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Samuel David Jimenez, professionally known as Smash David, is an American record producer and songwriter. He produced Big Sean's "Bounce Back" and "Pills & Automobiles" by Chris Brown from the Heartbreak on a Full Moon album.
Early life
Samuel David Jimenez is Spanish, raised in Miami, Florida.
Career
Smash David has worked with the artist and producers Khalid, Omarion, Dej Loaf, Kehlani, Jeremiah, Lil Wayne, Jason Derulo, Hitmaka and Metro Boomin. On February 25, 2017, his production for Big Sean’s song Bounce Back peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He also received a certified Gold plaque for producing and co-writing Chris Brown’s Pills & Automobiles featuring Yo Gotti, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and Kodak Black
and a 5× platinum plaque for Location by Khalid.
Certifications and awards
"Pills and Automobiles" by Chris Brown ft A Boogie, Yo Gotti, Kodak Black - certified Platinum by RIAA on January 5, 2018
"Bounce Back" by Big Sean - certified 4× Platinum by RIAA on August 10, 2018
"Location" by Khalid - certified 5× Platinum by RIAA on August 14, 2018
"B.I.D" by Tory Lanez - certified Gold by RIAA on September 21, 2018
"1942" by G-Eazy ft Yo Gotti and YBN Nahmir - certified Platinum by RIAA on January 30, 2019
Production credits
References
External links
Living people
People from Miami
Record producers from Florida
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Kenya will compete at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15 to 23 August. A team of 43 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards. The Kenyan team, characteristically strong in the middle- and long-distance running events, includes reigning world champions Alfred Yego and Janeth Jepkosgei, and reigning Olympic champions Pamela Jelimo, Nancy Jebet Lagat, and Brimin Kipruto.
Team selection
Track and road events
Results
Men
Track and road events
Women
Track and road events
References
General
Provisional 2009 World Championships entry list. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-14.
External links
Official competition website
Ready when it counts most - Yego knows when to come good – article from IAAF
Nations at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
World Championships in Athletics
Kenya at the World Athletics Championships |
Ian Cooper may refer to:
Ian Cooper (Australian footballer, born 1946), former Australian rules football player
Ian Cooper (Australian footballer, born 1954), former Australian rules footballer
Ian Cooper (English footballer) (born 1946), former English football (soccer) player
Ian Cooper (ice hockey) (born 1968), British ice hockey player
Ian Cooper (violinist) (born 1970), Australian musician
Ian Cooper (boxer), ABA Middleweight Champion
Ian Cooper (artist) (born 1978), American visual artist, film producer, and academic |
Judith Shulman Weis (born May 29, 1941) is an American marine biologist. Her research and writing focuses on estuarine ecology and ecotoxicology, including the responses of salt marsh and brackish marsh organisms, populations and communities to stresses, particularly heavy metal contaminants, invasive species and parasites. She is also working to reduce the spread of microplastics in the environment and find solutions to protecting coastal marshes from sea level rise.
Weis is professor emerita of marine biology at Rutgers University, where she taught for five decades. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and chairs the Science Advisory Board of the NJ DEP, among other bodies.
Early life and education
Weis was born and raised in New York City in a secular Jewish family. She graduated Bronx High School of Science in 1958 and earned her B.A. in 1962 from Cornell University, majoring in zoology. She received her M.S. in 1964 and Ph.D. in biology in 1967, both from New York University.
Career
Weis had a summer internship in 1960, while in Cornell, at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Immediately after receiving her Ph.D., Weis joined the faculty of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967, where she was promoted to Professor in 1976. In addition to teaching, she has conducted research on the threats faced by organisms in shallow coastal estuary environments, such as contamination from pollution, especially heavy metals, and invasive species. Much of her research has been with marine life in the New York–New Jersey Harbor area and the New Jersey Meadowlands, but she has also done research in Indonesia and Madagascar. In the 1970s, Weis and her children starred in a Tang orange drink commercial because General Foods was promoting the product with ads featuring female scientists with cute kids. During a sabbatical in 1983–1984, she received a Congressional Science Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where she worked for the Environment and Public Works Committee of the US Senate. By publishing studies about how products such as pressure-treated wood used in bulkheads and pilings leach toxic metals into waterways, Weis has been able to influence laws and regulations that have led to manufacturers removing toxic metals from the products. Among the legislation that she has worked on were amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Weis later served on advisory committees for the US EPA, National Sea Grant College Program of NOAA, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where she chairs the Science Advisory Board. She co-chairs the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary. She also serves on the Waterfront Management Advisory Board of New York City and the National Marine Team of the Sierra Club and Plastic Free Waters Partnership. Weis has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and volunteered with the Ecological Society of America, among other scientific bodies, and worked on the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and other United Nations (UN) reports. Since 2020, she has again been coordinating the salt marsh chapter for the next iteration of the World Ocean Assessment for the UN. Earlier in her career, she became interested in the women's movement after an argument with a sexist colleague at Rutgers and soon became active with the National Organization for Women and has served on the board of the Association for Women in Science, among other activist organizations. In 2023, the conservation organization Mission Blue named the NY/NJ harbor estuary a "Hope Spot" and Weis a "Hope Spot Champion" for her "work to connect their community of urbanites with the natural world around them through campaigning for continued improvement in water quality, habitat restoration, and community engagement programs".
Weis is Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences at Rutgers where she taught for over five decades. She has published over 250 scientific papers and written several books about marine biology. She has been married to Peddrick "Pete" Weis since 1962. He is also an academic, and the couple have two children, Jennifer and Eric, and three grandchildren. Weis enjoys choral singing and performing in musical theatre and comic opera, including at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
Research
In the 1970s, Weis studied mummichogs' response to methylmercury. When exposed to methylmercury, some females produced eggs that were severely deformed, while other females produced eggs that were normal or only mildly affected. In contrast, mummichogs from a polluted estuary, Piles Creek, in Linden, New Jersey, produced embryos that were practically all normal after being exposed to the same amount of methylmercury, showing that they were tolerant to the chemical. This research was the first finding of pollution tolerance in estuarine fish. Tolerance to mercury was also seen in adult grass shrimp and fiddler crabs in the creek. In the 1980s, Weis and her team found that, like the embryos, some sperm and eggs were also tolerant to mercury. Juvenile and adult mummichogs, however, were not mercury-tolerant, and furthermore they did not grow as big or live as long as fish from clean environments. They matures faster and produced (tolerant) embryos sooner. This research led to further studies showing that while various species in estuaries had adapted genetically to the pollutants, many individuals nevertheless developed liver problems and cancer. This in turn has led to efforts to clean up rivers and wetlands.
Later in the 1980s and 1990s, Weis and her team observed that adult mummichogs in the polluted estuary were slow to capture prey (grass shrimp) and were easier to catch by a predator (blue crabs). Most of their diet was detritus in the mud, which is not highly nutritious for them. Weis theorized that poor nutrition may have been partly responsible for their slow growth and reduced life span, and poor predator avoidance may have also been partly responsible for their reduced life span. The shrimp in Piles Creek were larger and more numerous than at clean sites, because their main predator, the mummichogs, were impaired. Other species from polluted estuaries (fiddler crabs, juvenile bluefish and blue crabs) also had altered behavior. Weis's later research in the New Jersey Meadowlands has shown, for example, that levels of mercury and other contaminants in sediment along the Hackensack River are so high that blue crabs, like the mummichogs, are slow at capturing live food (even though they are particularly aggressive), and eat a great deal of detritus, which is abnormal for a carnivorous crab. showing that the invasive plant sequesters more metal pollutants than the native plant, without releasing them back into the environment. This invasive species (which is being removed in restoration projects) performs some services for the environment and should be managed more sensitively.
Weis led a study of the status of New Jersey coastal marshes with respect to sea level rise. It found that most coastal marshes, which protect local communities from flooding and storm surge, are not elevating as rapidly as the sea level is rising and are also losing acreage. The study, published in 2021, discussed four possible remedies: allowing marshes to migrate inland through pathways created by removing developments and structures, changing the management (removal) of the reed Phragmites, adding sediments on top of marshes to increase elevation, and building "living shorelines" that incorporate harder materials, like oyster reefs, at the marsh edge to reduce erosion.
Bibliography
Books
Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History (2009; with Carol A. Butler)
Do Fish Sleep? (2011)
Walking Sideways: The Remarkable World of Crabs (2012)
Physiological, Developmental, and Behavioral Effects of Marine Pollution (2013)
Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know (2014)
Biological Invasions and Animal Behaviour (2016; co-edited with Daniel Sol)
Polluting Textiles (2022; co-edited with Francesca De Falco and Mariacristina Cocca)
Selected articles
In addition to the papers cited in this entry, the following are selected articles by Weis:
Weis, J. S., P. Weis, M. Heber and S. Vaidya (1981). "Methylmercury tolerance of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) embryos from a polluted vs. nonpolluted environment", Marine Biology, vol. 65, pp. 283–287
Smith, G. and J. S. Weis (1997). "Predator/prey interactions of the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus: Effects of living in a polluted environment", Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, vol. 209, pp. 75–87
Zhou, T., H. John-Alder, P. Weis and J. S. Weis (1999). "Thyroidal status of mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a polluted vs. a reference habitat", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 18, pp. 2817–2823
Samson, J. C., S. Shumway and J. S. Weis (2008). "Effects of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense on three species of larval fish: a food web approach", Journal of Fish Biology, vol. 72, pp. 168–188
Bergey, L. and J. S Weis (2008). "Aspects of population ecology in two populations of fiddler crabs, Uca pugnax", Marine Biology, vol. 154, pp. 435–442
Candelmo, A., A. Deshpande, B. Dockum, P. Weis and J. S. Weis (2010). "The effect of contaminated prey on feeding, activity, and growth of young-of-the-year bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, in the laboratory", Estuaries and Coasts, vol. 33, pp. 1025–1038
Awards
Fellow of AAAS (elected 1985)
Governor's Science Advisory Committee, NJ
Marine Board of the National Research Council, 1991
Environmental Award from Accabonac Protection Committee, 1996
Rutgers Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award, 2003–2004
Fulbright Senior Specialist – Indonesia (Hasanuddin University, Makassar, South Sulawesi), May 2006
Merit Award from the Society of Wetland Scientists, 2016
References
External links
Weis's Curriculum Vitae
Interview by Rapid Ecology
Interview by Waterfront Alliance
Judith Weis – How to Prevent the Destruction of our Oceans and Aquatic Ecosystems (2018)
Weis Popular Science article on an invasive species (2019)
Cornell University alumni
Living people
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni
American marine biologists
1941 births |
The Cucuroux Family (French: La famille Cucuroux) is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Émile Couzinet and starring Georges Rollin, Nathalie Nattier and Jean Tissier. An upper-class Frenchman's plans to marry a wealthy woman are threatened by the presence of his mistress.
Cast
Georges Rollin as Gontran de Saint-Paul
Nathalie Nattier as Nita
Jean Tissier as Marquis Aristide Cucuroux
Pierre Larquey as Jean
Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Célestine
André Salvador as Coquelicot
Catherine Cheiney as Henriette
Yorick Royan as Geneviève de Coutville
References
Bibliography
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
1953 films
French comedy films
1953 comedy films
1950s French-language films
Films directed by Émile Couzinet
French black-and-white films
1950s French films |
Euphorbia glauca, known by the common names of waiūatua, waiū-o-Kahukura, New Zealand sea spurge, or shore spurge, is a coastal plant endemic to New Zealand. It is in decline.
Description
Euphorbia glauca is a perennial herb with multiple erect reddish stems, around 1 metre tall. Its foliage is a blue/green colour. It flowers between September and March, although sporadic flowering can take place at other times. Flowers occur at the tip of the stems. Each flower is surrounded by a deep red coloured cup. Fruit occurs in from December to May. The plant produces an irritating milky sap.
Habitat
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found on coastal cliffs, sand dunes, banks and slopes and rocky lake shore scarps. It is at risk from browsing domestic and feral animals including pigs, cattle and sheep. Possums are also a threat. Its habitat can be impacted by road widening or erosion. A fungal disease is thought to have affected populations on the West Coast of the South Island.
Uses
A 1930s New Zealand Cookery Calendar from Poverty Bay Federation of Women's Institutes suggests E. glauca could be used to treat skin conditions but would require boiling the plant for an hour in a bath tub full of water before a person could then bathe in the strained water.
In cultivation
The seeds of the plant are naturally dispersed by wind and water. It can be propagated from seed, cuttings or by plant division. The plant is propagated in nurseries and does best in sunny well-drained spots.
The plant is listed in the New Zealand Threat Classification System as in Decline although the population of the species experiences extreme fluctuations.
See also
Flora of New Zealand
References
External links
Landcare Research - Euphorbia glauca
Euphorbia glauca discussed on RNZ Critter of the Week, 17 August 2018
Endemic flora of New Zealand
glauca |
Frolovka () is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
Frolovka, Amur Oblast, a selo in Frolovsky Rural Settlement of Seryshevsky District of Amur Oblast
Frolovka, Karachevsky District, Bryansk Oblast, a village in Mylinsky Selsoviet of Karachevsky District of Bryansk Oblast
Frolovka, Rognedinsky District, Bryansk Oblast, a village in Osoviksky Selsoviet of Rognedinsky District of Bryansk Oblast
Frolovka, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a village in Berezovsky Selsoviet of Krasnoarmeysky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Frolovka, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Privolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast
Frolovka, Khvastovichsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a selo in Khvastovichsky District, Kaluga Oblast
Frolovka, Kuybyshevsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a village in Kuybyshevsky District, Kaluga Oblast
Frolovka, Kostroma Oblast, a village in Sudislavskoye Settlement of Sudislavsky District of Kostroma Oblast
Frolovka, Kurgan Oblast, a selo in Frolovsky Selsoviet of Tselinny District of Kurgan Oblast
Frolovka, Kursk Oblast, a khutor in Brezhnevsky Selsoviet of Kursky District of Kursk Oblast
Frolovka, Mtsensky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Karandakovsky Selsoviet of Mtsensky District of Oryol Oblast
Frolovka, Novoderevenkovsky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Nikitinsky Selsoviet of Novoderevenkovsky District of Oryol Oblast
Frolovka, Sverdlovsky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Bogodukhovsky Selsoviet of Sverdlovsky District of Oryol Oblast
Frolovka, Trosnyansky District, Oryol Oblast, a village in Pennovsky Selsoviet of Trosnyansky District of Oryol Oblast
Frolovka, Primorsky Krai, a selo in Partizansky District of Primorsky Krai
Frolovka, Rostov Oblast, a khutor in Titovskoye Rural Settlement of Millerovsky District of Rostov Oblast
Frolovka, Tambov Oblast, a village in Glazkovsky Selsoviet of Michurinsky District of Tambov Oblast
Frolovka, Kamensky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Kadnovsky Rural Okrug of Kamensky District of Tula Oblast
Frolovka, Leninsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Prilepsky Rural Okrug of Leninsky District of Tula Oblast |
The 1972 New England Patriots season was the franchise's third season in the National Football League and 13th overall. The Patriots ended the season with a record of three wins and eleven losses and finished last in the AFC East Division. The Patriots continued their period of futility as they slumped to another horrendous record, and missed the playoffs for the ninth straight season. After being embarrassed 31–7 in their home opener against Cincinnati, the Patriots would win their next two games against Atlanta and Washington. However, the Patriots would continue their mid-season misery, losing nine consecutive games to slide to 2–10 before winning their first (and only) road game against the New Orleans Saints. New England went winless against AFC opponents. Out of their 11 losses, only two were by one possession, a 24–17 loss to Baltimore and a 27–24 loss to Buffalo. The worst of these losses was a 52–0 thrashing by the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Miami Dolphins, who would go on to achieve the only undefeated season in NFL history. That Dolphins loss remains the worst loss and most points ever allowed in a game in Patriots history.
Although they won three games, the 1972 Patriots had the second-worst point differential (minus-254) of any team in a 14-game NFL season, ahead of only the expansion 1976 Buccaneers. The 1972 Patriots had the franchise’s worst point differential until the 1990 team was outscored by 265 points (181–446) in a 1–15 season. They lost eight of their fourteen games by three touchdowns or more, and their first two wins were by a single point. Pro Football Reference argues that the 1970 and 1972 Patriots were, owing to the more difficult schedule faced by the 1990 team, the weakest Patriot teams ever, and rivalled only by the 1991 Colts and 2009 Rams as the weakest team by an established franchise since the NFL–AFL merger.
Draft
Staff
Roster
Regular season
Schedule
Game summaries
Week 1 vs Bengals
Week 3 vs Redskins
Standings
References
New England Patriots
New England Patriots seasons
New England Patriots
Sports competitions in Foxborough, Massachusetts |
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge. The Pea Ridge Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
Abbreviations used
Military rank
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant
Other
k = killed
w = wounded
c = captured
Army of the Southwest
Army Headquarters
BG Samuel R. Curtis
First and Second Divisions
BG Franz Sigel
Third and Fourth Divisions
Notes
References
External links
Pea Ridge National Military Park website (Order of Battle)
American Civil War orders of battle
Arkansas in the American Civil War |
His Greatest Hits may refer to various compilation albums and Greatest Hits collections.
Albums with this title include:
His Greatest Hits (Elvis Presley album) 1983
His Greatest Hits, Engelbert Humperdinck 1974, remastered 1988
His Greatest Hits, Ray Charles 1992
Albums with similar titles include:
The Man in Black – His Greatest Hits, Johnny Cash album
Presents His Hits in Concert, one of the first of countless CD releases of the 1981 UK live album Glen Campbell Live
His 12 Greatest Hits, a compilation album by Neil Diamond issued in 1974 on the MCA record label
His Definitive Greatest Hits, a compilation album by American blues musician B. B. King
A Collection of His Greatest Hits, a compilation album by American recording artist Babyface released in 2000
Sings His Greatest Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits, 1963
Little Richard Sings His Greatest Hits, 1966
Billy "Crash" Craddock Sings His Greatest Hits, a greatest hits collection by the country singer, 1978
Dion (singer) Sings His Greatest Hits, 1962
George Jones Sings His Greatest Hits (Starday 1962)
Tony Williams (singer) Sings His Greatest Hits, 1962
Ernest Ashworth Sings His Greatest Hits, 1976
Grandpa Jones Sings His Greatest Hits, 1954
Colin Blunstone Sings His Greatest Hits, 1991
Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits (Columbia/Legacy, 1997)
Sings His Best Hits for Capitol Records, Ronnie Milsap
See also albums with the name of artist in title:
Glen Campbell Live! His Greatest Hits 1994
Ritchie Valens...His Greatest Hits Volume 2
Diana: Paul Anka Sings His Greatest Hits
See also
Greatest Hits (disambiguation)
Her Greatest Hits (disambiguation)
Their Greatest Hits (disambiguation) |
```python
#
#
# path_to_url
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
import unittest
import test_collective_api_base as test_base
class TestCollectiveAllgatherObjectAPI(test_base.TestDistBase):
def _setup_config(self):
pass
def test_allgather_nccl(self):
self.check_with_place(
"collective_allgather_object_api_dygraph.py",
"allgather_object",
"nccl",
static_mode="0",
dtype="pyobject",
)
def test_allgather_gloo_dygraph(self):
self.check_with_place(
"collective_allgather_object_api_dygraph.py",
"allgather_object",
"gloo",
"3",
static_mode="0",
dtype="pyobject",
)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()
``` |
Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor from Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Pasmay in the 2021 film Wildhood, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021.
A member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, he attended Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec.
In addition to Wildhood, he has appeared in the films Bootlegger and Bones of Crows, and the television series Coroner, Unsettled, Little Bird and The Swarm.
References
External links
21st-century Canadian male actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
First Nations male actors
Male actors from Quebec
Best Supporting Actor Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Algonquin people |
WITSML is a standard for transmitting technical data between organisations in the petroleum industry. It continues to be developed by an Energistics facilitated Special Interest Group to develop XML standards for drilling, completions, and interventions data exchange. Organizations for which WITSML is targeted include energy companies, service companies, drilling contractors, application vendors and regulatory agencies.
A modern drilling rig or offshore platform uses a diverse array of specialist contractors, each of whom need to communicate data to the oil company operating the rig, and to each other. Historically this was done with serial transfer of ASCII data.
Purpose
The drilling, completions, and interventions functions of the upstream oil and natural gas industry need universally available standards to facilitate the free flow of technical data across networks between oil companies, service companies, drilling contractors, application vendors and regulatory agencies.
The WITSML initiative was started to address this need, and through its success, is now influencing petroleum industry data standards beyond the original scope.
WITSML(tm) Standards support the “right time” seamless flow of drilling and completions data between data producers and data consumers to speed and enhance decision-making in the drilling and completions domain.
The WITSML Special Interest Group (SIG) is open to all industry organizations who wish to contribute to the further development of the WITSML Standards. Energistics has custody of the standards and hosts the SIG. Energistics makes these and other industry standards available for use by all industry companies through a licensing agreement that is free of any fees or charges.
Standards used
WITSML Standards are defined using the W3C Internet standards for XML (notably XML Schema) and Web Services (including SOAP and WSDL)). The WITSML Standards define Web Services that define client/server interactions, known as the WITSML Application Programming Interface specifications. The WITSML Standards define more than 20 industry domain specific XML data object schemas to support drilling, completions, and intervention business functions.
Download current standards
Versions
WITSML Version 1.3.1 was released in March 2006. This was superseded by Version 1.3.1.1(bugfix), release in March 2007.
WITSML Version 1.4.1 was released in September 2011.
WITSML Version 2.0 was released in February 2017.
WITS and WITSML
WITS was a precursor of WITSML based on serial data exchange on a "Point to Point" basis, developed in the early 1980s (SPE Paper 16141) and was transferred to the American Petroleum Institute as a standard. However the rapid evolution of network technology, and the richness of data from LWD and rig data systems, drove BP and Statoil to explore a change to the standard. The initial project in 2000, DART ( Drilling Automation Real Time) was a CORBA approach, but this was dropped in favour of an XML based approach, that became WitsML. BP and Statoil passed custody of the new standard to Energistics in 2003.
EnergyML
EnergyML(tm) is the foundation for consistency and interoperability among all Energistics data transfer families of standards, including besides the WITSML Standards, PRODML(tm) for production and RESQML(tm) for reservoir characterization.
Support for Distributed Temperature Survey Data
A data exchange capability for distributed fibre-optic sensor (DTS) technology data was developed as an extension to the WITSML Standard based on previous work by BP. The DTS capability was reviewed and published with WITSML Standard Version 1.3.1 in December 2005.
With the initiation of a related family of standards for production, PRODML, and its user community, the PRODML Special Interest Group, the DTS capabilities are being transferred to the PRODML Standards, which is more appropriate from a business function viewpoint. There will be no gap in support for DTS data exchanges as this transfer takes place.
Open Source
PDS Releases Open Source WITSML Technologies to Improve Drilling Workflows and Data Exchange, November 2016
https://witsml.pds.technology/blog/press-release/
http://www.energistics.org/news/pds-releases-open-source-witsmltm-technologies-to-improve-drilling-workflows-and-data-exchange
External links
Energistics Web site
JWitsml - Java library for accessing WITSML datastores
Download open source witsml, server and client by PDS (link to github page)
See also
XML
Wellsite Information Transfer Specification
Petroleum production
Industry-specific XML-based standards |
Sinzig is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Rhine, about 5 km south-east of Remagen and 25 km south-east of Bonn, and it has approximately 20,000 inhabitants (2004).
History
Sinzig received its first official recognition in 762 A.D. On 10 July that year, King Pippin the Younger, the father of Charlemagne, presented a certificate of his decree in the Palace of Sinzig (Sentiaco Palacio), officially recognizing the town as "Sentiacum."
Abraham of Augsburg; a convert to Judaism, along with 61 other Jews, were slain in a pogrom in Sinzig in 1265.
Sinzig first received its rights as a town on 9 October 1267.
Because of the influence Emperor Frederick Barbarossa had on the town, it is nicknamed a "Barbarossa town". Ivan Turgenev immortalized the town in his 1857 novella Asya.
Twice, the medieval town, which since 1300 has been protected by a massive wall, was almost entirely destroyed by fires, one in 1583 and another in 1758. Little of the wall now remains, as industrialization and urban development led to its nearly complete loss at the end of the 19th century. After World War II, Sinzig experienced a population explosion and soon evolved into an industrial town.
With the district reform of 1969, Bad-Bodendorf, Franken, Koisdorf, Löhndorf, and Westum became provinces of Sinzig. Today, Sinzig, together with the town of Remagen, have developed a modern consumer centre, with multiple schools and shopping centres.
Sightseeing
There is no point in the "Golden Mile" where the defining icon of Sinzig, the parish church of Saint Peter, cannot be seen. The late Roman Basilica is one of the most meaningful pieces of Roman architecture and on to the United Nations' list of "World Culture Heritage" artifacts.
The Sinziger Schloss (Sinzig Castle) was built in the period of the Rhine Romantic. Between 1854 and 1858, a businessman, Gustav Bunge of Cologne, ordered the erection of a summer villa in Sinzig in the style of a neo-gothic palace. Surrounding the palace is a garden, constructed in the style of a Romantic park. The castle has since then become a museum.
Also worth seeing:
Zehnthof
remains of the Medieval town wall
"Ahrmündung" Nature centre
Municipal subdivisions
Sinzig
Sinzig-Bad Bodendorf
Sinzig-Westum
Sinzig-Löhndorf (1997 Champion of the "Beautify our Town" Contest)
Sinzig-Franken
Sinzig-Koisdorf
Town song
Heimattreue (Faith in the Homeland)
Draußen im Lande ein Mädel ich fand,
mit hellblondem Haar und feinzarter Hand
und sie hat Augen so klar wie der Wein:
sag Mädel die Heimat, sag bist du vom Rhein!
sag Mädel die Heimat sag bist du vom Rhein!
Refrain:
Wo die Ahr zum Rhein hinfließt,
heilend Wasser der Erd entsprießt,
wo Mädchenaugen sind so blau,
mitten in der goldnen Au.
An dies Städtchen denk ich gern,
bin ich denn auch noch so fern,
an dich denk ich immer dar,
Sinzig Rhein und Ahr.
Ferne am Strande des weiten Meeres,
steht eine Frau, schwer ist ihr ums Herz.
Und sie singt leis` in die Wolken hinein:
Grüßt mir die Heimat, mein Städtchen am Rhein!
Grüßt mir die Heimat, mein Städtchen am Rhein!
(Refrain)
Schon Barbarossa hat Sinzig erkannt,
als eines der schönsten Städtchen im Land.
Und er befahl seinem Kaisertross:
Wir rasten in Sinzig und wohnen im Schloss!
Wir rasten in Sinzig und wohnen im Schloss!
(Refrain)
Born in Sinzig
Inge Helten (born 1950), athlete, sprinter
Günter Ruch (1956-2010), writer
Connected to Sinzig
Peter Joseph Lenné (1789-1866), garden artist and landscape architect, designed the "Schlosspark" in 1858-1866 and the "Zehnthof" in 1864
Peter Bares (1936-2014), organist, composer for church music, 1960-1985 church musician in Sinzig
Rudi Altig (1937-2016), professional cyclist, lived in Sinzig - Koisdorf
Eveline Lemke (born 1964), politician (Alliance 90/The Greens), Member of the Landtag, former minister
Klaus Badelt (born 1967), German composer for television and film music, lived in Bad Bodendorf (Sinzig) during his childhood and youth.
References
External links
http://www.sinzig.de
http://www.aktiplan-sinzig.de
http://www.sinzig-loehndorf.de
http://museum-sinzig.de
http://www.sinziger-turmblaeser.de
http://www.sinzig.org
Populated places on the Rhine
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Districts of the Rhine Province
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Gérard Fenouil (23 June 1945 – 8 October 2023) was a French athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.
Born in Paris, he competed for France in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico, where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates Jocelyn Delecour, Claude Piquemal and Roger Bambuck. Fenouil died on 8 October 2023, at the age of 78.
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Carex adusta, commonly known as the lesser brown sedge or the browned sedge, is a species of sedge (Carex) in the section Ovales. First described scientifically in 1839 by Francis Boott, it is found in Canada and the northeastern United States, where it grows in dry, acidic, sandy soils. is Latin for "burnt," probably referring to the color.
Description
The plants have densely clustered culms that grow high, and leaves measuring long by 2–3.5 mm wide.
References
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Plants described in 1839
Flora of Western Canada
Flora of Eastern Canada
Flora of Wisconsin
Flora of Minnesota
Flora of Michigan
Flora of New York (state)
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Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
The eight great surnames of Chinese antiquity were among the most important Chinese surnames in Chinese antiquity. They are all Chinese ancestral surnames, and as such, have Chinese clan surnames branching off from them. During the earliest Chinese antiquity, Chinese society focused on women. Family names often passed from women to their children. Because of this phenomenon, these eight surnames have a component of their hanzi representing the character woman (女).
As of 2019, very few people had one of these surnames as a family name. An exception is the surnames Yao and Jiang. Of these, there are some well-known Chinese of modern times with these names today. One example is Yao Ming (姚明).
The eight surnames
姞 is also sometimes considered one of the eight great surnames of Chinese antiquity.
姞 then replaces the surname 妊.
See also
Eight surnames of Zhurong
References
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Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity
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Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) (), formerly Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC), is the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada responsible for Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth Sports movement in Canada.
History
After conclusion of the 1930 British Empire Games, the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada established a permanent committee known as the British Empire Games Association of Canada. The association oversaw selection of athletes for the games, with Edward Wentworth Beatty as chairman, and Melville Marks Robinson as secretary. By 1937, J. Howard Crocker was the president and secretary of the association.
Board of directors
Board of directors are elected for a quadrennial term.
New Brand
On 10 March 2020, during Commonwealth Day, the association launched its new brand. In addition to the new name, CSC has also introduced its new CSC logo which links to the new CGF brand by incorporating the three "Victory Marks".
