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Piero Campelli (; 20 December 1893 – 20 October 1946) was an Italian amateur footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he played for Inter, while he competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics with the Italy national football team.
Club career
Campelli was born in Milan. He spent his entire club career with Inter, making 179 league appearances for the club between 1910 and 1925, and winning two Serie A titles in 1910 and 1920.
International career
At international level, Campelli was the goalkeeper of the Italian Olympic squad in 1912 and played one match in the main tournament as well as two matches in the consolation tournament. He later also took part at the 1920 Summer Olympics with Italy. He made a total of 11 international appearances for Italy between 1912 and 1921.
Style of play
Regarded as a precocious talent in his youth, Campelli was known in particular for his handling of the ball, and was one of the first goalkeepers in Italy to attempt to catch shots or come off his line to claim crosses rather than palming or punching them away, thus contributing to the development and popularisation of this particular goalkeeping technique.
Honours
Inter
Serie A: 1909–10, 1919–20
References
External links
Inter profile
FIGC profile
1893 births
Italian men's footballers
Serie A players
Inter Milan players
Italy men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Italy
Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
1946 deaths
Men's association football goalkeepers
Footballers from Milan |
The Lost Bridegroom a 1916 American silent comedy film produced by Adolph Zukor starring John Barrymore. Appearing alongside Barrymore in this film is his first wife Katherine Corri Harris. It was based on the short story titled "The Man Who Was Lost" by Willard Mack with James Kirkwood as its director. The film had the alternative title His Lost Self and was rereleased by Paramount on April 17, 1919 as part of their "Success Series", a celebration of some of the company's early screen triumphs. Though it obviously still existed by 1919, it is a lost silent film today.
Production
Director James Kirkwood later stated that Barrymore was binge drinking during the making of this film, and spent a large amount of time downing drinks in a saloon. These delays caused the production to drag (thus costs go up), so Kirkwood went down to the saloon and 'motioned' to Barrymore to either return to work or that he would sling the actor over his shoulders and carry him back to the set to finish filming.
Cast
John Barrymore as Bertie Joyce
Katherine Corri Harris as Dorothy Hardin (credited as Katherine Harris Barrymore)
Ida Darling as Mrs. Amelia Hardin
June Dale as Madge McQuirk
Hardee Kirkland as Black McQuirk
Eddie Sturgis as Slim Denny (credited as Edward Sturgis)
John T. Dillon as Crook
Tammany Young as Crook
Fred Williams
Uncredited
James Kirkwood
William Sherwood
See also
John Barrymore filmography
References
External links
Pictorial History of the Silent Screen; still of Barrymore and a canine who appeared in the film
1916 films
American silent feature films
Films based on short fiction
Lost American comedy films
Films directed by James Kirkwood Sr.
1916 comedy films
American black-and-white films
Silent American comedy films
1910s American films |
The 2019 Nigerian Senate election in Kebbi State was held on February 23, 2019, to elect members of the Nigerian Senate to represent Kebbi State. Bala Ibn Na'allah representing Kebbi South, Adamu Aliero representing Kebbi Central and Abdullahi Abubakar Yahaya representing Kebbi North all won on the platform of All Progressives Congress.
Overview
Summary
Results
Kebbi South
A total of 9 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. APC candidate Bala Ibn Na'allah won the election, defeating PDP candidate, Benjamin Ezra Dikki and 7 other party candidates. Na'allah scored 136,287 votes, while PDP candidate Dikki scored 62,733 votes.
Kebbi Central
A total of 24 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. APC candidate Adamu Aliero won the election, defeating PDP candidate Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar and 22 other party candidates. Aliero pulled 232,000 votes, while PDP candidate Abubakar scored 75,638.
Kebbi North
A total of 15 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. APC candidate Abdullahi Abubakar Yahaya won the election, defeating PDP candidate, Usman Bello Suru. Yahaya pulled 170,624 votes while his closest rival Suru pulled 66,815 votes.
References
Kebbi State senatorial elections
Kebbi State Senate elections |
Noticieros Televisa, also branded as N+ since 2022 following the split of Grupo Televisa with the formation of TelevisaUnivision, is the news service of Tritón Communicaciones, which produces national and local television news bulletins for TelevisaUnivision's Mexican networks.
It was headed by Leopoldo Gómez, the Vice President of News for Televisa since 1998 to 2021.
History
1998-2016: the launch of Noticieros Televisa
After Emilio Azcárraga Jean took over as President of Televisa in April 1997, one of his first moves was to rebuild and restructure the news department and give a more contemporary, stand-alone image; Leopoldo Gómez, an executive close to Azcárraga, was named vice-president of News. The changes became far-ranging, and the biggest casualty would be 24 Horas, Jacobo Zabludovsky's long-running newscast, long regarded as a mouthpiece of the government. As part of the changes, Zabludovsky retired from the anchor desk, whilst remaining on Televisa as an anchor of special reports.
The new executives then began working on its successor programs, all named El Noticiero; which debuted on January 20, 1998. Guillermo Ortega, then anchor of morning newscast Al Despertar, was tapped to succeed Zabludovsky in the main 10 p.m. edition; Jacobo Zabludovsky's son, Abraham Zabludovsky, would stay as anchor of the afternoon edition. Gómez would also name Federico Wilkins as executive producer of the newscasts; Wilkins, a Cuban-born producer, had become criticized for its tabloid, aggressive and lurid approach to news over at rival TV Azteca, which led Hechos to beat 24 Horas for a time. Wilkins changed completely the style of Televisa's newscasts, doing away with the image of government mouthpiece, but taking the same tabloid approach of its main competitor; this style would help Televisa regain the traditional leadership in the ratings, with TV Azteca still offering stiff competition.
Other notable personalities who have hosted Televisa newscasts over the years include Lolita Ayala, Guillermo Ortega, Adela Micha, Carlos Loret de Mola and Víctor Trujillo ("Brozo").
In 2003, the division moved into a new newsroom in a newly built expansion of Televisa's Chapultepec headquarters, designed and built by Broadcast Design International in Los Angeles. The space centralized all operations of the division, including studios for the newscasts, into a single space.
2016-2022: relaunch
As part of wide-ranging changes to Televisa's content offerings, on August 22, 2016, all Noticieros Televisa offerings were completely revamped. As part of the changes, Televisa's flagship 10 p.m. newscast began to be anchored by Denise Maerker; additionally, the running time was shortened from 60 to 30 minutes, to allow for a faster and punchier format. Morning newscast Primero Noticias was replaced by three distinct programs: Las Noticias, an early round-up broadcast anchored by Danielle Dithurbide, Despierta, a longer-form, investigative journalism and opinion-focused broadcast anchored by Carlos Loret de Mola, and Al Aire, a lighter news magazine show with Paola Rojas. Lolita Ayala's newscast was replaced by El Noticiero con Karla Iberia Sánchez, whose running time was also reduced to 30 minutes.
Additionally, a completely rebuilt newsroom studio, designed in-house, and an increased reliance on social media and long-form reporting were pursued as part of the new concept; the division would also collaborate with Televisa's premium drama division Televisa Alternative Originals to co-produce historically themed series, the first of which was An Unknown Enemy, co-produced for Amazon Prime Video. Initially, the new programs received strong criticism from specialized media analysts, and suffered from low ratings from the inception; the fake news controversy surrounding its coverage of the 2017 Mexico City earthquake didn't help matters, causing ratings to dip into record lows and helping TV Azteca and new rival Imagen Televisión to threaten Televisa in the lead; over time, the format would return to a more traditional style, causing ratings to increase and stabilize.
2022-present: N+
In early 2022, in anticipation of the formation of TelevisaUnivision and to conform regulatory issues, the Grupo Televisa was effectively split into three companies: Televisa, which continues to be listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange, would retain its shares in Izzi Telecom, Sky México and publishing businesses, and broadcast licenses to operate free-to-air TV stations across Mexico; Mexico-based content production businesses, the operation of four national free-to-air television networks in Mexico and specialty TV channels, and the "Televisa" trademark itself, would be combined with Univision Communications in the United States to form TelevisaUnivision, 45% of which would be owned by Televisa; and Tritón Comunicaciones, which would take responsibility of national and local news operations for TelevisaUnivision's Mexican domestic free-to-air TV networks.
On March 28, 2022, the new consumer-facing brand, N+, was unveiled, which serves as the overarching brand for all operations of the division, including Noticieros Televisa. As part of the relaunch, the company announced ramping up the production of digital original content, including the full launch of N+ Media, a streaming news channel offering separate programming aimed at a younger audience, available on the company's website and through TelevisaUnivision's Vix streaming service. As part of the brand launch, all of Televisa's news programs, including those aired on Foro and by Televisa's regional and local stations, adopted a single corporate image, giving a common style across local and national television news.
Programs
National newscasts
Most of Televisa's national newscasts air on its Las Estrellas network, covering key dayparts. Since 2016, Televisa's flagship 10 p.m. newscast, known as 10 En Punto, has been helmed by Denise Maerker. Its other weekday programs include Despierta (Wake Up), hosted by Danielle Dithurbide, and Al Aire with Paola Rojas in the mornings. The afternoon newscast El Noticiero con Karla Iberia Sánchez was moved from Las Estrellas to Nu9ve in 2018; it is that channel's only regular news program. The move left Las Estrellas without an afternoon newscast for the first time in decades.
Foro
In 2010, Televisa launched ForoTV, a channel devoted exclusively to news, analysis and documentary programming. Now simply known as Foro, it airs in Mexico City on XHTV-TDT (channel 4) and as a subchannel of 21 additional Televisa transmitters in large cities.
Regional newscasts
Outside of its national news output, Televisa produces local news at each of its Televisa Regional stations; local newscasts, under such titles as El Noticiero, Las Noticias and Notivisa.
References
External links
of the legacy Noticieros Televisa service
of N+
Televisa
1998 establishments in Mexico
Television news in Mexico |
Moanda or Muanda is a town and territory lying on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the mouth of the Congo River. It is situated in Kongo Central Province, and has a population of 90,812 as of 2012. The town has an airport and is known for its beaches, and has a few limited tourist facilities, but tourism is incidental to the main economic activities of the town.
The town of Muanda is north-west of the small port of Banana in the mouth of the Congo, and southeast of Point Kipundji. The Moanda Oil Terminal, consisting of various platforms, pipelines and a permanent tanker, lies 10 miles southwest of Point Kipundji. Some 100 km upstream from Muanda, on the north bank of the Congo River, lies the city of Boma, DR Congo's second-largest port. The great width and depth of the Congo River allow seagoing vessels to reach Boma and the largest port, Matadi, despite their distance from the coast.
Climate
The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies Moanda‘s climate as tropical wet and dry (Aw), although it is only marginally wet enough to avoid being classed as a hot semi-arid climate (BSh).
See also
Mangroves National Park
References
External links
Description of Muanda (French) (English Translation)
Populated places in Kongo Central
Communities on the Congo River |
Howard Sylvester Lohr (June 3, 1892 – June 9, 1977) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for two seasons. He played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1914 and the Cleveland Indians in 1916.
External links
1892 births
1977 deaths
Major League Baseball outfielders
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players |
Tignes-les-Brevières (1550m) is a small skiing village in the French Alps that is the lowest point of the ski resort of Tignes.
Owing to its geographical location the village receives as much snowfall as its neighbours and during the 2005/6 season, Les Brevieres had over 4 metres of snow. The town is connected to other parts of Tignes after ski runs shut by a continuously operating gondola.
Overview
Les Brevieres is a traditional village and is much more picturesque than the other villages that make up the resort of Tignes. It has grown in size in recent years and now offers many more facilities whilst still retaining its charm. It is also considerably cheaper to stay in than either Val d'Isère or Tignes.
The skiing area between Tignes and Val d'Isère is marketed as L'Espace Killy, after the 1968 (Winter) Olympic gold medalist, Jean-Claude Killy.
Tignes offers 39 ski lifts: 1 funiculaire, 1 cable car, 3 gondola lifts, 21 chairlifts, 13 drag lifts – an area of 150 km2 of ski runs – 80 ski trails: 6 green, 38 blue, 20 red, 16 black – a maximum vertical distance of 1900 metres from the Grande Motte (3450 metres) to Les Brévières (1550 metres).
The ski season is very long in Espace Killy with the lifts opening around December 1 and closing after the May Bank Holiday around May 6–8. Skiing down to Brevieres is usually very good late season due to the extensive use of snow cannons on the runs to the village.
There is a nursery slope with a free drag lift.
Connections to the rest of the Espace Killy are fast via a gondola then a chair. It takes about 20 minutes on the lifts, followed by one piste into Tignes Le Lac. Alternative routes are available, either 3 chairs up and the same piste down, or one chair to Tignes les Boisses followed by a free bus up to Tignes. Returning to Tignes les Brevieres requires just one chair lift (Chaudannes) which takes 6 minutes from Tignes le Lac.
Village facilities include:
3 ski shops
ESF ski school
small supermarket
tabac
cash point
9 bars & restaurants
Accommodation:
in recent years new development has substantially increased the pool of chalet and apartment accommodation
References
Tourist attractions in Savoie
Ski areas and resorts in France |
```scala
// THIS FILE IS AUTO-GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT
package ai.verta.swagger._public.modeldb.model
import scala.util.Try
import net.liftweb.json._
import ai.verta.swagger._public.modeldb.model.JobStatusEnumJobStatus._
import ai.verta.swagger._public.modeldb.model.JobTypeEnumJobType._
import ai.verta.swagger._public.modeldb.model.ProtobufNullValue._
import ai.verta.swagger._public.modeldb.model.ValueTypeEnumValueType._
import ai.verta.swagger.client.objects._
case class ModeldbDeleteJobResponse (
status: Option[Boolean] = None
) extends BaseSwagger {
def toJson(): JValue = ModeldbDeleteJobResponse.toJson(this)
}
object ModeldbDeleteJobResponse {
def toJson(obj: ModeldbDeleteJobResponse): JObject = {
new JObject(
List[Option[JField]](
obj.status.map(x => JField("status", JBool(x)))
).flatMap(x => x match {
case Some(y) => List(y)
case None => Nil
})
)
}
def fromJson(value: JValue): ModeldbDeleteJobResponse =
value match {
case JObject(fields) => {
val fieldsMap = fields.map(f => (f.name, f.value)).toMap
ModeldbDeleteJobResponse(
// TODO: handle required
status = fieldsMap.get("status").map(JsonConverter.fromJsonBoolean)
)
}
case _ => throw new IllegalArgumentException(s"unknown type ${value.getClass.toString}")
}
}
``` |
Michael Isor Roth (born 1946), an American accountant and lawyer who served as the former chairman and chief executive of the Interpublic Group of Companies and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
Early life
Roth grew up in Brooklyn where his father was a lawyer and his mother was a bookkeeper. Roth received an undergraduate degree in accounting from the City College of New York after received his Juris Doctor from Boston University Law School and a masters of law from New York University Law School.
Career
A certified public accountant and lawyer, he began working for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand (today known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) after leaving school. After making partner there at age 30, he later joined the American Can Company, which became Primerica Corporation, a financial services company with some insurance operations where he was an executive vice president and chief financial officer. He left when the company was sold to Sanford Weill's Commercial Credit in 1988.
MONY
In 1988, Roth joined the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York as their chief financial officer. In 1990, he was named president and chief operating officer succeeding James B. Farley, who continued as chairman and chief executive. In September 2003, AXA Financial, Inc. announced a takeover offer of $1.5 billion for MONY Group of New York, which Roth supported but some of its largest shareholder's, including Highfields Capital Management, Third Avenue Management, Southeastern Asset Management and Advisory Research, immediately objected to as being too low. The offer was accepted by shareholders in May 2004, and on July 8, 2004, MONY became a wholly owned subsidiaries of European insurer, allowing AXA to become "the fourth-largest seller of variable annuities in the United States and the largest seller of variable life insurance."
As part of the takeover, Roth stood "to receive as much as $23.3 million, including payments for vested stock options". Additionally, Mony's president and CEO, Samuel J. Foti (who joined the company in 1988 from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), may get as much as $16.4 million; the chief investment officer, Kenneth M. Levine (who joined MONY in 1972), as much as $12.7 million; and the chief financial officer, Richard Daddario, as much as $9.13 million.
Interpublic
In January 2005, Roth became chief executive officer and co-chairman of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) in New York, succeeding David A. Bell. Roth had previously joined the Interpubic board in February 2002. Notably, "Interpublic had to restate earnings downward by $181.3 million, because of accounting irregularities that first emerged in August 2002." Upon Bell's retirement in 2006, he became sole chairman. In October 2020, IPG announced that Phillippe Krakowsky would be succeeding Roth as the company's CEO on January 1, 2021. Roth retired from the company and the Board of Directors on December 31, 2021.
Today, he serves as chairman of the technology company Pitney Bowes, where he has been a director since 1995.
Personal life
Roth lives with his wife in Pound Ridge, New York. They are the parents of Andrew Evan Roth, a lawyer who married Sarra Jill Cooper, a daughter of Dr. Robert A. Cooper, in 2006.
References
1946 births
Living people
City College of New York alumni
Boston University alumni
New York University alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
American chief executives of financial services companies |
Gymkhana are social and sporting clubs in India and other Asian countries.
Gymkhana may also refer to:
Gymkhana (equestrian), an equestrian competition
Gymkhana (motorsport), an event also known as "car rodeo"
Gymkhana (motorcycle), a motorcycle time trial around cones on a paved area |
Colleen V. Chien (born September 10, 1973) is an American attorney and academic working as a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches, mentors students, and conducts cross-disciplinary research on innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system, with a focus on how technology, data, and innovation can be harnessed to achieve their potential for social benefit.
Early life, education, and early career
Chien was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in engineering from Stanford University, followed by a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Before becoming a professor, she worked as an attorney at the Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West and as an investigative journalist with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar.
Career
From 2013 to 2015, she served as a senior advisor for intellectual property and innovation to Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer, in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In that role, her projects included transferring green technology out of the federal government, using technology to improve education outcomes, making more federal government data available, open education resources, and technology cooperation with China.
Chien is best known for her patent scholarship, especially her work on patent “trolls” or patent assertion entities (PAEs). She coined the term PAE in a 2010 law review article, and many lawmakers subsequently adopted the term. She has published empirical studies on how patent litigation impacts startups and venture capitalists, and she has been a vocal proponent of reforming the patent system.
Chien founded the Paper Prisons initiative, which draws attention to the tens of millions of Americans unable to access employment, housing, voting, and resentencing opportunities available under the law, due to their past involvement with the criminal justice system. This project is based on her 2020 Michigan Law Review paper, America's Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap.
Chien has also worked on patent quality issues, including testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In 2020, Chien was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the Department of Commerce.
Other activism projects she has been involved with include ActLocal and Wall of Us.
Awards
In 2017, the American Law Institute awarded her the "Young Scholar Medal," given every-other-year to "one or two outstanding early-career law professors." ALI said:
Other recognition she has received:
In 2017, the California State Bar's IP Section designated her as an "IP Vanguard" (in the academic category).
In 2013, Managing Intellectual Property magazine named her one of the "Top 50 IP Thought Leaders in the World" and said that her work has "led the debate in the US [on patent trolls] and been behind many of the recent proposals for reform."
In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Eric Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award by the Board of the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF)
In 2013, she was named a Silicon Valley “Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, which called her "one of the most quotable and frequently consulted commentators on the patent system" and said she is "a leader in the national community of intellectual property scholars."
References
Living people
American legal scholars
Santa Clara University School of Law faculty
American people of Taiwanese descent
American women lawyers
American lawyers
1973 births
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
Stanford University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
```kotlin
package kotlinx.coroutines.internal
import kotlinx.coroutines.testing.*
import kotlinx.atomicfu.*
import kotlinx.coroutines.*
import kotlinx.coroutines.debug.internal.*
import org.junit.Test
import kotlin.concurrent.*
import kotlin.test.*
/**
* Concurrent test for [ConcurrentWeakMap] that tests put/get/remove from concurrent threads and is
* arranged so that concurrent rehashing is also happening.
*/
class ConcurrentWeakMapOperationStressTest : TestBase() {
private val nThreads = 10
private val batchSize = 1000
private val nSeconds = 3 * stressTestMultiplier
private val count = atomic(0L)
private val stop = atomic(false)
private data class Key(val i: Long)
@Test
fun testOperations() {
// We don't create queue here, because concurrent operations are enough to make it clean itself
val m = ConcurrentWeakMap<Key, Long>()
val threads = Array(nThreads) { index ->
thread(start = false, name = "ConcurrentWeakMapOperationStressTest-$index") {
var generationOffset = 0L
while (!stop.value) {
val kvs = (generationOffset + batchSize * index until generationOffset + batchSize * (index + 1))
.associateBy({ Key(it) }, { it * it })
generationOffset += batchSize * nThreads
for ((k, v) in kvs) {
assertEquals(null, m.put(k, v))
}
for ((k, v) in kvs) {
assertEquals(v, m[k])
}
for ((k, v) in kvs) {
assertEquals(v, m.remove(k))
}
for ((k, _) in kvs) {
assertEquals(null, m[k])
}
count.incrementAndGet()
}
}
}
val uncaughtExceptionHandler = Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler { t, ex ->
ex.printStackTrace()
error("Error in thread $t", ex)
}
threads.forEach { it.uncaughtExceptionHandler = uncaughtExceptionHandler }
threads.forEach { it.start() }
var lastCount = -1L
for (sec in 1..nSeconds) {
Thread.sleep(1000)
val count = count.value
println("$sec: done $count batches")
assertTrue(count > lastCount) // ensure progress
lastCount = count
}
stop.value = true
threads.forEach { it.join() }
assertEquals(0, m.size, "Unexpected map state: $m")
}
}
``` |
Sir Charles Kemeys, 3rd Baronet (died December 1702) was a Welsh landowner in the late 17th century and early 18th century in south Wales and MP for both Monmouthshire and Monmouth Boroughs.
He was a student at Wadham College, Oxford. His father Sir Charles Kemeys, 2nd Baronet, died in 1658.
Sir Charles Kemeys was MP for Monmouthshire between 1685 and 1687, High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1689 and then returned again as MP for Monmouthshire between 1695 and 1698 and MP for Monmouth Borough from 1690 to 1695.
He was also Governor of Cardiff Castle in 1702 and died in the December of that year.
His son, another Charles Kemeys (born 23 November 1688) became the 4th Baronet. He in turn was MP for Monmouthshire 1713-1715 and MP for Glamorgan 1716-1734 but died in 1735 without issue and the baronetcy became extinct.
His daughter, Jane Kemeys, had married in 1704 Sir John Tynte of Halswell House, Somerset.
References
1702 deaths
Welsh landowners
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
High Sheriffs of Glamorgan
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales
English MPs 1685–1687
English MPs 1690–1695
English MPs 1695–1698
Year of birth missing |
The Anglican Bishop of Santiago is a bishop in the Anglican communion, the head of the Anglican Diocese of Santiago within the Anglican Church of Chile. Until 2018, the bishop and diocese were "of Chile", in the Anglican Church of South America.
The diocese was founded in 1963 from the Diocese of the Falkland Islands.
The diocesan seat is the Santiago Community Church in Santiago. The incumbent diocesan bishop is Tito Zavala (born 1954), who was appointed in 2000.
In November 2018, the former Chile diocese become a province in its own right, subdivided into four new dioceses (Santiago, Valparaiso, Temuco, and Conception); Zavala remained in post, as his See and Diocese were renamed Santiago, and he was additionally elected inaugural metropolitan bishop and Primate/Presiding Bishop of the province.
Bishops
Kenneth Walter Howell (4 February 190915 September 1995) was a British-born Anglican bishop who served as the first bishop of the diocese. He was deaconed in Advent 1933 (17 December) and priested the next Advent (23 December 1934) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey on 18 October 1963. He later served as an Assistant Bishop of London.
List of bishops
1963–1971: Kenneth Howell, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
1969–1977: Colin Bazley, assistant bishop for Cautin & Malleco (until 1975), then for the Santiago region
1970–1972: David Pytches, assistant bishop for the Valparaíso region
1972–1976: David Pytches, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
1977–2000: Colin Bazley, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru (until October 1977), of Chile and Bolivia (until October 1981), and of Chile alone
12 June 19942018: Abelino Apeleo, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan Bishop of Temuco)
1998–2000: Tito Zavala, bishop coadjutor (succeeded as diocesan)
1 January 2000present: Tito Zavala (Chile until 2018, Santiago since)
19 March 2016present: Nelson Ojeda, auxiliary bishop
19 March 2016present: Alfred Cooper, auxiliary bishop
15 July 20182018: Enrique Lago, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan Bishop of Concepción)
15 July 20182018: Samuel Morrison, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan Bishop of Valparaíso)
References
External links
Official website |
Henry Richter may refer to:
Henry Constantine Richter (1821–1902), zoological illustrator
Henry James Richter (1772–1857), artist and philosopher
Henry Richter (bishop) (1838–1916), German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church |
JotterPad is a text editor app for Android, developed by Two App Studio. It is proprietary software that uses the freemium pricing strategy.
Features
Jotterpad supports the markdown and fountain markup languages. Among its features are themes, synchronisation with Google Drive and Dropbox, dictionary and thesaurus, and snapshots.
JotterPad uses a freemium pricing model, which means that a restricted version of the app is offered for free, while access to additional functionality requires payment. About half of the features are available in the free version. Whereas the synchronisation feature was originally limited to one account, in Jotterpad 12 the option to synchronise using multiple accounts was added as a monthly subscription service.
References
Mobile applications |
Investment AB Öresund is a Swedish investment company controlled by Mats Qviberg and Sven Hagströmer. Larger holdings in 2018 were Fabege, Bilia, Scandi Standard and Catena Media.
