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Lambros Katsonis (; ; 1752–1805) was a Greek privateer of the 18th century who would ultimately sail under the Russian flag with the rank of colonel. He became a knight of the Russian Empire and was awarded the Order of St. George.
Early life
Lambros Katsonis was born in 1752 at Livadeia, to a well-off family. He was forced to flee his home in 1767, after feuding with a local Turk and killing him; at Galaxeidi he managed to board a vessel that brought him to the island of Zakynthos, then still under Venetian rule.
Three years later, he went to Livorno, where the Russian fleet under Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, sent to fight the Ottomans in the Aegean Sea, was gathering. He joined the infantry corps of Greek volunteers set up by the Russians, and distinguished himself due to his intelligence and resolve during the rest of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. After the war's end, he settled in the Crimea, but soon joined the retinue of the powerful Count Grigory Potemkin. He won the esteem and support of Potemkin when he managed to assassinate an Austrian envoy and steal sensitive documents from him; as a reward, he was promoted to captain and placed in Potemkin's staff.
Privateer activity
1788
When the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 broke out, Katsonis went to Trieste, where with his own money, and through donations from the local Greek community, he bought and equipped a 24-gun warship, and began to raid Ottoman shipping. This first expedition was a great success: over six months, Katsonis remained undefeated, assembling a flotilla of twelve vessels with over 200 guns. His main successes were the destruction of a Turkish pirate base at Kastellorizo, the sinking of an Ottoman frigate off Rhodes, and successfully fighting off the entire Ottoman fleet east of Karpathos. His actions were sanctioned by Russia in 1788, who took him under its service: Katsonis operated under the Russian flag, the right to award ranks in the name of the Russian Empire, and received financial support from the Russians.
1789
His 1789 campaign was even more successful: he gathered a fleet of 17 vessels with 500 guns, and captured Kea Island, which he fortified and made his base of operations. The Ottomans tried to entice him to their side, sending the Dragoman of the Fleet with a letter promising him amnesty for himself and his followers, a salary of 200,000 gold coins, and lordship over an island of his choice. Katsonis rejected the proposal.
On 3 June 1788, he defeated an Ottoman squadron of 11 or 14 ships, including two ships of the line and three frigates, in the strait between Tinos and Mykonos. On 7 August, his ships defeated eight 32-gun Algerian xebecs between Kea and Makronisos, sinking two and pursuing the others until Nafplion. This was followed up by another victory over the Ottoman fleet a fortnight later at Chios. His own fleet increased to 27 vessels, mostly lighter craft, but also including some 24 or 28-gun brigs.
1790
In 1790, Katsonis conceived his most ambitious plan yet. Taking on board the klepht chieftain and his 800 men, he raided Turkish shipping in the Aegean, advancing up to Tenedos, blocking the entrance to the Dardanelles and hoping to confront an Ottoman fleet. The Ottoman government reacted by calling on the aid of the North African fleets, and Katsonis was caught off guard, with his fleet dispersed. He was caught off Andros with only nine vessels between an Ottoman and an Algerian fleet, and defeated in a two-day battle.
With the remaining ships Katsonis fled to the Ionian island of Ithaca, where he managed to reconstitute his forces and recruit more ships. Despite his defeat, he was rewarded by Empress Catherine, on the recommendation of Grigory Potemkin, with promotion to Colonel and the Cross of St. George, 4th Class.
1791–1792
Katsonis and his fleet remained active in the Aegean and continued to score successes against Ottoman shipping. By the summer of 1791, Katsonis disposed of 21 ships. In the meantime, however, the Russian victories at Măcin and Kaliakra led to the war's end with the conclusion of an armistice on 11 August 1791, followed by the Treaty of Jassy. Katsonis was ordered to cease operations. Katsonis refused to obey and gathered his ships at Porto Kagio near Cape Tainaron, but was attacked there by a joint Ottoman–French fleet and his fleet was annihilated. Katsonis himself managed to escape to Russia with a few of his followers, settling at Livadiya in the Crimea.
Marriage and children
His wife was known as Angelina in Russia, but her real name was Maria Sophianou. He had three sons and possibly one daughter. His first son was killed by the Turks when he was still infant, in the Greek island of Kea. The second, Lykourgos (known in Russia as Ликург Ламбрович Качиони, 1790–1863), born on a Greek island, had a brilliant career as officer in the Russian Army, including his service in the Greek Battalion of Balaklava. The third son, Alexander who was born in the Crimea, also became an officer in the Russian Army. According to some sources he had a daughter named Garyfallia, but there is no information about her life. One of Lambros' grandsons, Spyridon son of Alexander, was a known Russian writer. He was also the godfather of Odysseas Androutsos, a commander of the Greek War of Independence.
Legacy
The Livadia Palace, the summer home of the last Tsars was built on Katsonis' Livadia estate after 1861. The name of the estate was given to it by Katsonis, who named it after his birthplace; moreover, this is the origin of the name of Livadiya town itself. It is there that the World War II Yalta Conference took place. This is where he was assassinated in 1805.
The Hellenic Navy has named four of its ships after Katsonis.
References
Sources
1752 births
1804 deaths
18th-century Greek people
19th-century Greek people
18th-century military personnel from the Russian Empire
18th-century rebels
18th-century pirates
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Greece
Greek pirates
Greek revolutionaries
People from Ithaca
People from Livadeia
Recipients of the Order of St. George
Greek colonels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambros%20Katsonis |
is a former Japanese football player. From 2004 to 2008, he was the president of Japanese football club JEF United Ichihara Chiba.
References
1951 births
Living people
Japanese men's footballers
Japanese football chairmen and investors
Japan Soccer League players
Men's association football goalkeepers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiro%20Yodogawa |
XDB Enterprise Server is a relational database management system (DBMS), which was available for DOS, Windows NT and OS/2, and was compatible with IBM's DB2 database. DOS version was released in 1988 as one of the earliest DOS-based SQL database servers. The system was developed by XDB Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Micro Focus International group in 1998. It is still shipped with Micro Focus' COBOL software.
See also
Comparison of relational database management systems
References
Proprietary database management systems
Micro Focus International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDB%20Enterprise%20Server |
David Fanning (THE GOAT) (born 20 July 1984) is an Australian rules footballer and former basketball player. He is currently with the Newtown eagles and teaches at Belmont High School
Former NBL basketballer with the Cairns Taipans, Fanning was placed onto the Collingwood rookie list in 2004 as a project player. At 204 cm in height, he was a fast moving ruckman who spent most of the season on the sidelines, needing a knee reconstruction, but was retained on the rookie list for 2005, and with injuries to Guy Richards he was immediately promoted and played Round 1. He was omitted the next week but returned later on in the season and showed improvement each match he played kicking 12 goals in round 4. Among many highlights David had in the season of 2005, the one that stands out was when he accidentally kicked the ball backwards whilst attempting a forward kick and miraculously hitting the target. David progressed as if he had purposely kicked this ball in a backwards direction. He adapted to the game, ending up playing 13 games in his debut season and was then elevated to the senior list for 2006.
In 2006 he improved his ability skill wise, however he couldn't perform at the top level when required, playing only one senior game for the year. He was delisted at the end of the season with other talls.
After leaving the football club he became a teacher and worked at Coburg High for several years before moving on to Belmont High.
References
External links
David Fanning at the Collingwood Football Club website
1984 births
Cairns Taipans players
Collingwood Football Club players
Port Melbourne Football Club players
Living people
Australian men's basketball players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Fanning%20%28footballer%29 |
Anthony Mithen is a Melbourne-based sports commentator, radio presenter, racehorse owner and breeder.
He began his sports journalism career as a cadet at the Geelong Advertiser in 1990, before moving onto The Age newspaper in 1994. In 1997, he joined Network Ten's news/sports department as a sports reporter and he moved onto National Nine News in 1999 where he gained an excellent reputation as a sports news reporter and presenter with his specialist sports being AFL football along with horse racing.
During his career, he has won several media awards for his work on cricket from the Victorian Cricket Association and horse racing from the Victorian Amateur Turf Club.
He hosted the Prime Time Sports program from 5.30–9am weekdays on Sport 927 with former AFL footballer Michael Christian and also called AFL football for Geelong radio station K-Rock (3GL).
He was on the board of AFL club Richmond, between 2004 and 2009.
In 2003 he stopped working for Channel 9 to concentrate on running the Rosemont Stud horse racing and breeding operations, including a part ownership of 2009 Melbourne Cup entrant Changingoftheguard.
References
Australian television personalities
Australian rules football commentators
Australian racehorse owners and breeders
Radio personalities from Melbourne
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Mithen |
Leukocoria (also white pupillary reflex) is an abnormal white reflection from the retina of the eye. Leukocoria resembles eyeshine, but leukocoria can also occur in animals that lack eyeshine because their retina lacks a tapetum lucidum.
Leukocoria is a medical sign for a number of conditions, including Coats disease, congenital cataract, corneal scarring, melanoma of the ciliary body, Norrie disease, ocular toxocariasis, persistence of the tunica vasculosa lentis (PFV/PHPV), retinoblastoma, and retrolental fibroplasia.
Because of the potentially life-threatening nature of retinoblastoma, a cancer, that condition is usually considered in the evaluation of leukocoria. In some rare cases (1%) the leukocoria is caused by Coats' disease (leaking retinal vessels).
Diagnosis
On photographs taken using a flash, instead of the familiar red-eye effect, leukocoria can cause a bright white reflection in an affected eye. Leukocoria may appear also in low indirect light, similar to eyeshine.
Leukocoria can be detected by a routine eye exam (see Ophthalmoscopy). For screening purposes, the red reflex test is used. In this test, when a light is shone briefly through the pupil, an orange red reflection is normal. A white reflection is leukocoria.
Society
The fictional serial killer known as "The Collector", the main antagonist of the films The Collector (2009) and The Collection (2012), had the condition in both eyes. (confirmed by first movie actor Juan Fernández de Alarcon)
References
External links
Eye diseases
Medical signs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukocoria |
Ceratomia hageni, the Osage orange sphinx or Hagen's sphinx, is a hawk moth (family Sphingidae). The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874.
Distribution
Ceratomia hageni is a native of midwest North America and can be found from Michigan to Georgia, Nebraska to Texas, and most places in between, with regards to its only known host plant.
Biology
From oviposition of the eggs to pupation, approximately four weeks will pass. Where multiple broods occur, pupae will eclose in two weeks, or when conditions are suitable in cool climates. An adult C. hageni has many colors, viewable when looked over thoroughly. The forewing is grayish-green and has many, wavy lines, similar to other specimens of the Ceratomia genera. The hindwing is a browner gray with a lighter gray towards the outer margins
Food plants
C. hageni is known to feed on only one food;
Maclura pomifera (Osage orange)
Description
Egg
The eggs are translucent, milky white and green, oval and about 0.5 mm in diameter. They are laid in masses on the undersurface of leaves, while smaller masses are deposited onto branches on the Osage orange tree. Eggs incubate and hatch five to seven days after oviposition.
Larva
Pupa
As with most other Sphingidae, Ceratomia hageni will burrow into the ground after its fifth and final instar in order to pupate. The larvae will go into a "wandering" stage where it leaves the Osage orange tree and climbs to the ground to find a place to bury itself so that it may pupate. The larvae will then shed its fifth instar skin to reveal its pupal skin, which will be soft and almost translucent at first, but will then harden to a light brown for protection from the elements.
Imago
References
External links
Hagen's sphinx Moths of North America Guide
Ceratomia hageni, Sphingidae of the Americas
Ceratomia
Moths described in 1875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratomia%20hageni |
Ceratomia igualana is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Mexico to Costa Rica. Only a small number has been caught and not much is known about the biology of this species.
The wingspan is 51–56 mm for males and about 65 mm for females.
References
Sources
James P. Tuttle: The Hawkmoths of North America, A Natural History Study of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada, The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Washington, DC 2007, .
Ceratomia
Moths described in 1932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratomia%20igualana |
Ceratomia undulosa, the waved sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1856. Also known as the "Scorpion Moth" (See "Biology" Below").
Distribution
It is found in the United States, and southern Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. Adult moths are strictly nocturnal, hiding away as dawn approaches (Fullard & Napoleone 2001).
Description
Biology
Recorded food plants of the larvae include ash (Fraxinus), privet (Ligustrum), oak (Quercus), hawthorn (Crataegus) and fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus).
When ready, larvae dig underground to pupate.
The most common predator is the Guiana Striped Scorpion, which feasts on the moth's egg clusters. The common proximity of the two species, sometimes showing up as the moth lays her eggs, has resulted in erroneous conclusions that the moths give birth to the scorpions, and the resultant name "Scorpion Moth."
Subspecies
Ceratomia undulosa undulosa (from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia west to eastern Alberta and Maine to Florida west to the eastern Great Plains and south to Florida, the Gulf Coast and Texas)
Ceratomia undulosa polingi Clark, 1929 (Mexico)
References
External links
"Waved sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)". Moths of North America. U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. Archived December 7, 2005.
Ceratomia
Moths described in 1856
Moths of North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratomia%20undulosa |
The National Alliance of Youth and Students for National Reunification (), or the Pomchonghakryon (), is a North Korea-based organization that promotes Korean reunification. It was founded on 15 August 1992, the 47th anniversary of the end of Japanese occupation on the Korean peninsula.
It considers the South Korea-based Hanchongryun (South Korean Federation of University Student Councils), which was a well-known target of the National Security Act in South Korea, as its southern headquarters. It also has an overseas branch based in Japan. It holds meetings roughly once a year, with the stated goal of ending the foreign domination and intervention in Korea and moving towards peaceful reunification of Korea.
See also
Korean unification
References
KCNA News, 14 December 1997, accessed 3 March 2006
KCNA News, 17 August 1998, accessed 3 March 2006
External links
Pomchonghakryon (South branch) web site (in Korean)
Politics of South Korea
Politics of North Korea
Youth organizations based in North Korea
1992 establishments in North Korea
Student organizations established in 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomchonghakryon |
"We've Had Enough" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the first single from their 2003 album Good Mourning. "We've Had Enough" was released to radio on May 20, 2003. It was the band's first single to chart in the United States, reaching #38 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It also charted in the United Kingdom, reaching #50 on the UK Singles Chart. "We've Had Enough" features backing vocals by Keith Morris, singer of the Circle Jerks and original singer of Black Flag.
The song's music video, directed by Tomorrow's Brightest Minds, depicts the band members as ghosts haunting a family in a house. As the husband unsuccessfully attempts to turn off the radio and television which are broadcasting the song, the wife discovers marked photographs of the band members in life, taken by an unseen person. After the husband witnesses the ghostly figure of a man dragging wrapped bodies through the living room, the two run to check on their son only to find him missing from his bedroom. Directed by the ghosts of the band members, the son leads his parents into the basement where he uses a pickaxe to excavate the skeletons of the murdered members from beneath the concrete floor.
Track listing
The data portion of the enhanced CD consists of the music video for "We've Had Enough".
Personnel
Band
Matt Skiba – guitar, lead vocals
Dan Andriano – bass, backing vocals
Derek Grant – drums
Additional musicians
Keith Morris and Jerry Finn – backing vocals
Production
Joe McGrath – recording engineer, producer
Jerry Finn – co-producer, mix engineer
Christopher Holmes, Jason Gossman, and Robert Reed – assistant engineers
Brian Gardner – mastering
Artwork
Keath Moon – artwork, layout, and design
Charts
References
Alkaline Trio songs
2003 songs
Songs written by Matt Skiba
Songs written by Dan Andriano
Songs written by Derek Grant (drummer)
Vagrant Records singles
2003 singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ve%20Had%20Enough |
Paul Jacobs (June 22, 1930 – September 25, 1983) was an American pianist. He was best known for his performances of twentieth-century music but also gained wide recognition for his work with early keyboards, performing frequently with Baroque ensembles.
Biography
Education
Paul Jacobs was born in New York City and attended PS 95 and DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and studied at the Juilliard School, where his teacher was Ernest Hutcheson. He became a soloist with Robert Craft's Chamber Arts Society and played with the Composer's Forum. He made his official New York debut in 1951. Reviewing that concert, Ross Parmenter described him in The New York Times as 'a young man of individual tastes with an experimental approach to the keyboard that he already has mastered.'
Europe in the 1950s
He moved to France after his graduation in 1951. There he began his long association with Pierre Boulez, playing frequently in his Domaine musical concerts, which introduced many of the key works of the early twentieth-century to post-war Paris. At a single concert in 1954, which must have lasted close to five hours and also included works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Varèse, Jacobs contributed chamber music by Berg, Webern and Bartók and gave the première of a new work by Michel Philippot. In a 1958 Domaine concert he played a work written for him by the 21-year-old Richard Rodney Bennett, his Cycle 2 for Paul Jacobs.
He acted as rehearsal pianist for the incidental music which Boulez wrote for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of the Oresteia in 1955. Jacobs later said that meeting Boulez had put an end to his own composing ambitions: 'I just gave it up. I wouldn't have dared show anything of mine to Boulez.'
During his time in Europe he appeared as soloist with the Orchestre National de Paris and the Cologne Orchestra and made many radio broadcasts. He played for the International Society for Contemporary Music in Italy and at the International Vacation Courses for new music at Darmstadt. For the 1957 course, Wolfgang Steinecke invited him to give the European première of Stockhausen's Klavierstück XI, a key work in the development of 'controlled chance' and this may have been at the composer's suggestion.
Like many musicians with a commitment to new music, his existence was frugal. For broadcasts he would be paid as little as $5, which went up to $25 when he played the premiere of the Henze Piano Concerto 'because of the special difficulty of the piece'. He lived in a hotel 'with a window facing a wall so that I had to go outside to see what the weather was. There was room only for a bed and a piano and a little alcohol burner to make stew on.' Around this time he became a close friend of the French painter , whom he described as an important influence.
New York 1960-83
Tired of trying to live on $500 a year, he returned to New York in 1960 with the assistance of Aaron Copland who arranged for some teaching work at Tanglewood. In November and December 1961 he gave a pair of Town Hall recitals, mixing Boulez and Copland, Stockhausen and Debussy. The New York Times described them as 'just about overwhelming ... make no mistake, Mr Jacobs is a virtuoso even in the traditional sense'. He made his recital debut as a harpsichordist at Carnegie Hall in February 1966 with a programme which included Bach, Haydn, and de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto.
During the 1960s and 1970s he continued to give solo recitals and played frequently for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He performed with the Fromm Fellowship Players at Tanglewood, Gunther Schuller's Contemporary Innovations and Arthur Weisberg's Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. He taught at Tanglewood and at the Mannes and Manhattan music schools in New York. For the last fifteen years of his life he was Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Jacobs was the New York Philharmonic's official pianist (from 1961) and harpsichordist (from 1974) until his death. He held the post during the tenure of three music directors. He can be heard as soloist in Bernstein's recording of Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies and both Boulez's and Mehta's recordings of Stravinsky's Petrushka. He is the pianist in the NYPO recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (conducted by Mehta) used by Woody Allen in the opening of his film Manhattan.
He had a long collaboration with the American composer Elliott Carter, recording most of Carter's solo piano music and ensemble works with keyboard, including the Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano, With Two Chamber Orchestras, the Cello Sonata and the Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord. He was one of the four American pianists who commissioned Carter's large-scale solo piano work Night Fantasies (1978–80), the others being Charles Rosen, Gilbert Kalish and Ursula Oppens (with whom Jacobs often performed two-piano works). It was Jacobs who organised the consortium after he and Oppens realised that Carter's previous reluctance to accept a commission for a new solo piano work from one pianist might have been born out of a desire not to offend others. He gave the New York premiere of the work in November 1981. All of Jacobs's Carter recordings were re-issued by Nonesuch in 2009 as part of a Carter retrospective set.
He also gave first performances of music by George Crumb, Berio, Henze, Messiaen and Sessions and commissioned Frederic Rzewski's Four North American Ballads in 1979. Aaron Copland called him 'more than a pianist. He brings to his piano a passion for the contemporary and a breadth of musical and general culture such as is rare.'
Death
He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first prominent artists to succumb to the disease. At his funeral on September 27, 1983, Elliott Carter delivered a eulogy, recalling his friendship and collaboration with Jacobs dating back to the mid-1950s. A memorial concert held at New York's Symphony Space on February 24, 1984 was attended by some of America's most eminent composers and interpreters. The music ranged from Josquin to two new compositions dedicated to Jacobs (by William Bolcom and David Schiff). Pierre Boulez wrote in the programme: 'twentieth-century music owes him thanks for all the talent he generously put at its disposal.'
Bolcom included a lament for Jacobs as the slow movement of his 1983 Violin Concerto and dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning 12 New Etudes to him. He had begun to compose them for Jacobs in 1977 and completed them after his death. Jacobs was also one of the friends and colleagues commemorated by John Corigliano in his Symphony No. 1.
Repertoire and style
Although Jacobs was associated with some of the most challenging music of the modernist tradition, his colleague Gilbert Kalish stressed that 'far from being an "intellectual performer", Paul was the most intuitive and spontaneous kind of musician. Few who heard him play will ever forget the splashing brilliance of his runs, the glitter of his attacks, his aristocratic sense of rhythm and phrasing ... I have never seen anyone play the piano with such feline grace and alertness.'
Of his commitment to contemporary music, Jacobs himself said this: 'I feel absolutely perplexed at times why performers don't feel at home with the music of their own century. The music that hit me first when I was an adolescent was the music of the beginning of the century, all the way up through Stravinsky, even in his later years. It just doesn't pose any stylistic problems, it's as easy to speak as if you were reading the newspaper, I just know what to do with it.'
Perhaps the composer with whom he is now most closely associated is Debussy, most of whose major piano works he recorded, including the Préludes, Etudes, Images and Estampes. His was one of the first recordings of Debussy's three 1894 Images, which had only recently been published. Writing of a reissue of one of these recordings in 2002, the Gramophone commented: 'Hearing Paul Jacobs ... is a sharp and salutary reminder of a novel‚ vigorous and superbly uncluttered view of Debussy ... one which stresses the composer’s revolutionary fervour. The power and focus of these performances remain astonishing with opalescent mists and hazes burnt away to reveal a corruscating wit and vitality. There is absolutely nothing here of the decadent and lethargic man of popular imagination. Throughout‚ Jacobs' commitment to every note of Debussy’s phantasmagoric visions is total. All his recordings should be reissued.'
Discography
Early recordings
Jacobs began his recording career in Europe in the 1950s. One of his first records (in 1953) was of Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Paris Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by René Leibowitz, coupled with Leibowitz's own realisation of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in E flat major of 1784, written when Beethoven was 14 and of which only the piano part survives. In Paris in 1956 he gave the first complete performance in a single concert of all of Schoenberg's piano music, going on to record it for the Véga label. He also acted as producer on recordings conducted by René Leibowitz, including the first LP recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. He was the harpsichord soloist in the 1968 Columbia recording of the Carter Double Concerto with Charles Rosen (piano) and the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Frederick Prausnitz, and played on the 1970 CRI recording of Morton Feldman's The Viola in My Life.
Nonesuch LPs
His reputation as a recording artist rests largely on a series of LPs he made for the American Nonesuch label, for most of which he wrote a wide-ranging accompanying essay. Beginning in 1968 and 1973 with chamber and concertante works by Carter, from 1976 onwards he concentrated on the solo and duet repertoire. Most have remained available over the years thanks to CD reissues by Nonesuch and, later, by Warner. The small American label Arbiter has also done much to keep Jacobs' recorded legacy before the public. In 2008 Arbiter released a two-CD set of the Stravinsky two piano / four-hand repertoire (with Ursula Oppens), coupled with some previously unpublished live recordings by Jacobs. They have also reissued his recordings of the piano music of Busoni, whom Jacobs considered 'the great underrated master of the twentieth century'.
The list of the Nonesuch LPs is in chronological order, with CD reissues under each entry.
Carter: Chamber Music
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord (with Harvey Sollberger, flute; Charles Kuskin, oboe; Fred Sherry, cello)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (with Joel Krosnick, cello)
Recorded August 1968, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York, under the supervision of the composer
Nonesuch LP H-71234; published 1969
Reissued on CD with the Harpsichord Concerto (next) on Elektra Nonesuch CD, 9 79183-2, published 1992
Also included in Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective, 4-CD set, Nonesuch 7559-79922-1, published 2009
Carter: Harpsichord Concerto
Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras
Jacobs, harpsichord; Gilbert Kalish, piano; The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; Arthur Weisberg, conducting
Recorded September 1973
Nonesuch LP H-71314; published 1975
Reissued with the two chamber sonatas from Nonesuch LP H-71234 (previous) on Elektra Nonesuch CD, 9 79183-2, published 1992
Also included in Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective, 4-CD set, Nonesuch 7559-79922-1, published 2009
Schoenberg: Complete Piano Music
Three piano pieces, Op. 11
Six little piano pieces, Op. 19
Piano pieces, Opp. 33a, 33b
Five piano pieces, Op. 23
Suite for piano, Op. 25
Nonesuch LP H-71309, published 1975
Reissued on Nonesuch CD, 9 71309-2; Warner Apex CD,
Debussy: Etudes
Etudes for piano, Book I
Etudes for piano, Book II
Recorded June 1975, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71322; published 1976
Reissued 1987 on Nonesuch CD, 9 79161-2, coupled with a live recording of Debussy's En blanc et noir (with Gilbert Kalish), Ojai Festival, California, 5 June 1982
Twentieth-century Piano Etudes
Bartók: Three Etudes, Op. 18
Busoni: Six Polyphonic Etudes
Messiaen: Quatre études de rythme
Stravinsky: Four Etudes, Op. 7
Recorded April 26–28, 1976, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71334; published 1976
Included on Arbiter 2-CD set, arbiter 124
Debussy: Preludes
Preludes for piano, Book I
Preludes for piano, Book II
Nonesuch LP HB-73031, published 1978
Reissued on Nonesuch CD, 9 73031-2; Warner Ultima CD 79474
Stravinsky: Music for Two Pianos and Piano, Four Hands
(with Ursula Oppens)
Concerto per due pianoforti soli
Sonata for two pianos
Zvietotchnoy valse (for piano, 4 hands)
Three easy pieces (for piano, 4 hands)
Five easy pieces (for piano, 4 hands)
Etude for pianola (performed on 2 pianos)
Recorded June 13–15, 1977, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71347; published 1978
Included on arbiter 155, a 2-CD set, which also includes previously unpublished concert recordings 1972-81
Ravel: Works for Piano, Four and Six Hands
Sites auriculaires (with Gilbert Kalish)
Frontispice (with Gilbert Kalish and Teresa Sterne)
coupled with Ravel vocal and chamber works played by other artists
Nonesuch LP H-71355; published 1978
Reissued 1987 on Nonesuch CD, 9 71355-2
Busoni: The Six Sonatinas for Piano
Sonatina (1910)
Sonatina seconda (1912)
Sonatina ad usum infantis (1915)
Sonatina in diem nativitatis MCMXVII (1917)
Sonatina brevis. In Signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni (1918)
Kammer-Fantasie über Carmen (Sonatina No. 6) (1920)
Recorded June 1978, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71359; published 1979
Included on Arbiter 2-CD set, arbiter 124
Debussy: Images and Estampes
Images (1894)Images Series I and IIEstampesRecorded April 1978, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71365; published 1979
Reissued on Nonesuch CD, 9 71365; Warner Apex CD,
Organ Chorale Preludes of Bach and Brahms as transcribed for Piano by Busoni
Bach: 10 Organ Chorale Preludes, transcribed Busoni:Komm, Gott, Schöpfer!Wachet auf, ruft uns die StimmeNun komm' der Heiden HeilandNun freut euch, lieben ChristenIch ruf' zu dir, HerrHerr Gott, nun schleuss' den Himmel auf!Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbtDurch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt (second version)In dir ist FreudeJesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandtBrahms: 6 Organ Chorale Preludes, transcribed Busoni:Herlich thut mich erfreuenSchmücke dich, o liebe SeeleEs ist ein' Ros' entsprungenHerzlich thut mich verlangenHerzlich thut mich verlangen (second version)O Welt, ich muss dich lassenRecorded June 1979, New York
Nonesuch LP H-71375; published 1980
Included on Arbiter 2-CD set, arbiter 124
Blues, Ballads and Rags
William Bolcom: Three Ghost RagsCopland: Four Piano BluesRzewski: Four North American Ballads.
Recorded June 23–24, 1980, at Columbia 30th St. Recording Studios, New York City
Nonesuch LP D-79006; published 1980
Reissued on Nonesuch CD, E2 79006
Virgil Thomson: A Portrait AlbumBugles and birds: a portrait of Pablo PicassoWith fife and drums: a portrait of Mina CurtisAn old song: a portrait of Carrie StettheimerTango lullaby: a portrait of Mlle. Alvarez de ToledoSolitude: a portrait of Lou HarrisonBarcarolle: portrait of Georges HugnetAlternations : a portrait of Maurice GrosserIn a bird cage: a portrait of Lise DeharmeCatalan waltz : a portrait of Ramon SenabreChromatic double harmonies: portrait of Sylvia MarloweAaron Copland: Persistently pastoralSonata no. 4: Guggenheim jeune (for harpsichord)
Coupled with works for violin and brass quintet
Recorded May and June 1981 at Columbia 30th St. Studio and RCA Studio A, New York
Nonesuch LP D-79024; published 1982
Stravinsky: Music for Piano, Four Hands
(with Ursula Oppens)PetrushkaThree Pieces for String QuartetRecorded December 7–8, 1981 at RCA Studio A in New York City
Nonesuch LP D-79038; published 1982
Included on arbiter 155
Carter: Solo Piano MusicNight FantasiesPiano SonataRecorded August 1982, RCA Studio A, New York
Nonesuch LP D-79047; published 1983Piano Sonata only, reissued 1990 on Elektra Nonesuch CD, 9 79248-2
Both works reissued 2009 on Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective, 4-CD set, Nonesuch 7559-79922-1
Three polyphonic masterpieces for two pianos
(with Ursula Oppens)
Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntisticaMozart arr Busoni: Fantasy for a Musical Clock K608Beethoven: Große Fuge, Op.134Recorded June 20–24, 1983 at American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Nonesuch LP D-79061; published 1984
Live recordings
Paul Jacobs in Recital
Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata, op. 53
Recorded November 22, 1972 at Brooklyn College
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, op. 10, no. 3
Recorded May 1, 1974 at Brooklyn College
Busoni: Preludio, Fuga e Fuga figurata
Recorded November 22, 1972 at Brooklyn College
Falla: Fantasia BaeticaRecording information not given
Ravel: Menuet sur HaydnRecorded November 22, 1972 at Brooklyn College
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentalesRecorded June 28, 1973 at Brooklyn College
Chambonnières: Chaconne in F major (on the Dowd harpsichord)
Recorded in 1978 at Jacobs' home in New York
Arbiter, 2-CDs, arbiter 130; published 2001
References
External links
The Paul Jacobs papers, containing his personal papers and scores, are housed in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Times review of the recital in November 1981, at which Jacobs gave the New York premiere of Carter's Night Fantasies''.
