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Dlhá nad Váhom () is a village and municipality in Šaľa District, in the Nitra Region of southwest Slovakia.
Geography
The village lies at an altitude of 118 metres and covers an area of 9.07 km².
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1113.
After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area, later acknowledged internationally by the Treaty of Trianon. Between 1938 and 1945 Dlhá nad Váhom once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the municipality had 865 inhabitants. 513 of inhabitants were Hungarians, 335 Slovaks, 7 Czechs and 10 others and unspecified.
Facilities
The village has a public library and a football pitch.
Genealogical resources
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava, Nitra, Slovakia"
Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1693-1890 (parish A)
See also
List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia
References
External links
Data as of 31 December 2005
Official website
Surnames of living people in Dlha nad Vahom
Villages and municipalities in Šaľa District
Municipalities in Slovakia where Hungarian is an official language |
Events in the year 2012 in South Korea.
Incumbents
President – Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013)
Prime Minister – Kim Hwang-sik (2010–2013)
Events
January
The MOFAT Diamond Scandal is exposed.
February
February 13 – The governing Grand National Party is renamed the Saenuri Party.
March
March 8 – The South Korean military holds a live-fire land and air exercise near the North Korean border at Pocheon.
March 12 – The South Korean government lodges a formal protest against Chinese claims to territorial jurisdiction over the Socotra Rock (Ieodo).
March 15 – The South Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
March 22 – Korea National Oil Corporation announces a cut in imports of Iranian oil.
March 23 – US President Barack Obama nominates Seoul-born Jim Yong Kim for the presidency of the World Bank.
March 26–27 – The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit is held in Seoul, with over 55 leaders from around the world in attendance.
March 29 – The Bank of Korea reports that with an easing global financial climate, South Korea returned to a current-account surplus in February.
April
April 1 – The Blue House releases a statement alleging that over 80% of the cases brought to light in the South Korean illegal surveillance incident of 2010–12 took place under the previous administration of Roh Moo-hyun.
April 11 – The 2012 legislative elections were held.
May
May 2 – At the COEX Intercontinental Hotel KeSPA, Ongamenet, Blizzard Entertainment and GomTV announced the introduction of StarCraft II to professional competitions in South Korea with the Brood War being completely phased out in October.
May 12 – August 12 – The Expo 2012 took place.
June
July
July 18 - Tropical Storm Khanun makes landfall over South Jeolla Province.
August
September
September 17 - Typhoon Sanba made landfall on South Korea.
October
October 7 — Due to an agreement with the U.S., South Korea has been allowed to develop ballistic missiles with a range of as much as 800 km.
December
December 19 – The 2012 presidential elections were held.
Films
49th Grand Bell Awards
33rd Blue Dragon Film Awards
17th Busan International Film Festival
Television
Music
2012 in South Korean music
List of number-one hits of 2012
List of Gaon Album Chart number ones of 2012
List of number-one Streaming Songs of 2012
2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards
Sport
2012 in South Korean football
2012 Korean Grand Prix
2012 Korea Professional Baseball season
2012 South Korean Figure Skating Championships
2012 Korea Open Super Series Premier
2012 Korea Open Grand Prix Gold
2012 Asia Series
2012 Korean Series
2012 Asian Tour
2012 Asian Weightlifting Championships
2012 Asian Wrestling Championships
2012 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships
2012 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics
South Korea at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
South Korea at the 2012 Asian Beach Games
South Korea at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
References
External links
2010s in South Korea |
Wayra Q'asa (Quechua wayra wind, q'asa mountain pass, "wind pass", Hispanicized spelling Huayrajasa) is a mountain in the Chunta mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Huancavelica Region, Castrovirreyna Province, Santa Ana District, and in the Huancavelica Province, Huachocolpa District.
References
Mountains of Huancavelica Region
Mountains of Peru |
Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye is a popular Hindustani classical music song (thumri) in Raag Bhairavi.
History
The song was written by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 19th-century Nawab of Awadh, as a lament when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow by the British Raj before the failed Rebellion of 1857. He uses the bidaai (bride's farewell) of a bride from her father's (babul) home as a metaphor for his own banishment from his beloved Lucknow to far away Calcutta, where he spent the rest of his years.
It was also popularised by the legendary classical vocalist, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.
Bollywood version
The most remembered version of the song is by actor-singer Kundan Lal Saigal for the Hindi movie Street Singer (1938) directed by Phani Majumdar, live on camera, under the music direction of Rai Chand Boral, just as playback singing was becoming popular. Jagjit and Chitra Singh also sang a version of the song in film Avishkaar (1973), set to music by Kanu Roy. Recently Arijit Singh has also sung a version of the song in a 2017 movie Poorna: Courage Has No Limit.
Text and translation
References
Indian songs
Songs in Hindi
19th-century poems
Thumri
History of Lucknow
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Exile
19th-century songs
Year of song unknown |
Fungwa, or Ura (Ula; known as Ɓura-wa in Hausa) is a Kainji language in Pandogari, Niger State, Nigeria. The same word is also used for the people; Roger Blench estimated their numbers at no more than 1,000. Farming is the main occupation of the Fungwa while pottery is also an occupation practised by the women. The Fungwa live in the five villages of Gulbe, Gabi Tukurbe, Urenciki, Renga (Ringa) and Utana along the Pandogari–Allawa road in Rafi, Nigeria.
Gallery
See also
Pongu language, also known as Rin
References
External links
ELAR collection: Documentation of Cifungwa Folktales deposited by Samuel Akinbo
Shiroro languages
Languages of Nigeria |
The 1979 Sam Houston State Bearkats football team represented Sam Houston State University as a member of the Lone Star Conference (LSC) during the 1979 NAIA Division I football season. Led by second-year head coach Melvin Brown, the Bearkats compiled an overall record of 1–9 with a mark of 0–7 in conference play, and finished eighth in the LSC.
Schedule
References
Sam Houston State
Sam Houston Bearkats football seasons
Sam Houston State Bearkats football |
Rosalind Ridley is a British psychologist and researcher who was head of the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) Comparative Cognition Research Team in the Department of Psychology, Cambridge, UK, until 2005. She was a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge from 1995–2010 and Vice-Principal from 2000–2005. She holds the privileges of a Fellow Emerita at Newnham College.
Education and career
Rosalind Mary Ridley was born in Coventry, UK and educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School, Coventry and Newnham College, Cambridge University (1968-71), where she read Natural Sciences (biological), majoring in Psychology. She obtained her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London under the supervision of George Ettlinger. In 1977, she joined the Clinical Research Centre, Division of Psychiatry at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, London.
Research
Ridley's research career started with an investigation into cortical mechanisms of visual perception followed by the delineation of the cortical areas involved in somatosensory discrimination learning. Her early career involved work on the role of dopamine in cognitive perseveration and motor stereotypy, but her interests then extended to the role of the hippocampus in simple and conditional learning. Much of her research effort was directed towards developing treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. She and her research collaborators demonstrated that acetylcholine was crucial for various types of memory formation and established that transplantation of neural tissue into the brain could restore memory and learning ability. She also maintained an interest in the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases.
Ridley was involved in early work on transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (subsequently known as prion disease), particularly in the recognition that individual cases of human prion disease could be sporadic, familial or acquired and that familial cases were associated with mutations in the prion protein gene. She demonstrated the transmissibility of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie to primates and argued that the evidence for BSE and scrapie being acquired by maternal transmission was also compatible with genetic susceptibility to disease. In experiments using data extending over 25 years, she demonstrated that the amyloid proteins found in Alzheimer's disease were self-assembling and experimentally transmissible, establishing a link in pathogenesis between prion diseases and the other neurodegenerative proteinopathies
Ridley's current research lies in aspects of cognitive psychology to be found in late nineteenth and early twentieth century books for children, especially the works of J. M. Barrie.
Personal life
In 1981, Ridley married her colleague Harry Baker. She is a member of the Cambridge Drawing Society and the Cambridge District Art Circle
Select bibliography
Fatal Protein. The story of CJD, BSE and other prion diseases (1998) Ridley, R. M. and Baker, H. F. Oxford University Press.
Prion Diseases (1996) Baker, H. F. and Ridley, R. M. Eds. Humana Press Inc., Totowa, New Jersey.
Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness (2016) Ridley, R. M. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
References
External links
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rosalindridley/home
1949 births
Living people
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
British women psychologists |
Raúl Tiago Soares Almeida (born 2 November 1997) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward.
Career
On 7 August 2016, Almeida made his professional debut with FC Porto B in a 2016–17 LigaPro match against Aves.
References
External links
Raúl Almeida at ZeroZero
1997 births
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
People from Gondomar, Portugal
Men's association football forwards
FC Porto players
Gondomar S.C. players
Sporting CP footballers
Boavista F.C. players
F.C. Paços de Ferreira players
FC Porto B players
S.C. Covilhã players
R.D. Águeda players
U.S.C. Paredes players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Footballers from Porto District |
Summer Gone is the first novel by Canadian writer David Macfarlane. Published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Summer Gone was a national bestseller in Canada. It was nominated for the Giller Prize, and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Plot summary
The book deals with the life of Bailey Newling and his three lost summers. It tells the story of a divorced Bailey and his young son Caz, where on one fateful canoe trip, they share a remarkable night of truth and love.
Macfarlane set this novel among the cottage country in northern Ontario, the Waubano Reaches. Bailey, nicknamed Bay, tells of the three summers in his life: the summer he was 12 and attended the camp where he met his camp instructor Peter Larkin, the summer where he, his wife Sarah and 6-year-old son rented a cottage near his old campsite and, the summer where he and his 12-year-old son shared their extraordinary night.
Macfarlane uses a notable technique in the writing of Summer Gone, where he would start the story of one summer and drift into another. It may start with Bay telling of his tale at camp and then shift onto another thought which may have occurred decades later involving his wife or his son. This technique ties all of Bay's summer stories together into one when he tells it to his son. The narration of this story is told by Caz's half brother, from a one-night stand of Bailey's, as an adult, retelling what Caz had told him.
References
1999 Canadian novels
Novels set in Northern Ontario
1999 debut novels
Knopf Canada books |
Epicrocis is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1848.
Species
Epicrocis abbreviata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis africanella (Ragonot, 1888)
Epicrocis albigeralis (Walker, 1865)
Epicrocis ancylosiformis (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis anthracanthes Meyrick, 1934
Epicrocis arcana (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis atrilinea Horak, 1997
Epicrocis brevipalpata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis complicata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis coriacelloides (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis crassa (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis ferrealis (Hampson, 1898)
Epicrocis festivella Zeller, 1848
Epicrocis flavicosta (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis furcilinea (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis gracilis (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis gratella (Walker, 1863)
Epicrocis hilarella Ragonot, 1888
Epicrocis holophaea (Hampson, 1926)
Epicrocis imitans (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis insolita (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis intermedia (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis laticostella (Ragonot, 1888)
Epicrocis mesembrina Meyrick, 1887
Epicrocis metallopa (Lower, 1898)
Epicrocis nigricans (Ragonot, 1888)
Epicrocis nigrilinea (de Joannis, 1927)
Epicrocis nigrinella (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis noncapillata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis oegnusalis (Walker, 1859)
Epicrocis ornata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis ornatella (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis picta (Balinsky, 1991)
Epicrocis piliferella (Ragonot, 1888)
Epicrocis plumbifasciata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis poliochyta Turner, 1924
Epicrocis pseudonatalensis (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis pulchra Horak, 1997
Epicrocis punctata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis sacculata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis sahariensis (Rothschild, 1921)
Epicrocis signatella Pagenstecher, 1907
Epicrocis spiculata (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis stibiella (Snellen, 1872)
Epicrocis striaticosta (de Joannis, 1927)
Epicrocis umbratella Pagenstecher, 1907
Epicrocis vansoni (Balinsky, 1994)
Epicrocis vicinella (de Joannis, 1927)
References
Phycitini
Pyralidae genera |
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Parknook is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Parknook had a population of 74 people.
Road infrastructure
The Surat Developmental Road (State Route 87) runs along the northern boundary.
References
Maranoa Region
Localities in Queensland |
Dr. Gyula Krajczár (1953–1998) was a Hungarian politician, who served as mayor of Komárom from 1990 to 1998. He was elected mayor for the third term on October 18, 1998, however he died soon that year. He was replaced by János Zatykó during a by-election in 1999.
References
External links
Dr. Krajczár Gyula emléktábla, Komárom
1953 births
1998 deaths
Hungarian Socialist Party politicians
Mayors of places in Hungary |
Enteromius perince is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius which has a disjunct distributed from Guinea to Uganda, and throughout length of the Nile.
Footnotes
Enteromius
Fish described in 1835
Taxa named by Eduard Rüppell |
Rashad Dion McCants (born September 25, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who has played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as overseas. He played for Trilogy in the BIG3 three-on-three league.
McCants was one of the athletesamong other victimssuccessfully targeted by professional scam artist/fraudster Peggy Ann Fulford.
High school career
McCants began his high school career at Clyde A. Erwin High School in Asheville, North Carolina, and finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire. He led New Hampton to the 2002 New England Prep School Class A championship and was named MVP of the title game. McCants played alongside future college teammate Wes Miller during his senior season.
McCants was an honor roll student at New Hampton. He also won the New Hampshire Player of the Year Award in 2001 and 2002. And, as a senior, he was also named to the Parade All-American and McDonald's All-American Teams. He played in the McDonald's All-American Game with future Tar Heel teammates Raymond Felton and Sean May.
College career
Alongside Sean May, Raymond Felton, and David Noel, McCants joined a stellar recruiting class at UNC for the 2002–2003 season, coached by Matt Doherty. In his freshman year, McCants led the Tar Heels in scoring with 17.5 points per game, and led them to a third round loss to Georgetown in the National Invitational Tournament. He was voted to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) rookie team.
In the 2003–2004 season, McCants led the ACC in scoring with 20 points per game. With that effort, McCants helped lead UNC back into the NCAA Tournament with a sixth seed, where they lost in the second round to number three seeded Texas. He was the leading vote-getter on the All-ACC First Team as a sophomore, and was named a Second Team All-American.
With freshman Marvin Williams joining the squad for the 2004–2005 season, the junior class led by preseason Wooden Award candidates in McCants, May, and Felton gave UNC a high ranking in all preseason polls and the team was seen as one of the favorites to win the NCAA Tournament. After going 33–4 and winning the ACC regular season, McCants' 16.4 points per game helped secure UNC one of the four number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament. UNC cruised to the championship game, where McCants helped the Tar Heels defeat the Illinois Fighting Illini, 75–70.
McCants' three years at Chapel Hill were not without controversy. In an interview with local television station WRAL, McCants compared UNC to a prison, stating, "You're not allowed to say certain things, but once you get out of jail, you're free. (I'm) in my sentence, and I'm doing my time."
McCants scored 1,721 points and made 221 three-pointers during his career at North Carolina.
Professional career
After winning the championship, McCants declared his eligibility for the 2005 NBA draft, and was selected 14th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves. His college teammates, Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, and Sean May were also selected in the draft. During his first two years as a pro, McCants was bothered by injuries and did not play up to the expectations of fans. He had a lot of expectations going into the 2007–08 season, and on a young Timberwolves squad, he started the season as a rotation regular, and broke into the starting lineup halfway through the season.
As of January 2008, Rashad had posted career-highs through his third season, with 34 points against the Denver Nuggets on January 4, 2008, 8 rebounds against the Miami Heat on January 8, 4 steals against the Seattle SuperSonics on December 29, 2007, and getting 6 assists five times. On December 26, 2008, he hit a career-high 7 three-pointers in a Wolves win over the New York Knicks.
On February 19, 2009, McCants was sent to the Sacramento Kings along with Calvin Booth for Shelden Williams and Bobby Brown. McCants then signed with the Houston Rockets in September 2009, but had his contract retracted on the second day of the training camp. The Rockets General Manager said McCants presented with an abdomen problem and would not be able to participate in the camp, though he also said he would still consider McCants down the track once healthy.
In the summer of 2010, he was scheduled to join the Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA Summer League team. However, he did not report to the team for personal reasons.
In October 2010 the Dallas Mavericks signed McCants to their training camp roster. However, he was released only after a few days. He was then signed by the Mavericks' NBA Development League associate, the Texas Legends.
In 2012, the Powerade Tigers of the Philippine Basketball Association acquired him as their import for the Governors Cup. However, despite playing his usual game, he was not able to help the Tigers win their first two games and was released afterwards.
On July 13, 2012, McCants signed with the French club Strasbourg IG. On August 24, 2012, he parted ways with Strasbourg before appearing in a game for them. On November 19, 2012, he signed with the Foshan Long Lions of China. On January 10, 2013, he was waived by the Foshan.
On January 24, 2013, McCants was acquired by the Texas Legends. He was waived by the Legends in February 2013. In November 2013, he was announced by the Brazilian club Uberlândia Tênis Clube for 2013–14 NBB season. He debuted on January 5, 2014, against São José Basketball.
On November 23, 2014, McCants signed with Homenetmen Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball League. In April 2015, he signed with Trotamundos de Carabobo of Venezuela for the rest of the 2015 LPB season.
BIG3
On April 30, 2017, McCants was selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 BIG3 Draft by Trilogy. On August 26, 2017, Trilogy won the first-ever Big3 League Championship. McCants scored 22 points on 55% shooting and was named Championship MVP.
Personal life
McCants' sister, Rashanda McCants, played in the WNBA.
Rashad is the cousin of Major League Baseball player Cameron Maybin and third cousin of former Canadian Football League player John Avery.
In June 2008, McCants began dating reality television star Khloe Kardashian. The two were introduced by the National Football League player Reggie Bush who had been dating her sister Kim at the time. The relationship ended after seven months, in late January 2009, reportedly due to McCants's infidelity. He also made a brief guest appearance on her reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, during season 3 (episode 7). Eight years later, speaking with a Charlotte Observer reporter while looking back on his career in the NBA, McCants stated that the highly publicized relationship with Khloe Kardashian was the "biggest regret" because it "gave people an opportunity to doubt his commitment to the NBA", adding: "Without that situation in play, I’m a $60-70 million player. Easily."
McCants was one of the victims of professional scam artist/fraudster Peggy Ann Fulford (Peggy King, Peggy Williams, Peggy Ann Barard, etc.), losing $200,000, amongst the $5.79million in total she stole from him, Ricky Williams, Travis Best, Dennis Rodman, Lex Hilliard and others. Fulford, who was indicted by the FBI in December 2016, continued her criminal activity until sentenced in February 2018 to 10 years in prison and full financial restitution to her victims.
Awards
All-ACC First Team: 2003–04
All-ACC Third Team: 2004–05
All-ACC Rookie Team: 2002–03
Parade All-American: 2001–02
McDonald's All-American: 2001–02
New Hampshire Player of the Year: 2000, 2001
NBA career statistics
Regular season
|-
| align="left" | 2005–06
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 79 || 12 || 17.2 || .450 || .372 || .736 || 1.8 || .8 || .6 || .3 || 7.9
|-
| align="left" | 2006–07
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 37 || 0 || 15.0 || .350 || .267 || .690 || 1.3 || 1.0 || .7 || .2 || 5.0
|-
| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 75 || 24 || 26.9 || .453 || .407 || .748 || 2.7 || 2.2 || .9 || .2 || 14.9
|-
| align="left" | 2008–09
| align="left" | Minnesota
| 34 || 2 || 18.7 || .360 || .319 || .741 || 1.9 || .9 || .8 || .2 || 9.1
|-
| align="left" | 2008–09
| align="left" | Sacramento
| 24 || 1 || 19.4 || .444 || .357 || .783 || 2.0 || 1.5 || .8 || .3 || 10.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 249 || 39 || 20.2 || .431 || .368 || .741 || 2.0 || 1.3 || .7 || .9|| 10.0
References
External links
PBA stats
1984 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Brazil
American expatriate basketball people in China
American expatriate basketball people in the Dominican Republic
American expatriate basketball people in Lebanon
American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
American expatriate basketball people in Venezuela
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Asheville, North Carolina
Big3 players
Caciques de Humacao players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Minnesota Timberwolves draft picks
Minnesota Timberwolves players
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Philippine Basketball Association imports
Piratas de Quebradillas players
Powerade Tigers players
Sacramento Kings players
Shooting guards
Texas Legends players
Trotamundos B.B.C. players
Unitri/Uberlândia basketball players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople
American men's 3x3 basketball players
New Hampton School alumni |
Scotland: A New History is a book by Michael Lynch first published by Century Limited in 1990. Pimlico (20 Vauxhall Road, London SW1V 2SA) published a revised edition in 1992 and reprinted this later edition in 1992 and 1993.
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1990 non-fiction books
20th-century history books
History books about Scotland |
Albert Clements Killam, (September 18, 1849 – March 1, 1908) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, railway commissioner, and Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was the first judge from Western Canada to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of George Killam and Caroline Clements, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1872 from the University of Toronto. He articled with the firm of Crooks, Kingsmill, and Cattanach of Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in 1877. He practised for two years in Windsor. In 1879, he moved to Winnipeg and was called to the Manitoba bar.
In 1881 he became an examiner of the Law Society of Manitoba, and he served as a bencher of the society from 1882 to 1885. He was appointed QC by the Governor General, Lord Lansdowne on 9 May 1884.
In 1883, he was elected as a Liberal to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the riding of Winnipeg South. He resigned in 1885, when he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba. In 1899, he was named Chief Justice of Manitoba and was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1903. He resigned in 1905 to become Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners. He died in 1908.
Killam, Alberta is named in his honour.
External links
Supreme Court of Canada biography
Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
Judges in Manitoba
1849 births
1908 deaths
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian King's Counsel |
The Triple Alliance (; Swedish: Trippelalliansen) was signed by the Kingdom of England, the Swedish Empire and the Dutch Republic in May 1668. It was created in response to the occupation of the Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté by France. Although Spain and Emperor Leopold were not signatories, they were closely involved in the negotiations.
It consisted of three separate agreements: a defensive alliance, an undertaking to oblige Spain and France to make peace, and secret clauses that included mediating an end to the war between Spain and Portugal and enforcing the peace by military action if required.
By 1663, Louis XIV had accepted that French and Dutch objectives in the Low Countries were incompatible and used the Second Anglo-Dutch War to launch the War of Devolution in May 1667. He and Leopold were co-heirs to Charles of Spain, and in January 1668, they signed a treaty that divided the Spanish Empire if Charles died without an heir, and it awarded Louis the Spanish Netherlands and set the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
The alliance was short-lived since both Sweden and England backed France at the outset of the Franco-Dutch War four years later, but it marked the point at which England and the Dutch came to see France as a common threat. That made it the forerunner of the Grand Alliance, which fought the 1688-1697 Nine Years' War and the 1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession.
Background
As part of the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees that ended the Franco-Spanish War, Louis XIV of France married Maria Theresa of Spain, eldest daughter of Philip IV of Spain. Despite being weakened by nearly a century of conflict, the Spanish Empire remained a huge global confederation. To prevent its acquisition by France, Maria Theresa renounced her inheritance rights and in return Louis was promised a dowry of 500,000 gold écus, a huge sum that was never paid.
In 1661, French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert argued economic growth required possession of the Spanish Netherlands and the port of Antwerp. Acquisition would give France control of its own export trade, currently dominated by the Dutch Republic, a long-time ally. However, this implied conflict with Spain, Emperor Leopold as well as the Dutch. The 1648 Peace of Münster that confirmed independence from Spain shut the Scheldt estuary, closing Antwerp and making Amsterdam the richest commercial city in North Western Europe. Keeping it shut was a Dutch priority.
By 1663, Louis had concluded the States General of the Netherlands would never voluntarily agree concessions and began planning to seize the area by force. As required by the 1662 Franco-Dutch Treaty of Paris, France entered the Second Anglo-Dutch War in July 1665; this gave Louis an excuse to expand his army, while he also calculated it would make harder for the Dutch to oppose him.
In September, Philip died, leaving his four-year-old son Charles II of Spain as king, and his widow, Mariana of Austria, as regent. Louis argued since the dowry remained unpaid, Maria Theresa's renunciation was invalid and so her rights "devolved" to him under the Jus Devolutionis, an obscure law restricting inheritance to children from a first marriage. He used it to claim much of the Spanish Netherlands. In April 1666, Charles' sister Margaret Theresa married Emperor Leopold; this meant on his death, Leopold would inherit the entire Spanish Empire.
Talks on ending the Anglo-Dutch War opened in Breda in May 1667. Louis launched the War of Devolution on 24 May, and by September, his troops had occupied much of the Spanish Netherlands. On 27 May, the Treaty of Madrid ended the 1654-1660 Anglo-Spanish War, and England agreed to mediate an end to the Portuguese Restoration War in return for commercial concessions. The Dutch raid on the Medway in June forced England to agree the Treaty of Breda on 31 July, and negotiations then began between the two countries for a common front against France.
Negotiations
For De Witt, the French alliance secured his position against the Orangist opposition and ensured Dutch economic supremacy. By 1667, the prospect of France replacing Spain as a neighbour meant that most of the States General and the Dutch populace saw an English alliance as essential for mutual survival. Although Charles preferred France as an ally, he viewed Breda as a personal humiliation and blamed Louis, who failed to deliver on a promise to ensure that the Dutch accepted English terms. This perspective was widely shared by his advisors, including chief minister Lord Arlington, many of whom also viewed Spain as a better ally than France. Losses from war and the Great Fire of London meant both Parliament and the City of London wanted peace, which seemed best achieved by partnering with the Dutch.
Negotiations were led by Sir William Temple, English ambassador in The Hague and Brussels, who viewed French expansion as a bigger threat than Dutch economic strength. He was supported by François-Paul de Lisola; he served as an imperial diplomat in London from 1667 to 1668 and The Hague from 1669 to 1673. Historian and political theorist Mark Goldie views Lisola's 1667 work 'The Buckler of State and Justice' as a key document in establishing France as England's enemy, rather than Spain.
In September, De Witt asked Louis his conditions for withdrawing from the Spanish Netherlands and offered to mediate with Spain to ensure their acceptance. Louis agreed, but only if the Dutch enforced them on both parties; this meant when Spain rejected his terms, the States of Holland passed resolutions on 10 December and 14 January 1668, approving military support for France. On 20 January 1668, Louis and Leopold agreed a secret Partition Treaty, dividing the Spanish Empire if Charles died.
The French ambassador, Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades, was well-informed on negotiations for the Alliance and assured Louis that he could delay approval by bribes. However, Temple persuaded the States General to approve it before asking the provincial bodies although normal practice was the other way around. Once the States General announced their decision, public enthusiasm was so great thag no one dared take d'Estrades' money. On 23 January 1668, the Alliance was signed by England and the Republic. Seeking to widen the coalition, Temple invited Sweden to join; it had signed a treaty with the Dutch in July 1667 and controlled the Baltic trade in pitch and timber, essential for shipbuilding.
Terms
The Alliance contained three separate elements; a defensive alliance, a guarantee of terms for ending the War of Devolution and secret clauses. Spain was held partially responsible for the war by arranging the 1666 marriage between Leopold and Margaret Theresa and so had to bear some of the cost. As agreed in September, France would withdraw from the Spanish Netherlands but retain Lille, Armentières, Bergues, Douai Tournai, Oudenaarde, Kortrijk, Veurne, Binche, Charleroi, and Ath.
The Alliance guaranteed to enforce compliance by Spain by a secret clause requiring it to end the war with Portugal. With Louis clearly preparing action, another clause committed to forcing France back to its 1659 boundaries if it continued the war. The English Parliament approved £300,000 if needed, and the States General activated 48 warships, and the recruitment of 18,000 additional troops. As a condition of signing, Sweden demanded reimbursement of 480,000 rixdollars, costs incurred for its attempt to capture Bremen in 1666, which it claimed was for the benefit of Spain. The Dutch and the English refused to pay and passed the obligation onto Spain; after protracted debate, Sweden signed on 5 May (NS), bringing together the three major powers in the Baltic and North Sea.
Aftermath
French troops entered Franche-Comté on 5 February; two weeks later, its conquest was complete and Louis decided to make peace. The cost of the war was far higher than expected, while Charles of Spain was reportedly close to death; if so, his agreement with Leopold meant Louis might achieve his objectives without fighting. In April, he met with English and Dutch representatives at Saint Germain to agree terms, which were used at Aix-la-Chapelle in May. In Article 6, the Dutch and English undertook to enforce them if Spain did not comply, mirroring the 'secret' clause of the alliance against France. In reality, there was no English support for war with Spain on behalf of France or the Dutch, especially given the commercial terms of the 1667 Treaty of Madrid; besides, the Royal Navy was in no state to fight a war.
In the short term, the Triple Alliance was undermined by diverging interests. De Witt and Charles saw it as a way to improve their bargaining position with Louis, a perspective at odds with domestic opinion in both countries, which was strongly anti-French. In addition, the English were pro-peace, rather than pro-Dutch, and unresolved commercial disputes resulted in the Third Anglo-Dutch War. For Sweden, it was an opportunity to replace its regional rival Denmark-Norway as the primary Dutch ally in the Baltic, and end concessions imposed by the 1656 Treaty of Elbing.
However, the treaty marked the end of the longstanding Franco-Dutch alliance and the first step in creating the anti-French coalition that continued until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. The balance of power concept advocated by Temple had two important implications for English policy: the ability to enforce it and a network of allies. From 1668 to 1674, Parliament voted large sums to strengthen the Royal Navy, and English diplomacy began to focus on powers like Sweden, Brandenburg and Denmark, instead of only Spain, the Dutch, France or the Holy Roman Empire.
De Witt hoped the threat of the Triple Alliance would force Louis to moderate his demands, but it simply showed the limits of his ability to control the States General. The Treaties of Breda and the Alliance were viewed as Dutch diplomatic triumphs, but while although De Witt understood the danger of thwarting French ambitions, he failed to convince his colleagues. Louis now decided the best way to acquire the Spanish Netherlands was to defeat the Dutch and began preparations for the 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War.
References
Sources
Political history of France
17th-century military alliances
1668 treaties
Treaties of the Dutch Republic
Treaties of the Swedish Empire
Military alliances involving England
Military alliances involving Sweden
Military alliances involving the Dutch Republic
1668 in the Dutch Republic
1668 in England
1668 in Sweden
Dutch Republic–England relations
Dutch Republic–Sweden relations
England–Sweden relations
Charles II of England
War of Devolution |
Königsborn station is a railway station in the municipality of Königsborn, located in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
References
Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt
Buildings and structures in Jerichower Land |
Calliope is a rural town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Calliope had a population of 5,263 people.