History
The original company was founded in 1890 as Sjöförsäkringsaktiebolaget Öresund. In 1956 the company was reorganised and AB Sjö-Öresund became the main company in a group of insurance companies. In 1961 these subsidiaries were sold to Skandia. Skandia paid in cash and in shares. Thus, the company became an investment company and was renamed Investment AB Öresund. It was listed on the stock exchange in 1962.
Under Hagströmer and Qviberg
In 1993, Öresund was taken over by Sven Hagströmer and Mats Qviberg. They had started building a group of companies around Hagströmer & Qviberg. Öresund became their weapon in an assault on a number of Swedish companies, including AB Custos. Many more traditionalist Swedish businessmen were upset by the success of the two businessmen. Percy Barnevik served on the board of directors of Custos at the time when Öresund started acquiring shares, and he was bitterly upset with their actions.
Listed holdings
Öresund's largest holdings are real estate company Fabege (previously known as Wihlborgs, 16% of Öresund's portfolio), Nobia and major Volvo retailer Bilia (both 10%). Other large holdings include shares of Investor AB (5%), Alfa Laval (3%) and of course Hagströmer & Qviberg (5%).
In total the company controls almost 8 billion krona worth of stock.
Organisation and ownership
Sven Hagströmer is the chairman and largest shareholder with 18% of the shares. Meanwhile, Qviberg serves as chief executive officer and owns 13% of Öresund. Despite its name, alluding to the Öresund Region, the company is based in Stockholm.
References
Financial services companies established in 1961
Investment companies of Sweden
Companies based in Stockholm |
Dioptis cheledonis is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1893. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
References
Moths described in 1893
Notodontidae of South America |
Konstantin Yuryevich Surikov (Russian: Константин Юрьевич Суриков), is a Russian politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ingushetia. He was 48 at the time.
Biography
Surikov is a graduate of Tomsk State University and a candidate of economic sciences. He also studied at the Academy of National Economy under the President of Russia and Samara State University of Economics.
He worked as an adviser to the chairman of the board of LLC CB Soyuzny and LLC CB Stolichny Credit.
He has held various positions in the bodies of the Central Bank of Russia, such as Branch Manager for the Samara Region of the Volga-Vyatka State Department of the Bank of Russia. In 2014, he was the Head of the Central Bank of Russia Department for the Samara Oblast.
From 2018 to 2019, he was an Assistant Advisor to the Head of Ingushetia.
On 9 September 2019, Surikov became the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ingushetia. He was 48 at the time. He was dismissed on 27 January 2020 for unknown reasons and was replaced by Vladimir Slastyonin.
Since January 2020, he became an Advisor to the Head of Ingushetia on investment policy at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ingushetia in Moscow.
Family
He is married and has two children.
References
Living people
Russian politicians
Tomsk State University alumni
Samara State University
Ingushetia
Central Bank of Russia
Year of birth missing (living people) |
The14th Destroyer Flotilla, or Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla, was a naval formation of the British Royal Navy from April 1916 to 11 February 1919 and again from 1 June 1940 to January 1944.
History
World War One
The flotilla was first established in April 1916 and operated with the Grand Fleet until November 1918. It was disbanded on 11 February 1919.
Second World War
The flotilla was reformed 1 January 1940 allocated to the Mediterranean Fleet until 28 January 1943. It was part of Force C at the Battle of Cape Matapan, 27 to 29 March 1941. The Flotilla was engaged at Battle of the Tarigo Convoy on 16 April 1941. It took part in the Second Battle of Sirte, (22 March 1942). It was next transferred to the Levant Command then at Alexandria until 2 July 1943. Reassigned back to the Mediterranean Fleet 1 October 1943. It was next operating with Force H where it remained until January 1944 then was de-established.
Operational deployments
Administration
Captains (D) afloat 14th Destroyer Flotilla
Incomplete list of post holders included:
References
Sources
DiGiulian, Tony. "Orders of Battle - Battle of Cape Matapan - Battles of the Mediterranean - World War II - NavWeaps". www.navweaps.com.
Grehan, John; Mace, Martin (2014). The War at Sea in the Mediterranean 1940-1944. Barnsley, England: Pen and Sword. .
Harley, Simon; Lovell, Tony. (2018) "Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy) - The Dreadnought Project". www.dreadnoughtproject.org. Harley and Lovell, 29 May 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
Houterman, J.N. "Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - M". www.unithistories.com. Houterman and Kloppes.
Titterton, G. A. (2002). The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean: November 1940-December 1941. London, England: Psychology Press. .
Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, World War One 1914-1918". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith.
Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation in World War 2, 1939-1945". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith.
Willmott, H. P. (2009). The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 1: From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894–1922. Bloomington, IN, USA: Indiana University Press. .
Destroyer flotillas of the Royal Navy
Military units and formations established in 1916
Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 |
Marrtown is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.
References
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Wood County, West Virginia |
Ivan Levaï (; born 18 March 1937) is a French journalist. He has occupied many positions in radio, television and press journalism. For several years he presented the review of the press in the morning news show on France Inter radio. As of 2011 he presents a press review on France Inter on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
He was the first husband of Anne Sinclair with whom he has two sons.
Works
And why not? : morality and business / François Michelin; an interview with Ivan Levaï and Yves Messarovitch ; translated by Marc Sebanc. c2003. French edition: Et pourquoi pas? / François Michelin ; avec Ivan Levaï et Yves Messarovitch. 1998.
La république des mots: de Mendès France à Chirac, dans les allées du pouvoir c2001.
La Résistance en France. 1998
La Seconde guerre mondiale : histoire parallèle ; La Résistance en France : une épopée de la liberté. 1997.
Vous devriez mettre une cravate bleue : politiques et médias: il faut tout changer!. 2002
References
1937 births
Living people
Writers from Budapest
French Jews
French male journalists
French people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
French radio journalists
French radio presenters
Hungarian emigrants to France
Hungarian Jews |
The , formerly (until March 2015) known as the , is a Japanese funicular line operated by the Sarakurayama Tozan Railway Company. The line climbs Mount Sarakura in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka. The company is fully owned by the city of Kitakyūshū. It opened in 1957.
The company also operates . It links the funicular terminus and the top of the mountain.
Basic data
Distance:
Gauge: .
Stations: 2
Vertical interval: .
See also
Mount Sarakura
List of funicular railways
List of railway companies in Japan
List of railway lines in Japan
References
External links
Funicular railways in Japan
Rail transport in Fukuoka Prefecture
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
1957 establishments in Japan |
Jon Gallagher (born 23 February 1996) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club Austin FC. He can also play as a right-back or midfielder.
Early life
Born in Dundalk in Ireland, growing up Gallagher also spent time in the United States, Jamaica, Singapore and England. While moving around, Gallagher played with Beachside SC in Connecticut, Home United in Singapore and England Schoolboys in England. He also spent time on trial with the likes of Juventus, Marseille, Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers.
Gallagher played four years of college soccer at the University of Notre Dame between 2014 and 2017. In his senior year, he was named USC Second Team All-American, USC First Team All-South Region, First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference, and Atlantic Coast Conference All-Tournament Team. Overall, Gallagher scored 39 goals and tallied 15 assists in 84 appearances for the Fighting Irish.
Club career
Ahead of the 2018 Major League Soccer season, it was announced that Gallagher had signed a contract with Major League Soccer, making him eligible for the 2018 MLS SuperDraft. On 19 January 2018, Gallagher was selected 14th overall in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft by Atlanta United.
Gallagher made his professional debut on 24 March 2018, scoring two goals for Atlanta's United Soccer League affiliate side in a 3–1 win over New York Red Bulls II.
Gallagher was loaned to Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen from Atlanta United on 22 June 2019. The loan was initially for the remainder of the 2019 MLS season, but was subsequently extended to the end of the 2019–20 Scottish season. He played in 31 matches in all competitions for Aberdeen and scored his only goal against Rangers in a 2–2 draw on 4 December 2019.
Gallagher returned to play with the Atlanta United first team in the middle of the 2020 Season, where he made 16 total appearances and registered 4 goals.
Gallagher was traded to Austin FC in exchange for $225,000 in General Allocation Money on 13 December 2020, ahead of Austin's inaugural season in 2021.
Gallagher scored the first ever goal at Q2 Stadium for Austin FC on July 1, 2021. In 2022, he transitioned from winger to right-back and became a first team regular in this position. He scored his only goal of 2022 in a 4–3 comeback win against Sporting Kansas City.
In early 2023, Gallagher signed a four-year deal with Austin FC, keeping him at the club through 2026. He scored the team’s second goal of the 2023 season in a 3–2 loss against St. Louis, coming off the bench. On June 27, 2023 it was announced that Gallgher was being recognized for his strong season, which include 5 goals and 3 assists, by being named to the 2023 MLS All-Star Game.
Career statistics
Honours
Individaual
MLS All-Star: 2023
References
External links
Notre Dame Profile
1996 births
Living people
Men's association football forwards
Association footballers from County Louth
Atlanta United FC draft picks
Atlanta United FC players
Atlanta United 2 players
Austin FC players
Irish emigrants to the United States
Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer players
Sportspeople from Dundalk
Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Republic of Ireland expatriate men's association footballers
Soccer players from Connecticut
USL Championship players
Aberdeen F.C. players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Major League Soccer players |
Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR were held on 27 February 1955. The Bloc of Communists and Non-Party Candidates was the only party able to contest the elections, and won all 125 seats.
Results
See also
List of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1955–1959
References
Estonia
Single-candidate elections
One-party elections
1955 in Estonia
Parliamentary elections in Estonia
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic |
Events from the year 1850 in art.
Events
Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.
Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.
Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.
Works
Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave
Oswald Achenbach – Evening in the Campagna
Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen – The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
Théodore Chassériau – Othello and Desdemona in Venice
Charles Allston Collins – Berengaria's Alarm
James Collinson
Answering the Emigrant's Letter
The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Une Matinée
Gustave Courbet
A Burial At Ornans
The Stone Breakers
Hippolyte Delaroche – Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
William Maw Egley – Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
Emmanuel Frémiet
Wounded Bear
Wounded Dog
J. W. Glass -
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
Horatio Greenough – The Rescue (statue)
Francesco Hayez
The Meditation (first version)
Susanna at her Bath
John Rogers Herbert
Children of the Painter
Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)
Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)
William Holman Hunt – A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower
Jan August Hendrik Leys – Divine Service in Holland
Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci
John Everett Millais
Christ in the House of His Parents
Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
Jean-François Millet – The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini
Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue
Carl Spitzweg – The Bookworm
George Frederic Watts – Found Drowned (approximate date)
Births
January 1 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1894)
January 5 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)
January 27 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)
February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died 1927)
March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1925)
April 19 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (died 1909)
April 20
Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (died 1931)
Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died 1924)
April 26 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (died 1899)
May 8 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died 1899)
July 7 – Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died 1930)
September 29 – George Hitchcock, American-born painter en plein air (died 1913)
November 22 – Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died 1932)
September 23 – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died 1934)
November 28 – Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died 1917)
December 25 – Florence Griswold, American curator (died 1937)
December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)
Death
January 16 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)
January 20 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)
January 22 – William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)
January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)
February 23 – Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)
April 11 – Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)
April 15 – Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)
April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)
May – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)
July 22 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)
August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)
August 27 – Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)
October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)
November 10 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)
December 8 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)
date unknown
Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)
Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)
François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)
Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)
References
1850s in art |
Mörsils IF is an active sports club located in Mörsil in Åre Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden. Boström is a famous Mörsil family.
Background
Mörsils Idrottsförening has sections covering football, bandy, table tennis, skiing and also has sections and activities for gymnastics, tennis, badminton, skating activities and a Sports School for 6 to 15 year olds.
The Sports Hall was built by Mörsil IF in 1987 and can accommodate most indoor sports. There is also an outdoor ice rink and a small swimming pool.
Mörsils IF currently plays in Division 4 Jämtland/Härjedalen which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Bleckåsvallen IP in Mörsil.
The club is affiliated to Jämtland-Härjedalens Fotbollförbund.
Season to season
Footnotes
External links
Mörsils IF – Official website
Sport in Jämtland County
Football clubs in Jämtland County |
Peter Jenkins is a former British diplomat.
Early career
Born in 1950 in Buckinghamshire, England. Education: Downside School, Somerset (five A Levels); Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (M.A.); Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Peter joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1973, having graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Classical Philosophy, and having spent two years at the Harvard Graduate School for Arts and Sciences as a Harkness Fellow. His 33-year diplomatic career took him to Vienna (twice), Washington, D.C., Paris, Brasília and Geneva.
In Washington, he was Private Secretary to two Ambassadors during an eventful period in transatlantic and East/West relations, as well as the Falklands War (1982–84). During three spells in the FCO prior to 1987. he had responsibility for aspects of the Irish question, relations with Brazil and the Andean countries, and Diplomatic Service assignments below the grade of Counsellor. In Paris, he dealt with issues arising from the creation of a European single market and worked on Franco-British energy ties.
After a spell in Brasilia, where he contributed to strengthening Anglo-Brazilian political and economic relations, as Brazil began its recovery from two decades of hyperinflation (1992–95), he became the UK's chief representative to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. There he lobbied for a further round of global trade negotiations, participated in trade policy reviews, chaired the WTO's Balance of Payments Committee, and helped to set up the Advisory Centre on WTO Law.
Ambassador to IAEA and on to mediation
In 2001, he was made Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN organisations at Vienna. There his primary focus was on the nuclear aspects of international peace and security, especially the Iranian nuclear issue, at a point when the nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union appeared to hold promise, but were stymied by elements within the Bush Administration.
On leaving the Diplomatic Service in 2006 he worked as a special representative for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership in Vienna, and as an adviser to the director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a global public policy research institute, before qualifying as a civil and commercial mediator. Since 2010 he has been a partner in The Ambassador Partnership LLP, a cross-border dispute settlement and problem-solving partnership. He also writes and speaks on international nuclear and trade policy issues. From 2010 to 2012 he was an associate fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme
Peter was active within the international movement supporting negotiations with Iran and seeking diplomatic solutions that respect Iran's rights to a civil nuclear power industry but that also restrain it from achieving a nuclear weapon capability. In an article in the Telegraph in January 2012 he expressed concern that imposing ever tighter sanctions on Iran required an exaggeration of the Iranian nuclear threat which fuelled the scare-mongering of those who wanted sanctions to be a mere step on the way to war. He argued that sanctions were a disproportionate response to a state acting on its right to enrich uranium and that Iran's uranium enrichment programme should be handled in accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He lamented that far too many American politicians saw advantage in whipping up fear of Iran and would sneer that the NPT was for wimps.
In September 2013 he co-authored an article in the Christian Science Monitor with Robert Hunter, US ambassador to NATO in the mid-90s. They argued that the election of Dr Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran presented an opportunity for the West to review its position in the nuclear negotiations with Iran that had got under way in April 2012. Instead of requiring Iran to dismantle its uranium enrichment programme (as demanded by Israel) or reduce the number of centrifuges at its disposal to a few thousand, the West should ask Iran to volunteer confidence-building demonstrations of peaceful intent during a transition to full enjoyment of its right to make peaceful use of nuclear technologies. The West should also focus its efforts on influencing Iranian cost/benefit calculations, as recommended in US national intelligence estimates, and build on Iran's interest in preserving the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Accusation during a debate on Iran
In 2012, during a debate at Warwick University, Peter Jenkins was accused of anti-semitism for stating that it seemed that Jews and Christians no longer shared the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate. In the debate, Jenkins, Opposed in the debate by representatives of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracy and the Henry Jackson Society, he spoke successfully in proposition to the motion "this house would rather a nuclear armed Iran than war", explaining that diplomacy could avert both war and Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons. The Chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews subsequently opined that "he clearly sees Jews as having different moral compass that is irreconcilable with the Christian West. This is grossly offensive and palpable nonsense". In a letter to the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Peter Jenkins apologised for any offence he might have given and explained that his intention had been to draw attention to the tendency of the Jewish state of Israel to make disproportionate use of force, contrary to just war doctrine.
Report about Public Opposition to First Use of Nuclear Weapons
Since 2017 Peter Jenkins has been chairman of the executive committee of British Pugwash, a branch of Pugwash International Conferences on Science and World Affairs. In that capacity, during November 2021, he reported in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that British Pugwash had commissioned a survey of public opinion in the United Kingdom which revealed that two-thirds of the public were opposed to NATO being the first to use nuclear weapons in the event of Russia invading one or more of the Baltic states without resorting to nuclear weapons. He went on to question the British government’s belief that threatening the first use of nuclear weapons was a credible way of deterring non-nuclear threats to NATO, and to point out that, once one of two nuclear-armed states resorts to nuclear weapons, there is no empirical evidence for supposing that nuclear escalation, leading to catastrophe, can be avoided. He urged diplomatic engagement to produce a balance of NATO and Russian non-nuclear forces in theatres where NATO fears Russian aggression and, if necessary, an increase in spending on non-nuclear defences in place of reliance on nuclear first use.
Languages
He speaks French, German and Portuguese.
Family
He is married with two children. He was made a Companion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 2005.
References
1950 births
Living people
British diplomats
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Abraham Dreyer (1671 in Trondheim – 1736 in Trondheim) was a Danish-Norwegian official, and was for most of his working life chief judge of his home town.
In addition to being a judge, Dreyer had a career in the mountain administration. He was before he became , and became in 1721.
He was the son of his predecessor as chief judge, Peder Carstensen Dreyer, and the Dutch Anna Catharina Stricht von Hoffmerset. He became chief judge in 1703, and sat in court until his death. He became area justice in 1711 and state justice in 1731.
He was also a property investor in Trondheim and the area. He owned Austrått (although he never lived there), and was part owner of Kvikne Copper Works and Røros Copper Works.
References
adressa.no: Lagmann Dreyers gate
Norwegian judges
1671 births
1736 deaths |
The 1995 Individual Long Track World Championship was the 25th edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 17 September 1995 at the Eichenring motorcycle speedway arena in Scheeßel, Germany.
The world title was won by Kelvin Tatum of England after he defeated five times champion Simon Wigg in a run off for the gold medal.
Final Classification
E = eliminated (no further ride)
f = fell
ef = engine failure
x = excluded
Gold Medal
Run-off Tatum beat Wigg
References
1995
Speedway competitions in Germany
Individual Long Track World Championship
Motor
Individual Long Track World Championship |
An avar or animation variable (or hinge) is a variable controlling the position of part of an animated object, such as a character. The character "Woody" in the Disney•Pixar film Toy Story (1995) uses 712 avars (212 on his face alone). Successive sets of avars control all movement of the character from frame to frame. In development, they are used to define the junctions of a stick model. Later, they are incorporated into a full wire frame model or a model built of polygons. Finally, surfaces are added, requiring a lengthy process of rendering to produce the final scene.
There are several ways of generating the avar values. Motion capture uses a real person acting out the part, tracked by a video camera. Toy Story uses no motion capture, manual control by a skilled animator can produce effects not easily carried out by a human actor.
See also
Animation
Animation database
Computer generated imagery
Computer animation
Pixar
External links
Pixar and Disney's Toy Story
References
Computer animation |
Kataik Dam is a dam in Paung Township, Thaton District, Mon State, Burma. It was completed in 2007 and became the 198th dam in Burma and the 10th in Mon State, opening on May 1. It is operated by the Irrigation Department of the Burmese Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and is intended to benefit of farmlands and facilitate regional socio-economic development as part of an overall coordinated state development in Mon State. Agricultural productivity is important to the economy of the region, not only for trade but for ensuring an adequate food supply.
References
Dams in Myanmar
Buildings and structures in Mon State
Dams completed in 2007 |
Wendelstein is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps in South Germany. It is part of the Mangfall Mountains, the eastern part of the Bavarian Pre-Alps, and is the highest peak in the Wendelstein massif. It lies between the valleys of the Leitzach and Inn and is accessible via the Wendelstein Cable Car and the Wendelstein Rack Railway. On its northern foothills rises the Jenbach, which becomes the Kalten on its way to the River Mangfall. Local valley settlements include Bayrischzell, Brannenburg and Osterhofen.
Geography
Geology
The mountain consists mainly of Wetterstein limestone from the Upper Triassic with dasycladales - marine algae whose natural habitat is shallow lagoons in tropical climates. The colour of the rock varies between grey white and light grey to speckled.
Climate
The annual precipitation is , which is extremely high, lying in the upper twentieth of values in Germany. 99% of German Met Office weather stations register lower values. The driest month is October, the wettest is July, which experiences 2.6 times as much precipitation as October. Annual variations are extremely large. Only 3% of weather stations register higher annual variations.
Development
On the summit of the mountain is the Wendelstein Chapel, an observatory, a weather station, a geopark and a transmission mast for the Bayerischer Rundfunk. About a hundred metres below the summit, on the ridge between the Wendelstein and the Schwaigerwand, lie the mountain inn, the termini of the rack railway and cable car, the service building for the mast, the former mountain hotel (above the station), a hut for the mountain rescue service and the Wendelstein Church. The buildings around the mountain stations are linked to the summit by a metalled track, which also enables the summit to be reached by inexperienced hikers. Because the path cannot be used in winter, there is also a lift in the middle of the mountain for employees of the observatory, weather service and transmission site, accessed from the station of the rack railway through a tunnel.
The rack railway was built in 1912 by Otto von Steinbeis. Since its renovation in the early 1990s, it has been worked by modern railcars that have reduced journey times from over 50 minutes to about half an hour. Near the rack railway mountain station is the Wendelstein Cave with several stalactites and stalagmites, and which contain ice until well into the summer months.
Wendelstein Church
The foundation stone of the Wendelstein Church (Wendelsteinkircherl) was laid on 1 July 1889 on a rocky ridge a hundred metres below the summit. On 20 August 1890 Germany's highest church was consecrated. It is dedicated to the Patrona Bavariae and is managed by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as a satellite church of the parish of Maria Himmelfahrt in Brannenburg. The Wendelstein Church's description as the "highest church in Germany" is indisputable; all other higher church buildings (such as the Zugspitze Chapel consecrated in 1981) are not churches in the ecclesiastical sense, but only chapels. Regular masses and marriage services take place in the mountain church in summer.
Wendelstein Church is also often called the Wendelstein Chapel, but there is a separate Wendelstein Chapel. This is dedicated to St. Wendelin and stands just below the summit. This summit chapel, made of wood, is considerably older than the church; there are reports of it going back to the early 19th century.
Mountain weather station and observatory
On the summit of the Wendelstein there is a weather station belonging to the German Meteorological Office, which is staffed around the clock, and an observatory of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
The first weather observations on the Wendelstein were recorded in a makeshift observatory erected by the summit chapel by Paul Schiegg in July 1804, the records were, however, often frustrated by lightning, storms, snow and rain. In 1883 the Wendelsteinhaus Meteorological Station was built by Dr. Fritz Erk of the Royal Bavarian Meteorological Central Station in Munich at an altitude of 1700 m. This was the first Alpine station in the Royal Bavarian Meteorological Station Network. The delivery of mail to and from this station was carried out in winter by the members of the Wendelsteinhaus Alpine Club and in summer by tourists. In 1962, the present weather station was built at the summit. It is staffed around the clock with full-time staff.
The observatory was founded in December 1939 by Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer as a solar observatory for the Luftwaffe. The recording of solar activity was supposed to enable the most accurate forecast possible of the optimal frequencies used for military communications. After the Second World War the observatory was funded by the US forces for the same purpose. Since 1949 the facility has belonged to the University of Munich. In the 1960s the observatory was enhanced with a coronagraph, a device that enabled research to be carried out on the atmosphere of the sun. Due to increasing air pollution and research priorities switching back to night-time astronomy, scientific observations of the sun were ceased in the 1980s. Since 1988 the facility has become purely an observatory; the dome of the coronograph is only used today for viewing purposes. Searches were conducted from the Wendelstein for extrasolar planets by evaluating occultations and research is carried out on variable stars in dwarf galaxies using an 80-cm telescope and CCD cameras. In 2012, the 80-cm telescope was replaced by an instrument with a two-metre aperture.
In addition, from 1950 to 1960 there was an observatory on the eastern summit of the Wendelstein, consisting of an observation dome and a residential house. There, the astronomer Rudolf Kühn carried out research. The facility was completely demolished in 1965, only the remains of the foundations are still visible. Where the observation dome once stood, a wind turbine was later built, but that, too, was dismantled in 2007.
Ski area
The rack railway and gondola lift and two drag lifts serve a small ski area on the Wendelstein. Plans to link it to the Sudelfeld ski area were discarded. Because of a dispute with an alpine farmer, there was no skiing on the Wendelstein from 1995 to 1997. In spite of numerous explosions and other construction projects in the past 40 years, most of the runs on the Wendelstein are steep rugged slopes that are only suitable for experienced skiers. Throughout the year members of the Brannenburg Mountain Rescue Service are on duty at the Klausen Hut (opposite the Wendelstein Church) and in the ski area.
References
External links
Picture of the Wendelstein
Mountains of Bavaria
One-thousanders of Germany
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"Saved by the Bell" is a 1969 single written and recorded by Robin Gibb. It was released in June 1969, and has been certified gold. It was the lead single on Gibb's debut album Robin's Reign, released in early 1970. According to Vinyl Records, the song was co-produced by Kenny Clayton. Gibb also made a promotional video for this song. The song gained commercial success in Europe, but was a commercial failure in the US.
Music critic Nicholas James says: "'Saved by the Bell' falls into this category, being heavily influenced by the Bee Gees track 'I Started a Joke'. It has a powerful Robin Gibb lead vocal and an infectious melody, although the lyrics are somewhat simplistic (possibly even banal)." David Furgess described "Saved by the Bell" as a "killer song".
Background
Gibb announced his solo plans on 19 March 1969, on the same day the Bee Gees recorded "Tomorrow Tomorrow" and two other songs. "Saved by the Bell" was recorded around March 1969 at De Lane Lea Studios, along with three other songs: "Mother and Jack", "Alexandria Good Time", and "Janice". As Gibb said: "I made that record back at the end of March, immediately following my split from the Bee Gees".