1930 births
1983 deaths
Nonesuch Records artists
American classical pianists
American male classical pianists
AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)
Musicians from New York City
Juilliard School alumni
American expatriates in France
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century classical musicians
Jewish classical pianists
20th-century American pianists
DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
Classical musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
Brooklyn College faculty
American gay musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Jacobs%20%28pianist%29 |
Superwoman is the second studio album by Australian recording artist Paulini, released through Sony BMG Australia on 5 August 2006. It is the follow-up to her 2004 debut album, One Determined Heart. Paulini recorded Superwoman in Sydney, London, Los Angeles and Barcelona, and worked with several songwriters and producers, including Matthew Gerrard, Fingaz, Ray Hedges, Colin Emmanuel, Steve Kipner and Jarrad Rogers, among others. The album failed to achieve the commercial success of its predecessor, debuting at number 72 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Its first two singles, "Rough Day" and "So Over You" both performed moderately on the ARIA Singles Chart.
Background and development
Superwoman was recorded in Sydney, London, Los Angeles and Barcelona. On 28 April 2005, Sony BMG Australia announced via their official website that Paulini had finished recording her second studio album and that it would include original material, unlike her debut album One Determined Heart (2004), which was predominantly covers of classic pop songs. On 3 June 2005, Sony BMG announced that Paulini was in the process of finalising the album's track listing and that its lead single would be released to radio stations in August 2005. Paulini posted a preview of three of the album's songs, "Rough Day", "So Over You" and "I Believe", via her official website on 10 August 2005. It was later confirmed that "Rough Day" would be released as the lead single in October 2005, followed by the album's release in February 2006. However, in November 2005, Sony BMG announced that the single was pushed back for a January 2006 release.
On 12 January 2006, Sony BMG announced that Superwoman received another pushback to 12 March 2006. During this time, rumours began to circulate that Paulini was being dropped from the label. However, the album was finally released on 5 August 2006. In a statement posted to her official website, Paulini said:
I absolutely treasure this album. I've had more control, some of my own songs are on it, and I've sung it exactly the way I wanted to sing it. I hope that people will be happy with it. I've tried my best. But for me, the most important thing is that people know that I can sing and I'm not faking everything. It's real and it's genuine.
Singles
"Rough Day" was sent to Australian radio stations on 5 December 2005, and released as a CD single on 22 January 2006. The song debuted and peaked on the ARIA Singles Chart at number 26. "Rough Day" had a better impact on the ARIA Dance Chart, where it peaked at number three. "So Over You" was released physically and digitally on 13 May 2006, as the second single from the album. The song peaked at number 49 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The third single "I Believe" had a limited radio release in August 2006. An accompanying music video for the song was still released.
Reception
Superwoman earned Paulini two nominations at the 2007 Australia and New Zealand Urban Music Awards for Best Female Artist and Best R&B Album. The album debuted on the ARIA Albums Chart at number 72 on 14 August 2006. Superwoman performed better on the ARIA Urban Albums Chart, where it debuted at number nine.
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
2006 albums
Paulini albums
Sony Music Australia albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superwoman%20%28Paulini%20album%29 |
Poulton-le-Sands is one of three small villages that combined to create Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the other two being Torrisholme and Bare. A local board of health was established in 1852, which, taking its name from Morecambe Bay, became the borough of Morecambe in 1902.
Poulton is known locally for its many murals which depict the origin of Poulton as a fishing village. Artist Patricia Haskey-Knowles completed several of these in the Morecambe Bay area.
Poulton was first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Poltune. It later became Poulton and remained this way for a number of centuries. The name 'Poulton' is likely a combination of Old English pull or pōl, meaning 'pool' and tūn meaning 'farmstead'. It was towards the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century that the Le-Sands was added. This was to distinguish it from another Poulton located near Blackpool which is now Poulton-le-Fylde.
References
Villages in Lancashire
Geography of the City of Lancaster
Populated coastal places in Lancashire
Morecambe
Morecambe Bay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulton-le-Sands |
Tarkyn Lockyer (born 30 October 1979) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Upon his retirement at the end of the 2010 season, he served as the head coach of the Collingwood VFL Football Club. He then served as the midfield development coach at Collingwood. As of 2021, he served as the AFL national talent head coach as well as being a member of the 2021 Women's Under-19 All-Australian team selection committee.
Early life
Born in Albany, Western Australia, Lockyer attended Albany Senior High School and played for local club North Albany Football Club as a teenager before leaving to go to Perth to further his football career.
Lockyer played senior football with East Fremantle in the WAFL and was picked up by Collingwood as a third-round pick (Pick #39) of the 1997 AFL Rookie draft.
AFL playing career
Collingwood rookie listed Lockyer in 1998 and he made his debut in a Magpies win against Fremantle early in 1999.
In 2000, Lockyer was the runner-up in the Copeland Trophy to Nathan Buckley. He averaged 17 disposals in 21 games. He played even better in 2001, missing two games, but having over 370 disposals at over 18 disposals per game, and also kicked 19 goals for the year off the half-back line. In 2002 he was appointed vice-captain. He played all 25 games for the season, including the Grand Final and had just under 450 disposals for the year.
The Magpies made the Grand Final again in 2003, but Lockyer missed most of the season, when he suffered an Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in Round 3 and had to be stretchered off the ground. The injury required knee reconstruction surgery which ended his season. In the 2005 season he had 430 disposals in 22 matches, playing in every game.
He played every game in 2006.
2007
Lockyer began 2007 with a goal against the North Melbourne Kangaroos. Two weeks later, he had 32 possessions in a game against the Richmond Tigers.
The opposition coach, Chris Connolly, claimed Lockyer would be the first player selected if State of Origin football was to be played this year.
2009
Lockyer played his 200th AFL game in his home state against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco Oval during Round 9 of the 2009 season.
Collingwood won the game by 22 points, with Lockyer having 25 possessions and kicking 2 goals.
2010
In and out of the side for the 2010 season, including being named as an emergency for both the Grand Final and replay, he played 11 games before retiring at the end of the season. He was named as the Coach of the VFL Side for the 2011 season.
References
External links
Tarkyn Lockyer at the Collingwood Football Club website
1979 births
Collingwood Football Club players
Living people
East Fremantle Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
People from Albany, Western Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkyn%20Lockyer |
P2000 may stand for:
P-2000 (album), a 2000 EP by black metal band Enthroned
P2000 (network), a nationwide pager-network used by emergency services in the Netherlands
Heckler & Koch P2000, a semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Heckler & Koch
Philips P2000, a home computer that used to be made by Philips
Archer-class patrol vessel, a class of Royal Navy patrol boat also known as the P2000 class
Partnership 2000, a program connecting some 550 Jewish communities in the Diaspora with 45 Israel Partnership areas
2000 United States presidential election
Preservation 2000, a land conservation program in Florida that preceded Florida Forever
Siemens P2000, a light rail vehicle for the Los Angeles Metro Rail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2000 |
Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Dari-Persian: ) is an ethnic Hazara singer, musician and poet.
Early life
Dawood Sarkhosh was born on 26 April 1971 in Urozgan (now Daykundi), Afghanistan. Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After the death of his brother Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan.
Career
Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the harmonium under the Pakistani composer Arbab Ali Khan.
Personal life
Dawood Sarkhosh is married to Kubra Nekzad and has three children: Saboor, Zulfiqar and Yasir. They now live in Vienna, Austria.
Discography
1998: Sarzamin-e-Man (My Homeland, ).
2000: Parijo (Fairy, ).
2004: Sapid-o-Siah (Black and White, ).
2005: Khana-e-Gilli (Mud House, ).
2007: Oslo Concert
2008: Maryam (Maryam a girl's name, ).
2010: Bazi (Game/play, ).
2016: Jang-o-jonoon (War and madness, war and insanity, ) released by Sarkhosh Music inc Canada.
2016: concert in the capital cities of Australia.
December 2017 concert in the capital cities of Canada
2019: concert in Finland, Austria, Sweden.
2019: Man o To, (Me and You, ).
2019: concert in the capital cities of Australia and New Zealand.
See also
Sarwar Sarkhosh
List of Hazara people
References
External links
Dawood Sarkhosh's official website
1971 births
Living people
Hazara singers
Dombra players
People from Quetta
Afghan male singers
Persian-language singers
People from Daykundi Province
20th-century Afghan male singers
Austrian people of Hazara descent
Afghan expatriate musicians in Pakistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawood%20Sarkhosh |
Orang is a Malay and Indonesian word meaning "people" or "man". It may refer to:
Places
Orang County, in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea
Orang National Park, in Assam, India
Orang, Nepal, a village development committee
Other uses
.O.rang, a British band
Orang station, a railway station in North Korea
See also
Orangutan, three species of great apes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang |
The Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) is statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of the Government of Singapore and is an independent investigation authority, responsible for the investigation of air, marine and land transport accidents and incidents in Singapore. The head office is in Passenger Terminal 2, Changi Airport, Changi, Singapore. It was formed on 1 August 2016 as a restructuring of the Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of Singapore.
History
The AAIB was set up in 2002 after the SilkAir Flight 185 and Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes. The bureau set up a facility in 2007 to analyze data from flight data recorders (informally known as "black boxes") installed on commercial aircraft.
On 1 August 2016, the AAIB was restructured and subsumed into an entity within TSIB.
Responsibilities
The TSIB consists of the following entities:
Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)
Marine Safety Investigation Branch (MSIB)
The AAIB is responsible for the investigation of air accidents and serious incidents in Singapore involving both local and foreign commercial aircraft. The AAIB also participates in overseas investigations of accidents and serious incidents involving Singapore aircraft or aircraft operated by a Singapore air operator. The AAIB conducts investigations in accordance to the Singapore Air Navigation (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents Order 2003) and Annex 13 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation which governs the member states of the International Civil Aviation Organization that conducts these investigations.
The MSIB is responsible for the investigation of very serious marine casualties within Singapore territorial waters, as well as accidents involving Singapore-registered ships. The MSIB carries out investigations in accordance with the Code of International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Incident of the International Maritime Organization. It took over the role of conducting independent safety investigations from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
For an investigated accident or incident, the TSIB will produce an investigation report. The investigative process involves the collection and analysis of data, from which causes and contributing factors are determined. Whenever safety issues are identified, the TSIB may make safety recommendations.
References
External links
Aviation in Singapore
2002 establishments in Singapore
Government agencies established in 2002
Singapore
Transport organisations based in Singapore | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Safety%20Investigation%20Bureau |
The term Xdrive may refer to:
BMW xDrive, an all-wheel-drive system that powers the BMW X1, X3, X5 and the X6, also available in certain 2 series, 3 Series, 4 series, 5 Series, 6 series, 7 series and MINI models.
Xdrive, was a service offered by AOL that allowed users to back up their files over the Internet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdrive |
"Rough Day" is a song by Australian recording artist Paulini, taken from her second studio album, Superwoman (2006). It was written by Bridget Benenate, Matthew Gerrard and Franne Golde, while the production was handled by Audius Mtawarira. "Rough Day" was released physically on 22 January 2006, as the lead single from the album. The song peaked at number 26 on the ARIA Singles Chart and number three on the ARIA Dance Chart. The retro style-themed music video was directed by Jonathan and Josh Baker.
Background and reception
"Rough Day" was written by Bridget Benenate, Matthew Gerrard and Franne Golde, while the production was handled by Audius Mtawarira. The song was recorded in Los Angeles, California. It was sent to Australian radio stations on 5 December 2005, and released as a CD single on 22 January 2006. A writer for Destra Media described "Rough Day" as "a carefree and contagious party starter" that showcases "the sheer class of Paulini's vocal performance". The song debuted and peaked on the ARIA Singles Chart at number 26 on 23 January 2006. "Rough Day" had a better impact on the ARIA Dance Chart, where it peaked at number three.
Music video
The accompanying music video for "Rough Day" was directed by twin brothers Jonathan and Josh Baker. The video features Paulini in the kitchen as she gets ready for work, in a hairdressing salon with her friends, at a bus stop and then on the dancefloor wearing a leopard print dress. A writer for Destra Media described the video as "an absolutely stellar and very groovy retro styled".
Track listing
CD single
"Rough Day" – 3:29
"Rough Day (Disco D Remix)" – 3:56
"Rough Day" (Blue Planet Reality club Mix) – 6:27
"Last Love" – 3:04
Charts
References
2006 singles
Paulini songs
Rhythm and blues songs
Songs written by Bridget Benenate
Songs written by Matthew Gerrard
Songs written by Franne Golde
2006 songs
Sony Music Australia singles
Song recordings produced by Audius Mtawarira | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough%20Day |
Fixed surnames were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards. Until then, the Welsh had a patronymic naming system.
History
In 1292, 48 per cent of Welsh names were patronymics and, in some parishes, over 70 per cent. Other names were derived from nicknames, a few non-hereditary personal names and, rarely, occupational names.
Patronymic names changed from generation to generation, with a person's baptismal name being linked by ap, ab (son of) or ferch (daughter of) to the father's baptismal name. For example, Evan, son of Thomas, would be known as Evan (ap) Thomas; Evan's son, John, would be John (ab) Evan; and John's son Rees would be Rees (ap) John.
Patronymics could be extended with names of grandfathers and earlier ancestors, to perhaps the seventh generation. Names such as Llewelyn ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Meredydd were not uncommon. Those extended patronymics were essentially a genealogical history of the male line. The Encyclopaedia of Wales surmises that the system may have been Welsh law, in which it was essential for people to know how people were descended from an ancestor. These laws were decaying by the later Middle Ages, and the patronymic system was gradually replaced by fixed surnames, although the use of patronymic names continued up until the early 19th century in some rural areas.
In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became hereditary amongst the Welsh gentry, and the custom spread slowly amongst commoners. Areas where England's influence was strong had abandoned patronymics earlier, as did town families and the wealthy.
New surnames retained the ap in several cases, mainly in reduced form at the start of the surname, as in Upjohn (from ap John), Powell (from ap Hywel), Price (from ap Rhys), Pritchard (from ap Richard), and Bowen (from ab Owen). Alternatively, the ap was simply dropped entirely.
The most common surnames in modern Wales result from adding an s to the end of the name, as in Jones, Roberts and Edwards. Patronymic surnames with the short -s form are recorded in various parts of England dating back to the Middle Ages. As most Welsh surnames are derived from patronymics and often based on a small set of first names, Welsh communities have families bearing the same surnames who are not related. It cannot be assumed that two people named Jones, even in the same village, must have inherited the surname from a common ancestor.
Present day
The stock of Welsh surnames is small. This is partly attributable to the reduction in the variety of baptismal names after the Protestant Reformation. Typical Welsh surnames – Evans, Jones, Williams, Davies, Thomas – were found in the top ten surnames recorded in England and Wales in 2000.
An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people in Wales, nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States. A total of 16.3 million people in the countries studied had a name of Welsh origin.
It is not uncommon for five or more of the starting XV for the Wales national rugby union team to be named Jones. For instance, all of the following played in the same period and are not immediately related to any of the others: Adam Jones, Dafydd Jones, Ryan Jones, Stephen Jones, Mark Jones, Adam M. Jones, Alun Wyn Jones, and Duncan Jones.
The prevalence of names such as Jones, Williams and Thomas brought a need for further distinction and in the 19th century a trend started for double surnames, created by prefixing the name of a house, parish or the mother's surname, as in "Cynddylan Jones". A hyphen was sometimes later introduced, for example "Griffith-Jones".
Revival of patronymics
Although the vast majority of Welsh surnames are family names, there has been a limited revival of patronymics in modern Wales, especially among Welsh speakers. Alternatively, given surnames are used, as in the case of the folk singer and political figure Dafydd Iwan (Dafydd Iwan Jones), opera singer Bryn Terfel (Bryn Terfel Jones), classical singer Shân Cothi, and the late actress Myfanwy Talog.
See also
Celtic onomastics
Irish name
Patronymic#Welsh and Cornish
Scottish Gaelic personal naming system
Welsh toponymy
References
External links
The meaning behind Welsh names
Welsh patronymic naming system
Late Sixteenth Century Welsh Names
Article on the relevance of surnames in genealogy (PDF File)
Welsh-Border Surnames from 'ab Edmond'
Article by genealogist Cat Whiteaway on tracing your Welsh ancestors
Welsh culture
History of Wales
Surname | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20surnames |
Tetra-amido macrocyclic ligands (TAMLs) constitute a class of macrocyclic ligands. When complexed to metals, TAMLs are proposed as environmentally friendly catalysts. Although never commercialized, iron-TAML complexes catalyze the degradation of pesticides, effluent streams from paper mills, dibenzothiophenes from diesel fuels, and anthrax spores.
References
Macrocycles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra-amido%20macrocyclic%20ligand |
Lani in the Hawaiian language means "heaven", and in some cases, "sky." The word is derived from Proto-Polynesian *raŋi.
Lani is a relatively common name in the Hawaiian language. Last Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, had a name including the term lani.
External links
Wiktionary entry for "Lani": Lani
Hawaiian words and phrases
Native Hawaiian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani%20%28heaven%29 |
Guy de Malsec (Gui de Maillesec; also written Malésec or Malesset; Lat. Guido de Malesicco; It. Guidone) (d. 8 March 1412 at Paris) was a French bishop and cardinal. He was born at the family's fief at Malsec (Maillesec), in the diocese of Tulle. He had two sisters, Berauda and Agnes, who both became nuns at the Monastery of Pruliano (Pruilly) in the diocese of Carcassonne, and two nieces Heliota and Florence, who became nuns at the Monastery of S. Prassede in Avignon. He was a nephew of Pope Gregory XI (Pierre Roger de Beaufort), or perhaps a more distant relative. He was also a nephew of Pope Innocent VI (Étienne Aubert). Guy was baptized in the church of S. Privatus, some 30 km southeast of Tulle. He played a part in the election of Benedict XIII of the Avignon Obedience in 1394, in his status as second most senior cardinal. He played an even more prominent role in Benedict's repudiation and deposition. Guy de Malsec was sometimes referred to as the 'Cardinal of Poitiers' (Pictavensis) or the 'Cardinal of Palestrina' (Penestrinus).
Biography
Early career
He was Doctor of Canon Law (Toulouse) and Archdeacon of Corbaria in the Church of Narbonne, as well as Chaplain of Pope Urban V.
On 27 May 1370 Guy de Malsec was appointed Bishop of Lodève by Gregory XI. He was then promoted Bishop of Poitiers, approved by Pope Gregory XI on 9 April 1371.
Cardinal
In 1375, in the Consistory of 20 December 1375, he was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Gregory XI, and appointed Cardinal Priest of the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome. He accompanied Gregory XI on his return to Rome in 1376 and was present at the Pope's death in the Vatican on 27 March 1378.
Cardinal Guy was appointed Canon and Prebend of Stillington in the Church of York on 24 May 1376; he then became Archdeacon of the West Riding in the Church of York in the same year; he was "deprived" by Urban VI of the Roman Obedience, probably in 1379 or 1380. On 15 June 1376 Pope Gregory appointed Cardinal Guy to be a Canon in the Cathedral of Krakow. On 8 January 1377 he was granted the Priory of Verasenus in the diocese of Vienne, a dependency of the monastery of La Chaise-Dieu. He was Archdeacon of Condroz in the Church of Liège (from 1377). These were, to be sure, income-producing benefices rather than residential appointments; the custom was for a papal dispensation for non-residence to be issued every three years.
Schism
He participated in the riotous election of April 1378, from which came Urban VI (Archbishop Bartolommeo Prignano), who was, however, repudiated by all the cardinals who had elected him under conditions of force and fear (metus et impressio). According to the narration of events sanctioned by Prignano himself, the "Casus Urbani VI", the Limousin cardinals met immediately after the death of Pope Gregory XI, and decided that their candidate would be Guy de Malsec. When opposition to any Limousin papal relative developed, however, they switched their support to Pierre de Vergne. Cardinal de Luna testified that a few days before the April Conclave began, Pierre de Verge had a majority of the electors on his side. But the riotous Roman crowds, led by their Bandarenses, changed the whole situation. At a new Conclave, held in safety in Fondi on 20 September 1378, the same cardinals (minus one, who had died, and with the addition of Cardinal Jean de la Grange, who had arrived in Rome in the meantime) elected Cardinal Robert of Geneva, who took the name Pope Clement VII. On 18 December 1378 Clement assigned Cardinal Guy as Apostolic Nuncio to travel to Flanders, Brabant, Scotland, England and the dioceses of Liège, Utrecht, Cambrai and Tournai, to secure adherence to his papacy; Cardinal Guy departed on 31 December, and is known to have been in Paris at Easter. On 10 February 1380 the Cardinal received additional powers with respect to England, Scotland and elsewhere; and on 6 March 1381 these were extended to the diocese of Reims. He never received his safe-conduct for the realms of King Richard II, however, and thus did not travel to the British Isles. England, however, which was at war with France, had chosen not to support a French pope, and Flanders, which was allied with England, followed suit. Scotland, which hated the English and was a traditional ally of the French, supported the Avignon Obedience.
He was then named Bishop of Palestrina in 1384 by Pope Clement VII, a position he held until his death in 1412. Given the schism of the time (1378-1416), Cardinal Guy's appointment in the Avignon Obedience was contested by Francesco Moricotti Prignani, Archbishop of Pisa, a cardinal of Urban VI (Bartolommeo Prignano) in the Roman Obedience, from 1380 to 1394.
On 18 January 1394, Cardinal Guy de Malesec and Cardinal Guillaume d'Aigrefeuille were empowered by a Bull issued by Pope Clement VII to proceed to the reform of the College of Sainte-Catherine (Pampilonense) at the University of Toulouse, to the exclusion of Hugues, Bishop of Agde, the Provisor of the College. The two cardinals issued a Revised set of Statutes on 23 July.
After the election of Cardinal Pedro de Luna as Pope Benedict XIII on 28 September 1394, it was the privilege of Cardinal Guy de Malsec, as Bishop of Palestrina, to ordain the new pope a priest. This took place on Saturday 3 October. On Sunday 11 October, he was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Jean de Neufchatel, Bishop of Ostia, and then crowned pope by the Cardinal Deacon, Hugues de Saint-Martial. The new Pope granted each of the cardinals a coronation/election gift of 4,000 gold florins. When Guy de Malsec wrote his will in 1407 the money had not yet been paid. Benedict also granted Cardinal de Malsec certain benefices, the Archdiaconate of Lantario in the Church of Toulouse, the Priorate of Montalto in the diocese of Auch, and the Provostship of Lesinhanno (Lesignan) in the diocese of Narbonne.
Repudiation, reconciliation, repudiation
In 1398, at a meeting of the Church of Gaul, Cardinal Guy renounced his obedience to Benedict XIII, whose stubbornness was obstructing plans for an end of the Schism and a reunion of the Church. Cardinal Guy was sent to Paris in January 1399, along with Cardinal Pierre de Thury and Cardinal Amedeo di Saluzzo, to explain the decisions of the Church Council and to seek the assent of King Charles VI to the withdrawal of obedience. The Cardinals were in Paris until the end of June, when the appearance of the plague caused the entire Royal Court to take to the highway. Other meetings, Councils, and negotiations continued for several years, until finally, on 28 May 1403, a reconciliation and return of France to the Obedience of Benedict XIII was announced. A major part had been played by Cardinal de Malsec, who, along with Cardinal de Saluzzo, had persuaded an assembly of the French clergy on 15 May, and had spoken personally in the presence of the King and the Duke d' Orleans on 25 May in favor of the reconciliation.
Cardinal Guy de Malsec was Dean of the College of Cardinals, a matter of seniority, in the Obedience of Avignon from August 1405 until his death.
Benedict XIII, however, continued to be under intense pressure to end the schism. He repeatedly promised to do everything he could to achieve that goal, and then found obstacle after obstacle to its realization. In May 1408 he sent an embassy to Italy to negotiate with Pope Gregory XII (Angelo Corraro). The embassy was led by four cardinals, Guy de Malsec (Bishop of Palestrina), Pierre de Thury, Pierre Blau (who died on 12 December 1409), and Antoine de Chalant In accordance with the written Instructions given them, the Cardinals were to get in touch with the cardinals of Gregory XII and sound them out as to the prospects for a General Council of the Church.
At Livorno the embassy happened to meet some of the cardinals of Gregory XII who had fled from his Court, which was living in exile in Lucca at the time. Those cardinals had fled on 11 and 12 May, fearing arrest and worse at the hands of that Pope's violent nephew, Paolo Corraro. Paolo had already tried unsuccessfully to seize Jean Gilles, the Cardinal of Liège (who died on 1 July 1408). The Gregorian cardinals were Francesco Uguccione (the Cardinal of Bordeaux), Giordano Orsini, Niccolò Brancaccio and Angelo de Sommariva. On 29 June 1408 the cardinals of both Observances published a document on which they had reached agreement, pledging themselves to summon a General Council of the entire Church, and that if both papal claimants did not give peace to the Church by mutual cessation (resignation), the General Council would take action. They agreed that they would not maintain their adherence to either claimant. They agreed that they would pay no attention to the diminution in the status of any or all of them made by either claimant after 1 May 1408. They also agreed that if one of the claimants died, his cardinals would not proceed to an election, until consultation with the Church had been undertaken concerning the surviving claimant, or the claimant had resigned. The manifesto was signed by the thirteen cardinals who were present, led by Cardinal Guy de Malsec, and later subscribed to by six other cardinals. Cardinal Jean Gilles was dying and did not sign.
The opening solemnities of the Council of Pisa took place in the Cathedral on 25 March 1409. Cardinal Guy de Malsec, Bishop of Palestrina, was the senior cardinal in attendance. On 10 May the Cardinals took a preliminary vote on the deposition of the two popes, which was completely in favor, except for Cardinals Brancacci and Malsec, who asked for time for further consideration. At the fifteenth session, which took place on 5 June 1409, the two papal claimants, Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna) and Gregory XII (Angelo Corraro), were declared to be notorious schismatics, heretics and perjurers, and were anathematized.
Conclave of 1409
With the ground cleared, the cardinals then proceeded to a papal election. The Conclave opened in the Episcopal Palace in Pisa on 15 June, a sort of Novendiales (the traditional nine days of mourning for a dead pope) being observed. Twenty three cardinals entered Conclave on the opening day, and they were joined the next day by Cardinal Antonio Calvi. Cardinal Guy de Malsec presided. There were ten cardinals of the Avignon Obedience and fourteen others. Two days before the Conclave began the cardinals had entered into an agreement that it would take at least a two-thirds vote of each of the two Obediences for a valid election, thereby ensuring that both Obediences would accept the result as valid. There was a major problem. The French faction had enough votes that they could easily elect a French pope. Everyone knew that. Everyone also knew that a French pope would probably be rejected both by the followers of Gregory XII and those of Benedict XIII, and the Schism would continue. The French, therefore, had to find a candidate who would be agreeable to their faction and who would be embraced by the others as well. That person could not be a Frenchman. But the French would never accept a pope who was associated with one of their enemies in Italy, especially Ladislaus of Naples. Eventually, on 26 June 1409, the Cardinals agreed unanimously on a Franciscan from Crete who had been raised in Venice, Pietro Filargi, O.Min., who took the throne name Alexander V. Pope Alexander survived his election a little over ten months, dying at Bologna on his way back to Rome on the night of 3-4 May 1410.
Later years
He wrote his Last Will and Testament at Avignon on 12 September 1407, adding a Codicil on 8 March 1411 Old Style (i.e. 1412), "laying on my sickbed, and, although weak with old age and unsound of body, healthy in mind, speaking clearly, composed in spirit, constant in faith, by no means doubting in hope, contrite and humble of heart...." His residual legatee was Guillaume de Malsec, the second son of Chevalier Reynaud de Rossignac.
He was sent to France in 1410 by John XXIII, the successor of Alexander V.
On the death of Hugh de Montruc, Bishop of Agde (dioecesis Agathensis), a suffragan of Narbonne, on 27 July 1408, Cardinal Guy was appointed Administrator of the diocese, until a new bishop was named on 8 June 1411. In 1411, the University of Paris was so moved by the age and limited income of the Cardinal that they sent a letter to Pope John XXIII, having heard that he was about to assign the income of the diocese of Agde to someone else, begging him not to do so.
Death
Cardinal Guy de Malsec died in Paris in the spring of 1412, either on 8 March (actually the date of the signing of the Codicil to his Will) or on 4 April (actually the date on which the Apostolic Camera first records his passing). In fact his Will was registered with the Parliament of Paris, in accordance with his Codicil, on 12 March, and in the document he is spoken of as 'deceased' ().
He was buried in the now demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris.
References
Bibliography
Nouvelle edition by G. Mollat II (Paris 1927).
. (in Latin)
External links
Salvador Miranda, Senior Librarian Emeritus, Florida International University, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Catholic Church: Malsec, Guy de
1412 deaths
Bishops of Agde
Bishops of Poitiers
15th-century French cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Palestrina
Year of birth missing
Deans of the College of Cardinals
Cardinal-nephews
Avignon Papacy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui%20de%20Maillesec |
Mark 23 or Mk.XXIII or variation, may refer to:
U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy designation Mark 23 may refer to:
Heckler & Koch Mark 23, a .45 ACP-caliber handgun
Mark 23 machine gun, a configuration of the Stoner 63 weapons system used by US Navy SEALs.
Mark 23 Pistol and Suppressor Kit, a Vietnam War-era kit issued to US Navy SEALs, containing a Mark 22 pistol and a Mark 3 noise suppressor.
Mark 23 torpedo, a submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo used in World War II
UK Royal Navy
Mark 23 Grog, a British wire-guided 21-inch torpedo
BL 6-inch Mk XXIII naval gun, a British WWII naval artillery gun
QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XXIII, a British Cold-War submarine deck gun
Other uses
Bolo Mk XXIII, a fictional super-tank
See also
Mark 23 Mod 0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%2023 |
Paseo de San Antonio station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line and the Green Line of the VTA light rail system. The station platforms run along the Downtown San Jose transit mall, with the northbound platform located alongside 1st Street and the southbound platform located alongside 2nd Street. The two platforms are connected by a pedestrian plaza, the Paseo de San Antonio, after which the station is named.
