newborough (Murray Road) Primary School
Immaculate Heart of Mary School
Secondary Colleges:
Lowanna Secondary College
Tertiary Education:
TAFE Gippsland, Yallourn Campus
Sport
Large sporting events are held locally at the Sports and Recreational Centre on Old Sale Road. The centre contains Bob Whitford Cycling Track and Joe Carmody Athletics Track, an 8-laned synthetic all-weather athletic track, home of Moe Little Athletics Centre and Gippsland Athletics Club. It is the only track of its type in Gippsland.
The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Mid Gippsland Football League.
The town also has two soccer clubs in the Latrobe Valley Soccer League. The Victorian regional leagues are the eighth level of soccer in Victoria, and the ninth nationally. The clubs are Monash SC who play at the WH Corrigan Reserve in Torres Street and Newborough-Yallourn United who play at WH Burrage Reserve in John Field Drive.
Golfers play at the Yallourn Golf Club on Monash Road or the Moe Golf Club on Thompsons Road., both of which adjoin the town.
In 2021, the Haunted Hills Mountain Bike Park was opened 4-kilometres from the town centre, on Haunted Hills Road. It provides over 11-kilometres of mountain bike tracks for all skill levels.
See also
Yallourn
Yallourn Power Station
City of Latrobe
Moe
Lake Narracan
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
City of Latrobe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newborough%2C%20Victoria |
Sultan Sulaiman Royal Mosque () is Selangor's royal mosque, which is located in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It was constructed by the British in the early 1932 and was officially opened in 1933 by the late Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah.
This mosque combines various types of architectural styles (such as Moorish and Art Deco) and interior and exterior designs not replicated in other mosques around the country. Sultan Sulaiman Mosque was the main state mosque of Selangor until the opening of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque in the new capital city of Shah Alam. Some of its interesting features include the Tangga Diraja (royal stairs) from Istana Alam Shah and a royal mausoleum. The late Sultan Salahuddin was buried in the mosque's grounds.
Architecture
The design concept of the Sultan Sulaiman Mosque is quite different from other mosques in the state, as well as in the rest of Malaysia's as it notably exhibits a combination of influences of Islamic architecture, Moorish, English, Neoclassical cathedral, and most importantly, Western Art Deco styles. It was designed by the British architect Leofric Kesteven (1882–1974), who was the Chairman of the Malayan Institute of Architects from 1931 to 1933, along with John Thomas Chester, the reinforced concrete specialist attached to United Engineers Ltd; and Rodolfo Nolli, the Singapore-based Italian sculptor who worked on the ornaments of the building.
The semicircular-shaped dome of the mosque is painted in egg yellow, not gold. The large dome of the main prayer space is surrounded by four smaller domes. The main dome represents the Sultan of Selangor while the smaller domes refer to Dato' Besar Empat Suku Selangor. Five domes at the main entrance of the mosque symbolise the Five Pillars of Islam and five Daeng Brothers, while two umbrella-shaped domes are symbolic of the royal umbrella. There are eight smaller towers around the mosque and a large tower in the middle, with a higher entrance from the main porch. The tower is also decorated with yellow dome at the summit. The original design of the mosque was like a cross bar when viewed from above, as is so often used in church plans in Europe, but after renovations by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS), the mosque now has a square footprint.
The present mosque has been through a number of processes and internal modifications; the most recent restoration was completed in 2017, which restored 70 panels of its colourful original bas-reliefs, which were covered with cement and white paint, which is the only kind found in mosques around Malaysia. The bas-reliefs feature the natural scenery and plants of Klang District. They are coloured brightly using hues of red, yellow, blue, and green.
The main prayer room Sultan Sulaiman Mosque is octagonal at the bottom, but it slowly smoothens into a circle at a height of 10 meters. The upper floors can be accessed with 'catladder'. There are decorative iron frames under the dome that support the multi-coloured patterned glass. The mosque was designed to accommodate about 1,000 pilgrims at a time.
History
Sultan Sulaiman Mosque was given as a gift by the British Government to then-Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sulaiman Alaeddin Shah to commemorate the declaration of Klang as a royal town and to replace the old and unsafe Pengkalan Batu Mosque which was demolished during the construction of Klang train station. He laid the foundation stone of this mosque in 1932.
According to history, before the building of the mosque commenced, a groundbreaking, qibla determination, and prayer ceremony was performed. This ceremony, attended by royalties, government officials, religious figures, architects and British officers, amongst others, was held in order to accurately pinpoint the position of qibla, or the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. The method used was through observing the shadows cast by vertical objects.
The mosque was officiated on 23 June 1933 by the Sultan, during a ceremony attended by the public as well as some prominent guests including the Raja Muda of Selangor, TS Adams (The British Resident of Selangor), L. Kesteven (the architect of the mosque), Raja Haji Othman (Chief Kadhi) besides various Malay chiefs, religious officers and European officials. During its opening, the mosque was reportedly the largest mosque in the then-Federated Malay States. Originally, this mosque was known as Masjid Suleiman Jamiur Rahman and it served as Selangor's state mosque until the completion of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque in Shah Alam in 1988. The Sultan Sulaiman Mosque remained as the royal mosque.
In May 2012, the mosque was declared a National Heritage Building under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). The building underwent a number of upgrades and renovations in 1933, 1949, 1953–54, 1958, 1966, 1968, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Between March 2015 and October 2017, the mosque was closed to the public for restoration works that cost 12 million ringgit and aimed to retain the original architecture and design of the mosque. The conservation project involved processes that included the cleaning of the mural surfaces, treatments to strengthen the murals and painting some parts of the mosque including in the main prayer room.
Royal Mausoleum
List of graves
This is a list of Sultans and members of the royal family who have been laid to rest in the mosque.
Sultan graves
Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah ibni Almarhum Raja Muda Musa (died: 31 March 1938)
Sultan Sir Mussyar Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah (died: 8 November 1955)
Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah – 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1960) (died: 1 September 1960)
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah – 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1999–2001) (died: 21 November 2001)
Tengku Ampuan/Pemaisuri graves (Graves of Royal Consorts)
Raja Fatimah binti Al-Marhum Sultan Idris I Murshidul Al Azzam Rahmatullah ( died 8 April 1983)
Tengku Pemaisuri Sharifah Mastura binti Syed Shahabuddin of Kedah (died 1958)Tengku Ampuan Jemaah binti Raja Ahmad (died: 8 April 1973)Tengku Ampuan Rahimah binti Almarhum Sultan Abdul Aziz Langkat (died: 27 June 1993)Royal family graves
Raja Azmi binti Raja Hussein Sulaiman Al-Halipp – Malay actors and singers (died 1974) Raja Tun Sir Uda bin Raja Mohammad – Second Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Selangor 2 and 4 (1949–1953,1957-1963) and first Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang (1957–1967) (died 1976) Raja Haji Kamaruddin Shah Ibni Almahum Raja Tun Haji Sir Udda Shah - (died 7 July 1970)
Tengku Hajah Raihani binti Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah (Tengku Ampuan of Brunei 1934–1950) (died 22 September 1993)Tengku Khaladiah binti Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah (died 2013) Tengku Azman Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah – Tengku Bendahara Selangor (died 2014) Tengku Toh Puan Nur Sa'adah binti Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah (died 2014) Tengku Muhammad Yusof Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah – Tengku Aris Temenggong Selangor (died 3 January 2018)Tengku Ismail Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah – Tengku Besar Putra Selangor (died 2019)''
Tengku Thuraya binti Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim – Tengku Puan Bendahara Selangor (died 2021)
Transportation
Seranas Group bus route 702 and Smart Selangor (rapidKL) bus route KLG3a and KLG3b from KTM Klang via Jalan Kota Raja Federal Route 190.
See also
Islam in Malaysia
References
Klang (city)
Mosques in Selangor
Mausoleums in Malaysia
Art Deco architecture in Malaysia
Mosques completed in 1934
Mosque buildings with domes
1934 establishments in British Malaya | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20Sulaiman%20Mosque |
Henry Mathison Pelling (27 August 1920 – 14 October 1997) was a British historian best known for his works on the history of the British Labour Party.
Life
Pelling was born in Prenton, Wirral, the son of a wealthy stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained firsts in Part I of the Classical tripos and Part II of the Historical tripos prior to completing a PhD in 1950. He began his career as a fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, where he remained until his return to St John's in 1966. He was Reader in British History at Cambridge from 1976 to 1980, at which point he decided to retire from university teaching. Doing so, however, led St John's to terminate his college fellowship as well, much to his chagrin, and it was only after a great deal of protest that he was reinstated (an interregnum he referred to thereafter as socius ejectus, in imitation of Thomas Baker). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1992. Pelling's collection of British left-wing political pamphlets is held at Senate House Library, while his papers are lodged with St John's College.
Publications
Pelling's main contributions to the study of the Labour Party were as follows:
The Origins of the Labour Party (1954) and
A Short History of the Labour Party (1961) (later editions co-written with Alastair J. Reid)
He was also a pioneer of the serious study of twentieth-century electoral and party politics, and wrote such other works as:
Modern Britain 1885-1955
Social Geography of British Elections: 1885-1910
Winston Churchill
Britain and the Marshall Plan
American Labor
A History of British Trade Unionism, London, 1963
America and the British left: from Bright to Bevan
The British Communist Party: a historical profile
The 1945 General Election Reconsidered
Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain
Britain and the Second World War
The Labour Governments 1945-51
References
External links
Pelling's collection at Senate House Library
Pelling's papers at St John's College
Copac listing of his work
1920 births
1997 deaths
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
People educated at Birkenhead School
20th-century British historians
Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Pelling |
Randall Alls (born July 19, 1956) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Randy Rose.
Professional wrestling career
Randy Rose began his career in 1974 in Tennessee.
In 1980, Rose formed a tag team with Dennis Condrey in the Alabama-based promotion Southeast Championship Wrestling. The duo initially feuded with Norvell Austin before joining forces with Austin to form a stable, The Midnight Express. The trio dominated the tag team scene there until 1983, when Condrey left SCW for Mid-South Wrestling, where he reformed The Midnight Express with Bobby Eaton.
After spending some time in International Championship Wrestling, Rose reunited with Condrey in the AWA in 1987. Now known as "Ravishing" Randy Rose, he and Condrey called themselves "The Midnight Express", and claimed the right to the name, which had since been used by Condrey and Eaton and later by Eaton and Stan Lane. The duo were managed Paul E. Dangerously. Condrey and Rose defeated Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee for the AWA World Tag Team Championship on October 30, 1987, in Whitewater, Wisconsin. They would have a two-month title reign, losing the titles to the returning Midnight Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) on December 27, 1987 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Condrey and Rose resurfaced in NWA flagship promotion World Championship Wrestling (with Dangerously) in November 1988, now known as "The Original Midnight Express". During the November 5 episode of World Championship Wrestling, Jim Cornette kayfabe received an anonymous phone call. The caller ridiculed Cornette over Eaton and Lane's loss of the NWA World Tag Team Championship to The Road Warriors on October 29. Cornette recognized the caller and basically asked him to come say it to his face. At that point, Dangerously and the Original Midnight Express hit the ring and proceeded to pummel Cornette and Stan Lane, who was wrestling in a singles match. By the time Bobby Eaton showed up, it was three on one. Cornette showed up the next week on TBS carrying his blood stained suit jacket and the feud was on. The teams wrestled at Starrcade '88, but nothing was solved. The Midnights vs. Midnights would be the hottest feud in WCW for months, building up to a six-man tag match involving the managers on pay-per-view in February 1989. The one who got pinned would have to leave the promotion. However, WCW (the former Jim Crockett Promotions) was under new ownership and in transition at the time and many wrestlers were coming and going. At the last minute, Condrey decided to leave WCW. Jack Victory was brought in as his replacement and the match went forward, but at this point no one really cared. Rose would leave WCW for a time and Dangerously would go on to bring in the Samoan Swat Team or SST as his new team. Rose would return to WCW for a brief time in mid 1989.
In 1990 and 1991, Rose wrestled for Georgia All-Star Wrestling and the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF). He retired from active competition in 1992 after 18 years.
He returned to wrestling in 2004 working in independent shows in Alabama. On May 5, 2006, Rose reunited with Dennis Condrey losing to the Steiner Brothers in a Steel Cage match for TNT Wrestling in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Four months later they lost to Brad and Bob Armstrong. Afterwards, Rose retired from wrestling again.
On January 10, 2015 he teamed with Tom Prichard as they lost to the Rock N' Roll Express for Big Time Wrestling Spratanburg, South Carolina.
Rose was also very involved with charity work during his wrestling career and tried to use his status as a pro wrestler to raise money.
Championships and accomplishments
All Star Wrestling Alliance
ASWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ron Starr (1 time) and Doug Somers (1 time)
American Wrestling Association
AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Dennis Condrey
Continental Wrestling Association
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Dennis Condrey and Norvell AustinA
Central States Wrestling
NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Bryan St. John
Deep South Wrestling
Deep South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
Class of 2019 - Inducted as part of The Midnight Express with "Loverboy" Dennis Condrey and "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton
Southeastern Championship Wrestling
NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (13 times) - with Ron Bass (1 time), Dennis Condrey (4 times), Pat Rose (1 time), Jimmy Golden (1 time), and Dennis Condrey and Norvell Austin (6 times)A
Windy City Pro Wrestling
WCPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Dennis Condrey
ARose, Austin and Condrey held the championship collectively via the "Freebird Rule"
See also
The Dangerous Alliance
The Midnight Express
References
External links
1956 births
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestlers from Tennessee
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
Sportspeople from Nashville, Tennessee
Dangerous Alliance members
AWA World Tag Team Champions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Rose |
Toby Christian Haenen (born 8 October 1973) is an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Haenen made his international debut at the 1992 Barcelona Games, where he finished 45th and 35th, respectively, in the 100-metre and 200-metre backstroke. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Haenen swam the backstroke leg in the heats of the 4×100-metre medley relay, before being replaced by Steven Dewick in the team that trailed the United States and Russian teams in the final. Haenen did not compete in any individual events.
References
External links
Australian Olympic Committee profile
1973 births
Living people
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Australian male backstroke swimmers
20th-century Australian people
Sportsmen from Tasmania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Haenen |
The State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) was established in Western Australia in 2005 as an independent body that makes and reviews a range of administrative decisions. Individuals, businesses, public officials and vocational boards can bring before the SAT many different types of applications related to civil, commercial and personal matters. These range from reviews of multimillion-dollar tax judgments and dog destruction orders to disciplinary proceedings, guardianship questions and town planning and compensation issues.
The SAT was established by the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 and the State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 (Conferral Act). The Conferral Act refers to more than 150 existing Acts of Parliament, known as enabling Acts. The enabling Acts give the SAT the jurisdiction to make decisions on specific matters.
The SAT:
aims to make the correct or preferable decision based on the merits of each application;
is not a court and, therefore, strict rules of evidence do not apply;
encourages the resolution of disputes through mediation;
allows parties to be represented by a lawyer, a person with relevant experience or by themselves;
holds hearings in public in most cases; and
provides reasons for all decisions and publishes most of them on the website.
The SAT's objectives are set out in the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004.
Areas
Given its broad jurisdiction, SAT matters are divided into four areas that enable procedures to be adapted to suit the type of matter and the needs of different people who use the SAT. The areas are:
Human Rights
Makes decisions that affect some of the most vulnerable people in our community in relation to guardianship, administration and discrimination, and reviews decisions of the Mental Health Review Board.
Development & Resources
Reviews decisions made by Government regarding planning, development and resources, and hears matters relating to land valuation and compensation.
Vocational Regulation
Hears complaints concerning occupational misconduct and reviews decisions concerning licensing.
Commercial & Civil
Deals with strata title and retirement village disputes, commercial tenancy and credit and reviews State revenue decisions and other commercial and personal matters.
Organisation
A Supreme Court judge is President of the Tribunal. The President is assisted by two deputy presidents, who are District Court judges, and a number of members who are experienced in relevant fields.
In 2007 the WA Parliament (Standing Committee on Legislation) commenced an inquiry into operations of the SAT. It resulted in the 2009 report "Inquiry into the Jurisdiction and Operation of the State Administrative Tribunal".
References
External links
Website of the State Administrative Tribunal
State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004
2005 establishments in Australia
Courts and tribunals established in 2005
Western Australian courts and tribunals
Australian tribunals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Administrative%20Tribunal%20of%20Western%20Australia |
Euryale ferox, commonly known as prickly waterlily, makhana or Gorgon plant, is a species of water lily found in southern and eastern Asia, and the only extant member of the genus Euryale. The edible seeds, called fox nuts or makhana when dried, are eaten in Asia.
Taxonomy
Euryale ferox is a member of the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. The separate family Euryalaceae J.Agardh was proposed in 1858, a classification which has ultimately been rejected. Unlike other water lilies, the pollen grains of Euryale have three nuclei.
Etymology
The genus is named after a mythical Greek Gorgon, Euryale.
The specific name forax is Latin for wild.
Distribution
Euryale ferox is a perennial plant native to eastern Asia and southern Asia, and is found from northeast India to Korea and Japan, as well as parts of eastern Russia.
Description
It grows in water, producing bright purple flowers. The leaves are large and round and peltate, often more than a meter (3 feet) across, with a leaf stalk attached in the centre of the lower surface. The underside of the leaf is purplish, while the upper surface is green. The leaves have a quilted texture, although the stems, flowers, and leaves which float on the surface are covered in sharp prickles. Other leaves are submerged. In India, Euryale normally grows in ponds and wetlands.
Reproduction
Self pollination can occur in Euryale ferox. Pollen is known to be released prior to the opening of the flower. The majority of Euryale ferox flowers are cleistogamous, with the additional occurrence of chasmogamous flowers.
Cytology
The chromosome count is n = 29. The genome size is 870.42 Mb.
Uses
Culinary
The plant produces starchy white seeds that are edible. The plant is cultivated for its seeds in lowland ponds in India, China, and Japan. The Chinese have cultivated the plant for centuries. More than 96,000 hectares of Bihar, India, were set aside for cultivation of Euryale in 1990–1991. The Indian state of Bihar produces 90% of the world's fox nuts. The plant grows best in locations with hot, dry summers and cold winters. Seeds are collected in the late summer and early autumn, and may be eaten raw or cooked.
In the northern and western parts of India, Euryale ferox seeds are often roasted or fried, which causes them to pop like popcorn. These are then eaten, often with a sprinkling of oil and spices. They are also used in other types of cooking, especially to make a porridge or pudding called kheer.
Evidence from archaeobotany indicates that Euryale ferox was a frequently collected wild food source during the Neolithic period in the Yangtze region, with large numbers of finds coming from the sites of Kuahuqiao, Hemudu, and Tianluoshan. The earliest recorded use of E. ferox was found in Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel, among artifacts of the Acheulean culture 750–790,000 years ago.
The seeds are used in Cantonese soup.
Traditional medicine
The seeds of foxnut are used in Ayurveda preparations and in traditional Chinese medicine.
Conservation status
It is classified on the Red List of endangered plants in Japan and given the designation "vulnerable". It is classified as species of Least Concern (LC) by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. However, a population decline on the global scale has been reported.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Flora of Korea
Flora of China
Flora of Bangladesh
Flora of India
Flora of Mongolia
Flora of Japan
Flora of Myanmar
Flora of Taiwan
Flora of Russia
Medicinal plants of Asia
Nymphaeaceae
Plants described in 1805
Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine
Taxa named by Richard Anthony Salisbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euryale%20ferox |
Roger IV (died 24 February 1265), son and successor of Roger-Bernard II the Great, was the eighth count of Foix from 1241 to his death. His mother was Ermessenda de Castellbò. His reign began with the south again at war with the north in France and, though he was reluctant to join his father's old ally, Raymond VII of Toulouse, in revolt and he did not aid the king of England, Henry III, in his Saintonge War.