Fellow Bee Gee Maurice Gibb worked on "Saved by the Bell", playing piano, adding vocals, and recording organ and guitar, accompanied by a drum machine. The demo was then sent to Kenny Clayton, who arranged the song with a big singalong chorus. The orchestra section of the song was arranged by John Fiddy.
Release
"Saved by the Bell" was recorded for Gibb's debut album, Robin's Reign. It was released as a single on 27 June 1969, with "Mother and Jack" as the B-side. On its release, the song competed directly with the Bee Gees' single "Don't Forget to Remember". "Saved by the Bell" rose to number two in the UK Singles Chart, while topping the short-lived British Top Pops newspaper charts. It also hit number one in South Africa, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Ireland. "Saved by the Bell" held the number-one slot in South Africa for three weeks, in the Netherlands for six weeks, and in New Zealand for 1 week. Other chart positions include #4 in Norway, and #3 in Germany. It didn't fare as well in the US, only reaching #87.
Record World said it was "an outstanding effort, bound to click."
Shortly after the release of "Saved by the Bell", Gibb told The Guardian:
"Everything I write I write to the best of my ability, that is, every song I have written could be a single. I never write A-sides that would be an insult to my ego. "Mother and Jack", on the flip of "Saved by the Bell", could just as well have been an A-side. All the tracks for my first LP could be singles."
Re-releases
"Saved by the Bell" was re-released by Old Gold Records in 1988, with "Words" (Bee Gees) as the B-side. It was re-released in Spain by Polydor as the B-side of "Tomorrow Tomorrow" (Bee Gees). It was included on the compilation The Story of Musikladen No. 2 1976–1980. The song's mono mix was released on the compilation Rare Collection on Polydor Japan, while the stereo version was released in 1990 on the Tales from the Brothers Gibb.
Performances
Gibb performed "Saved by the Bell" in Beat-Club on 2 August 1969. The episode features a segment where Eddie Vickers interviews Gibb. The clip was included on the DVD Beat Club Rebroadcasts Vol. 9 and The Story of Beat-Club Volume 2 1968–1970.
Gibb also performed "Saved by the Bell" in Auckland, New Zealand. As he recalls: It was quite chaotic because there was a whole lot of people, and not a lot of security. I almost had to climb a tree, it was frightening. It got quite dangerous. The concept of security hadn't crept into the popular arena. It started out as enjoyable, and then the audience got out of hand.
Gibb performed the song in 2005 with The Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt Orchestra.
Cover versions
Notable covers of "Saved by the Bell" include Elton John's version.
Chart performance
References
1969 debut singles
1969 songs
Robin Gibb songs
Songs written by Robin Gibb
Song recordings produced by Robin Gibb
Polydor Records singles
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Bezuchov is a municipality and village in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Bezuchov lies approximately east of Přerov, south-east of Olomouc, and east of Prague.
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Leucotmemis lemoulti is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Rothschild in 1911. It is found in French Guiana.
References
Notes
Sources
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Leucotmemis
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An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly, after being announced by Premier Peter Beattie on 15 August 2006.
The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Peter Beattie defeat the National-Liberal Coalition led by Lawrence Springborg and Bruce Flegg respectively, and gain a fourth consecutive term in office. Beattie thus became the first Labor Premier of Queensland to win four consecutive elections since William Forgan Smith did so in the 1930s. Had Beattie served out his fourth term, he would have become the second-longest serving Queensland Premier, after Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. After the election, Springborg resigned as Opposition Leader, being replaced by Jeff Seeney.
Key dates
Results
The election result was disappointing for the Coalition. It failed to make significant gains from Labor, despite the fact that the Government had been in office for eight years and had been mired in a series of scandals in its third term. It also failed to make headway against the Independents which still held many safe rural conservative seats, winning back only Gympie. Recent instability in the Coalition, combined with a poor media performance by inexperienced Liberal leader Dr Bruce Flegg was seen as being responsible for the result. In addition, Premier Peter Beattie remained personally popular. With Labor’s huge majority largely intact, it was seen as being unlikely that the Coalition would be able to win the next election.
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Mackerras pendulum
The following is a Mackerras pendulum for the election.
"Very safe" seats require a swing of more than 20 per cent to change, "safe" seats require a swing of between 10 and 20 per cent to change, "fairly safe" seats require a swing of between 6 and 10 per cent, while "marginal" seats require a swing of less than 6 per cent.
State of the parties before the election
Since April 2006, the ALP held 60 of the 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly, the Coalition 23 seats (16 National and seven Liberal), along with five Independents and one member of the One Nation Party. Thus to win an outright majority (45 seats), the Coalition would have needed to win an additional 22 seats from the ALP, the Independents or One Nation, assuming that they retained all of their own seats. This would have required a uniform swing against Labor of approximately 8% (such swings are very rare).
Sitting Labor member for Noosa, Cate Molloy, had resigned from the Labor Party following her disendorsement as a Labor candidate, which in turn followed her repudiation of the state government's plans to build a dam on the Mary River at Traveston. Molloy recontested the seat as an Independent.
Members who did not recontest their seats
A number of members of parliament retired at this election:
Tom Barton: Waterford, ALP
Darryl Briskey: Cleveland, ALP
Dr Lesley Clark: Barron River, ALP
Nita Cunningham: Bundaberg, ALP
Jim Fouras: Ashgrove, ALP
Don Livingstone: Ipswich West, ALP
Tony McGrady: Mount Isa, ALP
Gordon Nuttall: Sandgate, ALP
Henry Palaszczuk: Inala, ALP
Bob Quinn: Robina, Liberal
Terry Sullivan: Stafford, ALP
Marc Rowell: Hinchinbrook, Nationals
Issues
From mid-2005, after the revelation of the Jayant Patel scandal, the issue of health has become a focus of controversy, damaging to the Beattie government. After several inquiries and industrial disputes, a restructure of Queensland Health took place, and the state government is currently lobbying the federal government for more doctor training places in universities for Queensland.
Other issues of importance at the election included environmental management and land clearing, asbestos in state schools, the provision of transportation and infrastructure to rural and regional areas, and the management of South East Queensland's population growth.
Polling
Labor's high levels of support was maintained until mid-2005 when support for Labor slumped and the Coalition opened a minor lead on primary votes for the first time since 1996. However, this was eventually wiped out as Labor restored a huge lead in polls in the lead up to the election and the Coalition only managed a 0.5% swing. Even though some mid-term polls suggested a swing of up to 6% against Labor, a swing of over 8% was required for Labor to lose its majority.
Campaign
The campaign started unusually with Premier Peter Beattie denying a general election was about to be called, while residents in some Gold Coast electorates received direct mail from the ALP stating that the election had been called for September.
At a press conference on 16 August, Liberal leader Bruce Flegg stated that in the event that the Coalition won government, and the Liberal Party won more seats than the Nationals, Lawrence Springborg would still become Premier. Other Liberal Party MPs such as Michael Caltabiano disagreed, as this ran contrary to the coalition agreement signed between the two parties, which stated that whichever party won the most seats would form government. The ALP used this to attack Coalition stability in media and advertising.
Flegg was subsequently asked to leave a shopping centre in the Redcliffe suburb of Kippa-Ring for failing to obtain permission to do a campaign walkthrough. Flegg later denied that he had in fact been evicted.
On 22 August, Flegg took part in a media conference with Julie Bishop, federal Liberal Minister for Education, where he endorsed a Federal Government plan for the mandatory teaching of Australian history in schools. Responding to questions from journalists, he failed to identify the date of arrival of the Second Fleet (1790), or the person after whom Brisbane was named (noted astronomer and Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane).
Two sad twists of fate impacted the 26-day campaign - on 30 August, opposition leader Lawrence Springborg took temporary leave from the campaign after the sudden death of his father-in-law, and National Party deputy leader Jeff Seeney and Liberal leader Bruce Flegg continued the campaign in his absence. The death of TV personality Steve Irwin ("The Crocodile Hunter") on 4 September in an accident off Port Douglas, Queensland, took the media's focus away from the election in its final week.
Current Treasurer Anna Bligh has stated the coalition's major election promises of wiping out stamp duty within five years, increasing the first home buyers grant by $3,000 and introducing a 10% per litre subsidy on ethanol-blended petrol will cost $2.4 billion and has blown the budget. Lawrence Springborg says all his election promises are costed and affordable, with costings to be released two days before the election. So far these costings have not been released.
On Friday 8 September, the day before the election, Premier Beattie and Opposition Leader Springborg participated in a "great debate" at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, moderated by ABC journalist Chris O'Brien.
Although Newspoll and other published polls showed Labor well ahead on predicted two-party-preferred vote, Labor strategists feared that people would vote for the Coalition in a protest vote, expecting Beattie not to lose. They adopted a strategy of denying Labor was in fact ahead. The Roy Morgan poll suggested the Liberal vote had fallen, while the Greens had risen to 8%.
Seats changing hands
¶The margins and swings in Chatsworth, Gaven and Redcliffe are relative to the by-election results.
†The margin for Noosa was notionally Labor, but sitting member Cate Molloy became an independent earlier in 2006. The post-election margin is National v. Labor.
See also
Candidates of the Queensland state election, 2006
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2004–2006
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2006–2009
Beattie Ministry
References
External links
Election analysis by Antony Green of the ABC
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"Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine transition, then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women. Later the story was adapted for film in 2002. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a short 38-minute film; British actor Greg Wise played The American.
Synopsis
The story focuses mainly on a conversation between an American man and a young woman, described as a "girl," at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discuss an "operation" that the man wants the girl to have, which is implied to be an abortion, that was taboo to talk about.
Analysis
While there is little context or background information about the characters, several scholars have analyzed how the setting influences the story. The expatriate atmosphere is "a motivating factor in character action," writes Jeffrey Herlihy in In Paris or Paname: Hemingway’s Expatriate Nationalism. Setting the piece in Spain "dramatizes the peripatetic subject" and allows the man to discuss abortion outside the "restraints from the behavioral prescriptions of his place of origin." This use of a foreign setting makes Spain not merely a background but "a catalyst of textual irony" in the story.
Readers must come to their own conclusions based on the dialogue. This has led to varying interpretations of the story. One point of debate is whether or not the woman decides to get an abortion. Critics like Stanley Renner assert that the details in the story imply that the woman decides to keep the baby: "The logic of the story's design enjoins the conclusion that she smiles brightly at the waitress's announcement of the train because she is no longer headed in the direction of having the abortion that she has contemplated only with intense distress". Other critics conclude that the woman ultimately decides to get an abortion. Furthermore, most critics acknowledge that the story has several possible interpretations: "The two organizing questions of the narrative—will they have the abortion or the baby? Will they break up or stay together?—imply four possible outcomes: 1) they will have the abortion and break up; 2) they will have the abortion and stay together; 3) they will have the baby and break up; and 4) they will have the baby and stay together". There are many essays written which argue for all of these possibilities and more. There is no universal consensus because of the nature of the story; the reader is simply not given much information.
Symbolism
The description of the valley of Ebro, in the opening paragraph, is often seen as having deeper meanings: "It has long been recognized that the two sides of the valley of the Ebro represent two ways of life, one a sterile perpetuation of the aimless hedonism the couple have been pursuing, the other a participation in life in its full natural sense." Critics also point to the various positions of the characters, with relation to the train tracks and the valley, to show a wide variety of possible symbolic interpretations.
Doris Lanier writes about the significance of absinthe (which the girl is reminded of when they drink anisette) in the story. Lanier explains the drink "was alluring not only because of its narcotic effects but also because of its reputation as an aphrodisiac." Lanier asserts that every detail in "Hills Like White Elephants" is intentionally placed by Hemingway, and that the absinthe could have several possible connotations. She postulates that "the addictive quality of the drink…is meant to emphasize the addictive nature of the couple's lifestyle…It is an empty, meaningless existence that revolves around traveling, sex, drinking, looking at things, and having pointless conversations about these things". Another possible interpretation of the absinthe relates to its appeal and effects. Like the man and woman's relationship, it is alluring at first, but "it becomes a destroyer of the child, who is aborted; a destroyer of the girl, who endures the physical and emotional pain of aborting the child she wants; and a destroyer of the couple's relationship". It is important to note that this interpretation assumes the couple have the abortion and end their relationship, as well as that the young woman wants to continue the pregnancy; none of these are certain, due to the ambiguity of the story.
The title "Hills Like White Elephants" is a symbol within Hemingway's short story that requires analysis to depict its meaning and relevance to the story as well. Repetition of words and phrases is a common trait found within Hemingway's short story, a habit that is not done without cause. This was done in an attempt to emphasize importance on certain matters, such as he does with the title of the story. Within the story, Hemingway makes "two references to the whiteness of the hills and four to them as white elephants". The most common belief as to the meaning of this reference has to do with color comparisons used throughout the story. In correlation with the drink "absinthe" as mentioned above, there is believed to be a contrast of joy and sorrow between the black licorice of the alcoholic drink and the whiteness of the hills. This can also be contrasted with the comparison between the white hills and the dry, brown countryside that represents the same joy and sorrow as the former. However, the true meaning of the title does not become fully known until the topic of getting an abortion is revealed between the couple, as the man states, it's an "awfully simple question... not really an operation at all... just to let the air in". It is then understood that the use of the term "white elephants" may in fact be a reference to the white elephant sale. It's a sale put together through the donation of unwanted gifts, making the reader believe that this may be correlating with the act of getting an abortion. It could also mean the literal translation of elephant in the room meaning something painfully obvious that is not to be spoken about or referenced. "Elephant in the room" is a term used mainly by couples having a relationship crisis or difficulty including break-ups, divorce, cheating, marriage, adoption, or abortion. This is viewed differently between the couple. The child is seen "as simply a white elephant to the man" to be rid of, whereas the woman only sees it as this due to the father's views.
The final reference to the hills is when the girl contemplates her decision of getting an abortion through the following line, "it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you'll like it?" This is to provide an immediate understanding of the white elephant reference when we learn that the story's conflict revolves around an unwanted pregnancy is associated with the ubiquitous white elephant sale. These sales raise money that is worthwhile cause for people to donate unwanted objects. This is shown in "Hills Like White Elephants" as to the man, the girl is a white elephant with the child.
Another important symbol in the story is the bamboo curtain. Many interpretations see the curtain as a barrier between Jig and the American. Literally, the curtain is a barrier between the American and the girl while he drinks in the bar among other "reasonable people" while the girl sits outside. Figuratively, the beaded curtain separates Jig, a sensitive girl who notices and touches the beads from the American who only acknowledges the drink advertisement and pays no more attention to the curtain than the hills.
David Gilmour points out that the bead curtain has an even more specific symbolism. When Jig takes hold of two strands, the American believes that she views them as a rosary, giving a clue to Jig being Catholic. Gilmour goes on to state that any leap to thinking of Spain, Catholicism, and the abortion as connected ideas is a stretch and if Jig were praying, she would most likely be praying to turn back time so that she may not be entangled with the American. This belief is supported when she states, while holding the two strands, that she wants things to be as they were before. In contrast, Gary Elliott writes that the beaded curtain and its similarity to a rosary lends insight to the girl’s reluctance to go through with the abortion and is almost certainly indicative of her Catholic background. He goes on to say that while the curtain is a physical barrier between the two, it is really her religion, symbolized by the beads, that separates them.
Dialogue
"They look like white elephants," she said.
"I've never seen one," the man drank his beer.
"No, you wouldn't have."
"I might have," the man said. "Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove anything."
The girl looked at the bead curtain. "They've painted something on it," she said. "What does it say?"
"Anis del Toro. It's a drink."
"Can we try it?"
The reader must interpret their dialogue and body language to infer their backgrounds and their attitudes with respect to the situation at hand, and their attitudes toward one another. From the outset of the story, the contentious nature of the couple's conversation indicates resentment and unease. Some critics have written that the dialogue is a distillation of the contrasts between stereotypical male and female relationship roles: in the excerpt above, for instance, the woman draws the comparison with white elephants, but the hyper-rational male immediately denies it, dissolving the bit of poetry into objective realism with "I've never seen one." By saying, "No, you wouldn't have" she implies he hadn't had a child before, or hadn't allowed birth in the past. She also asks his permission to order a drink. Throughout the story, the woman is distant; the American is rational. There may be more serious problems with the relationship than the purely circumstantial. Though the immediate problem is the unwanted pregnancy, the experience has revealed that the relationship is a shallow one. While most critics have espoused relatively straightforward interpretations of the dialogue, a few have argued for alternate scenarios.
Reception
"Hills Like White Elephants" has been criticized for being anti-feminist; it has also been interpreted as being pro-feminist. The anti-feminist perspective emphasizes the notion that the man dominates the woman in the story, and she ultimately succumbs to his will by getting the abortion. Frederick Busch asserts that the woman "'buries her way of seeing as she will bury her child.'" However, critics also argue that the female character makes her own decision in the end, and the story is actually pro-feminist. Stanley Renner claims that "Hills Like White Elephants" is primarily empathetic towards the female character: "So firmly does the story's sympathy side with the girl and her values, so strong is her repugnance toward the idea of abortion, and so critical is the story of the male's self-serving reluctance to shoulder the responsibility of the child he has begotten that the reading I have proposed seems the most logical resolution to its conflict." However, Doris Lanier describes the drink that the woman has as "absinthe," a narcotic that the man uses to influence the woman's mind.
References
External links
Full text of "Hills Like White Elephants" at HathiTrust Digital Library
1927 short stories
Abortion in fiction
Short stories about elephants
Short stories by Ernest Hemingway
Works originally published in French magazines
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Åland dialects () are dialects of Swedish spoken in Åland, an autonomous province of Finland. The Åland dialects have similarities to both Finland Swedish and the historical dialects of Uppland, but are generally considered to be part of Eastern Swedish (östsvenska mål, varieties of Swedish spoken in Finland and Estonia).
Swedish is the sole official language of Åland, and its status is protected in the , a law that guarantees the islands' autonomy within Finland.
Phonology
As in Finland Swedish, the tonal word accent that distinguishes certain minimal pairs is not present in Åland. Thus Central Swedish ('the duck') and ('the spirit') are both pronounced .
Characteristics
Certain expressions are typical of Åland dialects. For example, the double genitive in ("Whose's girl/boy are you?" ( in Standard Swedish)) carries the implication that the asker might know the parents of the person asked, likely in a small society such as Åland. Another characteristic is the substitution of (not) with (no, nobody, none; in Standard Swedish a plural form): ("I have not been there").
A feature that Åland shares with Finland Swedish is the reduction of the words (not), (should) and (must) to , and respectively.
Vocabulary
The dialectal vocabulary of Åland Swedish is composed of words that are either characteristic of Eastern Swedish or have passed out of use (but are still understood) in the Swedish spoken in Sweden. Traces of Finnish, Russian and English can also be found in the dialect because of historical contact.
Below is a selection of dialectal words and expressions used in Åland Swedish:
Differences between dialects in Western and Eastern Åland
The Western Åland dialect is characterized by its connection to the dialects of eastern Uppland (Roslagen). This applies especially to the municipality of Eckerö. There are several similarities between Eckerö's and Roslagen's dialects, including the initial h-drop whereby, for example, , , and are pronounced as "us", "itta", and "alm" and an h sound is atypically inserted before the words and eta (), producing "hösa" and "heta", respectively. On the other hand, the Eastern Åland dialects share features with Swedish dialects in Åboland and southern Ostrobothnia.
Between the dialects of Western and Eastern Åland, there are also several distinctions in vocabulary. For example, in Western Åland, as well as in Uppland, the verb and the adjective are used. The corresponding words in Eastern Åland are and .
Samples of dialects
Eckerö-dialect (West Åland) recorded in 2006 (see file för transcription).
Föglö-dialect (East Åland) recorded in 1971 by Per Henrik Solstrand.
See also
Languages of Åland
References
Bibliography
Andersson, Sven. Notlage, notlösare och notgår: ordens betydelse i åländska folkmål. Part of Skrifter utgivna av Historiska samfundet i Åbo. 1954. pp. 18–30.
Ramsdahl, Carl. Ryska lånord i åländskan. 1976.
Sundberg, Eva. Dialekten i Ålands nordöstra skärgård. Mariehamn 1993.
Svenblad, Ralf. Med åländska ord. Mariehamn 1996.
Willandt, August. Åländskt bygdemål. 1919.
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The chestnut-breasted whiteface (Aphelocephala pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Närcon (formally written as NärCon) is a combined gaming and anime convention which is arranged several times per year in Linköping, Sweden by NärCon Eventbyrå AB. It is the largest event of its kind in Scandinavia. The main event (NärCon Sommar, summer) usually starts at the end of July and offers activities such as board games, card games and roleplaying activities. Additionally, there are rooms dedicated for computer and console gaming. Competitive e-sports tournaments are also arranged.
The Summer 2017 event received 10 000 participants.
History
NärCon was founded in 2002 by Sam Anlér and was hosted at A-huset and Kulturpalatset in Örebro. The event has been hosted yearly since then.
Nordic Cosplay Championship
One of NärCon's major events include cosplay competitions. NärCon hosts the Nordic Cosplay Championship every year, the championship, which is co-ordinated by event organizers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden pick winners from each respective cosplay scene. 13 cosplayers then meet at NärCon in order to compete for prizes, one of them being a trip to Japan for two. In 2018, the championship had its first observer nations; Lithuania and Latvia.
See also
List of anime conventions
References
External links
Anime conventions
Events in Linköping
Video game conventions
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Parth Mukesh Sahani (born 9 March 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Madhya Pradesh cricket team. He made his Twenty20 debut against Railways cricket team at Holkar Stadium in March, 2015 he made his List A debut against Saurashtra cricket team at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in December, 2015 He made his first-class debut on 22 June 2022, for Madhya Pradesh in the final of the 2021–22 Ranji Trophy.
He is the son of former MP player and coach Mukesh Sahni.
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1993 births
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The 11th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Award), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film and television for the 1988–1989 season, and took place in the spring of 1990 in Hollywood, California.
Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music.
Categories
★ Bold indicates the winner in each category.
Best Young Performer in a Motion Picture
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture
★ Sean Astin - Staying Together (Hemdale Film Corporation)
Kirk Cameron - Listen to Me (Columbia Pictures)
Joel Carlson - Communion (New Line Cinema)
Keith Coogan - Cheetah (Walt Disney Pictures)
Cory Danziger - The 'Burbs (Universal Studios)
Joshua Miller - Teen Witch (M.G.M.)
Leaf Phoenix - Parenthood (Universal Pictures)
Jared Rushton - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Walt Disney Pictures)
Fred Savage - The Wizard (Universal Pictures)
Ben Savage - Little Monsters (Vestron Pictures)
Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture
★ Winona Ryder - Great Balls of Fire! (Orion Pictures)
Blaze Berdahl - Pet Sematary (Paramount Pictures)
Rebecca Harrell - Prancer (Orion Pictures)
Jenny Lewis - The Wizard (Universal Pictures)
Robyn Lively - Teen Witch (M.G.M.)
Sarah Polley - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Columbia Pictures)
Best Young Actor Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
★ Hugh O'Conor - My Left Foot (Miramax Films)
Kevin Dillon - Immediate Family (Columbia Pictures)
Luke Edwards - The Wizard (Universal Pictures)
Jasen Fisher - Parenthood (Universal Pictures)
Lukas Haas - Music Box (TriStar Pictures)
Ethan Hawke - Dad (Universal Pictures)
Jermaine Hopkins - Lean on Me (Warner Bros)
Gabriel Damon - Tequila Sunrise (Warner Bros)
Whitby Hertford - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (New Line Cinema)
Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
★ Gaby Hoffmann - Field of Dreams (Universal Studios)Ariana Richards - Prancer (Orion Pictures)
Sarah Rowland Doroff - Three Fugitives (Touchstone Pictures)
Karen Malina White - Lean on Me (Warner Bros)
Amy O'Neill - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Walt Disney Pictures)
Kala Savage - Little Monsters (Vestron Pictures)
Best Young Performer in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special
Best Young Actor Starring in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special
★ Brian Austin Green - Adventures in Babysitting (Walt Disney Television)Brian Bonsall - Do You Know the Muffin Man? (CBS)
Kevin Dillon - When He's Not a Stranger (CBS)
Cory Danziger - Married to the Mob (Orion Pictures)
Stephen Dorff - Do You Know the Muffin Man? (CBS)
Brandon Quintin Adams - Polly (NBC)
Corin Nemec - I Know My First Name Is Steven (NBC)
Jacob Vargas - Hard Time on Planet Earth (CBS)
Joey Lawrence - Adventures in Babysitting (Walt Disney Television)
Lantz Landry - No Place Like Home (CBS)
Best Young Actress Starring in a TV Movie, Pilot or Special
★ Juliet Sorcey - Taken Away (CBS)Annabeth Gish - When He's Not a Stranger (CBS)
Amy Lynne - Private Affairs (CBS)
Keshia Knight Pulliam - Polly (NBC)
Emily Schulman - Caddie Woodlawn (Churchill Films)
Best Young Performer in a Television Series
Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series
★ Neil Patrick Harris - Doogie Howser, M.D. (ABC)Danny Ponce - The Hogan Family (ABC)
Darius McCrary - Family Matters (ABC)
Vonni Ribisi - My Two Dads (NBC)
David Faustino - Married... with Children (FOX)
Fred Savage - The Wonder Years (ABC)
Matthew Newmark - Paradise (CBS)
Jason Hervey - The Wonder Years (ABC)
Jeremy Licht - The Hogan Family (NBC)
Jeremy Miller - Growing Pains (ABC)
Danny Pintauro - Who's the Boss? (ABC)
Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series
★ Jodie Sweetin - Full House (ABC)Candace Cameron - Full House (ABC)
Alyson Hannigan - Free Spirit (ABC)
Chelsea Hertford - Major Dad (CBS)
Staci Keanan - My Two Dads (NBC)
Lisa Rieffel - Ann Jillian (NBC)
Danica McKellar - The Wonder Years (ABC)
Jenny Beck - Paradise (CBS)
Best Young Actor Supporting Role in a Television Series
★ Malcolm-Jamal Warner - The Cosby Show (NBC)Brandon Call - Baywatch (NBC)
Kevin Telles - Life Goes On (ABC)
Luke Rossi - Thirtysomething (ABC)
Paul Scherrer - Free Spirit (ABC)
Harley Cross - Sister Kate (NBC)
Tommy Puett - Life Goes On (ABC)
Jeff Bollow - Ann Jillian (NBC)
Jason Priestley - Sister Kate (NBC)
Michael Faustino - HeartBeat (ABC)
Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Television Series
★ Andrea Barber - Full House (ABC)Amy Hathaway - My Two Dads (NBC)
Sara Gilbert - Roseanne (ABC)
Lauren Woodland - Alien Nation (FOX)
Tempestt Bledsoe - The Cosby Show (NBC)
Kellie Martin - Life Goes On (ABC)
Lecy Goranson - Roseanne (ABC)
Heidi Zeigler - Just the Ten of Us (ABC)
Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Television Series
★ Randy Josselyn - Family Matters (ABC)Mark Ballou - Paradise (CBS)
Michael John Burns - Paradise (CBS)
Justin Burnette - Who's the Boss? (ABC)
Scott Ferguson - Mancuso, F.B.I. (NBC)
Jason Horst - It's Garry Shandling's Show (Showtime)
Cuba Gooding, Jr. - MacGyver (ABC)
Kenny Morrison - Growing Pains (ABC)
Ryan Bollman - Life Goes On (ABC)
John Chaidez - General Hospital (ABC)
Michael Bacall - Doogie Howser, M.D. (ABC)
Michael Bays - Life Goes On (ABC)
Brandon Stewart - The Judge (Syn.)
