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The Council of the Nation () is the upper house of the Algerian Parliament. It is composed of 144 members, 2/3 of which are elected indirectly and 1/3 of which are appointed by the president of Algeria.
Abdelkader Bensalah was elected as President of the Council of the Nation on July 2, 2002, re-elected on January 11, 2007 and January 10, 2008.
Zohra Drif was elected as Vice President of the Council of the Nation on September 10, 2002, re-elected on March 7, 2007 and March 8, 2008.
They were last elected on 5 February 2022.
Composition
The Council has 144 members:
96 indirectly elected in secret ballot (2/3)
48 appointed by the President of the Republic (1/3)
Elections
There are 48 dual-member constituencies (two seats) corresponding to the number of wilayas (departments) of the country.
The election shall be by majority vote in two rounds by and from an electoral college composed of elected popular wilaya assemblies and communal people's assemblies (approx. 15,000 members).
Eligibility:
be at least 40 years old.
The term of office is six years. The Chamber is renewed by half every three years.
Board member commits himself before his peers who can revoke his mandate by a majority of its members, if it commits a shameful action for his mission.
Presidency
President: Salah Goudjil
Vice President: Djamel Ould Abbes
Building
See also
List of presidents of the Council of the Nation (Algeria)
Politics of Algeria
Parliament of Algeria
People's National Assembly
List of legislatures by country
References
External links
Official website
Politics of Algeria
Algeria
1997 establishments in Algeria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20the%20Nation |
Revelator may refer to:
Any agent in a revelation, a deity or other supernatural entity or entities revealing or disclosing some form of truth or knowledge
Prophet, seer, and revelator, an ecclesiastical title used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Revelator, an online news and ideas initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides investigative reporting, analysis and stories at the intersection of politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics and the future of wild species, wild places and the planet.
Art, entertainment, and media
Music
Revelator (Phil Keaggy album), a 1993 album by Phil Keaggy
Time (The Revelator), a 2001 album by Gillian Welch
Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album), a 2011 album by the Tedeschi Trucks Band
"The Revelator", song by Angels & Airwaves from their album Love: Part Two
Television
"The Revelator" (Sons of Anarchy), the season 1 finale episode of Sons of Anarchy
Video games
Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, an update/sequel to the 2014 fighting game Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
Novels
Revelator, a 2021 Southern Gothic novel by Daryl Gregory
Other
Revelator Coffee, a coffee company
See also
John the Revelator (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelator |
Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1963, he became known for his many roles on UK television between 1964 and 2004.
Career
In the mid-1960s, Yardley was a permanent member of the company at Dundee Repertory Theatre.
He also made early appearances on television in the 1960s in series including Danger Man and United!, and had an extended run during 1967–68 in Z-Cars. His subsequent work included performances as semi-reformed cat burglar William "Spider" Scott in The XYY Man (1976–77); Max Brocard in Secret Army (1978); Roy Swetman, a professional hit man in the hard-hitting British police drama The Professionals, the episode titled "Hijack" (1980) and as Police Inspector Cadogan in Virtual Murder (1992).
He twice had roles in Doctor Who – Sevrin in Genesis of the Daleks (1975) and Arak in Vengeance on Varos (1985) – and also took a part in the science fiction series Blake's 7 (1981) and the BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids (1981).
He had a regular role as Ken Masters in the BBC television series Howards' Way (1985–90), appeared in an episode of Heartbeat in 1996, and played Vince Farmer in Channel 5's soap opera Family Affairs (1999–2003). Yardley most recently appeared in the Sky One series Hex (2004).
References
External links
1942 births
Alumni of RADA
English male soap opera actors
Living people
Male actors from Yorkshire
People from the Borough of Harrogate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Yardley |
Likar Arturo Ramos Concha (born September 8, 1985, in Barranquilla, Atlántico) is a boxer from Colombia, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native South American country.
Amateur
He started boxing at age nine, according to his profile on the official website of the 2004 Summer Olympics. Ramos Concha made his debut for Colombia at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, winning a silver medal.
In 2003 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games.
In Athens he was stopped in the round of sixteen of the Featherweight (57 kg) division by Belarus' Mikhail Biarnadski.
Pro
He started his professional career unspectacularly, losing two of his first twelve bouts. However, after November 2006, he won eleven straight bouts. He has a professional record of 24–4, 18 KOs.
On November 19, 2009, he defeated Angel Granados via twelve-rounds unanimous decision in Medellín, Colombia for the vacant WBA Interim Super Featherweight Championship.
On July 16, 2011, he lost to Juan Manuel Marquez at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. “Dinamita” Marquez landed a hard right hand on Likar's chin who fell ending the bout at 1:47 in the first round.
References
External links
1985 births
Olympic boxers for Colombia
Living people
Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Barranquilla
Colombian male boxers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia
Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
Featherweight boxers
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
21st-century Colombian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likar%20Ramos%20Concha |
Stratton is a mostly residential eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Swan. It was formerly known as Wexcombe; the name Stratton was chosen in 1989 to honour John Peter Stratton, a farmer, businessman and local landowner who was president of the Western Australian Trotting Association from 1930 until 1966.
References
External links
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Suburbs and localities in the City of Swan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton%2C%20Western%20Australia |
Hugo & Luigi were an American record producing team, the duo of songwriters and producers Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. They shared an office in New York's Brill Building, and besides their working relationship, were cousins.
Background
First coming to attention with singles released on Mercury Records in the mid-1950s, they went on to produce Perry Como, Sam Cooke and several other RCA Victor artists, including the hit records "Twistin' the Night Away", "Another Saturday Night", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens, "Shout", a classic by the Isley Brothers, and "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March. They co-wrote Elvis Presley's hit "Can't Help Falling in Love", with George David Weiss. They also produced albums by Della Reese including The Classic Della, a collection of pop songs based on classical themes and Waltz With Me, Della, a collection of popular songs in 3/4 time. Their track, "La Plume de Ma Tante" (written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning), reached #29 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.
Hugo & Luigi were also onetime co-owners of Roulette Records. Songs composed by the duo were often credited to "Mark Markwell", and records they produced carried their distinct logo. While at Roulette Hugo and Luigi did a series of Beautiful Music recordings of "Cascading Voices" and later "Cascading Strings."
After founding Avco Records and producing artists such as the Stylistics in the 1970s, Hugo & Luigi launched a new label, H&L Records, which they ran until they retired, at the end of the decade. Peretti (born December 6, 1916) died on May 1, 1986. Creatore (born December 21, 1921) died on December 13, 2015.
References
External links
The Hugo & Luigi Sessions
Record production duos
Grammy Award winners
RCA Victor artists
Apex Records artists
American songwriting teams
American musical duos | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20%26%20Luigi |
SFJ may refer to:
Saphenofemoral junction, an anatomical structure in the groin
StarFlyer (ICAO airline code)
Kangerlussuaq Airport (IATA airport code)
Super Formula Japan, a Japanese car-racing championship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFJ |
Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset (born 6 December 1971 in Nordfjordeid) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who competed from 1993 to 2012.
A classical technique specialist, Hjelmeset's biggest success is the gold medal in the 50 km event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he won eight medals (all in the classical style). This includes five gold medals (50 km: 2007, 4 × 10 km relay: 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009) and three bronze medals (1999: 10 km, 2001: 15 km, and 2005: 50 km).
Hjelmeset has also competed on the national level in athletics, and won the bronze medal at the Norwegian championships in the 3000 metre steeplechase in 1996 and 1999.
The 2007 season was Hjelmeset's best. He won two gold medals at the World Championships in Sapporo, then a World Cup race in Lahti, before winning the 50 km individual start in Holmenkollen where he had won the sprint event in 2000. Hjelmeset was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 2007 (Shared with Frode Estil, King Harald V, and Queen Sonja).
He retired after he failed to qualify for the 2011 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo. He last World Cup race was the 50 kilometre at the 2012 Holmenkollen Ski Festival, where he finished 52nd.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
2 medals – (1 silver, 1 bronze)
World Championships
8 medals – (5 gold, 3 bronze)
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
9 victories (8 , 1 )
21 podiums (19 , 2 )
Note: Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.
Team podiums
8 victories (8 )
17 podiums (16 , 1 )
References
External links
2007 Holmenkollen medalists announced – Accessed March 18, 2007.
Holmenkollen medal presented to Estil and Hjelmeset – Accessed March 21, 2007
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
1971 births
Living people
Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Norwegian male long-distance runners
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
Norwegian male steeplechase runners
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
People from Gloppen
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Vestland
21st-century Norwegian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd-Bj%C3%B8rn%20Hjelmeset |
Susan Gilmore (born 24 November 1954) is an English actress with a number of television credits to her name, including Elizabeth Fitt in the BBC hospital drama Angels and Avril Rolfe in Howards' Way. She was also a cast member in the thriller serial Maelstrom.
Gilmore was married to rower Daniel Topolski, until his death in February 2015.
References
External links
1954 births
English television actresses
Living people
Actresses from London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Gilmore |
In philosophymore specifically, in its sub-fields semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemanticsmeaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".
The types of meanings vary according to the types of the thing that is being represented. There are:
the things, which might have meaning;
things that are also signs of other things, and therefore are always meaningful (i.e., natural signs of the physical world and ideas within the mind);
things that are necessarily meaningful, such as words and nonverbal symbols.
The major contemporary positions of meaning come under the following partial definitions of meaning:
psychological theories, involving notions of thought, intention, or understanding;
logical theories, involving notions such as intension, cognitive content, or sense, along with extension, reference, or denotation;
message, content, information, or communication;
truth conditions;
usage, and the instructions for usage;
measurement, computation, or operation.
Truth and meaning
The question of what is a proper basis for deciding how words, symbols, ideas and beliefs may properly be considered to truthfully denote meaning, whether by a single person or by an entire society, has been considered by five major types of theory of meaning and truth. Each type is discussed below, together with its principal exponents.
Substantive theories of meaning
Correspondence theory
Correspondence theories emphasise that true beliefs and true statements of meaning correspond to the actual state of affairs and that associated meanings must be in agreement with these beliefs and statements. This type of theory stresses a relationship between thoughts or statements on one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a traditional model tracing its origins to ancient Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined in principle entirely by how it relates to "things", by whether it accurately describes those "things". An example of correspondence theory is the statement by the thirteenth-century philosopher/theologian Thomas Aquinas: Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus ("Truth is the equation [or adequation] of things and intellect"), a statement which Aquinas attributed to the ninth-century neoplatonist Isaac Israeli. Aquinas also restated the theory as: "A judgment is said to be true when it conforms to the external reality".
Correspondence theory centres heavily around the assumption that truth and meaning are a matter of accurately copying what is known as "objective reality" and then representing it in thoughts, words and other symbols. Many modern theorists have stated that this ideal cannot be achieved without analysing additional factors. For example, language plays a role in that all languages have words to represent concepts that are virtually undefined in other languages. The German word Zeitgeist is one such example: one who speaks or understands the language may "know" what it means, but any translation of the word apparently fails to accurately capture its full meaning (this is a problem with many abstract words, especially those derived in agglutinative languages). Thus, some words add an additional parameter to the construction of an accurate truth predicate. Among the philosophers who grappled with this problem is Alfred Tarski, whose semantic theory is summarized further below in this article.
Coherence theory
For coherence theories in general, the assessment of meaning and truth requires a proper fit of elements within a whole system. Very often, though, coherence is taken to imply something more than simple logical consistency; often there is a demand that the propositions in a coherent system lend mutual inferential support to each other. So, for example, the completeness and comprehensiveness of the underlying set of concepts is a critical factor in judging the validity and usefulness of a coherent system. A pervasive tenet of coherence theories is the idea that truth is primarily a property of whole systems of propositions, and can be ascribed to individual propositions only according to their coherence with the whole. Among the assortment of perspectives commonly regarded as coherence theory, theorists differ on the question of whether coherence entails many possible true systems of thought or only a single absolute system.
Some variants of coherence theory are claimed to describe the essential and intrinsic properties of formal systems in logic and mathematics. However, formal reasoners are content to contemplate axiomatically independent and sometimes mutually contradictory systems side by sidefor example, the various alternative geometries. On the whole, coherence theories have been rejected for lacking justification in their application to other areas of truthespecially with respect to assertions about the natural world, empirical data in general, assertions about practical matters of psychology and societyparticularly when used without support from the other major theories of truth.
Coherence theories distinguish the thought of rationalist philosophers, particularly of Spinoza, Leibniz, and G.W.F. Hegel, along with the British philosopher F.H. Bradley. Other alternatives may be found among several proponents of logical positivism, notably Otto Neurath and Carl Hempel.
Constructivist theory
Social constructivism holds that meaning and truth are constructed by social processes, are historically and culturally specific, and are in part shaped through power struggles within a community. Constructivism views all of our knowledge as "constructed", because it does not reflect any external "transcendent" realities (as a pure correspondence theory might hold). Rather, perceptions of truth are viewed as contingent on convention, human perception, and social experience. It is believed by constructivists that representations of physical and biological reality, including race, sexuality, and gender, are socially constructed.
Giambattista Vico was among the first to claim that history and culture, along with their meaning, are human products. Vico's epistemological orientation gathers the most diverse rays and unfolds in one axiomverum ipsum factum"truth itself is constructed". Hegel and Marx were among the other early proponents of the premise that truth is, or can be, socially constructed. Marx, like many critical theorists who followed, did not reject the existence of objective truth but rather distinguished between true knowledge and knowledge that has been distorted through power or ideology. For Marx, scientific and true knowledge is "in accordance with the dialectical understanding of history" and ideological knowledge is "an epiphenomenal expression of the relation of material forces in a given economic arrangement".
Consensus theory
Consensus theory holds that meaning and truth are whatever is agreed uponor, in some versions, might come to be agreed uponby some specified group. Such a group might include all human beings, or a subset thereof consisting of more than one person.
Among the current advocates of consensus theory as a useful accounting of the concept of "truth" is the philosopher Jürgen Habermas. Habermas maintains that truth is what would be agreed upon in an ideal speech situation. Among the current strong critics of consensus theory is the philosopher Nicholas Rescher.
Pragmatic theory
The three most influential forms of the pragmatic theory of truth and meaning were introduced around the turn of the 20th century by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Although there are wide differences in viewpoint among these and other proponents of pragmatic theory, they hold in common that meaning and truth are verified and confirmed by the results of putting one's concepts into practice.
Peirce defines truth as follows: "Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth." This statement stresses Peirce's view that ideas of approximation, incompleteness, and partiality, what he describes elsewhere as fallibilism and "reference to the future", are essential to a proper conception of meaning and truth. Although Peirce uses words like concordance and correspondence to describe one aspect of the pragmatic sign relation, he is also quite explicit in saying that definitions of truth based on mere correspondence are no more than nominal definitions, which he accords a lower status than real definitions.
William James's version of pragmatic theory, while complex, is often summarized by his statement that "the 'true' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the 'right' is only the expedient in our way of behaving". By this, James meant that truth is a quality, the value of which is confirmed by its effectiveness when applying concepts to practice (thus, "pragmatic").
John Dewey, less broadly than James but more broadly than Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and/or refute proposed meanings and truths.
A later variation of the pragmatic theory was William Ernest Hocking's "negative pragmatism": what works may or may not be true, but what fails cannot be true, because the truth and its meaning always works. James's and Dewey's ideas also ascribe meaning and truth to repeated testing, which is "self-corrective" over time.
Pragmatism and negative pragmatism are also closely aligned with the coherence theory of truth in that any testing should not be isolated but rather incorporate knowledge from all human endeavors and experience. The universe is a whole and integrated system, and testing should acknowledge and account for its diversity. As physicist Richard Feynman said: "if it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong".
Associated theories and commentaries
Some have asserted that meaning is nothing substantially more or less than the truth conditions they involve. For such theories, an emphasis is placed upon reference to actual things in the world to account for meaning, with the caveat that reference more or less explains the greater part (or all) of meaning itself.
Logic and language
The logical positivists argued that the meaning of a statement arose from how it is verified.
Gottlob Frege
In his paper "Über Sinn und Bedeutung" (now usually translated as "On Sense and Reference"), Gottlob Frege argued that proper names present at least two problems in explaining meaning.
Suppose the meaning of a name is the thing it refers to. Sam, then, means a person in the world who is named Sam. But if the object referred to by the name did not exist—i.e., Pegasus—then, according to that theory, it would be meaningless.
Suppose two different names refer to the same object. Hesperus and Phosphorus were the names given to what were considered distinct celestial bodies. It was later shown that they were the same thing (the planet Venus). If the words meant the same thing, then substituting one for the other in a sentence would not result in a sentence that differs in meaning from the original. But in that case, "Hesperus is Phosphorus" would mean the same thing as "Hesperus is Hesperus". This is clearly absurd, since we learn something new and unobvious by the former statement, but not by the latter.
Frege can be interpreted as arguing that it was therefore a mistake to think that the meaning of a name is the thing it refers to. Instead, the meaning must be something else—the "sense" of the word. Two names for the same person, then, can have different senses (or meanings): one referent might be picked out by more than one sense. This sort of theory is called a mediated reference theory. Frege argued that, ultimately, the same bifurcation of meaning must apply to most or all linguistic categories, such as to quantificational expressions like "All boats float".
Bertrand Russell
Logical analysis was further advanced by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their groundbreaking Principia Mathematica, which attempted to produce a formal language with which the truth of all mathematical statements could be demonstrated from first principles.
Russell differed from Frege greatly on many points, however. He rejected Frege's sense-reference distinction. He also disagreed that language was of fundamental significance to philosophy, and saw the project of developing formal logic as a way of eliminating all of the confusions caused by ordinary language, and hence at creating a perfectly transparent medium in which to conduct traditional philosophical argument. He hoped, ultimately, to extend the proofs of the Principia to all possible true statements, a scheme he called logical atomism. For a while it appeared that his pupil Wittgenstein had succeeded in this plan with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Russell's work, and that of his colleague G. E. Moore, developed in response to what they perceived as the nonsense dominating British philosophy departments at the turn of the 20th century, which was a kind of British Idealism most of which was derived (albeit very distantly) from the work of Hegel. In response Moore developed an approach ("Common Sense Philosophy") which sought to examine philosophical difficulties by a close analysis of the language used in order to determine its meaning. In this way Moore sought to expunge philosophical absurdities such as "time is unreal". Moore's work would have significant, if oblique, influence (largely mediated by Wittgenstein) on Ordinary language philosophy.
Other truth theories of meaning
The Vienna Circle, a famous group of logical positivists from the early 20th century (closely allied with Russell and Frege), adopted the verificationist theory of meaning, a type of truth theory of meaning. The verificationist theory of meaning (in at least one of its forms) states that to say that an expression is meaningful is to say that there are some conditions of experience that could exist to show that the expression is true. As noted, Frege and Russell were two proponents of this way of thinking.
A semantic theory of truth was produced by Alfred Tarski for formal semantics. According to Tarski's account, meaning consists of a recursive set of rules that end up yielding an infinite set of sentences, "'p' is true if and only if p", covering the whole language. His innovation produced the notion of propositional functions discussed on the section on universals (which he called "sentential functions"), and a model-theoretic approach to semantics (as opposed to a proof-theoretic one). Finally, some links were forged to the correspondence theory of truth (Tarski, 1944).
Perhaps the most influential current approach in the contemporary theory of meaning is that sketched by Donald Davidson in his introduction to the collection of essays Truth and Meaning in 1967. There he argued for the following two theses:
Any learnable language must be statable in a finite form, even if it is capable of a theoretically infinite number of expressions—as we may assume that natural human languages are, at least in principle. If it could not be stated in a finite way then it could not be learned through a finite, empirical method such as the way humans learn their languages. It follows that it must be possible to give a theoretical semantics for any natural language which could give the meanings of an infinite number of sentences on the basis of a finite system of axioms.
Giving the meaning of a sentence, he further argued, was equivalent to stating its truth conditions. He proposed that it must be possible to account for language as a set of distinct grammatical features together with a lexicon, and for each of them explain its workings in such a way as to generate trivial (obviously correct) statements of the truth conditions of all the (infinitely many) sentences built up from these.
The result is a theory of meaning that rather resembles, by no accident, Tarski's account.
Davidson's account, though brief, constitutes the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics. He proposed simply translating natural languages into first-order predicate calculus in order to reduce meaning to a function of truth.
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke examined the relation between sense and reference in dealing with possible and actual situations. He showed that one consequence of his interpretation of certain systems of modal logic was that the reference of a proper name is necessarily linked to its referent, but that the sense is not. So for instance "Hesperus" necessarily refers to Hesperus, even in those imaginary cases and worlds in which perhaps Hesperus is not the evening star. That is, Hesperus is necessarily Hesperus, but only contingently the morning star.
This results in the curious situation that part of the meaning of a name — that it refers to some particular thing — is a necessary fact about that name, but another part — that it is used in some particular way or situation — is not.
Kripke also drew the distinction between speaker's meaning and semantic meaning, elaborating on the work of ordinary language philosophers Paul Grice and Keith Donnellan. The speaker's meaning is what the speaker intends to refer to by saying something; the semantic meaning is what the words uttered by the speaker mean according to the language.
In some cases, people do not say what they mean; in other cases, they say something that is in error. In both these cases, the speaker's meaning and the semantic meaning seem to be different. Sometimes words do not actually express what the speaker wants them to express; so words will mean one thing, and what people intend to convey by them might mean another. The meaning of the expression, in such cases, is ambiguous.
Critiques of truth theories of meaning
W. V. O. Quine attacked both verificationism and the very notion of meaning in his famous essay, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". In it, he suggested that meaning was nothing more than a vague and dispensable notion. Instead, he asserted, what was more interesting to study was the synonymy between signs. He also pointed out that verificationism was tied to the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements, and asserted that such a divide was defended ambiguously. He also suggested that the unit of analysis for any potential investigation into the world (and, perhaps, meaning) would be the entire body of statements taken as a collective, not just individual statements on their own.
Other criticisms can be raised on the basis of the limitations that truth-conditional theorists themselves admit to. Tarski, for instance, recognized that truth-conditional theories of meaning only make sense of statements, but fail to explain the meanings of the lexical parts that make up statements. Rather, the meaning of the parts of statements is presupposed by an understanding of the truth-conditions of a whole statement, and explained in terms of what he called "satisfaction conditions".
Still another objection (noted by Frege and others) was that some kinds of statements don't seem to have any truth-conditions at all. For instance, "Hello!" has no truth-conditions, because it doesn't even attempt to tell the listener anything about the state of affairs in the world. In other words, different propositions have different grammatical moods.
Deflationist accounts of truth, sometimes called 'irrealist' accounts, are the staunchest source of criticism of truth-conditional theories of meaning. According to them, "truth" is a word with no serious meaning or function in discourse. For instance, for the deflationist, the sentences "It's true that Tiny Tim is trouble" and "Tiny Tim is trouble" are equivalent. In consequence, for the deflationist, any appeal to truth as an account of meaning has little explanatory power.
The sort of truth theories presented here can also be attacked for their formalism both in practice and principle. The principle of formalism is challenged by the informalists, who suggest that language is largely a construction of the speaker, and so, not compatible with formalization. The practice of formalism is challenged by those who observe that formal languages (such as present-day quantificational logic) fail to capture the expressive power of natural languages (as is arguably demonstrated in the awkward character of the quantificational explanation of definite description statements, as laid out by Bertrand Russell).
Finally, over the past century, forms of logic have been developed that are not dependent exclusively on the notions of truth and falsity. Some of these types of logic have been called modal logics. They explain how certain logical connectives such as "if-then" work in terms of necessity and possibility. Indeed, modal logic was the basis of one of the most popular and rigorous formulations in modern semantics called the Montague grammar. The successes of such systems naturally give rise to the argument that these systems have captured the natural meaning of connectives like if-then far better than an ordinary, truth-functional logic ever could.
Usage and meaning
Throughout the 20th century, English philosophy focused closely on analysis of language. This style of analytic philosophy became very influential and led to the development of a wide range of philosophical tools.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was originally an ideal language philosopher, following the influence of Russell and Frege. In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus he had supported the idea of an ideal language built up from atomic statements using logical connectives (see picture theory of meaning and logical atomism). However, as he matured, he came to appreciate more and more the phenomenon of natural language. Philosophical Investigations, published after his death, signalled a sharp departure from his earlier work with its focus upon ordinary language use (see use theory of meaning and ordinary language philosophy). His approach is often summarised by the aphorism "the meaning of a word is its use in a language". However, following in Frege's footsteps, in the Tractatus, Wittgenstein declares: "... Only in the context of a proposition has a name meaning."
His work would come to inspire future generations and spur forward a whole new discipline, which explained meaning in a new way. Meaning in a natural language was seen as primarily a question of how the speaker uses words within the language to express intention.
This close examination of natural language proved to be a powerful philosophical technique. Practitioners who were influenced by Wittgenstein's approach have included an entire tradition of thinkers, featuring P. F. Strawson, Paul Grice, R. M. Hare, R. S. Peters, and Jürgen Habermas.
J. L. Austin
At around the same time Ludwig Wittgenstein was re-thinking his approach to language, reflections on the complexity of language led to a more expansive approach to meaning. Following the lead of George Edward Moore, J. L. Austin examined the use of words in great detail. He argued against fixating on the meaning of words. He showed that dictionary definitions are of limited philosophical use, since there is no simple "appendage" to a word that can be called its meaning. Instead, he showed how to focus on the way in which words are used in order to do things. He analysed the structure of utterances into three distinct parts: locutions, illocutions and perlocutions. His pupil John Searle developed the idea under the label "speech acts". Their work greatly influenced pragmatics.
Peter Strawson
Past philosophers had understood reference to be tied to words themselves. However, Peter Strawson disagreed in his seminal essay, "On Referring", where he argued that there is nothing true about statements on their own; rather, only the uses of statements could be considered to be true or false.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of the ordinary use perspective is its insistence upon the distinctions between meaning and use. "Meanings", for ordinary language philosophers, are the instructions for usage of words — the common and conventional definitions of words. Usage, on the other hand, is the actual meanings that individual speakers have — the things that an individual speaker in a particular context wants to refer to. The word "dog" is an example of a meaning, but pointing at a nearby dog and shouting "This dog smells foul!" is an example of usage. From this distinction between usage and meaning arose the divide between the fields of pragmatics and semantics.
Yet another distinction is of some utility in discussing language: "mentioning". Mention is when an expression refers to itself as a linguistic item, usually surrounded by quotation marks. For instance, in the expression "'Opopanax' is hard to spell", what is referred to is the word itself ("opopanax") and not what it means (an obscure gum resin). Frege had referred to instances of mentioning as "opaque contexts".
In his essay, "Reference and Definite Descriptions", Keith Donnellan sought to improve upon Strawson's distinction. He pointed out that there are two uses of definite descriptions: attributive and referential. Attributive uses provide a description of whoever is being referred to, while referential uses point out the actual referent. Attributive uses are like mediated references, while referential uses are more directly referential.
Paul Grice
The philosopher Paul Grice, working within the ordinary language tradition, understood "meaning" — in his 1957 article — to have two kinds: natural and non-natural. Natural meaning had to do with cause and effect, for example with the expression "these spots mean measles". Non-natural meaning, on the other hand, had to do with the intentions of the speaker in communicating something to the listener.
In his essay, Logic and Conversation, Grice went on to explain and defend an explanation of how conversations work. His guiding maxim was called the cooperative principle, which claimed that the speaker and the listener will have mutual expectations of the kind of information that will be shared. The principle is broken down into four maxims: Quality (which demands truthfulness and honesty), Quantity (demand for just enough information as is required), Relation (relevance of things brought up), and Manner (lucidity). This principle, if and when followed, lets the speaker and listener figure out the meaning of certain implications by way of inference.
The works of Grice led to an avalanche of research and interest in the field, both supportive and critical. One spinoff was called Relevance theory, developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson during the mid-1980s, whose goal was to make the notion of relevance more clear. Similarly, in his work, "Universal pragmatics", Jürgen Habermas began a program that sought to improve upon the work of the ordinary language tradition. In it, he laid out the goal of a valid conversation as a pursuit of mutual understanding.
Noam Chomsky
Although he has focused on the structure and functioning of human syntax, in many works Noam Chomsky has discussed many philosophical problems too, including the problem of meaning and reference in human language. Chomsky has formulated a strong criticism against both the externalist notion of reference (reference consists in a direct or causal relation among words and objects) and the internalist one (reference is a mind-mediated relation holding among words and reality). According to Chomsky, both these notions (and many others widely used in philosophy, such as that of truth) are basically inadequate for the naturalistic (= scientific) inquiry on human mind: they are common sense notions, not scientific notions, which cannot, as such, enter in the scientific discussion. Chomsky argues that the notion of reference can be used only when we deal with scientific languages, whose symbols refers to specific things or entities; but when we consider human language expressions, we immediately understand that their reference is vague, in the sense that they can be used to denote many things. For example, the word “book” can be used to denote an abstract object (e.g., “he is reading the book”) or a concrete one (e.g., “the book is on the chair”); the name “London” can denote at the same time a set of buildings, the air of a place and the character of a population (think to the sentence “London is so gray, polluted and sad”). These and other cases induce Chomsky to argue that the only plausible (although not scientific) notion of reference is that of act of reference, a complex phenomenon of language use (performance) which includes many factors (linguistic and not: i.e. beliefs, desires, assumptions about the world, premises, etc.). As Chomsky himself has pointed out, this conception of meaning is very close to that adopted by John Austin, Peter Strawson and the late Wittgenstein.
Inferential role semantics
Michael Dummett argued against the kind of truth-conditional semantics presented by Davidson. Instead, he argued that basing semantics on assertion conditions avoids a number of difficulties with truth-conditional semantics, such as the transcendental nature of certain kinds of truth condition. He leverages work done in proof-theoretic semantics to provide a kind of inferential role semantics, where:
The meaning of sentences and grammatical constructs is given by their assertion conditions; and
Such a semantics is only guaranteed to be coherent if the inferences associated with the parts of language are in logical harmony.
A semantics based upon assertion conditions is called a verificationist semantics: cf. the verificationism of the Vienna Circle.
This work is closely related, though not identical, to one-factor theories of conceptual role semantics.
Critiques of use theories of meaning
Sometimes between the 1950-1990s, cognitive scientist Jerry Fodor said that use theories of meaning (of the Wittgensteinian kind) seem to assume that language is solely a public phenomenon, that there is no such thing as a "private language". Fodor thinks it is necessary to create or describe the language of thought, which would seemingly require the existence of a "private language".
In the 1960s, David Kellogg Lewis described meaning as use, a feature of a social convention and conventions as regularities of a specific sort. Lewis' work was an application of game theory in philosophical topics. Conventions, he argued, are a species of coordination equilibria.
Idea theory of meaning
The idea theory of meaning (also ideational theory of meaning), most commonly associated with the British empiricist John Locke, claims that meanings are mental representations provoked by signs.
The term "ideas" is used to refer to either mental representations, or to mental activity in general. Those who seek an explanation for meaning in the former sort of account endorse a stronger sort of idea theory of mind than the latter.
Each idea is understood to be necessarily about something external and/or internal, real or imaginary. For example, in contrast to the abstract meaning of the universal "dog", the referent "this dog" may mean a particular real life chihuahua. In both cases, the word is about something, but in the former it is about the class of dogs as generally understood, while in the latter it is about a very real and particular dog in the real world.
John Locke considered all ideas to be both imaginable objects of sensation and the very unimaginable objects of reflection. He said in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding that words are used both as signs for ideas and also to signify a lack of certain ideas. David Hume held that thoughts were kinds of imaginable entities: his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section 2. He argued that any words that could not call upon any past experience were without meaning.
In contrast to Locke and Hume, George Berkeley and Ludwig Wittgenstein held that ideas alone are unable to account for the different variations within a general meaning. For example, any hypothetical image of the meaning of "dog" has to include such varied images as a chihuahua, a pug, and a black Labrador; and this seems impossible to imagine, since all of those particular breeds look very different from one another. Another way to see this point is to question why it is that, if we have an image of a specific type of dog (say of a chihuahua), it should be entitled to represent the entire concept.