Roger IV was a vassal of both the count of Toulouse (for his county of Foix) and the king of France (for his Carcassonne lands), then Louis IX. His loyalty to the king, however, took precedence and war broke out with Raymond VII (October 1242). Although Raymond was forced to submit to the king on 30 November, the war with Roger continued until January 1243, when the king ended it. The count of Foix was now solely a vassal of the king and Raymond spent the rest of his life (until 1249) trying to retrieve Roger's homage, to no avail.
Like his father, Roger IV had troubles with the church and the bishop of Urgel in particular and, in 1257, he successfully released the viscounty of Castelbon from the bishop's jurisdiction. In February 1245, he gave many freedoms to his subjects and he signed paréages with the abbots of Mas-d'Azil (1246), Boulbonne (1253), and Combelongue (1255). In 1251, he built the church at Boulbonne, transferred his ancestors' remains there, and defended it against the exactions of numerous enemies. He persecuted Catharism, the heresy of his mother, Ermesinda of Castlebon, in order not to be at odds with the Inquisition. He died on 24 February 1265 and was interred in Boulbonne next to his father.
Marriage and children
Roger married Brunissenda of Cardona, a daughter of Ramon VIII, Viscount of Cardona. They had six children:
Roger-Bernard III of Foix (died 1302).
Peter of Foix.
Sybille of Foix. Married Aimery IV, Viscount of Narbonne.
Ines of Foix. Married Eschivat III, Count of Bigorre
Philippa of Foix. Married Arnauld, Count of Pailhars.
Esclaramunda of Foix. Married James II of Majorca.
References
Sources
External links
Histoire des comtes de Foix.
1265 deaths
House of Foix
Counts of Foix
Occitan nobility
Year of birth unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20IV%2C%20Count%20of%20Foix |
Street literature is any of several different types of publication sold on the streets, at fairs and other public gatherings, by travelling hawkers, pedlars or chapmen, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Robert Collison's account of the subject describes street literature as the "forerunner of the popular press".
Leslie Shepard's "History of Street Literature" identifies a range of different publications as indicated by his subtitle: "The Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-Sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies, and Other Ephemera". Street literature therefore includes several different printed formats and publication types.
The main formats are:
Broadside ballad
Broadside ballads are traditional ballads printed on one side of a full sheet or half sheet of paper, often in landscape orientation. Intended to be pasted on to walls for public consultation.
Chapbook
Chapbooks were small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet and folded into books of 8, 12, 16 or 24 pages, either stitched or unstitched. There are several sub-categories of chapbook, notably:
Histories - 12 or 24- page booklets containing popular accounts of historical figures, traditional tales, fairy stories etc.
Patters - 8 or 16-page publications containing simple religious texts, humorous or sensational stories such as accounts of murders or natural disaster. Sold by a patterer, which was 'a noisy talkative street hawker of songs, last dying speeches, &c.'.
Collections - 8 or 16-page publications containing collections of the lyrics of popular songs.
Popular prints
Popular prints encompass a wide range of cheap printed images of differing sizes and for different purposes. They were generally of low artistic merit and often contained sensational, humorous or bawdy subjects.
Slip songs
The lyrics of popular songs printed four or eight to a sheet and cut into slips, to be sold to theatre-goers or those attending other places of public entertainment.
Other terms used
While the term street literature (coined in the mid-nineteenth century) is common, there are several other terms used in association with street literature which categorise the type of content rather than the format. These terms are not mutually exclusive
Almanac – an annual publication listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year.
Catchpenny – cheap, mass-produced sheets printed on one side on unfolded sheets of paper.
Cock – fictitious narratives, in verse or prose, of murders, fires, and terrible accidents, sold in the streets as true accounts. "The man who hawks them, a patterer, often changes the scene of the awful event to suit the taste of the neighbourhood he is trying to delude."
Garland – originally used as an anthology of poems on a particular subject but the term was later used as a general descriptor in the titles of broadside ballads and chapbook histories (e.g. 'The amorous lady's garland; or, the handsome butcher of St. James's Market').
New-sheet – single sheets containing accounts of sensational news (murders, accounts of battles, natural disasters etc.), the fore-runners of newspapers, but published intermittently rather than serially.
Squib – a handbill containing short humorous or satiric writing, often associated with elections.
Gallows literature – a collective term for the biographies, confessions, "last speeches," and other verses supposedly written by felons, sold at public executions.
Tracts – some religious and political tracts would come under the category of street literature, especially those (such as the Cheap Repository Tracts) designed for popular consumption and to replace other forms of street literature.
Other printed items such as advertisements, playbills, handbills, public notices, etc are sometimes listed under this term but since they are not sold they would be better described as printed ephemera.
Bibliography
Ashton, John. Modern Street Ballads. New Introduction by Leslie Shepard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Reissued by Singing Tree Press, 1968.
David Atkinson, Steve Roud. Street literature of the long nineteenth century : producers, sellers, consumers , (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017). 9781443894999
Robert Collison. The story of street literature : forerunner of the popular press, (London : Dent 1973). 0460039741.
Charles Hindley, The True History of Tom and Jerry; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! (London: Charles Hindley, 1886).
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, 2nd edn (London: John Camden Hotten, 1860).
John Morrison and Harold Burdekin. Curiosities of street literature : comprising "cocks" or "catchpennies", a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the royal family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of parliament, street political papers, a variety of " ballads on a subject," dying speeches and confessions : to which is attached the all-important and necessary affectionate copy of verses, (London : Reeves and Turner 1871).
Leslie Shephard. The history of street literature : the story of broadside ballads, chapbooks, proclamations, news-sheets, election bills, tracts, pamphlets, cocks, catchpennies, and other ephemera / (Newton Abbott: David & Charles 1973).
Susan C. Staub. Nature's cruel stepdames : murderous women in the street literature of seventeenth century England, (Pittsburgh, Penn. : Duquesne University Press [2004]).
References
See also
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/street-literature
The Word on the Street – Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland searchable online database
University of Glasgow Broadside Collection
Street Ballads
Street Ballads of Victorian England
Publications by format
Chapbooks
Street culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20literature |
Sheila Meiring Fugard (born 1932 in England) is a writer of short stories and plays and the ex-wife of South African playwright Athol Fugard.
Personal history
Born in Birmingham, England in 1932, Sheila Meiring moved with her parents to South Africa, in 1940, when she was eight years old. She went to the University of Cape Town, where she wrote short stories and studied theatre.
She met playwright Athol Fugard when she acted in one of his plays. In September 1956, she married Fugard and adopted his surname.
In 1972, when she was 40 years old, Sheila Fugard published her first novel, The Castaways, which won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Subsequently, she published other novels, including Rite of Passage, in 1976, and A Revolutionary Woman, in 1983. A Revolutionary Woman, her best-known novel, takes place in the 1920s in the Karoo district of South Africa and tells the story of a female disciple of Mahatma Gandhi who gets entangled in a rape case between a young colored boy and a young retarded Boer girl. Rite of Passage concerns a doctor and a young boy traumatized by a tribal circumcision ceremony.
Fugard has also published collected poems, including Threshold, in 1975, and Mystic Things, in 1981.
Athol Fugard acted in the BBC adaptation of her novel The Castaways. Their daughter, Lisa Fugard, who has acted in some of her father's plays, such as My Children! My Africa!, has also written a novel.
Bibliography
Novels
The Castaways (1972). .
Rite of Passage (1976). .
A Revolutionary Woman (1983). .
Poetry
Threshold (1975). .
Mystic Things (1981). .
The Magic Scattering Of A Life (2006). .
Biography
"Lady of Realisation. 1st ed. Cape Town: Maitri Publications, 1984. Copyright © The Library of Congress, No. Txu 140-945. Cape Town: Electronic Ed., luxlapis.tripod.com. 19 Apr. 1999. Accessed 30 Sept. 2008. (In 3 parts.) [A "spiritual biography" of Buddhist Sister Palmo.]
References
External links
"Sheila Fugard" (Index of articles) at Highbeam.com.
1932 births
Living people
South African women poets
University of Cape Town alumni
Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands
20th-century South African poets
21st-century South African writers
South African women novelists
20th-century South African novelists
20th-century South African women writers
21st-century South African women writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Meiring%20Fugard |
The Penang State Mosque or Masjid Negeri Pulau Pinang is a state mosque located at Jalan Masjid Negeri (Green Lane) in George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
History
Construction of the mosque began on 1977 with the foundation stone was officially laid by Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang, Tun Sardon Jubir on 16 July 1977. The mosque was completed in 1980 and was officially opened on 29 August 1980 by the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.
Features
The mosque was inspired by Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer's design of Cathedral of Brasilia in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. Its architecture is an amalgamation of Western Modernist. The mosque was designed by the Filipino architect, Efren Brindez Paz.
See also
Islam in Malaysia
References
External links
Photo: http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=1833942
Mosques in Penang
Mosques completed in 1980
1980 establishments in Malaysia
Mosque buildings with domes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang%20State%20Mosque |
Global International Airways (also known as GIA) was an American charter airline company based in Kansas City, Missouri.
History
Global International began seasonal flights to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris using the Boeing 707 in 1981. Global also used Boeing 727s for charters to the Caribbean as well as a leased Boeing 747-100. It was financed by a number of unsecured loans totaling $600,000 from the Indian Springs State Bank, at the instigation of Farhad Azima. Global International filed for bankruptcy in 1983, its bad loans being a major factor in the closing of Indian Springs a year later in 1984.
Fleet
Global International operated the following aircraft:
Accidents and incidents
On December 4, 1982, a Boeing 707-320B (registered N8434) struck an ISL aerial during takeoff at Brasília International Airport on its way to New York City. The aircraft returned and made an emergency landing where its left landing gear collapsed. All 49 passengers and 8 crew members survived without injuries.
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United States
Mark Lombardi
References
Airlines established in 1978
Airlines disestablished in 1984
Defunct airlines of the United States
Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20International%20Airways |
Kestrel (John Wraith) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
The character appeared in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, portrayed by will.i.am.
Publication history
Kestrel first appeared in Wolverine vol. 2 #60 and was created by Larry Hama.
Fictional character biography
John Wraith was a member of Team X and later a test subject of the Weapon X Program. He was part of Team X along with Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Mastodon and Silver Fox. John was a powerful teleporter, capable of getting the team out of sticky situations after their job was finished. He had a penchant for explosives, arming himself with shaped charges, explosives that were built to direct the force of their blast in specific directions based on how they are deployed. Like the other members of Team X, he was given an artificial age suppressant so he was likely much older than he looked. His time as a secret agent and a member of the Weapon X program left John somewhat paranoid. His house was a veritable death trap, as was the yard around it; John trusted no one.
John made it a habit to keep his ability a secret from everyone, even his companions. He only ever used it sparingly, when no one was looking at him unless it was vital. The only time when his fellow Team-X members found out about his powers was when they went up against Omega Red. John was backup on that mission that Wolverine, Maverick, and Sabretooth ran in Germany to collect a carbonadium synthesizer, and when that trio burst out of the target compound with Red in pursuit, John stalled him with his gun until the others got away. Unfazed, Omega went to wrap John up and tear him to pieces, but John teleported to safety at the last second, with only Wolverine and Omega Red seeing this. There was also a certain animosity between him and Sabretooth. He was about as violent as his fellows from the Weapon X program, but a lot more merciful and didn't enjoy killing innocents while on a mission, which put him at odds with people like Sabretooth. Sabretooth once languished for quite a time in John's basement with several shaped charges strapped to his chest. Unless he had a really good reason to, Sabretooth wouldn't lift a finger to help John.
Years later, John had tracked Wolverine and the rest of his old teammates down because it seemed that there was a problem with the age suppression factors given to them by Weapon X, as one of their numbers, Mastodon, had suddenly aged quite rapidly and been reduced into a pile of ooze. With their help, John discovered a list of termination candidates from the Weapon X project. They uncovered themselves on the list plus a man named Aldo Ferro, who they knew was a big-time mafia chief, Il Topo Siciliano. They tracked Ferro to his secluded island where they discovered Maverick guarding him. After Ferro's transformation caused Carol Hines to die of fright, Maverick soon changed sides when Ferro reveals that he had used his psi-powers to speed the false memory implantation of the Weapon X subjects. After this fiasco, John hung out with Wolverine for a month or two but then vanished.
Wraith was later re-recruited into Weapon X by the "Director" and his mission was to recruit Maverick as well. However, Maverick fought back and Wraith was shot and then had his neck broken by Sabretooth, who was planning on betraying the Program and couldn't trust Wraith. He was left for dead but managed to survive.
John Wraith turns up alive and later became a preacher and was visited by Wolverine who confided in Wraith during soul-searching instigated by his being somewhat sceptical of his new start in life. However, a demon later possessed Wolverine's body (referred to as Hellverine) and lured Wraith into a trap by killing one of his parishioners. Whilst exiting the chapel and locking the parishioners inside so as to ensure they would not come to any more harm, Wraith armed himself with an assault rifle and set off to stop Logan's rampage only to be caught in one of his own traps, where he came face to face with Hellverine who managed to cast a spell of sorts on him, causing an assortment of deadly creatures to crawl all over his body; seemingly killing him. Hellverine then directed its attention to Wraith's church (which was still locked with the parishioners inside) and used its demonic powers to set the building ablaze. Wraith emerged from nowhere and tried in vain to stop the demon, but was critically wounded by its claws. Helpless, Wraith could only watch as the parishioners were burned alive as he lay dying, as he was now depowered and could no longer teleport.
Powers and abilities
Wraith possessed the psionic ability to phase-jump, enabling him to vanish from one location and reappear at another with apparent ease and over considerable distances. He could move throughout space at his discretion, without leaving any perceptible visual or auditory effects, and could bring others with him. Additionally, as a result of his participation in the Weapon X initiative, he had a life-extending serum in his bloodstream. He was known to employ "shaped charges" - precisely-controlled explosive devices - as a preferred tactic.
Other versions
Ultimate Marvel
The Ultimate Marvel version of the character is a Caucasian male. Colonel John Wraith was a mutant-hating commando who was in charge of the world's first mutant concentration camp. He was sanctioned by S.H.I.E.L.D. to head the barbaric Weapon X Program, which specialized in capturing mutants and forcing them to carry out covert missions for the US government. The program was co-headed by a Dr. Abraham Cornelius. He and his men (all who have anti-mutant sentiments as well) managed to capture and subject Canadian para-trooper James "Lucky Jim" Howlett to experiments which wiped his memories clean and bonded his skeleton with Adamantium. They christened Howlett Weapon X and gave the fake name Logan. Wraith and his men enjoyed tormenting Logan by teasing with bits and pieces of lost memories and also caging and shooting Logan day and night since Logan could not die due to his own mutant healing factor. This conditioned Logan to become the perfect killing machine, or so they thought.
During the Gulf War, they were transporting Logan in the desert, preparing for deployment, but the transport team was ambushed and Logan was accidentally set loose. Stumbling across a younger Nick Fury taken by surprise by the same ambush, Logan rescued and brought Fury back to base camp. Colonel Wraith, surprised that Logan retained his humanity by not killing Fury, ordered his men to shoot and cage Logan once again. He told Fury not to worry about Logan since he was nothing more than a living weapon. A couple of years later, Fury returned the favour by helping Logan escape from the Weapon X facility.
Wraith sent Sabretooth, another one of his mutant agents, after Logan but came back empty-handed. Wraith then began capturing other mutants to take Logan's place, mutants including Nightcrawler, Rogue and Cain Marko. When he received news that Logan headed back to America (as an assassin for Magneto unknown to them), he and his men again attempted to recapture Logan, only to have their plans foiled by the X-Men. Wraith's face was scarred by Logan's claws. In retribution, Wraith ordered the capture of the X-Men, but again he failed to catch Logan.
He had Charles Xavier hooked up to machines to harness the Professor's telepathy to help find other potential candidates for the program. The mutants imprisoned at the Weapon X facility were tortured on a daily basis; Rogue's arm was broken regularly and molten metal was poured on Colossus to test durability. It was also during this time that Beast gets mutated even further by Dr. Cornelius. To keep them in line, Wraith had implanted micro explosives into them and if anyone got out of line or tried to escape, it was their friends who would pay the price.
The X-Men's first major mission forced them to split up. One team was assigned to free Nick Fury having been captured by a foreign country, while the other team was assigned to destroy a new bio-weapon being developed by terrorists. Jean Grey was ordered to execute one of the scientists they had captured but refused. Wraith threatened to detonate Cyclops's implants for insubordination, at which point Jean is forced to kill someone for the very first time.
When General Ross threatened to phase out Weapon X, Wraith used Xavier to dispose of the General with a mental explosion. Wolverine eventually gets captured, but had secretly led the Brotherhood to the facility in an attempt of freeing the imprisoned mutants. When the mutants began to break free, Wraith shot Xavier and attempted to flee in a helicopter. The Blob held onto Wraith's helicopter but eventually loses grip. Storm tried to zap Wraith with lightning, but Nightcrawler saved the Colonel who in turn tried to kill Nightcrawler. Fury killed Wraith and declared that all the mutants at the facility were free to go.
Canadian government forces saved Wraith's life by injecting him with the Banshee drug, and he was made leader of Alpha Flight. He also gained superpowers. Wraith decided to call himself "Vindicator". His team went to retrieve Northstar, which led the X-Men to find out that Wraith's team all use Banshee. After the Ultimatum wave, Rogue sought out Wraith after finding out his identity during a previous battle when some of the X-Men went to rescue Northstar. Rogue convinced him to help kill Magneto. He needed a few more people to help with this mission, so he and Rogue captured Sabretooth and Juggernaut to reform Weapon X. Wraith was later killed by Stryker after blasting a hole in his armour.
In other media
Television
A character based on the Ultimate Marvel incarnation of John Wraith named Colonel Moss appears in Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Michael Ironside. This version is the head of the Mutant Response Division and former head of Weapon X under Professor Thorton and Abraham Cornelius who bears a vendetta against Wolverine, who slashed his face sometime prior to the series. In a possible post-apocalyptic future controlled by the Sentinels, Moss sided with them and became a cyborg in charge of placing mutants in concentration camps.
Film
John Wraith appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, portrayed by Will.i.am. This version is a member of William Stryker's Team X and the only member of the group who Logan trusts. Initially loyal to the group, Wraith and Logan eventually quit over moral issues, with the former going on to become a boxing manager and helping to get teammate Frederick Dukes back into shape. Years later, Wraith accompanies Logan in seeking out Stryker, only to be confronted by Victor Creed, who eventually kills Wraith for use in Stryker's experiments.
Video games
John Wraith appears in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine tie-in game, voiced by Will.i.am. This version was imprisoned by Project: Wideawake before he is rescued by Logan and Raven Darkholme.
An unrelated Kestrel named Major Sybil Tan appears in Marvel Strike Force. This version is a S.H.I.E.L.D. researcher.
References
Fictional soldiers
Comics characters introduced in 1991
Fictional African-American people
Fictional characters with slowed ageing
Fictional colonels
Fictional American secret agents
Marvel Comics characters who can teleport
Marvel Comics film characters
Marvel Comics male supervillains
Marvel Comics mutants
Marvel Comics superheroes
Marvel Comics supervillains
Characters created by Larry Hama
Fictional priests and priestesses
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
Fictional characters with memory disorders
X-Men supporting characters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 |
Frankford High School is a public high school in the School District of Philadelphia. It is located at Oxford Avenue and Wakeling Street in the Frankford section of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has an award-winning and highly successful Culinary Arts Program.