Geography
Calliope is near the 'cross-roads' of the Bruce Highway and the Dawson Highway in Central Queensland, SSW of the port city of Gladstone. Gladstone–Monto Road (State Route 69) runs south from the Dawson Highway through the locality.
History
The town takes its name from the Calliope River, which in turn was named after HMS Calliope by the Governor of New South Wales, Charles Augustus FitzRoy, on 18 April 1854, after travelling from Sydney to Port Curtis on board that ship.
Industries of the town and surrounds since that time have included gold mining, beef, timber, and more recently heavy industry (Aluminium, Coal, LNG), shipping and tourism.
Alluvial gold was mined in the area after its discovery in 1862. The following year, Queensland's first goldfield was officially proclaimed.
Calliope Post Office opened on 1 March 1864.
Calliope State School opened on 2 September 1872.
Booroom State School opened in 1911 and closed in 1939. Booroom is a parish west of Calliope.
In the , the locality of Calliope had a population of 3,058 people.
In the , the locality of Calliope had a population of 3,438 people.
In the , the locality of Calliope had a population of 5,263 people.
Local attractions
The Calliope River Historical Village is situated on the banks of the Calliope River. Lake Awoonga resulted from the construction of a dam on the Boyne River. Lake Awoonga supplies water to the city of Gladstone, and Calliope and other townships in the region, as well as supplying the major industries for which the Gladstone region is known. Total capacity of Lake Awoonga is 777,000 megalitres (203,412,500,000 gallons). The catchment area contributing to the Lake is 2,240 square kilometres (864.87 square miles) and is surrounded by the Boyne, Dawes and Many Peaks Ranges.
Lake Awoonga is home to a thriving array of native animals, several of which are of conservation significance. Two fauna species are listed as vulnerable: the yellow-bellied glider and the grey-headed flying fox. For the bird-watching enthusiast, Lake Awoonga is a paradise with more than 225 species or over 27% of Australia's bird species found in the region. The southern squatter pigeon is listed as vulnerable and of conservation significance, and twenty-seven species are listed on International Migratory Conservation Agreement lists. Lake Awoonga is arguably one of the most important near-coast bird refuges on the East Coast of Australia.
The Gladstone Area Water Board operates a fish hatchery which breeds barramundi and mangrove jack for release into Lake Awoonga. Barramundi over 20 kg (44.09 lbs) are regularly caught, and the heaviest caught by August 2008 weighed in at a hefty 36.5 kg (80.47 lbs). In addition, the mangrove jack breeding program has resulted in Lake Awoonga holding the largest stocks in Australia with over 13,000 released. Since 1996 over two and a half million barramundi fingerlings and 340,000 mullet fingerlings have been released into Lake Awoonga.
Calliope has an 18-hole golf course with club and a bowls club. There are two pubs and an annual rodeo held each year. The town also has a swimming pool, racecourse, sports fields, Hazelbrook Park and a skateboard ramp.
Recent years have seen the introduction of a child care centre, supermarket shopping, specialty stores, doctors surgeries and other essential services. A large number of new homes and town houses have been built in Calliope due to its proximity to Gladstone Port and associated industries such as LNG.
Amenities
Until 2008, Calliope was the council headquarters of the Calliope Shire which included Boyne Island, Tannum Sands, Ambrose, Mount Larcom and most of the industrial plants plus Awoonga dam. Calliope has now become one of the towns under the umbrella of the Gladstone Regional Council after the merger of the Calliope Shire Council and the former Gladstone City Council. GRC still maintain significant offices in Calliope.
The Calliope Library is on Don Cameron Drive; it is operated by the Gladstone Regional Council. There is a Gladstone Regional Council administration centre at 5 Don Cameron Drive.
Media: Calliope is serviced by Christian FM radio 87.6FM.
The Calliope branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 2 Bloomfield Street.
Education
Calliope State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Stirrat Street (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 613 students with 48 teachers (41 full-time equivalent) and 24 non-teaching staff (16 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program.
After many years of lobbying from local residents fighting for a high school to be established in the town, Calliope State High School opened to students for the first time on 28 January 2020. A total of 165 students in Years 7 and 8 were the first students to attend the school. Facilities at the school include ten general learning spaces, 12 specialty learning spaces, a technology centre, a science centre, hospitality centre, a multi-purpose hall and an oval. An administration building, resource centre and a canteen were also among the new school's facilities upon its opening.
See also
Boyne Valley, Australia
References
External links
Towns in Queensland
Gladstone Region
1871 establishments in Australia
Populated places established in 1871
Localities in Queensland |
RPET may be an acronym for:
Rajasthan Pre-Engineering Test
Recycled polyethylene terephthalate; see PET bottle recycling |
St. James College of Parañaque (S.J.C.P.) was a private, non-sectarian academic institution in Quezon City, Metro Manila which operated from 1987 to 2012. It was established by Jaime T. Torres, a successful businessman involved in brokerage, real estate and agricultural development business, and Myrna Montealegre-Torres, a former educator at the St. Jude Catholic School and Stella Maris College.
History
Opened in 1987 as St. James School of Parañaque, it was the second branch of the St. James College System (established in 1971) which includes other schools in Quezon City, Metro Manila and Calamba, Laguna. The school was located at 8408 Dr. A. Santos Avenue (more popularly known as Sucat Road) in Parañaque. Its chancellor and dean of education is Dr. Norma M. Abracia, and its principal is Nilda Sergio.
In March 2012, the school ordered its closure and was demolished to give way for SM City BF Parañaque. The front portion was converted into an open parking space and is currently occupied by AutomobiliCo Car Shop, while the rear buildings of the campus are still intact. All documents such as Form 137, Transcript of Records, certification, diploma for alumni are processed/transferred at the Quezon City campus.
Founding and patron saint
Being devout Catholics, school founders Jaime and Myrna Torres found themselves adhering to the path that St. James, their patron saint, had taken. St. James the Greater was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and the patron saint of Spain.
In commemoration of his Feast Day every July 25, several activities were held on campus.
Academics
St. James College offered the following academic programs:
Basic Education
Pre-School
Grade School
High School
College of Hospitality Management
Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management
College of Education
Bachelor in Elementary Education
Bachelor in Secondary Education majors in Math, English
College of Arts
Bachelor of Arts, major in Psychology
Facilities
Air-conditioned classrooms
Audi-gymnasium
Multi-purpose hall
Quadrangle
Computer Laboratory
Science Laboratory
Speech Laboratory
Home Economics Laboratory
Children's Activity Center
Children's Playground
Audio-Visual Room
Prayer Room
Swimming Pool
Open Field
Music Room
Karate Room
Cottages
College hymn
I.
O hail, hail, hail to thee
Our dearest patron saint
St. James, our Alma Mater
Life and love for you.
II.
We sing our lovely joy
Shower us your holy care
Hail to thee, our dearest saint
St. James, our Alma Mater,
(Repeat I and II)
III.
We sing our song for you
Hail to thee our patron saint,
St. James, our Alma Mater
We sing our song divinely
Hail to thee, hail to thee
Our patron, dear St. James
(Repeat III)
SJCP 20th anniversary celebration
St. James College of Parañaque celebrated their 20th anniversary November 22–30, 2007. Activities included a torch parade, family day, high school and grade school field demonstrations, a float parade, and a variety show. Since it was raining, the float parade and variety show was moved to December 6.
Many booths were opened inside the campus for the celebration.
Education in Parañaque
Elementary schools in Metro Manila
High schools in Metro Manila
Universities and colleges in Metro Manila
Educational institutions established in 1987
Educational institutions disestablished in 2012
1987 establishments in the Philippines |
The 1950–51 NBA season was the Pistons' third season in the NBA and tenth season as a franchise.
The Pistons finished with a 32-36 (.471) record, good for third in the West Division. The team advanced to the playoffs, losing in the division semifinals 2–1 to the Rochester Royals. The team was led by forward Fred Schaus (15.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg, NBA All-Star) and the double-double of center Larry Foust (13.5 ppg, 10.0 rpg, NBA All-Star). The team drafted future star George Yardley in the 1950 NBA draft, but Yardley would sit out three years, opting to play AAU basketball, served in the United States Navy, got married, and then joined Fort Wayne for the 1953-54 Fort Wayne Pistons season.
Draft picks
Roster
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| @ Rochester
| L 81–110
| Dick Mehen (19)
| Edgerton Park Arena
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| March 22
| Rochester
| W 83–78
| Fred Schaus (21)
| North Side High School Gym
| 1–1
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| March 24
| @ Rochester
| L 78–97
| Fred Schaus (12)
| Edgerton Park Arena
| 1–2
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References
See also
1950–51 NBA season
Detroit Pistons seasons
Fort |
The Rexurdimento (Galician for Resurgence) was a period in the History of Galicia during the 19th century. Its central feature was the revitalization of the Galician language as a vehicle of social and cultural expression after the so-called séculos escuros ("dark centuries") in which the dominance of Castilian Spanish was nearly complete. The Galician Rexurdimento coincides with the Catalan Renaixença.
Romanticism led to a revival of regionalism in the Iberian Peninsula. Languages besides the official Castilian Spanish were reevaluated. In contrast to the universalizing Age of Enlightenment, a positive value was placed on regional traditions, languages, and dialects. In Galicia, Castilian Spanish had become the language of the cities and of the bourgeoisie, while Galician had become a largely rural language without a live literary tradition. This created some degree of diglossia, with Castilian Spanish dominating literary and business use, and Galician being strictly a language of daily life.
Road to the Rexurdimento
The transitional phase from the to the Rexurdimento is referred to by literary historians as the Prerrexurdimento. Within the Prerrexurdimento, two phases can be roughly distinguished, before and after the unsuccessful Solís Uprising of 1846. The first phase involved a rather diffuse revival of the Galician language; the second is more concentrated, including the first new Galician-language works in centuries to gain acclaim.
From 1840 onward, groups of intellectuals saw Galicia as a backward region whose advancement was dependent on the formation of a regional or national identity. This provincialist movement centered at the University of Santiago de Compostela; its most prominent figure was Antolín Faraldo Asorey.
The failed Solís Uprising of 1846, an uprising against centralism, ended with the summary execution of the so-called Martyrs of Carral. This political and military defeat nonetheless awoke Galician literary consciousness. Authors who shared the idea of Galicia as their fatherland published in magazines such as El Centinela de Galicia ("The Galician Sentinel") and La Aurora de Galicia. Benito Viceto published a History of Galicia (1865–1866) a heroic narrative of Galician history in six volumes. Important works from this period include the Proezas de Galicia ("Prowess of Galicia") by Fernández Neira, A gaita gallega ("The Galician Bagpipes") by Juan Manuel Pintos (1853), the founding of the Juegos Florales de Galicia ("Floral Games of Galicia") in A Coruña (1861), as well as publications such as El álbum de la caridad ("The Charity Album") and newspapers that published fragments of Galician-language novels and plays.
The two foremost Galician-language genres from this time were political writings and the revival of Galician as a literary language. The first of the political writings were linked to the Peninsular War, viewed throughout Spain as a war of independence against Napoleonic France: Un labrador que foi sarxento ("A farmer who was a sergeant", 1808) and several dialogues, the first of them being Proezas de Galicia explicadas baxo la conversación rústica de los dos compadres Chinto y Mingote ("Prowess of Galicia explained through the rustic conversation of two comrades Chinto and Mingote") by José Fernández de Neira (1812). Later, pamphlets and newspapers published polemics on both sides in the struggle between absolutism and liberalism, and other polemics critical of the administrative situation of the region. On the literary front were villancicos (intended to be sung), one play (A casamenteira by Antonio Benito Fandiño, published in 1849 and centered on arranged marriage), satirical sonnets, two books of poetry by Nicomedes Pastor Díaz, and various other works. Francisco Añón was another author relevant in this period.
Professor Dolores Vilavedra, while cautious in drawing conclusions, sees this phase of the Prerrexurdimento as basically a Galician form of artistic and political Romanticism. Some institutions developed during this period, such as an Academia Literaria de Santiago with its official organ El Idólatra de Galicia, and magazines such as Revista de Galicia. However, many of these institutions were repressed after the 1846 Solís Uprising.
The intellectual heirs of this thwarted movement were a group of young people, among them Manuel Murguía, Eduardo Pondal, and Rosalía de Castro. Their gathering in 1856 at the Banquete de Conxo ("Banquet of Conxo") marks the founding of the Liceo de la Juventud as a gathering place and a base for cultural activism.
The Rexurdimento proper
The Rexurdimento is conventionally considered to begin with the publication of Rosalía de Castro's book of poems Cantares Gallegos in 1863. Nonetheless, there is no sharp break from the Prerrexurdimento to the Rexurdimento, and there were no other significant publications in Galician for over a decade after the Cantares Gallegos, a period that includes Spain's Glorious Revolution and the subsequent liberal era.
However, beginning in 1875 more works were published in Galician, including, again, newspapers, the most famous of which was O Tío Marcos da Portela ("Uncle Marcos from Portela", 1876–1889). The Biblioteca Gallega ("Galician Library") published 52 works beginning in 1885, including such prominent works as Aires da miña terra ("Airs of My Land") by Manuel Curros Enríquez and Queixumes dos Pinos ("Moans of the Pines") by Eduardo Pondal.
1880 was a particularly outstanding year, with the publication of Follas Novas ("New Leaves") by Rosalía de Castro, Aires da miña terra by Curros Enríquez, and Espiñas, follas e frores. Ramiño primeiro ("Spines, Leaves, and Fronds. First Sprigs") by Valentín Lamas Carvajal.
In 1886, for the first time, a literary contest was held, confined to Galician-language works. Poetry was particularly prominent, and anthologies of Galician poetry began to appear. In a more political vein, that year saw the publication of Los precursores ("The Precursors") by Manuel Murguía.
These years also saw the publication of many grammar books, dictionaries, and critical literary studies, and further history books, including another History of Galicia by Manuel Murguía. Furthermore, there was a recovery of the splendid works in Galician by medieval troubadours ), the Cantigas. The first such work to be published was the Cancionero de la Vaticana (1875), followed by Colocci Brancuti (1889), Cantigas de Alfonso X El Sabio (1889), and Cancionero de Ajuda (1904).
The first significant published prose fiction in Galician was by Marcial Valladares Núñez. His Maxina ou a filla espúrea ("Maxina or A Spurious Daughter") appeared in the 1880s in a series of inserts in a magazine; the manuscript dates from 1870). The book is particularly unusual in its mix of Galician and Castilian Spanish to suggest the bifurcated lives of its characters. The first drama in Galician was Rentar de Castromil (1904) by Evaristo Martelo Paumán.
The canon Antonio López Ferreiro is considered the true father of the Galician novel. He wrote three novels, the best known of which is A tecedeira de Bonabal ("The Weaver of Bonabal"), published in installments in Galician newspapers. These realistic works with aspects of the historical novel are set at different points in Galician history.
Costumbrismo, the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, was also active in Galicia, as it was elsewhere in Spain. However, in Galicia it focused almost entirely on rural life. Urban narratives in Galician began to appear only toward the end of the 19th century, as in the work of Francisco Álvarez de Novoa, urban, bourgeois, and psychological. This was a prelude to the innovative writers of the Irmandades da fala.
There were very few theatrical works associated with the Rexurdimento.
Notes
History of Galicia (Spain)
National revivals
19th century in Spain |
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Damien Gavin Lewis (born March 1966) is a British author and filmmaker who has spent over twenty years reporting from and writing about conflict zones in many countries. He has produced about twenty films.
He has written more than fifteen books, some of which have been published in over thirty languages. His books have appeared on bestseller lists in many countries. He is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Career
Lewis worked as a war correspondent, and between 1991 and 2005 he wrote, directed, produced and filmed a number of documentary films for National Geographic, the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery, amongst others, largely focusing on investigating and exposing environmental and human rights violations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
In 1991 Lewis's independently-funded documentary film Parks or People?, about conflict between rainforest conservationists and indigenous tribes in the Congo, won the Wildscreen Film Festival Golden Panda Award.
In 1998 he created a documentary film for the BBC, Hidden Cost of Heroin, exposing how heroin is traded for wildlife on the Burmese border. This film won at the BBC One World Awards.
In 2000 Lewis's documentary film Death in the Air, about the use of chemical weapons in the Sudanese civil war, was a finalist in the British Rory Peck Awards, but its accuracy was disputed by the London-based European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council.
In 2004 Lewis wrote his first book, Slave, a novel which won the Index on Censorship Book Award at the Index on Censorship Awards. The book was later adapted as a film, I Am Slave, which won the Drama Award at the BBC One World Media Awards in 2011. Slave was also adapted into a stage play: Slave - A Question of Freedom, by Kevin Fegan, produced and directed by Caroline Clegg and Feelgood Theatre Productions. It won Best Stage Production at the inaugural Media Awards 2011 in association with the Human Trafficking Foundation, and Best New Play at the Manchester Evening News Awards.
In 2005 Lewis's documentary War Hospital produced by CTV Television Network and the National Film Board of Canada, about International Committee of the Red Cross doctors working in the world's largest field hospital in Sudan, won the Best of the Festival Award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival.
Lewis has written other fiction and nonfiction books. In 2006 he was chosen as one of the "Nation's Twenty Favourite Authors" by the UK Government's Quick Reads Initiative in association with World Book Day.
In February 2018 Lewis became a patron for the Scottish charity Bravehound which provides assistance dogs for veterans.
Books
Military
Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle (Century, 2004) - The account of Operation Barras, the attempt by the SAS to rescue the British Forces captured by guerrilla militia group the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.
Bloody Heroes: Ultimate Betrayal – Ultimate Firepower - Ultimate Revenge: The True Story of Britain's Secret Warriors in Afghanistan (Century 2006) - The account of British and American special forces unit deployed against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (Sphere, 2008) A chronicle of the apache pilots deployed in the Afghanistan war.
Fire strike 7/9 (Ebury, 2010) An account of an apache helicopter Fire Support Team's tour of Afghanistan.
It's all about Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog (Quercus Publishing, 2012) - The true story of Treo - the world's most highly decorated living dog – whose job it was to sniff out bombs in Afghanistan.
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces, 100,000 Enemy, The Explosive True Story (Quercus, 2013) - Tells the story of a Special Boat Service unit caught in a ferocious enemy ambush in Iraq, who managed to inflict massive damage on their enemies despite being outnumbered and outgunned.
War Dog: The No-man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies (Sphere, 2013, ) - The true story of a German Shepherd puppy Antis, rescued from World War Two no man's land in France by Czech fighter pilot Robert Bozdech, and their lives together.
Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII (Quercus, 2014) - The story of Winston Churchill's first 'deniable' secret operative force to operate behind enemy lines in World War II.
Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War (Quercus, 2014) - An account of the only dog to be declared an official Prisoner of War in Sumatra in World War Two.
The Nazi Hunters (Quercus, 2015) - About the SAS's secret mission after WWII to hunt the SS commanders responsible for the murder of their comrades.
Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb (2016), , details the Norwegian heavy water sabotage by Norwegian & British Commandos of the Vemork Hydroelectric Plant during WW2.
SAS Ghost Patrol (Quercus, 2017) ; LRDG/SAS raids on Tobruk and Barce in 1942.
Biographies and memoirs
Slave (PublicAffairs, 2004) The life story of Mende Nazer who was stolen from her village in the Nuba mountains and sold into life as a domestic slave in Khartoum and then London.
Tears of the Desert: Surviving The Genocide - One Woman's True Story (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) The biography of Sudanese doctor Halima Bashir who suffered greatly as a result of speaking out about the torture of her people by the Janjaweed Arab militias.
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (Simon & Schuster, 2009) The life story of Zoya Phan, a Karen refugee from war-torn Burma who went on to become the face of Burma's enslaved people.
Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival (Simon & Schuster, 2010) Tells the story of U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan half-brother George Obama who gave up a life of crime to help improve the lives of children in the Nairobi slums.
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of One Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan (Virago, 2011) Is the story of how Suraya Sadeed set up an underground school for girls in Kabul, offering hope and aid to thousands of fellow Afghans.
Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder of the Twenty-First Century (Mainstream Publishing 2013) - The story of Mukesh Kapila, the former head of the United Nations in Sudan, who brought about justice for those responsible for the Darfur genocide.
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Thrillers
Desert Claw (Arrow, 2006) The fictional tale of ex-SAS soldier Mat Kilbride who takes on a black ops deniable mission to forcibly retrieve a priceless Van Gogh painting looted from a palace in post war Iraq.
Cobra Gold (Century 2007) The fictional story of SAS veteran Luke Kilbride's search for 50 million dollars worth of gold bullion he and his team stole in a Beirut bank heist twenty years before.
References
External links
Damien Lewis website
Damien Lewis at Military Speakers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
British filmmakers
1966 births
People from Weymouth, Dorset
20th-century British writers
21st-century British writers |
```css
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```python
import http.server
import multiprocessing
import os
import socket
import ssl
from typing import Callable
import pexpect
import pytest
from common_test_methods import get_host_ip4_by_dest_ip
from pytest_embedded import Dut
from RangeHTTPServer import RangeRequestHandler
server_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'server_certs/ca_cert.pem')
key_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'server_certs/server_key.pem')
enc_bin_name = 'pre_encrypted_ota_secure.bin'
def https_request_handler() -> Callable[...,http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler]:
"""
Returns a request handler class that handles broken pipe exception
"""
class RequestHandler(RangeRequestHandler):
def finish(self) -> None:
try:
if not self.wfile.closed:
self.wfile.flush()
self.wfile.close()
except socket.error:
pass
self.rfile.close()
def handle(self) -> None:
try:
RangeRequestHandler.handle(self)
except socket.error:
pass
return RequestHandler
def start_https_server(ota_image_dir: str, server_ip: str, server_port: int) -> None:
os.chdir(ota_image_dir)
requestHandler = https_request_handler()
httpd = http.server.HTTPServer((server_ip, server_port), requestHandler)
ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS_SERVER)
ssl_context.load_cert_chain(certfile=server_file, keyfile=key_file)
httpd.socket = ssl_context.wrap_socket(httpd.socket, server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()
@pytest.mark.esp32
@pytest.mark.ethernet_ota
def test_examples_protocol_pre_encrypted_ota_example(dut: Dut) -> None:
server_port = 8001
# Start server
thread1 = multiprocessing.Process(target=start_https_server, args=(dut.app.binary_path, '0.0.0.0', server_port))
thread1.daemon = True
thread1.start()
try:
dut.expect('Loaded app from partition at offset', timeout=30)
try:
ip_address = dut.expect(r'IPv4 address: (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)[^\d]', timeout=30)[1].decode()
print('Connected to AP/Ethernet with IP: {}'.format(ip_address))
except pexpect.exceptions.TIMEOUT:
raise ValueError('ENV_TEST_FAILURE: Cannot connect to AP/Ethernet')
host_ip = get_host_ip4_by_dest_ip(ip_address)
dut.expect('Starting Pre Encrypted OTA example', timeout=30)
print('writing to device: {}'.format('path_to_url + host_ip + ':' + str(server_port) + '/' + enc_bin_name))
dut.write('path_to_url + host_ip + ':' + str(server_port) + '/' + enc_bin_name)
dut.expect('Magic Verified', timeout=30)
dut.expect('Reading RSA private key', timeout=30)
dut.expect('upgrade successful. Rebooting', timeout=60)
# after reboot
dut.expect('Loaded app from partition at offset', timeout=30)
finally:
thread1.terminate()
@pytest.mark.esp32
@pytest.mark.ethernet_ota
@pytest.mark.parametrize('config', ['partial_download',], indirect=True)
def your_sha256_hash(dut: Dut) -> None:
server_port = 8001
# Size of partial HTTP request
request_size = int(dut.app.sdkconfig.get('EXAMPLE_HTTP_REQUEST_SIZE'))
# File to be downloaded. This file is generated after compilation
binary_file = os.path.join(dut.app.binary_path, enc_bin_name)
bin_size = os.path.getsize(binary_file)
http_requests = int((bin_size / request_size) - 1)
assert http_requests > 1
# Start server
thread1 = multiprocessing.Process(target=start_https_server, args=(dut.app.binary_path, '0.0.0.0', server_port))
thread1.daemon = True
thread1.start()
try:
dut.expect('Loaded app from partition at offset', timeout=30)
try:
ip_address = dut.expect(r'IPv4 address: (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)[^\d]', timeout=30)[1].decode()
print('Connected to AP/Ethernet with IP: {}'.format(ip_address))
except pexpect.exceptions.TIMEOUT:
raise ValueError('ENV_TEST_FAILURE: Cannot connect to AP/Ethernet')
host_ip = get_host_ip4_by_dest_ip(ip_address)
dut.expect('Starting Pre Encrypted OTA example', timeout=30)
print('writing to device: {}'.format('path_to_url + host_ip + ':' + str(server_port) + '/' + enc_bin_name))
dut.write('path_to_url + host_ip + ':' + str(server_port) + '/' + enc_bin_name)
dut.expect('Magic Verified', timeout=30)
dut.expect('Reading RSA private key', timeout=30)
for _ in range(http_requests):
dut.expect('Connection closed', timeout=60)
dut.expect('upgrade successful. Rebooting', timeout=60)
# after reboot
dut.expect('Loaded app from partition at offset', timeout=30)
finally:
thread1.terminate()
``` |
```rust
#![allow(dead_code, non_snake_case, non_camel_case_types, non_upper_case_globals)]
pub type RefPtr<T> = T;
#[repr(C)]
#[derive(Debug, Default, Copy, Clone)]
pub struct A {
pub _address: u8,
}
pub type A_a = b;
#[allow(clippy::unnecessary_operation, clippy::identity_op)]
const _: () = {
["Size of A"][::std::mem::size_of::<A>() - 1usize];
["Alignment of A"][::std::mem::align_of::<A>() - 1usize];
};
#[repr(C)]
pub struct e<c> {
pub _phantom_0: ::std::marker::PhantomData<::std::cell::UnsafeCell<c>>,
pub d: RefPtr<c>,
}
impl<c> Default for e<c> {
fn default() -> Self {
let mut s = ::std::mem::MaybeUninit::<Self>::uninit();
unsafe {
::std::ptr::write_bytes(s.as_mut_ptr(), 0, 1);
s.assume_init()
}
}
}
#[repr(C)]
#[derive(Debug, Default, Copy, Clone)]
pub struct f {
pub _address: u8,
}
#[repr(C)]
pub struct g {
pub h: f,
}
#[allow(clippy::unnecessary_operation, clippy::identity_op)]
const _: () = {
["Size of g"][::std::mem::size_of::<g>() - 1usize];
["Alignment of g"][::std::mem::align_of::<g>() - 1usize];
["Offset of field: g::h"][::std::mem::offset_of!(g, h) - 0usize];
};
impl Default for g {
fn default() -> Self {
let mut s = ::std::mem::MaybeUninit::<Self>::uninit();
unsafe {
::std::ptr::write_bytes(s.as_mut_ptr(), 0, 1);
s.assume_init()
}
}
}
#[repr(C)]
pub struct b {
pub _base: g,
}
#[allow(clippy::unnecessary_operation, clippy::identity_op)]
const _: () = {
["Size of b"][::std::mem::size_of::<b>() - 1usize];
["Alignment of b"][::std::mem::align_of::<b>() - 1usize];
};
impl Default for b {
fn default() -> Self {
let mut s = ::std::mem::MaybeUninit::<Self>::uninit();
unsafe {
::std::ptr::write_bytes(s.as_mut_ptr(), 0, 1);
s.assume_init()
}
}
}
extern "C" {
#[link_name = "\u{1}_Z25Servo_Element_GetSnapshotv"]
pub fn Servo_Element_GetSnapshot() -> A;
}
#[allow(clippy::unnecessary_operation, clippy::identity_op)]
const _: () = {
[
"Size of template specialization: f_open0_e_open1_int_close1_close0",
][::std::mem::size_of::<f>() - 1usize];
[
"Align of template specialization: f_open0_e_open1_int_close1_close0",
][::std::mem::align_of::<f>() - 1usize];
};
``` |
Hilton Flight (1993–2009) was a horse ridden in international show jumping by Richard Spooner. He stood 17.0 hh (173 cm). He was bred by Jennifer Giles, in Kilmurray, Kilmacanogue, Bray, County Wicklow.
Hilton Flight is by the Irish Sport Horse stallion Errigal Flight, who is a son of the great Irish Draught producer of show jumpers, King of Diamonds. Errigal Flight also sired Ado Annie, ridden by Will Simpson.
He was ridden successfully as a young horse in Ireland by Clement McMahon before being sold into the U.S., where he won multiple Grands Prix with Richard Spooner.
Hilton Flight died in 2009.
Major achievements
2003 Won $40,000 Esso Imperial oil Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows, Calgary, Canada
2003 Won $75,000 BP Cup at Spruce Meadows
2004 World Cup Final, Milan, Italy highest American 12th place
2004 Won $150,000 Ford Grand Prix Of The Desert at Indio, CA
2004 PCHA Horse of The Year
2004 $40,000 Los Angeles International Grand Prix 2004
2004 $40,000 Showpark Grand Prix
2004 Won Round 1 OLYMPIC TRIALS
2004 2nd $50,000 EMO Grand Prix
2005 Won $75,000 HITS Grand Prix at Indio, CA
2006 2nd Luscar Cup 1m50 at Spruce Meadows
2006 5th CN Reliability Spruce Meadows Grand Prix 1m60
2006 2nd $175,000 Shell Cup derby (time fault) winnings Ca $35,000 at Spruce Meadows
References
$150,000 Ford Grand Prix Result & Photo
Show jumping horses
1993 animal births
Individual male horses |
John Porter was an English tax collector, portreeve for the town of Taunton in the West of England. He also served as one of the two Members of Parliament for the borough of Taunton in some parliaments of the late 14th century.
Life and career
John Porter was first returned as a Member of Parliament for Taunton in January 1390, the 17th Parliament of Richard II. He was not returned in the next two parliaments, but was re-elected in 1393 and 1394, gaining election for the final time in the 21st Parliament of Richard II. He also served as a tax collector for Taunton in 1388, and as portreeve for Taunton in 1385–86, 1389–90 and 1394–95.