Another criticism is that some meaningful words, known as non-lexical items, don't have any meaningfully associated image. For example, the word "the" has a meaning, but one would be hard-pressed to find a mental representation that fits it. Still another objection lies in the observation that certain linguistic items name something in the real world, and are meaningful, yet which we have no mental representations to deal with. For instance, it is not known what Newton's father looked like, yet the phrase "Newton's father" still has meaning.
Another problem is that of compositionthat it is difficult to explain how words and phrases combine into sentences if only ideas are involved in meaning.
Eleanor Rosch and George Lakoff have advanced a theory of "prototypes" which suggests that many lexical categories, at least on the face of things, have "radial structures". That is to say, there are some ideal member(s) in the category that seem to represent the category better than other members. For example, the category of "birds" may feature the robin as the prototype, or the ideal kind of bird. With experience, subjects might come to evaluate membership in the category of "bird" by comparing candidate members to the prototype and evaluating for similarities. So, for example, a penguin or an ostrich would sit at the fringe of the meaning of "bird", because a penguin is unlike a robin.
Intimately related to these researches is the notion of a psychologically basic level, which is both the first level named and understood by children, and "the highest level at which a single mental image can reflect the entire category" (Lakoff 1987:46). The "basic level" of cognition is understood by Lakoff as crucially drawing upon "image-schemas" along with various other cognitive processes.
Philosophers Ned Block, Gilbert Harman and Hartry Field, and cognitive scientists G. Miller and P. Johnson-Laird say that the meaning of a term can be found by investigating its role in relation to other concepts and mental states. They endorse a "conceptual role semantics". Those proponents of this view who understand meanings to be exhausted by the content of mental states can be said to endorse "one-factor" accounts of conceptual role semantics and thus to fit within the tradition of idea theories.
See also
Definitions of philosophy
Meaning (existential)
Semiotics
Semeiotic
References
Further reading
Akmajian, Adrian et al (1995), Linguistics: an introduction to language and communication (fourth edition), Cambridge: MIT Press.
Allan, Keith (1986), Linguistic Meaning, Volume One, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Arena, Leonardo Vittorio (2012), Nonsense as the Meaning (ebook).
Austin, J. L. (1962), How to Do Things With Words, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann (1967), The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (first edition: 240 pages), Anchor Books.
Davidson, Donald (2001), Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (second edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dummett, Michael (1981), Frege: Philosophy of Language (second edition), Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Frege, Gottlob (ed. Michael Beaney, 1997), The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gauker, Christopher (2003), Words without Meaning, MIT Press.
Goffman, Erving (1959), Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Anchor Books.
Grice, Paul (1989), Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Searle, John and Daniel Vanderveken (1985), Foundations of Illocutionary Logic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle, John (1969), Speech Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle, John (1979), Expression and Meaning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stonier, Tom (1997), Information and Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective, London: Springer.
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This is a list of the top 50 singles of 2005 in New Zealand.
Chart
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– Song of New Zealand origin
Notes
References
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Ivor Colin Danvers (14 July 1932 – 13 March 2020) was an English actor, best known for his role as Gerald Urquhart in the 1980s BBC drama Howards' Way. He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
Other TV credits include: Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Troubleshooters, Juliet Bravo, Tenko, Minder, Terry and June and Keeping Up Appearances. In 2003, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio drama Nekromanteia.
Danvers died in March 2020 at the age of 87.
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Julie Power (also known as Lightspeed) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman, the character first appeared in Power Pack #1 (May 1984).
Publication history
Julie Power featured in all 62 issues of Power Pack published by Marvel Comics between 1984 and 1991. Between issues #1 and #25 of the original Power Pack series, Julie starred as the alter-ego of the superhero Lightspeed, but her superhero codename changed to Molecula when she gained her brother Jack's powers during the course of a storyline. She continued as Molecula between issues #25—52 until she regained her original powers and superhero name, which she retained until Power Packs cancellation with issue #62. Julie later appeared in both the 1992 Power Pack Holiday Special and Power Pack vol. 2 miniseries "Peer Pressure", which was published in 2000, at some point changing her superhero name to Starstreak in the intervening years. During this publishing hiatus, her only appearances were brief cameos in New Warriors.
Outside the Power Pack series of comics, she has since appeared in Runaways vol. 2, in the short-lived Runaways spin-off title Loners, and presumably as a background character when that team later appeared in the miniseries War of Kings: Darkhawk (though she is not identified specifically at any point during this series). Julie appeared as a regular character in Avengers Academy from issue #20 (Dec. 2011) through its final issue #39 (Jan. 2013). Julie has also appeared in several non-canon alternate continuity titles such as Exiles, Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness and various Power Pack miniseries aimed at younger readers.
Fictional character biography
Julie Power was born in Richmond, Virginia to Dr. James Power and Margaret Power. She was a founding member of the superhero team Power Pack. The second oldest of the four Power siblings, she was 10 years old when she was given her powers by Aelfyre Whitemane, a dying Kymellian noble. She continued to operate with Power Pack through their entire history, later relocating to Los Angeles to live on her own after quitting the team in unrevealed circumstances.
Julie was the only Power family member who had a birthday happen within the comic series, aging from 10 to 11 years old. In the later 2000 mini-series (which makes no references to 'current' Marvel continuity and thus cannot be objectively placed in canon) she is 14, in Runaways vol. 2 #1 she is nebulously identified as being an "ex-teenager", but in the later Loners #4, Julie identifies herself as being 17 years old. In the letter column of Avengers Academy #31, Julie is identified as being about 19 years old.
Power Pack
After the events of Power Pack #1-#5 which detailed the team's origin, the Power family moved from Virginia to New York City. There, Power Pack encountered other superheroes such as Spider-Man, and Cloak and Dagger. They also met Franklin Richards, and encountered the New Mutants. Julie's powers were later siphoned into the Snark Jakal; when returned, her powers were exchanged with those of her brother Jack, and she became Molecula'''. Eventually, she regained her original powers and resumed her original codename. Power Pack then encountered Galactus and Nova.
Julie was perhaps the most "normal" of the Power siblings. When she was not in "superhero mode" Julie could be quite shy and quiet; in several instances, she was bothered by bullies at school. Her solo storylines often involved regular "kid issues" such as babysitting and cheating on tests. Julie was also a voracious reader, and was frequently seen reading, carrying or quoting books, even graduating elementary school with honors in English. She frequently stepped into a maternal role with her siblings, sewing and washing the team's costumes, caring for Katie and Franklin Richards and attempting to restore peace during conflicts.
In battles, Julie possessed quick reflexes and was a strong fighter. In the Pack's initial conflict with Prince Jakal, Julie was able to singlehandedly bring down the Snark's ship. She was also the only member of Power Pack in the original series to be directly responsible for the death of another character—Pestilence, in the Fall of the Mutants, fell to her death when Julie struck her with the "Julie Hammer" battle technique (though Pestilence might have survived had she not resisted Katie's attempt to pull her to safety).
Excelsior/Loners
Julie's personality detailed above changed during unrevealed circumstances and she was reintroduced during the 'Runaways: True Believers' story-arc as a flighty, naive, wannabe actress who lacked worldly experience despite her many adventures with Power Pack. It is initially revealed in Runaways that because of her time with Power Pack, Julie decided to retire from super-heroics because she had missed out on having a normal childhood, though this later changes to her retiring from super-heroics to protect the privacy of her family and focus on developing a private life of her own away from prying eyes, and so she moved to Los Angeles to seek fame as an actress. This also later changes to her retiring from super-heroics to develop an identity of her own away from her family or other superheroes, prompting her to join the superhero group Excelsior. However, she (as well as the others within the group) agree to go on a mission offered by Rick Jones (though they don't know his identity at the time) to return the Runaways to the foster care from which they had escaped at the conclusion of their first series in exchange for one million dollars and a refitted Avengers Quinjet. Though this initial mission for the fledgling Excelsior team was a failure, they spend the next few months continuing to pursue the Runaways regardless, before discontinuing their pursuit and deciding never to use their powers ever again in unrevealed circumstances that occurred sometime before the beginning of the Loners miniseries, but which could be related to the events of Civil War.
During a misunderstanding between Hollow (the mutant formerly known as Penance) and Ricochet, Julie appears without warning or explanation and is stabbed through the shoulders or gut (art and dialogue on the first page of issue 4 indicate different and contradictory injuries) by Hollow's claws. She claims that her 'alien metabolism' allows her to recover quickly from the wound, and she - apparently jokingly - suggests this is also why she is so skinny, though it is not explained how her healing ability works now that she is separated from her siblings, as physical contact between them is required to heal grievous wounds, while the ability works passively if they are in regular contact, and they become prone to debilitating sicknesses and viral infections if kept apart from each other for any reason.
Julie reveals to the group that her flighty personality and seemingly low intelligence is really a facade that she adopted when she moved to California, that she has merely been pretending to be unintelligent for the preceding two years in order to fit in with the rest of her teammates, and also that she has not registered with local authorities as an active superhuman. Despite admitting her flighty persona is an affectation, Julie continues to act exactly as before for the remaining issues of Loners, and in the final issue's closing montage is seen playing absentmindedly with her hair much as she does in issue #4 when suggesting she is merely playing a part for the benefit of others.
Throughout Loners, Julie suggests in her narrative that she hides a secret from the rest of her team, and in issue #5 reveals she is not registered as a superhero with the government. In issue #6, however, Phil Urich alludes that Julie "of all people" should respect that he is still keeping something (details of his and Mickey Musashi's dealings with the Loners' enemies) from the group: later, Mickey Musashi asks Julie if "there's anything more you want to open up about?", but Julie declines, stating she's "still confused".
Avengers Academy and the Runaways
Julie was seen (among the other young heroes) to be arriving on the new campus for the Avengers Academy. She is attending at the Academy as both a student and a teacher's assistant, under Quicksilver's tutelage. When fellow Academy member Striker confides to her that he is gay, she confirms that she is bisexual. During an earlier encounter with the Runaways, Julie and Karolina Dean express a close personal interest in each other in the middle of combat before they are rudely interrupted by Molly Hayes. Following a later joint mission of the Avengers Academy and the Runaways, Julie and Karolina agree to go on a date, and eventually they end up being romantically involved.
Some time afterwards, Julie visited the Runaways, but Karolina's lack of commitment to their relationship created friction between them. In her despondent mood, Julie ended up consuming a magical cupcake originally given to Molly Hayes by her new schoolfriend, Abigail, a 13-year-old girl rendered ageless by a gift from the Enchantress. Eating the cupcake regressed Julie to a 13-year-old herself. Though the problem was fixed by an antidote the Enchantress had provided, Julie nevertheless broke up with Karolina.
Future Foundation
When circumstances prompted Julie to be drawn in to assist the Future Foundation when they were under threat, she revealed her recent run of bad luck to Alex, who apologized for not being there for his sister through her coming out and bad break-up. To help Julie get back on her feet, Alex offered her a position as a teacher with the Future Foundation. During a mission in a space prison to help reassemble the disintegrated Molecule Man, Julie encountered the reality-displaced Rikki Barnes, which resulted in a mutual romantic attraction.
Powers and abilities
Julie's original power (and that most associated with the character) was unaided flight by means of rapid forward propulsion that left a highly visible tri-colored band of light in her wake. Julie could only remain aloft while in motion, however, as she discovered when she first used her powers, only managing to stop when she accidentally collided with the bulkhead of a Snark starship and broke her arm. Julie never flew at the speed of light as her codename suggested, and her top speed remains unknown, but it was supposed by her brother Alex on one occasion that she had broken the sound barrier.
Julie gained the density powers previously held by her brother Jack for a time and operated under the name Molecula. She expanded upon her new powers by learning to create force fields and bubbles, the latter of which could be employed to cushion herself or others from falls. Julie also learned to make herself taller and larger without transforming into a cloud - though she still retained the same mass and would become tired when increasing her height and stature for long periods of time.
Julie eventually regained her original acceleration powers and continued as a member of Power Pack under her original codename, Lightspeed. She did not develop any new permutations of - or applications for - this ability, however, until after she changed her codename once again, this time to Starstreak. Just as she expanded her mass-controlling abilities as Molecula, Julie eventually refined her original abilities so she could teleport over great distances without any visible sign of exhaustion.
In unrevealed circumstances at some point between the Power Pack (2000) miniseries and her reappearances in both the second Runaways series and the Loners miniseries, after returning to her original codename once again; Julie learned to refine her powers so she could now hover in the air without having to accelerate to stay aloft, and could also now physically stand upon her own rainbow trail, use it as an impromptu cushion against falls, or even as a hammock.
During their battle with Ultron, Turbo orders Julie "Shields up and try to draw its fire", shortly before Ultron shoots Julie out of the air using the same energy blasts with which he had just murdered the mother of Victor Mancha, an event Julie survives with no visible ill-effects.
Along with her siblings, Julie possesses Kymellian healing powers. Julie is the first Power sibling to use this ability, albeit unconsciously, when her broken arm mysteriously heals quickly during the Pack's initial conflict with the Snarks. Later in the series she heals herself automatically, after switching to cloud form and back, when her legs are seriously injured during a battle with the mutant team Trash. When her brother Jack calls attention to it during the battle, Julie answered, "Yeah, that happens sometimes".
With her siblings, Julie owns a Kymellian smartship, Friday. The ship acts as an unofficial team advisor and accompanied the Pack on several missions. As with other members of Power Pack, it is not seen during Julie's appearances in Loners - though she does mention Friday in passing during her first mission with (what was then known as) Excelsior on their search for the Runaways.
Equipment
Julie wears a costume of unstable molecules created by Friday. The costume exists in an extra-dimensional space known as "Elsewhere" until summoned by voice command (the wearer would say the words "costume on!"). The costume also houses a communicator which is used to communicate with Friday, and is later modified to include a mask. As with all the team's costumes, the pockets of the costume can be used as an access point to Elsewhere itself, where the cartoon-like creatures known simply as "The Tailors" reside in a colorful wonderland of talking dinosaurs, enchanted forests, mad monarchs, surreal architecture and malleable physical laws.
Reception
Critical response
Deirdre Kaye of Scary Mommy called Julie Power a "role model" and a "truly heroic" female character. Stacie Rook of Screen Rant included Julie Power in their "10 LGBTQ+ Marvel Heroes That Should Join The MCU" list. Comic Book Resources ranked Julie Power 3rd in their "10 Fastest Marvel Sidekicks" list, and 9th in their "Marvel Comics: 10 Most Powerful Students At Avengers Academy" list.
Other versions
Avengers and Power Pack Assembled
In Avengers and Power Pack Assembled, an older Julie is encountered by Power Pack when they are banished to an alternate future by Kang the Conqueror. She is a 23-year-old woman who bears a notable resemblance to her mother and possesses her father's scientific brilliance in addition to her Kymellian powers. It remains unclear how she and her family could exist in this timeline, since its creation hinges on their absence.
House of M
In the "House of M" storyline, Julie, along with her brother Alex, was seen as a member of a super-powered gang that called themselves the Wolfpack.
Exiles: Days of Then and Now
In Exiles: Days of Then and Now, Julie is a member of Quentin Quire's unnamed team of superheroes, the last survivors against the Annihilation Wave that was led by a banished Hulk.
Millennial Visions
In the "Power Pack: Starting Over" story (in actuality not a story but a one-page pitch for a theoretical series) within Marvel's 2001 Millennial Visions one-shot comic, Julie is a 30-year-old researcher for SETI. She is depicted as being the most stable of the four Power siblings, who are estranged from each other, and reunites them to fight the Snarks again.
Marvel Zombies
In Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness, Julie is seen alongside her Power Pack cohorts as zombies who come into conflict with Nextwave, whom (we are informed by a caption box in the style of the Nextwave comic) Power Pack then graphically murder "in the most humiliating and degrading ways imaginable" off-panel several seconds later.
In other media
Video games
Lightspeed is a playable character in Lego Marvel's Avengers'', voiced by Skyler Samuels.
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Redouane Bouchtouk (born December 19, 1976) is a boxer from Morocco who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. At these games he was stopped in the first round of the Light Flyweight (48 kg) division by Colombia's Carlos José Tamara. He then qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he lost to Ugandan fighter Jolly Katongole.
At the first qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics he lost to Japhet Uutoni. At his second try he qualified for the Beijing Games, too, even though he lost in the final round to Thomas Essomba. In Beijing he lost his only bout to Paulo Carvalho.
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Robert Service High School is a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska. It had an enrollment of 1,779 students as of August 2, 2016. Serving grades 9 through 12, the school was named for the poet Robert W. Service. Part of the Anchorage School District, the school opened in 1971 and was the last of four high schools built by the district (its lineal predecessor, the Anchorage Independent School District) within a decade. Service High originally operated as Service-Hanshew; as was the case common within Anchorage during that time, junior and senior high schools shared a single building. Included in the case with other junior-senior high schools in Anchorage, a separate structure was built to educate the junior student body and referred as Hanshew Middle School in the period of the 1980s oil glut. This is located approximately two miles west of Service along the Lake Otis Parkway. The school completed a partial renovation in 2005. The official school colors are green and gold, and its mascot is the cougar. Service High School's current principal is Allen Wardlaw.
Demographics
The ethnic and gender demographics for Service High School during the 2013-14 year were the following:
A total of 34% of the school was categorized as economically disadvantaged as measured by the number of students who qualified for a free or reduced price lunch.
Accreditation
Service High School is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and participates in sports and extramural activities sponsored by the Alaska School Activities Association.
Notable alumni
Tommy Beaudreau, attorney and former official in the United States Department of the Interior
Emma Broyles, Miss America 2022
Thomas A. Birkland, professor of public policy at North Carolina State University
Matthew Burtner, musician, composer, and inventor of the metasaxophone (1988 graduate)
Brandon Dubinsky, NHL forward, New York Rangers (2004 graduate)
Anna Fairclough, member of the Alaska Senate from Eagle River (1976 graduate)
Tyler Kornfield (born 1991), Olympic cross-country skier (2009 graduate)
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder (1986 graduate)
Mark Schlereth, NFL guard and ESPN analyst (1984 graduate)
Jeremy Teela, 2002, 2006, 2010 US Olympian, Biathlon (1995 graduate)
Cathy Tilton, member of the Alaska House of Representatives from Wasilla (class of 1980)
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Edward Thomas Highmore (born 3 April 1961) is an English actor. He was born in Kingston upon Thames, London.
Life and career
Best known for playing Leo Howard in the 1980s BBC drama Howards' Way. He also appeared in Doctor Who, playing Malkon in the 1984 serial Planet of Fire. Highmore attended Guildford School of Acting.
He is the father of actor Freddie Highmore, who played Charlie Bucket in the 2005 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Bertie. Edward and Freddie starred together in Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as father and son. Edward's wife, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include Daniel Radcliffe.
Filmography
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Kulusuk Airport () is an airport in Kulusuk, a settlement on an island of the same name off the shore of the North Atlantic in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.
History
The airstrip was built by US defense in 1956, in order to support a Distant Early Warning Line station. The defense station was closed in 1991. Many remnants of the US military use of the field remain, including vehicles and plant used by the military to maintain the strip. Like some other airports in Greenland it was not built at a location suitable for civilian travel, i.e. not near the local major settlement. There are political discussions on building a new airport at Tasiilaq, a major settlement in the region, and to close the Kulusuk Airport.
During an operation in the early 1990s Kulusuk Airport was the base of operations for a team attempting to recover a US Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning from a glacier approximately 80 miles away. The aircraft was originally part of a flight of 6 P-38 and 2 B-17 bombers taking part in Operation Bolero during WW2. The team recovered a P-38 in 1992 and when rebuilt to flying condition the aircraft was named Glacier Girl. The story of Glacier Girl's recovery is displayed on the wall inside the departures hall.
Operations
Unlike the heliport in Tasiilaq on the nearby Ammassalik Island, the airport in Kulusuk can serve light and medium fixed wing aircraft, thus functioning as a mini-hub for Tasiilaq.
Given the increasing number of passengers travelling through the airport due to connections provided by Icelandair, both domestic to Nerlerit Inaat Airport and international to Iceland, the number of fixed-schedule helicopter flights to Tasiilaq is not sufficient to cover demand, due to a single Bell 212 helicopter of Air Greenland stationed at the airport.
Before Air Greenland took over Air Alpha, flights had been operated on-demand by two helicopters. The problem is acknowledged by Air Greenland, however the final decision regarding expansion belongs to the Government of Greenland.
Kulusuk Airport has, in cooperation with Icelandair, installed de-icing facilities since the winter 2014–2015. The terminal building hosts a small cafeteria, and a duty-free stand in the departures/arrivals hall. Accessible restrooms are available.
Access to the departures hall is limited due to the need to screen purchases at the duty-free. Passengers are only allowed to pass through the hall immediately before boarding, resulting in a lack of separation between arriving and departing passengers in the waiting check-in hall. Most arrivals and departures are synchronized in time to facilitate transfers between Icelandair passengers and Air Greenland passengers bound for Nuuk, Tasiilaq and Nerlerit Inaat Airport (and to several settlements in the area from there). The waiting hall is not sufficient to accommodate all passengers, resulting in a pre-boarding chaos.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
On 2 July 1972, Douglas C-47B F-WSGU of Rousseau Aviation was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident.
On 20 April 1985, a problem was encountered with the additional fuel tanks that a Fokker F27 Friendship (registered YN-BZF) had been fitted with for the delivery flight to Aeronica from Europe to Managua, Nicaragua. Augusto C. Sandino International Airport. The pilots decided to return to Kulusuk Airport in Greenland, the place of their most recent fuel stop, but failed to do so. The aircraft crashed on a snow-covered strip, killing two of the five occupants.
References
External links
Official website
Airports in Greenland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulusuk%20Airport |
Hicham Mesbahi (born December 4, 1980) is a boxer from Morocco who participated in three Olympics. He was born in Casablanca.
In 2000, when Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics, he fell in the second round. At the 2004 Summer Olympics where he fought for his native North African country he was defeated in the second round of the flyweight (51 kg) division by Poland's Andrzej Rzany. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated Algeria's Mebarek Soltani.
For the 2008 Summer Olympics Mesbahi qualified at bantamweight beating among others Issa Samir even though he lost the final of the qualifier to Abdelhalim Ouradi.
References
1980 births
Sportspeople from Casablanca
Flyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Morocco
Living people
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Moroccan male boxers
20th-century Moroccan people
21st-century Moroccan people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicham%20Mesbahi |
Cynthia Shelley (born 23 March 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English actress, known for her roles in two BBC television dramas of the 1980s: Alice Courtenay in Tenko and Abby Urquhart in Howards' Way.
Career
Shelley made her television debut playing Rhiannon, one of the party girls in The Young Ones episode "Interesting". A week later, she played the girl on the radio in the "Flood" episode of the same series.
Shelley played Alice Courtenay in the World War II-set series Tenko. Shelley appeared in nine episodes of series three and appeared in Tenko Reunion the following year. From 1985 to 1990, she was a regular cast member for six series of Howards' Way in the role of Abby Urquhart/Hudson.
Shelley later made appearances The Tripods, Bottom, Men Behaving Badly, A Prince Among Men and Grange Hill.
She replaced Charlotte Long for the second series of The Tripods'' after Long's sudden death in a road accident.
References
External links
http://www.zetaminor.com/cult/howards_way/howards_way_cast.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/tripods/index.shtml
http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/tenkocst.htm
http://www.sitcom.co.uk/young_ones/
1960 births
People from Chipping Barnet
English television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Hertfordshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy%20Shelley |
The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association) has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. The Murrow Awards recognize local and national news stories that uphold the RTDNA Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical expertise and exemplify the importance and impact of journalism as a service to the community. Murrow Award winning work demonstrates the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.
Judging
Submissions are judged by a panel of professional journalists. Entries from individual stations are judged regionally. The winners from each region are given a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and entered into judging for the national awards. National award winners are recognized each October at the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala in New York City. It is possible for the judges to decide that none of the entries in a given category merit an award, in which case none will be offered.
Entry divisions
Starting in 2015 with the addition of student awards, there were nine divisions of National Edward R. Murrow Award winners. There are two divisions of local radio, local television, and online organizations based on the size of the media market they serve. These media market sizes are determined by Nielsen for radio and television.
Radio Small Market: local radio stations located in markets 50+
Radio Large Market: local radio stations located in markets 1-50
Television Small Market: local TV stations located in markets 50+
Television Large Market: local TV stations located in markets 1-50
Network Radio: A radio network, syndication service, or program service that programs to multiple markets.
Network Television: A radio network, syndication service, or program service that programs to multiple markets.
Small Digital News Organization: 2,499,999 or fewer unique visitors per month.
Large Digital News Organization: 2,499,999 or more unique visitors per month.
Student: Anyone enrolled in a high school, college or university in the United States, Canada or any other country.
Categories
The RTDNA website lists the following categories for the Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Overall Excellence: entry consists of to 40 minutes of examples of the previous year's news coverage and then a single newscast.
Newscast: One regularly scheduled newscast from the previous year.
Breaking News Coverage (Previously known as "Spot News"): entry may consist of up to 20 minutes of examples of a station's coverage of a single, unscheduled news event.
Continuing Coverage: entry may consist of up to 30 minutes of examples showing continuing coverage of a major developing story over an extended period of time during the previous year.
Feature Reporting: a single report of up to 10 minutes covering a human-interest or profile subject that is not breaking news or investigative in nature.
Investigative Reporting: entry may consist of up to 15 minutes of examples of journalistic enterprise on an important issue.
News Documentary: up to 60 minutes of coverage of a single subject reported in a single segment addressing a need or needs in the station's market.
News Series: coverage of a single subject reported in multiple parts, not to exceed 30 minutes.
Hard News Reporting: a single hard news report of up to 10 minutes prepared for a newscast that is not breaking news or primarily investigative in nature.
Sports Reporting: a single packaged report of up to 10 minutes covering a sports-related topic. Anchored segments or stand-alone sports programs and play-by-play are not eligible.
Excellence in Sound (Formerly 'Use of Sound'): Up to 10 minutes of coverage of a single subject or single segment showing creative use of sound to tell a story.
Excellence in Video (Formerly 'Use of Video'): an entry up to 10 minutes showing creative use of video to tell a story.
Writing: up to three examples from the previous year, not exceeding 15 minutes, that demonstrate excellence in writing that conveys the feeling and significance of events to the listener or viewer.
Multimedia (Formerly 'Website'): up to 15 examples of URLs, including the news organization's home page, which demonstrate exceptional news coverage and journalistic skill.
Excellence in Innovation (new for 2017): up to 30 minutes of audio or video coverage, or URLS, apps, social feeds, or any other platform that demonstrates an innovative use of content, engagement, technology and/or audience experience.
Excellence in Social Media (new for 2017): up to 10 examples of URLs, apps, or other platforms that demonstrate the exceptional use of social media as evidenced by the quality of journalism and the quantity and quality of user engagement.
Noteworthy winners
The Edward R. Murrow Awards are presented to media organizations as a whole rather than to individual journalists. However, many categories are for single news reports done by individual journalists. Some of the prominent journalists responsible for stories that won Edward R. Murrow awards include Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Holly Williams, Keith Olbermann, Bryant Gumbel, Brian Williams, Michael Moss, Serena Altschul, Richard Engel, and Jeremy Young. Full lists of winners and organizations can be found on the RTDNA website.
Student Murrow Awards
In 2015, the RTDNA added a student division to the Murrow Awards. Student Awards are awarded to the individuals or team of individuals that produce them, unlike the professional Murrow Awards, which are presented to a news organization.
The categories for student awards are:
Excellence in Audio Newscast
Excellence in Audio Reporting
Excellence in Video Newscast
Excellence in Video Reporting
Excellence in Digital Reporting
In the reporting categories, entries should consist of a single piece, package or series. Newscast entries should consist of a complete newscast up to 30 minutes in length. Digital entries should include digital or multimedia elements, particularly interactive elements, and should not consist solely of audio, video, or text.
Winners by year
RTDNA does not have a comprehensive online listing of all national and regional Edward R. Murrow Award winners since the awards' founding in 1971. Below are links redirecting to annual winners on Wikipedia pages or external links to RTDNA's website.
1997 Edward R. Murrow Awards (Radio Television Digital News Association)
1999 Edward R. Murrow Awards (Radio Television Digital News Association)
2003 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2009 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2010 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2011 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2011 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2012 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2012 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2014 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2014 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2015 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2015 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2015 Student Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2016 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2016 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2016 Student Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2017 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2017 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
2017 Student Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
See also
List of American television awards
Edward R. Murrow
References
External links
Radio Television Digital News Association
RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards
American journalism awards
Awards established in 1971
1971 establishments in the United States
Edward R. Murrow Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20R.%20Murrow%20Award%20%28Radio%20Television%20Digital%20News%20Association%29 |
The Gaming Industry Report Magazine (or GIR Magazine for short) was a subscription-based bimonthly video game trade journal that was published by GNB News Group until 2006.
The Gaming Industry Report Magazine was shut down in 2006. However, it was relaunched as a free online magazine by GNB News Group in January 2006. Then in 2007 JEMS Media Group had plans to relaunch the publication in 2007 as a video game newspaper instead of a magazine.
The Gaming Industry Report is currently being run by Jeremy Meyer who holds the position of publisher and editor in chief.
The magazine covers all aspects of the business of the video game industry in the US, regulation, technology, finance, and journalism. GIR is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive weekly analysis on the business of video games, and offers a forum for industry debate and criticism of the medium.
References
Online magazines published in the United States
Business magazines published in the United States
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Magazines disestablished in 2006
Professional and trade magazines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Industry%20Report%20Magazine |
Patricia Shakesby (born 6 November 1942) is an English actress and playwright, best known for her role as Polly Urquhart in Howards' Way. She is also notable for being an original cast member of Coronation Street, in which she played Susan Cunningham, the first on-screen love interest of Ken Barlow.
Early life and roles
Shakesby was born in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire. She made her television debut aged 18, on 9 December 1960 in Coronation Street. Shakesby played Ken Barlow's (William Roache) middle class girlfriend, Susan Cunningham, for 12 episodes. In the first episode, Ken states he is taking Susan to the Imperial Hotel, which Ken's father, Frank, forbids, as Ken's mother, Ida, works as a cleaner in the kitchens there and Frank does not like the thought of Ken spending money in the same establishment where his mother works hard to earn it.
In 1972, Shakesby appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in the television series War and Peace, playing Vera Rostova. Between 1985 and 1990, she appeared in six series of the BBC television series Howard's Way, playing Polly Urquhart. Her other television credits include Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Borderers, On the Buses, The Liver Birds, The Likely Lads, Sapphire & Steel, Casting the Runes and Yes Minister.
On stage, Shakesby has appeared with Ronnie Barker in a 1970s production of The Real Inspector Hound and several plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. She wrote a play, The Lady of the Abbey, based on the life of the wife of Robert Fitzhamon, who founded Tewkesbury Abbey.
Personal life
Shakesby married Tewkesbury Civic Society chairman Alan Purkiss in 1997. The couple live in Mill Bank, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. She won an award for playing the best drunk on television; however, Shakesby is teetotal, as alcohol gives her a migraine.
Filmography
She Knows Y'Know (1962)
He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
References
External links
1942 births
Living people
English television actresses
People from Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire
Actresses from Yorkshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Shakesby |
Hamid Ait Bighrade (born May 13, 1976) is a Moroccan boxer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Ait Bighade qualified himself for boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics by taking the gold medal at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana defeating Ethiopia's Abel Aferalign.
Ait Bighrade fought as a bantamweight in the 2004 Olympics. He lost in the first round in a 25–17 decision against India's Diwakar Prasad.
References
1976 births
Bantamweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Morocco
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Berber Moroccans
Moroccan male boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Ait%20Bighrade |
Aïyb Dieng is a Senegalese drummer and percussionist specializing in hand drums. He has recorded two solo album, including Rhythmagick (1995), and has worked with a wide range of musicians, including as a regular collaborator of bassist/producer Bill Laswell.
Biography
He was born and raised in Senegal, West Africa. By the age of 14 he was playing professionally in a band that consisted of nine relatives.
Dieng received his first album credit on Brian Eno and Jon Hassell's 1980 Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, playing percussion on conga drums and a clay drum called ghatam. Soon after, he worked with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi on Susto. Dieng also played on Mick Jagger's solo project, She's the Boss. Other noteworthy credits include work with Yoko Ono (singer/composer/artist), Bill Laswell (producer/bassist/guitarist), William S. Burroughs (beatnik author), Haruomi Hosono, Bob Marley (reggae singer), and Ginger Baker. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio.