Commonwealth Games Foundation of Canada
The Commonwealth Games Foundation of Canada (CGFC) is a body within CSC, established in 1982 with an aim to raise the funds required to send the Canadian delegation—athletes and officials—to the Commonwealth Games. Former president of the Hudson's Bay Company George Heller is the incumbent president of the CGFC, who was also the president and CEO of the 1994 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
See also
Canada at the Commonwealth Games
Canadian Olympic Committee
References
Canada
Sports governing bodies in Canada |
Robert Henricks (born 1943) is an American theologian, currently the Preston Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Dartmouth College, specializing in Asian literature and religion.
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The International Linguistic Association (ILA) was founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York. Its founding members were academic linguists in the New York area, including many members of the École Libre des Hautes Études in exile. The model for the new organization was the Société de Linguistique de Paris. Early members included Roman Jakobson, Morris Swadesh, André Martinet, Henri F. Muller, Giuliano Bonfante, Robert Austerlitz, Robert Fowkes, Henry Lee Smith, Wolf Leslau, and Louis H. Gray.
The Circle began publishing the journal WORD in 1945 under the editorship of Pauline Taylor. Both the Circle and the journal soon became known as one of the main sources of new ideas in American linguistics before the Chomsky era.
In 1969, the society's name was changed to International Linguistic Association, as an acknowledgment of the fact that its membership now extended far beyond New York City.
The ILA holds an annual meeting every April (usually in New York) and sponsors individual talks on six Saturdays during the academic year. WORD is now under the editorship of Jonathan J. Webster of the City University of Hong Kong; since 2015, the journal has been published by Routledge/Taylor&Francis.
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The Council of Pisa, was convened by Pope Innocent II in May 1135. An extraordinary number of prelates, archbishops, bishops, monks, and abbots attended the council, including a large number of Italian clergy. The council addressed simony, schismatic clerics, heresy, as well as donations to the Templar Order. Pisa would be the third council Innocent would convene to address issues within the Catholic Church.
Background
In February 1130, following the death of Pope Honorius II, Innocent II had been hastily elected pope by six cardinals led by papal chancellor Haimeric. This was contested by the Roman Pierleoni family that chose Anacletus II. Without any Roman support Innocent fled to France, where he gained the support of Louis VI of France, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Peter the Venerable. While in France he held two Councils, Clermont(November 1130) and Rheims(October 1131). In June 1133, Innocent returned to Rome to quickly crown Lothair of Saxony emperor, but following Lothair's hurried exit from Rome he fled to Pisa.
The council was initially planned for November 1135, but Bernard who attended the diet of Bamberg(March 1135), learned that Emperor Lothair was planning an invasion of Italy. Reinforced by this news, Innocent chose May 1135 for the synod.
Council
One hundred twenty-six archbishops and bishops, and numerous abbots from Italy, Germany, France, England, Spain and Hungary attended. Bernard used this council to rally support for Innocent II in northern Italy.
Excommunication and Condemnation
The first order of business was the excommunication of antipope Anacletus II and his supporters, including Roger II of Sicily. This was followed by the removal of the bishops of Halberstadt, Liege, Valence, Arezzo, Acera, and Moderna, and the archbishop of Milan all on the charges of simony or giving support to Anacletus II. All schismatic ordinations were condemned.
Henry the Monk was brought before the council and condemned on the charge of maintaining heretical views. He was ordered to cease his preaching and return to a monastery.
Templars
The Templar Order met the clergy of north-west Italy for the first time at Pisa. Bernard of Clairvaux called on the assembled clergy to allow the Knights Templar commanderies in their own jurisdictions. Innocent set the precedent by giving a mark of gold each year to the Templar order. This donation was matched by the bishops who all gave a silver mark apiece.
Clerical marriage
All marriages involving clerics, monks, and cloistered nuns were annulled. It was agreed by all participants of the council that such unions were not regarded as marriage. This judgment established celibacy as a major theme in Innocentian politics.
Regulate religious orders
Restricted the placement of adolescents into religious orders, unless they show prudence and merit for that type of life.
Aftermath
Held during the pinnacle of the papal schism, the Council of Pisa has been described as the end of the reform papacy by H.W. Klewitz.
Antipope Anacletus II died on 25 January 1138, ending the schism within the Catholic Church. Gregorio de Conti, who was elected Antipope Victor IV in March 1138, quickly abdicated by May 1138 and recognized Innocent II as head of the Catholic church.
Innocent returned to Rome and at the Second Council of the Lateran held on 29 March 1139, he issued the papal bull, Omne datum optimum. This gave the Templar Order an official sanction as defenders of the Catholic Church. In the following years, thanks to the persuasive effort by Bernard, the Templars founded commanderies at Piacenza and Reggio Emilia.
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Jerry Martin Sherk (born July 7, 1948) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons between 1970 until 1981. He made the Pro Bowl lineup for four straight years from 1973 through 1976, and is widely considered to be among the best defensive players in Cleveland Browns history.
College career
Jerry Sherk was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended Grants Pass High, where he joined the school's wrestling and football teams.
Sherk attended Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. During high school, he played on both the football and wrestling teams in both his junior and senior years. He was an All-Big Eight selection on the gridiron in 1969 and an All-American as a Cowboy grappler in 1969. He was inducted to the Oklahoma State Hall of Honor in 2000. He was the key to the Grays Harbor wrestling teams winning wrestling state titles two years in a row. Individually, he also won back-to-back state titles and in 1968, he pinned every opponent he faced.
NFL career
Sherk was selected in the second round (47th overall) of the 1970 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. His first game was on September 21, 1970, the first regular edition of Monday Night Football. He became a starting player immediately, and soon became noted as having a knack for getting to the quarterback. Sherk was part of an AFC Central Division in which each team boasted All-Pro quality defensive tackles: the Pittsburgh Steelers' Joe Greene, the Cincinnati Bengals' Mike Reid, and the Houston Oilers' Curley Culp, with Greene and Culp earning enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was part of a 1972 Browns team that went 10-4 and advanced to the playoffs, losing to the undefeated Miami Dolphins. Sherk led the Browns in sacks with 10½ sacks and led teams' defensive linemen in tackles with 91, after totaling three sacks and 83 tackles in 1970 and 84 tackles with 4 1/2 sacks in 1971. The following year Sherk played in his first Pro Bowl after sacking opposing quarterbacks 5½ times and making 100 tackles, most by any Browns defensive lineman that season. In 1974 Sherk made his second Pro Bowl and led the Browns with 10 sacks to go with his 94 tackles.
In 1975 Sherk made his third consecutive Pro Bowl and was named All-AFC. He is known for punching St. Louis Cardinals QB, Jim Hart, in they eye during the Pro Bowl game causing him to leave the game with six stitches above his eye. According to Hart he did not apologize. He matched his own career-high of 100 tackles and recorded six sacks. In 1976 Sherk recorded 12 sacks and 92 tackles and was voted the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). Sherk was a consensus All-Pro, making the AP, PFWA, NEA teams as well as being consensus All-AFC for the second consecutive year. November 14, 1976 he set club record with four sacks in one game. He capped the season off by playing in his fourth consecutive Pro Bowl.
At a September 1977 preseason match against the Green Bay
Packers, Sherk seriously injured his knee. Consequently, he was only able to play in seven games during the 1977 season. He came back in 1978 recording a new career-high in tackles with 105 but only dropped opposing quarterbacks 3 times.
During a November 4, 1979 game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, an infected boil on Sherk's arm was scraped off. Bacteria from the field's Astroturf entered his body through the wound, triggering s staph infection that traveled to his knee and nearly killed him. Sherk missed the last six games of the 1979 season. His substitute on the field was Henry Bradley. The infection eventually proved to be more problematic than first imagined, and effectively sidelined him for the 1980 season, in which he played in only one game and recorded only one tackle. Sherk's absence prompted the Browns to go to the 3-4 defense in 1980, with Bradley at nose guard.
He spent his final season, 1981, as a designated pass rusher, coming in to play defensive tackle when the Browns switched from the 3-4 o a four down lineman nickel defense. In that limited role he recorded 12 tackles and three sacks. In all, Sherk totaled 864 career tackles and 69½ sacks. Along the way, blocked 6 kicks, intercepted three passes, and recovered ten fumbles.
Post NFL career
Photography
After leaving football, Sherk worked as a sports photographer for roughly ten years. His work was featured in Sports Illustrated, Pro! Magazine, and many newspapers. His photographs from this time period were featured in an exhibition titled Through the Eyes of a Defensive Lineman: The Cleveland Browns as Photographed by Jerry Sherk. The photo show was held December 14, 2010 at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and was sponsored by the Cleveland Touchdown Club Charities.
Mentoring
In 1991 Sherk returned to college, earning a master's degree in counseling psychology. He began counseling various vulnerable populations, becoming especially interested in working with at-risk children. Along the way he created a school-based group mentoring program that uses sports to teach young people how to reach goals in academics and life.
Personal life
Sherk resides in Encinitas, California in San Diego county, with his wife Ann.
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Yakov Genrikhovich Doletsky (in Polish: Dolecki; real name Fenigstein ) (in Russian: Яков Генрихович Долецкий; real name Фенигштейн; 1888 – 19 June 1937) was a Polish revolutionary and long-serving head of the Soviet news agency TASS.
Career
Doletsky was born in Warsaw in 1888. In 1904, at the age of sixteen, Doletsky joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), a party led by Rosa Luxemburg and Jan Tyszka. He was soon arrested and imprisoned. After his release, he worked for the SDKPiL abroad, then returned to Poland to operate illegally in Warsaw and Lodz. In 1912, he supported the 'rozlamovist' group within the party who opposed Tyszka's leadership style and who were allied with Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. He represented the group at the abortive 'unification' conference in Brussels in July 1914, which was supposed to reunite the separate factions of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and the SDPKiL. Again arrested on his return to Poland, he spent two years in prison. On his release in 1916, he joined the Bolsheviks.
From March to November 1919, Doletsky was deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar of Internal Affairs in the short-lived Soviet republic of Lithuania and Belarus.
In 1922, he was appointed executive secretary of the ROSTA news agency.
From 1925 to 1937, he was the executive head of TASS, the main Soviet news agency and one of the largest news agencies in the world, from its inception in 1925 until 1937.
Every well-known former member of the SDPKiL was arrested during the Great Purge of 1936–38. Doletsky's died on 19 June 1937. According to some sources, he was shot, but according to his family, he committed suicide knowing that his arrest was imminent.
Personality
Eugene Lyons, who worked for TASS in the US and regularly corresponded with Doletsky, was disillusioned on meeting in Moscow in 1928:
Alexander Barmine saw Doletsky, whom he described as a "conscientious official and the kind of man who never got involved in political quarrels", and Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Nikolai Krestinsky, on two occasions early in 1937: "On the first occasion they were still both normal men, preoccupied naturally, but capable of smiling, joking, making plans, giving advice. Three weeks later they were gloomy and nervous, so absorbed in their inward thoughts that they spoke in dismal tones, stared inattentively, and hardly understood what I said to them. They knew themselves to be doomed men."
Family
Doletsky's wife, Sofia Stanevich, (1897–1961) was an engineer who survived 17 years in the gulag.
Their son, Stanislav (1919–1994) worked as a surgeon from 1941 and rose to chief children's surgeon for the RSFSR Ministry of Health. His first wife, Kira Daniel-Bek Pirumyan, was the granddaughter of Prince Daniel Bek-Pirumyan, hero of the Battle of Sardarabad.
Their daughter, Alena (Aliona) Doletskaya, was editor in chief of Vogue Russia between 1998 and 2010. She played Sofia and her nephew Artem played Stanislav in a film about the family history made in 2010 as part of an anti-Stalin project.
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Surface reconstruction refers to the process by which atoms at the surface of a crystal assume a different structure than that of the bulk. Surface reconstructions are important in that they help in the understanding of surface chemistry for various materials, especially in the case where another material is adsorbed onto the surface.
Basic principles
In an ideal infinite crystal, the equilibrium position of each individual atom is determined by the forces exerted by all the other atoms in the crystal, resulting in a periodic structure. If a surface is introduced to the surroundings by terminating the crystal along a given plane, then these forces are altered, changing the equilibrium positions of the remaining atoms. This is most noticeable for the atoms at or near the surface plane, as they now only experience inter-atomic forces from one direction. This imbalance results in the atoms near the surface assuming positions with different spacing and/or symmetry from the bulk atoms, creating a different surface structure. This change in equilibrium positions near the surface can be categorized as either a relaxation or a reconstruction.
Relaxation refers to a change in the position of surface atoms relative to the bulk positions, while the bulk unit cell is preserved at the surface. Often this is a purely normal relaxation: that is, the surface atoms move in a direction normal to the surface plane, usually resulting in a smaller-than-usual inter-layer spacing. This makes intuitive sense, as a surface layer that experiences no forces from the open region can be expected to contract towards the bulk. Most metals experience this type of relaxation. Some surfaces also experience relaxations in the lateral direction as well as the normal, so that the upper layers become shifted relative to layers further in, in order to minimize the positional energy.
Reconstruction refers to a change in the two-dimensional structure of the surface layers, in addition to changes in the position of the entire layer. For example, in a cubic material the surface layer might re-structure itself to assume a smaller two-dimensional spacing between the atoms, as lateral forces from adjacent layers are reduced. The general symmetry of a layer might also change, as in the case of the Pt (100) surface, which reconstructs from a cubic to a hexagonal structure. A reconstruction can affect one or more layers at the surface and can either conserve the total number of atoms in a layer (a conservative reconstruction) or have a greater or lesser number than in the bulk (a non-conservative reconstruction).
Reconstruction due to adsorption
The relaxations and reconstructions considered above would describe the ideal case of atomically clean surfaces in vacuum, in which the interaction with another medium is not considered. However, reconstructions can also be induced or affected by the adsorption of other atoms onto the surface, as the interatomic forces are changed. These reconstructions can assume a variety of forms when the detailed interactions between different types of atoms are taken into account, but some general principles can be identified.
The reconstruction of a surface with adsorption will depend on the following factors:
The composition of the substrate and of the adsorbate.
The coverage of the substrate surface layers and of the adsorbate, measured in monolayers.
The ambient conditions (i.e. temperature, gas pressure, etc.).
Composition plays an important role in that it determines the form that the adsorption process takes, whether by relatively weak physisorption through van der Waals interactions or stronger chemisorption through the formation of chemical bonds between the substrate and adsorbate atoms. Surfaces that undergo chemisorption generally result in more extensive reconstructions than those that undergo physisorption, as the breaking and formation of bonds between the surface atoms alter the interaction of the substrate atoms as well as the adsorbate.
Different reconstructions can also occur depending on the substrate and adsorbate coverages and the ambient conditions, as the equilibrium positions of the atoms are changed depending on the forces exerted. One example of this occurs in the case of In adsorbed on the Si(111) surface, in which the two differently reconstructed phases of Si(111)-In and Si(111)-In (in Wood's notation, see below) can actually coexist under certain conditions. These phases are distinguished by the In coverage in the different regions and occur for certain ranges of the average In coverage.
Notation of reconstructions
In general, the change in a surface layer's structure due to a reconstruction can be completely specified by a matrix notation proposed by Park and Madden. If and are the basic translation vectors of the two-dimensional structure in the bulk, and and are the basic translation vectors of the superstructure or reconstructed plane, then the relationship between the two sets of vectors can be described by the following equations:
so that the two-dimensional reconstruction can be described by the matrix
Note that this system does not describe any relaxation of the surface layers relative to the bulk inter-layer spacing, but only describes the change in the individual layer's structure.
Surface reconstructions are more commonly given in Wood's notation, which reduces the matrix above into a more compact notation
X(hkl) m × n - Rφ,
which describes the reconstruction of the (hkl) plane (given by its Miller indices). In this notation, the surface unit cell is given as multiples of the nonreconstructed surface unit cell with the unit cell vectors a and b. For example, a calcite(104) (2×1) reconstruction means that the unit cell is twice as long in direction a and has the same length in direction b. If the unit cell is rotated with respect to the unit cell of the nonreconstructed surface, the angle φ is given in addition (usually in degrees). This notation is often used to describe reconstructions concisely, but does not directly indicate changes in the layer symmetry (for example, square to hexagonal).
Measurement of reconstructions
Determination of a material's surface reconstruction requires a measurement of the positions of the surface atoms that can be compared to a measurement of the bulk structure. While the bulk structure of crystalline materials can usually be determined by using a diffraction experiment to determine the Bragg peaks, any signal from a reconstructed surface is obscured due to the relatively tiny number of atoms involved.
Special techniques are thus required to measure the positions of the surface atoms, and these generally fall into two categories: diffraction-based methods adapted for surface science, such as low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) or Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, and atomic-scale probe techniques such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) or atomic force microscopy. Of these, STM has been most commonly used in recent history due to its very high resolution and ability to resolve aperiodic features.
Examples of reconstructions
To allow a better understanding of the variety of reconstructions in different systems, examine the following examples of reconstructions in metallic, semiconducting and insulating materials.
Silicon
A very well known example of surface reconstruction occurs in silicon, a semiconductor commonly used in a variety of computing and microelectronics applications. With a diamond-like face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice, it exhibits several different well-ordered reconstructions depending on temperature and on which crystal face is exposed.
When Si is cleaved along the (100) surface, the ideal diamond-like structure is interrupted and results in a 1×1 square array of surface Si atoms. Each of these has two dangling bonds remaining from the diamond structure, creating a surface that can obviously be reconstructed into a lower-energy structure. The observed reconstruction is a 2×1 periodicity, explained by the formation of dimers, which consist of paired surface atoms, decreasing the number of dangling bonds by a factor of two. These dimers reconstruct in rows with a high long-range order, resulting in a surface of filled and empty rows. LEED studies and calculations also indicate that relaxations as deep as five layers into the bulk are also likely to occur.
The Si (111) structure, by comparison, exhibits a much more complex reconstruction. Cleavage along the (111) surface at low temperatures results in another 2×1 reconstruction, differing from the (100) surface by forming long π-bonded chains in the first and second surface layers. However, when heated above 400 °C, this structure converts irreversibly to the more complicated 7×7 reconstruction. In addition, a disordered 1×1 structure is regained at temperatures above 850 °C, which can be converted back to the 7×7 reconstruction by slow cooling.
The 7×7 reconstruction is modeled according to a dimer-adatom-stacking fault (DAS) model constructed by many research groups over a period of 25 years. Extending through the five top layers of the surface, the unit cell of the reconstruction contains 12 adatoms and 2 triangular subunits, 9 dimers, and a deep corner hole that extends to the fourth and fifth layers. This structure was gradually inferred from LEED and RHEED measurements and calculation, and was finally resolved in real space by Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ch. Gerber and E. Weibel as a demonstration of the STM, which was developed by Binnig and Rohrer at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. The full structure with positions of all reconstructed atoms has also been confirmed by massively parallel computation.
A number of similar DAS reconstructions have also been observed on Si (111) in non-equilibrium conditions in a (2n + 1)×(2n + 1) pattern and include 3×3, 5×5 and 9×9 reconstructions. The preference for the 7×7 reconstruction is attributed to an optimal balance of charge transfer and stress, but the other DAS-type reconstructions can be obtained under conditions such as rapid quenching from the disordered 1×1 structure.
Gold
The structure of the Au (100) surface is an interesting example of how a cubic structure can be reconstructed into a different symmetry, as well as the temperature dependence of a reconstruction. In the bulk gold is an (fcc) metal, with a surface structure reconstructed into a distorted hexagonal phase. This hexagonal phase is often referred to as a (28×5) structure, distorted and rotated by about 0.81° relative to the [011] crystal direction. Molecular-dynamics simulations indicate that this rotation occurs to partly relieve a compressive strain developed in the formation of this hexagonal reconstruction, which is nevertheless favored thermodynamically over the unreconstructed structure. However, this rotation disappears in a phase transition at approximately T = 970 K, above which an un-rotated hexagonal structure is observed.
A second phase transition is observed at T = 1170 K, in which an order–disorder transition occurs, as entropic effects dominate at high temperature. The high-temperature disordered phase is explained as a quasi-melted phase in which only the surface becomes disordered between 1170 K and the bulk melting temperature of 1337 K. This phase is not completely disordered, however, as this melting process allows the effects of the substrate interactions to become important again in determining the surface structure. This results in a recovery of the square (1×1) structure within the disordered phase and makes sense as at high temperatures the energy reduction allowed by the hexagonal reconstruction can be presumed to be less significant.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Oura, K.; Lifshits, V. G.; Saranin, A. A.; Zotov, A. V.; and Katayama, M. (2003) Surface Science: An Introduction. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. .
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Porog () is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
Porog, Arkhangelsk Oblast, a selo in Kokorinsky Selsoviet of Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast
Porog, Irkutsk Oblast, a selo in Nizhneudinsky District of Irkutsk Oblast
Porog, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a village in Pyatkovsky Selsoviet of Kazachinsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Porog, Boksitogorsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Bolshedvorskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad Oblast
Porog, Kirishsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Pchevzhinskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Kirishsky District of Leningrad Oblast
Porog, Volkhovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Khvalovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast
Porog, Novgorod Oblast, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of the urban-type settlement of Nebolchi, Lyubytinsky District, Novgorod Oblast
Porog, Kaduysky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Baranovsky Selsoviet of Kaduysky District of Vologda Oblast
Porog, Velikoustyugsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Opoksky Selsoviet of Velikoustyugsky District of Vologda Oblast
Porog, Vytegorsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Andomsky Selsoviet of Vytegorsky District of Vologda Oblast |
Reale is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Damien Reale (born 1981), Irish hurler
David Reale (born 1984), Canadian actor
Enzo Reale (born 1991), French footballer
Federigo Reale, 19th-century Italian painter
Giovanni Reale (1931–2014), Italian historian of philosophy
Liam Reale (born 1983), Irish middle-distance runner
Mark Reale (1955–2012), American guitarist
Michele Reale (born 1971), Italian golfer
Michelle Reale, American poet, academic and ethnographer
Miguel Reale (1910–2006), Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic, politician and poet
Oronzo Reale (1902–1988), Italian politician
Robert Reale (born 1956), American composer
Willie Reale, American writer
See also
Real (disambiguation) |
"Do You Right" is a song by 311, released as a single in April 1993, from their album Music which was released February 9, 1993.
Track listing
"Do You Right (Edit)" – 3:46
"Do You Right (Album)" – 4:16
Charts
References
1993 singles
311 (band) songs
Song recordings produced by Eddy Offord
1993 songs
Songs written by Nick Hexum
Songs written by SA Martinez
Songs written by Chad Sexton
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Stephen Rodger Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian former international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler, Waugh is considered one of the greatest cricketers of all time. Waugh was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup. As Australian captain from 1997 to 2004, he led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test wins, and to victory in the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Waugh is considered the most successful Test captain in history with 41 victories and a winning ratio of 72%.
Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first-class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010. Waugh was the world number 1 all-rounder in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket until back issues forced him to give up bowling. He concentrated only on batting and went on to become one of the leading batsmen of his time. He is one of only thirteen players to have scored more than 10,000 Test runs.
He was named Australian of the Year in 2004 for his philanthropic work, and inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in front of his home fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2010.
Waugh has been included in a list of one hundred Australian Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia, awarded the Order of Australia and the Australian Sports Medal. Known as an attacking and sometimes ruthlessly efficient captain, Described in 2003 as a "cold-blooded, scientific" leader, cricket columnist of The Times Simon Barnes noted that "Waugh wants to defeat you personally." At the end of his final Test match, Waugh was carried by his teammates in a lap of honour around the Sydney Cricket Ground. In a fan poll conducted by the CA in 2017, he was named in the country's best Ashes XI in the last 40 years.
Early and personal life
Born at Canterbury Hospital in Campsie, a suburb in South-Western Sydney on 2 June 1965, Waugh was one of twin boys born to Rodger and Beverley Waugh. He arrived four minutes before Mark, who went on to play cricket for Australia alongside him. Their father was a bank official and his mother was a teacher within the New South Wales Department of Education. The family settled in the South-Western Sydney suburb of Panania. The twins were later joined by two more brothers, Dean (who also went on to play first-class cricket in Australia) and Danny (who played first grade cricket for Sydney University Cricket Club). From an early age, the parents introduced their children to sport. By the age of six, the twins were playing organised soccer, tennis and cricket. In their first cricket match, the brothers were both dismissed for ducks.
The twins came from a sporting family. Their paternal grandfather Edward was a greyhound trainer. Raised in the North Coast town of Bangalow, Edward earned selection for the New South Wales Country team in rugby league. He was about to join Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League, but had to give up his career due to family reasons. Rodger was Edward's only son and was promising tennis player, who was ranked eighth in Australia in his junior years and was the state champion at under-14 level. On the maternal side, Bev was a tennis player who won the under-14 singles at the South Australian Championships. Her eldest brother Dion Bourne was an opening batsman who played for Bankstown in Sydney Grade Cricket and remains the leading runscorer in the club's history.
The twins made their first representative cricket team when they were selected for the Bankstown District under-10s at the age of eight. In 1976, the twins were the youngest ever to be selected in the New South Wales Primary Schools' soccer team. Playing for Panania Primary School, the twins swept their school to win the Umbro International Shield, a statewide knockout soccer competition, scoring all of their team's three goals in the final. They were a key part of their school's consecutive state cricket championships, and were part of the school tennis team that came second in the state in their final year. In his final year, Steve was the vice-captain of the cricket team and captained the state soccer team. The twins were instrumental in New South Wales winning the cricket carnival without a defeat, in one match combining in a partnership of 150.
By this time, the increasing time demands led to conflicts between the sports, and were in one case delisted from a team due to a conflict of commitments. The twins progressed to East Hills Boys Technology High School, which had a history of producing Australian international representatives in a number of sports.
Aged 13, the twins were invited by their uncle Bourne, then the captain of Bankstown's first grade team, to trial for the club's under-16 team for the Green Shield, and both were selected. Aged fourteen, both made their senior grade cricket debut in 1979–1980, playing in the Fourth XI. The twins broke into East Hills Boys First XI in the same season, and achieved the same level in soccer. In 1980–81 the brothers were elevated to the Third XI mid-season.
The brothers often formed a two-man team—in one match taking 16/85 between them. At the end of 1980, the twins were selected in the state under-16 team for the national carnival. The pair changed soccer teams to play in the reserve grade for Sydney Croatia in the state league being paid small amounts in the professional league. However, they quickly left as their cricket careers increasingly demanded more time.
The brothers were promoted to Bankstown's Second XI, before being selected for the First XI in the 1982–83 season, aged 17, both making their debut against Western Suburbs. However, Waugh was dropped back to the Second XI, He was regarded as an aggressive player, something that characterised his early international career.
The twins finished high school at the end of 1983. In 1983–84, both were members of New South Wales Combined High Schools and the state under-19 team. Waugh made 170 against Great Public Schools. The brothers were then selected for Australia for the first time. They had been named in the national under-19 team to play a Test and ODI series against the touring Sri Lankan counterparts.
The under-19 series pitted several future international players against one another. Waugh scored 187 in the Third Test at Melbourne as Australia won 1–0. After leaving high school, Waugh enrolled in a teaching course, but withdrew after a few lectures. He made his maiden First XI century during the season with tons against Sydney University and Waverley.
At the start of the 1984–85 season, the brothers were included in the New South Wales state squad.
At the end of the season, the twins signed a contract to spend the Australian winter to play for Egerton Cricket Club in the Bolton League in Lancashire. Each club was allowed to have one professional; Steve was officially designated as such but would split the earnings with Mark. The twins were billeted with a local family.
However, during the year, an Australian rebel tour to South Africa was staged, breaking the boycott against the apartheid regime. Some players defected from the Australian Test team to play in South Africa. This resulted in Dave Gilbert being promoted to the national squad, forcing him to forfeit his Esso scholarship, which allowed him to play Second XI cricket in the County Championship. Steve was selected to replace Gilbert with Essex, leaving Mark as the lone professional.
In December 2017, his son, Austin Waugh, was named in Australia's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Domestic career
Waugh made his first-class debut for New South Wales (NSW) in 1984–85, batting at number nine and bowling medium pace. In the Sheffield Shield final that season, he scored 71 while batting with the tail to help NSW to victory.
International career
After ten first-class matches for NSW, he made his Test debut against India in the 1985–86 season, in the Second Test at Melbourne. He scored 13 and 5 and took 2/36 in the first innings. Failing to make a substantial score in the series (he tallied 26 runs in four innings), Waugh was retained for the subsequent tour of New Zealand. He had a good all-round match in the Second Test at Christchurch, making 74 and claiming 4/56, but his batting average was only 17.40 for the series, scoring 86 runs. Waugh had more success in the one-day format during the season. He made his debut against New Zealand at the MCG and took 1/13 and a catch. He did not bat as the match was washed out. He was retained for all of Australia's 12 matches in the triangular tournament, scoring 266 runs at 38.00 with two half-centuries, including a top score of 81 in the Australia Day victory over India. He took seven wickets at 33.00. Waugh was retained for all four ODIs on the tour of New Zealand, scoring 111 runs at 27.75 and taking four wickets at 39.75.
The Australian selectors persisted with Waugh, and he toured India in 1986, despite having scored only 113 runs at 12.56 in his Test career. During the three Tests, Waugh had limited opportunities and scored 59 runs for once out and took two wickets. At this stage of his career, Waugh bore a heavy workload as a bowler although he was ostensibly selected for his batting. He played in all six ODIs on tour, scoring 111 runs at 55.50 and taking seven wickets at 35.86.