Frankford was founded in 1910 as an annex to Central High School. Around 1927, the Frankford Radio Club, a long-running amateur radio club, was founded at the school. This competitive radio club continues to this day; Alburtis, Pennsylvania is the current home of the club.
In the fall of 2018, Frankford High School launched the Frankford High School Aviation Academy, a unique program to provide a career path for the graduates of the program. Since the launch of the aviation program, Hospitality and Solar Panel CTE courses have been added as well.
The current Principal is Michael J. Calderone.
Aviation Academy
Beginning with the class of 2022, students have the opportunity to enroll in the Aviation Academy. After their completion, they can earn their private pilot license and by the time they are 21 be eligible for their commercial pilot license. The program will also include multiple tracks of study including drone-piloting and airplane mechanic/maintenance.
Sports
Having been founded as an annex to Central High School, Frankford inherited the gold and crimson from Central, but the addition of navy blue makes the school's colors distinctive. Frankford's slogan is "Home of Champions," a nod to its longstanding tradition of fielding strong sports teams. The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the Pioneers.
Frankford's soccer team won ten straight Public League Championships (1987–1996), four of which by shutout. Frankford's wrestling team won 11 straight Public League Championships ending in 2007.
Neighborhoods served
Neighborhoods served by the school include Bridesburg, Frankford, Northwood, Wissinoming, Oxford Circle, and Juniata.
Feeder patterns
Harding Middle School is Frankford's most significant feeder school, or one in which its graduating students matriculate to Frankford High.
Notable alumni
Zaire Anderson, NFL player
Joe Bonsall, singer The Oak Ridge Boys
Vince DeMentri, news anchor
John Diehl, former NFL player
Christine Duffy, business executive
Jahri Evans, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints offensive guard
Earl G. Harrison, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
Bobby Higginson, former Detroit Tigers outfielder
Mike Jarmoluk, former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end
Ralph Lewis, former La Salle University and NBA guard
Jonathan Maberry, author and educator
Hector Andres Negroni, Air Force Fighter Pilot, Historian
Stevie Richards, professional wrestler
John Richter, NBA basketball player
Kaboni Savage, drug dealer and murderer
Blair Thomas, former Penn State and NFL running back
Isaiah Thomas, Philadelphia City Council member
See also
Northeast Philadelphia
References
External links
Frankford High School
Frankford Alumni site
School District of Philadelphia
Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1910
1910 establishments in Pennsylvania
Frankford, Philadelphia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankford%20High%20School |
Symbiosis Law School (SLS) is a law school with campuses located in Pune, Noida Hyderabad, and Nagpur in India. The law school was established in 1977 under the banner of Symbiosis Society, under the patronage of S. B. Mujumdar, President and Founder Director. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and the Bombay Public Trust, Act, 1950. Symbiosis Law School is a constituent college of the Symbiosis International University.
Organisation and administration
Faculty
The law school has 25 full-time faculty members which include two professors, three associate professors, 19 assistant professors and one teaching associate and one adjunct faculty.
Centers of specialization
SLSN has set up six Centers of Specialization in Public Law & Governance, Private Laws, Transnational & Global Legal Studies, Corporate Laws, Justice Education and Technology & Innovation Laws, to promote research activities. Under these Centers of Specialization, research projects are being carried out, such as Community Legal Care, Legal aid activities, Microsoft IPR Chair, Prisoner's Rights, Law Reform Projects on Common Property with NLSIU, Bangalore & Compensation for rape victims with National Commission for Women alongside supportive research for Law Commission of India. IPC handbook, book research on Feminist Jurisprudence, Legal Regulation of Biotechnology and Educational Laws are other initiatives.
Academics
Symbiosis Law School Noida offers undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. programmes. It also offers diploma and certificate studies.
Admissions
Admission for Undergraduate Programmers is through Symbiosis Law Admission Test (SLAT) which is a common written test for the admission processes of Undergraduate Institutes of Symbiosis International University (SIU). The Entrance Test is followed by Writing Ability Test and Personal Interview which makes SLS the first law school to adopt admission through these steps. SLAT has replaced what was earlier known as SET - Symbiosis Entrance Test for Law.
In-house journals
Symbiosis Contemporary Law Journal
It is a revamped journal of SLS which has replaced the erstwhile journals of the Law School - Symbiosis Law Times, Journal of Symbiosis Law School & IPR Chronicle and consolidated into one journal. It brings the issues which are contemporary to legal education in the country in the fields of Constitutional Law, Corporate Laws, Comparative and International legal studies, Intellectual Property Rights, Innovations in Technology and the recent regulations. It is an annual publication.
Symbiosis Student Law Review
Its provides a platform for the students of the law schools of the country to share their views and expertise in law. This annual journal aims at encouraging students research and to publish their research articles, essays and conference papers.
Lex-Et Symbiosis - Newsletter
This is the bi-annual newsletter of the school which provides updates on campus activities and other events that takes place in the Law School. It also provides awareness of happenings in the legal field.
Justice Y. V. Chandrachud Memorial Public Lecture Series Handbook
The handbook of memorial public lecture series covers public lectures organized by SLS, commemorating the life and work of Indian educational thinkers and practitioners as well as contemporary legal issues. It aims at sharing the knowledge, to reach out to policy makers, the media and the general public, to celebrate the memory and contribution of Late Justice Y. V. Chandrachud, a son of Maharashtra, one of the eminent Judges of Supreme Court of India and the Advisor and Professor Emeritus of SLS.
Rankings
SLS was ranked third in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022. It was ranked fifth in India by India Todays "India's Best Law Colleges 2022" and second by Outlook Indias "Top 30 Private Law Colleges In India" of 2022.
Student life
Student organizations
The Student Advisory Board is the apex student body of the institution and is primarily responsible for all student activities in the college. It also oversees and supervises all other student bodies in the college. It is headed by a president and four vice presidents with various cabinet members. It is governed by the "Symbiosis Law School, Pune Student Advisory Board Constitution".
Clubs and societies of Symbiosis Law School, Pune, include the Human Rights Cell (HRC), The Environment Protection and Consumer Rights Organization (Ecocon), Legal Aid and Literacy Cell, Tech Legal Cell, Alumni Cell, Corporate Cell, Law Hawks Forum, International Cell - ILSA, Sports Committee, Law and Economics cell (LAWECON) and the Student Bar Association (SBA). The institution has been a partner institute for Surana & Surana International Technology Law Moot Court Competition from 2008 onwards.
Symbhav
The students of Symbiosis Law School, Pune, started Symbhav – a Cultural Fest in February 2009 followed by an edition in 2010. Since its inception in 2009, it has had the participation of 20 teams from all over the country and SAARC nations including leading national law schools.
References
External links
Law schools in Uttar Pradesh
Universities and colleges in Noida
Symbiosis Society
Educational institutions established in 1977
1977 establishments in Maharashtra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis%20Law%20School |
Lospalos — sometimes erroneously written as Los Palos, assuming a nonexistent Spanish etymology — is a city in East Timor, to the east of Dili, the national capital. Lospalos has a population of 17,186 (2006) and is the capital of Lautém Municipality and the Lospalos Administrative Post. The subdistrict has a population of 25,417 (2004).
Internationally, "Lospalos" is mistakenly spelled as Los Palos, suggesting a Spanish origin of the name. In fact, it is derived from Lohoasupala, the name in Fataluku, the local Papuan language, although nowadays Fataluku speakers use the name Lospala. The preferred spelling in English, as well as Tetum and Portuguese, the official languages of East Timor, is Lospalos.
Lospalos is the birth city of the co-founder and president of the party APODETI, Frederico Almeida Santos Costa.
Climate
Lospalos has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with a dry season from August to October and a wet season covering the remaining nine months.
Sport
Football
FC Beltratez Lospalos
References
External links
Photos of Lospalos
Populated places in East Timor
Lautém Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lospalos |
LogicVision, Inc. was an electronic design automation (EDA) company, offering chip, board and system-level Design for Test (DFT) solutions and support to ASIC vendors based in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1992, it was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2009. Their embedded test, BIST and yield learning tools were applicable to digital, analog and mixed-signal designs. LogicVision had no profitable year during its existence as a publicly traded company.
History
The company was founded as LV Software in 1992 by Vinod Agarwal, a former McGill University professor in electrical engineering. Later that year, LV Software was renamed as LogicVision. The company became publicly traded in October 2001 on the NASDAQ as LGVN, and in November 2004 they acquired SiVerion. Founder Vinod Agarwal resigned as chairman of the board in November 2005. On August 18, 2009, Oregon based Mentor Graphics acquired LogicVision in an all-stock arrangement valued at $13 million. Mentor incorporated LogicVision as part of an existing business unit.
LogicVision tool suites
ETCreate — Embedded test IP insertion tool for logic, memory and mixed-signal testing
ETAccess — Interactive program that works with 3rd party testers for controlling and logging of data on the device for at-speed testing
SiVision — Yield analysis program which looks at foundry and performance data to diagnose possible problems
Management team
James T. Healy, President and CEO
Bruce M. Jaffe, Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Ron H. Mabry, Vice President of Field Operations and Applications Engineering
Farhad Hayat, Vice President of Marketing
Benoit Nadeau-Dostie, Ph.D., Chief Scientist
References
External links
LogicVision homepage
Electronic design automation companies
Companies based in San Jose, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogicVision |
Peter Grahame Snow (11 November 1934 – 28 February 2006) was a New Zealand general practitioner. He served the rural community of Tapanui for over 30 years. He was president of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs from 1998–99 and received their highest honour, Distinguished Fellowship, in 2001. He was a member of the Otago Hospital Board and its successor, the Otago District Health Board.
Education
As a boy, Snow attended Auckland Grammar School, graduating with the class of 1948.
While training in medicine he expressed an interest in general practice, so when a position became available he took up general practice in Tapanui.
Practice
In 1984 he was presented with a number of patients with a prolonged exertional 'flu-like illness, but presenting no diagnosable condition. While some people thought they were no different from commonly found "tired all the time" cases, Dr Snow was convinced that they were indeed sick and proceeded to investigate. Many were sheep farmers who previously had a perfect record of health. Observing a similarity between the symptoms of stock suffering from selenium deficiency and these patients, he was the first doctor in New Zealand to identify the disease which turned out to be an outbreak of myalgic encephalomyelitis, now classed as chronic fatigue syndrome. Owing to, often disparaging, publicity surrounding these discoveries and a study into them by Snow, Marion Poore, and Charlotte Paul, the illness came to be known in New Zealand as "Tapanui flu" after the town of the same name in West Otago.
Snow also became concerned at the number of farmers injured in farm accidents, particularly those involving motorcycles, and made recommendations for improving farm safety. He campaigned unsuccessfully to prevent the closure of the Tapanui hospital, at which he was on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Retirement, death and legacy
After more than 30 years in Tapanui, Snow and his wife retired to Lake Hayes. Peter Snow died on 28 February 2006. A memorial to Snow, comprising a Moon rock and plaque, was unveiled in the main street of Tapanui on 8 August 2009. The Moon rock was chosen because of Snow's belief that a meteor had collided with the Moon in 1766 and dispersed debris across West Otago.
References
1934 births
2006 deaths
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
New Zealand general practitioners
Otago District Health Board members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Snow%20%28doctor%29 |
Oren Patashnik (born 1954) is an American computer scientist. He is notable for co-creating BibTeX, and co-writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. He is a researcher at the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla, and lives nearby in San Diego. Oren and his wife Amy have three children, Josh, Ariel, and Jeremy.
History
Oren Patashnik graduated from Yale University in 1976, and later became a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford University, where his research was supervised by Donald Knuth.
While working at Bell Labs in 1980, Patashnik proved that Qubic can always be won by the first player. Using 1500 hours of computer time, Patashnik's proof is a notable example of a computer-assisted proof.
In 1985, Patashnik created the bibliography-system, BibTeX, in collaboration with Leslie Lamport, the creator of LaTeX. LaTeX is a system and programming language for formatting documents, which is especially designed for mathematical documents. BibTeX is a widely used bibliography-formatting tool for LaTeX.
In 1988, Patashnik assisted Ronald Graham and Donald Knuth in writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, an important mathematical publication and college textbook.
In 1990, he got his doctorate in computer science. His thesis paper was about "Optimal Circuit Segmentation for Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing" .
After the 2003 Cedar Fire destroyed 60% of the houses in his immediate neighborhood, his statistical study showed that houses with a wood-shake shingle roof did very badly, but surprisingly, so did houses with a Spanish-style, curved-red-tile roof.
Notes
References
(PDF) "How to Win at Tic-Tac-Toe" (Mathellaneous, July 2005, University of Melbourne) - 11-page article with a section relating Patashnik's effort on Qubic
Credits of Concrete Mathematics
1954 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Jewish American scientists
Jewish scientists
Yale University alumni
Timothy Dwight College alumni
Stanford University alumni
BibTeX | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren%20Patashnik |
Callixte Nzabonimana (born 1953) is a former Rwandan politician who is accused of participating in the Rwandan genocide.
Prior to 1994
An ethnic Hutu from Gitarama prefecture, Nzabonimana held the position of Minister of Planning in the MRND government of Juvénal Habyarimana from 15 January 1989 to 4 February 1991, in the successive "multi-party" government formed on 31 December 1991, and the second "multi-party" government formed on 16 April 1992. As of 1994, he was also MRND president for Gitarama prefecture.
The ICTR indictment against musician Simon Bikindi charges that Bikindi, an author of many racially charged anti-Tutsi songs, “consulted with President Juvénal Habyarimana, Minister of Youth and Sports Callixte Nzabonimana and MRND-aligned military authorities on song lyrics” before releasing them to be played on the Hutu Power radio station RTLM.
During the genocide
After the death of Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, Nzabonimana was appointed Minister of Youth and Sports (Ministre du Sport et de la Jeunesse) in the interim government. Between April 9 and 14 July, he is alleged to have met with fellow ministers at a number of Government meetings in which ministers received briefings on the genocide's progress, and requested weapons to distribute in their home provinces for use by the genocidaires.
On 21 November 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) released an indictment charging Nzabonimana and others with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and crimes against humanity.
Apprehension
Nzabonimana was detained in Tanzania on February 18, 2008 and transferred to custody of the ICTR on February 19, 2008.
According to African Rights, Nzabonimana is one of the "three key civilians" collaborating with the FLDR, operating out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
Footnotes
Sources
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno4-7-04.htm
Kamanzi, Rwanda, Du Génocide à la Defaite, p. 110; African Rights, Rwanda, Death, Despair, p. 361.
External links
African Rights: Charge Sheet No. 1 March 1999
U.S. State Department press release about Nzabonimana
Profile on Trial Watch
Living people
People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Planning ministers of Rwanda
Sports ministers of Rwanda
Youth ministers of Rwanda
1953 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callixte%20Nzabonimana |
Thomas P. Wheelock (1813–1864) was an American inventor and gunsmith. Along with his brother-in-law Ethan Allen, he produced several single-action revolvers and rifles in the United States during the mid-19th century.
References
Bibliography
Thomas, H.H. (1965). The Story of Allen & Wheelock Firearms .
Gunsmiths
19th-century American inventors
1813 births
1864 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20P.%20Wheelock |
The Office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils was an office for the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils (UMELCO) of Hong Kong established in 1963. Its purpose was to promote close relationship of the two Councils and invite them to put forward their views on public interest or lodge individual complaints again the departments of Hong Kong Government.
The office was established in August 1963 at Union House in Central. It was at first staffed with a stenographer/receptionist. On 16 September 1964 a full Secretary was appointed together with a clerk, a typist, and a messenger. On 8 May 1965, the office moved to Prince's Building.
In 1985 UMELCO was renamed as Office of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils or OMELCO following the 1985 Hong Kong electoral reform and indirect elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The office finally dissolved with the establishment of Commissioner for Administrative Complaints or COMAC in 1989 of now better known as Office of The Ombudsman of Hong Kong since 2001.
References
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Executive Council of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20the%20Unofficial%20Members%20of%20the%20Executive%20and%20Legislative%20Councils |
Sabah State Mosque () is the state mosque of Sabah, located at Sembulan roundabout between Jalan Mat Salleh and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
History
Construction began in 1970 and was completed in 1975. The architectural design was by Arkitek Jurubina Bertiga, led by Dato Baharuddin Abu Kassim. The mosque was officially opened on 28 June 1977 by the sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan.
Sabah State Mausoleum
The Sabah State Mausoleum is situated near the mosque. Tun Fuad Stephens, Chief Minister of Sabah (1976) who died in the Double Six Tragedy plane crash on 6 June 1976, became the first person laid to rest at this mausoleum.
Notable burials
Tun Fuad Stephens (Donald Stephens) – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1973–1975) and Chief Ministers of Sabah (1963–1964, 1973–1976) (died 1976)
Tun Mohd Hamdan Abdullah – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1975–1977) (died 1977)
Tun Pengiran Ahmad Raffae – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1965–1973) (died 1995)
Tun Mohammad Said Keruak – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1987–1994) (died 1995)
Tun Mohamad Adnan Robert – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1979–1987) (died 2003)
Tun Sakaran Dandai – Sabah state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) (1995–2002) (died 2021)
Gallery
See also
Islam in Malaysia
External links
1977 establishments in Malaysia
Mosques in Sabah
Mausoleums in Malaysia
Mosques completed in 1975
Mosque buildings with domes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah%20State%20Mosque |
The theology of Søren Kierkegaard has been a major influence in the development of 20th century theology. Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a 19th-century Danish philosopher who has been generally considered the "Father of Existentialism". During his later years (1848–1855), most of his writings shifted from philosophical in nature to religious.
Kierkegaard's theology focuses on the single individual in relation to a known God based on a subjective truth. Many of his writings were a directed assault against all of Christendom, Christianity as a political and social entity. His target was the Danish State Church, which represented Christendom in Denmark. Christendom, in Kierkegaard's view, made individuals lazy in their religion. Many of the citizens were officially "Christians", without having any idea of what it meant to be a Christian. Kierkegaard attempted to awaken Christians to the need for unconditional religious commitment. However, he was also against party spirit in religion as well as other areas of study and system building.
Religious background
Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard was born to a Lutheran Protestant family. His father, Michael Pederson Kierkegaard, was a Lutheran Pietist, but he questioned how God could let him suffer so much. One day, he climbed a mountain and cursed God. For this sin, Michael believed that a family curse was placed upon him, that none of his children would live a full life. And indeed, Kierkegaard's family suffered with early deaths of Søren's siblings, ranging from childbirth to the age of 25. Only Søren and his brother Peter survived past 25. His father died in 1838, but before his death, he asked Søren to become a pastor. Søren was deeply influenced by his father's religious experience and life, and felt obligated to fulfill his wish. In 1840, Søren was awarded his theology degree and although Søren was eligible to become a pastor, he decided to pursue a degree in philosophy instead.