In his early years in the U.S., Dieng taught African drumming at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. He went on to perform with Karl Berger at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. The chatan was introduced by Dieng. It was played on Herbie Hancock's 1984 album Sound-System. His debut solo album, Rhythmagick, was released in 1995 by Bill Laswell's record label Subharmonic.
Dieng was a featured musician on Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibawbaw's 2010 album, Mesgana Ethiopia.
Discography
Rythmes Africains (1978, Auvidis)
Rhythmagick (1995, Subharmonic)
Notes
Senegalese drummers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Deadline (band) members
SXL (band) members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFyb%20Dieng |
Tahar Tamsamani (born 10 September 1980) is a retired Moroccan boxer. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2000.
In 2000 he won a bronze medal in the featherweight (57 kg) division, after falling in the semifinals to Kazakhstan's Bekzat Sattarkhanov.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he was defeated in the first bout of the lightweight (60 kg) division by Uganda's Sam Rukundo. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 1st AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event he defeated Tunisia's Taoufik Chouba.
At the 2008 Olympic qualifier he lost to Hamza Kramou but won the third-place bout and therefore qualified for his third Olympics. In Beijing he lost to Domenico Valentino in the first bout.
References
1980 births
Sportspeople from Marrakesh
Olympic boxers for Morocco
Living people
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Morocco
Featherweight boxers
Lightweight boxers
Olympic medalists in boxing
Moroccan male boxers
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
21st-century Moroccan people
20th-century Moroccan people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahar%20Tamsamani |
Hepsi was a Turkish girlband. They consisted of Eren Bakıcı, Cemre Kemer and Yasemin Yürük, and formerly of Gülçin Ergül, who left in 2009. Cemre Kemer's mother is a famous manager, Şebnem Özberk. When they were nine years old, they were students at the same conservatory and her mother began to build the group. All the members of the group are ballet dancers.
The group was largely followed in Turkey, with their audience being made up mainly of teenage boys and girls and pre-teen girls.
The group also starred in their own soap opera, called Hepsi 1 on one of the main channels, ATV Turkey.
Album "Bir"
The group rose to fame in the year 2005 with their debut album Bir, which spawned the hit songs "Olmaz Oğlan", "Üç Kalp", and "Herşeye Rağmen", and the hugely successful song "Yalan".
Album: Hepsi 2
In June 2006 the group released their second studio Hepsi 2. The first single from the album, "Kalpsizsin", in 2006, also became a huge hit, winning them an award at the Kral TV Music Awards for the best group. The second single was "Aşk Sakızı" in 2007 which also became a huge hit.
EP "Tempo"
They went on to release their first official EP, Tempo, in association with Pepsi, and worked with Turkish Pop legend Sezen Aksu, famous for working with Tarkan.
Album: Şaka (10+1)
The group released their third studio album on 24 May 2008. The group stated that the third album was gonna be "different", On 3 May 2008, the album title was confirmed to be Şaka (10+1).
The album's name includes "(10+1)", because the ten songs featured on the album are covers of famous songs Hepsi have re-produced for their unique style. Some of the featured songs are from very famous singers in Turkey such as Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu, however there is only one brand new song in this album which is "4 Peynirli Pizza", written by Kenan Dogulu. "4 Peynirli Pizza" is the first single for this album and was released on 23 May 2008.
Album: Geri Dönüşüm
After Gülçin Ergül left, they released album "Geri Dönüşüm" in 2010.
Series "Hepsi 1"
Hepsi 1 is a Turkish soap which airs once a week on ATV, originally on Show TV. The soap shows the girls as pre-famous and how they became famous. The characters of themselves are over the top, however the show has some truth about the girls, such as their likes and dislikes.
Season one attracted many views with an average of 3.2 million viewers a week. Season two had an average of 2.5 million to 6 million viewers a week.
The last episode of the season 2 has aired on 3 June 2008. Although it was said by ATV that season 2 was going to be the last season, it has been confirmed by ATV that a season 3 for Hepsi1 will be made.
It did seem quite a hard decision to be made by ATV because of the number of viewers changing every week from approximately 6 million viewers per week to 2.5 million viewers. However, because of a high number of requests to ATV and the number of viewers being quite high, ATV has confirmed that there will be a Season 3 made. Although it was confirmed it may have a long delay because of the group's promotion of their new album and also the recording of their movie.
Products and endorsements
Pepsi sponsorship
In summer 2006 they starred in the Turkish Pepsi commercials, advertising the Pepsi Power Club music download site (the first legal music download site in Turkey). There are two adverts, one of which shows what Hepsi were like as they were growing up, starting from when they were children.
Penti sponsorship
They starred in commercial "Penti".
Winx Club
Alongside Ebru Yazici, they sung in the Turkish dub of Winx Club, in the movies and the Winx in Concert album.
Stationery
The group have released their own stationery and school equipment line. This contains 160 different types of stationery equipment, varying from books, pens, pencils, art books, diaries etc. This stationery line was released in two parts; the first part of the stationery equipment being released in the beginning of July, these were the books, and the rest of the equipment, pens and pencils were released in the first weeks of September 2008.
2008–2009: Group hiatus
in 2009 the group decided to go on their musical way. So they are now only three group members (Cemre Kemer, Yasemin Yürük and Eren Bakıcı).
2012–present: Second group hiatus
In 2015 July, the band announced that they will release new single this winter. But later it was cancelled and group announced that they weren't work on music more.
Discography
Albums
2005: "Bir"
2006: "Hepsi 2"
2008: "Şaka (10+1)"
2010: "Geri Dönüşüm"
EP
2006: "Tempo"
Non-album Singles
2008: "Sen Bir Tanesin" (Winx Club Soundtrack)
2008: "Sadece Bir Kız" (Winx Club Soundtrack)
2010: "Harikalar Diyarı" (Winx Club Soundtrack)
2011: "Fındık Kadar"
2013: "Sarmaş Dolaş"
Featured
2011: "Organik" - Nükhet Duru ft Hepsi
2011: "Şık Şık" - Murat Dalkılıç ft. Volga Tamöz & Hepsi
Others
2007: "Jenerik" (Soundtrack of series Hepsi 1)
2009: "Winx Club Konserde" (Turkish dub of Winx Club in Concert)
2010: "Winx Club Sihirli Macera" (Turkish soundtrack of Winx Club: Magical Adventure)
Awards
2010: - Pal Fm-Band of the Year-"Won"
2009: - Kral TV Video Music Awards - Band of the Year - Nominated
2008: - Will foundation special Atanur Oğuz Schools Soap of the Year - "Won"
2008: - 11. Istanbul Fm Music Awards - Band of the Year - "Won"
2008: - PowerTurk Music Award 2008 - Band of the Year - Nominated
2008: - Kral TV Video Music Awards - Band of the Year - "Won"
2007: - Power Turk Music Awards 2007 - Band of the Year - "Won"
2007: - Kral TV Video Music Awards - Band of the year - "Won"
2007: - Jetix Awards-Band of the Year -"Won"
2006: - Kral TV Video Music Awards - Band of the Year - "Won"
2006: - Jetix Awards-Band of the Year -"Won"
Tours
2008: Hepsi Şaka
2007: GNCTRKCLL 40 Partileri Tour
2007: Maxland 2007
2006: Maxland 2006
2006: Sezen Aksu&Hepsi (Pepsi)
2005: Hepsi Bir
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Concerts
1 June 2007 - Famagusta / Namik Kemal District
Production Company: Stardium
Executive Producer: Ahu Özışık
Producer: Ceyhan Çandır
Recording Studio: İmaj Stüdyoları
Recording Engineer: Murat Elgün
Mixing Engineer: Marek Pompetzki
Mastering Engineer: Stefan
Graphic Design: Stardium
Photographer: Ayten Alpün
Styling: Kemal Doğulu
References
External links
Grup Hepsi Official
Grup Hepsi Official Fun
Girl groups
Turkish women singers
Turkish musical quartets
Musical groups established in 2004
Musical groups from Istanbul
Turkish pop music groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepsi |
Tracey Childs (born 30 May 1963) is an English actress, known for playing Lynne Howard in the 1980s drama series Howards' Way. Her other television roles include Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1981), Linda Cosgrove in Born and Bred (2002–05), Patty Cornwell in Hollyoaks (2003–04) and Elaine Jenkinson in Broadchurch (2013).
Career
Born in London, Childs’ first on-screen role was in the Upstairs, Downstairs episode, Wanted - a Good Home. She also appeared in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Rose Stanley, Sense and Sensibility, The Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1982 Bergerac episode "A Perfect Recapture". She appeared as Pompeiian citizen Caecilius's wife Metella in "The Fires of Pompeii", in the fourth series of the BBC's relaunched Doctor Who.
Childs was married to her Howards' Way co-star Tony Anholt, from 1990 to 1998 and toured with him, Marc Sinden and Gemma Craven in Noël Coward's Private Lives throughout 1991 and into 1992.
She starred opposite Matthew Kelly in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Trafalgar Studios in London in March 2009.
In 2010 and 2012, she appeared in BBC One's afternoon drama series Doctors.
In 2013 she appeared in Series 1 of the ITV drama Broadchurch as Chief Superintendent Elaine Jenkinson, head of the Broadchurch police.
Childs currently works as Executive Producer at the Mercury Theatre Colchester.
Doctor Who audio plays
In October 2001, Childs appeared in the Big Finish Doctor Who audiobook Colditz. This audiobook introduced Childs as the character of Klein. In the story, the Seventh Doctor and Ace are caught intruding in Colditz Castle in October 1944, where they meet Klein, a Nazi scientist.
Childs then returned to the part of Klein a further three times: in January–March 2010, for a trilogy of stories featuring the Seventh Doctor; in October 2012 for UNIT: Dominion; and in July–September 2013 for another trilogy of tales. She reprised the role again in the story Warlock's Cross, which was released in November 2018.
Selected filmography
Richard's Things (1980)
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Jane Eyre (1983)
A Talent for Murder (1984, TV film)
Audio work
Audiobook performances for Big Finish Productions:
Colditz (2001)
A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010)
"Klein's Story" (2010)
Survival of the Fittest
The Architects of History (2010)
UNIT: Dominion (2012)
Persuasion (2013)
Starlight Robbery (2013)
Daleks Among Us (2013)
Warlock's Cross (2018)
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
English television actresses
English soap opera actresses
People educated at the Elmhurst School for Dance
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from London
English child actresses
English film actresses
English stage actresses
English radio actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey%20Childs |
Meaghan Simister (born November 10, 1986 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian Olympic luger who has competed since 2003.
In the 2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons, Simister placed second in Canadian Championship competition. At 2009-2010 Canadian Championships she placed third.
Simister's best finish at the FIL World Luge Championships was ninth in the women's singles event at Oberhof in 2008.
In the 2009-2010 Season she placed tenth at the World Cup in Altenberg, Germany, qualifying for the 2010 Winter Olympics where she finished 25th. http://olympic.ca/team-canada/meaghan-simister/
Her first Olympics were the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
During the Olympics on February 14, she sustained minor injuries on the luge track, in the third of four runs, when she went high on one of the corners of the track.
Personal life
Simister was one of about 20 athletes in the 2006 Winter Olympics to have attended high school at the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta.
References
External links
1986 births
Canadian female lugers
Living people
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic lugers for Canada
Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaghan%20Simister |
Stimulant maintenance is the medical practice of prescribing stimulant substances such as cocaine or amphetamines to people who are dependent on these drugs. Supporters of stimulant maintenance believe that prescription offers legal alternatives to people who would otherwise be purchasing impure drugs in unknown potency and concentration, unnecessarily risking their health and supporting an illegal market that fuels organized crime. Pharmaceutical Dexedrine is being tried as drug replacement therapy for cocaine as well. There has been success in Australia and England.
References
Drug rehabilitation
Substance dependence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant%20maintenance |
Lawrence McMahon (18 January 1929 – 16 February 2006) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served both as a Teachta Dála (TD) and as a Senator.
McMahon was first elected to Dáil Éireann at a by-election in 1970 in the Dublin County South constituency, following the resignation of Fianna Fáil TD Kevin Boland. He held the seat at the 1973 general election. At the 1977 general election, he was returned for Dublin County Mid, and after a further revision of constituency boundaries, he was elected as TD for Dublin South-West at the general elections in 1981 and February 1982. He lost his seat at the November 1982 general election.
From 1983 to 1992, he served as a member of Seanad Éireann, elected on the Labour Panel.
References
1929 births
2006 deaths
Members of Dublin County Council
Fine Gael TDs
Members of the 19th Dáil
Members of the 20th Dáil
Members of the 21st Dáil
Members of the 22nd Dáil
Members of the 23rd Dáil
Members of the 17th Seanad
Members of the 18th Seanad
Members of the 19th Seanad
Fine Gael senators
Labour Panel senators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20McMahon |
The Lady and the Highwayman is a 1989 United Kingdom romantic adventure television film based on Barbara Cartland's 1952 romance novel Cupid Rides Pillion. The working title of the film was Dangerous Love.
The film stars Hugh Grant (in one of his earliest appearances) as highwayman Silver Blade and Lysette Anthony as Lady Panthea Vyne. The film is a swashbuckling tale of romance, jealousy and betrayal set in England during the Restoration of Charles II, with Michael York as King Charles II of England. Emma Samms as Lady Castlemaine and Oliver Reed are supported by guest appearances by Robert Morley and John Mills.
The Lady Castlemaine of the film, whose vendetta against Lady Panthea Vyne is forms part of the plot of the film, is based on the life of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, one of King Charles II's mistresses and mother of several of his children.
In 2023 Grant told James Corden that The Lady and The Highwayman was the film he would erase from his Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page if given the chance. "I'm meant to be sexy" he recalled, but was undone by the "bad wig, bad hat. I look like Deputy Dawg."
Plot
The film begins with a narrator telling us that Cromwell's tyranny is coming to an end, when we see several men approaching on horseback. We learn that King Charles II and several of his Cavaliers have been on an exploratory tour in England, checking to see if the populace is ready to back his return. At the moment he is being hounded by a troop of Roundheads. King Charles stops to bid one of his supporters, a Royalist Lord Lucius Vyne (Hugh Grant) who he gives one of his favorite rings, telling Lucius to send it if he ever needs his help. Taking the ring Lucius borrows the King's distinctive plumed hat and leads the King's pursuers away, allowing Charles and Lucius' cousin, Lord Richard Vyne to reach a waiting boat bound for France. Lucius manages to lose the Roundheads in a cavernous entrance of a quarried chalk cliff face.
In the next scene Lady Panthea Vyne (Lysette Anthony) is tricked into marriage by a lecherous older tax collector Drysdale (Ian Bannen) who had been seeking her hand in marriage. He promises to intercede and save her brother Lord Richard who, he tells her, is about to be executed. Drysdale tells her he can save her brother if she agrees to marry him. Leaving the church she and her new husband, no sooner reach their waiting coach that he attempts to unbutton her dress. Her small Cavalier King Charles Spaniel barks at Drysdale, who throws it to the floor of the coach and stomps it to death. Just then a gun ball blows a chunk of wood from the coach beside Drysdale's head. The mysterious masked highwayman known as "Silver Blade" (secretly her cousin Lucius) puts a stop to Drysdale's advances and helps our heroine to bury her dog. She tells Silver Blade of her plight; he whispers that Drysdale has lied, telling her that her brother is already dead.
"Silver Blade" then duels with Drysdale, who Panthea warns Silver Blade is the best swordsman in England. Silver Blade soon runs him through and returns to the carriage where Panthea waits. Silver Blade finds gold in the carriage that Drysdale had unfairly collected during his role as a tax collector. He threatens the coachmen on pain of death to keep silent about the whole affair with Drysdale then takes Panthea home. He leaves her with two of the four bags of gold before riding off to return the rest of the money from whom it was stolen. The event will come back to haunt them both.
Next her aunt, Lady Emma Darlington (Claire Bloom) talks her into coming to live with her as Panthea is all alone now that her father and brother are dead, nevermind her dead husband. At a royal reception we learn that Aunt Emma was the King's 'second' mother. The King invites Panthea to be a lady of the queen's bed chamber. With Panthea attracting all of the males' admiring glances plus her now becoming part of the new queen's court, the King's mistress Lady Castlemaine (Emma Samms) is livid. About then Panthea asks her Aunt who is 'that' lady, pointing to Lady Castlemaine. Her aunt tells her to look away.
Next Lady Castlemaine's guest Rudolph introduces himself, reminding Panthea and her aunt that he is Panthea's cousin on her distaff side. He then introduces Lady Castlemaine, when suddenly Lady Darlington grabs Panthea and abruptly turns her back and walks away. Lady Castlemaine is fit to be tied, and swears to take revenge for the slight.
Cousin Rudolph plots to inherit the title as Duke of Manston Hall, which is Panthea's home and also Lucius' hiding place. Lucius, instead of claiming his royal title, is in true Robin Hood fashion working against the King's secret enemies. Panthea, who has been in love with Silver Blade since the day he saved her, learns he is in grave danger and is about to be captured in a trap set for that night. She rides to warn him and saves the day after declaring her love for him. However, soon after the King leaves for France, she falls victim to the schemes of Lady Castlemaine who is after her head. Meanwhile, Lady Castlemaine learns of the coach incident and pays the coachman, now a sergeant in the King's Guards, to accuse Panthea of murder. She sets her trap and soon Panthea is fighting for her life in court.
After she is condemned to death Lucius attempts her rescue and ends up arrested as well. He passes the King's ring to Panthea's maid, telling her to take it to the King, but Rudolph sees the sparkling ring and takes it from Lucius. On the morning of his execution Lucius tricks his jailer, and he and his men fight their way out of their jail and ride to the Tower of London to Panthea's rescue. As the hulking Axeman is in mid swing, an arrow from Lucius strikes his shoulder, causing his blow to miss Panthea's head, but Lucius and Panthea are surrounded; escape is seemingly impossible, but meanwhile in an amazing Deus Ex Machina, the plodding Rudolph, who can't wait till he is sure Lucius is dead, barges in before the King and demands to be declared the Duke of Manston Hall. The King, who has seemingly forgotten his friend, spies the ring and soon shows up at the tower, just in time to save the day.
Lucius and Panthea are married and all ends well.
Cast
Oliver Reed - Sir Philip Gage
Claire Bloom - Lady Emma Darlington
Christopher Cazenove - Rudolph Vyne
Lysette Anthony - Lady Panthea Vyne
Hugh Grant - Lucius Vyne/Silver Blade
Michael York - King Charles II of England
Emma Samms - Barbara Castlemaine
John Mills - Sir Lawrence Dobson
Ian Bannen - Lord Christian Drysdale
Robert Morley - Lord Chancellor
Lamya Derval - The Queen
Bernard Miles - Judge
Gareth Hunt - Stangret/Sergeant Potter
Steffanie Pitt - Martha
Floyd Bevan - Jack
James Booth - Robbery victim
Liz Fraser - Flossie
Terence Plummer - Axeman in the Tower of London
Filming locations
Dorney Court, Dorney, Buckinghamshire
Dover Castle, Dover, Kent UK
Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Harlaxton Manor, Harlaxton, Lincolnshire
Notes
External links
1980s adventure films
1989 romantic drama films
1989 television films
1989 films
British television films
Adventure television films
English Civil War films
Films about criminals
Films set in the 1660s
Films based on adventure novels
Films based on British novels
Films based on romance novels
Films set in England
Films set in London
Gainsborough Pictures films
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
British swashbuckler films
Television series produced at Pinewood Studios
Films directed by John Hough
Films scored by Laurie Johnson
Films with screenplays by Terence Feely
Cultural depictions of Charles II of England
Films shot in Buckinghamshire
Films shot in Derbyshire
Films shot in Kent
Films shot in Lincolnshire
Films about highwaymen
Cultural depictions of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
1980s English-language films
1980s British films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lady%20and%20the%20Highwayman |
Carmichaelia (New Zealand brooms) is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to Fabaceae, the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand; the exception, Carmichaelia exsul, is native to Lord Howe Island and presumably dispersed there from New Zealand.
The formerly recognised genera Chordospartium, Corallospartium, Notospartium and Huttonella are now all included in Carmichaelia. The genera Carmichaelia, Clianthus (kakabeak), Montigena (scree pea) and Swainsona comprise the clade Carmichaelinae. Carmichaelia is named after Captain Dugald Carmichael, a Scottish army officer and botanist who studied New Zealand plants.
Carmichaelia ranges in form from trees to prostrate species a few centimetres high. Mature plants are usually leafless, their leaves replaced by stipules which have fused into scales.
Carmichaelia species are found throughout New Zealand, although the eastern South Island has 15 species endemic to it. Most species have a restricted range within New Zealand. They colonise disturbed ground in shallow, poor soils, drought- and frost-prone areas, and alluvial soils.
The New Zealand brooms are not closely related to the European common broom Cytisus scoparius. Common broom has been introduced to New Zealand, where it is sometimes known as Scotch broom to distinguish it from native species and is classed as a noxious weed because of its invasiveness.
Species
Carmichaelia includes the following species:
Carmichaelia aligera G. Simpson – North Island broom; common throughout the northern part of the North Island.
Carmichaelia angustata Kirk – leafy broom
Carmichaelia appressa G.Simpson
Carmichaelia arborea (G.Forst.) Druce – South Island broom
Carmichaelia arenaria G. Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia australis R.Br.
Carmichaelia carmichaeliae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Carmichaelia compacta Petrie
Carmichaelia corrugata Colenso
Carmichaelia crassicaulis Hook.f. – coral broom; occurs in arid, stony ground on the eastern side of the Southern Alps, growing up to an altitude of 1300 m.
Carmichaelia cunninghamii Raoul
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia egmontiana (Cockayne & Allan) G. Simpson
Carmichaelia enysii – dwarf broom; forms low clumps not more than a few centimetres high. Found south of Arthur's Pass. (Both NZPCN and Plants of the World Online treat it as a synonym of C. nana.)
Carmichaelia exsul F.Muell
Carmichaelia fieldii Cockayne (Treated as synonym of C. juncea by Plants of the World Online.)
Carmichaelia flagelliformis Hook. – whip broom; the stems are rounded, thin and whippy. Found from the East Cape southwards.
Carmichaelia floribunda G. Simpson
Carmichaelia glabrata G. Simpson
Carmichaelia glabrescens (Petrie) Heenan – pink broom; grows up to 10 m high. It is restricted to growing at altitude in the Marlborough region of the South Island.
Carmichaelia grandiflora – large-flowered broom; found only on the West Coast of the South Island.
Carmichaelia hollowayi G.Simpson
Carmichaelia hookeri Kirk
Carmichaelia × hutchinsii (M.D.Griffiths) Heenan
Carmichaelia juncea Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia lacustris G. Simpson
Carmichaelia monroi Hook.f.
Carmichaelia muritai (A.W.Purdie) Heenan
Carmichaelia nana (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Carmichaelia nigrans G. Simpson
Carmichaelia odorata Benth. – scented broom
Carmichaelia orbiculata Colenso
Carmichaelia ovata G. Simpson
Carmichaelia petriei Kirk
Carmichaelia prona Kirk
Carmichaelia ramosa G. Simpson
Carmichaelia rivulata G. Simpson
Carmichaelia robusta Kirk
Carmichaelia silvatica G. Simpson
Carmichaelia solandri G. Simpson
Carmichaelia stevensonii (Cheeseman) Heenan – weeping broom, tree broom; a distinctive tree, growing up to 9 m high. It occurs only at altitude in the northeast corner of the South Island, particularly along the Waiau Toa / Clarence River and the Awatere River.
Carmichaelia suteri Colenso
Carmichaelia torulosa (Kirk) Heenan
Carmichaelia uniflora Kirk
Carmichaelia uniflora Kirk
Carmichaelia violacea Kirk
Carmichaelia virgata Kirk (Synonym of C. petriei Kirk according to Plants of the World Online)
Carmichaelia williamsii Kirk – giant-flowered broom; found in coastal regions of the Bay of Plenty and East Cape.
Carmichaelia vexillata Heenan
References
External links
Flora of New Zealand
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
Fabaceae genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichaelia |
Narsarsuaq Airport () is an airport located in Narsarsuaq, a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Along with Kangerlussuaq Airport, it is one of two airports in Greenland capable of serving large airliners. It is also the only international airport in southern Greenland. The settlement it serves is small, with the airport primarily functioning as a transfer point for passengers heading for the helicopter hubs of Air Greenland in Qaqortoq and Nanortalik. The airport is to be closed in 2025 when Qaqortoq Airport is scheduled to open.
History
World War II
The airfield at Narsarsuaq was first built by the United States Department of War (now the Department of Defense) as an army airbase, its construction beginning in July 1941 and the first aircraft landing in January 1942. During World War II, the airbase−codenamed Bluie West One−hosted squadrons of PBY Catalina flying boats and B-25 Mitchell bombers with the assignment to escort allied convoys and track and destroy German submarines.
A military hospital with 250 beds was completed in 1943. Approximately 4,000 people were stationed at the base during the war. It is estimated that, during that time, more than 10,000 aircraft were ferried through the airbase. On 6 July 1942, the supply ship SS Montrose was wrecked on a cliff in the Tunulliarfik Fjord southwest of the airbase. The first aircraft from the Danish Air Force stationed at Narsarsuaq was a PBY Catalina in 1947 and a B-17 Flying Fortress in 1948.
After the war
Civil air traffic began in 1949 with Douglas DC-4 propliners operated by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Icelandair. US and Denmark signed The Agreement related to the defense of Greenland on 27 April 1951, with both countries agreeing to share the Bluie West One airbase. In 1952, the Danish Air Force stationed Airgroup West with a PBY Catalina at the airport.
The US Air Force left Bluie West One in November 1958, and the airbase was closed. In January 1959, M/S Hans Hedtoft of Denmark and all on board were lost near the southern tip of Greenland. The Danish Authorities decided to reopen the airport soon after. From November 1959, the Danish Air Force had three PBY Catalinas stationed at Narsarsuaq with the assignment to make ice-observations along the coast of Greenland, and these observations were broadcast to ships in the area.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Greenlandair and SAS both served Narsarsuaq with Douglas DC-6 propliners while Icelandair operated Boeing 727 jets. During the 1980s, SAS operated Douglas DC-8 jets at Narsarsuaq. Since 1 January 1988, the airport has been operated by Mittarfeqarfiit, the Greenland Airport Administration. Ice-observations are still based at Narsarsuaq and carried out with the AS350 Eurocopter aircraft.
Decline
The airport served as a regional focus city for Air Greenland until the late 2000s, when tough economic conditions forced the airline to raise the low season prices several times. In 2009, the airline announced the sale of Kunuunnguaq, a Boeing 757-200, one of two airliners in the fleet, serving the Narsarsuaq-Copenhagen route. Later the same year, the airline announced the acquisition of two new STOL aircraft, being de Havilland Canada Dash-8 200 turboprops, one of which would serve the newly opened triangular route between Narsarsuaq, Nuuk, and Reykjavík-Keflavík.
The new route was closed before the first flights could commence, adding to resentment amongst businesses and the community of South Greenland. The declared demand for the direct connection with Iceland was not reflected in ticket sales numbers, which contributed to the pullout decision.
With the Boeing airliner sold on 26 April 2010, the entire Kujalleq municipality, and southern Greenland in general remains without prospects for a direct connection to continental Europe. The financial crisis of 2008–2010 and the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption both contributed to lower passenger demand, while competition from Air Iceland on the route to Iceland rendered the prospected Air Greenland route to Denmark unprofitable, leading directly to the decline in traffic in southern Greenland. Re-establishment of a direct route to continental Europe was unlikely to happen in 2011. In 2012, flights to/from Copenhagen started in the summer by chartering a separate operator.
Future
The new airport in Qaqortoq is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in 2025. This eliminates the need for Narsarsuaq as a domestic and Iceland-bound gateway to South Greenland. In 2022, the Greenlandic government decided that Narsarsuaq will be downscaled to a heliport, losing the runway. General aviation, historic planes and ferry flights crossing the North Atlantic ocean must use alternative airports for refuelling. Narsarsuaq village will remain inhabited, though the loss of the airport function is already having its toll.
The first Greenland Air Trophy took place at Narsarsuaq Airport, 30 June 2019. The winning pilot was Rene Petersen of Greenland, second and third places both taken by French pilots.
Facilities
In the terminal there is a simple cafeteria, a duty-free 'Nanoq' shop, as well as a small tourist office, which helps coordinate general aviation activities at the airport.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
On 13 May 1957, a DC-4 freight aircraft operated by US Overseas Airlines hit the icecap on approach to Narsarsuaq. Two were killed, of three on board.
On 5 August 2001, Dassault Falcon 20C freight aircraft of Naske Air crashed on approach to Narsarsuaq. It planned a fuel stop, going from Poland to the US. Three people were killed, including a passenger.
Ground transport
Transfers to local settlements are normally done by boat or helicopter flights. Diskoline sells tickets to boats to Narsaq and Qaqortoq. Boats require a bus transfer since the port is around 2.5 km (1.5 mi) from the terminal.
References
External links
Airports in Greenland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narsarsuaq%20Airport |
UAK can refer to either:
Narsarsuaq Airport (IATA airport code), in Narsarsuaq, Greenland
Ukrainian karbovanets, the national currency of Ukraine from 1991-1996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAK |
Ann Forrest Bell (born 29 April 1938) is a British actress, best known for playing war internee Marion Jefferson in the BBC Second World War drama series Tenko (1981–84).
She was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the daughter of John Forrest Bell and Marjorie (née Byrom) Bell, and educated at Birkenhead High School.
She played the title role in a BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre (1963) in addition to many guest roles on television, including Edgar Wallace Mysteries, Gideon's Way, The Avengers, The Sentimental Agent, The Saint, Armchair Theatre, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965), Danger Man, The Baron, Mystery and Imagination, The Troubleshooters, Callan, Journey to the Unknown, Sherlock Holmes (the 1968 episode "The Sign of Four" with Peter Cushing), Department S, The Lost Boys, Enemy at the Door, Shoestring, Tumbledown, Blackeyes, Heartbeat, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Holby City, The Forsyte Saga, The Bill and Waking the Dead. In 1968 she appeared in the Dennis Potter play Shaggy Dog, part of The Company of Five, a London Weekend Television anthology series of six plays featuring the same five actors.
She was married to character actor Robert Lang from 1971 until his death in 2004. The couple had two children. Bell appeared on screen with Lang in Tenko Reunion, in which he played Teddy Forster-Brown. They also appeared together in an episode of Heartbeat ("Bread and Circuses", 2002).
In 2010, Bell featured in the Doctor Who audio drama A Thousand Tiny Wings as well as the 2012 audio play Night of the Stormcrow which also featured her Tenko castmate Louise Jameson.
Filmography
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959) - Hermia (voice)
Edgar Wallace Mysteries - 'Flat Two' episode - (1962) - Susan
Stopover Forever (1964) - Sue Chambers
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) - Ann Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine")
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Doris (uncredited)
The Witches (1966) - Sally Benson
The Shuttered Room (1967) - Mary Whately, Susannah's Mother
To Sir, with Love (1967) - Mrs. Dare
A Testing Job (1968, educational film) - Mrs Bell
The Reckoning (1970) - Rosemary Marler
The Statue (1971) - Pat Demarest
Spectre (1977, TV Movie) - Anitra Cyon
Champions (1984) - Valda Embiricos
Head Over Heels (1993, TV Series) - Gracie Ellis
When Saturday Comes (1996) - Sarah Muir
The Ice House (1997, TV Mini-Series) - Molly Phillips
The Land Girls (1998) - Philip's Mother
Up at the Villa (2000) - Beryl Bryson
The Last Hangman (2005) - Violet Van Der Elst
References
External links
Photo from 1963 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre
1938 births
Living people
British television actresses
People educated at Birkenhead High School Academy
People from Wallasey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Bell |
The following are the association football events of the year 1990 throughout the world.
Events
March 28 – Sweden's Bo Johansson makes his debut as the manager of Iceland, defeating Luxembourg 2–1.
March 31 – NAC Breda sacks manager Hans Verèl.