He bowled a long spell, taking 3/76, in the First Test against England at Brisbane in 1986–87, then scored 0 and 28 as Australia slumped to defeat. In the Second Test at Perth, he made 71 and had match figures of 5/159 including 5/69 in the second innings, then he scored 79 not out in the drawn Third Test at Adelaide. Scores of 49 and 73 in the last two Tests, gave him series figures of 310 runs (at 44.29) and ten wickets (at 33.60), a fighting effort in a team defeated 1–2. The win in the Fifth Test was the first time that Waugh was in a victorious Test team, in his 13th match. Waugh played in all of Australia's 13 ODIs for the home season, scoring 372 runs at 37.20 with two half-centuries and taking 21 wickets at 21.80. Waugh regularly performed with both bat and ball. In a match against Pakistan, he scored 82 and then took 4/48 but could not stop the visitors taking a one-wicket victory from the second last ball. He then scored 83* and took 2/30 in an Australia Day victory against England. He was unable to maintain his form in the finals, scoring one and one and taking a total of 1/78 as England won 2–0.
Early in his international career, Waugh was a natural, uninhibited strokeplayer who liked to drive off the back foot. He could score quickly, but was inconsistent at Test level and seemed better suited to ODI cricket. In the shorter game, he often accelerated the scoring in the later overs of the innings. As a bowler, he was known for his astute change of pace and was the pioneer in inventing a carefully disguised slower ball bowled from the back of the hand, and regularly sent down the final overs, when his astute change of pace was difficult to score from. Allan Border often used Waugh as a final overs specialist in crunch situations and at his peak as a bowler, Waugh was the top slog overs specialist bowler for any conditions.
1987 World Cup
The 1987 World Cup, played on the Indian subcontinent, was the turning point of Waugh's career. Having scored 19* in the death overs against India in the first match, Waugh's tight bowling in the closing overs finished with his dismissal of Maninder Singh in the final over, which secured a one-run victory. In the following match against Zimbabwe, Waugh scored 45 before conceding only seven runs in six overs of bowling as the Australians won by 96 runs. In the following match against New Zealand, Waugh bowled the last over with the Kiwis requiring seven runs for victory: he restricted them to only three runs by taking two wickets in the over. He ended with 2/36.
In the second round robin rotation, Waugh took 1/59 and scored 42 in a 56-run loss to India, before taking 2/37 in a 17-run win over New Zealand. In Australia's final group match, Waugh scored 10* before taking 1/9 from four overs in a 70-run win over Zimbabwe. Australia qualified for the semi-finals and faced co-hosts Pakistan on their home soil in Lahore. Batting first, Waugh hit 16 from the final over of the innings in a cameo of 32*, a match that Australia won by 18 runs. In the final, he scored an unbeaten five in a brief innings at the end of the innings. He was a key player as Australia defended a target of 254 against England at Kolkata. He claimed the wickets of Allan Lamb and Phillip DeFreitas in the 47th and 49th overs as England stumbled towards the end of the run-chase. Australia won by seven runs to claim the World Cup for the first time. Waugh compiled 167 runs at 55.66 and took 11 wickets at 26.18. These performances in tight situations earned him the nickname of "Iceman".
Breakthrough tour of England
However, Waugh continued to be inconsistent in Test matches. He made only 194 runs at 32.33 in five Tests in 1987–88 against the touring New Zealand, England and Sri Lanka teams. His bowling helped to keep him in the team, with nine wickets at 29.67. Waugh's ODI form remained strong, playing in all of Australia's 11 ODIs for the season, scoring 226 runs at 32.29 and taking 18 wickets at 23.50. He scored one half-century and took a haul of 4/33 in one match against Sri Lanka.
A Test tour of Pakistan in late 1988 was unproductive, with 92 runs at 18.40 with one half century and two wickets at 108.00. In 1988–89 against the West Indies, Waugh mixed some batting failures with two entertaining innings of 90 and 91 on the faster pitches of Brisbane and Perth, respectively. He bowled a series of bouncers at Viv Richards at Brisbane and claimed 3/77 and 5/92 in the Third Test at Melbourne. Of Waugh's spell at Brisbane, Bill O'Reilly wrote:
The most significant incident of the Brisbane Test ... was the salutation young Steve Waugh served up, in the form of three consecutive bouncers, to visiting captain Viv Richards ... I took it immediately as an uncompromising message to the opposing skipper that Waugh was sick to death of the bouncer policy that the West Indies have for so long adopted as their standard method of attack.
Waugh continued to perform strongly in the ODIs, scoring 270 runs as 38.57 and taking seven wickets at 49.42. His highest score and best bowling analysis occurred in the same match, taking 3/57 before scoring 54 against West Indies in Melbourne. Despite this, Australia still lost the match.
Heading into the 1989 Ashes series, Waugh's batting average was 30.52 from 26 Tests. In the three-match ODI series that preceded the Tests, Waugh scored 113 runs at 37.66 and took three wickets at 54.00.
Waugh finally scored his maiden Test century, 177 not out in the First Test at Leeds. It was a free flowing innings marked by square driving, in just over five hours of batting which helped Australia set the platform for a win with a large first innings. He followed this with an unbeaten 152 in the Second Test at Lord's, adeptly shepherding his tailend partners to help Australia set up a winning 242 run lead in the first innings. He was not dismissed until the first innings of the Third Test for 43, by which time he had amassed 393 runs. Waugh scored 92 in the Fourth Test at Old Trafford in another win. He did not pass 20 in either of the last two Tests and finished the series with 506 runs at 126.5. He bowled less frequently, with only two wickets in the six Tests. It was on this tour that he first experienced back problems that would hinder his bowling. On the brief tour of India for the Nehru Cup ODI tournament that followed the Ashes series, Waugh played as a specialist batsman for the first time. He scored 88 runs at 22.00 and did not bowl a ball.
As Australia returned home for the 1989/90 international season. He scored 378 runs at 37.8 in the six Tests in Australia and the one-off Test in New Zealand. The highlight was an unbeaten 134 against Sri Lanka in the Second Test in Hobart. This followed twin half centuries in the First Test. His focus on batting saw him aggregate only 1/19 with the ball for the seven Tests. Thereafter his Test form tapered off.
The ODIs followed a similar pattern. Australia played ten ODIs on home soil during the season, followed by five in New Zealand. After taking two wickets at 38.50 in the first three ODIs, Waugh did not bowl again for the season. After scoring only 99 runs at 19.80 in the first nine ODIs in Australia, Waugh was dropped for the Second Final against Pakistan, which Australia won. He played in all five ODIs in New Zealand, making only 72 runs at 18.00. He returned to the bowling crease in the Sharjah tournament, taking four wickets at 28.00 and scoring 98 runs at 49.00.
In 1990, Waugh joined his twin brother Mark in an unbeaten partnership of 464 in 407 minutes for NSW against Western Australia (WA) at the WACA Ground, setting a world first-class record. Both teams were at full strength and WA's attack included Test bowlers Terry Alderman, Bruce Reid and Chris Matthews. The twins ended with 216 and 229 respectively.
Omission
He suffered a form slump during the 1990–91 Ashes series in Australia, and was dropped for the Fourth Test at Adelaide after making only 82 runs at 20.50. He was replaced by his twin Mark, who scored a century on debut.
However, Waugh remained a regular in the ODI team, playing in all ten ODIs, scoring 141 runs at 35.25 and taking seven wickets at 49.42.
Recalled for the Third Test in Trinidad during the 1991 tour of the Caribbean, he and Mark became the first twins to play in a Test match together. However, he failed to post a significant score and was dropped for the Fifth Test, Australia's only win for the series.
He played in all five ODIs and scored 86 runs at 28.66 and took five wickets at 30.60.
Waugh remained out of the Test team for eighteen months and did not see action in the five-day format in 1991–92 season. Nevertheless, Waugh played in all 18 ODIs for the season. In the triangular series, he scored only 146 runs at 18.25 but consistently took wickets, with 16 scalps at 19.00. As a result, he retained his position in the team for all eight of Australia's group matches in the subsequent 1992 Cricket World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand. He scored 187 runs at 26.71 and took eight wickets at 34.63. He scored 55 and took 2/28 in a 128-run win over Zimbabwe as Australia failed to progress beyond the group stage.
He returned as number three batsman for the 1992–93 home Test series against the West Indies, but his form was again moderate. His 228 runs at 25.33 was bolstered by a score of 100 in the Third Test in Sydney. Waugh called this "probably the most important hundred of my Test career ... word had reached me that if I didn't get runs, then I was going to be dropped". He continued to be a fixture in the ODI team, playing in all ten matches and scoring 213 runs at 23.66 with one half-century and taking nine wickets at 39.22.
Solid performances on the tour of New Zealand, where he scored 178 Test runs at 44.50, enabled Waugh to hold his position on the 1993 Ashes tour of England. He completed his tour with 120 runs at 30.00 and three wickets at 57.66 in the five ODIs. The three-match ODI series in England preceded the Tests and Waugh scored 41 runs at 20.50 and took five wickets at 30.20.
During the Test series, Michael Slater became the regular opener and Boon returned to the middle order. Waugh gained the number six position ahead of two promising Western Australians, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn. In the Fourth Test at Headingley, Waugh's 157 not out earned comparisons to his efforts in 1989 and he shared an unbroken stand of 332 with Allan Border. He also scored half-centuries in the First and Fifth Tests and ended with 416 at 83.2 from limited opportunities – he played nine innings, only five of which were completed. Australia's top order batting dominated the English attack, and the tourists retained the Ashes 4–1.
New approach
Returning to Australia, he solidified his position by scoring an unbeaten 147 against New Zealand in an innings victory in the Third Test at Brisbane, ending the series with 216 runs once dismissed. He missed part of the 1993–94 triangular ODI tournament with New Zealand and South Africa due to a hamstring injury in late December, as well as the first two Tests against the South Africans. He returned for the end of the ODIs and ended with 141 runs at 23.50 and taking four wickets at 54.50. Waugh played in the Third Test at Adelaide Oval in late January with Australia trailing 1–0. He scored a 160 and took 4/26 as Australia won the Test and levelled the series. He was named as the international player of the [Australian] season.
He took 5/28 and scored 86 in the Second Test of the return series in South Africa at Newlands, Cape Town to help Australia level the series 1–1 after losing the first at Wanderers in Johannesburg. Another half century saw him end with 195 runs at 65.00 and his bowling was at its most productive in five years, with 10 wickets at 13.00. In the ODI series, he received the player of the series for his all-round efforts, which hauled Australia back from a deficit of 2–4 to draw the series at 4–4. Waugh took 2/48 in the final match as Australia levelled the series by one run. He ended with 291 runs at 48.50 and five wickets at 56.40.
At the conclusion of the tour, the Australian Cricket Board interviewed Waugh, along with David Boon, Mark Taylor and Ian Healy to discern their opinions on the direction of the team after the impending retirement of Allan Border as captain. In spite of Waugh's greater experience, Taylor was granted the captaincy, while Healy was made vice-captain.
The new leadership took the team to Sri Lanka for the Singer World Series ODI tournament and then on a Test-playing tour of Pakistan. Waugh scored 53 runs at 17.66 and took five wickets in 16.20. On the latter tour, Waugh made 73 in the First Test, which Australia agonisingly lost by one wicket. His 98 in the Second Test at Rawalpindi was notable for his survival against a hostile barrage of short-pitched bowling from Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. He eventually fell when a bouncer struck his body and rolled onto the stumps. A shoulder injury forced him out of the final Test, which Australia drew and therefore lost the series. Waugh scored 153 runs at 38.25 with two half-centuries and took two wickets at 72.00 as Australia won the ODI tournament.
During the 1994–95 Ashes series against England, he narrowly missed centuries in the Second and Fifth Test in Melbourne and Perth respectively, when he was 94 and 99 not out respectively when the last wicket fell. In the second instance, his brother Mark was run out after a mix-up while running for the injured Craig McDermott. It was an uneven series performance, scoring 94* and 26* in the Second Test and 99* and 80 in the Fifth, but not passing 20 in the six innings of the other three Tests. He ended the series with 345 at 49.28 and did not bowl for the entire series. Waugh played only one ODI for the season, scoring a duck and not bowling a ball. The season ended with short ODI tournament in New Zealand, which Australia won. Waugh scored 81 runs at 27.00 in four matches and did not bowl.
Frank Worrell Trophy regained in 1995
The West Indies had been the bête noire of Australian cricket since winning the Frank Worrell Trophy in 1978. At the beginning of Australia's 1995 tour of the Caribbean, the West Indies had not lost a Test series since 1980, and had not lost a Test series to Australia at home since 1973. The Tests were preceded by an ODI series that was lost 1–4. Waugh scored 164 runs at 32.80 and took three wickets at 41.00. In a low-scoring, four-Test series, Waugh compiled 429 runs at an average of 107.25 and claimed five wickets (for 62 runs) to win the player of the series award; his twin Mark was the next best batsman with 240 runs at 40 average.
Waugh was at the centre of a controversy during the First Test at Barbados when he claimed a low catch from Brian Lara in the first innings. Television replays were inconclusive, but suggested that the ball may have hit the ground. Lara, noted for accepting the word of the fielder without question, left the field. Following his dismissal, the West Indies' batting collapsed, and Australia went on to win by ten wickets. Waugh later faced accusations of dishonesty and cheating over the incident.
After scoring 65 not out in the drawn Second Test at Antigua, Waugh defied the Caribbean pacemen on a green pitch at Trinidad suited to their hostile bowling during the Third Test. In the first innings, he scored an unbeaten 63 of Australia's 128 and had a mid-pitch confrontation with Curtly Ambrose. After Waugh had evaded a bouncer from Ambrose, the pair exchanged glares. Waugh swore and told Ambrose to return to his bowling mark. An angry Ambrose had to be physically dragged away by his captain: a photograph of this moment has become one of the iconic images of cricket in the 1990s. It symbolised the point when Australia was no longer intimidated by the West Indies. Waugh "showed he was prepared to put it all on the line", said Justin Langer, "in the toughest conditions [...] against probably the best fast bowler of our time. To stand up to him [Ambrose] and go toe to toe [...] gave us a huge boost."
Nevertheless, the West Indies won the match and levelled the series. In the decider in Jamaica, Waugh took 2/14 in the West Indies' first innings of 265 and then arrived at the crease with Australia at 73 for three in reply. He compiled a long partnership of 231 runs with his brother Mark, who was eventually out for 126. Waugh was the last man to go, out for 200 after nine hours of batting. "Steve had made up his mind to bat and bat", wrote Paul Reiffel, "to stay out there and anchor the proceedings. [... H]e copped a lot of blows on his arms, chest and ribs. When he came back to the dressing room at the end of day two, we could see the spots and bruises on his body [...]. I remember when I walked in [...] he didn't say anything to me, but then he didn't need to. We all pretty much knew that we just had to support him."
"He was in a trance-like state. [... I]n the wee hours of the second morning, a security guard was found rifling through Steve's kit bag. That incident [...] didn't affect his concentration. It all [...] just went to show how strong a character he was."
Waugh played patiently and reached his double century with an all-run four to fine-leg off a quicker ball from Carl Hooper. He was the last man out. With a large lead on first innings, Australia dismissed the opposition for a low score to win a crushing victory.
After some post-win wassailing, Waugh retired to bed in his cricket whites, socks and baggy green. "[Y]ou could say that Steve's legacy gained a lot of momentum from his efforts at Jamaica", wrote Reiffel.
No 1 batsman
Waugh started the 1995–96 Australian season ranked as the world's leading Test batsman. He made an unbeaten 112 as Australia defeated Pakistan in the First Test at Brisbane and scored 200 runs at 50.00 for the series. Suffering an injury in December, he missed the First Test against Sri Lanka and part of the triangular ODI tournament, then returned for the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne to score 131 not out. Waugh returned during the latter stages of the triangular tournament, playing in the last four matches after missing the first six. He scored his maiden ODI century, ten years after his ODI debut, with an unbeaten 102 against Sri Lanka in Melbourne. Despite this, Australia lost by three wickets. Waugh ended with 128 runs at 42.66 and did not take a wicket, bowling only four overs on his comeback from injury. He helped Australia to a 3–0 result in the Test series by scoring 170 and 61 not out at Adelaide to end the series with 362 runs for once out. He also took 4/34 in the Third Test.
During the 1996 Cricket World Cup on the subcontinent, Waugh scored 82 and featured in a 207-run partnership with his brother during Australia's first match against Kenya: an Australian record partnership at the World Cup. He made an unbeaten half-century in the quarter-final against New Zealand at Madras, sealing a successful run chase. However, he was less effective in the semi-final and final, failing to pass 20 on either occasion. Australia lost the final to Sri Lanka at Lahore.
After the World Cup, Geoff Marsh replaced Bob Simpson as coach. The Australians started the new era with two ODI tournaments in Sri Lanka and India. Waugh scored 366 runs at 40.66 with three half-centuries and took five wickets at 37.40 across nine matches. The tour ended with a solitary Test against India in Delhi, where Waugh was the only Australian to make a half-century in a defeat.
Waugh failed to make a century in the five Tests of the 1996–97 Australian season against the West Indies, scoring 255 runs at 36.42 with three half centuries. He also missed the Second Test against the West Indies after injuring his groin while bowling in the First.
The injury meant that Waugh was only available for six of Australia's eight ODI matches in the annual triangular tournament. Waugh managed only 159 runs at 26.50 and only bowled three overs without taking a wicket as he came back from injury as Australia missed the finals.
Waugh returned to form on the 1997 tour of South Africa, averaging 78.25. He scored 160 in the First Test at Johannesburg, compiling a 385-run partnership with Greg Blewett. They batted for the entire third day's play to set up an innings victory. Waugh then top scored with half-centuries in both innings of the Third Test, which Australia lost. After the team's vice-captain Ian Healy was suspended for throwing his bat after his dismissal, Waugh replaced him as Mark Taylor's deputy. Waugh continued his strong run in the seven ODIs, scoring 301 runs at 50.16 with four half-centuries. After scoring 50 and 50* in the first two matches, he scored 89 in a run chase in the sixth match as Australia sealed the series 4–2 with one over in hand. He then scored 91 in the last match in a vain run chase.
On the 1997 Ashes tour, Australia started poorly with a 0–3 loss in the ODI series, with Waugh managing only 60 runs at 20.00.
This continued as Australia lost the First Test by nine wickets, drew the Second Test, then won the toss in the Third Test at Manchester. Gambling on batting first on green pitch, Australia slumped to 3/42 in the first hour when Waugh came out to bat. He made 108. Similarly, he began his second innings with Australia on 3/39 and scored 116. These two centuries in a low-scoring match won the game. Australia levelled the series and regained the initiative, retaining the Ashes with a 3–2 result. Waugh's only other notable score was 75, scored in the Fifth Test win at Nottingham, and he finished with 390 runs at 39 average for the series.
Captaincy
ODI captain
Waugh took over the captaincy of the one-day side in 1997–98, after captain Mark Taylor and vice-captain Ian Healy, the two oldest players in the team were dropped following Australia's failure to qualify for the Australian tri-nations tournament in the 1996–97 season. Planning began for a more modern team for the 1999 Cricket World Cup, with the batting prowess of new wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist to prove critical. The new team made a difficult start, losing all four of its preliminary matches against South Africa as Michael di Venuto, Tom Moody and Stuart Law were all tried as Mark Waugh's new opening partner. Waugh himself struggled, scoring only 12 runs, including three ducks in his first six innings before scoring 45* in the last round-robin match to ensure Australia qualified for the finals ahead of New Zealand.
However, with Gilchrist's elevation to opener in the finals series, Australia defeated the South Africans 2–1. Waugh scored 53 and 71 in his two innings, and ended the series with 181 runs at 22.63. He bowled only four overs and took a solitary wicket in the series, which was his first ODI wicket in over a year.
Waugh scored steadily in the 1997–98 Test season against New Zealand and South Africa, getting to 80 three times in six Tests without going on to a century and averaging 40.89; Australia won both series. He bowled more often than in the preceding few years and took six wickets at 17.33.
The southern hemisphere season ended with Waugh leading his first overseas tour, a four-match ODI tour of New Zealand. He scored 112 runs at 37.33 and took three wickets at 42.00 as the series was drawn 2–2.
On the 1998 tour of India, he hit 80 in the Second Test at Calcutta, but missed the following Test due to injury. He ended with 152 runs at 38.
He recovered to lead in the triangular tournament in India. Australia won both games to Zimbabwe but lost both to India. However, Waugh's men turned the tables in the final to beat the Indians by four wickets. Waugh contributed with bat and ball, taking 2/42 and scoring 57. This was followed by a triangular tournament in Sharjah, where Australia won all four group matches against India and New Zealand. This time, the Indians turned the table to win the final by six wickets despite Waugh's 70. Waugh totalled 254 runs at 28.22 and eight wickets at 33.50 for the two tournaments.
Later in the year, he top scored with 157 in the First Test against Pakistan at Karachi, enabling Australia to force an innings victory and gain their first victory in the country for 39 years. It formed the basis of Australia's 1–0 series win, in which Waugh scored 235 runs at 58.75.
Waugh led the ODI team in a 3–0 sweep of Pakistan after the Tests, but he managed only 40 runs at 13.33.
The following season, Waugh suffered hamstring injuries and missed the majority of the ODI tournament. In the two matches in which he played, Waugh made only a duck and 20 and Australia lost both matches. Shane Warne led Australia to victory in his absence, winning eight of the remaining 10 matches.
Waugh began the Ashes series with centuries in the First Test at Brisbane (112) and the Third Test at Melbourne but was criticised for taking singles off the first ball of the over, and exposing the tail-end batsmen to the strike. Stuart MacGill and Glenn McGrath fell to Darren Gough after one such instance as Australia collapsed in the second innings whilst chasing a small target. This criticism could be considered more than a little unfair, however, given his strong record overall of batting well with lower order batsman such as Merv Hughes, Jason Gillespie, Ian Healy, Shane Warne and even Glenn McGrath precisely by putting his faith in them. In the Fifth Test of the season, Waugh was involved in a century partnership with brother Mark for the second consecutive year. Again however, he fell within sight of triple figures for 96, while his brother reached his century. Australia won the Test and the series 3–1.
Struggles in the Caribbean
Mark Taylor retired at the end of the 1998–99 season and Waugh replaced him as Test captain, beginning with a tour of the Caribbean. Australia was expected to win as the West Indies had just been whitewashed 5–0 by South Africa. After easily winning the First Test, Australia was stymied by West Indies skipper Brian Lara, who batted with Jimmy Adams for the entire second day of the Second Test. This led to a victory for the home side, and in the Third Test, Lara batted for the entire final day to secure an unlikely win by one wicket. This result placed Waugh under immense pressure and he made a controversial decision to drop Shane Warne from the team for the final Fourth Test. Australia won the final Test despite a third consecutive century from Lara, and retained the Frank Worrell Trophy 2–2.
The subsequent ODI series between the two teams was drawn 3–3. The series was notable for two incidents. In the fifth match at Georgetown, Guyana, Waugh was facing the bowling of Keith Arthurton with his team needing four runs from the final over to win. He struck the last ball of the match into the outfield, and attempted three runs to tie the match. A crowd invasion resulted in all the stumps being removed, with Waugh out of his ground when the ball was returned by the fielder. The match was declared a tie. During the West Indies run-chase in the final match in Barbados, local batsman Sherwin Campbell was run out after he fell over because of a collision with the bowler (Brendon Julian) who was attempting to field the ball. This resulted in a crowd riot and Waugh was nearly struck in the head with a glass bottle. The match continued after Campbell was reinstated, but Waugh criticised the security and questioned the integrity of the match.
Waugh struggled in the lead-up to the World Cup, scoring 135 runs at 22.50 and taking two wickets at 33.00.
1999 World Cup victory
Australia then had a slow start to the 1999 World Cup in England. After a scratchy win against Scotland, Australia suffered defeats to New Zealand and Pakistan, so they had to win their two remaining group matches (against Bangladesh and the West Indies), then all three "Super Six" matches to progress to the semi-finals: this meant seven consecutive matches without defeat to win the World Cup. After defeating Bangladesh, Waugh and Michael Bevan were criticised for deliberately batting slowly in order to minimise damage to the net run rate of the West Indies. This would enhance Australia's chances: if the West Indies' run rate remained high, they would qualify ahead of New Zealand. Since the Australians had lost to New Zealand, it would be the Kiwis that carried two points through to the next phase if the West Indies was eliminated. If the West Indies proceeded, then Australia would carry over two points from the win.
When questioned about the ethics of this manipulation at a press conference, Waugh retorted, "We're not here to win friends mate". Having beaten India and Zimbabwe in their first two Super Six matches, Waugh saved his best for two must-win games against South Africa: he scored an unbeaten 120 against South Africa in the "Super Six" phase and 56 in the semi-final. The latter match was tied and Australia progressed to the final, where they crushed Pakistan by eight wickets to win the trophy.
The World Cup victory did not immediately turn around Waugh's fortunes in the Test arena. The following tour to Sri Lanka continued the difficulties, when Australia lost the First Test in Kandy, a result exacerbated by a horrific fielding collision between Waugh and Jason Gillespie. Waugh's nose made contact with Gillespie's shin as both attempted a catch. Gillespie suffered a broken leg that sidelined him for 15 months, and Waugh had his nose broken. Although Waugh returned for the following match, the last two Tests were drawn due to interruptions from monsoonal weather. Waugh had a lean series with 52 runs at 17.33. Waugh's team then travelled an inaugural Test against Zimbabwe at Harare. Australia won by ten wickets and Waugh's 151 not out was the first century in Tests between the nations. After the team's return home, John Buchanan replaced Geoff Marsh as team coach.
World record of 16 consecutive Test victories
The 1999–2000 Test season, his first as captain in a home series, saw further change as Gilchrist ousted Healy from the wicket-keeper's position. With Gilchrist averaging over 50, the team went on to claim a clean-sweep of both Test series, 3–0 against Pakistan and India respectively. Waugh had a lean stretch during the Pakistan series, scoring 58 runs at 14.50, but his team won by margins of ten wickets, four wickets and an innings respectively. Waugh returned to form in the First Test against India at the Adelaide Oval, scoring 150 in the first innings. Waugh only passed fifty once more in the series to end with 276 runs at 55.20. Australia won all three Tests by comfortable margins of 285 runs, 180 runs and an innings respectively.
After losing their first match, his team proceeded to win the season's triangular ODI tournament without further defeat. They then toured New Zealand and won the ODI series 5–1, losing their final match, which ended a world record of 14 consecutive ODI victories. They then swept the Tests against New Zealand 3–0 in early 2000, taking the Tests by 62 runs, six wickets and six wickets respectively. Waugh led the way in the Second Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington with an unbeaten 151 but otherwise did not pass 20, totalling 214 runs at 53.50. His men had won all nine of their Tests during the southern hemisphere summer.
His team continued their winning streak with an undefeated home season in 2000–01 when the West Indies were white-washed 5–0. The first two Tests were won by an innings, and the Second Test at the WACA brought a twelfth consecutive Test victory, surpassing the record held by the 1980s West Indies team led by Clive Lloyd. Waugh missed the Third Test with injury and Gilchrist led the team in his absence and kept the winning streak alive. Waugh returned for the last two Tests and scored centuries in the first innings of both Tests with 121* and 103 respectively, which Australia won by 352 runs and six wickets respectively. Waugh compiled 349 runs at 69.80.
Waugh then led the Australians undefeated in the triangular ODI tournament against the West Indies and Zimbabwe, despite employing a rotation system which saw the team often understrength with players rested.
Failure in India
The only significant result that Australia had failed to achieve during Waugh's international career was victory in a Test series in India. Waugh began calling this the "Final Frontier" as Australia had not won there since 1969–70. Australia easily won the First Test at Mumbai by ten wickets to extend the winning sequence to 16. India, looked set for defeat in the Second Test at Eden Gardens in Kolkata after conceding a first innings lead of 274. Waugh top-scored in the first innings with 110. Waugh chose to enforce the follow-on, the only time that Australia had chosen to do so for more than five years. However, VVS Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) batted for the entire fourth day's play and set Australia a target of 384 on a dusty, spinning wicket. The Australians were unable to cope with the spin of Harbhajan Singh on the final day, and became only the third team to lose a Test after enforcing the follow-on. Starting the final Test well, Australia's batting collapsed on the second morning, losing 6/26 after Waugh became the sixth batsman to be given out handled the ball—he pushed a ball from Harbhajan away from the stumps after being hit on the pads. Waugh's pair of 47s was not enough as Harbhajan finished with 15 wickets in the match to lead India to a two-wicket win in another thrilling finish.
Waugh's team regrouped and won a 4–1 series victory over England during the 2001 Ashes tour. He scored 105 in the First Test at Edgbaston as the Australians started the series with an innings victory. Waugh did not pass 50 in the next two Tests, but Australia won both by eight and seven wickets respectively to retain the Ashes. However, Waugh pulled a calf muscle and missed the Fourth Test at Headingley which Australia lost. In his final Test innings on English soil at The Oval, he combined with brother Mark (120) in a partnership of 197, and scored 157 not out. Australia won by an innings to seal the series 4–1, with Waugh scoring 321 runs at 107.00.
He was unable to maintain this form during the 2001–02 Australian season, failing to score a century in the six Tests against New Zealand and South Africa; The first two Tests against New Zealand were drawn due to rain, and the Third also ended in a draw. Waugh failed to pass double figures until scoring 67 in the second innings of the final Test, finishing the series with 78 runs at 19.50.
Australia then went on to face South Africa, who were the second-ranked Test team in the world and were seen as the leading challengers to Australian supremacy.
Waugh managed only eight and 13 in the First Test, but Australia managed to win by 246 runs in any case. His best score of the series was 90 in the Second Test at the MCG. His innings was ended by a run out decision, which the umpire did not refer to the video umpire. Waugh attracted criticism for not leaving the ground until he had watched a replay of the incident on the stadium's video screen. Australia powered to a nine-wicket win and then polished off a 3–0 sweep with a ten-wicket triumph in the Third Test at the SCG, with Waugh scoring 30.