References
14th-century births
English MPs January 1390
Year of death unknown
English MPs 1393
English MPs 1394 |
Bario steindachneri is a species of characin from Brazil and Peru. It is the only member of the genus Bario. It is found in a freshwater environment within a pelagic depth range in a tropical climate.
Bario steindachneri can reach the maximum recorded length of about 9 cm (3.5 in) as an unsexed male. It is found in the Amazon River basin of South America.
The fish is named in honor of Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834-1919), who originally described this species in 1891 but unwittingly used a name that already been used.
References
Notes
Gymnocharacini
Freshwater fish of South America
Fish of Brazil
Fish of Peru
Taxa named by George S. Myers
Monotypic fish genera |
Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza, nicknamed Pato (born October 15, 1978, in Ventanas, Los Ríos), is a retired Ecuadorian politician and professional footballer.
Club career
Early career
Urrutia first started playing football for Liga Deportiva Cantonal de Ventanas, an amateur team in his hometown of Ventanas. He got his professional start for Barcelona in Guayaquil in 1996, but never got any playing time. He was later transferred to Calvi, also in Guayaquil, and again never saw playing time at the club. The following year, he was traded to Técnico Universitario in Ambato in 1998. For the Ambato club, he got significant played time, earning 30 caps in his first year. After a dry season in 1999, he was transferred to crosstown rival Macará. At the club, he was a significant part of the squad, earning 79 caps and scoring 12 goals in three seasons. In 2002, he was loaned back to Barcelona for a season, playing in 38 matches and scoring two goals before being transferred to LDU Quito.
LDU Quito
Urrutia joined LDU Quito in 2003, where has stayed since. During his time at the club, he has become a star and a prominent figure in the line-up as the team captain. Domestically, he has helped bring in three national titles to the club (2003, 2005 A, 2007). Internationally, he has brought success to himself and the club. In the 2005 Copa Libertadores, he was a joint top-scorer with 13 other players. He has since become the team's all-time top-scorer in the tournament with 18 goals.
In 2008, he was a starting figure of the squad that won the 2008 Copa Libertadores, the first international title for the club and the country. During the campaign, he scored 7 goals, including the 4th in the first leg of the final, and the first penalty of the shootout in the second leg, and was voted the Most Valuable Player of the final.
Fluminense
Urrutia was expected to transfer to Brazilian club Fluminense. The club had been interested in Urrutia since the 2008 Copa Libertadores Final, but negotiations fell through back in 2008. The parties involved finally reach an agree for Patricio's transfer in August 2009. Pato travelled to Rio de Janeiro for medical exams, but he did not pass the medical tests because of inflammation on his right knee, which had recently been operated on. Fluminense, who at the time was in 19th position and in the relegation zone, wanted to use Pato's skills immediately. The approximate one-month recovery time prevented the team from incorporating Pato from the beginning. An initial decision was made to not sign Pato at that time, forcing him to stay with LDU Quito. However, on August 26, 2009, Urrutía signed a two-year contract with Fluminense after a second round of medical exams showed the recovery time for his knee was less than expected.
Statistics
2008 FIFA Club World Cup: Apps (2), Goals (0)
2010 Suruga Bank Championship: Apps (1), Goals (1)
International career
Urrutia was first called up to the national team on November 17, 2004, in a 2006 World Cup qualifying match against Brazil in Quito. He was chosen to be part of Ecuador's team in the World Cup games in Germany 2006. His appointment to the Ecuadorian squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup raised a few eyebrows, as he had not made an appearance for them in months. He made his FIFA World Cup debut as a substitute for Agustín Delgado in the 2006 World Cup games against Poland and Costa Rica, where they won 2–0 and 3–0 respectively, securing a historic qualification to the round of sixteen. This was the best result yet for Ecuador in their World Cup history He was also called up for the 2007 Copa América. He scored the only goal of the game in a friendly match against Bolivia from the penalty spot on August 22, 2007. Since those tournaments, he has been regularly been called up to the squad and has become a major player in the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign.
International goals
Honors
LDU Quito
Serie A (4): 2003, 2005 Apertura, 2007, 2010
Copa Libertadores (1): 2008
Recopa Sudamericana (2): 2009, 2010
See also
Urrutia
References
External links
Player card on FEF
1978 births
Living people
People from Ventanas
Ecuadorian men's footballers
Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers
Ecuadorian people of Basque descent
Barcelona S.C. footballers
C.D. Técnico Universitario footballers
C.S.D. Macará footballers
L.D.U. Quito footballers
Fluminense FC players
Ecuadorian Serie A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
Ecuador men's international footballers
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2007 Copa América players
Men's association football midfielders
Copa Libertadores-winning players |
```go
package captain
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"io"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sync/atomic"
"testing"
"time"
)
func TestAppend(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
tests := [][]byte{
[]byte("1"),
[]byte("2"),
[]byte("3"),
}
startTime := time.Now().UTC()
for _, v := range tests {
err = a.Append(v)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Append err=%s", err)
}
}
endTime := time.Now().UTC()
c, err := s.OpenCursor()
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Cursor err=%s", err)
}
for i, v := range tests {
r, err := c.Next()
if err != nil || (r == nil && err == nil) {
t.Fatalf("ursor.Next() mismatch, r=%+v, err=%s, index=%d", r, err, i)
}
if !bytes.Equal(r.Payload, v) {
t.Fatalf("Payload mismatch, act=%+v, exp=%+v", r.Payload, v)
}
if r.Time.Before(startTime) || r.Time.After(endTime) {
t.Fatalf("Record time out of range, act=%s, expected between %s - %s", r.Time, startTime, endTime)
}
}
}
func TestAppendRotate(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
// 71 bytes is the size of magic header + 3 single char records.
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
options := &AppendOptions{SegmentSize: 71}
a, err := s.OpenAppender(options)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
oneSeg := []*segmentInfo{&segmentInfo{name: filepath.Clean(dir + "/000000001.log"), seq: 1}}
twoSeg := append(oneSeg, &segmentInfo{name: filepath.Clean(dir + "/000000002.log"), seq: 2})
tests := []struct {
payload []byte
expSize int
expSegs []*segmentInfo
}{
{payload: []byte("1"), expSize: 29, expSegs: oneSeg},
{payload: []byte("2"), expSize: 50, expSegs: oneSeg},
{payload: []byte("3"), expSize: 71, expSegs: oneSeg},
{payload: []byte("4"), expSize: 29, expSegs: twoSeg},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
err := a.Append(tt.payload)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Append err=%s", err)
}
segs := scanSegments(dir)
if len(segs) != len(tt.expSegs) {
t.Fatalf("Segment length mismatch, act=%d, exp=%d", len(segs), len(tt.expSegs))
}
for i, s := range tt.expSegs {
if *segs[i] != *s {
t.Fatalf("Segment mismatch, act=%+v, exp=%+v", segs[i], s)
}
}
var stat os.FileInfo
if len(tt.expSegs) == len(oneSeg) {
stat, err = os.Stat(oneSeg[0].name)
} else if len(tt.expSegs) == len(twoSeg) {
stat, err = os.Stat(twoSeg[1].name)
}
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Unable to stat, err=%s", err)
}
if stat.Size() != int64(tt.expSize) {
t.Fatalf("Size mismatch, act=%d, exp=%d", stat.Size(), tt.expSize)
}
}
}
func TestAppendInvalidDir(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
// Set dir to invalid.
a.path = dir + "/does-not-exist"
err = a.Append([]byte("a"))
if err == nil {
t.Fatalf("Expected err on invalid dir")
}
}
// Test failure handling for an unlikely record marshaling error.
func TestAppendRecordMarshalFailure(t *testing.T) {
testErr := errors.New("invalid file descriptor")
copy := binaryWrite
expData := []byte("a")
binaryWrite = func(w io.Writer, order binary.ByteOrder, data interface{}) error {
b, ok := data.([]byte)
if ok && bytes.Equal(expData, b) {
return testErr
}
return copy(w, order, data)
}
defer func() { binaryWrite = copy }()
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
err = a.Append(expData)
if err != testErr {
t.Fatalf("Append err, act=%s, exp=%s", err, testErr)
}
}
// Test internal writer failure handling.
// e.g., Disk full, closed fd.
func TestAppendWriteFailure(t *testing.T) {
expData := []byte("deadbeef")
testErr := errors.New("invalid file descriptor")
copy := binaryWrite
binaryWrite = func(w io.Writer, order binary.ByteOrder, data interface{}) error {
b, ok := data.([]byte)
// Look for expData within marshaled record.
if ok && len(b) == 28 && bytes.Equal(expData, b[16:24]) {
return testErr
}
return copy(w, order, data)
}
defer func() { binaryWrite = copy }()
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
err = a.Append(expData)
if err != testErr {
t.Fatalf("Append err, act=%s, exp=%s", err, testErr)
}
}
func TestAppendEmptyDir(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
segPath := dir + "/000000001.log"
_, err = os.Stat(segPath)
if os.IsExist(err) {
t.Fatalf("Expected empty dir")
}
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("New Appender err=%s", err)
}
a.Append([]byte("a"))
f, err := os.Open(segPath)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Expected file path to exist")
}
if err = validateSegmentHeader(f, testMagicHeader); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Expected valid segment header, err=%s", err)
}
}
func TestAppendInvalidHeader(t *testing.T) {
s := NewStream("./test/invalid-header", testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("New Appender err=%s", err)
}
err = a.Append([]byte("a"))
if err == nil {
t.Fatalf("Append err, act=nil, exp=err")
}
}
func TestAppenderNewWithInvalidDir(t *testing.T) {
s := NewStream("./test/does-not-exist", testMagicHeader)
_, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err == nil {
t.Fatalf("Expected not found err")
}
}
// Opening a new appender on a directory with the last segment file already at
// the SegmentSize limit, should rotate it immediately.
func TestAppenderLastActiveFileAtLimit(t *testing.T) {
dir := "./test/appender-rotate-limit"
expFile := dir + "/000000003.log"
defer os.Remove(expFile)
// 71 bytes is the size of magic header + 3 single char records.
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
options := &AppendOptions{SegmentSize: 71}
a, err := s.OpenAppender(options)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("New appender err=%s", err)
}
f, err := a.activeSegment()
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Unexpected Appender.activeFile() err=%s", err)
}
if f.Name() != expFile {
t.Fatalf("Rotated file mismatch, act=%s, exp=%s", f.Name(), expFile)
}
}
func TestAppendProcessLock(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a1, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
a2, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
if err := a1.Lock(); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Appender Lock err=%s", err)
}
defer a1.Unlock()
done := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
if err := a2.Lock(); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Appender Lock err=%s", err)
}
defer a2.Unlock()
close(done)
}()
timer := time.NewTimer(100 * time.Millisecond)
select {
case <-done:
t.Fatalf("Unexpected second append lock")
case <-timer.C:
}
a1.Unlock()
timer = time.NewTimer(100 * time.Millisecond)
select {
case <-done:
case <-timer.C:
t.Fatalf("Expected successful a2 lock")
}
}
func TestAppenderActiveFileExistingSegments(t *testing.T) {
dir := "./test/appender-existing-segments"
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
f, err := a.activeSegment()
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Active segment err=%s", err)
}
expFile := dir + "/000000002.log"
if f.Name() != expFile {
t.Fatalf("Active file mismatch, act=%s, exp=%s", f.Name(), expFile)
}
}
type testSegmentWriter struct {
sync func() error
write func(b []byte) (int, error)
}
func (w *testSegmentWriter) Sync() error {
return w.sync()
}
func (w *testSegmentWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
return w.write(b)
}
func (w *testSegmentWriter) Close() error {
return nil
}
func TestAppenderSyncInterval(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(&AppendOptions{SyncPolicy: SyncInterval, SyncInterval: 10})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
// Ensure sync is proper when there is no segment file to sync.
// This will show up in coverage report.
time.Sleep(15 * time.Millisecond)
var n uint32
w := &testSegmentWriter{
sync: func() error {
atomic.AddUint32(&n, 1)
return nil
},
}
a.rwlock.Lock()
a.seg = &segmentWriter{writer: w}
a.rwlock.Unlock()
time.Sleep(40 * time.Millisecond)
actN := atomic.LoadUint32(&n)
if actN < 3 || actN > 5 {
t.Fatalf("Sync count act=%d, exp=3 - 5", actN)
}
}
func TestAppenderSyncAlways(t *testing.T) {
dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "test-captain")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
s := NewStream(dir, testMagicHeader)
a, err := s.OpenAppender(&AppendOptions{SyncPolicy: SyncAlways})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open Appender err=%s", err)
}
var n int
w := &testSegmentWriter{
sync: func() error {
n++
return nil
},
write: func(b []byte) (int, error) {
return len(b), nil
},
}
a.rwlock.Lock()
a.seg = &segmentWriter{writer: w}
a.rwlock.Unlock()
err = a.Append([]byte("a"))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Append err=%s", err)
}
if n != 1 {
t.Fatalf("Sync count act=%d, exp=1", n)
}
}
``` |
Schizax senex is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Schizax.
References
Trachyderini |
```html
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<head>
<title>Ring Structure Reference</title>
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<article class="main-content">
<section>
<section class="section">
<h1>Ring</h1>
<div class="declaration">
<div class="language">
<pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">struct</span> <span class="kt">Ring</span><span class="o"><</span><span class="kt">Content</span><span class="o">></span> <span class="k">where</span> <span class="kt">Content</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">View</span></code></pre>
<pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">extension</span> <span class="kt">Ring</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">View</span></code></pre>
</div>
</div>
<h1 id='ring' class='heading'>Ring</h1>
<p>A view which represents a ring (a circle with a stroke).
The <code>percent</code> determines how much of the ring is drawn starting from the <code>axis</code>.</p>
<p>Example: A ring with an axis of <code><a href="../Enums/RingAxis.html#/s:22UICircularProgressRing0C4AxisO3topyA2CmF">RingAxis.top</a></code>, a percent of <code>0.5</code>, and <code>clockwise == true</code> will draw
a stroked circle from <code>90</code> degrees (on a unit circle) to <code>270</code> degrees.</p>
</section>
<section class="section task-group-section">
<div class="task-group">
<ul>
<li class="item">
<div>
<code>
<a name="/s:your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashc"></a>
<a name="//apple_ref/swift/Method/init(percent:axis:clockwise:color:strokeStyle:_:)" class="dashAnchor"></a>
<a class="token" href="#/s:your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashc">init(percent:<wbr>axis:<wbr>clockwise:<wbr>color:<wbr>strokeStyle:<wbr>_:<wbr>)</a>
</code>
</div>
<div class="height-container">
<div class="pointer-container"></div>
<section class="section">
<div class="pointer"></div>
<div class="abstract">
<p>Creates a <code>Ring</code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="declaration">
<h4>Declaration</h4>
<div class="language">
<p class="aside-title">Swift</p>
<pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="nf">init</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="nv">percent</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Double</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">axis</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt"><a href="../Enums/RingAxis.html">RingAxis</a></span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">clockwise</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Bool</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">color</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt"><a href="../Enums/RingColor.html">RingColor</a></span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">strokeStyle</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">StrokeStyle</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="kd">@ViewBuilder</span> <span class="n">_</span> <span class="nv">content</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kd">@escaping</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="kt">Double</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-></span> <span class="kt">Content</span>
<span class="p">)</span></code></pre>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
<table class="graybox">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>percent</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>The starting completion percent of the ring.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>axis</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>The axis to begin drawing the ring.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>clockwise</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>Whether the ring is drawn in a clockwise manner.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>color</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>The stroke color for the ring.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>strokeStyle</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>The <code>StrokeStyle</code> for the ring.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>
<em>content</em>
</code>
</td>
<td>
<div>
<p>An optional content view placed within the center of the ring.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</section>
</div>
</li>
<li class="item">
<div>
<code>
<a name="/s:7SwiftUI4ViewP4body4BodyQzvp"></a>
<a name="//apple_ref/swift/Property/body" class="dashAnchor"></a>
<a class="token" href="#/s:7SwiftUI4ViewP4body4BodyQzvp">body</a>
</code>
</div>
<div class="height-container">
<div class="pointer-container"></div>
<section class="section">
<div class="pointer"></div>
<div class="abstract">
</div>
<div class="declaration">
<h4>Declaration</h4>
<div class="language">
<p class="aside-title">Swift</p>
<pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="k">var</span> <span class="nv">body</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">some</span> <span class="kt">View</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="k">get</span> <span class="p">}</span></code></pre>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="task-group">
<div class="task-name-container">
<a name="/Available%20where%20%60Content%60%20%3D%3D%20%60EmptyView%60"></a>
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<div class="section-name-container">
<a class="section-name-link" href="#/Available%20where%20%60Content%60%20%3D%3D%20%60EmptyView%60"></a>
<h3 class="section-name"><p>Available where <code>Content</code> == <code>EmptyView</code></p>
</h3>
</div>
</div>
<ul>
<li class="item">
<div>
<code>
<a name="/s:your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashOAD06StrokeM0Vtcfc"></a>
<a name="//apple_ref/swift/Method/init(percent:axis:clockwise:color:strokeStyle:)" class="dashAnchor"></a>
<a class="token" href="#/s:your_sha256_hashyour_sha256_hashOAD06StrokeM0Vtcfc">init(percent:<wbr>axis:<wbr>clockwise:<wbr>color:<wbr>strokeStyle:<wbr>)</a>
</code>
</div>
<div class="height-container">
<div class="pointer-container"></div>
<section class="section">
<div class="pointer"></div>
<div class="abstract">
<p>Default init which returns a ring with no label.</p>
</div>
<div class="declaration">
<h4>Declaration</h4>
<div class="language">
<p class="aside-title">Swift</p>
<pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="nf">init</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="nv">percent</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Double</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">axis</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt"><a href="../Enums/RingAxis.html">RingAxis</a></span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">clockwise</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Bool</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">color</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt"><a href="../Enums/RingColor.html">RingColor</a></span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">strokeStyle</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">StrokeStyle</span>
<span class="p">)</span></code></pre>
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Olusegun Adejumo is a Nigerian visual artist, known for his female figure drawings and paintings. He is the director of One Draw Gallery and currently the president of the Guild of Professional Fine Artists Nigeria.
Education, life and work
Adejumo was born on September 30, 1965, in Lagos. He attended the Yaba College of Education 1982 to 1987 and graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Painting. From 1987 to 1988, he served as a Painting Assistant Lecturer at the Lagos State Polytechnic. He also worked as an illustrator at the Advertising Techniques Limited in 1988. He has participated in several exhibitions, showing with other veteran Nigerian artists Ebenezer Akinola, George Edozie and Gerald Chukwuma.
Exhibitions
Organised projects
2017: Union Bank Centenary Art Challenge. OneDraw Gallery in partnership with Union Bank of Nigeria PLC
2017: Co-curator Lagos state government team, 3-Day Art Exhibition Rasheed Gbadamosi Eko Art Expo, Lagos at 50
Selected solo exhibitions
2014: Emotions, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2011: Les Designs d' Olusegun Adejumo, City Mall, Lagos
2011: Ideal and Ideas, Nettatal Luxury, Port Harcourt
2010: Make a wish- fundraising exhibition in support of breast and cervical cancer, Bloom Project, City Hall, Lagos
2007: Expressions, Sandiland Arcade, VI Lagos
2004: Lately, Truview Gallery, Lagos
2004: The Drawing Room Project, Chapter One, Framemaster Gallery, Lagos
1998: On Request, American Embassy Guest House, Lagos
1994: Recent Paintings, Chevron Estate, Lagos
1994: Recent Paintings in Watercolour, Fenchurch Gallery, Lagos
1992: Diverse Siblings, Sans Culturel Francaise, Alliance Francais, Lagos
1992: Diverse Siblings, the Club, Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Lagos
Selected group exhibitions
2016: Catharsis, Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2016: Oreze IV, a group exhibition in honour of His Royal Majesty Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe, Obi of Onitsha (Agbogidi)
2015: Art is Life (Promoting Nigerian Art and Culture), Total Village, Lagos
2015: Oreze IV, a group exhibition in honour of His Royal Majesty Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe, Obi of Onitsha (Agbogidi)
2015: Infinite Treasures, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2014: Distinction 2, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2012: Nothing but the Truth, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2012: Togetherness, South-South Economic Summit, Asaba
2012: Imbued Essence, Exhibition of Contemporary Nigerian Paintings, Sculptures & Craft, London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, Stratford
2010: Crux of the Matter, Guild of Professional Artists of Nigeria, Lagos
2010: Timeless, 10th Annual Pastel Exhibition, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2010: Ancient to Modern, Lagos State celebrating Nigeria at 50, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos
2009: Colours of Hope, An Exhibition in Support of Children Living with Cancer Foundation, Artistic Licence Gallery, Lagos
2009: Walking with the Masters, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Lagos
2009: Besançon vu par Nina et Adejumo, Centre de Linguistique Appliqee, Universite de Frache Comte Besançon France
2009: Dialogue between Cultures, collaboration between Alliance Française and Society of Nigerian Artist, Lagos
2008: Threshold, Guild of Professional Artists of Nigeria, Lagos
2008: Art Expo, Lagos
2008: The Giclee Print Exhibition, Hue Concept, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2008: October Rain, The Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos Chapter
2008: Colours of Hope, An Exhibition in Support of Children Living with Cancer Foundation, Lagos
2007: The Bond, Sachs Gallery, Lagos
2007: Colours of Hope, An Exhibition in Support of Children Living with Cancer Foundation, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2007: Little Treasures, Miniature Art Fair, Framemaster Ltd, Lagos
2007: Hellenic Images and Fifty Four Nigerian Artist in Translation, Greek Embassy, Lagos
2006: Premier Exposition, Watercolour Society of Nigeria, Terra Kulture, Lagos
2005: Rejuvenation, Society of Nigerian Artists, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2005: Concert of Five, Lifestrokes Gallery, Abuja
2005: 5th Annual Pastel Exhibition, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2004: Figure Drawings, Hourglass Gallery, Lagos
2004: The Matrix and the Muse, Framemaster Gallery, Lagos
2004: Selected for the 19th Annual Philadelphia Art Expo, October Gallery, US
2002: Highlights, 2nd Annual Pastel Exhibition, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
2002: The Aso Rock Collection, African Foundation for the Arts, Lagos
2002: Jigida, The Great Room, Grosevenor House, Park Lane, London
2000: Take One Woman, Atrium Gallery, London
2000: First Light, Vermilion Gallery, Lagos
2000: Behind the Wall, Vermilion Gallery, Lagos
1998: From the Cradle, Yaba College of Education, Goethe Institute, Lagos
1997: Young Master Artist Club, Signature Gallery, Lagos
1997: Six Artist, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
1994: Devine Inspiration, Mauba Gallery, Lagos
1994: Let it Flow, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
1992: Myriads of Thoughts, Mydrim Gallery, Lagos
1991: A Splash of Colours, Terri's Food Chain, Lagos
1989: Nigerian Arts and Crafts, American Embassy, Lagos
1988: Collectives, Barnette Gallery, Lagos
Auctions
2013: Arthouse Contemporary Limited 'Modern and Contemporary Art', Lagos
2013: TKMG, Terra Kulture Mydrim Gallery, Lagos Art Auction
2011: TKMG, Terra Kulture Mydrim Gallery, Art Auction, Lagos
2011: Arthouse Contemporary Limited 'Modern and Contemporary Art', Lagos
Selected commissioned works
Ceiling Fresco, Four Season Towers Aim Consultants (Elias Building on Ereko Street)
Portrait of Professor Odunjo of Morbid Anatomy Department, Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Portrait of 1988 Rotary President, Barrister Solaru, Rotary Club District 911
Selected workshop experience
2011: Living legends- Wole Soyinka, National Gallery of Arts, Lagos
Selected book illustrations
No Supper for Eze, Farafina Educational Books, Kachifo Limited
No School for Eze, Farafina Educational Books, Kachifo Limited
Only Bread for Eze, Farafina Educational Books, Kachifo Limited
Selected speaking seminars
2012: Sharing my work experience, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
2011: Surviving as a Visual Artist in the 21st Century, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
2008: Nigerians at Work. The 3 Nigerian Art Stakeholders Conference of African Art Resource Centre (AARC)
2007: Young Artist and His Market Place- Swimming Against the Tide (Art Zero), National Gallery of Art, Lagos
Awards and residency
2016: Residency, West African Artist Collectives, Villa Karon kulttuurilehti, Grand Popo, Benin Republic
2015: Homage to Efua Nubuke Foundation East Legon, Accra, Ghana
2013: Residency, West African Artist Collectives, Villa Karon kulttuurilehti, Grand Popo, Benin Republic
2012: Residency, West African Artist Collectives, Villa Karon kulttuurilehti, Grand Popo, Benin Republic
2011: Residency, West African Artist Collectives, Villa Karon kulttuurilehti, Grand Popo, Benin Republic
1997: Shortlisted for the Common Wealth Fellowship Award
1984: Best Student in General Art, Yaba College of Technology, Gong Gallery Award
Affiliations and memberships
Guild of Fine Artist Nigeria (GFAN)
Society of Nigerian Artist (SNA)
International Stone League, Nigeria (ISLN)
Watercolour Society of Nigeria (WSN)
References
External links
Official Website
One Draw Gallery
Living people
Yaba College of Technology alumni
Nigerian artists
1965 births |
The San Rafael Group is a geologic group or collection of related rock formations that is spread across the U.S. states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. As part of the Colorado Plateau, this group of formations was laid down in the Middle Jurassic during the Bajocian, Bathonian and Callovian Stages.
Description
The group consists of Jurassic beds younger than the Navajo Sandstone and older than the Morrison Formation. These show marine influence in their formation in the northwestern exposures at San Rafael Swell, with formations composed of limestone, mudstone, gypsum, and silty sandstone. Further east, the group becomes more continental in character, with the Entrada Formation resembling the underlying clean sandstones of the Glen Canyon Group. The group is up to thick.
Subunits
Subunits by basin:
Black Mesa Basin:
Entrada Sandstone (youngest)
Carmel Formation
Page Sandstone (oldest)
Great Basin province:
Entrada Sandstone (youngest)
Page Sandstone
Carmel Formation
Temple Cap Sandstone (oldest)
Peterson concluded that the Henrieville Sandstone was simply the bleached upper zone of the Entrada Sandstone and recommended abandoning the formation.
Palo Duro Basin/Sierra Grande Uplift:
Entrada Formation (youngest)
Bell Ranch Formation (oldest)
Paradox Basin:
Summerville Formation (youngest)
Curtis Formation
Carmel Formation
Entrada Sandstone
Page Sandstone (oldest)
Piceance Basin:
Summerville Formation (youngest)
Entrada Sandstone (oldest)
Plateau Sedimentary Province:
Romana Sandstone (youngest)
Entrada Sandstone
Carmel Formation
Page Sandstone
San Juan Basin:
Cow Springs Sandstone
Wanakah Formation
Entrada Sandstone
southern San Juan Basin:
Zuni Sandstone (youngest)
Bluff Formation
Summerville Formation
Todilto Formation
Entrada Sandstone (oldest)
History of investigation
There is no designated type locality for the group. It was named for exposures in the San Rafael Swell in Emery County, Utah by James Gilluly and J.B. Reeside in 1928. They divided the group into (ascending): Carmel Formation, Entrada Sandstone (new), Curtis Formation (new), and Summerville Formation (new). Areal extent limits were established by Herbert E. Gregory and Raymond Cecil Moore in 1931. Smith in 1954 revised and divided the group into Entrada, Todilto, and Thoreau (new) formations in the San Juan Basin.
In 1959 another revision, this time by Griggs and Read, divided it into Entrada and Bell Ranch (new) formations in the Palo Duro Basin and Sierra Grande Uplift. The Carmel-Navajo contact was revised by Wright and others in 1962 and the Carmel-Entrada contact was revised by Phoenix in 1963. Thompson and Stokes created an overview and named the Henrieville Sandstone in 1970. The Temple Cap Sandstone was revised and the Page Sandstone added (new) by Peterson and Pipiringos in 1979. A revision by O'Sullivan in 1980 divided the group into Carmel, Entrada, and Wanakah formations in Paradox Basin. O'Sullivan revised the upper contact in 1984.
In 1988 Peterson revised earlier work and divided the group into Page, Carmel, and Entrada formations in the Black Mesa Basin; divided it into Page, Carmel, Entrada and Romana (new) formations in the Plateau Sedimentary Province; and divided it into Page, Carmel, Entrada, Curtis, and Summerville formations in Paradox Basin. Condon in 1989 revised the group in San Juan Basin and divided it into Entrada and Wanakah formations in southeastern area; divided it into Entrada, Wanakah, and Cow Springs formations in south-central area; and divided it into Entrada and Cow Springs Sandstones in southwestern area.
References
Geologic groups of New Mexico
Geologic groups of Arizona
Geologic groups of Utah
Geologic groups of Colorado
Middle Jurassic North America |
Kruschel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Kruschel (1889–1959), American cyclist
Karsten Kruschel (born 1959), German writer
Linda Kruschel (fl. 1993), Canadian political candidate |
The Odeillo solar furnace is the world's largest solar furnace. It is situated in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, in the south of France. It is high and wide, and includes 63 heliostats. It was built between 1962 and 1968, started operating in 1969, and has a power of one megawatt.
It serves as a science research site studying materials at very high temperatures.
Geography
It is situated in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, region of Occitania, in south of France. The site was chosen because:
the length and the quality of sunshine with direct light (more than 2,500 h/year);
the purity of its atmosphere (high altitude and low average humidity).
The solar power plant of Themis and the Mont-Louis Solar Furnace are situated nearby.
Working principle
The principle used is the concentration of rays by reflecting mirrors (9,600 of them). The solar rays are picked up by a first set of steerable mirrors located on the slope, and then sent to a second series of mirrors (the concentrators), placed in a parabola and eventually converging on a circular target, 40 cm in diameter, on top of the central tower.
Equivalent to concentrating the energy of "10,000 suns", the solar furnace produces a peak power of 1000 kW.
Advantages
Temperatures above can be obtained in a few seconds.
The energy is "free", and non-polluting.
This furnace provides rapid temperature changes and therefore allows studying the effect of thermal shocks;
There are no contaminating elements (combustion gas, pollution, waste, etc.), since only the object to be examined is heated only by solar radiation
Uses
The research areas are also extended to the aviation and aerospace industries. Experiments can be conducted there in conditions of high chemical purity.