Bobby Jacoby - The Wonder Years (ABC)
Joshua Miller - The Wonder Years (ABC)
Best Young Actress Guest Starring in a Television Series
★ Solaz - The Judge (Syn.)
Mayim Bialik - Empty Nest (NBC)
Deonca Brown - Superior Court (Warner Bros. Television)
Holly Fields - MacGyver (ABC)
Karen Lundy - Midnight Caller (NBC)
Crystal McKellar - Paradise (CBS)
Juliet Sorcey- Wolf (CBS)
Best Young Actor in an Off-Prime Time Family Series
★ Scott Nemes - It's Garry Shandling's Show (Showtime)Dustin Diamond - Saved by the Bell (NBC)
Alexander Polinsky - Charles in Charge (Syndication)
Jason Marsden - The Munsters Today (Syndication)
Will Nipper - The New Lassie (Syndication)
Jerry O'Connell - My Secret Identity (CTV)
Kevin Osgood - MMC (Disney Channel)
Damon Pampolina - MMC (Disney Channel)
John Snee - The New Leave It to Beaver (WTBS)
Wil Wheaton - Star Trek: The Next Generation (Syndication)
Best Young Actress in an Off-Prime Time Family Series
★ Lark Voorhies - Saved by the Bell (NBC)Tiffany Brissette - Small Wonder (FOX TV)
Wendy Cox - The New Lassie (Syndication)
Josie Davis - Charles in Charge (Syndication)
Nicole Eggert - Charles in Charge (Syndication)
Maureen Flannigan - Out of This World (Syndication)
Hilary Van Dyke - The Munsters Today (Syndication)
Best Young Actor in a Daytime Drama
★ R. J. Williams - General Hospital (ABC)Michael Bays - Days of Our Lives (NBC)
Justin Gocke - Santa Barbara (NBC)
Ryan Brennan - Days of Our Lives (NBC)
Best Young Actress in a Daytime Drama
★ Ashley Peldon - Guiding Light (CBS)Kimberly McCullough - General Hospital (ABC)
Christie Clark - Days of Our Lives (NBC)
Mindy Clarke - Days of Our Lives (NBC)
Julie Condra - Santa Barbara (NBC)
Best Young Performer Under 9 Years of Age
Outstanding Performance by an Actor Under 9 Years of Age
★ Brian Bonsall - Family Ties (NBC)Michael Patrick Carter - Paradise (CBS)
Miko Hughes - Pet Sematary (Paramount Pictures)
Zachary La Voy - Parenthood (Universal Pictures)
Tony T. Johnson - Amen (NBC)
Outstanding Performance by an Actress Under 9 Years of Age
★ Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - Full House (ABC)Nicole Alysia - Sidewalk Stories (Island Pictures)
Brighton Hertford - General Hospital (ABC)
Raven-Symoné - The Cosby Show (NBC)
Thora - Day by Day (NBC)
Best Young Ensemble Cast
Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast
★ A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (NBC) - Garland Spencer, A.J. Johnson, Leon, T. C. Carson, Swain Perry, Nathaniel Barnes, Robert Bady, Shamon Ricks and Larry O. WilliamsHomeroom (ABC) - B.D. Williams, Daphne Lyn Jones, Trent Cameron and Johnny Bennett
Kids Incorporated (Disney) - Love Hewitt, Sean O'Riordan, Stacy Ferguson, Kenny Ford, Devyn Puett and [Richard Shoff
Saved by the Bell (NBC) - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley and Lark Voorhies
Degrassi Junior High (CBC Television) - Dayo Ade, Sara Ballingall, Stefan Brogren, Michael Carry, Christopher Charlesworth, Amanda Cook, Irene Courakos, Angela Deiseach, Anais Granofsky, Rebecca Haines, Neil Hope, Cathy Keenan, Pat Mastroianni, Maureen McKay, Stacie Mistysyn, Bill Parrott, Siluck Saysanasy, Amanda Stepto and Duncan Waugh
Best Family Television Entertainment
Best Family TV Movie Pilot or Special
★ I Know My First Name Is Steven (NBC)Free to Be... A Family (Landmark)
CBS Schoolbreak Special - Frog Girl, The Jennifer Graham Story (CBS)
No Place Like Home (Orion Television)
When He's Not a Stranger (CBS)
Best New Television Series
★ Major Dad (CBS)Ann Jillian (NBC)
Baywatch (NBC)
Doogie Howser, M.D. (ABC)
Family Matters (ABC)
Free Spirit (ABC)
Life Goes On (ABC)
Sister Kate (NBC)
Best Off-Prime Time Family Series
★ Out of This WorldCharles in Charge (Syn.)
The New Lassie (Syn.)
The Munsters Today (Syn.)
The New Leave It to Beaver (TBS)
Saved By the Bell (NBC)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Syn.)
Superboy (Syn.)
My Secret Identity (CTV/Syn.)
Best Family Motion Picture Entertainment
Best Family Motion Picture: Adventure or Cartoon
★ The Little Mermaid (Disney)All Dogs Go to Heaven (MGM - UA)
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (Columbia)
Babar: The Movie (New Line Cinema)
The Bear (Tri - Star)
Best Family Motion Picture: Musical or Fantasy
★ Back to the Future Part II (Universal)The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (Columbia)
The Abyss (20th Century Fox)
Batman (Warner Bros.)
Best Family Motion Picture: Comedy
★ Parenthood (Universal)Ghostbusters II (Columbia)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Buena Vista)
Look Who's Talking (Tri-Star)
The Wizard (Universal)
Turner & Hooch (Buena Vista)
Best Motion Picture: Drama
★ Dead Poets Society (Touchstone)Dad (Universal)
Immediate Family (Columbia)
Lean on Me (Warner Bros.)
My Left Foot (Miramax)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Paramount)
Youth In Film's Special Awards
Former Child Star - Life Achievement Award
★ Jon Provost - LassieFormer Child Star - Life Achievement Award
★ Margaret O'Brien - Journey for MargaretThe Michael Landon Award
Outstanding Contribution to Youth through Television
★ Donna Metroff, Producer - WonderWorks PBSThe Jackie Coogan Award
Outstanding Contribution to Youth through Motion Pictures
★ Norman Twain, Producer - Lean on MeInspiration to Youth
★ Christopher Burke - Life Goes OnBest Young Actor Under 9 Appearing in a Foreign Film
★ Salvatore Cascio (Italy) - Cinema ParadisoOutstanding Young Actor in a Foreign Film
★ Max Rennie (England) - When the Whales CameOutstanding Young Actress in a Foreign Film
★ Helen Pearce (England) - When the Whales CameBest Foreign Film
★ When the Whales Came (England)'''
References
External links
Official site
Young Artist Awards ceremonies
1989 film awards
1989 television awards
1990 in California
1990 in American cinema
1990 in American television |
Gerald Clarke may refer to:
Gerald Clarke (author), American biographer
Gerald Clarke (artist), Cahuillia sculptor and artist from California
Gerald B. Clarke, Rhodesian politician
See also
Gerry Clark (1927–1999), New Zealand sailor and ornithologist
Jeremy Clark (born 1982), American football player
Jeremy Clarke (disambiguation) |
Palle Bruun (10 May 1873 – 21 October 1910) was a Danish hydraulic engineer who designed the fishing harbour in Skagen in the north of Jutland.
Biography
The son of Captain Carl Bruun, Bruun was born in Holmen, Copenhagen. After matriculating from Herlufsholm School in 1891, he completed his studies at Copenhagen's Technical University in 1898, immediately being commissioned to work for the Danish Board of Maritime Works (Vandbygningsvæsenet) where he was assigned to work in Esbjerg Harbour in 1899. From 1904, his responsibilities covered the design of harbour facilities in Skagen in the north of Jutland which were completed in 1907. In this connection, he studied the harbours in the Faroe Islands, draughting a report on his findings. In 1906, together with J. Munch-Petersen and H.P. Meden, in 1906 he was awarded a prize from the technical association for a study regarding the protection of Møns Klint from the effects of the sea.
By 1910, Bruun had become a close friend of the Skagen Painters, especially Anna Ancher with whom he corresponded over several years.
References
1873 births
1910 deaths
20th-century Danish engineers
Harbour engineers
Engineers from Copenhagen
People from Skagen |
The Shrine of the Báb is a structure on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner of Baháʼu'lláh in the Baháʼí Faith, are buried; it is considered to be the second holiest place on Earth for Baháʼís, after the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh in Acre. Its precise location on Mount Carmel was designated by Baháʼu'lláh himself to his eldest son, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, in 1891. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá planned the structure, which was designed and completed several years later by his grandson, Shoghi Effendi.
Crowning the design, as anticipated by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, is a dome, which is set on an 18-windowed drum. That, in turn, is mounted on an octagon, a feature suggested by Shoghi Effendi. An arcade surrounds the stone edifice. A restoration project of the exterior and interior of the shrine started in 2008 and was completed in April 2011.
History
First mausoleum
Bahá'u'lláh arrived in the Haifa-Akka region as a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire in the same year as the first German Templer colony in Palestine was founded in Haifa. Years later, after his release from strict confinement, he visited the Templer Colony on Mount Carmel several times and wrote a letter to Georg David Hardegg, the co-founder of the Templer movement. He subsequently asked his son, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, to build, on the alignment of the Templer Colony road (Carmel Avenue) with the shrine to the forerunner of the religion, known as "the Báb", halfway up the mountain. The conjunction of the Templer buildings and the Shrine have become the most significant landmark in the modern city of Haifa.
The remains of the Báb were buried on March 21, 1909 in a six-room mausoleum made of local stone. In a separate room, the remains of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá were buried in November 1921. In 1929 three rooms were added to the mausoleum.
Final shrine
In 1949 the first threshold stone of the superstructure was laid by Shoghi Effendi. The construction was completed over the mausoleum in 1953 and was entirely paid for by Baháʼís around the world.
The architect was William Sutherland Maxwell, a Canadian Baháʼí who was a Beaux-Arts architect and the father-in-law of Shoghi Effendi. Shoghi Effendi provided overall guidance, including in the use of Western and Eastern styles, but left the artistic details to Maxwell. Maxwell's design of the Baveno rose granite colonnade, Oriental-style Chiampo stone arches, and golden dome is meant to harmonize Eastern and Western proportions and style. Maxwell died in 1952, and Shoghi Effendi named the southern door of the Shrine after him. Some remaining aspects of the dome's structural engineering were designed by Professor H. Neumann of Haifa's Technion University.
In 1952, Leroy Ioas, an American Baháʼí who had been closely associated with the construction of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois helped Shoghi Effendi in the construction process. Ioas employed his administrative skills and practical mind to supervise the building of the drum and dome, a task done without the availability of sophisticated machinery. Shoghi Effendi named the door on the octagon after him.
Because of the scarcity of building materials in the area after World War II, most of the stones for the Shrine of the Báb were carved in Italy with the assistance of Ugo Giachery and then shipped to Haifa. One of the doors of the Shrine was named after Giachery. The superstructure was said to be at the time the largest prefabricated building to move from Europe to any point in the world.
Design and composition
Dome
The dome is composed of 12,000 fish-scale tiles - in the original version of the 1950s, a Dutch company created a special technology, baking the clay tiles three times, twice with different glazes, and lastly with a 15% gold solution.
After over 50 years of exposure the old tiles were badly broken and damaged, and the new tiles, first uncovered in 2011, are of more than 120 different shapes and sizes, and were made in Portugal by employing an innovative process involving porcelain being repeatedly fire-glazed, covered in gold solution, and sealed with an extremely durable coating.
Octagon and drum
The main body of the building, centered around the tomb of the Báb, is octagonal.
The cylindrical drum set between the octagon and the dome rises 11 meters and rests on a circular steel-reinforced-concrete ring on the top of the octagon.
Decorations
The Shrine is decorated with emerald green and scarlet mosaics on the balustrade above, a fire-gilded bronze symbol of the Greatest Name of the Baháʼí Faith at the four corners, and a multitude of intricate decorations and motifs.
Interior
The Shrine is a place for quiet prayer and meditation where no ceremonies or religious services are held. A special prayer used by Baháʼís when visiting the Shrine, known as the Tablet of Visitation, is hung on the wall in both the original Arabic and an English translation.
Titles
Shoghi Effendi, in a message dated 19 August 1953, has described the Shrine in the following poetic way: "...Queen of Carmel enthroned on God's Mountain, crowned in glowing gold, robed in shimmering white, girdled in emerald green, enchanting every eye from air, sea, plain and hill." He has also called the Shrine the Kúh-i-Núr (Mountain of Light), facing and overshadowed by the Daryá-yi-Núr (Ocean of Light, the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh).
UNESCO World Heritage Site
On July 8, 2008, the Shrine of the Báb, along with several other Baháʼí holy sites in Haifa and the nearby city of Acre (Akko), were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Baháʼí shrines "are the first sites connected with a relatively new religious tradition to be recognized by the World Heritage List." The UNESCO World Heritage Committee considers the sites to be "of outstanding universal value [and]...inscribed for the testimony they provide to the Baháʼí's strong tradition of pilgrimage and for their profound meaning for the faith."
"We welcome the UNESCO recognition, which highlights the importance of the holy places of a religion that in 150 years has gone from a small group found only in the Middle East to a worldwide community with followers in virtually every country," said Albert Lincoln, secretary-general of the Baha'i International Community.
Terraced gardens
Surrounded by terraced gardens, the Shrine is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Haifa and has attracted millions of visitors. The Shrine is enhanced by 19 garden terraces that stretch one kilometre from the base of Mount Carmel to its summit, and both the terraces and the Shrine are illuminated at night. The Baháʼís consider the Shrine of the Báb and the surrounding gardens to be a "gift to humanity."
See also
Religious significance of the Syrian region
References
Further reading
Day, Michael V. (2017). Journey To A Mountain - The Story of the Shrine of the Báb (Volume 1: 1850-1921).. George Ronald, UK. .
Day, Michael V. (2018). Coronation on Carmel - The Story of the Shrine of the Báb (Volume II: 1922–1963).. George Ronald, UK. .
Day, Michael V. (2019). Sacred Stairway - The Story of the Shrine of the Báb (Volume III: 1963–2001).. George Ronald, UK. .
External links
The Baháʼí Gardens - Official Website
Baháʼí Pilgrimage - Shrine of the Báb
More pictures of Shrine of the Báb
Baha'i World News Service: Golden tile from Baha'i shrine goes on display in museum
Photos - The Baháʼí Gardens in Haifa: the Shrine of the Bab Terraces & Gardens
Haifa's Majestic Bahai Gardens - A UNESCO World Heritage Site
1953 establishments in Israel
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1953
Bahá'í pilgrimages
Bahá'í shrines in Israel
World Heritage Sites in Israel
Religious buildings and structures in Haifa
Mount Carmel |
Mimozotale minuta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pic in 1926. It is known from Vietnam.
References
Desmiphorini
Beetles described in 1926 |
HMS Sickle was a third-batch S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Completed in 1942, she made her initial war patrol off the Norwegian coast. Sickle then sailed to Gibraltar, from where she conducted one patrol, then to Algiers, French North Africa. From 10 May to 10 October, the boat patrolled the Gulf of Genoa five times and sank a German submarine as well as three minesweepers and an escort ship. She then moved to Beirut, French Lebanon, and conducted two patrols in the Aegean Sea, sinking three caïques and a merchant ship, in addition to landing resistance operatives in Greece.
On her second patrol from Beirut, Sickles electric motors were damaged during an attack by two destroyers, so she sailed to Gibraltar for repairs. Several months later, the boat returned to service and conducted two patrols in the Aegean, sinking another three caïques, a sailing vessel, and a merchant ship. On 31 May 1944, Sickle departed Malta for a patrol in the Aegean and did not return. It is considered probable that she hit mines on her way back to Malta around 16–18 June 1944.
Design and description
The S-class submarines were designed to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The third batch was slightly enlarged and improved over the preceding second batch of the S class. The submarines had a length of overall, a beam of and a draught of . They displaced on the surface and submerged. The S-class submarines had a crew of 48 officers and ratings. They had a diving depth of .
For surface running, the boats were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. They could reach on the surface and underwater. On the surface, the third-batch boats had a range of at and at submerged.
The boats were armed with seven 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Six of these were in the bow, and one external tube was mounted in the stern. They carried six reload torpedoes for the bow tubes for a total of thirteen torpedoes. Twelve mines could be carried in lieu of the internally stowed torpedoes. They were also armed with a 3-inch (76 mm) deck gun. It is uncertain if Sickle was completed with a Oerlikon light AA gun or had one added later. The third-batch S-class boats were fitted with either a Type 129AR or 138 ASDIC system and a Type 291 or 291W early-warning radar.
Construction and career
HMS Sickle was a third-group S-class submarine and was ordered by the British Admiralty on 2 September 1940. She was laid down in the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead on 8 May 1941 and launched on 27 August 1942. On 28 November 1942, the boat, under the command of Lieutenant James Drummond, sailed to Holy Loch, where she was commissioned into the Royal Navy three days later. Thus far, Sickle has been the only ship to bear the name in the Royal Navy.
Between 11 and 31 January 1943, she conducted a war patrol off Norway, but sighted only another British submarine, . Sickle then sailed from Great Britain to Gibraltar on 6 April, with orders to intercept the Italian blockade runner Himalaya which was thought to be in the vicinity. Himalaya had stayed in port and the submarine proceeded on to Gibraltar as planned.
On 18 April 1943, she departed harbour to conduct a patrol off Valencia, Spain. Five days later, the boat sighted the Italian merchant ship Mauro Croce and fired two torpedoes; the torpedoes ran under the ship, so Sickle surfaced to use her deck gun. However, after firing 19 rounds and scoring several hits, her gun jammed and she had to break off the attack. The submarine ended her patrol in Algiers on 27 April.
Algiers
Sickle departed Algiers to patrol off southern France on 10 May 1943. After five days at sea, she attacked a German convoy south of Nice, France, and sank the German submarine chaser UJ-2213 which had been painted to appear like an oil tanker. The boat next attacked the with torpedoes on 20 May, but missed; U-755 was sunk eight days later by aircraft. The next day, Sickle attacked the off Toulon and hit it with two torpedoes; U-303 sank in half a minute. She then returned to Algiers on 25 May. After leaving on her next patrol on 16 June, Sickle unsuccessfully attacked an enemy submarine on 18 June, then returned to port on 1 July.
On 13 July 1943, the boat departed Algiers to patrol in the Gulf of Genoa and east of Corsica. Four days later, Sickle fired three torpedoes at an Italian convoy without success. On 18 July, she sank with gunfire two Italian minesweepers, No. G.61 and No. R.164, east of Gorgona, Italy. The next day, she sank another Italian minesweeper, V 131, off Porto-Vecchio, Corsica. Sickle next attacked the Italian merchant ship Alfredo Oriani with seven torpedoes; two hit, but the ship did not sink and was towed back to port. The submarine also missed the German oil tanker Champagne on 22 July, then returned to Algiers on 28 July. Drummond was awarded the Distinguished Service Order at the end of this patrol.
She began a new patrol on 17 August, operating east of Corsica. After patrolling for eleven days, Sickle torpedoed and sank the German escort ship , which was escorting a convoy. Sickle then ended her patrol on 5 September.
On 22 September, Sickle left Algiers to patrol the Gulf of Genoa in the same area as in her previous patrol. In the evening of 28 September, the submarine landed two men near Sestri Levante, Italy; their mission was to gather intelligence as well as organize resistance movements and escapes of Allied prisoners of war to Switzerland. On 30 September and 3 October, Sickle attacked a small coastal trading vessel and a submarine chaser with three torpedoes each, missing with all six. The boat then returned to Algiers on 10 October.
Beirut
Between 25 October and 1 November, Sickle sailed from Algiers to Beirut, in Allied-occupied Lebanon, then shifted to Haifa. On 11 November, the boat departed Haifa to conduct a war patrol in the Aegean Sea. Sickle first sank with gunfire the Greek caïque Maria (MY 153) west of Amorgos, then torpedoed and sank the Italian merchant ship Giovanni Boccaccio off Monemvasia, two days later. She next sank with gunfire two sailing vessels near Milos; these were the Greek caïques Piraeus no. 795 and Samos no. 45. The boat returned to Beirut on 25 November.
On 13 December, Sickle departed Beirut for another war patrol in the Aegean and attempted to attack a German convoy on 20 December. The next day, her periscope was sighted while looking into the harbour at Karlovasi, and she was attacked with depth charges by the German torpedo boats TA14 and TA15; Sickle sustained significant damage, especially to her electric motors. On 23 December, the submarine landed four Special Operations Executive Greek resistance men in Kalomos Bay, east of Euboea. Three days later, she sank with gunfire and by ramming two small unidentified Greek sailing vessels east of Mykonos Island; the crews of both ships were picked up by Sickle. The boat ended her patrol on 2 January 1944.
Malta
From 14 to 19 January, Sickle sailed to Malta, then to Gibraltar. There, she underwent repairs to her electric motors until 14 April, when she returned to Malta.
On 29 April, Sickle departed Malta to patrol in the Aegean Sea, where she sighted a German transport escorted by three destroyers, but lost sight of them in the fog on 7 May. The next day, the boat sank three Greek sailing vessels with demolition charges and by ramming in the Doro Channel. She initially attacked them on the surface with her deck gun, but it jammed after firing four rounds, so Sickle boarded the first ship, a caïque flying the Greek flag with the German occupation pennon. The ship was carrying a cargo of oranges and lemons, and sailors from Sickle brought a thousand of these to their submarine as an addition to their diet, then holed the caïque's hull, sinking it. The next two ships did not carry any salvageable cargo, and Sickle sank one with demolition charges and the other by ramming. On 11 May, Sickle surfaced and bombarded an enemy radar station with her three-inch deck gun; 17 rounds hit their target but the enemy returned fire four minutes later, wounding three men, including Sickles captain and forcing her to submerge. Shortly after midnight on 13 May, the boat surfaced and sank the German sailing vessel Fratelli Corrao with gunfire. Two days later, she returned to Malta.
On 31 May, Sickle left Malta harbour for a patrol in the Aegean Sea; this was to be Sickles last patrol. On 4 June, she engaged enemy ships on the surface at Mytilene; two sailors were wounded, one killed, and another washed overboard and captured. This man later became Sickles only survivor. She was ordered on 5 June to patrol the eastern approach to the Doro channel. On 6 June, the submarine torpedoed and sank the German merchant ship Reaumur, and on 7 June a German lighter reported having been missed by torpedoes potentially launched by Sickle. On 8 June, a submarine that was possibly Sickle sank three caïques near Skopelos, and she missed the German transport Lola with torpedoes on 9 June. A submarine, again possibly Sickle, sank the caïque Efitichia with gunfire and bombarded a shipyard at Mytilene on 14 June 1944. The submarine was never seen again, and it is considered likely that she was sunk by mines on her way back to Malta in the Kythira Strait on or around 18 June.
Summary of raiding history
During her service with the Royal Navy, Sickle sank 10 Axis ships for a total of as well as a German U-boat, three caïques and a sailing vessel of unknown tonnage.
Citations
References
British S-class submarines (1931)
Missing submarines of World War II
1942 ships
World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Lost submarines of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Mersey
Submarines lost with all hands
Maritime incidents in June 1944
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
Ships sunk by mines |
Secret Story 2011 is a Dutch reality competition television show based on the original French series Secret Story and part of the franchise of the same name.
Despite not being an adaptation of the Big Brother franchise, the show has a similar concept. The show started on February 13, 2011 on NET 5. The host for the Galas is Renate Verbaan and for the Daily Diary is Bart Boonstra. The house is the same one used in the Portuguese version, although it has been redecorated for this version.
There were 15 housemates. The show lasted three months like the French and Portuguese versions, concluded on May 12, 2011 for a total of 91 days.
Housemates
Aafke
I am a professional piercer
Alexander
On Day 7, it was revealed to the public that Alexander is a Knight.
