Ha Hyun-woo (born November 25, 1981) is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He is the lead vocal and guitarist of the rock band Guckkasten.<PIC> On November 25, 1981, Ha Hyun-woo was born in Jangsu, North Jeolla Province. He moved to Ansan, Gyeonggi Province at around age 7, where he spent his elementary, middle, and high school days. Throughout his youth, he tended to be introspective until middle school.His voice did not change drastically during puberty. As a result, he was able to produce high-pitched sounds with ease. Unfortunately, his time spent during his youth was rather unpleasant. He remembers his puberty as being a time of defeat, helplessness, and tearfulness. He held a self-image as an outsider, which had a deep influence on his self-esteem, even after passing through puberty. These experiences are an important and prominent theme in Guckkasten's music world, particularly in the first  of their regular albums.
At the end of first grade in high school, Ha lost his girlfriend to his friend. He was greatly shocked and started singing, to change his impression. He practiced "She's Gone" hard for the high school festival. He got a good response, and he decided to work on music. Sadly, he did not study music formally because his father opposed him working on music.
On the other hand, Ha also liked to draw cartoons. Thanks to his mother who had dreamed of a painter, he was able to learn art when he was in high school, which was quite late. His father opposed art as well as music, but he eventually let Ha go to the college to study art. He quit music for a while after entering the university. Although his life in the university was short, his interest in art and aesthetics also became a driving force for image music in the future by forming a big axis in Guckkasten's music. He designed all of Guckkasten's albums himself.  New Unbalance was a band which was formed in 2001. The drummer Lee Jeong-gil, guitarist Jeon Kyu-ho (both members of Guckkasten), bassist Jina Ryu, keyboardist Lee Min-kyung were the group members. Ha Hyun-woo met the drummer Lee Jeong-gil in Daejeon, 2000, and they made the band a year after, within the other members. In 2003, Lee Min-kyung left the band and the other members invited a new keyboardist and changed the band name to the C.O.M. The C.O.M., also as known as the Compass of Music, was formed in 2003. The members were mostly the previous member of the New Unbalance, with the new bassist Park Chul-young and keyboardist Lee In-kyung. The C.O.M. got the title "The Hidden Expert" in the Samzi Festival in 2003. However, due to military enlistment issues, the band did not last very long and with the end of the Samzi Festival stage, the team was disbanded. Ha Hyun-woo went to the military after the team disbanded. In 2007, the three members regrouped under the name Guckkasten in Gangwon Province, with the addition of Kim Ki-bum. In 2008, the band earned the Hello Rookie of June award by the EBS Space Sympathy. Guckkasten released their self-titled debut studio album "Guckkasten" on February 4, 2009. They held their first solo concert on February 21, 2009, in Seoul, South Korea, at Hongik University's V-Hall. Throughout that year, the band performed at several music festivals. The band was selected by the KCCA to usher in Korean culture into Japan and they won Rookie of the Year and Best Rock Song for "Mirror" at the seventh annual Korean Music Awards in 2010. They released their first Mini-Album 'Tagträume' on December 7, 2010. In 2011, Guckkasten performed at their first major music hall concert. The 2,000 tickets for the concert were sold out in ten days. Guckkasten made an appearance in the second season of I Am a Singer in 2012. They released their second studio album "Frame" on November 26, 2014. In 2016, Ha achieved the record of all-time longest-winning contestant of King of Mask Singer, serving as reigning king of the 22nd to 30th generations (equivalent to 18 consecutive broadcast weeks), as the "Music Commander in Town". During this run, he achieved an average of 68.22 out of 99 votes. As of 2021, this record has been kept.


Kila Saifullah District, Qilla Saifullah, or Saifullah Killa (Urdu and Balochi: قلعہ سیف اللہ, Pashto: قلعه سیف الله) is a district in northwestern Balochistan province, Pakistan. It was established as a district in  1988 comprising two former administrative units of Zhob District: the Upper Zhob sub-division and the sub-tehsil of Badinai, previously named Kashatoo and part of the subdistrict of Kakar Khurasan. Early in the 13th century the country came within the sphere of the raids organised by Genghis Khan, the Mongol. In 1398 AD, an expedition against the Afghans of the area was led by Pir Muhammad, grandson of Amir Timur. Although no authentic information exist about any foreign occupation, many forts, mounds and karezes are attributed to the Mughals. Both Nadir Shah (reigned 1736–47) and Ahmed Shah (reigned 1747–73) extended their power through Balochistan and thenceforth Zhob remained under the more or less nominal suzerainty of the Durranis and Barakzais until it came under British protection. In the middle of the 18th century Ahmed Shah granted a sanad (certificate) to Bekar Nika, fourth in descent from Jogi and the head of the Jogezai family, conferring upon him the title and position of "Badshah or Ruler of Zhob". Shah Jehan Jogezai was conferred as Badshah of Zhob. The descendants of Shah Jehan Jogezai used to live in Loralai District of Balochistan.
The British sent its Zhob Expedition in 1884 in order to occupy the Zhob region through Baratkhail. Meanwhile, the castles of Saifullah Khan Khoidadzai and Shah Jehan Jogezai (Badshah of Zhob) were demolished. On 7 October 1884, an assault on the Qalla (castle) of Shah Jehan near Akhterzai resulted the killings of many tribal people including Malik Hamza Daulatzai and Mohammad Ghous who fought bravely. All 500 tribal Sardars admitted their submission before the British forces and also signed an agreement that they will not interfere in the affairs of British Government in Zhob region except Saifullah Khan Khoidadzai and Shah Jehan Jogezai who had a narrow escape from the battle scene and established themselves at Kalat; where they used to operate their insurgency campaign against the British and never subdued before the British occupying forces. At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 342,932, of which 181,806 were males and 161,121 females. Rural population was 279,639 (81.54%) while the urban population was 63,293 (18.46%). The literacy rate was 32.77% - the male literacy rate was 43.22% while the female literacy rate was 21.00%. 432 people in the district were from religious minorities. Pashto was the predominant language, spoken by 97.85% of the population. The district is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils:
Killa Saifullah
Muslim Bagh
At present the district is divided into two sub-divisions: Qilla Saifullah and Muslim Bagh. Kila Saifullah sub-division comprises one tehsil (Killa Saifullah) and one sub-tehsil (Badinai). Killa Saifullah tehsil is further sub-divided into two Qanungo circles and then into five patwar circles. The entire Badinai sub-tehsil is a Qanungo circle as well as patwar circle. Muslim Bagh sub-division comprises Muslim Bagh tehsil and Loiband sub-tehsil. The entire Muslim Bagh tehsil is one Qanungo circle, further sub-divided into four patwar circles. The Loiband sub-tehsil consists of one qanungo circle and is sub-divided into two patwar circles. Babu China
Muslim Bagh
Qilla Saifullah According to the Pakistan District Education Rankings 2017, district Killa Saifullah is ranked at number 127 out of the 141 ranked districts in Pakistan on the education score index. This index considers learning, gender parity and retention in the district.
