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Ivan Koreta (born 15 October 1955) is a Ugandan military officer, diplomat and legislator. He is a General in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and a representative for the armed forces in the Parliament of Uganda; where he serves as a member of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee on Presidential Affairs.
Koreta has been a member of the armed forces since 1981 and most recently served as the deputy chief of defence forces, the second-highest position in the UPDF, from 2005 to 2013. He also served from 2006 up until 2009 as the chairman of the General Court Martial, the second-highest military court in Uganda.
Early life and education
Koreta was born in Mbarara, Ankole sub-region, on 15 October 1955 in a Pentecostal family of the Banyankole. He had his primary education at Nyamitanga Muslim Primary School, in his home town of Mbarara and attained his PLE certification in 1969. He then attended Kiira College Butiki for his O-Level education, attaining an East African Certificate of Education in 1973. He then transferred to Old Kampala Secondary School, for his A-Level schooling, graduating there with the East African Advanced Certificate of Education in 1975.
Military training and career
While still in his teens, Koreta attended military training in Mozambique as a member of the Front for National Salvation, a guerilla group led by Yoweri Museveni. He participated in the war that removed Idi Amin from power in 1979. When Museveni formed the National Resistance Army (NRA) in 1981, Koreta joined him. During the Ugandan Bush War, he became a battalion commander in the NRA. During the April 1986 battle to capture the Ugandan capital city Kampala, his 13th NRA Battalion was responsible for guarding the Kampala-Gulu highway at Matugga.
Since the NRA captured power and was subsequently transformed into the UPDF, Koreta has served in various roles, including the following:
Commander of the First Division: 1986-1988 (at the rank of Brigadier General)
Deputy Director of the Internal Security Organization: 1988-2001
Promoted to rank of Major General: 2001
Promoted to rank of lieutenant general and appointed commandant of the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College at Kimaka, being the first military officer to serve in that capacity: 2004
Appointed deputy commander of defence forces in Uganda: 2005
Appointed chairman of the General Court Martial: 2006
Appointed head of the Ugandan delegation on the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) team for South Sudan: 2015
Other responsibilities
As a diplomat, Koreta led a Ugandan peace-keeping force to Liberia in 1994. In 2016, he was elected as a representative for the UPDF in the 10th Parliament of Uganda; where he now serves as a member of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee on Presidential Affairs.
In February 2019 he was promoted from the rank of Lieutenant General to that of a Four-star General, as a part of a promotions exercise involving over 2,000 men and women of the UPDF.
Retirement
In August 2021, he retired from the UPDF, at the rank of a 4-star general, at the age of 65 years.
See also
UPDF
Parliament of Uganda
Salim Saleh
Mugisha Muntu
Jeje Odongo
James Kazini
Aronda Nyakairima
Charles Angina
References
External links
Partial List of Senior UPDF Commanders
Website of the Parliament of Uganda
1955 births
Living people
Ankole people
People from Mbarara
Ugandan military personnel
Members of the Parliament of Uganda
University of Ibadan alumni
Ugandan generals
21st-century Ugandan politicians
People educated at Kiira College Butiki |
```python
import pytest
from conftest import assert_complete, partialize
@pytest.mark.bashcomp(pre_cmds=("HOME=$PWD",))
class TestXhost:
@pytest.mark.parametrize("prefix", ["+", "-", ""])
def test_hosts(self, bash, hosts, prefix):
completion = assert_complete(bash, "xhost %s" % prefix)
assert completion == [f"{prefix}{x}" for x in hosts]
@pytest.mark.parametrize("prefix", ["+", "-", ""])
def test_partial_hosts(self, bash, hosts, prefix):
first_char, partial_hosts = partialize(bash, hosts)
completion = assert_complete(bash, f"xhost {prefix}{first_char}")
if len(completion) == 1:
assert completion == partial_hosts[0][1:]
else:
assert completion == sorted(f"{prefix}{x}" for x in partial_hosts)
``` |
Lt Gen (R) Bilal Akbar () is a retired 3 Star General of the Pakistan Army and retired Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Biography
General Bilal was admitted at the Pakistan Military Academy in 1984, and passed out from the academy with a class of 73rd PMA Long Course on 13 March 1986. He gained commission in the army as 2nd-Lt in the Artillery Corps. He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College in Quetta, the National Defense University in Islamabad, and the Turkish Staff College in Istanbul.
In 2013–14, Major-General Bilal Akbar served as the GOC of the 11th Division stationed in Lahore. In August 2014, Major General Bilal Akbar was transferred and took charge as the Director-General of the Sindh Rangers. Under his command, the Sindh Rangers decreased the rate of crime in Karachi and apprehended those in charge of organised crime within Karachi. Due to numerous successful operations under his command, Karachi had started its recovery to stability, and becoming a contributing part of Pakistan.
On 11 December 2016, Maj-Gen. Akbar was promoted to the three-star rank and appointed as the Chief of General Staff at the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi. On 24 August 2018, Lt Gen Bilal Akbar was then posted as the field commander of the X Corps stationed in Rawalpindi as a result of a major command reshuffle.
On 28 December 2018, Lt Gen Bilal Akbar was appointed as Colonel commandant of the Mujahid Force Regiment stationed in Bhimber. On 12 September 2019, Lt Gen Akbar was appointed as Chairman Pakistan Ordnance Factory.
In January 2021, Akbar was appointed Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia after his retirement from the Army in December 2020.
References
Punjabi people
Pakistan Military Academy alumni
National Defence University, Pakistan alumni
Pakistani expatriates in Turkey
Pakistani generals
People of the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ambassadors of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia |
DOMINE is a database of known and predicted protein domain interactions (or domain-domain interactions). It contains interactions observed in PDB crystal structures, and those predicted by several computational approaches. DOMINE uses Pfam HMM profiles for protein domain definitions. The DOMINE database contains 26,219 interactions among 5,410 domains), which includes 6,634 known interactions inferred from PDB structure data.
References
See also
DOMINE database
Biological databases
Protein structure
Protein domains |
Wild Act is a ten-volume romantic comedy manga series, written and illustrated by Rie Takada, and was the first of her series to be translated in English. It was translated by Tokyopop, who opted not to renew the license once it expired.
Plot
The story starts with a girl named Yuniko trying to steal an award because it was held by actor Akira Nanae. The actor who would receive it, Ryu Eba, finds out about her stealing it and tells her that she must steal it from him again. Then they start to fall in love. She continues to steal Akira's things, and she finds a tape of a conversation between her parents that states she has a brother named Ryu. They then travel to America and attend acting school in Los Angeles. She meets another Ryu, Ryu Gilliams. He says that his parents were Nanae's friends, and that they were told to marry. They star in the school play, and are successful. They find out Ryu Eba isn't her brother, and they end up as successful actors. At the end, Kamui and Cinnamon have babies, and Yuniko and Ryu have a baby as well. The last page ends in a cliffhanger, however, as they attend an award ceremony and it is never shown whether Ryu or Yuniko get the award.
Characters
Yuniko Sakuraba
The main character of Wild Act. She is 15, and lives at the apartment block for the theater troupe that her parents were involved in, and has been raised by them since her father died, and her mother was put in the hospital. She is very upbeat and tends to be a little overconfident, though she shy's away from the stage. She starts out as a Nanae-maniac, cat burglarizing all of his stolen possessions for her own (Thus, how she meets Ryu Eba.) When she finds out that Nanae is her father, she immediately starts a search for proof. While she thinks that Ryu is her brother, she eventually realizes that she doesn't care.
Ryu Eba
The Hero of Wild Act. He is a 17 yr. old famous movie star in Japan and is often thought of as "The New Nanae" though he absolutely despises the comparison. When he falls in love with Yuniko, it is revealed that he is VERY possessive, and tends to be dirty-minded. He loves Yuniko, though all they ever seem to do is bicker. On a rare occasion, he is romantic and cares very deeply about what Yuniko feels. Regardless of the fact that he is a pervert, Ryu shows hints of being very mature for his age, even though he loses his temper more often. While Yuniko and Ryu think they are siblings, Ryu is the one who says they won't be having any more sex until they can prove they aren't. In the fight with Maki over the tape, he jumps after Yuniko when she falls from the cliff, and when Yuniko is trapped under the golden gate bridge, he rushes to the rescue with the help from both Tokio and Maki.
Tokio
Yuniko's friend who helps her steal Akira's things. He is a genius, though bit kinky, and often tries to get Yuniko to wear a leather bikini suit on her missions in return for a gadget he has created. He shows his true worth in the end of the manga when he and Maki help Ryu to save Yuniko from the psychopathic "Goldie."
Kamui
Yuniko's pet flying squirrel. He is Yuniko's partner in crime. He is found to be able to speak the human language. He also is the object of affection for Cinnamon, though he really doesn't like her, because he appointedly does not like children. He is very intelligent, and harbors a fantasy of romance with Yuniko. For this reason, he is jealous of Ryu.
Cinnamon
Yuniko's other pet flying squirrel. Cinnamon is too young to do anything, but she is in love with Kamui, although her love is not returned until the end of the last volume. She is very timid and pees all over, and when they get to America, her pee becomes explosive, like a barrier.
Maki
Yuniko's enemy turned friend in Japan. He is a former paparazzi. When Maki gives up his Aspiration to be a journalist, he falls in love with Yuniko. While she and Ryu are broken up(temporarily), he tries to comfort Yuniko by making love with her. He is unsuccessful.
Ryu Gilliams
Also known as Ryu #2. He is Yuniko's older brother, but due to an accidental baby swap when he was an infant, he has grown up all of his life as an orphan. Gilliams believes he is the son of Yuniko's parents friends and he also believes that he and Yuniko were destined to marry. When Yuniko turns him down, his true nature is revealed in which he attempts to kidnap, and possibly rape, her. Yuniko is saved by Tokio and Maki.
"Goldie"
She is a producer in Hollywood. She was in love with Akira when he was alive, and she blackmailed him into having sex with her so that she would put him in one of her movies. She tries the same trick with Ryu Eba, however, Ryu refuses. She believes Ryu Eba is her son, and she is so obsessed with Akira, that she drugs Ryu #1, and attempts to rape him. She also tries to kill Yuniko. In the last volume, it is revealed that Ryu Gilliams is Goldie's son.
Akira Nanae
Yuniko's late father. He was a very famous Actor, and the first Japanese person to make it big in Hollywood. While promoting one of his movies, he was involved in a plane crash that ultimately killed him. His belongings were scattered and ransacked by a bunch of fans upon his death.
References
External links
Wild Act at the official Tokyopop site
Tokyopop titles
1998 manga
Romantic comedy anime and manga
Shōjo manga
Shogakukan manga |
Peter Kuhfeld (born 4 March 1952) is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld, née Showan. They have two daughters who have often appeared in their paintings.
Biography
Kuhfeld is the only child of a German prisoner of war and an English classical pianist. Between 1972 and 1976 he studied at Leicester School of Art. He worked from 1976 to 1978 at Rugby School of Art, where he gave lessons in drawing and painting, before securing a place at the prestigious Royal Academy School of Art. During 1977-80 Kuhfeld studied under the painter Peter Greenham CBE, RA. In 1978 he was created a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painters.
While at the Royal Academy Schools Kuhfeld won various notable scholarships and prizes:
1978-79 David Murray Landscape Prize; 1979 Royal Academy of Art Silver Medal for Drawing, Royal College of Surgeons Dooley Prize for Anatomical Drawing; 1980 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship and Richard Ford Scholarship for study in Spain.
In 1985 the New Grafton Gallery in London gave Kuhfeld his first major exhibition, with the painter Christa Ga, which helped establish him as one of the up-and-coming members of the New English Art movement. In 1986 Kuhfeld was elected to membership of the New English Art Club. In 1992 he became an elected member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, which he resigned in 2005. In 2009, he unveiled a portrait of Harry Patch, the oldest man in Europe and last surviving World War I soldier, which Kuhfeld called "a privilege" and "was struck by this extraordinary man".
In 2012, he was commissioned by Charles, Prince of Wales to paint the royal wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Charles has been a patron of his and Kuhfeld painted portraits of Prince William and Prince Harry in 1986.
For the event of the 2023 coronation of Charles III and Camilla, Kuhfeld was selected by King Charles III to paint his state portrait.
Exhibitions
1985 Christa Ga and Peter Kuhfeld, New Grafton Gallery, London
1987 Royal Academy Schools Tradition, Highgate Gallery, London
1987 The Long Perspective, National Trust Foundation for Art, Agnew's London
1987 The New English Art Club, W.H.Patterson, London
1988 A Personal Choice, Sir Brinsley Ford, The Fermoy Gallery, King's Lynn Festival
1989 Salute to Turner, National Trust Foundation for Art, Agnew's London
1989 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1990 Accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales to Nigeria, Cameroon and Tunisia
1990 Accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales to Japan
1991 Five New English Painters, W.H. Patterson, London
1992 The Order of Merit: New Portrait Drawings commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II, National Portrait Gallery (London)
1993 Accompanied the Prince of Wales to Poland
1994 Venice in Peril, W.H. Patterson, London
1994 Peter Greenham CBE, RA. Memorial Exhibition, Christie's, London
1995 Centenary National Trust Foundation for Art, Christie's, London
1995 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1996 NEAC 2000, The Fine Art Society, London
1997 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1998 Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the National Portrait Gallery, London
1998 30th Anniversary, New Grafton Gallery, London
1998 Princes as Patrons, National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff
1998 Travels with the Prince, Hampton Court Palace
1999 Variations on a Theme, W.H. Patterson, London
1999 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1999 Christmas Exhibition – Seven pictures of Pulteney Bridge, Bath, W.H. Patterson, London
2000 People's Portraits, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
2000 Millennium, W.H. Patterson, London
2000 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, at the National Portrait Gallery, London
2002 New English Art Club at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, winner of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales’ Prize for Portrait Drawing
2002 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, at the National Portrait Gallery, London
2003 The View, Waterstones, London
2003 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 Petley Fine Art, Monte Carlo
2004 Drawing, Petley Fine Art, London
2004 Accompanied the Prince of Wales to Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
2004 Cathryn and Peter Kuhfeld, New Grafton Gallery, London
2005 Petley Fine Art, London
2005 John Ward, Friends and Family, Faversham, Kent
2006 Drawing, Petley Fine Art, London
2006 John Cornforth Memorial exhibition, Sotheby's, London
References
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
New English Art Club
External links
Peter Kuhfeld at Brian Sinfield Art Gallery
1952 births
Living people
20th-century English painters
21st-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English male artists
21st-century English male artists |
Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually at around 11pm to midnight. It is usually recorded on a Tuesday for Friday broadcast and features a mixture of both established and new musical artists, from solo performers to bands and larger ensembles. In recent years, a live Tuesday version, featuring the same artists as the following weekend's programme, has been transmitted in a half-hour BBC2 slot.
See also
List of performers on Later with Jools Holland
Jools' Annual Hootenanny
Notes
References
BBC programme links
External links
Lists of British non-fiction television series episodes |
Starfall () is a 1981 Soviet romance film directed by Igor Talankin.
Plot
The film tells about a man and a woman who met in a front-line city and fell in love. They wanted to get married, but the war and the mother of the main character interfered with them.
Cast
Alla Demidova
Pyotr Fyodorov as Misha Yerofeyev
Darya Mikhaylova as Lida
Maksim Prizov as Mishka
Nadezhda Bochkova
Pyotr Yurchenkov
Vera Glagoleva
Olga Anokhina
Aleksandr Bespaly
Sergei Desnitsky
References
External links
1981 films
1980s Russian-language films
Soviet romance films
1980s romance films |
Oscar Fernandez-Taranco (born 1957) is an Argentinian economist who has been serving as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Development Coordination under the leadership of Secretary General António Guterres since 2022.
Early life and education
A citizen of Argentina, Fernandez-Taranco studied economics at Cornell University and urban-regional economic planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
From 2014 to 2022, Fernandez-Taranco served as Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support; his first term was extended in 2018. Prior to this appointment on 2 September 2014, he served as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs in the UN Department of Political Affairs.
Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, he was Resident Coordinator in the United Republic of Tanzania. Between 1998 and 2001, he served as Resident Representative, UN Resident Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti.
From 1994 to 1998, he was Deputy Special Representative of the Administrator of the West Bank and Gaza Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian people. For five years, he also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director in the Regional Bureau of Arab States in the United Nations Development Programme.
He joined the UN as a volunteer in Benin.
Other activities
Fernandez-Taranco is a member of the Interpeace Governing Council.
References
See also
UN Biography of Oscar Fernandez-Taranco
Argentine officials of the United Nations
Argentine diplomats
MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
Cornell University alumni
1957 births
Living people |
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash is a six-issue comic book limited series that was released in November 2007 and ran until March 2008. It was published by Wildstorm (DC Comics) and Dynamite Entertainment. Based on the original Freddy vs. Jason 2 film treatment by Jeff Katz, the story serves as a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason and the Evil Dead trilogy. The comic book series was written by James Kuhoric and illustrated by Jason Craig.
Plot summary
Set in December 2008, 5 years after the events of the film Freddy vs. Jason and 16 years after the end of Army of Darkness, Will Rollins and Lori Campbell (the former protagonists from Freddy vs Jason) returning to Crystal Lake to put closure to their experience, but Jason kills them a short while after and takes their decomposed corpses to his shack in the woods nearby. There, Jason enters a trance,and Freddy and Jason's "mother" Pamela appear to him. Freddy Krueger is now trapped, powerless inside the mind of Jason Voorhees, where he learns of the Necronomicon hidden in the old Voorhees home, with the power to resurrect him. He and Jason's mother (false Pamela Voorhees) convince Jason that if he gets the Necronomicon, Jason will become "a real boy". Meanwhile, Ash Williams is called to the new Crystal Lake S-Mart to give his retail expertise to its team of teenage slacker employees. While there, he interprets a nearby Jason murder as work of the Deadites. Later, he follows a group of teens to the Voorhees house where he finds the Necronomicon before Jason appears, killing the teens.
At the S-Mart, Ash and the employees begin to make a plan to deal with Jason; however, he ends up killing mostly everyone in the store and escaping with the evil book. Freddy uses the Necronomicon to restore himself to full power and increase Jason's intelligence. Later when Ash and the survivors sleep at Carolyn's house, they are confronted by Freddy in their dreams. Ash and his motley crew of S-Mart employees confront Freddy and Jason at the Voorhees home where Freddy has already unleashed the full power of the Necronomicon, giving him reality-altering abilities. With his new intelligence, Jason turn against Freddy, attempting to steal the Necronomicon and use it's powers for himself.
In a final confrontation between the three horror movie icons, Freddy resurrects all of Jason's previous victims from the Friday the 13th films as Deadites to attack him and Ash, and turns the Voorhees home into the Elm Street house. Ultimately, Ash defeats both villains with help from his coworkers, and uses the Necronomicon to open a portal, banishing Freddy to the Deadite world while Jason and the Necronomicon itself are isolated underneath a frozen Crystal Lake.
Collected editions
The series is collected as a trade paperback:
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (144 pages, Wildstorm, September 2008)
Sequel
In August 2009, the first issue of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors, another six issue mini-series, was released with James Kuhoric and Jason Craig returning to write and illustrate, respectively. The story picks up where Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash left off and features cameos from known characters from the previous Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street films.
Cancelled film adaptation
Following the box office success and ambiguous ending of the crossover slasher film Freddy vs. Jason (2003), plans were being made for a follow-up film based on the storyline of the comic sequel which delved into the concept of including Ash Williams of the Evil Dead horror franchise and recurring characters from both the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchise. However, due to creative differences between New Line Cinema and Bruce Campbell, the film was scrapped.
References
External links
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash at Nightmare on Elm Street Companion
WildStorm limited series
A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) comics
The Evil Dead (franchise) comics
Comics based on Friday the 13th (franchise)
Crossover comics
Intercompany crossovers
Comics about revenge
2008 comics debuts
2008 comics endings |
Marcus Richard Einfeld (born 22 September 1938) is an Australian former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was the inaugural president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. He was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and served two years in prison.
Einfeld studied law at the University of Sydney. His father Syd Einfeld was a federal MP. He was called to the bar in 1962, and appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1977. From 1972 to 1976, Einfeld was a director of the World Jewish Congress, based in London. After returning to Australia he became one of Sydney's most prominent barristers. Einfeld was appointed to the Federal Court in 1986, serving until 2001. In the same year he was made the inaugural president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, serving until 1989. He was also the inaugural president of the Australian Paralympic Committee from 1990 to 1992.
In 2006, Einfeld was issued a A$77 speeding ticket for travelling 10 km/h (6.2 mph) over the limit. He appealed the ticket, claiming that he had not been driving. Journalists subsequently discovered that he had made a number of false statements under oath; the woman he had said was driving had in fact died several years earlier. Einfeld was arrested in 2007, and the following year pleaded guilty to perjury and perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. As a result of his actions, Einfeld was expelled from the legal profession and stripped of many of the honours he had previously accumulated, including his status as a Queen's Counsel, appointment of the Order of Australia, and his status as a National Living Treasure.
Early life
Einfeld was born in Sydney, and was named after his paternal grandfather who had died a year earlier. He has a sister. His parents were the Labor Party politician Syd Einfeld and his wife Billie Rose (née Appelboom), who married in June 1934. His father served in both Federal Parliament and the Parliament of New South Wales. Einfeld's paternal grandfather was the Reverend Marcus Einfeld (1874-1937), who came to Australia in 1909 (becoming the chazan and the Second Minister of the Great Synagogue) by way of London, England, to which he had immigrated from Jarosław in Galicia with his wife Deborah (née Gabel; d. 1957).
Einfeld attended Sydney Boys High School from 1951 to 1955. He then obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney in 1962. At some point, Einfeld began claiming that he held doctorates from both "Century University" and "Pacific Western University"; both are U.S.-based diploma mills without any accreditation as law schools. Those qualifications were referred to by Attorney-General Lionel Bowen when Einfeld was added to the Federal Court in 1987, and were listed in his Who's Who in Australia entry until 2007. His updated Who's Who entry, which was published after he had been arrested and charged with perjury, also corrected his year of birth (previously listed as 1939) and removed a claim that he had once been a director of the multinational firm Marks & Spencer in the 1970s.
Marriages and children
Einfeld has four children, two from each of two marriages. He married his first wife Yetta, a teacher, in 1963 and that had two children before they divorced in 1977. He married his second wife Anne, an attorney, in 1982 and they had two children before they divorced in 1996.
He was subsequently in a long-term relationship with Sylvia Eisman.
Legal and judicial career
Einfeld became a barrister in 1962. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1977, aged 39. He represented High Court Justice Lionel Murphy in his legal challenge to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry which had been established to examine whether Murphy had perverted the course of justice; the inquiry was suspended when Murphy became terminally ill.
Einfeld was appointed to the Federal Court in 1986. Einfeld was also an additional Justice of the Australian Capital Territory. He retired as a judge in April 2001. Einfeld was the founding president of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. He was appointed to a seven-year term in December 1986, but resigned after three years citing an inability to combine the role with his judicial duties. In 1987 he led the commission's enquiry into the living conditions of Aborigines in the border area of New South Wales and Queensland. An Aboriginal elder praised his work with indigenous communities when he was Human Rights Commissioner.