ODI captaincy changed
Australia made an uncertain start to the 2001–02 VB Series, losing the first three of its preliminary matches. A rotation policy designed to ease the workload on older players while giving younger players experience appeared to unsettle the team, and was scrapped. Following this decision, Australia won four of the last five matches, but failed to qualify for the finals for only the third time in 23 years. In their final match, Australia needed a win and a bonus point against South Africa as New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, in retaliation to Waugh's tactics in the World Cup, had conceded a bonus point to South Africa in the previous match. The team's performance caused a reaction similar that of 1997. With an eye toward the next World Cup, the selectors dropped the Waugh brothers and handed the captaincy to Ricky Ponting. Waugh made his displeasure at the decision public and stated a desire to regain his place in the side.
Continuing as Test captain, Waugh led the team to a 2–1 victory in South Africa to retain Australia's ranking as the number one team. Australia crushed the hosts in the First Test by an innings and 360 runs, won the Second Test by four wickets, before losing the last. His own form was poor, with 95 runs at 19.00. He left the tour once the ODI series began. Arriving in Australia alone, he faced media questioning over his playing future. Waugh's reply was, "We've just beaten the next best team in the world 5–1, and all you want to talk about is getting me out of the team."
The speculation continued about the future of both Waugh brothers in the lead up to the Test series against Pakistan played in mid-2002. The matches were hosted in the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka, due to security concerns following a bomb blast inside Pakistan. Australia had a crushing 3–0 win, winning the two latter matches by an innings, but the Waughs had little influence on the result. However, Steve hit 103 not out in his last innings of the series, after scoring consecutive ducks. This may have saved his career; his brother was dropped for the 2002–03 Ashes series and promptly announced his retirement from international cricket.
Despite his team being well on top, Waugh struggled in the early part of the Ashes series and he scored only 106 runs in four innings in the first three Tests. It mattered little to the match results; Australia crushed England in the First Test by 384 runs and proceeded to record consecutive innings victories. In the Fourth Test at the MCG, he scored 77 in the first innings and took his first Test wicket in four years; he did not bowl himself often as captain. However, his score of 14 in the second innings was characterised by many inside edges and false strokes led to increased speculation that he would be dropped. Australia managed to reach their target with five wickets down, despite a stumble on the final morning.
The Fifth Test in his hometown Sydney started with speculation that it would be Waugh's last Test unless he reversed his ongoing form slump. Asked before the final Test to nominate the defining moment of a career likely to soon be over, Waugh made a prediction rather than reflecting, stating: "It might be yet to come". On the second day of the match he then fulfilled this prophecy, scoring a chanceless century – bringing up three figures with a cover driven boundary from the last ball of the day (bowled by off-spinner Richard Dawson). Waugh left the ground to a standing ovation, having equalled Sir Donald Bradman's then Australian record of 29 Test centuries, as well as saving his own Test career. In the second innings, Australia faced a large target and slumped to a heavy defeat by 225 on a deteriorating pitch, its only loss of the series. When he was dismissed cheaply in the second innings, Waugh ran off the field, as the crowd gave him a standing ovation amidst speculation he may choose to retire after what was regarded as a fairytale century.
The 2003 World Cup came and Waugh's desire to return for a fifth World Cup was denied. A chance for a last minute reprieve came when all rounder Shane Watson was injured before the tournament. Waugh had been using his newspaper column to promote his bowling abilities and had been increasingly using himself as a bowler in an attempt to strengthen his case for a recall. However, his successor Ricky Ponting publicly called for the inclusion of then out of form Andrew Symonds. Ponting got his wish, and although the selection was regarded as being highly controversial at the time, Symonds established himself at international level with a series of match winnings innings.
During the April 2003 tour to the West Indies, Waugh made 25 in the First Test and did not bat in the Second, before scoring 115 in the Third Test victory. Australia won all three Tests by nine wickets, 118 runs and nine wickets respectively. He scored 41 and 45* in the Fourth Test to end the series with 226 runs at 75.33. It was in this match, that Australia lost as the home team broke the record for the highest successful Test run chase. Waugh received some criticism over claims he refused to control his players. This came after a heated confrontation between Glenn McGrath and West Indian batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan as the hosts headed towards their target.
The Australian winter of 2003 saw Waugh score consecutive unbeaten centuries of 100 and 156 as Australia took a 2–0 sweep over Bangladesh with innings victories. The Australian summer started in late-2003 and after scoring 78 and 61 in the two Tests against Zimbabwe, which Australia won by an innings and nine wickets respectively, Waugh announced that the 2003–04 series against India would be his last.
Farewell season
In the First Test, Waugh was involved in a controversial run out when he had a mix up with Damien Martyn and both players ended up at the same end. Martyn, who had established himself at the crease, sacrificed himself by walking out of his ground for Waugh, who had yet to score. This generated criticism that Waugh's farewell series was being put ahead of team victory. With long bowling spearheads Shane Warne and McGrath unavailable due to drugs suspension and injury respectively, Australia struggled to bowl out the Indian batsmen. After a rain affected draw in the First Test, the next two Tests were shared and Australia needed a win to reclaim the Border Gavaskar Trophy in the final Fourth Test at Waugh's home ground at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Promoters paid tribute to Waugh by handing out giant red handkerchiefs to incoming spectators; Waugh had always used a red handkerchief to wipe perspiration while he was batting. Any hope of a win for Waugh's Australians disappeared when India batted into the third morning and amass 7/705 (with Sachin Tendulkar smashing 241*), obliging Australia to chase 449 with just over one day's play. Waugh's highest Test score of the season was his last: 80 in the Fourth Test at Sydney, which secured a draw for Australia. After an obdurate start to his innings, he took a more aggressive style once Australia had moved into a position of safety, striking several fours. It was the highest fourth innings score of his Test career. When he passed 50, several ferries on Sydney Harbour sounded their horns in acknowledgement. A record fifth-day SCG crowd turned out to watch Waugh's final day as an Australian player.
Legacy
Steve Waugh's approach led to a succession of victories and a record run of 16 consecutive Test match wins, beating the previous record of 11 by the West Indies. His 168 Test matches was the record for Test matches played until 2010; of these he captained Australia on 57 occasions, the fourth highest of all time, and Australia's 41 victories under his leadership, was the most of any Test captain, until Ricky Ponting surpassed him in December 2009. He holds the record of having scored over 150 runs in one innings against each Test playing nation at the time.
He holds the record for scoring the most career centuries in test history when batting at number 5 position (24)
Career best performances
Playing style
A shot that Waugh gradually developed (during the 1998 Commonwealth Games specifically) against spin bowling, the "slog sweep" is theoretically technically unsound, but has proven highly effective against the spinners and even against faster bowlers at times. What was also noticeable about Waugh (particularly in the Test arena) on his return to the side was his reluctance (and eventual refusal) to play, what he viewed as, the 'risky' hook shot, rather simply to either play defensively on the back foot, sway or duck out of the way. With this shot removed from Waugh's repertoire his batting developed a safer more reliable look and his Test match batting average steadily rose to around 50 for the remainder of his Test career.
Waugh's ability to continue to play despite a back injury that largely prevented him bowling further enhanced his reputation. He contributed to many one day victories but, often batting in the middle order, his first one-day hundred did not come until his 187th match, for Australia against Sri Lanka at Melbourne in 1995–96.
As a bowler and all-rounder early in his career, he had a great leg cutter that is full length and aims at off stump that tempts batsmen to hit over mid-wicket or right down the ground against middle order batsmen, or aiming outside off to tempt lower-order batsmen to drive into the infielders.
Outside cricket
Waugh helps to raise funds for a leper children's colony, Udayan, in Kolkata. He reportedly also encouraged his players to learn about and enjoy the countries they visited and played in.
Waugh is a keen photographer and has produced several "tour diaries" which feature his images. In his latter years as a cricketer, he wrote for a number of newspapers. He insists on writing them himself rather than with the assistance of professional journalists. He is a prolific author and has written numerous tour diaries, leadership and self-help books such as Never Say Die and The Meaning of Luck. as well as an autobiography, Out of my Comfort Zone.
Waugh was named Australian of the Year in 2004, in recognition of both his sporting achievements and charity work. Waugh is married to Lynette with three children and was named Australian Father of the Year in 2005. Following retirement, Waugh established the Steve Waugh Foundation. The foundation is aimed at children who have a disease, an illness or an affliction that does not meet the set criteria of other charitable organisations.
Waugh has stated that he has declined "a number of" approaches by the Australian Labor Party to run for political office, expressing the view that he is not suited to politics.
Honours
He was named as the captain in Australia's "greatest ever ODI team."
On 3 February 2009 Steve Waugh became the 30th cricketer inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.
Waugh was awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 14 July 2000.
He was awarded the Allan Border Medal by the CA in 2001.
Waugh was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2003 Birthday Honours "for service to cricket as a leading player, and to the community, particularly through the Udayan children's home."
He was awarded the Australian of the Year award in 2004, for his cricketing feats also for his work with charities, most noticeably, Udayan Home in Barrackpore, India, helping children suffering with leprosy.
References
External links
Steve Waugh Foundation website
Waugh Global
1965 births
Living people
Allan Border Medal winners
Australia Test cricket captains
Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees
Australian cricketers
Australian memoirists
Australian expatriate sportspeople in England
Australia One Day International cricketers
Australian of the Year Award winners
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Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Cricketers at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1996 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1999 Cricket World Cup
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Cricketers from Sydney
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Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games |
Brian R. Senior (born 1953) is a professional bridge player and writer from Nottingham. He has represented Great Britain, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland in international competition and has won all the major English Bridge Union competitions. Senior is also the editor and publisher of the annual official world championship book, under World Bridge Federation auspices.
Senior played once in the World Team Olympiad, on the Ireland open team in 1988, which finished 15–16th in a field of 56.
Asked to name the bridge success "closest to your heart" in April 2014, Senior recalled one of the few Camrose Trophy match wins for Northern Ireland against England—but he has since played one of the few match losses for England against Northern Ireland.
Since 23 August 2019, Senior has been Saturday bridge columnist for The Daily Telegraph.
Selected works
Clever Bridge Tricks (Faber, 1988)
Master Counting (Gollancz, 1989), Master Bridge series – published in association with Peter Crawley
Directing a Club Duplicate (Nottingham: Probray, 1990)
Weak Two Bids (Probray, 1991), Bridge Players Handbook
Bread and Butter Bidding (Wheatley, OX: 1991), Maxwell Macmillan Bridge series
Over Your Shoulder: Learn from the experts, Tony Forrester and Senior (London: Batsford, 1994)
Raising Partner (Faber, 1994; Batsford, 1995)
Step-by-step Card Play in Suits (Batsford, 1994)
The Amazing Book of Bridge: How to master the arts of the greatest of card games (London, Tiger Books International, 1995)
Play These Hands with Brian Senior (Batsford, 1996)
Hand Evaluation in Bridge (Batsford, 1998)
It's Your Lead (1998), How to Play Bridge series
Practise Your Cue-bidding (Reading: Bridge Plus, 1999) Bridge Plus Practice series
It's Your Call: Bidding problems answered by international panel (High Wycombe: Five Aces, 2000)
Competitive Bidding (Batsford, 2000), How to Play Bridge series
Conventions Today (London: Chess & Bridge, 2001), Better Bridge Now
Practise Your Trump Coups (Bridge Plus, 2001)
Suit Contracts: Essential Bridge Plays (Hassocks: D & B Pub, 2003)
Simply the Best - 20 of the Greatest Bridge Players of All Time (Self-published, 2015)
Nevena Senior
Brian's wife Nevena Mihaylova Senior (born 21 September 1959) is a world champion ladies bridge player and a regular participant in European (European Bridge League) and world (World Bridge Federation) championship tournaments since the late 1980s. As Nevena Deleva she played for the Bulgaria women at least to 1993 when she was playing captain in the European championships. They won bronze medals in the 1988 World Team Olympiad and placed 13th in 1992. By 2000 she played for the England women, who won the same event in both 2008 and 2012 (now as part of the first and second World Mind Sports Games). For the Venice Cup, or odd-years world teams championship, England has qualified with Senior a member of the six-person team in 2003, 2011, and 2013, finishing fourth and second on the latter occasions.
Sometime prior to the 2014 European and world meets (summer and October), Nevena Senior ranked 18th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP). At least for the SportAccord World Mind Games in December 2011, where the England women were second in a four-team showcase, Senior played with Heather Dhondy, recently the 3rd-ranking Grand Master by masterpoints.
References
External links
SENIOR Nevena athlete information at the 1st SportAccord World Mind Games (2011)
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Contract bridge writers
British and Irish contract bridge players
Place of birth missing (living people)
1953 births
Sportspeople from Nottingham
English contract bridge players |
Eva-Maria Elisabeth Feichtner (born 1972) is a German mathematician, the founder and director of the Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and their Applications at the University of Bremen, where she is professor of algebra and vice president of internationalization and diversity.
Topics in her research have included tropical geometry, matroid polytopes, Chow rings, toric varieties, lattices and semilattices, and the wonderful compactification.
Education and career
Feichtner earned a diploma in mathematics in 1994 at the Free University of Berlin, and a Ph.D. in 1997 at the Technical University of Berlin. Her dissertation, Cohomology Algebras of Subspace Arrangements and of Classical Configuration Spaces, was supervised by Günter M. Ziegler. She completed her habilitation in 2004 at the Technical University of Berlin.
After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Institute for Advanced Study, she became an assistant professor at ETH Zurich in 1999, and a research professor at ETH Zurich in 2005. She moved to the University of Stuttgart in 2006 as professor of geometry and topology, and to the University of Bremen in 2007 as professor of algebra.
She became vice president of internationalization and diversity at the University of Bremen in 2017, succeeding .
Personal life
Feichtner is married to Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov, with whom she frequently collaborates mathematically.
References
External links
Home page
1972 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Free University of Berlin alumni
Technical University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart
Academic staff of the University of Bremen
20th-century German women |
Azumah may refer to:
Azumah Nelson (born 1958), Ghanaian boxer
Jerry Azumah (born 1977), American footballer
See also
Azumah-Mensah |
Lillie Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide. It lies between the Bowers Mountains on the west and the Concord Mountains and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier Tongue.
The glacier tongue (), the prominent seaward extension of the glacier into Ob' Bay, was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, when the Terra Nova explored westward of Cape North in February 1911. It was named by the expedition for Dennis G. Lillie, a biologist on the Terra Nova. The name Lillie has since been extended to the entire glacier.
The lower half of the glacier was plotted by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (Thala Dan) in 1962, which explored the area and utilized air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. The whole feature was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Lloyd Icefall
References
Glaciers of Pennell Coast |
Genghis Tron is an American four-piece cybergrind band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, and latterly based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. The band signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The group went on an indefinite hiatus in 2010, but returned in 2020 and soon after announced a new album, Dream Weapon, in March 2021.
History
2006-2010: Dead Mountain Mouth, Board Up the House and hiatus
Around the same time of starting Genghis Tron, vocalist Mookie Singerman sang and played guitar in the two-piece project Glitter Pals with his friend Jake Friedman while they were attending Vassar College. Friedman also featured on the song "Laser Bitch" on Genghis Tron's EP Cloak of Love (2005).
Genghis Tron has toured with such bands as Behold... the Arctopus, Converge, Kylesa, Gaza, The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Faint.
In 2008 the band released an album, Board Up the House. It was named a "Critic's Choice" by The New York Times and was also awarded the title "Album of the Year" by the magazine Rock Sound.
In late 2010, the band members decided to take a break away from the band for a while, but assured fans in a Myspace message that they will be back with new material when they start playing together again.
2020-present: Return and Dream Weapon
On August 10, 2020, the band announced that they had returned from their hiatus and began recording their third album with Kurt Ballou. This return also saw the addition of drummer Nick Yacyshyn, who is the band's first drummer due to the band using a drum machine for previous releases. Founder and vocalist Mookie Singerman did not rejoin the band and was replaced by Tony Wolski.
In January 2021, the band announced their third album, Dream Weapon, would be released on March 26. The album marks a shift in the band's previously heavy/extreme sound, leaning towards a "more meditative, hypnotic, and maybe psychedelic" direction. The record is completely devoid of blast beats and screamed vocals.
Style
The band is noted for its creative combination of various types of metal and electronic music. Although often classified as cybergrind early in their career, Genghis Tron developed a more diverse sound, which included elements of IDM, doom metal, electronic and ambient, in addition to their core style of synth-laden metal.
Forgoing both a drummer and a bass guitarist, the band utilizes computer-based sequencers such as FL Studio and Ableton Live, as well as multiple synthesizers (Moog, Alesis and Novation) to produce its distinct sound.
Members
Current members
Michael Sochynsky – keyboards, programming
Hamilton Jordan – guitar
Tony Wolski – vocals
Nick Yacyshyn – drums
Past members
Mookie Singerman – vocals, keyboards
Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
Dead Mountain Mouth (2006, Crucial Blast / Lovepump United)
Board Up the House (2008, Relapse / Lovepump United)
Dream Weapon (2021, Relapse)
EPs
Cloak of Love (2005, Crucial Blast / Lovepump United)
Cape of Hate (2006, Crucial Bliss)
Triple Black Diamond (2007, Crucial Bliss)
Remix series
Board Up the House Remixes Volume 1 (2008, Temporary Residence Limited)
Board Up the House Remixes Volume 2 (2008, Lovepump United)
Board Up the House Remixes Volume 3 (2008, Relapse Records)
Board Up the House Remixes Volume 4 (2008, Anticon)
Board Up the House Remixes Volume 5 (2009, Crucial Blast)
Demo
Laser Bitch (2004, self-released)
Music videos
References
External links
Genghis Tron on Relapse Records
Heavy metal musical groups from New York (state)
American grindcore musical groups
Musical trios from New York (state)
Relapse Records artists
Musical groups established in 2004
Vassar College alumni
Anticon
The Westminster Schools alumni |
Daniel Pratt (July 20, 1799 – May 13, 1873) was an American industrialist who pioneered ventures that opened the door for industry in Alabama. Prattville in Autauga County, Alabama, and Birmingham's Pratt City in Jefferson County, Alabama on the Pratt coal seam are both named for him. He is buried in Pratt Cemetery, located on top of Ginshop Hill near downtown Prattville, Alabama.
Early life
Pratt was born in Temple, New Hampshire. He left New England in 1819 after earning a release from an architect apprenticeship that he started at age 16. He sailed for Savannah, Georgia and within two years moved to Milledgeville, Georgia.
Career
By 1827, Pratt was a successful architect and builder recognized as a leader in his trade in the American South. While in Georgia, he met Samuel Griswold, another New Englander, who manufactured cotton gins. He had Pratt manage his factory and within a year Pratt was promoted to partner. Pratt urged Griswold to expand the business in Alabama. Griswold agreed to the venture at first, but later decided against it due to conflicts there between settlers and Native Americans.
Pratt decided to go it alone, and moved to central Alabama in 1833 with his wife, two slaves, and enough materials to construct 50 gins. He relocated to an area known as McNeil's Mill and leased land along a creek in Autauga County in 1836, where he began manufacturing cotton gins. He moved further up the creek, bought , and built a permanent cotton gin factory in 1838. He founded the new town of Prattville for the workers in his venture. This operation quickly became the largest producer of cotton gins in the world, and Alabama's first major industry.
As his business grew, he branched out with a sawmill, gristmill, window factory, iron foundry, woollen mill, railroad, bank, and the Oxmoor Blast Furnace in Birmingham. Pratt's businesses were badly affected by the American Civil War; many of his workers joined the military and his customer base shrank as the economy soured.
Much credit is given Pratt's efforts for easing Alabama's economic recovery during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. His ability to call in debts on Northern accounts allowed him to rebuild his own operations, which helped make Autauga County exceptionally stable and prosperous in the period immediately after the Civil War. He was instrumental in opening and developing the Birmingham District as an iron-making center.
One of Pratt's slaves, Charles Atwood, purchased a house in the center of Prattville immediately after emancipation and became one of the founding investors in his former master's railroad ventures.
References
Tarrant, Mrs. S. F. H., editor, Hon. Daniel Pratt: A Biography, with Eulogies on His Life and Character.. (1904). Published by Whitter& Shepperson, Richmond, Va.
McMillan, M. C., Daniel Pratt: Antebellum Southern Industrialist (n.d.)
Miller and Evans, eds., The World of Daniel Pratt. Papers from a Symposium sponsored by the Autauga County Heritage Association. (February 1999)
External links
Daniel Pratt at the Encyclopedia of Alabama
Daniel Pratt collection, from University Libraries Division of Special Collections at the University of Alabama
1799 births
1873 deaths
American city founders
American Civil War industrialists
Businesspeople from Alabama
Businesspeople from New Hampshire
People from Autauga County, Alabama
People from Prattville, Alabama
People from Temple, New Hampshire |
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst (or Ernest) Dohm (born Elias Levy Dohm; also known by his pseudonym Karlchen Mießnick; 24 May 1819, Breslau – 5 February 1883, Berlin) was a German editor, actor, and translator.
He was Jewish and a convert to Christianity. He married the feminist Hedwig Dohm and had five children:
Hans Ernst Dohm (1854–1866)
(Gertrud) Hedwig (Anna) Dohm (1855–1942), married to the Jewish scientist Alfred Pringsheim
Ida Marie Elisabeth Dohm (1856–?)
Marie Pauline Adelheid Dohm (1858–?)
Eva Dohm (1860–?)
He became a grandfather of the musician Klaus Pringsheim Sr. and Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, the wife of Thomas Mann. He was a chief-editor of Kladderadatsch, a satirical magazine founded in 1848, until 1849.
See also
Dohm-Mann family tree
Hedwig Dohm
Julius Rodenberg
David Kalisch
1819 births
1883 deaths
19th-century German Jews
Converts to Protestantism from Judaism
Jewish German male actors
Print editors
German male stage actors
19th-century German male actors
19th-century German translators
19th-century German writers
19th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers |
Library is an unincorporated community in South Park Township, Pennsylvania along Brownsville Road. Originally known as Loafer's Hollow, it was renamed Library by its residents in honor of the first library in the area, founded by John Moore in 1833.
South of Library, the original course of Brownsville Road continues as Pennsylvania Route 88. Library holds an annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony.
Transportation
Library is served by the Library station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network's Silver Line.
References
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania |
United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 was adopted on February 21, 1961. After noting the killings of Patrice Lumumba, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito and a report of the Secretary-General's Special Representative, the Council urged the United Nations to immediately take measures to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, even if the use of force is necessary. The Council further urged the withdrawal of all Belgian and other foreign military, paramilitary personnel and mercenaries not with the UN and called upon all states to take measures to deny transport and other facilities to such personnel moving into the Congo. The Council also decided that it would launch an investigation into the death of Lumumba and his colleagues promising punishment to the perpetrators.
The resolution was approved by nine votes to none; France and the Soviet Union abstained.
See also
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 101 to 200 (1953–1965)
Resolutions 143, 145, 146, 157, and 169
The Congo Crisis
History of Katanga
References
Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
External links
0161
0161
0161
1961 in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
1961 in Belgium
February 1961 events |
The Barnum School is a historic elementary school located on Barnum Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It was designed by architect George W. Briggs and built in 1926 to replace a previous school on the site that had burned. When it opened, the Barnum School was considered the most modern in school design in an era of continuing educational reform. It is a two-story brick structure with Colonial Revival styling. The front facade has three sections, with two bays of brick paneling (apparently filling locations where there may have originally been windows) flanking the main entrance, which is set in a round-arch opening in a projecting gable-topped vestibule. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The school closed in June 2013.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Taunton, Massachusetts
References
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Taunton, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts |
Azerbaijan Tourism Association (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Turizm Assosiasiyası), or AzTA, is one of the tourism organizations in Azerbaijan. The main goal of AzTA is to amalgamate and manage nearly all tourism companies in the country.
Activity
AzTA was founded in 2009 with the help of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan. Association incorporates 242 travel agencies and 110 hotels.
In 2017, AZAL and AzTA signed the agreement on cooperation. According to the agreement, AZAL became a board member of Azerbaijan Tourism Association.
The Chairman of AzTA is Ahmed Gurbanov.
The Azerbaijan Tourism Association has a committee on inbound tourism, a committee on outbound tourism and a committee on transport issues. Heads of committees are appointed for one year.
At the initiative of the AzTA, the concept "Prospects for the development of domestic tourism in Azerbaijan until 2025" was prepared.
International cooperation
AzTA is one of the members of the World Tourism Organization since 2011.
In 2011, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan and AzTA signed an agreement on cooperation with the Dubai-based company Atlantis Holidays.
During the 57th Meeting of UNWTO's Regional Commission for Europe in April, 2014 which was held in Baku, the headship of AzTA signed the Private Sector Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.
In 2018, a Memorandum of cooperation was signed between Azerbaijan Tourism Association and the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI)
In the same year, a partnership memorandum for two years between AZTA and Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) was signed.
In 2019, a Memorandum of cooperation between AzTA and State Committee of Uzbekistan for Tourism Development was signed.
In 2019, AzTA signed agreements on cooperation with Les Roches International School of Hotel Management and Glion Institute of Higher Education.
Besides five new offices opened in 2020, it's planned to open offices in 25 countries around the world.
On the initiative of AzTA and with the support of tourism enterprises of Turkey, it was decided to set up the Tourism Organization of Turkic-Speaking States in 2020. The main purpose of the organization is to contribute to the development of the tourism sector in Turkic-speaking countries.
In 2020 AZTA was joined by approximately 27 tourism agencies.
There are multiple meetings with private sector leaders and tourism agencies held every year.
See also
Tourism in Azerbaijan
References
Tourism agencies
2009 establishments in Azerbaijan
Tourism in Azerbaijan |
The 1976–77 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto was the 14th edition of the Spanish premier women's basketball championship. Twelve teams took part in the championship and Celta de Vigo won its first title. Medicina Hispalense and Esclavas Textil Pascual were relegated. Mataró Famosette and Medina Lleida renounced at the end of the season.
Regular season
References
Hispaligas
External links
Official website
Femenina
Liga Femenina de Baloncesto seasons
Spain
Spain |
```go
package semver
import (
"fmt"
"strconv"
"strings"
"unicode"
)
type wildcardType int
const (
noneWildcard wildcardType = iota
majorWildcard wildcardType = 1
minorWildcard wildcardType = 2
patchWildcard wildcardType = 3
)
func wildcardTypefromInt(i int) wildcardType {
switch i {
case 1:
return majorWildcard
case 2:
return minorWildcard
case 3:
return patchWildcard
default:
return noneWildcard
}
}
type comparator func(Version, Version) bool
var (
compEQ comparator = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) == 0
}
compNE = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) != 0
}
compGT = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) == 1
}
compGE = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) >= 0
}
compLT = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) == -1
}
compLE = func(v1 Version, v2 Version) bool {
return v1.Compare(v2) <= 0
}
)
type versionRange struct {
v Version
c comparator
}
// rangeFunc creates a Range from the given versionRange.
func (vr *versionRange) rangeFunc() Range {
return Range(func(v Version) bool {
return vr.c(v, vr.v)
})
}
// Range represents a range of versions.
// A Range can be used to check if a Version satisfies it:
//
// range, err := semver.ParseRange(">1.0.0 <2.0.0")
// range(semver.MustParse("1.1.1") // returns true
type Range func(Version) bool
// OR combines the existing Range with another Range using logical OR.
func (rf Range) OR(f Range) Range {
return Range(func(v Version) bool {
return rf(v) || f(v)
})
}
// AND combines the existing Range with another Range using logical AND.
func (rf Range) AND(f Range) Range {
return Range(func(v Version) bool {
return rf(v) && f(v)
})
}
// ParseRange parses a range and returns a Range.
// If the range could not be parsed an error is returned.
//
// Valid ranges are:
// - "<1.0.0"
// - "<=1.0.0"
// - ">1.0.0"
// - ">=1.0.0"
// - "1.0.0", "=1.0.0", "==1.0.0"
// - "!1.0.0", "!=1.0.0"
//
// A Range can consist of multiple ranges separated by space:
// Ranges can be linked by logical AND:
// - ">1.0.0 <2.0.0" would match between both ranges, so "1.1.1" and "1.8.7" but not "1.0.0" or "2.0.0"
// - ">1.0.0 <3.0.0 !2.0.3-beta.2" would match every version between 1.0.0 and 3.0.0 except 2.0.3-beta.2
//
// Ranges can also be linked by logical OR:
// - "<2.0.0 || >=3.0.0" would match "1.x.x" and "3.x.x" but not "2.x.x"
//
// AND has a higher precedence than OR. It's not possible to use brackets.
//
// Ranges can be combined by both AND and OR
//
// - `>1.0.0 <2.0.0 || >3.0.0 !4.2.1` would match `1.2.3`, `1.9.9`, `3.1.1`, but not `4.2.1`, `2.1.1`
func ParseRange(s string) (Range, error) {
parts := splitAndTrim(s)
orParts, err := splitORParts(parts)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
expandedParts, err := expandWildcardVersion(orParts)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var orFn Range
for _, p := range expandedParts {
var andFn Range
for _, ap := range p {
opStr, vStr, err := splitComparatorVersion(ap)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
vr, err := buildVersionRange(opStr, vStr)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("Could not parse Range %q: %s", ap, err)
}
rf := vr.rangeFunc()
// Set function
if andFn == nil {
andFn = rf
} else { // Combine with existing function
andFn = andFn.AND(rf)
}
}
if orFn == nil {
orFn = andFn
} else {
orFn = orFn.OR(andFn)
}
}
return orFn, nil
}
// splitORParts splits the already cleaned parts by '||'.