Literacy rate in 2014–15 of population 10 years and older in the district stands at 40% whereas for females it is only 6%.
Post primary access is a major issue in the district with 88% schools being at primary level. Compare this with high schools which constitute only 4% of government schools in the district. This is also reflected in the enrolment figures for 2016–17 with 15,836 students enrolled in class 1 to 5 and only 338 students enrolled in class 9 and 10.
Gender disparity is another issue in the district. Only 24% schools in the district are girls’ schools. Access to education for girls is a major issue in the district and is also reflected in the low literacy rates for females.
Moreover, the schools in the district lack basic facilities. According to Alif Ailaan district education rankings 2017, the district is ranked at number 140 out of the 155 districts of Pakistan for primary school infrastructure. At the middle school level, it is ranked at number 134 out of the 155 districts. These rankings take into account the basic facilities available in schools including drinking water, working toilet, availability of electricity, existence of a boundary wall and general building condition. Approximately 3 out of 4 schools do not have electricity in them. 2 out 3 schools lack a toilet and 1 out of 2 schools do not have a boundary wall. 2 out of 5 schools do not have clean drinking water.
The main issue for the district is the poor infrastructure of schools. They are reported to be in poor condition and need immediate repair. The district is rich with mineral wealth and produces high quality chromite in Pakistan, the second largest reserve in the world. Gypsum, ores of coal, salt, granite, marble, copper and gabbro are also found in various parts of the district. Being rich in oil and gas, the government of Pakistan has started oil and gas exploration in the Murgha Fairzai, Shaighala and Kakar Khurasan areas. Killa Saifullah is about 182 km south of the provincial capital Quetta. Neighbouring districts are Zhob, Loralai and Pishin.<PIC> Nawab Ayaz Jogezai
Usman Khan Kakar
Arman Loni
Wranga Loni
Arfa Siddiq
Maulana Abdul Wasay


Scottish Ensemble is a professional string orchestra based in Glasgow, Scotland and led by Artistic Director and violinist Jonathan Morton.
Scottish Ensemble also collaborates with soloists. Recently guest artists have included trumpeter Alison Balsom, tenor Toby Spence, violinist Anthony Marwood, cellist Pieter Wispelwey and violist Lawrence Power. The group also seeks out collaborations with musicians from different traditions, and has recently performed alongside Scottish folk musicians Catriona McKay, Chris Stout and Aly Bain, DJ Alex Smoke, Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto and American bassist Edgar Meyer.
As well as touring across Scotland, Scottish Ensemble perform in the UK and internationally. Alongside performances at venues across London including Kings Place, The Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall, Scottish Ensemble receives regular invitations to tour abroad and in recent years the group has performed in Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Istanbul, China, Japan, Brazil and North America.
Scottish Ensemble has produced a number of recordings on labels including Linn Records and EMI. Its most recent release, Anno, is a recording of its 2016 production with Anna Meredith which was released on the Moshi Moshi imprint in August 2018.
Founded in 1969 by violinist Leonard Friedman, in 2019 Scottish Ensemble celebrates its 50th anniversary. The group is a registered charity.<PIC> Formed in 1969 as the Scottish Baroque Ensemble, by the violinist Leonard Friedman, Scottish Ensemble's extensive repertoire spans from the Baroque to the present day. The group is known for its distinctive programming style, which blends music from different centuries, musical periods, genres and styles, often linked together thematically. It is also known for its presentation of more unusual or rarely performed pieces.
Committed to expanding the string repertoire, Scottish Ensemble also regularly commissions new works. In recent years, these have included new pieces by composers including Sir John Tavener, James MacMillan, Sally Beamish, Martin Suckling, John Woolrich, Craig Armstrong, Luke Bedford, Thea Musgrave and Anna Meredith. Scottish Ensemble regularly tours across Scotland, the UK and the world.
In Scotland, as well as its regular touring cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness and Dumfries, the group performs in smaller towns and more remote locations across the country. Scottish Ensemble has presented an annual series of concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall and, more recently, performed at Kings Place and The Barbican Centre. The group has also appeared at the BBC Proms and at festivals including Edinburgh International, Edinburgh Fringe, City of London, Aldeburgh and St Magnus festivals. In 2013 SE undertook an 11-date tour of the US, performing in halls including Walt Disney Hall and New York Town Hall.
Scottish Ensemble delivers performances from more traditional classical concerts, in venues across the UK, Scotland and the world, to adventurous productions which combine classical music with other art forms, including theatre, visual art and contemporary dance.
Since 2014, the group have presented one major cross art form project a year. In 2014, Scottish Ensemble collaborated with visual artist Toby Paterson to create 20th-Century Perspectives: City Spaces and Strings, a site-specific performance designed for a previously-derelict modernist landmark in Glasgow, which combined 20th-century architecture, visual art and music.
In 2015, Scottish Ensemble worked with Swedish contemporary dance company Andersson Dance to present Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia, a 21st-century interpretation of Bach’s masterpiece in which musicians are choreographed on stage alongside dancers.
In 2016, Scottish Ensemble collaborated with composer/producer Anna Meredith and her sister, the visual artist Eleanor Meredith, on Anno. This new commission combined Vivaldi's Four Seasons with new electronic compositions by Anna Meredith, creating one continuous piece of music. Anno was released as a recording in August 2018 to great critical acclaim, including BBC 6 Music's Album Of The Day.
In 2017, the group joined with pioneering Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point to create Tabula Rasa, a theatrical production which centred around the live performance of music by Arvo Pärt. A recording of Tabula Rasa was hosted on BBC iPlayer from November 2018 to January 2019.
In 2018, Scottish Ensemble worked again with Andersson Dance on its second collaboration, Prelude - skydiving from a dream, which premiered in Scotland in November 2018 to critical acclaim, with five-star reviews from The Herald, The Scotsman and Bachtrack. Concerts are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Scotland, and there is a collection of recordings available. SE’s extensive recording catalogue includes: EMI Classics’ top-selling CD of 2010: Italian Concertos with Alison Balsom; recent recordings of Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Takemitsu and Debussy on Linn Records; and a recording of its 2016 collaboration with composer and producer Anna Meredith, released on Moshi Moshi Records in August 2018.
Scottish Ensemble has produced a number of short behind-the-scenes documentaries around its major projects, as well as a full-length recording of its 2017 project with Vanishing Point. The group also enjoys a relationship with BBC Arts. As well as the site hosting its behind-the-scenes films about its projects with Andersson Dance and Anna Meredith, in 2018 the full-length recording of Tabula Rasa was hosted on BBC iPlayer. Scottish Ensemble is also committed to a comprehensive programme of education and outreach activities. Its work in this area was developed further in 2012 with the launch of the City Residency programme, where the orchestra spends three or four days in one Scottish city providing a range of events designed to engage diverse communities.