Community and social involvement
Einfeld has served as Austcare's "Ambassador for Refugees", and as a UNICEF "Ambassador for Children". In 1997, he was named by the National Trust of Australia as an Australian Living Treasure, one of up to 100 living people selected by popular vote for having made outstanding contributions to Australian society. In 2002 he was granted the United Nations Peace Award. He has also served as National Vice President of the International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section). In 2002, he was presented a United Nations Association of Australia Founder's Award for his contribution to justice and human rights. He served as Chairman of Legal Resources International Inc., a non-government organisation funded by lawyers and the World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat, dedicated to advising developing countries on establishing proper systems for democracy and justice.
He was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to international affairs and the protection of human rights in 1998. He was also the inaugural President of the Australian Paralympic Federation.
Einfeld has served as an executive member of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and as a Councillor on the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. He also started and served as the first chairman of the Australian Campaign for the Rescue of Soviet Jewry, following his earlier establishment of the London-based National Campaign for Soviet Jewry of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Einfeld has been a spokesperson for Israeli and Jewish causes, and has contributed to public debate on Palestine, the media, the United Nations, universities, and other institutions. In 1997 President of the Palestinian National Authority Yassar Arafat chose him to assist in overhauling the Palestinian Authority's legal system. He was an invited speaker at United Israel Appeal (UIA) functions in Britain, the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia. He is patron of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants and of the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Controversies
In a March 2006 address on the war on terror and civil liberties at the University of Western Sydney, he stated that Western powers, including Australia, had supported terrorist regimes financially, and that new sedition laws showed that Australia was "leaning towards an autocratic framework".
Einfeld was the President of Australian Legal Resources International, a non-profit independent group of lawyers that supported democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in developing countries. In August 2006, this organisation collapsed, leaving creditors, including AusAID, the Australian Taxation Office, and St.George Bank "thousands of dollars out of pocket."
Criminal conviction
On 7 August 2006, Einfeld contested a A$77 speeding ticket. His car had been caught by a speed camera, traveling at 60 km/h in a 50 km/h zone (10 km/h (6.2 mph) over the speed limit) in the Sydney suburb of Mosman on 8 January 2006. The BBC noted: "the judge was only 6 mph over the limit, which scarcely made him a boy racer."
He contested the ticket in Downing Centre Local Court by claiming he had on that day lent his car to an old friend, Professor Teresa Brennan, who was visiting from the United States. By making his claim Einfeld was avoiding a A$75 fine, and avoiding losing three of his four remaining demerit points.
He gave evidence under oath in the Local Court, and signed a statutory declaration to that effect, and the magistrate dismissed the charge as "not proved." However, a junior reporter for the Sydney daily tabloid The Daily Telegraph filed a brief story which caught the attention of assistant editor Michael Beach, who discovered that Brennan had died in the United States three years before Einfeld claimed she had been driving his car, and on Beach's instruction the reporter called Einfeld to obtain his reaction. This was the basis for Einfeld's later conviction for knowingly making a false statement under oath.
When challenged by the journalist concerning Brennan's death, Einfeld claimed that he had lent his car on that day to a different Terese or Therese Brennan, who he claimed also lived in the US, and who had also died after returning to the US. On 10 August 2006 a police investigation commenced into whether Einfeld had committed perjury in giving his evidence. On 23 August 2006, Einfeld produced a detailed 20-page statement describing the fictitious second Teresa Brennan and his supposed dealings with her. This was the basis for his conviction for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Matters took an unusual turn when on 10 August 2006 Angela Liati, a 55-year-old Sydney woman unknown to Einfeld but who wanted to meet him, came forward and claimed that she had met Einfeld and had driven in his car with "Theahresa Brennan" (whom she had met on a meditation retreat) on a shopping expedition on the day in question. Liati said "He has given his life to good causes and has been a brilliant judge ... a brilliant man ... and he deserves all the respect a country will give him". Liati represented herself during an eight-day District Court jury trial and claimed that she was only endeavouring to make contact with Einfeld through her admission. However, she was found guilty on 12 February 2009 of perverting the course of justice and was subsequently sentenced to 200 hours' community service; later changed to a 12-month good behaviour bond.
On 29 March 2007, Einfeld was arrested by the New South Wales Police. He was initially charged by the Director of Public Prosecutions (New South Wales) with 13 offences, including perjury, perverting the course of justice, and making and using false statutory declarations. The charges had maximum penalties totalling 154 years in jail.
Einfeld's committal hearing was held in December 2007. The prosecution suggested the reason he lied under oath was that, had he gained the demerit points for the speeding offence, he would have been close to losing his licence. However, Einfeld denied he was aware his points were so high. One charge (hindering an investigation) was dropped. Einfeld was committed to stand trial on charges of perjury, perverting the course of justice, and traffic offences.
On 19 October 2008 the Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed another five of the charges against Einfeld, leaving only two.
On 31 October 2008, Einfeld pleaded guilty to the two remaining charges—to perjury, and to perverting the course of justice—just before his trial was to commence. It was also revealed that he had been battling prostate cancer for several months. The pre-sentence report to the court stated that Einfeld accepted responsibility for his actions. The head of the NSW Fraud Squad and commander of the Strike Force said its two-and-a-half-year investigation of the matter was "very lengthy, very protracted, very intricate". After his speeding fine case came to the attention of the Australian media, Einfeld was the subject of media reports alleging various other improprieties, including padding his curriculum vitae, purchasing doctorates from US diploma mills, and plagiarism.
On 20 March 2009, the 70-year-old retired judge Einfeld was sentenced to the maximum three years in prison for knowingly making a false statement under oath and for attempting to pervert the course of justice, with a non-parole period of two years. Supreme Court Justice Bruce James found Einfeld had committed "deliberate, premeditated perjury" that was "part of planned criminal activity". He served two years, and was released on parole on 19 March 2011.
Reactions
Einfeld said "I'm desperately sorry for what I did. I'm sorry to my family, my elderly mother and my children. I'm sorry to the public at large.... I lied. I can't say it any simpler than that. I told a lie, which was a disgraceful thing to do and for which I have been paying ever since." When Einfeld was asked if he was a dishonest man, he said: "No, I'm not dishonest, no... I don't think I'm the slightest bit dishonest. I just made a mistake."
On 5 November 2008, the President of the New South Wales Bar Association applied to the New South Wales Court of Appeal to withdraw Einfeld's commission as Queen's Counsel, on the basis that his conduct had brought shame upon the legal profession as well as on himself. On 26 November, Einfeld's commission as a Queen's Counsel was revoked. His membership of the Order of Australia was rescinded in April 2009.
NSW Law Society president Joe Catanzariti said that the three-year sentence for the former judge demonstrated that "the legal profession did not protect its own", but that it was tragic to see Einfeld's reputation ruined because "the sad thing in all of this is you do have a great man who has done great works, and ... the substantive thing that started it is so trivial." Reacting to a call to strip Einfeld of his pension, Chief Justice of New South Wales Jim Spigelman wrote in an April 2009 letter to NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos that pensions should be safe when judges were already retired, they were a deferred part of their salary, criminal law was sufficient punishment, and that it would be even more unusual if the offence "bears no relationship" to the judge's former duties. Spigelman continued that then-federal Attorney General Robert McClelland and state attorneys-general should "impose a cooling off period on themselves" for reacting to vehement short-term ad hoc media campaigns."
Sydney barrister and author Charles Waterstreet observed: "at the time ... Einfeld wrote a false name for the driver ... at the heart of the sorry case ... the maximum, I repeat, the maximum fine for making a false declaration of that nature was $1,000." Former Australian Minister for Home Affairs, the Environment, and Arts Barry Cohen noted that: "many journalists ... feel it is beholden upon them to mention that a person is Jewish, particularly if they have been naughty... He received three years in custody... By comparison ... a young lady living in Canberra got four years for killing her boyfriend. Shortly after Marcus Einfeld was sentenced, Stephen Linnell, one of the top advisers to Victoria police commissioner Christine Nixon, pleaded guilty to three counts of perjury and disclosing confidential information of the Office of Police Integrity. He received an eight-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine. The glaring difference between these crimes and the punishments incurred is extraordinary."
Removal from the roll
On 23 July 2009, the New South Wales Court of Appeal ordered that Einfeld's name be struck out from the roll of lawyers. On 28 August 2009, the Court of Appeal delivered its reasons for making those declarations and orders, finding proven allegations that, in addition to the 2006 statutory declaration in respect of which he had been convicted, Einfeld had also sworn a series of statutory declarations in 1999, 2003, and 2004 falsely nominating other persons as the drivers of his car who he knew had not been driving the car so as to avoid traffic infringements. Einfeld agreed not to apply for re-admission. The court also considered the circumstances in which Einfeld had produced the 20-page statement describing the fictitious Teresa Brennan, and found that:
This statement reflects a studied, careful and premeditated attempt through a series of direct lies to influence the outcome of the administration of justice. It involves not a passing mistake, not an unfortunate and apparently uncharacteristic lapse but a studied and deliberate attempt to avoid the consequences of his actions and to deflect and pervert the course of justice. It may well be that the course of justice was in relation to a minor matter, standing alone. That, however, is not the point... All these facts ... when taken as a whole reflect deeply on the character of the defendant. Some of his falsehoods were committed at a time when he held high judicial office in the administration of justice in this country. Some were committed when he held the position as a practitioner... These matters, having taken place over a period of some seven years ... reveal a clear unfitness to remain on the Roll of Local Lawyers.
Later life
In 2011, Einfeld was devoting his time to community works, including working on Australian prison reform.
Honours
Queen's Counsel (QC): Letters Patent granted 1977. Revoked 26 November 2008.
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): June 1998, "for service to international affairs and to the promotion and protection of human rights". Terminated by the Governor-General on 24 April 2009.
Australian Sports Medal: November 2000, as "Chairman of Fundraising Committee for 1988 Paralympic Team; President of APC 1990–1992". Subsequently terminated.
Centenary Medal: January 2001, "for service to the Centenary of Federation celebrations".
Literature
Marcus Einfeld, A Bill of Rights for the Australian People, Debrett's (2001)
Marcus Einfeld, Evidence Illegally and Improperly Obtained: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?, Seventh National Conference of Labor Lawyers (1985).
References
External links
Marcus Einfeld "The Great Australian Brain Robbery; The hijacking of the Australian conscience," Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Lecture, Richardson Theatre, University of Newcastle (19 September 2002)
1938 births
Australian Jews
Australian perjurers
Australian prisoners and detainees
Human rights in Australia
Human rights lawyers
Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Living people
Perverting the course of justice
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
Sydney Law School alumni
People educated at Sydney Boys High School
Former Officers of the Order of Australia
People of Galician-Jewish descent
Australian barristers
People educated at Moriah College
Judges convicted of crimes
Disbarred lawyers |
```shell
List installed packages
Installing a `.deb` package from the terminal
Prevent updating a specific package in Debian systems
Get `apt` to use a mirror / faster mirror
Using `PPAs`
``` |
Světec () is a municipality and village in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
Světec lies approximately south of Teplice, south-west of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Prague.
Administrative parts
Villages of Chotějovice, Štrbice and Úpoř are administrative parts of Světec.
Notable people
Vojtěch Preissig (1873–1944), painter and illustrator
References
Villages in Teplice District |
Ruppert Coast () is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, between Brennan Point and Cape Burks, or between Saunders Coast in the west and Hobbs Coast in the east. It stretches from 146°31'W to 136°50'W. It was named by R. Admiral Richard Byrd for Col. Jacob Ruppert of New York, a supporter of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–1935) that made the first aerial reconnaissance flight along this coast. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) completely mapped the coast from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–1965.
The Russian station Russkaya is located on Ruppert Coast.
Coasts of Antarctica
Landforms of Marie Byrd Land |
The comptroller general of South Carolina is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of South Carolina. Forty individuals have held the office of comptroller general since 1800. The office has been held by Brian J. Gaines since May 12, 2023, who was appointed by Governor Henry McMaster as a recess appointment following the resignation of Richard Eckstrom on April 30, 2023. McMaster appointed Gaines to avoid a constitutional crisis; since the office was vacant, no person could authorize the distribution of funds.
The South Carolina Code of Laws of 1976, Title 11, Chapter 3 describes the responsibilities of the Office of the Comptroller General.
History
At the turn of the 19th century, the state of South Carolina's finances were marked by confusion, with officials having difficulty in ascertaining its debts. In response, the office of comptroller general was created with Paul Hamilton as the inaugural holder. In 1948, the comptroller general was added to the State Budget and Control Board, a body tasked with helping to craft the state's budget. The body was changed to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority in 2015.
Election and structure
South Carolina is one of twelve states in the country with an elected controller. The only qualification for candidates for the office is that they be a registered voter in the state. Comptrollers general serve renewable terms of four years.
The comptroller general's office is housed in the Wade Hampton State Office Building. As of May 31, 2023, the agency is staffed by 27 employees. In the event of a vacancy in the office, the General Assembly is empowered by the constitution to appoint a new incumbent. In the event the assembly is not in session, the governor can fill the vacancy with a recess appointment. The comptroller collects an annual salary of $151,000.
Powers and duties
The comptroller general is one of eight statewide constitutional officers in South Carolina. They serve as the chief accountant and fiscal watchdog of state government. As such, the comptroller general monitors state spending, issues warrants authorizing the payment of funds out of the state treasury, maintains the state's accounting system, establishes internal controls for state agencies, provides financial services to state agencies and local governments, and prepares reports on the financial operations and condition of state government, including the state's annual comprehensive financial report. All payrolls for state employees, vouchers for bills owed by the state, and payments between state agencies are processed by the comptroller general.
The comptroller general is also a member of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority (SFAA), an independent state agency which includes the governor, the state treasurer, and the chairs of the budget committees in the General Assembly. The SFAA is generally charged with oversight of state spending and management of state property. In particular, the SFAA acquires insurance for state agencies and local governments, procures goods and services for the operations of state government, and oversees the construction and maintenance of state buildings. In addition, the SFAA appoints South Carolina's state auditor to serve at pleasure.
List of Comptrollers General
Notes
References
Works cited
State agencies of South Carolina
South Carolina |
The is the only active artillery brigade of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The brigade is subordinated to the Northern Army and is headquartered in Chitose, Hokkaidō. Its responsibility is the defense of Hokkaidō.
Organization
1st Artillery Brigade, in Chitose
1st Artillery Brigade HQ, in Chitose
1st Artillery Regiment (Mechanized), in Chitose
101st Artillery Battalion, in Bihoro, with three batteries of M110 203mm Howitzers
102nd Artillery Battalion, with three batteries of M110 203mm Howitzers
129th Artillery Battalion, with three batteries of M270 Multiple Rocket Launchers
4th Artillery Regiment (Mechanized), in Kamifurano
104th Artillery Battalion, with three batteries of M110 203mm Howitzers
132nd Artillery Battalion, with three batteries of M270 Multiple Rocket Launchers
1st Surface-to-Surface Missile Regiment, in Chitose, with four batteries of Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missiles
2nd Surface-to-Surface Missile Regiment, in Bibai, with four batteries of Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missiles
3rd Surface-to-Surface Missile Regiment, in Kamifurano, with four batteries of Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missiles
301st Observation Battery, in Chitose
External links
Homepage 1st Artillery Brigade (Japanese)
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Brigade
Military units and formations established in 1952 |
Yuzuru Hanyuda(羽入田 譲 born October 23, 1976) is a Japanese male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup trying to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
World Cup 2005/2006 results
26th on November 10, 2005, Calgary CAN
26th on November 17, 2005, Lake Placid, New York, USA
References
External links
長野県連選手名鑑
Living people
Japanese male skeleton racers
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people |
Roberto Villa (born Giulio Sabetta; December 2, 1915 – June 30, 2002) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Casablanca, Villa completed his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and he eventually made his way up to acting. He made his film debut in the 1936 film The Great Appeal directed by Mario Camerini. Villa acted in two other films throughout the course of the late 1930s which includes Luciano Serra, Pilot directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and The Fornaretto of Venice directed by Duilio Coletti.
Villa‘s likeness on the big screen was once compared to that of international actors such as Robert Montgomery and Robert Young. By the 1940s, Villa intensified his acting career and worked frequently with directors like Luigi Zampa, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Sergio Tofano and more. Villa worked on stage frequently during the 1950s and moved on to television in the 1960s. He also worked as a voice dubbing artist, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy, most notably Robert Shaw’s voice. Villa’s voice was dubbed in some of his films by Carlo Romano and Mario Pisu. He then retired from cinema and television altogether with his wife during the 1970s.
Personal life
Villa was married to actress and director Adriana Parrella (who he met during a radio session in 1949) from 1952 until his death in 2002.
Villa had a passion for collecting seashells during his spare time.
Death
Villa passed away in his home in Sutri following complications from pancreatitis on 30 June 2002. He was 86 years old.
Filmography
Cinema
The Great Appeal (1936)
Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938)
The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
Se quell'idiota ci pensasse (1939)
La fanciulla di Portici (1940)
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)
Ecco la radio! (1940)
La gerla di papà Martin (1941)
Il sogno di tutti (1941)
Marco Visconti (1941)
I mariti (1941)
L'elisir d'amore (1941)
La sonnambula (1941)
Princess Cinderella (1941)
Una volta alla settimana (1942)
Violette nei capelli (1942)
The Two Orphans (1942)
Divieto di sosta (1942)
Wedding Day (1942)
Signorinette (1942)
La fortuna viene dal cielo (1942)
Il paese senza pace (1943)
Lively Teresa (1943)
La signora in nero (1943)
Principessina (1943)
La moglie in castigo (1943)
Il processo alle zitelle (1944)
Scadenza trenta giorni (1944)
The Twentieth Duke (1945)
Porte chiuse (1945)
La prigioniera dell'isola (1946)
Hotel Luna, Room 34 (1946)
Un mese d'onestà (1947)
La sirena del golfo (1948)
The Dance of Death (1948)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
Il medico delle donne (1962)
Television
L'amico del giaguaro (1961-1964)
Le avventure di Laura Storm (1966)
Dubbing roles
Live action
Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin and Marian
Romer Treece in The Deep
Keith Mallory in Force 10 from Navarone
General Marenkov in Avalanche Express
Bernie Ohls in The Big Sleep (1946 redub)
Skull in Blackie the Pirate
Palpatine / Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (original edition)
Ira Wells in The Late Show
Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto
Tom in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Auction director in Untamable Angelique
Turkish Ambassador in Angelique and the Sultan
Harry Greener in The Day of the Locust
George Sims in Bedlam
Professor Ruzinsky in The Sentinel
Isoroku Yamamoto in Tora! Tora! Tora!
M in Octopussy
Tronk in The Desert of the Tartars
Shack in Emperor of the North Pole
Sam Hastings in Power
Carlino in Wait Until Dark
Jeff Newby in The Undefeated
Dawes in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Del Gue in Jeremiah Johnson
Melk Tavares in Gabriela
Ronald Bart in Hanover Street
Colonel Santilla in The Wrath of God
Dale Coba in The Stepford Wives
References
Bibliography
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
1915 births
2002 deaths
Actors from Casablanca
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male voice actors
Italian male television actors
Italian male radio actors
20th-century Italian male actors
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
Deaths from pancreatitis |
```javascript
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Morović () is a village located in the municipality of Šid, Srem District, Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 1,744 inhabitants.
History
In the Middle Ages, Morović was a notable town. It was built by Serbian despot Stefan Štiljanović in 1498. Štiljanović used Morović as his residence until he moved to Baranya, escaping the Ottomans.
The Roman Catholic church of Saint Mary from the 13th century, built in both Romanesque and Gothic styles is a very noteworthy monument. It is located on a cemetery north of the village. The Serbian Orthodox church of the Nativity of Mary and the Roman Catholic church of Saint Roch are also located in the village.
Historical population
1961: 2,110
1971: 2,292
1981: 2,196
1991: 2,105
2002: 2,164
2011: 1,744
Geography
Morović is located at the confluence of the Bosut and Studva rivers and is surrounded by opulent oak forests. The Adaševci interchange on the A3 motorway is located to the north of the village. The nearby village of Jamena can only be accessed by traveling through Morović.
Sport and Hunting
Morović is most famous for its hunting area often referred to as Tito's hunting ground, it was one of his favorite hunting grounds in the time of Yugoslavia. In recent years it has attracted interest from international hunters with excellent facilities and accommodations dedicated to the sole purpose of hunting. The surrounding area contains an abundance of red deer, fellow deer, wild boar and pheasants. It spreads on 2500 hectares covered with magnificent centenary oaks. In the middle of the reserve there is Tito's hunting lodge with eight beds and another common hunting lodge with about twenty beds. The infrastructures are very good and all the reserve is very well looked after. The area also hosts a well known fishing tournament every year, the area is popular with anglers due to the surrounding rivers around Morović.
The local football club is FK Jedinstvo Morović, it currently competes in the Vojvođanska liga - Jug which is the equivalent fourth division.
Notable people
Dušan Popović (1877–1958) represented Morović in the Croatian Parliament from 1906 to 1913, while Syrmia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
Spačva basin
References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
External links
Hunting
Morovic Travel photos Virtual Tourist
Football results Serbia
Populated places in Syrmia |
The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai conducts research studies and provides care to children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Seaver Autism Center works to understand the biological causes of ASD and to develop treatments, as well as provide education and training opportunities.
As a collaborative effort that integrates the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurology, molecular genetics, neuroscience, and neuroimaging, the Center receives funding from diverse sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in addition to multiple foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. The Center receives over 600 new referrals each year and 100 contacts per month, including patients enrolled in ongoing treatment.
History
The Seaver Autism Center was founded in 1993 by a grant to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from the Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1984 and created exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational endeavors.
Leadership
Director: Joseph Buxbaum, PhD
Clinical Director: Alex Kolevzon, MD
Chief Psychologist: Paige M. Siper, PhD
Director of Community Outreach: Michelle Gorenstein-Holtzman, PsyD
Director of Psychology Training: Danielle B. Halpern, PsyD
Research
Members of the research team participate in interrelated ASD research programs in genetics, experimental therapeutics, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience. Researchers publish over 40 related articles per year in peer-reviewed journals. The Center uses methods of genetic epidemiology, molecular and cell biology, genetics, and animal models to identify genes that contribute to ASD susceptibility and use that knowledge to develop novel therapeutics.
The Seaver Autism Center offers an integrated series of clinical research studies in treatments, genetics, and brain imaging. All services provided as part of research studies are free of charge to eligible participants and can include gold standard diagnostic assessments such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule – Second Edition (ADOS-2), the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), psychiatric evaluations, and neuropsychological testing.
Clinical Services
The Center provides comprehensive clinical services, including but not limited to psychiatric evaluations and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedules (ADOS). These services are provided free-of-charge to people with autism, with participation in a research study. The Center also provides support and training for parents and siblings of individuals with autism.