// Checks for invalid positions of the operator and returns an
// error if found.
func splitORParts(parts []string) ([][]string, error) {
var ORparts [][]string
last := 0
for i, p := range parts {
if p == "||" {
if i == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("First element in range is '||'")
}
ORparts = append(ORparts, parts[last:i])
last = i + 1
}
}
if last == len(parts) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("Last element in range is '||'")
}
ORparts = append(ORparts, parts[last:])
return ORparts, nil
}
// buildVersionRange takes a slice of 2: operator and version
// and builds a versionRange, otherwise an error.
func buildVersionRange(opStr, vStr string) (*versionRange, error) {
c := parseComparator(opStr)
if c == nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("Could not parse comparator %q in %q", opStr, strings.Join([]string{opStr, vStr}, ""))
}
v, err := Parse(vStr)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("Could not parse version %q in %q: %s", vStr, strings.Join([]string{opStr, vStr}, ""), err)
}
return &versionRange{
v: v,
c: c,
}, nil
}
// inArray checks if a byte is contained in an array of bytes
func inArray(s byte, list []byte) bool {
for _, el := range list {
if el == s {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// splitAndTrim splits a range string by spaces and cleans whitespaces
func splitAndTrim(s string) (result []string) {
last := 0
var lastChar byte
excludeFromSplit := []byte{'>', '<', '='}
for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
if s[i] == ' ' && !inArray(lastChar, excludeFromSplit) {
if last < i-1 {
result = append(result, s[last:i])
}
last = i + 1
} else if s[i] != ' ' {
lastChar = s[i]
}
}
if last < len(s)-1 {
result = append(result, s[last:])
}
for i, v := range result {
result[i] = strings.Replace(v, " ", "", -1)
}
// parts := strings.Split(s, " ")
// for _, x := range parts {
// if s := strings.TrimSpace(x); len(s) != 0 {
// result = append(result, s)
// }
// }
return
}
// splitComparatorVersion splits the comparator from the version.
// Input must be free of leading or trailing spaces.
func splitComparatorVersion(s string) (string, string, error) {
i := strings.IndexFunc(s, unicode.IsDigit)
if i == -1 {
return "", "", fmt.Errorf("Could not get version from string: %q", s)
}
return strings.TrimSpace(s[0:i]), s[i:], nil
}
// getWildcardType will return the type of wildcard that the
// passed version contains
func getWildcardType(vStr string) wildcardType {
parts := strings.Split(vStr, ".")
nparts := len(parts)
wildcard := parts[nparts-1]
possibleWildcardType := wildcardTypefromInt(nparts)
if wildcard == "x" {
return possibleWildcardType
}
return noneWildcard
}
// createVersionFromWildcard will convert a wildcard version
// into a regular version, replacing 'x's with '0's, handling
// special cases like '1.x.x' and '1.x'
func createVersionFromWildcard(vStr string) string {
// handle 1.x.x
vStr2 := strings.Replace(vStr, ".x.x", ".x", 1)
vStr2 = strings.Replace(vStr2, ".x", ".0", 1)
parts := strings.Split(vStr2, ".")
// handle 1.x
if len(parts) == 2 {
return vStr2 + ".0"
}
return vStr2
}
// incrementMajorVersion will increment the major version
// of the passed version
func incrementMajorVersion(vStr string) (string, error) {
parts := strings.Split(vStr, ".")
i, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[0])
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
parts[0] = strconv.Itoa(i + 1)
return strings.Join(parts, "."), nil
}
// incrementMajorVersion will increment the minor version
// of the passed version
func incrementMinorVersion(vStr string) (string, error) {
parts := strings.Split(vStr, ".")
i, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[1])
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
parts[1] = strconv.Itoa(i + 1)
return strings.Join(parts, "."), nil
}
// expandWildcardVersion will expand wildcards inside versions
// following these rules:
//
// * when dealing with patch wildcards:
// >= 1.2.x will become >= 1.2.0
// <= 1.2.x will become < 1.3.0
// > 1.2.x will become >= 1.3.0
// < 1.2.x will become < 1.2.0
// != 1.2.x will become < 1.2.0 >= 1.3.0
//
// * when dealing with minor wildcards:
// >= 1.x will become >= 1.0.0
// <= 1.x will become < 2.0.0
// > 1.x will become >= 2.0.0
// < 1.0 will become < 1.0.0
// != 1.x will become < 1.0.0 >= 2.0.0
//
// * when dealing with wildcards without
// version operator:
// 1.2.x will become >= 1.2.0 < 1.3.0
// 1.x will become >= 1.0.0 < 2.0.0
func expandWildcardVersion(parts [][]string) ([][]string, error) {
var expandedParts [][]string
for _, p := range parts {
var newParts []string
for _, ap := range p {
if strings.Index(ap, "x") != -1 {
opStr, vStr, err := splitComparatorVersion(ap)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
versionWildcardType := getWildcardType(vStr)
flatVersion := createVersionFromWildcard(vStr)
var resultOperator string
var shouldIncrementVersion bool
switch opStr {
case ">":
resultOperator = ">="
shouldIncrementVersion = true
case ">=":
resultOperator = ">="
case "<":
resultOperator = "<"
case "<=":
resultOperator = "<"
shouldIncrementVersion = true
case "", "=", "==":
newParts = append(newParts, ">="+flatVersion)
resultOperator = "<"
shouldIncrementVersion = true
case "!=", "!":
newParts = append(newParts, "<"+flatVersion)
resultOperator = ">="
shouldIncrementVersion = true
}
var resultVersion string
if shouldIncrementVersion {
switch versionWildcardType {
case patchWildcard:
resultVersion, _ = incrementMinorVersion(flatVersion)
case minorWildcard:
resultVersion, _ = incrementMajorVersion(flatVersion)
}
} else {
resultVersion = flatVersion
}
ap = resultOperator + resultVersion
}
newParts = append(newParts, ap)
}
expandedParts = append(expandedParts, newParts)
}
return expandedParts, nil
}
func parseComparator(s string) comparator {
switch s {
case "==":
fallthrough
case "":
fallthrough
case "=":
return compEQ
case ">":
return compGT
case ">=":
return compGE
case "<":
return compLT
case "<=":
return compLE
case "!":
fallthrough
case "!=":
return compNE
}
return nil
}
// MustParseRange is like ParseRange but panics if the range cannot be parsed.
func MustParseRange(s string) Range {
r, err := ParseRange(s)
if err != nil {
panic(`semver: ParseRange(` + s + `): ` + err.Error())
}
return r
}
``` |
The Athens Naval Hospital () is the largest Navy hospital in Greece. It is situated at the foothill of Lycabettus Hill, at Dinokratous 70 in Central Athens. Construction started in 1948, but it became operational in 1955, and was renovated and enlarged in 1995.
References
Central Athens (regional unit)
Hospitals in Athens
Hospital buildings completed in 1955
Hospitals established in 1955
Hellenic Navy
1955 establishments in Greece |
Pragyananda Mahasthavir () (born Kul Man Singh Tuladhar) (2 May 1900 – 11 March 1993) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk who was one of the leaders of the revival of Theravada Buddhism in Nepal. In 1930, he became the first monk wearing yellow robes to be seen in Kathmandu since the 14th century.
Pragyananda served Buddhism and wrote religious literature in Nepal Bhasa when both the religion and language were being suppressed by the autocratic Rana regime. For these offenses, he was expelled from the country. Pragyananda also became the first Sangha Mahanayaka (Patriarch) of Nepal in modern times.
Early life
Pragyananda was born in Itum Bahal, Kathmandu to a family of herbalists. His father was Harsha Bir Singh and his mother was Mohan Maya Tuladhar. Pragyananda's given name was Kul Man Singh Tuladhar. He was educated at Durbar High School in Kathmandu. After high school, he pursued further studies in Ayurvedic medicine and joined his ancestral occupation of dispensing herbal medicines.
Ordination
Kul Man Singh went to Lhasa, Tibet at the age of 16 and engaged in business. He was married and running a flourishing business house when he met Mahapragya, a Nepalese monk of the Tibetan Buddhism school. He had been expelled from Nepal in 1926 for converting to Buddhism from Hinduism. Inspired by Mahapragya, he renounced the life of a householder and became a Tibetan novice monk, taking the name Karmasheel.
Subsequently, Karmasheel and Mahapragya went to Shigatse where they spent almost a year meditating in a cave. Not finding what they were searching for, the two travelled to Kushinagar in India, and in 1928, were reordained as Theravada monks. Mahapragya later became known as Bauddha Rishi Mahapragya.
Karmasheel returned to Nepal in 1930 as the first Theravada monk. A year later, he went to Myanmar and received full ordination in 1932, and was given the name Pragyananda. Returning to Kathmandu, Pragyananda lived at the monastery of Kindo Baha and gave religious discourses. The congregation coming to listen to his sermons kept growing which attracted the ire of the government.
Into exile
The Rana regime ordered the monks to stop preaching Buddhism and writing in Nepal Bhasa. They refused, and on 30 July 1944, were ordered out of the country. Eight monks, including Pragyananda, Dhammalok Mahasthavir and Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir left for India. In Sarnath, they founded a Buddhist association named Dharmodaya Sabha (Society for the Rise of the Teaching).
Pragyananda and the other monks returned to Nepal in 1946 after the ban was lifted following international pressure, and they resumed their work to spread Theravada Buddhism. Pragyananda spent a lot of his time at Pranidhipurna Mahavihar at Balambu which he had started in 1942. After the fall of the Rana regime and establishment of democracy in 1951, the faith became more firmly established in the country. Pragyananda was named the first Sangha Mahanayaka (Patriarch) of modern Nepal.
He was fluent in Nepal Bhasa, Nepali, Hindi, Tibetan, Bengali, Pali and Burmese. He has published 19 books related to Buddhism and also written a number of plays. In 1950, the play Dirghayu Rajkumar was staged at Nagam. Pragyananda was also a skilled artist, and he painted paubha scroll paintings. He died in Lalitpur.
In 2001, the Postal Service Department of the government of Nepal issued a commemorative postage stamp depicting his portrait. A statue of Pragyananda has been installed at the monastery of Nagara Mandapa Shri Kirti Vihara, Kirtipur.
See also
Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal
Kindo Baha
Pranidhipurna Mahavihar
References
Sources
1900 births
1993 deaths
People from Kathmandu
Theravada Buddhist monks
Nepalese Buddhist monks
Theravada Buddhism writers
Nepalese Theravada Buddhists
Nepalese male writers
Nepali-language writers
Newar-language writers
Persecution of Buddhists
Buddhist patriarchs
Nepalese exiles
Durbar High School alumni
20th-century Buddhist monks |
E. J. Stoneman Generating Station was an electrical power station located in Cassville in Grant County, Wisconsin. It was originally a coal fired facility for several decades and a biomass facility for 5 years.
History
In 1950, the E.J. Stoneman generating station (“Stoneman”) was built by Dairyland Power Cooperative ("Dairyland") placed into service. The plant was named after Erle Stoneman, a director of Grant Electric Cooperative and an original incorporator of Dairyland. In 1993, E.J. Stoneman was closed due to economic reasons. In 1996, Dairyland sold the mothballed Stoneman plant to Mid-American power, an Arkansas-based subsidiary of WPS Resources, and put Stoneman back into operation. In 2007, WPS Resources merged with a group of Illinois natural gas utilities, forming Integrys Energy. In 2008, Integrys sold Stoneman to DTE Stoneman, LLC, a non-utility subsidiary of DTE Energy. One week later, Dairyland Power announced an agreement to purchase the facility’s entire 40 MW net output from DTE upon conversion to a biomass burning plant.
Between 2008 and 2010, Stoneman was converted by facility owner DTE Energy Services from a 100% coal-burning to 100% woody biomass-burning plant. Commercial operation of the 40 MW biomass facility began on October 8, 2010. Renewable energy from the DTE Stoneman plant powered up to 30,000 homes in the Dairyland system.
In 2013, the renewable energy facility was fined $150,000 by the state of Wisconsin for numerous violations of the facility air pollution control permit. In 2015, it was announced that Stoneman would close by the end of the year following the termination of a power purchasing agreement with Dairyland Coop. During the five year period of biomass operation, neighbors had also complained of charcoal-like soot residue on the homes and vehicles. DTE cited economics of the location for the closure rather than the failure of biomass electrical generation in general. Low natural gas prices benefiting competitors and high transportation costs for biomass fuel were cited as reasons for closure.
Environment
Stoneman's Electrostatic Precipitator (“ESP”) was upgraded during the conversion from a coal plant to a wood-fired biomass facility. The modifications to the ESP allow the system to collect more particulate and work more efficiently. Also installed: a Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction system (“SNCR”) to reduce NOx emissions. A continuous emission monitoring system automatically records data that are used for reports to regulatory agencies. All received fuel is screened; all fuel must comply with strict regulations. Monthly composite samples are sent to a third party lab for testing and analytics. The plant was said to be in compliance with all permits and regulations despite complaints of charcoal-like soot residue by nearby residents and a $150,000 fine in 2013 for not complying with clean air permits.
Community
DTE Stoneman directly employed over thirty people full-time, all local residents. The plant spent millions of dollars annually in maintenance costs, largely spent with local companies. Over fifty truck drivers and other personnel were indirectly employed to support the fuel supply of the plant. Stoneman made charitable contributions spread out to over twenty-five different local organizations. Stoneman provided training and purchased equipment for the Confined Space Rescue Qualification program for the local fire department. This program benefited Cassville and surrounding communities in the event someone is trapped in a confined space, such as a grain silo or a mine.
Units
See also
List of power stations in Wisconsin
References
Energy infrastructure completed in 1952
Buildings and structures in Grant County, Wisconsin
Coal-fired power stations in Wisconsin
DTE Energy |
Juan de Bolas Mountain in Saint Catherine, Jamaica (some sources say Clarendon) is named after Juan de Bolas, A Chief of a Group of Maroons who sided with the Spanish during the British Spanish war in Jamaica 1655. He was caught by the British and turned to their side and was instrumental in defeating the Spanish. He would then betray the maroons by revealing their settlement to the British and serving as a Maroon Hunter
See also
Juan de Bolas River
References
Mountains of Jamaica
Geography of Saint Catherine Parish |
```c++
#ifndef BOOST_SMART_PTR_DETAIL_SPINLOCK_GCC_ARM_HPP_INCLUDED
#define BOOST_SMART_PTR_DETAIL_SPINLOCK_GCC_ARM_HPP_INCLUDED
//
//
// See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// path_to_url
//
#include <boost/smart_ptr/detail/yield_k.hpp>
#if defined(__ARM_ARCH_7__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_7A__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_7R__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_7M__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_7EM__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_7S__)
# define BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER "dmb"
# define BOOST_SP_ARM_HAS_LDREX
#elif defined(__ARM_ARCH_6__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_6J__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_6K__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_6Z__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_6ZK__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_6T2__)
# define BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER "mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 5"
# define BOOST_SP_ARM_HAS_LDREX
#else
# define BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER ""
#endif
namespace boost
{
namespace detail
{
class spinlock
{
public:
int v_;
public:
bool try_lock()
{
int r;
#ifdef BOOST_SP_ARM_HAS_LDREX
__asm__ __volatile__(
"ldrex %0, [%2]; \n"
"cmp %0, %1; \n"
"strexne %0, %1, [%2]; \n"
BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER :
"=&r"( r ): // outputs
"r"( 1 ), "r"( &v_ ): // inputs
"memory", "cc" );
#else
__asm__ __volatile__(
"swp %0, %1, [%2];\n"
BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER :
"=&r"( r ): // outputs
"r"( 1 ), "r"( &v_ ): // inputs
"memory", "cc" );
#endif
return r == 0;
}
void lock()
{
for( unsigned k = 0; !try_lock(); ++k )
{
boost::detail::yield( k );
}
}
void unlock()
{
__asm__ __volatile__( BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER ::: "memory" );
*const_cast< int volatile* >( &v_ ) = 0;
__asm__ __volatile__( BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER ::: "memory" );
}
public:
class scoped_lock
{
private:
spinlock & sp_;
scoped_lock( scoped_lock const & );
scoped_lock & operator=( scoped_lock const & );
public:
explicit scoped_lock( spinlock & sp ): sp_( sp )
{
sp.lock();
}
~scoped_lock()
{
sp_.unlock();
}
};
};
} // namespace detail
} // namespace boost
#define BOOST_DETAIL_SPINLOCK_INIT {0}
#undef BOOST_SP_ARM_BARRIER
#undef BOOST_SP_ARM_HAS_LDREX
#endif // #ifndef BOOST_SMART_PTR_DETAIL_SPINLOCK_GCC_ARM_HPP_INCLUDED
``` |
Fair Haven Union Cemetery, located at 149 Grand Ave., covers in the neighborhood of Fair Haven, Connecticut. Although graves were there as early as 1803, the land was donated for the cemetery by local farmers Stephen Rowe and Nathaniel Granniss in 1808. The site included land for a meeting house, a school, and parade grounds, as well as for burial, holding 80 lots. A Victorian Gothic entry arch was added in 1885 inscribed with a quote from Revelation 14:13, "They rest from their labors."
In April 2006, the cemetery was evaluated for restoration. Including a formal cost study and beautification. Recommendations included protection from intruders and vandals, as well as different fencing to block out the view of adjacent housing. The area Cemetery Board declined to pursue the recommendations, but agreed to consider nominating the site for addition to the National Register of Historic Places.
Burials
There are 207 families buried in the cemetery, comprising 706 names and 17 headstones with given names only. The most heavily represented families are Rowe (151), Barnes, Smith, and Mallory (each with 70+). Others include Granniss (27) and Farren (24) Ball (20).
Many of the burials are early Fair Haven seamen; those engaged in clamming, oystering, and shipbuilding and repair. Also buried there is Herman Hotchkiss, traditional founder of Fair Haven.
Chapel
The chapel on the site was built over the graves of the friendless using stone quarried from the red brick clay of Fair Haven Heights for $4,000. The structure possesses a genuine Tiffany window. A time capsule was placed behind a corner brick in 1895.
Gallery
References
External links
Fair Haven: An Historical and Ecological Field Study
Fair Haven’s History and Architecture - Past and Preservation
Union Cemetery
Cemeteries in New Haven County, Connecticut
Fair Haven (New Haven) |
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export * from './BarItem'
export * from './BarTooltip'
export * from './BarTotals'
export * from './ResponsiveBar'
export * from './ResponsiveBarCanvas'
export * from './props'
export * from './types'
``` |
Gerhardus Jacobus Labuschagné (born 5 December 1995) is a South African rugby union player who plays for the Houston SaberCats in Major League Rugby (MLR). He previously played for Yamaha Júbilo in the Japanese Top League. He is a utility back that can play as a fullback, centre, wing or fly-half.
Rugby career
Youth rugby and Free State XV
Labuschagné was born in Springs and went to high school in nearby Brakpan. However, he was never selected to represent his local team at any provincial schoolboy tournaments. After high school, he moved to Bloemfontein, where he was included in the squad. In July 2014, a video went viral of Labuschagné successfully kicking a penalty from 80m out during a training session at the University of the Free State. He made nine starts in the 2014 Under-19 Provincial Championship, appearing in the right wing, fullback and outside centre position during the season and scoring six points with the boot during a season that saw his team finish in second position, before losing their semi-final match 22–29 to eventual champions, .
Labuschagné was included in the squad that played in the 2015 Vodacom Cup competition. He made his first class debut on 18 April 2015, starting as the right wing in their 50–45 victory over the in Round Four of the competition. He made two more starts – against the in East London and against in Bloemfontein – but failed to score any points for his team. He played at Under-21 level in the second half of the season, following up a start for the in their victory over the team with three appearances as a replacement. The first of those came against during the regular season of the Under-21 Provincial Championship, as the team finished second on the log to qualify for the title play-offs. He also came on as a replacement in their 27–22 victory over in the semi-final, and in the final against , which the side from Cape Town convincingly won 52–17.
Labuschagné was included in the wider training group for the 2016 Super Rugby season, but made no appearances in that competition. Instead, he once again represented the Free State XV, this time in the 2016 Currie Cup qualification series that effectively replaced the Vodacom Cup. He made two starts; a start at inside centre in a 35–15 win against the was followed by a start at fullback against the other team form the Eastern Cape, the . Labuschagné scored his first senior points in this match, kicking two conversions in a 22–18 victory. He was once again in action for the team in the 2016 edition of the Under-21 Provincial Championship, playing in all six of their matches during the regular season. The team finished in fourth spot on the log to qualify for a semi-final, but Labuschagné did not feature in their 23–26 defeat to Western Province. However, the 46 points he scored during the regular season – through tries against and , fifteen conversions and two penalties – made him his side's top scorer during the competition, and fifth overall.
References
South African rugby union players
Living people
1995 births
Sportspeople from Springs, Gauteng
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union centres
Rugby union wings
Rugby union fullbacks
Free State Cheetahs players
Golden Lions players
Pumas (Currie Cup) players
Shizuoka Blue Revs players
Houston SaberCats players |
The Princes End branch line was a railway located in the West Midlands of England, which opened in September 1863 and survived as a through route for nearly 120 years.
Its route began on the West Coast Main Line railway just north of Tipton town centre and terminated approximately two miles away on the South Staffordshire Line just south of Wednesbury town centre.
It featured two stations. Princes End railway station opened in 1863 before closing in 1890. It re-opened in 1895 but closed in 1916 as a wartime economy measure and never re-opened, as happened with Ocker Hill railway station. However, the line remained open to goods trains, providing a useful link to Ocker Hill Power Station following its opening in 1897.
Following several years of declining use due to deindustrialisation of the local area, it finally closed in April 1981, although the final stub connecting Wednesbury to Ocker Hill Power Station remained open until February 1991, finally signalling the end of the whole line 128 years after its opening.
The section of disused line between Princes End and Ocker Hill was converted into a public walkway in the late 1980s.
References
Rail transport in Sandwell |
The Suhum constituency is in the Eastern region of Ghana with the town Suhum as its capital. The current member of Parliament for the constituency is Kwadjo Asante. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and won a majority of
34,049 votes representing 64.0% more than candidate closest in the race, to win the constituency election to become the MP.
See also
List of Ghana Parliament constituencies
References
Parliamentary constituencies in the Eastern Region (Ghana) |
Sayda-Guba (), also known in English as Sayda Bay, is a rural locality (an inhabited locality) within the administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of above sea level. As of the 2010 Census, it had no recorded population.
History
The colony of Sayda-Guba was one of the twenty-one included into Alexandrovskaya Volost of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate upon its establishment on July 1, 1920.
In 1934, the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee developed a redistricting proposal, which was approved by the Resolution of the 4th Plenary Session of the Murmansk Okrug Committee of the VKP(b) on December 28-29, 1934 and by the Resolution of the Presidium of the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee on February 2, 1935. On February 15, 1935, the VTsIK approved the redistricting of the okrug into seven districts, but did not specify what territories the new districts were to include. On February 26, 1935, the Presidium of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee worked out the details of the new district scheme and issued a resolution, which, among other things, ordered the administrative center of Polyarny District to be moved from Polyarnoye to Sayda-Guba. The provisions of the February 26, 1935 Resolution, however, were not fully implemented. Due to military construction in Polyarnoye, the administrative center was instead moved to Murmansk in the beginning of 1935.
Reactor vessel disposal
Sayda-Guba now serves as the storage location for reactor compartments from decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines. This compares with United States Navy storage of reactor compartments at the United States Department of Energy Hanford Nuclear Reservation under the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of Murmansk Oblast. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Murmansk Oblast
Rural localities in Murmansk Oblast
Kolsky Uyezd |
Frederick James Woodbridge, AIA, (May 18, 1900 – January 17, 1974), was an American architect. His projects were based in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. He was partners in the firms Evans, Moore & Woodbridge, Malmfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge, and Adams & Woodbridge (1945–1974), as well as being a sometime archeologist.
Early life and education
Born May 18, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Woodbridge attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1917, Amherst College, graduating in 1921, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, graduating in 1923, and the American Academy in Rome from 1923–1925. He was also the Boyer Research Fellow in Classical Archeology at the University of Michigan.
Architectural career
Woodbridge began his career at McKim, Mead & White, working there from 1921 to 1922, and as a draftsman there from 1925 to 1929. He was licensed in New York (1928), Connecticut (1930), New Jersey (1937), and nationally as NCARB (1939) and commenced his practice as a partner in 1929
Within the AIA, he was the chairman for the Committee on Architectural Services, Vice Chairman for the Committee on Buildings Costs, Secretary for the New York Chapter Civilian Protection Committee from 1940–1941. He was the president of the Architectural League and secretary of its executive committee.
He was a member of the Plattsburg & Columbia S.A.T.C in 1918, U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Lt. Commander of the O. in C. Air Naval Training Unit, Naval and Air Station, Quonset from 1942–1945.
He was faculty at the Extension, School of Architecture, 1934-1942 as a critic in Design, Instructor in History of Architecture and Rendering, Lecturer on Design at the Institutional Residence Halls, of Teacher's College, Columbia University (1939–1942). He was the architect for excavations at Antioch of Pisidia, Turkey, and at Carthage, Tunisia, from 1924 to 1925.
Death
He died on January 17, 1974 (aged 73) in Manhattan, New York City.
References
External links
Frederick J. Woodbridge architectural records and papers, 1921-1971. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
1900 births
1974 deaths
Architects from Minneapolis
Defunct architecture firms based in New York City
Architects from New York City
Amherst College alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
University of Michigan fellows
American ecclesiastical architects
Architects of cathedrals
Architects of Anglican churches
Architects of Presbyterian churches
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
20th-century American architects |
Upendra Rai (born 16 January 1982) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is Chairman & Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Bharat Express News Network.
Earlier he was working as CEO and Editor-in-Chief at Sahara India Media. He has worked as CEO and Editor-in-Chief at Tehelka. Earlier he has also been with Sahara News Network as its Group CEO and Editor-in-Chief, looking after the functioning of Sahara Samay Channel along with Samay UP/ Uttarakhand, Samay Bihar/Jharkhand, Samay MP/CG, Samay Rajasthan, Aalami Samay and Rashtriya Sahara Hindi Daily. He resigned from Sahara News Network in June 2016 and started his own media house, 'The Printlines Media Group' as its chairman and Editor-in Chief.
Early life
Upendra Rai was born in the village Sherpur, Ghazipur. He got his early education at village Sherpur & Inter College Mohammadabad ,Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh and completed his graduation from University of Lucknow. He moved to Mumbai to pursue his career as Chief of Bureau of Rashtriya Sahara. In Mumbai he got Master of Business Administration from SVKM's NMIMS.
Career
He started his career as a correspondent in the year 1997 with Sahara News Network while pursuing his graduation at University of Lucknow. In October 2002 he joined Star News (Now ABP News) then in August 2004 he joined Network 18 where he worked as the member of launching team of CNBC Awaaz/CNBC TV18. He later joined Star News again (renamed ABP News) in year October 2005 as Principal Correspondent, where he did path-breaking stories related to Taxation, Business, Politics and Entertainment. In November 2009 he moved to Sahara News Network as Editor and News Director. However he left Sahara News Network in 2016 and started working as CEO and editor-in-chief of Tehelka. In September 2019 he came back to the fold of Sahara News Network again as its Senior Advisor.
Upendra Rai did many big stories while working with Star News (ABP News) . He unearthed dmat account scandal in October 2005. Likewise, he broke the story of stud farm owner Hasan Ali in January 2007, which resulted in government agencies actions on Ali.
Hastakshep
Upendra Rai hosted a show Hastakshep on Sahara Samay. Hastakshep played a bridge between government and society discussing the issues affecting the masses.
Hastakshep was launched 35 years back as Saturday supplement of Rashtiya Sahara where renowned analyst of economy, polity, current affairs and other subjects contribute with their well researched and articulated write-ups. Each edition of Hastakshep carries a special topic where scholars of various school of thought contribute with theirs different opinions and analysis.
In February 2020 Sahara News Network launched a T.V. show Hastakshep keeping with same taste, tradition and format. Hastakshep has recently been in news for its series of interviews through skype and mojo, abiding the sop of COVID-19 lock down.
Awards
Star Achiever Award in 2006
Star Patrakar Ratna Award in 2007
Indian Television Academy Awards for best reporting among Hindi news channels, 2007
Lions Gold Awards by Lions Clubs International, Mumbai, 2008
Lions Gold Awards by Lions Clubs International, Mumbai, 2009
Bharosa Patrakar Samman with Javed Akhtar, 2010
National Integration Award, Hubli, Karnataka, December 2010
National Excellence Award, World Book of Records, London, 2019
References
External links
Tehelka
Tehelka Hindi
Samay Live
1982 births
Living people
Journalists from Uttar Pradesh
People from Ghazipur
Indian investigative journalists |
Ethan Nordean, also known as Rufio Panman, is an American far-right political activist, convicted felon and a leader of the Proud Boys, an all-male neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence.
He played a prominent role in the January 6, 2021, attack against the U.S. Capitol, and was arrested four weeks later on federal criminal charges. In March 2021, a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia indicted Nordean and three other Proud Boys members for conspiracy. He was subsequently indicted on seditious conspiracy charges in June 2022, along with four other Proud Boy leaders, for his role in the attack. In May 2023, Nordean was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and multiple other felonies; three other members of the Proud Boys were also convicted at trial. On September 1, 2023, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Activism
In mid-2017, Nordean started attending rallies in Seattle and Portland, Oregon organized by the far right Patriot Prayer group. According to Dave Neiwert, a journalist and author who covers far right political groups, "He's particularly noteworthy for the extraordinary levels of thuggish violence he brings to these events". On June 30, 2018, Nordean and other members of the Proud Boys participated in a demonstration in Portland organized by Joey Gibson, founder of Patriot Prayer. Police declared the event a riot after violent street fighting broke out amid tensions between anti-fascist activists and Patriot Prayer supporters. Video showed Nordean shoving one counter protester to the ground before another approached with a metal baton. Nordean was wearing shin guards on his forearms and deflected the baton, then punched the man in the face, knocking him to the ground unconscious. According to a police report, the counter-protester was hospitalized with a concussion.
Following that incident, a meme featuring video of that punch went viral, and Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, praised Nordean's role in the violent episode, calling it "the turning point in our war against antifa". McInnes compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which triggered World War I.
The footage of the incident was used in recruiting videos for the Proud Boys that featured special effects and dramatic music. By October 2019, five of the most popular videos had over 1.5 million views on YouTube.