Events as part of the City Residencies have included: tea dances, ceilidhs, community feasts, flash-mob style performances, coaching and workshops with amateur music groups, schools workshops, and free public performances. Scottish Ensemble also delivers events combining music and other art forms, which link to the group's collaborations with other art forms. These have included music-and-dance workshops, life drawing sessions, and a primary school art class using music as inspiration led by visual artist Eleanor Meredith.
Since 2015, Scottish Ensemble has delivered its SE Young Musician programme in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Promising string students are invited to audition to join Scottish Ensemble musicians for a week of coaching in preparation for a public concert, held at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, at the end of the week. A small number of these musicians are then invited to join the group on tour across the following year to gain experience of life as a touring musician.
Scottish Ensemble also delivers regular educational programmes in both primary and secondary schools, working with educational professionals, composers and animateurs to create bespoke workshops that will enhance the current music syllabus.


Denis Ivanov (Ukrainian: Іванов Денис Віталійович; born July 22, 1978, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian producer, film distributor, cultural manager, TV presenter, head of the Arthouse Traffic  film company, member of the European Film Academy and National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, founder of the Odesa International Film Festival and «Children Kinofest» – International Film Festival for children and teenagers (Ukraine).<PIC> Denis Ivanov was born in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. In 2000 he graduated from the Donetsk State University with a degree in Political Science. In 1996 he founded the «Alternative Cinema Club» at the Donetsk State University. In 1998-1999 he worked as a cameraman in the Donetsk Regional State TV and Radio Company. In 1999 he studied at the Islington College of London and received a master's degree in black and white photography. In 2000-2001 he worked as a program coordinator of the Kiev International Theater Festival «Mystetske Berezilla».
In 2001 he became a member of the selection committee and program coordinator of the Kiev IFF «Molodist», in 2002 took the post of the program director, in 2003 – marketing director of the festival.
In 2003 founded  «Arthouse Traffic» film company and became its CEO. Arthouse Traffic became the first Ukrainian distributor of art-cinema and the manager of film festivals. Since foundation Arthouse Traffic has distributed more than 400 films, including "Pina" by Wim Wenders, "Oceans" by Jacques Perrin, "Zatoichi" by Takeshi Kitano, "Pool" by Francois Ozon, "Return" by Andrei Zvyagintsev, "Oldboy" by Park Chan-wook, "Prophet" by Jacques Odiar, "Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle, "Dallas Buyers Club" by Jean-Marc Valle among others.
In 2006, Denis Ivanov became co-producer of the thriller "Shtolnya", dir. Lubomir Levytskyi, whose international premiere took place at the Moscow International Film Festival.
In 2010, he became the founder and general director (2010-2013) of the Odesa International Film Festival, which for the first few years became one of the largest film festivals in Eastern Europe.
Together with the director Volodymyr Tykhy, Denis Ivanov produced almanacs of short films called "Mudaky. Arabesques"(2010) and "Ukraine, goodbye"(2012). In 2013, he became a general producer of the film "The Green Jacket" directed by Volodymyr Tykhy, the world premiere of which took place at the San Sebastian film festival. The film also took part in the international competition of the Warsaw International Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize for the best Ukrainian feature film at the Odessa Film Festival 2014.
In December 2013, Denis Ivanov initiated the creation of the first winter film market in Kyiv, which became an annual professional event for Ukrainian cinemas, distributors, and producers.
The film "The Tribe" directed by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky (2014), which Denis Ivanov co-produced, won three prizes at Critic's Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film participated in more than 50 film festivals around the world, including the Locarno and Toronto and was released in more than forty countries, becoming the most successful international release of the Ukrainian film in history.
In 2014 Denis Ivanov founded «Children KinoFest» – film festival for children and teenagers . In 2017, the festival expanded to 21 cities, the number of visitors exceeded 40 thousand viewers.
In 2016, he initiated the organization of annual days of Ukrainian cinema UKRAINE ON FILM in the cultural center BOZAR in Brussels, Belgium.
The film "Black Level" by Valentin Vasianovich (2017), in which Ivanov participated as an associate producer, received the FIPRESCI prize for the best Ukrainian feature film at the Odessa Film Festival 2017 and became the Ukrainian candidate for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Language film category.
In 2017 Denis Ivanov founded annual "Kyiv Critics Week" film festival. Well-known Ukrainian film critics were invited as the curators of the film program: Daria Badior, culture editor, LB.ua; film critic Nadezhda Zavarova; the author of the publications "Ukrainian Truth" and "Ukrinform" Alexander Gusev and the director, the founder of the portal Cineticle Stanislav Bityutsky.
In 2017, Denis Ivanov became a co-producer of Sergei Loznitsa's "Donbass", which became the opening film of the Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018  and was awarded a jury prize for the best director of the program In April 2014, the Ukrainian NLO channel hosted the first release of the TV program "Pro Kino na NLO", in which Denis Ivanov became a producer and a host. As producer
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2006 – Shtolnya by Lubomir Levytskyi
2013 – The Green Jacket by Volodymyr Tykhy
2014 - The Tribe by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
2017 - Black Level by Valentyn Vasianovych
2018 – Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa
2018 – Polina by Olias Barco


William Munford Tuck (September 28, 1896 – June 9, 1983) was an American lawyer and lieutenant in the Byrd Organization, who served as the 55th Governor of Virginia from 1946 to 1950 as a Democrat, and as a U.S. Congressman from 1953 until 1969.<PIC> He was the youngest of nine children of Halifax County, Virginia tobacco warehouseman Robert James Tuck (1863–1930)  and Virginia Susan Fitts (1860–1909). He was named for his grandfather William Munford Tuck (1832–1899), who served in the Third Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. Tuck's mother died when he was 13. He attended county schools, Virgilina High School, and Chatham Training School (now Hargrave Military Academy). He attended the College of William and Mary for two years, earning a teacher's certificate and working for a year as a teacher/principal in Northumberland County. Tuck then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in 1917 in the Caribbean. Tuck returned to attend law school at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, graduating in 1921. In 1929 he married widow (and former schoolteacher) Eva Lovelace Dillard (1891–1975), to whom he remained married until her death in 1975, raising her son Lester Layne (L.L.) Dillard Jr. as his own. Upon being admitted to Virginia bar, Tuck maintained a private legal practice in Halifax for decades, eventually with his stepson L.L. Dillard.
His career as an elected official began in 1923, when Halifax County voters elected Tuck as their delegate (a part-time position) to the Virginia General Assembly. He was re-elected once but declined to run for re-election in 1929, citing the need to grow his legal business to support his new family. However, when his elected successor died, Tuck was drafted in 1930 and served the remainder of the term. He was then elected to the Virginia State Senate in 1931, where he became a friend of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a former governor. During the national New Deal, state Senator Tuck worked to repeal Prohibition and sponsored new child labor laws, as well as an unemployment compensation system, old age assistance and jail reforms. He also helped develop the state park system.
In 1941, Tuck sought statewide office, but Senator Byrd slated Colgate Darden to run for Governor of Virginia, so Tuck was slated for and won election as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He served from 1942 to 1946 under Governor Darden, and gained visibility throughout the Commonwealth. Tuck defeated his Republican opponent, S. Floyd Landreth by a 2 to 1 margin and won election as governor.