References
External links
Seaver Autism Center - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Medical research institutes in New York (state)
Autism-related organizations in the United States
Mental health organizations in New York (state)
1993 establishments in New York City
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Kerruish ( ) is a Manx surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Kerruish (1917–2003), Speaker of the House of Keys
Mike Kerruish (1948–2010), First Deemster and politician
Sarah Kerruish, documentary director, producer and writer
See also
Ballafayle (Kerruish) Halt
Surnames of Manx origin |
```c++
// your_sha256_hash----------------------------------
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and
// associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
// including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
// sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
// substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
// NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
// DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
// your_sha256_hash----------------------------------
// Local:
#include "VideoFrameWriter.h"
#include "Logger.h"
#if WIN32
#include "WindowsFrameWriter.h"
#else
#include "PosixFrameWriter.h"
#endif
// STL:
#include <exception>
#include <sstream>
#define LOG_COMPONENT Logger::LOG_VIDEO
namespace malmo
{
VideoFrameWriter::VideoFrameWriter(std::string path, std::string frame_info_filename, short width, short height, int frames_per_second, int channels, bool drop_input_frames)
: path(path)
, width(width)
, height(height)
, frames_per_second(frames_per_second)
, drop_input_frames(drop_input_frames)
, channels(channels)
, is_open(false)
, frame_duration(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(1000) / frames_per_second)
{
boost::filesystem::path fs_path(path);
if (boost::filesystem::is_directory(fs_path)) {
this->frame_info_path = fs_path / frame_info_filename;
}
else {
this->frame_info_path = fs_path.parent_path() / frame_info_filename;
}
}
VideoFrameWriter::~VideoFrameWriter()
{
this->close();
}
void VideoFrameWriter::open()
{
this->close();
// Create helpful script:
boost::filesystem::path fs_path(this->path);
std::string ffmpeg_helpfile = (fs_path.parent_path() / (fs_path.stem().string() + "_to_pngs.sh")).string();
std::ofstream helpfile(ffmpeg_helpfile);
helpfile << "#! To extract individual frames from the mp4\n";
helpfile << "mkdir " << fs_path.stem().string() << "_frames\n";
helpfile << "ffmpeg -i " << fs_path.filename() << " " << fs_path.stem().string() << "_frames/frame_%06d.png\n";
this->frame_info_stream.open(this->frame_info_path.string());
this->frame_info_stream << "width=" << this->width << std::endl;
this->frame_info_stream << "height=" << this->height << std::endl;
this->is_open = true;
this->start_time = boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::universal_time();
this->last_timestamp = this->start_time - this->frame_duration;
this->frame_index = 0;
this->frames_available = false;
this->frame_writer_thread = boost::thread(&VideoFrameWriter::writeFrames, this);
}
bool VideoFrameWriter::isOpen() const
{
return this->is_open;
}
void VideoFrameWriter::close()
{
LOGSECTION(LOG_FINE, "In VideoFrameWriter::close()...");
if (this->is_open) {
this->frame_info_stream.close();
this->is_open = false;
LOGFINE(LT("Set is_open to false"));
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> frames_available_guard(this->frames_available_mutex);
this->frames_available = true;
}
LOGFINE(LT("Notifying worker thread that frames are available, in order to close."));
this->frames_available_cond.notify_one();
LOGFINE(LT("Waiting for worker thread to join."));
this->frame_writer_thread.join();
LOGFINE(LT("Worker thread joined."));
LOGFINE(LT("Frames received for writing: "), this->frame_index);
LOGFINE(LT("Frames actually written: "), this->frames_actually_written);
}
}
void VideoFrameWriter::writeFrames()
{
this->frames_actually_written = 0;
while (this->is_open) {
{
boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex> lock(this->frames_available_mutex);
while (!this->frames_available) {
this->frames_available_cond.wait(lock);
}
}
while (true) {
TimestampedVideoFrame frame;
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> buffer_guard(this->frame_buffer_mutex);
if (this->frame_buffer.size() > 0) {
frame = this->frame_buffer.front();
this->frame_buffer.pop();
}
}
if (frame.width == 0) {
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> frames_available_guard(this->frames_available_mutex);
this->frames_available = false;
break;
}
try
{
writeSingleFrame(frame, this->frames_actually_written);
this->frames_actually_written++;
}
catch (std::exception& e)
{
LOGERROR(LT("Failed to write frame: "), e.what());
}
}
}
}
void VideoFrameWriter::writeSingleFrame(const TimestampedVideoFrame& frame, int count)
{
LOGTRACE(LT("Writing frame "), count + 1, LT(", "), frame.width, LT("x"), frame.height, LT("x"), frame.channels);
if (frame.channels == 4)
{
if (frame.frametype == TimestampedVideoFrame::DEPTH_MAP)
{
// For making videos out of 32bpp depth maps, what exactly should we display?
// We could reduce to greyscale, but that way we loose a lot of precision.
// Instead, convert to an HSV colour cone, which hopefully gives a greater range
// of colour values to map to.
const float* fPixels = reinterpret_cast<const float*>(&(frame.pixels[0]));
char *out_pixels = new char[frame.width * frame.height * 3];
for (int i = 0; i < frame.width*frame.height; i++)
{
float f = fPixels[i];
float h = 60.0f * f;
while (h >= 360.0)
h -= 360.0;
float s = 1.0;
float v = 1.0f - (f / 200.0f);
if (v < 0)
v = 0;
if (v > 1.0)
v = 1.0;
h = h / 60.0f;
float fract = h - floor(h);
v *= 255.0;
float p = v*(1.0f - s);
float q = v*(1.0f - s*fract);
float t = v*(1.0f - s*(1.0f - fract));
unsigned int out;
if (0. <= h && h < 1.)
out = int(v) + (int(t) << 8) + (int(p) << 16);
else if (1. <= h && h < 2.)
out = int(q) + (int(v) << 8) + (int(p) << 16);
else if (2. <= h && h < 3.)
out = int(p) + (int(v) << 8) + (int(t) << 16);
else if (3. <= h && h < 4.)
out = int(p) + (int(q) << 8) + (int(v) << 16);
else if (4. <= h && h < 5.)
out = int(t) + (int(p) << 8) + (int(v) << 16);
else if (5. <= h && h < 6.)
out = int(v) + (int(p) << 8) + (int(q) << 16);
else
out = 0;
out_pixels[3 * i] = out & 0xff;
out_pixels[3 * i + 1] = (out >> 8) & 0xff;
out_pixels[3 * i + 2] = (out >> 16) & 0xff;
}
this->doWrite(out_pixels, frame.width, frame.height, count);
delete[] out_pixels;
}
else
{
// extract DDD from RGBD
char *out_pixels = new char[frame.width * frame.height * 3];
for (int i = 0; i < frame.width*frame.height; i++)
{
out_pixels[i * 3] = out_pixels[i * 3 + 1] = out_pixels[i * 3 + 2] = frame.pixels[i * 4 + 3];
}
this->doWrite(out_pixels, frame.width, frame.height, count);
delete[] out_pixels;
}
}
else if (frame.channels == 3 || frame.channels == 1)
{
// write the pixel data directly
this->doWrite((char*)&frame.pixels[0], frame.width, frame.height, count);
}
else throw std::runtime_error("Unsupported number of channels");
}
bool VideoFrameWriter::write(TimestampedVideoFrame frame)
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> write_guard(this->write_mutex);
if (!this->drop_input_frames || frame.timestamp - this->last_timestamp >= this->frame_duration) {
this->last_timestamp = frame.timestamp;
std::stringstream name;
name << "frame_" << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(6) << this->frame_index + 1;
std::stringstream posdata;
posdata << "xyzyp: " << frame.xPos << " " << frame.yPos << " " << frame.zPos << " " << frame.yaw << " " << frame.pitch;
this->frame_info_stream << boost::posix_time::to_iso_string(frame.timestamp) << " " << name.str() << " " << posdata.str() << std::endl;
this->frame_index++;
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> buffer_guard(this->frame_buffer_mutex);
LOGTRACE(LT("Pushing frame "), this->frame_index, LT(", "), frame.width, LT("x"), frame.height, LT("x"), frame.channels, LT(" to write buffer."));
this->frame_buffer.push(frame);
}
{
boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> frames_available_guard(this->frames_available_mutex);
this->frames_available = true;
}
this->frames_available_cond.notify_one();
return true;
}
return false;
}
std::unique_ptr<VideoFrameWriter> VideoFrameWriter::create(std::string path, std::string info_filename, short width, short height, int frames_per_second, int64_t bit_rate, int channels, bool drop_input_frames)
{
#if WIN32
std::unique_ptr<VideoFrameWriter> instance( new WindowsFrameWriter(path, info_filename, width, height, frames_per_second, bit_rate, channels, drop_input_frames) );
#else
std::unique_ptr<VideoFrameWriter> instance( new PosixFrameWriter(path, info_filename, width, height, frames_per_second, bit_rate, channels, drop_input_frames) );
#endif
return instance;
}
}
#undef LOG_COMPONENT
``` |
Orontes IV (Old Persian: *Arvanta-) was the son of King Arsames and is recorded as ruling Armenia from inscriptions found at the historic capital of the Orontid dynasty, Armavir. He was the founder of the city of Yervandashat.
In his reign the religious site of Bagaran was founded. Large bronze statues in the Hellenistic style of the gods, Zeus (Aramazd), Artemis (Anahit) and Herakles (Vahagn) were brought there and set up in temples dedicated to them. He is also said to have founded a shrine at Armavir dedicated to Apollo (Mithra), a golden statue of four horses pulling a chariot with Apollo as god of the Sun. This was later destroyed by the Sassanid Persian army in the 4th century AD.
Antiochus III, King of the Seleucid Empire, instigated a revolt against Orontes, headed by Artaxias I. Aramaic inscriptions found at Armavir state that King Orontes IV died at the hands of his own army, in other words by betrayal from Artaxias I. Artaxias I was appointed as King of Armenia, by Antiochus.
Orontes IV had a son, Ptolemaeus of Commagene, who served as the last Satrap of Commagene between 201 and 163 BC, became in 163 BC the first King of Commagene and died in 130 BC.
Ancestry
References
Sources
512
3rd-century BC kings of Armenia
2nd-century BC kings of Armenia
Orontid dynasty
3rd-century BC births
Year of birth unknown
200 BC deaths |
Fuquay was an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
References
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Kanawha County, West Virginia |
Philippe of Anjou (Philippe d'Anjou) may refer to:
Philip I, Prince of Taranto (1278-1332)
Philip II, Prince of Taranto (1329-1374)
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640-1701), titled Duke of Anjou at birth
Philippe-Charles, Duke of Anjou (1668-1671), second son of Louis XIV of France
Philip V of Spain (1683–1746), titled Duke of Anjou at birth
Philippe of France (1730–1733), son of Louis XV of France |
The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is the lifetime's work of Gordon Boswell (died 27 August 2016, aged 76), who amassed a collection of artefacts, photographs, and several examples of the characteristic Gypsy wagon or Vardo. The museum also operates a number of non-Romany vehicles, including a horse-drawn hearse. The collection is housed at Clay Lake, Spalding in Lincolnshire, England.
Background
Building bridges to the non-Romany community was a tradition in Boswell's family. His great-grandfather had been an important source of information on Romany traditions and language for Victorian academics including George Borrow. Gordon Boswell's father Sylvester published in 1970 a best-selling autobiography, "The Book of Boswell", which portrayed the Romany life. Gordon Boswell gradually collected waggons, carts, and other artefacts of Romany life over many years. The museum that resulted was opened on 25 February 1995.
Access
The museum is open on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. from, roughly, Easter (Good Friday) to the last weekend in September each year. There is access to all exhibits for the disabled. An admission fee is charged. The museum uses one of the wagons for organised trips in the nearby Fenland.
See also
Vardo (Romani wagon)
Romanichal
References
External links
Gordon Boswell Romany Museum – official site
Museums in Lincolnshire
Agriculture museums in the United Kingdom
Transport museums in England
Carriage museums in England
Ethnic museums in the United Kingdom
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Romani in England
Romani museums |
Matthew Prior (21 July 1664 – 18 September 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. He is also known as a contributor to The Examiner.
Early life
Prior was probably born in Middlesex. He was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr Richard Busby. After his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here, Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the Earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster.
One of his schoolfellows and friends at Westminster was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu, he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.
Career beginning
During an age when satirists could be sure of patronage and promotion, Montagu was promoted at once, and Prior, three years later, became secretary to the embassy at the Hague. After four years of this, he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber at court. Apparently, he acted as one of the King's secretaries, and in 1697 he was secretary to the plenipotentiaries who concluded the Peace of Ryswick. Prior's talent for affairs was doubted by Alexander Pope, who had no special means of judging, but it is not likely that King William would have employed in this important business a man who had not given proof of diplomatic skill and grasp of details.
The poet's knowledge of French was recognised by his being sent in the following year to Paris in attendance on the English ambassador. At this period Prior could say with good reason that "he had commonly business enough upon his hands, and was only a poet by accident." To verse, however, which had laid the foundation of his fortunes, he still occasionally trusted as a means of maintaining his position. His occasional poems during this period include an elegy on Queen Mary in 1695; a satirical version of Boileau's Ode sur le prise de Namur (1695); some lines on William's escape from assassination in 1696; and a brief piece called The Secretary.
After his return from France, Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded John Locke as a commissioner of trade. In 1701 he sat in Parliament for East Grinstead. He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition Treaty; but when Somers, Orford and Halifax were impeached for their share in it he voted on the Tory side, and immediately on Anne's accession he allied himself with Robert Harley and St John. Perhaps as a consequence of this; there is no mention of his name in connection with any public transaction for nine years. But when the Tories came into power in 1710, Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and until the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion and sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador. His share in negotiating the Treaty of Utrecht, of which he is said to have disapproved personally, led to its popular nickname of "Matt's Peace." Prior is also known as a contributor to The Examiner newspaper.
Prison life and poetry writing
When Queen Anne died and the Whigs regained power, Prior was impeached by Robert Walpole and kept in close custody from 1715 to 1717. By this time he had already published a collection of verse, written in 1709. During this imprisonment he wrote his longest humorous poem, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. This, along with his most ambitious work, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, was published by subscription in 1718. The sum received for this volume (4000 guineas), with a present of £4000 from Lord Harley, enabled him to live in some comfort. He died at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, a seat of the Earl of Oxford, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. A monument to Prior, sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack and designed by Gibbs, was erected in Poets' Corner of the Abbey.
A History of his Own Time was issued by J Bancks in 1740. The book pretended to be derived from Prior's papers, but it is doubtful how far it should be regarded as authentic.
Prior's poems show considerable variety, a pleasant scholarship and great executive skill. The most ambitious, i.e. Solomon, and the paraphrase of The Nut-Brown Maid, are the least successful. But Alma, an admitted imitation of Samuel Butler, is a delightful piece of wayward easy humour, full of witty turns and well-remembered allusions, and Prior's mastery of the octo-syllabic couplet is greater than that of Jonathan Swift or Pope. His tales in rhyme, though often objectionable in their themes , are excellent specimens of narrative skill; and as an epigrammatist he is unrivalled in English. The majority of his love songs are frigid and academic, mere wax-flowers of Parnassus; but in familiar or playful efforts, of which type are the admirable lines To a Child of Quality, he has still no rival. "Prior's"—says Thackeray, himself no mean proficient in this kind—"seem to me amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems. Horace is always in his mind, and his song and his philosophy, his good sense, his happy easy turns and melody, his loves and his Epicureanism, bear a great resemblance to that most delightful and accomplished master."
Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire is said to be where Prior wrote Henry and Emma, and this is now commemorated by a plaque. Prior has been commemorated by other poets as well; Everett James Ellis named Prior as a significant influence and source of inspiration.
References
External links
Matthew Prior at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
Luminarium: Matthew Prior Life, works, essays, study resources
Matthew Prior's Grave, Westminster Abbey
The Matthew Prior Project, Prior's complete correspondence
Poems from PoemHunter.com
Quotations
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) — Samuel Johnson's Life of Matthew Prior
1664 births
1721 deaths
18th-century English poets
English MPs 1701
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
People from Wimborne Minster
Ambassadors of Great Britain to France
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
Chief Secretaries for Ireland
English male poets
17th-century English poets
17th-century male writers
Occasional poets |
The Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) provided access for biologists to a comprehensive system of bioinformatics software, databases, documentation, training and support, on a subscription basis. While clearly targeted at Australian researchers, the tools ANGIS provided were available online to investigators worldwide. ANGIS was closed at the end of 2009.
Tools
BioManager was the main resource ANGIS provided. Although ANGIS/Biomanager was closed 30 November 2009, Prof Peter Reeves of the University of Sydney continues to host an implementation of BioManager on a voluntary basis. BioManager was developed from the earlier tool BioNavigator which was originally developed by a now defunct Australian bioinformatics company, Entigen(1). BioManager is a bioinformatics workflow management system that allows integration and use of multiple bioinformatic computer packages through a single web user interface. Data from analyses is stored on the system or used as inputs to other packages in BioManager. As provided by ANGIS, BioManager was a subscription-based service, with access made available to the Australian and New Zealand academic communities. Access from outside Australia and NZ was by enquiry. ANGIS also provided a variety of training resources and courses to help make these tools readily usable by the scientific community.
History
ANGIS began as a project at the University of Sydney in 1990, originally the Sydney University Sequence Analysis Interface (SUSAI) as a multi-disciplinary effort spearheaded by Trevor Cole, Alex Reisner and Peter Reeves. One year later in 1991, SUSAI became ANGIS through the formation of the Australian Genomic Information Center (AGIC), a government sanctioned research center. In March 2007, oversight for ANGIS was passed to the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia within the newly formed Sydney Bioinformatics. ANGIS appears to have ended as an entity with the closing of Sydney Bioinformatics on 31 December 2010.
Teaching
ANGIS was deeply involved in post-graduate training courses and workshops. General Bioinformatic application workshops, along with specialist workshops in proteomics, microarray, database searching and phylogenetics were held in Sydney and elsewhere in the country. In-house training courses in these areas ranged in length from 1–4 days.
BioManager has been used as the main Bioinformatics training tools for Australian and other international universities and academic subscriptions to ANGIS/BioManager included teaching logins for student use.
References
Notes
(1) eBioinformatics/Encompass/Entigen closed in 2001
External links
Biomanager service
Bioinformatics software |
Vazhapadi (Valapady, or Valappadi) is a town panchayat in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of Vazhapadi taluk, one of the 13 taluks of Salem district.
Geography
Vazhapadi is within Vazhapadi taluk, which is the central part of Salem district. It covers in the eastern part of the taluk, near the border with Attur taluk. National Highway 79 passes to the south of the town, and the only railroad line in the taluk runs through the town. It is east of Salem, the district headquarters, north of Madurai, and southwest of the state capital of Chennai.
Demographics
In 2011 Vazhapadi had a population of 17,559 people living in 4,582 households. 8,843 (50.4%) of the inhabitants were male, while 8,716 (49.6%) were female. 1,679 children in the town, about 9.6% of the population, were at or below the age of 6. The literacy rate in the town was 74.4%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 26.4% and 0.26% of the population, respectively.
Politics
Former union minister Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy was born in Vazhapadi. He served as Union Minister of Petroleum as part of NDA government under Atal Behari Vajpayee. He was widely known as Valappadiyar.
References
Cities and towns in Salem district |
Elmo's Christmas Countdown is a 2007 television Christmas film, featuring the characters from Sesame Street. It was first aired on December 23, 2007, on ABC and starred Ben Stiller.
Plot synopsis
In Elmo's Christmas Countdown, Stiller the Elf (Ben Stiller) is telling Stan the snowball how Christmas was almost ruined. He recounts how he visited Sesame Street because he believed Oscar the Grouch would start the official countdown to Christmas. However, due to his hatred of the Christmas season, Oscar tosses the magical counting blocks into the air and they disappear. Stiller is worried that he destroyed Christmas, and it is up to Elmo, Alan and Abby Cadabby to help him find the blocks and the true meaning of Christmas miracles. They find the blocks one by one:
Block No. 10 features Jennifer Hudson singing "Carol of the Bells" with the Forest Animals (including Hoots the Owl). It is found by Abby Cadabby.
Block No. 9 has the reindeer News presenter Charles Blitzen (a spoof of Charles Gibson) of CDN (short for Counter Downer Network) reporting on the incident caused by Stiller the Elf. It was found in Bert's Christmas oatmeal.
Block No. 8 has Anne Hathaway singing "I Want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas" (a parody of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas") with Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus. It was found in Super Grover's cape.
Block No. 7 has Tony Sirico and Steven Schirripa failing to star in a Christmas Special as Bert and Ernie, Christmas is finally saved. It was found by Big Bird.
While Abby and Stiller hunt for Block No. 6, Block No. 5 is found by Ernie. Elmo sings "Do You Hear What I Hear" with Alicia Keys.
Block No. 6 has Charles Blitzen reporting that mass-hysteria is happening after news of the incident caused by Stiller the Elf was happening. It was found by Alicia Keys.
Block No. 5 has Jamie Foxx singing the "Nutcracker Suite" with a Nutcracker version of Elmo. It was found by Ernie.
Block No. 4 has Charles Blitzen sticking out his tongue to Stiller the Elf. It was found by Papa Bear.
Block No. 3 has Count von Count singing "I Saw Three Ships" with Ty Pennington during an "Extreme Makeover: Christmas Edition" where more ships are being made for the song. It was found by Mama Bear.
Block No. 2 has Brad Paisley singing "Jingle Bells" with Grover and the Penguins. It was found by Baby Bear.
Block No. 1 was found by Stiller the Elf. Unfortunately, it had a cookie in it and the Christmas Counter Downer is devoured by Cookie Monster.
Stiller the Elf states that Christmas will never come as Oscar celebrates. Elmo states that he and Abby can believe in Christmas miracles as Stiller joins them. Their believing attracts the appearance of Santa Claus (Kevin James). Handel's Messiah appears as they find every box of the Christmas Counterdowner. Santa Claus then sings "You Gotta Believe" with Elmo, Abby, Stiller, Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, Ernie and Bert, Count von Count, Grover, Prairie Dawn, Baby Bear, Telly Monster, Rosita, Zoe, and Cookie Monster. Santa Claus then takes his leave as he quotes "Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night." After the story is over, Stiller the Elf and Stan the Snowball wish everybody a Merry Christmas.
Sesame Street's broadcast history
Elmo's Christmas Countdown marks the ninth time the Sesame Street characters have crossed over into commercial television. All other Sesame Street material had aired on PBS, a public television network. 25th and 30th anniversary specials, as well as Elmopalooza, have also aired on ABC, while NBC aired an introductory show to Sesame Street called This Way To Sesame Street, Big Bird in China, and a 20th anniversary special. CBS aired the independently produced A Special Sesame Street Christmas, and Fox aired the special CinderElmo.