The high temperature materials division use the furnace to evaluate radome survival during MIRV warhead earth re-entry along with investigating other material properties under the "high energy thermal radiation environment" frequently produced by "nuclear devices".
History
In 1946 French chemist Felix Trombe and his team achieved in Meudon their first experience of using a DCA (French: Défense Contre Avions = anti-aircraft) mirror. They demonstrated the ability to reach high temperatures very quickly, and in a very pure environment, using highly concentrated sunlight. Their aim was to melt ore and extract highly pure materials for making new and improved refractories.
To achieve this objective and test the various possibilities, a first solar furnace was built at Mont-Louis in 1949. Some years later, on the model of the Mont-Louis furnace and using the results obtained there, a solar furnace of almost industrial size was built at Odeillo. Work on the construction of the Great Solar Oven of Odeillo lasted from 1962 to 1968, and it was commissioned in 1969.
Being strong supporters of solar power, following the first oil shock of 1973, researchers at the Odeillo solar furnace made further progress in the conversion of solar energy into electricity.
Public information center Héliodyssée
From 1990, there was an information center on the site which was open to the public until 2017, and was independent of the CNRS laboratory.
Designed for young and old, Héliodyssée allowed them to learn about solar energy and its derivatives (other forms of renewable energy, and its uses in the home) and the work of researchers from CNRS on energy, environmental, materials for space, and materials of the future.
It appears management changed and the site is no longer open to the public. However, it is still possible to visit the open-air facilities.
Bibliography
G. Olalde et J.L. Peube, « Étude expérimentale d'un récepteur solaire en nid d'abeilles pour le chauffage solaire des gaz à haute température », Revue de Physique Appliquée, no 17, 1982, p. 563-568
Bernard Spinner, « La construction d’un pôle de recherche et d’expérimentation solaire », La revue pour l’histoire du CNRS, no 5, 2001
References
External links
Solar energy |
The Eaglet 31 was a United States two-seat tandem ultra-light high-winged monoplane of the early 1930s. Intended as a low-cost aircraft, its limited production run relegated it to a footnote in aviation history.
Design and development
The American Eagle Aircraft Corporation found that demand for their A-129 biplane and their other models was badly affected by the Wall Street stockmarket crash of late 1929 which ushered in the Great Depression. The small ultra-light, tandem two-seat Eaglet was therefore designed by company president, Edward E. Porterfield, to appeal to pilots with more modest pockets. Porterfield set a realistic goal of manufacturing an aircraft for $1,000. The first advertised price was $995.00.
The first model was the 1930 Eaglet 230, initially powered by the 25 h.p. Cleone engine that flew on June 30, 1930. The engine was so underpowered that only solo flights were possible.
Most later Eaglet 230s featured a 30 h.p. "Zeke" Szekely three-cylinder radial engine. Further experimentation led to fitting a Franklin engine and 60 h.p. Velie. A 40 h.p. Salmson engine was tried but proved to be too expensive to incorporate into the proposed production line. The Szekely eventually ran reliably as an overhead valve 45 h.p. version.
The single Model A-31 of 1931 was fitted with the more powerful Continental A-50 of 50 h.p., and was followed by 13 Model B-31 and B-32 powered by the 45 h.p. Szekely SR-3. The bulk of these examples were produced after the American Eagle company declared bankruptcy and was absorbed by Lincoln Aircraft in May 1931 and reformed as the American Eagle Lincoln Page Aircraft Corporation. The venture was short-lived with the factory closing in 1931.
Production rights to the Eaglet later went to American Eaglecraft who produced three examples from 1940–1947 and rebuilt further aircraft of this design.
Operational history
The various models of the Eaglet were flown prewar by private owner pilots. Approximately 12 original aircraft were in existence in 2001, of which some were still airworthy.
An improved variant of the Eaglet called the Rearwin Junior, was designed by former Eagle employee Doug Webber and went into a limited production in 1931.
Variants
Eaglet 230 30 h.p. Szekely SR-3;
Eaglet 231 40 h.p. Salmson AD-9 (2 modified from model 230);
Eaglet A-31 50 h.p. Continental A-50;
Eaglet B-31 & B-32 45 h.p. Szekely SR-3; (B-32 had minor control modifications)
Specifications (Eaglet 230)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
Simpson, Rod. Airlife's World Aircraft. Ramsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 2001. .
Underwood, John W. "The reluctant Eagle of skid row." Air Progress, June 1968, pp. 46–47, 62–63.
External links
Details of Eaglet models at aerofiles.com
Picture and specifications for Eaglet B-31
1930s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930 |
Arta is a highly endangered Negrito language of the northern Philippines.
Distribution
Lawrence Reid's 1990 fieldwork revealed only 12 speakers in Villa Santiago, Aglipay, Quirino Province, and in 1992 it was spoken by only three families. It is not closely related to other languages.
There are still small groups of Arta speakers in Maddela and Nagtipunan towns of Quirino Province (Lobel 2013:88). Kimoto (2017) reports that Arta has 10 native speakers and 35–45 second-language speakers living primarily in Pulang Lupa, Kalbo, and in Disimungal, Nagtipunan.
The Arta are found in the following places within Nagtipunan Municipality.
Nagtipunan Municipality
Disimungal Barangay
Purok Kalbo
Pulang Lupa
Tilitilan
San Ramos Barangay
Pongo Barangay
Sangbay Barangay
Arta is in contact with Casiguran Agta, Nagtipunan Agta, Yogad, Ilokano, and Tagalog.
Phonology
Arta is notable for having vowel length distinction, an unusual typological feature in the Philippines.
Sound changes
Kimoto (2017: 56–67) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) to Arta. Long vowels in Arta are derived from PMP diphthongs.
Lexical innovations
Kimoto (2017: 4) lists the following Arta lexical innovations (highlighted in bold). Lexical innovations in Casiguran Agta are also highlighted in bold.
Reid (1994) lists the following reconstructed forms as possible non-Austronesian lexical elements found exclusively in Arta. Forms from Kimoto (2018) have also been included. Note the use of orthographic è [ə] and ng [ŋ].
Reid (1994) lists the following reconstructed forms as possible non-Austronesian lexical elements found in both Arta and "North Agta" (i.e., various Northeastern Luzon languages spoken mostly in Cagayan Province). Forms from Kimoto (2018) have also been included.
The forms *səlub 'fragrant' and *Rəbi 'pity, kindness' are found in both Arta and Alta.
References
Kimoto, Yukinori. 2017. A Grammar of Arta: A Philippine Negrito Language. Ph.D dissertation, Kyoto University.
External links
ELAR documentation and description of Arta language
Aeta languages
Endangered Austronesian languages
Languages of Quirino
Northern Luzon languages |
The 2016 Ningbo Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament (for men) and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ningbo, China.
Singles entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings are as of 10 October 2016.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Zhang Ze
Wu Yibing
Sun Fajing
Wang Chuhan
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Jimmy Wang
Shuichi Sekiguchi
Sadio Doumbia
Yannick Hanfmann
The following player entered as a lucky loser:
Cheong-eui Kim
Champions
Singles
Yen-hsun Lu def. Hiroki Moriya, 6–3, 6–1.
Doubles
Jonathan Eysseric / Sergiy Stakhovsky def. Stefan Kozlov / Akira Santillan, 6–4, 7–6(7–4).
References
2016 ATP Challenger Tour
2016 in Chinese tennis |
Thrincophora ostracopis is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on Seram and on New Guinea, where it has been recorded from Papua north-west New Guinea. The habitat consists of lower montane forests.
References
Moths described in 1938
Archipini |
Lisarow railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the northern Central Coast suburb of Lisarow opening on 31 August 1892 as Jenkins Siding. On 1 February 1902 it was renamed Wyoming and again on 2 April 1902 as Lisarow.
The station was upgraded in November 2021, with lifts added.
Platforms and services
Lisarow has two side platforms. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Central Coast & Newcastle Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Newcastle. Peak-hour services travel from Central to Wyong via the North Shore line.
Transport links
Busways operates two bus routes via Lisarow station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
36: Gosford station to Westfield Tuggerah via Narara
37: Gosford station to Westfield Tuggerah via Wyoming
References
External links
Lisarow station details Transport for New South Wales
Transport on the Central Coast (New South Wales)
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1892
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Short-platform railway stations in New South Wales, 4 cars
Main North railway line, New South Wales |
The Goldfish class (金鱼, Jin Yu, or JY for short) remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) is a class of light ROUV developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA, 沈阳自动化研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Science. It is in service with both the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and other civilian agencies of the People's Republic of China.
Three models of the Goldfish class ROUV have been developed as of late 2009: JY-01 (Jin Yu Yi Hao, 金鱼一号), the original base model of the class weighing 40 kg, capable of operating to a depth of 100 meters. JY-01 first entered service in 1987, first used in the underwater inspection of Fengman Dam. JY-01 was a development of American RCV-225 ROUV developed in early 1980s, after China made a deal with US firm for technology transfer.
It was JY-02 (Jin Yu Er Hao, 金鱼二号), the successor to JY-01; and JY-03 (Jin Yu San Hao, 金鱼三号) that entered service in 1989. The Goldfish class ROUV is designed to be a man-portable system that can be rapidly deployed without the need for extensive ship-borne or shore-based logistic support. JY-02 weighs 36 kg and is a meter in height; its successor, JY-03 is more compact. Like it predecessor JY-1, JY-2 has also being used in the underwater inspection of Fengman Dam, and the dam authority subsequently purchased JY-02. The entire system weight of JY-03 is less than 100 kg, while the largest subsystem, the underwater vehicle, weighs less than 35 kg. This means that JY-03 can be carried and deployed by two adults without difficulty. JY-02 has earned a second place of Liaoning provincial Science and Technology Advancement Award in 1989.
Goldfish class ROUV is a class of ROUV designed for underwater observation, and is used to inspect the underwater structures of harbors. During its deployment, it often operates in conjunction with more advanced ROUVs, and serves as a search vehicle to gather information. Goldfish class ROUVs can more cheaply inspect large areas than is possible with higher-spec ROUVs; these more capable ROUVs then use data gathered by the Goldfish class to perform maintenance tasks on specific areas. Goldfish class ROUVs also have civilian applications, including for underwater archeology missions in Fuxian Lake. Media coverage of the Fuxian Lake project revealed the existence of the Goldfish class ROUV to the general public for the first time.
Goldfish series ROUV are primarily intended for deployment in lakes, rivers and inside harbors, and based on the experience gained from this series, SIA has also developed Sea Submergence (Hai-Qian, 海潜 in Chinese) series that can be deployed in coastal waters. As with Goldfish series, Sea Submergence series is also light ROUV, and a total of 2 models are in this series, Sea Submergence 1 (海潜一号 in Chinese), an observation/inspection version, and Sea Submergence 2 (海潜二号 in Chinese), which is capable of performing maintenance tasks in addition to observation and inspection. Sea Submergence 1 has won Chinese Academy of Science Science and Technology Advancement Award in 1993.
References
Auxiliary ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy
Unmanned underwater vehicles
Remotely operated underwater vehicles
Robotic submarines |
Johnston Marklee & Associates, is an architecture firm in Los Angeles, California founded by Sharon Johnston and her husband Mark Lee in 1998.
They are known for their "subtle" and "quietly innovative" approach to modern design. The firm was listed in the 2019 AD100 list of top architects and designers by Architectural Digest, and was named the 2016 Oliver Fellows for Architecture & Design.
See also
List of architecture firms
References
Architecture firms based in California
Design companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in California
American companies established in 1998
Companies based in Los Angeles |
```java
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package org.apache.kudu.client;
import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
import static org.apache.kudu.test.ClientTestUtil.createDefaultTable;
import static org.apache.kudu.test.ClientTestUtil.loadDefaultTable;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.Security;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine;
import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
import com.google.common.io.CharStreams;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.apache.kudu.test.KuduTestHarness;
import org.apache.kudu.test.KuduTestHarness.MasterServerConfig;
import org.apache.kudu.test.KuduTestHarness.TabletServerConfig;
import org.apache.kudu.test.TempDirUtils;
import org.apache.kudu.test.cluster.KuduBinaryLocator;
import org.apache.kudu.test.cluster.MiniKuduCluster;
import org.apache.kudu.test.cluster.MiniKuduCluster.MiniKuduClusterBuilder;
// This is a class for Kudu RPC connection negotiation test scenarios targeting
// TLSv1.3. See TestNegotiator for pre-TLSv1.3 test scenarios.
public class TestNegotiationTLSv13 {
static final String[] TLS13_CIPHERS = new String[]{
"TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
"TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384",
"TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256",
};
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestNegotiation.class);
private static final String TABLE_NAME = "tls_v_1_3_test_table";
private static final int NUM_ROWS = 10;
private final MiniKuduClusterBuilder clusterBuilder;
@Rule
public KuduTestHarness harness;
// Whether TLSv1.3 supported by both server and client side.
private boolean isTLSv13Supported = false;
// Check if TLSv1.3 is supported by the JVM.
private static boolean isTLSv13SupportedByJVM() {
// It seems some policy-related globals are initialized due to the
// SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.3") call below, so server certificates
// signed by 768-bit RSA keys aren't accepted later on when running test
// scenarios due to default security policies. To work around that, override
// the default security constraints the same way it's done
// in the MiniKuduCluster's constructor.
Security.setProperty("jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms", "MD2, RC4, MD5");
Security.setProperty("jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms", "SSLv3, RC4, MD5");
try {
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
ctx.init(null, null, null);
SSLEngine engine = ctx.createSSLEngine();
engine.setUseClientMode(true);
{
Set<String> supported = Sets.newHashSet(engine.getSupportedCipherSuites());
List<String> common = Lists.newArrayList();
for (String c : TLS13_CIPHERS) {
if (supported.contains(c)) {
common.add(c);
}
}
if (common.isEmpty()) {
LOG.info("client side doesn't support TLSv1.3: no common ciphers");
return false;
}
}
{
String[] enabled = engine.getEnabledProtocols();
LOG.debug("enabled TLS protocols: {}", Joiner.on(' ').join(enabled));
Set<String> supported = Sets.newHashSet(engine.getSupportedProtocols());
LOG.debug("supported TLS protocols: {}", Joiner.on(' ').join(supported));
if (!supported.contains("TLSv1.3")) {
LOG.info("client side doesn't support TLSv1.3: unsupported protocol");
return false;
}
}
} catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
LOG.info("client side doesn't support TLSv1.3", e);
return false;
}
return true;
}
// Check if TLSv1.3 is supported by the Kudu server side.
private static boolean isTLSv13SupportedByServerSide() {
// Try to start kudu-master requiring TLSv1.3. It will fail to start if
// TLSv1.3 isn't supported either by the node's OpenSSL library or
// by the build environment where the kudu-master binary was built.
MiniKuduClusterBuilder b = new MiniKuduClusterBuilder()
.numMasterServers(1)
.numTabletServers(0)
.addMasterServerFlag("--time_source=system_unsync")
.addMasterServerFlag("--rpc_tls_min_protocol=TLSv1.3");
try (MiniKuduCluster c = b.build()) {
try {
// A sanity check: make sure the started processes haven't crashed.
// MiniKuduCluster does neither detect nor report properly on such
// events otherwise.
c.killAllMasterServers();
} catch (IOException e) {
LOG.error("unexpected exception:", e);
fail("kudu-master didn't actually start");
return false; // unreachable
}
} catch (IOException e) {
LOG.info("server side doesn't support TLSv1.3", e);
return false;
}
return true;
}
public TestNegotiationTLSv13() {
clusterBuilder = new MiniKuduClusterBuilder()
.numMasterServers(1)
.numTabletServers(3)
.enableKerberos();
isTLSv13Supported = isTLSv13SupportedByJVM() && isTLSv13SupportedByServerSide();
if (isTLSv13Supported) {
// By the virtue of excluding all other protocols but TLSv1.3
// from the list of available TLS protocols at the server side,
// client and server will use TLSv1.3 to negotiate a connection.
clusterBuilder.addMasterServerFlag("--rpc_tls_min_protocol=TLSv1.3");
clusterBuilder.addTabletServerFlag("--rpc_tls_min_protocol=TLSv1.3");
}
harness = new KuduTestHarness(clusterBuilder);
}
/**
* Make sure that Kudu Java client is able to negotiate RPC connections
* protected by TLSv1.3 with Kudu servers. By the virtue of excluding all
* other protocols but TLSv1.3 from the list of available TLS protocols
* at the server side, this scenario verifies that Kudu Java client is able to
* work with a secure Kudu cluster using TLSv1.3.
*
* Using the JUnit's terminology, this test scenario is conditionally run only
* if both the client and the server sides support TLSv1.3.
*/
@Test
@MasterServerConfig(flags = {
"--rpc-encryption=required",
"--rpc_encrypt_loopback_connections",
"--rpc-trace-negotiation",
})
@TabletServerConfig(flags = {
"--rpc-encryption=required",
"--rpc_encrypt_loopback_connections",
"--rpc-trace-negotiation",
})
public void connectionNegotiation() throws Exception {
assumeTrue("TLSv1.3 isn't supported by both sides", isTLSv13Supported);
// Make sure Java client is able to communicate with Kudu masters and tablet
// servers: create a table and write several rows into the table.
{
KuduClient c = harness.getClient();
createDefaultTable(c, TABLE_NAME);
loadDefaultTable(c, TABLE_NAME, NUM_ROWS);
}
// An extra sanity check: on successful negotiation the connection should be
// considered 'private' once it's protected by TLS, so Kudu master must send
// the client an authn token.
{
AsyncKuduClient c = harness.getAsyncClient();
SecurityContext ctx = c.securityContext;
assertNotNull(ctx.getAuthenticationToken());
}
}
}
``` |
Microblepsis flavilinea is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1890. It is found in China.
The wingspan is about 32 mm. Adults are smoky grey, tinged with violet. The basal line of the forewings is yellowish and the central line is yellow, starting from the yellowish apex. The submarginal line is also yellowish, narrow and united with the central line towards the apex. All lines are continued on the hindwings.
Subspecies
Microblepsis flavilinea flavilinea (China: Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang)
Microblepsis flavilinea shensiensis (Watson, 1968) (China: Shaanxi)
References
Moths described in 1890
Drepaninae |
Arthur Wills Blundell Trumbull Sandys Roden Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire (24 December 1844 – 31 March 1874), was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1868. He became Marquess of Downshire in 1868 on the death of his father. He lived at the family seat of Easthampstead Park, within 5,000 acres in Berkshire, and Hillsborough Castle, within 115,000 acres in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire (1812–1868), known as the 'Big Marquess', and the Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere. Hill's siblings were Lady Alice Maria Hill (7 November 1842 – 25 February 1928), who married Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, and Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill (1846–1931).
Hill married Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour (died 12 January 1919), on 25 July 1870, daughter of Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie (1811–1895) and Lady Georgiana Isabel (Campbell) Balfour (died 3 December 1884). Their only child was Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell Hill who became the 6th Marquess of Downshire.
He was a captain in the Royal South Down Regiment of Militia from 1862, a cornet and lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards from 1866, a cornet in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry and Deputy Lieutenant of County Down in 1872, and the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort.
Arthur Hill and his father were instrumental in major tree planting within the park of their Hillsborough Castle.
References
External links
1844 births
1874 deaths
People from Hillsborough, County Down
People from Bracknell
Knights of St Patrick
Arthur
Arthur 5 |
The Palar Blast was a landmine attack on 9 April 1993 in Karnataka, India. The attack, organized by the forest brigand Veerappan, killed 22 people, making it the deadliest explosive attack in Karnataka during the 20th century.
Background
The sandalwood smuggler and criminal Veerappan killed a Bandari in Govindapadi village of Mettur on 8, April 1993, suspecting him to be a police informer and openly challenged the police force to track and arrest his gang. He also claimed he would raise a banner at Kolathur village on shandy day, written in Tamil language challenging "Rambo" Gopalakrishnan, the Tamil Nadu police officer, who also belongs to Veerappan's caste. Months prior to this Karnataka and Tamil Nadu had formed a joint Special Task Force, with one of their objectives being to track down Veerappan.
Taking the open challenge, IPS officer K.Gopalakrishnan left Palar base of the area's Special Task Force, near M.M.Hills, 100 km from Kollegal of Karnataka along with a team of 41 members which included police from two states, forest officials, forest watchers and informers. The team left in two vehicles, of which one was a bus carrying most of the team members, and a jeep carrying K.Goplakrishnan, the IPS officer, who stood on the footboard of the jeep watching the road ahead. The Veerappan gang had planted IED landmines on the road in more than 14 places to halt their approach.
Incident
As the bus was passing over the landmines, Simon Madaiah detonated the gelatin sticks just outside the town of Surakkamaduvu, resulting in an explosion that threw the bus hundreds of feet away and killed 22 people. Madaiah sustained minor injuries during the incident but escaped in the forest. Among the deceased were five police men of Tamil Nadu, 17 forest officials and informers, while 13 other members of the team, including Karnataka police, were injured. Members of the Veerappan gang then fired on the team from a vantage point in the forest. The police returned fire in self-protection and to prevent the outlaws from stealing the team's arms and ammunition.
Tamil Nadu IPS officer K. Gopalakrishnan, who was standing on the footboard of the jeep, was thrown out during the explosion. He suffered severe injuries to his head and legs and required nine surgeries. He returned to duty after 18 months and later retired as DIG in 2008. He witnessed several members of the gang including Madhaiayan, Gnanaprakasam, Simon and Bilavendran at the blast site. His eye witness testimony was crucial in prosecuting those members responsible for the blast.
Aftermath
Police filed a case at M. M. Hills Police Station against 124 persons under TADA in connection with the blast and 50 were arrested by police. The accused included Veerappan, Muthulakshmi, Kolathur Mani, and reporter S. Sivasubramaniam. Muthulakshmi, wife of Veerappan as well as Kolathur Mani, a Tamil activist were acquitted. Seven members of Veerappan's gang were convicted and awarded with life term sentences. A later appeal at the Supreme Court by four of the members, would see these life sentences changed to the death penalty, a rare occurrence. The four convicts; Jnanaprakash (Veerappan's elder brother), Bilavendran, Simon and Meesekar Madaiah, filed against execution of their death penalties at Karnataka High Court.
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John F. Hinrichs (1936 – 5 June 2012) was an American welding engineer and founder of the company Friction Stir Link, Inc. in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Career and education
Hinrichs had a 40-year plus career with A.O. Smith Corporation, where he rose to director of Manufacturing Engineering at its Automotive Products Co., leading a technical staff of eighty. Projects included gas metal arc welding, energy beam processes, solid phase joining and robotics.
Hinrichs began working for A.O. Smith, a major producer of automotive frames, in 1954. He became a project engineer in the mid-1960s and began supervising the development of the robot applications for welding and other manufacturing processes in the early 1970s as manager of the Manufacturing Technology Laboratory.
Under Hinrichs's leadership AOS produced over 100 million electron beam welded tailored blanks, and installed and operated over 1,000 gas metal arc welding robots – the largest such application, worldwide, at that time. He was one of the earliest proponents of the industrial application of friction stir welding to automotive lightweight structures. He also developed procedures and specifications that were used in the manufacture of friction stir welded panels for the littoral combat ships of the US Navy.
Hinrichs received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University in 1956, and his master's in metallurgical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1964. He held fifteen U.S. and three foreign patents related to welding processes. He spoke fluent German.
Professional societies
Hinrichs was a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Wisconsin and a Fellow of the American Welding Society (AWS). He was a non-executive director of the American Welding Society. He chaired two AWS committees on Safety and Health as well as Technical Papers. He was the official representative of A.O. Smith Corporation at The Welding Institute and member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Metals International (ASM).
Awards
In 1989, Hinrichs became the first American to be presented the Golden Robot Award at the International Symposium of Industrial Robots held in Tokyo.
He was named as the first recipient of a new American Welding Society Award for Excellence in Robotic Arc Welding in 2004. He has numerous technical publications on welding and robotics.
Family
He was the husband of Patricia "Patti" Hinrichs (née Illian) for nearly 52 years and father of Rob Hinrichs and Susie Weber. He died after a long struggle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on 5 June 2012, at the age of 78.
Patents
U.S. Patent Number: 3,535,489: Electron Beam Welding Apparatus.
U.S. Patent Number: 3,038,059: Welding nozzle.
U.S. Patent Number 6,619,533: Link arms for use in suspension systems are produced through an extrusion and friction stir welding process.
U.S. Patent Number 5,865,362: A method of welding together a motor vehicle structural assembly isavailable. The vehicle structural assembly includes a boxed member including an outboard wall
U.S. Patent Number 5,782,401: The invention provides an automated system for welding a first metal part to a second metal part. The system includes a trainable articulated arm.
U.S. Patent Number 5,322,208: A method for assembling a motor vehicle frame including a rail having agenerally planar outer surface and upper and lower ends, and a bracket.
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Friction stir welding fuses engineering research and Wisconsin industry
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Elen may refer to:
Elen (saint), a Welsh saint
Elen ferch Llywelyn (c. 1206–1253)
Elen Dosia, a French opera singer
Elen Levon, a Ukrainian singer, actress and dancer
Elen Shakirova, a Russian former basketball player
Elen Willard (born 1935), an American actress
European Language Equality Network, a European NGO to promote linguistic diversity
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Ellen (disambiguation)
Welsh feminine given names
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Wifey may refer to:
"Wifey" (song), a 2000 song by Next
"Wifey", a 2022 song by Rubi Rose
Wifey (novel), a 1978 novel by Judy Blume
"Wifey", a song on by Taiwanese band S.H.E on their 2007 album Play |
Sylvie Readman (born 1958 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian photographer.
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
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Ambil is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.
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The Grand Central Partnership manages the Grand Central Business Improvement District, one of the largest business improvement districts in the world. It comprises of commercial space in a 70-block area of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, around Grand Central Terminal. Its irregular borders reach from East 35th Street to East 54th Street and from Second Avenue to Fifth Avenue.
Creation
Midtown Manhattan property owners and businesses created the Grand Central Partnership in the mid-1980s during a period of marked physical and economic deterioration. Once in place, GCP developed a comprehensive plan to specifically revitalize the neighborhood surrounding Grand Central Terminal, which included an ambitious capital improvement program, a privately managed sanitation, maintenance and public safety operation, business assistance initiatives, a broad tourism and visitor services program, and a social services component. Since its founding, GCP has made substantial contributions to the dramatic turnaround of Midtown Manhattan, and, together with the renowned restoration of Grand Central Terminal, GCP's programs are widely credited with playing a major role in transforming the neighborhood into one of the world's preeminent central business districts.
Management
GCP's operations are managed by a board of directors and officers elected by the District Management Association, a voluntary organization made up of property owners, commercial and residential tenants in the district, as well as representatives of elected officials.
The Grand Central Partnership is a not-for-profit corporation funded principally through special assessments collected from commercial property owners located within its defined geographic area. Additional financial support is provided through corporate sponsorship of specific programs and special events and through in-kind services. Assessment proceeds and tax-exempt bonds have funded capital improvements.
Public Safety Department
The Grand Central Partnership also hires "Public Safety Officers" who patrol the areas that the GCP owns or operates property on. These officers are hired at 11.00 dollars an hour and are charged to assist authorities, when necessary, by reporting incidents and maintaining order until their arrival. They are certified Security officers in the State of New York prior to their employment.
Officers are also assigned to the Partnership's Taxi Stands to maintain traffic flow and ensure the safety of visitors.
Uniforms and Equipment
GCP Public Safety Officers are often found on foot patrol with red and black variant uniforms. They often wear an Oval Eagle Top badge with no citation bars and, occasionally, one may see the officer's nameplate on a leather NYPD style badge holder.
The GCP's PSOs are also often wearing a black champagne hat and carry a radio connected to NYPD channels to report emergencies to authorities.
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Professor James D Brenton is a clinician scientist and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Professor of Ovarian Cancer Medicine in the Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge. He is an Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals, Ovarian Cancer Domain Lead for the 100,000 Genomes Project by Genomics England, and co-founder and Clinical Advisor to Inivata Ltd, a clinical cancer genomics company.
Education and career
Dr Brenton studied Medicine at University College London, graduating in 1988, and trained in Medical Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto. He completed his PhD at the Gurdon Institute before attaining a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship for his work at the MRC Cancer Unit. In 2007 he became a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, leading the Functional Genomics of Ovarian Cancer laboratory.
Research
Brenton's research focuses on understanding the molecular complexity of ovarian cancer to improve treatment and patient outcome. His team discovered a ubiquitous TP53 mutation in high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), the most common form of ovarian cancer, which was adopted as a critical marker for diagnosing HGSOC by the World Health Organisation. Brenton used this TP53 discovery to develop personalised circulating tumour DNA assays to measure treatment response in ovarian cancer.
In 2015, his team was the first to measure the tumour heterogeneity in a solid tumour and link this to cancer survival, finding that HGSOC was more deadly if it consisted of a patchwork of different groups of cells.
In 2018, Brenton published the first national effort to investigate cancer evolution in HGSOC, discovering seven distinct genetic patterns that could predict disease behaviour in response to treatment. This led to the BriTROC-2 study, funded by Ovarian Cancer Action, to create new, personalised treatments for women with HGSOC.
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The 2018–19 Utah Utes women's basketball team represents the University of Utah during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Utes, led by fourth year head coach Lynne Roberts, play their home games at the Jon M. Huntsman Center and are members of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished the season 20–10, 9–9 in Pac-12 play to finish in a tie for sixth place. They lost in the first round of the Pac-12 women's tournament to Washington. They would have clinched the automatic berth to the 2019 Women's National Invitation Tournament, but they declined to participate despite having 20 wins.
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Rankings
2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
See also
2018–19 Utah Utes men's basketball team
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Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term "collective bargaining". She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society.
Early life
Beatrice Potter was born in Standish House in the village of Standish, Gloucestershire. She was the youngest of nine daughters of businessman Richard Potter and Laurencina Heyworth, a Liverpool merchant's daughter; Laurencina was friends for a time with the prolific Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant during the 1840s. Both women were campaigned in Liverpool at the time (see Margaret Oliphant, Autobiography, edited by Elizabeth Jay, pages 25–26). Her paternal grandfather was Liberal Party MP Richard Potter, co-founder of the Little Circle, which was key in creating the Reform Act 1832.