As governor from 1946 to 1950, Tuck demonstrated his fiscal conservatism as a Dixiecrat by reorganizing state government and enacting a right-to-work law. He also created a state water pollution control agency, helped reform state schools and mental hospitals, as well as constructed roads. Governor Tuck gained national exposure, however, for labor unrest in his home state. He worked with Senator Harry Byrd to oppose President Harry Truman, although a fellow Democrat, especially Truman's plan to establish a Fair Employment Practices Commission. Once, as governor, Tuck drafted workers of the Virginia Electric Power Company into the state's national guard to avoid a threatened strike in an unionization effort. Transportation and coal also experienced labor unrest.
Tuck's resumption of legal practice in South Boston after his governorship proved short-lived, for he rose within the Byrd Organization. In 1953 Tuck won election as a Democrat to U.S. Congress vacated by Thomas Bahnson Stanley who had resigned to run for Governor of Virginia. A militant segregationist, Congressman Tuck opposed most major items of civil rights legislation during the 1950s and 1960s. Like U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Tuck promised "massive resistance" to the Supreme Court's 1954 and 1955 decisions banning segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, and helped draft the Stanley Plan—a series of state laws designed to legally avoid Brown, most of which were soon declared unconstitutional. He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto. Tuck was a member of the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and vehemently opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
He was a delegate to Democratic National Conventions of 1948 and 1952, and in 1967 announced he would not seek reelection to Congress, citing health problems. He remained a power broker in the state for years. He retired from his law practice in South Boston in 1979, after suffering a stroke. He is buried beside his wife in Oak Ridge Cemetery in South Boston. Virginia named highway 58 in Halifax County after Tuck, and elected a historical marker in his memory.
His personal papers, including papers from his time as congressman and governor, are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary.  His executive papers from his time as governor are held by the Library of Virginia.
His birthplace and home Buckshoal Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 1945; Tuck was elected Governor of Virginia with 66.57% of the vote, defeating Republican Sidney Floyd Landreth and Independent Howard Hearnes Carwile.
1953; Tuck was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 57.81% of the vote in a special election, defeating Republican Lorne R. Campbell.
1954; Tuck was re-elected unopposed.
1956; Tuck was re-elected unopposed.
1958; Tuck was re-elected unopposed.
1960; Tuck was re-elected unopposed.
1962; Tuck was re-elected unopposed.
1964; Tuck was re-elected with 63.47% of the vote, defeating Republican Robert L. Gilliam.
1966; Tuck was re-elected with 56.18% of the vote, defeating Republican Gilliam.


Andrew Darius Goudelock (born December 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for Bilbao Basket of the Liga ACB. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he plays the shooting guard position. He played college basketball for the Charleston Cougars and was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year in 2011.
Goudelock was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the 2011 NBA draft. Following a year with the Lakers, he spent a season with the Sioux Falls Skyforce and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Development League, winning the NBA Development League Most Valuable Player Award in 2013. He was re-signed by the Lakers towards the end of the 2012–13 season. Goudelock was and All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2015, as he reached the Euroleague Final Four with Fenerbahçe Ülker. Goudelock attended Stone Mountain High School under coach William Johnson, leading the Pirates to a 24–7 record as a senior while averaging 22.7 points per game and hitting 42.4 percent of his three-point attempts. He was named Georgia 4A Player of the Year. Goudelock played college basketball for the College of Charleston. As a senior, he averaged 23.4 points and was the fourth highest scoring player in the nation. Goudelock's 40.7 percent three-point average was the nation's second highest; he scored 131 of his 322 three-point attempts. He was voted an All-America honorable mention by the Associated Press. On March 15, 2011, he scored 39 points, including shooting 8–15 on 3-pointers, in front of a sellout crowd in the first round of the NIT Tournament. The Cougars were playing the Dayton Flyers in the first round of the 2011 NIT Tournament. The game, which the Cougars won 94–84, was Goudelock's last game at home in Carolina First Arena (now TD Arena).
Goudelock became known for his tremendous range and his ability to hit three-pointers well beyond the college (and NBA) three-point line. One of Goudelock's breakout games came on January 4, 2010 against the Defending National Champions UNC, in which he hit a game-tying three with less than 3 seconds left and led the Cougars to an eventual 72–69 win in overtime at Carolina First Arena.
Goudelock was the 5th leading scorer in NCAA Division I for his senior year. During his four-year career, Goudelock appeared in 140 games, averaging 18.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.  Goudelock was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round as the 46th overall pick of the 2011 NBA Draft. Goudelock was also drafted by the Harlem Globetrotters. On December 17, he was assigned to the Los Angeles D-Fenders by the Lakers and was recalled the next day. While Steve Blake was injured he became the back up point guard, averaging 20 minutes a game. In his rookie season, Andrew Goudelock averaged 4.4 points in 10.5 minutes per game. Goudelock was waived by the Lakers on October 27, 2012. On November 2, 2012, he was drafted by the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development League. On January 3, 2013, he was traded to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in a three-way trade also involving Erie BayHawks. On February 4, Goudelock was named to the Prospects All-Star roster for the 2013 D-League All-Star Game. However, due to injury, he was replaced by Travis Leslie.
On April 14, 2013, Goudelock re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers after Kobe Bryant suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon injury. He had just signed with Puerto Rico's Cangrejeros de Santurce, but turned around with the Lakers' offer. Goudelock afterwards played 6 minutes in the Lakers' final game of the season against the Houston Rockets, and another 6 in the second game of the playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs.
On April 25, Goudelock was named the 2012–13 NBA Development League Most Valuable Player Award for his earlier play with Rio Grande Valley and Sioux Falls. With Lakers guards Steve Nash, Steve Blake, and Jodie Meeks also out with injuries, Goudelock started with fellow second-year guard Darius Morris in Game 3 of the first round of the 2013 playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs. In his first playoff start, Goudelock scored a career-high 20 points, but the Lakers lost 120–89 for their worst home playoff loss in franchise history. In Game 4, Goudelock scored 14 points in an 82–103 defeat that eliminated the Lakers. The guard said, "We basically threw a team together", but considered his NBA call-up a learning experience. On July 26, 2013, Goudelock signed a one-year deal with UNICS Kazan. On April 27, 2014 he was named the VTB United League MVP, after he averaged 20.1 points, 1.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game in the VTB United League regular season. For the entire VTB United League season, regular season and playoffs combined, he averaged 19.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 0.7 steals per game in 22 games played.