Cast
Ben Stiller as Stiller the Elf (voice)
Alan Muraoka as Alan
Anne Hathaway as herself
Ty Pennington as himself
Jamie Foxx as himself
Alicia Keys as herself
Sheryl Crow as herself
Charles Gibson as Charles Blitzen (voice)
Steve Schirripa as Famous Ernie
Tony Sirico as Famous Bert
Jennifer Hudson as herself
Brad Paisley as himself
Kevin James as Santa Claus
Muppet performers
Kevin Clash as Elmo, Mouse King
Jennifer Barnhart as Mama Bear
Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph as Abby Cadabby
Eric Jacobson as Bert, Grover
Joey Mazzarino as Papa Bear, Stan the Snowball
Jerry Nelson as Count von Count
Martin P. Robinson as Mr. Snuffleupagus
David Rudman as Cookie Monster, Baby Bear
Caroll Spinney as Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch
Matt Vogel as Stiller the Elf, Big Bird (puppeteer)
Steve Whitmire as Ernie
Bryant Young as the rear end of Mr. Snuffleupagus
Additional Muppets performed by Pam Arciero, Heather Asch, Tyler Bunch, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Ryan Dillon, Artie Esposito, James Godwin, BJ Guyer, Andy Hayward, Carmen Osbahr, Patrick Holmes, John Kennedy, Peter Linz, Michael Lisa, Noel MacNeal, Amanda Maddock, Ed May, Paul McGinnis, Tracie Mick, Marc Petrosino, Andy Stone, Ian Sweetman, David Stephens, John Tartaglia, and Gabriel Velez.
See also
List of Christmas films
References
External links
Elmo's Christmas Countdown at Internet Movie Database
Elmo's Christmas Countdown at Muppet Wiki
Sesame Street features
Christmas television specials
2007 television films
2007 films
2000s American films |
McElhatton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Craig McElhatton, Irish rugby league player
Dave McElhatton (1928–2010), American television anchor
Heather McElhatton, American radio personality and writer
Michael McElhatton (born 1963), Irish actor and writer
Michael McElhatton (footballer) (born 1975), Irish footballer
Surnames of Irish origin |
The Courage Cornwall/Devon League 1988–89 was the second full season of rugby union within the Cornwall/Devon League with six teams from Devon and five from Cornwall. Each team played one match against each of the other teams in the league, playing a total of ten matches with five at home and five away. Penryn, the champions, were promoted to the Courage Western Counties league for season 1989–90, Paignton and Exmouth relegated to Courage Devon One and Hayle relegated to Courage Cornwall One.
Participating teams and locations
Table
Sponsorship
The Cornwall/Devon League was part of the Courage Clubs Championship and was sponsored by Courage Brewery
See also
English rugby union system
References
1988–89 in English rugby union leagues
Tribute Cornwall/Devon |
Abdelghaya Souahel is a small town and rural commune in Al Hoceïma Province of the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region of Morocco. At the time of the 2014 census, the commune had a total population of 25,817 people.
References
Populated places in Al Hoceïma Province
Rural communes of Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima |
Beth is a given name that is usually a shortened form (hypocorism) of Elizabeth, Elsbeth (Scottish version of Elizabeth), Bethany or Bethan.
People
Beth (singer) (b. 1981), Spanish singer
Beth Akers (b. 1983), American economist
Beth Allen (b. 1984), New Zealand actress
Beth Amsel, American folk singer
Beth Anders (b. 1951), American field hockey player and coach
Beth Anderson (composer) (b. 1950), American composer
Beth Anderson (b. 1954), American singer
Beth Bauer (b. 1980), American professional golfer
Beth Beglin (b. 1957), American field hockey player
Beth Behrs (b. 1985), American actress
Beth Barr (b. 1971), American swimmer
Beth Bonner (1952–1998), American long-distance runner
BethAnn Bonner (b. 1982), American actress
Beth Botsford (b. 1981), American swimmer
Beth Broderick (b. 1959), American actress
Beth Buchanan (b. 1952), Australian actress
Beth Cahill (b. 1963), American television actress
Beth Carey (b. 1990), Australian volleyball player
Beth Carvalho (1946–2019), Brazilian singer and composer
Beth Chapman (bounty hunter), American bounty hunter and reality star
Beth Chapman (politician), American politician from Alabama
Beth Chatto (1923–2018), British garden designer
Beth Chamberlin (b. 1963), American actress
Beth Clayton, American opera singer
Beth Cordingly (b. 1977), English actress
Beth Couture (b. 1962), American women's basketball coach
Beth Daniel (b. 1956), American golfer
Beth Denisch (b. 1958), American composer
Beth Ditto (b. 1981), American singer-songwriter
Beth Doherty, Irish climate activist
Beth Dunkenberger (b. 1966), American women's basketball coach
Beth Edmonds (b. 1950), American politician
Beth Ehlers (b. 1968), American politician
Beth Fowler (b. 1940), American actress and singer
Beth Gaines (b. 1959), American politician
Beth Grant (b. 1949), American actress
Beth Gibbons (b. 1965), English singer-songwriter
Beth Goddard (b. 1969), British actress
Beth Goobie (b. 1959), Canadian poet and writer
Beth Gylys (b. 1964), American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing
Beth Hart (b. 1972), American singer
Beth Heiden (b. 1959), American athlete
Beth Henley (b. 1952), American actress
Beth Herr (b. 1964), American tennis player
Beth Holloway (b. 1961), American speech pathologist
Beth Howland (1939–2015), American actress
Beth Iskiw (b. 1979), Canadian curler
Beth Jeans Houghton (b. 1990), English singer-songwriter
Beth Johnson (American politician) (1909–1973), member of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate
Beth Johnson (mayor), mayor of Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Beth Kaplin, Rwandan conservation scientist, professor, and researcher
Beth Karas (b. 1961), American television reporter
Beth Kerttula (b. 1956), American politician
Beth Kephart, American author
Beth Kingston (b. 1986), English actress
Beth Kobliner (b. 1965), American journalist
Beth Krom (b. 1958), American politician
Beth Krommes (b. 1956), American illustrator
Beth Krush (1918–2009), American illustrator
Beth Lapides, American entertainer
Beth Leavel (b. 1955), American stage actress
Beth Levin (linguist) (b. 1955), American linguist
Beth Levin (musician) (b. 1950), American classical pianist
Beth Levine (fashion designer) (1914–2006), American fashion designer
Beth Liebling (b. 1967), American musician
Beth Lisick (b. 1968), American writer
Beth Littleford (b. 1968), American actress
Beth Mead (b. 1995), English association footballer
Beth Mitchell (1972-1998), American shag dancer and schoolteacher
Beth Orton (b. 1970), English singer-songwriter
Beth Phoenix (b. 1980), Polish American professional wrestler and former WWE Diva
Beth Wood (b. 1954), U.S. state auditor
Beth Zanders (née Baker, 1913–2009), New Zealand artist
Characters
Beth, a character in the Canadian-produced sitcom Learning the Ropes
Beth, a character in the Canadian teen drama television series Madison
Beth, a character in the 2005 American romantic comedy movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Beth, a character in the 2005 romantic comedy-drama movie Imagine Me & You
Beth, a character played by Jennifer Aniston in the 2009 American romantic comedy-drama movie He's Just Not That Into You
Beth, in the animated series Total Drama
Beth, a character in the Adventure Time episode "Come Along with Me"
Beth Bailey, in TV series Spooks
Beth Baker, a character played by Nicole Eggert in the 2006 superhero movie Lightspeed
Beth Brennan, in TV series Neighbours
Beth Clement, in TV series Hollyoaks
Beth Dutton, a character in Yellowstone
Beth Fox, a character in the American sitcom television series Coach
Beth Green, in TV series The Bill
Beth Greene, in TV series The Walking Dead
Beth Gordon, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
Beth Hunter, in TV series Home and Away
Beth Jordache, in TV series Brookside
Elizabeth "Beth" March, in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women
Elizabeth "Beth" Childs, in the TV series Orphan Black
Beverly Elizabeth "Beth" Nicholls in the TV series No Angels
Elizabeth "Beth" Harmon in the novel and TV miniseries The Queen's Gambit
Beth Stanley, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie Deep Impact
Beth Ryan, a character in the 1987 movie Throw Momma from the Train
Beth Smith (née Sanchez), in the Adult Swim cartoon Rick and Morty
Beth Tezuka, a character in Bravest Warriors
Beth Trevino, a character in the 1993 American action film Falling Down
Beth Williams (EastEnders), character in the TV soap EastEnders
See also
Bet (disambiguation)
Beth (disambiguation)
Bethany (disambiguation)
Elizabeth (disambiguation)
Feminine given names
Given names inspired by songs
Hypocorisms |
Jennifer Lynn Campbell (born October 3, 1967) is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for her television appearances on Baywatch and Seinfeld in the 1990s. She had a lead role as Annie Beckett on the drama television series Robin's Hoods (1994–1995), created by Aaron Spelling.
Early life
Campbell was born on October 3, 1967, in Bay City, Michigan.
Career
She won Miss Hawaiian Tropic International beauty contest in 1989. In 1992, she made a guest appearance on action drama series Baywatch as motorcyclist Jessie Majors, and returned to play the role for the show's fourth season. In 1998, she became the third actress to portray Neely Capshaw on season nine of Baywatch. She also portrayed Claire in an episode of the show's spin-off Baywatch Nights.
Campbell is also known for her roles as Tia Van Camp in Seinfeld and as Loni on Boy Meets World. She had guest roles in numerous television shows, including High Tide, Veronica's Closet, Diagnosis Murder, Frasier, Night Man, Soldier of Fortune, Inc. and Clueless.
She had a main role as former burglar, Annie Beckett in the television series Robin's Hoods, created by Aaron Spelling. The show aired from August 22, 1994, until March 13, 1995.
Filmography
References
External links
1967 births
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
American models
American beauty pageant winners
American beauty pageant contestants
People from Michigan
People from Bay City, Michigan |
This is a list of amphibians found in Nicaragua. 71 amphibian species have been registered in Nicaragua, grouped in 2 orders: Salamanders (Caudata) and Frogs and Toads (Anura). This list is derived from the database listing of AmphibiaWeb.
Salamanders (Caudata)
Plethodontidae
Order: Caudata.
Family: Plethodontidae
Bolitoglossa doefleini
Bolitoglossa insularis
Bolitoglossa mombachoensis (VU)
Bolitoglossa striatula (LC)
Nototriton saslaya (VU)
Oedipina collaris (DD)
Oedipina cyclocauda (LC)
Oedipina koehleri
Oedipina nica
Oedipina pseudouniformis (EN)
Toads and frogs (Anura)
Bufonidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Bufonidae
Incilius coccifer (LC)
Incilius coniferus (LC)
Incilius luetkenii (LC)
Rhaebo haematiticus (LC)
Rhinella marina (LC)
Centrolenidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Centrolenidae
Cochranella granulosa (LC)
Espadarana prosoblepon (LC)
Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (LC)
Sachatamia ilex (LC)
Teratohyla pulverata (LC)
Teratohyla spinosa (LC)
Craugastoridae
Order: Anura.
Family: Craugastoridae
Craugastor bransfordii (LC)
Craugastor chingopetaca (DD)
Craugastor fitzingeri (LC)
Craugastor laevissimus (EN)
Craugastor lauraster (EN)
Craugastor megacephalus (LC)
Craugastor mimus (LC)
Craugastor noblei (LC)
Craugastor polyptychus (LC)
Craugastor ranoides (CR)
Craugastor talamancae (LC)
Dendrobatidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Dendrobatidae
Dendrobates auratus (LC)
Oophaga pumilio (LC)
Dermophiidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Dermophiidae
Dermophis mexicanus (VU)
Gymnopis multiplicata (LC)
Eleutherodactylidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Eleutherodactylidae
Diasporus diastema (LC)
Hylidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Hylidae
Agalychnis callidryas (LC)
Agalychnis saltator (LC)
Cruziohyla calcarifer (LC)
Dendropsophus ebraccatus (LC)
Dendropsophus microcephalus (LC)
Dendropsophus phlebodes (LC)
Ecnomiohyla miliaria (VU)
Hypsiboas rufitelus (LC)
Ptychohyla hypomykter (CR)
Ptychohyla spinipollex (EN)
Scinax boulengeri (LC)
Scinax elaeochroa (LC)
Scinax staufferi (LC)
Smilisca baudinii (LC)
Smilisca phaeota (LC)
Smilisca puma (LC)
Smilisca sordida (LC)
Tlalocohyla loquax (LC)
Trachycephalus venulosus (LC)
Leptodactylidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Leptodactylidae
Engystomops pustulosus (LC)
Leptodactylus fragilis (LC)
Leptodactylus melanonotus (LC)
Leptodactylus savagei (LC)
Microhylidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Microhylidae
Gastrophryne pictiventris (LC)
Hypopachus variolosus (LC)
Ranidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Ranidae
Rana berlandieri (LC)
Rana forreri (LC)
Rana maculata (LC)
Rana miadis (VU)
Rana taylori (LC)
Rana vaillanti (LC)
Rana warszewitschii (LC)
Rhinophrynidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Rhinophrynidae
Rhinophrynus dorsalis (LC)
Strabomantidae
Order: Anura.
Family: Strabomantidae
Pristimantis cerasinus (LC)
Pristimantis ridens (LC)
See also
Fauna of Nicaragua
Notes
References
Amphibians
Nicaragua
Nicaragua |
Strauzia arculata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Strauzia of the family Tephritidae.
References
arculata |
```go
package pipeline_test
import (
"context"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/ovh/cds/engine/api/action"
"github.com/ovh/cds/engine/api/ascode"
"github.com/ovh/cds/engine/api/pipeline"
"github.com/ovh/cds/engine/api/test"
"github.com/ovh/cds/engine/api/test/assets"
"github.com/ovh/cds/sdk"
"github.com/ovh/cds/sdk/exportentities"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
)
func TestParseAndImport(t *testing.T) {
db, cache := test.SetupPG(t)
u, _ := assets.InsertAdminUser(t, db)
key := sdk.RandomString(10)
pipName := sdk.RandomString(10)
proj := assets.InsertTestProject(t, db, cache, key, key)
pip1 := sdk.Pipeline{
Name: pipName,
FromRepository: "foo",
ProjectID: proj.ID,
ProjectKey: proj.Key,
}
require.NoError(t, pipeline.InsertPipeline(db, &pip1))
var epip = new(exportentities.PipelineV1)
body := []byte(`
version: v1.0
name: ` + pipName + `
`)
errenv := yaml.Unmarshal(body, epip)
require.NoError(t, errenv)
_, _, globalError := pipeline.ParseAndImport(context.TODO(), db, cache, *proj, *epip, u, pipeline.ImportOptions{Force: false})
require.Error(t, globalError)
_, _, globalError2 := pipeline.ParseAndImport(context.TODO(), db, cache, *proj, *epip, u, pipeline.ImportOptions{Force: true, FromRepository: "bar"})
require.Error(t, globalError2)
_, _, globalError3 := pipeline.ParseAndImport(context.TODO(), db, cache, *proj, *epip, u, pipeline.ImportOptions{Force: true})
require.NoError(t, globalError3)
}
func TestParseAndImportCleanAsCode(t *testing.T) {
db, cache := test.SetupPG(t)
u, _ := assets.InsertAdminUser(t, db)
key := sdk.RandomString(10)
pipName := sdk.RandomString(10)
proj := assets.InsertTestProject(t, db, cache, key, key)
pip1 := sdk.Pipeline{
Name: pipName,
FromRepository: "myfoorepoenv",
ProjectID: proj.ID,
ProjectKey: proj.Key,
}
require.NoError(t, pipeline.InsertPipeline(db, &pip1))
var epip = new(exportentities.PipelineV1)
body := []byte(`
version: v1.0
name: ` + pipName + `
`)
errenv := yaml.Unmarshal(body, epip)
require.NoError(t, errenv)
require.NoError(t, action.CreateBuiltinActions(db))
wf := assets.InsertTestWorkflow(t, db, cache, proj, "workflow1")
// Add some events to resync
asCodeEvent := sdk.AsCodeEvent{
WorkflowID: wf.ID,
Username: u.GetUsername(),
CreateDate: time.Now(),
FromRepo: "myfoorepoenv",
Data: sdk.AsCodeEventData{
Pipelines: map[int64]string{
pip1.ID: pip1.Name,
},
},
}
assert.NoError(t, ascode.UpsertEvent(db, &asCodeEvent))
events, err := ascode.LoadEventsByWorkflowID(context.TODO(), db, wf.ID)
assert.Equal(t, 1, len(events))
// try to import with force, without a repo, it's ok
_, _, globalError3 := pipeline.ParseAndImport(context.TODO(), db, cache, *proj, *epip, u, pipeline.ImportOptions{Force: true})
require.NoError(t, globalError3)
events, err = ascode.LoadEventsByWorkflowID(context.TODO(), db, wf.ID)
assert.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, 0, len(events))
}
``` |
WGSN is a trend forecasting company of parent organisation Ascential. WGSN was founded in 1998 in West London by brothers Julian and Marc Worth. Emap (now Ascential), a business-to-business publisher and exhibitions company, bought the company in October 2005 for £140m.
Recent history
In 2013, WGSN merged with its biggest competitor, Stylesight. Like WGSN, Stylesight had a vast library of fashion forecasting, trend information, archival photos, and even sketches and patterns for designers to use. Keeping the WGSN name, the new product has been designed around the technology developed by Stylesight and launched in 2014.
In February 2016, Ascential plc, an international media company that includes WGSN in its portfolio, was the subject of an £800m initial public offering.
Products
As an online service, the business derives its revenues from six different product subscriptions (WGSN Insight, WGSN Fashion, WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors, WGSN Barometer, WGSN Instock, WGSN Styletrial), a custom advisory business (WGSN Mindset) and a global series of events (WGSN Futures).
See also
Coolhunting
Extrapolation
Technology forecasting
References
External links
Ascential
Forecasting
Companies based in New York City
Cultural trends
Market research organizations
Street fashion |
An earthquake occurred on September 2, 2009 at 14:55:01 local time in West Java, Indonesia. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 81 people, injured over 1,297, and displaced over 210,000 (including more than 140,000 in Tasikmalaya regency). The quake was felt in the capital Jakarta, although damage there was minimal, and it was Indonesia's deadliest earthquake since the 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami.
Cause
The earthquake's focus lies close to the major fault plane where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate. However, the focal mechanisms determined for this event shows reverse faulting at a high angle to the trend of the subduction zone and it has been suggested that the cause was deformation within the descending slab. Analysis of GPS data, tsunami run-ups and the effect of stress transfer compared to aftershock distribution supports a west-dipping reverse fault.
Another earthquake in the same subduction zone occurred only 5 days later in the ocean south of Yogyakarta. This newer quake (magnitude 6.2) is considered to be related to the West Java earthquake.
Damage
Buildings in Bandung and Tasikmalaya, the town closest to the epicenter, were damaged, and hundreds of people were injured. An estimated 18,300 homes and offices were earlier thought to have been damaged. This figure later rose to 87,000.
The quake was felt in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital; causing evacuation in many office buildings and hotels. Several office buildings along major thoroughfares in Central Jakarta suffered damage.
At least 11 houses were covered by a landslide in Cianjur.
Around 37 inhabitants, including 13 children, of Cikangkareng were affected by a landslide caused by the quake and are thought to have been buried beneath rubble. The area has become a breeding ground for voyeurs who are flocking to the area to take photographs of the destruction and victims.
At least one hospital was destroyed by the quake.
Victims
Confirmed death tolls by area were issued by The Jakarta Post on 4 September.
See also
List of earthquakes in 2009
List of earthquakes in Indonesia
References
External links
Death toll rises in Indonesia quake – video from Al Jazeera
7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Indonesia – video from the Associated Press
Photos at the Toronto Sun
Earthquakes in Java
West Java
West Java earthquake
Earthquakes in Indonesia
History of Java
September 2009 events in Asia |
Brigitte Alepin, born in 1966, is a Canadian tax specialist. She is notable for her published works, documentaries, the TaxCOOP conferences she co-founded and her various media interventions related to tax justice, as well as philanthropic and environmental taxation.
Education
Brigitte Alepin holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Université du Québec à Montréal, obtained in 1986. She was the recipient of the Excellence Award, and obtained the title of Chartered Professional Accountant.
She obtained a Master's degree in taxation in 1990 from the Université de Sherbrooke. She received a scholarship from the Canadian Research Fund, and her thesis proposed the creation of the Home Buyers' Plan (HBP).
In 2005, she studied at Harvard University, where she obtained a Master of Public Administration (majoring in Microeconomics) in 2006.
Achievements and Media
In 2003, Brigitte Alepin published her first book, the best-selling Ces riches qui ne paient pas d'impôt (The Wealthy Who Pay No Taxes).
The conclusions of this work were the subject of a debate in the House of Commons of Canada. The Canadian government subsequently opened a public inquiry into tax havens and summoned Brigitte Alepin to the public finance committee as a tax expert. She has been called as an expert witness on more than 12 occasions before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. She also testified before the Commission des Lois of the National Assembly of France.
Brigitte Alepin was a columnist for Le Journal de Montréal between 2004 and 2005 (the column she started was continued by Yves Séguin). She edited CA Magazine'''s Fiscalité-PME column from 2007 to 2012.
She worked with Ici Radio-Canada Télé on major investigations into important tax cases. This research was broadcast on the programs Enjeux and Enquête. One of the Enquête programs produced by Sovimage was inspired by her book, The Wealthy Who Pay No Taxes. From 2013 to 2014, Brigitte Alepin acted as exclusive special advisor for the CBC on “major media events” that fell within her expertise. She has been consulted by politicians who wish to know her opinion on various tax matters and has acted as an expert witness on various committees of the House of Commons and the Canadian Senate.
During her studies at Harvard, Brigitte Alepin worked on a special project aimed at developing an international tax system adapted to the globalization of trade: "The Adaptation of Our Tax Systems to Globalization." These writings have been studied internationally and certain conclusions were presented in the magazine L'Actualité in 2006.
In view of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Brigitte Alepin received the mandate from CPA Canada and a group of companies to verify how to better use taxation to help Canada take the green transition. Its conclusions were presented internationally, in various media and to political representatives.
In 2012, the Quebec Health Commissioner gave the mandate to Brigitte Alepin and the firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton to estimate health costs in Quebec in 2030, given the aging population and the increase in disease chronicles.
The Government of Quebec's Taxation Review Commission entrusted Brigitte Alepin with the mandate "Les grandes orientations internationales en matière de fiscalité" (Major trends in international taxation) in the fall of 2014.
The documentary film The Price We Pay, directed by Harold Crooks and produced by InformAction Films, was inspired by the book The Coming Fiscal Crisis, which Brigitte Alepin wrote in 2010. The film, released in theaters in fall 2014, was selected for the Hot Docs Forum and by the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. In 2016, Brigitte Alepin won a Gémeaux Award from the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television for co-writing the film The Price to Pay.
In 2016, Alepin was included in the list of the 50 most influential tax professionals in the world, according to the magazine International Tax Review ITR.
She contributed the chapter “100 Years of Tax in Canada,” published in the book Etat du Québec 2017.
In 2017, Brigitte Alepin acted as a collaborator and advisor for the Commission sur les Finances du Québec in the development of its "Action plan to ensure tax equity" in Quebec.
In 2017, she acted as an advisor to Quebec Minister of Finance Carlos Leitão in order to put in place new tax measures to ensure the supervision of e-commerce and tax fairness towards traditional and local commerce.