The station is located close to the campus of San Jose State University.
History
Paseo de San Antonio station was built as part of the second phase of what was then called the Guadalupe Line. The first phase opened on December 11, 1987, while the second phase opened about six months later on June 17, 1988, largely due to the complexity of building the transit mall in Downtown San Jose.
Paseo de San Antonio was renovated in 2006 to permit level boarding at all doors.
Service
Location
The station is located in Downtown San Jose, California on 1st and 2nd Streets just north of East San Carlos Street. The northbound platform is on 1st Street; the southbound platform is on 2nd Street.
Station layout
This station, like all three of the San Jose transit mall stations, operates over a pair of one-way couplet streets. The northbound platform is located alongside 1st Street and the southbound platform is located alongside 2nd Street. on each street, the left lane is a general-purpose lane, the right lane is a bus-only lane, and light rail trains operate on a wide sidewalk on the right side of the road. Buses and light rail trains share a large common platform between the bus lane and the light rail tracks. In 2019, safety railings were installed to separate trains and pedestrians on the wide sidewalks.
Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
Alfred E. Alquist State Building – 1 block away – 100 Paseo de San Antonio
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library – 2-3 blocks away – 150 E San Fernando St
Fairmont San Jose Hotel – 1-2 blocks away – 170 S Market St
Hammer Theatre – 1-2 blocks away – 101 Paseo de San Antonio
Robert F. Peckham United States Courthouse and Federal Building – less 1 block away – 280 N First St
San Jose Chamber of Commerce – 1 block away – 310 S First St
San Jose Museum of Art – 2-3 blocks away – 110 S Market St
San Jose State University – 2-3 blocks away – 1 Washington Square
Plaza de Cesar Chavez – 1-2 blocks away – Park Av & Market St
References
External links
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Railway stations in San Jose, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
1987 establishments in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paseo%20de%20San%20Antonio%20station |
Taniwharau may refer to:
Taniwha
Taniwharau Rugby League Club, rugby league club in Huntly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taniwharau |
Chad Morrison (born 29 March 1978) was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
Drafted to the West Coast Eagles as a compensatory pick in the 1995 Pre-Season Draft, Morrison made his debut as an eighteen-year-old in Round 1 against Fremantle in 1996, after staying in Melbourne to finish year 12 studies in 1995. Dropped twice after two games, he continued to force his way back into the side and with great late form, the half-back/half-forward flanker picked up an AFL Rising Star nomination. In 1997 he showed what he was capable of, having a solid and relatively consistent year, coming third in the Club Champion Award, including a good finals series. He continued to find the ball consistently throughout his career, playing mostly as a sweeper who occasionally ran forward and kicked a goal, including a bag of four goals against the Western Bulldogs in 1998.
In 2000 he was just outstanding, finding the ball at half-back as a ball magnet. He played all 22 games, and on 14 occasions he had 20 or more disposals, including 30 or more on three occasions, preferably late in the season. He averaged 23 disposals for the season, and once again came 3rd in the best and fairest. In 2001 he played most of the first half before injuring his knee, requiring a knee-reconstruction, and once again in 2002 he did the same thing, requiring a second reconstruction, ruling him out for the whole season, and almost 20 months of league footy, before he regained his skill, to yet again be injured, and only play 10 games, and his future in doubt. His next season saw him play 18 games, but he was not as dominant, as expected. He did however have a great final month and a half finding the ball. A Victorian representative earlier in his career, he was traded to Collingwood in a draft pick deal.
At the Pies he managed 21 games in two seasons, with injury curtailing any opportunity of Morrison finding the same form that he had at the Eagles earlier in his career.
Retirement
Morrison retired after playing only 6 matches in 2006, but cited knee and back problems as the reason for his retirement.
Chad Morrison returned to his adopted home Perth in 2007 to play for the Swan Districts in the WAFL and to coach the club's colts team. Winning a premiership as coach in 2007 with the likes of Nic Naitanui , Michael Walters and Jeff Garlett in the side. In 2008 and 2009 Morrison coached the East Fremantle Colts, but was starved of success at the Sharks with the likes of young up and coming players like David Swallow being unavailable for colts and playing league for a majority of the season. He finished up at the end of this season citing business opportunities as a major reason.
Since 2010 Morrison has run a personal training business in Perth area called Chad Morrison Fitness and a women's football academy. He has also returned to the West Coast Eagles where he coordinates the regional academies and women's football.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
West Coast Eagles players
Collingwood Football Club players
Swan Districts Football Club players
Victorian State of Origin players
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Dandenong Stingrays players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Morrison |
PN Review is a periodic publication in the United Kingdom, on the subject of poetry. Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section. It is indexed by the Modern Language Association.
In 1973, PN Review launched as a twice-yearly hardback under the title Poetry Nation, founded by Michael Schmidt and Professor Brian Cox at the Victoria University of Manchester. It began being published quarterly in 1976 as an A4 paperback. At this time, the title changed to PN Review, and Cox and Schmidt were joined on the editorial board by Professor Donald Davie and C. H. Sisson. Brian Cox retired, followed some years later by Donald Davie and C.H. Sisson. Since 1981, it has been published six times per year. Two hundred and twenty-five issues of the magazine appeared as of the September–October 2015 number.
External links
PN Review website
1973 establishments in the United Kingdom
Biannual magazines published in the United Kingdom
Literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1973
Magazines published in Manchester
Poetry magazines published in the United Kingdom
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20N.%20Review |
Krunoslav Stjepan Draganović (30 October 1903 – 5 July 1983) was a Bosnian Croat Catholic priest associated with the ratlines which aided the escape of Ustaše war criminals from Europe after World War II while he was living and working at the College of St. Jerome in Rome. He was an Ustaša and a functionary in the fascist puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia.
Early life
Draganović was born in the village of Matići near Orašje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule. He attended secondary school in Travnik and studied theology and philosophy in Sarajevo. Draganović was ordained a priest on 1 July 1928.
From 1932 to 1935, he studied at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and Gregorian University in Rome. In 1937, his German language doctoral dissertation, titled Massenübertritte von Katholiken zur Orthodoxie im kroatischen Sprachgebiet zur Zeit der Türkenherrschaft (Mass conversions of Catholics to Orthodoxy in the Croatian-speaking area during the Turkish rule) was published. This later was used by the Ustaše as a justification for forced conversions to Catholicism.
In 1935, he returned to Bosnia, initially as secretary to Archbishop Ivan Šarić.
World War II and Ratlines
Draganović was an Ustaše lieutenant-colonel and the vice chief of the Bureau of Colonization. He oversaw confiscation of Serb property in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the Jasenovac concentration camp military chaplain for some time until Aloysius Stepinac sent him in mid-1943 to Rome as the second unofficial Ustaše representative. Arriving in Rome in August 1943, Draganović became secretary of the Croatian 'Confraternity of San Girolamo', based at the monastery of San Girolamo degli Illirici in Via Tomacelli. This monastery became the centre of operations for the Croat ratline, as documented by CIA surveillance files. He is believed to have been instrumental in the escape to Argentina of the Croatian wartime dictator Ante Pavelić.
Ante Pavelić hid for two years, from 1945 to 1948, in Italy under the protection of Draganović and the Vatican, before surfacing in Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Through his ratline, with assistance from the CIC, Draganović played a major role in helping notorious Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie flee from Europe. The two maintained a friendly relationship. Asked by Barbie why he was going out of his way to help him escape to Juan Peron's Argentina, he responded: "We have to maintain a sort of moral reserve on which we can draw in the future."
Draganović was accused of laundering the Ustaše's treasure of jewellery and other items stolen from war victims in Croatia. According to the CIA, Draganović was "not amenable to control, too knowledgeable of unit personnel and activity, demand[ed] outrageous monetary tribute and U.S. support of Croat organizations as partial payment for cooperation."
In 1945, Draganović printed his Mali hrvatski kalendar za godinu 1945 (Small Croatian Calendar for the year 1945) in Rome for Croatian emigrants.
He maintained regular contacts with the former NDH leader Ante Pavelić, who was in hiding.
Return to Yugoslavia
Some mystery surrounds Draganović's later defection to Yugoslavia. After World War II, he lived in Italy and Austria gathering evidence of communist crimes committed in Yugoslavia. He was wanted by Yugoslavia's Department of State Security (UDBA).
On 10 November 1967, the Yugoslavian state attorney declared that Draganović was in Sarajevo—as a free man, as Yugoslav authorities reportedly sought information from Draganović in exchange for granting him freedom. He was supposed to "tell-all", name his colleagues and like-minded people, hand his archive over to Tito's agents, make some positive remarks about Communist Yugoslavia and in return, Belgrade would waive judicial condemnation and imprisonment.
UDBA held Draganović in Belgrade for 42 days and once the investigation against him concluded he appeared in Sarajevo where he held a press conference (on 15 November 1967) at which he praised the "democratisation and humanising of life" under Tito. He denied claims made by the Croatian diaspora press that he had been kidnapped or entrapped by the UDBA. Draganović spent his last years in Sarajevo forming a new general register of the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. Draganović died in Sarajevo on 5 July 1983.
Works
Izvješće fra Tome Ivkovića, biskupa skradinskog, iz godine 1630. (1933)
Izvješće apostolskog vizitatora Petra Masarechija o prilikama katoličkog naroda u Bugarskoj, Srbiji, Srijemu, Slavoniji i Bosni g. 1623. i 1624. (1937)
Opći šematizam Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji, en: General schematism of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia (1939)
Hrvati i Herceg-Bosna (1940)
Hrvatske biskupije. Sadašnjost kroz prizmu prošlosti (1943)
Katalog katoličkih župa u BH u XVII. vijeku (1944)
Povijest Crkve u Hrvatskoj (1944)
Opći šematizam Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji, Cerkev v Jugoslaviji 1974, en: General schematism of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia, The Church in Yugoslavia 1974 (1975)
Katarina Kosača – Bosanska kraljica (1978)
Komušina i Kondžilo (1981)
Masovni prijelazi katolika na pravoslavlje hrvatskog govornog područja u vrijeme vladavine Turaka (1991)
See also
Counterintelligence Corps
Operation Bloodstone
Operation Paperclip
Ratlines for more details and references on Draganović escape-route activities.
Vatican City in World War II
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše
References
Bibliography
Anderson, Scott & Anderson, John Lee, Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League. Dodd Mead, 1986,
Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and the Swiss Bankers, St Martins Press 1991 (revised 1998)
Uki Goñi: The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina (Granta Books, 2002, )
Eric Salerno, Mossad base Italia: le azioni, gli intrighi, le verità nascoste, Il Saggiatore 2010. (Italian text)
External links
Background Report on Krunoslav Draganović, CIA, February 12, 1947. Published on the website of the Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Declassified US CIA files on Krunoslav Draganović on Archive.org
Some example files on Draganović on cia.gov, find the rest here:
COVERT ACTION: SPECIAL: NAZIS, THE VATICAN, AND CIA: This issue of CAIB focuses on the fascist connection, in particular the U.S. role in helping hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prominent Nazis avoid retribution at the end of World War
DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT
Klaus Barbie and the United States Government: A Report to the Attorney General of the United States, August 1983, see pages 136-213
1903 births
1983 deaths
People from Orašje
People from the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croat Roman Catholic clergy from Bosnia and Herzegovina
20th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests
Catholicism and far-right politics
Croatian collaborators with Fascist Italy
Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany
Burials at Bare Cemetery, Sarajevo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krunoslav%20Draganovi%C4%87 |
Saint James station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is located in Downtown San Jose, California on 1st and 2nd Streets between Saint James and Saint John Streets. The northbound platform is on 1st Street (the address is 150 N. First Street); the southbound platform is on 2nd Street (the address is 101 N. Second Street). This station is served by the Blue and Green lines of the VTA Light Rail system. The platforms at Saint James station are separated by the western half of the historic St. James Park.
Saint James station was renovated in 2006 to permit level entry at all doors.
Service
Station layout
Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
San Pedro Square
St. James Park
References
External links
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Railway stations in San Jose, California
1987 establishments in California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20James%20station%20%28VTA%29 |
Cristina Pérez may refer to:
Cristina Perez (judge) (born 1968), U.S. judge
Cristina Pérez (reporter) (born 1973), Argentine journalist
Cristina Pérez (athlete), Spanish Olympic hurdler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20P%C3%A9rez |
Xenacanthida (or Xenacanthiforms) is a super-order of extinct shark-like chondrichthyans known from the Carboniferous to Triassic. They were native to freshwater, marginal marine and shallow marine habitats. Some xenacanths may have grown to lengths of . Most xenacanths died out at the end of the Permian in the End-Permian Mass Extinction, with only a few forms surviving into the Triassic.
Description
The foundation of the tooth is prolonged lingually with a circlet button and a basal tubercle on the oral and aboral surfaces individually. Xenacanthida's teeth are famed by articulated bones, cephalic vertebrae and isolated teeth and found global in each aquatic and clean environment. The family Xenacanthidae consist of five genera that are Xenacanthus, Triodus, Plicatodus, Mooreodontus and Wurdigneria; all of these are distinguished by cross sections of the points, crown center, length of the median edge, type of vertical cristae, and microscopic anatomy. These kinds of fishes are largely marked from Paleozoic remains and their diversity cut drastically throughout the period of their extinction.
Xenacanths are divided into two groups based on dental characteristics. Group one has tricuspid crown containing two stout, slightly diverging lateral cusps pointing in the same direction, a high median cusp, with a crown-base angle almost at 90 degrees, a large, rounded, apical button with several foramina and multiple, 8-9 coarse vertical cristae on all the cusps. Group two has bicuspid crowns with two upright, asymmetric cusps, where the medial cusp is thicker than the distal one, and consistently lacks a median cusp.
The bodies of xenacanths are elongate and eel-like. Xenacanths had long dorsal fins, as well as a large spine projecting from the top of the head, which was a modified dorsal-fin spine. The spine is usually thought to have acted as a defense against attackers. They also bore two anal fins, with the tail (caudal) fin being pseudo-diphycercal.
Some xenacanths like Barbclabornia, are thought to have reached lengths of . While others such as Triodus were only around long.
Ecology
Many xenacanths are thought to have been euryhaline and to have migrated between freshwater and marine environments. Orthacanthus platypternus is suggested to have been catadromous, migrating into freshwater environments as a juvenile before returning to the sea as an adult. Based on isotope analysis of teeth, some xenacanths have been suggested to have lived permanently in freshwater environments. However, this proposal has been criticised, as the mineralization window of individual teeth only spans a short interval of time of days to weeks, and may not be reflective of long term behaviour. A number of xenacanths are likely to have been fully marine, such as the small primitive genus Bransonella, which is thought to have had a seafloor dwelling (benthic) ecology similar to that of a modern catshark.
The diet of freshwater xenacanths is known to have included temnospondyl amphibians as well as palaeoniscid fish, acanthodians, and other xenacanths. Large xenacanths are suggested to have acted as the apex predators of late Paleozoic freshwater ecosystems, such as the Early Permian freshwater lakes of the Saar–Nahe Basin in southern Germany.
Taxonomy
Xenacanths are typically placed as stem-group elasmobranchs, more closely related to modern sharks and rays than to Holocephali, which includes chimaeras.
Subdivisions
Order: Bransonelliformes Hampe & Ivanov, 2007
Genus: Barbclabornia Johnson, 2003 (Early Permian, possibly also Late Carboniferous, North America)
Genus: Bransonella Harlton, 1933 (Early Carboniferous-Middle Permian, Worldwide)
Order: Xenacanthiformes Berg, 1955
Family: Diplodoselachidae Dick, 1981
Genus: Diplodoselache Dick, 1981 (Early Carboniferous, Europe)
Genus: Dicentrodus Traquair, 1888 (Early Carboniferous, Europe, North America)
Genus: Hagenoselache Hampe & Heidkte, 1997 (mid-Carboniferous, Europe)
Genus: Hokomata Hodnett & Elliott, 2018 (mid-Carboniferous, North America)
Genus: Lebachacanthus Soler-Gijon, 1997 (Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Europe)
Genus: Reginaselache Turner & Burrow, 2011 (Early Carboniferous, Australia)
Family: Sphenacanthidae Maisey, 1982
Genus: Sphenacanthus Agassiz, 1837 (Early Carboniferous-Late Permian, Worldwide)
Genus: Xenosynechodus Agassiz, 1980 (Middle-Late Permian, Europe, later authors have rejected its placement as a xenacanth)
Genus: Desinia Ivanov, 2022 (Middle-Late Permian, Europe)
Family: Orthacanthidae Heyler & Poplin 1989
Genus: Orthacanthus Agassiz, 1843 (Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Europe, North America)
Family: Xenacanthidae Fritsch, 1889
Genus: Mooreodontus Ginter et al., 2010 (Middle-Late Triassic, Worldwide)
Genus: Plicatodus Hampe, 1995 (Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Europe)
Genus: Triodus Jordan, 1849 (Late Carboniferous-Middle Permian, Europe, North America, South America)
Genus: Xenacanthus Beyrich, 1848 (Carboniferous-Permian, Worldwide)
Genus: Wurdigneria Richter, 2005 (Middle-Late Permian, South America)
incertae sedis
Genus: Tikiodontus Bhat, Ray & Datta, 2018 (Late Triassic, India)
References
Further reading
Xenacanths
Prehistoric cartilaginous fish orders
Carboniferous sharks
Permian sharks
Triassic sharks
Mississippian first appearances
Mississippian taxonomic orders
Pennsylvanian taxonomic orders
Cisuralian taxonomic orders
Guadalupian taxonomic orders
Lopingian taxonomic orders
Early Triassic taxonomic orders
Middle Triassic taxonomic orders
Middle Triassic extinctions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenacanthida |
V was a Finnish free-of-charge magazine launched in 2006 aimed at the young adult generation of 20- to 30-year-olds. Its content was mostly similar to other similar magazines such as City, Nöjesguiden and Metropoli. Because of low popularity, V was discontinued in 2007 as a separate magazine and incorporated into Metro.
References
2006 establishments in Finland
2007 disestablishments in Finland
Defunct magazines published in Finland
Free magazines
Finnish-language magazines
Magazines established in 2006
Magazines disestablished in 2007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20%28Finnish%20magazine%29 |
Erik the Red's Land () was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century. The Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against Norway in 1933, and the country subsequently abandoned its claims.
The area once had an Inuit population, but the last member was seen in 1823 by Douglas Clavering in Clavering Island. By 1931, that part of Greenland was uninhabited and included only three main Norwegian stations (Jonsbu, Myggbukta and Antarctic Havn) and numerous smaller ones.
Origin of the claim
The first European settlement in Greenland was established by Norse colonists from Iceland around the year 1000. There were two main Norse settlements on Greenland, but both were on the southwestern coast of the island, far away from the area that later became Erik the Red's Land. From the 1260s the Norse colony in Greenland recognized the King of Norway as its overlord. When Norway a part of Denmark-Norway, from 1537 until 1814, official documents made it clear that Greenland was part of Norway. However, contact with the settlements there was lost in the Late Middle Ages and the Norse population died out, possibly around 1500.
Centuries later a Dano-Norwegian evangelist, Hans Egede, heard about the Norse colony on Greenland. He then asked King Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway for permission to try to find the long-lost colony and eventually to establish a Protestant Christian mission there to convert the population of the land, who were presumed, if any survived, to still be Catholic or to have completely lost the Christian faith. Egede reached Greenland in 1721, and finding no Norse population there, started his mission among the Inuit. This led to his becoming known as the "Apostle of Greenland" and he was appointed Bishop of Greenland. He founded the current capital of Greenland, Nuuk (formerly Godthaab). In 1723, the Bergen Greenland Company (Det Bergenske Grønlandskompani) received a concession for all trade with Greenland.
For the remainder of the union between Norway and Denmark, the relationship between Greenland and the state was organised in different ways. Modern historians disagree as to what point in history Greenland went from being a Norwegian possession to being a Danish one. However, the Treaty of Kiel, signed in 1814, indicates that Greenland was at least politically regarded as having been Norwegian: "...the Kingdom of Norway ... as well as the dependencies (Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland not included) ... shall for the future belong to ... His Majesty the King of Sweden ...". Norway never recognised the validity of the Treaty of Kiel.
History
In 1919, Denmark claimed the whole of Greenland as its territory, with Norway's acquiescence (see Ihlen Declaration). However, in 1921, Denmark proposed to exclude all foreigners from Greenland, creating diplomatic conflict until July 1924, when Denmark agreed that Norwegians could establish hunting and scientific settlements north of 60°27' N.
In June 1931, Hallvard Devold, one of the founders of the Norwegian Arctic Trading Co., raised the Norwegian flag at Myggbukta and on 10 July 1931, a Norwegian royal proclamation was issued, claiming Eastern Greenland as Norwegian territory. Norway claimed that the area was terra nullius: it had no permanent inhabitants and was for the most part used by Norwegian trappers and fishermen. The area was defined as "situated between Carlsberg Fjord in the South and Bessel Fjord in the North", extending from latitude 71°30' to latitude 75°40'N. Although it was not explicitly stated in the proclamation itself, it was assumed that the area was limited to the eastern coast, so that the Inland Ice constituted its western limit. (The Inland Ice covers five sixths of Greenland's total area, so that only a narrow strip of varying width along the coast is free of permanent ice.)
Norway and Denmark agreed to settle their dispute over Eastern Greenland in what became known as the "Greenland case" (Grønlandssaken/Grønlandssagen) at the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933. Norway lost and after the ruling it abandoned its claim.
During the 1940–1945 German occupation of Norway in World War II, the territorial claim was briefly revived by the puppet Quisling regime, which extended it to cover all of Greenland. A small-scale invasion to "reconquer" the island for Norway was proposed by Vidkun Quisling, but the Germans rejected this after deeming it not feasible in light of the then ongoing Battle of the Atlantic.
See also
Antarctic Haven
Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
King Christian X Land
Finnsbu and Torgilsbu, part of a simultaneous claim in Southeast Greenland, which was called Fridtjof Nansen Land
References
Bibliography
External links
Full Text of the PCIJ Judgment: Legal Status of Eastern Greenland (Den. v. Nor.), 1933 P.C.I.J. (ser. A/B) No. 53 (April 5)
Eirik the Red’s Land: the land that never was
Aftenposten article
Karmøybladet article
Former Norwegian colonies
Greenland
1933 in international relations
Denmark–Norway relations
1930s in Norway
1930s in Denmark
1930s in Greenland
1931 establishments in North America
1933 disestablishments in North America
Territorial disputes of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20the%20Red%27s%20Land |
Ronald Joseph Oscar Camille Crevier (born April 14, 1958) is a Canadian former professional basketball player. He played part of one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the early 1980s for the Canadian national men's basketball team.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Crevier played for Dawson College CEGEP before enrolling at Boston College, where during his four years he came off the bench for the Eagles. Despite his limited playing time the 7-foot Crevier was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the fourth round (75th pick overall) in the 1983 draft. He did not make team however and played instead in the Continental Basketball Association for the Toronto Tornados, along with fellow Canadian Jim Zoet.
Crevier began the 1985–86 season playing for the Springfield Fame of the United States Basketball League, and posted the third most blocked shots in the league with 1.6 per game. He joined the Golden State Warriors in mid-season and saw a minute of action in one game. He later joined the Detroit Pistons, playing 3 minutes over two games. Crevier then played the 1986–7 season for Pamesa Valencia in Spain.
See also
List of Montreal athletes
FrozenHoops.com History of basketball in Canada. Selection of Top 100 Canadian players of all time.
External links
Stats
1958 births
Living people
1982 FIBA World Championship players
Anglophone Quebec people
Basketball players from Montreal
Boston College Eagles men's basketball players
Canadian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian men's basketball players
Centers (basketball)
Chicago Bulls draft picks
Dawson College alumni
Detroit Pistons players
Golden State Warriors players
Maine Windjammers players
National Basketball Association players from Canada
Toronto Tornados players
Valencia Basket players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Crevier |
Cristina Pérez (born c. 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán) is an Argentine television news journalist. Since 2002, she has worked alongside Rodolfo Barilli, as news anchor of Telefe's Telefe Noticias a las 20 ("Telefe News at 8 PM").
Career
Cristina Pérez is journalist, News Anchor, author and actress. She has a vast career as a journalist in the Argentine Media. She has been working in the national television for the last 27 years. She co-hosts Telefe Noticias prime time edition since 2002, in Telefe-ViacomCBS (Channel 11), the leading network. She also has her own daily radio show, "Confesiones", in Radio Mitre AM790, top radio in Argentina.
For her work as a journalist she's been awarded with four Martin Fierro Awards, (Television best female Journalist, Radio Best Journalist, Best Night Radio Show, Best TV Style News), five Tato Awards as best Journalist and anchor woman, Women to Watch, and Security Award as journalist of the year.
As an author, Cristina has written two fiction books, El Jardin de los Delatores, her first novel, and Cuentos Inesperados, a short stories collection.
Cristina runs her own website cristinaperez.com.ar where she publishes her daily interviews at Radio Mitre and a diverse range of articles including current affairs, travel chronicles, literature and opinion on different fields.
She frequently writes for newspapers and magazines as Revista Noticias, La Nación, Clarin and Perfil. Recently she's also been working for BBC Mundo, telling stories about Argentina from a regional perspective.
As a host of international summits and events she run Women to Watch Argentina, Girls 20, T-Solutions World Bank, Global Pact PNUD, Oracle Convention, Telefónica Summit, among others.
As an actress she has played three major roles in Shakespearean performances of the Buenos Aires Shakespeare Festival.
She has studies in History (UNT) and English Literature (University of London and Oxford Continuing Education).
She is a member of FOPEA (Foro de Periodismo Argentino) an NGO that advocates freedom of expression and better professional standards for journalists. She's also member of CARI KOL (Key Opinion Leaders at Argentina Council of International Relations)
A deep love of words underpins her vocation as a journalist, author, actress and passionate reader.
Awards
Nominations
2013 Martín Fierro Awards
Best female TV host (for Telefe Noticias)
References
External links
1973 births
People from San Miguel de Tucumán
Argentine television journalists
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20P%C3%A9rez%20%28reporter%29 |
Parkway East Hospital is a 143-bed private healthcare facility located at the junction of Joo Chiat Place and Telok Kurau Road in the East of Singapore. It was formerly known as East Shore Hospital or East Shore Medical Centre, The American Hospital of Singapore, and Saint Mark's Hospital.
This hospital provides general and acute care, as well as a comprehensive range of clinical specialties and sub-specialties. These include obstetrics and gynaecology, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, ear, nose & throat (ENT), and ophthalmology. Various ancillary services such as rehabilitation therapy and imaging services are also available.
History
Parkway East Hospital began its operations in 1942 and was known as the Paglar Clinic and Maternity Hospital. It was founded by Dr Paglar, a Eurasian general practitioner. In 1974, his descendants sold the hospital to an Englishman, Dr Leo Taylor, and it was renamed Saint Mark's Maternity Hospital.
Two years later, the hospital was sold to Hong Leong Group for residential purposes. However, the land was zoned for hospital use. Another doctor, Dr Sundarson, together with a group of businessmen and doctors bought the property from Hong Leong.
The new owners refurbished and modernised the existing facilities, and renamed it Saint Mark's Hospital. The 45-bed hospital commenced operations in 1974 with Obstetrics and Gynaecology wards. In 1977, Dr Yahya Cohen together with American Medical International (AMI) entered a joint venture with the former to form Saint Mark's AMI Pte Ltd.
Saint Mark's Hospital further expanded with a purchase of a 40,000 sqft site adjacent to the existing building in 1982. With the expansion, the hospital's capacity also increased to 49 beds. In 1983, AMI took over the hospital and it was renamed The American Hospital of Singapore.
After many years of operation, the hospital was acquired by Parkway Holdings Limited and was renamed East Shore Hospital. Under the new management, East Shore Hospital became a general acute care hospital integrated with a medical specialist centre and a 24-hour clinic.
In 2010, East Shore Hospital was renamed Parkway East Hospital.
Medical High School programme
Sixty high school students aged 15 to 18 from Victoria Junior College, Victoria School and Dunman High School participated in a "Medical High School" training programme sponsored by the hospital in March and April 2015. The students experienced first hand the world of a medical professional and got to chance to participate in some medical emergency scenarios. The idea of the programme, according to hospital CEO Phua Tien Beng, was to allow the students "to actually experience working in a hospital with real patients".
Initiatives
One of the initiatives organized by Parkway East Hospital is the Doctor For a Day (DFAD). It is an event designed for children living in the East to role-play as doctors in a real hospital setting. The objective of the event is to educate and inspire children to be part of the medical community. The first event was conducted in April 2014.
Partnerships
In 2013, Pathway Genomics Corporation, a San Diego-based clinical laboratory that offers genetic testing services internationally, partnered with Parkway Laboratory Services Ltd, an ancillary service of Parkway Pantai Limited to offer Pathway Fit, a comprehensive saliva-based nutrigenetic test that reports on a patient's genetic propensity for diet, nutritional needs, metabolic health factors and food reactions.
2013 also saw the formation of a partnership between Sengenics, a genetic diagnostics company and Parkway Laboratory Services to provide genetic tests in Singapore including Sengenics CardioSURE Heart disease genetic risk test and Sequenom's MaterniT21 PLUS non-invasive pre-natal diagnostic test that covers Trisomy 21, 18 and 13.
In 2014, Parkway East Hospital, together with other hospitals under the group of Parkway Hospitals, works in close partnership with Parkway Patient Assistance Centre in providing services.
Innovations
Parkway East Hospital adopted the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and implemented it in 2015. It is implemented with the intention to reduce paper wastage by having a centralized storage for patients' details and medical records.
The Closed Loop Medication Management (CLMM) and Knowledge-Based Medication Administration (KBMA) modules were rolled out in 2016 and 2017 respectively to enhance the accuracy of the order and administration of medications to patients.
Electronic Meal Ordering System (eMOS) was implemented in 2016 to transform a manual paper-based meal ordering process into a fully integrated electronic meal ordering system. This involves a tablet application for food ordering service, back end application for hospital kitchen operations, nutrition and dietary management as well as automated food allergy checking. This system aims to improve the efficiency of the meal ordering process.
References
External links
Doctor for a Day: Original link is no longer active, but an archived version can be found here
Hospitals in Singapore
Hospitals established in 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkway%20East%20Hospital |
Catford Stadium was a historic greyhound racing stadium in Catford, a suburb of London.
Origins
Charles Benstead and Frank Sutton founded the stadium on Southern Railway land between two commuter lines in 1932. The entrance was on Adenmore Road, West of Doggett Road.