Cynthia
Cynthia was evicted on Day 14 with 20% of the votes to save. After she was evicted, she confirmed her secret was that she had been homeless.
Gerard
During the live show on Day 14, Gerard's secret was revealed to the public as he is a millionaire.
Guido
When Guido and Laura entered the house on Day 1, they were given their secret - they are in a fake relationship.
Joanna
Joanna's secret was revealed on Day 1 - she is a sleepwalker.
Jurien
Jurien was the first housemate to be evicted on Day 7, where he revealed his secret: He used steroids once.
Karim
Karim has been in a Bollywood movie.
Laura
Laura entered the house on Day 1 and was told her secret was to be in a fake relationship with Guido.
Maik
Maik entered the house on day 1 and was the third evicted on day 21. He didn't need to leave the house. Instead, he was held in the Secret Chamber for the weekend whereafter he was allowed to return to the house and continue the game. The only sidenote is he can only keep half the money if he is the winner of Secret Story. Maik's secret is: he underwent a breast reduction.
Monique
Is gifted.
Philip
I had a romance with an Olympic gold winner Femke Heemskerk
Servio
I am a bingo-queen. his nickname was miss windy mills
Sharon
I survived the tsunami
Sofia
Grew up in an orphanage (her parents were inland skippers)
Secrets
Housemates' secrets...
1. I am a millionaire
2. I am a bingo-queen
3. I am a professional piercer
4 / 5. Our relationship is a lie (for two people)
6. I've played in a Bollywood movie
7. I use steroids
8. I grew up in an orphanage
9. I had a romance with an Olympic gold winner
10. I am a Knight
11. I sleepwalk
12. I had a breast reduction
13. I am gifted
14. I survived the tsunami
15. I've been homeless
Secrets unveiled to the public
Kick-Off
Laura & Guido had imposed a new secret. The relationship between Laura and Guido is a lie. Joanna sleepwalking, which she at first told the broadcast room of the truth.
1 Elimination Show
Alex told the House of Truth that he is a knight. Jurien ingested steroids, he tells Renata when he is eliminated.
2 Elimination Show
Veronica Magazine is the premiere online at 16:00 to announce that Gerard millionaire. Cynthia has been temporarily homeless, she says that after she was eliminated.
3 Elimination Show
"The Voice" Karim confronted with the fact that he's played in a Bollywood movie. Maik has had a breast reduction, he says that after he is eliminated.
4 Elimination Show
Monique told the House of Truth that she is gifted. Sofia grew up in a boarding school, she says that after she was eliminated.
5 Elimination Show
Sharon told the House of Truth that they survived the tsunami of 2004.
Nominations
Notes:
In round one of nominations, only female housemates could nominate and only male housemates could be nominated.
In round two of nominations, only male housemates could nominate and only female housemates could be nominated.
In round three of nominations, only female housemates could nominate and only male housemates could be nominated.
Maik gets a second change of "De Stem", Maik didn't leave the house but came in the Secret room.
During the fourth round of nominations, Maik was in the Secret room and could not nominate.
In round four of nominations, only male housemates could nominate and only female housemates could be nominated.
In round five of nominations, only female housemates could nominate and only male housemates could be nominated.
In round six of nominations, every housemate could nominate.
Gerard gets nominated by "De Stem" because he took off the handcuffs in the handcuffs challenge.
In round seven of nominations, only male housemates could nominate and only female housemates could be nominated.
In round eight of nominations, every housemate could nominate.
Alexander gets nominated because Laura failed to complete her challenge.
In round nine of nominations there was no nomination because the losing team was automatically nominated.
In round ten of nominations, every housemate could nominate to save, not evict. The housemates with the least support from their fellow housemates were nominated.
Eviction Results
Week 1: Philip (39%), Gerard: (31%) and Jurien: (30%)
Week 2: Laura (50%), Aafke: (30%) and Cynthia: (20%)
Week 3: Alexander: (38%), Servio (35%) and Maik: (27%)
Week 4: Laura: (49%), Sharon: (29%) and Sofia: (22%)
Week 5: Philip: (42%), Servio: (51%) and Guido: (49%)
Week 6: Gerard: (78%) and Servio: (22%)
Week 7: Sharon (40%), Joanna: (38%) and Aafke: (22%)
Week 8: Karim: (40%), Philip (39%) and Alexander: (21%)
Week 9: Sharon (36%), Gerard: (35%) and Maik: (29%)
Week 10: Joanna: (72%) and Laura: (28%)
Week 11: Joanna: (48%), Karim: (28%) and Gerard: (24%)
Week 12: Sharon: (51%), Karim: (26%) and Monique: (23%)
Housemates Individual Account Totals
The totals of the housemates individual bank accounts can be increased by passing individual tasks and discovering other housemates secrets. These totals can also be negatively affected by excessive rule breaking and having their (the housemate) secret discovered/revealing their secret.
External links
Official website
2011 Dutch television seasons
Secret Story (franchise)
Netherlands
Net5 original programming
Dutch television series based on non-Dutch television series |
Zachary Miskom Tom (born March 26, 1999) is an American football offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wake Forest and was drafted by the Packers in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
Early life and high school career
Tom was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana grew up in Prairieville, Louisiana, and attended Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
College career
Tom was a member of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons for five seasons and redshirted his true freshman season. He became the team's starting center going into his redshirt sophomore season and was named honorable mention All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) after starting all 13 of Wake Forest's games. Tom moved to left tackle the following season and started nine games. He was named first-team All-ACC in 2021.
Professional career
Tom was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round (140th overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft. He signed his four-year rookie contract on May 26, 2022. He saw his first NFL action on September 11, 2022, during a Week 1 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, filling in at left guard after starter Jon Runyan Jr. suffered a concussion in the third quarter.
Personal life
Tom's brother Cameron is also an offensive lineman in the NFL and went to college at Southern Miss.
References
External links
Green Bay Packers bio
Wake Forest Demon Deacons bio
Living people
American football offensive tackles
Wake Forest Demon Deacons football players
Green Bay Packers players
1999 births
People from Prairieville, Louisiana
Players of American football from Louisiana
Catholic High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) alumni |
Asaperda sylvicultrix is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Toyoshima and Iwata in 1990.
References
Asaperda
Beetles described in 1990 |
Secret Circle may refer to:
The Secret Circle, a trilogy of novels by L.J. Smith
The Secret Circle (TV series), based on the novels
Secret Circle (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
Secret Circle (group), a hip hop group formed in 2016 |
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The molecular formula C3H8N2 (molar mass: 72.11 g/mol, exact mass: 72.0688 u) may refer to:
Acetone hydrazone
Imidazolidine
Pyrazolidine |
Lysozus is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Species
Lysozus columbianus Enderlein, 1914
Distribution
Colombia.
References
Stratiomyidae
Brachycera genera
Monotypic Brachycera genera
Endemic fauna of Colombia
Taxa named by Günther Enderlein
Diptera of South America |
Starigrad () is a municipality in Croatia in the Zadar County. The total population is 1,876 (census 2011). According to the 2011 census, 96% of the population are Croats.
The list of settlements in the municipality is:
Seline, population 469
Starigrad Paklenica, population 1,140
Tribanj, population 267
History
Argyruntum was on a , now silted, island in the area east of the port. Emperor Tiberius erected protective walls and towers. Findings from about four hundred tombs are an evidence of great prosperity and trade relations in the Mediterranean. The oldest relic in the vicinity of Starigrad is the St. George Chapel in Rovanjska and St. Peter's Chapel in Starigrad from the ninth or tenth century. Mediaeval traces are the castles "Večka kula" (old names were: Vega, Vegium (not to be confused with Vegium (Karlobag).) and Wezuliae), which was the mediaeval Harbormasters' office, on a peninsula east of Starigrad and the "Paklarić" on the prehistoric ruins of the entrance to the Velika Paklenica.
References
Municipalities of Croatia
Populated coastal places in Croatia
Populated places in Zadar County
Illyrian Croatia |
Agnes Magnell (26 November 1878, Uddevalla – 1966) was a Swedish architect. She was the first woman in Sweden to be admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology to study architecture.
Life and work
Agnes Magnell came from an affluent family, her father was an officer and a landowner. She started artistic studies in 1894 at Konstfack in Stockholm and was there encouraged by one of her teachers to apply to study architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology. Although in principle women were not allowed to study at the institute, an exception was made after her father had written a formal request to the King in Council. She was the first woman to be admitted to the school for the purpose of studying architecture. She studied at the Royal Institute of Technology for four years. In the last year of her studies she met and married an engineer named Schmitt, and spent some time working with her husband designing water towers and electricity power plants. She never graduated, and after a few years stopped working actively to instead become a housewife. The water tower in Sala is an example of her work.
References
Further reading
Swedish architects
1878 births
1966 deaths |
Erzsébet Márkus-Peresztegi (born August 23, 1969 in Sopron, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a retired female weightlifter from Hungary. She became an Olympic medalist during the 2000 Summer Olympics when she won the silver medal in the women's – 69 kg class.
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sopron
Hungarian female weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
Olympic weightlifters for Hungary
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
20th-century Hungarian women
21st-century Hungarian women |
"Supersymmetry" is episode 5 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by Bill L. Norton, it was originally broadcast on November 3, 2002, on the WB network.
Plot
Fred's article on superstring theory is published in an academic journal, and she is asked to present it at a physics symposium by her old college professor Seidel. Her presentation is interrupted when a dimensional portal opens and snake-like creatures emerge to kill her. Angel had spied Lilah during the speech and at first thinks she is behind it, but she was simply keeping an eye on Wesley.
Gunn and Angel suspect another member of the audience, a comic book fanatic who seemed to be expecting the portal's appearance, but it turns out he's just following stories of strange disappearances and reading about Angel on internet forums.
Fred learns that Professor Seidel is the one responsible and that he was the one who sent Fred into the Pylea dimension six years earlier. He felt Fred and other missing colleagues were competing for his job. Against Angel and Gunn's advice, Fred pursues vengeance against her former mentor. She asks for Wesley's help. When she is almost sucked into a portal opened by a text message from Seidel, Wesley agrees to help.
Meanwhile, Cordelia is staying with Connor at his vast empty loft. He trains her to slay vampires while romance blossoms.
Angel confronts Seidel (largely to protect him from Fred's vengeance), but Seidel releases a demon from a portal to attack Angel. Seidel tries to escape, but he encounters Fred. She opens her own portal, intending to send him to a hell dimension as punishment. As he is being sucked in, Gunn arrives. When he is unable to convince Fred to close the portal, Gunn snaps Seidel's neck and throws him into the portal. Fred and Gunn lie to Angel that Seidel fell victim to his own portal meant for Fred.
Connor arrives at the Hyperion Hotel to pick up Cordelia's things because they have decided to live together. Connor and Cordelia battle a common vampire. Elated when she stakes it, Cordelia impulsively kisses Connor. Connor embraces her, but Cordelia is uncomfortable and pulls away. She explains that she still doesn't know who she is or where she belongs. Connor angrily realizes that she's going back to Angel.
Cordelia arrives at the hotel to talk to Angel. She tells him that she is the same person she was before her amnesia, and that person doesn't need protecting. After Angel promises not to lie to her anymore, she asks him if they were in love.
Production details
Arc significance
This episode begins the breakup of Fred and Gunn's relationship, and indicates Connor's growing affection for Cordelia as the two share a kiss.
In addition, Wesley and Lilah's complicated relationship is further developed, as she brings him a gift and realizes that he is still attracted to Fred.
Angel demonstrates that he has photographic memory when he re-creates the auditorium environment with chairs and is able to recall exactly where every lecture attendee was seated and how each one responded to the portal.
Despite the story originally suggesting it was simply a coincidence that Fred came upon the book, it's revealed that Fred's college professor Seidel was responsible for her being sent to Pylea, as well as several other students. A later episode, "Inside Out," implies Seidel himself was manipulated by the demon Skip as part of a long-term plan to assemble the members of Angel Investigations.
Cultural references
The Incredible Hulk: After Angel threatens Lilah she responds with "Yeah, yeah, 'Hulk smash'" a common phrase from the Hulk comic books.
Daredevil, Elektra, and Bullseye: During the scene with comic book reader, Jared, Gunn references Bullseye killing Elektra in Daredevil #181.
Dark Horse Comics: During the same scene, Jared is wearing a Thwack! shirt, the comic book fan says, "we're kinda crushing the Dark Horses" when Gunn is pushing him up against the comic book rack, on which Dark Horse comics such as Usagi Yojimbo are visible. Angel is reading from a Ghost comic, which is published by Dark Horse. Dark Horse had published the first series of Angel comics and currently publishes the Buffy Season 8 series.
The girl, the cat and the peanut butter: A reference to a well-known urban myth, although the myth usually involves a dog, not a cat.
Chicago Cubs: Fred mentions former Cubs stars Sammy Sosa and Nomar Garciaparra, although when the episode originally aired, Garciaparra was still with the Boston Red Sox.
Fred complains that people want her to be "all sweetness and light". This is an allusion to P.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred's stories.
Reception
UGO Networks calls this episode "one of the more interesting looks at murderous intent to come along in a while."
References
Further reading
John Kenneth Muir. The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television (2nd edn), p. 68 (McFarland; 2008)
External links
Angel (season 4) episodes
2002 American television episodes |
Al Qanab (, also Romanized as Al Qanāb) is a village in Ojarud-e Markazi Rural District, in the Central District of Germi County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 121, in 27 families.
References
Towns and villages in Germi County |
Kajymukan Munaitpasov Stadium (, Qajymuqan Muńaıtpasuly) is a multi-purpose stadium in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is home of the football club FC Ordabasy who is playing in Kazakhstan Premier League, Kazakhstan's top division of football. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people.
The stadium is named after Kazhymukan Munaitpasov, a Kazakh wrestler and repeated World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Football venues in Kazakhstan
Multi-purpose stadiums in Kazakhstan
Sport in Shymkent |
Kristina Zakrisson (born 2 March 1956) is a Swedish social democratic politician. She was a member of the Riksdag from 1994 to 2010 and has been Mayor of Kiruna Municipality since 2011.
External links
Kristina Zakrisson at the Riksdag website
Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats
Living people
1956 births
Women members of the Riksdag
Members of the Riksdag 1994–1998
21st-century Swedish women politicians
Members of the Riksdag 1998–2002
Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006
Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010
20th-century Swedish women politicians |
Reza Abedini (, born 1967 in Tehran) is an Iranian graphic designer and a professor. His works keep a modern theme as he blends traditional Islamic patterns, calligraphy and culture. He combines simple illustrations with poetic typography and elegant layouts, exploring the beauty of the Persian language. He is also an art critic, independent art director with Reza Abedini Studio and the editor-in-chief of Manzar magazine in Iran.
Early life
He graduated in 1985 from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran, majoring in graphic design. He went on to get a second degree and majored in painting from the Tehran University of Art and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1992. Upon graduating until 1993 he was the Editor of the visual section of Sureh Monthly Magazine. In 1993, he founded Reza Abedini Studio an independent design consultancy and art direction studio.
Design
His design influences, including Aleksander Rodchenko, Ikko Tanaka, Sani'ol Molk Ghafari, Roman Cieslewicz and Mirza Gholam-Reza Esfahani.
Abedini has won dozens of national and international design awards. In 2006, he received the Principal Prince Claus Award in recognition of his creativity in the production of unique graphic designs and the personal manner in which he applied and redefined the knowledge and accomplishments of Iran's artistic heritage, thus making them highly interesting. The award also focuses on the diversity of historical and modern Iranian culture, recognizing the impact of graphic design as an influential international means of communication.
Abedini has been a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society since 1997, he was a jury member at several biennials worldwide. His name is listed in Meggs History of Graphic Design as one of the world's outstanding post-digital graphic designers.
Academic career
Since 1996, he has been a professor at the University of Tehran in graphic design and visual culture. He previously was a visiting assistant professor of graphic design and visual culture at the American University of Beirut.
Honors and awards
1993, 1994, 1996 – First Prize: best film poster of Fajr International Film Festival Iran
1994 – Film Critics Special Award for the Best film poster, Iran
1996 – IRIB’S Special Award: The Best film poster, Iran
1999 – 3rd Award: poster, The 6th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers, Tehran
1999 – Special Award: Creativity from Iranian Graphic Designers Society, Tehran
2003 – Special Prize: China International Poster Biennale China
2004 – The Union of Visual Artists of the Czech Republic Award, Brno, Czech
2004 – Second prize: 15th Festival d'affiches de Chaumont France
2004 – Gold Prize: Hong Kong International Poster Triennial Hong Kong
2004 – First prize and gold medal: 8th International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico
2004 – Silver prize: Second International Poster Biennale Korea
2004 – First prize: The First international Biennale of the Islamic world Poster, Iran
2005 – Bronze Medal: The 2nd China International Poster Biennial CIPB, China
2005 – First prize: 9th Press Festival of Children & Young Adults, Iran
2006 – Principal award, Prince Claus Award, Netherlands
Bibliography
Reza Abedini (Vision of Design) by Jianping He ()
Reza Abedini (design & designer) by Alain le Quernec ()
New Visual Culture of Modern Iran by Reza Abedini and Hans Wolbers ()
Iran. Gnomi e giganti, paradossi e malintesi by Reza Abedini and Ebrahim Nabavi ()
See also
Other Iranian Prince Claus Award winners
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Ebrahim Nabavi
Notes
External links
Reza Abedini's Official Website
Reza Abedini won Prince Claus Award
Iranian graphic designers
Iranian typographers and type designers
Iranian expatriate academics
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Art educators
Writers from Tehran
1967 births
Living people
Iranian poster artists |
Tile Hill railway station is situated in the west of Tile Hill, Coventry, in the West Midlands of England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway.
History
Tile Hill station was opened in 1850, and was originally known as Allesley Lane, until 1857 it was renamed to Allesley Gate, it assumed its current name of Tile Hill in 1864. The station was located at a point where the railway crossed the road on a level crossing. It originally had staggered platforms, with one platform on one side of the level crossing, and the other to the other side of the level crossing. The station was completely rebuilt when the line was electrified in the 1960's to its more present conventional form.
The level crossing adjacent to the station lasted until 2004, where a large bridge was built to carry road traffic over the railway and a footbridge built to connect the station platforms, Level crossings at Berkswell and Canley were also removed to upgrade the line for more high speed trains.
In 2009 the railway platform was extended, almost doubling the size. This was the case for a number of stations along the route.
Historically this has been a busy railway station as many locals and non-resident locals used it as a park & ride, However, recently after the sale of the overflow car park to the developers there continues to be substantial parking issues at the station in and around the neighbouring roads.
Facilities
The station has a ticket office located on platform 1 which is open Monday 06:00–19:00, Tuesday-Thursday 07:00–19:00, Friday 07:00–20:00, Saturday 08:00–19:00 and Sunday 08:30–14:00. When the ticket office is open tickets must be purchased before boarding the train. Outside of these times there is a ticket machine outside the ticket office which accepts card payments only - cash and voucher payments can be made to the senior conductor on the train.
Services
Tile Hill is served by two trains per hour each way, to northbound and to via southbound. Some services to/from are split at with one service running between and and another between and .
On Sundays, the service is hourly during the morning with 2 trains per hour running through the afternoon.
All services are operated by West Midlands Trains. Most services are operated under the London Northwestern Railway brand but some services (mainly early morning and late night services which start/terminate at ) operate under the West Midlands Railway brand.
References
External links
Station on navigable O.S. map
Tile Hill Station - On Warwickshirerailways.com
Railway stations in Coventry
DfT Category E stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains |
Rundi may refer to:
Rundi language, the language of Burundi, commonly known as Kirundi
Rundi people, the people of Burundi. For specific information see:
Demographics of Burundi
Culture of Burundi
List of Burundians
Language and nationality disambiguation pages |
Diego is a Spanish male name.
Diego may also refer to:
People
Diego (given name), including a list of people with the given name
Diego (surname), including a list of people with the surname
Music and entertainment
Go, Diego, Go!, a US children's television show
Diego (band), an indie rock band from Germany
Diego (Ice Age), a Smilodon from the children's animated movie franchise Ice Age
Diego (album), a 2005 album by Diego Boneta
Other
DIEGO (furniture store), a Hungary-based retail furniture chain
Diego (grape) or Vigiriega, a Spanish grape
Diego (tortoise), a Hood Island giant tortoise
Diego antigen system, a system of blood groups
Diego's Hair Salon, in Washington, D.C.
Winter Storm Diego, a December 2018 storm in the United States
See also
San Diego (disambiguation)
ca:Dídac |
In mathematics, especially in the area of mathematical analysis known as dynamical systems theory, a linear flow on the torus is a flow on the n-dimensional torus
which is represented by the following differential equations with respect to the standard angular coordinates
The solution of these equations can explicitly be expressed as
If we represent the torus as we see that a starting point is moved by the flow in the direction at constant speed and when it reaches the border of the unitary -cube it jumps to the opposite face of the cube.
For a linear flow on the torus either all orbits are periodic or all orbits are dense on a subset of the -torus which is a -torus. When the components of are rationally independent all the orbits are dense on the whole space. This can be easily seen in the two dimensional case: if the two components of are rationally independent then the Poincaré section of the flow on an edge of the unit square is an irrational rotation on a circle and therefore its orbits are dense on the circle, as a consequence the orbits of the flow must be dense on the torus.
Irrational winding of a torus
In topology, an irrational winding of a torus is a continuous injection of a line into a two-dimensional torus that is used to set up several counterexamples. A related notion is the Kronecker foliation of a torus, a foliation formed by the set of all translates of a given irrational winding.
Definition
One way of constructing a torus is as the quotient space of a two-dimensional real vector space by the additive subgroup of integer vectors, with the corresponding projection Each point in the torus has as its preimage one of the translates of the square lattice in and factors through a map that takes any point in the plane to a point in the unit square given by the fractional parts of the original point's Cartesian coordinates. Now consider a line in given by the equation If the slope of the line is rational, then it can be represented by a fraction and a corresponding lattice point of It can be shown that then the projection of this line is a simple closed curve on a torus. If, however, is irrational, then it will not cross any lattice points except 0, which means that its projection on the torus will not be a closed curve, and the restriction of on this line is injective. Moreover, it can be shown that the image of this restricted projection as a subspace, called the irrational winding of a torus, is dense in the torus.
Applications
Irrational windings of a torus may be used to set up counter-examples related to monomorphisms. An irrational winding is an immersed submanifold but not a regular submanifold of the torus, which shows that the image of a manifold under a continuous injection to another manifold is not necessarily a (regular) submanifold. Irrational windings are also examples of the fact that the topology of the submanifold does not have to coincide with the subspace topology of the submanifold.
Secondly, the torus can be considered as a Lie group , and the line can be considered as . Then it is easy to show that the image of the continuous and analytic group homomorphism is not a regular submanifold for irrational although it is an immersed submanifold, and therefore a Lie subgroup. It may also be used to show that if a subgroup of the Lie group is not closed, the quotient does not need to be a manifold and might even fail to be a Hausdorff space.
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
General topology
Lie groups
Topological spaces
Dynamical systems
Ergodic theory |
Arnold House may refer to:
in Britain
Arnold House School, London
Arnold House (Former school), Llanddulas, north Wales
Arnold House School, Chester
Arnold School, Blackpool
in the United States
(by state, then city)
George Arnold House, Kenton, Delaware, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
Willcoxon-Arnold House, Newnan, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Coweta County, Georgia
Thomas P. Arnold House, Palmetto, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Fulton County, Georgia
Dr. John Arnold Farm, Rushville, Indiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Rush County
Dr. John Arnold Farm, Union Township, Indiana, listed on the NRHP in Rush County, Indiana
Philip Arnold House, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP in Hardin County, Kentucky
John Arnold House (Paint Lick, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Garrard County
Francis Arnold House, near St. Cloud, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP in Stearns County, Minnesota
Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House, Albany, New York, NRHP-listed
Arnold Homestead, Dayton, Ohio, NRHP-listed
Arnold–Park Log Home, Portland, Oregon, NRHP-listed
Eleazer Arnold House, Lincoln, Rhode Island, an NRHP-listed house and also a museum
Israel Arnold House, Lincoln, Rhode Island, NRHP-listed
Mitchell-Arnold House, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, NRHP-listed
Arnold-Palmer House, Providence, Rhode Island, NRHP-listed
John Waterman Arnold House, Warwick, Rhode Island, NRHP-listed
John Arnold House (Woonsocket, Rhode Island), listed on the NRHP
Arnold-Harrell House, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Rutherford County, Tennessee
Arnold-Torbet House, Georgetown, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Williamson County, Texas
Russell-Arnold House, Lufkin, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Angelina County, Texas
Arnold-Simonton House, Montgomery, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Montgomery County, Texas
E. Clarke and Julia Arnold House, Columbus, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed
Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm, Galesville, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed
See also
John Arnold House (disambiguation) |
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Villa Haas is a historical villa in the small city of Sinn, Hesse located at the western edge of the Hörre in Germany (Lahn-Dill-Kreis). The villa, the park, and the surrounding streets "Hansastrasse / Rudolfstrasse" are cultural monuments due to their historical and artistic significance.
History
The manor house, the outbuildings, and the garden are designed by the Herborner architect Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933), who in 1892 was appointed by Privy Councillor of Commerce Rudolf Haas, owner of the opposite located "Neuhoffnungshütte". He was co-founder of the association of German “Eisenhüttenleute”, called today Steel Institute VDEh, and a member of the renominated Nassau Association of natural history. The “Neuhoffnungshütte” with its iron mines had from its Nassautic beginnings until the Second World War a high strategic importance; it was the economic basis for the metallic prosperity of this area. In 1978 Dr. Klaus F. Müller acquired the villa and park as a co-founder of the German and Europe oral implantology; he used parts of the estate for practical laboratory and advanced training.