In 2018, she co-authored the study “Family taxation: a model to redefine”, in collaboration with Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton and the Université du Québec à Montréal. The conclusions of this study were presented in 2018 by her and the Quebec CPA Order to the Minister of Justice of Québec, the Honorable Sonia Lebel, and during the public consultations launched by the Government of Québec within the framework of family law reform.
In 2019, she signed the study “For global environmental tax system: new tools” presented with Louise Otis at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the United Nations.
In 2021, she signed the chapter “Treasury efficiency of the Canadian tax regime for private foundations and their founders” in the book The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy.
Brigitte Alepin is the instigator and co-founder of the international TaxCOOP conferences with the aim of putting international tax competition on the global tax reform agenda.
The TaxCOOP conferences were presented in Montreal in 2015 and 2020 and within international organizations during the years 2016 (World Bank), 2017 (United Nations), 2018 (OECD) and 2019 (COP25 in Madrid). TaxCOOP has been ranked on the prestigious Global Tax 50 of the most influential personalities and organizations in the world in taxation by the International Tax Review.
Brigitte Alepin joined the School of Management Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montreal as a professor in 2017 29 and the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2019.
Published works
Filmography
4.1 As screenwriter
2014: The Price We Pay. Nominated for the 2014 TOP TEN of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen Best Canadian Documentary by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle31. Brigitte Alepin presented the film The Price We Pay'' at several festivals and international organizations, including two performances at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD Forum 2015[2]32 and at the 10th anniversary of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in 2019.
4.2 As director
2020: Rapide et Dangereuse - A fiscal race towards the abyss (Fast & Dangerous race to the bottom)34: Chosen and presented in the Grands Reportages 35 of ICI RDI and recipient of the Humanitarian Award for Best Shorts Competition 2020.
Charitable activities
5.1 Radio-Dodo
Radio-Dodo is an idea of Brigitte Alepin. Radio-Dodo's programs in French and Arabic are intended for Syrian children living in war zones and Syrian refugee children aged three to seven. Radio-Dodo's mission is to help children fall asleep. Radio-Dodo has been on the air since January 1, 2016 and is sponsored by UNESCO37. In May 2017, Radio-Dodo organized a humanitarian mission in Gaziantep, where the administrator, Brigitte Alepin, gave toys and radios to Syrian children.
References
Canadian economists
Canadian women economists
Writers from Quebec
Université de Montréal alumni
Université de Sherbrooke alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
1966 births
Living people
Canadian expatriates in the United States |
Heather Maclean is a New York Times best-selling American author.
Early life and education
Maclean was born Heather Beach on October 18, 1972, in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Cor Jesu Academy in St. Louis in 1990. In 1994, she graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.
At Princeton, she was the Publisher of Business Today. While in college, she was an intern at Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Career
Maclean began her career at The Walt Disney Company where she co-created the Disneyland Resort's first Website, www.disneyland.com, produced the company's first international intranet Team Disney, and was the first person to answer Mickey Mouse's e-mail. Following Disney, she worked at Internet retailer Buy.com as the Director of Web Development.
In 2001, Maclean founded Little Laureate, a children's educational media production company. Little Laureate's DVDs were named one of the “Best Video Series of All Time” by Parents magazine.
Writing
Maclean was first published under the name Heather Michelle Beach in 1990 when a speech she wrote for the Voice of Democracy broadcast scriptwriting contest, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was entered into the United States Congressional Record by Congressman Richard A. Gephardt.
Maclean's work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Fit Pregnancy, New York Parent magazine and Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Maclean has written and edited 13 non-fiction books including science and business, parenting, inspirational, and food-related titles such as The Weight of the Nation for HBO. Four of Maclean's books have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. Visual Intelligence with Amy E. Herman was a bestseller in the "Science" category, while the Italian cookbooks Skinny Italian, Fabulicious!, and Fabulicious! Fast & Fit, all written with reality TV star Teresa Giudice, were bestsellers in the "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous" category.
Maclean's first fiction title "Toward a Secret Sky," a YA adventure set in Scotland, was released by HarperCollins' Blink imprint in 2017.
Television
Maclean starred with Richard Branson on the television show The Rebel Billionaire, which was broadcast on the Fox network in 2005. Maclean was one of the final contestants and appeared in every episode. Maclean also filmed the pilot episode for MTV's Road Rules with Mark Long and Shani Rosenzweig.
Maclean has been an on-air contributor to many news programs, including Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show, ABC News, Fox Business Network and ParentsTV. She has also guest-starred on Sirius XM Radio's Doctor Radio program.
References
External links
Heather Maclean official website
Heather Maclean on Internet Movie Database
Little Laureate website
Living people
Princeton University alumni
1972 births
American family and parenting writers
Participants in American reality television series |
Jaroslav Špindler (21 April 1890 – 1965) was a Bohemian-Austrian footballer who played as a forward and appeared for both the Bohemia and Austria national teams.
Career
Špindler earned his first and only cap for Bohemia on 5 April 1908 in a friendly match against Hungary, which finished as a 2–5 loss in Budapest. He later represented the Austria national team, making his only appearance on 10 September 1911 in a friendly against Germany. He scored Austria's second goal in the match, which finished as a 2–1 win in Dresden.
Career statistics
International
International goals
References
External links
1890 births
1965 deaths
Date of death missing
Czech men's footballers
Czech Republic men's international footballers
Austrian men's footballers
Austria men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
AC Sparta Prague players
Teplitzer FK players
Bohemia men's international footballers |
Granville is an American pop band formed in Frederick, Maryland in May, 2005 as the band project of singer songwriter Brian Myers. It was originally made up of Brian Myers (singer-songwriter, vocals, guitar), Zak Mabie (bass, violin), Butch Burrows (lead guitar, pedal steel guitar), and Sam Stillwel (drums). Brian was originally in The Brian Damage Band, Zak was in Magister Ludi, and Butch was in Miller Station.
The name of the band is a tribute to Brian's great grandfather, Granville Elias Coppersmith. They play Americana roots-influenced music which crosses over in style from rock to pop to blues to country.
They became popular on radio and on the internet. Recording for Jug Bridge Music, they released their debut album Feather and Heart on November 26, 2005. The single from the album "The Brightest Light" was a true crossover hit charting on Top 40, Adult Contemporary, College and Country radio. The band received two nominations for the 2006 New Music Awards and received the award for the best new band in the College category.
Brian Myers continued writing material for Granville from his home in Orange County, California and later released a sophomore record Golden State, performing the tracks as a multi-instrumentalist and without the original band lineup.
Discography
Albums
2005: Feather and Heart
2015: Golden State
Singles
2006: "The Brightest Light"
References
Musical groups from Maryland
Musical groups established in 2005 |
```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
EN = (
{
'variable': 'congressperson_name',
'name': 'Congressperson Name',
'desc': """Name used by the congressperson during his term in
office. Usually it is composed by two elements: a given name and a
family name; two given names; or two forename, except if the head
of the Chamber of Deputies explicitly alter this rule in order to avoid
confusion."""
},
{
'variable': 'congressperson_id',
'name': 'Unique Identifier of Congressperson',
'desc': """Unique identifier number of a congressperson at the
Chamber of Deputies."""
},
{
'variable': 'congressperson_document',
'name': 'Congressperson Document Number',
'desc': """Document used to identify the congressperson at the
Chamber of Deputies. May change from one term to another."""
},
{
'variable': 'term',
'name': 'Legislative Period Number',
'desc': """Legislative period: 4 years period, the same period
of the term of congresspeople. In the context of this allowance,
it represents the initial year of the legislature. It is also used
as part of the Congressperson Document Number since it changes in
between legislatures."""
},
{
'variable': 'state',
'name': 'State',
'desc': """In the context of this allowance it represents the
state or federative unit that elected the congressperson; it is
also used to define the value of the allowance to the
congressperson."""
},
{
'variable': 'party',
'name': 'Party',
'desc': """It represents the abbreviation of a party. Definition
of party: it is an organization built by people with interests or
ideologies in common. They form an association with the purpose of
achieving power to implement a government program. They are legal
entities, free and autonomous when it comes to their creation and
self-organization, since they respect the constitutional
commandments."""
},
{
'variable': 'term_id',
'name': 'Legislative Period Code',
'desc': """Legislative period: 4 years period, the same period
of the term of congresspeople. In the context of this allowance it
represents the identifying code of the legislature, an ordinal
number incremented by one each new legislature (e.g. the
2011 legislature is the 54th legislature)."""
},
{
'variable': 'subquota_number',
'name': 'Subquota Number',
'desc': """In the context of this allowance this is the code of
the category group referring to the nature of the expense claimed
by the congressperson's receipt, the receipt of what was debited
from the congressperson's account."""
},
{
'variable': 'subquota_description',
'name': 'Subquota Description',
'desc': """The description of the category group referring to
the nature of the expense."""
},
{
'variable': 'subquota_group_id',
'name': 'Subquota Specification Number',
'desc': """In the context of this allowance there are expenses
under certain category groups that require further specifications
(e.g. fuel). This variable represents the code of these detailed
specification."""
},
{
'variable': 'subquota_group_description',
'name': 'Subquota Specification Description',
'desc': """Description of the detailed specification required by
certain category groups."""
},
{
'variable': 'supplier',
'name': 'Supplier',
'desc': """Name of the supplier of the product or service
specified by the receipt."""
},
{
'variable': 'cnpj_cpf',
'name': 'CNPJ/CPF',
'desc': """CNPJ or CPF are identification numbers issued for,
respectively, companies and people by Federal Revenue of Brazil.
CNPJ are 14 digits long and CPF are 11 digits long. This field is
the identification number (CNPJ or CPF) of the legal entity issuing
the receipt. The receipt is a proof of the expense and is a valid
document used to claim for a reimbursement."""
},
{
'variable': 'document_number',
'name': 'Document Number',
'desc': """This field is the identifying number issued in the
receipt, in the proof of expense declared by the congressperson in
this allowance."""
},
{
'variable': 'document_type',
'name': 'Fiscal Document Type',
'desc': """Type of receipt 0 (zero) for bill of sale; 1 (one)
for simple receipt; and 2 (two) to expense made abroad."""
},
{
'variable': 'issue_date',
'name': 'Issue Date',
'desc': """Issuing date of the receipt."""
},
{
'variable': 'document_value',
'name': 'Document Value',
'desc': """Value of the expense in the receipt. If it refers to
fly tickets this value can be negative, meaning that it is a
credit related to another fly tickets issued but not used by the
congressperson (the same is valid for `net_value`)."""
},
{
'variable': 'remark_value',
'name': 'Remark Value',
'desc': """Remarked value of the expense concerning the value of
the receipt, or remarked value of the expense."""
},
{
'variable': 'net_value',
'name': 'Net Value',
'desc': """Net value of the receipt calculated from the value of
the receipt and the remarked value. This is the value that is going
to be debited from the congressperson's account. If the category
group is Telephone and the value is zero, it means the expense was
franchised out."""
},
{
'variable': 'month',
'name': 'Month',
'desc': """Month of the receipt. It is used together with the
year to determine in which month the debt will be considered in the
context of this allowance."""
},
{
'variable': 'year',
'name': 'Year',
'desc': """Year of the receipt. It is used together with the
month to determine in which month the debt will be considered in
the context of this allowance."""
},
{
'variable': 'installment',
'name': 'Installment Number',
'desc': """The number of the installment of the receipt. Used
when the receipt has to be reimbursed in installments."""
},
{
'variable': 'passenger',
'name': 'Passenger',
'desc': """Name of the passenger when the receipt refers to a
fly ticket."""
},
{
'variable': 'leg_of_the_trip',
'name': 'Leg of the Trip',
'desc': """Leg of the trip when the receipt refers to a fly
ticket."""
},
{
'variable': 'batch_number',
'name': 'Batch Number',
'desc': """In the context of this allowance the batch number
refers to the cover number of a batch grouping receipts handed in
to the Chamber of Deputies to be reimbursed. This data together with the
reimbursement number helps in finding the receipt in the Lower
House Archive."""
},
{
'variable': 'reimbursement_number',
'name': 'Reimbursement Number',
'desc': """In the context of this allowance the reimbursement
number points to document issued in the reimbursement process.
This data together with the reimbursement number helps in finding
the receipt in the Chamber of Deputies Archive."""
},
{
'variable': 'reimbursement_value',
'name': 'Reimbursement Value',
'desc': 'Reimbursement value referring to the document value.'
},
{
'variable': 'applicant_id',
'name': 'Applicant Identifier',
'desc': """Identifying number of a congressperson or the Chamber of Deputies
leadership for the sake of transparency and accountability within
this allowance."""
}
)
def get_portuguese():
"""
Returns a generator of dictionaries with variable, name and description in
pt-BR (based on data/2016-08-08-datasets-format.html)
"""
with open('data/2016-08-08-datasets-format.html', 'rb') as file_handler:
parsed = BeautifulSoup(file_handler.read(), 'lxml')
for row in parsed.select('.tabela-2 tr'):
cells = row.select('td')
if cells:
var, name, desc = map(lambda x: x.text.strip(), cells)
yield {
'variable': var,
'name': name,
'desc': desc
}
def clean_up(s):
"""Remove new lines and indentation from a string."""
return ' '.join(s.split())
def variable_block(count, pt, en):
"""
Get the count (int) the pt version (dict) and en version (dict) and outputs
a generator with markdown contents with all the variable info in both
languages. The dict is expected to have three keys: variable, name & desc.
"""
return (
'',
'## {}. {} (`{}`)'.format(count, en['name'], en['variable']),
'',
'| | |',
'|:------:|:------:|',
'| **{}** | **{}** |'.format(pt['name'], en['name']),
'| `{}` | `{}` |'.format(pt['variable'], en['variable']),
'| {} | {} |'.format(pt['desc'], clean_up(en['desc'])),
''
)
def markdown():
yield from (
'# Quota for Exercising Parliamentary Activity (CEAP)',
'',
'> This file is auto-generated by `src/translation_table.py`.',
'',
'The following files are covered by this description:',
'',
'```',
'2016-08-08-current-year.xz', '2016-08-08-last-year.xz', '2016-08-08-previous-years.xz',
'```'
'',
'The Quota for Exercising Parliamentary Activity (aka CEAP) is a montly quota available exclusively for covering costs of deputies with the exercise of parliamentary activity. The [Bureau Act 43 of 2009 ](path_to_url describe the guidelines for its use.',
)
for index, contents in enumerate(zip(get_portuguese(), EN)):
yield from variable_block(index + 1, *contents)
with open('data/2016-08-08-ceap-datasets.md', 'w') as file_handler:
file_handler.write('\n'.join(markdown()))
``` |
Pivot (2000) is an album by the American experimental pop music group Amoeba. The style of this album is similar to that of Amoeba’s previous album Watchful (1997) except with a somewhat more active and direct approach. The lyrics are also more literal and emotional than those of Watchful.
Track listing
”Fireflies” - 3:47
”No Empty Promises” - 4:34
”Traces” - 4:43
”Pivot” - 4:24
”Moonlight Flowers” - 3:40
”House of Rust” - 1:17
”Harvest” - 4:42
”Miniature” - 2:09
”Seasons Passing” - 5:01
”Underground” - 5:30
”Sparks” - 4:34
”To Other Days” - 4:15
Personnel
Robert Rich - vocals, piano, harmonium, synthesizers, lap steel guitar, flutes
Rick Davies - electric and acoustic guitars
with:
Don Swanson - drums
Andrew McGowan - bass
Hans Christian - cello
BobDog Catlin - megaptera vina (track 10)
Forrest Fang - violin (track 11)
Tom Heasley - tuba (tracks 3 and 11)
Amoeba (band) albums
2000 albums
Relapse Records albums
Art rock albums by American artists |
Aab-e hayat (, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu poetry.
Aab-e hayat became the single most influential source for both anecdotes and historical theories about Urdu poetry. Its second edition in 1883 was incorporated into the official curriculum at Punjab University and several other schools.
It provides an important perspective on the origin of Urdu:
References
External links
Āb-e Ḥayāt — a copy of the text translated and edited by Frances Pritchett
Urdu-language books
1880 books
19th-century Indian books |
Ben Hiner Tompkins (October 4, 1929 – April 28, 2023) was an American college and professional athlete and National Football League (NFL) referee. At the University of Texas, he played baseball on the first back-to-back college World Series champions in 1949–50 as an All-Conference third baseman and was the starting quarterback for the Longhorns conference championship football team in 1950. He later played six seasons of minor league baseball in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, and then spent 20 years as an NFL referee who officiated two Super Bowls.
Early life
Ben Tompkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 4, 1929. He grew up there and became a starter on both the football team and the baseball team at Fort Worth Polytechnic High School.
Football
Player
In 1949, at the University of Texas, Tompkins was the back-up quarterback to Paul Campbell and averaged only four minutes of play per game. But the next year, Tompkins beat out T Jones and Dan Page to become the team's starting quarterback. The season was the last for coach Blair Cherry and Texas came one point away from making it a National Championship one. An undefeated regular season was prevented only by a 14-13 loss to eventual National Champion, and then #3 Oklahoma; a game that turned on a controversial goal line stand, missed extra point and a dropped snap on a punt late in the game. When the Longhorns kicker, Billy Porter, missed two more extra points the next week against Arkansas, Tompkins took over as kicker as well. Later in the season, Texas upset #1 SMU, the first defeat of a #1 ranked team in school history (and a feat only repeated four times since). They won the conference title, a trip to the Cotton Bowl and a #3 ranking in the AP Poll (#2 in the coaches). They were ranked behind #2 Army who would lose their final game to Navy after the last ranking was issued and #1 Oklahoma who would lose to Kentucky in the Sugar Bowl. But Texas also lost their bowl game, 14-20, to #4 Tennessee. For his play, he led he Longhorns in passing yards and total offense, Tompkins was selected as an Honorable Mention to the 1950 All-Southwest Conference team.
In 1951, the first season with coach Ed Price, it appeared that Tompkins would again compete with T Jones and Dan Page for the starting role, but in February, with one year of eligibility left, he signed a $50,000 contract to play infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. He was drafted into the military two days later and instead spent the next two years playing football for the Army.
Records
UT – Highest Completion Percentage (min 100 attempts) (55.1%), season, surpassed by Bret Stafford in 1985
UT – Highest Completion Percentage (min 100 attempts) (55.0%), career, surpassed by Shannon Kelley in 1988
UT – Highest Average Gain per pass attempt (min 100 attempts) (8.4), career; surpassed by Randy McEachern in 1978
High School Coach
He returned to football as a coach from 1960 to 1962, during which time he was head football coach at Fort Worth Technical High School, where he had a record of 3-23-1.
Officiating
In 1953, while waiting for spring training to start, he got a job officiating junior high football games. It was a job he continued even after his baseball career was over, moving up to college games in the 1960s. By 1969, he was officiating games in the Missouri Valley Conference, where the pass-oriented offense was closer to the pro game. In 1971, he was called up to the NFL where he was a back judge (now field judge) for 20 years, officiating two Super Bowls, XIV and XVIII, the game in which O. J. Simpson set the single season rushing record, the Miami-Oakland 1974 AFC divisional playoff game ("Sea of Hands") and the 1986 AFC Championship game, famous for "The Drive". He retired from officiating in 1991. For most of his officiating career, he wore uniform number 52 (currently worn by Super Bowl XLIX and Super Bowl LIV referee Bill Vinovich) and was easily distinguishable by the wire-rimmed eyeglasses he wore. Coincidentally, another top back judge of the 1970s, Stan Javie, also wore eyeglasses, albeit with tinted lenses.
Baseball
College player
Tompkins played on the first back-to-back College World Series championship teams in history, winning two conference and national championships in two years. Though he didn't play enough in 1949 to letter, in 1950 he was a starter who was selected to the All-Southwest conference team at third base. He also played shortstop and second base during his time at Texas.
Professional player
In 1951, he was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies with the intention of playing for their Wilmington, DE club in the Class B interstate league, but two days later, he got a draft notice and spent the next two years in the service, mostly playing football. When his military obligation was completed, he returned to the Phillies organization and played second base for six years in their farm system, landing on 5 different teams. In 1953, he was an all-star, Rookie of the year and MVP for the Class B III-League Terre Haute Phillies. The next year, he moved up to the Class-A Schenectady Blue Jays and then later in the year to the AAA Syracuse Chiefs, with which he played in the 1954 Little World Series. He stayed with Syracuse for four more years, even after they moved to Miami in 1956 where one of his teammates was a 50-year-old Satchel Paige. Tompkins spent his last season as a player at the Class A Asheville Tourists and then the AA Memphis Chickasaws.
In 1956, with the Marlins, Tompkins played in the first, and one of the only, baseball games at Miami's Orange Bowl stadium. He hit the first and only home run ever hit at the Orange Bowl.
Manager
In 1960, his last in baseball, he managed the Class D Johnson City Phillies to a 29–40 record. The next season they became a part of the Cardinals organization.
Later life and death
Tompkins left Texas before graduating, but finished his undergraduate work at Texas Wesleyan by taking classes in the summer. In 1962, following the end of his football coaching career, he started law school at SMU, from which he graduated in 1966. After getting his law degree and passing the bar that same year, he went to work as a prosecutor in the district attorney's office in Fort Worth until 1969, and then did criminal defense work with a partner and as a solo practitioner until 1983. At that point he started the firm Reynolds and Tompkins, and did insurance defense work with them and others for the next nine years before moving over to the plaintiff's side with Bailey, Galyen and Gold.
Tompkins died on April 28, 2023, at the age of 93.
References
External links
Texas Stats
Pro Baseball Stats
Photo of Tompkins Receiving Contract with Phillies
1929 births
2023 deaths
American football quarterbacks
National Football League officials
Texas Longhorns baseball players
Texas Longhorns football players
High school football coaches in Texas
Players of American football from Fort Worth, Texas
Baseball players from Texas |
Yambe is a Bantu language of the Gabonese rain forest, near the related language Shiwe.
References
Makaa-Njem languages
Languages of Cameroon |
Jacqueline Wright is an English director of film, TV and music promos.
Wright's short films include David the Great, a comedic homage to magician David Blaine; Out of Water, which was funded by the UK Film Council; and Stiffy, a comedy with a necrophiliac theme which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 and was shortlisted for the BBC New Filmmaker's Award in 2006.
Several of Wright's short films have been collaborations with writer and actress Alice Lowe. They also worked together on Lowe's 2005 Edinburgh Fringe stage show MoonJourney, a comedic rock-opera which spoofed Kate Bush, on which Wright worked as Associate Director. In 2010 they founded Jackal Films, making a short film each month of that year.
Her music videos include promos for Lowe's songs Sticks and Balls and Earth Birth, as well the Raindance/Tiscali Award-winning promo for The Shakes's single Liberty Jones.