He decided not to become a pastor or a professor either because if he had he would have had to write under the authority of the State or the Church. He craved freedom, and for that reason he wrote "without authority". He also believed in Christ as the ultimate authority in matters of personal faith. He was against beginning a "new religion", unlike Hegel, the religion of reason, and Schelling, the religion of nature. He always wrote to students of religion as a student of religion. J. Loewenberg of Harvard University described Hegel's God in the following terms in 1913: as Hegel puts his fundamental idea, “the truth is the whole.” Neither things nor categories, neither histories nor religion, neither sciences nor arts, express or exhaust by themselves the whole essence of the universe. The essence of the universe is the life of the totality of all things, not their sum. As the life of man is not the sum of his bodily and mental functions, the whole man being present in each and all of these, so must the universe be conceived as omnipresent in each of its parts and expressions. This is the significance of Hegel’s conception of the universe as an organism. The World-Spirit-Hegel’s God-constitutes, thinks, lives, wills, and is all in unity. The evolution of the universe is thus the evolution of God himself. The task of philosophy, then, as Hegel conceives it, is to portray in systematic form the evolution of the World-Spirit in all its necessary ramifications.The Life of George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, p. 13-14
Søren Kierkegaard questioned this evolution of God because if God is evolving in a systematic way then the awe and wonder of religion is replaced with speculations about where God is in relation to the system about God.What does the task look like in everyday life, for I continually have my favorite theme in mind: whether everything is indeed all right with the craving of our theocentric nineteenth century to go beyond Christianity, the craving to speculate, the craving for continued development, the craving for a new religion or for the abolition of Christianity. As for my own insignificant person, the reader will please recall that I am the one who finds the issue and the task so very difficult, which seems to suggest that I have not carried it out, I, who do not even pretend to be a Christian by going beyond it. But it is always something to point out that it is difficult, even if it is done, as it is here, only in an upbuilding divertissement, which is carried out essentially with the aid of a spy whom I have go out among people on weekdays, and with the support of a few dilettantes who against their will come to join in the game." Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) p. 466, Hong
This "going beyond faith" for Kierkegaard means the same as going beyond oneself. Philosophers, theologians, historians, and anthropologists tend to go beyond themselves and apply what they learn to the course of world history or national history. In this view we come to a Christian nation or a Christian world, but Søren Kierkegaard felt that God comes into the single individual, and that's where the place of God is. It's not "out there" somewhere. This point was brought home by Kierkegaard in his 1845 book, Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life and in 1960 by Ronald Gregor Smith in his book, J G Hamann 1730-1788 A Study In Christian Existence,
Denmark and Europe
Kierkegaard accused Christian religious institutions of not being genuinely religious. Intellectual scholarship in Christianity was becoming more and more like Hegelianism, which he called Christian "evolution", rather than Christianity. This made the scholars of religion and philosophy examine the Gospels from a supposedly higher objective standpoint in order to demonstrate how correct reasoning can reveal an objective truth. This was outrageous to Kierkegaard because this presupposed that an infinite God and his infinite wisdom could be grasped by finite human understanding. Kierkegaard believed that Christianity was not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived. He considered that many Christians who were relying totally on external proofs of God were missing out a true Christian experience, which is precisely the relationship one individual can have with God.
Kierkegaard's audience
Kierkegaard's primary religious audience was Christian readers, especially those who did not fully grasp what Christianity was all about. It was not his intention to convert non-Christians to Christianity, although much of Kierkegaard's religious writings do appeal to some non-Christian readers. For example, Martin Buber was a Jewish existentialist theologian who critiqued many of Kierkegaard's ideas.
Kierkegaard delivered religious discourses because he didn't become a theologian or a philosopher of religion. His audience was any single individual who is laboring to become what God wants him to become.
Striving can be done for the individual goal of becoming famous or just striving to make a living and the hope to have a future. Kierkegaard writes about the "divinely appointed teachers" of what it means to be a human being. And Christ is the prototype for what it means to be a human being from Kierkegaard's point of view. He put it this way in his Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1847):
He wrote for individuals who struggle with sin and forgiveness and he began this in Either/Or (1843) and continued through 1851 with a repetition of his theme from his three discourse of 1843 Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins. He sees the spiritual connection between God and the single individual much akin to Luther's idea of the priesthood of all believers.
Themes in his theology
Faith
Faith is a hallmark of Kierkegaardian philosophical and religious thought. Two of his key ideas are based on faith: the leap to faith and the knight of faith. Some regard Kierkegaard as a Christian Universalist, writing in his journals, "If others go to Hell, I will go too. But I do not believe that; on the contrary, I believe that all will be saved, myself with them—something which arouses my deepest amazement." However, this view is not always supported by Kierkegaard's own writings. He presupposes the individual who has decided to become a Christian has an interest in becoming that, is interested enough to attempt to develop a relationship with Christ, and has enough faith to believe that the possibility extends to all individuals equally. Faith is what makes each individual equal before God. He put it this way in his Four Upbuilding Discourses 1844 (Against Cowardliness).
He wrote the following in his 1846 book, Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
Although an outsider, I have at least understood this much, that the only unforgivable high treason against Christianity is the single individual’s taking his relation to it for granted. I must therefore most respectfully refuse all theocentric helpers and the assistance of helper’s helpers to help me into Christianity in that way. So I prefer to remain where I am, with my infinite interest, with the issue, with the possibility. In other words, it is not impossible that the individual who is infinitely interested in his own eternal happiness can some day become eternally happy; on the other hand, it is certainly impossible that the person who has lost a sense for it (and such a sense can scarcely be anything but an infinite concern) can become eternally happy. Indeed, once lost, it is perhaps impossible to regain it. Page 16
And reinforced the same idea in his 1850 book, Practice in Christianity:
Faith, for Kierkegaard, was more than intellectual understanding. He began his great book Either/Or with a quotation from Edward Young, "Is reason then alone baptized, are the passions pagans?" and later explained what he meant in his Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, which Rollo May called "the declaration of independence for existentialism". Intellect is important but not all-inclusive in the realm of religion. "A" in Either/Or wanted to use the arts to teach Christianity. "B" wanted to use the science of ethics to teach Christianity. Both can lead to an intellectual understanding devoid of passionate involvement in the act of becoming a Christian.
Richard McKeon (1900–1985) thought the imitators of Plato had misapplied his ideas and left the passions out of philosophy in favor of intellectualism. He wrote the following in his 1953 book Thought, Action, and Passion:
The Young Man in Repetition was mediated by his psychologist, Constantin Constantius, as he tried to solve his problem. They represent the intellectual side of the human being and Abraham in Fear and Trembling represented the passion of inwardness because he was alone with God. Abraham believed in the actuality of God and could say nothing either artistically or ethically about it. Yet neither the Young Man nor Abraham is the prototype for the Christian, because the Christian is to follow Christ as the example.
Paradox
Briefly stated, a paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition. It is said to be resolved when we show that the contradiction is only apparent. Kierkegaard's story of Abraham in Fear and Trembling exhibits such a paradox. Abraham could not prove he had heard the voice of God, yet he believes, and risked his only son based on this belief. The paradox of Abraham is that the believer acts and risks much on less than complete knowledge (incomplete knowledge is not sufficient for faith for Kierkegaard; one must believe by virtue of the absurd, that is to say because something is a contradiction). The god in time is a paradox just as much as the statement that "God is love" is a parody for an individual existing in time. Was it so easy for Abraham, Job, and the Apostle Paul to continue to believe that God is love? Kierkegaard continually stresses the tension between the inner and outer self before God. What a human being knows by himself about love is very superficial; he must come to know the deeper love from God-that is, in self-denial he must become what every human being can become (since self-denial is related to the universally human and thus is distinguished from the particular call and election), an instrument for God. Thus every human being can come to know everything about love, just as every human being can come to know that he, like every human being, is loved by God. Some find this thought adequate for the longest life (which doesn’t seem surprising to me); so even at the age of seventy they do not think that they have marveled over it enough, whereas others find this thought so insignificant (which seems to me very strange and deplorable), since to be loved by God is no more than every human being is-as if it were, therefore, less significant.
The work of praising love must be done outwardly in self-sacrificing unselfishness. Through self-denial a human being gains the ability to be an instrument by inwardly making himself into nothing before God. Through self-sacrificing unselfishness he outwardly makes himself into nothing, an unworthy servant. Inwardly he does not become self-important, since he is nothing, and outwardly he does not become self-important either, since he is nothing before God – and he does not forget that right where he is he is before God.
Alas, it can happen that a person makes a mistake at the last moment, in that he, though truly humble before God, becomes proud of what he is able to do as he turns toward people. It is then a temptation of comparison that becomes his downfall. He understood that he could not compare himself to God; before him he became conscious of himself as a nothing; but in comparison with people he still thought himself to be something. That is, he forgot the self-denial; he is trapped in an illusion, as if he were before God only during specific hours, just as one has an audience with His Royal Majesty at a specific hour.
Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love 1847, Hong 1995 p. 364-365
Isaac was "the whole world" to Abraham and God had just introduced Abraham to the notion of "the soul". Was Abraham willing to give up the whole world in order to save his soul? Kierkegaard dealt with this question in Either/Or in this way: "The Bible says: For what would it profit a person if he gained the whole world but damaged his own soul; what would he have in return? Scripture does not state the antithesis to this, but it is implicit in the sentence. The antitheses would read something like this: What damage would there be to a person if he lost the whole world and yet did not damage his soul; what would he need in return?" This question brings Abraham to despair. Abraham was used as a prototype in Fear and Trembling and The Young Man was his counterpoint in Repetition. Abraham followed the inner voice without mediation from his wife, Sarah, his servant, or Isaac. He just heard and obeyed. The Young Man made a promise and wanted to change his mind. He consulted with a psychologist who was engaged in trying to prove the theory of eternal return. Then he appealed to Job and complained not only to the world but also to God himself. Abraham's love of God never changed but The Young Man's love for his fiancé was ever changing. Change was the theme of Kierkegaard's Three Upbuilding Discourses of 1843. These three books were published on the same day and should be considered together.
The paradox and the absurd are ultimately related to the Christian relationship with Christ, the God-Man. That God became a single individual and wants to be in a relationship with single individuals, not to the masses, was Kierkegaard's main conflict with the nineteenth-century church. The single individual can make and keep a resolution. Those who aren't interested in becoming a Christian claim they can't understand Christianity and quite often they will point to historical events to justify their position. Kierkegaard is against basing Christian belief solely on external events because it leads to doubt since externals are in constant flux. Doubt leads to speculation and this detracts from the single individual making a decision to imitate Christ. He wanted to be known as the philosopher of the internal and was against scientific proofs of Christianity through history, anthropology, and philosophy and the creation of systematic theology. Becoming a Christian is a decision to be made in time, just like becoming good is a decision/resolution made in time, and not just for consideration because the individual offers the "self" to God.
Kierkegaard said Socrates was his teacher and that Christ was his Teacher. (See Philosophical Fragments)
This Christian belief in the absurd notion that God became man separates one from the world in such a way that the Christian is estranged from the world. The world believes that reason guides all our actions, or should, and can't accept Christianity and is therefore offended and the Christian can't accept the reason of the world and is therefore offended by the world. Kierkegaard put it this way in his Attack Upon Christendom:
Despair and sin
According to Kierkegaard, the self is freedom. Not simply the freedom to choose, but the freedom to create choices for oneself. Therefore, human beings are fundamentally neither their thoughts nor their feelings but rather they are themselves. The self relates directly to itself and is subject to no one and everyone at the same time. Yet this self is that which is in relation to his body and his soul in Kierkegaard's view. The spirit constitutes the relationship in which the self is established in totality by and unto God, and unto his body and soul. His body is his being in the world, his actions and outworked decisions, and his soul is his self-conception (that which determines his actions), and his spirit is the self which relates the soul and the body, and therefore itself, to God. In effect, when a person does not come to a full consciousness of himself or herself, then he or she is said to be in despair. Just like a physician might say that no one is completely healthy, it follows that human beings must despair at certain moments in their lives. To be in despair is to reflect upon the self. If someone does not engage in the art of despair, then he or she shall become stuck in a state of inertia with no effective progression or regression and that is the worst state of all.
Kierkegaard calls sickness, the sickness of the spirit. He wrote the following in Concluding Unscientific Postscript in 1846.
Kierkegaard asked sharp questions that can only be answered by the "single individual" him or her self. This is an example from his 1847 book, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits where he speaks of the third person and the crowd.:
Sin is separation from God but despair over sin is separation again. Kierkegaard said, "The consciousness of sin definitely belongs to the consciousness of the forgiveness of sin." Why would someone sit and reflect on sin to such an extent that an eternal happiness is exchanged for an eternal unhappiness or even a temporal unhappiness? This reflection is done in time but the consequence of the reflection leads one to lose hope in the possibility of any good coming from oneself. Kierkegaard says Christianity invites the single individual to become a partaker not only of the consciousness of sin but also of the consciousness of forgiveness but we seem to concentrate on the former to a remarkable degree. He said the following in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (1845) and Practice in Christianity (1850):
Christian doctrine
Kierkegaard believed that Christ was the originator of Christian doctrine and he had discussed some of the doctrinal points in his Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. In these he discussed love, patience, equality, hope, and faith. It's easy to think you have faith but tougher to think your "neighbor" has faith. Kierkegaard made that point in his first Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843. Therefore, faith is qualitatively different. It is not only the highest good, but it is a good in which all are able to share, and the person who rejoices in the possession of it also rejoices in the countless human race, “because what I possess.” He says, “every human being has or could possess.” The person who wishes it for another person wishes it for himself; the person who wishes it for himself wishes it for every other human being, because that by which another person has faith is not that by which he is different from him but is that by which he is like him; that by which he possesses it is not that by which he is different from others but that by which he is altogether like all. It was that kind of wish the perplexed man was seeking, one he could wish for another person with all his heart, with all his might, and with his whole soul, a wish he would dare to go on wishing, ever more fervently, even as his love became ever more fervent. –That was the wish that he would wish.
Soren Kierkegaard, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong p. 10
Christianity has two parts, law and gospel, and Kierkegaard emphasized that Christ put an end to law with his law of love. "Just make the attempt, whether you find the sum that way no matter how long you go on counting, and you will see that it is useless labor, because the concept of the Law is to be inexhaustible, limitless, endless in its provisions; every provision begets of itself an even more precise provision, and in turn a still more precise provision by reference and in relation to the new provision, and so on infinitely. The relation of love to the Law is here like the relation of faith to understanding. The understanding counts and counts, calculates and calculates, but it never arrives at the certainty that faith possesses; in the same way the Law defines and defines but never arrives at the sum, which is love."
Loving the neighbor has a "double danger." The same with faith and hope. We not only wish that we could have love and peace but that our neighbor can have the same because it is a free gift from God. He nicely summed up the idea he had in his 1847 book Works of Love.
Selected religious works
(1847) Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits
(1847) Works of Love
(1848) Christian Discourses
(1848) The Book on Adler
(1849) The Sickness Unto Death
(1850) Training in Christianity
(1851) For Self-Examination
(1851) Judge for Yourselves!
References
Sources
Alexander Dru. The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, Oxford University Press, 1938.
Duncan, Elmer. Søren Kierkegaard: Maker of the Modern Theological Mind, Word Books 1976,
Joakim Garff. Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, Princeton University Press 2005, .
Hannay, Alastair and Gordon Marino (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Cambridge University Press 1997,
Alastair Hannay. Kierkegaard: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, New edition 2003, .
External links
Edifying Discourses, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by David F. Swenson, 1958
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing Translation of part one of Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits 1938 Douglas V. Steere
D. Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Søren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard's attack upon "Christendom," 1854-1855 Princeton University Press (1946) Retrieved May 18, 2012
Universidad Iberoamericana - Kierkegaard en español
Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology%20of%20S%C3%B8ren%20Kierkegaard |
Cape St. Francis () is a village in South Africa, situated on a headland in the Eastern Cape Province. It is popular for its clean beaches and as a surfing location.
The village is home to the Seal Point Lighthouse.
The Irma Booysen Floral Reserve is the home to many species of flowers and plants.
The adjacent village, St Francis Bay, was the site of "ten-million-to-one" surfing waves seen in the 1966 surf/travel documentary, The Endless Summer.
Cape St. Francis is now known as one of the best surfing locations. Given its geological location, it is susceptible to swell year round from large low pressure systems that form between Antarctica and the southern tip of Africa. When large south west swells wrap around Seal Point and the prevailing offshore winds come up, the surfing is world class.
It is also featured in the 2014 film The Perfect Wave, starring Scott Eastwood.
Bartolomeu Dias originally named the cape Ponta das Quiemadas because of the fires he spotted there while sailing past.
See also
St. Francis Bay
Venpet–Venoil collision
References
External links
Proposed E Cape nuclear plant met with resistance
Surfing locations in South Africa
Beaches of South Africa
Populated coastal places in South Africa
Populated places in the Kouga Local Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20St.%20Francis |
Jerry Lindsey Martin (born May 11, 1949) is an American former Professional baseball outfielder. He spent 11 years in Major League Baseball, from to . On November 17, , Martin and Kansas City Royals teammates Willie Aikens and Willie Wilson each received three-month prison terms on misdemeanor attempted cocaine possession charges. They became the first active major leaguers to serve jail time.
Furman University Paladins basketball
Martin was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended Olympia High School there. He then attended Furman University in Greenville. He starred in basketball, and was named the All-Southern Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player in after leading the Furman Paladins to their first conference championship.
Philadelphia Phillies
Despite his prowess in basketball, he decided to follow his father, Barney Martin, who pitched in the majors with the Cincinnati Reds, as well as his younger brother, Michael, a left handed pitcher selected fifth overall in the 1970 Major League Baseball draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. A year later, Jerry signed with the club as an amateur free agent. Despite having spent three seasons together in the same organization, the brothers were never teammates.
Martin earned Western Carolinas League MVP honors in , when he batted .316 with twelve home runs and 112 runs batted in for the Spartanburg Phillies. Over four seasons in the Phillies' farm system, Martin batted .303 with 43 home runs and 290 RBIs to earn a September call-up to the majors in . Making his major league debut as a late inning defensive replacement for Greg Luzinski on September 7, Martin did not log an at-bat. When given his first major league at bat two days later, he drove in Luzinski with the first run of the Phillies' 2-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
After splitting the season between the Phillies and the triple A Toledo Mud Hens, Martin spent the entire season serving as a late inning defensive replacement for Luzinski. He appeared in 130 games, but logged only 129 at-bats. He made just one plate appearance in the 1976 National League Championship Series against the Cincinnati Reds. He reached first base on an error, and scored on Jay Johnstone's triple in the ninth inning of the third game.
Despite having been a promising prospect for the Phillies, Martin would never rise above fourth outfielder status over his next two seasons with the Phillies. Just as pitchers and catchers were reporting to Spring training in , Martin was sent to the Chicago Cubs in a blockbuster deal. He, Barry Foote, Ted Sizemore and minor leaguers Derek Botelho and Henry Mack went to the Cubs for Greg Gross, Dave Rader and Manny Trillo.
Chicago Cubs
Finally given the opportunity to start, Martin had a career year his first season in Chicago. Playing centerfield and batting sixth in the Cubs' line-up, Martin clubbed nineteen home runs, and drove in 73 runs while scoring 74. He followed that up with a career high 23 home runs in . After a contract dispute, Martin asked to be traded, and was sent to the San Francisco Giants with Jesús Figueroa and a player to be named later for Phil Nastu and Joe Strain at the 1980 Winter meetings.
San Francisco Giants
Martin signed a five-year deal shortly after arriving in San Francisco, however, his tenure with the Giants ended up being shorter than expected. His numbers dipped in the strike shortened season, as he hit just four home runs and drove in 25 while batting .241. After just one season with the Giants, Martin was dealt to the Kansas City Royals for pitchers Rich Gale and Bill Laskey.