May 16 – Juventus win the two-legged 1990 UEFA Cup Final, beating fellow Italian side Fiorentina 3–1 on aggregate. This was the first European competition final between two Italian clubs.
May 17 – Manchester United beats Crystal Palace 1–0 in a replay to claim the FA Cup. The only goal is scored by Lee Martin.
May 23 – Milan beats Benfica 1–0 in the 1990 European Cup Final. The only goal is scored by Frank Rijkaard.
July 8 – West Germany wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Rome, Italy, defeating defending reigning champions Argentina 1–0 in the final.
September 8 – Franz Beckenbauer is appointed manager at Marseille.
September 12 – Euro 1992 qualifying: there are great surprises at Landskrona, Sweden, where the Faroe Islands, in their first competitive international match, defeat Austria 1–0. It is the "Waterloo Day" in Austrian football, and national happiness day for Faroes.
September 12 – East Germany plays its last ever international match, defeating Belgium 2–0 in Brussels.
September 19 – Dutch team Vitesse Arnhem makes its European debut with a win (1–0) in Northern Ireland against Derry City in the first round of the UEFA Cup. The only goal is scored by striker Huub Loeffen in the 18th minute.
October 10 – Copa Libertadores 1990 is won by Olimpia Asunción after defeating Barcelona Sporting Club on an aggregate score of 3–1.
October 17 – Croatia host their first match in the modern period after gaining independence from Yugoslavia, a friendly against United States in Zagreb. Croatia wins 2–1, and the first goal for the Croats in the modern era is scored by Aljoša Asanović.
November 5 – Manager Howard Kendall is fired by Manchester City and succeeded by Peter Reid.
December 9 – Milan again wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, this time by defeating Paraguay's Olimpia Asunción (3–0). Frank Rijkaard scores twice for the Italians.
Winners of national championships
Asia
AFC Champions League
1990-91
– Esteghlal as Winner
China– Liaoning F.C. as Runners Up
Europe
– Dinamo Tirana
– Swarovski Tirol
– Club Brugge
– CSKA Sofia
– APOEL
– Sparta Prague
– Brøndby
– Dynamo Dresden
– Liverpool
– Marseille
– Panathinaikos
– Újpest
– St Patrick's Athletic
– Napoli
– Avenir Beggen
– Valletta
Eredivisie – Ajax
Eerste Divisie – SVV
– Portadown
– Rosenborg
– Lech Poznań
– Porto
– Dinamo București
For more complete coverage see: 1989–90 in Scottish football.
Scottish Premier Division – Rangers
Scottish Division One – St. Johnstone
Scottish Division Two – Brechin City
Scottish Cup – Aberdeen
Scottish League Cup – Aberdeen
Dynamo Kyiv
– Real Madrid
– IFK Göteborg
Grasshopper Club Zürich
– Beşiktaş
– Bayern Munich
– Red Star Belgrade
North America
– Vancouver 86ers (CSL)
– Puebla
– Maryland Bays (APSL)
South America
– River Plate
– Oriente Petrolero
– Corinthians
Paraguay – Cerro Porteño
International Tournaments
African Cup of Nations in Algeria (March 2 – 16 1990)
North American Nations Cup (May 6 – 13 1990)
B
FIFA World Cup in Italy (June 8 – July 8, 1990)
Births
January
January 1 — Al Naem Mohamed Osman Al Noor, Sudanese footballer
January 2 —
Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
Muhammed Shakhbari, Arab-Israeli footballer
January 3
Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese footballer
Maximilian Karner, Austrian footballer
January 4
Iago Falque, Spanish footballer
Alberto Paloschi, Italian footballer
January 5 — Leroy Fer, Dutch international footballer
January 8
Hassan Adhuham, Maldivian footballer
Sascha Bigalke, German footballer
Thomas Kral, Austrian footballer
January 11 — Raynaldo Sturrup, Bahamian international footballer
January 15 — Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
January 20 — Tales, Brazilian footballer
January 21
Arash Afshin, Iranian international
Diogo Amado, Portuguese youth international
Andriy Bohdanov, Ukrainian international
André Martins, Portuguese international
January 23
Şener Özbayraklı, Turkish international
Martyn Waghorn, English youth international
February
February 3 — Diego Maia, Brazilian footballer
February 5 — Dalton, Brazilian footballer
February 9 — Facundo Affranchino, Argentine footballer
February 12 — Hamilton Chasi, Ecuadorian footballer
February 13
Marco Romizi, Italian footballer
Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
Kevin Strootman, Dutch footballer
February 15 — Fidel Martínez, Ecuadorian footballer
February 18
David Guzmán, Costa Rican footballer
Bryan Oviedo, Costa Rican footballer
February 23 — Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
February 25 — Rafael Romo, Venezuelan footballer
March
March 6 — Tryfonas Kroustalelis, Greek footballer
March 9
Christian La Torre, Peruvian footballer
Jonathan Sykes, Bahamian international footballer
March 19
Anthony Skorich, Australian soccer player
Jonathan Urretavizcaya, Uruguayan footballer
March 21 — Sharif Mukhammad, Afghan football player
March 27
Yosuke Matsumoto, former Japanese footballer
Jefferson Pinto, Ecuadorian footballer
March 30 — Juremy Reker, Dutch footballer
April
April 17 — Luka Radulovic, Austrian footballer
April 19
Héctor Herrera, Mexican footballer
Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
April 27 — Luís Pedro, Dutch-Angolan footballer
May
May 2 — Daniel Sánchez, Peruvian footballer
May 10 — Mehdi Reza, Qatari footballer
May 11 — Denis Osadchenko, Ukrainian-German retired footballer
May 19 — Víctor Ibarbo, Colombian footballer
May 20 — Philipp Stiller, German footballer
May 4 —David Hasler, Liechtenstein footballer
May 22 David Camps, French footballer
May 23 — Rafa, Brazilian footballer
May 24
Ricardo Chará, Colombian footballer
Anderson Cueto, Peruvian footballer
May 27 — Jonas Hector, German international footballer
June
June 1
Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran international
Kennie Chopart, Danish club footballer
Martin Pembleton, club footballer
June 21 — François Moubandje, Cameroonian-Swiss footballer
June 22 — Kyrylo Petrov, Ukrainian football defender
June 24 — Kelvin Leerdam, Dutch footballer
July
July 1 — Ángelo Balanta, Colombian footballer
July 15
Michael Castro, Ecuadorian footballer
Marcel Wehr, German footballer
July 17 — Lenin Porozo, Ecuadorian footballer
July 22 — Anaqi Sufi Omar Baki, Bruneian footballer
July 25 — Carlos Carbonero, Colombian international footballer
August
August 2 — Tony Mamodaly, German former professional footballer
August 8 — Abel Hernández, Uruguayan footballer
August 11 — Lerin Duarte, Dutch footballer
August 13 — Cristian Nazarith, Colombian footballer
August 23
Reimond Manco, Peruvian footballer
Exaucé Mayombo, German–Congolese retired footballer
August 27 — Anton Dahlström, Swedish footballer
September
September 8 — Néstor Duarte, Peruvian footballer
September 14 — Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer
September 14 — Santiago García, Uruguayan footballer
September 18 — Mauricio Arroyo, Colombian footballer
September 19 — Ernesto Salazar, Peruvian footballer
September 19 — Marco Pérez, Colombian footballer
October
October 1
Jan Kirchhoff, German footballer
Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer
Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer
October 11 — Sergei Luzhkov, Russian former professional footballer
October 17 — Artem Shelestynskyi, Ukrainian professional footballer
October 20 — Thomas Helly, Austrian footballer
October 27 — Deison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
November
November 9 — James Harper, English club footballer
November 11 — Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
December
December 2
Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Ghanaian footballer
Jamille Matt, Jamaican footballer
Gastón Ramírez, Uruguayan footballer
December 7
David de Gea, Spanish footballer
Rafael Uiterloo, Dutch footballer
December 12 — Pablo Camacho, Venezuelan footballer
December 16 — Manas Das, Indian footballer
December 27 — Luis Trujillo, Peruvian footballer
December 28 — Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer
Deaths
January
January 15 – David Longhurst, English footballer. (born 1965)
March
March 20 – Lev Yashin, Soviet international footballer (born 1929)
April
April 1 – Carlos Peucelle, Argentine midfielder, runner-up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup and considered one of Argentina's finest wingers in their history. (81)
April 17 – Angelo Schiavio, Italian striker, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup and topscorer of the 1931–32 Serie A . (84)
April 30 – Mario Pizziolo, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (80)
May
May 1 – Djalma Dias, Brazilian defender, 21 times capped for the Brazil national football team. (50)
July
July 16 – Miguel Muñoz, Spanish midfielder, Captin of Real Madrid when they were European Champions in 1956 and 1957. (68)
July 21 – Heitor Canalli, Brazilian midfielder, Brazilian squad member at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. (83)
October
October 25 – Costa Pereira, Portuguese international footballer (born 1929)
October 30 – Willy Jürissen, German international footballer (born 1912)
November
November 11 – Attilio Demaría, Argentine/Italian striker, winner of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. Demaria has the distinction of having played in two FIFA World Cup final matches with two different national teams. (81)
December
December 24 – Rodolfo Orlandini, Argentine midfielder, runner-up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. (85)
References
External links
Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
VoetbalStats
Association football by year | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20in%20association%20football |
Mary Jean Heriot Powell (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001), better known by her stage name Jean Anderson, was an English actress best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the BBC drama The Brothers (1972–1976) and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the Second World War series Tenko (1982–1985). She also had a distinguished career on stage and appeared in 46 films.
Early life and stage
Anderson was born on 12 December 1907 in Eastbourne, Sussex to Scottish parents, and grew up in Guildford, Surrey. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1926–1928. Her first professional engagement was in Many Waters at the Prince's Theatre, Bristol, in 1929 with her fellow RADA student Robert Morley.
In 1934 she joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, appearing in The Circle by Somerset Maugham and Yahoo by Lord Longford. In 1935 she played Lady Macbeth with The Seagull Players in Leeds.
In 1936 Lord Longford's company from the Gate Theatre, Dublin were appearing at the Westminster Theatre in London. Anderson joined them to appear in Ah, Wilderness! and stayed on for the rest of their season, including Carmilla, The Moon in the Yellow River, Youth’s the Season . . . ? and Yahoo. When the company returned to Dublin she went with them and appeared regularly at the Gate Theatre for three years. Among many notable productions were As You Like It, The Duchess of Malfi, The Cherry Orchard and Doctor Faustus.
John Cowell wrote:
Jean Anderson, with her fascinating voice and medieval good looks, became a tower of strength in Longford Productions... As Longford’s first leading lady, she brought a new and fresh charm to every role. Her Rosalind in As You Like It caught the scent of the musk-rose in the hidden places of the Forest of Arden.
When Anderson returned to London in 1940 she joined the staff of the Players’ Theatre Club, which was a popular refuge from the war. When the director Leonard Sachs was called up for service, Anderson took over running the club and kept it going for the duration.
Her acting career resumed after the war with 1066 and All That, Don Juan in Hell, The Apple Cart and The Moon in the Yellow River with Jack Hawkins. At this point the focus of her work swung to television and film. But she continued to appear on stage in notable productions, such as Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author directed by Dame Ngaio Marsh, Hedda Gabler, an all-star Uncle Vanya at Hampstead Theatre, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Alan Rickman and the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and also on Broadway. Her last stage work was in Terence Rattigan’s Harlequinade in 1988.
Television
Her first appearance on television was in Weep for the Cyclops on BBC in 1947.
Other TV credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Man, The Man in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Campion, Rab C. Nesbitt, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. She also played the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957.
She reprised her role in the play The Moon in the Yellow River BBC 1953. Her last television work was in Keeping Mum in 1998 on BBC.
Filmography
The Mark of Cain (1947) – Extra (uncredited)
Bond Street (1948) – Dress Shop Assistant (uncredited)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
The Romantic Age (1949) – Miss Sankey (uncredited)
Seven Days to Noon (1950) – Mother at Railway Station (uncredited)
Out of True (1951) – Dr. Bell
The Franchise Affair (1951) – Miss Tuff
Life in Her Hands (1951) – Night Sister
White Corridors (1951) – Sister Gater
High Treason (1951) – Woman in Street (uncredited)
The Brave Don't Cry (1952) – Mrs. Sloan
Time Bomb (1953) – Matron (uncredited)
Street Corner (1953) – Miss Haversham – Store Detective
Johnny on the Run (1953) – Mrs. MacIntyre
The Kidnappers (1953) – Grandma MacKenzie
The Pleasure Garden (1953) – Aunt Minerva
The Weak and the Wicked (1954) – Policewoman in Court (uncredited)
Lease of Life (1954) – Miss Calthorp
Laughing in the Sunshine (1956) – Diana Masefield
The Secret Tent (1956) – Mrs. Martyn
A Town Like Alice (1956) – Miss Horsefall
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) – Wilson
Lucky Jim (1957) – Mrs. Welch
Robbery Under Arms (1957) – Ma Marston
Heart of a Child (1958) – Maria
A Night to Remember (1958) – Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
SOS Pacific (1959) – Miss Shaw
Solomon and Sheba (1959) – Takyan
Spare the Rod (1961) – Mrs. Pond
Little Girls Never Cry (1962) – Aunt Kate
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) – Agnes
The Inspector (1962) – Mrs. Jongman
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) – Mrs. MacKenzie
The Silent Playground (1963) – Mrs. Lacey
Half a Sixpence (1967) – Lady Botting
Country Dance (1970) – Matron
The Night Digger (1971) – Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
Dear Parents (1973)
The Lady Vanishes (1979) – Baroness
Screamtime (1983) – Mildred
Madame Sousatzka (1988) – Lady with Removal Men
Leon the Pig Farmer (1992) – Mrs. Samuels
Simon Magus (1999) – Roise
The Harpist (1999) – Mrs. Merz
Endgame (2000) – Nell
Her last role was in Conor McPherson’s film of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, shot in Dublin just a few months before her death.
Personal life and death
In 1934 she married Peter Powell, who directed her in many plays over the years. They divorced in 1949. They had a daughter, Aude, who became an agent.
She had a London home in Barnes, and in her later years moved to Eden Valley in the north-west of England near her daughter. Her interests were collecting porcelain figurines and horse racing.
She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1985 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
Anderson died in 2001, aged 93.
References
External links
Jean Anderson at the British Film Institute
People from Eastbourne
1907 births
2001 deaths
English film actresses
English people of Scottish descent
English television actresses
Actresses from Sussex
20th-century English actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Anderson |
EN 14214 is a standard published by the European Committee for Standardization that describes the requirements and test methods for FAME - the most common type of biodiesel.
The technical definition of biodiesel is a fuel suitable for use in compression ignition (diesel) engines that is made of fatty acid monoalkyl esters derived from biologically produced oils or fats including vegetable oils, animal fats and microalgal oils. When biodiesel is produced from these types of oil using methanol fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) are produced. Biodiesel fuels can also be produced using other alcohols, for example using ethanol to produce fatty acid ethyl esters, however these types of biodiesel are not covered by EN 14214 which applies only to methyl esters i.e. biodiesel produced using methanol.
This European Standard exists in three official versions - English, French, German. The current version of the standard was published in November 2008 and supersedes EN 14214:2003.
Differences exist between the national versions of the EN 14214 standard. These differences relate to cold weather requirements and are detailed in the national annex of each standard.
It is broadly based on the earlier German standard DIN 51606. The ASTM and EN standards both recommend very similar methods for the GC based analyses.
Blends are designated as "B" followed by a number indicating the percentage biodiesel. For example: B100 is pure biodiesel. B99 is 99% biodiesel, 1% petrodiesel. B20 is 20% biodiesel and 80% fossil diesel.
Specifications
See also
ASTM D6751 — the standard used in USA and Canada
EN
EN 590
List of EN standards
References
External links
CEN homepage
Country specific CFPP requirements according to national annexes of EN 14214
14214
Biodiesel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EN%2014214 |
Jørn Jamtfall (born 24 July 1966 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian football coach and a former goalkeeper. He spent most of his professional career, from 1994 to 2001, at Rosenborg BK, but was loaned out to Sogndal in the last half of the 2001 season. He made one appearance for the Norwegian national team, against South Korea in 1997.
He has currently a dual role as both a junior team coach for Rosenborg, and as goalkeeper coach for the Norwegian national team.
He is the father of Michael Kleppe Jamtfall, who is a former footballer who played as a winger.
External links
1966 births
Living people
Norwegian men's footballers
Norway men's international footballers
Eliteserien players
Strindheim IL players
Rosenborg BK players
Sogndal Fotball players
Kniksen Award winners
Men's association football goalkeepers
Footballers from Trondheim | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rn%20Jamtfall |
Rosemary Martin (17 December 1936 – 14 August 1998) was an English actress, born in Birmingham. She appeared in dozens of films from 1964 to 1998 and is also known for television roles including Mrs. Partridge in Last of the Summer Wine, Vera in Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt, Marjorie in Pennies from Heaven, Miss Weber in The Insurance Man, Renie Fox in Fox and Verna Johnson in Tenko.
Other TV credits include: Z-Cars, Crown Court, Bill Brand, Coronation Street, The Gentle Touch, The Sweeney, Looking For Clancy, Maggie: It's Me, Thomas & Sarah, Bergerac, The Chinese Detective, Jeeves and Wooster, Drop the Dead Donkey, Pie in the Sky, Cracker, Heartbeat, The Bill, Outside Edge, Driving Ambition, Peak Practice and EastEnders.
Her film credits include It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976), Tess (1979), Britannia Hospital (1982), Slayground (1983), Secret Places (1984), The Dressmaker (1988), The Raggedy Rawney (1988), A Dry White Season (1989) and The Object of Beauty (1991).
Death
Martin died on 14 August 1998.
Filmography
References
External links
1936 births
1998 deaths
English film actresses
English television actresses
Actresses from Birmingham, West Midlands
20th-century English actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Martin |
Nestor Bolum (born 19 September 1986) is a Nigerian professional boxer. As an amateur, he participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African country.
Career
In 2003 southpaw Bolum who works for the Nigerian Air Force won the silver medal at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
At the Olympics he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the bantamweight (54 kg) division by Thailand's eventual runner-up Worapoj Petchkoom.
At the Commonwealth Games he was edged out by eventual winner Akhil Kumar in the semifinal.
In November 2023, Bolum announced to the Guardian that he is returning to the boxing ring to face Luke Martin.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
Bio
1986 births
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Bantamweight boxers
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Nigeria
Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Nigerian Air Force personnel
Nigerian male boxers
Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
African Games silver medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
Southpaw boxers
Super-bantamweight boxers
Lightweight boxers
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor%20Bolum |
In computer graphics, a triangle strip is a subset of triangles in a triangle mesh with shared vertices, and is a more memory-efficient method of storing information about the mesh. They are more efficient than un-indexed lists of triangles, but usually equally fast or slower than indexed triangle lists. The primary reason to use triangle strips is to reduce the amount of data needed to create a series of triangles. The number of vertices stored in memory is reduced from to , where is the number of triangles to be drawn. This allows for less use of disk space, as well as making them faster to load into RAM.
For example, the four triangles in the diagram, without using triangle strips, would have to be stored and interpreted as four separate triangles: ABC, CBD, CDE, and EDF. However, using a triangle strip, they can be stored simply as a sequence of vertices ABCDEF. This sequence would be decoded as a set of triangles with vertices at ABC, BCD, CDE and DEF - although the exact order that the vertices are read will not be in left-to-right order as this would result in adjacent triangles facing alternating directions.
OpenGL implementation
OpenGL has built-in support for triangle strips. Fixed function OpenGL (deprecated in OpenGL 3.0) has support for triangle strips using immediate mode and the , , and functions. Newer versions support triangle strips using and .
To draw a triangle strip using immediate mode OpenGL, must be passed the argument , which notifies OpenGL a triangle strip is about to be drawn. The family of functions specify the coordinates for each vertex in the triangle strip. For more information, consult The OpenGL Redbook.
To draw the triangle strip in the diagram using immediate mode OpenGL, the code is as follows:
//Vertices below are in Clockwise orientation
//Default setting for glFrontFace is Counter-clockwise
glFrontFace(GL_CW);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP);
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ); //vertex 1
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f ); //vertex 2
glVertex3f( 0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f ); //vertex 3
glVertex3f( 1.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f ); //vertex 4
glEnd();
Note that only one additional vertex is needed to draw the second triangle.
In OpenGL, the order in which the vertices are specified is important so that surface normals are consistent.
Quoting directly from the OpenGL Programming Guide:
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIPDraws a series of triangles (three-sided polygons) using vertices v0, v1, v2, then v2, v1, v3 (note the order), then v2, v3, v4, and so on. The ordering is to ensure that the triangles are all drawn with the same orientation so that the strip can correctly form part of a surface.
It's even clearer within the manual pages:
Draws a connected group of triangles. One triangle is defined for each vertex presented after the first two vertices. For odd , vertices , , and define triangle . For even , vertices , , and define triangle . triangles are drawn.
Note that starts at 1. The above code sample and diagram demonstrate triangles drawn in a clockwise orientation. For those to be considered front-facing, a preceding call to is necessary, which otherwise has an initial value of (meaning that triangles drawn counter-clockwise are front-facing by default). This is significant if and are already active ( by default), because back-facing triangles will be culled, so will not be drawn and will not appear on-screen at all.
Properties and construction
It follows from definition that a subsequence of vertices of a triangle strip also represents a triangle strip. However, if this substrip starts at an even (with 1-based counting) vertex, then the resulting triangles will change their orientation. For example a substrip BCDEF would represent triangles: BCD,CED,DEF.
Similarly, reversal of strips’ vertices will result in the same set of triangles if the strip has an even number of vertices. (e.g. strip FEDCBA will represent the same triangles FED,ECD,DCB,CAB as the original strip). However, if a strip has an odd number of vertices then the reversed strip will represent triangles with opposite orientation. For example, reversal of a strip ABCDE will result in strip EDCBA which represents triangles EDC, DBC, CBA).
Converting a general polygon mesh to a single long strip was until recently generally not possible. Usually the triangle strips are analogous to a set of edge loops, and poles on the model are represented by triangle fans. Tools such as Stripe or FTSG represent the model as several strips. Optimally grouping a set of triangles into sequential strips has been proven NP-complete.
Alternatively, a complete object can be described as a degenerate strip, which contains zero-area triangles that the processing software or hardware will discard. The degenerate triangles effectively introduce discontinuities or "jumps" to the strip. For example, the mesh in the diagram could also be represented as ABCDDFFEDC, which would be interpreted as triangles ABC CBD CDD DDF DFF FFE FED DEC (degenerate triangles marked with italics). Notice how this strip first builds two triangles from the left, then restarts and builds the remaining two from the right.
While discontinuities in triangle strips can always be implemented by resending vertices, APIs sometimes explicitly support this feature. IRIS GL supported Swaps (flipping two subsequent vertices in a strip), a feature relied on by early algorithms such as the SGI algorithm. Recently OpenGL/DirectX can render multiple triangle strips without degenerated triangles using Primitive Restart feature.
References
See also
Triangle
Triangle fan
Computer graphics
Graphics cards
Optimization (computer science)
Computer graphics
Triangle geometry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20strip |
Ashwini Nachappa (born 21 October 1967) is an Indian former track and field athlete and actress from Karnataka.
Nachappa gained fame around the start of the 1980s, when she outran P.T. Usha on two occasions. She has been referred to as India's FloJo. In 1988 she received the Arjuna award.
Career
Ashwini Nachappa began her career in track and field as a hurdler before making the switch to sprints. She performed well at the 1981 Inter-State Championship in Bangalore in the under-16 category and won the 'most promising athlete of the meet' award. She trained under many coaches during the time till the late 1980s, when Sunil Abraham began to coach her.
Nachappa represented India in three South Asian Federation Games in 1984 (in Nepal; two silver medals), 1986 (in Bangladesh; two silver medals) and 1988 (in Pakistan, three gold medals). She participated in two Asian Games, one held in 1986 at South Korea (6th in long jump) and the other in 1990 at Beijing, China (silver medal in 4 × 100 m relay). She also represented India in two World Championships, one in 1987 in Rome and the other in 1991 in Tokyo (she was a member of the 4 × 400 m relay on both occasions). She won the 200 m gold at the 1990 National Open Meet in New Delhi ahead of Usha, clocking 24.07 seconds.
Cinema and other works
She has acted in a few Telugu feature films, including her own biographical film titled Ashwini, for which she received the state Nandi Award for Best Debut Actress.
A noted social worker and educationist, she has also built a school.
She is currently the president of the Bangalore Urban District Athletics Association.
Filmography
Ashwini (1991)
Inspector Ashwini (1993)
Aarambham (1993)
Aadarsam (1993)
Miss 420 (1995)
Andaroo Andare (1996)
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Actresses from Bangalore
Indian female sprinters
20th-century Indian women
Nandi Award winners
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games
Athletes from Bangalore
Actresses in Telugu cinema
20th-century Indian actresses
Indian film actresses
Sportswomen from Karnataka
Athletes from Karnataka
Asian Games silver medalists for India
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
South Asian Games gold medalists for India
South Asian Games silver medalists for India
South Asian Games medalists in athletics
World Athletics Championships athletes for India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwini%20Nachappa |
Isaac Ekpo (born 22 October 1982) is a Nigerian professional boxer who has challenged three times for a super-middleweight world title between 2013 and 2018. As an amateur, he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Career
In 2004, Ekpo was a member of the Nigerian Olympic team, and was defeated in the first round by Utkirbek Haydarov from Uzbekistan.
References
1982 births
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Super-middleweight boxers
Light-heavyweight boxers
Nigerian male boxers
African Games silver medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Sportspeople from Abuja
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
20th-century Nigerian people
21st-century Nigerian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Ekpo |
Ahmed Sadiq (born 7 July 1979) is a Nigerian boxer who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for Nigeria. There he was outscored in the first round of the Lightweight (60 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Mario César Kindelán Mesa. One year earlier, he won the gold medal in his weight division at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
References
1979 births
Living people
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Lightweight boxers
Nigerian male boxers
African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
Place of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Sadiq |
Government House, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, was constructed as a residence for the lieutenant governor of the North-West Territories, whose territorial headquarters were in Regina until the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created out of the Territories in 1905 and Regina became the capital of Saskatchewan.
At that point Government House became the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, which it remained until 1944 when it was vacated until it was returned to official ceremonial use in 1984.
Design and construction
A substantial brick and masonry building, the new Government House replaced the cold, draughty wooden pre-constructed clapboard 1883 Government House which stood on the current site of Luther College High School on Dewdney Avenue and Royal Street, five blocks west, until its demolition in 1908.
The 1883 predecessor had been assembled shortly after the decision of the North-West Territories Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney to relocate the capital from Battleford. In fact it was widely assumed that the new capital would be Troy (renamed Qu'Appelle) or Fort Qu'Appelle, but Dewdney had acquired land at Buffalo Bones which he could and did become rich by selling to settlers, and despite it being without trees, even poplar bluffs or bushes, or water apart from the slight spring run-off Wascana Creek, named it the new capital. Indeed, the street on which Government House is located was named after him. The prefabricated building material was from in eastern Canada and transported to the new site. It was a single story wooden structure consisting of two portable houses later developed into a more imposing structure. Additions were made in 1883, after which it had four bedrooms, two dressing rooms, a drawing room, a dining room, a large and small kitchen with pantry and storeroom, a front veranda and porch, and a conservatory.
The 1891 Government House, then a remarkably substantial brick and masonry building, was designed by the Dominion architect, Thomas Fuller, together with the Territorial government buildings east on Dewdney Avenue. Fuller had earlier designed the 1866 parliament buildings in Ottawa, which had been designed for the capital of the Province of Canada, lasting from 1841 to 1867 and consisting only of Quebec and Ontario.
Government House was completed at a cost of $50,000 and was the first residence in the Territories to be electrified (the Regina YMCA had been electrified in 1890). The Hon. Joseph Royal, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories 1888–93, was the first to live and work there. A conservatory was built in 1901 and a ballroom in 1929.
Use as a functioning government house 1891-1944
From its completion in 1891 until the formation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, Government House was the workplace and residence of Lieutenant-Governors of the North-West Territories, the legislative buildings being east on Dewdney Avenue. Lieutenant-Governors Charles Herbert Mackintosh, Malcolm Colin Cameron and Amédée E. Forget lived and worked in it during this time.
In 1901 the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary – visited the North-West Territories and were accommodated at Regina's Government House, where they received and met local citizens.
Government buildings were not built south of Wascana Lake until after the province was established in 1905. The Territory's former government buildings on Dewdney Avenue (but not Government House) then ceased having such use, such reduction in public expenditure being widely deemed to be entirely reasonable during a second World War immediately following the Great Depression, intensified on the then substantially agricultural Canadian Prairies by the Great Drought.
After 1 September 1905, Government House was the residence and work-place of six Lieutenant-Governors of Saskatchewan. In 1944 Premier Tommy Douglas, very soon after his election, followed Ontario in closing the provincial vice-regal palace. During that period Government House accommodated several official guests to the province. These included: April, 1906, when Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, visited Regina; and both October 1912 and July 1916, when the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia visited while the Duke was Governor General, the first time for the Duke, son of Queen Victoria, to inaugurate the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, visited Saskatchewan in 1919 and again in 1927, though the Hotel Saskatchewan had opened on Victoria Avenue by the time of his second visit.
A Change in use
Vice-regal palaces were something of an anomaly in the political climate and difficult economic situation of the Great Depression and World War II throughout North America but particularly on the prairies. In March 1944, during his eighth year in office of Lieutenant-Governor "Archie" McNab closed Government House and sold its contents. He established a small office in the Hotel Saskatchewan on Victoria Avenue downtown, which the Canadian Pacific Railway opened in 1927. Thereafter, such provincial guests as royal visitors were also accommodated in luxury hotels.
The furnishings and household goods were sold at auction and Government House was leased to the federal Department of Veterans Affairs for use as a veterans rehabilitation facility. In 1958, renamed Saskatchewan House, the building entered into 10 years' use as an adult education centre until it was proposed that it be demolished and the site redeveloped. A large part of the extensive grounds had already been sold for the construction of the Pioneer Village nursing home and other uses.
From 1967 John Coulter's play "The Trial of Louis Riel" was performed throughout the summers in the Government House (then "Saskatchewan House") ballroom, arrayed as in photos of the original Supreme Court of the North-West Territories courthouse at the corner of Victoria Avenue and Hamilton Street, Regina, with members of the audience recruited as jurymen. Local lawyer Stephen Arsenych customarily performed the role of Riel.
However, the postwar period of supposed modernisation by demolishing old fashioned-seeming buildings such as the old city hall on 11th Avenue, several downtown movie theatres and both Knox United and Trinity Evangelical Lutheran churches. In 1968, Government House was designated a National Historic Site of Canada and soon came into restoration.
Restoration
A number of historically minded people belonging to local groups including the Regina Chamber of Commerce, Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, Regina Council of Women, and the City of Regina were brought together to fight for the preservation of and restoration of the building.
In 1971, the Society for the Preservation and Restoration of Saskatchewan House (now the Government House Historical Society) was formed and by 1980 many of its efforts were rewarded. Government House, its original name and historical fittings and many historical contents restored, many such contents having been acquired by departing employees and others when Government House was closed. In 1984, the offices of the Lieutenant-Governor returned to Government House and vice-regal receptions began being held there again, though the Lieutenant-Governors did not resume living in Government House but are housed in accommodation provided by the federal government, reflecting the role of Ottawa in providing vice-regal appointments for the provinces and keeping the entire interior of the building available for public use.
Lieutenant-Governor's New Year's Day Levee and other public receptions
The tradition of the Lieutenant-Governor holding a New Years Day levée in the Government House foyer and ballroom for the public resumed immediately after the Lieutenant-Governor's offices returned with a receiving line where the Vice-regal party greets the public and fruitcake and sherry are served in the ballroom. Government House is extensively decorated in holiday mode throughout, especially in the ballroom and foyer. Guides in period costume (albeit, curiously, in the costume of the 1780s rather than the 1890s, in mobcaps, tricorne hats, and knee breeches) give free tours of Government House. The Government House Historical Society holds a Victorian tea in the ballroom on some weekends during the spring, summer and fall season.