Architecture
To the style elements of the two-story, high-volume estate belong rich carved stone formations above the basement level, and window and gable motifs framed with sandstone, that are geared to the German Renaissance Revival architecture. The roof and gable formations with the bell tower look very picturesque. This total impression is strengthened by the superior stairtower with roof helmet, the mining symbol, and the stained glass with motifs of Rhine romanticism from Johann Heinrich Schilbach as well as the detailed facades. The artistic interior décor consists of beautiful stucco and woodwork of different historical styles.
Also worth protecting components are the small Chinese pavilion (tea house) and the wrought iron main gate.
Technical unusual features
These are for example a dumbwaiter (elevator), electrical night storage heaters, and a lobster tank with, at this time, new air supply.
The old mechanical tower clock was developed and constructed by Perrot (Calw). Later the clock gets a rare electro-mechanical addition. It combines chime works and winches with two electric motors. The mechanical circuit is steered by a mercury switch. The power transmission is made by a vee belt and is still working today.
Garden
The Grade II listed garden area contains, besides rare plants, shrubs, and trees, many stylistic elements of the historical park, like the ruin with the ice-house, the cave, the arcades, the pond, the rondell, the fountains, the cherubs, etc. The Chinese pavilion teahouse and the former pavilion which was located at the Dill (river) cliffs is going back to an idea of the German former colonial officer Retzlaff in Qingdao. The allusions to a horse path closed in the English style landscape garden are only rudimentarily available.
The park is one of the few preserved recreations of historicism (art) and contains over one hundred different plant species. It is part of the territory Beilstein / Hörre, which was described by Johann Daniel Leers in his book "Flora Herbornensis" in the biodiversity with exact locations in 1775. These listings are according to Karl Löber "of unsurpassed precision and enable still today an effortless verification." (Quote translated from German).
Literature
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): Lahn-Dill-Kreis I. (Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen.) Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, .
Friedhelm Gerecke: Historismus, Jugendstil, Heimatstil in Hessen und im Rheinland. Die Bauten des Architekten und Denkmalpflegers Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933) aus Herborn. Verlag Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2010, .
Otto Renkhoff: Nassauische Biographie, Seite 262, .
Rolf Georg, Rainer Haus, Karsten Porezag: Eisenerzbergbau in Hessen, Seite 329 und 415, .
Gerd Andriessen:, 100 Jahre W. Ernst Haas und Sohn, Sonderdruck Dillzeitung 26-05-1954.
Klaus F. Müller: Park und Villa Haas - Historismus Kunst und Lebensstil. E-Book , 2013
References
External links
Official website of Villa Haas
Manor houses in Germany
Buildings and structures in Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Gardens in Hesse
Renaissance Revival architecture in Germany
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Laclede is an unincorporated community in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Laclede is located on U.S. Route 2 at the intersection of Riley Creek and the Pend Oreille (pronounced Pond O'Ray) River. Laclede has a post office with ZIP code 83841.
Laclede is surrounded by forested lands. The Riley Creek Recreation Area and Pend Oreille Wildlife Management Area lie one mile (1.6 km) SW of Laclede. The Laclede Mill, a part of the Idaho Forest Group, is in Laclede, producing Douglas fir, Cedar, and White Pine woods for export worldwide.
History
A post office called Laclede has been in operation since 1901. The community bears the name of a French Canadian pioneer, Pierre Laclède,
Laclede's population was estimated at 150 in 1909, and was also 150 in 1960.
Education
Children in the community attend Priest River schools.
References
External links
Unincorporated communities in Bonner County, Idaho
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I.aM.mE (which stands for inspire, motivate, and energize) is an American hip-hop dance crew from Houston, Texas. The group rose to prominence after being crowned champions in the sixth season of America's Best Dance Crew. The three founding members, Phillip Chbeeb, Di Moon Zhang and Brandon Harrell, formed I.aM.mE after Marvelous Motion Crew disbanded. Three additional members, Chachi Gonzales, Emilio Dosal, and Džajna "jaja" Vaňková, joined later after an audition.
The new and present roster of I.aM.mE includes members of dance crews who have competed in past seasons of ABDC, Tamara "Tam" Rapp (from 8 Flavahz, season 7), Jean "B-Boy Bebo" Lloret (from Phunk Phenomenon, season 6), Scarlett Nabil (from Funkdation, season 7), and sole newcomer to the show, Liza Riabinina.
Before ABDC
Before coming together to form I.aM.mE, the members had all achieved considerable success by themselves. Di "Moon" Zhang posted many of his tutting videos onto YouTube before he met Phillip "Pacman" Chbeeb and created Marvelous Motion Crew, which also included Brandon "747" Harrell. As the main choreographers, they led the team to much success, winning first place at "The Show", a Dallas competition hosted by JabbaWockeeZ, the San Diego-based winners of ABDCs first season. Taking the crew to new levels, Marvelous Motion traveled to California on their first major competition, receiving third place at "World of Dance: Pomona" under the direction of Moon. However, the crew was unable to audition for the fourth and fifth seasons of ABDC, as Pacman was still under contract with the fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance. After the crew disbanded in late 2010, Pacman, Moon, and 747 held an audition, creating a brand new crew with three new members in preparation for ABDC: Season of the Superstars.
ABDC Season 6
I.aM.mE was declared the champions of ABDC: Season of the Superstars on June 5, 2011. They became the first mixed gender crew and also the first group from the South to win, ending the Western dominance of previous ABDC seasons.
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!Week
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!Music
!Result
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|1: Lil Wayne Challenge
|None
|"Right Above It"Lil Wayne feat. Drake
|align="center" rowspan="6" bgcolor="green"|Safe
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|3: The Black Eyed Peas Challenge
|Must come together and create a machine
|"Meet Me Halfway"The Black Eyed Peas
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|4: Katy Perry Challenge
|Fan out like a peacock
|"Peacock"Katy Perry
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|5: Rihanna Challenge
|The Spiderman
|"S&M"Rihanna
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|6: Justin Bieber Challenge
|Perform Usher's famous glide
|"Somebody to Love"Justin Bieber feat. Usher
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|7: Nicki Minaj Challenge
|Incorporate childhood games into the routine
|"Moment 4 Life"Nicki Minaj feat. Drake
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|rowspan="2"|8: Kanye West Challenge
|Demonstrate versatility by creating a routine that incorporated three different styles of dance.
|Dougie: "Gold Digger"Kanye West feat. Jamie FoxxBoogaloo: "Touch the Sky"Kanye West feat. Lupe FiascoIsolations: "Love Lockdown"Kanye West
|align="center" bgcolor="orange"|Bottom 2
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|Last chance to hook the voters using an original performance
|"Ill-emental"
|align="center" rowspan="2" bgcolor="green"|Safe
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|9: Battle of the Final Two
|The judges chose which performance the crews would reproduce, but with modifications. The two crews were then pitted against each other in a three-round dance battle, with Swizz Beatz providing the music.
|"S&M"RihannaI.aM.mE vs. Iconic BoyzSwizz Beatz
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|rowspan="3"|10: The Finale
|Partner:ICONic Boyz
|"Raise Your Glass'''"Pink
|align="center" rowspan="3" bgcolor="yellow"|Champions
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|Perform for the last time before winner of ABDCs announcement
|"Rocketeer"Far East Movement feat. Ryan Tedder
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|Victory Dance after being announced season 6 ABDC winners
|"Written in the Stars'"Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner
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Weekly Summaries
Week 1: Lil Wayne Challenge
I.aM.mE kicked off the season, performing to a mastermix of Lil Wayne's "Right Above It". Their performances pleased the crowd, and garnered good comments from the judges. D-Trix called them "clever" and that they "took tutting to the next level": the crew added some Rubik's-cube shapes and brought something new to ABDC. Lil Mama liked how the crew showed illusions and visual effects but mixed it with solid dance choreography. JC Chasez liked their style and was entertained, but wanted the crew to expand and dance to other parts of stage, instead of just the center.
Week 3: Black Eyed Peas Challenge
Their challenge in the third week was to create a futuristic machine, while performing to a mastermix of the Black Eyed Peas' song "Meet Me Halfway". They achieved this three times in their routine, notably at the end, when the whole crew came together to form a robot. The judges were pleased, but JC still was not satisfied with how they used the stage, and asked them to spread out more. Lil Mama however, said that they were the most improved and D-Trix said they executed their challenge "greatly".
Week 4: Katy Perry Challenge
In the fourth week, they received the Katy Perry song "Peacock" with the challenge to fan out like a peacock onstage. Although some of the members had never seen a peacock, and they had difficulty using the whole stage, the crew performed admirably, crafting a routine which satisfied all three of the judges, D-Trix stating how their dancing was authentic and they covered the entire stage, and JC saying he was satisfied with their use of the entire stage.
Week 5: Rihanna Challenge
In the fifth week all the crews were given the challenge of incorporating the dance style known as Dance Hall, while performing to songs by the artist Rihanna. I.aM.mE. received the Rihanna song "S&M", and the dance move known as "The Spiderman". The crew performed a routine which met the challenge and highlighted member Olivia "Chachi" Gonzales as a major character. The judges called the routine "exceptional" and "absolutely brilliant".
Week 6: Justin Bieber Challenge
In week 6, all five remaining crews were given a challenge by Justin Bieber, based from his documentary movie, Never Say Never. I.aM.mE was given a challenge to perform Usher's famous glide in the routine to the mastermix of "Somebody to Love". The crew performed with a chilling opening, featured the moonwalk, and ended with Brandon "747" Harrell jumping down after gliding and giving a rose to Lil Mama while the rest of the crew made a big heart with their arms. Lil Mama was still surprised, but she liked how the routine worked. D-Trix said that he loved the performance, just like the last week and told the crew that they were brilliant entertainers. JC still commented on "How I.aM.mE worked the routine on the middle, again", but he liked how I.aM.mE made the opening cold and chilling.
Week 7: Nicki Minaj Challenge
All top four crews blasted the seventh week with a routine performed with Nicki Minaj's challenge, based on her alter-egos. Nicki Minaj, who delivered the challenge to the crews herself, gave I.aM.mE the challenge to incorporate childhood games based on Nicki's alter-ego, Cookie, into their dance. After working through cultural differences in childhood games, I.aM.mE decided to incorporate similar games that many people would know. Backstage, Phillip "Pacman" Chbeeb said that he was having dehydration before, during, and after the performance because of the hard-training routine and fatigue.
The performance featured many games, such as Limbo, Jump Rope, Whack-a-Mole, Swing Sets, Hopscotch, and Leapfrog. The routine ended as 747, Pacman, and Millie created a Swing Set, with Chachi as a "girl on a swing" held by Moon and Jaja before she jumped off. They received a wild reaction from the crowd. The judges also gave positive reactions. JC told the crew that they performed a risky routine, but cleanly finished it, although he disliked it when he saw I.aM.mE look around the stage and check positions with others. D-Trix claimed that he couldn't find any bad moments on the routine, and loved how much childhood games were involved in the routine. Lil Mama liked how the crew stepped up and loved how the crew had their own moments and identity in the competition.
Backstage after the performance, Jaja, Chachi, 747, and Millie talked about their success, that they made it to top three. Jaja's father had never expected that they could have made it to top five, but the crew proved that he was wrong.
Week 8: Kanye West Challenge and Last Chance Challenge
As three crews were still standing in the championships, I.aM.mE faced their first time in the bottom two and had to face off against Phunk Phenomenon for a spot in the finals: ICONic Boyz had proceeded to the finale already. The crews were given a task to perform with Kanye West's mastermixes and show their own versatility to perform three different classic dance styles. The challenge was handed out by fifth season's winner, Poreotix.
Before the performance videos, the crew revealed that they had no problems performing two out of the three different styles (Boogaloo and Isolations) and only had problems performing the Dougie. Moon said that he really wanted to have a good performance that week because he wanted his parents to come to the finale and watch him perform live for the first time. He also said that he loved the crew that he created and danced with, and he stated that he believed they could make it to the finale.
The crowd did give them a standing ovation and chanted, "I.aM.mE, I.aM.mE!", leaving the judges with no criticism. JC said that the crowd's response weren't wrong and they deserved it. He also told the crew that they were very intelligent and unique and that they created new pictures that were unexpected and exciting. D-Trix was left speechless and said that the crew had "brain-banged" him. He complimented the crew on performing as themselves and that the crew had just "murdered" the "Isos (Isolation)" part. Lil Mama agreed with both judges that I.aM.mE were inspiring as dancers with unique styles. She noted that whatever happened, they would be champions.
Phunk Phenomenon was spirited and had wowed the judges, but I.aM.mE rose to the top two to battle against ICONic Boyz for the title of America's Best Dance Crew. After the mid-show elimination, they then had to perform their Last Chance Challenge to ask viewers to keep voting them to be winner of ABDC. For their final performance before voting lines opened, the crew worked with District 78 to create their own performance. They created their own original songs, wardrobe, and performance, resulting in the "Ill-Emental" performance which showed each of the members' skills and talents, as represented by their own elements: Emilio as Earth, Chachi as Fire, Jaja as Electricity, 747 as Wind, Moon as Machine, and Pacman as Water. The performance ended with the crew creating with their bodies the I-M-E letters. They received a standing ovation from the audience and the judges.
Week 9: Battle of Final Two/The Ultimate Battle
I.aM.mE and ICONic Boyz, as the top two crews at the ninth week, were given the task to extend the choreography from one of their previous performances picked by judges and to perform it, before the ultimate battle that consisted of three rounds.
The crew performed to an extended performance of "S&M" and were praised by the judges. JC noted again that they were unique. Lil Mama was excited as Chachi turned back into Spider-Girl and showed a new way to "knock" her enemies. D-Trix said that the crew was getting better and better. At the end, both crews faced off in a three-round dance battle with music provided by Swizz Beatz. At the end both crews showed their own original sign: ICONic Boyz with the thumb and I.aM.mE with the letters I, M, and E.Week 10: The Finale
The finale opened with I.aM.mE and ICONic Boyz performing in a dance collaboration to "Raise Your Glass" by Pink. After the performance, America's Best Dance Crew champions JabbaWockeeZ (from season 1), Super Cr3w (season 2), Quest Crew (season 3), We Are Heroes (season 4), and Poreotix (season 5) returned to the stage to perform for the season finale.
That same night, I.aM.mE performed a routine to "Rocketeer" by Far East Movement for one moment before the announcement. The performance featured some flips and examples of choreography that were already shown on past episodes, but largely featured popping. The performance ended with Emilio performing a backflip, Moon and 747 showing their thumbs, while the music ended with the audio "One small step for I.aM.mE, one giant leap for ABDC."
After 50 million votes were cast, I.aM.mE was declared as the winner of America's Best Dance Crew for season 6. The crew performed their victory dance to "Written in the Stars" by Tinie Tempah.
ABDC Season 8
I.aM.mE joined the competing teams for ABDC Season 8, America’s Best Dance Crew All-Stars: Road to the VMAs, in 2015. This season features the winners of past 7 seasons, except Poreotix, who won in season 5 and JabbaWockeeZ, who won season 1.
Both female members from I.aM.mE's appearance in season 6, Džajna "Jaja" Vaňková and Olivia "Chachi" Gonzales, did not participate in season 8. Jaja is under contract with So You Think You Can Dance for its 12th season, and Chachi decided to focus on her solo projects, thus missing I.aM.mE's rehearsals. This led to speculations that the I.aM.mE members decided to eject her from the group, as they also stopped tagging her in social media but still tagged Jaja.
I.aM.Me ended up in the Bottom 2 of episode 4, together with Quest Crew, who ultimately won the competition I.aM.mE finished in fourth place of Season 8.
Appearances
Television
Pacman has auditioned in seasons 3, 4 and 5 of So You Think You Can Dance. He got to perform in the finale of season 4 as a guest performer. After auditioning again in season 5, he made it to the finals, where he was eliminated in the Top 12 of the season. Emilio auditioned in season 10, and after making it into the finals, he withdrew due to an injury. He then auditioned for season 11 and made the Top 20, where he was eliminated in the Top 10 of the season. Jaja auditioned for season 11 and season 12, and made the latter's Top 4.
Pacman later went on to choreograph for SYTYCD, choreographing Zack and Fik-Shun's routine in Season 11 and the Top 20 Street Routine with Christopher Scott in Season 12.
Chachi was one of the backup dancers for the Tribute to Britney Spears in the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.
Emilio and 747 performed as backup dancers for LMFAO's performance of "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It" on the American Music Awards 2011.
I.aM.mE performed at MTV's NYE in NYC 2012. The crew danced to "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO, "We Found Love" by Rihanna, "Beautiful People" by Chris Brown, "Give Me Everything" by Ne-Yo and Pitbull, and "Till The World Ends" by Britney Spears.
I.aM.mE performed in a Shake It Up episode on June 3, 2012.
Miscellaneous work
They performed at hip-hop dance charity showcase, Ken-Ya Dance, in April 2012 with other notable crews like Instant Noodles.
The crew taught workshops at the Urban Dance Camp in southern Germany in 2011 and 2012, and performed at the corresponding Urban Dance Showcase both years.
They performed at the International Secret Agents 2011 in Seattle, San Francisco, and at the Los Angeles Festival. (Jaja did not perform with the crew in Seattle. Chachi and Moon did not perform with the crew in San Francisco. Pacman did not perform with the crew in Los Angeles.)
They performed at the Kinematix I.aM. PHUNK'tion event at Northeastern University in Boston on November 4, 2011.
They visited the Philippines in April 2012 for a series of events. They were judges for a local dance contest, Dance Off 2012: The Grand Finals, and they performed two mall shows as part of the Brain Bang Mall Show. Each member also taught workshops for the Brainstorm Workshop 2012. A meet and greet event also took place.
They made a guest appearance on the ninth episode of The LXD: Rise of the Drifts.
Film
Pacman made an appearance in the film Step Up 4.
Pacman, Emilio and Jaja appeared in Step Up 5.
Chachi took the lead role in the 2014 film The Legend of Dark Horse County, directed by Shawn Welling, creator of the AXI series on YouTube which they regularly star in.
Chachi made an appearance in East Los High.
YouTube/music videos
Pacman and Moon made a cameo for Nigahiga (Ryan Higa), a popular videomaker on YouTube.
Each member of the crew stars in Welling Films' AXI (Avengers of eXtreme Illusions'').
Moon made an appearance in LMFAO's video for "Sorry for Party Rocking".
Pacman and 747 made an appearance on D-Trix's video "20 Michael Jackson Moves".
Pacman, Jaja, Moon, Millie and 747 made an appearance in Nigahiga's "Clenching My Booty" music video.
Jaja made an appearance on D-Trix's "20 Twerks" video.
Pacman appeared in the video for Ed Sheeran's hit song "Don't".
Pacman appeared in Taylor Swift's music video for "Shake It Off".
Chachi appeared in Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin."
Pacman (and sometimes Moon) makes lots of appearances in D-Trix's videos (theDOMINICshow) including "Now Add A Dancer" 1-4 and "How Dancers Do College."
References
External links
America's Best Dance Crew winners
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Ekam Eco Solutions is an Indian startup company that markets products related to ecological sanitation and sustainable living. The company is best known for its Zerodor waterless urinal technology and CARE Natural Housekeeping & Home Care Solutions.
History
Ekam Eco Solutions was founded in May 2013 by Uttam Banerjee, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, and Vijayaraghavan Chariar, Professor at the IIT Delhi Centre for Rural Development. It was incubated at IIT Delhi.
Zerodor Waterless Urinal Technology
Chariar, Ramesh Sakthivel, and Banerjee developed a mechanism which attaches to existing urinal bowls, allowing the urinals to operate without flushing and to release less odour than a conventional urinal. This eliminates the need for about 100,000 litres of fresh water per year for each public urinal, resulting in a corresponding reduction in water bills and lower sewage volumes.
Ekam began selling its first product in October 2013. It is called "Zerodor", both because urinals fitted with the technology produce little odour, but also because the product requires no replaceable parts or consumable chemicals. When retrofitted to existing urinal pans it is an inexpensive way to improve urinals in institutions and public spaces.
Because the resulting urine is not diluted, it can more easily be collected for use as organic fertilizer for plants.
The company has more than 7,000 installations as of 2016.
That Zerodor is a mechanical system and does not have any consumables makes it more suitable as a waterless urinal system compared to other mechanisms in the market where there are recurring costs involved.
CARE - Natural Home Care Solutions
Care is a product line of cleaning and deodorizing solutions that are non-toxic, biodegradable, safe and free of harmful chemicals.
List of available solutions under the brand:
Toilet Cleaner
Floor Cleaner
Multi Purpose Cleaner
Drain Cleaners
Sewage Treatment Solutions (for STP and Septic Tanks)
Water Based Fresheners
Food Waste Composting Solutions
Awards and recognition
Titan Design Impact Awards 2018
Sewage Treatment Products recognized and approved by Ministry of Jal Shakti headed by Dr. Mashelkar Committee
Millennium Alliance Award 2014 in the field of Water and Sanitation.
Winner of DST – Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program 2014.
References
Manufacturing companies based in Delhi
Companies based in New Delhi
2013 establishments in Delhi
Sanitation companies |
The 2003 Pacific Games women's football tournament was the inaugural edition of Pacific Games women's football tournament. The competition was held in Fiji from 30 June to 10 July 2003.
Group stage
See also
Pacific Games
References
External links
Details on RSSSF website
2003
Football at the 2003 South Pacific Games
Pac
2003 South Pacific Games |
Ostbach is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Emscher near Herne.
See also
List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia
References
Rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia
Rivers of Germany |
Laura Elisa Romero Jara (born 23 March 1990) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro and the Paraguay women's national team.
Club career
Romero started in Olimpia. In 2012, she moved to Sportivo Luqueño.
International career
Romero made her senior debut for Paraguay on 7 November 2019, in a 1–2 home friendly loss to Argentina.
References
1990 births
Living people
Women's association football forwards
Paraguayan women's footballers
Sportspeople from Luque
Paraguay women's international footballers
Club Olimpia footballers
Sportivo Luqueño players
Club Atlético River Plate (women) players
Cerro Porteño players
Club Sol de América footballers
San Lorenzo de Almagro (women) players
Paraguayan expatriate women's footballers
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Expatriate women's footballers in Argentina
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Brazil
Expatriate women's footballers in Brazil
21st-century Paraguayan women
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Reedness is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately east of the town of Goole and lies on the south bank of the River Ouse.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Reedness and the hamlet of Little Reedness.
According to the 2011 UK census, Reedness parish had a population of 339, a decrease on the 2001 UK census figure of 355.
The parish was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, then in Boothferry district of Humberside until 1996.
Buildings
The main street is occupied by several grade II listed buildings, dating back to the eighteenth century. The oldest is the Old Manor, originally an L-shaped building dating from the early part of the century, but the rear wing was demolished in the 1950s. It is constructed of brick, some of which is rendered, with a pantile roof. Elmtree House if a pebbledashed brick structure, with a slate roof, dating from the middle of the century. Reedness Manor House is also brick with a slate roof, but the front was replaced in the nineteenth century, and is pebbledashed, while Reedness Hall is built in plain brick, with a slate roof at the front and pantiles at the back. Both data from mid-century. The Ferry House (was Ferry Inn/Angel Inn) on the junction with Church Lane, is the only one which carries a date. Tie-bar ends on the gables indicate that it was built in 1778, although there have been later additions to the red-brick, pantile-roofed building.
Geography
The centre of population is located on an unclassified road which runs along the southern bank of the River Ouse from Swinefleet to the west, and through Whitgift and Ousefleet to the east, before turning south to reach Adlingfleet, Fockerby and Garthorpe. Whitgift, Ousefleet and Adlingfleet are all part of the civil parish of Twin Rivers. Through Little Reedness, the road is very close to the flood bank of the river, and development is restricted to the southern side of the road. The parish stretches southwards towards Swinefleet and Reedness Moor, and this area is sparsely populated, with just a few farms and large numbers of drainage ditches. The southern boundary of the parish borders the parishes of Eastoft and Crowle.
To the south of the population centre, the A161 road cuts across the parish in a straight line. It is called the King's Causeway, and is flanked by counter drains on both sides. Further south, the Fockerby Branch of the Axholme Joint Railway crossed the parish, on its way from Reedness Junction to Fockerby. The railway opened in stages between 1903 and 1905, was closed to passengers in 1933, and closed completely in 1965. At the extreme southern edge of the parish, the main line of the Axholme Joint Railway to Epworth also passed through the parish. There was a siding which served Swinefleet Peat Works, to which gauge tramways brought peat from Thorne Moors for processing and despatch via the railway. Despite their names, Swinefleet Peat Works was in Reedness, while Reedness Junction and its railway station, where the Fockerby Branch diverged from the line to Epworth, was in the parish of Swinefleet.
Notable residents
John de Rednesse, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, was born here c.1300.
References
Bibliography
External links
Reedness Parish Council website
Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire |
Henry Waterworth Parkinson (died 1942) was a railway engineer in Australia and New Zealand.
Parkinson was a civil engineer who worked in New Zealand and New South Wales before coming to Queensland and joining the Queensland Railways Department. He supervised the erection of the now heritage-listed Burdekin River Rail Bridge at Macrossan (now Dotswood). Subsequently, he was the engineer for the section of the North Coast railway line from Paget Junction to Sarina and for the section of the Tablelands railway line from Atherton to Herberton. From 1913 he was engineer for the City of Rockhampton.
Parkinson died in Sydney aged 85 years.
The suburb of Parkinson in Brisbane was named after him in 1972.
References
Australian railway civil engineers
People from Queensland
1942 deaths
1850s births |
The Campeonato Amapaense Segunda Divisão (English: Campeonato Amapaense Second Division) was the second tier of the football league of the state of Amapá, Brazil.
History
Having their first tournament played in 1955, the division was often not disputed, and became a qualifying stage to the Campeonato Amapaense in 2005 and 2007. After that year, the second division was abandoned.