Kansas City Royals
A new position came with his change of scenery, as Martin was shifted to right field with the Royals. He got off to a hot start in Kansas City, batting .304 with five home runs and 25 RBIs through May. Though he would cool off by the end of the season, his .266 batting average, fifteen home runs and 65 RBIs in was a marked improvement over his previous season.
He got off to a fast start in as well, but a muscle tear in his right wrist ended his season on April 24. Toward the end of the 1983 season, Martin and several of his Royals teammates were questioned by U.S. Attorney Jim Marquez in connection with a federal cocaine probe. Following the season, he, Willie Aikens and Willie Wilson pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase cocaine, while former teammate Vida Blue pleaded guilty to possession of three grams of cocaine. On November 17, Martin, Aikens, Blue and Wilson were all sentenced to a year in prison, with nine months of it suspended, and ordered to surrender to a Fort Worth, Texas, minimum security federal correctional institution on December 5 (Aikens was given until January 5 in order to complete a drug treatment program).
New York Mets
Martin was released early from prison on February 23, , however, Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn subsequently suspended all four players for the entire season. The suspensions were reduced after appeal, and the four were allowed to return to their teams on May 15. By then, Martin had signed with the New York Mets.
Martin joined the Mets on May 16 in San Francisco. Through 51 games with the Mets, Martin managed just a .154 batting average, three home runs and five RBIs, and was released on September 30.
A bid for a comeback in found no takers, so he retired. Martin took a coaching job in the Phillies' minor league system shortly after his retirement. He spent the first six weeks of the season as interim first base coach for the eventual World Champion Phillies while Davey Lopes was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Martin most recently served as hitting coach for the Detroit Tigers' double A affiliate, the Erie SeaWolves, in and .
Tommy John called Martin "a strong defensive outfielder."
He is the son of Barney Martin, who pitched in a single game for the Cincinnati Reds in .
See also
List of second-generation Major League Baseball players
References
External links
Jerry Martin at Baseball Almanac
Jerry Martin at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)
1949 births
Living people
Águilas del Zulia players
American people convicted of drug offenses
Baseball players from Columbia, South Carolina
Chicago Cubs players
Fort Myers Sun Sox players
Furman Paladins baseball players
Furman Paladins men's basketball players
Kansas City Royals players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball players suspended for drug offenses
Minor league baseball managers
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
New York Mets players
Orlando Juice players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Pulaski Phillies players
Reading Phillies players
San Francisco Giants players
Spartanburg Phillies players
Tidewater Tides players
Toledo Mud Hens players
St. Petersburg Pelicans players
Spartanburg Methodist Pioneers baseball players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Martin%20%28baseball%29 |
The Nordic Embassies in Berlin are the diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries to Germany, located in a common building complex, the Pan Nordic Building, in Berlin. The building complex was designed by the architects Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen and completed in 1999.
The building comprises six individual buildings enveloped by a green, copper clad, snaking wall. Of the six buildings five are the embassies of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, arranged geographically. The remaining building is a communal building called the Felleshus, which includes the entrance to the complex, an auditorium and a canteen.
Architects:
Complex and Felleshus (communal space) - Berger and Parkkinen
Denmark - 3XN
Iceland - PK Hönnun
Norway - Snøhetta
Sweden - Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
Finland - Viiva Arkkitehtuuri Oy
See also
List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries
References
External links
Nordic Embassies
Embassy of Denmark (in German or Danish)
Embassy of Finland (in German, Finnish or Swedish)
Embassy of Iceland (in German or English)
Embassy of Norway (in German or Norwegian)
Embassy of Sweden (in German, Swedish or English)
Berger & Parkkinen page on the Embassy project
Short film documenting the architecture of the Nordic Embassies
Nordic
Berlin
Berlin
Berlin
Berlin
Berlin
Buildings and structures completed in 1999
1999 establishments in Germany
Denmark–Germany relations
Finland–Germany relations
Germany–Iceland relations
Germany–Norway relations
Germany–Sweden relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Embassies%20%28Berlin%29 |
Qian shi may refer to:
Euryale ferox (pinyin: qiàn shí), a plant in the Nymphaeaceae (water lily) family
Qiàn shí, the Chinese name for Euryale ferox or fox nut
Qin Shi Huang (259 BC–210 BC), founder of the Qin dynasty
Qianshi hutong, a Beijing alleyway
Qianshi Quantum Computer the 10 qubit Quantum Computer from Baidu.
See also
Qian Shizhen (1561–1642), Ming dynasty general
Shi Qian (时迁), a character in the epic Chinese tale, the Water Margin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian%20shi |
Reconstruction may refer to:
Politics, history, and sociology
Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company
Perestroika (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union political movement
Critical reconstruction, an architectural theory related to the reconstruction of Berlin after the end of the Berlin Wall
Economic reconstruction
Ministry of Reconstruction, a UK government department
The Reconstruction era of the United States, the period after the Civil War, 1865–1877
The Reconstruction Acts, or Military Reconstruction Acts, addressing requirements for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a United States government agency from 1932 to 1957
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Reconstruction (1968 film), a Romanian tragicomedy
Reconstruction (2001 film), about the 1959 Ioanid Gang bank heist in Romania
Reconstruction (2003 film), a Danish psychological romantic drama
Music
Reconstruction (band), featuring Jerry Garcia, Nick Kahner and John Kahn
Reconstruction (Hugh Masekela album), 1970
Reconstruction (Max Romeo album), 1977
Reconstructions (Don Diablo album)
Reconstructions (Kerry Livgren album)
Television
"Reconstruction" (Jericho episode)
Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, a machinima comedy series
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Reconstruction (magazine), a monthly edited by Allan L. Benson from 1919 to 1921
ReConStruction, a 2010 science fiction convention
Memorial reconstruction, a hypothesis regarding the transcription of 17th-century plays
Science and computing
3D reconstruction in computer vision
Ancestral reconstruction, the analysis of organisms' relationships via genome data
Cone beam reconstruction, a computational microtomography method
Crime reconstruction
Event reconstruction, the interpretation of signals from a particle detector
Forensic facial reconstruction, the process of recreating the face of an individual from its skeletal remains
Iterative reconstruction, methods to construct images of objects
Reconstruction algorithm, an algorithm used in iterative reconstruction
Reconstruction conjecture, in graph theory
Reconstructive plastic surgery
Shooting reconstruction
Signal reconstruction, the determination of an original continuous signal from samples
Single particle reconstruction, the combination of multiple images of molecules to produce a three-dimensional image
Surface reconstruction, the process which alters atomic structure in crystal surfaces
Tomographic reconstruction
Vector field reconstruction, the creation of a vector field from experimental data
Other uses
3D sound reconstruction
Reconstruction (architecture), the act of rebuilding a destroyed structure
Linguistic reconstruction
See also
Reconstructionism (disambiguation)
Doctor Who missing episodes§Reconstruction
Deconstruction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction |
KYUK may refer to any of three co-owned public broadcasting stations in Bethel, Alaska:
KYUK (AM), an NPR news/talk and music station on 640 kHz, established in 1971
KYUK-FM, a music-only station on 90.3 MHz, established in 2009
KYUK-LD, a low-power television station licensed to serve Bethel, Alaska, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYUK |
The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) () is the primary intelligence gathering and analysis arm of the Government of the Philippines in charge of carrying out overt, covert, and clandestine intelligence activities. The NICA directs, coordinates, and integrates all intelligence activities, both foreign and domestic, concerning national security, serving as the leading intelligence collector of the national government, focusing on the country's strategic intelligence requirements. It is mandated to prepare intelligence estimate on local and foreign situation for the formulation of national security policies by the President and the National Security Council.
The agency also serves as the focal point for the government's counterintelligence activities and operation; acts as Secretariat to the Anti-Terrorism Council; and serves as head of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict's Situation Awareness and Knowledge Management Cluster.
The NICA is led by a Director-General, who reports directly to the President of the Philippines, and is assisted by two Deputy Director-Generals. Its headquarters is located in Quezon City., with regional offices located all over the country and foreign stations in countries of interest to the Philippine government.
The National Intelligence Committee, chaired by the Director-General, serves as the advisory body of NICA.
History
Founded in 1949, the NICA was created by President Elpidio Quirino under the authority of Executive Order No. 235. In 1954, the Government Survey and Reorganization Commission ordered the expansion of the powers of NICA. The agency was reorganized in 1958 under Executive Order No. 291 by President Carlos P. Garcia.
The NICA was abolished on November 16, 1972, by President Ferdinand Marcos under Presidential Decree No. 51, and was replaced by the National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA), which was designated as the principal intelligence agency, and the Civil Intelligence and Security Agency (CISA), which was tasked with counterintelligence and supervision of all civil security units in Philippine government offices. The NISA was then headed by Gen. Fabian Ver and was alleged to be responsible for various human rights abuses, primarily during the martial law period. The regime of President Marcos, through Gen. Ver, was believed to have used NISA to spy on, abduct and eliminate persons opposing the autocracy of President Marcos in the 1970s and the 1980s. In 1978, the NISA was designated as the focal point for all intelligence activities involving national security and supervisor of other intelligence agencies under the Office of the President.
In 1987, shortly after the People Power Revolution which had led to a peaceful removal of President Marcos from office, his successor President Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order No. 246 which abolished NISA and CISA and reestablished NICA. The NICA then refocused its priorities in tackling the communist insurgency in the Philippines.
In 1990, the National Security Advisor was given responsibility to oversee management and control of NICA to be responsive to the needs of the President and the National Security Council.
NICA agents were responsible for the arrest of several Abu Sayyaf members, including Al Qaeda-linked bomber Abdulmukim Edris.
In 2005, the agency established two directorates to conduct economic intelligence and counterintelligence activities.
On February 1, 2006, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 492, which ordered the NICA to activate the National Maritime Aerial Reconnaissance and Surveillance Center (NMARSC). The NMARSC was designated as the primary imagery intelligence provider for the Philippine intelligence community and was tasked to operate unmanned aerial vehicles under the supervision and oversight of the National Security Adviser.
On March 6, 2007, President Arroyo signed Republic Act No. 9372, also known as the Human Security Act of 2007, which designates the NICA as the Secretariat of the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC).
In 2011, Juan Ponce Enrile challenged President Aquino to declassify intelligence files from the former NISA.
In 2018, then-House of Representatives Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas filed House Bill No. 7111, also known as the Foreign Electronic Surveillance Act. The bill would have allowed NICA agents to covertly conduct electronic surveillance operations against foreign countries, terrorists and private groups without the need of having a warrant or a court order in an emergency situation. A warrantless operation outside the Philippine territory would also need the approval by the Director-General of the NICA and the Secretary of the Department of Justice (DOJ). However, since it was not enacted by the end of the 17th Congress, the bill is already considered "dead" in the House of Representatives Committee on National Defense and Security.
On June 3, 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11479, also known as the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, which repealed the Human Security Act of 2007. Pursuant to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, the NICA remains as the Secretariat of the ATC. However, NICA has also now been tasked to provide its recommendation on an application for proscription seeking to declare any individual or group as a terrorist before the Court of Appeals. Such application for proscription may only be filed by the DOJ, subject to the authority of the ATC.
Mandate
The NICA is mandated to:
conduct and coordinate national intelligence activities;
fulfill strategic intelligence needs of the Philippine government;
provide the National Intelligence Estimate for purposes of national security policymaking;
lead counterintelligence activities;
serve as the Secretariat of the Anti-Terrorism Council; and
serve as the Head of the Situational Awareness and Knowledge Management Cluster of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.
Organization
The NICA is organized into the following divisions and directorates:
Office of the Director-General – led by the Director-General
Directorate of Operations – led by the Assistant Director-General for Operations
Directorate of Production – led by the Assistant Director-General for Production
Directorate of Administration – led by the Assistant Director-General for Administration
Management and Planning Office
Office of the Comptroller
Various field stations in various regions – led by its respective Regional Directors
Notable Directors-General
General Fabian Ver was believed by human rights groups to have used the NICA's predecessor, the National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA), as the secret police of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, leading to various human rights abuses committed against persons opposing the autocracy in the 1970s and the 1980s.
General Alex Paul Monteagudo - served from 2016 to 2022.
Colonel Vicente S. Yumul and Major General Jose T. Almonte held office as the Directors-General of NICA under President Corazon Aquino.
Alfredo Filler, the former Vice Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), also served as the Director-General of NICA under President Fidel V. Ramos.
References
External links
Philippine intelligence agencies
Government agencies under the Office of the President of the Philippines
Government agencies established in 1949
Intelligence analysis agencies
Establishments by Philippine executive order | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Intelligence%20Coordinating%20Agency |
KUAC-TV (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, it is sister to NPR member station KUAC (89.9 FM). The two outlets share studios in the Great Hall on the UAF campus; KUAC-TV's transmitter is located on Bender Mountain. KUAC-TV is the only PBS station in Alaska that is not part of Alaska Public Television, which was established on July 1, 2012.
History
KUAC-TV signed on for the first time on December 22, 1971, as an early Christmas present to the Interior. It was the first public television station in Alaska, and the only one until KAKM in Anchorage signed on in 1975. It originally aired for only five hours a day, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. As the difficulties associated with bringing PBS programming decreased, channel 9 increased its schedule, and now operates 24 hours a day.
In 1995, KUAC-TV joined with KTOO-TV in Juneau and KYUK-TV in Bethel to form AlaskaOne, a network of PBS stations serving all of Alaska outside of Anchorage. The three stations formed the Alaska Public Broadcasting Service to air a common PBS schedule. This move was made in hopes of sharing administrative costs. KTOO and KYUK occasionally broke off from the AlaskaOne feed to air programming relevant to their areas, while KUAC-TV used its massive translator network to deliver AlaskaOne programming across the Interior.
On November 18, 2011. the APBS board voted to transfer the operation of the AlaskaOne feed to Alaska Public Telecommunications, owner of Anchorage's PBS station, KAKM. In response, UAF, which cast the lone dissenting vote, announced on December 11 that KUAC-TV would break off from AlaskaOne and revert to being a separate locally-focused PBS station on July 1, 2012. UAF contended that a single statewide PBS service would not meet the needs of the Interior. On July 1, KUAC-TV resumed its original branding of "KUAC TV9," while KTOO and KYUK joined with KAKM to form Alaska Public Media.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
In 2004, the station signed on the first high-definition public television service in Alaska.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KUAC-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, in April 2009. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 24 to VHF channel 9.
References
External links
KUAC-FM-TV
YouTubeInaugural broadcast of KUAC-TV on December 22, 1971, including introductory comments from University of Alaska president William Ransom Wood
1971 establishments in Alaska
Television channels and stations established in 1971
UAC-TV
PBS member stations
First Nations Experience affiliates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUAC-TV |
CD publishing is the use of CD duplication systems to create a large number of unique discs. For instance, storing a unique serial number on each copy of a software application disc would be considered CD publishing.
The term CD publishing is believed to have been coined by the Rimage Corporation as part of a marketing program which referred to CD-R discs as "digital paper." Automated disc production and printing systems, such as those made by Rimage, can be shared on a computer network much like an office printer to facilitate the creation of unique discs. This is the root of both the digital paper and CD publishing terms.
The extension into CD publishing is a distinct advantage of CD duplication systems over traditional CD replication - where large quantities of identical discs must be made.
External links
Understanding CD-R & CD-RW: Duplication, Replication, and Publishing @ the Optical Storage Technology Association
Computer storage media
Optical disc authoring | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20publishing |
KUAC may refer to:
KUAC-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/24 digital) licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
KUAC (FM), a radio station (89.9 FM) licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUAC |
KMXT (100.1 FM) is an NPR–member non-commercial radio station in Kodiak, Alaska, United States. In addition to its NPR membership, KMXT is also affiliated with the Alaska Public Radio Network and the BBC World Service. It also airs many hours of locally originated news, talk and music programming, and relies heavily on non-paid citizen volunteers to host numerous shows.
HD programming
Currently KMXT broadcasts one analog and three digital signals:
KMXT-HD1 rebroadcasts the programming from the analog signal.
KMXT-HD2 classical and jazz.
KMXT-HD3 KMX3 is a mono news and talk channel.
An HD Radio receiver is required to pick up the digital channels. KMXT also streams its analog signal over the web.
Translators
In addition to five low-powered, separate-frequency translators, one low-powered booster also extends coverage. Boosters are licensed on the same frequency as the parent station but at a different location. They are given the same callsign as the parent station with a number added to differentiate the transmitter site.
References
External links
MXT
NPR member stations
MXT
Radio stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Alaska | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMXT%20%28FM%29 |
Helen Jennifer Denman (born 4 September 1976) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1990s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won an individual silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships.
Denman qualified for her first international team at the Australian Championships in 1996, after winning the 100-metre breaststroke.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Denman placed 11th in the 100-metre breaststroke, but fellow Australian Samantha Riley won the bronze medal. This meant that Denman swum the breaststroke leg in the heats of the 4×100-metre medley relay, before being replaced by Riley in the team that trailed the United States team home in the final.
Competing in front of a partisan home crowd at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Denman set a personal best in winning silver in the 100-metre breaststroke, pushing American Kristy Kowal to within an arm's length. She also combined with Meredith Smith, Petria Thomas and Susie O'Neill in the final of the 4×100-metre medley relay to claim silver behind the Americans.
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Denman claimed gold in the 100 m breaststroke and the 4×100-metre medley relay. In 1999 she was omitted from the Australian national team, and in 2000 she made an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References
1976 births
Australian female breaststroke swimmers
Living people
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Swimmers from Perth, Western Australia
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Universiade silver medalists for Australia
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
20th-century Australian women
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Sportswomen from Western Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Denman |
Langostino is a Spanish word with different meanings in different areas. In the United States, it is commonly used in the restaurant trade to refer to the meat of the squat lobster, which is neither a true lobster nor a prawn. Squat lobsters are more closely related to porcelain and hermit crabs. Crustaceans labeled as langostino are no more than long, and weigh no more than . Langostinos are not langoustes (spiny lobsters) despite a similar name (in Spanish, lobster is called ). Also, langostinos are sometimes confused with langoustines (Norway lobster).
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration allows "langostino" to be used as a market name for three species of squat lobster in the family Galatheidae: Cervimunida johni, Munida gregaria, and Pleuroncodes monodon. In Spain, it means some species of prawns. In Cuba and other Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands, the name langostino is also used to refer to crawfish. In Argentina the name is used to refer to Pleoticus muelleri, a kind of shrimp, while in Chile and Peru it refers to Pleuroncodes monodon.
Restaurant labeling controversies
In March 2006, Long John Silver's garnered controversy by offering a dish they called "Buttered Lobster Bites" without making it clear in its advertising that these were made from "langostino lobster." The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into deceptive advertising practices by the chain, because Food and Drug Administration regulations require that anyone marketing langostino as lobster must place the qualifier "langostino" adjacent to the word "lobster," and Long John Silver's not only failed to do this, but ran a television commercial making use of an American lobster in a manner that the commission concluded was contributing to the misperception that the product was American lobster.
Upon being contacted by the commission, Long John Silver's promptly terminated the television commercial campaigns, revised its website, and committed both to prominently placing the word "langostino" adjacent to the term "lobster" in all future advertising, and to revising its existing in-store materials accordingly within eight weeks, and on June 24, 2009, the commission wrote to the chain to inform them that they had no intention of taking further action at that time.
Rubio's Restaurants, Inc., settled a 2006 class-action lawsuit for selling "lobster burritos" and "lobster tacos" that were in fact made with squat lobster. The company agreed to change the name to "langostino lobster".
In February 2016, Red Lobster was revealed to have been using a mix of lobster and less-expensive langostino for its lobster bisque.