2005 Visitor and Administration Centre
In 2005, a visitor and administration centre and coach house were added, the new wing opened by Queen Elizabeth II and named in her honour, while the historic older wing was named the Victoria wing. The grounds that remained, after alienation of a substantial proportion of them for the Pioneer Village old peoples' home built in 1967, were restored to their Edwardian configuration as a provincial centennial project. Government House is now "a museum of the 1900 period under Lieutenant-Governor Amédée Forget, and a hospitality facility for government and non-profit organizations."
Alleged haunting
Over the years, several staff and former students have observed strange occurrences at Government House. Doors have been said to open and close repeatedly with no one near, the sound of crying babies and laughing children have been heard late at night with no one around, and others have claimed to see eerie faces next to theirs when looking into mirrors.
One particular apparition of note is "Howie", believed to be Cheun Lee, the former cook of Lieutenant-Governor Archibald McNab. Many believe that his ghost roams the house; his footsteps often heard shuffling through the halls. He even has a say in the interior decorating—witnesses have inexplicably found objects shifted or moved from one room to another.
Photo gallery
See also
Lieutenant-Governors of Saskatchewan
Monarchy in Saskatchewan
Government Houses of Canada
Government Houses of the British Empire
Saskatchewan Legislative Building
Royal eponyms in Canada—locales in Canada named for royalty akin to Queen Elizabeth II Wing at Government Hosue
References
Further reading
Drake, Earl G. Regina, the Queen City. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1955.
Hryniuk, Margaret and Pugh, Garth. "A Tower of Attraction" An Illustrated History of Government House, Regina, Saskatchewan. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1991.
External links
Government House website
Listing on Canadian Registry of Historic Places
Government House Historical Society
Houses completed in 1891
Government buildings completed in 1891
Buildings and structures in Regina, Saskatchewan
Reportedly haunted locations in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan
Veterans' hospitals
Schools in Saskatchewan
Museums in Regina, Saskatchewan
History museums in Saskatchewan
Military hospitals in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20House%20%28Saskatchewan%29 |
Conquest is the thirteenth studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep, released in 1980. It was released worldwide by Bronze Records; however, the album was never released in North America, where it was difficult to find even as an import.
1979–80 was a period of change for Heep, with John Sloman taking over lead vocal duties, Lee Kerslake bowing out from behind the drum stool, and main songwriter Ken Hensley ultimately leaving the band. Taken together with the commercial rock sound of the album, this is the most contentious era of Uriah Heep's history, with many fans believing Conquest is the group's worst record. Despite this era being regarded in hindsight as something of a disaster by Hensley as well as Mick Box, the album did receive some positive reviews at the time, namely a five-star rating from Record Mirror and three-and-a-half stars from Geoff Barton in Sounds. It also sold well enough to crack the Top 40 of the UK album charts, whereas all three of the band's previous records with John Lawton had failed to chart in the UK at all.
The original UK release came in a single, matte LP sleeve, stickered with 'Special 10th Anniversary Price £3.99', with the liner being heavy-stock card, complete with lyrics. It credits Trevor Bolder with vocals on "It Ain't Easy" but it is, in fact, Sloman. The cover photograph, taken by Martin Poole, is based on the famous image of the raising of the second flag at Iwo Jima.
"Think It Over" was released as a picture sleeve single to promote the new line-up and tour of late 1980 and features Gregg Dechert on keyboards. Originally "Been Hurt" was written for a fourth John Lawton-fronted album. This song was shelved after Lawton's departure. The original version with Lawton on vocals has been released on the remastered version of the Fallen Angel album. When Conquest was re-issued again as a Deluxe Edition in 2004 the bonus tracks remained much the same, but "My Joanna Needs Tuning" was dropped; added in its stead was a version of "Feelings" that had previously only ever appeared on a Bronze Records promotional VHS tape.
Track listings
Personnel
Uriah Heep
Mick Box – guitars
Ken Hensley – obx, vocoder, organ, piano, guitars, backing vocals
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar, backing vocals
John Sloman – lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, percussion
Chris Slade – staccato drums, percussion
Gregg Dechert – keyboards on "Think It Over" and "My Joanna Needs Tuning (Inside Out)"
Additional musician
Gerry Bron – timpani on "Out on the Streets"
Production
John Gallen – producer, engineer
Julian Cooper, Darren Burn, David Kemp, Nick Rogers – assistant engineers
Martin Poole – sleeve design, photography
Karl Bosley, Lindy Curry – sleeve design
Gerry Bron – executive producer
Charts
References
1980 albums
Uriah Heep (band) albums
Albums produced by Gerry Bron
Bronze Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest%20%28Uriah%20Heep%20album%29 |
Leland is the administrative centre of the municipality of Leirfjord in Nordland county, Norway. it is located on the northern shore of the Leirfjorden along Norwegian County Road 17. The town of Sandnessjøen lies about southwest of Leland. The village of Sundøy lies to the south and the village of Bardalssjøen lies to the northeast. Leland features two small grocery stores, a hairdresser, a café, a large sports centre, Leirfjord Church, and a number of other amenities.
The village has a population (2018) of 718 and a population density of .
References
Villages in Nordland
Leirfjord | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%2C%20Norway |
Gbenga Oluokun (born 14 June 1983) is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African country. He has faced former world champions and contenders Manuel Charr, Lamon Brewster, Kubrat Pulev, Robert Helenius, Carlos Takam, Vyacheslav Glazkov, and Mariusz Wach.
Amateur
In 2003, he captured the gold medal in his weight division at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria vs Mohamed Aly.
At the Olympics 2004, he was defeated in the round of sixteen of the super heavyweight (over 91 kg) division by Italy's eventual runner-up Roberto Cammarelle.
Professional
He turned pro afterwards and won 16 fights before being upset by Manuel Charr in 2009.
Professional boxing record
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|align="center" colspan=8|19 Wins (12 knockouts, 7 decisions), 14 Losses (6 knockouts, 8 decisions)
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|Loss
|
|align=left| Krzysztof Zimnoch
|KO
|
|
|align=left| Wieliczka, Poland
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Marcin Rekowski
|KO
|5 (8)
|10/04/2015
|align=left| Gliwice, Poland
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Mariusz Wach
|UD
|10
|14/03/2015
|align=left| RCS Lubin, Lubin, Poland
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Sascha Brinkmann
|KO
|2 (6)
|13/12/2014
|align=left| Unihalle Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Agit Kabayel
|SD
|10
|22/03/2014
|align=left| Atatürk Spor Salonu, Tekirdağ, Turkey
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Edmund Gerber
|UD
|8
|23/08/2013
|align=left| GETEC Arena, Magdeburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Erkan Teper
|UD
|8
|14/09/2012
|align=left| Halle an der Saale, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Vyacheslav Glazkov
|TKO
|7
|01/05/2012
|align=left| Krylatskoe Sport Palace, Moscow, Russia
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Carlos Takam
|RTD
|6
|29/04/2011
|align=left| Espace Roger Boisrame, Pontault-Combault, France
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Konstantin Airich
|TKO
|4
|12/11/2010
|align=left| HanseDom, Stralsund, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Oleg Platov
|TKO
|6
|05/06/2010
|align=left| Jahnsportforum, Neubrandenburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Pavel Zhuralev
|UD
|3
|07/05/2010
|align=left| Pavilion Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Robert Helenius
|UD
|8
|26/03/2010
|align=left| Töölö Sports Hall, Helsinki, Finland
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Kubrat Pulev
|UD
|6
|07/11/2009
|align=left| Nuremberg Arena, Nuremberg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Rene Dettweiler
|UD
|8
|17/10/2009
|align=left| O2 World Arena, Berlin, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Lamon Brewster
|UD
|8
|29/08/2009
|align=left| Gerry Weber Stadium, Halle, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Manuel Charr
|KO
|7
|25/04/2009
|align=left| König Palast, Krefeld, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Petr Sedlak
|TKO
|2
|10/05/2008
|align=left| Brandberge Arena, Halle an der Saale, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Raphael Zumbano Love
|UD
|8
|08/03/2008
|align=left| König Palast, Krefeld, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Edgars Kalnars
|KO
|3
|04/12/2007
|align=left| Freizeit Arena, Soelden, Austria
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Humberto Evora
|KO
|4
|07/11/2007
|align=left| Soelden
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Alexander Vasiliev
|KO
|8
|14/07/2007
|align=left| Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Alexey Varakin
|KO
|4
|07/04/2007
|align=left| Universum Gym, Wandsbek, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Daniil Peretyatko
|UD
|6
|13/01/2007
|align=left| Brandberge Arena, Halle an der Saale, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Antoine Palatis
|TKO
|6
|21/11/2006
|align=left| Universum Gym, Wandsbek, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Yaroslav Zavorotnyi
|MD
|6
|19/09/2006
|align=left| Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Mindaugas Kulikauskas
|UD
|6
|22/08/2006
|align=left| Universum Gym, Hamburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Aleksandrs Borhovs
|TKO
|2
|25/07/2006
|align=left| Sportschule Sachsenwald, Hamburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Mihai Iftode
|RTD
|3
|15/04/2006
|align=left| Maritim Hotel, Magdeburg, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Tomasz Zeprzalka
|MD
|4
|07/03/2006
|align=left| Kugelbake Halle, Cuxhaven, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Peter Oravec
|TKO
|1
|14/01/2006
|align=left| Ballhaus Arena, Aschersleben, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Sandor Forgacs
|TKO
|1
|26/11/2005
|align=left| Wilhelm Dopatka Halle, Leverkusen, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Vlado Szabo
|UD
|4
|28/09/2005
|align=left| Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
|align=left|
|}
External links
News and Pictures of Gbenga Oloukun
1983 births
Yoruba sportspeople
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Nigerian male boxers
People from Oyo State
African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
Super-heavyweight boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbenga%20Oloukun |
Spafford may refer to:
People
Belle S. Spafford (1895–1982), American president of the Relief Society
Gene Spafford (born 1956), American professor of computer science at Purdue University
Horatio Spafford (1828–1888), American author of the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul"
Michael Spafford (1935–2022), American artist
Patricia Spafford Smith (1925–2002), American politician
Suzy Spafford (born 1945), American cartoonist, creator of "Suzy'z Zoo"
Places
United States
Spafford, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
Spafford, New York, a town
Other uses
Spafford (band), a band from Prescott, Arizona, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spafford |
X is the third and final studio album to be released by British-Irish pop group Liberty X, released on 10 October 2005. The album was the band's first release on the Virgin Records label, after being dropped from V2 Records in 2004. The album was released two years after their previous album, Being Somebody. The album was the least successful of their three studio albums, only peaking at number 27 on the UK Albums Chart and selling less than 50,000 copies.
Background
After being dropped from the V2 Records label, the band were quick to sign a record deal with rival label Virgin Records, and began recording their third studio album. The label decided the band should experiment with their sound, and thus, enlisted the help of their long-time collaborators Goldust and Lucas Secon, as well as working with new collaborators, including Jud Mahoney, Pete "Boxsta" Martin and Johnny Douglas. The band also enlisted the help of rapper Rev Run, who feature on two of the album's ten new tracks. The band also decided to spice up four of their old classic hits, of which new mixes appear on the end of the album. The album's first single, "Song 4 Lovers", featuring Rev Run, was written and produced by band member Tony Lundon. For the track, Lundon experimented with the gospel and soul areas of music, as well as venturing into hip hop with the feature of Rev Run on the track.
The album's second single, "A Night to Remember", a cover of the Shalamar original, was released on 14 November 2005, as the official Children in Need single of the year. It was also backed with another cover of a disco track, "Everybody Dance" written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. Neither "A Night to Remember" nor "Everybody Dance" feature on the original edition of the album, they are only listed as the album's second single due to their inclusion on the Xtra Edition. From January 2006, the band began touring the album on a small, theatre tour across the United Kingdom. Once the tour was complete, the band returned to film a music video for the track "X", which was released as the album's third and final single on 19 June 2006. Despite the release of a new single and a re-issue of the album entitled the Xtra Edition released two weeks later featuring "A Night to Remember" and "Everybody Dance", the album only managed to peak at number 27, and the band were dropped from the label shortly after. An Australian edition of the album, packaged with a bonus DVD containing several of the band's music videos, became the band's last ever official release anywhere in the world. "It's OK" and "Everybody Dance" were omitted from certain versions of the album for contractual reasons.
Critical reception
AllMusic editor Jon O'Brien found that "X is unfortunately not a swan song reflective of Liberty X's capabilities. Unlike their debut, which managed to capture the pop/R&B zeitgeist effortlessly, X is bogged down by dated production, lifeless ballads, and clichéd attempts at hip-hop [...] The band is certainly one of the better pop groups of the early noughties, but instead of going out with a bang, they've gone out with a bit of a damp squib."
Track listing
Notes
The Middle Eastern releases features "A Night to Remember", "Song 4 Lovers" as tracks one and two, with the rest of the tracks following afterwards.
Charts
Release history
References
Liberty X albums
2005 albums
2006 albums
Virgin Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20%28Liberty%20X%20album%29 |
The Lemko Region (; ; ) is an ethnographic area in southern Poland and Northern Eastern Slovakia that has traditionally been inhabited by the Lemko people. The land stretches approximately long and wide along the north side of the Carpathian Mountains, following the Polish-Slovak border from the Poprad River. In the East, the region is described as either terminating linguistically between the Wisłok River Wisłok and Osława Rivers, or ethnographically at the Sanok River (depending on the author), where it meets the Boyko region. Some even go so far as to consider it to extend south into the Prešov Region, Slovakia.
Previously a frontier area under the nominal control of Great Moravia, the Lemko Region became part of Poland in medieval Piast times. It was made part of the Austrian province of Galicia due to the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Parts were briefly independent under the Lemko-Rusyn Republic and Komancza Republic, and later annexed to Poland.
Most Lemkos in Poland were deported from their ancestral region as part of Operation Vistula in 1946, and only a small part of them remains there today, the rest being scattered across the Recovered Territories.
The landscape is typical of medium-height-mountain terrain, with ridges reaching and sometimes . Only small parts of the southern Low Beskids and the northern San river region have a low-mountain landscape. Even so, the region still occupies some of the lowest elevations in the Carpathians: most of the Low Beskids, the western part of the Middle Beskids, and the eastern fringe of the Western Beskids. Conversely, it also includes much of the higher elevations of the Carpathians within modern-day Poland, which extend approximately to the Poprad River in the west (see: Ruś Szlachtowska). A series of mountain passes along the Torysa River and Poprad River (Tylych Pass ; Dukla Pass, ; and Łupków Pass, ) facilitate communication between Galician and Transcarpathian Lemkos.
Publications
"Łemkowie Grupa Etniczna czy Naród"?, [The Lemkos: An Ethnic Group or a Nation?], trans.
"The Lemkos of Poland" - Articles and Essays, editor Paul Best and Jarosław Moklak
"The Lemko Region, 1939–1947 War, Occupation and Deportation" - Articles and Essays, editor Paul Best and Jarosław Moklak, (avail. from: Inter-Ed, Inc, New Haven, CT)
See also
Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku
Lemko-Rusyn Republic
Komancza Republic
Operation Vistula
References
External links
SFULO - World federation of Ukrainian Lemko Unions
LEMKY.COM - Lemkos Portal
Magazine "Lemkivshchyna"
lemko.org
Eastern Carpathians
Geography of Slovakia
Regions of Poland
Historical regions in Slovakia
History of Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Rusyn communities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemko%20Region |
Emmanuel Weingkro Izonritei (Izon-Eritei) (born 31 October 1978) is a boxer from Bayelsa State of Nigeria.Boxer at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games India (Gold Medallist). He was an athlete in the 2004 Summer Olympics for Nigeria, where he lost in the round of 16 (Heavyweight (91 kg) division) to Naser Al Shami of Syria, who eventually won the bronze. In 2003, he won gold against Mohamed Elsayed in the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria. His brother David won a silver model in boxing in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Served in the Nigeria Airforce 1999 - 2005, also Served in the British Army 2008 -2013, He did a tour of Afghanistan "OP Herrick 10" 2009.
References
Boxer at the 2003 All African Games (Gold Medallist)
Boxer at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games India (Gold Medallist)
1978 births
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Nigeria
Heavyweight boxers
Nigerian male boxers
African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Izonritei |
Ramsund is a village in Tjeldsund Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the Ramsundet strait, just south of the Ramsund Bridge. The village has a population (2018) of 300 which gives the village a population density of .
Ramsund Chapel is located in this village. The main Norwegian Naval base for the north is located south of the village and is the home for the Marinejegerkommandoen unit.
References
External links
Official Navy Base website
Tjeldsund
Villages in Troms
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsund%2C%20Norway |
Michael Culver (born 16 June 1938) is an English actor. He was born in Hampstead, London, the son of actor Roland Culver and casting director Daphne Rye. He was educated at Gresham's School.
Actor
Culver's aunt, father, mother and brother all had theatrical careers. Culver gained experience at the Old Vic, Dundee Rep (performing in 35 plays in 2 years) and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Culver has appeared in several television series in recurring roles, as Squire Armstrong in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–74), Major Erwin Brandt in the BBC drama Secret Army (1977–78), crooked banker Ralph Saroyan in the second series of The House of Eliott (1992) and the strict Prior Robert ('Brother Prior') in Cadfael (1994–98).
His guest roles include an episode of The Sweeney as Dave Leeford (episode Money, Money, Money; 1978), The Professionals (1982) as Lawson, Miss Marple "The Moving Finger" (1985) as Edward Symmington and as Sir Reginald Musgrave, in the episode "The Musgrave Ritual" (1986) in the Granada Television series The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Culver has appeared in two uncredited roles in James Bond films. In From Russia With Love (1963), he played a man in a punt which was followed as the co-pilot of Avro Vulcan, (Callsign Ramjet MBX-79), in Thunderball (1965). Other film roles are Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and also a major part in A Passage to India (1984) as a bigoted police inspector. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander. Culver was in the first ever episode of New Tricks in 2003 as a corrupt dinosaur detective.
He performed in three of Tricycle Theatre’s Tribunal Plays: Nuremberg (A distillation of the 1945–46 Nuremberg trials – of leading Nazi war criminals); Half the Picture (From transcripts from the Scott Inquiry into Arms-to-Iraq – the first play to be performed in the Palace of Westminster.) and The Colour of Justice (The dramatisation of the evidence given during Sir William Macpherson’s inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, his family's search for justice and endemic racism in the police force). They were directed by Nicolas Kent. The Colour of Justice and Half the Picture and were broadcast by the BBC Television.
Theatre
With Dundee Repertory Theatre 1959–1961
The Curious Savage by John Patrick Directed by Anthony Page.
In Search of Happiness by Victor Rozov Translated by Nina Froud. Directed by Anthony Page.
Fools Rush In by Kenneth Horne, Directed by Anthony Page.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Anthony Page.
Tomorrow's Child by John Coates.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The Cat and the Canary by John Willard, Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Chris J. Arthur.
The Critic and the Heart by Robert Bolt. Directed by Anthony Page.
See How They Run by Philip King. Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Philip King.
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin. Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Peter Gray.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Directed by Anthony Page Edward Furby.
Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Anthony Page.
Roar Like a Dove by Lesley Storm. Directed by Lesley Storm.
The Blind Madonna by Neil Curnow Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Eighty in the shade by Clemence Dane. Directed by Raymond Westwell
Dear Brutus by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Performance marking the centenary year of playwright J.M. Barrie's birth. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Any Other Business by Campbell Singer Directed by Anthony Page.
Lucky Strike by Michael Brett.
Caught Napping by Geoffrey Lumsden. Directedy Raymond Westwell.
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Gilt and Gingerbread by Lionel Hale. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Murder on Arrival by George Batson. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Sinbad the Sailor by James Grout and Ken Wynne, Directed by Raymond Westwell.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Brothers in Law by Ted Willis and Henry Cecil. Directed by Raymond Westwell
Present Laughter by Sir Noël Coward Directed by Raymond Westwell.
The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
The Manor of Northstead by William Douglas-Home. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Love in a Mist by Kenneth Horne Directed by Mary Evans and James Ward.
Not in the Book by Arthur Watkyn. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
The Vanity Case by Jack Popplewell. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
Love from a Stranger by Agatha Christie adapted by Frank Vosper. Directed by Anthony Page.
The Durable Element by Cliff Hanley. Directed by John Crockett.
Shakespeare At the Old Vic
Directed by Michael Benthall
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
The Tragedy of King Lear
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (fights arranged by Bernard Hepton).
King Henry VI
Twelfth Night
The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan The Stratham Hill Theatre, 1956. Directed by Anthony Knowles.
London and West End
Judith by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Christopher Fry, Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket and Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1962. Directed by Harold Clurman.
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Michael Meyer, The New Arts Theatre Club, 1962. Directed by Terence Kilburn. Michael Culver played Ragnar Brovik. The cast included: Keith Pyott, Andrew Cruickshank, Viola Keats and Mary Miller.
Alexander in A Severed Head, Criterion Theatre, 1963, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, Directed by Val May.
Tricycle Theatre
Gore-Booth and Sir Nicholas Lyell in Half the Picture, adapted by Richard Norton-Taylor With additional material by John McGrath; Tricycle Theatre, 1994. Directed by Nicholas Kent. This was the first play to be performed in the Palace of Westminster.
Ragnar Brovik in The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Michael Meyer, The New Arts Theatre Club, 1962. Directed by Terence Kilburn.
Albert Speer in Nuremberg Transcripts edited by: Richard Norton-Taylor; Tricycle Theatre, 1996. Directed by Nicholas Kent.
Sir William Macpherson in The Colour of Justice, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor, transferred to the Lyttelton Theatre and toured the UK, 1999. Directed by Nicolas Kent assisted by Surian Fletcher-Jones, it won Best Touring Production in Theatrical Management Association Awards.
Fashion by Doug Lucie; Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, transferred from to the Tricycle Theatre 1989–1990.
Touring productions
Wickham in Pride and Prejudice from the novel by Jane Austen; toured 1966. Produced/Directed by Sheila Hancock.
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (Hong Kong)
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward. (1988 – toured Norway and Sweden)
Other
Ellis Petersen in A Share in the Sun by Terence Kelly and Campbell Singer, New Theatre, Oxford and Cambridge Theatre, 1966. Directed by Harold French.
Peter Quilpe in The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, Theatre Royal, Windsor, 1966. Directed by Neville Jason.
Charles in Howards End adapted by Lance Sieveking in collaboration with Richard Cottrell from the novel by E. M. Forster; toured 1967. Directed by Dacre Punt.
Mike Danbury in Anything For Baby by Talbot Rothwell and William Meyer; Wimbledon Theatre, 1969. Directed by Patrick Cargill
The Earl of Harpenden in While the Sun Shines by Terence Rattigan; Hampstead Theatre Club, 1972. Directed by Alec McCowen
Young Macduff in Macbeth by William Shakespeare Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, 1978. Directed by John Tydeman.
Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, Berkshire, 1979 (the 1295th Production). Directed by Joan Riley
Roald Amundsen in Terra Nova by Ted Tally; Watford Palace Theatre, 1982. Directed by Michael Attenborough
Hugo in The Little Heroine by Nell Dunn; Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton, 1988. Directed by Ian Watt-Smith.
Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Two Plays for Gaza, 2009 (Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill and The Trainer by David Wilson & Anne Aylor at the Hackney Empire
Radio and voice work
The Burning Glass by Jo Anderson and Directed Andy Jordan.
"Breizh has a problem. The World Cup looms and all eyes are on FRANCE. Down on the estate, something stirs."
Others in the cast: Philip Madoc and Frances Jeater. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play 30 May 1998 repeated 20 March 1990
Rachmaninoff Presented by Melvyn Bragg
Michael Culver voiced Rachmaninoff. Other contributions from Vladimir Ashkenazy (speaker and piano), Jonathan Kydd (Yermakov voice over), Boris Berezovskii (piano), Shura Cherkassky (piano), Mikhail Falkov (tenor), Alexander Fedin (tenor), Joan Rodgers (soprano). With Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus.
Fatherland by Robert Harris. Adapted and Directed by John Dryden
Cast included Anton Lesser (Xavier March), Graham Padden (Krause), Robert Portal (Jost), Peter Ellis (Max Jarger), Thomas Copeland (Pili), Andrew Sachs, Amanda Walker, Patrick Godfrey, Michael Byrne, Ian Gelder, Angeline Ball, William Scott Masson, Stratford Johns, Eleanor Bron, Dan Fineman, Alice Arnold and Trevor Nichols, with Ned Sherrin, Jonathan Coleman and Alan Dedicoat. Goldhawk Radio production. Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 June 1997
Flight of the Swan by Jean MacVean. BBC Radio 4, 7 August 1982
Cast included: Rosalind Shanks and David Neal
The play deals with human love and how it is so often impossible for one person to really know another.
Wilderness of Mirrors Unabridged 1989 reading of the novel by Ted Allbeury
The Shadow of Mir by Nick Fisher and directed by John Dryden. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on 8 May 1998 as the Friday Play
Filmography
Film
Television
1961–1970
1971–1980
1981–1990
1991–2000
2001–2010
2011–present
Documentary
References
External links
Michael Culver BFI
Freedomlite, his own site: "genocidal jottings, mainly in the form of poems, are dedicated to the children of Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan"
1938 births
English male film actors
English male television actors
Living people
Actors from Hampstead
20th-century English male actors
English male stage actors
English male radio actors
People educated at Gresham's School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Culver |
Being Somebody is the second studio album by English-Irish pop vocal group Liberty X. It was released on 3 November 2003 via V2 Records. The album was released a year-and-a-half after their debut release, Thinking It Over. The album peaked at number 12 on the UK Albums Chart, selling around 75,000 copies in its first week of release.
Background
The band returned to the studio shortly after the release of their debut effort, Thinking It Over, and began by recording a collaboration with producer Richard X – a mash-up of classic tracks "Being Boiled" and "Ain't Nobody", entitled "Being Nobody". As well as being released to promote the band's new album, it also served as the lead single from Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1. For their second studio effort, the band teamed up with producers Lucas Secon and Mike Peden, as well as allowing band member Tony Lundon to produce three tracks, one of which he solely wrote. "Being Nobody" was released as the album's lead single on 24 March 2003. "Jumpin", a track produced and co-written by Secon, was released as the album's second single over six months later, on 12 October 2003.
The album was released in Japan a week later on 18 October. The Japanese edition of the album features an alternative, white picture cover, and includes three additional tracks – "Just a Little", as the track remained previously unreleased in Japan, brand new Japanese exclusive track "Willing to Try" and "Fresh", a collaboration with Kool & The Gang, recorded for their compilation album, The Hits: Reloaded. "Everybody Cries" was released as the album's third single on 12 January 2004. "Fresh" was later released as a single on 14 April 2004, exclusively in France, Germany and Spain, while "I'll Be Remembering" was planned as the equivalent single release in the United Kingdom, however, by this time, the band's record contract with V2 Records had been terminated, and the single's release was cancelled, leaving "Fresh" as an internationally exclusive single.
The Japanese version of Being Somebody also uses an alternative version of the track "Whatcha Doin' Tonight", which also carries a slightly different title, "(Tell Me) What You're Doing Tonight". This version was originally recorded during the recording sessions for Thinking It Over. Four songs that failed to make the final cut of Being Somebody, "Bump & Grind", "Get Away", "Press Rewind" and "Wilder", were leaked to YouTube in April 2010. These tracks were also reportedly being considered for inclusion on the band's third V2 project, before they were dropped from the label. Several additional tracks from the album sessions were also released as B-sides: "Enemy", "Sunshine", "It Helps" and "Shake It".
Critical reception
Simon Evans, writing for musicOMH, felt that Being Somebody "proves there’s still plenty of gas in the tank" for the band. He noted that while it kicks "off with a rather cheesy and unnecessary intro, the album moves straight into high gear with the monster hit singles, "Jumpin’" and "Being Nobody," and rarely lets the pace flag throughout the remaining 13 tracks," resulting "in some of the most memorable pop tunes you are ever likely to hear." Dave Simpson from The Guardian remarked that the album displays "increasingly slick R&B." He added that "it's no coincidence that Being Somebodys big hitters are penned by the seasoned pros and the endless tales of lurve provide few glimpses into the ordinary people at the heart of the phenomenon. Still, the girls' vocal performances are integral, and the band's Tony Lundon is playing an increasingly major writing role: his untypical "Watcha Doin' Tonite" hardly pines for lives they've now clearly left behind."
Allmusic editor Jon O'Brien found that "while half of the album is bursting with ideas, the other half seems stuck in a rut as several samey, watered-down R&B tracks start to merge into one another and the likes of "Jumpin'," a live favorite on their 2003 tour, gets lost amidst "everything but the kitchen sink" over-production. Being Somebody will certainly establish their credentials as songwriters, having penned ten of the tracks here, but they certainly need reining in a little for album number three if they're going to fulfill their early potential." Similarly, Denise Boyd from BBC Music wrote that Being Somebody "feels something of a mish-mash. Liberty X are still not clear on what direction they are heading and this uncertainty weakens the album. The quintets strength lies in their R&B influenced up-tempo tracks and soulful ballads. This is the area they should concentrate on [...] With this, Liberty X has broken the mould of the manufactured pop group. They have answered their critics and have shown once and for all that they truly deserve the title Popstars."
Track listing
Notes
denotes co-producer
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
Liberty X albums
2003 albums
V2 Records albums
Albums produced by Richard X
Albums produced by Mike Peden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being%20Somebody |
Faustino Arévalo (23 July 1747 at Campanario, Badajoz in Extremadura, Spain – 7 January 1824 at Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist.
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1761, but was deported to Italy on the occasion of the deportation of the Jesuits from Spain (1767). There he won the esteem and confidence of Cardinal Lorenzana, who proved a patron for the young Spanish Jesuit, bore the expenses of his academic work, and made him his executor.
Arévalo held various offices of trust in Rome, among them that of "pontifical hymnographer". He was made theologian of the Apostolic Penitentiary in 1809, in succession to Alfonso Muzzarelli. In 1815 he returned to Spain, recalled by King Ferdinand, entered the restored Society, and became provincial of Castile (1820). Arévalo stands in the front rank of Spanish patristic scholars.
Works
His principal works are:
Hymnodia Hispanica (Rome, 1786), a restoration of ancient Spanish hymns to their original metrical, musical, and grammatical perfection. This work was much esteemed by Cardinal Mai and Dom Guéranger. Among the dissertations that accompany the main work is a curious one on the breviary of Cardinal Francisco de Quiñones.
Prudentii Carmina (Rome, 1788–89, 2 Vol., quarto).
Dracontii Carmina (Rome, 1791), the poems of a fifth-century Christian of Roman Africa.
Juvenci Historiae Evangelicae Libri IV (Rome, 1794).
Caelii Sedulii Opera Omnia (Rome, 1813).
S. Isidori Hispaniensis Opera Omnia (Rome, 1813).
Missale Gothicum (Rome, 1804).
References
1747 births
1824 deaths
People from the Province of Badajoz
18th-century Spanish Jesuits
Spanish male writers
Writers from Extremadura
19th-century Spanish Jesuits
Spanish Latinists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustino%20Ar%C3%A9valo |
The New World Center is a concert hall in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida, designed by Frank Gehry. It is the home of the New World Symphony, with a capacity of 756 seats. It opened in January 2011.
Located one block north of Lincoln Road in the South Beach stretch of Miami Beach, the building also features a new 2.5-acre public park next to it, designed by the firm West 8 (after Gehry relinquished the job following a budget reduction). A half acre of that is the SoundScape area, which allows outside visitors to experience live, free "wallcasts" of select events throughout the season through the use of visual and audio technology on a projection wall. Such wallcasts are planned to occur at least twice a month. A sound system incorporating 155 individually tuned speakers augments the high-definition video presentation. During performances, QR codes are shown to enable the outside audience to scan them and obtain more information about the work in question. In addition to live broadcasts of events inside, works in the video arts themselves can be shown on the wall, including those produced during the Art Basel Miami Beach event. The projection wall is said to be the largest permanently established projection surface in North America.
Over a thousand people watched the wallcasts during each of the performances in the center's opening week. By the end of the park's first year, The Miami Herald wrote that the free films, video art, and concert wallcasts there had "produced a much-needed sense of community."