Beatrice faced tragedy with her sisters: one, Blanche, died by suicide in 1905 in her own house; her oldest sister, Lallie, then died due to overdose the next year in 1906. It was believed at the time that both incidents were caused by their marital relationships. Yet, Beatrice struggled with this idea because of her beliefs of gender roles and equalities:
From an early age Webb was self-taught and cited as important influences the cooperative movement and the philosopher Herbert Spencer. After her mother's death in 1882 she acted as a hostess and companion for her father. In 1882, she began a relationship with twice-widowed Radical politician Joseph Chamberlain, by then a Cabinet minister in Gladstone's second government. He would not accept her need for independence as a woman and after four years of "storm and stress" their relationship failed.
Marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb established a lifelong "partnership" of shared causes. At the beginning of 1901, Webb wrote that she and Sidney were "still on our honeymoon and every year makes our relationship more tender and complete."
She and her husband were friends with the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
My Creed and My Craft
Beatrice Webb left a unfinished autobiography, under the general title My Creed and My Craft. At her death, aged 85, the only autobiographical work she had published was My Apprenticeship (1926). The posthumously issued Our Partnership (1948) covered the first two decades of her marriage to Sidney Webb between 1892 and 1911 and their collaboration on a variety of public issues.
In the preface to the second work, its editors refer to Webb's:
desire to describe truthfully her lifelong pursuit of a living philosophy, her changes of outlook and ideas, her growing distrust of benevolent philanthropy as a means of redeeming 'poor suffering humanity' and her leaving of the field of abstract economic theory for the then practically unexplored paths of scientific social research.
In 1926, when Webb had begun to prepare the second volume, Our Partnership, only to be repeatedly distracted by other more pressing commitments, the book's editors report her finding it difficult to express "her philosophy of life, her belief in the scientific method, but its purpose guided always by religious emotion."
A pioneer in social research and policymaking
One of Beatrice's older sisters, Catherine, became a well-known social worker. After Catherine married Leonard Courtney, Beatrice took over her work as a voluntary rent-collector in the model dwellings at Katharine Buildings, Wapping, operated by the East End Dwellings Company.
The young Beatrice also assisted her cousin by marriage Charles Booth in his pioneering survey of the Victorian slums of London, work which eventually became the massive 17-volume Life and Labour of the People of London (1902–1903).
These experiences stimulated a critical attitude to current ideas of philanthropy.
In 1890 Beatrice Potter was introduced to Sidney Webb, whose help she sought with her research. They married in 1892, and until her death 51 years later shared political and professional activities. When her father died in January 1892, leaving Potter an endowment of £1,000 pounds a year, she had a private income for life with which to support herself and the research projects she pursued.
The Webbs became active members of the Fabian Society. With the Fabians' support, Beatrice Webb co-authored books and pamphlets on socialism and the co-operative movement including The History of Trade Unionism (1894) and Industrial Democracy (1897). In 1895, the Fabians used part of an unexpected legacy of £10,000 from Henry Hutchinson, a solicitor from Derby, to create the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Contributions to the theory of the co-operative movement
Beatrice Webb made a number of important contributions to the political and economic theory of the co-operative movement.
In her 1891 book The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain, based on her experiences in Lancashire, she distinguished between "co-operative federalism" and "co-operative individualism". She identified herself as a co-operative federalist, a school of thought which advocates consumer co-operative societies. She argued that consumers' co-operatives should be set up as co-operative wholesale societies (by forming co-operatives in which all members are co-operatives, the best historical example being the English Co-operative Wholesale Society) and that these federal co-operatives should then acquire farms or factories.
Webb dismissed the idea of worker co-operatives where the people who did the work and benefited from it had some control over how it was organised, arguing that – at the time she was writing – such ventures had proved largely unsuccessful, at least in ushering in her form of socialism led by volunteer committees of people like herself. Examples of successful worker cooperatives did of course exist, then as now. In some professions they were the norm. However, Webb's final book, The Truth About Soviet Russia (1942), celebrated central planning.
It was Webb who coined the term "collective bargaining".
1909 Minority report to Royal Commission
For four years Beatrice Webb was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09. The Conservative government of A. J. Balfour established the Commission, which issued its final report to the Liberal government of H. H. Asquith. Beatrice was the lead author of the dissenting minority report. This sketched the outlines of a Welfare State which would:
...secure a national minimum of civilised life ... open to all alike, of both sexes and all classes, by which we meant sufficient nourishment and training when young, a living wage when able-bodied, treatment when sick, and modest but secure livelihood when disabled or aged.
William Beveridge, future author of the 1942 Beveridge Report that introduced the welfare state in the United Kingdom, worked as a researcher for the Webbs on the Minority Report. He was later appointed director (1919–1937) of the London School of Economics.
Rivalries on the Left, 1901–1922
The influence of the Webbs on the Fabian Society and its policies was attacked by H.G. Wells. For a time, he joined the Society but was critical of its cautious approach: "They permeate English society with their reputed Socialism about as much as a mouse may be said to permeate a cat." For her part, Beatrice voiced disapproval of Wells' "sordid intrigue" with the feminist Amber Reeves, the daughter of a veteran Fabian Maud Pember Reeves. Wells responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.
Other rivals from the left of the Fabian Society at that time were the Guild Socialists led by the historian and economist G.D.H. Cole. Cole and his wife Margaret would later run the Fabian Research Bureau.
In 1913, the Webbs and Henry Devenish Harben, husband of suffragist and fellow Fabian, Agnes Harben, co-founded the New Statesman, a political weekly edited by Clifford Sharp with contributions from many philosophers, economists, and politicians of the day, including George Bernard Shaw and John Maynard Keynes.
The Webbs became members of the Labour Party in late 1914. At the end of World War I, Beatrice collaborated with her husband Sidney in his writings and policy statements such as Labour and the New Social Order (1918). She also campaigned for his successful election in 1922 to the parliamentary seat of coastal Seaham, a mine-working community in County Durham.
Soviet Communism
In 1928, the Webbs moved to Liphook in Hampshire, where they lived until their deaths in the 1940s. Soon Sidney was a minister in the new Labour government. Observing the wider world, Beatrice wrote of "Russian communism and Italian Fascism" as "two sides of the worship of force and the practice of cruel intolerance" and she was disturbed that "this spirit is creeping into the USA and even ... into Great Britain."
The frustrations and disappointments of the next few years — the election of a narrow Labour majority of MPs in May 1929, the Great Depression which began later that year, the agreement of fellow Fabian Ramsay MacDonald, after the October 1931 election, to form and head a National Government, thereby splitting the Labour Party – partly explain why Beatrice and Sidney began to look on the USSR and its leader Stalin with different eyes.
In 1932, Webb was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA); she was the first woman elected to the fellowship. That year, Sidney and Beatrice, now in their 70s, spent two months from 21 May to late July in the Soviet Union. Their views about the Soviet economic experiment were published three years later in a massive volume, over 1,000 pages in length, entitled Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation? (1935). Most of the text was written by Sidney Webb and based on a copious study of publications and statistics provided by the Soviet embassy in London. In 1933 he made a further "fact-finding" trip to the USSR before publication, accompanied by their niece Barbara Drake, a prominent trade unionist and member of the Fabian Society, and by John Cripps, the son of their nephew Stafford Cripps.
Historians have criticised the Webbs for the naive supposition that the methods they had developed in analysing and formulating social policy in Britain could be applied to the Soviet Union. Their book promoted and encouraged an uncritical view of Stalin's conduct, during agrarian centralisation in the first five-year plan (1928–1933), the creation of the gulag system, and the extensive purges of the 1930s. Trotskyist historian Al Richardson later described their 1935 account of the USSR as "pure Soviet propaganda at its most mendacious".
There also seemed to be a conscious element of deception. In the third edition of Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation (1941), for instance, the Webbs voiced the opinion that in 1937 "strenuous efforts had been made, both in the trade union organisation and in the Communist Party, to cut out the deadwood". This phrase was used to reassure a wider public about the grotesque accusations against former leading Bolsheviks. In her diaries Beatrice did not hide her disquiet, at the opening of the Moscow Trials in the summer of 1936, and after the conviction of Nikolai Bukharin in March 1938.
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? — in later editions the question mark was dropped, as was any public doubt the Webbs might have about the nature of the USSR — has since been roundly condemned. In the preface to an anthology of Left Book Club publications, for instance, British historian A. J. P. Taylor is quoted as calling Soviet Communism: A New Civilization "the most preposterous book ever written about Russia". In the early 1930s Malcolm Muggeridge, one of Beatrice's own family by marriage, and himself the son of a Fabian, told her in no uncertain terms of his horrified disapproval of the Soviet system.
She was among those listed in the German-compiled "Black Book".
Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Union's ambassador to the United Kingdom during much of the Second World War, was friendly with Webb. In a conversation with Webb on 10 October 1939, Maisky quoted her as saying "Churchill is not a true Englishman, you know. He has Negro blood. You can tell even from his appearance."
Extended family
In 1929 Webb's husband, Sidney Webb, became Baron Passfield and a member of the House of Lords. Between 1929 and 1931 he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies and Secretary of State for the Dominions in Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government. Beatrice did not refer to herself as Lady Passfield or expect others to do so.
Sidney and Beatrice Webb never had any children. In retirement, Beatrice would reflect on the success of their other progeny. For instance, in 1895 they had founded the London School of Economics with Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw:
In old age it is one of the minor satisfactions of life to watch the success of your children, literal children or symbolic. The London School of Economics is undoubtedly our most famous one, but the New Statesman is also creditable—it is the most successful of the general weeklies, actually making a profit on its 25,000 readers, and has absorbed two of its rivals, The Nation and the Week-End Review.
Meanwhile, the connections by marriage of their numerous nieces and nephews made Beatrice and Sidney part of the emerging new Labour establishment. Beatrice's nephew Sir Stafford Cripps, son of her sister Theresa, became a well-known Labour politician in the 1930s and 1940s. He served as British ambassador to Moscow during the Second World War and later as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Clement Attlee. (His daughter Peggy went on to marry Nana Joe Appiah, an African statesman and tribal chieftain who served as something of a founding father of the Republic of Ghana.) Margaret, yet another Potter sister, married the Liberal politician Henry Hobhouse, making Beatrice Webb an aunt of peace activist Stephen Henry Hobhouse and of Liberal politician Arthur Hobhouse. Another sister, Blanche, married surgeon William Harrison Cripps, brother to Theresa's husband Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor. The Cripps family was a wealthy political family, originally from Cirencester.
A dissonant voice entered the family after Katherine Dobbs, the daughter of Beatrice's youngest sister Rosalind, married the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. In the early 1930s, the young couple moved to Moscow, full of enthusiasm for the new Soviet system. Muggeridge's experience of reporting from the Soviet Union for the Manchester Guardian, however, made him highly critical of the Webbs' optimistic views of the Soviet Union. On 29 March 1933 Beatrice referred in her diary to "Malcolm's curiously hysterical denunciation of the USSR and all its works in a letter to me...." The following day she noted that the Guardian had printed "another account of the famine in Russia, which certainly bears out Malcolm's reports."
Yet, wrote Muggeridge, Beatrice "went on wanting to see Kitty and me." On their last visit, Beatrice showed her niece's husband a portrait of Lenin: "She had set the picture up as though it were a Velazquez, with special lighting coming from below."
Death and legacy
When Beatrice Webb died in 1943, she was cremated at Woking Crematorium. The casket containing her ashes was buried in the garden of their house in Passfield Corner, as she had requested. Lord Passfield's ashes were also buried there when he died four years later.
Shortly afterward, the nonagenarian George Bernard Shaw launched an ultimately successful petition to have the remains of both moved to Westminster Abbey. They now lie buried in the nave of the Abbey, close to the ashes of their Labour Party colleagues Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin.
Beatrice did not live to see the welfare state set up by the post-war Labour government. It was an enduring monument to her research and campaigning, before and after she married Sidney Webb. First outlined in the Minority report (Poor Law) of 1909, it would remain substantially intact until the 1980s. It is not certain that Beatrice Webb would have approved of the manner of its implementation and future management. As her niece Kitty commented:
... although it was Beatrice herself who put the 20th-century zeitgeist into its most concrete form, in the Welfare State, something in her remained sturdily Victorian to the very end. "What has to be aimed at is not this or that improvement in material circumstances or physical comfort but an improvement in personal character," she wrote. She believed that citizens who were given benefits by the community ought to make an effort to improve themselves, or at least submit themselves to those who would improve them.
In October 2023, it was alleged that politician Rachel Reeves had copied sections from the Beatrice Webb Wikipedia page in writing about her in a new book.
Archives
Beatrice Webb's papers, including her diaries, form part of the Passfield archive at the London School of Economics. The Webb Diaries are now digitised and available online at the LSE's Digital Library. Posts about Beatrice Webb regularly appear in the LSE Archives blog, Out of the box.
Writings
For a comprehensive bibliography, see Webbs on the Web, hosted by the London School of Economics.
Works by Beatrice Webb
The Co-Operative Movement in Great Britain (1891)
Women and the Factory Acts (1896)
The Abolition of the Poor Law (1918)
Wages of Men and Women: Should they be Equal? (1919)
My Apprenticeship (1926)
A new Reform Bill (1931)
Our Partnership (1948), London: Longmans, Green & Co., edited by Barbara Drake & Margaret Cole at the request of Sidney Webb. Covers the period from 1892 up to 1911.
"The Diary of Beatrice Webb, 1873–1943", complete typescript and manuscript on microfiche, and Index to the Diary of Beatrice Webb 1873–1943 with a preface by Matthew Anderson, "The text of the Diary" by Geoffrey Allen, "Historical Introduction" by Dame Margaret Cole DBE, "The Diary as Literature" by Norman Mackenzie, Chronology. (1978), Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. Bishops Stortford
The Diaries of Beatrice Webb (2000), selected entries edited by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie and abridged by Lynn Knight. Published by Virago in conjunction with the LSE: London. Covers period from 1873 to 1943; the diaries are also available in typescript and manuscript facsimile at LSE digital library, Beatrice Webb's diaries.
Works by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
History of Trade Unionism (1894)
Industrial Democracy (1897); translated into Russian by Lenin as The Theory and Practice of British Trade Unionism, St Petersburg, 1900.
The Webbs' Australian Diary (1898)
Bibliography of road making and maintenance in Great Britain (1906), a sixpenny pamphlet for the Roads Improvement Association.
English Local Government Vol. I-X (1906 through 1929)
The Manor and the Borough (1908)
The Break-Up of the Poor Law (1909)
English Poor-Law Policy (1910)
The Cooperative Movement (1914)
Works Manager Today (1917)
The Consumer's Cooperative Movement (1921)
Decay of Capitalist Civilization (1923)
Methods of Social Study (1932)
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? (1935, Vol. I, Vol. II, 1st edn. The 2nd and 3rd editions of 1938 and 1941, respectively, dropped the "?" from the title)
The Truth About Soviet Russia (1942). The introduction to Soviet Communism (1941), reprinted as a brochure with a preface about the Webbs by George Bernard Shaw, and the text of the 1936 Soviet Constitution, translated by Anna Louise Strong.
See also
Feminist economics
List of feminist economists
References
Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume 1, The Green Stick, pp. 206–210, Collins, 1972.
External links
Great Thinkers: Jose Harris FBA on Beatrice Webb FBA podcast, The British Academy
Richard Potter Chairman of the Great Western Railway
Spartacus Educational
The History of Standish House
The Webb Diaries full digital versions
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Stephen Kunsu is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Fifth and Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing Kintampo North in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
Early life and education
Kunsu was born on 30 September 1949 His hometown is Ahenakrom in the Brong Ahafo region. He qualified as a teacher by passing his Teacher's Certificate A in 1970.
Employment
He was the District Chief Executive of Kintampo District (1999-2000). He was also the assistant director and Circuit Supervisor of the Ghana Education Service and then a Member of Parliament from January 2005.
Politics
Kunsu is a member of National Democratic Congress. He has served in the 4th, 5th and 6th parliaments of the 4th republic of Ghana.
2004 Elections
He was first voted into Parliament in 2004 in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections. He was elected to represent the Kintampo North Constituency after it was newly created in 2004. He thus represented the constituency in the 4th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. Kunsu was elected with 18,922votes out of 30,677 total valid votes cast, equivalent to 61.70% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Isaac Kwabena Sarkodie Boahin of the New Patriotic Party, Kwaku Anane-Gyinde an independent candidate, Alhaji Osman Ahmed of the Convention People's Party and Anthony Mainooh of the Democratic People's Party. These obtained 33.00%, 3.30%, 1.10% and 0.80% respectively of total valid votes cast. In that election, the National Democratic Congress won 10 seats out of 24 parliamentary seats in the Brong Ahafo region. In all, the party won a minority 94 out of a total 230parliamentary seats in the 4th parliament of the 4th republic.
2008 Elections
In 2008, he was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for the Kintampo North constituency in the Brong Ahafo region by obtaining 17,965 votes out of the 32,887 valid votes cast, equivalent to 54.6% to total valid votes cast. He was elected over Awudulai Razak of the New Patriotic Party, Yelebepuori A Rashid of the People's National Convention, Jayem B Francis of the Democratic Freedom Party, D D Boateng of the Convention People's Party, Huseein Abass and Jonas Osei Bonsu - two independent candidates. These obtained 41.10%, 0.66%, 0.33%, 0.99% and 2.29% of the total valid votes cast. Kunsu won on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. His constituency formed a part of 8 parliamentary representations out of a total 24 seats won by the National Democratic Congress for the Brong Ahafo region. in the 5th parliament of the 4th republic. In the 2008 Ghanaian general elections, the National Democratic Congress won a majority total of 114 parliamentary representations out of 230parliamentary seats.
2012 Elections
Kunsu was elected for the third time as the Member of Parliament to represent the Kintampo North constituency in the Brong Ahafo region in the 2012 Ghanaian general elections. He thus represented the constituency again in the 6th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was elected with 22,761votes out of 42,119 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 54% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Razak Awudulai of the New Patriotic Party, James Kwabena Bomfeh(Jnr) of the Convention People's Party, Jonas Osei Bonsu of the Progressive People's Party and Ayimadu Kwadwo Matthew of the National Democratic Party. These obtained about 41%, 3%, 0.8% and 0.4% of total valid votes cast.
Personal life
Kunsu is married with six children. He is a Christian (Presbyterian).
References
People from Brong-Ahafo Region
1949 births
Living people
National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians
Ghanaian MPs 2005–2009
Ghanaian MPs 2009–2013
Ghanaian MPs 2013–2017 |
Haliophyle is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Species
Haliophyle anthracias (Meyrick, 1899)
Haliophyle compsias (Meyrick, 1899)
Haliophyle connexa (Warren, 1912)
Haliophyle euclidias (Meyrick, 1899)
Haliophyle ferruginea (Swezey, 1932)
Haliophyle flavistigma (Warren, 1912)
Haliophyle ignita (Warren, 1912)
Haliophyle niphadopa (Meyrick, 1899)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hadeninae |
Alan Gerry (born December 24, 1929) is an American billionaire and founder of Cablevision Industries.
Early life and education
Gerry was born to a Jewish family in Liberty, New York, the son of immigrants from Russia. His father was a frozen food distributor. After high school, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he was placed in the electronics program and afterward he studied television repair on the G.I. Bill.
Career
In 1951, he started a television sales, installation and repair business in a converted grain elevator in his hometown. Concerned with the poor reception in his hometown, which impacted television sales due to the mountainous terrain, he installed antennas on the top of many of the surrounding mountains in order to provide reception to the people who lived in the valleys or lived on the hillsides not facing New York City. In 1956, he convinced seven local businessmen to invest in starting a local cable television system utilizing large "community antennas" on mountaintops which gathered the signal and then transferred it via cable to the individual homeowners. The company was named Liberty Video. He opened a store purely focused on television sales but soon realized that after an initial surge in sales, the recurring cash flows from cable subscribers was where the income was. In the early 1970s, he bought out his original partners and expanded into Pennsylvania and Massachusetts renaming the company Cablevision Industries. In the early 1980s, he installed the East Coast's first high-powered microwave delivery system, creating 100,000 house sub-clusters. Thereafter, he expanded into Florida, the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic States and was one of the first cable operators to deploy fiber optic cable. In 1996, he sold Cablevision Industries - then the 8th largest cable company and the largest privately owned cable company in the United States with 64 cable systems covering 1.3 million subscribers in 18 states - to Time Warner Cable for $2.7 billion,
Gerry founded and presently serves as chairman and CEO of Granite Associates, L.P., a diversified investment company focused on start up companies involved in telephony and communications.
Philanthropy and accolades
Gerry created the Gerry Foundation, an organization established to stimulate economic activity and revitalization in Sullivan County, New York. Gerry purchased and resurrected the original 1969 Woodstock Festival site, naming it the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York. Gerry donated $10 million to the National Cable Center in Denver. Gerry endowed a chair of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, established the Paul Gerry Dialysis Center in Sayre, Pennsylvania, funded the addition of a wing on his local hospital, and is involved in a program at Boston University to find a cure for amyloidosis.
In 1995, Gerry was awarded the Vanguard Award, cable television's honor for distinguished leadership. In 1998, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 2000, he was inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame. Gerry received the Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award from the New England chapter of the Institute of American Entrepreneurs, the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Boy Scouts of America, and the Americanism Award from the Anti-Defamation League. He has received an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Roger Williams University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York.
In 2014, Gerry donated $5 million for the renovations to Newhouse 2 complex at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Personal life
He is married to Sandra Gerry, an educator and former teacher; they have two daughters and a son: Annelise Gerry, Robyn Gerry, and Adam Gerry.
References
External links
1929 births
Jewish American military personnel
American philanthropists
Living people
American company founders
American billionaires
People from Liberty, New York
Philanthropists from New York (state)
21st-century American Jews |
Missoula College is the junior college of the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. The college was founded in 1956 and became part of the University of Montana in 1994. It offers 35 programs including career, transfer, and technical programs. The five academic departments include the Department of Applied Computing and Electronics, Department of Industrial Technology, Department of Applied Arts and Sciences, Department of Business Technology, and Department of Health Professions. The college also provides workforce development for the region as well as dual credit courses for hundreds of high school students in the area, and works to support adults seeking new career opportunities or professional development. During the Fall 2010 semester, 2,444 students were enrolled at Missoula College.
Facilities and location
Missoula College is composed of a brand new River Campus located across the river from the main university campus and a second, trades-oriented campus, located next to Fort Missoula Park. As a unit of the University of Montana, incoming freshmen are exposed to the same services and expectations as students who primarily attend UM's main campus. The River campus is home to a library, the culinary program with a student-run cafe, health sciences with cadaver labs, study areas on every floor and administration. The West Campus is the home of the Department of Industrial Technology with ample acreage for student-built modular homes and a large excavation/heavy equipment test area. As a whole, the Missoula College consists of 200.4 acres of land. Missoula College is one of Montana's two-year colleges. In addition to dining options on UM's main, or Mountain Campus, students can eat breakfast and lunch at the college's West Campus Cafeteria or the East Campus Hunter Dining Room and Cafeteria.
History
Missoula College was previously known as the University of Montana College of Technology and the Missoula Vocational Technical Center until it became a college within the University of Montana in the fall of 1994. The name change was a sign of the school's expanding responsibilities as it became an integral part of the university while still providing a wide variety of professional and technical programs. The school was governed by Missoula County High Schools until July 1989, when the Montana Board of Regents took over that responsibility.
Academic departments and programs
Department of Applied Arts and Sciences
This department focuses on instruction in communication, science, writing, mathematics, and social science, and oversees the Associate of Arts Degree.
Department of Applied Computing and Engineering Technology
The Department of Applied Computing and Engineering Technology is a member of several organizations, including Cisco Regional Networking Academy and North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners. The department offers Certificate of Applied Science programs in Computer-Aided Design and Computer Support, as well as Associate of Applied Science Degrees in Computer Technology, Electronics Technology and Energy Technology. A Bachelor of Applied Science Degree is also available to students who have completed an Associate of Applied Science Degree.
Department of Business Technology
The Business Department is the largest within the college, covering six academic areas: Accounting Technology, Administrative Management, Culinary Arts, Management, Medical Information Technology, and Paralegal Studies. Each respective program offers an Associate of Applied Science Degree or certificate upon completion.
Department of Health Professions
The department offers Associate of Applied Science Degrees in Medical Assisting, Practical Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Care, and Surgical Technology. The department also offers an Associate of Science Degree in Registered Nursing and a certificate in Pharmacy Technology. The Medical Assisting program is currently under review, however, and is not accepting new students at this time.
Department of Industrial Technology
The Department of Industrial Technology is located on the college's West campus. The department encompasses six programs: Building Maintenance Engineering, Sustainable Construction, Diesel Equipment Technology, Heavy Equipment Operation, Machining, and Welding Technology. The Building Maintenance Engineering, Heavy Equipment Operation, and Milling and Machining programs are one-year programs that offer a Certificate of Applied Science upon completion. The Sustainable Construction and Welding Technology programs both offer either a one-year Certificate of Applied Science or a two-year Associate of Applied Science Degree upon completion, while the Diesel Equipment Technology is a two-year program that offers only an Associate of Applied Science Degree.
Outreach Program
A notable feature of Missoula College is its Outreach Program, a program that offers individuals who are unable to attend daytime or structured classes an opportunity to fulfill requirements despite a busy schedule. Online courses, evening and weekend classes, short courses, summer programs and other options are available.
Achievements and recognition
The college is the only higher education institution in Montana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.
References
External links
Official website
University of Montana website
Schools and colleges of the University of Montana
1956 establishments in Montana
Two-year colleges in the United States
Buildings and structures in Missoula, Montana
Education in Missoula, Montana
Missoula College University of Montana |
```python
from .. core._core_utils import add_method
from .. import _otio
@add_method(_otio.ImageSequenceReference)
def __str__(self):
return (
'ImageSequenceReference('
'"{}", "{}", "{}", {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {})' .format(
self.target_url_base,
self.name_prefix,
self.name_suffix,
self.start_frame,
self.frame_step,
self.rate,
self.frame_zero_padding,
self.missing_frame_policy,
self.available_range,
self.available_image_bounds,
self.metadata,
)
)
@add_method(_otio.ImageSequenceReference)
def __repr__(self):
return (
'ImageSequenceReference('
'target_url_base={}, '
'name_prefix={}, '
'name_suffix={}, '
'start_frame={}, '
'frame_step={}, '
'rate={}, '
'frame_zero_padding={}, '
'missing_frame_policy={}, '
'available_range={}, '
'available_image_bounds={}, '
'metadata={}'
')' .format(
repr(self.target_url_base),
repr(self.name_prefix),
repr(self.name_suffix),
repr(self.start_frame),
repr(self.frame_step),
repr(self.rate),
repr(self.frame_zero_padding),
repr(self.missing_frame_policy),
repr(self.available_range),
repr(self.available_image_bounds),
repr(self.metadata),
)
)
@add_method(_otio.ImageSequenceReference)
def frame_range_for_time_range(self, time_range):
"""Returns first and last frame numbers for
the given time range in the reference.
:rtype: tuple[int]
:raises ValueError: if the provided time range is outside the available range.
"""
return (
self.frame_for_time(time_range.start_time),
self.frame_for_time(time_range.end_time_inclusive())
)
@add_method(_otio.ImageSequenceReference)
def abstract_target_url(self, symbol):
"""
Generates a target url for a frame where ``symbol`` is used in place
of the frame number. This is often used to generate wildcard target urls.
"""
if not self.target_url_base.endswith("/"):
base = self.target_url_base + "/"
else:
base = self.target_url_base
return "{}{}{}{}".format(
base, self.name_prefix, symbol, self.name_suffix
)
``` |
The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil is a Mexican fairy tale collected by Vicente T. Medoza and Virginia Rodriguez Rivera de Mendoza in Piedra Gorda.
It is Aarne–Thompson type 1096, The tailor and the ogre in a sewing contest.
Synopsis
The Devil offers a tailor a bargain; the tailor says he can have his soul if he beats him in a sewing contest. The Devil uses a long thread, which tangles; the tailors uses a short one and wins.
Expression
The story concludes with the observation that this is why mothers warn their daughters against long threads by calling them "the Devil's thread."
References
Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
ATU 1000-1199 |
In Greek mythology, Philonome or Phylonome (Ancient Greek: Φιλονόμη) was a name shared by two individuals:
Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus (son of Lycaon) and Arcadia. She was a maiden who used to hunt with Artemis until Ares seduced her in the guise of a shepherd. Being pregnant and fearing her father, she cast her twin children, Lycastus and Parrhasius, into the river Erymanthus, but they found haven in the trunk of a tree. Later a wolf suckled the children and a shepherd, Gyliphus, reared them as if they were his own sons.
Philonome, also called Polyboea or Scamandria, daughter of Tragasus and second wife of King Cycnus of Colonae. She fell in love with her stepson Tenes and, being rejected, falsely accused him before Cycnus of having made love to her. But when her husband discovered the truth, he buried her alive in the earth.
Notes
References
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Women in Greek mythology
Characters in Greek mythology |
Leslie Moser (June 16, 1894 – January 1, 1969) was an American college football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Wofford College from 1916 to 1917, compiling a record of 7–11. Moser played college football at Washington & Jefferson University.
Head coaching record
References
External links
1894 births
1969 deaths
American football centers
Washington & Jefferson Presidents football players
Wofford Terriers athletic directors
Wofford Terriers football coaches
Players of American football from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania |
Edward Michael Stelmach (; born May 11, 1951) is a Canadian politician who served as the 13th premier of Alberta, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and fluently speaks the distinctive Canadian dialect of Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a farmer, except for some time spent studying at the University of Alberta. His first foray into politics was a 1986 municipal election, when he was elected to Lamont County council. A year into his term, he was appointed reeve. He continued in this position until his entry into provincial politics.
In the 1993 provincial election, Stelmach was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vegreville-Viking (later Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville). A Progressive Conservative, he served in the cabinets of Ralph Klein—at various times holding the portfolios of Intergovernmental Relations, Transportation, Infrastructure, and Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development—where he developed a reputation as a low-key politician who avoided the limelight. When Klein resigned the party's leadership in 2006, Stelmach was among the first to present his candidature to replace him. After a third-place finish on the first ballot of the leadership race, he won an upset second ballot victory over former provincial treasurer Jim Dinning.