Greyhound Racing
Opening
The inaugural meeting was held on Saturday 30 July 1932 and consisted of a seven card race of events comprising four or five runners. Mick the Miller was paraded around the track prior to the fourth race. The first racing manager was Lt. Col. A J Vernon and there were no fewer than eighty bookmakers. A kennel complex was constructed at Layham's Farm, Keston, near Biggin Hill and six trainers were appointed.
The track was described as a tight 369 yard circumference circuit and the hare was an 'Outside Breco Silent' before being switched to a more conventional 'Outside McKee'. Buses originally dropped patrons off just outside the main gates and by the entrance gates were tote facilities and the South bank enclosure. The West forecourt had a covered grandstand with tote facilities with the judges box directly opposite the winning line. Behind this was the race day kennels. The East forecourt had a larger covered grandstand on the back straight. The track could also be accessed from behind this grandstand because there were two bridges going across the Southern Railway line. To use the bridges to the track an entrance fee was paid at the turnstiles situated on the other side of the railway line to the stadium itself meaning the bridges were actually part of the stadium complex. Finally opposite the main entrance on bends 3 and 4 was the famous tote board nestled between the uncovered north bank
enclosure.
Pre War history
Early trainers at the track were Jock Hutchinson, H Hammond, Claude Champion, Albert Bedford, Harry Woolner, Dal Hawkesley and Ernie Pratt and a major event 'The Gold Collar' was introduced in 1933 which would gain classic status. Two other events called the Catford British Breeders Produce Stakes and Cobb Marathon Bowl were introduced; the former became very popular with the event being run twice during many years and the latter was sponsored by brewer Rupert Cobb and became a significant test for the leading staying stars, this race would continue until 1975.
Post War history
Tote turnover after the war was extremely healthy and the seventh best in London and Great Britain just ahead of West Ham Stadium. On 20 September 1946 an express train from Victoria to Ramsgate derailed and five of the ten coaches fell down the 20 foot embankment landing in the stadium car park. The stadium employees were first on to the scene and remarkably only one person died as a result of the crash.
In 1952 the Managing Director Frank Sutton died; Sutton had introduced the British Breeders Produce Stakes. His son John would eventually take over from his father and take over the family business and introduced the very first jackpot pool in 1961, later to be copied by horse racing. In 1954 the Dave Barker trainer Ardskeagh Ville was the first and only hound from Catford to make the English Greyhound Derby final. Charles Benstead sold his share in the company in 1959 to Harold Clifton.
By 1963 the Greyhound Racing Association purchased the track and John Sutton eventually become their Managing Director. The GRA introduced under track heating system at Catford with electric cables sewn into the track eight inches under the turf. Sister track Charlton Stadium finished racing during 1971 resulting in the Greenwich Cup and Ben Truman Stakes finding a new home at Catford. One year later the track was the first London stadium to start eight dog racing and the circuit was substantially altered with steep banking on the bends.
During the 1970s trainers at the track would include Mike Smith, John Horsfall and Paddy Milligan. The legendary Scurlogue Champ set three track records over marathon distances of 718 and 888 metres from 1984-1986 and in 1987 the Scurry Gold Cup became another major event to be held at the track, the classic race arrived from Harringay Stadium after its closure.
The Cesarewitch was switched to from Belle Vue Stadium to Catford in 1995 before switching to Oxford Stadium later.
Controversy
During 2001–2002, a trainer Lennie Knell was caught on camera admitting overfeeding dogs to slow them down, and a greyhound died of heat exhaustion. Subsequently, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain brought in stringent rules that required every stadium and greyhound transporter to have cool air management systems and any trainer found deliberately overfeeding dogs would lose their licence. Knell was disqualified from all licensed greyhound tracks in May 2002 after an inquiry by the governing body.
Closure
On 6 November 2003, following years of rumours, the track closed overnight without warning, when it was announced the previous day's race meeting had been the last.
Trainers John Simpson, Tony Taylor, Maxine Locke and John Walsh moved to Wimbledon, Keston based Steve Gammon left for Crayford, Sonja Spiers and Kevin Connor went to Sittingbourne and Mark Lavender switched to Portsmouth. Racing Manager Derek Hope was able to take up the same position at Wimbledon soon after because Simon Harris had left for Coventry Stadium bookmaker John Humphreys who had stood in the main ring since 1966 and sponsored the Gold Collar for 18 years, retired.
Speedway
In 1934 several speedway meetings were held on a track constructed inside the dog track. In 1949 permission was sought to operate speedway from the stadium again but permission was refused. Not to be confused with The Mount stadium, another stadium in Catford.
Redevelopment
The local amateur football side, Catford Wanderers, were mooted to move into the stadium, though this dream was never realised. The stadium has since caught on fire and was subsequently demolished, along with the iconic tote board. The site has been redeveloped for housing by Barratt Homes as "Catford Green".
Competitions
Gold Collar
(an original classic competition)
Greenwich Cup
Scurry Gold Cup
(an original classic competition)
Cesarewitch
(an original classic competition)
Cobb Marathon Bowl
Ben Truman Stakes
(1962-67 New Cross), (1969–70 Charlton), (1971-87 Catford)
Track records
Pre-metric
Post-metric
External links
Pictures at Derelict London
More Pictures
Catford Greyhound Racing History
References
Defunct greyhound racing venues in the United Kingdom
Sport in the London Borough of Lewisham
Defunct speedway venues in England
Defunct sports venues in London
Catford
Sports venues completed in 1932
Defunct greyhound racing venues in London
Greyhound racing in London
Demolished sports venues in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catford%20Stadium |
Nasrullah Khan may refer to:
Nasrullah Khan (Bukhara) (died 1860), Emir of Bukhara, 1826–1860
Mirza Nasrullah Khan (1840–1907), Iranian government minister
Nasrullah Khan (Afghanistan) (1875–1920), Emir of Afghanistan
Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (1918–2003), Pakistani politician
Nasrullah Khan Khattak (1928–2009), Pakistani politician
Nasrullah Khan (squash player), Pakistani squash player and coach to Jonah Barrington
Nasrullah Khan (footballer) (born 1985), Pakistani footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasrullah%20Khan |
Emmanuel Habyarimana (born Katanga Plateau) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer.
Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, was a former member of the Rwandan Armed Force in the Hutu-dominated state of Juvénal Habyarimana. Following the successful conquest of Rwanda by the RPF, he joined the newly constituted Rwanda Defence Force and held the rank of colonel.
In 1997, he was made Minister of State for Defence in the Rwandan government. In 2000, he became Rwanda's Minister of Defence, and was later sometime afterwards promoted to Brigadier-General. While serving in this position he played a significant part in Rwanda's actions in the Second Congo War.
In November 2002, he was removed from his post as Minister of Defence, which government spokesperson Joseph Bideri attributed to his "extreme pro-Hutu" views. He was replaced by Marcel Gatsinzi.
On March 30, 2003, he defected to Uganda along with several other Rwandan army officers, including Lieutenant Ndayambaje
and Lieutenant Colonel Balthazar Ndengeyinka.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hutu people
Rwandan generals
Defence ministers of Rwanda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Habyarimana |
SMS Wolf (formerly the Hansa freighter Wachtfels) was an armed merchant raider or auxiliary cruiser of the Imperial German Navy in World War I. She was the fourth ship of the Imperial Navy bearing this name (and is therefore often referred to in Germany as Wolf IV), following two gunboats and another auxiliary cruiser that was decommissioned without seeing action.
Description and history
As a commerce raider, the Wolf was equipped with six guns, three SK L/55 guns and several smaller caliber weapons as well as four torpedo tubes. She also carried over 450 mines to be dropped outside enemy ports; she laid minefields in the Indian Ocean and off Australia's southern coast which claimed several ships. Her commander was Fregattenkapitän (Commander) Karl August Nerger who was in charge until her return to Kiel, Germany in February 1918.
The Wolf had not been designed for speed and her top speed was a mere . Her advantages included deception (fake funnel and masts which could be erected or lowered to change her appearance), false sides which kept her weapons hidden until the last possible moment, and a range of over thanks to a coal bunker capacity of 8,000 tons (assuming a cruise speed of 8 knots, burning 35 tons of coal daily).
On 30 November 1916 the Wolf left her home port of Kiel with a crew of 348 men. Escorted by the from Skagerrak to the North Atlantic, she passed north of Scotland and turned south going around the Cape of Good Hope, where she laid some of her mines, into the Indian Ocean. She dropped mines at the harbors of Colombo and Bombay, then entered the waters of South Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
With the help of the "Wölfchen" (Wolf Cub), a Friedrichshafen FF.33e two-seater seaplane, she located and seized enemy vessels and cargo ships. After transferring their crews and any valuable supplies (notably coal, but also essential metals of which the German war effort had much need) to the Wolf, she then sank the vessels. The Wolf destroyed 35 trading vessels and two war ships, altogether approximately 110,000 tons.
After 451 days she returned to her home port of Kiel on 24 February 1918 with 467 prisoners of war aboard. In addition she carried substantial quantities of rubber, copper, zinc, brass, silk, copra, cocoa, and other essential materials taken from her prizes. The Wolf, without support of any kind, had made the longest voyage of a warship during World War I. Captain Nerger was awarded the highest German decoration, the Pour le Mérite.
For the remainder of the war, the Wolf was employed in the Baltic Sea. After the war she was ceded to France and sold to Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes of Paris, refitted and renamed Antinous. She was scrapped in 1931 in Italy.
A member of the crew was the young Theodor Plivier, who became later a revolutionary, communist, and famous author. In his first novel Des Kaisers Kulis (The emperor's coolies) he assimilates his experience on board the Wolf. The book was transformed in a theatrical play, too, and forbidden after the National Socialist Machtergreifung. Another crew member was Jakob Kinau, brother of author Gorch Fock – Kinau served as a Minenbootsmannsmaat on the Wolf. In his voyage diary, which was published in 1934 in the Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg, he mentioned some details of a mutiny on board, which was not described in memoirs of other Wolf crew.
The was sunk off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand after hitting a mine laid by the Wolf.
Summary of raiding history
In 15 months at sea, Wolf captured and sank 14 ships, totalling 38,391 GRT. She also laid minefields that sank another 13 ships, grossing a further . The heaviest loss was the Spanish mail steamer on the way from Cadiz to Manila. It struck a mine laid by Wolf near Cape Town and sunk in only four minutes. 134 people, including 12 women and five children, died. 24 persons survived.
In addition, on 6.2.17, the British troopship HMT Tyndareus was badly damaged by one of Wolf's mines off Cape Town and was only saved from sinking by skillful seamanship.
Film
In February/March 1918 the Bild- und Filmamt (BUFA) produced the 13 minutes silent movie S.M. Hilfskreuzer "Wolf", which was produced in Kiel. It shows the SMS Wolf's return to Keil, Captain Nerger being awarded awarded the Pour le Mérite, and various luminaries touring the ship. Scenes of various parts of the ship are shown, as well as footage of the prisoners captured during the voyage.
Gallery
Notable people
Karl Rose, naval officer who served under Karl August Nerger
References
Bibliography
Alexander, Roy, The Cruise of the Raider Wolf, Yale University Press, 1939.
Donaldson, A., The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider Wolf, New Century Press, Sydney, 1918.
Fritz Witschetzky Das schwarze Schiff, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig, 1920.
Frederic George Trayes, Five Months on a German Raider: Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the "Wolf" , London : Headley, 1919.
Guilliatt, Richard & Peter Hohnen, The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI, William Heinemann Publ., Australia, 2009.
Hoyt, Edwin P., Raider Wolf, The Voyage of Captain Nerger, 1916-1918, New York, 1974.
Kinau, Jakob, Der Adjutant des Todes. Wolfs-Tagebuch, (Quickborn-Verlag), Hamburg 1934.
Leimbach, Fritz, 64 000 Seemeilen Kaperfahrt. Erlebnisse eines Matrosen auf dem Hilfskreuzer "Wolf", Berlin (West-Ost-Verlag) 1937, Onlineversion: , Reprint by Maritimepress 2012.
Julio Molina Font: Cádiz y el vapor-correo de Filipinas "Carlos de Eizaguirre", 1904 - 1917. Historia de un naufragio (Cadiz and the Philippine mail steamer "Carlos de Eizaguirre". History of a shipwreck), 2. expanded ed. Cádiz (Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones) 2007.
Nerger, Karl August, S.M.S. Wolf, Scherl Verlag Berlin, 1918.
Plivier, Theodor, Des Kaiser Kulis. Roman der deutschen Kriegsflotte, Berlin 1930.
Schmalenbach, Paul; German Raiders: A History of Auxiliary Cruisers of the German Navy, 1895-1945, Naval Institute Press, 1979.
- Total pages: 292
External links
Report on the voyage of the Wolf
TV-Interview with the author of the book "The Wolf"
Website of the book The Wolf
S.M. Hilfskreuzer "Wolf", silent movie, full length, at Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv
World War I commerce raiders
Wolf (IV)
Military attacks against Australia
Ships built in Flensburg
1913 ships
Auxiliary cruisers of the Imperial German Navy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS%20Wolf%20%281913%29 |
X Image Extension, or XIE was an extension to the X Window System to enhance its graphics capability. It was intended to provide a powerful mechanism for the transfer and display of virtually any image on any X-capable hardware. It was first released with X11R6 in 1994. It is no longer included in the X11 reference distribution, having been removed with X11R6.7 in 2004.
XIE never gained significant usage — according to Jim Gettys, "it failed due to excessive complexity and lack of a good implementation."
While not intended for use as a general purpose image-processing engine, XIE did provide a set of image rendition and enhancement primitives that could be combined into arbitrarily complex expressions. XIE also provided import and export facilities for moving images between client and server, and for accessing images as resources. The client side programming library, XIElib, was documented in the Prentice Hall book Developing Imaging Applications with XIElib by Syd Logan (). In addition to the server and client library, a performance and test tool, xieperf, was included in X11R6. This client was also written by Syd Logan.
XIE was developed under contract to the X Consortium by a San Diego, CA company (no longer extant) called AGE Logic. Principal team members include Larry Hare, Bob Shelley, Dr. Dean Verheiden, Dr. Ben Fahey, Dr. Gary Rogers, and Syd Logan.
For all practical purposes, the Image Extension is obsolete. Adequate image performance is instead gained through use of the ubiquitous MIT-SHM extension, which allows transfer of large images between the client and server on the same machine (the common use-case) via shared memory.
See also
The Open Group
POSIX
X/Open Portability Guide
References
External links
X Image Extension Overview paper
Page supporting the book Developing Imaging Applications with XIELib
X Window extensions
Freedesktop.org
Application programming interfaces
Application layer protocols
Free graphics software | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Image%20Extension |
Schwab may refer to:
Albert E. Schwab (1920–1945), United States Marine killed in action at Okinawa, 1945; awarded Medal of Honor
Alexander Schwab (1887–1943), German politician-activist and commentator-journalist who died while imprisoned by the Nazis
Andreas Schwab (born 1973), German politician
Andrew Schwab, lead vocalist for the rock group Project 86
Arthur J. Schwab (born 1946), United States federal judge
Arthur Tell Schwab (1896–1945), Swiss athlete
Carlos Schwabe (1877–1926), Swiss-German painter
Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939), American industrialist
Charles R. Schwab (born 1937), founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation
Christoph Schwab (born 1962), German mathematician
Corey Schwab, Canadian ice hockey player
Fritz Schwab (1919–2006), Swiss athlete
George D. Schwab (born 1931) Latvia born American historian
Gustav Schwab (1792–1850), German writer
Howie Schwab, sports statistician
Hubert Schwab (born 1982), Swiss racing cyclist
Ivan R. Schwab, ophthalmologist, 2006 Ig Nobel prize winner
John Schwab (born 1972), American actor, voice actor, producer and musician
Keith Schwab (born 1968), American quantum physicist
Klaus Schwab (born 1938), German economist, founder of the World Economic Forum
Les Schwab (1917–2007), founder of Les Schwab Tire Centers
Mark Dean Schwab (1968–2008), executed American murderer
Matthias Schwab (pharmacologist) (born 1963), German Clinical Pharmacologist
Michael Schwab, German anarchist convicted of the Haymarket bombings in Chicago
Michael Schwab (designer) (born 1952), American graphic designer and illustrator
Moïse Schwab (1839–1918), French librarian and author
Scott Schwab (born 1972), American politician
Shimon Schwab (1908–1993), German-born Orthodox rabbi
Sigi Schwab (born 1940), German guitarist and composer
Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative
V. E. Schwab (born 1987), American author
Werner Schwab (1958–1994), Austrian writer
See also
Schwabe, surname
Šváb
German-language surnames
Ethnonymic surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwab%20%28surname%29 |
The Poughkeepsie Regatta was the annual championship regatta of the U.S. Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) when it was held in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1895 to 1949.
History
The IRA was established by Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania in 1891, the third year of their race on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. There Harvard and Yale, from 1878, had established and maintained "The Race" as an exclusive head-to-head contest. The newly formed IRA "left New London in frustration and disgust" next year and selected a permanent site for its own annual regatta in June 1895.
The very first IRA race was held in June 1895, on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, with one Varsity Eight team from Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania competing. Cornell won with a time of 21:25.0. The course was a straight four miles, wide enough for 20 boats. In 1899 there were 48 cars in the observation train that slowly followed the race as "a moving grandstand" (on the heights above the river). People soon named the championship regatta after its permanent location and the name Poughkeepsie Regatta was used on the cover of the official program from 1922.
In the early years the Eastern schools dominated the race. Typically only a four-mile Varsity Eight race was held, but if there were enough teams entered, there was also a two-mile Freshman Eight race, and occasionally a Varsity Four race. Eventually, this evolved into a format that included an annual two-mile Freshman Eight race, followed by a three-mile Junior Varsity Eight race, and finally the four-mile Varsity Eight race. In 1923 the University of Washington became the first Western crew team to win the Poughkeepsie Regatta. From that year on the Western schools that participated, namely the University of Washington, and the University of California, became a dominating factor. They consistently placed in the top three, and more often than not, they won. The University of Washington became the first and only school to sweep the Regatta two years in a row.
The Regatta grew to be "the greatest one-day sporting event in America" early in the 20th century, the culmination of a "carnival" regatta week on both sides of the river. Every June tens of thousands of spectators would come pouring into Poughkeepsie to watch the races. They covered the shores next to the river, many waiting all day, picnicking on blankets, to ensure they had a good view. The railroad tracks on the west side of the river had a flatbed train which held grandstands from which spectators could watch the race. As the crews rowed up the river, the train would keep pace with them, giving the people on board the best view possible. Hundreds of boats, yachts, and occasionally even Navy destroyers sailed to Poughkeepsie, and moored on the sides of the river to watch the event. The town of Poughkeepsie came alive on the day of the Regatta, with parades, bands, vendors, and banners. In addition, colorful pennants displaying the school colors of all the participants were flying everywhere. The Regatta was extensively covered by newspaper reporters, and as time went on it was even broadcast over local and national radio stations. But the crowds, the cheers, the reporters, parades, and pennants were not the reasons why the Regatta became so intensely popular, the explanation lay in the physical feats of the crew teams. To race at full-speed for four miles required such a breathtaking amount of strength, skill, and endurance that it was awe-inspiring to watch.
After 55 years, the IRA Championship Regatta moved in 1950 to Marietta, Ohio; in 1952 to Syracuse, New York; and in 1995 to Camden, New Jersey. Harvard and Yale remained self-segregated for a century, long after the IRA championship left Poughkeepsie and the Hudson River.
Revival
The Hudson River Rowing Association "welcomed back" the Poughkeepsie Regatta in October 2008, running races in eight classifications on a 2.3-mile segment of the traditional course.
In October 2009, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's exploration of the Hudson River, Marist College hosted a reenactment of the Poughkeepsie Regatta at Longview Park. 2009 competitors included Marist, Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Army, and Vassar College. There was a repeat in 2010 and a cancellation caused by foul weather in 2011. The September 2012 rendition was called "annual" by Marist.
References
Citations
Peter Mallory. The Sport of Rowing: Two Centuries of Competition. Four volumes. Henley-on-Thames, England: River Rowing Museum. 2011. Selections published online in advance as row2k.com Exclusive Features.
"American Collegiate cows Rowing Takes Shape". Mallory (2011), vol. 2, ch. 28 (pp. 319–29). Featured online by row2k.com in (Mallory, chapters 27–35) (pages 312–60). Retrieved 2013-05-11.
External links
1997 Exhibit: "Rowing on the Hudson River" by Allynne Lange, curator, at Hudson River Maritime Museum (Archived 2012-02-04)
Intercollegiate Rowing Association: Poughkeepsie Regatta at Marist College Archives & Special Collections
"A History of Rowing In the Hudson Valley" by Warren Buhler at Hudson River Rowing Association
Recurring events established in 1895
Sports in Syracuse, New York
Rowing competitions in the United States
Poughkeepsie, New York
College rowing competitions in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie%20Regatta |
Gino Sovran (December 17, 1924 – June 26, 2016) was a Canadian professional basketball player.
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Sovran attended Kennedy Collegiate Institute and was a top basketball player at Assumption College, scoring more than 1,000 points over three seasons, and playing as team captain in the 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons. He played for University of Detroit in 1945–46 where he was the team's leading scorer. Sovran then returned to the Assumption team to help it win the Ontario and Eastern Canada senior basketball championships in 1946 before losing to the Victoria Dominoes for the national title.
From there, Sovran joined the newly formed Toronto Huskies professional team that competed in the Basketball Association of America (which later evolved into the National Basketball Association). Along with former Assumption teammate Hank Biasatti, he was one of two Canadians to play for the Huskies in their first and only season in 1946–47. Sovran was signed by the Huskies about two weeks into the season, making his professional debut on November 22, 1946 against the Boston Celtics. He appeared in six games, before being waived by the team on December 29, 1946.
Sovran was also a competitive track and field athlete, setting regional records in the high jump and triple jump while a student.
He has been inducted into the University of Windsor Alumni Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame 2002.
Away from sports, Sovran earned a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota and worked as a research engineer for General Motors.
BAA career statistics
Regular season
References
External links
FrozenHoops.com 100 Greatest Canadian Basketball Players
1924 births
2016 deaths
Basketball players from Windsor, Ontario
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian men's basketball players
Detroit Mercy Titans men's basketball players
Forwards (basketball)
General Motors former executives
Guards (basketball)
National Basketball Association players from Canada
Toronto Huskies players
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Canadian emigrants to the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino%20Sovran |
The Perak Stadium () is a stadium used mostly for association football located in Kampung Simee in Ipoh, Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. It is part of a large sports complex called the DBI Sports Complex, which houses a majority of sporting facilities used by players representing the state of Perak such as the Velodrome Rakyat (cycling), Indera Mulia Stadium (indoor stadium) and the Sultan Azlan Shah Stadium (field hockey).
Profile
Before the stadium was built, the site for the stadium was used as a prison from 1949 to 1959, known as Detention Camp to incarcerate communists during Malayan Emergency period (Darurat in Malay).
The construction of the stadium started in January 1964 and completed by June 1965, with a maximum capacity of 10,000. Two following renovations increased the stadium capacity - 1975 (18,000) and 1993 (30,000).
The stadium was upgraded in 1997. for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. It was renovated in 1999 at a cost of RM 1,949,000 by the Perak state government. It was put under the administration of the Ipoh City Council, which oversees the general upkeep of the stadium until this day.
Since the last refurbishment in 1997, the capacity of the stadium is 42,500 and it boasts a press box and a VIP-area which is normally used by the Sultan of Perak. The stadium features a FIFA standard football pitch and an IAAF-certified synthetic running track. The stadium also has monochromatic video matrix scoreboard.
The stadium has two types of seating, which is grandstand seating and normal seating. Only those seating in the grandstand are sheltered from the elements of nature.
The stadium has a notoriously problematic flood light system. There are four flood light towers surrounding the stadium and about 50% fail to light up when it is needed. Poor pitch conditions are also a norm at this stadium and coaches are known to have publicly voiced their discontent over this issue.
However, the issue was settled comprehensively and the light towers are upgraded to international football standard. On 7 May 2013, Perak FA defeated Negeri Sembilan FA 2–1 in a Malaysian Super League match in the first sporting event after the stadium flood lights upgrading.
Usage
Today, the stadium is not regularly used for events other than football. Events such as military band competitions and school sports days are held at the Perak Stadium sporadically.
The Perak FA, which plays its football in the Malaysian Super League, considers Perak Stadium to be its homeground and their matches are the only times when the stadium experiences capacity crowds.
It is a preferred venue for football final matches when the teams involved do not originate near the Klang Valley area such as the Malaysia FA Cup final matches for 1997 (Selangor FA vs. Penang FA) and 2003 (Negeri Sembilan FA vs. Perlis FA). Some parties have criticised the Football Association of Malaysia for failing to move the finals of 2006 Malaysian FA Cup (Pahang FA vs. Perlis FA) to this stadium, where attendance levels were likely to be higher than the one eventually experienced at Bukit Jalil.
The stadium also held numerous final matches or championship for FAM Cup, Piala Emas Raja-Raja, Agong Cup, Burnley Cup and Bardhan Cup.
See also
Sport in Malaysia
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20140327083902/http://www.worldstadiums.com/asia/countries/malaysia.shtml
http://www.mbi.gov.my/web/guest/sukan_rekreasi
Football venues in Malaysia
Athletics (track and field) venues in Malaysia
Multi-purpose stadiums in Malaysia
Buildings and structures in Ipoh
Sports venues in Perak
1965 establishments in Malaysia
Perak F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perak%20Stadium |
Écouen () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The 19th-century poet and playwright Pierre-Joseph Charrin (1784–1863) died in Écouen. The artist Louis Théophile Hingre lived and worked in Écouen.
Écouen houses the Château d'Écouen, home of the Montmorency family. This château, built during the Renaissance, houses the Musée national de la Renaissance, the largest Renaissance museum in France.
Population
Transport
Écouen is served by Écouen – Ézanville station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station is located at the border between the commune of Écouen and the commune of Ézanville, on the Ézanville side of the border.
See also
Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
References
External links
Tourism office board
Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise
Musée National de la Renaissance
Communes of Val-d'Oise | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89couen |
Kottarathil Sankunni (born Vasudevan, 1855–1937) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. Best known as the author of Aithihyamala, an eight-volume compilation of century-old legends about Kerala, Sankunni's writings cover prose and poetry, including verses for Kathakali and Ottan Thullal. He was one of the founding members of Bhashaposhini Sabha founded by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai and was also involved with Bharata Vilasam Sabha, another literary initiative. He died on July 22, 1937.
Biography
Kottarathil Sankunni was born on March 23, 1855, at Kodimatha, in Kottayam district of the south Indian state of Kerala (erstwhile Travancore) to Vasudevan Unni-Nangayya couple. The boy, whose name at birth was Vasudevan but was called Thanku, Sanku and later Sankunni, did his early schooling under the tutelage of a local teacher and later, studied Sanskrit under Manarkattu Sanku Warrier and traditional medicine under Vayskara Aryan Narayanan Mooss. He joined Malayala Manorama in 1890 as the editor of their poetry section during which time he tutored a few Britishers the language of Malayalam. In 1893, he was selected as a Malayalam teacher at M. C. High School.
Sankunni married for the first time in 1881 but after the death of his first wife, married Evoor Panaveliveettil Sreedevi Amma in 1887. he married twice more, the brides were Panaveli Lakshmy Amma and Pengali Thekkethu Devaki Amma.
He died on 22 July 1937, at the age of 82.
Legacy
Sankunni's contributions cover both prose and poetry, including Kathakali literature, Thullal, kilipattu, vanchipattu and other genres of literature. His works include:
Aithihyamala, a collection of legendary stories including those about Kadamattathu Kathanar, Kayamkulam Kochunni, Parayi petta panthirukulam and others.
Sreerama pattabhishekam (Kathakali)
Adhdhyathmaramayanam (Translation)
He was also involved with two literary initiatives, the Bhashaposhini Sabha founded by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai and the Bharata Vilasam Sabha, an organization where most of the literary figures of that period were members.
Aithihyamala
Sankunni started compiling the legends of Kerala in 1909 and it took over a quarter to a century for him to complete the work. Aithihyamala (Garland of Legends), once completed was an eight-volume compilation of legends and old stories, popular in Kerala over the centuries. The work comprises eight volumes, containing 126 chapters. It was first serialised in Bhashaposhini literary magazine. Later, it was published by the Reddiar Press in Quilon, in the early twentieth century. Kottarathil Sankunni Memorial Committee entrusted National Book Stall to reprint the work in 1974 and in 1991, D. C. Books published it in a new format. The book is known to have sold over 150,000 copies until 2004.
Bibliography
Selected works
Translations into English
References
External links
1855 births
1937 deaths
Writers from Kottayam
Malayali people
Malayalam-language writers
Indian male poets
19th-century Indian poets
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Kerala
19th-century Indian male writers
20th-century Indian male writers
Writers from British India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottarathil%20Sankunni |
Stark Raving Mad is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 23, 1999, to July 13, 2000. The series starred Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris.
Synopsis
Shalhoub stars as odd horror novelist Ian Stark, who is obsessed with practical jokes, and whose first book Below Ground was a best seller. Neil Patrick Harris is Stark's reluctant editor Henry McNeeley, who has a variety of phobias and possibly obsessive–compulsive disorder.
On January 10, 2000, the sitcom won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Comedy Series. The sitcom premiered on September 23, 1999, and was officially cancelled by NBC on April 15, 2000, despite being ranked 19th among all programs with an average of 15.5 million viewers, as it held poor retention rates from its lead-in, Frasier, and was consistently beaten by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the same timeslot.
Cast
Main
Tony Shalhoub as Ian Stark
Neil Patrick Harris as Henry McNeeley
Eddie McClintock as Jake Donovan
Dorie Barton as Tess Farraday
Heather Paige Kent as Margaret 'Maddie' Keller (this role was originally to be played by Jessica Cauffiel who appeared in several early cast photos)
Recurring and Guest Stars
Harriet Sansom Harris as Audrey
Chris Sarandon as Cesar
Dina Waters as Katherine 'Kit' Yate
Kellie Waymire as the other Tess, Tess Farraday's co-worker in the museum
Episodes
International airings
In some countries the series was renamed: Loco enloquecido (Latin America), Stark, loco de atar (Spain), Splitter Pine Gal (Norway), Kreisi kynäniekka (Finland) and "En förläggares mardröm" (Sweden).