Construction
The New World Symphony was constructed by Facchina Construction Company, LLC and its team led by Jesus Vazquez, John Monts, Jazer Challenger and Modesto Millo. The acoustics for the center were designed by Yasuhisa Toyota. Gehry and Toyota had previously worked together on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The intentionally small seating arrangement is steeply banked, allowing concertgoers to be close to the musicians (no seat is more than thirteen rows from the stage). Gehry said "the audience is right in the music." Projections upon sail-like panels hanging from the hall ceiling allow performances to be accompanied by video presentations. For acoustical integrity, as well as to maintain the intimate feeling within the space, in lieu of standard acoustical plaster, BASWA Phon Finishes were applied to each panel allowing very specific amounts of sound absorption of high-frequency hertz bands. The center includes training facilities for the symphony.
The symphony's artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas, was instrumental in emphasizing the public outreach and digital technology aspects of the center. (Gehry and Tilson Thomas share personal history and a long friendship, with Gehry sometimes having baby-sat for Tilson Thomas when both were growing up in the Los Angeles area.) A prime goal of the whole enterprise was to provide ongoing experiments and architectural support towards making classical music more accessible and enticing to younger generations. After its first half-season in the new venue, a New World Symphony official said, "Ticket sales have been phenomenal."
Unlike some of Gehry's best-known works, including the Disney Hall, the glass-and-white-plaster exterior is mostly rectangular and unassuming. (The acclaim for the prior work had been great enough to scare off potential clients, with Gehry saying, "When Disney opened seven years ago, I was never asked to do another concert hall!") This was done to stay in commonality with Miami Beach's predominantly plaster-and-glass architectural look, where Gehry's usual use of metals would have seemed out of place. However, once inside the atrium, which is lit by the sky during the daytime, the architect's usual assemblage of curved forms dominates, especially in a jumbled stack of over thirty rehearsal rooms, offices, recording facilities, and the like. As Tilson Thomas said of the initial design process, "Gradually it started to turn into one of Frank's buildings turned inside-out, which is essentially what it is – and that it was going to be mostly like Miami."
Reception
Reviews of the New World Center have been favorable. Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "This is a piece of architecture that dares you to underestimate it or write it off at first glance." Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of The New York Times, stated that Tilson Thomas and Gehry had "created a building ... that spills over with populist ideas, sometimes to the point of distraction.... it reflects Mr. Gehry's belief that music, like other creative endeavors, should be more than an aesthetic matter. As a shared experience, one that reaches each of us at our emotional core, it helps unite us into a civilized community." Arrival of the center was hailed by Cathleen McGuigan, architecture writer for The Daily Beast, who said that "Miami Beach is [now] home to world-class architecture and the sense of solid permanence that such buildings bring." Victoria Newhouse of Architectural Record wrote: "A welcoming openness to the exterior is provided by the atrium and reinforced by the Wallcasts, and the auditorium combines intimacy with remarkable physical and acoustical flexibility. The magic sparked by the collaboration of Gehry and Thomas just might fulfill their hope to turn around a perceived faltering interest in classical music by the young." Gehry's role also confirmed that the "starchitect" phenomenon had reached the Miami area, following Herzog & de Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Road the year before and with that firms's new Miami Art Museum in the works as well.
The building cost some $160 million. Of that, $15 million came from the city of Miami Beach, $25 million from Miami-Dade County, and the rest from private donations and the sale of the New World Symphony's previous home, the Lincoln Theater. Ground was broken for the structure in January 2008. It was built on the site of two old parking lots. A new parking garage was also constructed as part of the project.
See also
List of works by Frank Gehry
References
External links
Official website
Live Wallcasts™
Concert halls in Florida
Performing arts centers in Florida
Buildings and structures in Miami Beach, Florida
Frank Gehry buildings
Music venues completed in 2011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20World%20Center |
Effiong Okon (born 22 May 1985) is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his country. There he was outscored in the first round of the men's light flyweight (– 48 kg) division by Italy's Alfonso Pinto.
Okon qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. In the final he was defeated by Madagascar's Lalaina Rabenarivo.
References
1985 births
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Nigerian male boxers
Light-flyweight boxers
Place of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effiong%20Okon |
General elections were held in South Africa on 26 May 1948. They represented a turning point in the country's history, as despite receiving just under half of the votes cast, the United Party and its leader, incumbent Prime Minister Jan Smuts, were ousted by the Herenigde Nasionale Party (HNP) led by D. F. Malan, a Dutch Reformed cleric.
During the election campaign, both the UP and the HNP formed coalitions with smaller parties. The UP was aligned with the left-leaning Labour Party, while the Afrikaner Party sought to advance Afrikaner rights by allying with the HNP. By legislation relating to franchise requirements, very few people of coloured and Asian descent were able to vote in this election; Africans had been banned altogether since the late 1930s, with the limited number of Africans meeting electoral qualifications voting for seven "own" white MPs separately.
The HNP, realising that many White South Africans felt threatened by black political aspirations, pledged to implement a policy of strict racial segregation in all spheres of living. The Nationalists labelled this new system of social organisation "apartheid" ("apartness" or "separation"), the name by which it became universally known. The HNP also took advantage of white fear of black-on-white crime, and the HNP promised whites safety and security from black-on-white crime and violence.
In contrast to the HNP's consistent, straightforward platform, the UP supported vague notions of slowly integrating the different racial groups within South Africa. Furthermore, white dissatisfaction with domestic and economic problems in South Africa after World War II, the HNP's superior organisation, and electoral malapportionment that favoured rural areas (where the HNP were traditionally stronger) all proved to be significant challenges to the UP campaign.
The elections marked the onset of 46 years of National Party rule in South Africa.
Results
Together, the HNP and the Afrikaner Party won 79 seats in the House of Assembly against a combined total of 74 won by the UP and the Labour Party. By a quirk of the first-past-the-post system, the HNP won more seats, even though the UP received over eleven per cent more votes. The nationalist coalition subsequently formed a new government and ushered in the era of formal, legally binding apartheid. In 1951, the HNP and the Afrikaner Party merged, returning to the name National Party.
By province
Reasons for the National Party victory
One of the central issues facing the white electorate in the 1948 election was that of race. The United Party (UP) and the National Party (NP) presented voters with differing answers to questions relating to racial integration in South Africa. Smuts and his followers were in favour of a pragmatic approach, arguing that racial integration was inevitable and that the government should thus relax regulations which sought to prevent black people from moving into urban areas. Whilst still seeking to maintain white dominance, the UP argued in favour of gradually reforming the political system so that black South Africans could eventually, at some unspecified point in the future, exercise some sort of power in a racially integrated South Africa. In contrast to this seemingly vague ideology, the HNP advanced the notion of further strictly enforced segregation between races and the total disempowerment of black South Africans. There was a growing fear amongst Nationalist Afrikaners of black people taking their jobs, especially post Second World War. Rural to urban movement by blacks was to be discouraged. The UP position was supported by the Fagan Commission while the Sauer Commission informed the HNP's stance.
Another reason for D.F. Malan's success was the National Party's constant promotion of Jan Smuts to be similar to the British. Leading the United Party, Smuts proposed rather liberal policies, more out of necessity than kindness, in order to try be elected. However, he was attacked by the opposition as similar to the 'enemy' (in this case Britain), an attack to try to frighten white and Afrikaner voters into voting for Malan due to their hatred of Britain following the mining of gold in the Transvaal region, after its discovery in 1886. Other reasons along this line was Smuts' former role in working for Britain and his decision to help Britain in World War Two.
Arguably the most important reason for election success however, was the number of rural voters which voted for the National Party in 1948. Despite not receiving the majority vote and Smuts gaining 12% more votes, Malan benefited heavily from malapportionment. This allowed Malan to form a government by winning many small constituencies and gaining 5 more seats than the United Party in a narrow victory for the National Party.
Economic reasons
The putative policy of apartheid proposed by the HNP served the economic interests of certain groups of white South Africans. Farmers from the northern portions of the country relied on cheap black labour to maximise profits while working-class whites living in urban areas feared the employment competition that would follow an urban influx of black South Africans. Many commercial and financial Afrikaner interests based on agriculture saw the value of apartheid in promoting growth in this sector. The UP failed to realise the enormous economic benefits of apartheid to these large and influential groups and did not prioritise segregation as much as the HNP.
Smuts and his cabinet were blamed for many of the hardships that occurred as a result of South Africa's participation in World War II. During the war, petrol was rationed by means of coupons, and bakeries were ordered not to bake white bread so as to conserve wheat. After the war, some of these measures continued, as South Africa exported food and other necessaries to Britain and the Netherlands. South Africa even provided Britain with a loan of 4 million ounces (110 metric tons) of gold. These measures caused local shortages of meat and the unavailability of white bread. The Smuts government was blamed for this, as well as for the rate of inflation and the government's dismal housing record. All these factors provided ammunition for the HNP.
Race and ethnicity
As regards election tactics, the HNP was extremely adroit at exploiting white fears while campaigning in the 1948 election. Because the UP had seemed to take a fairly lukewarm stance towards both integration and segregation, the HNP was able to argue that a victory for the UP would ultimately lead to a black government in South Africa. HNP propaganda linked black political power to communism and socialism, an anathema to many white South Africans at the time. Slogans such as "Swart Gevaar" ("Black Peril"), "Rooi Gevaar" ("Red Peril"), "Die kaffer op sy plek" ("The Kaffir in his place"), and "Die koelies uit die land" ("The coolies out of the country") played upon and amplified white anxieties. Much was made of the fact that Smuts had developed a good working relationship with Joseph Stalin during World War II, when South Africa and the USSR were allies in the fight against Nazi Germany. Smuts had once remarked that he "doffs his cap to Stalin" and the HNP presented this remark as proof of Smuts's latent communist and socialist tendencies.
The Smuts government's controversial immigration program served to further inflame Afrikaner disquiet. Under this program, numerous British immigrants had moved to South Africa and were perceived to have taken homes and employment away from (white) South African citizens. Moreover, it was claimed that the intention behind such plans was to swamp the Afrikaners, who had a higher birth rate than the British diaspora, with British immigrants so that Afrikaners would be outnumbered at the polls in future elections.
In preparation for the 1948 election, the HNP moderated its stance on republicanism. Because of the immense and abiding national trauma, caused by the Anglo-Boer War, transforming South Africa into a republic and dissolving all ties between South Africa and the United Kingdom had been an important mission for earlier incarnations of the HNP. English speaking South Africans tended to favour a close relationship with the UK, and so the republican project became a source of conflict between the two largest white groups in South Africa. A staunchly pro-republic stance alienated moderate Afrikaners who had supported South Africa's participation in World War II and wished to achieve reconciliation between their own people and English speakers. When the HNP agreed to compromise its fiercely republican standpoint, conceding that South Africa should remain a Dominion in the Commonwealth, many Afrikaner UP supporters switched allegiance.
Rural/urban vote weighting
Demarcation of electoral district boundaries favoured the HNP. Most of the 70 seats won by the National Party during the 1948 election were in rural areas, whereas most of the 65 seats won by the United Party were in the urban areas. According to the Constitution that South Africa had at the time, the constituencies in the rural areas were smaller than those in urban areas. This meant that there were more rural constituencies than urban ones. This was to the benefit of the National Party since it tended to do well in rural areas in terms of votes. Despite winning 140,000 fewer votes than the UP, the NP/AP coalition gained a plurality of seats in Parliament, and was able to enter into a coalition with the Afrikaner Party to form a majority government. It has been calculated that if rural and urban votes had been of equal value, the UP would have won 80 seats, the HNP/AP 60 seats, and other parties the remaining seats, thus giving the UP a majority outright and perhaps delaying or preventing apartheid from taking place.
Political organisation
The UP at the time has been characterised as cumbersome and lacking vigor while the HNP displayed energy and superior organizational skills. World War II had a bonding effect on the UP and white South Africans generally. Once this external uniting force fell away, Smuts lost a great deal of control over the UP as more and more voters considered alternatives to his tired regime; humiliatingly, the Prime Minister lost his parliamentary seat (Standerton) to an HNP challenger. As can be seen from the final tally of seats, Smuts and his party proved unable to counter the many grievances raised by the HNP in an effective way, and this inability led to a narrow HNP victory.
After the 1948 election, the ruling coalition succeeded in fully enfranchising the mostly Afrikaans- and German-speaking voters in South West Africa, later known as Namibia upon independence in 1990; the result being that this gave the National Party more or less six reliable votes in parliament.
References
General elections in South Africa
South Africa
General
Events associated with apartheid
South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20South%20African%20general%20election |
Muideen Ganiyu (born 5 May 1979) is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Featherweight (57 kg) division by DPR Korea's eventual runner-up Song Guk Kim. One year earlier, he won the silver medal in the same weight division at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
References
sports-reference
1979 births
Featherweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Nigeria
Living people
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Nigerian male boxers
African Games silver medalists for Nigeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
20th-century Nigerian people
21st-century Nigerian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muideen%20Ganiyu |
Ørnes is the administrative centre of the municipality of Meløy in Nordland county, Norway. The old village is mentioned in documents dating from 1610 when a tenant farmer lived here. It is located along Norwegian County Road 17, about south of the village of Reipå and about north of the village of Eidbukta. The island of Mesøya lies just west of the village. Ørnes is a port of call along the Hurtigruten ferry route between Nesna and Bodø. The newspapers Framtia and Meløyavisa are published in Ørnes.
The village has a population (2018) of 1,624 and a population density of .
Ørnes Church is located in the village, serving central Meløy. In this part of Northern Norway, temperatures can drop down quite low in the winter and the summers can be slightly mild. The lakes Lysvatnet and Markavatnet both lie to the northeast of the village.
History
The village can be traced back hundreds of years, but the year 1794 is recognized as the beginning of Ørnes, when Elling Pedersen, a member of the noble Benkestok family from Meløya was allowed to set up an inn and trading post at the place. He lived at Meløya but when he died in 1802, his widow moved to Ørnes and continued trading. The business changed owners within the Benkestok family but was continued by others when the old family died out. These would typically combine trading with shipping. The settlement was ravaged by fire several times, but some of the original buildings from approx. 1800 remain intact; several dwellings, fishermen's cabins, boathouses, barns and a forge are kept in good condition and several are listed and protected.
References
Meløy
Villages in Nordland
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rnes |
Korgen is the administrative centre of Hemnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village located along the river Røssåga, about south of the village of Bjerka. Korgen is connected by the European route E6 highway to the nearby towns of Mo i Rana and Mosjøen. The eastern end of the Korgfjell Tunnel is located in Korgen. The village of Bleikvassli lies about to the south along the Norwegian County Road 806. The village has a population (2017) of 878 which gives the village a population density of . This makes it the largest urban area in the municipality.
Korgen Church is a cruciform church that's been located in the village since 1863. It was built of timber and has 450 seats. Korgen Sports Club (Korgen Idrettslag) was founded in 1935 as a sports club for Korgen. The sports club has sports like skiing, soccer, orienteering and team handball. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Korgen from 1918 until its dissolution in 1964.
Krogen was also used as a satellite prison camp during the World War Two, mainly for Yugoslavian population.
Industry
The Norwegian state owned electricity company Statkraft operates electricity production facilities including the Nedre Røssåga power plants located in Vesterli in Korgen and Øvre Røssåga power plants located in Bleikvasslia. The development of these plants were started in 1948 and was completed in 1955. Statkraft has also built a regional office, located near the municipality building in Korgen.
Geography
Korgen is situated inland and is surrounded by mountains. Southwest towards Mosjøen lies the Korgfjellet (Vesterfjellet) mountain range, to the east is Klubben, and to the north towards Mo i Rana is Kangsen. Korgen the location of Okstindan, the mountain range which includes the mountain Oksskolten, the highest mountain in North Norway.
Korgfjellet
Many Norwegians have heard about Korgen because of the notorious Korgfjellet mountain range which in situated between Hemnes and Vefsn municipalities. The mountains form the boundary in a north-south direction between Korgen and Elsfjord. Korgfjellet had frequently has divided the region in half due to poor road conditions and traffic accidents during the winter. This condition is now avoided after the finishing of the Korgfjell Tunnel in 2005.
Notable residents
References
External links
Korgen Church
Korgen Camp
Korgen Mountain Inn
Race from Bleikvasslia to Korgen
Korgen IL (football team)
Villages in Nordland
Hemnes
Valleys of Nordland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korgen |
Homer Edwin Young (born August 11, 1936), often called simply Ed Young, is senior pastor of the megachurch Second Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. He is father to sons Ed Young, pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas; Ben Young, associate pastor at Second Baptist Houston; and Cliff Young, director of Second Films and leader of the Christian folk/pop group Caedmon's Call.
Early life and education
Young was born on August 11, 1936, in Laurel in southeastern Mississippi to an impoverished family.
He entered the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa as an engineering major. But halfway through his freshman year he answered the call of the ministry and enrolled at Mississippi College in Clinton. He went on to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Career
"Young was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in June of 1992 and again in June, 1993." He has a broadcast ministry called The Winning Walk that can be accessed internationally. He is the author to dozens of books including Healing Broken America, Standing on the Promises, Total Heart Health for Men, Total Heart Health for Women, The 10 Commandments of Parenting, and The 10 Commandments of Marriage.
, Dr. Young had sold "nearly 12,000 CDs and DVDs."
Ministership
Young started as a pastor in North Carolina, despite the wishes of his father. Moving to South Carolina, he pastored Taylors First Baptist Church (1968–1971) and First Baptist Church Columbia (1972–1978) before moving to Second Baptist Church Houston.
Under his leadership, Second Baptist grew from an average weekend attendance of 500 in 1978 to a membership of over 80,000 in 2019. Dr. Young was a pioneer of the multisite church, and in 1999, Second Baptist became one church in two locations. As of the spring of 2015 when the last campus was opened, Second Baptist Church occupies six campuses in the Houston metropolitan area and, , has an online campus where each week's sermon is livestreamed daily.
Young assisted in the creation and organization of Houston's relief work following Tropical Storm Allison and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike, and Harvey as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Young along with Bishop James Dixon, Senior Pastor of Community of Faith Church, developed and launched Loving Kids, a joint venture ministry designed to make a difference in Houston's Acres Homes subdivision by collaboratively adopting three local Houston elementary schools "to help support children by way of mentors, tutors and teacher assistants."
Controversy
Young has garnered some controversy by calling for progressive local politicians in Houston and Harris County to be voted out because of rising homicide rates during his sermons. Some have called for his church's tax exemption to be removed for the politically charged comments, but a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center said the comments were unlikely to result in such a penalty.
Young has faced criticism both for his leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention with regard to prevention of sexual abuse in the churches and for the Second Baptist's handling of two sexual abuse claims against a contract-employed coordinator of music pageants, John Forse, in 1994 and against a former youth pastor, Chad Foster, in 2010. The Second Baptist church has settled two lawsuits filed by Foster's victims.
Personal life
On September 7, 2017, Young's wife, Jo Beth Young, died at the age of 80. Married for 58 years, the couple had three children and 11 grandchildren.
In 1988, Young had angioplasty to open a clogged heart artery. In his 2005 book Total Heart Health for Men Workbook, he wrote about methods of reducing the risk of heart problems as he was familiar with. In May 2010, he underwent triple coronary bypass surgery.
Works
See also
Southern Baptist Convention Presidents
Christianity in Houston
References
External links
The Winning Walk official website
Second Baptist Church Houston official website
1936 births
Living people
American television evangelists
People from Laurel, Mississippi
Southern Baptist ministers
Southern Baptist Convention presidents
Mississippi College alumni
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John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject.
Early life
Foster was active in the anti-war and environmental movements before enrolling at Evergreen State College in 1971. He studied economics in response to what he saw as an unfolding crisis in the capitalist economy and US involvement with the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
In 1976, he moved to Canada and entered the political science graduate program at York University in Toronto. He submitted his 1979 paper, The United States and Monopoly Capital: The Issue of Excess Capacity, to Paul Sweezy of Monthly Review. He also was published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Science & Society, and, in 1986, published The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy, based on his Ph.D. dissertation.
Foster was hired in 1985 as a Visiting Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College. One year later he took a position as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and became a full professor of sociology in 2000. In 1989 he became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the editorial committee of Monthly Review.
Monthly Review
Foster published his first article for Monthly Review, "Is Monopoly Capital an Illusion?", while in graduate school in 1981. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the Monthly Review editorial committee in 1989. Along with Robert McChesney, who had since their days at Evergreen College become a leading scholar of the political economy of the media, Foster joined Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff as a co-editor of Monthly Review in 2000. Two years later, he became president of the Monthly Review Foundation.
After Paul Sweezy's death in 2004, Robert McChesney's resignation as co-editor (while remaining on the board), and Harry Magdoff's death in 2006, Foster was left as sole editor of the magazine.
Work
Foster's initial research centered on Marxian political economies and theories of capitalist development, with a focus on Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran's theory of monopoly. This was reflected in Foster's early book The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism and the coedited volume (with Henryk Szlajfer), The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism.
In the late 1980s, Foster turned toward issues of ecology. He focused on the relationship between the global environmental crisis and the crisis in the capitalist economy, while stressing the imperative for a sustainable, socialist alternative. During this period he published The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment; his article "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift" in the American Journal of Sociology; and Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. His reinterpretation of Marx on ecology introduced the concept of "metabolic rift" and was widely influential. This work led to his receiving the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Sociological Association's Environment and Technology section. Marx's Ecology itself received the book award from the ASA's Section on Marxist Sociology. This work was soon followed up by his book Ecology Against Capitalism, which focused on the critique of capitalist economics from the standpoint of the environment.
As editor of Monthly Review, Foster returned to his earlier work on the political economy of capitalism, but with a renewed focus on the role of U.S. foreign policy following September 2001. His 2006 book Naked Imperialism, along with frequent editorials in the pages of Monthly Review, attempted to account for the growing U.S. military role in the world and the shift toward a more visible, aggressive global projection. Additionally, Foster has worked to expand Sweezy and Baran’s theory of monopoly capital in light of the current financially led phase of capitalism, which he terms "monopoly-finance Capital." In this context he has written several books on the financialization of capitalism and financial crisis of 2007–08.
Critique of Intelligent Design, Foster’s book co-authored with Brett Clark and Richard York, is a continuation of his research on materialist philosophy and the relationship between ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and Karl Marx. Drawing on his ecological work, particularly Marx’s Ecology, Foster defends historical materialism as fundamental to a rational, scientific worldview, against proponents of Intelligent Design and other non-materialist ideologies.
Foster's book The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020) won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for that year. In the book, 'Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Friedrich Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Jay Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism.'
Bibliography
The Vulnerable Planet (1999)
Marx's Ecology (2000)
Ecology Against Capitalism (2002)
The Ecological Revolution (2009)
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism (2014)
Foster, J.B., B. Clark, and R. York (2010) The Ecological Rift
Foster, J.B. and R.W. McChesney (2012) The Endless Crisis
Foster, J.B. and P. Burkett (2016) Marx and the Earth
Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce (2017)
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020)
Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution (2022)
Articles, lectures, and interviews
1999. Marx's theory of metabolic rift: classical foundations for environmental sociology. American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405. DOI: 10.1086/210315
2016. Marxism in the Anthropocene: dialectical rifts on the Left. International Critical Thought 6(3):393-421. DOI: 10.1080/21598282.2016.1197787
See also
Eco-socialism
Environmental sociology
Metabolic rift
Social metabolism
References
External links
John Bellamy Foster's personal website
Further reading
1953 births
Living people
American economics writers
American male essayists
American essayists
American magazine editors
American Marxists
American political writers
American socialists
American sociologists
Ecosocialists
Environmental sociologists
Marxist theorists
American Marxist writers
Deutscher Memorial Prize winners
Anti-consumerists
University of Oregon faculty
American non-fiction environmental writers
Evergreen State College faculty
Evergreen State College alumni
York University alumni
Educators from Seattle
Writers from Seattle
Imperialism studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bellamy%20Foster |
Finneidfjord is a small village in the municipality of Hemnes in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on a small isthmus, about halfway between the villages of Hemnesberget and Bjerka. The European route E6 highway and the Nordland Line pass through the village.
The village has a population (2011) of 392. The population density is .
References
Hemnes
Villages in Nordland
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finneidfjord |
Bjerka is a village in the municipality of Hemnes in Nordland county, Norway. It is located along the European route E6 highway and the Nordland Line, about southeast of Hemnesberget and about north of the municipal center of Korgen.
The village has a population (2018) of 473 and a population density of .
References
Hemnes
Villages in Nordland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjerka |
Aldert van der Ziel (12 December 1910, Zandeweer – 20 January 1991, Minneapolis), was a Dutch physicist who studied electronic noise processes in materials such as semiconductors and metals.
Biography
Aldert van der Ziel was a pioneering researcher into the phenomenon of flicker noise in physical electronics. He published 15 books and more than 500 scientific papers. He was also a writer on Christianity, particularly the relationship between science and religion. Van der Ziel belonged to a conservative Lutheran church.
Van der Ziel obtained a Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of Groningen. He worked at Philips in Eindhoven until 1947. In 1947 he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and moved to the University of Minnesota in 1950 to become professor of electrical engineering. He was also associated, later, with the University of Florida at Gainesville. Aldert van der Ziel was elected in 1978 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to the study of noise in electron devices and contributions to graduate education.
The IEEE has an award named after Aldert van der Ziel, which is given during the biennial International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS) sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, for "a distinguished career in education and research". Past recipients are Lester Eastmann, Herbert Kroemer (Nobel Prize in Physics winner), Michael Shur, Marvin H. White, James D. Plummer, Ben Streetman, Mark Lundstrom and Tsu-Jae King Liu.
Awards
1956: IEEE Fellow
1975: Honorary doctorate, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
1978: National Academy of Engineering
1980: IEEE Education Medal
1981: Honorary doctorate, University of Eindhoven
Bibliography
Books
Noise (Prentice-Hall electrical engineering series), Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall (1954)
Solid State Physical Electronics 2nd Ed, Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall (1968)
Noise in Measurements, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (1976)
Nonlinear Electronic Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. John Wiley & Sons Inc (1977)
Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. Wiley-Interscience (1986)
The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message, Aldert Van der Ziel, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated (1976)
Genesis and Scientific Inquiry, Aldert Van der Ziel, T. S. Denison & Company, Incorporated (1965) Library of Congress 65-19103
Selected papers
: One of the described topics quantum 1/f noise is now controversial.
References
Further reading
External links
A creationist viewpoint on van der Ziel's beliefs
1910 births
1991 deaths
20th-century Dutch physicists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Evangelical Lutheran Church Christians from the Netherlands
Christian writers
People from Eemsmond
University of Groningen alumni
Van Der Ziel, Aldert
20th-century Lutherans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldert%20van%20der%20Ziel |
Hemnesberget is a village in the municipality of Hemnes in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the Hemnes peninsula which lies on the south side of the Ranfjorden. Hemnes Church is located in this village.
The village has a population (2018) of 1,259 and a population density of .
World War II
The village was partially destroyed in the land fighting first and the later by naval gunfire, with the sinking of the Hurtigruten ship and the coaster , in the days following 10 May 1940. The fighting occurred when Hemnesberget became the objective of a German operation to bypass Allied strong points during the Norwegian Campaign, codenamed Wildente.
Notable people
References
Hemnes
Villages in Nordland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemnesberget |
The Sejong the Great-class destroyers (Sejongdaewang-Geup Guchukam or Hangul: 세종대왕급 구축함, Hanja: 世宗大王級驅逐艦), also known as KDX-III, are three guided-missile destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN).
Hull name
On 20 April 2007, South Korean Chief of Naval Operations announced that the lead ship of KDX-III class destroyers will be referred to as Sejong the Great. Sejong the Great (Hangul: 세종대왕) is the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. He is credited with the creation of the indigenous Korean system of writing.
Background
The Sejong the Great class is the third phase of the South Korean navy's Korean Destroyer eXperimental (KDX) program, a substantial shipbuilding program, which is geared toward enhancing ROKN's ability to successfully defend the maritime areas around South Korea from various modes of threats as well as becoming a blue-water navy.
At 8,500 tons standard displacement and 11,000 tons full load, the KDX-III Sejong the Great destroyers are the largest destroyers in the South Korean Navy and larger than most destroyers in the navies of other countries. They are built slightly bulkier and heavier than s or s to accommodate 32 more missiles. As such, some analysts believe that this class of ships is more appropriately termed a class of cruisers rather than destroyers. KDX-III are currently the largest ships to carry the Aegis combat system.
Armaments
Sejong the Great-class destroyers' main gun is the 127 mm/L62 Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun, an improved version of the same gun used on other warships from several other nations. Point-defense armaments include one 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS and a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Block 1 21-round launcher, the first Aegis platform to carry RAM. Anti-aircraft armament consists of SM-2 Block IIIA and IIIB in 80 total Mk 41 VLS cells. Block IIIB has added infrared (IR) induction mode to Block IIIA, improving interception capability.
Anti-submarine warfare armaments consists of both K-ASROC Hong Sang-uh (Red Shark) anti-submarine rockets, which have the same form as the U.S. ASROC, and 32 K745 LW Cheong Sang-uh (Blue Shark) torpedoes. Anti-ship capability is provided by 16 SSM-700K Hae Sung (Sea Star) long-range anti-ship missiles, each with performance similar to the U.S. Harpoon. It is equipped on a navy ship that is built after the late KDX-II destroyers. Land-attack capability is provided by the Hyunmoo III cruise missile.
Missile batteries
Vertical Launching System: 128 total cells
Mk 41 VLS 48 cells (Fwd)
Mk 41 VLS 32 cells (Aft)
K-VLS 48 cells (Aft)
Anti-ship missile launchers:
16 (4 × quadruple) launchers
Capabilities
The ship features the Aegis Combat System (Baseline 7 Phase 1) combined with AN/SPY-1D(V) multi-function radar antennae. This gives the destroyers the ability to track missiles launched from anywhere in North Korea. This capability was demonstrated by the tracking of a North Korean missile in April 2009.
The Sejong the Great-class destroyers are often compared to the Arleigh Burke and Atago classes because they utilize the AN/SPY-1D multi-function radar, and have similar propulsion and capabilities. One notable difference between the Sejong the Great-class ships and Arleigh Burkes is the number of VLS cells. Destroyers of the Sejong the Great class have a capacity of 128 missiles, as opposed to 96 on the Arleigh Burke class and the Japanese Atago-class destroyers. The Sejong the Great class is thus one of the most heavily armed ships in the world, with greater missile capacity than the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Type 055 destroyer (112 VLS cells). The Sejong the Great class is surpassed in VLS depth only by the with 352 missiles (entire missile load).
Another similarity to Arleigh Burke Flight IIA and Atago-class destroyers is the presence of full facilities for two helicopters, a feature missing from earlier Arleigh Burke and s.
BMD
In August 2016, press reports revealed that South Korea was considering adding the SM-3 interceptor to its Sejong the Great-class ships to enable them to perform ballistic missile defense in response to North Korean efforts to bolster offensive missile capabilities. This came months after the U.S. decision to deploy the THAAD missile interceptor system on mainland South Korea. The addition of SM-3s to the ships may require software and computer hardware upgrades. The following month, Aegis manufacturer Lockheed Martin confirmed the next three Sejong the Great vessels will be capable of performing "integrated air and missile defense" (IAMD) to supplement U.S. Army ground-based missile interceptors on the peninsula, likely being outfitted with the SM-3. While the first three destroyers are fitted with Aegis Baseline 7 based on older proprietary computers that can't carry out IAMD operations, the following three will be fitted with the Baseline 9 version of the Aegis Combat System that combines modern computing architecture to allow the AN/SPY-1D(V) radar to perform air warfare and BMD missions at the same time.
Ships in the class
On 10 October 2019, HHI signed a deal to build the first of three 170m long, KDX-III Batch II Aegis destroyers for the Republic of Korea Navy. The Sejong the Great class is KDX-III Batch-I, and Korean Navy is planning 3 ships of KDX-III Batch-II. Under the deal, HHI will deliver the first ship by November 2024.
See also
List of naval ship classes in service
List of active Republic of Korea Navy ships
References
External links
KDX-III Destroyer
KDX-III armaments
Destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy
Destroyer classes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong%20the%20Great-class%20destroyer |
Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 13 November 1953) is an English actress, best known for her role in the television series Secret Army (1977–1979). She is also known as Juliet Hammond.