List of champions
Above is the list with all champions of Amapá second division:
Amateur era
Professional era
Titles by team
References
External links
Campeonato Amapaense Second Division at RSSSF
State football leagues in Brazil |
Ghalajeh tunnel (Persian: تونل قلاجه) or Arba'een tunnel is a tunnel half of which is located in Eyvan County in Ilam Province and the other half in Gwawar District of Gilan-e Gharb County in Kermanshah Province of Iran. It connects Ilam Province northward to Kermanshah Province. Inaugurated in 2017 with a length of 2.500 meters, it was the third-longest tunnel in Iran. By eliminating Ghalajeh Mountain Pass, the tunnel has made the route 15 Kms shorter. It is part of road 17 (Iran).
See also
Ghalajeh Protected Area
Eyvan
Eslamabad-e Gharb
Gilan-e Gharb
Road 48
Payambare Azam tunnel
References
Tunnels in Iran
Eyvan County
Ilam Province |
Amos Lee (born Ryan Anthony Massaro, June 22, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock, and soul. He was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English. After working as a schoolteacher and bartender he began to pursue a career in music. His manager Bill Eib, an artist manager and new artist development agent, submitted a demo recording to Blue Note Records which resulted in a recording contract and association with singer Norah Jones.
Since that time Lee has recorded five albums on Blue Note Records and has toured as an opening act for Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Merle Haggard, Van Morrison, John Prine, Dave Matthews Band, Adele, the Zac Brown Band, Jack Johnson, The Avett Brothers, and David Gray. His music has appeared on the soundtracks of numerous TV shows and movies. He has performed as a featured artist on the PBS series Bluegrass Underground, on several late night TV shows, and at a voter registration rally for Barack Obama. In 2011, his album Mission Bell debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Early life and education
Lee was born Ryan Anthony Massaro in 1977 and was raised in Kensington, Philadelphia. He moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey at age 11 and graduated from Cherry Hill High School East. Lee attended the University of South Carolina and graduated with a degree in English and a minor in education. During his college years, he developed an interest in music after being inspired by Great Days: The John Prine Anthology. During this period, he began playing the guitar and bass as part of a band and listening to the music of Donny Hathaway, Joni Mitchell, Luther Vandross, Bill Withers, and Otis Redding.
Career
After returning to Philadelphia, Lee worked as a second grade teacher at the Mary McLeod Bethune School and as a bartender at local music venues. He performed at open mic events in the area and, through his manager Bill Eib's contacts with promoters, was hired as an opening act for Mose Allison and B.B. King.
In 2003, Lee's manager Bill Eib sent a four-song demo CD to several record labels, and the representative at Blue Note Records was "immediately struck by his [Lee's] voice". Afterwards, Norah Jones heard Lee's music while visiting the record company and invited Lee to be the opening act for her 2004 tour.
The friendship between Lee's manager Bill Eib and Bob Dylan's manager Jeff Kramer resulted in Lee touring with Dylan as his opening act in early 2005. Later, Lee began touring on his own and recorded his self-titled and "widely praised" debut album of "subtle, folky soul" produced by Norah Jones' bassist, Lee Alexander which included vocals and instrumentation by Norah Jones and members of her band. After it was released, the album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and Lee was named one of Rolling Stone'''s "Top 10 Artists to Watch."(June 10, 2006) Top Heatseekers, Billboard (magazine) One song from the album, called "Colors", appeared on the TV show Grey's Anatomy and in the film Just Like Heaven. Lee's music received additional media attention when he performed on late-night TV shows such as the Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
In 2006, Lee recorded his second album, Supply and Demand, which was produced by a friend of manager Bill Eib, Philadelphia musician and producer Barrie Maguire. An NPR Music reviewer described it as having "more complicated instrumentation and production" than his prior work. The song "Shout Out Loud" was released as a single and peaked at No. 76 on the Billboard 200, and another song, called "Sweet Pea", was used in an AT&T ad campaign.
Lee's third studio album, Last Days at the Lodge was released in 2008 and re-emphasized "his grounding in folk and soul". The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and Lee performed at the Change Rocks voter registration rally for Barack Obama in Philadelphia that summer opening for Bruce Springsteen.
In 2011, Lee released his fourth album on Blue Note Records, entitled Mission Bell which was produced by Joey Burns of Calexico. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, number one on the Digital Albums chart, number two on the Internet chart, and number one on the Amazon Top-Selling Albums and iTunes charts. The album's single, "Windows are Rolled Down", became a top 10 hit on USA Todays adult-alternative chart. However, the album also has the dubious distinction of being the lowest-selling, number one Billboard album as of 2011 selling only 40,000 copies. Guest artists on the album included Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown, James Gadson, and Sam Beam.
Lee appeared at Farm Aid 2013 and on the compilation album, The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver. He released his fifth studio album, Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song in October 2013. Lee concludes his successful US tour in 2022 in New Orleans on Halloween night debuting selections from his album Dreamland album including his biggest hit in over a decade, "Worry No More".
Lee’s longtime touring band consists of Jaron Olevksy (piano, keyboards), Zach Djanikian (guitar, mandolin, saxophone, background vocals), Jay White (bass, background vocals), Ryan Hommel (guitar, background vocals), David Streim (keyboards, trumpet) and James Williams (drums).
Reception
Lee's "folksy, bluesy sound" has been compared to that of John Prine and Norah Jones. His music is said to utilize the "supple funk of his vocals and arid strum of his guitar" while recalling "the low-volume, early-'70s acoustic soul of stars like Bill Withers and Minnie Ripperton". A New York Times music critic described Lee as having a "honeyed singing voice – light amber, mildly sweet, a touch of grain" which he features "squarely, without much fuss or undue strain" in his "1970s folk rock and rustic soul" musical song craft. According to a music writer at ABC News, Lee "has that folksy, bluesy vibe, with a bit of country twang" and a voice that is "ever soulful". Simultaneously Lee has been both lauded and dismissed as the "male Norah Jones" and his lyrics are said to convey "the complexities of everyday emotions" without falling into flowery imagery. Lee's songs have appeared on a number of TV shows including House and Parenthood.
Personal life
Amos Lee describes himself as being of mixed heritage; he admits he is not fully aware of his background. He maintains a residence in West Philadelphia.
He took the stage name "Amos Lee" because he got sick of people mispronouncing his real name.
He makes appearances on the Rights to Ricky Sanchez including recording the theme song and occasionally appears as the character of Tony Toni Tatone.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Extended plays
Singles
Other charted songs
ADid not enter the Hot 100 but charted on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.
DVDsLive From Austin, Texas – (2008) New WestAmos Lee: Live from the Artists Den'' – (2013)
References
External links
Amos Lee at NPR Music
1978 births
21st-century American singer-songwriters
American folk guitarists
American folk singers
American male singer-songwriters
American rock singers
American rock songwriters
American soul guitarists
American male guitarists
Blue Note Records artists
Dualtone Records artists
Living people
Cherry Hill High School East alumni
People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Republic Records artists
Singer-songwriters from Pennsylvania
21st-century American guitarists
Singer-songwriters from New Jersey
Guitarists from Philadelphia
Guitarists from New Jersey
University of South Carolina alumni
21st-century American male singers |
Flight for Four is an album by American jazz saxophonist John Carter and trumpeter Bobby Bradford recorded in 1969 and released by the Flying Dutchman label.
Track listing
All compositions by John Carter except where noted
"Call to the Festival" − 9:30
"The Second Set" − 8:42
"Woman" (Bobby Bradford) − 7:10
"Abstractions for Three Lovers" − 6:39
"Domino" − 7:57
Personnel
John Carter − alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Bobby Bradford − trumpet
Tom Williamson − bass
Buzz Freeman − drums
References
John Carter (jazz musician) albums
Bobby Bradford albums
1969 albums
Flying Dutchman Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Thiele |
The siege of Breda took place from 19 to 22 December 1813 and was a small yet important engagement between French and allied troops in the Liberation Wars. Breda was abandoned by its garrison early in December and occupied by a Russian force. With Breda being the strategic link between the French garrisons of Gorinchem and Antwerp, and to hold control over the main road between Breda and Antwerp, the French began a counterattack. Meanwhile, Allied reinforcements were underway. After a scramble for the town and a three-day siege, the French withdrew back to Antwerp, and Breda became a distribution point for Allied troops and supplies.
Background
After the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, the Allied troops advanced further towards Holland. A Russian force of 5,000 troops under general Count Alexander von Benckendorff crossed the border early in November, leading to a panicked flight of the French troops, who gathered themselves in a number of strong garrisons. The Cossack regiments of Benckendorffs' command advanced deep into the Netherlands, and reached as far as Amsterdam, Den Helder and the Hague.
The French retreat
A cossack detachment under Major-general Stahl advanced towards Breda. By having civilian volunteers spread the rumour that 3,000 cossacks were on their way, and more Prussian infantry following them, the French garrison abandoned the town, and Stahl could march into Breda unopposed on 10 December. Two days later, the town officials declared their allegiance to the Prince of Orange and raised a volunteer corps of 500 men. Benckendorff arrived with his main force in Breda. Realising the defensive works of Breda were in a sorry state, and his force -consisting mostly of cossacks and cavalry- would not be able to withstand a French counterattack, he requested that infantry and artillery reinforcements would be sent immediately. However, the Prussian III Corps under Von Bülow were engaged at the siege of Gorinchem and the British troops were still in Zeeland. The Provisional Government in The Hague was eager to help: two ships with guns and ammunition, a coastal artillery company and a battalion of four companies from the infantry regiment of Colonel Phaff were sent to help defend Breda.
The French counterattack
Since Breda formed the link between Gorinchem and Antwerp, a French force was gathered to recapture the town. 12,000 men and 26 cannon under generals Rouget and Lefebvre-Desnouettes began their advance from Antwerp over the main road towards Breda on 19 December. This force easily chased away the cossack advanced posts near Zundert and reached Breda the following day. Since the buildings around the town had not been demolished to create a clear line of fire, the French were able to safely take up positions near the town walls. After a demand to surrender the town was declined, the French began their bombardment. Meanhwhile, a Prussian Streifkorps under Major Von Colomb which had screened the French advance, entered the town on the other side, having advanced towards Breda on a parallel road. Although the French had not yet encircled the town, they immediately began a first attack on the Antwerp Gate, which was defended by 250 Russian light infantrymen of the 2nd Egersky Regiment. During the attack, the Dutch battalion arrived and was immediately directed towards the Antwerp Gate. The first French attack had been fought off, but it was clear there were not enough troops to withstand the French once they had encircled the town. The French even had managed to set up a position on the glacis, which meant they could fire on the defenders and launch a new attack.
The siege
The ships with cannon and ammunition were nearby, but the crews had seen French patrols and were afraid to go near Breda. Upon hearing this, a patrol of 200 cossacks was sent out to chase the French cavalry away and guide the ships into Breda. In the evening, the ships arrived, bringing nine 12- and 24 lbs cannon and 60,000 lbs gunpowder and projectiles. Russians, Cossacks, Prussians and Dutch troops, aided by civilians, worked frantically all night to build artillery emplacements and strengthen the defences, which was hampered by the French continued bombardments, as well as by the inexperience of those involved, and the language problems (Von Colomb mentioned in his memoires that it was reminiscent of "the building of the Tower of Babel)". Nevertheless, the hard work paid off: when the French resumed their bombardment on the 21st, it was answered by a counter bombardment, which caused the loss of several French guns. The French launched attacks against the Antwerp Gate and Water Gate, but also managed to move a detachment even further around the town and attack the Bosch Gate, which was not covered by artillery. 150 Dutch infantry and the Breda Volunteers were sent over to counter this surprise attack. The fighting continued all day until nightfall. During the night, the bridge before the Antwerp Gate was demolished by the defenders, and the French advanced post on the glacis swept away by four Russian artillery pieces. The French continued their bombardment the following day, but realising they had lost the momentum, retreated towards Antwerp the next day, plundering the countryside. The Prussian and Russian cavalry followed them closely.
Aftermath
Once the Prussians of Bülow's Corps arrived in the town, the inhabitants were relieved that there would be no more French attacks. Breda would be used as a transit point for Allied troops and provisions for the siege of Antwerp. The defences of Breda were rebuilt, the town being once again an important defensive stronghold.
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1813 in the First French Empire
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Clogmia albipunctata is a species of drain fly, a member of the family Psychodidae commonly known as the bathroom moth midge, bathroom moth fly or drain fly.
Distribution
This very common species has a worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate areas and is often associated with humans. The species can be found near sewer drains, sewage treatment plants, plant pots, swamps and any other shaded place containing decaying, moist organic matter. The species is a common pest around household drains, but the larvae have an important role in sewage treatment.
Description
Clogmia albipunctata adults have broad wings covered with brownish and blackish hairs. There is a tuft of blackish hair near each wing vein fork and a tuft of white hair at the ends of most veins (i.e. each wing has a pair of black spots near the middle and several white spots along the edge). The thorax and abdomen are covered in gray/brownish-gray hairs. There is a pair of antennae which are longer than the abdomen and covered in white hairs. The legs are brown with white annuli (rings) at the tips of the tibiae and metatarsi.
The original species description gives a body length of 2.2 mm and a wing length of 2.2 mm. Later records show C. albipunctata can reach slightly greater sizes, such as a body length of 2.5 mm.
The species name, albipunctata, means "white-dotted", in reference to the white spots on the wings and appendages.
Biology
The adults can sustain themselves by drinking water or consuming flower nectar and live for about 12 days. They spend most of their life perched on walls. They move rarely, and with weak flight. The larvae live in aquatic environments, feeding on organic decaying matter, and take about 18 days to turn into a pupa, which develops into an adult after 5 days. They often infest drains of bathrooms and, for this reason, they are also known as "bath flies" in the United States.
Although they are considered harmless, some cases of myiasis caused by the larvae of this insect are reported in the literature, at the nasal, intestinal and urinary levels but are often associated with very poor sanitary conditions and bad hygiene habits.
Pest control
Protected by the extremely fine water-repellent hairs covering their bodies, adults and larvae are difficult to drown, and are not affected by contact with most water-borne toxins such as bleach. Boiling water has little or no effect on the adults for the same reason, and even the eggs are highly resistant to both chemical or thermal assault. Eggs can also withstand periods of dehydration. Extermination of this household pest depends on the maintenance of clean household drains for a period of at least three weeks.
Suspect drains can be identified by placing a glass jar or taping a clear plastic bag over them, and periodically checking for adult flies. A clear plastic cup coated inside with vegetable oil or petroleum jelly can also be used. Partially covering the drain opening with sticky adhesive tape is another method used to identify breeding sources.
Thorough mechanical cleaning of drains will remove the larval food source, and is the most effective control measure. High-pressure drain cleaning will not only eradicate the feeding source of the larvae, it also cleans the entire length of pipe reducing the likelihood of drain flies from returning. Alternatively, injected foams containing bacteria or enzymes may be useful to break down gelatinous scum deposits. Besides sink drains, floor drains and shower drains are common sources, as well as leaky shower pans, but any location with moist decaying organic matter can be a breeding site. In commercial buildings, sump pump pits, sewers, and elevator pits may trap moisture where drain flies can breed.
Because of their attraction to light, drain flies may be monitored by using fan-based traps baited with visible or ultraviolet light. However, only killing adult flies is usually not effective; larval food sources must be removed to stop more flies from emerging.
References
Psychodidae
Insects described in 1893
Taxa named by Samuel Wendell Williston
Cosmopolitan insects |
Rumphi is a district in the Northern Region of Malawi. The capital is Rumphi. The district covers an area of 4,769 km.² and has a population of 128,360.
Geography
Rumphi District extends from Lake Malawi in the east to the Zambian border in the west. The northern end of the Mzimba Plain extends into the eastern portion of the district. Most of the district is drained by the South Rukuru River and its tributaries. The Viphya Mountains extend into the southeastern portion of the district, and much of central portion of the district lies on the Nyika Plateau.
Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve covers the western end of the district, and Nyika National Park covers much of the center.
Rumphi is the district capital. Other towns include Chilumba, Chitango, Chiweta, and Livingstonia.
Demographics
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Rumphi District by ethnic group was as follows:
96.2% Tumbuka
2.0% Chewa
1.2% Ngoni
0.8% Nkhonde
0.8% Tonga
0.8% Lambya
0.5% Lomwe
0.9% Yao
0.3% Sukwa
0.1% Mang'anja
0.1% Sena
0.1% Nyanja
0.5% Others
Government and administrative divisions
There are three National Assembly constituencies in Rumphi:
Rumphi - East
Rumphi - North
Rumphi - West
Since the 2009 election all of these constituencies have been held by members of an independent party.
Notable residents
Rumphi has produced some notable residents like:
Edgar Chibaka, founder and Managing Editor of the Nyasa Times one of Malawi's top online and print newspaper.
Chakufwa Chihana 'the father of Malawian Democracy', founder of AFORD
Dindi Gowa Nyasulu, Malawian engineer and former President of AFORD
Kamlepo Kalua, president of an opposition party
Dennis Nkhwazi, a former member of the cabinet
Mwiza Munthali, talk show host and activist
Kenneth Thindwa, pharmacist, entrepreneur and politician
Moses Chirambo, ophthalmologist, entrepreneur, and politician
Robert Ng'ambi, soccer player
Gabadhinyo Mhango, soccer player
Jacob Kumwenda, Entrepreneur, Agribusiness Specialist and Project Manager at ACE
References
Districts of Malawi
Districts in Northern Region, Malawi |
The Perrill–Goodman Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located south of Groveport in Pickaway County, it has been named a historic site.
The farmhouse was named for two of its prominent early residents, a Mr. Perrill and a Mr. Goodman. Both men held elective office in Pickaway County and served as community leaders in other responsibilities: Perrill was both a Madison Township Trustee and a justice of the peace, while Goodman was a Pickaway County Commissioner and treasurer of Madison Township, and in the early nineteenth century he was known countywide as one of the area's model farmers. Besides going by the names of these men, the property is also known as "Larue Farm."
Built in 1857, the farmhouse is a two-and-a-half-story brick structure with brick foundation and elements of stone. It was built in a time of transition between major architectural styles: elements such as the transom and sidelights around the main entrance as well as the rectangular lintels are typical of the older Greek Revival style, while the cornice with pairs of brackets, the narrow front gable and steep gables of the roof, and the lancet windows combine to remind the viewer of the later Gothic Revival style.
In 1985, the farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with a single outbuilding; it was deemed qualified for historic designation because of its distinctive historic architecture.
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Houses completed in 1857
Buildings and structures in Pickaway County, Ohio
Gothic Revival architecture in Ohio
Greek Revival houses in Ohio
National Register of Historic Places in Pickaway County, Ohio
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
1857 establishments in Ohio |
Pamela Carroll Bricker (July 7, 1954 – February 20, 2005) was a jazz singer and professor of music at George Washington University. She was a frequent collaborator and guest vocalist with the group Thievery Corporation, and the voice on their track "Lebanese Blonde", which was popularized by its inclusion on Zach Braff's Garden State soundtrack. She was also a member of Mad Romance vocal quartet from 1983–1989. Bricker was frequently nominated for Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) honors and won as best contemporary jazz vocalist in 1999, 2000 and 2001, and best contemporary jazz album in 2001 for U-topia.
In 2005, Bricker died due to suicide by hanging. On May 2, 2006, Thievery Corporation released one of Pam's last recordings, "The Passing Stars", on iTunes to raise money for Chernobyl Children's Project International and Children of Chernobyl Relief and Development Fund. In 2007, Bricker was given WAMA's "Special Appreciation" award. Her long-time musical partner, Wayne Wilentz (with whom she recorded U-Topia), presented the award.
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External links
Official site
1954 births
2005 suicides
American jazz singers
American women jazz singers
Suicides by hanging in Maryland
20th-century American singers
American electronic musicians
American women in electronic music
20th-century American women singers
2005 deaths
21st-century American women |
(English trade name Elisa Corporation) is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882. Its previous names were Helsingin Puhelin (until July 2000) and Elisa Communications Oyj (until 2003). Elisa is a telecommunications, ICT and online service company operating mainly in Finland and Estonia, but it also offers digital services for international operators and other companies. In Finland Elisa is the market leader in mobile and fixed network subscriptions. Elisa provides services for communication and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and productivity of organisations. It cooperates for example with Vodafone and Tele2.
Elisa is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. In 2022, Elisa's revenue was 2.1 billion euros, and the company employed over 5,600 people. In 2021, it was the third largest IT company in Finland in terms of turnover.
Products and services
Elisa offers fixed and mobile subscriptions and broadband subscriptions under Elisa and Elisa Saunalahti brands but also cable-tv-subscriptions.
Elisa Viihde is a video streaming service also producing Finnish drama, like the TV series Kaikki synnit (All the Sins) and Ivalo (Arctic Circle). The series are first available to Elisa Viihde customers after which they are being sold to Finnish or foreign television channels.
Elisa Kirja is an ebook service.
For corporate customers, Elisa offers a wide range of corporate IT services. E.g. the Finnish Government owned Suomen Erillisverkot and OP banking group have outsourced their IT services to Elisa.
Elisa International Digital Services unit offers B2B services and products through its sub-brands Elisa Polystar, Elisa IndustrIQ and Elisa Videra. Elisa Polystar offers automated network management fro international operators. Elisa IndustrIQ offers automation processes based on machine learning to industrial manufacturers. Elisa Videra offers videoconferencing and digital signage.
History
The roots of Elisa (1882–1999)
In 1882 electrical engineer Daniel Wadén started a telephone company called Helsingin Telefooni (telephone of Helsinki). In 1985 the company became Helsingin Puhelin.
The company launched the first commercial GSM service under the Radiolinja brand in 1991.
In 1995 Radiolinja Eesti AS started operating in Estonia with a GSM network.
In 1997 the company was listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange as Helsingin Puhelin Oyj.
Elisa Communications Oyj (2000-2003)
In 2000, the company got a new name: Elisa Communications Oyj.
In 2002 Elisa started to cooperate with Vodafone.
Elisa Oyj (2003–present)
Since 2003 the company's name has been Elisa Oyj.
In 2005 investment company Novator Partners acquired a 10.4% stake in Elisa through a share swap when Elisa bought the smaller operator Saunalahti, which had been mostly owned by Novator. Novator tried to revamp Elisa in December 2007, but was opposed by Finnish institutions such as Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company. In October 2008, during the Icelandic financial crisis, Novator sold its entire stake in Elisa to Varma for 194 million euros (US$266 million), a price of €11.20 per share.
In 2005 Radiolinja Eesti AS and fixed and Uninet AS providing fixed networks were merged as Elisa.
Elisa launched the world's first commercial UMTS900 network on 8 November 2007.
In 2011 Elisa opened a webstore selling E-books. Elisa Kirja (Elisa Book) service was offering e-books from the major Finnish publishers.
In 2013, Elisa acquired Sulake, the company behind the teen-oriented online community Habbo. The acquisition followed a child sex scandal where Habbo had lost half of its userbase and Sulake were in financial problems. Elisa sold the majority of Habbo to Azerion in 2018 and the rest in January 2021.
In 2014, Elisa started using unlimited data as the basis for their monthly invoicing. The price was based on the data transfer speed. Soon other operators operating in Finland switched to similar pricing model. As a result, Finland became one of the leaders in the mobile data usage.
In 2015 Elisa founded a startup team to accelerate startup operations.
On 27 June 2018, Elisa launched 5G NR network in the Finnish city of Tampere and in the Estonian capital of Tallinn and was among the first operators in the world with their commercial 5G network. In 2018 Elisa organised "AI Co-creation Challenge" during the Slush event. The winner of EUR 50,000 award was Lifemote.
In June 2019 Elisa bought Swedish Polystar Osix AB, which was providing analytics, assurance and monitoring software solutions for international mobile operators. Elisa had previously founded Elisa Automate, a startup focused on automating networks using artificial intelligence. Polystar was merged with it, resulting in Elisa Polystar
In fall 2020 Elisa and NENT Group known for their Viaplay brand started a common brand called Elisa Viihde Viaplay. While Elisa was in charge of sales, marketing and customer care, NENT Group's part was analytics and technology. The brand was offering the widest selection of Finnish or Nordic original drama content as well as movies, series and programs for children from Finland and abroad. In September, Elisa made new deals about 5G networks with both Ericsson and Nokia. It had started the co-operation with Nokia's 5G network in 2019. Elisa said that it was planning to shut down its 3G network by the end of 2023. In March 2020 Elisa acquired a majority of US-based CalcuQuote
In January 2021 Elisa bought a German-based industrial software provider camLine GmbH, a share of Italian-based SedApta, and later during the year majority share of Belgian-based Tenforce.
In April 2022 Elisa acquired Slovak-based FRINX and in August Cardinality Ltd At the end of 2022, Elisa's 5G network had population coverage of 86% in Finland and 70% in Estonia
In February 2023, Elisa received a EUR 3.9 million grant from the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment to utilise the backup power of mobile base stations for electricity supply. The aim is to build 150 MWh of storage capacity
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Organisation
Elisa serves both consumers and corporations. It operates nationwide and has employees also internationally. Elisa's CEO has been from 1 July 2003 Veli-Matti Mattila who is one of the longest serving CEO's of listed companies in Finland.
55 per cent of Elisa's shareholders are Finnish households and institutions. In 2023 the largest shareholders were Finnish national institutions (Solidium Oy, Ilmarinen, Varma, Elo, City of Helsinki and State Pension Fund.
HPY Research Foundation funds post-graduate research into telecommunications and by 2016 had made 232 awards worth €989,000.