References
External links
TKtv info
1999 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
1990s American sitcoms
2000s American sitcoms
Television shows set in New York City
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series by Steven Levitan Productions
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows about writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%20Raving%20Mad%20%28TV%20series%29 |
The Afrikaner Party (AP) was a South African political party from 1941 to 1951.
Origins
The Afrikaner Party's roots can be traced back to September 1939, when South Africa declared war on Germany shortly after the start of World War II. The then Prime Minister J.B.M. Hertzog and his followers did not agree with this move and broke away from the United Party to form the Volksparty (People's Party).
The Volksparty later split: one faction joined the Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party (Purified National Party) to form the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) while the other faction became the Afrikaner Party under the leadership of N.C. Havenga.
Coalition
After the 1948 South African general election the Herenigde National Party and Afrikaner Party formed a coalition in order to achieve an absolute majority in parliament. The Afrikaner Party was very much the junior partner in this, however, and in 1951, the two parties amalgamated to become the National Party.
Election results
References
Winkler Prins Encyclopedie 1955, deur: red. Winkler Prins.
Nuwe Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika: T. Cameron. 1986, Human & Rousseau.
1941 establishments in South Africa
1951 disestablishments in Africa
Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner organizations
Boer nationalism
Defunct political parties in South Africa
Nationalist parties in South Africa
Political parties disestablished in 1951
Political parties established in 1941
Political parties of minorities
Protestant political parties
Separatism in South Africa
White nationalist parties in South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner%20Party |
Jim Zoet (born December 20, 1953) is a Canadian former professional basketball player.
Born in Uxbridge, Ontario, Zoet played college basketball for the Kent State Golden Flashes in the United States and the Lakehead Thunderwolves in Canada. Zoet was a member of the 1980 Canadian Olympic Men's Basketball Team, and he also played professionally in the Netherlands, England, Argentina, Mexico and the Philippines. Undrafted, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 1982–83 season for the Detroit Pistons, appearing in 7 games and scoring 2 points. Zoet and Brian Heaney are the only two U Sports players to have played in an NBA game.
References
External links
College statistics
1953 births
Living people
Basketball people from Ontario
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in England
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian men's basketball players
1978 FIBA World Championship players
1990 FIBA World Championship players
Centers (basketball)
Detroit Pistons players
Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball players
Lakehead Thunderwolves basketball players
National Basketball Association players from Canada
People from Uxbridge, Ontario
Sportspeople from the Regional Municipality of Durham
Undrafted National Basketball Association players
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
Philippine Basketball Association imports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Zoet |
XPC may refer to the following:
Pecheneg language, ISO 639-3 code 'xpc'
Shuttle XPC, popular line of barebones computers and cases.
SPEC XPC, the X Performance Characterization group working under the SPEC GPC group.
Xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group C, a human gene
xPC Target, a product from MathWorks
XPC Golf Clubs, a proprietary brand from Golfsmith | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPC |
Johannes Abraham "Johan" de Meij (; born November 23, 1953 in Voorburg) is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1 for wind ensemble, nicknamed The Lord of the Rings symphony.
Biography
Johan de Meij received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he studied trombone and conducting. His Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings, received the Sudler Composition Prize and has been recorded by ensembles including The London Symphony Orchestra, The North Netherlands Orchestra, The Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Amsterdam Wind Orchestra.
Before turning exclusively to composing and conducting, Johan de Meij played trombone and euphonium; he performed with major ensembles in The Netherlands. He is the principal guest conductor of the New York Wind Symphony and the Kyushu Wind Orchestra in Fukuoka, Japan; he is a regular guest conductor of the Simón Bolívar Youth Wind Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan educational system El Sistema. He is founder and CEO of the publishing company Amstel Music, which he established in 1989. When not traveling, de Meij divides his time between Hudson Valley and Manhattan with his wife Dyan.
His Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings", first performed in 1988, won the Sudler Composition Award in 1989. It has been recorded by several orchestras.
Works
1979 Patchwork for brass sextet
1984-1988 Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings"
1988 Loch Ness - A Scottish Fantasy
1989 Aquarium opus 5
1993 Symphony No. 2 "The Big Apple" (A New York Symphony)
1995 Polish Christmas Music- Part 1 (based on the Polish Christmas carols Poklon Jezusowi; Mizerna, cicha; Aniol pasterzom mówil; Gdy sliczna Panna and Jam jest dudka)
1995 Jazz Suite No.2 (of Dmitri Shostakovich) Classical transcription for symphonic/fanfare band
1996 T-Bone Concerto for trombone and concert band
1997 Continental Overture
1998 La Quintessenza
2000 Casanova for cello solo and symphonic wind orchestra
2002 The Venetian Collection
Klezmer Classics for wind orchestra
The Wind in the Willows
2005 Extreme Make-over (Testpiece for the European Brass Band Contest 2005, Groningen-NL)
2005 Ceremonial Fanfare
2006 Symphony No. 3 "Planet Earth"
2006 Windy City Overture - commissioned by the Northshore Concert Band
2007 Canticles for Bass Trombone and Wind Orchestra
2007 Festive Hymn
2008 Dutch Masters Suite
2009? Evolution
2010 Spring - Overture for Wind Orchestra
2010 At Kitty O'Sheas (Irish Folk Song Suite)
2011 Cloud Factory
2011 "Songs from the Catskills"
2011? Sinfonietta no. 1 (for brass band)
2012 UFO Concerto for Euphonium
2012 Extreme Beethoven - commissioned by in Kerkrade
2013 Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonie der Lieder" (to texts by Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich Heine, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
2013 Basilica sacra
2013 Summer
2014 Downtown divertimento
Madurodam
Pentagram
R.O.K Navy Fanfare
2019 Symphony No. 5 "Return to Middle Earth"
2022 The Painted Bird
References
External links
1953 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
20th-century classical trombonists
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century Dutch male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century classical trombonists
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century Dutch male musicians
Brass band composers
Concert band composers
Dutch classical composers
Dutch classical trombonists
Dutch conductors (music)
Dutch male classical composers
Male conductors (music)
Male trombonists
People from Voorburg
Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20de%20Meij |
Gustav Ammann (1885–1955) was a Swiss landscape architect who worked in the modernist style. His former home is now the Gustav-Ammann-Park in Zurich.
Biography
Son of the district court president, he grew up on an estate within a large park, the Bürgli, in Zurich. When he was sixteen years old, he apprenticed as a gardener in Zurich. From 1905 to 1911, he studied at the Magdeburg School of Arts and Crafts. After completing his apprenticeship, he began working for the company of Otto Froebel and Heirs as a landscape architect, remaining until 1933. There he coincided with the landscape architect Ernst Cramer, who years later was responsible for training a young Richard Neutra. In those years, he was also associated with the Swiss Werkbund.
In 1934 he set up his studio in Zurich. From then on, he worked with some of the most important Swiss architects of the time, such as Max Frisch, Max Ernst Haefeli and Werner Max Moser, members of the CIAM.
Among his works were numerous projects for gardens and parks associated with modernism. He also published a book entitled "Flowering Gardens". And after the Second World War, his works would become exemplary for the reconstruction of Europe.
Works
Ammann was affiliated with many projects across Switzerland, namely the gardens of the Zurich Airport, the gardens of a public housing site and Friedbad Allenmoos a large park in Oerlikon
References
1885 births
1955 deaths
Swiss landscape architects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Ammann |
Lazarus (), surnamed Zographos (Ζωγράφος, "the Painter"), is a 9th-century Byzantine Christian saint. He is also known as Lazarus the Painter and Lazarus the Iconographer. Born in Armenia on November 17, 810, he lived before and during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm. Lazarus was the first saint to be canonized specifically as an iconographer. He was later followed by Saint Catherine of Bologna.
Life and times
Lazarus became a monk at an early age and is thought to have studied the art of painting at the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople. Lazarus was noted to possess the following virtues: love for Christ, asceticism, prayer, and rejection of the vanities of the world. He was further recognized for his acts of self-control, discipline and alms-giving, then made a priest. In his lifetime he was highly regarded and well known for his frescos. He used faith and ritual as a means to transcribe his inner contemplation onto the images he painted. Thus, his ability to paint icons was seen as a gift given by God. During the reign of Theophilos (), an iconoclast emperor opposed to all holy images, Lazarus stubbornly continued his craft of painting icons and began restoring images defaced by heretics. Theophilos sought out Lazarus, who was then famous for his painting, and intended to make an example of him. After being asked several times to cease painting, Lazarus was brought before the emperor where he refused to destroy any of the images he painted. The emperor soon found that Lazarus was above flattery and bribery. He was then threatened with the death penalty, which at the time was not an uncommon outcome for those who favored icons (iconodules). However, Lazarus being a man of the cloth, could not be put to death and so he was instead thrown in prison. During his imprisonment he was subjected to such "severe torture that the ladders flesh melted away along with his blood." He was left to die of his wounds but recovered. He then began to paint holy images on panels from his prison cell. Hearing of this, Theophilos gave orders to have "sheets of red hot iron to be applied to the palms of his hands where, as a result, he lost consciousness and lay half dead." It is also said his hands were burned with red-hot horseshoes until his flesh melted to the bone.
As Lazarus lay on his deathbed, the Empress Theodora, an iconodule, convinced Theophilos to release Lazarus from prison. Lazarus found refuge at Tou Phoberou, a secluded church of St. John the Forerunner once located in Phoberos on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus. The Church is believed to have once functioned as an imperial monastery that housed as many as one-hundred and seventy monks. After the death of Theophilos in 842, Theodora asked Lazarus to forgive her husband's actions, to which he replied "God is not so unjust, O, Empress, as to forget our love and labors on his behalf, and attach greater value to that mans hatred and extraordinary insanity." Lazarus served as a model of perseverance for those who had suffered from iconoclast persecution.
Attributed artworks
After the restoration of the icons in 843, Lazarus was again free to pursue his painting. Despite his previous wounds, Lazarus was said to have painted a large fresco of St. John at the Phoberos Monastery. The painted icon was known to have the power to perform cures and miracles. That same year, he also famously restored a portrait of Christ known as the Christ Chalkites (Christ of the Chalke) over the Chalke Gate, a ceremonial entrance of the Great Palace of Constantinople. Neither of these two works survive today. Lazarus was also accredited with the mosaic decoration of the apse of Hagia Sophia within the pilgrim accounts of Antony, Archbishop of Novgorod during a visit to Constantinople. Antony described the mosaic as depicting the Mother of God holding a Child Christ flanked by two angels, which was noted to have been seen by both Emperor Basil l and Michael III () before his death the same year. However, these accounts are dated several centuries later in .
Ambassador to Rome
In 856, Lazarus was served as a diplomat for Michael III, Theophilos and Theodora's son, who sent him as an emissary to visit Pope Benedict III to discuss the possibility of reconciliation between the Catholic Church of Rome and the Orthodox Church, who at this point had very strained relations. In 865, during his second mission to the Pope, Lazarus died at Rome on 28 September, although Raymond Janin disputes the date. He was buried in the Monastery of Evanderes, near Constantinople.
The feast day of Saint Lazarus Zographos is 17 November in the Orthodox calendar, and 23 February in the Roman Catholic calendar.
References
Year of birth uncertain
865 deaths
9th-century Byzantine monks
9th-century Christian saints
Byzantine Iconoclasm
Byzantine painters
9th-century Christian monks
Byzantine people of Armenian descent
Byzantine prisoners and detainees
Ambassadors of the Byzantine Empire to the Holy See
Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Armenian Roman Catholic saints
Armenian saints
Studite monks
810s births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus%20Zographos |
Green Monday is an online retail industry term similar to Cyber Monday. The term was coined by Shopping.com, an eBay company, in 2007 to describe the best eCommerce sales day in December, usually the second Monday of December. After doing some internal research, they realized that the second Monday in December was the last day that shoppers were able to place an online order that would arrive in time for the holidays. Green Monday is defined more specifically by business research organization comScore as the last Monday with at least 10 days prior to Christmas.
In 2009, $854 million was spent online in the US on Green Monday, with sales in 2011 reaching $1.133 billion. In 2012, Green Monday topped out at $1.27 billion, up 13% from 2011 and the third heaviest online sales day for the season behind Cyber Monday and Dec. 4, 2012 (which had no marketing tie-in), according to comScore.
See also
Green Friday
Black Friday (shopping)
Buy Nothing Day
Small Business Saturday
Super Saturday (Panic Saturday)
Cyber Monday
Giving Tuesday
References
Business terms
E-commerce in the United States
Monday observances
December observances
Holidays and observances by scheduling (nth weekday of the month) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Monday |
Melvin Hall Jr. (born September 16, 1960) is an American former professional baseball player and convicted sex offender. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1981 to 1992 with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and in 1996 with the San Francisco Giants. Additionally he played in Japan from 1993 to 1995. He primarily played as an outfielder. On June 17, 2009, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of sexual assault against minors.
Playing career
Hall made his MLB debut in 1981 with the Chicago Cubs. In his first full Major League season in 1983, Hall hit 17 home runs in 112 games. In 1987, he had the best fielding percentage and range factor of all MLB left-fielders.
In 1991, when Bernie Williams was a rookie, Hall made fun of him by giving him the nickname "Zero". It was alleged that when Williams would talk, Hall would scream "Shut up, Zero!" at him, nearly making him cry. In , Hall hit 15 home runs, drove in a career-high 81 RBIs and had a career high of 163 hits in 152 games with the New York Yankees. During that year's Yankees Old-Timers' Day, he walked onto the field and asked manager Buck Showalter, "Who are these old fucking guys?" Showalter said: "That's when I knew he had to go." That season he earned $1.2 million.
Following the season, after his contract expired and no major league team showed interest in him, the 32-year-old left the major leagues, agreeing to a two-year $4 million contract to play in Japan. He returned to the U.S. to play for the San Francisco Giants in 1996, but was released a month into the season after registering only three singles in 25 games. He signed a minor-league contract with the Chicago White Sox, but was released 12 days later after only playing four games with their Triple-A affiliate, the Nashville Sounds. He retired shortly thereafter.
Sexual assault conviction
Hall was arrested in Lewisville, Texas, on June 21, 2007, and charged with two counts of sexual assault after police in North Richland Hills, Texas, received a report from a woman who reported she was sexually assaulted in March 1999, when she was under the age of 17. During the investigation, a second victim under the age of 14 was identified. One of these girls was 12 at the time of the rape. On June 16, 2009, Hall was convicted on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. On June 17, 2009, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison, with 22 years and 4 months minimum. Hall is currently serving his sentence at H. H. Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas; his earliest possible parole will be November 15, 2031.
In 2014, SB Nation published a long-form article detailing allegations that Hall serially preyed upon and sexually abused numerous girls throughout his career.
See also
Chad Curtis, major league baseball player convicted of sexual assault
Luis Polonia, major league baseball player convicted of sexual assault
References
External links
Mel Hall Hassles Williams''
1960 births
Living people
African-American baseball players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
American people convicted of child sexual abuse
American sportspeople convicted of crimes
Baseball players from New York (state)
Chiba Lotte Marines players
Chicago Cubs players
Chunichi Dragons players
Cleveland Indians players
Coastal Bend Aviators players
Fort Worth Cats players
Geneva Cubs players
Gulf Coast Cubs players
Iowa Cubs players
Major League Baseball left fielders
Midland Cubs players
Nashville Sounds players
New York Yankees players
Nippon Professional Baseball designated hitters
People from Lyons, New York
Prisoners and detainees of Texas
San Francisco Giants players
Springfield/Ozark Mountain Ducks players
People from Cayuga County, New York
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Hall |
A paragraphos (, , from , 'beside', and , 'to write') was a mark in ancient Greek punctuation, marking a division in a text (as between speakers in a dialogue or drama) or drawing the reader's attention to another division mark, such as the two dot punctuation mark .
There are many variants of this symbol, sometimes supposed to have developed from Greek gamma (), the first letter of the word . It was usually placed at the beginning of a line and trailing a little way under or over the text.
It was referenced by Aristotle, who was dismissive of its use.
Unicode encodes multiple versions:
See also
Obelus and Obelism, Greek marginal notes
Coronis, the Greek paragraph mark
Pilcrow (¶), the English paragraph mark
Section sign (§), the English section mark
References
Writing
Punctuation
Ancient Greek punctuation
pl:Paragraf | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraphos |
Barnhill railway station is in Glasgow, Scotland, north of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by ScotRail.
It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction). The line opened to goods traffic in 1875, but the station here was not opened until 1 October 1883, when the passenger service was extended from . Services through to Springburn were not introduced until 1887.
The Bellgrove to Springburn line was electrified by British Rail in 1960 as part of the North Clyde line scheme.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service from Barnhill to Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (usually to via Yoker) southbound and to Springburn northbound. Connections are available at the latter for stations further east.
Sundays see an hourly service between Partick and Springburn between 9am and 8pm.
References
External links
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1883
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Springburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnhill%20railway%20station |
Lars Erik Hansen (born September 27, 1954) is a former Danish-Canadian basketball center in the National Basketball Association for the Seattle SuperSonics. He also was a member of the Cinzano Milano, Eldorado Roma, OAR Ferrol and FC Barcelona Bàsquet in Europe. He played college basketball at the University of Washington.
Hansen contributed to the Canada men's national basketball team finishing in eighth-place at the 1974 FIBA World Championship, for the first time in twenty years. He participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, helping Canada to a fourth place finish. In 2006, he was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2014, he was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
Early years
Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1956, two years after his birth, his family settled in Coquitlam, British Columbia. He later became a basketball star at Centennial Secondary School.
In 1971, he led the team to the B.C. High School Boys' provincial semifinals, losing to Vancouver College. In 1972, the team won the B.C. Provincial title, while he received AAA Provincial tournament MVP honors for the second straight year and the Vic Andrews Award winner as the B.C. High School Athlete of the year. He also practiced baseball as a pitcher.
College career
Hansen accepted a basketball scholarship from the University of Washington. Hansen appeared in 95 games during his college career, averaging 9.9 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He also played on the baseball team as a pitcher and was offered a contract by the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball as a junior.
As a freshman in the 1972–73 season, he was named the starter at center, averaging 7.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per contest.
As a sophomore in the 1973–74 season, with the arrival of center James Edwards, he had a backup role. He also missed 5 games with a chipped bone in his wrist. He posted 6.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.
As a junior in the 1974–75 season, he was moved to a sixth man role from the bench, averaging 10.3 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.
As a senior in the 1975–76 season, he was named the starter at power forward, averaging 14.2 points (third on the team) and 7.5 rebounds (led the team) per game. He also contributed to the team having a 22-6 record, qualifying for the school's first NCAA basketball tournament appearance since 1953 and finishing the regular season ranked No. 11. This was also the last team to defeat (103-81) a John Wooden squad, as the legendary coach would retire after the season, having won his 10th National Championship.
Professional career
Hansen was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the third round (37th overall) of the 1976 NBA draft. He instead opted to sign with the Cinzano Milano in Italy's second-tier Serie A2 Basket, where he averaged 19.2 points per game during the 1976–77 season. He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the seventh round (151st overall) of the 1977 NBA draft. He decided to remain in Italy, where he played for the Cinzano Milano in the 1977–78 season.
On September 14, 1978, he signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls. He was waived on October 10. On December 15 of that year, he was signed by the Seattle SuperSonics to a 10-day contract. He later signed a contract for the balance of the season. He appeared in 15 games as a backup behind Jack Sikma, averaging 5.1 points and 3.9 rebounds. He was part of the franchise's title season and became the first Canadian to appear on an NBA championship roster. He also holds the distinction as being the first Denmark-born player in the NBA. On January 18, 1979, he was released make room for Center Dennis Awtrey.
On April 12, 1979, he was signed by the Kansas City Kings. He was released on September 26. Later that year, he signed with Eldorado Roma in Italy's Lega Basket Serie A. In 1980, he moved to play in the Spain's Liga ACB with the OAR Ferrol for the 1980-81 season, where he led the league in scoring and rebounding, while being named Player of the Year. In the 1981-1982 season, he signed with the FC Barcelona Bàsquet, contributing to the team winning the Spanish league championship. He also competed in the European Cup of Champions. He retired from professional basketball in 1983.
References
1954 births
Living people
Basketball people from British Columbia
Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Canadian expatriate basketball people in Italy
Canadian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Canadian men's basketball players
1974 FIBA World Championship players
Centers (basketball)
Chicago Bulls draft picks
Danish emigrants to Canada
FC Barcelona Bàsquet players
Los Angeles Lakers draft picks
National Basketball Association players from Canada
Naturalized citizens of Canada
Olimpia Milano players
Olympic basketball players for Canada
Sportspeople from Coquitlam
Seattle SuperSonics players
Sportspeople from Copenhagen
Washington Huskies baseball players
Washington Huskies men's basketball players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Hansen%20%28basketball%29 |
Alexandra Parade railway station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is east of on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by ScotRail.
It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction).
Services
2tph to via Glasgow Queen St Low Level, Yoker and
2tph to Springburn
On Sundays, an hourly Partick to Springburn service each way operates between 9am and 8pm.
References
Sources
External links
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1881 establishments in Scotland
Dennistoun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Parade%20railway%20station |
One Love is the second studio album by English boy band Blue, released on 4 November 2002 in the United Kingdom and on 21 October 2003 in the United States. The album peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart, where it stayed for one week. On 20 December 2003 it was certified 4× Platinum in the UK.
Three singles were released from the album: "One Love", which peaked at number three, "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word", featuring Elton John, which peaked at number one, and "U Make Me Wanna", which peaked at number four.
Singles
"One Love" — The debut single, released in October 2002. The single peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 36 on the Australian Top 40, at No. 5 in New Zealand and No. 4 in Ireland. The song has received a Silver sales status certification for sales of over 200,000 copies in the UK.
"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" — The second single, released in December 2002, featuring guest vocals from Elton John. The song is a cover version of Elton's number one hit. The single peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 43 on the Australian Top 100, No. 5 in New Zealand and No. 3 in Ireland. The song has received a Gold sales status certification for sales of over 500,000 copies in the UK.
"U Make Me Wanna" — The third single, released in March 2003. The single peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was produced by multi-platinum producers StarGate & co-written by Steve Robson, John McLaughlin and Tom Wilkins. The song has sales of over 100,000 copies in the UK.
"Supersexual" — Released as a single exclusively in Spain and South America in May 2003. The single peaked at No. 3 on the Spanish Singles Chart, becoming one of Blue's most successful singles in the region. A music video was recorded, featuring footage from the group's One Love tour.
Critical reception
The Guardian critic Caroline Sullivan called the album "a decent showing from one of the less idiotic boy bands. She found that Blue's previous album All Rise "was such a sterling example of what thoughtful production can achieve in the boy-band genre that they can be excused for duplicating it across this album. The strategy essentially pays off, though half a dozen of the 15 tracks [...] could have been left on the cutting-room floor. Things amble along in a satisfyingly low-key way, with as much attention lavished on strong, soulful harmonies as laid-back R&B trimmings." Sharon Mawer from AllMusic rated the album three stars out of five.
Track listing
Notes
The Japanese Deluxe Edition comes with a bonus DVD of the One Love Live Tour.
signifies a co-producer
signifies an additional producer
Tour
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications and sales
Trivia
In 2004, the "Invitation" song was used as a TV commercial theme song for the Aqua drinking product Aqua Splash of Fruit, produced by Aqua Danone in Indonesia.
References
2002 albums
Blue (English band) albums
Albums produced by Stargate
Albums produced by Cutfather | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Love%20%28Blue%20album%29 |
Duke Street Railway Station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, 1½ miles (2 km) north east of .
It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction). Though goods traffic began using the line in 1875, the station was not opened until 1881 with trains initially running as far as Alexandra Park (as it was then known). An extension to Barnhill followed two years later, but it was not until 1887 that they finally reached .
Electric operation at the station began in 1960 (using the 25 kV A.C overhead system), when the branch from Bellgrove was incorporated into the North Clyde line electrification scheme. Through running to Cumbernauld began in May 2014 - prior to this a change at Springburn was required.
Services
Monday to Saturday there is a half-hourly service northbound to and southbound to and beyond (usually to ).
The proposed timetable changes in 2022 would create a half hourly service in each direction at Duke Street, going eastbound to and westbound to
On Sundays, an hourly service between Partick and Springburn call in each direction between 9am and 8pm (there was no service on Sundays prior to May 2015).
References
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1881 establishments in Scotland
Dennistoun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Street%20railway%20station |
Xmark93 is a standardized benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of computer systems running the X Window System. It was developed by the SPEC XPC group in 1993.
Xmark93 allows systems evaluators and vendors to compare the performance of X server/hardware systems for a broad set of X basic functions, covering a wide range of applications. The benchmark provides a standardized method for summarizing X11perf results, providing a single-number measure of overall X11 server/hardware performance.
Specifications
Xmark93 is derived by calculating the ratio between the geometrically weighted mean of the 447 individual X11perf tests for the server/hardware being evaluated and the corresponding results from a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 1. Weightings for each of the X11perf tests were obtained by a survey of X11 technical experts. The weightings reflect the experts' ratings of the relative importance of individual X11perf operations within a wide mix of applications.
Benchmarks (computing)
X Window System | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmark93 |
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship was an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network. It is a $25,000 "buy-in" invitation-only tournament organized as a series of one-on-one games of no limit Texas hold 'em matches. The participants include many of the world's most successful poker players, as well as celebrities.
The championship was the first poker event to be televised on and produced by a major U.S. television network.
In October 2011, NBC announced that the National Heads-Up Poker Championship would not return in 2012, ending the championship's seven-year run. After a one-year hiatus, the tournament returned for a final time in 2013.
The $25,000 buy-in event ran from Jan. 24 through 26 at Caesars Palace, the same venue where the event was held from 2006 through 2011.
In February 2014, NBC announced the National Heads-Up Poker Championship would not return in 2014.
The Heads-Up Championship had been sponsored by online poker companies before Black Friday. The World Series of Poker (WSOP.com) is the new presenting sponsor.
Structure
The single-elimination tournament is modeled after college basketball tournaments. Players who win a match advance to the next round; the player who wins six matches is crowned champion.
The first round is seeded randomly the night before the tournament begins. Players are divided into four brackets – Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades. A participant advances by winning a heads-up match against his or her randomly drawn opponent. The structure of the brackets then determines every match thereafter. The semifinals consist of one player from each bracket, with the winner of the Spades bracket playing the winner of the Clubs bracket, and the winner of the Hearts bracket matched up against the winner of the Diamonds bracket. A best-of-three final match then determines which of the two finalists is crowned champion.
Brief history
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an invitation-only event. In contrast, the World Heads-Up Poker Championship is an open event with a maximum participation of 128 players.
The 2005 event took place at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas between March 4 and March 6. It aired weekly on NBC from May 1 to May 22 with commentary from Gabe Kaplan and Matt Vasgersian.
The 2006 edition took place from March 4 to 6 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. NBC began its coverage by broadcasting one part of the opening round on April 16. The semi-final and championship matches aired May 21. Kaplan and Vasgersian returned as commentators.
The 2007 edition was broadcast from April 8 to May 20. Ali Nejad took Gabe Kaplan's spot as commentator due to Kaplan competing in the tournament.
Results
See also
Poker After Dark
High Stakes Poker
World Series of Poker
References
Poker tournaments
NBC original programming
Television shows about poker
Poker in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Heads-Up%20Poker%20Championship |
Saint-Gratien is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
History
On August 7, 1850, a part of the territory of Saint-Gratien was detached and merged with a part of the territory of Deuil-la-Barre, a part of the territory of Soisy-sous-Montmorency, and a part of the territory of Épinay-sur-Seine to create the commune of Enghien-les-Bains. On that occasion the commune of Saint-Gratien lost the scenic lake now known as the Lake of Enghien.
Population
Transport
Saint-Gratien is served by Saint-Gratien station on Paris RER line and by the bus number 138 going to Paris — Porte de Clichy.
See also
Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
References
External links
Official website
Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise
Communes of Val-d'Oise | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gratien%2C%20Val-d%27Oise |
Gregory Allen Howard (January 28, 1952 – January 27, 2023) was an American journalist, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter. He is best known for composing the screenplay to Disney’s award-winning mega movie staple Remember the Titans, a film chronicling the real life story of the racial barrier-breaking T.C. Williams High School football team recognized as the sports force to incite community integration in its notoriously Deep South-segregated Alexandria, Virginia of 1971. Howard is the first African American screenwriter in Hollywood history to script a $100 million dollar-generating motion picture drama, and the only African American screenwriter in film history to write a spec script that garnered $100 million dollars in revenue.
Early life
Gregory Allen Howard was born on January 28, 1952 in Norfolk, Virginia. As the second of two children born to Narcissus Cole Howard, a full time mother-turned school teacher, and Lowry Marion Howard, Gregory and sister Debbie would see their mother's marriage to their "card shark" father end in divorce early on their childhood. When Gregory was five-years-old, mother Narcissus was remarried to Lenard Henley, a US Navy sailor who would become step-father to Gregory and older sister Debbie and would go on to father Gregory's younger sister Lynette Henley and brother Michael Henley. Due to his stepfather's military naval duty, Gregory and his family engaged annum-frequencies of out-of-state moves to Navy bases set in several different US cities. Over the course of a decade of Gregory's coming of age years, between the ages of five and 15, the Howard-Henley family moved a total of ten times. The period of relocations, which included stops in Norfolk, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Diego, California, Charleston, South Carolina, is an era that Gregory Howard described in his own words as "a vagabond existence that you live as a Navy family." Eventually, the family settled in "The Navy City" of Vallejo, California. Howard attended Vallejo High School, where he served as Vallejo High School class president. At Vallejo High, Howard was also an offensive lineman on the Vallejo Red Hawks football team. After attending college at Princeton University, graduating with a degree in American history, Howard briefly worked at Merrill Lynch on Wall Street before moving to Los Angeles in his mid-twenties to pursue a writing career.
Career
Over the next few years Howard worked as a freelance writer and on a number of television shows, including being a story editor for Where I Live and working on the 1990 short-lived FOX series True Colors. Howard also wrote a stage play, Tinseltown Trilogy, which garnered him awards. Tinseltown Trilogy weaves together three interconnected one-act plays that focus on three men in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve.
Howard was then selected for the assignment to write an original screenplay for the biographical film of boxer Muhammad Ali. Having finished the first draft and then moving back to his native Virginia, Howard discovered the story of the 1971 TC Williams Titans. Studio delays and rewrites meant that his first feature film, Ali, was not released until after his next script, Remember the Titans.