After having the best season in his career, he was named to the All-EuroCup First Team and selected the season MVP of Europe's 2nd-tier competition, the EuroCup. In the EuroCup, he averaged 18.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 0.8 steals per game in 24 games played. On July 2, 2014, Goudelock signed a two-year deal with the Turkish Basketball Super League team Fenerbahçe Ülker. In a roster full of talent like Jan Veselý, Nemanja Bjelica, Bogdan Bogdanović, Ricky Hickman and others, Goudelock quickly emerged as a first scoring option for one of the most demanding and greatest European head coaches, Željko Obradović. He was named the EuroLeague MVP of the Week of the Round 2, after putting up 27 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, and 3 steals, for a total index rating of 30, in his second EuroLeague game against Turów Zgorzelec. On November 13, 2014, Goudelock set the EuroLeague record since the 2000–01 season in three point field goals made, with 10, in a 93–86 victory over FC Bayern Munich. He finished the game with 34 points, 4 assists, and 3 rebounds, for a total index rating of 40. For such a performance, he was named the EuroLeague MVP of the Week of Round 5.
In May 2015, he was selected to the All-EuroLeague Second Team for the performances he put up over the season. Fenerbahçe also advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four for the first time in the team's history. On May 15, 2015, however, they lost in the 2015 Euroleague Final Four semifinal game to Real Madrid, by a score of  87–96. Goudelock led his team with 26 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists in the semifinal. Eventually, Fenerbahçe finished the Final Four in 4th place, after losing in the third-place game to CSKA Moscow, by a score of 80–86. In the third-place game, Goudelock once again led his team in scoring, with 24 points on 10 of 15 shooting from the field. Goudelock finished his first EuroLeague season with the averages of 17 points, 2.2 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game, over 29 games played. Being the team's leader in scoring, he scored 20 or more points eleven times during the Euroleague 2014–15 season.
On June 17, 2015, Fenerbahçe's team manager, Ömer Onan, confirmed that Goudelock would not play for the Turkish team in the next season. Goudelock later stated to the media that he had personally wanted to stay with Fenerbahçe, and play with them in the next season, but that the team did not want him back, and declined to pick up the option for another year in his contract. On July 14, 2015, Goudelock signed with Xinjiang Flying Tigers of China for the 2015–16 CBA season. In 35 games, he averaged 22.1 points per game. On March 9, 2016, Goudelock signed with the Houston Rockets. Three days later, he made his debut with the Rockets in a 125–109 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, recording two points and one steal in five minutes. On July 9, 2016, Goudelock was waived by the Rockets. On August 2, 2016, Goudelock signed with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv for the 2016–17 season. Goudelock helped Maccabi to win the 2017 Israeli State Cup. On July 10, 2017, Goudelock signed with Italian club Olimpia Milano.
On June 15, 2018, Goudelock went to win his first Italian title ever with Milano by beating Dolomiti Energia Trento in game 6 of the 2018 LBA Finals. He was named MVP in the league's Finals series of the playoffs.<PIC> On July 23, 2018, Goudelock returned to China for a second stint, signing with the Shandong Golden Stars. In 19 games played for Shandong, he averaged 23.2 points and 3.3 assists per game, while shooting 44.3 percent from three-point range. On October 21, 2019, Goudelock returned to Italy for a second stint, signing with Umana Reyer Venezia for the 2019–20 season, even though he was officially registered to the league only three months later, on January 23, 2020. The team parted ways with him on June 16, 2020. On August 12, 2020, Goudelock signed with Rytas Vilnius for a one-year deal. On 14 February, 2021, Goudelock won the 2021 Lithuanian League Three-Point Contest. He averaged 14.6 points, 2.4 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game. On June 30, 2021, Goudelock signed with Bilbao Basket of the Liga ACB.       He is the son of Marvin and Angela Austin. He majored in sociology at the College of Charleston.


The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media. Focusing on programming that reflects "the art of the last five minutes", the CAC has displayed the works of many now-famous artists early in their careers, including Andy Warhol. In 2003, the CAC moved to a new building designed by the late Zaha Hadid.<PIC> The Contemporary Arts Center was founded as the Modern Art Society in 1939 by Betty Pollak Rauh, Peggy Frank Crawford and Rita Rentschler Cushman. These three women were able to raise enough money through donations to display modern art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Early advice and encouragement was offered by both Edward M.M. Warburg, a friend of the Pollak family, as well as Alfred H. Barr.  The society's very first exhibit, Modern Painting from Cincinnati Collections, opened in December of the same year. In 1954 the Modern Art Society adopted its current name, the Contemporary Arts Center.  The name change coincided with the creation of two permanent galleries that were remodeled from part of the museum's lower level. These two spaces, designed by Carl Strauss and Ray Roush, consisted of about 900 square feet (84 m²) each and featured movable wooden wall covers.  Many local Cincinnati collections were shown in this space, including works now kept at the Cincinnati Art Museum from the Mary E. Johnston collection.
Construction on the Emery Wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum replaced the original space of the CAC.  As a result of the museum’s need to expand, the center moved out in 1962 and temporarily inhabited various locations at the Taft Museum of Art, space at 608 Main Street, and the Carew Tower. In 1964 the center occupied the fourth floor of the Women’s Exchange building at 113 West Fourth street where it remained for six years. After two years on Fourth street the center announced that it had plans to move to the Mercantile Center on Fifth street, which opened in 1970.  The new building cost $400,000 and was designed by Harry Weese. The CAC’s space covered about 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) and overlooked the new bus terminal in downtown Cincinnati. Despite early financial troubles in 1971, the CAC was able to put on over 400 exhibitions during its 30-year stay on Government Square. A permanent lease for the location was acquired in 1982 through a city bond.
Early proposals for a new home began at the end of the 1980s and included possible locations at the Ohio Mechanics Institute (currently the Emery Center) and the Aronoff Center. Later, as the idea of constructing an entirely new building became possible, the CAC focused on the site at Sixth and Walnut. By 1997 the center’s Architectural Selection Committee was publicly seeking architects to design the CAC's first-free standing building. The search narrowed 97 statements of qualification to twelve semi finalists:  Coop Himmelblau, Diller & Scofidio, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Eric Owen Moss, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito, Antoine Predock, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Liebeskind and Bernard Tschumi. One year later the board granted the commission to Zaha Hadid. Construction began in 2001 and the new building opened on May 31, 2003. In March 2008, the Contemporary Arts Center announced the exhibition and auction "FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play".
Participating architects included:
Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects
Michael Graves, Graves Design
Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects
Thom Mayne, Morphosis
Bill Pedersen, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Laurinda Spear, Arquitectonica
Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects
Jaime Velez, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP
Massimo Vignelli, Vignelli Designs, Inc.
Buzz Yudell, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners
Christie's Fine Arts Division sold eight pieces and one concept at auction raising $425,000.