Filmography
Films
"Stiffy" (2005, short film)
"Out of Water" (2007, short film)
"LifeSpam: My Child Is French" (2009, short film)
"IMute" (2012, short film)
Turn Your Bloody Phone Off: The Second Batch (2013, segments "Facetime", "Dickhead")
Music videos
"Sticks and Balls"
"Earth Birth"
"Liberty Jones"
References
External links
David the Great. BBC Film Network
Out of Water. BBC Film Network
Stiffy. BBC Film Network
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English women film directors |
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Break the Cycle is the third studio album by American rock band Staind, released through Elektra Entertainment and Flip Records in 2001. It is Staind's most successful album to date and was the album that broke them into the mainstream. It was a huge international success for the band, as it spent three weeks at number-one position in the U.S. album charts and many weeks in the top-10 album charts of the Billboard 200, the UK and New Zealand. It sold at least 4 million copies in 2001. The album was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA for sales of over five million units in the US.
Background
A total of five singles were released from this album—"It's Been Awhile", "Fade", "Outside", "For You" and "Epiphany"—all of which did incredibly well. There were videos made for each of these songs (some of which can be found on Staind's MTV Unplugged DVD). The first four singles had varying degrees of success in the UK, "It's Been Awhile" charting the highest of the four released in both countries. The album also includes a track called "Waste", dedicated to a teenage fan who committed suicide. Like Staind's previous album, Dysfunction, Break the Cycle has alternative metal/nu metal sounds. However, the album also shows the band's softer post-grunge sound, an element that the band wished to progress further with more acoustic and soft ballad tracks. This included an acoustic rendition of the entire album as a second disc, but this was not finalized.
There is also a bonus track on the album. In the United States, the bonus track is an acoustic version of "It's Been Awhile". However, on the Australian and European editions, the bonus track is a live acoustic version of "Outside", performed with Fred Durst in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the Family Values Tour 1999.
Sales
Because of the record's high recording budget of $800,000, there were many worries about whether the album would be successful, and the album almost had to top charts internationally just to break even with studio costs. Break the Cycle debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of at least 717,600 copies. It remained at the top the following week, with 329,299 copies. In the third week it was number one again, with 244,698 copies. In the fourth week it dropped to number two, with 221,179 copies. It sold over 1 million copies in the first three weeks. The album sold 4,900,000 copies in the US and was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA. Break the Cycle also topped charts in the UK, where it was certified platinum; in New Zealand; and in Canada, where it had multiplatinum status. In 2001 the album was the tenth best-selling globally, selling 5.6 million copies
Reception
Initial critical response ranged from mixed to average. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 55, based on nine reviews.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Aaron Lewis, all music by Staind, except where noted.
Personnel
Staind
Aaron Lewis – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Mike Mushok – lead guitar
Johnny April – bass, backing vocals
Jon Wysocki – drums
Additional musicians
Fred Durst – additional backing vocals on "Outside" (live version)
Mike Kezner – sitar on "Warm Safe Place"
Artwork
Craig Howell – art direction, illustration
Gayle Boulware – art direction
Clay Patrick McBride – photography
John Baptiste – styling
Technical personnel
Josh Abraham – production
Joseph Bogan – assistant engineers
Paul Conaway – assistant engineers
Steve Sisco – assistant mixing engineer
Jordan Schur – executive producer
Vlado Meller – mastering
Andy Wallace – mixing
Dave Dominguez – recording
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
References
2001 albums
Albums produced by Josh Abraham
Albums recorded at Electric Lady Studios
Albums recorded at Long View Farm
Elektra Records albums
Flip Records (1994) albums
Staind albums |
Suursoo is a village in Rae Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia. It has a population of 78 (as of 1 January 2010).
Population
References
Villages in Harju County |
Robert F. Panara (8 July 1920 - 20 July 2014) was a poet, a professor and a co-founder of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and the National Theater of the Deaf. Panara is considered to be a pioneer in deaf culture studies in the United States.
Life
Panara was born in 1920 in The Bronx of New York City, and lost his hearing as a child from spinal meningitis. After high school, he attended and graduated from Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University).
He went on to teach at Gallaudet College, before moving to the Rochester Institute of Technology where he helped found the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).
Panara was very interested in the theater and developed some of the first plays for deaf actors and audiences. He was instrumental in founding the National Theater of the Deaf in connection with the American School for the Deaf.
Poetry
Panara was a poet, and his collected poems were published in 1997.
Legacy
In 1987 the Rochester Institute of Technology named its performing arts theater after him, and established a scholarship fund in his name.
In 2017 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp in its Distinguished Americans series honoring Robert Panara.
Notes and references
Further reading
External links
Dr. Robert F. Panara a profile
1920 births
2014 deaths
Educators of the deaf
Deaf activists
American activists with disabilities
Gallaudet University alumni
Rochester Institute of Technology faculty
American deaf people
Deaf educators |
Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet (16 April 1834 – 21 March 1910) was a British landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1878.
Buckley was born as Edmund Peck, the illegitimate son of Edmund Buckley of Ardwick in Manchester. He assumed the name of Buckley by Royal Licence in 1864 and inherited considerable estates in Lancashire and Wales including the estate at Dinas Mawddwy. He became involved in slate quarrying at the Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Co. for which was built the Hendre-Ddu Tramway. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Merionethshire.
At the 1865 general election Buckley was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme, the same seat his father had previously held. He was created a baronet on 11 December 1868. At the 1868 general election he was re-elected for Newcastle-under-Lyme and held the seat until 1878, when he resigned from the Commons by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1872 he built a lavish Victorian gothic mansion at Dinas Mawddwy called "Y Plas". In 1873 he built a hotel, reputedly the oldest reinforced concrete building in Europe, which was called the Buckley Arms hotel.
A slump in the slate industry together with the failure of some of his other businesses led to his financial collapse in 1876, and he had to declare bankruptcy. Despite having inherited a vast fortune, he had so over-invested both at Dinas Mawddwy and elsewhere that the entire inheritance was gone; indeed Buckley was £500,000 () in debt, an almost unbelievable amount in the 1870s. Buckley had to sell off most of his estates to pay his debts. One asset he did retain was the Mawddwy Railway – but with no capital to spend on it.
Buckley died at the age of 75.
Buckley married Sarah Rees, daughter of William Rees of Tonn near Llandovery, Wales in 1860. Sarah died in 1883 and Buckley married her cousin Sarah Mysie Burton (née Jenkins), daughter of Evan Jenkins, Rector of Loughor in 1885 His son by his first marriage, also called Edmund Buckley, born in 1861, inherited the Baronetcy on his father's death.
References
External links
1834 births
1910 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Deputy Lieutenants of Merionethshire
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newcastle-under-Lyme
19th-century British landowners
Dinas Mawddwy
19th-century British businesspeople
People from Dinas Mawddwy |
The Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) is the first and longest-running film festival to showcase the works of emerging and experienced Asian and Asian American filmmakers and media artists in the US.
The programming includes a diverse range of genres and styles, and is supplemented by filmmaker talkbacks, workshops, and networking events. The festival is held annually during the summer in New York City.
Current Festival
The 45th Asian American International Film Festival will be held from August 3–13, 2022.
History
In 1975, grassroots media activists Peter Chow, Danny Yung, Thomas Tam and Christine Choy founded Asian CineVision (ACV), a nonprofit media arts organization "dedicated to promoting and preserving Asian and Asian American media expressions", under the name CCTV (Chinese Cable TV) in New York’s Chinatown. At a time of exceptional energy and assertion on the part of diverse cultural groups, claiming their voices and places in a landscape that had been dominated by European Americans, ACV’s founders saw the need to bring greater social and cultural awareness of Asian American experience and history to both Asian American communities and to the public at large. Moving-image media had become the nation’s common language, its most pervasive source of images and ideas, and Asian Americans barely registered on its screens. ACV’s founders wanted to address problems faced by Asian Americans in both representation in the media and access to the means of media production and distribution. Technologies and outlets for independent media were multiplying, creating new possibilities for Asian Americans both behind and in front of the cameras, in production and distribution, in scholarship and practice, in every style and platform of media arts.
In 1978 ACV organized the Asian American Film Festival, the first in the U.S. to showcase the best in independent Asian and Asian American cinema. It was a three-day program of 46 films and videos at the Henry Street Settlement on New York’s Lower Eastside. Later screening venues included New York University (1979-1984), Rosemary Theatre (1985-1995), The French Institute (1996-2001), Asia Society (2002-2008), Chelsea Clearview Cinema, School of Visual Arts, Quad Cinema and Museum of Chinese in America (2009–present). AAIFFʼs primary goal is to exhibit the most current achievements in Asian/Asian American independent media-making to broad audiences—some 100 short and feature films each year. Seeking to create a setting where artists, scholars, and cultural enthusiasts can meet and explore how to push creative bounds and the development of relevant media. Finally, the AAIFF presents works by media makers from various ethnic backgrounds, religions, classes, and creeds, in order to promote an understanding that Asian and Asian American experiences are complex and multiple.
AAIFF satellite venues include Queens Museum, Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, SUNY Stonybrook, Flushing Town Hall, Maysles Institute, Clearview Bergenfield 5, and Queen Library Flushing Branch. The films presented in AAIFF are featured in the annual National Festival Tour that has historically provided the seed-stock for most of the Asian American festivals that have sprung up in subsequent years around the country. Over the years, AAIFF has screened films from over twenty countries including: Canada, China (Hong-Kong and mainland), India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, Germany, England, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Cuba, Indonesia, and Bhutan. ACV has also accomplished much to open exchange and introduce audiences to works from Asia and the Asian Diaspora. At the peak of its funding and program activity in addition to the annual AAIFF and the National Festival Tour, year-round activities included Videoscape, Children’s Film Festival and other exhibitions in film and video, media-production services for independent artists and producers in New York, publications including the quarterly media arts journal CineVue, a print and media archive, and a range of training workshops.
References
External links
Asian CineVision
Official Site-AAIFF
AAIFF'13 Press Conference
Asian-American culture in New York City
Asian-American film festivals
Film festivals in New York City
Film festivals established in 1978 |
St Michael Paternoster Royal is a church in the City of London. The original building, which was first recorded in the 13th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The church was rebuilt under the aegis of Sir Christopher Wren. However St Michael's was severely damaged during the London Blitz in the Second World War. It was restored between 1966 and 1968.
In 1423 Richard "Dick" Whittington, the fabled Lord Mayor of London, was buried within its precincts; although the tomb is now lost.
History
Pre-Great Fire London had seven churches dedicated to the Archangel Michael, all but one (St Michael le Querne) of which were rebuilt after the Great Fire. The earliest record of St Michael's is as St Michael of Paternosterchierch and is dated 1219. The suffix comes from its location on Paternoster Lane, (now College Hill), which, in turn was named after the sellers of paternosters – or rosaries – based there. The suffix Royal is first recorded in the next century and refers to another nearby street, now vanished, called Le Ryole, which was a corruption of La Reole, a town in Bordeaux. This street was so named due to the presence of numerous wine merchants.
A local resident in the early 15th century was Richard Whittington, four times Lord Mayor of London. One of his earlier philanthropic acts, made in 1409, was to pay for the rebuilding and extension of St Michael Paternoster Royal after a vacant plot of land was acquired in Le Ryole. He later founded the College of St Spirit and St Mary within the church, so that St Michael's became a collegiate church, i.e. it was administered by a college of priests, in this case five, instead of a rector. It was commonly known as Whittington's College, or Whittington College. (The college was relocated from College Hill to Highgate Hill c. 1820s, and removed again in 1966 to Felbridge, West Sussex.)
Adjacent to the church, Whittington also founded an almshouse. The college was dissolved by Edward VI in 1548; but was re-established in a new entity a few years later under Queen Mary. The title seems in any case to have persisted for the church, giving the names of College Street, and College Hill. The almshouse moved to Highgate in 1808 and later to its present location in East Grinstead in 1966.
Sir Richard was buried in St Michael's in 1423 on the south side of the altar near his wife, Alice. John Stow records that Whittington's body was dug up by the then Rector Thomas Mountain, during the reign of Edward VI, in the belief that he had been buried with treasure. He was not, so Mountain took his leaden shroud. The grave was dug up again during the reign of Mary I and his body re-covered in lead. An attempt to find his grave in 1949 did uncover a mummified cat, but no Lord Mayor's body.
Other worthies buried in the pre-Fire church were William Oldhall (d. 1459) Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Mayors John Yonge (d. 1466) and William Bayley (d. 1524), Peter Blundell (d. 1601) founder of Blundell's School, (mentioned in Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone) and the Cavalier poet John Cleveland (d. 1658).
After the church's destruction in the Fire, the parish was united with that of St Martin Vintry, also destroyed but not rebuilt. Construction of a new church began in 1685 (one of the last of the 51 churches to be rebuilt) and stopped in 1688 owing to the financial uncertainty associated with the Glorious Revolution. Building began again the next year, supervised and built by Wren's master mason Edward Strong the Elder. It was finished in 1694. Its steeple was built between 1713 and 1717. The cost of the rebuilding totalled £8,937.
A monument to another Lord Mayor, Sir Samuel Pennant, sculpted by Michael Rysbrack, survives from 1750. Pennant died from jail fever caught from prisoners in the court dock.
St Michael's underwent a number of renovations in the 19th century, by James Elmes in 1820, William Butterfield in 1866 and Ewan Christian in 1894. Their work was lost on 23 July 1944 when the church was hit by a V1 flying bomb, leaving only its walls and tower.
Services continued in the remaining shell until 1955. A proposal by the diocese to demolish the walls and preserve the tower only was successfully opposed by the City of London Corporation, and the church restored by Elidir Davies between 1966 and 1968. It is the latest City church to be restored.
St Michael's was reopened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 19 December 1968 as the Headquarters of the Mission to Seamen (now Mission to Seafarers), an Anglican organisation which supports chaplains in ports around the world. It is also supported by City Livery Companies.
St Michael Paternoster Royal is a chapel within the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London and since 2018 the office of the Bishop of London has been based there.
Architecture
St Michael's is rectangular in plan, with only the west front on College Hill being slightly out of true. Before the Second World War the south front was hemmed in by buildings. Following bomb damage, these buildings were cleared and Whittington Garden laid out on their site, so that St Michael's main façade is now on the south, along Upper Thames Street. The south front is faced with Portland stone and has six round-headed windows with cherub keystones. The less prominent north and east fronts are of brick. The roof is balustraded.
The entrance is through the tower in the southwest corner. This has a round-headed window at the lowest level, then a circular window, then a square-headed belfry window. At the top is a pierced parapet with square urns on the corners. The stone spire was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and is similar to those of St Stephen Walbrook, St James Garlickhythe and, to a lesser extent, the west towers of St Paul's Cathedral. It is an open octagon formed by eight Ionic columns, each with its own entablature and topped by an urn. Above this is another, smaller, octagon with another eight columns with urns. Above the second octagon is a tiny dome surmounted by a pennant vane. The height of the tower and steeple is 128 ft.
St Michael Paternoster Royal was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.
Interior
St Michael's interior is partitioned, reflecting the church's dual purpose. The west of the building, roughly corresponding with the plan to the original 13th-century church, accommodates a hall, vestibule and the offices of the Mission to Seafarers.
The chapel is housed in the larger, eastern, part of the church. The east wall includes three stained glass windows designed by John Hayward in 1968. The main window depicts St Michael trampling a red-winged Satan. The windows on either side show the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus and Adam and Eve with St Gabriel and the serpent. On the south wall, another stained glass window depicts Dick Whittington with his cat.
The reredos is original, with four Corinthian columns and two flaming urns. Before it are seventeenth-century Baroque statues of Moses and Aaron, moved here from All-Hallows-the-Great on that church's demolition in 1894: the statues’ hands were blown off in the war and have been replaced; Moses previously held a pointer, indicating the Decalogue, while Aaron held a censer – he now raises his hands in a blessing.
Also from All-Hallows-the-Great is the elaborate chandelier, marked "Birmingham 1644". The organ case is a replica of the 1749 organ case taken from All-Hallows-the-Great but destroyed in the War. It houses a Noel Mander organ, as well as, in front of the organ gallery, a rare contemporary representation of King William III's arms.
The pulpit, communion rails and lectern date from the seventeenth century, but the rest of the woodwork was installed in the 1960s.
Burials
Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), though his tomb is now lost
Samuel Pennant
See also
List of churches and cathedrals of London
List of Christopher Wren churches in London
John Albert Douglas, vicar of St Michael Paternoster Royal from 1933 to 1952
References
Further reading
St Michael Paternoster Royal (a brochure issued by the church), [n.d.]
Blatch, Mervyn. A Guide to London’s Churches, Constable, 1995
Bradley, Simon & Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: London 1: The City of London, Penguin Books, 1997
Cobb, Gerald. London City Churches, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1977
Jeffery, Paul. The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren, Hambledon Press, 1996
Weinreb, Ben & Hibbert, Christopher (eds.) The London Encyclopedia, Macmillan, 1992
External links
St Michael Paternoster Royal from Friends of the City Churches
www.missiontoseafarers.org
360° panorama inside St Michael Paternoster Royal
Christopher Wren church buildings in London
Church of England church buildings in the City of London
English Baroque church buildings
Paternoster Royal
17th-century Church of England church buildings
Rebuilt churches in the United Kingdom
Diocese of London
Grade I listed churches in the City of London |
Going...Going...Gone! is the debut extended play by American singer and songwriter Hemlocke Springs. It was released on September 29, 2023, through Good Luck Have Fun Records and distributed by AWAL. The extended play was preceded by five singles: "Gimme All Ur Love", "Girlfriend", "Heavun", "Enknee1", and "POS".
Promotion
Singles
Isimeme Naomi Udu self-produced and released her debut song "Gimme All Ur Love" on May 24, 2022, under the stage name Hemlocke Springs. An accompanying music video was published on YouTube on August 29, 2022, which surpassed 100 thousand views within days. Established celebrities, such as Grimes and Bella Hadid praised the song on social media.
The day before Halloween, Springs teased a second single while dressed as Dionne from Clueless (1995), which hit around a million views on TikTok. "Girlfriend" was released on November 2, 2022, and surpassed one million Spotify streams with people calling it the "awkward Black girl anthem". Heven Haile from Pitchfork described the song as "an ideal rom-com song" that "channels the bratty bravado of Family Jewels-era Marina and the springy falsetto of Kate Bush".
The singer collaborated with English producer Burns and released "Heavun" on June 12, 2023. In an interview with DIY, Springs explained the song "finds her portraying an avaricious protagonist that desires boundless wealth." She later released another single named "Enknee1" on August 21, 2023, she later announced her debut extended play. With the release of her extended play, a music video for "POS" premiered, where the short video showcased many personas of Springs' past music videos.
Critical reception
Reviewing the extended play for Pitchfork, Jaeden Pinter called it a "zany, '80s-inspired debut" with lyrics that make Udu "sound like a cursed Victorian ghost, doomed to live in heartbreak for all of eternity," also commenting that Udu "fleshes out her sound, highlighting a promising young artist in the age of internet virality". Emma Swann from DIY, described the extended play as "a charming showcase of cut-and-paste pop that has seemingly taken cues from anywhere and everywhere."
Track listing
Release history
References
Further reading
2023 debut EPs
Hemlocke Springs EPs |
The Mokra Gora mine is one of the largest nickel mines in Serbia. The mine is located in Mokra Gora in Zlatibor District. The mine has reserves amounting to 1 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.7% nickel metal.
References
Nickel mines in Serbia |
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/Saint Paul was founded in 1999. The college is owned by Career Education Corporation under a licensing agreement with Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. It closed in 2017 along with all other Le Cordon Bleu colleges in the United States in the wake of changing federal loan guidelines.
History
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts was founded by Brown College in 1999. The school began offering a Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program that year, the first to be offered in North America. It started as a Certificate Program and began offering Associate in Applied Science degrees in 2002. An Associate in Applied Science in Patisserie & Baking was added the following year. These programs were strictly offered through Brown College until 2005.
In 2005, the Brown College degree programs were transformed into a new institution: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/St. Paul. The school is a branch campus of Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon.
References
External links
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/St. Paul
Defunct private universities and colleges in Minnesota
Cooking schools in the United States
Educational institutions established in 1999
Education in Dakota County, Minnesota
1999 establishments in Minnesota
2017 disestablishments in Minnesota
Career Education Corporation
Educational institutions disestablished in 2017 |
The 1997 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from December 6 to December 14. The men's competition in the 83 kg division was staged on 11 December 1997.
Medalists
Records
Results
References
Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Pages 9–10
1997 World Weightlifting Championships |
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* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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using NUnit.Framework;
using ZXing.Common;
using ZXing.OneD.RSS.Expanded.Test;
namespace ZXing.OneD.RSS.Expanded.Decoders.Test
{
/// <summary>
/// <author>Pablo Ordua, University of Deusto (pablo.orduna@deusto.es)</author>
/// </summary>
[TestFixture]
public abstract class AbstractDecoderTest
{
protected static String numeric_10 = "..X..XX";
protected static String numeric_12 = "..X.X.X";
protected static String numeric_1FNC1 = "..XXX.X";
//protected static String numeric_FNC11 = "XXX.XXX";
protected static String numeric2alpha = "....";
protected static String alpha_A = "X.....";
protected static String alpha_FNC1 = ".XXXX";
protected static String alpha2numeric = "...";
protected static String alpha2isoiec646 = "..X..";
protected static String i646_B = "X.....X";
protected static String i646_C = "X....X.";
protected static String i646_FNC1 = ".XXXX";
protected static String isoiec646_2alpha = "..X..";
protected static String compressedGtin_900123456798908 = ".........X..XXX.X.X.X...XX.XXXXX.XXXX.X.";
protected static String compressedGtin_900000000000008 = "........................................";
protected static String compressed15bitWeight_1750 = "....XX.XX.X.XX.";
protected static String compressed15bitWeight_11750 = ".X.XX.XXXX..XX.";
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{
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AbstractExpandedDecoder decoder = AbstractExpandedDecoder.createDecoder(binary);
String result = decoder.parseInformation();
Assert.AreEqual(expectedNumber, result);
}
}
}
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Antony Pay (born 21 February 1945 in London) is a classical clarinettist. After gaining a place with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with whom he performed the Mozart clarinet concerto at the age of 16, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then read Mathematics at Cambridge University, graduating in 1966.
Principal Clarinet positions include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1968 to 1978, London Sinfonietta (of which he was a founder member) from 1968 to 1983 and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields from 1976 to 1986. A member of several chamber ensembles he has worked with the Nash Ensemble, the Tuckwell Wind Quintet, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble, and Hausmusik.
During his time with the London Sinfonietta he collaborated with a variety of composers, including Boulez, Stockhausen, Birtwistle, Henze, Maxwell Davies, Goehr and Berio. For the RCA he recorded Berio's Concertino, with the composer conducting, and gave the first performance of Henze's mini-concerto Miracle of the Rose, which was written for him to direct from the clarinet. He has previously been Professor of Clarinet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1982 to 1990, the Royal Academy of Music, the Music Academy Accademia Lorenzo Perosi in Biella and at Musikene - Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco in San Sebastián (Spain) from 2005 to 2018.
Recently he has concentrated on solo playing and conducting, recording the Spohr and Mozart Concertos for Decca, the Weber and Crusell Concertos for Virgin Classics and Birtwistle's Melencolia I for NMC. He has conducted the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, and the London Sinfonietta throughout Europe, as well as guest-conducting with orchestras in Scandinavia, Italy and the United States.