Shortly thereafter, Nordean was interviewed at length on The Alex Jones Show, with the video playing constantly in the background. During his interview with Jones, Nordean said "Like Gavin McInnes says, violence isn't great, but justified violence is amazing." Describing left-wing counter-protesters, Nordean told Jones and his audience that "these are no longer people who are necessarily Americans, per se, but they're kind of anti-American" and "you just have to eliminate them as a threat".
Joe Rogan discussed Nordean's role in the violent incident on his podcast, in a segment about antifa and street fighting. Nordean was later interviewed by Alex Jones a second time.
Nordean set up a private Facebook page to vet the fighting abilities of Proud Boys recruits. Despite complaints in 2018, Facebook declined to take down that page.
Rise to Proud Boys leadership
Nordean was designated "Proud Boy of the Week" by the group's magazine. On November 25, 2018, the Proud Boys released their revised bylaws on Scribd with the names of the top leadership supposedly redacted. Due to a technical error, the names could be recovered, and Nordean was listed as a member of the eight man "Elder Chapter", the top level leadership group, under his alias, Rufio Panman.
In the years that followed, Nordean took a leading role as an organizer of Proud Boys events and rallies. Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, said, "He's been helping map the direction of the organization and recruiting members ... In no small part, he's been responsible for moving the group even more to the extreme far right and on a more violent path forward." Nordean operated a video podcast called "Rebel Talk with Rufio".
Following the 2020 U.S. presidential election
On December 11, 2020, Nordean was on the stage during a demonstration before the December 12 Stop The Steal rally in Washington, DC, alongside Roger Stone and fellow Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. InfoWars personality Owen Shroyer also spoke to the crowd, claiming that the Supreme Court had stabbed people in the back.
On December 27, 2020, Nordean posted on Parler, saying "Anyone looking to help us with safety/protective gear, or communications equipment it would be much appreciated, things have gotten more dangerous for us this past year, anything helps". On January 4, 2021, Nordean posted a video on his Rebel Talk with Rufio podcast that was captioned, "Let them remember the day they decided to make war with us".
In the runup to the events at the Capitol on January 6, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio urged the Proud Boys to set aside their usual black and yellow garb, and attempt to blend in with the crowd. Biggs and Nordean echoed his call on social media.
Participation in the 2021 Capitol attack
A video documentary produced by the Wall Street Journal showed that, on January 6, Nordean and fellow Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs from Florida commanded a mob of about 100 Proud Boys members and supporters who assembled east of the United States Capitol Building. A video livestreamer who is a member of the Proud Boys described Biggs and Nordean as "Two men on a mission, with about 500 behind them ready to kick some butt for the benefit of this country".
They marched south past the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court building, and circled around the Capitol complex, approaching from the southwest. The Proud Boys contingent constituted a "a large proportion of the first wave" that reached the Capitol, and one Proud Boys member, Dominic Pezzola, used a seized police shield to break a window to gain access to the building.
Prosecutors alleged Nordean was a chief organizer of a mob of about 100 Proud Boys that marched through Washington before the breach of the Capitol.
Arrest and aftermath
According to prosecutors, on January 8, Nordean posted an image of a Capitol Police officer shooting pepper spray at rioters. The caption read, "If you feel bad for the police, you are part of the problem..." On February 3, Nordean was arrested and charged with four federal crimes, including obstructing an official proceeding, aiding and abetting injury to government property, disorderly conduct and knowingly and violently entering a restricted building. If convicted on all four charges, Nordean could be sentenced to up to 40 years in prison.
On February 7, federal judge Beryl Howell denied Nordean's bail request, and ordered him to be returned to Washington, DC pending trial. Prosecutors argued that "There is no reason to believe that Defendant, or any of his Proud Boy associates, are any more interested in 'complacency,' or any less interested in fomenting rebellion, than they were on January 5," adding, "If nothing else, the events of January 6, 2021, have exposed the size and determination of right-wing fringe groups in the United States, and their willingness to place themselves and others in danger to further their political ideology."
On March 3, 2021, Howell ordered Nordean released to home detention with GPS monitoring pending trial, finding that though he "indisputably participated" in the Capitol assault, the government's evidence of specific acts of violence and property damage was "weak." Before ruling, the judge noted that evidence clearly showed Nordean had been heavily involved in organizing the Proud Boys on January 6, 2021.
In April 2021, district judge Timothy J. Kelly revoked Nordean's pretrial release, returning him to jail. The judge cited an abundance of evidence for planned violence.
Prosecutors included in a May 2021 court filing a Telegram message Nordean had sent expressing a sense of betrayal, lamenting that Trump had pardoned "a bunch of degenerates as his last move and shit on us on the way out" and "now I've got some of my good friends and myself facing jail time cuz we followed this guys lead and never questioned it."
Sentencing
Nordean was sentenced to 18 years in prison by judge Timothy J. Kelly in September 2023. The prosecution asked U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly to enhance the sentence of Nordean to 27 years on Friday by ruling that their acts to disrupt the electoral vote certification qualified as terrorism. Kelly had agreed to this request of prosecutors.
Nordean told the judge, “the truth is, I did help lead a group of men back to the Capitol. There is no excuse for my actions, ignoring police commands, going past barricades, entering the Capitol. Adding myself to the dangerous situation was sorely irresponsible. I would like to take the time to apologize to anyone I wronged. There is no excuse for what I did. I would also like to apologize for my lack of leadership that day.”
Personal life
Nordean has lived in or near Auburn, Washington his entire life. He is married and has a daughter.
His father, Michael Nordean, owns and operates Wally's Chowder House restaurants in Des Moines and Buckley in Washington state, and Ethan formerly worked in the family business. A dedicated bodybuilder, he also operated a now-defunct business in 2017 called Bangarang Elite Supplements that sold protein powder.
Nordean's alias derives from a character in the 1991 Peter Pan movie Hook.
In June 2020, Nordean's father issued a statement calling his son's beliefs "misguided" and reported, "Ethan no longer works for our restaurants." Following the storming of the Capitol and his son's arrest, he issued another statement that said, "We have tried for a long while to get our son off the path which led to his arrest today — to no avail. Ethan will be held accountable for his actions."
References
External links
American Hate – a documentary film featuring Ethan Nordean
1990s births
Living people
Convicted participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
American people convicted of seditious conspiracy
People from Auburn, Washington
Political violence in the United States
Members of the Proud Boys |
Applehead may refer to
Applehead (candy), an American brand of candy, produced by the Ferrara Candy Company
Applehead (cat), a type of Siamese cat
Applehead (dog), a type of Chihuahua dog
Michael Jackson's nickname |
Peter Jensen Reid Skellerup (also Skjellerup, 14 January 1918 – 15 May 2006) was a New Zealand industrialist and philanthropist.
Early life
Skellerup was born in Christchurch in 1918. His father was George Skellerup (1881–1955), the founder of rubber manufacturing company Skellerup Industries. His mother was Elizabeth, née Reid. His father was born in Australia but the family stemmed from Denmark, with his father's birth name including a silent "j" that he dropped from the name at some point. On their birth certificates, the original spelling Skjellerup was used for all five siblings born between 1907 (his brother Valdemar was the oldest) and 1918 (Peter was the youngest). The three middle siblings were girls. Frank Skjellerup, an Australian amateur astronomer, was his uncle. Peter received his education at Christchurch Boys' High School. He saw service in World War II with the 37th Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Solomon Islands fighting again Japan.
Commercial life
Upon leaving school in 1934, he became an office boy in one of his father's companies, the Latex Rubber Company.
He took over as joint managing director in 1955 upon his father's death alongside his brother Valdemar. In 1977, he became deputy chairman of the Skellerup parent company. In 1982, he was handed full control by his brother not long before his brother's death.
Public office
Skellerup was first elected to Christchurch City Council in 1958 and served almost continuously until 1980. The Labour Party won the 1957 general election and upon the Second Labour Government being formed, several sitting city councillors received high-ranking positions in government and resigned from their local roles. This triggered the 1958 Christchurch local by-election, where four city councillor positions were contested by nine candidates. Skellerup, standing for the conservative Citizens' ticket, came fourth and was thus elected. In the 1959 Christchurch local election, the Citizens' ticket won all 19 city council seats, with Skellerup coming fifth (the mayor, George Manning, was from the Labour Party). Skellerup came sixth in 1962. In the 1965 local election, Skellerup stood for both the city council and the mayoralty. He was decisively defeated by the mayoral incumbent, Manning, but came second in the city council election (once again for 19 positions). In 1968, Skellerup stood for council only and came second. During this term, Skellerup lost his council seat over a technicality; he had breached the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Act 1968.
In the lead up to the 1971 election, Skellerup was publicly critical of the Citizens' mayor, Ron Guthrey, over his proposal to build a road through North Hagley Park. Skellerup had never been fond of Guthrey and as a past chairman of the Parks and Reserves Committee, he was extremely annoyed by Guthrey going behind his back and announcing the road proposal without checking with him first. At the election, Guthrey was defeated, Labour gained a majority on the city council, but Skellerup was the highest-polling council candidate by a large margin.
The 1974 election was a turnaround, with Labour's incumbent Pickering defeated by the Citizens' candidate Hamish Hay. According to Hay, Skellerup was not considered as the Citizens' mayoral candidate over the furore that he had caused for Guthrey. The Citizens' ticket also gained a majority on the city council and from 1974 to 1980, Skellerup was deputy-mayor to Hay.
Skellerup was also a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board for twelve years, for three of those he was the chairman. Since 1964, he was Consul of Denmark, first for the South Island and later for all of New Zealand.
Family, recognition and death
In 1941, he married Rita Margaret Grogan (26 August 1919 – 1985); they were to have one son and three daughters. His wife died in 1985. His second marriage was to Evelyn Rogers, who died in 1999.
In 1974, he was awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by Denmark. In the 1979 New Year Honours, Skellerup was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the City of Christchurch. Skellerup sponsored the Antarctic wing at Canterbury Museum and to recognise his contribution, Skellerup Glacier in New Zealand's Ross Dependency in Antarctica was named for him.
Skellerup died in Christchurch on 15 May 2006, and was buried at Ruru Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by the four children from his first marriage.
Notes
References
Sources
1918 births
2006 deaths
People educated at Christchurch Boys' High School
20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Christchurch City Councillors
Lyttelton Harbour Board members
Burials at Ruru Lawn Cemetery
Deputy mayors of Christchurch
New Zealand military personnel of World War II |
Gwynneth may refer to:
Gwynneth Vaughan Buchanan (1886–1945), Australian zoologist
Gwynneth Coogan (born 1965), American former Olympic athlete, educator and mathematician
Gwynneth Flower, former chair of the National Meteorological Programme
Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995), British artist of ivory sculptures on religious subjects
Emma Gwynneth Ineson, QHC (born 1969), British Anglican bishop and academic, specialising in practical theology
Helen Gwynneth Palmer (1917–1979), prominent Australian socialist publisher
Gwynneth Smith (born 1965), Irish former cricketer
See also
John Gwynneth (or Guinete) (1511–1557), clergyman of Welsh nationality originating from Gwynedd
Gwyneth |
Dr. Jay Cavanaugh (1949–2005) was a prominent supporter of medical marijuana. He was appointed to the California State Board of Pharmacy for ten years by three Governors. He also worked in drug abuse recovery. In 2001 he became National Director of the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis.
Biography
From 1970-73 he worked at the Los Angeles County Health Department as an outpatient drug treatment caseworker. From 1973-89 he was the Interagency Drug Abuse Recovery Programs first paid executive director. The program was created by community organizers supported by Los Angeles County and run by volunteers until it was professionalized by the hiring of Jay and other staff. From 1980-82 He served on the California State Board of Pharmacy, and was reappointed twice, ending in 1990.
He assisted in developing and coordinating drug enforcement against pharmacies, wholesalers, and manufacturers for diverting narcotics. He developed and implemented the Recovering Pharmacist Program. He assisted in ensuring pharmacist consultation with patients.
Medical cannabis support
In 1994 he completed a PhD in Molecular Biology at Tulane University. In 1997 he became a medical marijuana patient and Los Angeles County Director of the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis.
In 2001 he became National Director of the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis. He also provided crisis intervention consultation and employee assistance training for NASA, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Cavanaugh published an online article entitled "Reckless Disregard", in which he stated:
Don't ask for the truth in the ads we all read and see ad nauseam. Don't ask for the truth on the Internet either. Ask a health question on nearly any major health website and you'll get information from experts that are consultants for the drug companies and the sites themselves are sponsored and censored by the same drug companies. Any mention of cheap, safe, and effective cannabis as medicine is banned as promoting illegal activities. This as pop-up ads tell us that we need Viagra to make a marriage work, Prozac for when times seem dark, and above all that little purple pill.
We are fighting the wrong drug war on the wrong people and we are paying for this terrible mistake through great suffering and loss of life. Intentional and reckless disregard for human life is the very definition of homicide. Why then are we punishing the sick growing medical marijuana while ignoring the real holocaust being perpetrated by supposedly responsible and humanitarian companies? In today's America greed is only rewarded and mass murder ignored.
The robber barons of the drug industry, the real drug pushers of America, are determined that we live or die or suffer in ways that help their bottom line regardless of science, logic, medicine, compassion, or any other consideration.
When considering the witches brew of concoctions the drug companies want to pour down my throat and into my veins I say a resounding "Just Say No". - Dr. Jay Cavanaugh, Overgrow forums, March 11, 2003.
Family
He was survived by his wife Nancy (a nurse) and children Erin and John-Paul. His father was Big Dave Cavanaugh an American composer, arranger, musician and producer of Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Kay Starr, and Nancy Wilson. He won a Grammy in 1959.
Articles
Notes
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2005 deaths
1949 births |
McCurry is an unincorporated community in Gentry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route H, one half mile south of the Grand River. Darlington lies approximately two miles to the east-southeast and Carmack on U.S. Route 136 is two miles to the north.
History
McCurry was platted in 1879. The community has the name of William McCurry, an early settler. A post office called McCurry was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1901.
References
Unincorporated communities in Gentry County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri |
Ellsworth Culver (April 14, 1927 – August 15, 2005) was an American humanitarian and aid worker and the co-founder of Mercy Corps International.
Career
Wesley Ellsworth Culver claims he had a strong commitment to humanitarian service and promoting peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. But he was also a mass abuser of young girls, through explicit photos, groping and molestation, and sexual assault on his own daughter and other young girls. Culver spent his early childhood in China. He had also lived and taught in pre-Castro Cuba, and worked in over 90 countries.
Mercy Corps was aware of Culver's sexual abuse yet allowed him to remain in leadership roles and travel the world on their behalf for another 10 years.
Education
Educated at Asbury College in Kentucky, Culver began his international career in 1949 as a teacher at the American School in Isle of Pines, Cuba. In 1950, Culver co-founded OC International, a Christian service organization in Asia. From 1958 to 1961, he joined World Vision as Executive Vice President and launched programs in Asia and Latin America.
In 1965, Culver turned his attention stateside to establish corporate community involvement programs in San Francisco, which developed employee task forces to work on emerging inner-city social issues. Over the next ten years, Culver developed programs that expanded to over 75 corporations across the U.S. As a result, he was asked to lead the Alliance for Volunteerism, a coalition of major U.S. voluntary organizations, to develop initiatives to strengthen community action at the local level.
Culver returned to international work in 1978 as the Executive Vice President of Food for the Hungry. His work with refugees included a rescue ship on the South China Sea; refugee camps in Southeast Asia; and food distribution programs in Kenya, Haiti, Pakistan, Peru and Bangladesh. During this time, he established the Hunger Corps, which provided young adults with opportunities for volunteer service to aid famine victims.
Mercy Corps and Sexual Assault Scandal
Culver joined Mercy Corps in 1982 as the agency's third full-time staff member. Culver directed the expansion of Mercy Corps' international relief and development programs into Africa, the Middle East, and Central America. In Honduras, Culver helped to establish Proyecto Aldea Global (Project Global Village), an indigenous organization that provides training on agricultural methodologies, literacy, health services, and infrastructure development. Culver was instrumental in the development of Mercy Corps Europe and developing new areas of activity for Mercy Corps in Asia and around the world.
Culver served on the boards of the Arca Foundation, a progressive charitable foundation, and Global Action, an agency involved in researching and interpreting international events. He was also chairman of the ProTem Foundation, which provides employment skills training and promotes programs that address family issues related to work, and was a founding board member of the Oregon Inter-Religious Committee for Peace in the Middle East.
Culver spoke at university convocations, civic clubs, churches, panels, workshops and seminars on topics such as citizen involvement in the global community and reflections on current global events and conflicts.
In 2019 the Oregonian released a 10 month investigation regarding credible sexual assault and child abuse allegations against Culver by his daughter Tania Humphrey. Within the investigation, it came to light that Mercy Corps was notified of the allegations twice, in 1994 and again in 2018. Both times they deemed there was 'insufficient evidence', and in 1994 Culver was forced to change positions but remained with Mercy Corps for a decade more. There is substantial evidence of further victims within the US and also abroad in areas he worked. After the investigation in 2019 multiple executive leaders within Mercy Corps resigned in response to the claims of misconduct by the company.
Death
He died in 2005 after experiencing complications with melanoma surgery.
In 2006, North Korea posthumously awarded its Friendship Medal to Culver in recognition of his efforts to alleviate poverty and hunger in the country. He was the first American to earn such a medal from North Korea. Culver visited North Korea more than 20 times.
In 2019, Culver's daughter, Tanya Culver Humphrey, publicly alleged that Culver had sexually abused her for a period of ten years, starting when she was a young child and continuing into her teenage years. Humphrey also alleged that Culver made arrangements for men he knew to sexually abuse other children.
References
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1927 births
2005 deaths
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Activists from Portland, Oregon
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The Taylor Festival Choir is a professional choir based in Charleston, South Carolina and one part of the Taylor Music Group. It was formed in 2001 by Dr. Robert Taylor, who serves as conductor and artistic director. They have released 3 albums, recording with Delos Recordings, MSR Classics, and Centaur Records.
Their 2020 release So Hallow'd the Time featured world première recordings by American composers Brian Galante and Stephen Paulus, and received a 5-star review from Fanfare Magazine.
Their 2016 album release McGlynn and MacMillan Masses (DELOS DE3493) featured the world première recording of Celtic Mass by Michael McGlynn and was critically acclaimed as "choral singing at the very finest level... a very impressive performance indeed".
Taylor Festival Choir are regularly featured in Charleston's annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival as well as regularly staging their own concerts. They are a regular contributor to the Charleston arts and cultural scene and regularly publish content on the Taylor Music Group YouTube channel.
References
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Thomas Leabhart (born 1944) is an American corporeal mime and corporeal mime teacher.
Leabhart studied at the Ecole de Mime Etienne Decroux, Paris under the instruction of master mime and teacher Etienne Decroux from 1968 to 1972. He currently performs and teaches regularly in France and has performed and taught workshops at the Museum of Design in Zürich, The Austrian Theatre Museum in Vienna, the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, the American Center in Montevideo, Movement Theatre International in Philadelphia, and many other venues. He is editor of Mime Journal and has authored over 35 articles. He is resident artist and professor of theatre at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and continues to publish translations of Decroux's writings and methods in English.
Leabhart is the most published writer on the subject of Corporeal Mime—chronicling its rise and development in the modern theatre and is closely associated with the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA). He is also the author of one of the standard works on modern mime, Modern and Post-Modern Mime (Macmillan in London and St. Martin's Press, NYC). In it, Leabhart explains that modern mime, a major creative art form in recent years, has its roots in the work Jacques Copeau did at the Ecole de Vieux-Colombier in Paris in the 1920s. Copeau looked to remedy the 'ills of the theater' by turning to the golden ages of Greek theater, Noh, Kabuki, Elizabethan theatre and Commedia dell'arte. In his classes (one of which, called 'corporeal mime,' inspired Etienne Decroux to develop the mime technique of the same name), Copeau emphasized the expressive potential of the actor's whole body, rather than the voice, hands and face (though his actors trained to use those, as well). Leabhart examines the contributions of Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcel Marceau, and Jacques Lecoq to the development of this new form.
Publications
Leabhart's Mime Journal
Leabhart's Etienne Decroux (Routledge Performance Practitioners)
References
External links
Leabhart's page at Pomona College
Personal website
1944 births
Living people
American mimes
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Alma-Arasan () is a mountain gorge located in the south-west of Almaty. Located at an altitude of 1780 m on the northern slope of the Trans-Ili Alatau. The Prokhodnaya River, a tributary of the , flows along the gorge.
Description
It is characterized by a mountain-meadow landscape and a rugged relief. Granites and granodiorites are widespread. In the vicinity of the gorge, there is a spruce forest, a variety of herbs and shrubs (raspberries, honeysuckle, wild rose, hawthorn). The climate in the gorge is mountainous, there are many cloudless days. The left tributary of the Bolshaya Almatinka, the Prokhodnaya River, flows through the gorge. The well-known Alma-Arasan thermal-radon sulfur springs come to the surface in the gorge. On the slopes of the Prokhodnaya River in 1931, 16 springs were recorded, on the basis of which the balneological resort Alma-Arasan was founded in the same year. In recent years, most of the sources have disappeared.
As of July 2016, the Almarasan gorge is inaccessible from the bottom, the bridge on the trail along the river has been washed away, the trail through the former Almarasan sanatorium is blocked by a private territory guarded by men with machine guns. The private territory stretches for several tens of hectares, is surrounded by a fence and captures the entire area of the slope from the river cliff to the rocks.
Name
The name of the gorge comes from the words of the Kazakh language, which means Alma - an apple and Arasan - a warm spring, since in this mountainous area from ancient times warm springs wedged out to the surface and wild apple trees grew.
Threat to the environment
In the 1990s, the famous Alma-Arasan sanatorium located in the gorge was privatized, through the adjacent territory of which a public tourist route (trail) to Issyk-Kul Lake passed. In 2007, under the pretext of the reconstruction of the sanatorium, huge areas of the gorge around the sanatorium, including the trail to Issyk-Kul not related to the sanatorium, were blocked (closed) with a high fence with barbed wire and guards were posted. It was reported that in 2010 the reconstruction will be completed, but after the renovation, the sanatorium did not open its doors to visitors and tourists. The public area around the sanatorium is still inaccessible to vacationers and is a closed private recreation area.
In September 2011, the demolition of 26 cafes in the Alma-Arasan gorge was reported
References
Canyons and gorges of Kazakhstan |
Truman State University Press (also known as TSU Press) was a university press associated with Truman State University, located in Kirksville, Missouri. Truman State University Press, which was established in 1986 as "Thomas Jefferson University Press", began to phase out its operations in 2017; it officially closed in 2021.
During its time in operation, the press published the Peter Martyr Vermigli Library (now published by the Davenant Institute) and the Early Modern Studies series (now published by Penn State University Press). Until its closure, the Truman State University Press was a member of the Association of University Presses.
See also
List of English-language book publishing companies
List of university presses
References
External links
Truman State University Press legacy website
Publishing companies established in 1986
Truman State University Press
Missouri |
Cowits was Western Australia's first Aboriginal policeman, and was a member of a number of early exploratory expeditions.
Cowits and his brother, Souper
Cowits came from the York area. He was born around 1832. He had a brother named Souper.
Souper was sentenced to two years prison on Rottnest Island for stealing a sheep from Burges’ farm. His story was set out in a report to Benefit Societies in England, and published in the Perth Gazette in September 1844, when he was reportedly about 11 years of age. In that story, he gives an account of his time at Rottnest and says that his mother and father and uncles were all dead, but he had a brother in York.
Young Cowits
Cowits was one of four Aboriginal children who were taught the alphabet by Peter Barrow during his 18 months in York in 1840 and 1841.
From 1841, Cowits was being brought up in the house of Dr Henry Landor, a settler, physician, scientist and explorer, and one of three brothers who came to the Swan River Colony in 1841 intending to make a fortune in six or seven years from sheep farming. In the York census of 1842, Cowits is referred to as “working for settlers in the York (Avon) District”.
Landor farmed in partnership with Nathan Elias Knight, leasing Bland and Trimmer's farm in York, Balladong Farm, and squatting sheep at the Dale and Hotham. While there, Landor became concerned with the spread of disease among the Aborigines. It was his opinion that contact with white settlers had been the cause of the virulent diseases. He took it upon himself to gather as many Aborigines as he could to look after them properly, and he applied unsuccessfully for government money for a hospital, though received some funds for medical treatment.
In January 1843, Landor and Henry Maxwell Lefroy explored east of “the Dale” (Beverley) and took Cowits with them “to shoot kangaroos, and to act as interpreter when our guides were unintelligible to us”.
In December 1844, Landor explored the Deep River, discovering a "tree so high (63 paces to the first branch) that he could not look over it". A storm came and Landor and his "servant" took shelter in the hollow of an old jarrah tree that was so large it could even hold the horses.
Landor left the Colony in 1845.
Cowits begins to assist the police
Cowits assisted John Drummond, head of police in York, then Toodyay.
When Walkinshaw Cowan was appointed Protector of Natives and head of police in York in 1848, Drummond asked Cowits to convey a message to Cowan. Cowan recorded in his diary and also wrote in 1868 about this:
However, Cowan began to complain about Drummond. In April 1850, a court of inquiry was held at York to enquire into Cowan's complaints. One of these was that Drummond went drinking at the Kings Head Hotel with Cowits and Tommy the native mail carrier, and did not report or charge anyone. Cowits gave evidence for Drummond which the court believed. The court found the charges "not proved being frivolous and vexatious", though Drummond was suspended from duties for a month.
Also in April 1850, Cowits is recorded as having given evidence in a trial of three Aboriginal people for the murder of Yadupwert; all three were convicted and sentenced to death.
Cowan tries to get a house for Cowits
Despite these difficulties between Cowan and Drummond, Cowan formed a good relationship with Cowits and on 26 August 1850, Cowan wrote to the Governor on behalf of Cowits:
Cowan did not receive a reply to his letter on behalf of Cowits and wrote again on 28 October 1851:
Governor Fitzgerald responded:
In 1852, the prison cells were constructed in York on the area selected by Cowan for Cowits' house, being the first buildings of the current York Courthouse Complex.
Brothers
Apart from Souper, Cowits' brothers were reportedly Nurgap, Dide, Nortap and Billiup. Souper also became an Aboriginal policeman, as did other brothers. In 1852, one brother was a servant of Mr Parker.
Souper accidentally shot himself in the thigh in February 1853 in the course of arresting an Aboriginal escapee named Paddy.
In 1864, Cowits and Souper were to have accompanied Assistant Surveyor Robert Austin on an expedition to “Shark’s Bay”, but Cowits became sick and had to stay at “Nombekine”, north of Northam, thereby avoiding the poisoning of horses that the expedition including Souper experienced.
Further expeditions
In 1863, Cowits accompanied Lefroy on his expedition east of York to the interior.
Cowits was described by Lefroy as
The journal of the expedition frequently refers to Cowits’ active and important role in the exploration. Lefroy comments with amusement that Cowits always called their camp “home”.
The expedition also took with them a friend of Cowits, Tommy Windich.
John Cowan and Cowits proceeded beyond Smith’s station, and both had returned to York by mid October 1863.
Cowits also accompanied an expedition of Charles Cooke Hunt to the east of York in 1864, and again in July 1866 (including Windich), and an expedition of McRae and Scholl to the Fortescue in August and September 1866.
He also worked on farms including Grass Dale, as did Windich.
Discovery of petroleum
Cowits and Windich joined Constable Edwards in the police expedition east in May 1866 which discovered petroleum.
Death
Cowits died of influenza, aggravated by drinking, in April 1868.
Cowan said of him:
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Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019) was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians. In later decades, Tanega worked mostly as a percussionist, playing various styles of music in the bands Baboonz, hybridVigor, and Ceramic Ensemble. She also wrote "You're Dead", which was used as the theme song of the film What We Do in the Shadows and the TV series of the same name.
Biography
Early life
Norma Tanega was born in Vallejo, California, near San Francisco, and moved to Long Beach at the age of two. Her mother, Otilda Tanega, was Panamanian. Her father, Tomas Tanega, was Filipino and worked as a bandmaster for 30 years in the United States Navy. During that time he served aboard the USS Hornet before eventually leading his own band. Norma's older brother Rudy served in the United States Air Force.
Tanega began classical piano lessons at age nine. She entered Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1952 and in her senior year directed the school's art gallery. By age 16 she was exhibiting her paintings at both Long Beach's Public Library and its Municipal Art Center, playing Beethoven and Bartók at piano recitals, and writing poetry. At age 17, she entered Scripps College on a scholarship, graduating in 1960, before continuing her studies at Claremont Graduate School, earning an MFA in 1962.
Tanega spent a summer backpacking around Europe and moved to New York City to pursue her artistic career. While living in Greenwich Village, she was involved in the folk music scene and political activism, including early opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Music career
"Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"
Tanega worked for a short time at a mental hospital, where she sang and played songs for patients. She spent her summers working as a camp counselor upstate in the Catskill Mountains. Brooklyn-based record producer Herb Bernstein saw Tanega performing while visiting the camp one summer. Impressed by what he saw, Bernstein introduced her to Four Seasons songwriter Bob Crewe. The two men produced a number of recordings that comprised Tanega's first album and singles to be released on Crewe's New Voice Records label in 1966.
Her first single, "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog", became an international hit in 1966, peaking at number 22 on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Charts, and #3 in Canada. Tanega's impetus for the song came from living in a New York City apartment building that did not allow dogs; instead she owned a cat which she named "Dog" and took for walks. The single's success landed her appearances on American Bandstand and Where the Action Is, and a slot as the only woman on a North American tour with Gene Pitney, Bobby Goldsboro, Chad and Jeremy and The McCoys. During the tour Tanega was initially backed by members of the Outsiders. Since they were unable to follow Tanega's more idiosyncratic music, the Outsiders were later replaced by session musicians accompanying her onstage. While some of her songs riffed on traditional tunes like "Hey Girl", derived from Lead Belly's take on "In the Pines", many of her songs diverged from the structure of typical pop and folk music, such as her song "No Stranger Am I", set to a time signature.