References
External links
Squat lobsters
Edible crustaceans
Arthropod common names | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langostino |
NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is a particle collider complex being constructed by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia to perform experiments such as Nuclotron ion beams extracted to a fixed target and colliding beams of ions, ions-protons, polarized protons and deuterons. The projected maximum kinetic energy of the accelerated ions is 4.5 GeV per nucleon, and 12.6 GeV for protons.
NICA setup
Main elements of the NICA complex are:
Two-tier injection complex
Booster
Superconducting synchrotron Nuclotron
Collider facility
Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD)
Spin Physics Detector (SPD)
Beam transport channels.
LU-20 injection device produces ions of 5 MeV/n energy. It is succeeded by three-staged Light Ion Linac (LILAc) that is capable of light particles acceleration up 7 MeV/n energy, 13 MeV proton acceleration section and a 20 MeV superconducting HWR proton accelerating section.
Heavy-Ion Linac (HILAc), conceived in 2016 by the JINR-Bevatech collaboration, accelerates heavy gold ions up to the energy of 3.2 MeV/n with beam intensity of 2×109 particles per pulse, and a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The gold ions are injected from a JNIR-made KRION superconducting electron-string heavy ion source.
The Booster, a superconducting synchrotron, accumulates, cools and further accelerates heavy ions to 600 MeV/n energy. The booster's circumference is 211 meters, its magnetic structure is mounted inside the yoke of the Nuclotron. The Booster is supposed to ensure ultrahigh vacuum of 10−11 Torr.
The Nuclotron to be used in NICA was constructed in 1987–1992. It is the world's first synchrotron based on fast cycling electromagnets of the 'window frame' type with superconducting coil.
The collider is made of two identical 503-meter long storage rings with MPD and SPD placed in the middle of the opposite straight sections. Magnetic rigidity is up to 45 Tm, residual gas pressure in the beam chamber is below 10−10 Torr, maximum field in the dipole magnets – 1.8 T, kinetic energy of gold nuclei – 1.0 to 4.5 GeV/n. The beams are combined and separated in the vertical plane. Upon passing the section bringing them together, the particle bunches in the upper and lower rings travel along a common straight trajectory toward each other to collide at MPD and SPD. Single-aperture lenses are installed along the final focus sections to provide that both beams are focused at SPD and MPD.
MPD facility is designed to study hadron matter at high temperatures and densities, where nucleons "melt" releasing their constituent quarks and gluons and forming a new state, the quark-gluon plasma.
SPD facility allows to collide the polarized beams of protons and deuterons to study the particle spin physics.
Construction
By 2013, an international tender for scientific equipment supply was completed selecting five core suppliers. Up to 2019, most of the equipment has been delivered and mounted. First tests began in late 2019. The construction that was initially scheduled to end in 2016 is now, as of 2020, to be accomplished by 2022.
References
External links
Particle accelerators
Science and technology in Russia
Particle physics facilities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICA |
Mari Yoriko Sabusawa (July 10, 1920 – September 25, 1994) was a translator, activist, and philanthropist. She was the third wife of novelist James A. Michener, whom she married on October 23, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois.
Early life
A second-generation Japanese American, Sabusawa was born to Harry and Riki Sabusawa and raised in Las Animas, Colorado. Her family moved to Long Beach, California in 1936. Sabusawa graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1938, and then began studying at Long Beach Junior College.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and enactment of Executive Order 9066, Subasawa and her family were sent to California's Santa Anita Assembly Center and then interned at the Granada War Relocation Center (Camp Amache) in Colorado. Shortly thereafter, she was allowed to leave for Antioch College in Ohio where she received a degree in political science and international relations. Through Antioch's cooperative job program, she translated Japanese propaganda for the US intelligence service in Washington DC before attending graduate school at the University of Chicago.
In 1948, Sabusawa became the first female president of the Chicago chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). During the early 1950s, she was engaged in community work, especially around questions of civil rights Sabusawa was editor of the American Library Association's Bulletin in Chicago in 1954 when she met her husband.
Activism
Both Sabusawa and Michener were supporters of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the USSR. They made their home in Vienna a safe haven for refugees created by the conflict. This experience would influence Michener's novel, The Bridge at Andau, 1957.
Sabusawa spoke out in support of American-Japanese marriages in the 1950s. She urged her husband not to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1962, but nevertheless supported him when he did. Sabusawa was encouraged and helped in the research of some of Michener's novels, such as, The Bridge at Andau, Hawaii, and The Source. Michener also wrote Centennial, written in 1974, which was later produced into a miniseries by the same name. It was filmed in part at Bent's Fort, close to Sabusawa's hometown of Las Animas, Colorado.
Together with her husband, Sabusawa was involved with charitable donations, with main fields of their philanthropy being art and higher education. Notably, she established the Mari Sabusawa Michener Endowment, which funded all the educational programs at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Death
Sabusawa died in Austin, Texas, on September 25, 1994. She left a bequest of $5 million to the University of Texas at Austin for the construction of what would become the Blanton Museum of Art in addition to the hundreds of paintings the couple gave the university during their lifetimes.
References
External links
James A. Michener Biography
American magazine editors
Long Beach Polytechnic High School alumni
Antioch College alumni
1920 births
1994 deaths
Japanese-American internees
Japanese-American civil rights activists
20th-century American translators
20th-century American non-fiction writers
People from Las Animas, Colorado
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
Women magazine editors
University of Chicago alumni
American women philanthropists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%20Yoriko%20Sabusawa |
The Palmer National Bank was a bank headquartered in Washington, D.C. In 1996, it was acquired by George Mason Bankshares Inc. At that time, it had 3 branches and 1 office.
The bank's connections to the leadership of the Republican Party led to it becoming a favored financial institution for conservative political action committees during the 1980s. The bank's clientele included the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the political action committees of Senator Bob Dole of Kansas and Representative Jack Kemp of New York.
As part of the Iran-Contra scandal, Oliver North used the bank to funnel money to a Swiss bank account and ultimately to the Contras.
History
The bank was founded on June 1, 1983 by Harvey McLean, Jr., a real estate developer from Dallas, Texas who served as the Southern finance chairman in the 1980 Presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush, and Stefan Halper, former Deputy United States Assistant Secretary of State.
It was initially funded with $2.8 million from Herman K. Beebe, a businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana.
From 1983 to 1990, Halper served as chairman of the bank. He was replaced by Webb Hayes IV.
In 1996, the bank was acquired by George Mason Bankshares Inc. for $15.6 million in stock. George Mason Bankshares was acquired by United Bank in 1998.
References
Banks established in 1983
Banks based in Washington, D.C.
Defunct banks of the United States
American companies established in 1983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer%20National%20Bank%20of%20Washington%2C%20D.C. |
Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention (Number 73).
It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:
Revision
The principles contained in the convention have been revised and were included in the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention.
Ratifications
As of 2023, the convention has been ratified by 46 states. Of the ratifying states, 35 have subsequently denounced the treaty.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1946
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Treaties of West Germany
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Treaties of South Korea
Treaties of Kyrgyzstan
Treaties of Lebanon
Treaties of Lithuania
Treaties of Montenegro
Treaties of Panama
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Treaties of the Estado Novo (Portugal)
Treaties of Yugoslavia
Treaties of Seychelles
Treaties of Slovenia
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Treaties of North Macedonia
Treaties of Tunisia
Treaties of Turkey
Treaties of Uruguay
Treaties of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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Admiralty law treaties
Treaties extended to French Guiana
Treaties extended to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Treaties extended to Guadeloupe
Treaties extended to Martinique
Treaties extended to Réunion
Occupational safety and health treaties
1946 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Examination%20%28Seafarers%29%20Convention%2C%201946 |
The Laboulbeniomycetes are a unique group of fungi that are obligatorily associated with arthropods, either as external parasites (Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales) or for dispersal (Pyxidiophorales).
Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales fungi are minute; their fruiting bodies, referred to as thalli, commonly measure less than one millimeter. They live on the antennae, the mouthparts or other body regions of their arthropod hosts. Although several species of Laboulbeniomycetes have more or less extensive, root-like hyphal systems (haustoria) inside their hosts, as a group these fungi are relatively harmless to their hosts. These fungi occur usually only on adult hosts; apparently immature arthropods eliminate them during ecdysis (adult arthropods no longer molt). Some thallus-forming species are dioecious, that is, they have separate female and male individuals, like Herpomyces (in the order Herpomycetales).
External links
References
Fungus classes
Taxa described in 1898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboulbeniomycetes |
Hurshul Clothier (November 18, 1921 – April 2, 2006) was one of the pioneers of the big band sound of western swing. In 1953 he organized a western swing band, The Oklahoma Travelers, at the time referred to as the youngest band in the West. Hurshul Clothier and The Oklahoma Travelers traveled the country delighting fans with their unique western swing style and were considered the leading dance band in the southwest. They provided back up for such country greats as Bob Wills, Glen Campbell and touring with the late Lefty Frizzell .
In 1972, Hurshul Clothier built the Belle Starr Theater in Eufaula, Oklahoma where he hosted many live country music events over the years, including the Bob Wills Weekend, an annual event held in the last weekend of September until 2004.
Clothier reorganized his band in 1982 using the former Texas Playboys and recorded an album, Jam Session. The album was highlighted in the 1984 edition of Country Music magazine.
In 1996, Clothier was inducted into the Oklahoma Country and Western Music Hall of Fame. His classic western swing style continues to be a favorite for many country western music fans of all ages.
In 2006, Clothier was inducted into the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest.
External links
Hurshul Clothier and the Oklahoma Travelers
References
Obituary: Hurshul P. Clothier. EnidNews.com (Oklahoma), April 4, 2006. (accessed June 7, 2007)
1921 births
2006 deaths
People from Major County, Oklahoma
American male violinists
Country musicians from Oklahoma
Western swing performers
20th-century American violinists
20th-century American male musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurshul%20Clothier |
Undeclared is an American sitcom created by Judd Apatow, which aired on Fox during the 2001–02 season. The show has developed a cult following, and in 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed it at #16 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years".
Premise
The half-hour comedy was Judd Apatow's follow-up to an earlier television series he worked on, Freaks and Geeks, which also lasted for one season. Undeclared centers on a group of college freshmen at the fictional University of Northeastern California. Unlike Freaks and Geeks, it is set contemporaneously (early 2000s) rather than the early 1980s.
Characters
Main
Recurring
Perry Madison (Jarrett Grode), bland, sarcastic dorm-mate who can DJ and free-style rap. (12 episodes)
Eric (Jason Segel), Lizzie's obsessive ex-boyfriend whom she breaks up with after sleeping with Steven. Eric had been dating Lizzie since she was in high school, and he is several years older than she is. Eric works as the manager of a copy shop. (7 episodes)
Adam (Leroy Adams), student who lives on the gang's floor. (8 episodes)
P.B. (P.B. Smiley), student who lives on the gang's floor. (6 episodes)
Trent (Jim Brooks), student who lives on the gang's floor. (4 episodes)
Lucien (Kevin Rankin), nerdy RA on the gang's floor who has an obsession with Hillary the RA. (4 episodes)
Hillary (Amy Poehler), the head RA who hits on Lloyd; and at one point, dates Hal. (2 episodes)
Luke (Kevin Hart), a religious student on campus who temporarily converts Steven to Christianity. (3 episodes)
Greg (David Krumholtz), Eric's close friend and co-worker at the copy shop. (2 episodes)
Eugene (Kyle Gass), Eric's other close friend and co-worker at the copy shop. (2 episodes)
Mr. Burundi (Gerry Bednob), boss at the school cafeteria where Steven and Marshall work. (2 episodes)
Kelly (Busy Philipps), an attractive tour guide on campus who Ron develops a crush on and later begins dating. (2 episodes)
Susuki (Joanne Cho), Tina's roommate, whose constant violin practice annoys Tina. (2 episodes)
Guests and cameos
Numerous actors from Freaks and Geeks appeared on Undeclared portraying new characters, including Rogen, Segel, Levine, Starr, Phillips, and Melnick, among several others.
Broadcast
Episodes
When first shown on network television, many episodes were aired out of order, much to Apatow's dismay. When originally released on DVD, the episodes were presented in their production order, which was a mistake according to Apatow. However, newer versions of the DVD present the episodes in the correct chronological order, restoring all storylines and character developments. In addition, an alternate version of the second episode, titled "Full Bluntal Nugety" is included on the DVD release of the series.
Planned storylines
The DVD contains the script to an unproduced episode, "Lloyd's Rampage" (written by Lewis Morton), which was written for the show's second season. It revolves around Lloyd getting into a fight with Kieran, the star student of his acting class, and deciding that he wants to experience real life. So, Steven and Lloyd go to a bar and end up in a fight with some working-class men, which impresses Kieran when Lloyd tells him about it. A subplot revolves around Marshall getting extremely drunk and throwing up in a bar. When he is throwing up, Perry takes a picture and video, and makes T-shirts and posters and puts them around campus. Marshall is embarrassed at first, but he is glad when he finds out about all of the attention that he gets as "Puke Dude". Unfortunately for him, this doesn't last long when everyone forgets about him after another student defecates in his pants in the library. Perry's last name is revealed to be Madison in this episode. The role of Kieran was written for That '70s Show star Topher Grace, but he never appeared in the episode because of a dispute between Apatow and That '70s Show co-creator Mark Brazill.
During a question-and-answer session, Judd Apatow stated that if the series had been picked up for a second season, there would have been an episode titled "Eric's Birthday" in which Lizzie and Steven would go to the birthday party mentioned in episode "Eric's POV". Linda Cardellini of Freaks and Geeks would have played his new girlfriend. In the episode, Eric would have had a cake with a picture of him and his new girlfriend printed on it. Lizzie would have been given the piece with Eric's new girlfriend's face. At the time, Segel and Cardellini were dating.
Syndication
In June 2010, it was announced that the Independent Film Channel had acquired the rights to air both Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks. Undeclared premiered on IFC on November 5, 2010. Both Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks began rerunning on the TeenNick network on June 13, 2011. Netflix also had Undeclared (in the past) and had the episodes in their original chronological order.
Home media
On August 16, 2005, Shout! Factory and DreamWorks Home Entertainment released the complete series of Undeclared on DVD in Region 1. The four-disc boxed set contains all 17 episodes, including an unaired episode and a bonus director's cut.
According to Apatow, the producers were unable to get clearance for all the music in the series (not being able to use about 10 songs). Since the uncleared songs were considered to not play a significant role in the series, they were switched with a suitable substitute.
Reception
Critical reception
Undeclared received critical acclaim from television critics. On Metacritic, the series earned a score of 85 out of 100, based on 24 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 93% with an average score of 8.18/10 based on reviews from 30 critics. The website's critical consensus reads, "Undeclared lives in the shadow of its Apatow-produced predecessor but still delivers an insightful and sweet year of self-discovery on campus."
In 2020, Briana Kranich of Screen Rant named Undeclared as one of the 10 Most Underrated Shows Of the Noughties.
Ratings
The show averaged 7.3 million viewers and was #93 in the rankings during its only season.
References
External links
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2000s American sex comedy television series
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English-language television shows
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Television series about teenagers
Television series by Apatow Productions
Television series by DreamWorks Television
Television series created by Judd Apatow
Television series set in the 2000s
Television shows set in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeclared |
Tarnee Renee White, OAM (born 17 October 1981), also known by her married name Tarnee Southwell, is an Australian breaststroke swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Coming from the Redcliffe club in Queensland, and coached by Ken Wood, White made her international debut at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships in Sydney, where she came 7th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
At the Sydney Olympics the following year, White swum the breaststroke leg in the heats of the 4×100-metre medley relay, before being replaced by fellow Wood swimmer Leisel Jones in the team that trailed the United States home in the final. She also competed in the 100-metre breaststroke, where she placed 7th.
White competed at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, coming 9th in both the 50-metre and 100-metre breaststroke events. She collected her first individual medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, when she won bronze in the 50-metre breaststroke.
White missed national selection from 2003 to 2005, when she lost the second breaststroke position to Brooke Hanson. However, she qualified for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. She claimed another bronze, again in the 50-metre breaststroke. She came fourth in the 100-metre breaststroke, narrowly missing bronze.
White qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the second fastest time in the world. She went on to finish 6th in the final of the woman's 100 breastroke in Beijing and won a gold medal for her part in the 4 x 100 medley relay.
In 2009, she was awarded and Order of Australian for her contribution to sport.
She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
In 2008, she married Ben Southwell.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
References
1981 births
Living people
Australian female breaststroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Olympic gold medalists for Australia
Commercial Swimming Club swimmers
Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from Brisbane
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Olympic gold medalists in swimming
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
21st-century Australian women
Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Sportswomen from Queensland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnee%20White |
Maliana is a city in East Timor, 149 kilometers southwest of Dili, the national capital. It has a population of 22,000. It is the capital of the district of Bobonaro and Maliana Subdistrict, and is located just a few kilometers from the border with Indonesia. It is also the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maliana, which was formed by Pope Benedict XVI with territory taken from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dili.
Maliana an important agriculture sector, especially rice production. The majority of Maliana's population is heavily dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, this is because rice became the preferred staple food among many Timorese. Most of the population are farmers cultivating rice and maize. During Indonesian occupation, Maliana became a rice barn town to support other districts in East Timor, and export to other places in Western Timor of Indonesia.
Maliana has seven villages consisting of Lahomea, Holsa, Ritabou, Odomau, Raifun, Tapo-Memo and Saburai. There are two main sources of water irrigation that supply water to paddy fields such Bulobu River, Nunura River, Malibaka and Bui Pira river. Bunak and Kemak are the native dialects of Maliana but most people understand and speak Tetum.
Maliana had one of the preferred schools during Portuguese occupation, known as Collegio Infante sagres. This was under a catholic mission and many East Timor educated people have graduated from this senior high School.
The citizens of Maliana were instrumental to the Australian army between 1999 and 2001, during the UNTAET operation. Employed as "Locally Employed Civilians" by a small contingent from the 110th Signals Squadron, the people of Maliana provided domestic support, as well as local intelligence regarding the threat of Indonesian militia to the soldiers and civilian contractors working in the area.
Australian newsman Greg Shackleton and his colleagues (the "Balibo Five") filed news reports from Maliana (then in Portuguese Timor) shortly before their fateful trip to Balibo in October, 1975.
Sister cities
City of Knox, Australia
Municipality of Leichhardt, Australia
References
External links
Populated places in East Timor
Bobonaro Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliana |
Illumina is the third album by Alisha's Attic, and the second to be released internationally. It was released on 5 October 1998, and peaked at #15 on the UK album chart. Three of its tracks were released as singles: "The Incidentals" (which reached #13 in the UK charts), "Wish I Were You" and "Barbarella".
Track listing
All tracks composed and arranged by Alisha's Attic (Karen Poole, Shelly Poole and Terry Martin)
"The Incidentals" – 3:10
"Going Down" – 4:32
"Shameless" – 1:27
"Resistor" – 3:34
"Air and Angels" – 3:36
"Wish I Were You" – 3:49
"Me and the Dolphins" – 1:30
"Barbarella" – 3:58
"Are You Jealous?" – 3:56
"Lazy Head" – 3:47
"Do I Lie?" – 3:28
"Karmically Close" – 3:34
"Dive In" – 3:57
"Lay Low" – 2:51
"Outta These Clouds" – 2:39
Personnel
Alisha's Attic
Karen Poole - vocals
Shelly Poole - vocals
with:
Ann Klein, David A. Stewart, Marcus Myers, Mike Lustig, Reeves Gabrels - guitar
Mark Plati - guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, percussion, string arrangements on "The Incidentals" and "Lay Low"
Dave Catlin-Birch - bass on "Barbarella"
Fil Eisler - bass on "Do I Lie?"