Remember the Titans was a spec script written by Gregory Allen Howard after he discovered the unique story of the integrated high school football team that the town of Alexandria, Virginia credited for the town's positive race relations. He based the script on extensive research, including discussions with Coaches Herman Boone and Bill Yoast. Initially Howard encountered difficulty in getting his script produced. Eventually Jerry Bruckheimer agreed to produce the film. Starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton, Remember the Titans became a box-office hit, grossing over $100 million domestically.
After the release of Remember the Titans and Ali, Howard worked on a number of other projects. He was an uncredited writer for Glory Road, a sports drama released in 2006 that focused on Texas Western coach Don Haskins leading the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship in 1966.
In 2004, Howard worked on the script for a film project with Morgan Freeman based on the 761st Tank Battalion, the first black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Howard also wrote a screenplay called Factor X, which Ridley Scott was attached to produce in 2006.
In 2014, Howard completed the screenplay of a movie about the Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War called Night Witches and financed by the grandson of Boris Yeltsin. He co-wrote and co-produced the 2019 Harriet Tubman biographical film Harriet, for which he also received a "story by" credit.
On November 12, 2019, Howard's Black Panther Party script Power to the People was acquired by Paramount Pictures with George Tillman Jr. in talks to direct and Ben Affleck producing.
In 2020, Gregory Allen Howard was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture over his screenplay for the Hollywood biopic film Harriet, based on the life and legacy of Harriet “The Black Moses” Tubman, famed conductor of The Underground Railroad. In the weeks leading to the November 1st, 2019 US movie release of Harriet, Mr. Howard engaged several press interviews with mentions of racial inequality in Hollywood. In a well documented 2019 interview with journalist Alissa Wilkinson, during which time he noted Harriet Tubman as “the underdog of underdogs," Howard, a staunch historian, revealed Harriet the film was 25-years in-the-making. With reference made to the Oscars So White movement, Howard alluded to the change that he said had to happen before Hollywood was ready for film production of his Harriet screenplay. “Listen, I wrote this. It’s my Valentine to black girls,”Howard noted. “If it inspires some black girls that they can do something amazing, then I’ve done my job.”
Death
Howard died from heart failure in Miami on January 27, 2023, one day shy of his 71st birthday.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official site
1952 births
2023 deaths
20th-century African-American writers
20th-century American screenwriters
21st-century African-American writers
21st-century American screenwriters
African-American film producers
African-American screenwriters
African-American television writers
American television writers
Deaths from congestive heart failure
Princeton University alumni
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from Virginia
Writers from Norfolk, Virginia
Writers from Vallejo, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Allen%20Howard |
Redvales is a residential district to the south of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. The population of the Bury Ward at the 2011 census was 11,483. Roughly-speaking, the area occupies the area from Manchester Road to the River Irwell, crossed by Radcliffe Road, Redvales Road and Tarn Drive.
Toponymy
The origin of the name 'Redvales' goes back to the 13th century: it was 'Redgifuhalh' meaning a lady living near a river.
History
Bury's first workhouse, also known as the Redvales workhouse, was built in 1775 to the south of the town on Manchester Road.
From 1890-1918, Redvales was home to Bury Golf Club, where Harry Vardon was professional and greenskeeper, until 1918 when the land was commandeered to support agricultural food production, after which the club moved to nearby Unsworth.
Landmarks
St Peter's Primary School, with Derby High School on its fringes. There are shops on Radcliffe Road and Redvales Road. The Warth Mill was once a major employer for the area, but has since declined. The Warth Mill is situated on the Irwell. Donald MacPherson Paint Company were located here until the 1990s. They supplied paint for the Woolworths chain.
Radcliffe Road was built and opened as recently as 1927. There was a ceremony on Warth Bridge with representatives of both Bury, the mayor Councillor John Hill JP, and Radcliffe taking part.
Housing
Most of Redvales is built up with semi-detached housing, with other main thoroughfares being Cardigan Drive, Brecon Drive, Warth Road, Ribchester Drive and Whitefield Road.
There are some traditional mill cottages near to the Irwell. The poorhouse was also situated at Redvales.
References
Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury
Areas of Greater Manchester
Bury, Greater Manchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redvales |
Bellgrove Railway Station is in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, serving the city's Calton, Gallowgate and south Dennistoun neighbourhoods. The station is approximately to the east of , and is managed by ScotRail.
The station is an island platform served by trains on the North Clyde Line, and provides an interchange between the lines to and .
The station is accessed from Bellgrove Street via stairs, and is approximately a mile (2 km) away from Celtic Park.
History
The station opened in 1871 on the North British Railways Coatbridge branch and the City of Glasgow Union Railway cross-city line from Shields Junction. The City of Glasgow Union Railway (CGUR) added a branch northwestwards to in 1875, to give access to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs by means of running powers over the E&G Sighthill Branch, whilst the impressive terminus at opened a year later. Services on the Coatbridge route did not run there however, the NBR instead using a separate terminus known as College situated on the end of a short spur from the CGUR route southwest of Bellgrove. This only lasted until 1886, when the Glasgow City and District Railway was opened from via a low level station at Queen Street to join the CGUR at High Street East Junction. This was henceforth used by all services from the Coatbridge & direction and also by the newly inaugurated passenger services to Springburn (trains had been progressively introduced on the route prior to this, but only as far as ).
The North British company took over the CGUR in 1896 jointly with the Glasgow and South Western Railway, operating all services on the Springburn line thereafter. Local traffic on the remainder of the line from St Enoch declined in the face of strong competition from the local tram network and by 1902, the one intermediate station at Gallowgate had been closed. Services continued to run from St Enoch to until 1913, but thereafter the line was only used by freight & parcels traffic, periodic excursions & other special trains.
Services beyond Airdrie were withdrawn by British Railways in January 1956, whilst St Enoch closed to passengers a decade later in June 1966 and was subsequently demolished. One more positive development was the North Clyde Line electrification scheme of 1960, which brought overhead wiring to the Queen St LL - Airdrie & Springburn routes in November that year.
The former CGUR route is still used by freight and empty stock transfer moves between Queen Street High Level or Eastfield depot and the city's other main DMU depot at on the south side of Glasgow, whilst the Bathgate link was restored by Network Rail in 2010, after an absence of 28 years.
Bellgrove rail crash
On 6 March 1989, the station was the scene of a head-on collision between two trains on the Springburn branch in which two people died.
Services
From 2010
On Monday to Saturday during the day-time, eight trains per hour (some commencing from Bellgrove) go westbound to and beyond , , etc.) on the North Clyde Line.
Eastbound, there is a service every fifteen minutes towards , half-hourly towards and hourly to .
In the evening, four trains per hour go towards Glasgow Queen Street and there is a half-hourly service to both Springburn and Edinburgh.
On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service westbound to Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central and eastbound to Edinburgh.
2013-14
Westbound there are six trains per hour to Glasgow Queen St and points west (two each to Helensburgh Central, Balloch via Singer, and Dalmuir via Yoker). Milngavie services usually only call at peak periods. Westbound there are four trains to Airdrie and two to Springburn each hour, with two of the Airdrie trains continuing to Edinburgh.
In the evenings there are two trains per hour each to Springburn and Edinburgh eastbound and to Balloch via Singer and Helensburgh via Yoker westbound.
The Sunday service remains unchanged from 2010.
2016
The basic 6 tph frequency remains unchanged in both directions, but the destinations served have been altered as part of the December 2014 timetable recast. Westbound trains now run to Milngavie, Balloch via Singer and Dumbarton Central via Yoker (2tph to each), whilst eastbound there are services to Springburn and Cumbernauld, Airdrie (4tph) and Edinburgh (2tph). On Sundays there are 2tph on the Edinburgh to Helensburgh Central route each way calling and 1 tph between Partick and Cumbernauld.
2018
Changes to the timetable in December 2018 have seen Springburn become the northern terminus for branch services once more (passengers to destinations beyond have to change there once more), though the service frequency remains otherwise unaltered.
Routes
References
Notes
Sources
SPT railway stations
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Bridgeton–Calton–Dalmarnock
Dennistoun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellgrove%20railway%20station |
High Street railway station serves High Street in Glasgow, Scotland and the surrounding area, which includes Townhead, the Merchant City, as well the western fringes of Dennistoun and Calton. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. It is located in the eastern part of the city centre, with Strathclyde University, Glasgow Cathedral and Glasgow Royal Infirmary being major institutions located nearby.
History
The first railway station in the area was College on the City of Glasgow Union Railway which closed with the opening of this station in 1866. The station took its current name at the beginning of 1914.
Plans
As part of the proposed Crossrail Glasgow initiative, High Street station may be demolished and relocated.
Services
2008
There is a regular service Monday to Saturday to and beyond ( etc.) on the North Clyde Line westbound and to and eastbound.
Sundays there is a half-hourly service westbound to Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central and eastbound to Airdrie.
2013
The station has half-hourly services westbound to each of Helensburgh Central (limited stop), Balloch via (stopping), and Dalmuir via (stopping) (8tph in all via Queen Street, Partick and Hyndland). Eastbound there are 6tph to Airdrie, of which 4tph continue all the way to Edinburgh Waverley via (two of these are limited stop, the others call at all intermediate stations). There is also a half-hourly service to Springburn although this has now been extended to Cumbernauld station and also now runs on a Sunday.
On Sundays there is a half-hourly service to Helensburgh via Singer westbound and Edinburgh eastbound.
References
Notes
Sources
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1977
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1981
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1866 establishments in Scotland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Street%20%28Glasgow%29%20railway%20station |
Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park (or CBC Monkstown Park) is a private fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. The college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire via a short stint on Tivoli Road. As of September 2022, it was in its 73rd academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the 165th overall.
The intended mission of the college's former patron, the Congregation of the Christian Brothers established in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice, was the education of poor boys in Ireland by providing them with basic levels of literacy. This was the broad aim of the school when it opened its doors in 1856 at Eblana Avenue in what was then known as Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), a port town south of Dublin City.
As the years went by, the aims of the Christian Brothers got broader and so did those of the Dún Laoghaire school. By the 1920s, the school was preparing boys for the state examinations and sending increasing number of students to third level. The growth in population in Dún Laoghaire, with an increasing Catholic middle class demographic, led to an increase in the demand for the school. To that end, a decision was made to procure Monkstown Park in 1949 and to move the entire secondary department to this location. The school then in effect split, with the secondary department (now known as CBC Monkstown) moving location while the primary school (known as C.B.S. Eblana Avenue) remained at the original site. A private junior school was then opened at the Monkstown College with Eblana Avenue taking secondary students again from 1954.
The ethos of the majority of Christian Brothers schools in Ireland in the early 20th century was a strongly nationalist and Gaelic one. Those schools were known as "CBS" and played Gaelic games. However the Monkstown school, in line with their sister establishment, Christians (CBC Cork), was known as "CBC" and played rugby union as the main team game. Continuing with that differentiation, both schools would be the only 2 of the 96 Christian Brothers schools to abstain from the Free Education Act 1967, which for the first time provided free second-level education for Irish pupils. Both remained in the fee paying sector as of 2017.
The school motto is Certa Bonum Certamen or "fight the good fight" and the school colours are red, black and yellow.
History
On 1 January 1856, the Congregation of Christian Brothers opened a school at Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire, or 'Kingstown' as it was then known. The site was provided by Charles Kennedy, a businessman and head of the local Vincent DePaul.
This was just ten years after the Great Famine, and emigration was rife. The school was called St Michaels Christian Brothers School, and initially educated mainly poor boys from the area. Brother Alphonsus Hoope was appointed as superior of the school. Kingstown during the 19th century was rapidly expanding with the harbour town seeing the addition of the piers and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway opening 20 years before the school.
Hoope arranged for two rooms for teaching, which had to be expanded after three weeks to three due to demand. Within two years, a building housing 400 students was built on the site. Kennedy and the local Vincent DePaul raised funds for the school at a gala dinner at what is now the Royal Marine Hotel Dún Laoghaire. The day-to-day operations of the school was financed from "voluntary subscriptions, solicited and collected by the Brothers". The Brothers residence of the time was located behind the main school building. There were 6 Brothers living on the school grounds, a building separate from the main school block. The school premises was valued in 1859 at £60.
During World War I, a significant number of former pupils of the school went to fight in the war, as part of the 200,000 Irishmen who participated in the war effort. The Dún Laoghaire area suffered over 500 military fatalities during the war, with a significant number of these coming from school. Owing to this, people in Flanders sent a statue to the area to honour the dead. It was felt at the time that the school should take it, as so many of the fatalities were from the school. With the changing political environment at the time however, with the Irish War of Independence underway, this was declined by the school. The statue was instead housed in the Dominican Covent in the town, where it resides still to this day in an oratory purposely designed for it.
The Brothers continued to have a major role in the education system when Ireland gained independence. In 1925 they vacated their premises in the school, moving to the nearby York Road, creating additional space for the school. By this time the school was focusing more on its collegiate department, with increased local competition in the area and a demand for Inter Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes growing as a new middle class sprang up in Dún Laoghaire. Early pupils at the collegiate wing of the school included Dan O'Herlihy and James Dooge.
The school at Eblana prospered to an extent that it became impossible to accommodate both primary and secondary departments in the 19th century buildings, with the Dún Laoghaire parish hall often used to hold classes. Additionally, the Dún Laoghaire site was an urban one, with no greenspace on the site. This was felt to hinder the college against other local schools who could provide on site sports to their students, facilities which the growing middle class demographic of the area expected. A new site was therefore sought for part of the school.
Move to Monkstown Park
The Brothers sought a site for the new part of the school. Traditions were soon adopted from CBC Cork which had been existence since the early 20th century. In 1949 the Brothers purchased the nearby estate of Monkstown Park, which had been most recently occupied by the Protestant Corrig School. In order to procure the grounds, the Brothers released lands at Rochestown Avenue to Dún Laoghaire Corporation which had previously been used as the schools playing pitches. Many local people wanted a public park to be maintained at the site.
CBC abstained from joining the Free Education Scheme introduced by Donagh O'Malley in 1969. The primary reason for not joining the scheme was the significant capital costs involved in maintaining a school the size of CBC. CBC had always charged higher fees than their equivalent Christian Brothers schools. To this day, it remains as one of the 51 secondary schools (7% of the total) in the country that is fee paying.
In 1987 the school was further extended with a new administration building including new offices, a cafeteria, staff room and technology department. In 1994, the Edmund Rice Oratory, was opened.
50 years at Monkstown Park and school redevelopment
In 2000 the college celebrated its Golden Jubilee at Monkstown Park. The school year began with a ceremonial walk from the old Eblana school site to Monkstown Park. Events included a Jubilee Concert and the opening of a wall with the names of all the pupils from the time in Monkstown from 1950 onwards, attended by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.
In 2002 plans for a new school on the site were announced. Considerable controversy was caused in 2005 in the national media when it was announced, as CBC would receive a portion of the costs of funding the building despite being a fee-paying school from the Irish state. Subsequently, the school proceeded with the project with their own finance.
In 2007 the Christian Brothers decided to transfer the trusteeship of the school to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust along with 96 other Christian Brothers schools.
A new 12 classroom building opened in 2014 costing 4.5 million euro. This stands alongside the refurbished original 1840s building, the 1965 Sports Hall and the 1987 Administration Block.
Motto and crest
The college motto is "Certa Bonum Certamen", Latin for "Fight the Good Fight". This is written at the top of the original building which is visible on entry to the grounds. All school announcements used to conclude with the motto.
The college crest contains four elements. The college motto is below a shield containing three characters – a star, a tower and a sword. The star is the guiding star of knowledge. The tower represents the tower on the school grounds and the Christian focus of the school. The sword represents power, courage and chivalry.
Buildings
The college is bordered by several historical sites. Carrickbrennan Churchyard is located to the north of the school on the border of the grounds and Monkstown Castle is adjacent to the school. The college is made up of three buildings interconnected. Charles Haliday's house built in 1843 is incorporated into the main school block. The facade of the building long portico of Corinthians columns remains intact and is a protected structure. The tower opposite the main building is also a protected structure. The administrative block was built in 1987 and also contains several classrooms. The concert hall was built in the early 1960s.
The grounds contain an athletics paddock and three rugby pitches.
Academic and spiritual
Academic performance
The average Leaving Cert score in CBC in 2019 was 461, this compares to the national average of 335.
In 2013 over 70% of CBC students achieved over 400 points in the Leaving Certificate, nationally the number achieving this was 33.7%. In addition (results nationally in brackets); 27% in CBC (3%) got over 550 points, 41% (9.4%) in CBC got over 500 points and 57% got over 450 points (20.1%).
In 2014, one CBC student achieved eight A1 grades, putting him in the top 13 performers in the country
In 2018, one CBC student received 8 H1 results, one of seven students in Ireland to achieve this.
Senior school curriculum
Part of the schools mission statement is striving for "academic excellence". Boys study for both the Junior Cert and later the Irish Leaving Cert. School hours are between 8:45 AM to 4 PM with a half day for sporting activities on Wednesdays at 1 PM. In addition sports activities sometimes take place after 4 PM and optional afternoon and night study is available.
The fourth year (transition year) includes courses in academic subjects, as well as such optional subjects and activities as: Japanese, Sailing, Social work, Tourism, Chess-Boxing and First aid. The Comenius project is also offered which is a project linking CBC with other schools around Europe. Transition Year classes won the Comórtas Scannán TG4 in 2005 and were finalists in 2006, the 2005 group having their film represent Ireland in Italy in 2005.
Aside from the core languages of English and Irish; Latin, Japanese, French and German are taught. In addition to business studies for the junior cert, economics, business and accounting are offered for the leaving cert. Mathematics and applied mathematics are taught. Physics, chemistry and biology are offered as science subjects. Civics, geography, history, technical drawing, art, music, computers and home economics are also offered.
In the 2004 Sunday Times Schools League Table, CBC was listed among the country's top twenty schools, while in the Irish Times tables in 2006, the school was the top all-boys school in Ireland (3rd overall).
Monkstown Park Junior School
The Junior School consists of around 100 boys & Girls. There are 8 full-time teachers and one principal. Extra-curricular subjects are also taught such as Computers, French, Physical Education, Speech and Drama, Singing and Musical Appreciation and Arts and Crafts. There is also a part-time remedial teacher. Tutors are available to take students studying German and Music and the school runs an activity club on Fridays.
As an Independent school, it operates outside the auspices of the Department of Education, which does not control school hours, curriculum and activities.
In 2014 the school became an associate member of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust network. Under new directors, the school was re-established as Monkstown Park Junior School in July 2014.
Spiritual
Although the Christian Brothers have departed the faculty, Religious Education is still taught. It is offered for the Junior and Leaving Certificates (as an optional subject). Religion is also taken for those who do not choose to learn it as an exam subject in the Senior Cycle.
The Edmund Rice Oratory is one of the school's latest additions. A school chaplain is available to the college.
Extracurricular
Aid work
The Zambian Immersion Project is a senior cycle project where pupils fund raise and travel to Zambia and help in charity work. Others complete An Gaisce (Presidents Award) and the Edmund Rice awards which contain significant social work.
The Junior School's 6th class raise money annually for the Chernobyl Children's Project (with their charity Children Helping Children), and culminate their fund raising in a business exhibition at the end of every year. In 2007 they raised €42,000 for the project. In 2008 the school started a new charity: the Edmund Rice's Children's Fund. This encourages a whole school approach.
Drama, college musical and music
CBC has the distinction of being the first school to ever perform in the national Theatre of Ireland, the Abbey Theatre in 1958. Class V performed Patrick Pearse's Íosagán under the directorship of Thomas MacAnna, a future Tony Award winner, who was the drama and elocution teacher in the school at the time. MacAnna also produced the early Gilbert and Sullivan opera performances at the school.
The annual school musical, a collaboration with the nearby girls school Loreto College, Foxrock has been running for 21 years. Each respective transition year pupils participate, providing the student wishes to participate.
A fifth-year drama is also produced.
Writing workshops
In 2015, CBC Transition Year's wrote and published a short story book, Brainstorms edited by writer Roddy Doyle. This was as part of Doyle's Fighting Words programme. Author Kevin Barry wrote the introduction.
Debating
In 2011, CBC became the first school in the history of Leinster Schools' Debating Championships to win both the Individual and Team prizes, thus the school were Leinster's sole representatives at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship (Individual: Austin Conlon, Team: Kevin Dooney and Michael Barton). Conlon went on to win the Individual prize at the All Ireland Schools' Debating Championship at University College Cork whilst the Team of Dooney and Barton finished as runners up. Another team from CBC, Stephen Stack and Hugh Guidera, also represented Ireland at the Schools debating competition organised by the Oxford Union at Oxford University.
Rory Conlon and Luke Murray retained the Leinster School's Debating team title in 2012 for the school. Hugh Guidera and Michael Barton reached the Grand Final of the Clifford Chance Durham University Schools' Debating Competition, one of the four "Majors" on the UK Schools Debating circuit and is the largest schools debating competition in the world. This made them the only Irish school to reach one of the UK Majors for this debating season. In addition, Stephen Stack and Michael Barton triumphed at the Trinity College Dublin Schools' Debating Competition.
The school has hosted the Irish Schools Debating team during the World Schools Debating Championships during the COVID-19 pandemic making these virtual events, with CBC students on the Irish team.
In 2023 a CBC student became the first Irish student to win both the Oxford University and Cambridge University schools debating championships, the two largest schools debating competitions in the world.
Rugby
From the beginning, Rugby Union has been the main competitive team sport of the school. Rugby was played at the old Monkstown Park School (Corrig School) who won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 1889 and 1892. The school's rugby team initially was CBC Dún Laoighaire before the move to the new school in Monkstown. CBC Monkstown won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 1976 and reached the final in 1984. The school won the League Cup at Junior Level in 1998 and 2004, reaching the final in 1997/98, 2000/01, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012. The Senior Cup team played in the Senior league final in 2001, 2003, and 2008, winning the latter. The Senior Cup team have played in the Vincent Murray Cup on five occasions; they won in 2003, 2005 and 2007 whilst losing the final in 2006 and 2010. CBC also won the Powerade Leinster 'School of the Year' award in 2008.
CBC has produced a number of provincial and international rugby players including Paddy O'Donoghue, Patrick Casey, Joseph Brady and Barry O'Connor. Other rugby figures include the former President of the IRFU, John Lyons and the former international referee Donal Courtney. Past pupils Neil Walsh (Ulster Rugby) and Michael Noone play professionally currently.
In 2008 the school undertook a tour of Argentina and Uruguay playing games against a number of teams including Newman Club, a Christian Brothers school in Buenos Aires. Previous tours include Australia in 2001 and South Africa in 2005.
Rugby Honours
Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup – *1889, *1892, 1976 (Runners Up: 1984(* As Corrig School))
Leinster Schools Rugby Senior League – 2008 (Runners Up: 2002, 2004)
Leinster Schools Vinnie Murray Cup – 2003, 2005, 2007, 2017 (Runners Up: 2006, 2010)
Leinster Schools Senior Thirds League – 1995 (Runners Up: 2008)
Leinster Schools Senior Fourths League – 1991, 1993 (Runners Up: 2006, 2013)
All Ireland Schools Sevens – 1982
Leinster Schools Rugby Junior League – 1998, 2005, 2012 (Runners up: 1997, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015)
Powerarde Leinster Rugby School of the Year – 2008
Athletics
The school is also involved in athletics and Cross Country competitions. The school consistently produces medalists at All Ireland, Leinster, East Leinster and Edmund Rice Games level, both individual and at team level. The school has an athletics pavilion with a triple and high jump track, a pole vault track, a discus facility and a hammer net.
Major Team Athletics Honours
All Ireland College of Science Cup (Top Overall school in Ireland) – 1978
Leinster Schools' Athletics Senior Shield Winners (Top Overall School) – 1976, 1977, 1978, 1994
All Ireland President's Shield (Second ranked school in Ireland) – 1955, 2007
Other sports
Other sports taken include golf, swimming, tennis, sailing, orienteering, and squash.
Golf is played in Leopardstown Golf Course and the school enters teams every year at provincial level.
There are two tennis courts, neither of which have nets or chalk outlines, and the school has used Monkstown Tennis Club opposite the school. The school tennis team reached the semifinals of the Leinster Championships in 2009.
Swimming is undertaken at Blue Pool leisure center, Monkstown.
The school uses the facilities at Dún Laoghaire for sailing which is a part of the Transition year programme. The school came third in the Leinster Schools Sailing Championships in 2009.
Cricket
An effort in start a cricket team in Monkstown in the early 1950s proved to be difficult. The efforts to start a cricket team was chronicled on the March 27 edition of RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany as "Cricket in the Borough" by past pupil Louis Brennan. A revival of the sport within the school occurred in 2002 when a team was formed playing 3 games against Mount Anville, King's Hospital and Blackrock College.
Notable alumni
The Past Pupils Union of the Christian Brothers College, Monkstown and Dún Laoghaire has been active since the mid-1950s. The CBC Monkstown PPU hosts several annual events.
Notable past pupils from the Dún Laoghaire and Monkstown schools include:
Arts and entertainment
Ronnie Drew, musician, founded The Dubliners
Dan O'Herlihy, Academy Award for Best Actor nominee at 27th Academy Awards for Robinson Crusoe
James Flynn, Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nominee at 82nd Academy Awards for The Door
Vincent Dowling, stage and television director
Jonathan Ryan, actor
Danny Ryan, Lead Guitarist with The Thrills
Dave Hingerty, former drummer with The Frames
Bernard Farrell, playwright and television dramatist
Jim Nugent, Irish national radio RTÉ 2fm and RTÉ television presenter (The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show)
Dermot O'Neill, gardener and broadcaster
Tómas Mac Anna (teacher), Tony Award winning Abbey Theatre director
John Keogh Singer and Pianist with The Greenbeats and Full Circle
Robbie Brennan former drummer with The Chosen Few, Skid Row, Thin Lizzie, Stepaside
Religion and humanitarianism
Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin
John O'Shea, founder and CEO of international humanitarian organization GOAL
Fr. Shay Cullen, founder of the Preda Foundation
Sport
Patrick Casey, former Irish rugby international
Paddy O'Donoghue, former Irish International, former Treasurer of the IRFU
Peter McKenna, former Irish Rugby International
Michael Noone – former Leicester Tigers number 8
Donal Courtney, former International Rugby Board referee
John Feehan, former Leinster player and current CEO of the Six Nations Championship, the British and Irish Lions and the Pro12
Brian Kavanagh, CEO of Horse Racing Ireland
Michael Fitzsimons, 8 time (joint record) All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner for the Dublin GAA Gaelic football team
Andy Keogh, Republic of Ireland soccer international
Peter Farrell, captain of Everton F.C. (1948–1957) and won a total of 35 caps for Ireland for the FAI XI and IFA XI in soccer
James Furlong, English Premier League player with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
Jordan Devlin, better known as JD McDonagh, professional wrestler with the WWE
Politics, legal and diplomats
Seán Barrett, Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD), Ceann Comhairle (Chairman) of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Irish parliament) and former cabinet minister
Professor James Dooge, former minister for foreign affairs, chairman of Seanad Éireann, noted scientist and chairman of the Dooge Committee (Single European Act)
James B. Lynch, Fianna Fáil member of the Dáil and Senator.
Seamus Costello, assassinated Republican Socialist who founded the Irish National Liberation Army
Niall McCarthy, former Judge of the Irish Supreme Court
Cahir Davitt, former President of the High Court
Michael Quinn, High Court Judge of Ireland
Business
Peter Bellew, CEO of Malaysian Airlines
John Feehan, former Leinster player and current CEO of the Six Nations Championship, the British and Irish Lions and the Pro14
Brian Kavanagh, CEO of Horse Racing Ireland
Frank McCabe, former Vice President of Intel Corporation and Managing Director of Intel Ireland's operations
Academia and journalistic
Tim Pat Coogan, former editor of the Irish Press and historian
Shane Kenny, journalist and broadcaster
John Ryan, publisher, editor of Magill, war correspondent
Mark Brennock, former Chief Political Correspondent of The Irish Times
Emmet Malone, soccer correspondent with The Irish Times
Hugh Cahill, RTÉ Sport rugby commentator
Stephen Kinsella, Economist
Professor Ronan Fanning, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin
In popular culture
CBC has been referenced in the popular satire of "South Dublin culture", the book series Ross O'Carroll Kelly. In Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A Day, the school is given a section in the book which slates the school's rugby performances but notes the success of debating in the school and the popularity of Irish names. Past pupil Rory Nolan plays the character in the stage production.
The school is also referenced in Sarah Webb's "Shoestring Club" book released in 2012.
See also
CBS Eblana
References
External links
CBC Past Pupils Website
Junior School Website
Secondary schools in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Congregation of Christian Brothers secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland
Educational institutions established in 1856
Private schools in the Republic of Ireland
1856 establishments in Ireland
Monkstown, Dublin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.B.C.%20Monkstown |
Moïse Schwab (Paris, 18 September 1839 – 8 February 1918) was a French librarian and author.
Life
He was educated at the Jewish school and the Talmud Torah at Strasburg. From 1857 to 1866 he was secretary to Salomon Munk; then for a year he was official interpreter at the Paris court of appeals; and from 1868 was librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1880 he was sent by the minister of public instruction to Bavaria and Württemberg to make investigations with regard to early Hebrew printing-presses.
Works
Schwab was a prolific contributor to the Jewish press; and he is the author of the following works, all of which were published in Paris:
1866. Histoire des Israélites (2d ed. 1896).
1866. Ethnographie de la Tunisie (crowned by the Société d'Ethnographie).
1871-1889. Le Talmud de Jérusalem, Traduit pour la Première Fois en Français (11 vols.).
1876. Bibliographie de la Perse (awarded Brunet prize by the Institut de France).
1878. Littérature Rabbinique. Elie del Medigo et Pico de la Mirandole'.
1879. Des Points-Voyelles dans les Langues Sémitiques.
1879. Elie de Pesaro. Voyage Ethnographique de Venise à Chypre.
1881. Al-Ḥarisi et Ses Pérégrinations en Orient.
1883. Les Incunables Hébraïques et les Premières Impressions Orientales du XVIe Siècle.
1883. Bibliotheca Aristotelica (crowned by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres).
1888. Monuments Littéraires de l'Espagne.
1889. Maqré Dardeqé, Dictionnaire Hébreu-Italien du XVe Siècle.
1890. Deuxième Edition du Traité des Berakhoth, Traduit en Français.
1896-99. Vocabulaire de l'Angélologie.
1899-1902. Répertoire des Articles d'Histoire et de Littérature Juive (3 vols.).