While Tanega's next three singles had less commercial success than "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog", her debut album was named after its big hit and its popularity spawned several cover versions by contemporary artists. A month after Tanega's single entered the charts, Barry McGuire cut a version on the heels of his number one hit "Eve of Destruction". The T-Bones did an instrumental take on it later that year, and both the Jazz Crusaders and Art Blakey released jazz treatments of the song in 1967. International versions adapted the song into other languages. Madagascar yé-yé group Les Surfs translated it as "Mon Chat Qui S'Appelle Médor" for the French-speaking and African markets, Belgium's Lize Marke released it as "Wanneer Komt Het Geluk Voor Mij" ("When Comes This Happiness For Me") in Dutch, and Jytte Elga Olga interpreted it as "Min Kat – Herr Hund" ("My Cat, Mister Dog") on a Danish 45.
Years in the United Kingdom
In 1966, Tanega traveled to England to promote her music. Her tour included a performance on the ITV program Ready Steady Go!, where she met British pop singer Dusty Springfield. After Tanega returned to the U.S., Springfield made many transatlantic calls to her and accrued a large phone bill. On a visit to New York, Springfield entered a romantic relationship with Tanega. They returned to England and lived together for five years.
The couple took up residence in London's Kensington district, where Tanega continued to paint and play music.
Springfield recorded many of Tanega's songs. These included "No Stranger Am I", the number that originally appeared on Tanega's first album; "The Colour of Your Eyes", which Tanega wrote for Springfield in Venice, Los Angeles; "Earthbound Gypsy" and "Midnight Sounds", both co-written in New York with Tanega's high school friend Dan White; and "Come for a Dream", co-written with bossa nova musician Antônio Carlos Jobim. Tanega also penned the English language lyrics for Springfield's version of "Morning", a cover of the song "Bom Dia" by Gilberto Gil and Nana Caymmi. In 1970 Tanega teamed up with jazz pianist Blossom Dearie to write a song about Springfield for Dearie's album That's Just the Way I Want to Be.
Many of Tanega's songs appeared as non-album B-sides to Springfield's singles. Some, like the outtake "Go My Love", appeared only on collections released years after their recording. Tanega also went uncredited for many of her collaborations with Springfield, and by 1970 their relationship was deteriorating. Tanega secured a contract with the British division of RCA Records, for whom she recorded the album I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile in 1971 with producer/keyboardist Mike Moran and Don Paul of British rock group The Viscounts. When Tanega returned to the U.S. before the album's promotion, it failed to achieve the chart success of her earlier work. Dusty Springfield biographer Annie J. Randall said of the record, "I hear many references to Norma's relationship with Dusty on this album. It stands to reason that Dusty would be the object of affection in the love songs."
Later work
In 1972, Tanega moved back to Claremont, California, and took jobs teaching music and English as a second language. She returned to painting and exhibiting her artwork — with frequent support from the Claremont Museum of Art — and sometimes combined with her musical performances. Musically she switched from playing guitar to percussion and her style evolved from folk-rock singer-songwriting to more instrumental and experimental music. In the 1980s she was a member of Scripps ceramics professor Brian Ransom's Ceramic Ensemble, a group that played Ransom's handmade earthenware instruments. Over the years Ceramic Ensemble played at universities, folk festivals, and art museums.
In the 1990s Tanega founded the group hybridVigor, starting as a duo with Mike Henderson for their first album, then expanding to a trio with the addition of Rebecca Hamm for their second album. In 1998 Tanega formed the Latin Lizards with Robert Grajeda, and the duo released the album Dangerous in 2003.
Her next band was called Baboonz with guitarist Tom Skelly and bassist Mario Verlangieri. The trio released a self-titled CD in 2008, the album HA! in 2009, and a third called 8 Songs Ate Brains in 2010. Other recording projects soon followed, including the album Push with John Zeretzke, Twin Journey with Steve Rushingwind Ruiz, and a return collaboration with Ceramic Ensemble sound sculptor Brian Ransom for their album Internal Medicine.
Death and legacy
Tanega died of colon cancer on December 29, 2019, at her home in Claremont, California, aged 80. That same year Warner Music released the collection In the Shadows comprising some of her early solo recordings after renewed interest in her music from its use on a popular TV series.
In 2022, Anthology Editions published Tanega's paintings for the first time, including journal entries and a range of other ephemera titled Try to Tell a Fish About Water. That same year, Anthology Recordings also released the album I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971, compiling both released and unreleased material from Tanega’s early music career.
In other media
Beyond the mid-1960s buzz around Tanega's sole hit single and the number of songs she contributed to Dusty Springfield's repertoire, many other musicians have continued to record their own versions of Tanega's early work. Garage rock group Thee Oh Sees covered "What Are We Craving?" on their 2011 album Castlemania. Her one chart hit, "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog", has continued the rounds in other musicians' repertoires: Dr. Hook included it in a 1996 three-disc collection; Yo La Tengo performed it in 2010; and They Might Be Giants recorded it in 2013 for release on their 2015 children's album Why?
In 2014, Tanega's song "You're Dead", which was written as a sarcastic statement about her struggles in New York's competitive music scene, was used in the opening credits of the New Zealand vampire comedy film What We Do In The Shadows and was remixed to become a running theme for its characters. Starting in 2019, it was also used as the opening credits theme for the film's television adaptation.
In 2015, Sienna Sebek portrayed Tanega in a London stage production based on the life of Dusty Springfield. Critics panned the show, one writing that the Tanega-Springfield relationship was reduced to, "they meet, fall in love, have a relationship and break up all within the space of a [sic] 10 minutes or so." Anabello Rodrigo reprised the role for a 2016 production featuring 3-D virtual effects.
Discography
Solo
Singles
"Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" / "I'm the Sky" (New Voice, 1966)
"A Street That Rhymes at Six A.M." / "Treat Me Right" (New Voice, 1966)
"Bread" / "Waves" (New Voice, 1966)
"Run, On the Run" / "No Stranger Am I" (New Voice, 1967)
"Nothing Much Is Happening Today" / "Antarctic Rose" (RCA, 1971)
Albums
Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (New Voice, 1966)
I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile (RCA, 1971)
Collections
In the Shadows (Warner Music Group, 2019)
I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971 (Anthology Recordings, 2022)
Group projects
hybridVigor
hybridVigor (1996)
II by 3 (2000)
Latin Lizards
Dangerous (2001)
Norma Tanega and John Zeretzke
Push (2003)
Norma Tanega and Brian Ransom
Internal Medicine (2008)
Baboonz
Baboonz (2008)
HA! (2009)
8 Songs Ate Brains (2011)
Norma Tanega and Steve Rushingwind Ruiz
Twin Journeys (2012)
References
Bibliography of works by Norma Tanega
Tanega, Norma (2022). Try to Tell a Fish About Water. Brooklyn, NY: Anthology Editions. pp. 150. ISBN 978-1-944860-35-6.
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The women's 50 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:
The following records were established during the competition:
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 09:39.
Final
The final was held at 17:39.
References
Women's 50 metre breaststroke
Medit |
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a non-governmental collective of over 70 rural and urban community-based organizations focused on sustainability, development of underrepresented communities, race and ethnicity, economic development, and poverty alleviation — all with the wider aim of addressing climate change. Founded in 2013, CJA is rooted in the environmental justice movement in that it centers efforts around protesting and organizing against the disproportionate harm of climate change on marginalized communities.
The stated goal of CJA to create "[apply] the power of deep grassroots organizing to win local, regional, statewide, and national shifts" in regards to climate change and unjust exposure of marginalized communities to its damaging effects.
History
Roots
While CJA was officially formed in 2013, the organization traces its origin to a 3-year period of coordinated grassroots protest activities. Most notably, early members of CJA organized a 400-person assembly for climate justice at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit.
Formation of CJA
Following its formal establishment, CJA launched its first coordinated effort with an organized effort hosted by the Black Mesa Water Coalition in the Black Mesa region of Arizona. The activities sought to coordinate community-led action strategies to alleviate urban development of the region and gathered 100 of its members to protest activities of large coal mining companies and their effects on vulnerable populations in the area.
Our Power Campaign
As part of their Black Mesa activities, CJA established an ongoing effort called the “Our Power Campaign” which involves the construction of what they call a “local living economy”. CJA calls these groups “Our Power Communities” (OPC) and they are based on a model of:
Zero Waste
Regional Food Systems
Public Transportation
Clean Community Energy
Efficient, Affordable, and Durable Housing
Ecosystem Restoration and Stewardship
CJA has also established a loan fund as part of the campaign that helps their OPCs become loan-ready via technical support and coaching.
6-Point Strategy
CJA describes its main strategies for climate justice success as:
"Fight the bad" - Organizing against and protesting against organizations their members perceive as harmful to the environment and marginalized communities
"Build the new" - Building economic models and institutions, such as with their "Our Power Communities"
"Change the rules" - Policy efforts and political partnerships, such as with the Green New Deal
"Move the money" - Organizing to move money out of the old economy using both public and private vehicles.
"Build the bigger we" - Aiming to establish geographical growth of the alliance across countries
"Change the story" - speaking out against perceived unjust systems that are currently the "norm"
Involvement in Green New Deal
The Climate Justice Alliance supports the Green New Deal, a climate proposal first introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts.
However, upon the proposal of the Green New Deal, delegates from CJA spoke out publicly about the need for a focus on protecting “frontline communities” (those who are most exposed to the damaging effects of climate change) via public statements and organizing members in Washington D.C. to address United States Congress directly.“The Climate Justice Alliance welcomes the bold Green New Deal initiative from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Members of Congress; however, to truly address the interlinked crises of a faltering democracy, growing wealth disparity and community devastation caused by climate change and industrial pollution, we must reduce emissions at their source. Allowing for neoliberal constructs such as Net Zero emissions, which equate carbon emission offsets and technology investments with real emissions reductions at source, would only exacerbate existing pollution burdens on frontline communities. Such loopholes for carbon markets and unproven techno-fixes only serve to line the coffers of the polluting corporations, while increasing (not reducing) harm to our communities. Our communities can no longer be used as sacrifice zones.”
- Angela Adrar, Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance
Since sharing their perspective on necessary additions to the deal, CJA has spearheaded local versions of the Green New Deal and iterations including the “Feminist Green New Deal” and the “Green New Deal for Public Housing” alongside Senator/2020 presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.
References
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Garden Hill (; or ) is a 300-foot-tall (90.6-metre) hill in the Sham Shui Po District in northwestern Kowloon, Hong Kong, near , Om Yau and Pak Tin. Its summit is a popular place among photographers for its views of urban Hong Kong. One entrance to the trail leading to the summit can be found next to Grade II historic building Mei Ho House.
Name
The hill's name comes from the nearby former headquarters of the Garden Company, known locally for its cookies and bakery products.
See also
Geography of Hong Kong
List of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong
Sham Shui Po
Shek Kip Mei
Woh Chai Shan aka. Shek Kip Mei Hill aka. Bishop Hill, a nearby hill in Shek Kip Mei
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WKHP-LP (94.9 FM) was a radio station licensed to Keene, New Hampshire, United States. The station, established in 2005, was owned by Harvest Christian Fellowship (Keene Foursquare Church).
Harvest Christian Fellowship surrendered WKHP-LP's license to the Federal Communications Commission on August 31, 2021, who cancelled it the same day.
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The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is a UNESCO treaty adopted by the UNESCO General Conference on 17 October 2003.
The convention entered into force in 2006, after thirty instruments of ratification by UNESCO Member States. Romania was the 30th state, ratifying the agreement on 20 January 2006. As of October 2022, 180 states have ratified, approved or accepted the convention.
Content
Layout
The convention contains following provisions:
Purposes
Unlike other UNESCO conventions, this convention begins with stating its purposes, which are;
Definition
Intangible cultural heritage refers to "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The convention defines it as follows:
Function
The convention works on both national and international levels.
At the national level, state parties are supposed to 'take necessary measures to ensure the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage present in its territory." These measures include identification of the intangible cultural heritage that exists in its territory, adoption of appropriate policies, promotion of education and so on. Besides, in taking these measures, each state parties must "endeavor to ensure the widest possible participation of communities, groups, and, where appropriate, individuals that create, maintain and transmit such heritage, and to involve them actively in its management".
At the international level, this convention promotes cooperation, which includes "the exchange of information and experience, joint initiatives, and the establishment of a mechanism of assistance" to other state parties.
Lists
The Committee to the Convention publishes and keeps up to date two lists of intangible cultural heritage: the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund
The convention establishes the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the use of which is decided by the committee. The fund mainly consists of the contributions by state parties and funds by the General Conference of UNESCO.
History
Precursors
One of the first international occasions that mentioned the preservation of 'intangible heritage' was the World Conference on Cultural Policies in Mexico City in 1982. This Conference defined cultural heritage as including "both tangible and intangible works through which the creativity of people finds expression," and asked UNESCO and member states to take measures for protecting this kind of heritage.
In 1989, UNESCO adopted the Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore as the first legal instrument towards the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. This recommendation reflected the ideas of the earlier conference in Mexico City. UNESCO conducted some promotional programs for raising awareness of this recommendation, but was not very successful. However, in the late 1990s, there was a conference held for the assessment of this recommendation, which pointed out some problems to be considered in drafting the convention.
In 1997, UNESCO launched the program of Proclamation of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, intending to raise awareness of the importance of intangible heritage. This program proclaimed a total of 90 masterpieces between 2001 and 2005, and caused the movement toward the convention.
Creation
According to the request of member states, a preliminary study, undertaken by Director-General, on how could the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage be conducted, recommended to create a new document that set an international standard.
In 2001, the General Conference adopted another instrument, Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, which also includes articles dealing with the preservation of "heritage in all forms". This declaration and its action plan presented basic idea of the coming convention and helped to develop it.
As a result of many meetings for two years, the draft convention was brought into the General Conference and adopted in 2003.
Reception
The definition of intangible cultural heritage has been criticized as potentially incomplete and/or creating a "Pandora's box of difficulties". For example, in a 2004 article in Museum International, Richard Kurin says that because the convention does not recognize cultural activities not compatible with international human rights instruments, some activities, such as female genital mutilation, that groups may themselves consider critical to their culture, are not eligible. Similarly, Kurin notes that since many group's culture is defined in opposition to other cultures, the requirement for "mutual respect" may leave out traditional songs and stories that glorify "empire, victorious kings, religious conversion, or alternatively resistance to perceived injustice, martyrdom and defeat". However, Kurin also notes that the definition can be more expansive than intended by its designers, who originally planned only to protect "traditional cultural activities". He says that it is robust enough to encompass more modern forms of culture, including things like "rap music, Australian cricket, modern dance, post-modernist architectural knowledge, and karaoke bars".
Richard Kurin has argued that dividing culture into individual units is inconsistent with modern academic views of cultures. Additionally, Michael Brown has argued that convention's focus on cataloging is based on an outdated belief that listing the details of a culture has some connection to preservation of that culture. States are also encouraged to enact programs to safeguard intangible cultural heritages, though any such work must be done in cooperation with the local practitioners. This aspect has also been criticized, since it is unclear how a state can safeguard a cultural practice by force, particularly if there is insufficient interest from local practitioners.
See also
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
References
External links
Official website of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Text of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Operational Directives for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage
Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore
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Eva Crane born Ethel Eva Widdowson (12 June 1912 – 6 September 2007) was a researcher and author on the subjects of bees and beekeeping. Trained as a quantum mathematician, she changed her field of interest to bees, and spent decades researching bees, traveling to more than 60 countries, often in challenging conditions.
Early life
Eva Crane was born Ethel Eva Widdowson in Dulwich in London to Harry and Rose (née Elphick) Widdowson on 12 June 1912. Her father, Thomas Henry (known as Harry), was from Grantham in Lincolnshire and moved to Battersea as a grocer's assistant and eventually owned a stationery business, whilst her mother Rose, originally from Dorking, worked as a dressmaker. Her sister Elsie Widdowson, who was five years older, grew up to be one of the most influential nutritionists of the twentieth century. The family was Plymouth Brethren.
Education and career
Eva and Elsie attended Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls and both won prizes and scholarships. Eva attended King’s College London, where she was one of only two women then studying mathematics at the University of London, completing her degree in two years, then earned a master's degree in quantum mechanics.
Eva earned a Ph.D. in 1941 in nuclear physics. She became a lecturer in physics at Sheffield University. She married James Crane (d. 1978), a stockbroker serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, in 1942.
Bees
Her interest in bees began when she and her husband received a beehive as a wedding present; the giver had hoped that it would help supplement their wartime sugar ration. She became a member of the British Beekeepers Association and quickly became the secretary of its research committee. In 1949 she founded the Bee Research Association which later became the International Bee Research Association.
Crane wrote over 180 papers, articles, and books, many when she was in her 70s and 80s. Honey: A Comprehensive Survey (1975), in which she contributed several important chapters, and edited, came about because she told the publisher (Heinemann Press) that a book on the subject was sorely needed. Although now out of print, it remains the most significant review on the subject ever written. A Book of Honey (1980) and The Archaeology of Beekeeping (1983) reflected her strong interests in nutrition and the ancient past of beekeeping.
Her two lengthy books, Bees and Beekeeping: science, practice and world resources (1990; 614 pages) and The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting (1999; 682 pages) are regarded as seminal in the beekeeping world. Along with writing many books and articles, Crane also helped create a beekeeping library, which held many books on bees and beekeeping, and turned the small journal Bee World, founded in 1919 by Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi, into a well-known scientific magazine.
Eva Crane died at the age of 95 in Slough, United Kingdom.
The New York Times reported that "Dr. Crane wrote some of the most important books on bees and apiculture" and noted "Her older sister, Elsie Widdowson, who never retired either, helped revolutionize the field of nutrition, showing similar energy chasing seals on ice floes to study their eating habits."
References
External links
Obituary in The Times
Eva Crane Trust website
Obituary in The Guardian
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Mestocharis is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
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Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
Heteropsis laetifica is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. Their habitat consists of forests.
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Butterflies described in 1916
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Catharine Isobel Whiteside, CM, FRCPC, FCAHS is a Canadian physician and medical researcher. She is Director, Strategic Partnerships of Diabetes Action Canada and Chair of the board of the Banting Research Foundation. Whiteside is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Education
1972 BSc Victoria College (University of Toronto)
1975 MD University of Toronto
1984 PhD University of Toronto
Medical career
Whiteside obtained her MD from the University of Toronto (U of T) with certifications in internal medicine and nephrology. Whiteside provides leadership in continuing health education, focused on inter-professional teamwork and patient-centred practice.
Whiteside was appointed Director of the Cinician Scientist Training Program at U of T in 1997. Whiteside was graduate coordinator for the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) at U of T. In 2003, IMS established the annual Whiteside award in her honour to be presented to a recently graduated MSc student who had made outstanding scholarly contributions.
Whiteside was Dean of Medicine at the University of Toronto from 2006-2014. She is a founding member and former president of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Whiteside was Executive Director of Diabetes Action Canada from 2016-2021. As Director of the CIHR Strategic Patient-Oriented Research Network for Diabetes and Related Complications, she stated that "Our mission is to improve patient experience, population outcomes and health professional experience, and to reduce health care costs related to diabetes". In 2022 she became Director, Strategic Partnerships for Diabetes Action Canada. Whiteside joined the Board of Directors of Scarborough Health Network in 2022.
Research
Whiteside conducted doctoral research on kidney physiology. Her subsequent research examined the effect of diabetes and glucose levels on the interactions of glomerular cells during injury and healing. The glomerular filtration barrier forms the primary filter in the kidneys, but damage to the epithelial glomerular tissue and the endothelial podocytes are common in diabetic nephropathy. This damage affects the kidneys' ability to remove waste products and extract fluid from the body.
Whiteside’s research suggests that early damage to the kidney from high glucose occurs through increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS generation may be a consequence of activation of the polyol pathway and is amplified by protein kinase C (PKC) signalling. PKC activation increases the level of growth factors that contribute to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, including disassembly of F-actin stress fibres in glomerular mesangial cells.
Whiteside studies potential therapeutic mechanisms to reduce the effect of diabetic nephropathies.
Whiteside also studies the management of health sciences in academia.
Awards and distinctions
2007 Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal for Research Excellence
2009 Canadian Medical Association May Cohen Award for Women Mentors
2015 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
2016 Member of the Order of Canada
2016 Ontario Medical Association Advocate for Students and Residents Award
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Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) is an educational program that provides high school students with the opportunity to take Syracuse University courses in their own schools during the regularly scheduled school day. After successful completion of the course(s) they can request to transfer the credits they earn into the colleges/universities they attend after high school. This is an example of a Concurrent Enrollment Program or Partnership (CEP).
Project Advance (PA) was formed in 1972 to provide more challenging options to college-bound junior and senior level students in local Syracuse high schools. By the time students reached their senior year, many had completed almost all of their requirements for graduation and needed a challenge to keep them motivated. This phenomenon was termed senioritis or senior slump and led to a culture that focused on admission to college instead of high school as preparation for completing college.
Today, SUPA serves more than 200 high schools in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island, with the largest concentration in New York State. Approximately 9,000 students enroll annually in SU courses through Project Advance, taught by more than 878 high school faculty members with SU adjunct instructor appointments. Teachers continue to attend professional development training sessions at the annual SUPA Summer Institute as more and more high schools expand their academic offerings. The course selection has also grown to include more than 30 courses from 24 academic disciplines. Project Advance, however, is not a profit center or a recruiting tool for SU.
Student participants can take SU university courses at a reduced tuition rate at their own high schools with the courses taught by high school teachers who are trained and supervised by SU faculty. The high school teachers who serve as instructors must meet certain standards in order to qualify for and continue teaching these classes for the university. They can earn graduate credit for the initial training as well as towards continuing education and professional development requirements.
Students enroll in the courses through their local school system. Those interested in receiving Syracuse University credit complete an online application/registration form and pay per credit ($115.00 as of the 2020/21 academic year). The courses are listed on the student's Syracuse University transcript by the title of the class and are not identified as SUPA classes. However, they also appear on the student's high school transcript where they are identified as SUPA courses. The extent to which colleges accept the credits varies by college. Many competitive colleges will not award credit if courses appear on the high school transcript and particularly if the courses either earned high school credit or were used to fulfill high school requirements. This contrasts to credit that is usually awarded for top scores on Advanced Placement Tests administered by the College Boards.
University faculty read papers, review tests, and visit each class during the semester to ensure that the grading standards applied are consistent with those applied in the same courses on campus. These features plus the research that is done on the program each year, mean that PA meets the standards developed by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP), an organization designed by and for CEP personnel to (through accreditation) reassure accepting institutions that credits earned through the CEP meet specific quality standards.
History
In 1972 six Central New York high school administrators approached Syracuse University about establishing a college readiness program to challenge high school seniors.
The administrators hoped to address growing concerns about “senioritis”—the tendency of college-bound seniors to not take their final year seriously because of a lack of incentive. Having completed their graduation requirements early, these students would use their senior year to relax and socialize rather than readying themselves for the transition from high school to college-level work.
A working model
To solve the problem presented by the school superintendents, SU administrators explored ways in which carefully designed and controlled “concurrent enrollment” (sometimes called “dual enrollment”) courses could be taught for credit within the high school as part of the regular academic program. A committee of deans, academic chairmen, and faculty discussed multiple solutions before proposing a college readiness program that would be self-sufficient and capable of implementation and expansion without creating a financial burden for the university or an instructional overload for cooperating faculty.
The model was designed to best utilize existing resources—the college courses would be taught by trained high school teachers as part of their regular teaching load. This would ensure that the courses could be taught during the regular school day, so as to not negatively impact students’ schedules.
New standards
Early in the design process three major factors became apparent:
First, that while an effort would be made to utilize individual high school resources, individual concurrent enrollment courses would—based on their content and structure—involve different formats and require new relationships between SU faculty, high school faculty, and students;
Second, the success of the project would depend on the quality of the concurrent enrollment courses themselves;
Third, the courses taught in the high schools would not only have the same instructional goals as their counterparts on campus but they would have identical criteria for awarding grades.
Teaching the teachers
The high school-university partnership was formalized as SU Project Advance (SUPA) and launched its first dual enrollment course, English 101, in the fall semester of 1972-73. Following a detailed evaluation and development process, four additional courses were selected for possible inclusion in SUPA. These included introductory psychology, study of religion (human values), mass communications, and perspectives on drugs.
In preparation for the initial introduction of concurrent enrollment courses in the high schools, summer training sessions were held in each of the five content areas to prepare high school teachers to teach the college-level courses. These training sessions were taught by university professors and were designed to familiarize the high school teachers with the rationale and content of the new courses, the instructional techniques, and the individualized materials, as well as offer them opportunities to explore methods of adapting them to high school use if changes seemed necessary.
Taking it to the schools
Field-tested in the 1973-74 academic year in nine schools, the project expanded in 1974-75 to more than 40 schools and 180 teachers from Long Island to Buffalo, with an enrollment of more than 2,000 students. As more educators, students, and parents realized the value of college readiness and of taking actual college courses before leaving high school, the program grew.
Today, SUPA serves more than 200 high schools in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island, with the largest concentration in New York State. Approximately 9,000 students enroll annually in SU courses, taught by more than 878 high school faculty members with SU adjunct instructor appointments. Teachers continue to attend professional development training sessions at the annual SUPA Summer Institute as more and more high schools expand their academic offerings. The course selection has also grown to include more than 30 courses from 24 academic disciplines.
Modeling success
SUPA is the only program affiliated with a private research university in the Northeast to be accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP). SUPA is also a founding member of NACEP, which serves as a national accrediting body and supports all members by providing standards of excellence, research, communication, and advocacy.
Timeline
1972: Six local high schools approach Syracuse University about devising a program to offer college courses to qualified high school seniors.
1973: SU Project Advance is field-tested in nine schools.
1974: SU Project Advance officially launches, offering SU courses in more than 40 high schools.
1984: The American Association of Higher Education recognizes SU Project Advance for notable achievements in education.
2002: New York State Assembly passes a resolution recognizing SU Project Advance for "...the significance of its contributions to the quality and diversity of educational opportunities in the State of New York."
2003: SU Project Advance becomes one of a select few private four-year universities accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).
2010: A 35-year retrospective of SUPA’s research, Our Courses Your Classroom: Research on Syracuse University Courses Taught in High School is published.
Courses
Courses offered:
Accounting
American History
Biology
Calculus
Chemistry
College Learning Strategies
Computer Engineering
Cybersecurity
Earth System Science
Economics
English/Writing
Forensic Science
French
Information Technology
Italian
Latin
Personal Finance
Physics
Presentational Speaking
Psychology
Public Affairs
Spanish
Sociology
Statistics
Website Design
References
External links
NACEP Website
SUPA Website
United States educational programs
Syracuse University |
The Santa Catarina gubernatorial election will be held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Santa Catarina. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election will be held on 26 October. Governor Raimundo Colombo is running for a second term.
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(Spanish for "The Evil Dogs of Japan" and often spelled without the accent as Los Perros del Mal de Japon in English-speaking countries), was a Japanese professional wrestling stable that primarily appeared in the Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) promotion, which was led by Nosawa Rongai. They also competed in Dragon Gate, which they joined in May 2022.
History
In October 2020, Kotaro Suzuki was kicked out of Stinger following a disagreement with Yoshinari Ogawa and Hayata.
In December, Suzuki aligned himself with Rongai and his mystery partner, who later revealed to be Ikuto Hidaka. Over the following months, the trio continued their rivalry with Stinger, while also being joined by Yo-Hey in May 2021 following the disbandment of Full Throttle. The following month, Dragon Gate wrestler Eita, who had previously worked in Mexican wrestling promotions and met Rongai in 2017, was revealed to be the newest member of the group.
On June 27, at Muta The World, the stable's name was revealed to be dubbed Los Perros del Mal de Japón, as a tribute to the Mexican stable Los Perros del Mal after Eita, Rongai and Yo-Hey won against Stinger (Ogawa, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu). A brawl began between the two stables with Suzuki and Ikuto Hidaka coming to help them, outnumbering and overwhelming Stinger. Rongai later revealed that relatives of Perro Aguayo Jr., the founders of the Los Perros del Mal, had granted him permission to use the stable's name.
At Grand Square 2021 In Osaka, Eita and Rongai defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. On March 13 at Great Voyage in Yokohama, Eita defeated Daisuke Harada to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, meaning that Los Perros del Mal de Japon had conquered both of Noah's junior heavyweight championships.
At Noah The New Year 2022 on January 1, Eita, Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Yo-Hey fell short to Hajime Ohara, Momo No Seishun Tag (Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada) and Último Dragón. At Noah Bumper Crop 2022 In Sendai on January 16, Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Yo-Hey defeated Kongo (Aleja, Hao and Nio). At Noah Gain Control 2022 In Nagoya on February 23, Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai defeated Yasutaka Yano and Yoshinari Ogawa. At Noah Great Voyage in Fukuoka 2022 on March 21, Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai unsuccessfully challenged Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. On the first night of the Noah Majestic 2022 from April 29, El Texano Jr., Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy defeated Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Tadasuke and Shuji Kondo). On the second event from April 30, Eita, El Texano Jr., Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy fell short to Stinger (Chris Ridgeway, Hayata, Seiki Yoshioka, Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu). For several weeks, Rongai and Suzuki joined Eita at Dragon Gate events under masked personas known as Metal Warriors, before later revealing their identities. At the Dead or Alive 2022 event, the trio won the Open the Triangle Gate Championship in their first match in the promotion. Following the match, Rongai revealed that the rest of the members in NOAH were out of the faction, and that they would continue as a trios team. At Dragongate's Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2022, Super Crazy was in the faction's corner, apparently rejoining the group. The stable members returned to Noah at Noah Departure 2022 on August 5, where thet fell short to Kai Fujimura and Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu). At Noah Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022 on September 25, Eita and Nosawa Rongai defeated Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano. At Noah Ariake Triumph 2022 on October 30, Eita, Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy fell short to Stinger (Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa) and Yasutaka Yano.