Reece Gilmore - keyboards, programming
Kenny Dickenson - additional keyboards on "Barbarella"
Chris Sharrock - drums, percussion
Mike Levesque, Shawn Pelton - drums
Everett Bradley - percussion
Amanda Riesman - string arrangement on "Dive In"
Technical
Mark Plati - engineer, mixing
Nick Addison - engineer, mixing
Ash Howes - mixing
Tom Bird - art direction
Andy Earl - photography
References
External links
Alisha's Attic albums
1998 albums
Albums produced by Mark Plati
Albums produced by David A. Stewart
Mercury Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumina%20%28Alisha%27s%20Attic%20album%29 |
Barsa is a Brazilian encyclopedia, first published in 1964. It was later translated into Spanish and sold across much of Latin America. It is widely known in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico. It has printed versions in Portuguese and Spanish with nine volumes each and 2,842 pages. Barsa also has a multimedia version.
Conceived in 1959, by Dorita Barrett, daughter of an American Encyclopedia Britannica executive, Barsa was the first Brazilian encyclopedia developed by a Brazilian editorial board formed, among other people, by the encyclopedist and translator Antonio Houaiss, the writer Jorge Amado, the architect Oscar Niemeyer, and the journalist and writer Antônio Callado as the chief editor of the first edition.
The name Barsa is a combination of the surnames of the couple Dorita Barrett (Bar) and her husband, the then Brazilian diplomat, Alfredo de Almeida Sá (Sa). Until then, the Brazilian market could only find encyclopedias in English, German or French. Dorita, living in Brazil, refused the idea of promoting a translation into Portuguese of the original Encyclopedia Britannica. Barsa's first edition was launched in March 1964. The initial batch, of 45 thousand copies, sold out in 8 months.
Barsa encyclopedia operations were bought by Editorial Planeta in 2000.
References
External links
Barsa Brasil - Portuguese
Barsa Hispanica - Spanish
Latin American encyclopedias
Portuguese-language encyclopedias
Spanish-language literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsa%20%28encyclopedia%29 |
Gleno is a city in East Timor, to the southwest of Dili, the national capital. It is in the suco of Riheu (Administrative post Ermera). Gleno has a population of 8,133 (2010). It lies above sea level.
Gleno is the capital of the municipality of Ermera.
Being near the national capital, Gleno suffered during the intimidation campaign around the time of the referendum for East Timorese independence in 1999.
Climate
Gleno has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), bordering on a tropical monsoon climate (Am), moderated by elevation. The dry season peaks in August and September, whilst the wet season extends from November to May with a peak from December to February. Gleno is substantially cooler and much wetter than Dili, which receives less than half as much rainfall.
Other places
Gleno is also a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
References
External links
Populated places in East Timor
Ermera Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleno |
Qumu Corporation provides an enterprise video platform that creates, manages, secures, distributes and measures the success of live and on-demand video within the enterprise. Common use cases for the company’s products include executive webcasts, virtual events, employee collaboration and training. The Qumu platform is offered in three implementation types: cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS), on-premises, and hybrid. Originally focused on Global 2000 companies with high security, reliability and global video delivery requirements, in 2020 Qumu began providing its SaaS products to small and medium enterprises as video became core to operations in smaller businesses. The company’s customer base includes organizations in six verticals markets: banking and finance, health and life science, professional services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and government.
History
Qumu was founded in 2002, when Yahoo! purchased the dot-com era search engine company Inktomi. As part of that transaction, Yahoo received a technology for managing and publishing video assets called Media Publisher, originally developed by eScene. Two entrepreneurs and former eScene executives approached Yahoo with an offer for the Media Publisher product. They spent the next six years developing it into an enterprise video platform and renamed the company Qumu in 2008.
In 2014, Qumu acquired London-based video platform provider Kulu Valley and rebranded their video platform as Qumu Cloud.
In October 2015, Qumu named Vern Hanzlik President and CEO. Hanzlik was a founder of content management technology company Stellent, which sold to Oracle for $440 million in 2006.
In July 2020, Qumu appointed technology executive TJ Kennedy as Chief Executive Officer.
In September 2020, Qumu launched its Zoom app.
Qumu was acquired by TSX-listed company Enghouse Systems Ltd in an all-cash deal worth million in February 2023.
References
External links
2023 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Minneapolis
Computer peripheral companies
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumu%20Corporation |
Mahalo Air was an airline that provided inter-island service within the state of Hawaii between 1993 and 1997. The airline started service on October 4, 1993, using Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft operated by Empire Airlines while awaiting its own certification. On May 31, 1994, the agreement with Empire ran out, shutting down the airline. In October of that year, the airline resumed operations with its own certificate, using new ATR-42 turboprops. During the summer of 1997, the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and ceased operations on September 2. The airline was headquartered in Honolulu.
Destinations
Honolulu (Honolulu International Airport)
Kahului (Kahului Airport)
Kapalua (Kapalua Airport)
Kaunakakai (Molokai Airport)
Kona (Kona International Airport)
Lihue (Lihue Airport)
Fleet
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United States
References
External links
Mahalo Air (Archive)
Defunct airlines of the United States
Airlines established in 1993
Airlines disestablished in 1997
Defunct companies based in Hawaii
Transportation in Honolulu | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo%20Air |
Jeffrey Arthur Corsaletti is a former American professional baseball outfielder.
Early life
Corsaletti grew up in Port Charlotte, Florida and attended Charlotte High School where he was a standout in baseball and football.
College
Corsaletti attended the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship. In 2005, he was a member of the Florida Gators baseball team that went to the College World Series for the first time since 1998; the team lost in the finals to Texas. In 2005, Corsaletti was named to the SEC All-Tournament Team and the NCAA Gainesville Regional All-Tournament Team. He led the Gators in 2005 with 100 hits, 2 boils, 18 doubles, 50 walks and a .454 on-base percentage. In four years for the Gators, batted .331 with 56 doubles, 23 homers and 159 RBIs in 239 games.
In 2005, Corsaletti was named a third team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
Professional career
Corsaletti was drafted in the 6th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft and spent the 2005 season playing for the Single-A Greenville Bombers of the South Atlantic League. Corsaletti hit leadoff in the lineup hitting .357 with 4 home runs and 26 RBIs.
Corsaletti spent the entire season with the Single-A+ Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Carolina League and was promoted to the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs for the season. During the 2007 season he was chosen as an Eastern League All-Star and was named the Allied Home Mortgage "Player of the Year" in Portland.
Corsaletti started the season with the Portland Sea Dogs and was again named to the Eastern League All-Star team. Shortly thereafter he was promoted to the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox.
Corsaletti was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 15, 2009 for a player to be named later or cash considerations. After finishing the 2009 season with the Altoona Curve, he became a free agent and was signed by the Florida Marlins organization. He split the 2010 season between five different Marlins affiliates, and became a free agent after the season.
Awards and recognition
June 2006 Red Sox ML Quality Plate Appearances Award
2007 Eastern League All Star
2007 Allied Home Mortgage "Player of the Year"
2008 Eastern League All Star
References
External links
SoxProspects Biography
1983 births
Living people
Charlotte High School (Punta Gorda, Florida) alumni
People from Port Charlotte, Florida
Baseball outfielders
Baseball players from Tallahassee, Florida
Altoona Curve players
Greensboro Grasshoppers players
Greenville Bombers players
Gulf Coast Marlins players
Florida Gators baseball players
Jacksonville Suns players
Jupiter Hammerheads players
New Orleans Zephyrs players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
Portland Sea Dogs players
Wilmington Blue Rocks players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Corsaletti |
Emecé Editores is an Argentine publishing house, a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta. Its catalogue contains books on history, politics, economics, art, religion, anthropology, biography, memoirs, children's literature, humor, cooking, popular science, self-help and popular psychology, and the complete works of various authors.
History
The company was founded in 1939 by Mariano Medina del Río, shortly after his arrival from Spain, with the literary collaboration of Álvaro de las Casas, and the support of Medina's former classmate Carlos Braun Menéndez. Emecé's name is derived from the first letters of some of the founders' names (specifically, Mariano, Carlos, Medina, and Casas). In Spanish, M is pronounced "eme" and C "ce".
During its early years, the company specialized in books about the region of Galicia, some written in the region's native language. In the subsequent decade, the company established its flagship series, "The Emecé Library of Universal Works" (La Biblioteca Emecé de Obras Universales). To this day, Emecé precedes its works with an epigram from Miguel de Cervantes, to whom the series is dedicated: that books "are honest entertainment, delight with their language, and amaze and suspend [disbelief] with their invention." (Spanish: "Sean de honesto entretenimiento, deleiten con el lenguaje y admiren y suspendan con la invención.")
Of the thousands of authors published by Emecé during the six decades of its existence, two names stand out—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, creator and illustrator of The Little Prince, the most popular book published by Emecé; and Jorge Luis Borges, arguably the most important Argentine author of the 20th century, whose work was edited and published by Emecé for forty-five years.
A group of distinguished collaborators edited several distinct collections at once. Eduardo Mallea created The Navy, The Chimera, and Great Essayists (El Navío, La Quimera y Grandes Ensayistas). Inspired by Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, Emecé created The Seventh Circle (El Séptimo Círculo), a collection of detective fiction which has grown to include 350 titles, including the major works of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and James Hadley Chase.
Where possible, Emecé has attempted to include major works of artistic and cultural interest, ranging from Toynbee, Malraux, Matisse, Kandinsky, Francastel, and Huyghe to deluxe editions of Don Quixote. The house is known for its detailed coverage of Argentine topics, including Martín Fierro, the works of Bonifacio del Carril (in particular his Monumenta Iconográfica), records of Argentina's Pre-Columbian inhabitants (such as the Inca and Diaguita), and the history of the gaucho.
In 1948, beginning with the publication of The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder and The Stranger by Albert Camus, Emecé established its "Great Novelists" collection, which continues to this day. Many celebrated writers, including Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Alberto Moravia, François Mauriac, Camilo José Cela, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Jorge Amado, Norman Mailer, Ray Bradbury, have been included in the collection. It has since widened its scope to include writers of popular fiction, such as Arthur Hailey, Erich Segal, Frederick Forsyth, Colleen McCullough, Stephen King, John le Carré, Leon Uris, Tom Clancy, Ken Follett, Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Krantz, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Wilbur Smith, and Sidney Sheldon.
However, Emecé does not confine itself to works of fiction. It has published Papillon by Henri Charrière, Roots by Alex Haley, The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, as well as the works of Leo Buscaglia and Jaime Barylko.
Emecé is one of the largest publishers in Argentina.
In 1989, Emecé opened a publisher in Barcelona, Spain. In 2000, Emecé Spain bought itself out and was renamed Ediciones Salamandra. In May 2019, Salamandra was acquired by Penguin Random House.
Imprints
Emece publishes books under the following collections:
Biblioteca Jorge Luis Borges
Biblioteca Adolfo Bioy Casares
Grandes Novelistas
Grandes Ensayistas
Biblioteca Breve
Formentor (Seix Barral)
Cruz del Sur
Lingua Franca
Emecé Award
In 1954, the "Emecé Literary Prize" (: Premio Emecé Argentina) was created, and was the competition of its kind to be established in Argentina. To this day it remains a means for new authors to gain recognition. Quite a few literary figures achieved success as a result of winning the prize, including Beatriz Guido, Dalmiro Saenz, Griselda Gambaro, María Esther de Miguel, María Granata, and Angélica Gorodischer. They, along with Bioy Casares, Ernesto Sabato, Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer, Isidoro Blaisten, Abelardo Castillo, Abel Posse, César Aira, and Margarita Aguirre, number among more than three hundred Argentine writers in the Emecé catalogue.
References
External links
Emecé Editores in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin
Emece catalogue, at Planeta Libros site (accessed 2016-09-24)
Book publishing companies of Argentina
Publishing companies established in 1939
1939 establishments in Argentina
Companies based in Buenos Aires
Planeta Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emec%C3%A9%20Editores |
The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.
Qualification
Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.
16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:
Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)
The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.
Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:
Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.
Venues
Medalists
Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.
Squads
First round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal match
Gold Medal match
First consolation round
Played by losing quarter-finalists.
Consolation Final (5th place match)
Brackets
Goalscorers
With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.
12 goals
Ferenc Bene
8 goals
Ibrahim Riad
6 goals
Tibor Csernai
Cornel Pavlovici
5 goals
Ivan Mráz
Slaven Zambata
4 goals
Josef Vojta
Henning Frenzel
Rudolf Belin
Ivica Osim
3 goals
Jan Brumovský
Eberhard Vogel
Hamoud Fulaiteh
Rifaat El-Fanagily
2 goals
Juan Carlos Domínguez
Elizeu
Roberto Miranda
Karel Lichtnégl
Vojtech Masný
Jürgen Nöldner
Imre Komora
Ryuichi Sugiyama
Carol Creiniceanu
Ion Pârcălab
Badawi Abdel Fattah
1 goal
Carlos Alberto Bulla
Zé Roberto
Anton Urban
František Valošek
Ľudovít Cvetler
Bernd Bauchspieß
Hermann Stöcker
Wolfgang Barthels
Edward Acquah
Gyau Agyemang
Sam Acquah
Wilberforce Mfum
János Farkas
Karam Ali Nirlou
Aritatsu Ogi
Kunishige Kamamoto
Saburo Kawabuchi
Shigeo Yaegashi
Javier Fragoso
José Luis González Dávila
Ali Bouachra
Ion Ionescu
Gheorghe Constantin
Lee Yi-Woo
Aly Etman
Kalil Shanin
Mahmoud Hassan
Raafat Attia
Seddik Mohamed
Spasoje Samardžić
Own goal
Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)
Final ranking
References
External links
Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com
RSSSF Summary
Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964
1964 Summer Olympics events
1964
1964
Olympic
1964
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic
Olympic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
Capitalism and Schizophrenia () is a serial composed of two volumes, Anti-Oedipus (1972, translated in 1977) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980, translated in 1987). It was written by the French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, respectively a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, during the May 1968, a period of civil unrest in France.
Deleuze's translator Brian Massumi observes that the books differ drastically in tone, content, and composition.
References
Sources
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. Anti-Œdipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 1 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972–1980. Trans. of L'Anti-Oedipe. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. .
---. 1980. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 2 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972–1980. Trans. of Mille Plateaux. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. .
Guattari, Félix. 1984. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics. Trans. Rosemary Sheed. Harmondsworth: Penguin. .
---. 1995. Chaosophy. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). .
---. 1996. Soft Subversions. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Trans. David L. Sweet and Chet Wiener. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). .
Massumi, Brian. 1992. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari. Swerve editions. Cambridge, United States and London: MIT. .
External links
Reading Notes on Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Michael Hardt
1972 non-fiction books
1980 non-fiction books
Anti-fascist books
Works by Gilles Deleuze
Works by Félix Guattari
French non-fiction books
Collaborative non-fiction books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism%20and%20Schizophrenia |
Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:
Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention had been ratified by 29 states. Of these ratifying states, 24 had subsequently denounced the treaty.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1946
Treaties entered into force in 1951
Treaties of Algeria
Treaties of the People's Republic of Angola
Treaties of Barbados
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of Egypt
Treaties of Ghana
Treaties of Guinea-Bissau
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Lebanon
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Treaties of New Zealand
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of the Estado Novo (Portugal)
Treaties of Yugoslavia
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Treaties of the United Kingdom
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1946 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certification%20of%20Able%20Seamen%20Convention%2C%201946 |
Turkish archery () is a tradition of archery which became highly developed in the Ottoman Empire, although its origins date back to the Eurasian Steppe in the second millennium BC.
Traditional Turkish archery has been inscribed on the Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO in 2019.
History
From the decline of military archery after the Battle of Lepanto, mainly flight archery was practiced, and Turkish bowyers specialized in weapons which were particularly good for imparting high velocity to very light arrows. The sport of archery declined gradually until the reign of Mahmud II who made great efforts to revive it. He also ordered his archery student, Mustafa Kani, to write a book about the history, construction, and use of these bows, from which comes most of what is now known of Turkish bowyery.
In 1794, in a field outside London, the Turkish ambassador’s secretary used a Turkish bow and arrow to shoot 415 yards, partially against the wind, and 482 yards with the wind. He said on a plain near Constantinople pillars were located that commemorate distances of 800 yards achieved with Turkish bows and arrows in ancient times.
After the death of Mahmud II in 1839, archery resumed its decline. The living art of Turkish bowyery was lost in the 1930s with the death of the last bowyer and famous calligrapher, Neçmeddin Okyay; it has since been revived.
For many years the excellence of Turkish bows could be seen from historical records. In 1910 an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Ingo Simon was able to shoot an arrow 434 m using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of 440N or 99 lb.
Equipment
Turkish bow
The Turkish bow is a recurved composite bow used in the Ottoman Empire. The construction is similar to that of other classic Asiatic composite bows, with a wooden core (maple was most desirable), animal horn on the belly (the side facing the archer), and sinew on the front, with the layers secured together with animal glue. However, several features of the Turkish bow are distinct. The curvature tends to be more extreme when the bow is unstrung, with the limbs curling forward into the shape of the letter "C". With some bows, the rigid tips of the limbs ("kasan") even touch. The grip area is not recessed like other Asianic bows and is fairly flat on the belly, while the front of the grip bulges outwards.
The dramatic curvature of the bows makes stringing them very different from straighter bows found in Europe. There is an old saying in Turkey that there are "120 ways to string a bow," though the most common methods involve sitting on ground with one's feet pressed against the grip. Heavier bows usually require the use of a long, looped strap to pull the limbs back and hold them while the string is seated.
In the modern world, the Turkish bow is now predominantly used for sporting purposes. Authentic horn and sinew bows are still made but are both extremely costly and difficult to store outside certain environments and climates. For this reason, the majority of historically-styled bows of this type are made with some combination of fiberglass, hardwood (for the kasan) and resin, and with some being entirely resin.
Zihgir
Zihgir is the Turkish word for the thumb ring used to draw the bow in the Ottoman Empire. Turkish thumb rings were made of wood, metal, ivory, bone, horn or leather. These rings signified that the person wearing them was a warrior. In time they became a symbol of prestige in Ottoman society, and some later examples have so much ornamentation on the surface from which the bowstring slides that they could not be used to shoot with. Surviving examples are often made of precious metals and richly decorated. Some are carved from precious stones.
Siper and Majra
The siper and majra are devices used to draw arrows past the bow's front limb where the arrow would normally rest. The siper is a type of shelf strapped to the archer's bow hand, which allows the archer to use arrows several inches shorter (and therefore lighter) in order to get the maximum amount of force behind the arrow. They are most commonly used for Flight Archery, to achieve the greatest distance. The Majra is a thin piece of wood with a channel cut in it and small loop for the archer's draw hand. The device allows the archer to pull back arrows that are much shorter than were intended for the bow. There is some debate among historians if this device was designed to shoot arrows that were too short for the enemy to pick up and shoot back, or if it was a way to reuse bolts fired by Chinese crossbowmen. In modern times they are primarily used in Flight Archery to shoot shorter arrows to cut down on weight.
Technique
Like many other Eastern archery styles, Turkish archery uses a "thumb draw", employing a type of grip called "mandal". This grip prevents the arrow from moving if the archer is on a horse and/or firing at an unusual angle. The draw itself is relatively short, usually under the chin or by the cheek, compared to archery styles in China or Japan where the nock is pulled past the head. When the arrow is released, the draw arm is kept relatively steady rather than allowing the arm to swing backwards.