In March 2011 the Laminex Group brought the collection to New Zealand for the Auckland Arts Festival and invited New Zealand architects and design professionals to submit entries for a New Zealand collection.  The domestic competition was entitled "Formica Formations". Queenstown designer Graham Roebeck of Structural Integrity Ltd won the Professional category and Auckland Unitec student Norman Lin, the emerging designer category. In 1990, a Cincinnati jury acquitted the Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. In the first criminal trial of an art museum over the contents of an exhibition, the case centered on seven out of 175 photographs in an exhibition (The Perfect Moment) that traveled from Berkeley to Boston; five of the seven photographs depicted men in sadomasochistic poses and were the basis of charges that the museum and its director had pandered obscenity. Much of the dispute over the Mapplethorpe photographs centered on whether federal money should be used to finance them, through the National Endowment for the Arts. If convicted, the center would have faced fines of up to $10,000; Barrie could have faced a year in jail and fines up to $2,000. The trial was chronicled in the 2000 television movie Dirty Pictures. 44 East 6th Street (Corner of 6th & Walnut), Cincinnati, OH 45202
Across Walnut Street from the Aronoff Center for the Arts in downtown Cincinnati's cultural and entertainment area known as the Backstage District. In 2003, the CAC moved to its first free-standing home which was designed by Zaha Hadid. The CAC chose to honor two of its major donors by naming the building the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art. The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was Zaha Hadid's first American project. Hailed by The New York Times' architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as "the most important American building to be completed since the cold war," the project was the brainchild of Director Charles Desmarais. (Desmarais left the CAC for the Brooklyn Museum in early 2005.)
The building's footprint is 11,000 square feet (1,000 m²), with a total area of 80,000 square feet (7,400 m²) on seven floors. The project cost $34 million, with  design features including "Urban Carpet", "Jigsaw Puzzle", and "Skin/Sculpture". 2004 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award
2005 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum


Sigrún Aðalbjarnardóttir (born 9 July 1949) is a professor emeritus at the University of Iceland, School of Education (as of 1 August 2019). Most of her theoretical work is within educational science and developmental psychology with a focus on the welfare of young people. Her primary interest is the social development, risk behaviour, academic engagement, and well-being of children and young people, as well as their civic awareness and engagement. A related focus is on how parents and teachers can foster the development and welfare of children and adolescents.<PIC> Sigrún received a teacher’s certificate from the Iceland College of Education in 1969. In 1983 she completed a BA in Education at the University of Iceland, in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Then, in the United States, she earned both a master’s degree (1984) and a doctorate (1988) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in the Department of Human Development and Psychology. There she studied with professors Robert L. Selman and Lawrence Kohlberg.
From 1970 to 1976, Sigrún was an elementary school teacher in Reykjavik and in 1976-77 in the Westman Islands. From 1973 to 1983, she designed a curriculum and course materials in social studies for elementary schools under the auspices of the Ministry of Education in the Department of School Research and Development. Professor Wolfgang Edelstein led the social studies group's revision of the curriculum. This work also entailed working with teachers and principals around the country as a part of a school-based continuing education program.
In 1989, Sigrún became an assistant professor in education at the University of Iceland, within the Faculty of Social Sciences and an associate professor the same year. She became a professor in education on 1 January 1994.
Sigrún has been a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education for several semesters, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar there for one year. In addition, she was a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Sigrún has mainly worked with university students in the field of developmental psychology, focusing on such issues as the social, ethical, and emotional development of youth, and on young people’s academic engagement, risk behaviour and resilience, as well as their civic awareness and engagement. In addition, she has worked with university students in the field of teaching and curriculum development. She has supervised numerous undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA, PhD) students in their final projects. Sigrún’s research covers a wide range of issues within educational science and developmental psychology. Her aim as a researcher is to increase knowledge and understanding about how to support children's and youths' development and welfare at home, in school and in leisure activities. Four overlapping elements have been especially key to her research.
Sigrún’s first studies focused on how elementary school children's social competence develops with age. The emphasis was on their developing capacity to coordinate different points of view as they negotiate interpersonal classroom conflicts. Then, applying that understanding, she conducted research in school-based programs to learn whether, through constructive work with students, teachers could strengthen the development of the students’ social competence and skills. This school development program, “Fostering students' social and emotional development” (Hlúð að félags- og tilfinningaþroska nemenda), entailed a year-long course for the teachers. It included working with teachers, designing curricula for students and teachers,  and evaluating both the students’ and teachers’ progress.
Sigrún’s second project, “Teachers' and school administrators' educational vision”, sprang out of the school development project. To strengthen teachers in their work with their students, she explored how the teachers developed in their teaching as they participated in the project and reflected on their work. Using a life story approach, she elicited their educational vision by directing attention to their values, aims, and teaching methods, as well as how they felt their life story had an impact on their educational vision. In the book Respect and Care: The Call of the 21st Century (Virðing og umhyggja: Ákall 21. aldar), Sigrún reports on this research and the school development projects that took place over several years.
Sigrún's interest in the welfare of children and youth led her to her third research project, “Young People’s Relationships, Risk taking, and Strengths: A Longitudinal Study”. In it she directs attention to how parenting styles in the earlier part of adolescence (age 14) relate to various factors of the young people’s development, well-being, and behaviour up until they are in their twenties (age 22). This study focuses on their social competence, self-esteem, perceived self-control, and how they feel (anxious, depressed), along with their academic engagement (academic achievement, dropping out of school) and risk behaviour, especially substance use. In addition, she pays special attention to the interaction, over time, between these factors and the adolescents’ social competence.
Again using a life story approach, Sigrún also explores the voices of the young people in the longitudinal study as they speak about their relationships with those closest to them (parents, friends, partners) from when they were adolescents (age 16) until they were in their 30s (age 33). She also explores their experiences and attitudes toward their own and others' drug abuse. Further, she elicits their pedagogical visions (values, aims, actions) as they describe their upbringing and their relationships with their children after they had become parents in their 30s. In her book 'Young People’s Life Stories:  Relationships, Risk-taking, Strengths (Lífssögur ungs fólks: Samskipti, áhættuhegðun, styrkleikar) Sigrún reports on the findings of this longitudinal study.
In her fourth major research project, “Young People's Civic Awareness and Engagement in a Democratic Society” (Borgaravitund ungs fólks í lýðræðisþjóðfélagi) her aim is to gain more knowledge and understanding of young people’s civic awareness in both elementary and secondary schools. In the study the young people are given voice as, for example, they explore their ideas about democracy and their attitudes towards human rights, especially those of women and immigrants, and also as they describe the impacts they want to have on society.
Sigrún has organised this research with her collaborators in Iceland at the research centre Challenges Facing Children and Young People. She has also worked with Professor Robert L. Selman and his research team at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and with scholars in the European network project, Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe (CiCe). Sigrún has served in various positions at the University of Iceland. For example, she chaired both the Science Committee of the University Council and the Science Committee of State Universities. Under the auspices of the Faculty of Social Sciences she was on the Board of Directors of the Social Sciences Institute and also chaired the Faculty's Science Committee.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, she sat on a committee to develop a parliamentary bill for public support of scientific research. She was also on the Board of Directors of the Icelandic Research Fund (Icelandic Centre for Research). And, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, she served in a working group on fundamental factors for education in Iceland; the emphasis was on the factors of democracy and human rights.