Period performance on specially reconstructed instruments includes his recordings of the Mozart, Weber and Crusell Concertos. He currently works with The Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with both of which he is a frequent soloist. His recording of the Mozart concerto with The AAM and Christopher Hogwood is available on Decca (414 339-2). He has written for the journal Early Music and The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet. He is working on a book concerned mainly with the use of metaphor in teaching and learning to play the clarinet.
References
Biography at Coldbergweb.com
English clarinetists
1945 births
Living people
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music
21st-century clarinetists |
William MacVay Trevarthen was a New Zealand rugby footballer who was part of the professional 1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain. A relative of his, Thomas Trevarthan, later played for New Zealand in the 1930s.
Early years
Trevarthen was born on September 16, 1878, to Margaret Elizabeth Trevarthen and Thomas Trevarthen. He had 9 siblings (Margaret, Henry, Mary, Ellen, William Alexander, Thomas, Rowena, Douglas, and Ernest, and 2 half siblings (Charlotte, and Agnes). William worked as a strapping clerk. He married Sophia Kaye, and had also been married to Isabella Morris who he had a daughter with named Irene Trevarthen Morris. He originally played rugby union for Paeroa and Ohinemuri sub union side in 1898-99 before going to fight in the Boer War.
Boer War
Trevarthen was a part of the Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers and played a rugby match for them in 1908 at the start of the season against Paeroa. He then enlisted in the forces to go to South Africa to fight in the Boer War. At the time of embarking his occupation was recorded as a baker. He left for the war on January 20, 1900. After returning from the war he played a preseason match for Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers before moving to Auckland and joining the Grafton club.
Rugby career and return to Boer War
In 1901 after moving to Auckland he was embroiled in controversy. The City club protested a match where he and Renwick playing saying that they were not resident in the Auckland district for 4 weeks prior to playing for Grafton. Renwick was cleared but it turned out that Trevarthen had only been in the district since May 15 when he had returned from the war. The Auckland Rugby Union had initially banned the players for life though this was later revoked. Though not before he had gone back to the war in 1902. After he returned several clubs moved to have the disqualifications removed. He then joined the Newton club for the 1903 season.
Trevarthen won Auckland selection between 1904 and 1907.
Rugby league career
In 1907 Trevarthen was selected to be a part of the professional All Blacks tour of Australia and Great Britain, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums. Like all players this meant that Trevarthen received a life ban from the New Zealand Rugby Union. Trevarthen played in the first ever trans-Tasman test which was the début match of the Australia national rugby league team. He had played in all six tests on the tour against Great Britain and Australia and scored one try.
Trevarthen was later part of the 1909 side that toured Australia. Overall, he played in nine tests for New Zealand between 1907 and 1909.
Trevarthen then accepted a contract to go join Huddersfield alongside New Zealanders Edgar Wrigley and Conrad Byrne.
References
1878 births
1927 deaths
Auckland rugby league team players
Footballers who switched code
Huddersfield Giants players
New Zealand military personnel of the Second Boer War
New Zealand national rugby league team players
New Zealand rugby league players
New Zealand rugby union players
Rugby league forwards
Rugby league players from Thames, New Zealand |
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2013 to elect the 25th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
The parties of the ruling grand coalition, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), suffered losses, but placed first and second respectively and retained their combined majority. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won 20.5%, an increase of three percentage points, and The Greens achieved their best result up to this point with 12.4% and 24 seats. With the collapse of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), which fell below the 4% electoral threshold and lost all its seats, two new parties entered the National Council: Team Stronach with 5.7% and NEOS – The New Austria with 5.0%.
The elections saw considerable change in the composition of the National Council; the ruling grand coalition won its lowest combined share of the popular vote in history. The coalition was nonetheless renewed, and Werner Faymann of the SPÖ remained Chancellor.
Background
The government is a grand coalition between Austria's two largest parties, the SPÖ and ÖVP, who rule with the SPÖ's Werner Faymann as Chancellor. Support for both governing parties has fallen marginally since the 2008 election. The Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) made significant gains in the previous election, but while the FPÖ gained support after the 2008 election, the BZÖ shrank after the death of its founder Jörg Haider and taking a turn toward liberalism. Additionally, nine of the BZÖ's 21 elected members to the National Council changed their party affiliation during the term: five members joined the Team Stronach, while four joined the FPÖ. Team Stronach, funded by Austrian-Canadian businessman Frank Stronach, has emerged as an anti-euro alternative and eventually started to hurt the FPÖ's standing in the polls. The Greens have solidified their position as the fourth-largest party in opinion polls.
Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 24th National Council.
Qualified parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the National Council, nine parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot. Four of these were cleared to be on the ballot in all states, five of them only in some.
On the ballot in all 9 states
Team Stronach (FRANK)
NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS - Das Neue Österreich)
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
Pirate Party of Austria (PIRAT)
On the ballot in some states only
Christian Party of Austria (CPÖ) - on the ballot only in Upper Austria, Styria, Vorarlberg and Burgenland
The Change (Der Wandel) - on the ballot only in Vienna and Upper Austria
Socialist Left Party (SLP) - on the ballot only in Vienna
EU Exit Party (EU-Austrittspartei) - on the ballot only in Vorarlberg
Men's Party of Austria (Männerpartei Österreichs) - on the ballot only in Vorarlberg
Campaign
Issues included corruption scandals across the main parties and Austria's relative financial stability facing a probable crisis.
Opinion polling
Recent opinion polls
Older opinion polls
Results
Results by state
Preference votes
Alongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list. The ten candidates with the most preferential votes on a federal level were as follows:
Government formation
The "grand coalition" of SPÖ and ÖVP retained their majority. While the SPÖ were keen to renew the coalition, the ÖVP also considered the possibility of a coalition with the FPÖ and another smaller party. On October 14, the SPÖ and the ÖVP agreed to start coalition talks with each other, and on December 16, the second Faymann cabinet was formed by the SPÖ and the ÖVP.
See also
Grand coalition (Germany)
References
External links
Social Democratic Party of Austria
Austrian People's Party
Freedom Party of Austria
The Greens – The Green Alternative
Alliance for the Future of Austria
Team Stronach
Christian Party of Austria
Communist Party of Austria
EU Withdrawal Party
Men's Party of Austria
NEOS – The New Austria
Pirate Party of Austria
Socialist Left Party
The Change
Elections in Austria
Austria
Legislative
Austria |
The Anhanguera-Uniderp University is a private university in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil established in 1974 and controlled by the private educational group Anhanguera.
References
Universities and colleges in Mato Grosso do Sul
Private universities and colleges in Brazil
For-profit universities and colleges |
Dragan Grivić (born 12 February 1996) is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays for Sutjeska.
International career
He made his debut for Montenegro national football team on 5 June 2021 in a friendly against Israel. He played the full game in a 1–3 home loss.
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Montenegrin men's footballers
Montenegro men's youth international footballers
Montenegro men's under-21 international footballers
Montenegro men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
OFK Grbalj players
FK Sutjeska Nikšić players
Montenegrin First League players |
Kurovskoye () is a town in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Nerskaya River (Moskva's tributary) southeast of Moscow. Population:
History
It was first mentioned in the 16th century as a small settlement of Kurovsky (). In 1646, it was mentioned as the village of Kurovskaya (). In 1952, it was renamed Kurovskoye and granted town status.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated within Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District as the Town of Kurovskoye. As a municipal division, the Town of Kurovskoye is incorporated within Orekhovo-Zuyevsky Municipal District as Kurovskoye Urban Settlement.
Religion
Geographically, Kurovskoye is located in what historically used to be the area of Guslitsa. The overwhelming majority of the population of the village of Kurovskaya were Old Believers. Presently, Kurovskoye is home to Guslitsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (Russian Orthodox Church) and a Yedinoveriye Church of John Climacus.
References
Notes
Sources
Cities and towns in Moscow Oblast |
"Addictive Love" is a number-one R&B single by the gospel duo BeBe & CeCe Winans from their album Different Lifestyles. The song spent two weeks at number one on the US R&B chart. It ranked #364 on Songs of the Century.
See also
List of number-one R&B singles of 1991 (U.S.)
References
1991 singles
1991 songs
Gospel songs |
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is an independent, not-for-profit organization which has raised $569.4 million to support clinical and translational research on breast cancer at medical institutions in the United States and abroad. BCRF currently funds over 255 researchers in 14 countries.
The BCRF's director of research is Dr. Larry Norton of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. BCRF has funded basic research on genetic susceptibility to breast cancer, breast cancer stem cells, trastuzumab (Herceptin), anti-angiogenesis treatment with bevacizumab (Avastin), MRI imaging, aromatase inhibitors, tamoxifen; and also clinical trials of new treatments with the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium.
BCRF was founded in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estee Lauder Companies. Lauder's first foray into breast cancer awareness was through an initiative by herself and Alexandra Penney, former editor of SELF magazine, to make the pink ribbon an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.
Funding and spending
As of 2014, BCRF directs more than 91 cents of every dollar raised to breast cancer research and breast cancer awareness programs. BCRF has received exceptional recognition from several organizations that monitor and provide comprehensive, unbiased information on charities. CharityWatch, formerly the American Institute of Philanthropy, rated BCRF with an A grade in their November 2021 report.
References
External links
Official website
Research Foundation
Cancer charities in the United States
Organizations established in 1993
Organizations based in New York City
Charities based in New York City |
Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques (also known as 'neo-traditional new town planning') that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism. (The New Urbanism is the concept of building a walkable, mixed-use city neighborhood or new town to provide an attractive alternative to the spread out, automobile-centric, subdivisions common to post-World War II American suburbia.) Kentlands is built around a farmstead previously owned by Otis Beall Kent.
The development, begun in 1988, contains buildings from the original Kentlands farm, many varieties of residences, a "downtown" commercial district, open space including protected natural areas and pocket parks, and civic uses including schools, a church, clubhouse, pool, tennis and basketball courts, catering facility, and an arts center.
Overview
The town has a system of artificial lakes that snakes through the community. There are jogging trails that run through the parks and districts of the neighborhood, and the community's commercial areas and the facilities operated by the Assembly, which include swimming pools, tennis courts, playgrounds, performance spaces, and a large clubhouse, are all within walking distance.
Kentlands is divided into several districts, including "Old Farm", built around the historic mansion and the Kentlands Village Square; "Gatehouse", named after the farm's entry gatehouse, which has been reconstructed; the "Hill Districts"; the "Lakes Districts"; "Kentlands Bluff"; "Midtown/Main Street"; "Market Square"; and "Kentlands Square". The winding street layout is based on a grid pattern, varied as necessary by the requirements of Kentlands topography. Multiple open green spaces and pocket parks have been developed where land was available between the districts or in odd spaces near buildings and dwellings.
Market Square, Kentlands Square, and the Boulevard Shops are commercial districts with grocery stores, banks, boutiques, offices, stores, dozens of restaurants, and a 10-screen cinema cafe. Main Street is a mixed-use area with distinctive "live-work" buildings with retail and office uses on the lower floors and residential uses on the upper floors. City planners, public officials, business owners, and neighborhood residents recently worked with urban designers from the HOK global architecture firm at the 'Kentlands Commercial District Charrette,' in which a plan was developed for an intensified mixed-use and transit-oriented 'Downtown Kentlands.' The proposals developed in the charrette are now winding their way through the City of Gaithersburg's master planning process.
Kentlands, along with its sister community Lakelands, is among the largest and arguably most successful of the New Urbanist projects. More than 8,000 residents now live in Kentlands and Lakelands, with office and commercial development totaling more than .
Rachel Carson Elementary School is at one entrance to the community and Lakelands Park Middle School divides the newer development of Lakelands from the former National Geographic complex that is adjacent to it, now occupied by Montgomery County Regional Services Center and the Montgomery County Liquor Control Board Warehouse.
Throughout the year, community events take place in and around the Kentlands organized by community members. These include the Kentlands/Lakelands 5K race, the Oktoberfest in the Kentlands, the Fourth of July Parade, film festivals, and acoustic jams.
History
Kentlands is built on a former farm estate that had its origins in a 1723 land grant to Joseph West. In the mid-18th century, Henry Clagett, a prosperous farmer, acquired much of this land for his holdings. When Clagett died in 1777, several sections of this property passed to his son, Joseph.
The Tschiffely family began to farm the land in 1852, when Frederick A. Tschiffely, who owned a prominent wholesale pharmaceutical business in Washington, D.C., purchased more than of land from the Clagett heirs. In 1900, his son, also named Frederick A. Tschiffely, built the impressive brick mansion, barn, gatehouse, overseer's house, greenhouse and chicken coop that gave the property the nickname of "The Bricks". The family called their estate Wheatlands, after the wheat that was grown on the farm, and raised their eight children in the mansion. Mr. Tschiffely was the largest wholesale pharmaceutical distributor in the Washington area and owner of Washington's best-known pharmacy. His daily commute to Washington began with a horse and buggy drive to the Gaithersburg train station.
In 1942, the Tschiffely family sold the land to Otis Beall Kent. Kent, a wealthy tax lawyer, renamed the land 'Kentlands Farm', and he set about to create a gentleman's estate and wildlife sanctuary. In the 1960s, part of the land was given to the Izaak Walton League and the National Geographic Society with conditions of maintaining much of the land as a wildlife sanctuary. Mr. Kent bequeathed the remainder of the property to his adopted daughter, Helene Danger Kent. That portion was annexed into the city of Gaithersburg and was sold in 1988 to the town creator, Joe Alfandre.
Alfandre, a developer, brought in Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (partners in what was then called DPZ), urban planners credited with designing the town of Seaside, Florida. After the June 1988 Kentlands charrette, several historic buildings were donated to the city. The neighborhood was built in a process that involved several additional charrettes. As the project was nearing completion, a sister development, named Lakelands, was built adjacent to Kentlands. Lakelands also was designed in a charrette process including the DPZ team, the city staff, and local residents.
Construction started in 1989, and the first model homes opened in mid-1990. The first Kentlands residents moved into new homes in 1991.
A number of historic landmarks from the original Kent Farm were refurbished and donated to the city. The Kentlands Mansion, the main residence of the farm owners and the center of historic Kentlands Farm, is now a city-owned venue for art exhibits, concerts, and public events, and is available as a rental for private parties and meetings. The Kentlands Barn has been converted into a public arts center with studios, exhibit space, and a 99-seat theater used for theatrical performances and concerts. The former farm manager's house has been transformed into a private residence, another farm building into the town architect's office, and another building was sold to the Kentlands Citizens Assembly — Kentlands' administrative body — which converted it into a meeting place, exhibit hall, and the headquarters of the Kentlands Community Foundation. The old Kentlands Firehouse, garden buildings, a "peacock house," and other historic artifacts have not yet been restored, while some ruins have become part of privately owned property or city parks.
Near the end of the 2010s, the Market Square began to undergo major redevelopment. In early 2018, the center's movie theater, Paragon Theaters Kentlands, closed in favor of a new, premium theater that is part of the Mexican Cinepolis luxury theater chain, which opened the following year.
References
External links
Kentlands - New Urbanism
Populated places established in 1991
New Urbanism communities
Neighborhoods of Gaithersburg, Maryland
1991 establishments in Maryland |
Simone Gonin (born 23 August 1989) is an Italian curler from Pinerolo.
He represented Italy at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
He was ejected from a game against the Czech Republic at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship after smashing his broom. The head of the brush popped off, and landed on the adjacent sheet in front of U.S. skip Korey Dropkin while he was throwing. Gonin was apologetic when he retrieved his brush head, and Dropkin made his shot anyway. Despite the incident, Gonin was awarded the Collie Campbell Memorial Award for sportsmanship at the event. The Italian team also won the bronze medal that year, the first medal for Italy at the World Men's Championship.
Personal life
Gonin is employed as a curling instructor and manager.
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Italian male curlers
Olympic curlers for Italy
Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
People from Pinerolo
People from Savigliano
Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Turin
Sportspeople from the Province of Cuneo |
David Citadel Hotel (, ) is a luxury hotel on King David Street in Jerusalem, across the street from the Mamilla Mall. It has hosted VIPs, global political leaders, business moguls and celebrities, competing with the nearby King David Hotel and the new Waldorf Astoria for the title of "Jerusalem's flagship hotel".
History
The hotel opened in 1998 as the "Hilton Jerusalem", managed as it was originally by Hilton International. After a business dispute in 2001 between Hilton and Alfred Akirov, managing director of the Tel Aviv-based Alrov hotel and real estate development group, which involved multimillion-dollar lawsuits between the two corporations, Hilton pulled out of managing the property. The hotel, renamed the David Citadel Hotel, is currently owned by Akirov and managed by the Alrov Hotel Group, which controls five luxury properties in Jerusalem, Amsterdam, London and Paris.
People who have stayed at the hotel include U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has used the facility to conduct quiet meetings between Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiating teams.
Design and style
The hotel, along with the Mamilla development project across the street, was designed by Moshe Safdie as a U-shaped structure rising 8 stories high with 384 rooms and suites. It has terrace-style suites that overlook the Old City of Jerusalem and the Tower of David. A glass-domed public lobby in the inner part of the "U" was designed by Piero Lissoni. The building sports a neo-Oriental style which blends Middle-Eastern and classic Jerusalem architectural elements.
See also
Architecture in Israel
References
Hotels in Jerusalem
Mamilla
Hotels established in 1998
Hotel buildings completed in 1998
1998 establishments in Israel
Moshe Safdie buildings |
The Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show was a live-action theatrical production that showcased daring stunts within a scripted performance, complemented by an array of mechanical and pyrotechnic special effects. Originally introduced at Universal Studios Hollywood, the show made its debut in 1980.
History
The Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show was a live stunt show at Universal Studios Hollywood, based upon a hodgepodge of Universal's Western films. Opening in 1980 in the upper lot section of the park, the show featured cowboy-themed actors surviving death-defying stunts, shootings and explosions. The show closed in 2002, leaving the arena abandoned except for its use during Halloween Horror Nights and Grinchmas. It was finally demolished in 2012.
The Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show was also opened at Universal Studios Florida on July 4, 1991, in the World Expo section of the park. The show was nearly an exact recreation of the show from USH, although the amphitheater was more modern and better appointed. The show closed on September 1, 2003, and was replaced by Fear Factor Live which opened on June 3, 2005.
A similar show is still shown at former Universal-owned theme park PortAventura Park.
The Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show opened on March 31, 2001, in the Western Town section of Universal Studios Japan. The show closed in 2006 and has since been replaced by Wicked. The Western Area, and with it The Wild Wild Wild West Stunt Show and the Animal Actors show, were revamped to become Land of Oz in 2006. This involved completely re-theming two live shows, one restaurant, and a number of retail facilities.
A re-themed version of this show was opened at Wakayama Marina City's Porto Europa Theme Park under the title Viking Adventure. Although featuring Vikings rather than cowboys, the script was virtually the same, and the major stunts were re-created verbatim. This included the high fall onto a wooden breakaway platform, and the climactic "falling facade" gag. The show is now closed.
References
Amusement rides introduced in 1980
Amusement rides introduced in 1991
Amusement rides introduced in 2001
Amusement rides that closed in 2002
Amusement rides that closed in 2003
Amusement rides that closed in 2006
Former Universal Studios Hollywood attractions
Former Universal Studios Florida attractions
Universal Studios Japan
Universal Parks & Resorts attractions by name
1980 establishments in California
1991 establishments in Florida
2001 establishments in Japan
2002 disestablishments in California
2003 disestablishments in Florida
2006 disestablishments in Japan |
Matt Reiswerg (born July 3, 1980) is an American former soccer (football) player and coach. Currently, he is the Development Academy Coordinator for the United States Soccer Federation. He played soccer at Indiana University. He played professionally for the Cincinnati Riverhawks, and the Indiana Blast. He won a silver medal with Team USA at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Early life
Reiswerg is a son of trial attorney Jacob Reiswerg and Susan Caras Reiswerg, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, lived in Carmel, Indiana, and attended North Central High School. His grandfather was Rube Reiswerg, a professional basketball player in the National Basketball League during the 1930s.
Career
College
Reiswerg attended Indiana University (Psychology; '02), where he was a goalkeeper on the Hoosiers soccer team from 1999 to 2002. He was a member of Indiana University's 1999 NCAA National Championship team, as well as a part of three IU squads that advanced to the College Cup Final Four. Additionally, the Hoosiers captured four Big Ten regular season titles, and two Big Ten Tournament championships during his playing career. Reiswerg was a 4-time Alpha Beta Academic Award honoree during his career.
Professional
In April 2003, Reiswerg signed a professional contract with the Cincinnati Riverhawks of the USL A-League, the second-highest professional league in the U.S., below MLS. Reiswerg appeared in 6 games that season for the Riverhawks, starting 5. He made his professional debut for Cincinnati on May 2, 2003, when he came on as a substitute in the Riverhawks' 3–0 victory over the Indiana Blast. In his first professional start, Reiswerg recorded 12 saves in a 3–0 shutout victory over the El Paso Patriots on May 10. For his efforts, Reiswerg was named to the USL A-League Team of the Week. Reiswerg won his second start against the Blast, 2–1, in his home city of Indianapolis, on May 16. Reiswerg also started the Riverhawks' 2nd round U.S. Open Cup match against the Minnesota Thunder, a 2–1 overtime defeat.
In July 2003, Reiswerg left the Riverhawks and signed with his hometown Indiana Blast. He started 2 matches for the Blast in 2003. In the final game of the 2003 season - which would be the Blast's final match as an A-League professional franchise - Reiswerg started in goal and shut out the defending league champions and 2003 regular season champions, Milwaukee Wave, for 45 minutes before being substituted.
International
Reiswerg represented the United States as the starting goalkeeper for three international Maccabiah competitions, culminating in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. At the 2005 games, Reiswerg recorded shutouts in 3 of his first 4 games, which included a penalty shootout victory over Mexico in the semifinals following a 0–0 draw. After blanking Mexico for 120 minutes, Reiswerg saved a potentially game-winning penalty kick on Mexico's 5th spot-kick. Then in sudden-death penalties, he again made a save and then watched his team convert their attempt to seal the victory. The dramatic win advanced the Americans to the tournament final vs. Israel. The United States team lost 2–0 to Israel's U-20 National Team in the final, and won the silver medal.
Coaching and administration
Reiswerg was an Assistant Coach for the IUPUI Jaguars men's soccer team for five seasons, from 2006–10. His primary duty was training the goalkeepers. The Jaguars advanced to the Summit League tournament in each of his five seasons at IUPUI, and were finalists in 2007. Under Reiswerg's watch in 2009, the team's goalkeepers posted the lowest team goals against average, and highest save percentage since IUPUI's NCAA Tournament team in 2000. In 2010, the Jaguars keepers bested their 2009 goals against average - recording a combined 1.06 GAA.
In 2012 Reiswerg assisted Coach Shek Borkowski on the staff of the Haitian Women's National Team, and oversaw the training of the goalkeepers during their residency in Lafayette, Indiana. In November 2012, Reiswerg was hired as the Director of Operations and Marketing for the United Soccer Alliance of Indiana, the state's largest youth soccer organization.