Early life
Hammond-Hill was born in St Pancras, London, the daughter of Peter Hammond Hill, an actor, and Maureen Glynne-West, who had married at Westminster in 1948. She was the eldest in a family of five, with a sister and three brothers.
She trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy and later gained a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education in the performing arts from the University of Greenwich.
Career
Hammond-Hill came to national attention in 1977 as Natalie Chantrens in the BBC television drama series Secret Army (1977–1979), with a central role in all three years of the programme. In 1980, she played Madeline Bray and other parts in the first Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, staged at the Aldwych Theatre.
Several new screen roles came to Hammond-Hill in 1981, including Kessler, a sequel to Secret Army set in about 1980, for which she had to age more than thirty years. She was the ominous Miss Hawk in eight episodes of the BBC serial for children Dark Towers, appeared as a German terrorist, Irene Kohl, in the thriller serial Blood Money and had a guest part in Blake's 7, playing the telekinetic Pella in the episode ”Power”. At the end of the year, while pregnant with her daughter, she appeared opposite David Bowie as Emilie in the television version of Bertholt Brecht's Baal, first broadcast in March 1982.
In 1983, Hammond-Hill was cast in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, playing Miranda Davenport, an antique dealer who dates Del Trotter. From then on, she worked as Juliet Hammond, the first such credit being in the television movie The Balance of Nature (1983).
Later work included parts in The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984), Playing the Ace (1986), and Ping Pong (1986), in which Hammond played the mistress of a Chinese man who has died in mysterious circumstances.
Since the 1990s, Hammond has taught drama students and directed plays, mostly in Brighton. She now spells her name Juliette Hammond.
Personal life
In 1977, Hammond-Hill married Mark Burgin in Fulham. A daughter born in 1982 was registered with the names Hammond-Hill and Constantinou. She later lived with Toby Parsons, a construction worker/fine artist, at Burgess Hill, West Sussex.
References
External links
Juliet Hammond at British Film Institute
1953 births
Living people
English television actresses
Actresses from London
People from St Pancras, London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet%20Hammond-Hill |
The Alliance (), formerly the Alliance for Sweden (), was a centre-right liberal-conservative political alliance in Sweden. The Alliance consisted of the four centre-right political parties in the Riksdag. The Alliance was formed while in opposition, and later achieved a majority government in the 2006 general election and a minority government in the 2010 general election, governing Sweden from 2006 to 2014 with Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party serving as Prime Minister of Sweden until 2014. The Alliance was co-chaired by every component party's individual leaders.
After defeat in the 2014 Swedish general election, the Moderate Party's parliamentary group leader Anna Kinberg Batra announced to the Riksdag that the political alliance "would operate in opposition". On 11 January 2019, during the 2018–2019 Swedish government formation, the Centre Party and Liberals agreed to tolerate the re-election as Prime Minister of Social Democratic incumbent Stefan Löfven. Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson and Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch denounced the agreement, with Busch calling the Alliance "a closed chapter".
Members
The Alliance consisted of the four centre-right (, lit. "bourgeois") parties in the Riksdag (Sweden's parliament). The members were:
The Moderate Party (M), a liberal conservative party.
The Centre Party (C), a liberal, former agrarian party.
The Christian Democrats (KD), a Christian democratic party.
The Liberals (L, formerly the Liberal People's Party), a liberal party.
History
Swedish politics had been dominated by the Social Democratic Party for over 70 years. They had been in government for all but nine years since 1932 (summer of 1936, 1976–1982, 1991–1994). The opposition parties decided that this was partly because they did not present a clear and viable alternative government. At a 2004 meeting held in the Centre Party leader Maud Olofsson's home in the village of Högfors, the four centre-right leaders at the time; Göran Hägglund (KD), Lars Leijonborg (L), Maud Olofsson (C) and Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) decided to form the political cooperation that would become The Alliance. The meeting ended on 31 August 2004 with the presentation of a joint declaration outlining the principles under which the four parties intended to fight the election. A year later a similar meeting was held at Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund's home in Bankeryd, resulting in the affirmation of the alliance and another declaration.
Aims and policies
The centre-right Alliance for Sweden aimed to win a majority of seats in the 2006 Riksdag elections and to form a coalition government.
In order to do this, the member parties decided to issue common policy statements and to draft a joint election manifesto. Each individual party still had its own manifesto and policies, but these would build up from common proposals in the Alliance's joint proposals. The Alliance had policy working groups for six areas: economic policy, education policy, foreign policy, the welfare state, employment and business policy, and policing. These were not set according to party size, but with one senior politician (often an MP) and one staff per party, and following the idea that "everybody contributes and everybody gains".
An example of this policy cooperation was the budget proposal that the Alliance parties put forward on 2 October 2005. The core proposal was a tax cut of 49 billion Swedish kronor, which is 1.9% of GDP and 3.3% of the total income of the public sector in 2005. Each individual party also proposed its own policies in addition. For example, the Liberals wanted to spend 1bn kronor extra on tertiary education and the Christian Democrats want to have more benefits and tax deductions for families.
On 14 June 2006 Alliance for Sweden agreed on a common energy policy which would apply over the next parliamentary term (2006–2010), and included a promise not to shut down any more nuclear reactors during that period (Barsebäck 2 was shut down in 2005). The proposal was that no more reactors were to be built, that the nuclear phase-out law would be repealed and that all forms of energy research would be legal and able to receive state grants (research on nuclear power is currently forbidden in Sweden). An Alliance government would also grant any applications to increase the output of the existing plants, provided that it would be safe to do so. This has been hailed as a historic step, as disagreement over nuclear power has long plagued the centre-right in Sweden: the Centre Party opposes nuclear power, the Moderates and Christian Democrats support its continuing operation while the Liberals want to build more reactors. Some doubts were raised about the long-term survival of this compromise, as neither the Centre Party nor the Liberals have changed their fundamental positions on nuclear power.
On 5 July 2006, during the politics week at Almedalen on Gotland, the Alliance parties announced a plan to abolish property tax. Their agreement promised to freeze taxable values at the current level (so that the revaluation that was being carried out would not apply), and to reduce the rate of tax on apartments from 0.5% to 0.4% of their taxable value. A ceiling of 5,000 kronor would also be imposed on the taxation of the value of a house's plot. The parties also agreed on the abolition of the tax and its replacement with a municipal charge independent of the value of the property; this reform was planned to be carried out in 2008. Property tax is estimated to bring in 28.1 billion kronor in 2006, rising to 30.2bn in 2007 and 32.2bn in 2008 (as taxable values rise). The first stage of the Alliance's plan (freezing property values, capping the tax on land value and reducing the rate for apartments) is estimated to cost around 4-5 billion kronor. The financing of this was to be revealed in the Alliance's manifesto in August 2006.
Alliance for Sweden released its election manifesto, entitled More people in work - more to share (), on 23 August 2006.
The result of the election was clear enough on election night for Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt to declare himself the victor and for Göran Persson to announce his resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party. The four centre-right parties of Alliance for Sweden formed a government with Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister, which was presented to the Riksdag on 6 October.
In government (2006–2014)
Minister for Finance Anders Borg presented the government's first budget on 16 October 2006. The budget contains many of the proposals that were prominent in the Alliance's election campaign: both the job deduction in the income tax, which will also be larger for old people to encourage them to remain in the labour market, and the "fresh start jobs" with reduced payroll tax for companies employing people who have been unemployed for more than a year will come into effect from 1 January 2007. Tax reductions for companies hiring young people and for domestic services are to come into effect on 1 July. The tax reductions announced in the budget total 42 billion Swedish kronor, of which the income tax deduction is 38.7 billion. Other changes include the ending of employers' co-financing of sickness benefit after the second week, reduction of unemployment benefits and considerably raised fees to unemployment funds, resulting in a substantial decline in union density and density of unemployment funds. Unemployment benefit would remain 80% of previous pay for 200 days then drop to 70%. Benefit would be payable for a maximum of 300 days, or 450 if the recipient has children.
List of party leaders
Electoral history
The parties had previously formed a centre-right minority coalition government in 1991 with the support of the right-wing populist party New Democracy. After the coalition was defeated in the 1994 election, the Centre-Right Parties coalition was dissolved but the centre-right opposition parties continued to work together. In 2004, the four parties which formed the Centre-Right Parties in 1991, the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and Christian Democrats wanted to collaborate again, so they founded The Alliance as a new coalition of the centre-right parties.
Parliament (Riksdag)
European Parliament
See also
Red-Greens (Sweden)
References
External links
Official website of the government of Sweden
Fler i arbete - mer att dela på - the Alliance's joint manifesto
Putting Sweden to work - a good deal for all - the budget for 2007
2004 establishments in Sweden
2019 disestablishments in Sweden
Centre-right politics
Coalition governments
Political party alliances in Sweden
2004 in politics
Liberal conservatism
Liberalism in Sweden
Conservatism in Sweden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20%28Sweden%29 |
is a shooter game for the Super NES, developed and published by Irem in 1991. It is a partial port of R-Type II, borrowing stages and enemies, but introducing several of its own. The game has been re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan, North America and PAL regions in 2008.
Gameplay
Super R-Type borrows four stages from R-Type II and adds three new ones. The game is known for its high difficulty (even compared to other games in the series), particularly because of its lack of checkpoints, since dying means restarting the level from scratch. Also, this game suffers from slowdown, which was also a problem in many early games for this system. But unlike the others Super R-Type slows down to a virtual standstill when there are many things on-screen. However, this proved useful for players when there were many obstacles on-screen because it was easier to avoid them.
Reception
Entertainment Weekly picked the game as the #2 greatest game available in 1991, saying: "The space-shooting R-Type game has been evolving over the last several years; this latest incarnation is the most graphically overpowering yet. Players pilot a ship through the deep cosmos, picking up various supercharged weapons along the way and squaring off against some extraordinarily detailed aliens, which look like illustrations from classic pulp sci-fi magazines of the 1930s."
French gaming magazine gave the game a score of 87%, praising the game's "magnificent" graphics and calling the ship's maneuverability "exemplary", they did however criticize the fact that the action "slowed down clearly when there are a lot of sprites on screen".
Super Gamer gave a review score of 74% stating: "It looks brilliant and plays well, but while graphical slowdown isn’t that bad, going back to the start of the level whenever you die soon becomes tedious."
Re-releases
On March 14, 2008, the game was released on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console service in Europe and Australia. The game was made available on the Virtual Console in North America on March 17, 2008. However, it was removed from the Virtual Console on March 30, 2012 in North America and on March 31, 2012 in Europe.
Notes
References
1991 video games
R-Type
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Hiroshi Kimura
Video games scored by Takushi Hiyamuta
Video games scored by Yasuhiro Kawakami
Video games set in the 22nd century
Virtual Console games
Irem games
Horizontally scrolling shooters
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
ja:R-TYPE II#移殖版 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20R-Type |
Tana bru () is the administrative centre of Deatnu-Tana Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies on the western bank of the Tana River, along the European route E6 highway.
The village has a population (2017) of 728 which gives the village a population density of .
The village is named "Tana bru" which means "Tana Bridge" in Norwegian, and the actual Tana Bridge (on the E6 highway) crosses the river at this village, connecting Tana bru to the village of Skiippagurra on the other side of the river.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Tana, Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tana%20bru |
Nordvågen is a small fishing village in Nordkapp Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern coast of the island of Magerøya about northeast of the town of Honningsvåg, along the Porsangerfjorden. The abandoned village of Kjelvik lies about northeast of Nordvågen. The village has a fish processing plant. The village has a population (2017) of 441 which gives the village a population density of .
References
External links
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Magerøya
Nordkapp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordv%C3%A5gen |
Sørvær is a fishing village in Hasvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the western tip of the island of Sørøya, looking out across the Lopphavet Sea. Sørvær Chapel is located in this village. The village sits at the northern end of Norwegian County Road 822, about west of the municipal centre of Breivikbotn. The small village of Breivik lies about halfway along the road to Breivikbotn. In 2015, there were about 200 people who lived in Sørvær.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Hasvik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rv%C3%A6r%2C%20Finnmark |
The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwestern United States and portions of central and eastern Canada, hitting hardest in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, southern Ontario, and southern Quebec dumping as much as of snow in many areas. Chicago received a recorded . The storm hit just after New Year's Day, between January 2 and January 4, 1999. Travel was severely disrupted throughout the areas and the cities of Chicago and Toronto were also paralyzed. Additionally, record low temperatures were measured in many towns in the days immediately after the storm (January 4 – January 8).
The storm
The storm produced of snow in Chicago and was rated by the National Weather Service as the second worst blizzard to hit Chicago in the 20th century, after the Blizzard of 1967. Soon after the snow ended, record low temperatures occurred with values of or lower in parts of Illinois and surrounding states on January 3 and 4, including a handful of daily minimum temperatures around on January 4 in the area of heaviest accumulation.
The areas with the heaviest snows, or more, included central and northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, central and northern Indiana, southern Michigan, northern Ohio, and southeast Canada. The storm also traveled across southern Ontario dumping about of snow throughout the entire Quebec City-Windsor Corridor.
South of the snow line, the storm produced a significant ice storm across western New York, near the Rochester region and the Genesee Valley where numerous power failures were reported.
Snowfall totals
Lake effect winds off Lake Michigan, unusual for the Chicago shoreline, resulted in enhanced snowfall for communities within about of the lake. Chicago and its northern suburbs received between of snow. Chicago broke a one-day snowfall record with falling on January 2. The total snowfall figures are below:
South Haven, MI:
Chicago/O'Hare, IL:
Chicago/Midway, IL:
Slinger, WI:
Galesburg, IL:
Barrington, IL:
Lake Villa, IL:
Chatsworth, IL:
Dixon, IL:
Mount Clemens, MI:
Toronto, ON:
Portage, IN:
Glenwood, IL:
Olympia Fields, IL:
Brookfield, IL:
LaGrange Park, IL:
Remington, IN:
Aurora, IL:
Crestwood, IL:
Bloomington/Normal, IL:
Algonquin, IL:
Bourbonnais, IL:
Streamwood, IL:
Lafayette, IN:
Orland Park, IL:
Rochester, MI:
Channahon, IL:
Coal City, IL:
Fairbury, IL:
Geneva, IL:
DeKalb, IL:
Valparaiso, IN:
Willow Springs, IL:
Detroit, MI:
Earlville, IL:
Monticello, IN:
Naperville, IL:
Ottawa, ON:
Mundelein, IL:
Compton, IL:
Rochelle, IL:
Harvard, IL:
Rockford, IL:
Flint, MI:
Impact
Midwest airports were closed, some for several days. Thousands of flights were canceled. Detroit Metro (DTW) was one of the most severely impacted airports. Thousands of passengers traveling on Northwest Airlines (NWA) were stranded for hours. In 2001, NWA agreed to pay more than $7 million in compensation to stranded passengers. Some passengers spent more than eight and a half hours in their planes after arriving at DTW.
In southern Ontario, Toronto Pearson International Airport was shut down, while numerous flights from Ottawa International Airport were canceled. A series of additional snowstorms over the next 10 days gave Toronto a total of , a record monthly total for the month of January, prompting then-mayor Mel Lastman to infamously call in the Canadian Army to assist the snow removal with the city at a near standstill. As a result, the mayor and city, through the media endured ridicule from other parts of Canada more prone to such high snowfall amounts. The series of storms that hit Toronto were severe enough to be the winter Storm of the Century despite the fact they were more than one storm.
Rail service was halted or delayed, and highways were impassable. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago was closed for the first time ever. 300 of the Chicago Transit Authority’s 2600-series cars went out of service. Stranded travellers were accommodated in emergency shelters. The bitterly cold temperatures created large ice floes on the inland waterways, causing shipping delays.
Schools were closed for several days, and many businesses were closed as well. Of those that were able to remain open, stores selling snow removal equipment were doing a booming business.
There was also a nationwide blood shortage since a high proportion of blood donations come from the Midwest and many could not make it to the hospital and donate during the storm or during the subsequent cold snap.
In much of Northwest Indiana, blackouts occurred for days at a time. Porter County was without electricity for about 3 days total. Local buildings, such as schools, offered generator-powered heat in their auditoriums.
The costs
Human cost: 78 people perished in the storm. The breakdown of deaths is as follows:
39 auto-related deaths
5 snowmobile-related deaths
32 deaths from over-exertion and heart attacks primarily due to shoveling snow
2 froze to death
Financial cost: Losses as a result of the storm are estimated between $300 and $400 million.
Federal aid: 45 counties in Illinois and some areas of Indiana were declared federal disaster areas by President Bill Clinton and eligible to receive federal aid.
See also
List of Regional Snowfall Index Category 4 winter storms
References
External links
National Climatic Data Center Storm Summary
Blizzards in Canada
Blizzards in the United States
1999 meteorology
1999 natural disasters
1999 natural disasters in the United States
1999 disasters in Canada
Natural disasters in Illinois
Natural disasters in Indiana
Natural disasters in Iowa
Natural disasters in Michigan
Natural disasters in Ohio
Natural disasters in Ontario
Natural disasters in Quebec
Natural disasters in Wisconsin
January 1999 events in North America
1999 in Ontario
1999 in Quebec | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20blizzard%20of%201999 |
Breivikbotn is the administrative centre of Hasvik Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is an old trading post and fishing village that is located on the western end of the island of Sørøya, looking out across the Lopphavet Sea. The village lies along Norwegian County Road 822 in the central part of the municipality. The village of Hasvik lies about to the south, the former village of Dønnesfjord lies about to the northeast, and the village of Sørvær lies about to the west.
The village has a population (2017) of 320 which gives the village a population density of . Breivikbotn Chapel is located in this village as well as much of the commercial activity in the municipality.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway
Hasvik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breivikbotn |
Kiberg () is a village in Vardø Municipality in eastern Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on the eastern end of the Varanger Peninsula, along the Barents Sea. Kiberg is the second largest settlement in Vardø municipality. It is situated about southwest of the municipal centre, the town of Vardø. Kibergsneset (Cape Kiberg) is the easternmost spot on the Norwegian mainland, and it is located just east of the village. The village has a population (2013) of 202, which gives the village a population density of .
History
Witch Burning
Two women from Kiberg, Mari Jørgensdatter and Kirsti Sørensdatter, were burned at the stake during the 1621 witch trials in Vardø. The Scottish-born governor of Vardø, John Cunningham (ca. 1575 - 1651), also known as Hans Køning, was present in court during the hearing against Mari Jørgensdatter on 29 January 1621 and at the trial of Kirsti Sørensdatter on 16 and 28 April. When Kirsti Sørensdatter was burned alive, a couple of months after ten other women had been burnt for sorcery, she became the last victim of the great witch trial of 1621.
Pomor trade
During the days of the Pomor trade, which was ended as a result of changes ushered in by the Russian revolution in 1917, Kiberg was a centre of Russian activity, to such as extent that the village was called "Lille Moskva" (Little Moscow).
World War Two
In World War Two, forty-five men from the village served in the Soviet military forces. Eighteen of these partisans survived the war, and seventeen returned to the village.
On 25 September 1940, a few months after Germany occupied Norway, three fishing boats left Kiberg harbour in dense fog for the Soviet Union with forty-eight passerngers on board, including small children. When they reached Vayda-Guba, they were met by Soviet navy vessels and brought to the navy base in Polyarny, where they were questioned by the NKVD about their motives for coming to the Soviet Union. After a few weeks, they were freed and sent to Murmansk. The men had agreed to enroll in the Northern Fleet or the NKVD, while the women and children were sent on to Shadrinsk to work on a state farm. Others soon followed these refugees. In all, more than 100 people fled occupied Finnmark for the Soviet Union in 1940.
After the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, some of these refugees returned to Norway to serve as partisans, reporting on German shipping movements.
Most of the partisans were killed by the Germans, especially in 1943, but some survived. (One of those was Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff, who has a second claim to fame—in 1953, he and his brother encountered and shot the last polar bear seen in Finnmark, at Lille Ekkerøy.
Because they had been involved with the Soviet Union, the surviving partisans and their helpers were treated as suspicious by the Norwegian surveillance police during the Cold War. In 1992, the Norwegian King apologized to them on behalf of the state.
References
Vardø
Villages in Finnmark
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiberg |
or is a village area in the Tverrelvdalen valley in Alta Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is a suburb to the southeast of the town of Alta. The river Tverrelva runs through the valley and village area. The village has a population (2017) of 430 which gives the village a population density of . The Tverrelvdalen IL sports club is based here.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Alta, Norway
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tverrelvdalen |
or is a village in Alta Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village sits at the southeast end of the Altafjorden, along the European route E6 highway, about northeast of the town of Alta. The name comes from the Sami place name which means a clay seabed. The village has a population (2017) of 408 which gives the village a population density of . Rafsbotn has a ski slope and Rafsbotn Chapel.
References
Villages in Finnmark
Alta, Norway
Populated places of Arctic Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafsbotn |
Aydıncık is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 352 km2, and its population is 11,468 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coast, from Mersin and from Antalya.
Aydıncık has also been called in Armenian Կելենդերիդա, and Gilindire, from Kelenderis ().
This remote coastline is mostly unspoilt and 38 kilometers long, including some sandy beach, and the town of Aydıncık is spread along the coast near a small point, Sancak Burnu.
History
Aydıncık is the site of the ancient Greek Celenderis, a port and fortress in ancient Cilicia and later Isauria. It was one of the best harbours of this coast in ancient times and also a very strong defensive position. Artemidorus, with other geographers, considered this place, as the commencement of Cilicia. There must have been earlier settlement going back to the Hittites and Assyrians but so far no evidence has been uncovered.
According to legend the city was founded by Sandocus, a grandson of Phaethon, who emigrated here from Syria. He married Pharnace, the princess of Hyria. Their son Cinyras founded Paphos. Historians reported that the city was indeed a Phoenician settlement, later expanded by an Ionian colony from Samos. Excavations carried out since 1986 have revealed findings going back to the 8th century B.C. when the Samians arrived.
The city thrived during the 4th and 5th centuries BC. It was a stop on the shipping lanes between the Aegean Sea to the west, Cyprus to the south, and Syria to the east. In the 450s B.C. the fleets of Athens passed by on their way to support rebellions against the Achaemenid Empire in Cyprus and Egypt. During this period Celenderis became the easternmost city to pay tribute to the Athenian-led Delian league. Payments were only made from 460 B.C. to 454 B.C. before Athens abandoned both campaigns and accepted a peace agreement which left Celenderis in the Achaemenid-allied Kingdom of Cilicia.
During the Hellenistic era (1st century BC) Celenderis was in a political coalition with the kingdom of the Ptolemys of Egypt, and faced severe difficulties from piracy. This problem persisted until Ancient Rome took military actions against the pirates, and Celenderis enjoyed a second period of wealth as the Romans secured the Mediterranean trade routes. They built a city around the port with villas, palaces, waterworks, and baths.
During the Middle Ages, the grandeur persisted as the city was controlled by Byzantium, and in the 11th century the Armenians.
In 1228, Celenderis castle was captured from the Armenians by the Karamanoğlu Beylik and the coast was settled by Turkish peoples. The town's name mutated to Gilindere and it continued to be an important port between Anatolia and Cyprus until the beginning of the twentieth century. It was renamed Aydıncık in 1965.
Celenderis Coins
The town gave name to a region called Celenderitis, and coined those silver tetradrachms, which supply some of the earliest and finest specimens of the numismatic art. There are also coins of the Syrian kings, and of the later Roman emperors.
Places of interest
The remains of ancient Celenderis are very few and the ruins today are mostly overlaid by the expanding modern Aydıncık. Fortifications may still be detected around the modern lighthouse on the small promontory which forms and commands the harbor.
There is a landlocked bay with its famous spring 1.6 km to the west at Soguksu. Here there are ancient ruins, notably a bath at the head of the bay and archaeological debris on the peninsula at its mouth. There are handsome but much destroyed rock-cut tombs at Duruhan 9.6 km to the North.
In 2002, remains of a 2400-year-old harbor was discovered underwater around the island Yılanlı Island.
The Port Bath
It was most probably built during fourth or fifth centuries AD. The castle on the point and the theater apparently belong to the Roman era.
Tombs
In the graveyards of the city, rock graves, vaulted graves and pyramid-roofed monumental graves can be seen spanning a period from the sixth millennium B.C. up to the fourth century. The majority of the items displayed at the museum are from these graves.
Floor Mosaic
The mosaic discovered near the port in 1992 is an exceptional example in depicting the panorama of the city as it stood in the fifth century.
The Dörtayak Cenotaph
There is a large Roman Cenotaph with four columns from the 2nd century. It was marked as a CENOTAPH (a monument erected as a memorial to a dead person or dead people buried elsewhere, especially people killed fighting a war) on the map of Chelindreh harbor prepared by Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort.
This is a tetrapylon made of well-cut limestones with a rectangular burial room on the lower part, four pylons erected on this and a pyramidal roof carried by the arches of the four pylons. This type is a common one in the Roma period and may be dated to the second half of the second or early third century AD.
Gilindire Cave
The cave of Gilindere is about an hour's ride along the coast by small boat, and is 555m of attractive stone and crystal formations.
Composition
There are 15 neighbourhoods in Aydıncık District:
Atatürk
Cumhuriyet
Duruhan
Eskiyürük
Hacıbahattin
Hürriyet
Karadere
Karaseki
Merkez
Pembecik
Teknecik
Yeni
Yenikaş
Yeniyürük
Yeniyürükkaş
References
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister)Princeton University Press, 1976.
Günaydın, Kelenderis, Mustafa Yalçıner, 2004.
Reference article in Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)] (12.66)
Reference article in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)] (11.91)
Reference article written by S. Pétridès. Transcribed by Gerald M. Knight.
Karamania, Sir Francis Beaufort
L. Zoroğlu (1994) Kelenderis I, Kaynaklar, Kalıntılar, Buluntlar (Kelendris I, Sources Remains and Finds), Ankara
External links
District governor's official website
Map of Aydıncık and its environs
Populated places in Aydıncık District, Mersin
Populated coastal places in Turkey
Districts of Mersin Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayd%C4%B1nc%C4%B1k%2C%20Mersin |
Sanistand was a female urinal manufactured by Japanese toilet maker giant TOTO from 1951 to 1971 and marketed by American Standard from 1950 to 1973. It appeared in a bathroom in the National Stadium for female athletes during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The urinal encouraged women to urinate from a standing position, without the need to sit on a shared seat.
See also
Female urinal
Female urination device
Pollee
External links
TOTO Library article, March 20, 2000
TOTO Kids article on female urinals
Background Information on female urinals
Toilets
Products introduced in 1951
Urine
Urinals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanistand |
Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947) is an English actor now living in the United States.
UK career
Neame's UK film credits include appearances in two Hammer Horror films: Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Dracula AD 1972 (1972). He also appeared in No Blade of Grass (1970).
He appeared in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Sydney Wing in the episode entitled "The Secret of the Magnifique". In 1975 he played Kaiser Wilhelm II in the ITV 13-part drama series, Edward the Seventh.
He was featured in two BBC dramas dealing with the Second World War: as Lieutenant Dick Player in Colditz (1972–74), and as Flight Lieutenant John Curtis in the first season of the World War II drama, Secret Army (1977). In between those, in the TV film A Point in Time (1973), he became one of the first male actors to appear nude on the small screen.
Neame played the villain Skagra in the unfinished Doctor Who serial Shada in 1979. He provided his voice to complete the serial using animation in 2017. Neame made a guest appearance in another BBC period drama When the Boat Comes In in 1981 portraying Robin Cunningham. In 1983, he played Mark Antony in the BBC series The Cleopatras.
In addition, Neame produced some episodes of the 1990s drama series Soldier Soldier.
US career
Neame emigrated to the United States and has made frequent appearances in American films and television. He appeared in the films, Steel Dawn (1987), D.O.A. (1988), Bloodstone (1988), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989), Edge of Honor (1991), Suburban Commando (1991), Hellbound (1994), Ground Zero (2000) and The Prestige (2006).
He played a psycho killer in an episode of MacGyver in 1985, and appeared in The Great Escape II: The Untold Story. In 1989, he played the character Gustav Hellstrom, a Swedish businessman, in the 12th season of the TV series Dallas, appearing in 3 episodes: "Serpent's Tooth", "April Showers", "And Away We Go". He also appeared in a two-part story of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2004. In 1994, he portrayed "Knight Two" in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars". Neame is one of the few actors to have appeared in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, the Star Trek franchise, Babylon 5, and Earth 2. Other television appearances include Dynasty, The A-Team, Benson, Beauty and the Beast, Northern Exposure (1994), JAG (1995), and the two-part mini-series The Apocalypse Watch (1996). He also starred in the Showtime film Street Knight (1994) and he appeared as "The One" in the last two episodes of Martial Law (2000). He also played the main villain in the live-action cutscenes of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997). In 2018, he reunited with his Hammer film co-star Caroline Munro to appear in the film House of the Gorgon.
Filmography
No Blade of Grass (1970) - Locke
Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Hans
Dracula AD 1972 (1972) - Johnny Alucard
Benson (1985) season 7 episode 5 "We Spy" as Max Heimlich
Steel Dawn (1987) - Sho
D.O.A. (1988) - Bernard
Transformations (1988) - Calihan
Bloodstone (1988) - Van Hoeven
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) - Kiowski
Dynasty (1988-1989) - Hamilton Stone
Licence to Kill (1989) - Fallon
Ghostbusters II (1989) - Maitre D'
The Flash (1990 TV series)- Brian Gideon
The Radicals (1990) - Ulrich Zwingli
Edge of Honor (1991) - Blade
Suburban Commando (1991) - Commander
Diplomatic Immunity (1991) - Stefan Noll
Still Not Quite Human (1992) - Dr. Frederick Berrigon
Boris and Natasha (1992) - Fearless Leader
Irresistible Force (1993) - James Barron
Street Knight (1993) - James Franklin
Hellbound (1994) - Professor Malcolm Lockley \ Prosatanos
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (1997) - Jerec
Walking Thunder (1997) - Ansel Richter
Ground Zero (2000) - Andrew Donovan
Highway 395 (2000) - Klauss Hess
Special Ed (2005) - Dr. Davis
The Prestige (2006) - Defender
House of the Gorgon (2019) - Father Llewellyn
References
External links
1947 births
Living people
English male television actors
English male film actors
British expatriates in the United States
Male actors from London
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Neame |
Tillo or Aydınlar () is a town in the Tillo District of Siirt Province in Turkey. Its population is 2,022 (2022). The town is inhabited by Arabs and Kurds.
Etymology
The name of the town is derived from the .
Neighborhoods
Tillo is divided into the neighborhoods of Fakirullah, Mücahit and Saydanlar.
Demographics
The Arabs of the town belong to the tribes of Xālidiyya and Abbāsiyya who claim to have migrated to Tillo from Homs and Saudi Arabia about 700 and 400 years ago, respectively. Both tribes adhere to Shafi'i Islam and assumingly settled in the region as missionaries. The Kurds were followers of Ismail Faqirullah and Şeyh İbrahim El Mücahit and settled in Tillo as they wished to serve them there.
Linguistically, the Arab population, more or less, all speak Kurdish beside Arabic, while few Kurds know Arabic.
In recent decades, the Arab population has decreased to due migration to Istanbul, while the Kurdish population has steadily grown.
Population
Historic population figures of the town:
Gallery
References
Populated places in Siirt Province
Arab settlements in Siirt Province
Tillo District
District municipalities in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillo |
Ayrancı is a town in Karaman Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Ayrancı District. Its population is 2,292 (2022). Its elevation is .
History
The town of Ayrancı was among the numerous locations that imperial Ottoman and republican Turkish governments settled the incoming Crimean Tatars who were forced out of their homeland by the Russian Empire in late 19th and early 20th century. The town remained as a predominantly Crimean Tatar settlement in Central Anatolia until recently. The town was a part of Konya Province but became a part of Karaman with the creation of the Karaman Province.
References
External links
Municipality's official website
Ayrancı District
Populated places in Karaman Province
District municipalities in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayranc%C4%B1 |
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (May 24, 1925 – February 6, 2006) was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies.