Stelmach's premiership was heavily focused on management of the province's oil reserves, especially those of the Athabasca Oil Sands. He rejected calls from environmentalists to slow the pace of development in the Fort McMurray area, and similarly opposed calls for carbon taxes. Other policy initiatives included commencing an overhaul of the province's health governance system, amendments to the Alberta human rights code, a re-introduction of all-party committees to the Legislature, and the conclusion of a major labour agreement with Alberta's teachers. His government also attracted controversy for awarding itself a 30% pay increase shortly after its re-election, and featured strained relations with Calgary, one of Klein's former strongholds. Despite this, Stelmach increased the Progressive Conservatives' already substantial majority in the 2008 election. With the advent of the late-2000s recession, Stelmach had to cope with a deteriorating economic situation and the Alberta government's first budget deficit in 16 years.
Stelmach was succeeded as Premier by Alison Redford on October 7, 2011. He joined the board of Covenant Health a year later, and has been its chair since January 2016.
Background
Edward Michael Stelmach was born on a farm near Lamont, Alberta, the grandson of immigrants from Zavyche, Ukraine. His grandparents settled near Andrew, Alberta in 1898, after bypassing Saskatchewan because they did not care for the terrain. His parents, Nancy (née Koroluk) and Michael N. Stelmach, had five children, of whom Edward was the youngest, ten years younger than his closest sibling. Stelmach was raised speaking Ukrainian, and did not learn English until he started attending school. He was raised a Ukrainian Catholic, and continues to attend church regularly, sing in the church choir, and act as a volunteer caretaker for the cemetery. Through high school, he worked as a well-digger and a Fuller Brush salesman, where he said his grasp of Ukrainian helped him make sales. After graduating high school—his grade 12 yearbook called him a future Prime Minister of Canada—he attended the University of Alberta, intending to become a lawyer. He continued there, working as an assistant manager at Woodward's, until 1973, when his oldest brother, Victor, died. While his family had intended for Victor to take over the farm that his grandparents had settled 75 years before, Stelmach dropped out of university, returned home, and bought the land from his parents. He continues to farm the land today.
As a teenager, he met Marie Warshawski at the wedding of a mutual friend. They married in 1973, and have three sons and a daughter.
Stelmach entered politics in 1986 with his election to the council of Lamont County; one year later, he was appointed county reeve, a position he held until his entry into provincial politics in 1993.
MLA and minister
Stelmach ran for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a Progressive Conservative in the 1993 provincial election, defeating incumbent New Democrat Derek Fox in the riding of Vegreville-Viking. Stelmach became a member of the Deep Six, a group of enthusiastically fiscally conservative rookie MLAs; in addition to supporting Premier Ralph Klein's aggressive deficit-cutting, Stelmach practiced fiscal restraint himself, incurring low office expenses and declining a government vehicle. During his first term, Stelmach served as Deputy Whip and, later, Chief Government Whip for the P.C. caucus. As a backbencher, he sponsored the Lloydminster Hospital Act Repeal Act. This was a government bill that dissolved the then-existing Lloydminster hospital board in preparation for an arrangement compliant with both the Alberta government's new system of regional health authorities and the Saskatchewan government's system. Lloydminster sits on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the hospital, although built and operated by the Alberta government, sits on the Saskatchewan side. It passed the legislature with little debate. In 1996, shortly before an April by-election in Redwater, Stelmach was accused of "pork barrel politics" for presenting, along with colleague Peter Trynchy and P.C. candidate Ross Quinn, a large cheque to a local seniors centre. Stelmach said that he had only stepped in to help the riding after its MLA, Nicholas Taylor, had been appointed to the Senate.
After the 1997 provincial election, Klein appointed Stelmach Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural development. While he held this office, his department encouraged the establishment of feedlots. The opposition parties charged that the government was not regulating these sufficiently, but Stelmach responded that municipalities had the authority necessary to effectively regulate them. On the Canadian Wheat Board controversy, Stelmach sided with farmers who wanted an end to the federal body's monopoly on grain sales in the western provinces. Legislatively, Stelmach sponsored five bills while in the Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development portfolio, all of which passed through the legislature. 1997's Meat Inspection Amendment Act required meat inspectors to acquire a search warrant before entering a private dwelling, but also allowed for fines to be voluntarily paid without requiring a court case. It was called by Liberal agriculture critic Ken Nicol "a really good bill". The Livestock and Livestock Products Amendment Act of the same year eliminated government guarantee of the Livestock Patrons' Assurance Fund, designed to protect cattle producers from payment defaults by livestock dealers, in favour of leaving the Fund entirely in the hands of the industry. It too was supported by the Liberals, with Nicol calling it "very easy for us to accept". In 1998, Stelmach sponsored the Agriculture Statutes (Penalties) Amendment Act, which overhauled the penalty system for violation of various agricultural statutes, setting maximum fines and leaving the precise amount up to judges on a case-by-case basis. It also passed with Liberal support, as MLA Ed Gibbons said that it "really makes a lot of sense". Another 1998 bill was the Marketing of Agricultural Products Amendment Act, which allowed provincial agricultural marketing boards to revise their marketing plans, and was supported by the opposition. Finally, Stelmach initiated the Agriculture Statutes (Livestock Identification) Amendment Act, which allowed the government to delegate the inspection of branding to the cattle industry. The bill was the subject of considerable debate on second reading, but was ultimately supported by the Liberals on the third and final reading.
In 1999, Klein shifted Stelmach to the new Infrastructure portfolio, where he made traffic safety a priority, increasing fines for traffic offenses, sometimes by as much as 700%. He also briefly aroused controversy by proposing reversing the slow and fast lanes on provincial highways, on the grounds that this would equalize the rate at which the lanes broke down and therefore save on maintenance costs; nothing came of the proposal. He established a fund for capital projects, but was criticized for not doing enough to address the deterioration of the province's infrastructure. In 2001, Klein separated Transportation out of the Infrastructure portfolio and appointed Stelmach to it, where the new minister advocated the use of public-private partnerships to build ring roads around Edmonton and Calgary. He also introduced a program of graduated driver licensing and initiated a review of traffic safety programs. Stelmach was re-elected by his largest majority yet during the 2001 election, and retained the Transportation portfolio until 2004, when he was reassigned to the position of Minister of Intergovernmental Relations. He resigned this position in 2006 in order to contest the P.C. leadership election (Klein had required that ministers intending to campaign to succeed him resign from cabinet).
As minister, Stelmach kept a low profile. Mark Lisac, who was the Edmonton Journal's provincial affairs columnist during much of Stelmach's time in cabinet, later recalled that Stelmach "never did anything that was flashy or controversial in any way" and that "not a thing" stood out about Stelmach's ministerial service. This low-key style earned Stelmach the moniker "Steady Eddie", which would follow him to the Premier's office.
2006 leadership election
Stelmach was the first candidate to declare his intention to run for the P.C. leadership, and picked up endorsements from nineteen members of his caucus (including cabinet ministers Pearl Calahasen and Iris Evans). However, former provincial Treasurer Jim Dinning had twice as many caucus endorsements (despite not having held elected office since 1997) and was generally considered the race's front-runner. Stelmach ran a low-profile campaign, touring the province in a custom-painted campaign bus, while most media attention was focussed on the rivalry between and the socially conservative Ted Morton.
According to the race's rules, the three candidates receiving the most votes on the first ballot would move on to a second ballot, which would use a preferential voting system to select a winner. Stelmach finished third on the first ballot with 15.3% of the vote, 3,329 votes ahead of fourth place Lyle Oberg and 10,647 votes behind second place Morton. However, the fourth, fifth, and sixth place candidates (Oberg, Dave Hancock, and Mark Norris) all endorsed Stelmach for the second ballot. On this ballot, he finished in first place on the first count, fewer than five hundred votes ahead of Dinning. A majority of Morton's votes went to Stelmach on the second count, and he was elected leader.
Financing
Stelmach raised more than $1.1 million for his leadership campaign. After his victory, he revealed the names of the donors of 85% of this money, but declined to release the names of eighty supporters, citing their requests for privacy. These supporters had donated a total of more than $160,000. Party rules did not require any disclosure, and the disclosures by candidates varied—Norris named all of his donors, while Morton did not reveal any. Stelmach's partial disclosure was deemed insufficient by opposition leaders and Democracy Watch, whose head suggested that Albertans should assume that Stelmach's anonymous donors placed him in a conflict of interest until he proved otherwise. Stelmach also acknowledged receiving a $10,000 donation from the Beaver Regional Waste Management Service's Commission, a landfill operator owned by five municipalities in Stelmach's riding. While asserting that the donation was legal, Stelmach admitted that it was "clearly unethical", blamed overzealous campaign volunteers for soliciting it, and returned it after the end of the campaign.
In the wake of the leadership campaign, Stelmach, along with Oberg, Hancock, and Norris, organized two $5,000 per plate dinners in January 2007 to pay campaign debts. After critics argued that the dinners were essentially selling access to the premier and two senior ministers, Stelmach cancelled them.
Premier
2008 election
Stelmach was sworn in as Premier December 14, 2006. On February 4, 2008, immediately after Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong read the throne speech to open the legislative session, Stelmach requested a dissolution of the legislature with an election to follow March 3. Shortly before the writ was dropped, a group calling itself Albertans for Change began to buy print and television ads that attacked Stelmach for lacking a plan and portrayed him as unfit to lead the province. The group was funded by the Alberta Building Trades Council and the Alberta Federation of Labour, which led to a series of ads purchased by the National Citizens Coalition and Merit Contractors, in which it was accused of "putting your [union members'] money where [union leadership's] mouths are."
Despite a campaign that was called disorganized and uninspired, Stelmach's Progressive Conservatives won 72 seats in the 83-seat Legislative Assembly, an increase from the 62 that the party had won in the previous election and only two seats short of Ralph Klein's 2001 landslide. Political analysts attributed the party's win to its ability to present Stelmach as "a cautious, straightforward and hard-working man with a plan for Alberta's future".
The voter turnout in the election was 41%, the lowest in Alberta's history, and roughly a quarter of these had to swear an oath on election day after discovering they weren't on the voter's list. Opposition politicians and media blamed Stelmach's government for these problems, arguing that riding-level returning officers, who were nominated by Progressive Conservative constituency associations and who were responsible for voter enumeration, were not appointed early enough. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "about half" of the 83 returning officers in the 2008 election had ties to the P.C. Party; the returning officer in Stelmach's Fort Saskatchewan–Vegreville riding had donated between $500 and $1,000 to Stelmach's leadership campaign.
Alberta Chief Returning Officer Lorne Gibson, as one of his 182 post-election recommendations to the government, suggested that the appointment of returning officers be handled by his own, non-partisan, office. He had previously made this suggestion in 2006, but the government had not acted on it. He also recommended following the election that his office, rather than the government's Justice department, be responsible for prosecuting election-related offenses; the latter did not lay charges in any of 19 alleged campaign finance violations Gibson brought to its attention. In February 2009, Gibson appeared before the legislature's all-party committee on legislative offices to answer questions about the conduct of the election; there, he echoed opposition claims that the government, and not his office, was to blame for most problems. Shortly after, the committee voted 8–3 against re-appointing him, with all Progressive Conservatives on the committee opposing his re-appointment and all opposition MLAs supporting it. Opposition leaders David Swann and Brian Mason suggested that Gibson was being punished for criticizing the government.
Energy and environmental policy
Much of Stelmach's term as Premier was dominated by questions related to the Athabasca Oil Sands. The rapid development of these reserves was fuelling the Alberta economy's strong growth, but also raised environmental questions. After winning the Premiership, Stelmach emphasized that he had no intention of taking measures that would slow down oilsands development and suggested that the economy would find its own appropriate growth rate. He aggressively defended Alberta's oil at home and abroad, and called the idea that it was extracted at an unacceptably high environmental cost "a myth". When Liberal Party of Canada leader Stéphane Dion proposed a federal carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, Stelmach rejected the policy on the basis that it would hurt the economy and would unfairly penalize the western provinces. Instead, he championed the development of carbon capture technology. In July 2008, Stelmach announced $2 billion worth of funding for carbon capture initiatives, for which he was applauded by industry groups. However, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business called it "a huge amount of money to spend on something that isn't proven", and Mike Hudema of Greenpeace suggesting that there were better environmental uses of the money available.
Though Stelmach pledged not to do anything to curb the development of the oilsands, he did promise to review royalty rates—the rates paid by oil companies for the privilege of extracting Alberta's oil. He also committed to reducing the proportion of bitumen that left Alberta to be upgraded out of province, likening the export of bitumen to "scraping off the top soil" from farmland. Soon after becoming Premier, he commissioned the Alberta Royalty Review panel to make recommendations on the province's royalty regime; opposition politicians had accused the government of undercharging substantially. Stelmach rejected many of the panel's recommendations, and claimed to increase royalty rates by approximately 20% (25% less than recommended by the panel), however instead of an increase in royalties on oil and gas, Alberta collected $13.5 billion less from 2009 to 2014. Just after the 2008 election, Stelmach's government announced a five-year royalty break worth $237 million per year to encourage development that it feared would have become uneconomical under the new plan. He was less decisive in increasing in-province bitumen upgrading; in 2008 he conceded that Alberta would continue upgrading between sixty and sixty-five percent of the bitumen it produced for the foreseeable future, rather than the seventy-two percent target he had previously announced for 2016. This admission came in the wake of his government's approval of three new pipelines designed to export bitumen.
In January 2008, Stelmach unveiled the province's "made in Alberta"—as distinct from imposed by the federal government or by international treaty—plan to cut carbon emissions in order to fight global warming. The plan called for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 14% (from 2007 levels) by 2050. Environmental groups and opposition parties suggested that this was insufficient in light of British Columbia's plan to cut emissions by 80% (from 2007 levels) during the same period, but Stelmach argued that Alberta's position as a supplier of oil to the rest of the country justified higher emissions. This was followed in June by the unveiling of the government's campaign to ask Albertans to make "one simple act"—such as composting, using reusable shopping bags, and replacing incandescent light bulbs with the more efficient fluorescent bulbs. Opponents argued that the emphasis on personal responsibility by individuals did nothing to address the greater environmental damage caused by the development of the Athabasca Oil Sands.
In late April 2008 hundreds of ducks landed in a northern Alberta tailings pond belonging to Syncrude, where most died. The incident was a blow to Stelmach's efforts to convince the world that Alberta's oil sands were environmentally friendly. The number of ducks that died was originally reported at around 500, but in March 2009 Syncrude revealed that the number was in fact more than 1,600. In response to accusations from opposition and environmental groups that his government, which had known the actual number since the summer of 2008, had participated in covering it up to save face, Stelmach asserted that it had refrained from making the higher number public for fear of jeopardizing its investigation of whether Syncrude had violated any provincial regulations in the incident. Investigations were centred around the questions of whether Syncrude had immediately reported the incident as required (the government had first heard of it from an anonymous tip, though Syncrude reported it several hours later) and whether the company had the required measures in place to prevent ducks from landing on its tailings ponds (it had noisemakers designed to deter waterfowl, but these had not been set up at the time of the incident due to winter weather conditions). Syncrude was eventually charged with "failing to have systems in place to divert waterfowl", which carries a maximum fine of $800,000.
Partially in an effort to counter-act negative publicity from oil sands-related issues—for example, the March 2009 edition of National Geographic Magazine contained a 20-page article portraying Alberta's oil sands operations as being highly environmentally damaging—in 2009 Stelmach's government spent $25 million on a rebranding campaign for the province. Among other things, it replaced the "Alberta Advantage" slogan that had long been in use with "Alberta: Freedom to create. Spirit to achieve." The campaign became the subject of some ridicule when the Edmonton Journal revealed that one of the photos used in it was not taken in Alberta, but at a North Sea beach in Northumberland. While the government initially claimed that it had intentionally used a foreign image to represent Alberta's engagement with the world, it later admitted that this was not the case, and that the photo had been used in error. Stelmach responded to the image, which showed two children running along a beach, by saying that "children, no matter where they are around the world, they are the next generation. And air quality, water quality, no matter where we live on this big globe, we're all responsible, and that's the message we're trying to portray."
Energy and Utilities Board affair and land use policy
In June 2007, the government-mandated Alberta Energy and Utilities Board admitted that it had hired private investigators to spy on landowners who opposed the construction of a major power line in the Rimbey area. Stelmach initially downplayed the incident, but ordered a judicial investigation once the province's Information and Privacy Commissioner initiated an investigation of his own. This investigation found that the EUB had violated provincial law and infringed on the landowners' privacy, while the judicial investigation criticized the EUB's tactics as "repulsive". The opposition parties called for the dismissal of the entire EUB and Energy Minister Mel Knight; Stelmach instead opted to appoint a new EUB chair.
Stelmach's government also responded with legislation entitled the Alberta Utilities Commission Act (Bill 46), which would split the EUB into two parts: the Alberta Utilities Commission (responsible for regulating utilities) and the Energy Resources Conservation Board (responsible for regulating oil and gas). The legislation was controversial, as elements of the EUB's governing legislation that provided for public notice and consultation in the event of energy construction projects were left out. Opposition parties and advocacy groups charged that this was an assault on both landowners' rights and the environment. The legislation ultimately passed, and took effect at the beginning of 2008.
Stelmach clashed with rural landowners again in 2009 when his government introduced the Land Assembly Project Area Act, designed to make it easier for the government to acquire large blocks of land for public purposes such as ring roads or reservoirs. The act allowed the government to identify land that it may be interested in expropriating at some point in the future and to indefinitely prohibit any development on that land that could conflict with the government's purposes. Despite vigorous opposition from landowners and the opposition parties, the bill passed the legislature in late April.
Fiscal policy
Ralph Klein's major focus for much of his premiership had been the elimination of the provincial deficit, and the government ran a record $8.9 billion surplus during Stelmach's first year in office. Alberta was in the midst of a major economic expansion driven by high energy prices and major oilsands development. This growth continued into 2007–2008, when the government's surplus was $4.6 billion. Both of these surpluses were higher than expected, and Stelmach's government followed a policy of placing one third of unanticipated surpluses into savings and two-thirds into construction projects. Critics, including Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, charged that the government was not saving enough money in anticipation of a fall in energy prices.
In her April 2008 budget, Stelmach's Finance Minister Iris Evans forecast a $1.6 billion surplus for 2008–2009. By August, she had revised this prediction to $8.5 billion. The major reason for this change is an increase in oil prices: while she had estimated in April that they would average $78 per barrel over the fiscal year, by August increases—including a high of $147 per barrel in July—have led her to make a new estimate of a $119.25 per barrel average. By November, prices had fallen to $55 per barrel, and Evans estimated a $2 billion surplus. By February 2009, the government of Alberta appeared poised to run a $1 billion deficit. In April 2009, Evans released her budget for 2009–2010, in which she anticipated a $4.6 billion deficit. This is the largest deficit in Alberta's history, and its first in sixteen years. The government's fiscal plan includes deficits until 2012–2013, when it again anticipates a surplus.
Stelmach's approach to this deteriorating fiscal situation, part of a global recession, was to invest heavily in infrastructure in an effort to stimulate the economy and take advantage of low construction costs. He went as far as to advocate borrowing for capital construction, a departure from the Klein government's notoriously anti-debt approach. However, his government was also one of only two in Canada (the other being Saskatchewan's) to cut overall spending in the 2009–2010 budget. This approach drew the ire of Liberal leader David Swann, who supported increased government spending for economic stimulus purposes, but drew support from some economists and was defended by Evans on the basis that capital spending was at twice the per capital level of the Canadian average.
Teachers pension liability
During his first year in office, Stelmach and his education minister Ron Liepert concluded a deal with the Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) in which the province agreed to contribute $2.1 billion towards the $6.6 billion unfunded pension liability. This liability resulted from insufficient contributions to the teachers' pension plan during the period leading up to 1992. In exchange, the ATA agreed to a five-year contract extension. The deal was applauded by the opposition Liberals and New Democrats, but was criticized by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which called for a plebiscite on the issue.
Pay increases
Shortly after winning an increased majority in the 2008 election, Stelmach's cabinet approved substantial raises for themselves, increasing the salary paid to cabinet ministers from $142,000 to $184,000 and that paid to the Premier from $159,450 to $213,450. The increases also affect the severance paid to ministers who resign or are defeated in elections—under the program implemented by Ralph Klein's government to replace the previously existing pension program, departing MLAs receive three months' pay for every year they served, with the level of the pay based on their three highest-earning years. The increases were attacked by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the opposition parties, but Stelmach defended the raises as the first received by cabinet ministers in fifteen years and as being necessary to attract qualified people to politics.
In early 2009, in response to the Late-2000s recession, Stelmach announced that his caucus would decline an automatic 4.9% cost of living pay increase. The following week, the legislature's all-party Standing Committee on Member Services extended this to all MLAs by voting unanimously to freeze MLA salaries for the fiscal year.
Health policy
Stelmach's policy on health care was highlighted by his removal of the province's health care premiums effective the end of 2008. Critics had denounced the premiums as being regressive, both because they were the same amount regardless of the payer's income and because people with better-paying jobs often had their premiums covered by their employer. The opposition Liberal and New Democratic parties had long called for their removal. This elimination was announced in a throne speech immediately before the dissolution of the legislature for the 2008 election, although it was initially promised to take effect by 2012. During this campaign, Stelmach promised to increase the capacity of Alberta universities to train doctors and nurses over four years, eventually resulting in the graduation of 225 more doctors, 350 more registered nurses, and 220 licensed practical nurses. After the registrar of the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons called the plan unfeasible, Health Minister Dave Hancock clarified that most of the increase would in fact come from the immigration of foreign doctors to Alberta, rather than from in-province training.
Following the election, Stelmach's new Minister of Health, Ron Liepert, released the government's new health plan. In it, Liepert refused to characterize the problems in the health care system as being the result of doctor shortages, and instead promised structural reforms. He indicated that these may include consolidating health authorities, closing rural hospitals, and de-listing some health services from coverage under the province's public health insurance scheme. In May, the government took the first step in implementing these structural reforms by combining the province's nine health authorities into one health "superboard".
In June 2008, three senior health officials announced that they would be leaving the province's employment at the expiration of their contracts in August. Liepert blamed their departures on better offers from other employers, although New Democrat leader Brian Mason speculated that the government's health restructuring may have been to blame. Detractors pointed out that the optics of allowing the employees to depart for more money elsewhere soon after the government had approved a substantial pay hike for cabinet ministers were not good.
As the province's fiscal situation worsened in late 2008, the government adapted its health policy. In December, Liepert announced a new seniors drug plan that made drugs free for seniors making less than $21,325 but required those making more to pay as much as $7,500 for their drugs. In response to protests from seniors, he amended the plan in April 2009 to reduce both the income level at which seniors would have to start paying and the amount which those seniors would have to pay. Liepert said that the plan, $10 million more expensive than the one he had announced in December, would see 60% of seniors pay less than they did under the status quo. The same month, Stelmach's government's budget revealed changes to which medical services it would cover: those de-listed included chiropractic services, at an annual savings of $53 million, and sex change operations, at an annual savings of $700,000. While the Canada Health Act requires the federal government to financially penalize provinces that do not support all "medically necessary" procedures, Liepert maintained that the de-listed services were not "medically necessary" from the perspective of the act, and said that he anticipated no trouble from the federal government.
During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Stelmach initially announced that the government would make the vaccine available to all Albertans, though vaccine shortages resulted in a limited number of clinics, which experienced long lineups. In response, Liberal leader David Swann accused the government of managing limited vaccine supplies poorly by not giving priority to the most vulnerable groups. Liepert defended the government's record by saying that high risk populations had been given priority, but that the government's policy was to turn nobody away; he blamed many of the problems on the federal government's delivery to the province of fewer doses of the vaccine than promised. Further controversy erupted when it was revealed that hockey players on the Calgary Flames were vaccinated with vaccine received directly from Alberta Health Services, which prompted Stelmach to announce an investigation. Two Alberta Health Services employees were fired as a result of the investigation.
Human Rights, Citizenship, and Multiculturalism Act
In spring 2009, Stelmach's government announced its intention to overhaul the Alberta Human Rights, Citizenship, and Multiculturalism Act. In 1998's Vriend v. Alberta, the Supreme Court of Canada had found that the legislation's failure to include sexual orientation among the grounds on which discrimination was prohibited violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and had "read in" this protection. However, the text of the act continued not to mention sexual orientation. Gay rights activists and opposition politicians hoped that the government's proposed changes to the act would change this.
This section had been used to try to prosecute Ezra Levant for publishing the cartoons at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in his Western Standard magazine, and to successfully prosecute the Red Deer Advocate for publishing a letter to the editor entitled "Homosexual agenda wicked".
The changes that were eventually tabled included the enshrining of sexual orientation as protected grounds but not the removal of the section dealing with "exposing to contempt." This omission was criticized, Levant said that it made him "deeply embarrassed as a conservative," but Stelmach said that his caucus was comfortable that another provision, requiring that the impugned section should not "be deemed to interfere with the free expression of opinion on any subject", protected Albertans against its abusive use. The proposal also included a section entitling parents to advance notice from schools if their children were going to be taught "subject-matter that deals explicitly with religion, sexuality or sexual orientation" and the right to remove their children from such classes. Stelmach called this a "very, very fundamental right" and suggested that it would allow parents to opt out of having their children learn about evolution, though his Education Minister Dave Hancock argued that the new wording didn't extend beyond current practice. Alberta Teachers' Association President Frank Bruseker expressed concern that this would make the teaching of science and geography in public schools very difficult, and suggested that parents who did not wish to have their children exposed to evolution should home school them or send them to private school. New Democratic Party leader Brian Mason suggested that the changes would make Alberta "sound like Arkansas".
Democratic reform
Klein's government had received criticism for reducing the importance of the legislature by sitting it fewer days than any other province's legislature and for directing business through standing policy committees of the Progressive Conservative caucus. These committees met in private, unlike the legislature's all-party committees, which fell almost entirely out of use during the Klein years. In April 2007, Stelmach initiated the creation of four new legislative "policy field committees" which would include opposition representation. The same month, his government introduced new legislation on conflicts of interest, such that former cabinet ministers would have to wait one year before doing business with the government or lobbying it on behalf of third parties (up from six months). It also created a similar cooling-off period for senior bureaucrats, which lasted six months. However, an Order in Council passed by Stelmach's cabinet shortly before the 2008 election delayed the implementation of these rules until one month after the election, meaning that cabinet ministers who retired or lost their bids for re-election would be exempt from the new rules.
Relationship with Calgary
Critics of Stelmach suggest that, as a farmer from the central part of the province, he is biased against Calgary and urban Alberta in general. They pointed to the fact that the city, which was considered the heartland of Jim Dinning's support during the leadership race, had only three members (Ron Liepert, Ron Stevens, and Greg Melchin) in his first eighteen-member cabinet (Stelmach supporters pointed out that Edmonton had only one minister, Dave Hancock). Stelmach also found himself in a feud with Calgary mayor Dave Bronconnier during his first year as premier as Bronconnier accused Stelmach of failing to keep a promise to the city regarding infrastructure spending during his first budget. Several Stelmach supporters suggested that the mayor, a Liberal, might be angling to take over as leader of the official opposition if Kevin Taft fumbled. During the by-election to fill Ralph Klein's Calgary Elbow seat, P.C. candidate Brian Heninger went so far as to tell a voter he'd like to choke his party's leader (Stelmach told media that this was the sort of enthusiasm he wanted from his MLAs). Heninger was defeated by Liberal Craig Cheffins and, in the 2008 election, Calgary was the only area of the province in which Stelmach lost seats on his way to an increased majority.
After Deputy Premier Ron Stevens resigned his Calgary-Glenmore seat to accept a judgeship, a 2009 by-election elected outgoing Wildrose Alliance Party (WRA) leader Paul Hinman to replace him. Hinman had been the WRA's only MLA until he lost his Cardston-Taber-Warner to Progressive Conservative Broyce Jacobs in the 2008 election. Shortly after Hinman's election, polls showed that the Wildrose Alliance, under new leader Danielle Smith, was the second most popular party province-wide, and led the Conservatives 34 percent to 30 percent in Calgary.
Politics and public opinion
Critics at first compared Stelmach to Harry Strom, the last Social Credit premier of the province. Strom was regarded as honest but ineffective and lacking charisma; he survived only long enough as Premier to lose the 1971 election soundly. Thus ended the last long one-party rule, and observers asked if history would repeat with Stelmach. After Stelmach's landslide win in the 2008 election, however, the comparisons largely ceased.
In late 2009, the Conservatives' plunging popularity at the polls and the surge in support for the right-wing Wildrose Alliance led to speculation that Stelmach would receive lukewarm support at his mandatory leadership review, to be held at the November 2009 Progressive Conservative convention. Klein's resignation came in the wake of his receiving only 55% support at such a review, and Klein suggested that Stelmach should resign if he received less than 70%. The question was whether party leaders would blame Stelmach for the party's decline and look for new leadership in the face of Stelmach's own weakening poll numbers. Instead, Stelmach met the criterion set up by his critics and won 77.4% support, a strong endorsement.
Resignation
On January 25, 2011, Stelmach announced that he would not seek re-election; he also promised a leadership race before the next election. He did not specify his date of resignation at that time, however he submitted his letter of resignation in June, writing that he would leave office on October 1. In the early hours of October 2, 2011, Alison Redford was declared the new leader of the party, and Stelmach resigned as premier on October 7.
Awards and recognitions
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Class III (Ukraine, 2009)
Alberta Order of Excellence (2020)
Electoral record
Party leadership contests
References
External links
1951 births
Premiers of Alberta
Canadian members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Living people
People from Lamont County
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
Leaders of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
Alberta municipal councillors
Farmers from Alberta
21st-century Canadian politicians
Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class |
The 33rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS television on June 3, 1979, from the Shubert Theatre in New York City. The hosts were Jane Alexander, Henry Fonda and Liv Ullmann.
The ceremony
The presenters were Tom Bosley, Barry Bostwick, Ellen Burstyn, Georgia Engel, Jane Fonda, Celeste Holm, John Houseman, Barnard Hughes, Angela Lansbury, Ron Leibman, Jack Lemmon, Hal Linden, Jean Marsh, Al Pacino and Dick Van Dyke.
The theme of the ceremony was theatrical superstitions, and various other showbusiness beliefs.