Along with her collaborators, Sigrún has founded a variety of graduate programs in educational science at the university; examples are the program Psychology in Educational Science and the program Parent Education which was founded in collaboration with the University of Minnesota in the United States. She has also worked on school-based continuing education for teachers and principals. Sigrún has received several acknowledgements for her academic work, including one from the University of Iceland in 2004 for her “contribution to research”. In 2005 “The Together Group” recognised her for her “good theoretical work and useful research for the benefit of parents and children”. The group is an association of many municipalities, associations and institutions that work together to enhance the welfare of children and adolescents. In addition, in 2012 she received the Icelandic Order of the Falcon Cross for her contribution to Educational Science. Sigrún is married to Þórólfur Ólafsson, a dentist. They have two sons, Aðalbjörn and Þórólfur Rúnar and three grandchildren.  Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2019). Lífssögur ungs fólks – Samskipti, áhættuhegðun, styrkleikar [Young people’s life stories – Relationships, risk-taking behavior, strengths]. Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan.
Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2011). Borgaravitund ungs fólks í lýðræðisþjóðfélagi [Young people‘s civic awareness and engagement in a democratic society]. Reykjavík: Rannsóknasetrið Lífshættir barna og ungmenna - Félagsvísindastofnun og Menntavísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2007). Virðing og umhyggja – Ákall 21. aldar [Respect and care – The call of the 21st century] . Reykjavik: Heimskringla, Haskólaforlag Máls og menningar.
Adalbjarnardottir, S., Dorfadóttir, A.G., Thorolfsson, Th.R., & Gardarsdottir, K.L. (2003). Vímuefnaneysla og viðhorf - Ungu fólki í Reykjavík fylgt eftir frá 14 ára til 22 ára aldurs [Substance use and attitudes – Following young people in Reykjavik from age 14 to 22]. Reykjavík: Félagsvísindastofnun og Háskólaútgáfan. Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2015). Ákall og áskoranir: Vegsemd og virðing í skólastarfi [Challenges and Opportunities for Schools: Respect and Professionalism]. Netla - Veftímarit um uppeldi og menntun [Netla – Online Journal on Pedagogy and Education].
Blondal, K. S., & Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2014). Parenting in relation to school dropout through student engagement: A longitudinal study. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76, 778-795.
Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2002). Adolescent psychosocial maturity and alcohol use: Quantitative and qualitative analysis of longitudinal data. Adolescence, 37, 19-53.
Adalbjarnardottir, S. & Hafsteinsson, L.G. (2001). Parenting styles and adolescent substance use: A longitudinal study. Journal of Research on Adolesence, 11, 401-423.
Blondal, K. S., & Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2014). Parenting in relation to school dropout through student engagement: A longitudinal study. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76, 778-795.
Gestsdottir, S., Geldhof, J., Paus, T., Freund, A.M., Adalbjarnardottir, S, Lerner, J.V., & Lerner, R.M. (2015). Self-regulation processes among youth in four western cultures: Is there an adolescent-specific structure of the Selection-Optimization-Compensation (SOC) model? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(4) 346–358.
Gudjohnsen, R. Th. & Adalbjarnardottir, S. (2017). Viðhorf ungs fólks til pólitískrar þátttöku [Young peoples’ views on political participation] Stjórnmál & stjórnsýsla [Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration], 13(2), 287-310.


The Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. She often served as a flagship during her career and frequently served overseas. On one of these deployments, the ship received a radio message from Peking, one of the first long-range radio transmissions to a ship. Vettor Pisani participated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, during which her admiral nearly caused a diplomatic incident with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War I, her activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines and she was converted into a repair ship in 1916. Vettor Pisani was stricken from the Navy List in 1920 and scrapped later that year. Vettor Pisani had a length between perpendiculars of 99 meters (324 ft 10 in) and an overall length of 105.7 meters (346 ft 9 in). She had a beam of 18.04 meters (59 ft 2 in) and a draft of 7.2 meters (23 ft 7 in). The ship displaced 6,614 metric tons (6,510 long tons) at normal load, and 7,128 metric tons (7,015 long tons) at deep load. The Vettor Pisani-class ships had a complement of 28 officers and 472 to 476 enlisted men.
The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft. Steam for the engines was supplied by eight Scotch marine boilers. Designed for a maximum output of 13,000 indicated horsepower (9,700 kW) and a speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph), Vettor Pisani only reached a speed of 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h; 21.4 mph) during her sea trials despite slightly exceeding her designed horsepower with 13,259 ihp (9,887 kW). She had a cruising radius of about 5,400 nautical miles (10,000 km; 6,200 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).
The main armament of the Vettor Pisani-class ships consisted of twelve quick-firing (QF) Cannone da 152/40 A Modello 1891 guns in single mounts. All of these guns were mounted on the broadside, eight on the upper deck and four at the corners of the central citadel in armored casemates. Single QF Cannone da 120/40 A Modello 1891 guns were mounted in the bow and stern and the remaining two 120 mm (4.7 in) guns were positioned on the main deck between the 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. For defense against torpedo boats, the ship carried fourteen QF 57 mm (2.2 in) Hotchkiss guns and eight QF 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns. The ship was also equipped with four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes.
Vettor Pisani was protected by an armored belt that was 15 cm (5.9 in) thick amidships and reduced to 11 cm (4.3 in) at the bow and stern. The upper strake of armor was also 15 cm thick and protected just the middle of the ship, up to the height of the upper deck. The curved armored deck was 3.7 cm thick. The conning tower armor was also 15 cm thick and each 15.2 cm gun was protected by a 5 cm (2.0 in) gun shield. Vettor Pisani, named after the eponymous Venetian admiral, was laid down on 7 December 1892 at the Royal Shipyard in Castellammare di Stabia. The ship was launched on 14 August 1895 and completed on 1 April 1899. She was the flagship of Rear Admiral Candiani, commander of the Cruising Squadron dispatched to China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Vettor Pisani arrived there on 20 August and made port visits in Japan, Korea and Vladivostok before departing the area on 29 November 1901. She arrived at La Spezia in February 1902, but only remained in Italian waters for a year before departing for another year-long cruise to the Far East on 15 April 1903. On 14 October, the Italian Legation in Peking successfully radioed the ship off the coast of China, one of the first long-range radio transmissions to a ship. The cruiser arrived back in Italy on 13 June 1904. Nothing is known of her activities until May – June 1908 when Vettor Pisani made a short cruise in Greek waters.
When the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 began on 29 September 1911, Vettor Pisani was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Inspector of Torpedo Boats. His command, the Division of the Inspector of Torpedo Boats, was deployed in the Adriatic Sea and five of his destroyers encountered two Ottoman torpedo boats in the Ionian Sea only an hour after war was declared. One of the Ottoman ships was able to take shelter under the protection of the fortifications in Prevesa while the other was forced to beach itself with nine men killed by Italian gunfire. The Italians blockaded the port and the Duke requested permission to issue an ultimatum for the Ottoman authorities to surrender the ship lest he bombard the city with Vettor Pisani and the battleship Ammiraglio di Saint Bon. Protests in early October over Italian interference in Ottoman-controlled Albania by the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced the Italians to abandon operations there and permission was denied. The cruiser was based in Taranto and Brindisi for much of December.