Turkish archers developed several unique techniques to aid in combat. One was the practice of holding several arrows in between the fingers of the draw hand, allowing fast repeat shots. Another technique involved drawing the bow with the draw arm going behind the head to fire at a steep downward angle. This was used to fire from atop walls down at enemy troops.
See also
Composite bow
Mongol bow
Gakgung
Mounted archery
Arab archery
Chinese archery
English longbow
External links
Türk Okçuluğu Ağı (Turkish Archery Network) - in Turkish by Z. Metin Ateş
Turkish Traditional Archery by Z. Metin Ateş
"Turkish Traditional Archery Part 2: Technique and Tackle by Murat Özveri
"Turkish Traditional Archery Part 1: History, Disciplines, Institutions, Mystic Aspects" by Murat Özveri
"The Art of Shooting a Short Reflexed Bow with a Thumb Ring" by Adam Swoboda
References
Military history of Turkey
Military history of the Ottoman Empire
Bows (archery)
History of archery
History of the Turkish people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20archery |
Lise Maree Mackie is an Australian former freestyle swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics competing for Australia. She also competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She attended college at the University of Nevada, Reno in the United States. She holds several school records for swimming and was inducted into the university's athletic hall of fame in 2009. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Mackie had an unsuccessful debut in 1992 at the Barcelona games, where the team finished ninth in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, missing the final. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Mackie swam in the heats of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, before being replaced in the finals as Susie O'Neill, Nicole Stevenson, Emma Johnson and Julia Greville trailed the United States and Germany, to claim bronze. Mackie was also a member of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay team which finished 6th.
See also
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
References
External links
Australian Olympic Committee profile
University of Nevada, Reno profile
1975 births
Australian female freestyle swimmers
Living people
Olympic swimmers for Australia
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Nevada Wolf Pack women's swimmers
Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
People educated at Brisbane State High School
Sportspeople from Te Kūiti
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
20th-century Australian women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%20Mackie |
Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:
Modification
The convention has not been brought into force. Its principles were subsequently revised in 1949 by Convention C92, Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949.
External links
Text.
Ratifications and denunciations.
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1946
Treaties not entered into force
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1946 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation%20of%20Crews%20Convention%2C%201946 |
Sesame seed cake () is a cake made of sesame seeds, often combined with honey as a sweetener. The cake is round and is brown in color with sesame seeds sprinkled evenly on the surface of the cake. Although there are several variations, it is quite similar to the Huangqiao sesame cake (simplified Chinese: 黄桥烧饼).
History
During the Tang Dynasty, Arab traders would travel between China and the West, spreading their Islamic culture including religion and cuisine. Chinese converts thus became known as the Hui people (Huízú), who are associated with this street food for their historical Islamic influences. The earliest record of shao bing was seen in a Chinese historical text, Zīzhì Tōngjiàn (“Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government”), a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography in the form of a chronicle.
See also
List of sesame seed dishes
References
Cakes
Seed cake | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame%20seed%20cake |
Hungary competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 182 competitors, 150 men and 32 women, took part in 111 events in 17 sports.
Medalists
Gold
Árpád Bárány, Tamás Gábor, István Kausz, Győző Kulcsár, and Zoltán Nemere — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition
Tibor Pézsa — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual
Ildikó Rejtő — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
Paula Marosi, Katalin Juhász, Judit Ágoston, Lídia Dömölky, and Ildikó Rejtő — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Ferenc Török — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
László Hammerl — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone
Imre Polyák — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
István Kozma — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
Ferenc Bene, Tibor Csernai, János Farkas, József Gelei, Kálmán Ihász, Sándor Katona, Imre Komora, Ferenc Nógrádi, Dezső Novák, Árpád Orbán, Károly Palotai, Antal Szentmihályi, Gusztáv Szepesi, and Zoltán Varga — Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition
Miklós Ambrus, András Bodnár, Ottó Boros, Zoltán Dömötör, László Felkai, Dezső Gyarmati, Tivadar Kanizsa, György Kárpáti, János Konrád, Mihály Mayer, Dénes Pócsik, and Péter Rusorán — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
Silver
Gyula Zsivótzky — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
Gergely Kulcsár — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
Márta Rudas — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
Mihály Hesz — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
Katalin Makray — Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
Imre Földi — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
Géza Tóth — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
Bronze
Vilmos Varju — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
Anikó Ducza — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
Imre Nagy, Ferenc Török and Ottó Török — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
László Hammerl — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
Győző Veres — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
Athletics
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Seven cyclists represented Hungary in 1964.
Individual road race
János Juszkó
András Mészáros
Antal Megyerdi
László Mahó
Team time trial
János Juszkó
András Mészáros
László Mahó
Ferenc Stámusz
Sprint
Richárd Bicskey
Ferenc Habony
1000m time trial
Ferenc Habony
Tandem
Richárd Bicskey
Ferenc Habony
Diving
Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Hungary in 1964. Hungarian fencers topped the medal table for the event, with four gold.
Men's foil
Jenő Kamuti
Sándor Szabó
József Gyuricza
Men's team foil
Jenő Kamuti, László Kamuti, József Gyuricza, Sándor Szabó, Béla Gyarmati
Men's épée
Zoltán Nemere
Győző Kulcsár
István Kausz
Men's team épée
Győző Kulcsár, Zoltán Nemere, Tamás Gábor, István Kausz, Árpád Bárány
Men's sabre
Tibor Pézsa
Attila Kovács
Péter Bakonyi
Men's team sabre
Péter Bakonyi, Miklós Meszéna, Attila Kovács, Zoltán Horváth, Tibor Pézsa
Women's foil
Ildikó Ságiné Ujlakyné Rejtő
Katalin Nagyné Juhász
Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky
Women's team foil
Ildikó Ságiné Ujlakyné Rejtő, Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky, Katalin Nagyné Juhász, Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, Paula Marosi
Football
Gymnastics
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Hungary in 1964. Ferenc Török won an individual gold and the team won bronze.
Individual
Ferenc Török
Imre Nagy
Ottó Török
Team
Ferenc Török
Imre Nagy
Ottó Török
Sailing
Shooting
Eight shooters represented Hungary in 1964. László Hammerl won gold in the 50 m rifle, prone and László Hammerl won bronze in the 50 m rifle, three positions.
25 m pistol
Szilárd Kun
Gábor Balla
50 m pistol
Lajos Kelemen
Ferenc Gönczi
300 m rifle, three positions
Zoltán Sándor
Imre Simkó
50 m rifle, three positions
László Hammerl
Tibor Jakosits
50 m rifle, prone
László Hammerl
Tibor Jakosits
Swimming
Volleyball
Men's Team Competition
Round Robin
Lost to Czechoslovakia (3-2)
Defeated Japan (3-0)
Defeated United States (3-0)
Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
Lost to Brazil (2-3)
Lost to Romania (1-3)
Defeated Netherlands (3-1)
Defeated South Korea (3-2)
Lost to Bulgaria (1-3) → Sixth place
Team Roster
Bela Czafik
Vilmos Ivancso
Csabas Lantos
Gabor Bodo
István Molnar
Otto Prouza
Ferenc Tuske
Tibor Florián
Laszlo Galos
Antal Kangyerka
Mihaly Tatar
Ferenc Janosi
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
1964 in Hungarian sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1953, in a split from the main body of French psychoanalysts, the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP).
The SFP was eventually dissolved in 1965, its resources and membership being split between the two new bodies, the Association Psychanalytique de France (APF), and the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP), founded by Jacques Lacan.
Foundation
The early 1950s were a time of growing disagreements within the SPP, mainly centred on the question of the training of analysts. Despite wishing himself to avoid a split, Lacan was drawn into the dissident movement led by Daniel Lagache, as a result of his own separate dispute with the president Sacha Nacht over his practice of "short sessions".
After a year of disagreements and a vote of no confidence, five members of the SPP resigned from the body in June 1953. These five were Lacan, Lagache, Dolto, Favez-Boutonnier and Reverchon-Jouve.
Unfortunately, an unexpected by-product of the split was to deprive the new group, who termed themselves the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP), of membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), to which they now had to seek out affiliation.
Affiliation
Over the following years a complex process of negotiation was to take place to determine the status of the SFP within the IPA. Lacan’s practice, with his controversial innovation of variable-length sessions, and the critical stance he took towards much of the accepted orthodoxy of psychoanalytic theory and practice was a central stumbling-block to recognition of the new society.
Eventually, in August 1963, a condition was set by the IPA that the registration of the SFP was dependent upon Lacan being removed from the list of training analysts with the organisation: as he himself put it, “this affiliation is to be accepted only if a guarantee is given that my teaching may never again be sanctioned by the Association as far as the training of analysts is concerned”.
Lacan refused such a condition and left the SFP together with many of its members in June 1964 to set up the EFP independently of the IPA. The remaining membership of the SFP, including many of Lacan's own pupils such as Jean Laplanche, were to be recognised by the IPA the following year as part of a new body, the APF.
Outcome
Elisabeth Roudinesco concluded that “the 1963-4 break was as disastrous for the IPA as it was for the development of Lacanianism”.
See also
References
External links
SFP
Jacques Lacan
Organizations established in 1953
Freudian psychology
1953 establishments in France
1965 disestablishments in France
Organizations disestablished in 1965
Psychoanalysis organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20Fran%C3%A7aise%20de%20Psychanalyse |
Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1949, with the preamble stating:
Modification
This convention is a partial revision of Convention C75 - Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1946, which never came into effect.
Ratifications
As of 2022, 47 states have ratified the convention. Of the ratifying states, 32 have subsequently denounced the convention.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties entered into force in 1953
Treaties concluded in 1949
Treaties of Algeria
Treaties of the People's Republic of Angola
Treaties of Azerbaijan
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Belize
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of the Second Brazilian Republic
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Treaties of Cuba
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Treaties of Equatorial Guinea
Treaties of West Germany
Treaties of Ghana
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Treaties of Ba'athist Iraq
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Admiralty law treaties
Treaties extended to the Faroe Islands
Treaties extended to the Isle of Man
Treaties extended to French Guiana
Treaties extended to Martinique
Treaties extended to Guadeloupe
Treaties extended to Réunion
Treaties extended to British Hong Kong
1949 in labor relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation%20of%20Crews%20Convention%20%28Revised%29%2C%201949 |
Italy competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 168 competitors, 157 men and 11 women, took part in 91 events in 18 sports.
Medalists
Gold
Abdon Pamich — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
Fernando Atzori — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
Cosimo Pinto — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
Giovanni Pettenella — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
Mario Zanin — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Sergio Bianchetto and Angelo Damiano — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem
Mauro Checcoli — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual
Paolo Angioni, Mauro Checcoli, and Giuseppe Ravano — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team
Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
Ennio Mattarelli — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
Silver
Sergio Bianchetto — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
Giovanni Pettenella — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial
Giorgio Ursi — Cycling, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit
Cencio Mantovani, Carlo Rancati, Luigi Roncaglia, and Franco Testa — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
Severino Andreoli, Luciano Dalla Bona, Pietro Guerra, and Ferruccio Manza — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
Klaus Dibiasi — Diving, Men's Platform
Giovan Battista Breda, Giuseppe Delfino, Gianfranco Paolucci, Alberto Pellegrino, and Gianluigi Saccaro — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
Giampaolo Calanchini, Wladimiro Calarese, Pier-Luigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, and Cesare Salvadori — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
Renato Bosatta, Franco De Pedrina, Giuseppe Galante, Giovanni Spinola, and Emilio Trivini — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
Bronze
Salvatore Morale — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
Silvano Bertini — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
Franco Valle — Boxing, Men's Middleweight
Giuseppe Ros — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
Piero D'Inzeo, Raimondo D'Inzeo, and Graziano Mancinelli — Equestrian, Jumping Team
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
Athletics
Results
Basketball
Men's Team Competition
Team Roster
Gianfranco Bertini
Sauro Bufalini
Ottorino Flaborea
Giovanni Gavagnin
Augusto Giomo
Gianfranco Lombardi
Massimo Masini
Giusto Pellanera
Gianfranco Pieri
Gianfranco Sardagna
Gabriele Vianello
Paolo Vittori
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
14 cyclists represented Italy in 1964.
Individual road race
Mario Zanin
Severino Andreoli
Felice Gimondi
Ferruccio Manza
Team time trial
Severino Andreoli
Luciano Dalla Bona
Pietro Guerra
Ferruccio Manza
Sprint
Giovanni Pettenella
Sergio Bianchetto
1000m time trial
Giovanni Pettenella
Tandem
Angelo Damiano
Sergio Bianchetto
Individual pursuit
Giorgio Ursi
Team pursuit
Luigi Roncaglia
Cencio Mantovani
Carlo Rancati
Franco Testa
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Italy in 1964.
Men's foil
Mario Curletto
Nicola Granieri
Pasquale La Ragione
Men's team foil
Gianguido Milanesi, Pasquale La Ragione, Arcangelo Pinelli, Nicola Granieri, Mario Curletto
Men's épée
Gianluigi Saccaro
Alberto Pellegrino
Giuseppe Delfino
Men's team épée
Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Gianluigi Saccaro, Gianfranco Paolucci, Giovanni Battista Breda
Men's sabre
Pierluigi Chicca
Cesare Salvadori
Wladimiro Calarese
Men's team sabre
Wladimiro Calarese, Giampaolo Calanchini, Pierluigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, Cesare Salvadori
Women's foil
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
Giovanna Masciotta
Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini
Women's team foil
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi, Giovanna Masciotta, Irene Camber-Corno, Natalina Sanguinetti, Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini
Gymnastics
Judo
Modern pentathlon
One male pentathlete represented Italy in 1964.
Individual
Alfonso Ottaviani
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Five shooters represented Italy in 1964. Ennio Mattarelli won the gold medal in the trap event.
25 m pistol
Giovanni Liverzani
Ugo Amicosante
50 m pistol
Ugo Simoni
Trap
Ennio Mattarelli
Galliano Rossini
Swimming
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
Sergio De Gregorio, Bruno Bianchi, Giovanni Orlando, and Pietro Boscaini
Final — 8:18.1 (→ 8th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
Chiaffredo Rora, Gian Corrado Gross, Giampiero Fossati, and Pietro Boscaini
Final — 4:10.3 (→ 7th place)
Water polo
Men's Team Competition
Team Roster
Danio Bardi
Mario Cevasco
Giuseppe d'Altrui
Federico Dennerlein
Giancarlo Guerrini
Franco Lavoratori
Gianni Lonzi
Eugenio Merello
Rosario Parmegiani
Eraldo Pizzo
Dante Rossi
Alberto Spinola
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
External links
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
1964 in Italian sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
The École freudienne de Paris (EFP) was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1964 by Jacques Lacan.
It became 'a vital—if conflict-ridden—institution until its dissolution in 1980'.
Early history
In 1953 conflict within the Paris psychoanalytical society had reached such a pitch that "a group of senior figures, including but not led by Lacan, broke away to form the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP)". The latter's long quest for recognition from the IPA finally stalled in 1963: "it emerged again and again that Lacan's 'variable sessions' were the contentious issue" and in the end "the price of recognition was the final and definitive exclusion of Lacan from the training programme". As a result of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) demanded removing Lacan from the list of training analysts with the organisation. Lacan left the SFP, which was dissolved the following year: "Half its assets went to the EFP, and half to a new Association Psychoanalytique de France...[which] was recognised by the IPA".
Lacan's "Founding Act"
In June 1964 Lacan published the "Founding Act" to establish his own school, which became known as the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP). Grandly proclaiming that "a labor is to be accomplished—a labor which, in the field opened up by Freud, restores the cutting edge of his discovery...[&] denounces the deviations and compromises that blunt its program", the Founding Act sought from the start to claim the moral high-ground in opposition to the IPA.
On the vexed question of training, the Act proclaimed that "a psychoanalyst is a trainer, for having conducted one or several analyses which proved to be of a didactic nature. Such empowerment is de facto".
Disputes and the "Pass"
The conjoined issues of authority and of training analyses, which had led to the foundation of the EFP, plagued its history from the very start. In December, 1965, Francois Perrier resigned from the Board over the question of training, writing to Lacan that 'What we expect of you is serene authority...not reckless skirmishes that might be the work of ex-guerrillas turned desperadoes...you always divide but never rule'. In 1967, Lacan proposed the notion of "the Pass" in the hope of providing an answer to the question of accreditation; but the following year, in 1968, Perrier and two other former board members, with some twenty other members disputing as a group the EFP's accreditation process, broke away to form the Organisation psychanalytique de langue française, also known as the "Quatrième groupe".
'The issue of the pass continues to devastate the Lacanian community to this very day [2005]—more than two decades after Lacan dissolved his school'. The pass was essentially a procedure whereby ananalysand could give an account of his or her inward transformation before three "passeurs", who would then validate the transformation from analysand to analyst. Lacan was deeply committed to the "proposition that the analyst historizes only from himself: a patent fact. even if he is confirmed in doing so by a hierarchy". That was the basis for his moral authority with respect to the IPA; but 'the form of charismatic authority which, in his personal and institutional presence, he so dramatically provoked' could scarcely be generalised to every member of the school without producing a Pirandello world of Right You Are! (if you think so).
Seen from outside, 'Lacan's failed attempt to institutionalise awareness without institutionalising it, is fascinating', but fell down on the aporia that 'the passe which changed the analyst was a passage from one inner state to another, while the passe which recognised the new status was a formalised external procedure'. From the inside, 'animosity and resentment...[&] suspicion of institutional foul play' were the Lacanian legacy of the pass.
Dogmatism and dissolution
In the wake of the '68 split, 'an increasingly rigid Lacanian orthodoxy' came to dominate the EFP: as a disillusioned former member remarked, the custom of closing debates or silencing objections with a quotation from a Lacan who had become the object of a personality cult was scarcely conducive to open debate'.
Perhaps as a result, in January 1980 Lacan announced the dissolution of the EFP. in order to forestall 'the degradation of his ideas under the weight of his own institution...a challenge to authority yet at the same time authoritarian....Lacan was trapped in the circles of this paradox'. He then founded another short-lived organisation, La cause freudienne; but 'more than twenty associations emerged from the 1980 dissolution of the Ecole freudienne de Paris'—testimony perhaps to the way 'the Lacanian movement was doomed to dissidence...the history of a perpetual acting-out, the momentary adventure, a kind of surrealist time'. However La Cause freudienne kept alive the Lacanian legacy with its Lettre Mensuelle (edited by Jacques-Alain Miller and Gérard Pommier): at its masthead, a quote from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "Here comes Everybody...seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word."
References
Jacques Lacan
1964 establishments in France
Educational institutions established in 1964
Medical and health organizations based in France
Psychoanalysis organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20Freudienne%20de%20Paris |
3D Fax is a computer program, developed for Microsoft Windows by InfoImaging Technologies in the mid-1990s, for file transfer via fax. The program encodes a file into an image, which the user would then print and send via a fax machine or transmit directly from the computer using a fax modem. The recipient would then scan the transmitted image or receive it via a fax modem, and use 3D Fax to decode it back to its original binary form.
InfoImaging claimed a capacity of 40kB per sheet of paper using its image encoding of files, extended to 110kB (between two fax modems) in the 2.0 version. InfoWorld's reviewer found that the 1.0 version could compress both a 90kB Word document and a 302kB image file to less than 40kB, so the files could each be faxed as a single page.
References
Fax software | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Fax |
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