1900. Salomon Munk, Sa Vie et Ses Œuvres.
1904. Rapport sur les Inscriptions Hébraïques en France.
His most important work is Le Talmud de Jérusalem, which was commenced in 1867 or 1868, before the appearance of Zecharias Frankel's Introduction'' or of the special dictionaries of the Talmud. The first part appeared in 1871 and was well received, although the critics did not spare Schwab. He then sought the cooperation of the leading Talmudists; but he was unsuccessful and had to complete the work alone.
In addition to his work in Talmudic studies, he also produced editions of a number of Jewish Aramaic Magic bowls, though these were described as 'incredibly poor' by one scholar.
1882. “Un vase judéo-chaldéen de la Bibliothèque Nationale”, REJ (Revue des études juives) 4, pp. 165–172.
1886. “Une coupe d'incantation”, Revue d'Assyriologie 1, pp. 117–119.
1890. “Les coupes magiques et l'hydromancie dans l'antiquité orientale”, Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology 12, pp. 292–342.
1891. “Coupes à inscriptions magiques”, Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology 13, pp. 583–595.
1892. “Deux vases judéo-babyloniens”, Revue d'Assyriologie 2, pp. 136–142.
1906. “Une amulette judéo-araméenne”, Journal Asiatique, 2e série, 7, pp.5-17.
1910a. “A note on a Hebrew amulet”, PSBA 32:(155ff.).
1910b. “Une amulette arabe”, JA 10e série, vol. 16, pp. 341–345.
1916/7. “Amulets and bowls with magic inscriptions”, Jewish Quarterly Review 7, pp. 619–628.
References
1839 births
1918 deaths
French librarians
Alsatian Jews
19th-century French Jews
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%C3%AFse%20Schwab |
Mustelus, also known as the smooth-hounds, is a genus of sharks in the family Triakidae. The name of the genus comes from the Latin word mustela, meaning weasel. It should not be confused with the genus name Mustela, which is used for weasels.
A smooth-hound can grow to 159 cm (5 ft. 3 in.) long and weigh more than 13 kg (29 lb).
Species
Currently, 28 recognized species are placed in this genus:
Mustelus albipinnis Castro-Aguirre, Antuna-Mendiola, González-Acosta & De La Cruz-Agüero, 2005 (white-margin fin houndshark)
Mustelus andamanensis White, Arunrugstichai & Naylorn, 2021 (Andaman smooth-hound)
Mustelus antarcticus Günther, 1870 (gummy shark)
Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821 (starry smooth-hound)
Mustelus californicus T. N. Gill, 1864 (gray smooth-hound)
Mustelus canis Mitchill, 1815
M. c. canis Mitchill, 1815 (dusky smooth-hound)
M. c. insularis Heemstra, 1997 (Caribbean smooth-hound)
Mustelus dorsalis T. N. Gill, 1864 (sharptooth smooth-hound)
Mustelus fasciatus Garman, 1913 (striped smooth-hound)
Mustelus griseus Pietschmann, 1908 (spotless smooth-hound)
Mustelus henlei T. N. Gill, 1863 (brown smooth-hound)
Mustelus higmani S. Springer & R. H. Lowe, 1963 (smalleye smooth-hound)
Mustelus lenticulatus Phillipps, 1932 (spotted estuary smooth-hound)
Mustelus lunulatus D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 (sicklefin smooth-hound)
Mustelus manazo Bleeker, 1854 (starspotted smooth-hound)
Mustelus mangalorensis Cubelio, Remya R & Kurup, 2011 (Mangalore houndshark)
Mustelus mento Cope, 1877 (speckled smooth-hound)
Mustelus minicanis Heemstra, 1997 (dwarf smooth-hound)
Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899 (Arabian smooth-hound)
Mustelus mustelus Linnaeus, 1758 (common smooth-hound)
Mustelus norrisi S. Springer, 1939 (narrowfin smooth-hound)
Mustelus palumbes J. L. B. Smith, 1957 (whitespotted smooth-hound)
Mustelus punctulatus A. Risso, 1827 (blackspotted smooth-hound)
Mustelus ravidus W. T. White & Last, 2006 (Australian grey smooth-hound)
Mustelus schmitti S. Springer, 1939 (narrownose smooth-hound)
Mustelus sinusmexicanus Heemstra, 1997 (Gulf smooth-hound)
Mustelus stevensi W. T. White & Last, 2008 (western spotted gummy shark)
Mustelus walkeri W. T. White & Last, 2008 (eastern spotted gummy shark) - now seen as a synonym of M. antarcticus
Mustelus whitneyi Chirichigno F., 1973 (humpback smooth-hound)
Mustelus widodoi W. T. White & Last, 2006 (white-fin smooth-hound)
Mustelus sp. not yet described (Sarawak smooth-hound)
Mustelus sp. not yet described (Kermadec smooth-hound)
See also
List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
References
Extant Ypresian first appearances | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth-hound |
Cándido Maldonado Guadarrama (born September 5, 1960) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball outfielder who played from to for the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers. Chris Berman, a fellow ESPN analyst, nicknamed him the "Candyman". Maldonado holds the distinction of having struck the first game-winning hit outside the United States in World Series play, and was the only Giant to hit a triple in the 1989 World Series.
San Francisco
Maldonado, also known as "The Candyman", was a major part of the Giants success in the late 1980s as a part of the 1987 NL West Champions and the 1989 National League Champions.
Although Maldonado had statistically good seasons in San Francisco, he was involved in one of the most infamous plays in Giants history. In game 6 of the 1987 National League Championship Series, he lost Tony Peña's 2nd inning fly ball in the lights. This play resulted in a triple for Peña. Peña scored on a sacrifice fly for the only run of the game, which the St. Louis Cardinals won to tie the series at 3 games each, before going on to win Game 7.
Career highlights
Maldonado was a better hitter on the road than at home, with a batting average which was 51 points higher in road games than in home games.
On May 4, 1987, he became only the 16th player in San Francisco Giants franchise history to hit for the cycle.
Then in 1994, Candy scored the first-ever run for the Cleveland Indians at Jacobs Field.
In Game 3 of the 1992 World Series, playing for the Toronto Blue Jays, he hit a walk-off hit off Atlanta Braves closer Jeff Reardon and also hit a solo home run in Game 6 of the series.
Maldonado was noted as a good home run hitter who did not usually hit for a high batting average, finishing at .254 for his MLB career.
He played in eight different postseason series for three of his teams and won the World Series with the Blue Jays in .
Recent career
Maldonado provided color commentary for ESPN Deportes' coverage of the World Baseball Classic and regular season games. He was named general manager of the Gigantes del Cibao of the Dominican Baseball League. Maldonado contributed a video to "La Esquina de Candy" (or "Candy's Corner").
Also, in 2011, Maldonado was inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame with former teammate and National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Roberto Alomar, Carlos Baerga and Luis "Mambo" DeLeón for the 2011 Caribbean Series. He was also inducted into his native Puerto Rico Baseball Hall of Fame.
See also
List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico
List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
References
External links
, or Retrosheet
1960 births
Living people
Albuquerque Dukes players
Chicago Cubs players
Cleveland Indians players
Clinton Dodgers players
Lethbridge Dodgers players
Lodi Dodgers players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico
Milwaukee Brewers players
People from Humacao, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican expatriate baseball players in Canada
San Francisco Giants players
Texas Rangers players
Toronto Blue Jays players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy%20Maldonado |
Saint-Gratien ("Saint Gratian") may refer to the following locales in France:
Saint-Gratien, Somme
Saint-Gratien, Val-d'Oise
Saint-Gratien (Paris RER), a railway station in Saint-Gratien, Val-d'Oise
Saint-Gratien-Savigny, in the Nièvre département | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Gratien |
Faustinus (died about 15 February 381 A.D.) was bishop of Brescia from c. 360, succeeding Ursicinus. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is 15 February: 16 February in the Orthodox Church.
Tradition claims that he was a descendant of Faustinus and Jovita, and that he compiled the Acts of these two martyrs. His relics were discovered in 1101.
Faustinus appeared in the old Roman Martyrology for February 15: "At Brescia, [in the year 350], the holy Confessor Faustinus, Bishop of that see." He is no longer listed in the 2004 revision. This may be because of some doubt that the person existed, or because their cult was never approved.
Works
De Trinitate sive de Fide contra Arianos. Ad Gallam Placidiam
In Codicem Canonum et Constitutorum Eccleasiae Romanae Recepta
Vita Operaque de Faustino
(with presbyter Marcellinus) Adversus Damasum Libellus Precum Ad Imperatores Valentinianum, Theodosium et Arcadium
References
External links
Saints of February 16: Faustinus of Brescia
Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina
4th-century births
Bishops of Brescia
4th-century Italian bishops
Christian hagiographers
381 deaths
4th-century Christian saints
4th-century writers in Latin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustinus%20of%20Brescia |
Charing Cross (Glasgow) is a railway station close to the centre of Glasgow, Scotland, serving the district of the same name. It is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line.
History
Dating from 1886, it was originally part of the Glasgow City and District Railway, the first underground railway in Scotland. The station was built using the cut and cover method, with the original walls being visible on the open air section at the western end of the platforms. Nearby points of interest include Sauchiehall Street and the Mitchell Library, and the station (along with nearby Anderston - a stop on the Argyle Line), serves the city's financial district, making this station popular with commuters.
The original surface buildings of the station were removed in the late 1960s during the construction of the M8 motorway, and replaced by the current structure as part of the adjoining Elmbank Gardens commercial development in 1970 - the building was designed by the Richard Seifert Co-Partnership. In 1995 it received a minor refurbishment when lifts were provided down to platform level. The present station contains a staffed ticket office.
Under the Charing Cross Masterplan for the area unveiled by Glasgow City Council and the owner of Elmbank Gardens - London and Scottish Property Investments (L&SPI), the current surface buildings will be demolished and rebuilt as part of a new development which will see most of the surrounding 1970s-era office blocks demolished and the site redeveloped with new offices and student accomodation.
Automatic ticket gates have now been installed and came into operation on 3 June 2011.
Services
The service pattern, Mondays-Saturdays Daytime, is as following:
2tph Edinburgh to Milngavie
2tph Edinburgh to Helensburgh Central, semi-fast
2tph Airdrie to Balloch via Singer
2tph Cumbernauld to Dumbarton Central via Yoker
2tph Milngavie to Edinburgh, express
2tph Dumbarton Central to Cumbernauld
2tph Balloch to Airdrie
2tph Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh Waverley
Sunday service is:
2tph Edinburgh to Helensburgh Central
1tph Cumbernauld to Partick
2tph Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh
1tph Partick to Cumbernauld
References
Bibliography
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1886
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations located underground in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing%20Cross%20railway%20station%20%28Scotland%29 |
WigWam were an English pop duo, comprising Alex James, the bassist from Blur, and vocalist Betty Boo (Alison Clarkson). With record producer Ben Hillier, and former Boo collaborators Beatmasters, WigWam were said to be creating an album which they described as "experimental yet accessible 21st century pop". However, James did not mention the project in his 2007 autobiography, and it is considered defunct, as both have returned to solo projects.
The debut single "WigWam" was released on 3 April 2006 in two CD formats by Rob Dickins' Instant Karma record label. The music video to the single was filmed in Soho, London and was directed by Dom Joly, with the track peaking at its debut position of number 60 on the UK singles chart of 15 April 2006.
Discography
Singles
2006: "WigWam"
References
English pop music groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WigWam%20%28duo%29 |
The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a format standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) to interchange business process definitions between different workflow products, i.e. between different modeling tools and management suites.
XPDL defines an XML schema for specifying the declarative part of workflow / business process.
XPDL is designed to exchange the process definition, both the graphics and the semantics of a workflow business process. XPDL is currently the best file format for exchange of BPMN diagrams; it has been designed specifically to store all aspects of a BPMN diagram. XPDL contains elements to hold graphical information, such as the X and Y position of the nodes, as well as executable aspects which would be used to run a process. This distinguishes XPDL from BPEL which focuses exclusively on the executable aspects of the process. BPEL does not contain elements to represent the graphical aspects of a process diagram.
It is possible to say that XPDL is the XML Serialization of BPMN.
History
The Workflow Management Coalition, founded in August 1993, began by defining the Workflow Reference Model (ultimately published in 1995) that outlined the five key interfaces that a workflow management system must have. Interface 1 was for defining the business process, which includes two aspects: a process definition expression language and a programmatic interface to transfer the process definition to/from the workflow management system.
The first revision of a process definition expression language was called Workflow Process Definition Language (WPDL) which was published in 1998. This process meta-model contained all the key concepts required to support workflow automation expressed using URL Encoding. Interoperability demonstrations were held to confirm the usefulness of this language as a way to communicate process models.
By 1998, the first standards based on XML began to appear. The Workflow Management Coalition Working Group 1 produced an updated process definition expression language called XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) now known as XPDL 1.0. This second revision was an XML based interchange language that contained many of the same concepts as WPDL, with some improvements. XPDL 1.0 was ratified by the WfMC in 2002, and was subsequently implemented by more than two dozen workflow/BPM products to exchange process definitions. There was a large number of research projects and academic studies on workflow capabilities around XPDL, which was essentially the only standard language at the time for interchange of process design.
The WfMC continued to update and improve the process definition interchange language. In 2004 the WfMC endorsed BPMN, a graphical formalism to standardize the way that process definitions were visualized. XPDL was extended specifically with the goal of representing in XML all the concepts present in a BPMN diagram. This third revision of a process definition expression language is known as XPDL 2.0 and was ratified by the WfMC in October 2005.
In April 2008, the WfMC ratified XPDL 2.1 as the fourth revision of this specification. XPDL 2.1 includes extension to handle new BPMN 1.1 constructs, as well as clarification of conformance criteria for implementations.
In spring 2012, the WfMC completed XPDL 2.2 as the fifth revision of this specification. XPDL 2.2 builds on version 2.1 by introducing support for the process modeling extensions added to BPMN 2.0.
References
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, "Business Process Management Demystified: A Tutorial on Models, Systems and Standards for Workflow Management", Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3098/2004.
Wil M.P. van der Aalst, "Patterns and XPDL: A Critical Evaluation of the XML Process Definition Language", Eindhoven University of Technology, PDF.
Jiang Ping, Q. Mair, J. Newman, "Using UML to design distributed collaborative workflows: from UML to XPDL", Twelfth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2003. WET ICE 2003. Proceedings, .
W.M.P. van der Aalst, "Don't go with the flow: Web services composition standards exposed", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2003.
Jürgen Jung, "Mapping Business Process Models to Workflow Schemata An Example Using Memo-ORGML And XPDL", Universität Koblenz-Landau, April 2004, PDF.
Volker Gruhn, Ralf Laue, "Using Timed Model Checking for Verifying Workflows", José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination, Miami, USA, 23.05.2005 - 24.05.2005, 75-88. INSTICC Press .
Nicolas Guelfi, Amel Mammar, "A formal framework to generate XPDL specifications from UML activity diagrams", Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing, 2006.
Peter Hrastnik, "Execution of business processes based on web services", International Journal of Electronic Business, Volume 2, Number 5 / 2004.
Petr Matousek, "An ASM Specication of the XPDL Language Semantics", Symposium on the Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science, March 2002, PS.
F. Puente, A. Rivero, J.D. Sandoval, P. Hernández, and C.J. Molina, "Improved Workflow Management System based on XPDL", Editor(s): M. Boumedine, S. Ranka, Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 29-December 1, 2006, .
Petr Matousek, "Verification method proposal for business processes and workflows specified using the XPDL standard language", PhD thesis, Jan 2003.
Thomas Hornung, Agnes Koschmider, Jan Mendling, "Integration of Heterogeneous BPM Schemas: The Case of XPDL and BPEL", Technical Report JM-2005-03, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 2006 PDF.
Wei Ge, Baoyan Song, Derong Shen, Ge Yu, "e_SWDL: An XML Based Workflow Definition Language for Complicated Applications in Web Environments" Web Technologies and Applications: 5th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2003, Xian, China, April 23–25, 2003. Proceedings, .
Ryan K. L. Ko, Stephen S. G. Lee, Eng Wah Lee (2009) Business Process Management (BPM) Standards: A Survey. In: Business Process Management Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Volume 15 Issue 5. . PDF
References
See also
Business Process Management
BPMN
Workflow Management Coalition
External links
XPDL & Workflow Patterns PDF
Critical comments on XPDL 1.0
Enterprise Workflow National Project supported by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister endorses WfMC standards for use in all workflow projects in UK.
Open Source Java XPDL Editor
XML-based standards
Workflow technology
Specification languages
Modeling languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPDL |
In music rondellus is the formalized interchange of parts or voices according to a scheme, often used in English conducti and frequently in English motets of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, but never used for an entire piece . For example:
A B C D E F
C A B F D E
B C A E F D
where the italicized letters represent music with text and the other letters are melismatic .
See also
Round (music)
Sources
Further reading
Musical techniques | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondellus |
Carntyne railway station serves the Carntyne area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 2¾ miles (4 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by ScotRail.
The ticket office, constructed when the line was electrified by British Railways in 1960, was cleared away in the early 1990s leaving Carntyne station unstaffed and with only basic 'bus stop'-style shelters on the platforms for passengers to use.
Daily services
As of 10 December 2017:
Half-hourly service to Edinburgh Waverley (calling Shettleston, Coatbridge Sunnyside, Airdrie then all stations to Edinburgh Waverley)
Half-hourly service to Airdrie calling all stations.
Half-hourly service to Balloch calling all stations via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and via Singer.
Half-hourly service to Milngavie via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service to Edinburgh Waverley calling all stations.
Half-hourly service to Helensburgh Central calling all stations via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and via Singer.
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service to Edinburgh Waverley calling all stations.
Half-hourly service to Helensburgh Central calling all stations via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and via Singer.
References
External links
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1871 establishments in Scotland
Shettleston | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carntyne%20railway%20station |
Shettleston railway station serves the Shettleston area of Glasgow, Scotland and is 3½ miles (5 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by ScotRail.
History
Shettleston was opened on 1 February 1871 when the Coatbridge Branch of the North British Railway opened. In 1877, the station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway with the commencement of freight services to Bothwell on 1 November 1877 and passenger services on 1 April 1878. The line closed to passenger traffic in July 1955 and completely in 1961 (except for a short section to Mount Vernon that survived for a further four years).
In 2010, Shettleston station received bilingual name boards, in English and Gaelic, the Gaelic reading "Baile Nighean Sheadna". Shettleston station facilities include a ticket office, ticket vending machine, waiting shelter, footbridge, clock, train information displays and seating. The station has two platforms. There is also a car park and a cycle parking stand.
In 2011, the footbridge was replaced - like many others on the North Clyde Line the previous structure had been built as part of the 1959 electrification and was in very poor structural condition.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley (As of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Garrowhill, Easterhouse, Blairhill and Coatdyke. Passengers for these stations should use the half-hourly service towards Airdrie from Balloch instead.)
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Milngavie via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie via all stations
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
References
Notes
Sources
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Shettleston | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shettleston%20railway%20station |
Scott Robert Thorman (born January 6, 1982) is a Canadian former first baseman and current coach who is the minor league field coordinator for the Kansas City Royals. In 2022, he was manager of the Omaha Storm Chasers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Royals. He was previously manager of the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, the Royals' Double-A affiliate. Managing the Royals’ former Advanced-A affiliate Wilmington Blue Rocks in 2019, he won the Mills Cup Championship. Thorman was drafted in the first round, 30th overall in the 2000 Major League Baseball draft by the Atlanta Braves. Thorman played for Canada in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic and Thorman also played in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Professional career
Atlanta Braves
Thorman steadily rose through the Braves organization, finishing the 2005 season with their Triple-A team, the Richmond Braves. Thorman made his major league debut on June 18, . Thorman's first major league hit was an RBI single against Scott Downs of the Toronto Blue Jays on June 20, 2006.
Thorman earned his first multi-home run game on May 12, in a 9–2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. On September 22, Thorman hit a pinch-hit game-tying homer with 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th inning against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Braves went on to win the game an inning later.
The Braves sent Thorman outright to the minors on March 28, . Thorman became a free agent at the end of the season.
Milwaukee Brewers
In December 2008 Thorman was signed to a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers and Thorman received an invitation to Spring training. Thorman was released by the Brewers on April 4, 2009 after the Brewers acquired first baseman Joe Koshansky.
Texas Rangers
On April 7, , Thorman signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, but was released on April 27. Thorman had hit only .188 with one home run and four RBIs in 11 games with the Triple-A Oklahoma RedHawks before his release.
Kansas City Royals
Thorman signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals on May 21, 2009. Thorman hit .297 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs in 97 games with the Triple-A Omaha Royals. On December 11, 2009 Thorman was re-signed by the Royals with an invitation to spring training.
Detroit Tigers
On December 1, 2010, Thorman signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers and played in 109 games for the Toledo Mud Hens in AAA, hitting .240. He went into coaching not long after.
Personal life
Thorman's father died of cancer when Thorman was 12. Thorman has a wife, Kelly. Thorman also has 3 children.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Águilas de Mexicali players
Atlanta Braves players
Baseball people from Ontario
Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Canadian expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States
Canadian people of German descent
Grand Canyon Rafters players
Greenville Braves players
Gulf Coast Braves players
Leones de Yucatán players
Macon Braves players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball left fielders
Major League Baseball players from Canada
Mexican League baseball left fielders
Mexican League baseball right fielders
Mayos de Navojoa players
Minor league baseball managers
Mississippi Braves players
Myrtle Beach Pelicans players
Oklahoma City RedHawks players
Olympic baseball players for Canada
Omaha Royals players
Sportspeople from Cambridge, Ontario
Richmond Braves players
Toledo Mud Hens players
World Baseball Classic players of Canada
2006 World Baseball Classic players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Thorman |
Garrowhill railway station serves the Garrowhill and Barlanark areas of Glasgow, Scotland. The railway station is 4¾ miles (7 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line and is managed by ScotRail.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (As of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Shettleston, Cartyne and Bellgrove. Passengers for these stations please use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie via all stations
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
Facilities
The station does not have a dedicated car park but cycle storage is available. The station is staffed during working hours from Monday to Friday.
References
External links
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former London and North Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1936
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1936 establishments in Scotland
Baillieston | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrowhill%20railway%20station |
Guilty Pleasures is a 1993 horror and mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton. It is the first book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Guilty Pleasures introduces the character of Anita Blake, a vampire hunter and necromancer, who works in an alternate universe where magic, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural elements exist. The novel blends elements of supernatural and hardboiled detective fiction.
Plot summary
In Guilty Pleasures, Anita Blake is blackmailed by Nikolaos, the vampire master of the city, into investigating a series of vampire murders. During the course of this investigation, Anita begins her relationship with Jean-Claude, another master vampire, and receives two of the four marks necessary to make her Jean-Claude's "human servant." Ultimately, Anita identifies the murderer, but by that point has sufficiently antagonized Nikolaos and her underlings that she is forced to confront them. Ultimately, with help from Jean-Claude and Edward, a human associate who specializes in assassinating supernatural targets, Anita kills Nikolaos and many of her followers, making Jean-Claude master of the city.
Adaptations
On October 20, 2006 a twelve issue comic book adaptation of Guilty Pleasures began, published by Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions. The set was collected into two volumes starting in 2007, with a complete edition releasing in 2009.
Reception
The Celebrity Cafe gave the book a positive review, calling it "engaging".
Main characters
Anita Blake
Nikolaos
Jean-Claude
Edward
Phillip
References
1993 American novels
American erotic novels
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels
Low fantasy novels
Novels set in St. Louis
Urban fantasy novels
Ace Books books
Novels adapted into comics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty%20Pleasures%20%28novel%29 |
Easterhouse railway station serves the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built by the North British Railway as part of their Coatbridge Branch and opened when the branch opened on 1 February 1871. The station is 5¾ miles (9 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line and is managed by ScotRail.
Daily services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (as of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Shettleston, Cartyne and Bellgrove. Passengers for these stations have to use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie via all stations
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
Rolling stock
The current rolling stock operating the North Clyde Lines are Class 320s, and .
Previous operations
From the 1960s after electrification by British Railways, both Class 311s and Class 303s operated the North Clyde Lines. During a fleet cascade it was common to find a , Class 311 or Class 303. During the 1990s the Class 320s were introduced to the North Clyde Lines. The Class 311s were then withdrawn and both Class 303s and 320s operated together until 2002 when the final Class 303 unit was withdrawn. The Class 334s then entered service. Initially, the units were set for the Ayrshire Lines but they operated the North Clyde lines during peak-hour times.
References
Notes
Sources
Railway stations in Glasgow
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Baillieston | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterhouse%20railway%20station |
École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé () is a French-language public high school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named for a famous explorer. Part of the Conseil scolaire Viamonde, the school serves the French population of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
It is featured in the NFB documentary Une école sans frontières (A School Without Borders) by Nadine Valcin.
History
In 1969, École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé was founded. It was part of the Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest during the end of the 2000s. Étienne-Brûlé is currently the only public secular French-language secondary school in the North York region, and the only Conseil Scolaire Viamonde school in Toronto offering the Advanced Placement program.
Notable alumni
Frank Baylis
Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet
Patrick Chan
Rose Cossar
Shady El Nahas
Chantal Hébert
Dan McTeague
Paul Poirier
Emilie Livingston
Christina Kessler
See also
List of high schools in Ontario
References
External links
École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé
High schools in Toronto
French-language high schools in Ontario
Schools in the TDSB
Educational institutions established in 1969
1969 establishments in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20secondaire%20%C3%89tienne-Br%C3%BBl%C3%A9 |
Coburn is a London, UK-based electronic band. Its members are Pete Martin and Tim Healey.
The duo are producers, remixers, DJs and LIVE festival performers and active on the global dance scene whose debut long-player was released June 2007 on Great Stuff Recordings.
"We Interrupt This Programme"
After some cult success in the house scene, their next song "We Interrupt This Programme" (Data/Great Stuff/Frontier) re-defined house music in 2005, with its glitchy, "edit-orientated" take on a party tune. The sound crossed boundaries and borders becoming popular with DJs and clubbers from almost every scene in dance, and even being championed by radio presenters normally associated with rock and alternative sounds. Coburn became popular with "We Interrupt This Programme" on the internet - featured on many entertainment websites. "We Interrupt This Programme" was remixed by a cornucopia of djs of all electronic music genres most notably Jean-Claude Ades, whose mix is used as the theme song in the "NEDM" (Not Even Doom Music) fad on YTMND. A short, 5-second snippet of this song was featured in the television series Heroes, season 2, episode "Four Months Ago...".
Recent developments
Coburn's follow up single, "Give Me Love" (a loose cover of Donna Summer's Giorgio Moroder-produced "I Feel Love") pummelled dance-floors around the world in 2006, and its flip, "Razorblade" also featuring the delicate Icelandic vocals of Heidrun (ex-Gloss, Cicada) has been released in June 2007, and has been described as "Kylie on acid".
The duo released some of their work on a compilation released in March 2007 on Frontier Recordings (the label owned by one half of Coburn, Pete Martin).
Coburn have enjoyed some fame stateside when their track entitled "Closer" was featured on Grey's Anatomy in its Season 3 Finale (Episode 3.25).
Releases
Coburn's Theme (2003)
"How To Brainwash Your Friends" EP (2003)
"Give Me Love" (2005, Single)
"Sugar Lips" (2005)
"We Have The Technology" (2005, Single)
"We Interrupt This Programme" (2005, Single)
"Give Me Love" (2006, Single)
"Superstar" (2006)
Coburn (2007, Album)
References
External links
Coburn discography
Coburn Website
Coburn Myspace
Tim Healey Myspace
English house music groups
Musical groups from London
Club DJs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburn%20%28band%29 |
Blairhill railway station serves the Blairhill area of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 8½ miles (13 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station. Situated on Blair Road, the railway station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, comprising Class 334s on Edinburgh to Helensburgh services, and Class 318s and Class 320s on Airdrie to Balloch services.
History
The station was built opened on 1 February 1871 and was previously called Blairhill and Gartsherrie. It bordered the original St. Ambrose High School from 1961 until the buildings were demolished in 2012.
Facilities
The street-level platform, which now bears the "portacabin" ticket office, once supported a wooden station building which housed a ticket office and newsagent. On the night of 12 January 1987, shortly after being painted in the bright orange livery of the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive, this building was burned to the ground. The station now has a staffed ticket office during working hours (Monday-Saturday). A new purpose built car park on the site of the former St. Ambrose High School now serves the station.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (As of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Shettleston, Cartyne and Bellgrove. Passengers for these stations please use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie via all stations
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
Gallery
References
Notes
Sources
RAILSCOT on Coatbridge Branch
Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by ScotRail
SPT railway stations
Coatbridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blairhill%20railway%20station |
Toepen (/ˈtupə(n)/) is a trick-taking Dutch card game for three to eight players, and is often played as a drinking game. Typically the number of players is 4.
Rules
Toepen is usually played with money. Each player starts with ten 'lives'.
Deal and exchange
Each player is dealt 4 cards from a 32 card pack. The order of the cards is 10 (high), 9, 8, 7, A, K, Q, J. The remainder of the pack is put, face down, in the middle of the table. Any player whose hand consists entirely of As, Ks, Qs and Js may discard it, face down, and deal himself/herself a new one. Indeed, any player may discard their hand in this way. However any exchange may be challenged by an opponent. If a player making an exchange is found to have 10, 9, 8 or 7 in their original hand, the discarder loses one life (but keeps the new hand), while if it was correct, the challenger loses one life.
Play
The cards are played one at a time face up in tricks. The first card played in a trick determines the suit for that trick. A player must follow suit to win. The goal is to win the last trick.
At the end of the hand, all of the players, bar the winner of the fourth and final trick, receive a point. A player may toep i.e. increase the number of points at stake during a round at any time during play. Each toep increases the point value of the round by one. A toep is usually signified by a knock on the table. Upon toeping the opposing players may either fold and receive the previous point total or risk receiving the new increased total by remaining in the round. A player who reaches the maximum number of points is eliminated. This maximum is typically 10 or 15, depending on the price of drinks.
The winner of the round (i.e. the winner of the 4th trick) has to deal in the next round and the player on the left of the dealer leads to the first trick of the next round. The winner of a trick leads to the next trick in the same round. A special action occurs when a player is one point short of the maximum and is in pelt (poverty). In order to protect this player, the player on pelt always leads to the first trick, irrespective of where the dealer sits. The round value is automatically raised to 2 at the start and all other players have to decide whether they want to play the round for 2 points or leave (before a card is played) for 1 point.