In mid-April 1912, the division escorted the 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions of the Italian fleet from Taranto to the eastern Aegean Sea where it bombarded the fortifications defending the Dardanelles to little effect before the main body departed for Italy on the 19th. Several months later, Vettor Pisani supported an unsuccessful sortie by five torpedo boats into the Dardanelles in search of the Ottoman fleet on the night of 18/19 July.
Obsolescent by the beginning of World War I, Vettor Pisani was not very active during the war. She spent the war in the Adriatic and participated in an abortive attempt in mid-1915 to bombard a rail line near Ragusa Vecchia on the Dalmatian coast. An Austro-Hungarian submarine, U-4, intercepted the Italian ships and sank the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi. The loss of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the sinking of the armored cruiser Amalfi by another submarine on 7 July severely restricted the activities of the other ships based at Venice. She subsequently became a repair ship in 1916 and was stricken from the Navy List on 2 January 1920. Vettor Pisani was sold for scrap and broken up beginning on 13 March.<PIC>


Solimano is an opera in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian-language libretto by Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca. Loosely based on an episode in the life of Suleiman the Magnificent, the opera premiered on 5 February 1753 at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden. The lavish premiere production was designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena and featured Angelo Amorevoli in the title role.<PIC> Hasse was a favorite of Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria and composed multiple operas for her court in Dresden, beginning with La Spartana generosa performed in 1747 to celebrate her betrothal to Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony. His librettist for Solimano, Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca, was a student and protégé of Metastasio. Migliavacca's libretto was loosely based on the early 17th-century tragedy Il Solimano by Prospero Bonarelli, which in turn was loosely based on an episode in the life of Suleiman the Magnificent who had his eldest son Mustafa killed as a traitor. In the opera Mustafa's name is changed to "Selim" while his younger half-brother and rival Cihangir becomes "Osmino". Roxelana, Suleiman's consort and Osmino (Cihangir)'s mother, was a central character in Bonarelli's play, but she is only alluded to in the opera. Migliavacca also changed the tragic ending. In the opera Suleiman recognizes his folly in believing Selim (Mustafa) to be a traitor and spares his life. The two brothers are reconciled and marry the Persian princesses Narsea and Emira with whom they had fallen in love. Solimano premiered on 5 February 1753 at the Opernhaus am Zwinger. The production designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena with costumes by Francesco Ponte was a lavish spectacle with real horses, camels and elephants on stage and hundreds of extras in addition to the seven main singers and the chorus of soldiers. The final scene, a brilliantly lit Turkish camp at night, had ships sailing on the River Tigris with the hanging gardens of Babylon in the distance. The opera ran for twelve performances, and according to contemporary accounts, the ladies of the Dresden Court paid the Swiss Guards to hold their places in the opera house so they revisit the most spectacular scenes on each evening it was performed. Hasse revised the score when Solimano was revived at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in January 1754. Solimano proved to be Migliavacca's most successful libretto and was subsequently set by several other composers, including Fischietti (1755), Pescetti (1756), Perez (1757), and Galuppi (1760).
The opera received its first performance in modern times on 16 August 1997 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in a production conducted by René Jacobs and directed by Georg Quander. Thomas Randle sang the title role with mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion as Selim. A recording of the performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 the following December. In February 1999 Jacobs conducted the same production at the Berlin Staatsoper to mark the tricentennial of Hasse's birth. On that occasion Thomas Randle reprised the title role while Vivica Genaux sang the role of Selim. In his review of the Berlin performance critic George Loomis wrote: "Hasse's arias emerged as not just musical pleasantries, but also vital studies in character. Intense rhythmic energy conveys Solimano's volatile nature, soothing melodic pathos defines his wrongly accused son, Selim."  There are no complete commercial recordings of Solimano. However Selim's Act 2 aria "Fra quest'ombre" sung by Vivica Genaux can be heard on Decca's Baroque Divas and one of the sinfonias from the opera transcribed for lute can be heard on the Oehms Classics recording Opera for Lute. The Act 1 triumph scene ("Marcia alla Turca" and the soldiers' chorus "Viva il prode, viva il forte") appears on Phoenix Edition's 1001 Nights: Breezes From The Orient performed by the Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choir.


Alexander Vasilievich Sukhomlin (Russian: Александр Васильевич Сухомлин; 5 November [O.S. 23 October] 1900 – 7 October 1970) was a Soviet military commander, reaching the rank of lieutenant general in the Red Army.<PIC> Sukhomlin was born in a village in the Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine). He graduated from an industrial school in Irkutsk in 1917 and worked as a locksmith for the local Trans-Baikal Railway station. In 1918 he joined the Red Guards as a machine gunner and helped suppress the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion and served on several Soviet steamships on Lake Baikal. He was transferred to the Amur Front after the Empire of Japan and the White movement captured Khabarovsk, located on the Amur River. He later completed the Vystrel course and graduated from the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. He served as head of the faculty's training department at Frunze Military Academy and then as commissioner for the academy's preparatory course from 1931 to 1933. In 1936 he was appointed an assistant army inspector for the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army. In 1937 he became the course director at the Soviet General Staff Academy after graduating from that institution in October 1936. In February 1941 he was named an assistant professor.
When Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941 Sukhomlin was named deputy chief of staff for the Northwestern Front centered around Leningrad. In September he was chosen as acting chief of staff for the 54th Army, part of the Leningrad Front. In January 1942 he briefly assumed command of the 8th Army on the Volkhov Front before taking command of the 54th Army, recovering from the Soviet loss in the Battle of Lyuban. He led the army in February 1943 during Operation Polar Star, an unsuccessful attempt to lift the blockade of Leningrad. His role was to attack toward Tosno and link up with the 55th Army attacking from Krasny Bor. Sukhomlin was demoted to deputy commander of the army for his failure. In March he was named assistant commander of the Volkhov Front and in June he became chief of staff of the 5th Army on the Western Front.
In August 1943 Sukhomlin became chief of staff of the 10th Guards Army and in September was named its commander. He replaced Kuzma Trubnikov, who was blamed for the early failures of Operation Suvorov, an attempt to liberate Smolensk. Under Sukhomlin the 10th Guards broke through the right flank of the German IX Army Corps of 4th Army west of Yelnya on September 15 and then advanced on Smolensk from the southwest. The troops under his command earned distinction for their performance during the operation.
In February 1944 Sukhomlin became the deputy chief of the Frunze Military Academy. In January 1949 he was appointed head of the military history department and then in December 1953 he was appointed senior lecturer in the Department of Strategy at the K. Е. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy (now the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia). In February 1956 he went on a foreign trip to the People's Republic of China and served as senior military adviser to the head of the PLA military academy. In May 1959 he was seconded to the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces and in June he was seconded to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union for research work. In August 1960 he returned to the General Staff military academy as a senior lecturer in the Department of Strategy. He retired from active service in June 1963. ; on encyclopedia.mil.ru
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