Henry Fonda received a Special Award, which was presented by his daughter Jane Fonda. Walter Cronkite presented Richard Rodgers with his Special Award.
Musicals represented:
Ballroom ("Fifty Percent" - Dorothy Loudon)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ("The Aggie Song" - Company)
Eubie ("Hot Feet" - Gregory Hines)
I Remember Mama ("A Little Bit More" - Liv Ullmann, George Hearn and Company)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ("The Worst Pies in London" - Angela Lansbury)
They're Playing Our Song ("They're Playing Our Song" - Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz)
Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold
Special awards
Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre - Richard Rodgers
Regional Theatre Award - American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California
Henry Fonda
Walter F. Diehl, International President of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators, has been an active force in advancing the well-being of the Broadway theatre and of theatre nationally.
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center, Waterford, Connecticut
Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:
9 nominations: Sweeney Todd
8 nominations: Ballroom
7 nominations: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and The Elephant Man
5 nominations: Bedroom Farce
4 nominations: The Crucifer of Blood and They're Playing Our Song
3 nominations: Eubie!, The Grand Tour, Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Wings
2 nominations: Platinum
The following productions received multiple awards.
8 wins: Sweeney Todd
3 wins: The Elephant Man
2 wins: Bedroom Farce and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
See also
Drama Desk Awards
1979 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
Obie Award
New York Drama Critics' Circle
Theatre World Award
Lucille Lortel Awards
References
External links
Tony Awards Official Site
Tony Awards ceremonies
1979 theatre awards
Tony
1979 in New York City
1970s in Manhattan |
The following highways are numbered 374:
Canada
Manitoba Provincial Road 374
Nova Scotia Route 374
Saskatchewan Highway 374
Japan
Japan National Route 374
Spain
Autovía A-374
United Kingdom
A374 road
United States
Arkansas Highway 374
Georgia State Route 374
Maryland Route 374
Nevada State Route 374
New York State Route 374
Ohio State Route 374
Pennsylvania Route 374
Puerto Rico Highway 374
Tennessee State Route 374
Farm to Market Road 374
Virginia State Route 374
Wyoming Highway 374 |
Gilles Ngomo Michée (born 23 August 1987) is a Cameroonian professional football who plays as a midfielder.
Club career
Gil was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
AS Khroub
In June 2008 Gil joined AS Khroub.
CS Constantine
On 8 August 2011, Gil signed a two-year contract with Algerian club CS Constantine. On 10 September 2011, Gil made his debut for CS Constantine as a starter in a league match against JSM Bejaia. He played the entire match as CS Constantine won 0-0.
CR Belouizdad
In June 2014 Gil joined signed a two-year contract with Algerian club CR Belouizdad.
References
External links
http://www.csconstantine.net/les-nouvelles/les-nouvelles/gilles-ngomo-serai-partant-du-csc-!.html
http://www.csc-sanafir.ch/l1pro/index.php?option=com_joomleague&view=player&p=1%3Aligue-1&tid=1%3Acs-constantine&pid=19%3Agilles-ngomo&Itemid=27
http://www.camfoot.com/?foudre-d-akonolinga-secouee-par,7065.html
1987 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian men's footballers
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players
Canon Yaoundé players
AS Khroub players
CR Belouizdad players
CS Constantine players
Abha Club players
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Algeria
Expatriate men's footballers in Algeria
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Saudi First Division League players
Cameroon men's international footballers |
The rabbitsfoot (Theliderma cylindrica) is a species of freshwater mussel. It is an aquatic bivalve mollusk, in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
This species is native to the United States, where it is widespread in the drainages of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. It has disappeared from over half its historic range.
Subspecies
Two subspecies have been described. It is unclear whether they represent distinct evolutionary lineages, or are merely ecophenotypic variation which would not warrant any taxonomic status. A 2007 genetic study has cast doubt upon the validity of the existence of two subspecies.
Theliderma cylindrica cylindrica (Say, 1817) —
Theliderma cylindrica strigillata (Wright, 1898) — Rough rabbitsfoot, found only in the headwaters of the Tennessee River.
Conservation
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica has been listed as an Endangered Species Act (ESA) threatened species of the United States since 2013. Quadrula cylindrica strigillata has been listed as an ESA endangered species since 1997.
See also
List of non-marine molluscs of the United States
References
Endemic molluscs of the United States
cylindrica
Bivalves described in 1817 |
Burmese glass is a type of opaque colored art glass, shading from yellow to pink. It is found in either the rare original "shiny" finish or the more common "satin" finish. It is used for table glass and small, ornamental vases and dressing table articles.
It was made in 1885 by the Mount Washington Glass Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Burmese glass found favor with Queen Victoria. From 1886, the British company of Thomas Webb & Sons was licensed to produce the glass. Their version, known as Queen's Burmeseware, which was used for tableware and decorative glass, often with painted decoration. Burmese was also made after 1970 by the Fenton art glass company.
Burmese is a uranium glass. The formula to produce Burmese Glass contains uranium oxide with tincture of gold added. The uranium oxide produced the inherent soft yellow color of Burmese glass. Because of the added gold, the characteristic pink blush of color of Burmese was fashioned by re-heating the object in the furnace (the "Glory Hole"). The length of time in the furnace will determine the intensity of the color. Strangely, if the object is subjected to the heat again, it will return to the original yellow color.
References
Glass art
Glass trademarks and brands
Glass types |
Isaac Santra was an Indian physician, gandhian and social worker, known for his contributions for the eradication of Leprosy from India. The Government of India honoured him in 1956, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation.
Biography
Isaac Santra was born on 3 November 1892 in Sambalpur in the western part of the Indian state of Odisha to a pastor and his wife in a family with meagre financial resources. Going against the wishes of his father who wanted the young Isaac to be pastor, he did his schooling in Sambalpur and joined Shri Ramachandra Bhanj Medical College, Cuttack in 1919 to secure a medical degree. His experience during his medical education and the social stigma associated with the disease of leprosy impacted the young man and he decided to pursue his career treating the disease. Santra started his medical career by joining the Central Government service and headed the Leprosy Survey of India during 1927 to 1931. In 1932, he was selected as a member of the Leprosy Prevention Society of Great Britain and retained the position till his retirement in 1947. He also served on deputation to countries such as Japan and Nigeria during various occasions as Leprosy Expert of the International Leprosy Association. Notes on Leprosy in Japan is a publication he has brought out in 1953, post his service in Japan.
After retirement from government service, Santra tried to gather resources and, by obtaining government assistance, he founded Hatibari Kushtashram, in 1951, later to be known as Hatibari Health Home, in Hatibari, a village near the Jujomura Block[Odisha] states. At a time when Dapsone, a drug for the treatment of leprosy was yet to be formulated, he turned to ancient Indian scriptures such as Sushruta Samhita and came out with a medicine made of chaulmoogra (Hydnocarpus wightianus) and started treating leprosy patients with this drug. The place soon developed into a treatment and rehabilitation centre from where patients cured of the disease will be assisted in reintegration into the mainstream society. He served the Health Home till his death after which the centre was taken over by Hind Kustha Nibarini Sangha (HKNS), and was brought under the jurisdiction of the Government of Odisha.
Isaac Santra was married to Rajkumari Das and one of his sons, Dilip Kumar Santra is also a medical doctor. His eldest son, Prasanta Chitta Santra served in the Indian Air Force and retired as Air Vice Marshall. Dr. Santra died on 29 August 1968, aged 76, succumbing to the injuries sustained during a domestic accident at his home in Sambalpur.
Awards and recognitions
The British Government conferred the title of Rai Saheb on Santra in 1938. The Government of India recognized his services to the society by awarding him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1956. The village of Sambalpur is home to a social institute, Isaac Santra Institute of Social Work and Community Health, named after him. Smile Foundation India, a non governmental organization, has named one of its children's home as Dr. Isaac Santra Balniketan.
See also
Health in India
References
Further reading
Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Indian medical writers
People from Sambalpur district
Social workers from Odisha
Indian leprologists
Indian medical researchers
Medical doctors from Odisha
1892 births
1968 deaths |
```go
package hooks
import (
"context"
dump "github.com/fsamin/go-dump"
"github.com/rockbears/log"
"github.com/ovh/cds/sdk"
)
func (s *Service) doScheduledTaskExecution(ctx context.Context, t *sdk.TaskExecution) (*sdk.WorkflowNodeRunHookEvent, error) {
log.Debug(ctx, "Hooks> Processing scheduled task %s", t.UUID)
// Prepare a struct to send to CDS API
h := sdk.WorkflowNodeRunHookEvent{
WorkflowNodeHookUUID: t.UUID,
}
//Prepare the payload
//Anything can be pushed in the configuration, just avoid sending
payloadValues := map[string]string{}
if payload, ok := t.Config[sdk.Payload]; ok && payload.Value != "{}" {
var payloadInt interface{}
if err := sdk.JSONUnmarshal([]byte(payload.Value), &payloadInt); err == nil {
e := dump.NewDefaultEncoder()
e.Formatters = []dump.KeyFormatterFunc{dump.WithDefaultLowerCaseFormatter()}
e.ExtraFields.DetailedMap = false
e.ExtraFields.DetailedStruct = false
e.ExtraFields.Len = false
e.ExtraFields.Type = false
m1, errm1 := e.ToStringMap(payloadInt)
if errm1 != nil {
log.Error(ctx, "Hooks> doScheduledTaskExecution> Cannot convert payload to map %s", errm1)
} else {
payloadValues = m1
}
payloadValues["payload"] = payload.Value
} else {
log.Error(ctx, "Hooks> doScheduledTaskExecution> Cannot unmarshall payload %s", err)
}
}
for k, v := range t.Config {
switch k {
case sdk.HookConfigProject, sdk.HookConfigWorkflow, sdk.SchedulerModelCron, sdk.SchedulerModelTimezone, sdk.Payload:
default:
payloadValues[k] = v.Value
}
}
payloadValues["cds.triggered_by.username"] = sdk.SchedulerUsername
payloadValues["cds.triggered_by.fullname"] = sdk.SchedulerFullname
h.Payload = payloadValues
return &h, nil
}
``` |
William Chester Goodfellow (born May 25, 1947) is the director of the Afghanistan Peace Campaign, which builds public support for an enduring peace settlement that will end the war, bring U.S. troops home and promote national reconciliation in Afghanistan. Goodfellow has made numerous trips to Kabul to interview Afghan government officials, activists, and academics. In op-ed articles, he has argued that successful implementation of a peace agreement in Afghanistan could serve as a template for resolving other seemingly-intractable conflicts in the Middle East and northern Africa.
Goodfellow was one of the founders of the Center for International Policy (CIP) in 1975 and served as executive director from 1985 to 2017. Goodfellow testified before congressional committees and published op-ed articles in major U.S. newspapers. During the late 1970s, Goodfellow and his colleagues at CIP successfully lobbied for legislation that requires the executive branch to consider a country’s human rights record before providing economic and military aid.(1)
In the 1980s, Goodfellow promoted negotiations to end the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. He worked closely with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and championed the Esquipulas Peace Agreement in the United States. He attended every Central American summit meeting and spoke and published articles about the peace process, which silenced the guns in Central America.(2)
Goodfellow directed Central for International Policy’s Common Defense Campaign to reduce U.S. military spending and change the way America relates to the rest of the world. He was co-chair of the Afghanistan Study Group (2009-2013), which brought together former senior government officials, academics and area specialists. In August 2010, the Afghanistan Study Group issued a report, A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan that urged the Obama administration to seek a negotiated political settlement in Afghanistan.
From 1973 to 1975, Goodfellow was an associate at the Indochina Resource Center, a non-profit think tank staffed by academics and activists who produced scholarly research for the anti-Vietnam War movement. In January 1976, the last U.S ambassador to South Vietnam, Ambassador Graham Martin, went before the House International Relations Committee’s Special Subcommittee on Investigations to explain how the anti-war movement turned the American public against the Vietnam War. Ambassador Martin singled out the Indochina Resource Center, which he called, “an enormously effective organization and I do think that they deserve the compliment that I have paid them”.(3)
Goodfellow spent the last six months of the war in Indochina and was evacuated from both Cambodia and Vietnam in April 1975.
Goodfellow earned his undergraduate degree in political science from Boston University in 1970 and received his Masters from the Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change in 1972. He has been married to Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Dana Priest since 1989.
References
1. William Goodfellow and James Morrell, testimony before the Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Thursday, March 24th, 1977, pp. 200-218.
2. Thomas W. Walker, ed., Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua, Westview Press, 1991, pp. 369-393.
3. Ambassador Graham A. Martin, testimony on the Vietnam-Cambodia Emergency, before the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, January 27, 1976, pp. 556-557.
Center for International Policy Biography
Foreign Policy In Focus Advisory Board
Latin American Working Group Education Fund Board of Directors
Afghanistan Study Group
1947 births
Living people
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American nonprofit executives
Place of birth missing (living people) |
Dichomeris bucinaria is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park in 1996. It is found in Taiwan.
References
Moths described in 1996
bucinaria |
Flatwoods is an unincorporated community in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its ZIP code is 71427.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana |
The White Home in Rock Hill, South Carolina is a historical site & wedding venue. Five generations of the White family lived in the house between 1837 and 2005. Over the years, the home transformed from a one-room cottage into an eighteen-room, two story house. It is located in the Reid Street-North Confederate Avenue Area Historic District.
Early history
The White Home was originally built in 1837, but has undergone extensive renovations and expansions since then. George Pendleton White and Ann Hutchison White purchased the land from Alexander Templeton Black and moved into the original one-room cabin in 1837. They started out with 153 acres of land. George and Ann began to make additions to the one-room cottage soon after their arrival.
After George's death on February 25, 1849, Ann continued making renovations until the cottage became a large two-story home. To sustain herself and her four small children Ann rented rooms to boarders, particularly during the Civil War, who often paid her in furniture as they fled from the approaching Union Army. Ann was also able to afford an 1870s building project because of a considerable inheritance left to her by her older brother, Hiram Hutchison.
Aside from paying boarders, Ann had a room set aside - the "Prophet's Chamber" - for traveling ministers passing through Rock Hill. Ann White was also renowned for her generous participation in the community, including donations to schools and the building of Rock Hill's first Presbyterian Church.
Construction, expansion, and renovation of the White Home
The White Home began as a one-room cottage, which is believed to have been built shortly before the White's obtained the property. There is a separate log cabin behind the house which was later used as a kitchen for the boarding house but does predate the property by a number of years.
After her husband died, Ann White took over management of the family's finances. Due to laws regarding inheritance, she was only authorized to act as a steward for her son. As a result, she was forced to keep meticulous receipts of everything she purchased. These receipts were found preserved in the attic when the White Home was refurbished into a museum. These receipts provide information about what types of supplies Ann White purchased, where she purchased them, and how much they cost.
In 1849, as the house was expanded, a room known as "the Prophet's Chamber" was added on the second floor. This room was specifically set aside to host traveling ministers.
When Ann's brother, Hiram Hutchison, died on October 22, 1856, he left a fortune to Ann. She used this money to make additional expansions to the White Home, as well as some aesthetic changes beginning in 1859. One change was the addition of a front porch in 1859.
Construction of the annex began around 1869 and was finished around 1871. Ann White installed lightning rods on the house in 1870, and gutters were installed in November 1871. The first known photograph of the home was taken in 1872.
The White Home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. The White family owned and lived in the home until 2005, when the house and three acres of surrounding land were purchased by Historic Rock Hill, a society for the preservation and restoration of historic homes in Rock Hill. Historic Rock Hill made extensive renovations to the site from 2006 to 2010 and the site was opened to the public as a museum in 2010.
White family involvement in Rock Hill
The White family was very involved in Rock Hill from the beginning, even before it was incorporated as a town.
The railroad
George Pendleton White was very supportive of bringing the proposed Charlotte to Columbia rail line through Rock Hill. On October 10, 1848, he was issued a contract by the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company. The contract was to excavate and grade part of the railroad.
Rock Hill Academy
Rock Hill's first school opened in September 1854. It was built on land donated by Ann Hutchison White. The land was covered by a pine grove, leading many locals to refer to the school as the Pine Grove Academy instead of by its official name. The school was located approximately 250 yards northeast of the White Home and a half mile from the railroad depot. By 1856 the school had 60 male pupils. Prior to this, students had gone to Ebenezer Academy. In 1856, the Pine Grove Academy for girls was opened as well.
The incorporation of Rock Hill
Rock Hill was not officially incorporated as a town until February 26, 1870. This was the third time local residents had tried to get the town incorporated.
The White family was divided about this decision. Some members of the family, like James Spratt White, were in favor of incorporation. Other members, such as Ann Hutchison White and her son A. H. White, were against incorporation. The White family owned a significant portion of the land that would be incorporated as part of the town; Ann wanted to avoid the extra taxes that would result from incorporation.
In response to the petition from some local residents asking for incorporation, several prominent residents sent a counter-petition against incorporation. Seven people, who owned 4/5th of the land that would become Rock Hill, gave several reasons for opposing incorporation. Among them were opposition to the expense of resurfacing the muddy streets, the lack of any perceived positive benefit to incorporation, fears that incompetent men could find their way onto the town council, and worries that they would be unable to afford the high taxes. The town was incorporated by the state legislature anyway.
Past residents
George Pendleton White (1801-1849)
George Pendleton White was the first owner of the White Home, which is named after his family. George was the son of Hugh White and Elizabeth Spratt White. George was a Scots-Irish Presbyterian. He married Ann Hutchison on December 14, 1837. George was a tailor by trade. He died on February 25, 1849, of pneumonia which he caught while supervising his building crew that was working on preparing for a new railroad line.
Ann Hutchison White (1805-1880)
Ann Hutchison White was born on January 9, 1805. She was one of sixteen children. Her father was David Hutchison; the family lived on a plantation along the Catawba River. David Hutchison was one of the earliest white settlers to move onto Catawba Indian land. One of her brothers was A. E. Hutchison, who was one of the financial backers of the Indian Land Chronicle and joined the Indian Land Agricultural Society when it formed in the 1850s.
Ann Hutchison married George Pendleton White on December 14, 1837; together they were the first owners of the White Home property.
Ann White had a reputation as a "woman of strong conviction and decisive action." In one story, she is said to have put a stop to a "grog shop" being set up near her home by mounting "a mule and after a long journey [she] succeeded in purchasing the entire tract of land, thereby eliminating undesirable neighbors."
During the Civil War, Ann took in refugees fleeing war torn areas. According to various stories, some visitors left behind heavy furniture that they could no longer travel with.
After the Civil War, Ann White sold off pieces of the family's land in order to make money. One customer was Edwin Ruthven Mills who purchased some of her land in 1872. During the Civil War, at the Battle of the Crater, he led Rock Hill's Company E.
Ann White was one of seven people to sign a counter-petition in 1870 that opposed the incorporation of Rock Hill into a town. The seven petitions against incorporation owned four-fifths of the land that would be incorporated into the new town, and thus would have to pay the majority of the taxes. They lost this fight, and the town was official incorporated on February 26, 1870.
Ann White died on June 21, 1880.
Mary Elizabeth White
Mary Elizabeth White was the first child of Ann and George White. She was born on October 28, 1838, at home.
James Spratt White
Son of George and Ann White. James Spratt White served in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. In February 1865, he wrote to his sister Mary about his fears that General Sherman would march into York County, and then his relief when Sherman went in another direction.
Andrew Hutchison White
Son of George and Ann White. After the Civil War, he became an entrepreneur. During the town incorporation battle, he sided with his mother against incorporation. He was one of the seven people to sign a counterpetition in 1870 against incorporation.
Historic Rock Hill
Historic Rock Hill is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which owns, restored, and manages the White Home. Historic Rock Hill's headquarters is also located on the second floor of the building. The mission of Historic Rock Hill is to "preserve and protect the historic resources of Rock Hill, South Carolina and enhance the livability of its historic areas." Historic Rock Hill works to preserve buildings of historical significance to the town of Rock Hill. It also educates the public about Rock Hill's history and collects historic documents, photographs, and personal accounts.
Historic Rock Hill purchased the White Home in 2005 and spent five years restoring the property. Today it features exhibits on the White family and Rock Hill.
Present
Today, The White Home primarily serves as a wedding and event venue. If you're interested in the historical side of things, Historic Rock Hill offers self-guided tours of The White Home by appointment only.
Notes
References
Hildebrand, Jack D. Rock Hill Reflections: An Illustrated History Published by Windsor Publications, Chatsworth, California. 1989.
White, Walter B. with assistance by William B. White Jr., Janet H. Lansford, Barbara A. Kurz, and George E. Jackson. The Heritage of Our People: A Study in Courage: A Historical Background for the Study of the Processes of Local Government Published by Rock Hill School District Number 3, Rock Hill, SC. 1970.
Willoughby, Lynn. The "Good Town" Does Well: Rock Hill, S.C., 1852-2002 Published by Written in Stone, Orangeburg, South Carolina. 2002
External links
The White Home's Website
City of Rock Hill's Website
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1832
Museums in York County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Tourist attractions in York County, South Carolina
History of South Carolina
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Sir Henry Tichborne, 3rd Baronet (c1624 – April 1689) was a Hampshire landowner and Roman Catholic baronet of the later Stuart period.
Early life
He was the son of Sir Richard Tichborne, the second baronet (1578–1657), and Helen, his first wife and the daughter and co-heir of Robert White of Aldershot in Hampshire. He was baptized on 24 May 1624 at Winchester Cathedral. In 1654 in London Henry Tichborne married Mary Arundel (1622–1698), the daughter of Charles Arundell and Mary Browne. His bride was a granddaughter of Thomas, Lord Arundell of Wardour, a Catholic family.
The couple had four sons and five daughters, four of whom died in infancy. These included: Henry Joseph Tichborne, the 4th baronet; John and Charles Tichborne, who both died young; Winifred, who died as an infant; John Hermengil Tichborne, the 5th Baronet; Lettice, who married Henry Whettenhall; Mary, who became a nun; and Frances, who in 1694 married John Paston.
Civil War and after
By the time of the Civil War Tichborne was old enough to fight, which he did on the Royalist side, and Tichborne family tradition identifies a hollow oak tree in which he hid after the Battle of Cheriton in 1644. He is believed to have been captured at sea in 1645 after fighting in Ireland and, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London, he was released in an exchange of prisoners. He succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death in 1657 and inherited his father's considerable debts - said by his father in 1650 to have been £15,000. Henry Tichborne set about restoring the family's fortunes, and by the time of the Restoration in 1660, when he was included in a list of possible recipients of a proposed order of Knights of the Royal Oak, he had restored his income to about £1,000 a year.
The Popish Plot
However, as prominent Catholics, he and his family came under suspicion as a result of the fictitious Popish Plot in 1678, and that year his house was besieged by a mob. Various allegations were made of strange behaviour in the Tichborne family chapel resulting in the Privy Council ordering that the chapel be searched for concealed weapons. Further, he was named by Titus Oates as having received a commission in a Catholic army supposedly being assembled by Pope Innocent XI. He was arrested and held in Winchester Castle together with the family priest before being imprisoned again in the Tower. Having recently visited Rome his friends were concerned that this might not look good and they burned his papers, including the history of the Tichborne family he had been writing. However, the situation calmed and he was released on bail in 1680.
Later years
Charles II made him Lieutenant-General of the New Forest, while James II repaid Tichborne's loyalty by appointing him Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (1687–1689). He was on the Commission of Peace for Hampshire in 1688 as part of James II's plan to appoint magistrates who would be tolerant of Catholics. However, Tichborne was probably already ill by this time and died in 1689 after, according to a letter of 1690: "a great while lingering, and doubtless made a happy end … knowing now so long that he was to dye". He was buried in St Peter's church in Tichborne in Hampshire.
He was succeeded as 4th Baronet by his son Henry Joseph Tichborne.
The Tichborne Dole
In recent years Sir Henry Tichborne has come to more prominent notice owing to his commission of and inclusion in the painting 'The Tichborne Dole' (1670) (right) by the Flemish artist Gillis van Tilborch after it was displayed in the 'Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in 1985. The 'Tichborne Dole' is a traditional English festival of charity which is held in the village of Tichborne, Hampshire, during the Feast of the Annunciation. The festival is centred on the handing out of donations of flour, which have been blessed by the local parish priest, from the front of Tichborne House.
The festival dates back to circa 1150 and was started by Lady Mabella Tichborne who, on her death bed, instructed that a donation of farm produce be made to the poor each year. Presently, the terms of the Dole stipulate that adults from the parishes of Tichborne and Cheriton are entitled to claim 1 gallon of flour, and children half a gallon each.
The painting 'The Tichborne Dole' depicts Sir Henry and his family together with his servants and family priest during the annual distribution of bread to the poor of Tichborne in Hampshire, probably in 1670/71. The portrait features Sir Henry and his family standing centre left in front of Tichborne House and it was perhaps intended to proclaim Sir Henry's successful rebuilding of the family fortunes after being left heavily in debt by his father, Sir Richard Tichborne, the 2nd Baronet as well as displaying the deeply religious family's attitude towards charity. The painting has been described as '...a document of social history [that] has no peer'. However, considering the trouble Sir Henry suffered as a result of his Catholic faith perhaps instead the painting should be viewed less in the context of a 'document of stark realism' than as a reminder of the social hierarchy of the time, and in particular of that of the place of the Catholic landed gentry in society.
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Artie Green is a former basketball player in the United States. Artie Green is from the Soundview area of Bronx, NY. He played at Taft High School (Bronx), and had the nickname "Jumping" Artie Green. He was also known as high jumping Artie Green. His last nickname was Artie Grasshopper Green. He was well known for his dunking ability. Artie also was famous for playing at the Rucker Park. https://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/men_s_basketball/artie_green
Basketball career
In the NBA draft, Green was picked in the 10th round with the 221 overall pick. Artie was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks. Artie was a 6'1 point guard. In college, he played at Marquette University. He played in the year 1980 for them.
References
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African-American basketball players
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Celluloide is a 1996 Italian historical drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani from a screenplay by Furio Scarpelli, Ugo Pirro and Lizzani, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Pirro. It stars Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Anna Falchi, and Lina Sastri.
Plot
The story revolves around the difficult production of Roberto Rossellini's film Rome, Open City (1945).
Cast
Giancarlo Giannini as Sergio Amidei
Massimo Ghini as Roberto Rossellini
Anna Falchi as Maria Michi
Lina Sastri as Anna Magnani
Massimo Dapporto as Giuseppe Amato
Antonello Fassari as Aldo Fabrizi
Milva as The Countess
Christopher Walken as US Officer Rod E. Geiger
Massimo Ciavarro as Massimo Serato
Francesca Ventura as Jone Tuzi, the script supervisor
Francesco Siciliano as Federico Fellini
Giuliano Montaldo has an uncredited cameo as Civalleri, one of the film's early financers.
Production
The film was a passion project of Lizzani's, who tried to get it financed since 1983. Sabrina Ferilli was originally chosen to play Magnani, but ended up refusing. Principal photography began on 8 May 1995 in Rome.
Accolades
References
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1996 films
1990s historical drama films
Italian historical drama films
1990s Italian-language films
Films about films
Films shot in Rome
Films set in Rome
Films set in 1944
Films directed by Carlo Lizzani
Roberto Rossellini
Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro
1990s Italian films |
Marta Fernández Martín (born 23 August 1966) is a Spanish politician of the party Vox.
Biography
Born in Zaragoza, Aragon, Fernández graduated with a law degree from the University of Zaragoza and worked as a lawyer for four years. After one year as an administrative assistant at Ibercaja Banco, she was in charge of human resources at Osca Gas between 1999 and 2019.
Fernández was one of three deputies elected to the Cortes of Aragon for Vox in the 2019 election. In 2023, the party increased to seven seats and she was installed as the president of the Cortes (speaker) after an agreement with the ruling People's Party. She was the second woman in the office, after Violeta Barba.
Fernández disabled her previous social media accounts after becoming president. She said that this was because the previous account was for her as a politician, while her new account represents an institution. She had previously used social media to criticise COVID-19 measures, deny climate change, attack prime minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez as a "communist dictator" and say that Irene Montero only knows how to "get down on her knees".
References
1966 births
Living people
People from Zaragoza
University of Zaragoza alumni
21st-century Spanish lawyers
Spanish women lawyers
Vox (political party) politicians
Members of the Cortes of Aragon
Presidents of the Cortes of Aragon
21st-century women lawyers |
Neurodevelopmentalist may refer to:
A person in the field of pediatric neuropsychology
A person in the field of pediatric psychiatry
a person certified by the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Association to practice techniques based on the Bobath concept
a person certified by the National Academy of Child Development or the International Christian Association of Neurodevelopmentalists to practice certain kinds of techniques based on psychomotor patterning |
Napaeus barquini is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.
Endemic fauna of the Canary Islands
Distribution
This species is endemic to La Gomera in the Canary Islands.
Ecology
Napaeus barquini lives on open rocks.
Napaeus barquini actively adds lichens to its shell as a camouflage.
References
Enidae
Gastropods described in 2006 |
Active Network, LLC, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that provides software as a service for activity and participant management. ACTIVE's management software supports a range of clients including: races, nonprofits, outdoor activities, camps, sports, schools, and universities.
History
ACTIVE was founded in 1998 by Jim Woodman under the name of Active USA as an information source for recreational athletes looking for regional sports information. In December 1999, ActiveUSA and Racegate merged in a deal that brought TicketMaster City Search as a major investor and the combined entity became headquartered in La Jolla, Calif.
ACTIVE underwent a round of mergers and acquisitions in 1999 and 2000 with companies including: LeagueLink, Inc, Eteamz and Sierra Digital (RecWare).
On May 25, 2011, ACTIVE went public at $15 per share under the ticker symbol “ACTV” and completed its initial public offering two days later.
On September 30, 2013, ACTIVE announced it was to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.05 billion, completing the sale on November 15 of the same year, at which time the company's president, Darko Dejanovic, was named CEO.
Following its acquisition, ACTIVE moved its corporate headquarters from San Diego to Dallas.
In March 2015, ACTIVE launched ACTIVEkids.com, a site focused on kid specific events and activities. Following the launch of ACTIVEkids.com, ACTIVE announced a new data insights platform, Activity Cloud, to provide business intelligence to event organizers in May 2015.
In September 2017, Global Payments Inc. completed the acquisition of ACTIVE's communities and sports divisions.