Life and career
His father was a trumpet player, and his mother was a dancer. His brother was actor Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez (1922-2000). He left school at the age of seven to join a family act called "Las Perlitas" that toured southwest Texas. As a result, he was functionally illiterate for all of his life. As a result of his illiteracy, he memorized scripts by having his wife read them to him. Gonzalez Gonzalez married at the age of seventeen and served in the Army during World War II as a driver in the United States. After the war he performed stand-up comedy for Spanish-speaking audiences.
In 1953, he appeared on the Groucho Marx NBC television quiz show You Bet Your Life under the name Ramiro G. Gonzalez, where his banter with Marx attracted notice. Marx asked him: "What does the 'G' stand for?" to which he replied "Gonzalez", and explained that both his parents had been surnamed "Gonzalez" before being married. So Marx asked: "What does your wife call you: Ramiro or Gonzalez?" He replied "She calls me 'Pedro'", triggering rare laughter from Marx. After Gonzalez performed a 15-second comic dance to strong applause, Marx complimented his guest's comedic skill, saying: "Pedro, we could do a great act together. We could make a fortune in vaudeville, you and I. What -- what would we call our act, you know, if we went out together? 'The Two Hot Tamales'?" After Pedro deadpanned "Gonzalez Gonzalez and Marx", Marx made an aside: "That's nice billing. Two people in the act, and I get third place!"
John Wayne saw his appearance on the program and cast him as comic relief in a number of movies including The High and the Mighty, Rio Bravo and Hellfighters. He also made guest appearances in shows such as The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Gunsmoke and Wanted: Dead or Alive, as well as the Jerry Lewis film, Hook, Line & Sinker. Wayne also had Burt Kennedy write a TV series for Gonzalez Gonzalez that was never made.
Gonzalez Gonzalez played extra characters behind Mel Blanc in a number of Speedy Gonzales cartoons, including "A Taste of Catnip" and "Go Go Amigo," billed generally as Gonzalez Gonzalez.
As a result of playing comic relief roles, he was accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes about Hispanic men. However, Edward James Olmos said of Gonzalez Gonzalez at the time of his death that he "inspired every Latino actor."
He died at his home of natural causes, and was survived by his wife Leandra and three children.
He is the grandfather of actor Clifton Collins Jr.
Filmography
Film
Wings of the Hawk (1953) - Tomas
The High and the Mighty (1954) - Gonzales
Ring of Fear (1954) - Pedro Gonzales
Ricochet Romance (1954) - Manuel Gonzales
Strange Lady in Town (1955) - Trooper Martinez-Martinez
Bengazi (1955) - Kamal
I Died a Thousand Times (1955) - Chico
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) - Luis Romero
Gun the Man Down (1956) - Hotel man
Man in the Vault (1956) - Pedro
The Sheepman (1958) - Angelo
Rio Bravo (1959) - Carlos Robante
The Young Land (1959) - Deputy Santiago
Chili Corn Corny (1965, Short) - Crows (voice) (as Gonzales Gonzales)
Go Go Amigo (1965, Short) - Mouse (voice) (as Gonzales Gonzales)
Daffy Rents (1966, Short) - Dr. Ben Crazy (voice) (as Gonzales Gonzales)
A Taste of Catnip (1966, Short) - Dr. Mañuel Jose 'Olvera Sebastian Rudolfo Ortiz Pancho Jiminez Perez III (voice) (as Gonzales Gonzales)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) - Bandido
Hostile Guns (1967) - Angel Dominguez
Hellfighters (1968) - Hernando (uncredited)
The Love Bug (1968) - Mexican Driver
Hook, Line & Sinker (1969) - Perfecto
The Love God? (1969) - Jose - Jungle Guide (uncredited)
Chisum (1970) - Mexican Rancher
Zachariah (1971) - Pancho the Doorman (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) - Ortiz
Sixpack Annie (1975) - Carmello
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) - Mexican Protectionist
Charge of the Model T's (1977) - Sanchez
Dreamer (1979) - Too
There Goes the Bride (1980) - Mr. Ramirez
Flush (1982) - Miguelito
Lust in the Dust (1985) - Mexican, Hardcase Gang
Uphill All the Way (1986) - Chicken Carlos
Y... se hizo justicia (1986)
Ghost Writer (1989) - Mr. Carillo
Down the Drain (1990) - Amigo Rodriguez
Ruby Cairo (1992) - Uncle Jorge
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) - Landlord (final film role)
On the Set - Video Documentary Short for The High and the Mighty (2005)
Television
Telephone Time - episode "Felix the Fourth" - Félix de la Caridad Carvajal y Soto (1956)
The Sheriff of Cochise - episode "The Great Train Robbery" - Manuel Pollo (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie - episode "Ursula" - Manuel (1958)
The Texan - "Stampede" - Pedro Vasquez - (1959)
The Texan - "Showdown at Abilene" - Pedro Vasquez - (1959)
The Texan - "The Reluctant Bridegroom" - Pedro Vasquez - (1959)
The Texan - "Trouble on the Trail" - Pedro Vasquez - (1959)
Bonanza - episode "El Toro Grande" (1960)
Cheyenne - episode "Counterfeit Gun" - Hotel Clerk (uncredited) (1960)
Wanted: Dead or Alive - episode "Triple Vise" - Tomas (1960)
The Texan - "Lady Tenderfoot" - Pedro Martinez - (1960)
Wanted: Dead or Alive - episode "Baa-Baa" - Pedro Hernandaz (1961)
Wide Country - episode "Farewell to Margarita" - The Bus Driver (1963)
Gunsmoke - episode "The Quest for Asa Jahn" - Bartender (1963)
Perry Mason - episode "The Case of the Wednesday Woman" - 'Royce' Dell (1964)
Laredo - episode "The Treasure of San Diablo" - Gonzales (1966)
I Spy - episode "The Conquest of Maude Murdock" - Jaime (1966)
Rango - episode "In a Little Mexican Town" - Drunk (1967)
I Dream of Jeannie - episode "My Turned-On Master" - Pedro (1967)
Hondo - episode "Hondo and the Death Drive" - Sancho (1967)
The Monkees - episode "A Nice Place to Visit" - Lupe (1967)
Laredo - episode "Scourge of San Rosa" - Liveryman (1967)
Mayberry R.F.D. - episode "Sister Cities" - Santos (1969)
I Dream of Jeannie - episode "See You in C-U-B-A" - Jose (1969)
The MOD Squad - episode "Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break" - restaurant Owner (1969)
The Bill Cosby Show - episode "The Sesame Street Rumble" - Bob (1971)
Adam-12 - episode "Anniversary" - Rudolf Diaz (1971)
References
External links
Hollywood.com "Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez dies" 16 February 2006, retrieved 17 February 2006
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male Western (genre) film actors
United States Army personnel of World War II
Male actors from Texas
1925 births
2006 deaths
American male actors of Mexican descent
American people of Spanish descent
People from Webb County, Texas
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
20th-century American male actors
United States Army soldiers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Gonzalez%20Gonzalez |
Celedonio Espinosa Jr. is an Olympian, a Filipino boxer who competed in the 1954 Asian Games in Manila and took home the gold medal. He represented the Philippines in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and bagged the bronze medal in the 1958 Asian Games staged in Tokyo, Japan.
He once assumed the post of the Far Eastern University Boxing Team and also became a boxing coach, referee and judge.
References
Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Living people
People from Rizal
Olympic boxers for the Philippines
Year of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 1954 Asian Games
Boxers at the 1958 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines
Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines
Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
Filipino male boxers
Lightweight boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celedonio%20Espinosa |
Vikrambhai Arjanbhai Maadam Yadav (born 23 March 1958) was a member of the Lok Sabha of India for two terms, from 2004 to 2014. He represented the Jamnagar constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He lost 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Jamnagar to his niece Poonam Maadam of BJP.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1958 births
Living people
People from Jamnagar
Indian National Congress politicians
India MPs 2004–2009
India MPs 2009–2014
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikrambhai%20Arjanbhai%20Madam |
Virjibhai Thummar (born 31 May 1959) is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly of India. He represents the Lathi constituency and is a member of the Indian National Congress.
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
Indian National Congress politicians
India MPs 2004–2009
1959 births
Living people
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virjibhai%20Thummar |
Jivabhai Ambalal Patel (born 30 April 1938) is chairman of the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation, and an Indian politician. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha, representing the Mahesana parliamentary constituency of Gujarat from 2004 to 2009. He was defeated in 2009 and 2014 Indian general election and 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He left INC and joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in September 2018.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1938 births
Living people
Indian National Congress politicians
India MPs 2004–2009
People from Mehsana district
United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat
Former members of Indian National Congress from Gujarat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivabhai%20Ambalal%20Patel |
Dinsha Jhaverbhai Patel (born 25 May 1937) is an Indian National Congress politician who was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India.
He represented the Kheda constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He was the Union Cabinet Minister, Mines. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines (Independent Charge) from 19 Jan 2011 to 27 Sep 2012. He was also a Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Independent Charge) from May 2009 to 18 Jan 2011 and was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from 2006 to 2009. On 28 October 2012 he was given the responsibilities of Union Cabinet Minister, Mines.
Contesting against Modi
Patel was chosen by the Indian National Congress to contest against Narendra Modi on the Maninagar constituency in the 2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election.
His selection was based on his clean image and his Patel community background. He was selected after congress could not find any suitable candidate to oppose Narendra Modi. He was also being projected as the future Chief Minister of Gujarat. He lost the elections by more than 86, 000 votes.
In the previous elections he lost the assembly elections in the Nadiad constituency against Pankaj Desai, however he has won the Parliament elections since 1975 from Nadiad.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
Official website of Dinsha patel
Official Bio-data
Images of Dinsha Patel from The Hindu
1937 births
Living people
People from Kheda district
People from Nadiad
Indian National Congress politicians
India MPs 2004–2009
Union ministers of state of India
India MPs 2009–2014
Mining ministers of India
India MPs 1996–1997
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1999–2004
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
Gujarat MLAs 1975–1980
Gujarat MLAs 1980–1985
Gujarat MLAs 1985–1990
Gujarat MLAs 1990–1995
Gujarat MLAs 1995–1998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinsha%20Patel |
Bahşılı is a town in Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Bahşılı District. Its population is 6,045 (2022).
References
External links
Municipality's official website
Populated places in Kırıkkale Province
Bahşılı District
District municipalities in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C5%9F%C4%B1l%C4%B1 |
This is a list of lists of villages in Norway, divided into sub-sections by county. The lists consist of populated places without city status.
See also
List of towns and cities in Norway
List of villages in Europe
Lists of villages by country | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20villages%20in%20Norway |
This is a list of the football (soccer) events of the year 1989 throughout the world.
Events
March 3 – Portugal wins its first FIFA World Youth Championship
April 15 – Hillsborough disaster, that occurred at Hillsborough, before the FA Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool & Nottingham Forest.
May 20 – Liverpool wins the FA Cup, beating Everton 3–2 AET, thanks to two goals from Ian Rush.
May 24 – A.C. Milan defeats Steaua București, 4–0, to win their third European Cup final.
May 26 – Arsenal beat Liverpool F.C. 2–0 at Anfield to dramatically win the English Football League First Division, thanks to an injury time goal from Michael Thomas.
May 31 – Copa Libertadores is won by Atlético Nacional after defeating Olimpia Asunción 5–4 on penalties after a final aggregate score of 2–2.
June 24 – In the final of the FIFA U-16 World Championship, Saudi Arabia became surprising winners during the penalty shoot-out to Scotland in Glasgow.
December 17 – Italy's Milan wins the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Colombia's Atlético Nacional in extra-time 1–0. The only goal is scored by Alberigo Evani.
Winners club national championships
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
International Tournaments
Copa América in Brazil (July 1–16, 1989)
National Teams
Births
January
January 6: Jasmin Pllana, Austrian club footballer
January 7:
Emiliano Insúa (Argentinian defender)
Miles Addison (English defender)
Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Malaysian footballer
January 14:
Adam Clayton (English youth international)
Mattia Marchi (Italian club footballer)
Liu Xiaodong (Chinese footballer)
January 20:
Nikola Ivanović, Serbian footballer
Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian club footballer
January 29: Dirceu (Brazilian footballer)
January 30: Tomás Mejías (Spanish youth international)
February
February 1: Oleksandr Protsyuk (Ukrainian footballer)
February 14: Jocenir "Jocenir Alves da Silva" (Brazilian footballer)
February 21: Luca Borrelli (Italian professional footballer)
March
March 1: Carlos Vela (Mexican forward)
March 13: Marko Marin (German international midfielder)
March 14: Abdul Hamid Mony, Indonesian former footballer
March 15: Ondřej Mazuch (Czech defender)
March 16: Theo Walcott (English international forward)
March 17: Surafiel Tesfamicael (Eritrean footballer)
March 29: Arnold Peralta Honduran international footballer (died 2015)
March 31
Pablo Piatti (Argentinian forward)
Dario Šmitran (Slovenian footballer)
April
April 13: Dario Dussin, Swiss professional footballer
April 20: Michał Pytkowski, Polish footballer
April 22: Jasper Cillessen, Dutch international goalkeeper
April 29: Edgar Machuca, Paraguayan footballer
May
May 6: Chukwuma Akabueze (Nigerian midfielder)
May 11: Giovani dos Santos (Mexican forward)
May 31:
Bas Dost (Dutch footballer)
Marco Reus (German footballer)
June
June 2: Freddy Adu (American forward)
June 6: James Agrono (Colombian footballer)
June 18: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabonese striker)
June 25: Jack Cork (English footballer)
July
July 3: Matías Banco (Argentine midfield footballer)
July 16: Gareth Bale (Welsh international forward)
August
August 3: Nick Viergever (Dutch defender)
August 10: Ben Sahar (Israeli forward)
August 12: Vladimir Castellón (Bolivian forward)
August 17: David Abdul (Dutch Antillean forward)
September
September 1:
Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian international
Daniel Sturridge (English forward)
September 2: Alexandre Pato (Brazilian forward)
September 10: Victory Yendra (Indonesian former footballer)
September 13: Sebastián Regueiro ( Uruguayan footballer)
September 22: Vladyslav Hrinchenko (Ukrainian footballer)
September 25: Krisztián Brunczvik (Slovak footballer, midfielder)
October
October 3: Natalia Saratovtseva, former Russian footballer
October 4: Benjamin Stebbings, English cricketer
October 6: Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian international footballer (died 2014)
October 15: Joan Darome, Indonesian former footballer
October 20: Omar Yabroudi, Emirati football recruitment head
October 24:
Armin Bačinović, Slovenian midfielder
Jack Colback, English footballer
Cristian Gamboa, Costa Rican international
Igor Pisanjuk, Serbian footballer
November
November 5:
Andrew Boyce, English club footballer
Brandon Mabiala, French footballer
November 6: Josmer Altidore (American forward)
November 17: Nick Salapatas, British-Greek footballer
November 22: José Carlos Prieto, Chilean footballer
December
December 3: Kristjan Lipovac, Slovenian footballer
December 17: André Ayew, Ghanaian footballer
December 22: Daniel Goldschmitt, German footballer
Deaths
February
February 5 – André Cheuva (80), French footballer
April
April 24 – Franz Binder (77), Austrian footballer
May
May 19 – Samuel Okwaraji, (25) Nigerian footballer, squad Nigeria national football team at the 1988 Summer Olympics
July
July 20 – José Augusto Brandão, Brazilian midfielder, semi-finalist at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. (79)
September
September 1 – Kazimierz Deyna (41), Polish footballer
November
November 9 – Leen Vente (78), Dutch footballer
References
External links
Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
VoetbalStats
Association football by year | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20in%20association%20football |
Emily Bolton (born 1951) is a Dutch actress raised in England and the Netherlands.
Career
Bolton appeared in the James Bond film Moonraker in which she played 007's Brazilian contact Manuela. Originally she had wanted to become a concert pianist, but at the age of eighteen she chose to go to drama school.
She is also known for her TV appearances as a recurring cast member in:
Space: 1999 in which she played Operative June (uncredited).
Tenko, the BBC prisoner of war drama in which she played Christina Campbell.
Capital City in which she played Sylvia Roux Teng.
Her other TV credits include Survivors, Gangsters and Crossroads, and her other films include Percy's Progress (1974), Valentino (1977) and Empire State (1987).
She was credited as June Bolton in some of her early roles. In the book Tenko Reunion it is stated that she is no longer acting and has become an agent.
Filmography
References
External links
Entry for June Bolton
British actresses
Aruban actresses
Living people
20th-century British actresses
1951 births
Dutch people of Aruban descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Bolton |
Balışeyh is a town in Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Balışeyh District. Its population is 2,126 (2022). Balışeyh is a historical town and thought to be built in the time of Seljuks. Its elevation is .
Name
The name "Balışeyh" comes from the famous Sufi Sheik Edebali, who was the mentor and father-in-law of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire.
References
External links
Municipality's official website
Populated places in Kırıkkale Province
Balışeyh District
District municipalities in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal%C4%B1%C5%9Feyh |
Bandırma () is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, northwestern Turkey. Its area is 755 km2, and its population is 164,965 (2022). Bandırma is located in the south of the Marmara Sea, in the bay with the same name, and is an important port city. It is approximately two hours away from Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa.
Bandırma may be reached by land, sea, air and rail. Regular ship trips are made to Tekirdağ and Istanbul from Bandırma every day. The accelerated train services between Izmir and Bandırma, which are made every day in connection with the ferry, offer a different transportation alternative.
Bandırma is home to the fifth-largest port in Turkey, second in the Marmara sea to Istanbul. The annual average trade volume of Bandırma Port, which meets 90% of the exports from Balıkesir Province, is 800 million dollars. Bandırma's twin towns are Kamen, Germany, Tongxiang, China, Cary North Caroline, USA; and Mardin, Turkey.
History
Pre Byzantine and Byzantine period
Bandırma, which has been named as Cyzicus, Panderma, Panormos in the past, is a very old settlement center. It is thought that Bandırma was founded between the 8th century and the 10th century BC from a sarcophagus found during excavations in Cyzicus, for which there is no exact information about its establishment.
The first archaeological research about the region was carried out by Kurt Bittel in 1952 and in the light of the archaeological data obtained as a result of excavations and geographical information provided by the ancient texts, from late Neolithic Age. Scientific studies were carried out in 1954 by Prof. Dr. Ekrem Akurgal. The excavation continued until 1960, and in 1988, Prof. Dr. It was restarted by Tomris Bakır. Common archaeological data in both excavations reveal the history of the region, determining that there are Neolithic settlements dating back to the middle of the 6th millennium BC and Chalcolithic settlements from the end of the 5th millennium BC. The ancient ruins of Daskyleion are also in the region. It is thought that the first settlement was inhabited between 7,000 BC and 5,000 BC. The settlement of Panormos, which means "safe harbor", was within the ancient region of Mysia. In 334 BC, Alexander the Great annexed the territory held by the Persians to his own state. After the death of Alexander, the region was conquered by the Romans. Bandırma, which remained in the Eastern Roman Empire after the division of the Roman Empire in 330, was captured by Kutalmış in 1076; however, the region passed back to the Eastern Roman Empire in 1106.
Ottoman period
It was attached to the Kapıdağı District of Erdek District in 1830 and became a separate district after the Tanzimat. Bandırma, which suffered a great fire in 1874, was populated further with the arrival of Crimean and Romanian immigrants after the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877–78. Bandırma, was destroyed by the Greeks on their retreat. It was liberated from the occupation on the early morning of September 17, 1922, During its destruction many of its Turkish inhabitants were burned inside the mosque.
Geography
Bandırma's lands are quite flat in the coastal zone. These plains, cut with slight hills, rise to the south. Kocaavşa Creek, which springs within Bandırma, flows into Kuş Lake. Originating from Çanakkale Province, Gönen Stream passes through the north of the district and flows into the Sea of Marmara from the west of the Kapıdağ Peninsula. To the south of Bandırma is Lake Kuş, also known as Lake Manyas or Bird Paradise. The area of 24,047 hectares where this lake is located was declared a national park in 1959 with the name Kuş Cenneti National Park. Evliya Çelebi said "It is not that deep, and it's as if its water is the water of life (âb-ı hayat). Trout, pike, and a variety of delicious fish are caught in it. There are hunters who pay taxes to the state. So not everyone can fish for pleasure and for trade. In winter, this lake, It is filled with geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, mallards, gulls, goldfinches and other beautiful birds." about this lake. There are 239 bird species in the park according to the periods. This park was included in the Ramsar Convention in 1998.
Location
To the north of Bandırma is the Kapıdağ Peninsula, which is part of Erdek district, and the sea of Marmara. Manyas district and lake are to the south, Gönen is to the west and Karacabey of Bursa province is located to the east of Bandırma.
Composition
There are 55 neighbourhoods in Bandırma District:
100. Yıl
Akçapınar
Aksakal
Altıyüzevler
Ayyıldız
Bentbaşı
Bereketli
Beyköy
Bezirci
Çakılköy
Çalışkanlar
Çarıkköy
Çepni
Çınarlı
Çinge
Dedeoba
Dere
Doğa
Doğanpınar
Doğruca
Dutliman
Edincik
Emre
Ergili
Erikli
Eskiziraatli
Gölyaka
Günaydın
Hacıyusuf
Haydarçavuş
Hıdırköy
İhsaniye
Karaçalılık
Kayacık
Kirazlı
Külefli
Kuşcenneti
Levent
Mahbubeler
Misakça
Ömerli
Onyedieylül
Orhaniye
Paşabayır
Paşakent
Paşakonak
Paşamescit
Şirinçavuş
Sunullah
Yeni
Yenice
Yenisığırcı
Yeniyenice
Yeniziraatli
Yeşilçonlu
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Bandırma has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). In addition, as it is located on the transition zone affected by the continental climate effect from the Balkans, various climatic characteristics are observed in the district. In Bandırma, according to 52 years of data; the lowest temperature was recorded as (January 15, 1954) and the highest temperature as (July 9, 2000).
The annual average temperature is . The dominant wind direction is north-northeast. Average wind speed is . The average annual rainfall in the district is .
Annual relative humidity average is 73%.
Economy
Bandırma, according to a ranking made in 2004 of all provincial centers and towns across Turkey, in one of Turkey's most advanced 23 districts. In addition, the district ranked 3rd among 87 districts in the list of provincial districts prepared according to various criteria. The district is the fastest growing district among the districts of Balıkesir province. Today, Bandırma has become the economic center of Balıkesir in the industrial branch. According to 2008 data, 34 out of 100 companies paying the highest corporate tax in Balıkesir province and 4 out of the top 10 companies are in Bandırma district. The share of the district's corporate tax throughout the province is 20.6%. Again, according to 2008 data, 17 out of 100 people who pay the highest income tax in the province and 5 out of 10 people are in Bandırma district. With these numbers, the share of taxpayers from Bandırma throughout the province is 29%.The district economy employs 10,000 people. 50% of this employment volume is employed in industry, 20% in agriculture and 30% in services. 30% of the population working in the industrial sector works in the agriculture-based industry, 10% in the chemical industry, 5% in the mining industry and 5% in the machinery industry.
While 25% of Balıkesir province economy is produced in Altıeylül and Karesi, 14% is produced by Bandırma.
Foundations
In the district, Bandırma Chamber of Commerce was established by Yahya Sezai Uzay in 1926 and Bandırma Commodity Exchange in 1940. Bandirma Commodity Exchange is the twenty-third oldest stock exchange in Turkey. Bandırma Missile Club – Husat, founded in 1957 by the students of Şehit Mehmet Gönenç High School, is another important organization.
Trade
Trade in Bandırma is usually done by sea. Bandırma Port, the second largest after Istanbul's on the Marmara Sea, is Turkey's fifth largest port. The depth of the port is 12 meters and 15 ships up to 20 thousand gross tonnage can load and unload at the same time. Bandırma's export products consist of mines, chicken meat, eggs and seafood. The trade volume made is about $800 million.
Agriculture and livestock
The most intensive activity in rural areas in Bandırma is crop production. Corn, oats, sugar beets and broad beans are the most produced products. Wine grapes are produced in the vineyards. Parsley production is important in the district where vegetable growing is also developed.
Cattle and sheep are also raised in the district. In the Merino breeding farm established in the district, breeding rams and sheep are raised. Poultry farming, which is generally concentrated in big cities and its surroundings, is an important source of income in the district. In addition, fishing is carried out on the shores of the Marmara Sea and Lake Manyas.
Transportation
Bandırma is one of TCDD's main seaports, therefore the city sees much freight railroad traffic. Two passenger trains also operate from Bandırma to İzmir daily. These being the "6 Eylül Ekspresi", and the "17 Eylül Ekspresi". A new railway project will connect Bandırma with Bursa. İDO also connects Bandırma with Istanbul, via ferry. There is also a ferryboat from Tekirdağ to Bandırma.
Education
There is one public university in Bandırma: Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University.
In 2003 Bandırma Archaeology Museum was founded by, amongst others, Tomris Bakır.
Population
According to the census made on the basis of states in 1893, the population of Bandırma District of Karesi Sanjak is 40,912. Of this population, 20,065 are women and 20,847 are men. Considering the ethnic composition of the population, there are 14,519 Muslim women, 15,473 Muslim men, 2762 Greek women, 2725 Greek men, 2282 Armenian women, 2175 Armenian men, 443 Catholic women, 406 Catholic men, 59 foreign women, 68 foreign men.
According to the year 2000, the total population of Bandırma district is 120,753. Of this population, 59,882 are men and 60,871 are women. The urban population in the district is more than the rural population. 97,419 of the total population live in the city and 23,334 in the countryside. While 48,074 of the population living in the city is male and 49,345 female, this number is 11,808 males and 11,526 females in the villages. There are 204 people per km2 in the district.
In the district, 34,490 people are primary school graduates, 3900 people are primary school graduates, 7358 people are secondary school graduates, 404 people are secondary school equivalent vocational high school graduates, 10.067 are high school graduates, 5655 are high school equivalent vocational high school graduates, 7089 are higher education graduates. In the district where 5172 people are illiterate, 1286 of them are men and 3886 of them are women. While the remaining 83,958 people can read and write, 14,930 people in the district have not graduated from any school.
Twin towns – sister cities
Bandırma is twinned with:
Kamen, Germany since 1999
Tongxiang, China since 2002
Cary, United States since 2022
Notable people
Firdevsi-i Rumi, poet and scholar
Bekir Sami Günsav, Military officer in the Ottoman and Turkish armies
Ahmet Nuri Öztekin, Military officer in the Ottoman and Turkish armies
Ethem Psheu, Ottoman – Circassian partisan leader and fighter in the Turkish War of Independence
Ziya Güler, Lieutenant General
Erkan Arıkan, German TV presenter
Hande Erçel, actress and model
References
External links
Populated coastal places in Turkey
Populated places in Balıkesir Province
Districts of Balıkesir Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Former Armenian communities in Turkey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%C4%B1rma |
Saravana is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language action romance film directed by K. S. Ravikumar. It stars Silambarasan, Jyothika, Five Star Krishna, Vivek, and Prakash Raj. The film was a high-budget production under Deivanai Movies and the soundtrack was composed by Srikanth Deva. It is the Tamil remake of 2005 Telugu film, Bhadra.
Saravana was released on 14 January 2006, coinciding with Pongal and became a commercial success at the box office.
Plot
Saravana is a college student who returns to his home for his sister Divya's wedding with a distraught and frightened Sadhana, whom Saravana introduces as his friend to his family. While the marriage preparation continues, everyone begins to suspect Sadhana. Saravana's uncle Purushothaman begins to lose his emotions as he wants Saravana to marry his daughter. Purushothaman confronts Sadhana, who gets upset and an argument ensues. While at a restaurant, Saravana and Sadhana are confronted by a gang. Saravana chases the gang and thrashes them. Realizing that he has left Sadhana behind, Saravana returns to the restaurant, but finds that Sadhana is not there. Saravana's father Bhoopathi confronts Saravana and forces him to reveal about Sadhana's identity, where Saravana reveals his past.
Past: Saravana and Krishna are best friends, who visits Krishna's home village. Sadhana, who returns from London, is impressed by Saravana, who continually impresses her based on her tastes. He gets along well with Krishna's and Sadhana's family. Saravana convinces them that he would make a prospective groom for Sadhana. Sadhana's family, mainly her brother Soundarapandiyan and his sidekick Velu are involved in regional gangs in their village. When Sadhana takes Saravana to the temple for a visit without Soundarapandiyan's knowledge, a rival gang member group, headed by Duraisingam, is attacked by Velu's group members, and Duraisingam's brother Vanjaravelu gets hold of Sadhana and threatens to kill her. In a swift action of bravery and skill, Saravana knocks down Vanjaravelu. After this incident, Soundarapandiyan tells Saravana about the violent happenings in the village.
Soundarapandiyan explains how he and his wife are master's degree holder from BITS Pilani. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the villages, the rivalry is deadly and fatal. He ultimately says that even though the villages are violent, he will remain a noble person with high ideals. After a few days though, in the most ungrateful manner and a show cowardice, Duraisingam's gang fights with fierce brutality, and they finishes Krishna's entire family except Sadhana. Saravana promises to Soundarapandiyan that he will take up the responsibility of Sadhana. In the process, Saravana also becomes Duraisingam's rival as he kills Vanjaravelu to protect Sadhana. When Duraisingam finds out that Vanjaravelu was killed by Saravana, he decides to kill him instead of Sadhana.
Present: Velu trace Sadhana and bring her to Saravana's home. Feeling that she is not safe here anymore, Saravana plans to send her to London, but Sadhana is not happy with his decision as she loves him. On the day of the flight, Sadhana meets Saravana and Krishna's friend at the airport. The girl tells Sadhana about Saravana's devotion for her. She also knows that Sadhana's family chose Saravana as Sadhana's bridegroom before they were killed. Sadhana realizes she cannot leave Saravana and leaves the airport. She manages to find Saravana, who is fighting Duraisingam and his men. After Saravana defeats Duraisingam, he and Sadhana happily reunite and leave, while Duraisingam is killed by Velu.
Cast
Silambarasan as Saravanaa
Jyothika as Sadhana, Saravana's Love interest
Five Star Krishna as Krishna
Prakash Raj as Soundarapandi Thevar
Vivek as V. C. Damodaran (VCD)
Eashwari Rao as Uma Maheshwari, Soundarapandi's wife
Ravi Kale as Duraisingam Thevar
Radha Ravi as Bhoopathi, Saravanaa's father
Sriranjani as Lakshmi, Saravanaa's mother
Nagesh as Varadharajan, Saravanaa's grandfather
Nizhalgal Ravi as Purushothaman, Saravanaa's uncle
Tharika as Divya, Saravanaa's elder sister
Devadarshini as Amudha, Saravanaa's elder sister-in-law
Meghna Naidu as Sathya, Saravanaa's cousin
Brahmaji as Velu, Soundarapandi's sidekick
Subbaraju as Vanjaravelu Thevar, Duraisingam's younger brother
Akhila as Savithri, Velu's younger sister and Krishna's lover
Ponnambalam as Veerapandi Thevar
K. S. Ravikumar as Man in Train
Besant Ravi as Manikkam
Production
Amudha Durairaj produced this film under the banner Deivanai Movies.This is the second collaboration of Silambarasan and Jyothika after the success of Manmadhan (2004). Saravana is the remake of Telugu flick Bhadra, which has Prakash Raj, Easwari Rao, Brahmaji, and Subbaraju re-enacting their roles they had played in the original Telugu version. A song was shot with Meghna Naidu and Silambarasan on sets erected at AVM, Prasad Studios and Mohan Studios.
Soundtrack
There are six songs composed by Srikanth Deva in his second collaboration with Silambarasan after Kuththu (2004). The song "Saa Boo Three" was reused from the song "Sa Sye" from the original Telugu film.
References
External links
Tamil remakes of Telugu films
2006 films
Films directed by K. S. Ravikumar
2000s Tamil-language films
Films scored by Srikanth Deva
Indian romantic action films
Indian romantic drama films
2000s romantic action films
2006 romantic drama films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saravana |
Baskil () is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Baskil District. Its population is 4,826 (2021).
In the 2019 local elections, AKP mayor İhsan Akmurat narrowly won reelection, beating the MHP candidate Tuncer Turus by 49.77% to 48.57%.
References
District municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Elazığ Province
Baskil District
Kurdish settlements in Elazığ Province | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskil |
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