A player who has lost ten lives, buys a round of drinks (or contributes to the drinks kitty or contributes an agreed number of chips to the pot), the slate is wiped clean and the next rubber starts. A player who has already lost nine lives may not knock. Similarly, a player who has already lost eight lives may not make the second knock, one who has already lost seven lives may not make the third knock, and so on.
Additional rules for the drinking game
Player to dealer's left leads first. Players must follow suit if possible, otherwise they may play any card. A trick is won by the highest card of the suit led, and the winner leads to the next trick. The winner of the fourth and last trick will deal the next hand. Each of the other players loses a life or lives. A player who holds three tens must whistle. A player who holds three jacks may whistle. A player who holds four tens must stand up. A player who holds four jacks may stand up. If a player is obliged to whistle but cannot, he must sing loudly.
Example
The score is kept using a chalk and slate. A normal game goes to a score of 10 or 15 points, chalked as marks on a slate (///). These are penalty points. the one who wins the last move does not get any points. The other players receive a number of penalty points. Here is an example.
Name: Points
Thijs: |||
Tame: ||||| ||||| ||||
Thomas: ||||| |||
Stan: ||||| |
You can toep, this means that more points are played. This example shows that Tame has often gone and often lost. Thijs has often won and has a low number of points. He has a great chance of winning. When he wins three times, he's a Toepkoning ("Tapping King"). Thomas plays average and Stan is probably a lijntoeper. This means that it only lasts when it is certain that it is winning. In this example, Tame insists on poverty. This means that when he gets another point, he's out of the game. Now the other players have to choose if they want to play. In the event that they last, two points are played.
See also
Bonken
Notes
External links
Toepen – rules at pagat.com
Last trick group
Dutch card games
Drinking card games
Round games
sv:Lista över kortspel#T | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toepen |
Coatbridge Sunnyside railway station serves the town of Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The railway station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the North Clyde Line, east of Glasgow Queen Street.
History
It was opened by the North British Railway in February 1871, as the terminus of their Coatbridge Branch from Glasgow and was linked from the outset to both the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway lines to and Gartsherrie Junction and also the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway line to , Bathgate and Edinburgh Waverley. All of these other than the northern portion of the M&KR to Gunnie yard and Gartsherrie remain in use today, though the Whifflet line has no timetabled passenger service and the route east of Airdrie was disused for more than 30 years prior to re-opening to passenger traffic in 2010.
Accidents and incidents
On 30 September 1907, a passenger train collided with a light engine at the station. One person was killed and 43 were injured.
On 6 May 2022, an empty coaching stock train was derailed at the station. No one was injured in the accident.
Facilities
The station has a car park with 120 spaces and a cafe located on the covered platform.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
2 Half-hourly services towards Edinburgh Waverley (both services are limited stops)
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Milngavie via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
References
Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by ScotRail
SPT railway stations
Listed railway stations in Scotland
Category B listed buildings in North Lanarkshire
Coatbridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge%20Sunnyside%20railway%20station |
Coatdyke railway station is situated on Quarry Street/Riddell Street in the Cliftonville area of Coatbridge and east of Glasgow Queen Street. It is the closest railway station to Coatbridge College and Monklands Hospital.
History
The station was opened as part of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway on 1 February 1871.
The station now has no structures other than simple shelters. The ticket hall that was built when the Airdrie-Helensburgh line was electrified in 1960 was demolished in the early 1990s. Similar structures, built in the same style, still survive at Easterhouse and Airdrie stations.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (as of 2019 this service does not always call at Shettleston, Cartyne and Easterhouse. Passengers for these stations use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)
Evening services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
Sunday services are as follows:
Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
Facilities
There is a small car park in the street outside the station. This station is unstaffed.
References
Notes
Sources
RAILSCOT on Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Coatbridge
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatdyke%20railway%20station |
Oldtown () is a population centre and townland in the civil parish of Clonmethan in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland. The R122 road runs through the village linking Naul to St Margaret's and Dublin Airport.
Physical features
The character of the landscape is "Low-Lying Agricultural", as indicated in the County Development Plan. This area contains mixed pasture and arable farming on low lands, consisting of large fields with few tree belts or large settlements.
The village itself is situated in a shallow valley drained by a small river known locally as 'The Daws River' and is surrounded by lands zoned as agricultural in the 1999 Fingal County Development Plan. It is the policy of the council to protect and provide for the development of agriculture and rural amenity within this zone.
History
Oldtown is an example of a "chapel village" which led to a widespread investment in chapel building following the re-emergence of institutional Catholicism in the late eighteenth century.
The original chapel, which was built in 1827, became the focal point of the village and attracted a range of other services such as the national school, community hall, priest's house, shop, public house and forge. The term "chapel villages" has been coined for settlements which evolved in association with the growing social and cultural importance of the Catholic Church in Irish society.
The Parliamentary Gazette of Ireland 1843–44 states that the population of Oldtown in 1841 was 156 and 27 houses were located within the village area of . After the Great Famine of 1848 the census of 1851 states the population of the village as recorded as 32 people.
Molly Weston a heroine of the 1798 rebellion was born near Oldtown. She fought alongside her three brothers at Tara. A memorial was erected to her memory at Oldtown during the 1798 Bi-Centennial in 1998. "Arrayed in green... mounted on a white horse, [she] rode hither and thither upon the field with drawn sword in hand, rallying the pikemen and leading them in successive charges with the utmost fearlessness" (Patrick Archer, Fingal in 1798). She wore a green riding costume, with gold braid in the manner of a uniform and a green cocked hat with a white plume. She was armed with sword and pistols and was accompanied by her four brothers when she rode into battle. Weston rallied and regrouped the stricken pikemen; she placed herself at their head and led repeated charges against the Reagh Fencibles. "She fired a big gun captured from the Fencibles during the course of the battle, killing eleven of their number. Molly died along with her four brothers at the Battle of Tara. Her side-saddle was recovered from the battlefield.
Oldtown was the first town in the State to benefit from the rural electrification scheme run by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) from 1946 to 1979. The first electricity pole was ceremoniously erected in November 1946 at Kilsallaghan, and the first switch-on, was in Oldtown itself, in January 1947. The 50th anniversary of the event was commemorated in the village, with the ESB hosting a dinner, to which families living in the area since 1946, were invited.
In the winter of 1981/1982 a large snowstorm cut off the village for five days, with the Air Corps eventually flying in supplies such as food and medicine via helicopter to relieve the village.
Modern development
The village core consists of a mix of two-storey nineteenth century stone built dwellings, single-storey cottages and bungalows. There are also new stone-built terraced dwellings within the village core.
A redeveloped thatched cottage and Oldtown Local Hall, a corrugated community hall, add to the identity of the village. The northern, western and southern approaches to the village are characterised mainly by low density 'one-off' dormers and bungalows with the exception of Shamrock Park, a small council housing development to the south of the village.
The local Catholic church, Our Lady Queen of Peace, and presbytery are located south of the village core.
Facilities
Commercial facilities in the village include a public house – The Oldtown House – and a veterinary surgery.
Community facilities include the local primary school, the Catholic Church, the Oldtown Local Hall and a horse riding stable. The County Council's mobile library service visits the village on a weekly basis. The Oldtown Health and Care Centre is a Health Service Executive facility located to the south of the village which provides full-time care for disabled people and a community Health Centre where a variety of health and related services are provided.
Oldtown has a large playing field, close to the centre of the village, which is home to the Wild Geese GAA club. First founded in 1888, it is said to be one of the oldest Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Dublin. The club won the Junior 'E' Dublin football championship in 2009, beating St. Brendans in the final. The club have underage teams, two adult men's team and a camogie team. The field is also the location of an indoor handball alley. A number of former handball world champions are from the village. The alley is also used for racquetball.
See also
List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
References
External links
Fingal County Council Development Plan 2011–2017
Towns and villages in Fingal
Townlands of Fingal
Balrothery West | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldtown%2C%20Dublin |
Airdrie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, east of Glasgow Queen Street.
History
Opened by the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway and absorbed into the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. British Railways then ran the station for Strathclyde PTE, and continued to do so as ScotRail when sectorisation was introduced, until the privatisation of British Rail. The station became a terminus in January 1956, when passenger services to Bathgate over the former B&CR were withdrawn - freight over this line continued until final closure & abandonment in 1982. The line from Glasgow was subsequently wired as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme in 1960. Strathclyde PTE & BR reopened a short portion of the line eastwards to a new station at Drumgelloch in 1989 and full reinstatement of the line to Bathgate followed in 2010 (see below).
As part of the Airdrie-Bathgate rail link reopening, the station has been refurbished, including the reinstatement of the second through platform with a capability of holding 9 carriages opposite the current Platform 2, which has been extended and a large car park facility (see link in sources below).
Services
2008
The station was served by half-hourly trains from to and return, which used Platform 2.
Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie to , providing a 15-minute frequency towards Glasgow Queen Street, Monday to Saturday daytimes.
In addition to this, there were some peak time express services to . These called at Coatdyke, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill before running fast to High Street then at all stations to Milngavie.
Evenings and Sundays, the half-hourly Drumgelloch to Helensburgh Central service operated.
May 2010 to December 2010
Following closure of the 1989 Drumgelloch station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project (which included the construction of a new station to the east of the 1989 station), a half-hourly bus service operated to and from the 1989 Drumgelloch station to connect with services arriving from Glasgow and Helensburgh.
From 12 December 2010
Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate, the basic off-peak daytime service is:
2tph - to/from
2tph - to/from
2tph - Airdrie to/from
The evening service is:
2tph - to/from
The Sunday service is:
2tph - to/from
2016
The daytime & Sunday service remains unchanged in the May 2016 timetable, but the evening service now runs to Balloch westbound rather than Milngavie (as well as to Helensburgh), whilst eastbound the Edinburgh service is half-hourly.
References
Notes
Sources
Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Former North British Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1862 establishments in Scotland
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airdrie%20railway%20station |
Towelhead is a novel written by Alicia Erian and first published April 6, 2005. Alicia Erian is the first holder of the Newhouse Visiting Professorship of Creative Writing at Wellesley College.
Plot
The novel is about a thirteen-year-old girl coming of age. Physically developed for her age and looking slightly older, she does not understand how to deal with the effect she has on older men. After her American mother's boyfriend starts behaving inappropriately towards her, her mother sends her from Syracuse, New York, to live with her Lebanese father in Houston, Texas, believing he will be a strong disciplining force in teaching her how to be more modest. Her father's stricter discipline, coming from a culture she has not grown up in and does not understand, only makes it more difficult to comprehend her surroundings, which include a bigoted Army reservist she is attracted to and a liberal couple.
Adaptation
The novel has been adapted into a film, Towelhead, by screenwriter and director Alan Ball. The film starred newcomer Summer Bishil in the lead role and includes actors Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, and Peter Macdissi. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 8, 2007 and at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2008. It is currently in DVD release.
External links
Nothing is Private on IMDB
2005 American novels
American novels adapted into films
Lebanese-American culture
Novels set in New York (state)
Novels set in Houston
Novels about rape
Arab-American novels
American bildungsromans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towelhead%20%28novel%29 |
Drumgelloch railway station was a railway station serving Drumgelloch, an eastern suburb of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station was managed by First ScotRail and was the eastern terminus of the North Clyde Line, 20 km (12½ miles) east of from May 1989 to May 2010.
History
The station was opened in 1989 by British Rail as the terminus of a short extension of the existing line from Airdrie, although the line to Bathgate Upper that passed through here had been closed to all traffic seven years earlier (passenger services having ceased in 1956).
The North Clyde Line has been extended eastwards beyond Drumgelloch towards , connecting with the Edinburgh–Bathgate line. Plans for the project (termed the Airdrie–Bathgate rail link) were approved by the Scottish Parliament in March 2007 and received Royal Assent in May 2007.
Work commenced in 2008. As part of this project, the 1989 single platform Drumgelloch station was closed on 9 May 2010. A substitute bus service was provided until a new station at a new site 550 metres further east was opened on 6 March 2011.
Services
There was a half-hourly service each day from Drumgelloch to and .
From May 2010
Following closure of the station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project, a half-hourly bus service operated to and from Airdrie station to connect with onward services to Glasgow and Helensburgh.
From December 2010
Upon the opening of the 2010 station services operated from the new location, initially by bus due to delays in completion as a result of the inclement weather at the end of November 2010.
Gallery
References
Notes
Sources
External links
Airdrie to Bathgate rail link website
Disused railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Railway stations opened by British Rail
1989 establishments in Scotland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1989
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 2010
nl:Station Drumgelloch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumgelloch%20railway%20station%20%281989%29 |
La Cañada High School is a combined junior-senior high school located in La Cañada Flintridge, California, US. It sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, below the Angeles National Forest, in the City of La Cañada Flintridge. The school is adjacent to the Interstate 210 Freeway north of Pasadena's Rose Bowl and south of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
History
La Cañada High School has been named both a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. The U.S. Department of Education has recognized LCHS for “high achievement and exemplary programs”, for rich extracurricular activities, and for strong community support. With an enrollment of 1,389 pupils in grades 9 through 12, La Cañada High has also consistently received the maximum six years of accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Academic awards
La Cañada High School was named a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education in 1986 and again in 2003 and 2021.
La Cañada High School has been recognized by the United States Department of Education three times as a National Blue Ribbon School, first in 1992 and 1993, again in 2004, and most recently in 2015.
In 2009, La Cañada High School was ranked 80th out of all public schools in the U.S and 23rd in the state of California by the U.S. News & World Report.
In 2009, La Cañada High achieved a new school record of 20 students admitted as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.
Notable alumni
Timothy Ballard (Class of 1994), American anti-human trafficking activist and author. The film Sound of Freedom was inspired by his work
Brian Behlendorf (Class of 1991), computer programmer, developer of the Apache Web server
Erin Coscarelli (Class of 2002), Host NFL Network Gameday Pick'em
Michael Cunningham (Class of 1970), author of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours
Trace Cyrus, (Class of 2007) (dropped out in 2006) member of the band Metro Station, adopted son of Billy Ray Cyrus
Doug Davidson (Class of 1973), actor (The Young and the Restless).
Chris D'Elia (Class of 1998), stand-up comic and actor
Sam Farmer (Class of 1984) sportswriter, Los Angeles Times NFL writer
Kate Hansen (Class of 2010), 2014 Winter Olympic luger
Chris Holmes (Class of 1976), lead guitarist W.A.S.P.
Brianne Howey, (Class of 2007) (moved in 8th grade), actor
Phil Joanou (Class of 1979), film director (Rattle and Hum, Three O'Clock High)
Tommy Kendall (Class of 1985), Race car driver
David Lipsky (Class of 2006), golfer
Collin Morikawa (Class of 2015), golfer
Taylor Negron (Class of 1975) actor, comedian, painter, and playwright
Indra Petersons (Class of 1998), a weather anchor for CNN's New Day and CNN Newsroom programs
Mark Riebling (Class of 1982), author of Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA
Olivia Smith (journalist), (Class of 2007), Emmy award-winning journalist
Matt Whisenant (Class of 1988), former Major League Baseball pitcher
References
External links
La Cañada High School - Official Site — provided by the La Cañada Unified School District
La Cañada High School Alumni Association
High schools in Los Angeles County, California
La Cañada Flintridge, California
Public high schools in California
1963 establishments in California
Educational institutions established in 1963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Ca%C3%B1ada%20High%20School |
Melanau or A-Likou (meaning River people in Mukah dialect) is an ethnic group indigenous to Sarawak, Malaysia. They are among the earliest settlers<ref>'The Report: Sarawak 2008 Oxford Business Group, 2008</ref> of Sarawak. They speak in the Melanau language, which is a part of the North Bornean branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Origins
In the 19th century, the Melanaus settled in scattered communities along the main tributaries of the Rajang River in Central Sarawak. They like to be known as Melanau or A-Likou. For most Melanau, the word ' dayak' is inappropriate for them as it was a word used by the westerners for the inhabitant of Borneo because Melanau people already have their own identity and culture as A-Likou (Melanau). Melanau or problematic Kajang-speaking tribes such as the Sekapan, the Rajang, the Tanjung, and the Kanowit gradually moved and assimilated into Dayak migrations settling in the Rajang. The Melanau people were regarded as a sub-group of the purported Klemantan people.
Today the Punan (or Punan Bah) people are also closely linked to the last riverine dwelling Melanau communities previously inhabiting the middle and upper Rejang tributaries. The Kajang language is kept relatively alive by the isolated Sekapan communities Kapit division of Sarawak.
The Melanau are considered among the earliest settlers in Sarawak. The name Melanau was not used by the Melanau to refer to themselves until recently. They call themselves a-likou meaning 'people of the river'. Legend has it that the name Melanau was given by the Malays of Brunei to the inhabitants of the coastal swamp flats and riverbanks of central Sarawak which might signify "coast-dweller".
This legend cannot be considered as a viable origin of the name since the name Malano has been used to refer to the region in historical records of writings and maps of Western, Chinese, and Javanese sources even before the establishment of Brunei Kingdom and arrival of Malays to Borneo from Sumatra.
Eda Green, writing in 1909, referred to "... the Milanes, whose girls are as fair as any Europeans and the belles of Borneo."
History
Throughout history, places where the Melanaus traditional areas were described as either their local places such as Mukah, Igan, etc., or by the wider state or region name Malano.
Prehistory
Before the Melanaus are known today as the ethnic name, the origins are vague as written records were not a common norm among the natives of Borneo. However, the linguistic evidence survived till today and ancient culture are preserved up till 19th century. The shared ancient culture of hanging coffin & burial poles (Kelidieng or Jerunei or Lejeng) between Melanaus and some orang ulu tribes such as Punan Bah, Kejaman, Sekapan etc is a proof of the historical origin of the Melanau people. Not only that, the linguistic fondness to these tribes also is another clue of the bigger ethnic lost family link. The culture of Jerunei is found in areas of Melanaus such as Mukah, Dalat etc and in Punan areas of Tatau, Belaga etc and as far as East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan. Evidence of ancient Melanau burial site are known to the archeological society in Niah, Sekaloh This group of ancient people (split and broken today to smaller groups of Melanau, Kejaman, Sekapan, Punan Bah etc) are one of the earliest and original people to settle in the island of Borneo. However, due intense direct influence from the Bruneian Malay Kingdom since 13th century, the culture and lifestyle of the coastal dwelling Melanaus today are highly similar to Malays on the exterior.
7th century
The earliest existence of a polity at the mouth of the Rejang river is Kin-li-fo-che (shortened as Kin-fo) in Chinese records of I Ching which was already known in the 7th century. This Malanau empire covers North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and Brunei. JL Moens mentioned Fo-che-pou-lo to be in the same location. On Mercator map of 1587 also locates the chief ports on the west coast of Borneo (Brunei) Malano and Puchavarao (Fo-che-pou-lo).
12th-13th century
Zhao Rukuo or Chau Ju Kua wrote Zhu Fan Zhi, a collection of descriptions of countries and various products from outside China, and it is considered an important source of information on the people, customs and in particular the traded commodities of many countries in South East Asia and around the Indian Ocean during the Song Dynasty which he finished around 1225. One of the nations is Sha Hua Kung which is similar to Sawaku, a name used to describe Sarawak by Majapahit in Kakawin Negarakertagama.
"..again in a south-easterly direction (from this country?) there are certain islands inhabited by savage robbers called Ma-lo-nu.. "
Furthermore, the translator/author Friedrich Hirth & W.W. Rockhill also suggest this is referring to either Borneo or Sumatra. There is a need for further study regarding this description. Zhao had not travelled outside of China, thus many entries of Zhu Fan Zhi took information from an older work from 1178, Lingwai Daida by another geographer, Zhou Qufei.
Among the earliest historical records of Melanau is from the Chinese records, Dade Nanhai Zhi between the 12th to 13th centuries. It mentions the places under the Fu Ni kingdom that covers Melanau areas of Igan, Tutong & Bintulu;“Xiao Dong Yang's territory under the power of Fu Ni state includes Ma Li Lu (Manila), Ma Ye (Luzon), Mei Kun, Pu Duan (Panay), Su Lu (Sulu), Sha Hu Zhong (Marudu), Ya Chen (Igan), Odjuton (Tutong) and Wen Du Ling (Bintulu)."The Maragtas Code, a document purported to be based on written and oral sources of which no copy has survived in the Philippines, tells the History of Panay from the first inhabitants and the Bornean immigrants. It tells about the migration of ten datus from Borneo to Panay due to the strangling and oppressive rule of Datu Makatunao. Haven, they found in Madiaas which were inhabited by the Negritos in whom Datu Puti bought the island in what is the Panay island in the Philippines today It is believed that Makatunao described is Raja Tugau, a well-known king figure in Melanau oral literature and also in Bruneian literature of Syair Awang Semaun. The quality of the evil king persisted and the document is dated in 1225 according to Prof. Henry Otley Beyer but such dates are contested by other scholars in the field of history Until today, people of Panay celebrate Ati-Atihan, a festival tracing back its historical footprint to these 10 datus.
14th century
Malano was also, one of the vassal states under Majapahit kingdom as described by Mpu Prapanca in Kakawin Negarakertagama (pupuh 14) in 1365;"Kadandangan, Landa Samadang dan Tirem tak terlupakan, Sedu, Barune (ng), Kalka, Saludung, Solot dan juga Pasir, Barito, Sawaku, Tabalung, ikut juga Tanjung Kutei, Malano tetap yang terpenting di pulau Tanjungpura."Following Hayam Wuruk's death in 1389, Majapahit power entered a period of decline with conflict over succession. This window of opportunity gives local kingdoms to flourish.
Syair Awang Semaun which tells the establishment of the Brunei Kingdom is an epic poem passed down from generations. There are many versions of the manuscripts of at least 6 believed to be written into a manuscript in the 19th century. The poem mentions the conquest of 14 brothers establishing a kingdom. Their territorial expansion begins with conquering the Melanau areas which were under the power of Tugau and his allies covering from Sambas to Hulu Sungai Brunei.
17th century
A Dutch report by Blommart in 1609 mentioned that the kingdoms that changed hands under the Johor empire which was previously under the Brunei empire:“Teyen on the river Lauwe, Sadong in Borneo Proper (the eastern boundary of Sarawak,) Mampawa and Borneo were the best places for trade. At Sambas, tidings were received that the people Calca, Seribas, and Melanuge had fallen away from Borneo, and placed themselves under the power of the king of Johore. These were places of large trade, where much gold, benzoar, pearl, and other rare articles were found.”It is estimated that around 1730, under Sultan Kamaluddin of Brunei regained control over the countries from Sarawak Proper from Sambas including the Melanau areas.
19th century
When James Brooke was granted the title Rajah of Sarawak in 1841, the territories of Melanau people from the Rejang river to Bintulu was still under the Brunei kingdom. When a long conflict between the Pangiran Dipa and Pangeran Matusin in Mukah was reaching its peak, it resulted led to a crisis point for James Brooke. Events like blockage of sago supply from Melanau regions to the factories in Kuching and the killing of Charles Fox and Henry Steele became a point for Sir James Brooke to obtain from Sultan Abdul Momin the permission to interfere in 1857. Furthermore, the pirate activities in the Melanau areas carried out by the Sakarang and Saribas were diminishing the livelihood of the Melanaus as well as other local communities In Spencer St James account of the piratical activities;
"It is evident, from the remains of the deserted towns and villages that we saw in their districts, that the population was formerly much greater than we found it during our expeditions to protect their industrious people. We heard of almost monthly attacks on one or other of their villages, and a few weeks passed without the Milanows having to add many to the list of their murdered relatives."
Finally, in 1861, the Sultan gave a lease to James Brooke the territories between Samarahan river to Tanjung Kidurong.
Since the 14th century, the Melanaus have never been united under their racial political entity and controlled by Brunei for about 500 years and the White Rajahs for about 100 years. This contributed to the disparity in the language differences among the Melanau people who were widespread along the coastline of Northwest Borneo. Yet the Melanau language has retained much of its authenticity making it separable from the Malay language despite heavy influence from the Malay language itself.
Divisions
Grouping-wise, the Melanaus can be classified into the following;
Melanau Matu-Daro
Melanau Bruit
Melanau Seduan
Melanau Dalat
Melanau Oya
Melanau Igan
Melanau Mukah
Melanau Belawai-Rajang
Melanau Balingian
Melanau Miri
Melanau Bintulu
Melanau Segan
The largest group is the Matu-Daro. Each group has its characteristic dialect, but they all share the same cultural and linguistic background. An exception is the Melanau Bintulu dialect, which can hardly be understood by speakers of other dialects and is thought by many linguists to hardly fit into the Melanau language grouping. This tribe is also known as "Vaie" whose language is very similar to Punan Lovuk Pandan and Punan Bah. Their early establishment were from Lavang and Segan riverine areas.
The Melanau languages have been divided into the following five groups
Central, consists of dialects ranging from Mukah-Oya, Dalat, Balingian, Bruit, Igan, Segalang, Segahan, Siteng and Prehan.
Matu-Daro
Kanowit-Sungai Tanjong
Sibu, consists of dialects from Seduan and Banyok.
Seru (extinct)
Kapit
Another Melanau group worth mentioning and including is the Melanau Igan. They live in kampungs by the Igan River, e.g. Kampung Skrang, Kampung Tengah, Kampung Hilir, that border the Mukah - (Matu-Daro) district. The main language is Melanau. However, some speak a local Malay dialect. This group of Melanau is probably all Muslim. They have mainly adopted Malay culture while preserving some aspects of Melanau culture. It is believed that this group was originally Malays who settled in the area. However, intermarriage with Melanaus over many generations produced new generations who considered themselves Melanau.
Similar to the Igan Melanaus ancestral beginnings, many Melanaus who had migrated to different areas in Sarawak experienced the same transformation. A group of Matu Melanaus settled in the Bintawa area in Kuching after World War 2. However, their offspring, even though mostly Melanaus by blood, normally do not speak the language and are considered Malays. However, as a point of interest, the new secondary school built in Bintawa, Kuching in 2007 is named SMK Matu Baru. Many areas in Greater Kuching, notably in the neighbourhoods of Petra Jaya, Lundu, Samarahan and Santubong do have a significant Melanau population. In addition, Sibu, Miri and Bintulu are also places or towns where there is a significant Melanau population.
However, the 'Bin' which means "son of" and 'Binti' which means "daughter of" as given in all their names (be they are Muslim, Christian, or "Likou") had probably confused the census workers (read the following paragraph). One of the reasons the Muslim Melanau 'migrated' to become Malay is that during the registration of birth of the newborns, they are automatically being assumed as Malay if the parents don't inform the registration officer of their racial preference.
Population
According to the statistics from the state’s statistics department, in 2014, there are 132,600 who consider themselves Melanau, making it the fifth-largest ethnic group in Sarawak (after Iban, Chinese, Malays, and Bidayuh).
Even though a minority in Sarawak, Melanau forms a large part of Sarawak's political sphere, 5 out of 6 of Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak is of Melanau ethnicity including the current Yang di-Pertua Tun Pehin Abdul Taib Mahmud and 2 out of 6 of Chief Ministers of Sarawak are ethnic Melanau.
The population dynamics of the Melanau people are as follows:
Culture, religion and economy
The Melanau were traditionally fishermen as well as padi and sago farmers. The Melanaus from Paloh were described by Spencer St John are salt producers in the 19th century. Some were skilled boat builders. They used to live in tall stilt and longhouses, but nowadays, they live in Malaysian kampung-style houses (individual & separated houses). Because of religious similarity, the majority of Melanaus live socially and culturally like the rest of the Malays in Malaysia.
The Melanau are one of the rare ethnic groups in Malaysia to have a population that remains more or less constant in numbers. This is because the Muslim Melanaus that have migrated to bigger towns in Sarawak have "automatically" become "Malays", especially during the National Census Operation as their names (and many times the language the elders use with their children at homes) are indistinguishable from those of the local Sarawak Malays. This has helped the Malay population of Sarawak to have significantly increased in the census.
Most Melanaus have a 'Bin' (son of) and 'Binti' (daughter of) in their names similar to the Malays and it is also likely that the Christian Melanaus too were designated as Malays in the census.
The 2010 Malaysian Population Census showed the Melanaus population in Sarawak, Malaysia was about 123,410. They make up the 5th largest ethnic group in Sarawak, after the Ibans, Chinese, Malays, and Bidayuh. The continuous inter-marriage between the Melanau and other races in Malaysia has also caused the disappearance of the Melanau identity. Data from some private research estimated that the actual Melanau population (in Malaysia and outside Malaysia) is much higher.
Being migrants in the early days, Melanaus are found almost everywhere in Sarawak. Sadly, though their children know their roots, many of them cannot speak or even understand their Melanau language. Intentionally or unintentionally, many of them have registered themselves as other races, mostly as Malays. In some cases, their parents, both Melanaus, prefer to speak Malay or English to their children. This language trend is mainly found in the towns and cities in Sarawak. There has been little effort done to preserve the Melanau dialects and to teach the current Melanau generation continuous usage of their dialects.
The gradual disappearance of the Melanau cultures and dialects is further aggravated by the absence of qualified Melanau staff members handling the documentation on the Melanau culture and history in the 'Majlis Adat Istiadat' department in Sarawak. This department is involved in the preservation and documentation of the cultures and histories of the various ethnic groups in Sarawak. The Melanau are slowly being absorbed into other cultural groups. The Melanau Kaul festival will only serve as a reminder of the Melanau Pagan ritual.
Religion
While originally animists, the majority of the Melanaus are now Muslim, although some of them, especially among the Melanau Mukah, and Dalat are Christian. Nonetheless, many still celebrate traditional rites such as the annual Kaul Festival. Despite their different beliefs and religions, the Melanaus, like other East Malaysians (Sabah and Sarawak) are very tolerant of each other and are proud of their tolerance. One can still come across a Melanau family with different children in the family embracing Christianity and Islam while their parents still have strong animist beliefs.
Food
The Melanaus have unique food such as jungle ferns, umai, fresh fish products, and siet, (edible sago palm weevil larva). There is a variety of sago-based dishes such as the , sago balls, and the famous tebaloi, also known as sago and coconut biscuits.
Melanau calendar
The Melanau have their own calendar which begins in March. The New Year is celebrated during the Kaul Festival.
Notable Melanau people
In popular culture
The film, Sumpahan Jerunei'' (Curse of the Jerunei), a local horror film which was released in 2023 and revolves around burial ritual of the Melanau nobility back in the 13th century. The movie was filmed in many areas in Sarawak, including Mukah, Siburan and Santubong.
References
External links
Ethnic groups in Sarawak
Austronesian peoples | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanau%20people |
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