Products
Current
ACTIVE.com – Online race and activity registration portal
ACTIVEkids.com – Online kids events and activity registration portal
IPICO Sports – Race timing chip systems (Purchased February 2015)
Activity Cloud – Data insights for event organizers (Launched May 2015)
ActiveWorks Endurance – Online race management and marketing
ActiveWorks Camps & Class Manager – Online camp management software
ActiveWorks Hy-Tek – Online swim team and meet management software
ActiveNet – Facility and program management software
LeagueOne – League management software
TeamPages – Sports websites for teams and leagues
JumpForward – Collegiate athlete recruiting management (Purchased May 2016)
Maximum Solutions – Recreation management (Purchased January 2017)
Thriva – Online registration software and marketing
RegCenter – Online registration management
Former
ActiveWorks Outdoors – Online campground, hunting and fishing, marina, venue, lodging and golf management (Vista Equity retained ownership during the Global Payments Inc. acquisition of ACTIVE)
FellowshipOne – Church management software (Sold to Ministry Brands in March 2016)
ServiceU – Event, giving and ticketing management (Sold to Ministry Brands in March 2016)
ActiveGolf – Software for online tee time booking and golf operations. (Sold to GolfNow in October 2014)
Acquisitions
ReserveAmerica
ACTIVE purchased ReserveAmerica from IAC in 2009 to extend their offerings to campground booking services. ACTIVE traded 3.5 million shares of convertible preferred stock in ACTIVE as part of the deal, giving IAC a nine percent holding in the company. ReserveAmerica provides reservations for campgrounds at state and national parks as well as reservation services for the Army Corps of Engineers, federal campgrounds and privately operated campgrounds.
StarCite
In 2012, ACTIVE purchased StarCite, a strategic meetings management technology, and created the Business Solutions group. In February 2014, the division was spun off and merged with Lanyon, a hospitality travel company, into Lanyon.
IPICO Sports
Philip Lockwood founded Mercury Sports Group (MSG) in 2003 with the goal to revolutionize race timing. At the same time, IPICO Inc. was working on their RFID technology in South Africa while looking for ways to expand into the global market. After working together to build technology for sports applications, MSG was acquired by IPICO Inc. to form IPICO Sports in 2008 following the shipment of the first Elite Reader kit in March 2007. In 2009, IPICO won Frost & Sullivan's North American RFID Sports Technology Leadership of the Year Award. In 2015, IPICO Sports was acquired by event management and registration company ACTIVE Network, LLC.
IPICO race timing chips have been used to track a variety of sporting events, including the Main Cross Country Festival of Champions. Additionally, the BolderBOULDER worked with IPICO Sports and End Result starting in 2007, tracking times for over 53,000 participants in the 2009 race. IPICO also teamed up with End Result on the 2008 Ironman World Championship, among other races.
In addition to running races and triathlons, other events utilize IPICO's sport timing. One example is the American Birkebeiner cross country skiing event.
ACTIVE acquired IPICO Sports in February 2015.
JumpForward
In May 2016, ACTIVE acquired JumpForward, a provider for NCAA recruiting, compliance, and business office management.
Maximum Solutions
In January 2017, ACTIVE acquired recreation management software provider Maximum Solutions.
Hacking incident
In August 2016, a computer breach of Active Network's system that processes online hunting and fishing license sales was announced. Several million records containing personal information of persons with Oregon, Idaho and Washington state licenses were exposed.
Controversies
Active Network was charged by the Alameda County District Attorney in 2016 for violating California consumer protection laws. The complaint alleges Active Network enrolled consumers into a free trial of their product Active Advantage without disclosing sufficient information that it would become a paid subscription without cancellation. The matter was settled with Active Network agreeing to pay $2.7 million in civil penalties and setting aside $1 million in restitution payments for the approximately 100,000 California consumers who were enrolled between 2010 and 2013.
References
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Flann Mainistrech (died 25 November 1056) was an Irish poet and historian.
Flann was the son of Echthigern mac Óengusso, who had been lector at the monastery of Monasterboice (modern County Louth), in Irish Mainistir Buite, whence Flann's byname, meaning "of Monasterboice". He belonged to the Ciannachta Breg, a kindred which, by the turn of the first millennium controlled Monasterboice, providing its abbots and other notables. Flann himself was also fer légind (lit. 'man of textual study', i.e. lector, head of a monastic school) there, as was his father. His son, also called Echthigern (d. 1067), would become superior () of Monasterboice.
Flann's earliest datable works are from the years following the battle of Clontarf (1014), when Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill of the Uí Néill resumed his reign as High King of Ireland (1014-1022). These are and , which together comprise an Uí Néill-orientated history of the kingship of Tara. Among his other poems, some apparently composed much later in his life, , deals with Clann Cholmáin, to which Máel Sechnaill belonged, while Mugain ingen Choncraid chain and Síl nÁedo Sláine na sleg both deal with the neighbouring Uí Néill kindred of Síl nÁedo Sláine, sometime overlords over Ciannachta Breg. Flann is also attributed a series of five poems on the kings and martial history of the northern Uí Néill kingdom of Cenél nÉogain and on the legendary origins of Cenél nÉogain's fortress at Ailech.
A number of Flann's poems appear in the Lebor Gabála Érenn—the Book of the Invasion of Ireland—and his works on the Tuatha Dé Danann were influential, while a couple concern world history or themes from classical literature. The most influential was Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim, a lengthy metrical history of the world kings of Eusebian tradition which appears to be related to Bede's Chronica Maiora. During the early modern era, Flann became known as the author of a number of prose synchronistic tracts. While the tracts are authentically medieval, non-circumstantial evidence for Flann's involvement is lacking. Some of these tracts set Irish history within universal history, in the tradition of the Eusebius-Jerome Chronicon. Another presents lists of Irish and Scottish kings arranged to show contemporaries, which is an important source for the early history of Scotland, whether or not Flann is taken as its author.
Despite its mysterious origins, the idea that Flann authored synchronistic material has had a big impact on his subsequent interpretation by scholars. For example, Eoin MacNeill considered Flann to be the first of the synthetic historians; his supposed synthesis of biblical history and foreign world chronicles with Irish annals, myths, and genealogical records was to be much emulated by subsequent writers. More generally, Francis John Byrne has stated that he "...was the leading light among the 'synthetic historians' who shaped what was to remain the official history till the seventeenth century and beyond..." and that "...it was largely on his [Flann's] authority that the official doctrine of the monopoly of the high-kingship by the Uí Néill from the time of St Patrick to the usurpation of Brian became accepted, even by the Munster Annals of Inisfallen." Considering his verse histories of Tara and of various Uí Néill kingdoms, Dauvit Broun has placed Flann within a central medieval historiographical movement towards promoting kingdoms over dynasties as political units; his interest in noting kings' causes of death, for instance, is to do with stressing the "institutional longevity of a kingship in contrast with the mortality of kings."
Flann himself died on 25 November 1056, the date supplied by the Annals of Tigernach. The Annals of Ulster call him "eminent lector and master of the historical lore of Ireland". A quatrain on Flann appears in an anonymous poem on the episcopal court of Áed úa Forréid (bishop of Armagh, 1032–1056), composed between 1032 and 1042; it provides a brief but probably near-contemporary thumbnail sketch of the man.
"Flann, from the famous church of sweet-voiced Buite.
Slow the glance of the eye in his gentle head.
He is a magic mead scholar who imbibes ale.
Final scholar of the three Finns’ land is Flann".
Notes
References
Year of birth unknown
1056 deaths
11th-century Irish historians
11th-century Irish poets
Irish Christian monks
Irish scribes
Medieval European scribes
Irish male poets
Irish-language writers |
```objective-c
/*
Ticker.h - esp32 library that calls functions periodically
Based on the original work of:
The original version is part of the esp8266 core for Arduino environment.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
This library 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 GNU
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
#ifndef TICKER_H
#define TICKER_H
extern "C" {
#include "esp_timer.h"
}
#include <functional>
class Ticker {
public:
Ticker();
~Ticker();
typedef void (*callback_with_arg_t)(void *);
typedef std::function<void(void)> callback_function_t;
void attach(float seconds, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(1000000ULL * seconds, true, _static_callback, this);
}
void attach_ms(uint64_t milliseconds, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(1000ULL * milliseconds, true, _static_callback, this);
}
void attach_us(uint64_t micros, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(micros, true, _static_callback, this);
}
template<typename TArg> void attach(float seconds, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
// C-cast serves two purposes:
// static_cast for smaller integer types,
// reinterpret_cast + const_cast for pointer types
_attach_us(1000000ULL * seconds, true, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
template<typename TArg> void attach_ms(uint64_t milliseconds, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
_attach_us(1000ULL * milliseconds, true, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
template<typename TArg> void attach_us(uint64_t micros, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
_attach_us(micros, true, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
void once(float seconds, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(1000000ULL * seconds, false, _static_callback, this);
}
void once_ms(uint64_t milliseconds, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(1000ULL * milliseconds, false, _static_callback, this);
}
void once_us(uint64_t micros, callback_function_t callback) {
_callback_function = std::move(callback);
_attach_us(micros, false, _static_callback, this);
}
template<typename TArg> void once(float seconds, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
_attach_us(1000000ULL * seconds, false, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
template<typename TArg> void once_ms(uint64_t milliseconds, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
_attach_us(1000ULL * milliseconds, false, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
template<typename TArg> void once_us(uint64_t micros, void (*callback)(TArg), TArg arg) {
static_assert(sizeof(TArg) <= sizeof(void *), "attach() callback argument size must be <= sizeof(void*)");
_attach_us(micros, false, reinterpret_cast<callback_with_arg_t>(callback), reinterpret_cast<void *>(arg));
}
void detach();
bool active() const;
protected:
static void _static_callback(void *arg);
callback_function_t _callback_function = nullptr;
esp_timer_handle_t _timer;
private:
void _attach_us(uint64_t micros, bool repeat, callback_with_arg_t callback, void *arg);
};
#endif // TICKER_H
``` |
NAKS or Naks may refer to:
NAKS (Na Afrikan Kulturu fu Sranan), a social and cultural organization
North American Kant Society
NikNaks (South African snack), a brand of corn extruded snack produced by the Simba Chip company in South Africa
Nik Naks (British snack), a brand of corn extruded snack produced by KP Snacks in the United Kingdom
See also
Nak (disambiguation) |
Beverly Hills Pawn is an American TV show filmed in Beverly Hills, California.
Description
It is filmed in The Dina Collection pawn shop owned by Yossi Dina who appears on the show along with his employees Aria, Cory, and manager Dominique.
Location
The Dina Collection is a high-end pawn shop catering to the upper class clients in Beverly Hills. Along with handling jewelry, The Dina Collection also deals in Hollywood memorabilia. The show is frequented by many mostly-former celebrities.
References
External links
The Futon Critic
Official website of The Dina Collection
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings |
Stephen Douglas Watkins (born July 19, 1978) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball and the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
Career
Watkins was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 16th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft and made his major league debut on August 21, 2004. In , he played in the Cleveland Indians organization and in the Washington Nationals organization in . In , with the Padres' Triple-A affiliate, the Portland Beavers, he went 2-5 with a 5.17 ERA and 56 strikeouts. In , he pitched for the Chinatrust Whales in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League.
External links
1978 births
American expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
Living people
Baseball players from Texas
Major League Baseball pitchers
San Diego Padres players
Fort Wayne Wizards players
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes players
Lake Elsinore Storm players
Mobile BayBears players
Portland Beavers players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
New Orleans Zephyrs players
Chinatrust Whales players
Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball players
Lubbock Christian Chaparrals baseball players |
Dafydd is a Welsh masculine given name, related to David, and more rarely a surname. People so named include:
Given name
Medieval era
Ordered chronologically
Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (c. 1145–1203), Prince of Gwynedd
Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1238–1283), Prince of Wales
Dafydd Goch, said to be the illegitimate son of Dafydd ap Gruffydd
Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320–c. 1350/1370), Welsh poet
Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1215–1246), Prince of Gwynedd and first Prince of Wales
Dafydd ap Dafydd ap Llywelyn (born between 1240 and 1246-?), illegitimate son of Dafydd ap Llywelyn
Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd (fl. 1340–1390), Welsh poet
Dafydd Benfras (fl. 1230–1260), Welsh court poet
Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (died 1371), Welsh poet, grammarian and cleric
Dafydd Gam (1380–1415), Welsh soldier and nobleman who died at the Battle of Agincourt
Dafydd ab Ieuan or David Holbache (died 1422/3), Welsh politician
Dafydd Gorlech (c. 1410-c. 1490), Welsh poet
Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn) (fl. c.1400–c.1490), Welsh poet
Dafydd Nanmor (fl. 1450–1490), Welsh poet
Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–1497), Welsh poet
Modern era
Dafydd Trystan Davies (born 1974), Welsh academic and politician
Dafydd Elis-Thomas (born 1946), Welsh politician
Dafydd Hewitt (born 1985), Welsh retired rugby union player
Dafydd Howells (born 1995), Wales rugby union player
Dafydd ab Hugh (born 1960), American science fiction author born David Friedman
Dafydd Ieuan (born 1969), Welsh musician and producer
Dafydd Ifans (born 1949), Welsh novelist and translator
Dafydd James (born 1975), Wales retired rugby union player
David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) (1751–1827), Welsh poet
Dafydd Iwan (born 1943), Welsh folk singer and politician
Dafydd Jones (disambiguation)
David Edward Lewis (1866–1941), Welsh businessman and philanthropist
Dafydd Llywelyn (1939–2013), Welsh composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Dafydd Elystan Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan (1932–2021), Welsh politician
Dafydd Rogers (born 1969), West End and Broadway theatre producer
Dafydd Rowlands (1931–2001), Welsh Congregational minister, lecturer, writer and poet
Dafydd Stephens (1942–2012), Welsh audiological physician and professor
Dafydd Wigley (born 1943), Welsh politician
Dafydd Williams (born 1954), Canadian physician and retired astronaut
Surname
Catrin Dafydd, Welsh writer, winner of the Crown at the 2018 National Eisteddfod
Einir Dafydd, Welsh singer who won the third series of the television talent show Wawffactor and the 2007 Cân i Gymru competition
Fflur Dafydd (born 1978), Welsh novelist, singer-songwriter and musician
Guto Dafydd (born c. 1990), Welsh writer
Myrddin ap Dafydd (born 1956), Welsh editor and prifardd (Chief Bard)
See also
Dewi (disambiguation)
David (name)
Welsh masculine given names
Welsh given names |
Pramila S Bhatt (née Korikar) (born 16 September 1969, in Bangalore, Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer.
Career
She played Women's Test cricket (5 matches between 1991 and 1996) and ODI cricket for India (22 matches between 1993 and 1998). She captained the Indian team in 1 Test match and 7 ODI matches. An all-rounder, she played most of her ODI innings in the middle order and bowled right arm offspin. Her tenure as captain is best remembered for the tied-ODI match against New Zealand in the 1997/98 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Personal life
She currently lives in Abu Dhabi with her husband, Sarangan Venugopalan and her two sons, Siddanth and Sanjith.
References
1969 births
Living people
India women One Day International cricketers
India women Test cricketers
Indian women cricketers
Cricketers from Bangalore
Sportswomen from Karnataka
Air India women cricketers
Indian women cricket captains |
```java
/*
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*/
package org.apache.shardingsphere.test.it.sql.parser.internal.cases.parser.jaxb.statement.ddl;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.test.it.sql.parser.internal.cases.parser.jaxb.SQLParserTestCase;
/**
* Drop domain statement test case.
*/
public final class DropDomainStatementTestCase extends SQLParserTestCase {
}
``` |
Neil Amwin Treharne Adcock (8 March 1931 – 6 January 2013) was a South African international cricketer who played in 26 Test matches. A tall aggressive fast bowler, he could lift the ball sharply off a length. He was the first South African fast bowler to take 100 Test wickets.
Life
Adcock was born on 8 March 1931 in Sea Point, Cape Town. He made his Test debut in 1953 at home against New Zealand, after only nine first-class games. He finished the series with 24 wickets, including 8 for 87 in his second Test (total for both innings).
Adcock was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1961. The previous year in South Africa's tour of England he took 26 wickets in the Tests and 108 wickets in total at an average of 14. In doing so he became the only fast bowler to take more than 100 wickets in a tour of England. It was a controversial tour with his bowling partner Geoff Griffin being no-balled for throwing.
After retiring from cricket he became a radio commentator and worked in the travel industry. Neil Adcock was survived by his wife Maureen, his children from his first marriage to Diana (née Devine) Adcock, daughter Susan Dance, his son Alan and three grandchildren.
References
External links
1931 births
2013 deaths
Gauteng cricketers
KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
South Africa Test cricketers
South African cricketers
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
International Cavaliers cricketers
Deaths from cancer in South Africa
South African cricket commentators |
The Davison Home is a Victorian structure built between 1895 and 1897 by Frank B. Davison (1855-1935), a pioneer of Texas City, Texas, and his wife Florence Grace Haven. It is currently operated as a museum by the Texas City Museum with the help of the Texas City Historical Association in the city originally known as Shoal Point.
Built with cypress wood, the structure has survived multiple storms over more than 115 years and was damaged the most during the 1947 Texas City disaster after a chemical explosion.
The structure has been home to several generations of Davison family members. Texas City Mayor Emmett F. Lowry dedicated it as a city landmark in January 1974, according to historical markers on the property, which is now the centerpiece of the Texas City Heritage Park. It housed the first child born in Texas City, and was the first home with telephone service in the early 1900s.
The Davison family includes hundreds of members living mostly in Texas and extending as far away as Puerto Rico, whose past Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor, Kenneth Davison McClintock, is Frank B. Davison's great-grandson.
References
Texas City, Texas |
Matthew 1:19 is the nineteenth verse of the first chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is part of the description of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. In the previous verse, Joseph has found Mary to be pregnant, and in this verse he considers leaving her.
Content
The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads:
ιωσηφ δε ο ανηρ αυτης δικαιος ων και μη θελων αυτην
δειγματισαι εβουληθη λαθρα απολυσαι αυτην
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to
make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
The New International Version translates the passage as:
Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law,
and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 1:19.
Analysis
That this verse refers to Joseph as Mary's husband does not conflict or mean a change in circumstances from Matthew 1:18, where he is merely her betrothed. The betrothal of the period was a formal arrangement and the couple can reasonably be considered husband and wife while betrothed.
Exactly what this verse means by Joseph being a "just man" is much discussed. The Greek term is dikaios, and it has variously been translated as just, righteous, upright, and of good character. Brown outlines three basic interpretations. Most of the ancient commentators of the Bible interpreted it as meaning that Joseph was law-abiding, and as such decided to divorce Mary in keeping with Mosaic Law when he found her pregnant by another. However, his righteousness was tempered by mercy and he thus kept the affair private. A second view, first put forward by Clement of Alexandria, is held by most modern Christians. This view sees Joseph's righteousness, not in his rigid adherence to the laws, but rather in his mercy itself. By this view the decision to ensure Mary was not shamed was not an exception to Joseph's righteousness, but the proof of it. By this view mercy is more righteous than obedience. A third view is based on the idea that Joseph already knew that Mary's child was divinely conceived. This is in keeping with the Gospel of Luke in which Mary is quickly told how she became pregnant. By this interpretation, Joseph's righteousness is his great piety that leads him to quickly accept Mary's story and his desire not to intrude with God's plan for his new wife.
Some scholars have tried to do away with the disquieting word divorce in this verse, and most older translations did so. Since Joseph has just been described as righteous having him consider a divorce could imply that divorce is righteous. Especially in the 19th century, a number of scholars tried to read alternate meanings into the term. One proposal was that it merely meant separate: that the couple would split but that legally they would remain married. However recent discoveries have found that legal avenues for divorce existed at the time in question. One of the clearest pieces of evidence is a divorce record from 111 AD, coincidentally between a couple named Mary and Joseph, that was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Greek word here translated as divorce is aphiemi, and the only other time it appears is in 1 Corinthians 7:11 where Paul uses it to describe the legal separation of a man and wife. Almost all modern translators today feel that divorce is the best word. Today, versions that do not use the word divorce do so for doctrinaire reasons. This verse also provides one of the main scriptural justifications for divorce for churches that accept the practice. Since the marriage in question was never consummated, the divorce Joseph was contemplating does not violate the beliefs of churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church, who reject divorce.
What the verse means by privately is also open to discussion. Rabbinic law from the period gives two methods of divorce for reason of adultery. One was to bring the matter to the village council, which would hold a hearing and, if the allegations were proved, grant a divorce. The second method was to have the evidence presented and approved by two witnesses who would then certify the divorce. By quietly most scholars believe the verse means that Joseph would take the second option. Gundry argues that the witnesses were necessary to prevent a woman from denying that the divorce had taken place. Gundry believes that by quietly the verse means that even the witnesses would be forgone and the separation would be an entirely private affair.
Commentary from the Church Fathers
Chrysostom: The Evangelist having said that she was found with child of the Holy Ghost, and without knowledge of man, that you should not herein suspect Christ's disciple of inventing wonders in honour of his Master, brings forward Joseph confirming the history by his own share in it; Now Joseph her husband, being a just man.
Pseudo-Augustine: Joseph, understanding that Mary was with child, is perplexed that it should be thus with her whom he had received from the temple of the Lord, and had not yet known, and resolved within himself, saying, What shall I do? Shall I proclaim it, or shall I overlook it? If I proclaim it, I am indeed not consenting to the adultery; but I am running into the guilt of cruelty, for by Moses’ law she must be stoned. If I overlook it, I am consenting to the crime, and take my portion with the adulterers. Since then it is an evil to overlook the thing, and worse to proclaim the adultery, I will put her away from being my wife.
Ambrose: St. Matthew has beautifully taught how a righteous man ought to act, who has detected his wife's disgrace; so as at once to keep himself guiltless of her blood, and yet pure from her defilements; therefore it is he says, Being a just man. Thus is preserved throughout in Joseph the gracious character of a righteous man, that his testimony may be the more approved; for, the tongue of the just speaketh the judgment of truth.
Jerome: But how is Joseph thus called just, when he is ready to hide his wife's sin? For the Law enacts, that not only the doers of evil, but they who are privy to any evil done, shall be held to be guilty.
Chrysostom: But it should be known, that just here is used to denote one who is in all things virtuous. For there is a particular justice, namely, the being free from covetousness; and another universal virtue, in which sense Scripture generally uses the word justice. Therefore, being just, that is kind, merciful, he was minded to put away privily her who according to the Law was liable not only to dismissal, but to death. But Joseph remitted both, as though living above the Law. For as the sun lightens up the world, before he shews his rays, so Christ before He was born caused many wonders to be seen.
Augustine: Otherwise; if you alone have knowledge of a sin that any has committed against you, and desire to accuse him thereof before men, you do not herein correct, but rather betray him. But Joseph, being a just man, with great mercy spared his wife, in this great crime of which he suspected her. The seeming certainty of her unchastity tormented him, and yet because he alone knew of it, he was willing not to publish it, but to send her away privily; seeking rather the benefit than the punishment of the sinner.
Jerome: Or this may be considered a testimony to Mary, that Joseph, confident in her purity, and wondering at what had happened, covered in silence that mystery which he could not explain.
Rabanus Maurus: He beheld her to be with child, whom he knew to be chaste; and because he had read, There shall come a Rod out of the stem of Jesse, (Is. 11:1.) of which he knew that Mary was comes, and had also read, Behold, a virgin shall conceive, (Is. 7:14.) he did not doubt that this prophecy should be fulfilled in her.
Origen: But if he had no suspicion of her, how could he be a just man, and yet seek to put her away, being immaculate? He sought, to put her away, because he saw in her a great sacrament, to approach which he thought himself unworthy.
Glossa Ordinaria: Or, in seeking to put her away, he was just; in that he sought it privily, is shown his mercy, defending her from disgrace; Being a just man, he was minded to put her away; and being unwilling to expose her in public, and so to disgrace her, he sought to do it privily.
Ambrose: But as no one puts away what he has not received; in that he was minded to put her away, he admits to have received her.
Glossa Ordinaria: Or, being unwilling to bring her home to his house to live with him forever, he was minded to put her away privily; that is, to change the time of their marriage. For that is true virtue, when neither mercy is observed without justice, nor justice without mercy; both which vanish when severed one from the other. Or he was just because of his faith, in that he believed that Christ should be born of a virgin; wherefore he wished to humble himself before so great a favour.
See also
Christian views on divorce
References
01:19
Divorce
Nativity of Jesus in the New Testament |
James Blackwood Pearson (May 7, 1920January 13, 2009) was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1962 to 1978.
Biography
James Pearson was born in 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist minister. With his parents, he moved to Virginia in 1934 and attended public school. He went on to attend college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. During the Second World War he interrupted his schooling to serve as a pilot in the air transport service of the United States Navy, flying DC3's across country (1943–1946), and was discharged as a lieutenant.
Pearson's legislative accomplishments included the "National Weather Modification Policy Act," which authorizes a member of the cabinet to "negotiate an International agreement concerning the peaceful uses of weather modification." It was written into public law October 13, 1976.
Stationed at the Olathe Naval Air Station in Kansas, Pearson met and married the former Martha Mitchell. Pearson graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1950. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Mission, Kansas. Pearson served as Assistant County Attorney of Johnson County, Kansas, from 1952 to 1954; County Probate Judge from 1954 to 1956; and was elected to the State Senate, where he served from 1956 to 1960. He did not seek reelection but returned to the practice of law. Pearson campaigned with Attorney General John Anderson for governor in 1960. Anderson was elected and Pearson became the state GOP chairman. On January 31, 1962, Anderson appointed Pearson to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew F. Schoeppel. Pearson was elected on November 6, 1962, in a special election for the term ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966 for a full six-year term, and again in 1972.
Pearson initially voted regularly with the leadership of his party, opposing Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs. However Pearson moderated his positions with time. Following the Kent State shooting in 1970, Pearson shifted his position to oppose the bombing of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In the Senate he became known for working with colleagues across the political aisle.
When a group of senators led by Walter Mondale of Minnesota set out to change the filibuster rule, which had been used to block civil rights legislation, they asked Pearson to join them. Together they reduced the number of votes required to end debate from 67 to 60. Pearson voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pearson's other legislative accomplishments came as a member of the Commerce Committee, where he was the ranking minority member of its aviation subcommittee. Those successes included the creation of the airport/airways trust fund, which allowed for the expansion of the nation's airports and air traffic system, and the deregulation of "new" natural gas, which brought increased production of that clean-burning fuel.
Pearson collaborated with Senator Howard Cannon, D-Nevada, and others, on the former legislation and Senators Russell Long, D-Louisiana, and Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, on the latter.
Pearson and Democrat Fred Harris of Oklahoma introduced the first major legislation with economic incentives for rural development. With Democrat Phil Hart of Michigan, Pearson sponsored the first major campaign reform legislation following World War II. Pearson was an early supporter of consumer protection legislation.
Pearson was a member of the Wednesday Club, a group of moderate and liberal Republican senators who met for lunch to discuss issues. He opposed President Richard Nixon on several Cold War issues, but voted with the president on the Safeguard anti-missile program, which narrowly passed the Senate. The president and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, took that program to Moscow and negotiated the abolition of such systems.
Back in Kansas, Pearson was considered by some conservatives as not "Republican enough." He dealt with this criticism by providing strong constituent service and championing Kansas interests, especially the aviation, oil and gas, and cattle industries. Pearson braved this criticism by introducing his University of Virginia Law School classmate, Robert F. Kennedy, at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University just days after Kennedy had announced he would run for president. On the podium, smiling, Pearson wished Kennedy a long, successful career in the Senate.
Following his reelection in 1972, Pearson was appointed by Nixon as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. He retired from the Senate in 1978 and was again named by the Senate to the U. N. delegation. Pearson was succeeded by Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker.
After retiring from the Senate, Pearson and his second wife, the former Margaret Lynch, traveled frequently to Japan and Southeast Asia. Pearson served as a member of the Board of Governors of the East–West Center based in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 1983 to 1991. He and former Senator Ribicoff were selected by the Senate to co-chair a commission to study the structure and procedures of the Senate. After leaving the Senate Pearson had a relationship with the Washington, D. C. office of the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Lieby and MacRae.
A fellowship program named for Pearson allows foreign service officers to work temporarily in other branches of government, including state and local, to learn more about domestic politics. In Kansas, a Pearson Fellowship helps graduates of public universities study abroad. The U.S. Post Office in Prairie Village, Pearson's home town, was named the James B. Pearson Post Office in 2004.
Pearson's children include three sons, James, William, and Thomas, and a daughter, Laura.
Pearson served from January 31, 1962, until his resignation on December 23, 1978. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1978.
Pearson died on January 13, 2009, at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts at the age of 88.
As of 2021, Pearson is the last U.S. Senator from Kansas from the Kansas City metropolitan area, even though Johnson County has the state's largest population.
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Myrica faya (firetree, faya or haya; syn. Morella faya (Ait.) Wilbur) is a species of Myrica, native to Macaronesia (the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands), and possibly also western coastal mainland Portugal.
Description
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree tall, rarely up to tall. The leaves are usually a dark, glossy green, long and broad, with an entire margin and a bluntly pointed apex. It easily grows in any type of soil.
It is subdioecious, with the male and female flowers produced largely on separate plants, but often with a few flowers of the other sex present (Binggeli 1997). The male flowers have four stamens and are normally produced in clumps close to the branch. The female flowers, usually occurring in similar groups grow slightly farther from the branch tips. The fruit is an edible drupe diameter, it is a reddish purple ripening dark purple to black. It is used as an astringent remedy for catarrh (Pérez 1999, Rushforth 1999).
Distribution
In Macaronesian islands it occurs most abundantly at altitudes of 600–900 m. The population in Continental Portugal may be native or naturalised following early importation from Madeira or the Azores (Rushforth 1999). It is an invasive species in Hawaii (Vitousek et al. 1987), where it displaces native trees such as Metrosideros polymorpha, with profound impacts on nitrogen cycling (Vitousek & Walker 1989).
References
Binggeli, P. (1997). Myrica faya. University of Bangor.
Pérez, M. Á. C. (1999). Native Flora of the Canary Islands. .
Rushforth, K. D. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. .
Flora Europaea: Myrica faya
University of Hawaii: Myrica faya native habitats
University of Hawaii: Myrica faya as an invasive species in Hawaii
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Flora of the Azores
Flora of Madeira
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