In February 2023 Elisa's main subsidiaries were
Cardinality Ltd, UK
camLine GmbH, Germany
Elisa Eesti AS, Estonia
Elisa Santa Monica Oy, Finland
Elisa Videra Oy, Finland
Enia Oy, Finland
Fenix Solutions Oy, Finland
Fonum Oy, Finland
FRINX s.r.o, Slovakia
Kepit Systems Oy, Finland
Polystar OSIX AB, Sweden
TenForce NV, Belgium
Watson Nordic Oy, Finland
Recognitions
Elisa has been awarded the Great Place to Work in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
In 2019 it was the first Finnish teleoperator to receive the Finnish Quality Award.
In 2020, Elisa was ranked the third best telecom operator in the world in a survey by the consulting company Boston Consulting Group. Between 2015 and 2019 it had generated the third highest total return to its shareholders.
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Ray Cheney is a retired rugby union player and sportsman from Wales.
Early years
Ray was born in Porth in the Rhondda. He showed exceptional all round sporting abilities and played football at Ton Pentre for Ton Pentre F.C. He also played Welsh Youth soccer, winning an international youth cap at centre forward and attracted the attention of Tottenham Hotspur FC.
National Service was spent in the RAF, where he was able to represent the RAF at rugby.
Rugby career
On return to civilian life Ray joined Pontypool RFC in Monmouthshire, setting a club record at the time of 169 points and playing against a touring Springboks and maintained a position within the Welsh Reserves.
Moving to local rivals Newport RFC during the 1962/3 season and making his club debut against Llanelli RFC in March '63 he was soon scoring heavily again and amassed 40 points in 11 games. The visiting 1963 All Blacks side was beaten by Newport with Ray hitting the cross bar with an attempted drop goal. By the end of his first full season at the club Ray again set a club record, amassing 171 points during the 63/4 season. In the 64/5 season he surpassed that, attaining 224 points, passing his century in just 15 games.
Ray developed a 'round the corner' deadball kicking style for place kicks, one of the pioneers of this new style at the time.
Ray was in the Welsh Reserves, at full back, some 23 times.
He joined Cardiff RFC, running out 69 times and playing in the side that beat Australia in 1966.
He also represented both Crawshays RFC and Monmouthshire.
He also played cricket for Monmouthshire County Cricket Club.
External links
Data from Newport RFC Personnel
Living people
Cardiff RFC players
Crawshays RFC players
Newport RFC players
Pontypool RFC players
Royal Air Force airmen
Rugby union players from Porth
Welsh cricketers
Welsh rugby union players
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Jerzy Piskun (4 June 1938 – 16 July 2018) was a Polish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Honours
Polonia Warsaw
Polish basketball championship (1): 1958–59
Poland
EuroBasket runner-up: 1963
EuroBasket third place: 1965
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External links
1938 births
2018 deaths
Polish men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Poland
Basketball players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Pinsk |
Kindergarten Cop 2 is a 2016 American comedy film starring Dolph Lundgren and directed by Don Michael Paul. It is a standalone sequel to the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Principal photography in Maple Ridge, Langley, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada took place for 28 days, from July 27 to August 24, 2015. The school at which the film was produced is Kanaka Elementary. The film was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on DVD in the United States on May 17, 2016.
Plot
Federal agent Zack Reed and his partner Sanders are pursuing dangerous criminal leader Alexander Zogu who has discovered a copy of the FBI witness protection database. The file has been stored on a USB flash drive by a now-deceased kindergarten teacher.
After Sanders interviews the teacher's students and the staff, no one seems to know where the drive is. So Reed, with a fictitious resumé, applies for the role of teacher to the bereaved class and is easily hired.
The school has a very liberal/modern perspective on teaching and managing children which is, at first, quite awkward to Reed's more straightforward ways. On his first day, Reed struggles to keep the kids' attention and to keep it together. One boy has severe allergies, especially nuts, so mayhem breaks out when they realize that Reed is eating peanut butter. Again he loses control when he gives them chocolate cookies and they bounce off the walls from the sugar.
Although day one is rough, Reed insists he will persevere without Sanders' help. He uses an air horn to command obedience, but the principal gives him one strike. This motivates Reed to apologize and ask for some assistance from Sanders (father of five), Reed learns to lead the class in a more relational and emotionally-aware way.
Reed's co-teacher in kindergarten, Olivia is an attractive single woman. When she catches him in her office snooping for the thumb drive, Reed asks her out on a date and they begin to connect romantically.
Reed and Olivia's classes compete in a capture the flag competition and his class win for the first time. As his students explain that the other kids' are larger, he gives them a trojan horse strategy.
The criminal leader, Zogu, captures the FBI surveillance van and discovers the crucial role of the children. In the meantime Reed reveals his cover to the principal, telling her about Zogu and the importance of locking down the school.
Zogu finds the thumb drive with the children on a field trip, but they manage to surprise him with their trojan horse attack strategy. The drive is returned to the FBI and the kids celebrate their victory with their parents.
Cast
Dolph Lundgren as FBI Agent Zack Reed
Fiona Vroom as Michelle
Aleks Paunovic as Alexander Zogu
Andre Tricoteux as Valmir
Bill Bellamy as Agent Sanders
Sarah Strange as Miss Sinclaire
Darla Taylor as Olivia
Raphael Alejandro as Cowboy
Enid-Raye Adams as Jett's Mom
Jody Thompson as Hot Mom
Rebecca Olson as Katja
Dean Petriw as Jett
Jenny Sandersson as Hot Mom
Carolyn Adair as Felicity
Nicholas Carella as Bernie the Hot Single Dad
Michael P. Northey as Hal Pasquale
Josiah Black as Jason Flaherty
James Ralph as SWAT Leader
Abbie Magnuson as Molly
Tyreah Herbert as Hannah
Blake Stadel as Mr. Edwards (Molly's Dad)
Oscar Hartley as Simon
Matilda Shoichet-Stoll as Sophie
Valencia Budijanto as Patience
William Budijanto as Tripp
Chris Violette as Country Bar Bartender (uncredited)
Tawny West as Line Dancer (uncredited)
Production
On June 1, 2015, it was reported that The Garden and Half Past Dead filmmaker Don Michael Paul would be directing the film, and Arnold Schwarzenegger would not be reprising his role as Detective John Kimble. Schwarzenegger announced that his character Detective John Kimble is now officially retired from being a kindergarten teacher and police officer.
Schwarzenegger was replaced by Dolph Lundgren as a new character, FBI Agent Zack Reed. On December 21, 2015, the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of the original film, the first official photos of Kindergarten Cop 2 were released via About.
Reception
Common Sense Media gave the film a score of 2 out of 5, and described it as "FBI man meets cute kids in trite comedy; violence, profanity."
Randall Colburn of Consequence of Sound gave it a grade D+ and wrote: "Kindergarten Cop 2 ultimately resonates as nothing more than a sub-par rendition of its predecessor. The script is bad, the direction is uninspired, the villain is boring, and Lundgren can't navigate that space between comedy and action like Arnie can."
References
External links
Kindergarten Cop 2 at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
2016 films
2016 direct-to-video films
2016 comedy films
2010s buddy comedy films
2010s buddy cop films
2010s police comedy films
2010s police procedural films
American buddy cop films
American buddy comedy films
American police detective films
American sequel films
Direct-to-video comedy films
Direct-to-video sequel films
Films about educators
Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Films about witness protection
Films directed by Don Michael Paul
Films scored by Jake Monaco
Films set in British Columbia
Films shot in Vancouver
Imagine Entertainment films
Universal Pictures direct-to-video films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
```go
// Code generated by smithy-go-codegen DO NOT EDIT.
package ec2
import (
"context"
"fmt"
awsmiddleware "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/middleware"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec2/types"
"github.com/aws/smithy-go/middleware"
smithyhttp "github.com/aws/smithy-go/transport/http"
)
// Describes the authorization rules for a specified Client VPN endpoint.
func (c *Client) DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules(ctx context.Context, params *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput, optFns ...func(*Options)) (*DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesOutput, error) {
if params == nil {
params = &DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput{}
}
result, metadata, err := c.invokeOperation(ctx, "DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules", params, optFns, c.addOperationDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesMiddlewares)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
out := result.(*DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesOutput)
out.ResultMetadata = metadata
return out, nil
}
type DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput struct {
// The ID of the Client VPN endpoint.
//
// This member is required.
ClientVpnEndpointId *string
// Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without
// actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the
// required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is
// UnauthorizedOperation .
DryRun *bool
// One or more filters. Filter names and values are case-sensitive.
//
// - description - The description of the authorization rule.
//
// - destination-cidr - The CIDR of the network to which the authorization rule
// applies.
//
// - group-id - The ID of the Active Directory group to which the authorization
// rule grants access.
Filters []types.Filter
// The maximum number of results to return for the request in a single page. The
// remaining results can be seen by sending another request with the nextToken
// value.
MaxResults *int32
// The token to retrieve the next page of results.
NextToken *string
noSmithyDocumentSerde
}
type DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesOutput struct {
// Information about the authorization rules.
AuthorizationRules []types.AuthorizationRule
// The token to use to retrieve the next page of results. This value is null when
// there are no more results to return.
NextToken *string
// Metadata pertaining to the operation's result.
ResultMetadata middleware.Metadata
noSmithyDocumentSerde
}
func (c *Client) addOperationDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesMiddlewares(stack *middleware.Stack, options Options) (err error) {
if err := stack.Serialize.Add(&setOperationInputMiddleware{}, middleware.After); err != nil {
return err
}
err = stack.Serialize.Add(&awsEc2query_serializeOpDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules{}, middleware.After)
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = stack.Deserialize.Add(&awsEc2query_deserializeOpDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules{}, middleware.After)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if err := addProtocolFinalizerMiddlewares(stack, options, "DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules"); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("add protocol finalizers: %v", err)
}
if err = addlegacyEndpointContextSetter(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addSetLoggerMiddleware(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addClientRequestID(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addComputeContentLength(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addResolveEndpointMiddleware(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addComputePayloadSHA256(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRetry(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRawResponseToMetadata(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRecordResponseTiming(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addClientUserAgent(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = smithyhttp.AddErrorCloseResponseBodyMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = smithyhttp.AddCloseResponseBodyMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addSetLegacyContextSigningOptionsMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addTimeOffsetBuild(stack, c); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addUserAgentRetryMode(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addOpDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesValidationMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = stack.Initialize.Add(your_sha256_hashes(options.Region), middleware.Before); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRecursionDetection(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRequestIDRetrieverMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addResponseErrorMiddleware(stack); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addRequestResponseLogging(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
if err = addDisableHTTPSMiddleware(stack, options); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginatorOptions is the paginator options
// for DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules
type DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginatorOptions struct {
// The maximum number of results to return for the request in a single page. The
// remaining results can be seen by sending another request with the nextToken
// value.
Limit int32
// Set to true if pagination should stop if the service returns a pagination token
// that matches the most recent token provided to the service.
StopOnDuplicateToken bool
}
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator is a paginator for
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules
type DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator struct {
options DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginatorOptions
client DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesAPIClient
params *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput
nextToken *string
firstPage bool
}
// NewDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator returns a new
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator
func NewDescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator(client DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesAPIClient, params *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput, optFns ...func(*DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginatorOptions)) *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator {
if params == nil {
params = &DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput{}
}
options := DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginatorOptions{}
if params.MaxResults != nil {
options.Limit = *params.MaxResults
}
for _, fn := range optFns {
fn(&options)
}
return &DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator{
options: options,
client: client,
params: params,
firstPage: true,
nextToken: params.NextToken,
}
}
// HasMorePages returns a boolean indicating whether more pages are available
func (p *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator) HasMorePages() bool {
return p.firstPage || (p.nextToken != nil && len(*p.nextToken) != 0)
}
// NextPage retrieves the next DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules page.
func (p *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesPaginator) NextPage(ctx context.Context, optFns ...func(*Options)) (*DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesOutput, error) {
if !p.HasMorePages() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no more pages available")
}
params := *p.params
params.NextToken = p.nextToken
var limit *int32
if p.options.Limit > 0 {
limit = &p.options.Limit
}
params.MaxResults = limit
optFns = append([]func(*Options){
addIsPaginatorUserAgent,
}, optFns...)
result, err := p.client.DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules(ctx, ¶ms, optFns...)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
p.firstPage = false
prevToken := p.nextToken
p.nextToken = result.NextToken
if p.options.StopOnDuplicateToken &&
prevToken != nil &&
p.nextToken != nil &&
*prevToken == *p.nextToken {
p.nextToken = nil
}
return result, nil
}
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesAPIClient is a client that implements the
// DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules operation.
type DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesAPIClient interface {
DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules(context.Context, *DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesInput, ...func(*Options)) (*DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesOutput, error)
}
var _ DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRulesAPIClient = (*Client)(nil)
func your_sha256_hashes(region string) *awsmiddleware.RegisterServiceMetadata {
return &awsmiddleware.RegisterServiceMetadata{
Region: region,
ServiceID: ServiceID,
OperationName: "DescribeClientVpnAuthorizationRules",
}
}
``` |
Abney Crossroads is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
The CDP is in northern Kershaw County, along South Carolina Highway 341, which leads northwest to Kershaw and southeast to Bethune.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Kershaw County, South Carolina
Census-designated places in South Carolina |
Hořešovičky is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
References
Villages in Kladno District |
People of the Philippines v. Hernandez, 99 Phil. Rep 515 (1956), was a case decided by the Philippine Supreme Court which held that the crime of rebellion under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines is charged as a single offense, and that it cannot be made into a complex crime. While it was decided on an almost divided opinion, it nevertheless became a stable doctrine in Philippine jurisprudence
Facts
It was the height of the Government action against communists and the Hukbalahap guerillas. President Elpidio Quirino, through his Defense Secretary (and later, President) Ramon Magsaysay intensified the campaign against them, and the crackdown was on against communist organizations. Due to such government action, several communist leaders like Luis Taruc and the Lava brothers were soon in government custody.
On January 20, 1951, the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO) headquarters was raided. Writer (and future National Artist for Literature) Amado V. Hernandez, himself a labor leader, was arrested on January 26 for various rebellious activities with the CLO. Upon his arrest, he was charged in the criminal information of “Rebellion with Murder, Arson and Robbery”. Five years after his arrest, Hernandez asked for bail with the court where his case was pending, but was denied on the basis of the nature of the offense (if the crime was complexed, the penalty for the most serious crime shall be imposed). Thus, he filed a petition to the Supreme Court.
Arguments
The government, headed by Solicitor General Ambrosio Padilla, argued that the gravity of the crime committed required the denial of the bail. Moreover, the complex crime charged by the government against Hernandez has been successfully imposed with other arrested communist leaders and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Decision
The Supreme Court, through then Associate Justice Roberto Concepcion, ruled that rebellion cannot be complexed with other crimes, such as murder and arson. Rebellion in itself would include and absorb the said crimes, thus granting the accused his right to bail. Murder and arson are crimes inherent and concomitant when rebellion is taking place. Rebellion in the Revised Penal Code constitutes one single crime and that there is no reason to complex it with other crimes. As basis, the Court cited several cases convicting the defendants of simple rebellion although they killed several persons.
Thus, the petition for bail was granted. On May 30, 1964, the Supreme Court acquitted Hernandez (People v. Hernandez (1964)).
Legacy
The Court was divided upon the decision, having a vote of 6-4 (one justice died a month before its promulgation). But it was later on accepted as valuable jurisprudence, starting with the subsequent case of People of the Philippines v. Geronimo (100 Phil. Reports 90). The case is now a standard case study in Philippine law schools.
According to Justice J.B.L. Reyes, during the deliberations of the Hernandez case, Justice Sabino Padilla (who is the brother of the Solicitor General, Ambrosio Padilla) openly accused Chief Justice Ricardo Paras for being prejudiced against the Government and asking biased questions during the oral argument. Riled, Paras rebutted, and a heated exchange soon ensued between the Chief Justice and Padilla, which would have worsened had not they restrained themselves.
As of 1990, the Philippine Supreme Court again revisited the doctrine in Hernandez, where Juan Ponce Enrile was similarly charged with the same offense as Hernandez. The Supreme Court upheld anew the Hernandez decision (Enrile v. Salazar (1990)), maintaining that it is still good law and applicable.
References
Agoncillo, Teodoro A. (1990). History of the Filipino People (8th edition). Garotech Publishing, Quezon City
Cruz, Isagani A. (2000). Res Gestae: A Brief History of the Supreme Court. Rex Book Store, Manila
Reyes, Luis B. (2001). The Revised Penal Code: Criminal Law, Vol. 2. Rex Book Store, Manila
People v. Hernandez
1956 in case law
1956 in the Philippines
Communism in the Philippines
Rebellions in the Philippines |
Heide Göttner-Abendroth (born February 8, 1941 in Langewiesen, Germany) is a German feminist advocating matriarchy studies (also modern matriarchal studies), focusing on the study of matriarchal or matrilineal societies.
Life
Göttner-Abendroth was born during World War II, and at the age of 12 moved with her parents from East Germany to West Germany. She has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Munich (1973) and worked as a teacher in philosophy at Munich University from 1973-1983. She became active in second-wave feminism from 1976 and came to be considered one of the pioneers of women's studies in West Germany at the time.
Göttner-Abendroth describes increased conflict with other academics over her theories. This struggle for mainstream academic acceptance of matriarchal studies is the subject of Edition Amalia's Die Diskriminierung der Matriarchatsforschung: Eine moderne Hexenjagd (2003), a collection of essays from various scholars within the emerging field. The chapter by Göttner-Abendroth is titled 'Prevent them by all means!' The discrimination against modern matriarchy research and its practical consequences (translated from the German).
In her extended online biography, Göttner-Abendroth describes separation from the University of Munich as less than agreeable: "Given that she was prevented from continuing to lecture at the University, she works as an independent scholar in a precarious and difficult financial situation." Nonetheless she persisted in her research and writing. In 1986 she founded the International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality (HAGIA) in 1986. In 1992 she served as a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck Austria and received funding from the University of Bremen. In the years since 1998 she has been active in the "Institute of Archaeomythology", based in California (US), and began to publish books on mythology and matriarchy through HAGIA or through independent publishers.
Between 2003-2011, Göttner-Abendroth's research into matriarchal society had an increasingly international focus, as her conception of matriarchal studies began to focus on its relationship to indigenous studies and the direct input and involvement of indigenous peoples. This global outlook led to a series of international conferences on the nature and purpose of matriarchal studies, each year including progressively more participants from existing non-Western matriarchal cultures.
The 2012 publication of Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe, marked a degree of change in Göttner-Abendroth relationship to mainstream academia: it was the first time one of her books had been accepted through scholarly peer review with an international academic publisher, Peter Lang.
In 2014 Göttner-Abendroth was tagged by Oxford University Press as the co-editor-in-chief for the "matriarchal studies" section of Oxford Bibliographies., along with Senacan scholar Barbara Alice Mann. The two continue in this role as of 2020.
Relationship to matriarchal studies and Academy Hagia
Modern matriarchal studies stands in the tradition of 1970s second wave feminism, pioneered by Merlin Stone's When God Was a Woman.
Göttner-Abendroth founded the "International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality" (HAGIA) in 1986. It aims to combine the "intellectual, political, artistic, and spiritual" in its events, which range from "matriarchal mystery festivals" to international academic conferences.
In her role as HAGIA director, Göttner-Abendroth organized three World Congresses on Matriarchal Studies, in 2003, 2005, and 2011.
Since 2014 Göttner-Abendroth has served as one of two editors in charge of Oxford University Press's "Oxford Bibliographies" project listing for matriarchal studies (along with Mann). This publication aims to provide an authoritative listing of historical and contemporary sources related to matriarchal studies, and includes annotations and commentary.
Bibliography
The Goddess and Her Heros. Matriarchal Religion in Mythology, Fairy-Tales and Poetry. Anthony Publishing Company, Stow USA 1995. (Die Göttin und ihr Heros – a study in matriarchal religion, Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1980-1997.)
Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe. Peter Lang Inc, 2013, ISBN 9781433125126
The Dancing Goddess. Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic. Beacon Press, Boston USA 1991. (Die tanzende Göttin Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1982-2001.)
Für die Musen, Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 1988-1999.
Für Brigida, Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 1998 and 2000.
Das Matriarchat, vol I, history of research on matriarchy, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1988-1995;
Das Matriarchat, vol II 1, contemporary matriarchal societies in East Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1991 und 1999;
Das Matriarchat, vol II 2, contemporary matriarchal societies in America, India, Africa Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000.
Inanna. Gilgamesch. Isis. Rhea, Verlag Ulrike Helmer, Königstein 2004.
Fee Morgane. Der Heilige Gral, Verlag Ulrike Helmer, Königstein 2005.
Frau Holle. Das Feenvolk der Dolomiten, Verlag Ulrike Helmer, Königstein 2005.
Matriarchat in Südchina – matriarchy in South China, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1998; film documentary: Im Matriarchat der Mosuo – matriarchy of the Mosuo, Academy Hagia, 1993.
with Kurt Derungs, Matriarchate als herrschaftsfreie Gesellschaften (1997)
See also
Patriarchy
Matriarchal religion
References
External links
http://www.hagia.de/
http://www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com/
1941 births
Living people
Matriarchy
German feminists
German women's rights activists
German modern pagans |
Günəhir (also, Gyunagir and Gyunagyar) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 845.
References
Populated places in Lankaran District |
Mamehlabe is a large village in Ga-Matlala in the Blouberg Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is located about 10 km northwest of Tibane on the Matlala Road.
Education
Wingfield Primary School.
Mamehlabe Secondary School.
Sports
Mamehlabe Brothers F.C.
Mamehlabe Tigers F.C.
References
Populated places in the Blouberg Local Municipality |
The Big Apple Rotten to the Core is a hardcore punk compilation album that was released in 1982. It was the second release by S.I.N. Records, and distributed internationally. Produced by Bob Sallese. It was one of the first hardcore punk compilations from New York City (along with New York Thrash from the same year), and included six bands who regularly performed at A7, a Lower East Side after-hours dive bar that gave the new hardcore bands a forum.
The compilation's cover photos and PR were provided by Scott Eisner, one of the first writers to use the expression "hardcore punk" (in a review of The Mob). (Eisner later jumped off the Throgs Neck Bridge, which links Queens to The Bronx.)
The popularity of the album prompted WLIR to start a weekly broadcast called Midnight Riot, which featured the other bands on the album as well as many other local hardcore bands. It also prompted the station to put other hardcore songs into regular rotation, such as Black Flag's "TV Party."
The bands
Ism were from Queens. Their songs "John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Foster Done to You?)" and "Moon The Moonies," both of which were featured on the album, were put into regular rotation on WLIR, and were the first hardcore songs to receive commercial airplay in the New York metropolitan area. "John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Foster Done to You?)" was nominated for two weeks straight for the station's "Screamer of the Week" award. Frontman Jism ended up spending five years in a New York State prison after a somewhat controversial arrest.
Butch Lust & The Hypocrites were from Brooklyn and Manhattan. Lenny Steel of the punk band Pure Hell appeared on the album as a member of Butch Lust & The Hypocrites. Another member, Ace in the Hole, later died in a car crash.
The Mob, also from Queens, went on to release the 7-inch EPs Upset the System and Step Forward (1983), and the album We Come to Crush (1986). They influenced many of the later New York hardcore bands that wanted to move away from the early punk rock influences and create faster thrash sounds.
The Headlickers, who often played at A7, were the only band that did not reside in one of New York City's five boroughs, but instead came from Nassau County.
Killer Instinct were from Queens and Manhattan, and were composed of guitarist Jet Suicide, drummer Bobby Skull, bassist Kitty Hawk, and vocalist Carolyn Lengel. Their two songs, "Killer Instinct" and "Torture You First", were recorded at the band's rehearsal studio, Rock Bite. Killer Instinct's first gig was at A7 in January 1982, and the band broke up six months later, before The Big Apple: Rotten to the Core had even been released. They later regrouped (with Meryl "Lynch" Hurwich replacing Suicide) as XKI, whose song "I Hate Everything" appeared on the 1983 7-inch compilation EP Big City Aint Too Pretty.
Squirm were from Brooklyn. Their song "Fuck You Brooke Shields" received some commercial airplay (with bleeps inserted throughout the song). Bassist Igor Jakuskowas, who used to room with Cheetah Chrome, was noted for shouting the traditional hardcore count-off "1,2,3,4!" in Ukrainian. Squirm had a string of opening slots for most national touring punk bands at the Brooklyn club Zappas. Jakuskowas later hanged himself.
Aftermath
The album was the first New York City hardcore punk compilation made available to college and alternative radio stations nationwide. It quickly gained notoriety, but despite its success, the album seemed to be jinxed. Demand for the record's second pressing could not be met because the pressing plant would not release the masters and was bootlegging them in other parts of the country. The owner of the plant was eventually busted by the FBI for bootlegging Beatles albums.
A follow-up album, The Big Apple Rotten to the Core, Vol. 2, was released five years later by the Raw Power label, and included the returning Ism, Butch Lust, The Mob and The Headlickers alongside newer bands such as Ed Gein's Car, Bunker's Boys, Slime Puppies and The Six and Violence. Omer Travers (infamous for breaking into Yoko Ono's apartment and leaving love notes) appeared on this album with a song produced by Jism and Sallese. Travers and Jism were later invited onto The Howard Stern Show to promote the album.
References
1982 compilation albums
Music of New York City
Hardcore punk compilation albums |
A stretcher is a medical device used to carry a person from one place to another.
Stretcher may also refer to:
Stretcher (furniture), a horizontal support element of an item of furniture
In brickwork, a brick laid with its long narrow side exposed
Procrustes or "the stretcher", a smith and bandit in Greek mythology who stretched some of his victims to fit a bed
"Stretcher" or "The Stretcher", nickname of American professional wrestler Barry Horowitz
Stretcher (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
See also
Stretcher bar, used by an artist to construct a wooden stretcher frame to mount a canvas
Stretch (disambiguation)
Stretching (disambiguation) |
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