Reiswerg was hired as Development Academy Manager by U.S. Soccer in March 2015, to join the staff of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, a program that provides education, resources, and support to impact everyday club environments to develop world-class players. He oversees Development Academy league scheduling and operations, and collaborates to execute Development Academy Showcases and Championship events.
Honors
Indiana University
NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship (1): 1999 NCAA National Champions
A-League
USL A-League Team of the Week (1): 2003, Week 5, while playing for the Cincinnati Riverhawks
Maccabiah Games
2005 Maccabiah Games (1): silver medal
References
1980 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2005 Maccabiah Games
Jewish American sportspeople
Jewish men's footballers
American men's soccer players
Maccabiah Games medalists in football
Maccabiah Games silver medalists for the United States
People from Carmel, Indiana
Sportspeople from Hamilton County, Indiana
Soccer players from Indianapolis
Soccer players from Indiana
USL First Division players
Cincinnati Riverhawks players
Indiana Blast players
Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer players
Men's association football goalkeepers
IUPUI Jaguars men's soccer
College men's soccer coaches in the United States
Association football goalkeeping coaches
21st-century American Jews |
Sri Hargobindgarh is a village in Phagwara in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located from sub district headquarter and from district headquarter. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
Demography
, The village has a total number of 5 houses and the population of 23 of which 12 are males while 11 are females. According to the report published by Census India in 2011, out of the total population of the village 4 people are from Schedule Caste and the village does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
See also
List of villages in India
References
External links
Tourism of Punjab
Census of Punjab
Villages in Kapurthala district |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Summer – English painter J. M. W. Turner exhibits his oil Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps in the Royal Academy summer exhibition at Somerset House, London, the first time one of his paintings is accompanied by a catalogue quotation from his poem "Fallacies of Hope". He continues to quote from it until the last year he exhibits (1850) but it probably never exists as a whole work.
Works published
United Kingdom
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticises Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars
Bernard Barton, Metrical Effusions' or, Verses on Various Occasions, published anonymously
Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Parts I-II, on March 20, with other books published in following years, up to 1818. Fourteen shorter poems also included. The publication of these first two cantos is received with acclamation, and Byron wrote, "I awoke one morning and found myself famous." The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands; in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood.
The Curse of Minerva
H. F. Cary, translator, Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso
William Combe, The Tour of Dr Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, published anonymously; first published in monthly segments in 1809; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax (1820); The Third Tour (1821); inspired various imitations, including The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London and Doctor Syntax in Paris, both 1820
George Crabbe, Tales
Mary Elliott, Simple Truths in Verse, published under the author's maiden name, "Mary Belson"; for children
Reginald Heber, Poems and Translations
Felicia Dorothea Browne, The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems
Walter Savage Landor, Count Julian: A tragedy
M. G. Lewis, Poems
Eliza Macauley, Effusions of Fancy
Thomas Love Peacock, The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems (Palmyra, 1806; The Genius of the Thames, 1810)
Samuel Rogers, Poems by Samuel Rogers
P. B. Shelley, The Devil's Walk, a broadside ballad on a single sheet
James and Horace Smith, Rejected Addresses; or, The New Theatrum Poetarium, parodies, published anonymously; many editions follow, including the 18th in 1833, with a new preface by Horatio Smith; 21st edition in 1847
William Tennant, Anster Fair, the first use of the Italian ottava rima mock-heroic style in Britain; Scottish schoolmaster poet
John Wilson, The Isle of Palms, and Other Poems; Scottish poet
Other
Robert Treat Paine, Jr., The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun. Esq. With Notes. To which are prefixed, sketches of his life, character and writings, contains "Philenia to Menander" by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, Boston: Printed and published by J. Belcher; posthumously published, with poems in such genres as political satire, drama criticism, neoclassical verse and spiritual prose, all selected by Charles Prentiss; United States
John Pierpont, The Portrait, a Federalist poem praising George Washington and Alexander Hamilton while denouncing Thomas Jefferson
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 7 – Charles Dickens (died 1870), English novelist, writer, poet and playwright
February 28 – Berthold Auerbach (died 1882), German-Jewish poet and novelist
March – Iswarchandra Gupta (ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত) (died 1859) Bengali poet and writer
May 2 – Edward Lear (died 1888) English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, especially his limericks, a form he popularised
May 7 – Robert Browning (died 1899), English poet and playwright
July 20 – Louisa Anne Meredith (died 1895), Australian
September 24 – Mary Ann Browne (died 1845), English poet and writer of musical scores
Also:
Tachibana Akemi, 橘曙覧 (died 1868), Japanese poet and classical scholar (surname: Tachibana)
María Josefa Mujía (died 1888), Bolivian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 14 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (born 1724), Scottish Gaelic poet
November 27 (bur.) – Jane Cave (born c. 1754), Welsh
December 26 – Joel Barlow (born 1754), American
Werner Hans Frederik Abrahamson (born 1744), Danish
Isaac Bickerstaffe (born 1733), Irish poet and playwright
See also
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
19th century in literature
19th century in poetry
Romantic poetry
Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe
List of poets
Notes
Poetry
19th-century poetry |
Caius Adrian Lungu (born 2 June 1989) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a right back for Ripensia Timișoara. The first match in the Liga I was played for Voința Sibiu against Astra Ploiești. In his career, Lungu also played for teams such as Fortuna Covaci, CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea or Colorno Calcio.
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Liga I players
Liga II players
CSU Voința Sibiu players
SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea players
FC Ripensia Timișoara players
CSM Reșița players
Eccellenza players
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Footballers from Timișoara |
Daouda Ly (born 21 October 1972) is a retired Senegalese football goalkeeper.
Sylla was capped for Senegal and was a squad member for the 2000 African Cup of Nations. He played club football for ASC Ndiambour, SONACOS and ASC Diaraf.
References
1972 births
Living people
Senegalese men's footballers
ASC Jaraaf players
Senegal men's international footballers
2000 African Cup of Nations players
Men's association football goalkeepers |
Atys pacei is a species of small tropical sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands.
Description
The length of the shell of this species attains 11 mm, its diameter 5 mm.
(Original description) The straight shell is cylindrical. It is semi-transparent white. The shell is sculptured throughout with fine spiral striae, becoming more numerous and closely set towards the base. The apex is very narrowly perforate. The aperture is narrow above but dilated below. The columella is obliquely arched. The peristome is simple and rises above the vertex.
References
Haminoeidae
Gastropods described in 1908 |
Paul Martin (8 February 1899 – 26 January 1967) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter who worked for many years in the German film industry. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967. He was romantically involved with the film star Lilian Harvey and directed her in a number of films until he left her in 1938 for the actress Frauke Lauterbach. They made one final film Woman at the Wheel together during the filming of which their relationship remained cold.
Selected filmography
Screenwriter
Come Back, All Is Forgiven (1929)
Director
Film
Happy Ever After (1932)
The Victor (1932)
A Blonde Dream (1932)
Orient Express (1934)
Black Roses (1935)
Lucky Kids (1936)
Seven Slaps (1937)
Fanny Elssler (1937)
A Prussian Love Story (1938)
Woman at the Wheel (1939)
What Does Brigitte Want? (1941)
Beloved Darling (1943)
Carnival of Love (1943)
Mask in Blue (1943)
The Deadly Dreams (1951)
Heart's Desire (1951)
Don't Ask My Heart (1952)
When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952)
The Private Secretary (1953)
Life Begins at Seventeen (1953)
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953)
The Big Star Parade (1954)
My Sister and I (1954)
Ball at the Savoy (1955)
Love, Dance and a Thousand Songs (1955)
The Bath in the Barn (1956)
La Paloma (1959)
Yes, Women are Dangerous (1960)
Ramona (1961)
Wedding Night In Paradise (1962)
Massacre at Marble City (1964)
Diamond Walkers (1965)
Count Bobby, The Terror of The Wild West (1966)
Television
Bezauberndes Fräulein (1963) – (based on Bezauberndes Fräulein)
Die lustige Witwe (1963) – (based on The Merry Widow)
Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1964) – (remake of Jenny und der Herr im Frack, 1941)
Paris ist eine Reise wert (1966) – (screenplay by Max Colpet)
Das kleine Teehaus (co-director: Eugen York, 1967) – (based on The Teahouse of the August Moon)
References
Bibliography
External links
1899 births
1967 deaths
Film people from Cluj-Napoca
German mass media people
Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
Hungarian emigrants to Germany |
Yamashina may refer to:
Yamashina Botanical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
Yamashina Mido, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
Yamashina Oyakata, an elder name in sumo currently held by Toyohibiki Ryūta
Yamashina Station, in Kyoto, Japan
Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, a ward in the city
Yamashina-no-miya (山階) ōke (princely house), a branch of the Japanese Imperial Family
(1900–1989), Japanese ornithologist
Japanese-language surnames |
John Chubb may refer to:
John Chubb (artist) 1746–1818, English amateur artist of Bridgwater, Somerset.
John Chubb (locksmith) (1816–1872), English locksmith and inventor
John Chubb (political scientist), see EdisonLearning
John Chubb of the Chubb baronets
John D. Chubb, architect, see Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library
See also
Chubb (disambiguation) |
Organic solute transporter beta, also known as OST-beta, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the OSTB gene.
Function
OST-beta together with OST-alpha is able to transport estrone sulfate, taurocholate, digoxin, and prostaglandin E2 across cell membranes. The Ost-alpha / Ost-beta heterodimer, but not the individual subunits, stimulates sodium-independent bile acid uptake. The heterodimer furthermore is essential for intestinal bile acid transport.
OST-alpha and OST-beta have high expression in the testis, colon, liver, small intestine, kidney, ovary, and adrenal gland.
See also
OSTalpha
OST Family
Transporter Classification Database
References
Further reading |
Gene P. Hamilton is an American lawyer and policymaker who served within the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security during the presidency of Donald J. Trump. In these positions, he played key roles in ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, creating the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" family separation policy, and in revoking the Temporary Protected Status of immigrants from Sudan and South Sudan.
Hamilton currently serves as the Vice President of America First Legal, a legal action group founded by former Trump administration officials, including Stephen Miller. In this role, he has represented the state of Texas in a lawsuit aiming to reinstate Trump-era policies that bar unaccompanied migrant children from entering the United States. He also serves as the treasurer for Citizens for Sanity, a conservative political action committee.
Education and early career
Hamilton was raised in Arizona. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, and a J.D. from the Washington and Lee School of Law in 2010. While attending law school, Hamilton interned at the Krome Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Miami, Florida; upon graduation he accepted a role as an Honors Attorney at the Department of Homeland Security, eventually returning to ICE in its Office of Chief Counsel in Georgia.
In 2015, Hamilton left the Department to become General Counsel to then-Senator Jeff Sessions, under whom he would later work at the Department of Justice when Sessions became the United States Attorney General. In 2016, Hamilton joined the Trump transition team, ultimately leading its immigration policy efforts.
References
American lawyers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Rigabad (, also Romanized as Rīgābād; also known as Rik Abad) is a village in Maskun Rural District, Jebalbarez District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 107, in 22 families.
References
Populated places in Jiroft County |
Alaric Pearson Rose was Dean of Hong Kong from 1941 until 1952.
Rose was born 26 September 1909 in Lye and Stourbridge, England. He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Gateshead he was Chaplain at St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong until his appointment as Dean; and Canon Residentiary afterwards.
Rose was appointed as the first full-time philosophy lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1952 (HKU Council Minutes, 22 May 1952, 7), and often acted as Head of Department. He retired from the university in 1961.
Rose died in Harbourne, Birmingham, England on 27 December 1985.
References
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Deans of Hong Kong
1909 births
1985 deaths |
```objective-c
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
the Free Software Foundation
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. */
// Animation names
#define DEVIL_ANIM_DEFAULT_ANIMATION 0
#define DEVIL_ANIM_FROMSTANDTOATTACK01POSITION 1
#define DEVIL_ANIM_ATTACK01LOOPMINIGUN 2
#define DEVIL_ANIM_FROMATTACK01TOSTANDPOSITION 3
#define DEVIL_ANIM_ATTACK02LOOPCLAWS 4
#define DEVIL_ANIM_ATTACK03 5
#define DEVIL_ANIM_DEATH 6
#define DEVIL_ANIM_DEATHREST 7
#define DEVIL_ANIM_FROMSTANDTODEFENDPOSITION 8
#define DEVIL_ANIM_DEFENDLOOP 9
#define DEVIL_ANIM_FROMDEFENDTOSTANDPOSITION 10
#define DEVIL_ANIM_RUN 11
#define DEVIL_ANIM_STANDLOOP 12
#define DEVIL_ANIM_WALK 13
#define DEVIL_ANIM_WOUND01SLIGHTFRONT 14
#define DEVIL_ANIM_WOUND02SLIGHTBACK 15
#define DEVIL_ANIM_WOUND03CRITICALFRONT 16
// Color names
// Patch names
// Names of collision boxes
#define DEVIL_COLLISION_BOX_DEAFULT 0
#define DEVIL_COLLISION_BOX_DEATH 1
// Attaching position names
#define DEVIL_ATTACHMENT_MINIGUN 0
#define DEVIL_ATTACHMENT_STICK 1
#define DEVIL_ATTACHMENT_SHIELD 2
// Sound names
``` |
Morlocks are a fictional species in the H. G. Wells novel The Time Machine.
Morlock may also refer to:
Fictional characters
Morlocks, an alien species in the Known Space fictional universe of Larry Niven, named after H. G. Wells' Morlocks
Morlocks (comics), a group of Marvel Comics comic book characters
The villains in Power Rangers: Mystic Force, sometimes referred to as "Morlocks"
The human agents of the forces of Hell on Earth in the short-lived science fiction television series G vs. E
Morlock Ambrosius, a recurring character in James Enge's Morlock the Maker series
Music
The Morlocks (American band), an American garage band
Morlocks (Swedish band), a Swedish industrial rock band
People
Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023), Canadian composer
Max Morlock (1925–1994), German footballer
Jeremy Morlock, US Army soldier, member of the FOB Ramrod "Kill Team" that murdered three Afghan civilians in early 2010
See also
Morlachs, an old ethnic designation in Dalmatia
Merlock (disambiguation)
Morelock, a surname |
Tony Garcia may refer to:
Tony Garcia (video game producer), video game producer and designer
Humberto Tony García, voice actor and announcer
Tony Garcia (playwright), American playwright
Tony Garcia (racing driver), Cuban American racing driver
Tony Garcia (singer), American singer and music producer
See also
Antonio García (disambiguation) |
David Jeremy Matthew Mercer (born 7 May 1962) is a former English cricketer. Mercer was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Warrington, Lancashire.
Mercer made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Wiltshire in 1981 against Oxfordshire. From 1981 to 1988, he represented the county in 52 Championship matches. He also made his debut in the MCCA Knockout Trophy for Wiltshire against Norfolk in 1983. From 1983 to 1988, he represented Wiltshire in 8 Trophy matches. His debut in List-A cricket also came for the county against Northamptonshire in the 1983 NatWest Trophy. During his first stint with the county, he played 2 further List-A matches against Yorkshire in the 1987 NatWest Trophy and Essex in the 1988 NatWest Trophy.
In 1989, Mercer joined Berkshire, making his debut for the county in the Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. From 1989 to 1994, he represented the county in 51 Championship matches, the last of which came against Cheshire in the 1994 Championship. Mercer also played MCCA Knockout Trophy matches for Berkshire, playing 8 Trophy matches for the county with his final match coming against Buckinghamshire. His List-A debut for Berkshire came in the 1989 NatWest Trophy against Sussex. From 1989 to 1994, he represented the county in 4 List-A matches, the last of which came against Kent in the 1994 NatWest Trophy.
In 1995, Mercer rejoined Wiltshire. In his second spell with the county he played 18 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against Dorset in 1996; and 4 Knockout Trophy matches, the last of which came against Hertfordshire in 1996.
In 1997 he joined Bedfordshire. His Minor Counties Championship debut for the county came against Cambridgeshire. From 1997 to 2005, he represented Bedfordshire in 47 Championship matches, the last of which came against Cambridgeshire. Mercer also represented Bedfordshire in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, making his debut in that competition for the county in 1998 against the Surrey Cricket Board. From 1998 to 2003, he represented the county in 18 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Suffolk. His List-A debut for the county came against Glamorgan in the 1998 NatWest Trophy. From 1998 to 2001 he represented the county in 10 List-A matches, the last of which came against Devon in the 2nd round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2001.
In his combined 17 List-A matches, he scored 184 runs at a batting average of 12.26, with a high score of 45. In the field he took 10 catches.
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Cricketers from Warrington
English cricketers
Wiltshire cricketers
Berkshire cricketers
Bedfordshire cricketers |
Crude is the first studio album from Shetland based band Bongshang.
Track listing
"Le Introducement" - 1:02
"Things to Come" - 3:59
"The Floggin' Set" - 2:04
"If & When" - 5:01
"Lee Highway Blues" - 2:41
"Phosphene/Tamlin" - 6:48
"The Hangman's Reel" - 1:58
"Dig a Hole" - 4:55
"Scotland/Frosty Morning" - 3:34
"A.K.A. Crude" - 4:35
"Wedding Row" - 5:54
"Reprise" - 2:05
Personnel
JJ Jamieson - banjo, vocals, lawnmower
Bryan Peterson - bass guitar, double bass
Leonard Scollay - fiddle
Neil Preshaw - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Christopher 'Kipper' Anderson - drums, percussion
Sleeve notes
Production notes
This was the first CD to be produced in Shetland and sold out in four days
Crude was recorded in the Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, by sound engineer Stevie Hook and Bongshang members
The album was originally released on CD and cassette on Bongshang's own label "Doovf Records". It was later re-released and distributed internationally by the "Iona" record label.
The song 'Dig a Hole' features lyrics by Harry Horse of Swamptrash
References
External links
www.bongshang.com
1993 albums
Shetland music |
Isaac Burney Yeo (3 March 1835 – 20 November 1914) was an English physician and writer.
Biography
Yeo was born at Stonehouse, Devon. For some years, he worked as an apprentice to a local practitioner, Dr. James Sheppard. He studied medicine at King's College London from 1858. He joined the Medical Department of King's College, gained the senior Medical Scholarship and qualified M.D from London University. In 1865, he was appointed medical tutor at King's College a position he held until 1871. From 1869 he worked as assistant physician and was later made consulting physician to King's College Hospital and Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. At King's College he held successively the chairs of Clinal Therapeutics and of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and on his retirement in 1899 was appointed Emeritus Professor of Medicine.
In the 1890s, Yeo developed a wire mesh oro-nasal inhaler. Yeo contributed to medical literature and his books were widely read. His Manuel of Medical Treatment, first published in 1893 had sold over 30,000 copies by 1914. His book Food in Health and Disease was positively reviewed in medical journals. A review in the British Medical Journal noted that "Yeo is fully master of his subject, and he supplies in a compact form nearly all that the practitioner requires to know on the subject of diet." The book contains a chapter criticizing strict vegetarianism.
Yeo specialized in bariatrics. He proposed a treatment of obesity using hot drinks and avoiding carbohydrates. Yeo may have been the first physician to use raw meat to treat diabetic patients. In 1873, he gave it to two patients, without notable results.
He married Winifred Helen Spyers of Weybridge late in life and they had no children. Yeo is buried at Weybridge Cemetery.
Selected publications
Climate and Health Resorts (1885)
Food in Health and Disease (1890, 1896)
Manuel of Medical Treatment (two volumes, 1893)
Raw Meat in Diabetes (1894)
An Address On Hepatic Inadequacy And Its Relation To Irregular Gout (1901)
The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and Climates (1904)
See also
List of eponymous medical treatments
References
External links
Isaac Burney Yeo (King's College London)
1835 births
1914 deaths
19th-century English medical doctors
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of the University of London
British diabetologists
Critics of vegetarianism
Dietitians
English medical writers
Low-carbohydrate diet advocates
People from Stonehouse, Plymouth |
Obelura is a genus of earwigs belonging to the family Forficulidae.
Species:
Obelura asiatica
Obelura tamul
References
Forficulidae |
Pernille Holmboe (born 2 May 1977 in Bærum, Norway) is a Norwegian model widely known as the face of the Swedish clothing company , with whom she had a long-running contract, that was terminated in 2010. She is especially known for this among Norwegians, to whom she has become "synonymous" with the brand.
She has been modeling since her teens, first in Milan and Paris, and then New York City, before moving to London and later Hong Kong.
After six years as the face for Gina Tricot, in 2010 she resigned and was replaced by the Brazilian model Emanuela de Paula. One of the reasons for the change was because she got pregnant according to Victor Appelqvist, marketing director at Gina Tricot. In 2011 she started her own fashion brand, Chicameo, together with Norwegian fashion designer Tale Hagelsteen.
Holmboe currently resides in Hong Kong.
References
External links
Official site
1977 births
Norwegian female models
Living people
Models from Oslo |
Clackmannan House, built c. 1815, is an example of Georgian design, stone built and nestled in a secluded setting amidst garden grounds of approximately 1.3 acres. It is a substantial family home with accommodation over three floors. The accommodation comprises a traditional Georgian entrance with large vestibule, expansive reception hallway with period curved staircase, and a formal drawing room reflective of the era.
It is a category B listed building.
See also
List of listed buildings in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire
References
Category B listed buildings in Clackmannanshire
1815 establishments in Scotland
Listed houses in Scotland
Georgian architecture in Scotland
Clackmannan |
Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks is an American comedy television series that premiered on January 3, 2018 on truTV. Hosted by Cipha Sounds, the show centers on reenactment skits voiced by comedians. The second season premiered November 8, 2019. On January 24, 2020, the series was canceled after two seasons.
Premise
Comedians tell funny stories that play out in skits reenacted by actors.
Cast
James Davis
Rachel Feinstein
Ronnie Jordan
Donnell Rawlings
Chris Redd
Yamaneika Saunders
Cipha Sounds
Chaunté Wayans
Mark Viera
Gina Yashere
Janelle James
Michelle Buteau
Ali Siddiq
Brad Williams
Leah Lamarr
Brian Patrick Butler
Sydnee Washington
Aida Rodriguez
Episodes
Production
Development
Executive producers include Bob Sumner Arthur Spivak, Carlos Koustas, and Jamal Dedeaux of Laff Mobb Entertainment and Royal Malloy, Colt Straub, Duke Straub, and Mark Therrien of American Chainsaws Entertainment. Felonious Munk is among the creators.
Casting
Cipha Sounds is the host of the show.
Release
The show premiered on January 3, 2018 on truTV.
References
External links
2018 American television series debuts
TruTV original programming
2010s American comedy television series
2020 American television series endings |
Parshovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novlyanskoye Rural Settlement, Selivanovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010.
Geography
Parshovo is located 12 km south of Krasnaya Gorbatka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Delovo is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Selivanovsky District |
Amolops bellulus (common name: Pianma torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to the Gaoligong Mountains. It is only known from the area of its type locality in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, China, but it is expected to occur in the adjacent Myanmarian part of the mountains. Amolops bellulus lives in and near fast-flowing mountain streams. Its status is insufficiently known.
References
bellulus
Amphibians described in 2000
Amphibians of China
Endemic fauna of Yunnan
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
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