On November 23, 2022, Rongai decided to disband the stable, due to his retirement match which took place on February 21, 2023.
Reception
Similar to Los Ingobernables de Japón in New Japan Pro Wrestling, after Rongai copied the Los Perros del Mal concept he had seen in Mexico, the stable became very popular among the Pro Wrestling Noah audience, with their shirts being sold within a day.
Members
Timeline
Championships and accomplishments
Dragon Gate
Open the Triangle Gate Championship (2 times) – Eita, Suzuki and Rongai
Pro Wrestling Noah
GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) – Eita
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Eita and Rongai
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked Eita No. 120 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2021
Ranked El Texano Jr. No. 237 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2021
Ranked Super Crazy No. 449 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2022
See also
Stinger (professional wrestling)
Kongo (professional wrestling)
Sugiura-gun
Choukibou-gun
References
Pro Wrestling Noah teams and stables |
Natividad Cepeda was born in Tomelloso (Ciudad Real), Spain. She is a Spanish poet, writer and habitual columnist in the Castilla-La Mancha press (Lanza, Las Provincias, El Periódico del Común de La Mancha, La Tribuna, Pasos, etc.) and in literary magazines (El Cardo de Bronce, La Alcazaba, etc.) that has been publishing in Spain and Latinoamerica from 1970. Natividad Cepeda's formative influences were Valentin Arteaga, Spanish classic poets and Latino American poets like Pablo Neruda.
References
La Revista Prometeo Digital.
External links
La bitacora Mientras la Luz
1949 births
Living people
Spanish poets
Spanish women poets
Spanish columnists
Spanish women columnists
People from Ciudad Real |
Otenabant (CP-945,598) is a drug which acts as a potent and highly selective CB1 antagonist. It was developed by Pfizer for the treatment of obesity, but development for this application has been discontinued following the problems seen during clinical use of the similar drug rimonabant.
See also
Cannabinoid receptor antagonist
References
Cannabinoids
Purines
Piperidines
Carboxamides
Chlorobenzenes
Pfizer brands
CB1 receptor antagonists |
Huffmanela is a genus of parasitic nematodes, belonging to the family Trichosomoididae.
Morphology
As other nematodes, species of Huffmanela are elongate and vermiform. They are especially thin and small. The male is smaller than the female. The stichosome is composed of a single row of stichocytes (glandular cells). The advances eggs contain larvae and have strongly pigmented, dark, often conspicuously thick walls comprising three layers, and polar plugs.
The structure of the egg of Huffmanela nematodes has been redescribed in great detail in 2023, with a new anatomical and terminological framework.
Biology
Nematodes of the genus Huffmanela are all parasites of fishes. They infect various tissues (skin, mucosa, musculature, swimbladder wall, intestine wall, and even within the bones) of elasmobranchs (sharks) and bony fishes. The life cycle of the marine species is not known.
Females lay eggs in the host's tissues at a very early stage and eggs continue to develop after being laid.
Eggs usually occur as masses in the tissues of the hosts, occurring frequently as conspicuous black spots in the flesh or other organs of fish; these black spots may constitute a commercial problem.
Life cycle
The life cycle of Huffmanela huffmani, the only species from freshwater, has been elucidated in 2016; it includes amphipods as intermediate hosts.
The diagrams shows the steps in the life cycle of Huffmanela huffmani.
A – adults lay eggs in definitive host; at least 7.5 months must pass between ingestion of viable larva and the appearance of fertilised eggs in the host swim bladder, but eggs do not become fully larvated and infective to amphipods until 11.5 months post infection (p.i.): 1 – centrarchid definitive host; 2 – photomicrograph of swim bladder tissue showing eggs in various stages of development;
B – release of eggs from definitive host: 3 – definitive host dies and decomposes to release eggs; 4 – definitive host is consumed by piscivorous fish and viable eggs with sufficiently developed shells pass out in faeces;
C – eggs free in sediments: 5a – young eggs (<10 months p.i.) with inadequately developed shells will not survive in environment or passage through piscivore gastrointestinal (GI) tract; 5b – unlarvated eggs old enough to have fully developed egg shells (>10 months p.i.) can survive in environment and through GI tract of piscivore, but are uninfective to amphipods until they become fully larvated while in sediments; 5c – fully larvated eggs (≥11.5 months p.i.) are immediately infective to amphipods and are still infective to amphipods after 36+ months in sediments;
D – fully larvated eggs ingested by amphipod: 6 – larvae hatch and migrate to hemocoel where they must remain for at least 5 days p.i. before being infective to definitive host; 7 – larva in hemocoel of amphipod and infective to centrarchid. Life cycle can be completed in a theoretical minimum of 12 months, but can probably take longer than 36 months.
The life cycle of marine species is still unknown.
Systematics
In zoology, new species are generally described only from adult specimens; however, in the case of Huffmanela species, it happens that the eggs are often the only stage which is known. For this reason, several species of Huffmanela have been described from eggs only. This is exceptional but perfectly valid for the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and eggs are considered syntypes of the new species.
Classification
According to Moravec(2001), Huffmanela is the single genus within the subfamily Huffmanelinae Moravec, 2001.
The type-species of the genus Huffmanela is Huffmanela carcharini (McCallum, 1925) Moravec, 1987, a species originally described as Capillaria carcharhini MacCallum, 1925
and Capillaria spinosa MacCallum, 1926 by MacCallum.
Twenty species of Huffmanela have been described with a binomial name (or Latin name)
Of these 20 species, only 5 have their adult forms known and described (Table below); all others have been described from eggs only.
Hosts include a variety of fish species and families (Table below), generally marine, with a single exception, H. huffmani in a freshwater fish host.
In addition to these described species, about half a dozen cases of Huffmanela spp., or unnamed species, have been reported in various fish hosts.
Described species of Huffmanela, description of their adult form, and host fish species and family
Medical interest
All known species of Huffmanela are strictly parasite of fishes, and none can infest humans. However, cases of spurious parasitism have been described in the medical literature from coprological studies. Since infestation of fish are often heavy, with millions of eggs in a single fish, it is understandable that consumption of such an infested fish, even well cooked, can results in numerous eggs in human feces.
Because of their polar plugs, eggs of nematodes of the genera Anatrichosoma, Capillaria or Trichuris can sometimes induce misidentifications.
References
External links
ZooBank record for Huffmanela
Enoplea genera
Parasitic nematodes of fish |
Granule-cell to Purkinje-cell synapses or gcPc synapses are the junctions that form the synapse in the cerebellum between granule cells and Purkinje cells. These synapses are thought to be a storage site for the information that is required for motor coordination and their misfunctioning is involved with some movement disorders. Glutamate is the neurotransmitter.
References
Cerebellum |
Molecular autopsy or postmortem molecular testing is a set of molecular techniques used in forensic medicine to attempt to determine the cause of death in unexplained cases, in particular sudden unexplained deaths (for example sudden cardiac death). About 30% of sudden cardiac deaths in young people are not explained after full conventional autopsy, and are classified as sudden unexplained deaths. The use of a panel of genetic markers for long QT syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and cardiac channel miopathies elucidated around 40 to 45% of the cases.
Ethics
In today’s day and age the use of Molecular Autopsy has come with its share of ethical issues. The issues are raised because there are no set laws that a Medical Examiner must follow. For instance it is not required for an examiner to get permission from a relative to go forth with a molecular autopsy. This has created many issues for families because they may not always want to know the results of why a loved one died. Knowing this information can create anxiety and concern for family members over a possible mutation of their own gene that could cause their death, while they would have no way of stopping it. It also creates an issue because with most if not all examinations, samples of a test are retained in a lab. This means the tests from a loved one is saved forever, to be possibly used in a different experiment. The family usually has no say on whether this will happen or not.
The problem that arises for medical examiners is that if an examination is done and the lives of family members could be at risk, they have no authorization to tell the family if they do not wish to know. Some examiners believe that this is against their duty as a professional doctor. For example, it has been estimated that 30% of young sudden cardiac deaths can be traced to being inherited. So doctors feel that it is against their profession to not let someone know when they could be at risk.
Methods
When a traditional medical autopsy is not able to determine the sudden cause of death, molecular autopsy may help provide an alternative insight through the use of Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing. It looks at things from a cellular level instead of only what the human eye can see.
The first step in performing a molecular autopsy is to obtain a sample of blood or tissue from the individual after death has occurred. DNA is then extracted from the blood sample in order to undergo a process of genetic sequencing. Then, the DNA sequence is carefully analyzed to detect any gene mutations that may be a cause of sudden death. Initially, molecular autopsy focused on the direct DNA sequencing of four genes. However, recent advancements in sequencing technologies have made it possible to screen a large number of genes at once from a small sample of DNA through whole-exome sequencing (WES) in which the coding regions of all 22,000 genes are sequenced. This potentially allows the detection of genetic variants of genes related to all major diseases.
Case Studies
A study of sudden death brought a mother to once question whether her thirteen-year-old son has what previously killed her seventeen-year-old son. This son had been found lying in bed dead with an autopsy that was inconclusive. Many blamed it on drug use and abuse, but that was really not the cause.
Almost half the sudden deaths of previously healthy children have no findings on autopsy. These children are referred to as having sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS). In the Olmsted County population study, six of the twelve cases died of unknown causes of SUDS. A lot of forensic pathologists blame a fatal arrhythmia of the heart to be the cause of SUDS due to the lethal disorders like long QT syndrome (LQTS). This is a prolonged QT interval in the heart’s natural rhythm. This is can leave no trace for an autopsy. The clinical signs of LQTS are syncope, seizures, or sudden death.
In England there are around 200 SUDS cases yearly, and nearly a third of those were blamed on LQTS. This however, cannot be proved without an electrocardiogram before death.
By looking at the molecular level of the issues that cause SUDS and/or LQTS, they may be able to find the ion channels that are cardiac defective. There are six LQTS genetic markers, five LQTS genes, and around 200 mutations identified all in patients with LQTS. By targeting these molecules, molecular autopsy can be possible. This is how molecular autopsy is relevant in all three of the following cases.
Case 1
In this case of the mother with questions of her living son possible having the same issue that her now dead son had, there was a history of these LQTS clinical signs that were stated above in the family. Specifically, the grandmother had syncopal episodes multiple times. Although, multiple electrocardiograms showed no significant findings that would lead to a diagnosis of LQTS.
There were multiple studies done, one in particular was the epinephrine-triggered alterations in repolarization. This showed the results of having five nucleotides (guanine [g], cytosine [c], guanine, cytosine, and thymidine [t]) from positions 735 - 739 were not present. These are the genetic components of DNA. This resulted in the cardiac potassium channel to cause a shift of amino acids. This shift is where the stop codon at an amino acid is introduced and needed. This can severely impact the depolarization and repolarization of the heart, which is crucial for the normal rhythm of the muscle.
Case 2
Another study was done for molecular autopsy on the RyR2-encoded cardiac ryanodine receptor in SUDS. There were 49 cases in this study, 30 of which were male. Thirteen of the 49 studied had a family history of syncope. In seven of these cases of SUDS, there were six distinct RyR2 missense mutations. During these deaths, the activities were as follows: three cases of exertion, one case of emotion, and three unknown cases. This study was of the first on RyR2 in molecular autopsy. It targeted 18 of the 105 protein-encoding exons of the cardiac ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel. This revealed one in every seven to be positive for the RyR2 mutations in SUDS. This studied showed that testing of this mutation should be a part of the autopsy investigation. This study also proved that this mutation is possibly inheritable.
Case 3
Another study is the pharmacogenomics as molecular autopsy for forensic toxicology. This study is looking at the genotyping of cytochrome P450 3A4*1B and 3A5*3. Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetic contributions to drug action. This can help in certifying a fentanyl toxicity. Fentanyl is used for anesthesia in surgery or pain control/management in animals and humans. This drug can have variable metabolisms due to the different alleles in the cytochrome P450. This study looked at 25 different fentanyl related deaths (22 caucasians, 1 African American, and 2 Native Americans). from the Milwaukee county medical Examiner’s office and referrals. Blood was taken and analyzed after death by radioimmunoassay and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. This study showed the average fentanyl concentration in CYP3A4*1B wild type and 3A5*3 homozygous variant cases were higher than those of the CYP3A4*1B variant cases (this was not a significant difference). The data taken from this study gave scientific evidence that CYP3A5 is involved in the fentanyl metabolism, where as the homozygous CYP3A5*3 causes impaired metabolism of fentanyl. Genotyping CYP3A4*1B and 3A5*3 variants may help to certify the fentanyl toxicity. For further studying of this subject, there will be more cases needed. This study was mainly to supply information for this drug monitoring and pain management.
Relationship with molecular autopsy
Molecular autopsy has become a huge component in the investigation process of SUD, specifically sudden cardiac death (SCD). The causes of SCD range widely but the greatest contributor to SCD is an underlying genetic predisposition, especially in those under the age of 40. The inherited diseases include, but are not limited to, primary arrythmogenic disorders and inherited cardiomyopathies. Molecular autopsy not only helps identify an explanation for SUD, but evaluates the potential risks that relatives may have in relation to cardiovascular disease. Over 3 million people die of SCD a year, making molecular autopsy for SCD in high demand. Using molecular autopsy for SCD in the young, fit, and seemingly healthy individual is an increasingly interesting topic for research. Up to 30% of the autopsies given post-mortem to young individuals who die of SCD have no cause of death identified, called autopsy-negative or sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS). This is because many primary arrhythmogenic disorders do not cause structural damage to the heart, making it difficult for pathologists to draw a conclusion on the cause of death.
Genetic testing for SADS cases started over ten years ago. A sample of the cadaver’s blood is taken and tested. The molecular autopsy focuses on four main genes: KCNQ1, KCNH2, SCN5A, and RYR2. Greater than 95% of the mutations found in the molecular autopsy are a chromosome dominant trait, indicating that half of the children to the tested individual also carry the mutated gene.
References
Forensic techniques |
was a Japanese American entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of Mikasa china and owner of the Kenwood Electronics corporation.
Early life
Born in a farming community outside Gardena, he was the only child of Japanese immigrants Setsuo and Yoshiko Aratani (although his mother had two children from a previous marriage). The family later moved to the San Fernando Valley, and again to Guadalupe, where Aratani attended school while his father established several highly successful farming, manufacturing and international trade companies. While in high school, Aratani was scouted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and briefly considered a career as a professional athlete, but had to change his plans after a football injury soured his prospects.
After graduating from high school, Aratani relocated to Tokyo, following his parents' wishes that he pursue a college education in their home country of Japan. Living with his grandmother in Japan, he spent ten months studying the language before enrolling at Keio University. In December 1935, his mother, who was also staying in Japan at the time, became ill and died. His father remarried Yoshiko's niece, Masuko, and returned to the United States to manage his businesses. Aratani remained in Tokyo and continued his studies at Keio's law school, but he came back to Guadalupe when his father contracted tuberculosis in 1940. Unable to finish his degree at Keio, he enrolled at Stanford University, but after Setsuo's death in April, Aratani, then 22, dropped out to help his stepmother run the Guadalupe Produce Company.
World War II incarceration
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the tide of anti-Japanese sentiment that followed it, Aratani transferred the company's assets from its Issei leaders to its Nisei executives, hoping to avoid losing the business. The move only postponed what would soon prove to be inevitable; after learning he and his stepmother would be "evacuated" with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, Aratani was forced to leave the Guadalupe Produce Company in the hands of trustees from a separate business.
Under the directive of Executive Order 9066, Aratani was removed to the Tulare Assembly Center before being transferred to the War Relocation Authority camp at Gila River, Arizona. Shortly after arriving in camp, the office of the Superintendent of Banks, which had taken over the frozen assets of Japanese banks operating in the U.S. before the war, began to pursue Aratani in order to collect on a loan issued to his father by Sumitomo Bank. With little access to alternatives from within camp, Aratani and the Guadalupe board sold the company to the trustees, barely covering the taxes due to the government. Aratani's biography, "An American Son: The Story of George Aratani," details the losses his family endured during the 1940s.
Since Aratani was bilingual, he was allowed to leave the camp in 1944 to serve at the Military Intelligence Service Language School, where he taught Japanese to American soldiers, including many Nisei. Before arriving at the Camp Savage school, he married Sakaye Inouye, who had been interned at the nearby Poston camp. The couple had two daughters, Donna and Linda.
Post-war business and philanthropy
After the war, the Aratanis returned to California, settling in Hollywood. Aratani established an international trading company in 1946, working with former Guadalupe Produce Company employees and using the name of one of his father's prewar businesses, All Star Trading. The company changed its name to American Commercial, Inc., and tried importing various products before finding a profitable market in Japanese-made chinaware. The Mikasa brand was founded in December 1957 and quickly became popular in the United States, eventually going public in 1994. Aratani continued to expand, creating a medical equipment exporting business in 1951 and establishing Kenwood Electronics in 1961, again employing friends from Guadalupe or the Military Intelligence Service.
Much of Aratani's philanthropy focused on the Japanese American community. He helped found the Keiro Nursing Home in 1961, putting his home up for collateral on the initial loan. Under his guidance and through his contributions, Aratani helped with the restoration of numerous historical buildings in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo and was key to the creation of its Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. The JACCC's Aratani Japan America Theatre, the Japanese American National Museum's George and Sakaye Aratani Central Hall, and the Union Center for the Arts' Aratani Courtyard (all located within Little Tokyo) are named after Aratani and his wife. In 2004, at UCLA, he and Sakaye endowed the United States' first academic chair to study the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and their efforts to gain redress.
Aratani spent his later years in the couple's Hollywood Hills home (built by Sakaye's brother-in-law in 1958). He died February 19, 2013, at age 95.
References
External links
Aratani Endowment at UCLA -
1917 births
2013 deaths
American businesspeople
Japanese-American internees
American military personnel of Japanese descent
20th-century American philanthropists |
Kya Sands is an informal settlement located in Region A of the City of Johannesburg.
Context and Location
Kya Sands is bisected by the North Riding Stream (or Kya Sand Spruit according to some sources).
It is closely bordered by the Kya Sand industrial area to the west, the Bloubosrand residential suburb to the east, the Hoogland industrial area to the south (separated by the old Randburg landfill site) and mostly small holdings to the north.
The settlement occupies both private and government-owned land, lying on 6 different farm and agricultural holdings. The privately owned sections of the settlement lie on the western side of the stream. City of Johannesburg owned land includes sections immediately adjacent to the stream and the property containing the old Randburg Landfill site (Houtkoppen 193-IQ ptn. 46). Portion 51 of the same farm (Houtkoppen I93-IQ), on which a large portion of the settlement lies, is owned by South African National Government and administered by the Gauteng Provincial Government.
Name
Kya Sands gets its name from the adjacent industrial area, Kya Sand. Other popular names for the settlement include Dumping and Kya Centre. The settlement is also referred to as Kya Sand, Phomolong and Kya Junction by some residents.
Sections
Kya Sands is made up of a number of sections. The settlement is broken down firstly into Sections A to D. These are defined by government and are used in counting and numbering houses and toilets in the settlement.
Other sections include Pipeline, the whole section of the settlement east of the river, and Madala Side, the northern part of Pipeline.
History
While the exact year of the settlement's formation is disputed, indications are that it started in the early 1990s. Informal houses were initially set up in the area by subcontractors working at the adjacent (now closed) Randburg Landfill site and the Kya Sand and Hoogland industrial areas.
Xenophobic attacks, 2008
In the May 2008 xenophobic riots in South Africa, violence against foreign nationals was reported in Kya Sands, with police deployed to the area to try to curb attacks.
Hazards in the Settlement
Fire
As homes in the settlement are so close together, built from reused materials such as wood and plastic, and that most heating, lighting and cooking is done using open flames, fire poses a significant threat to the residents of Kya Sands.
Government intervention
Local authorities, in the form of the Gauteng Provincial Government and the City of Johannesburg, have proposed a number of plans for long- and short-term intervention in Kya Sands, since 2007. While some short-term plans have been implemented, no long-term action (relocation or in-sutu upgrading) has been taken. On the contrary, the settlement has been extended since 2012, by government relocations to Kya Sands, from other nearby informal settlements.
Short-term emergency interventions
Between 2006 and 2008, a number of short-term emergency interventions were implemented by the City of Johannesburg. These included the installation of basic services including stand pipes, ventilated pit latrines, and establishing a waste removal service through Pikitup.
Between 2007 and 2008, some 150 households were moved by the City of Johannesburg from the western shore of the river, to section D of the settlement.
Bridge construction
In response to safety concerns, residents of Kya Sands had regularly called for a bridge to be built across the river. A bridge has been constructed connecting Section C to Pipeline.
Service Delivery Protests
Residents of Kya Sands periodically stage housing and service delivery protests, with the most recent protest taking place on 12 October 2015.
References
External links
Kya Sands Informal Settlement - Google Earth Community
Johannesburg Region A
Shanty towns in South Africa |
Bessie Jones (1887 – November 1974) was a Welsh singer featured on some of the earliest recordings of songs from London musicals. Jones began a professional opera career soon after training at the Royal College of Music. From 1913 to 1926, she was a contract singer for HMV studios, recording numerous popular songs, Welsh folksongs and musical theatre songs, and appearing on recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and several other works. She also had an oratorio and concert career and sang in BBC radio broadcasts.
Early life and career
Jones was raised in Tonypandy the daughter of John Jones, a fruiterer. Jones studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won the operatic class prize in 1910 and the Henry Leslie prize for singers in 1912. In the college's 1911 production of Cherubini's opera The Water Carrier, Jones starred alongside George Baker under the direction of Richard Temple and Sir Charles Stanford. She sang at the Proms in 1913 under Sir Henry Wood, and played Wellgunde and the Woodbird in Wagner's Ring cycle at Covent Garden under Artur Nikisch in 1914. The Manchester Guardian called her, "a new soprano with a sweet voice of considerable power."
HMV and later years
Jones was a contract singer for HMV studios from 1913 to 1926 recording popular numbers as well as Welsh folksongs in the original Welsh. Among her notable recordings was the original 1918 recording of the song "Peter Pan", Noël Coward's first lyric for the London stage, from the revue Tails Up!. This was Coward's first publicly performed song. She was one of HMV's contract singers to use the pseudonym "Madame Deering."
When HMV's earliest recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were made between 1918 and 1924 under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Jones sang the roles of Peep-Bo in The Mikado (1918), Gianetta and Fiametta in The Gondoliers (1919), Kate in The Yeomen of the Guard (1920), Edith in The Pirates of Penzance (1921), Lady Saphir in Patience (1922), Celia in Iolanthe (1923) and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore (1924). Also for HMV, Jones recorded Edward German's Merrie England under the direction of the composer in 1918, and Puccini's Madame Butterfly in 1924, in which she sang Kate Pinkerton. For the same company Jones recorded less serious repertoire, including the songs "Down Zummerzet way" (by TCSterndale Bennett), "The interfering parrot" (from The Geisha), "Up there!" (by Ivor Novello), "Daddy's sweetheart" (by Liza Lehmann), and "The Mirror Song" (by Oscar Straus).
In the concert hall, Jones's repertoire included Berlioz' La damnation de Faust and Bach's St Matthew Passion. She was a pioneer broadcaster, singing on BBC radio when the organisation was still a limited company. In one performance from 1938 on a BBC radio programme in Wales, she was accompanied on the piano by her husband Edgar Jones.
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References
1887 births
1974 deaths
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Welsh operatic sopranos
20th-century Welsh women opera singers
People from Tonypandy |
Emoia tuitarere is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in the Cook Islands.
References
Emoia
Reptiles described in 2011
Taxa named by George Robert Zug
Taxa named by Alison M. Hamilton
Taxa named by Christopher C. Austin |
The St. Nicholas Church (; ; ) is the main church of the Kotka Orthodox Church in Kotka, Finland, surrounded by the Isopuisto park The church was built between 1799 and 1801 according to the drawings of architect Jakov Perrin. The church dates back to the time of the active years of the sea fortress of Ruotsinsalmi, when the Russians built the Ruotsinsalmi–Kyminlinna double fortress in the Kymi parish and a fortress town was created on Kotkansaari. The church is the oldest building in present-day Kotka, and it is a notable representative of neoclassicism in Finland.
The church was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker, the Archbishop of Myra. St. Nicholas is one of the most respected saints of the Orthodox Church, he is the patron saint of travelers, sailors and fishermen, among others, and also the patron of the Russian Empire and many other countries and cities.
History
Before the current stone church, there have already been other Orthodox shrines in the Kymi region. The first Orthodox wooden church was located in the northern part of Kotkansaari, next to the barracks. The church is mentioned as consecrated in 1795. In the same year, on the day of St. Nicholas, December 6, 1795, Count Alexander Suvorov is mentioned as having visited the church and even read an epistle text in connection with the service. The stone church of St. Nicholas was eventually built next to the wooden church.
The stone church of the new St. Nicholas was consecrated on October 14, 1801. Due to his illness, Jakov Perrin, who drew up the church's drawings, apparently never got to the site in Ruotsinsalmi to supervise the construction, because Perrin fell ill in St. Petersburg and died on May 23, 1800. In his place, the architect Miller, who worked in the Admiralty, also had to travel to the Ruotsinsalmi Fortress. In addition, Miller designed the iconostasis of the church.
Old cemetery
Next to the church was a cemetery, a small part of which has been preserved with its monuments. Well-known officers of the Ruotsinsalmi Fortress, such as Deputy Admiral and Knight Nikolai Khrushchev, Commander of the Fortress Ivan Kononovich and Major General and Knight Fedor Timirjazev, among others, are buried in the cemetery.
Sources
Further reading
Vesa Alén, Elvi Ikonen, Marita Kykyri, Ari Ryökkynen & Galina Vangonen: Rakennettu ranta – Ruotsinsalmesta Kotkan satamaan; in the chapter Aarteita arkistosta – Ruotsinsalmi kartoissa ja piirustuksissa, by Galina Vangonen. Kotka, Kymenlaakson museo, 2013. (in Finnish)
References
External links
Pyhän Nikolaoksen kirkko - Museovirasto (in Finnish)
Pyhän Nikolaoksen kirkko - Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko (in Finnish)
Pyhän Nikolaoksen kirkko – Visit Kotka-Hamina (in Finnish)
St. Nikolaus Orthodox Church Kotka – Discovering Finland
Kotka
Churches completed in 1801
19th-century churches in Finland
19th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Finnish Orthodox churches |
Mentzelia multiflora, commonly known as Adonis blazingstar, Adonis stickleaf, desert blazingstar, prairie stickleaf and manyflowered mentzelia is a herbaceous perennial wildflower of the family Loasaceae.
Distribution
Mentzelia multiflora is found in the western United States and northwestern Mexico: from Montana and North Dakota in the Great Plains; south to Texas and Southern California; and into Sonora and Chihuahua.
This species prefers dry, sandy, well-drained soil. They require direct sunlight and are not found growing in the shade.
Description
Mentzelia multiflora grows to about tall. It has shiny white stems and numerous branches. Its sticky, bright green leaves are covered with hairs containing minute barbs.
The flowers are around in diameter, are yellow in colour and normally have ten petals. The flowers open in late afternoon and close in the morning. The flowers are hermaphrodite and flower from March to October. The plant does not live for more than three yearsGrowth in selectively cut Ponderosa Pine forests of the Pacific Northwest - page 9.
Varieties
Varieties of Mentzelia multiflora include:
Mentzelia multiflora var. integra — M.E. Jones
Mentzelia multiflora var. longiloba — (J. Darl.) Kartesz
Mentzelia multiflora var. multiflora
Taxonomy
Mentzelia multiflora was first described by the botanists Thomas Nuttall and Asa Gray. It is a "blazingstar" and is a member of the genus Mentzelia, the "stickleafs".
Uses
Medicinal
The plant is used by the Native Americans, particularly the Navajo people, as a medicinal plant. It has been used to treat toothache and as a diuretic. The roots and leaves have been used to treat tuberculosis.
Cultivation
The plant is cultivated as an ornamental plant, used as a wildflower in specialty gardens.
References
External links
Calflora Database: Mentzelia multiflora (Adonis blazingstar)
Jepson Manual treatment for Mentzelia multiflora subsp. longiloba
multiflora
North American desert flora
Flora of the Great Plains (North America)
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Nebraska
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Oklahoma
Flora of Sonora
Flora of Texas
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Plants used in traditional Native American medicine
Taxa named by Asa Gray
Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
```c++
/*******************************************************************************
*
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*******************************************************************************/
#ifndef your_sha256_hashALLOCATION_INTERVAL_TREE_HPP
#define your_sha256_hashALLOCATION_INTERVAL_TREE_HPP
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>
#include <set>
#include <vector>
#include "virtual_reg.hpp"
namespace dnnl {
namespace impl {
namespace graph {
namespace gc {
namespace xbyak {
/* *
* Non-overlapping balanced interval tree implemetation based on std::set.
* */
class interval_tree_t {
public:
// constructor
interval_tree_t() = default;
// destructor
virtual ~interval_tree_t() = default;
bool empty() { return node_map_.empty(); }
// insert new interval
void insert(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end, virtual_reg_t *virt_reg) {
node_map_.insert(node_t(start, end, virt_reg));
}
// remove existing interval
void remove(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end, virtual_reg_t *virt_reg) {
erase_nodes(start, end, virt_reg, [](node_t node) {});
}
// divide existing interval using cut range
void divide(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end, virtual_reg_t *virt_reg) {
std::vector<node_t> erased_nodes;
auto node_func = [&](node_t node) { erased_nodes.push_back(node); };
erase_nodes(start, end, virt_reg, node_func);
for (auto &node : erased_nodes) {
// front
stmt_index_t start_front = node.start_;
stmt_index_t end_front = std::min(node.end_, start);
if (start_front < end_front) {
insert(start_front, end_front, virt_reg);
}
// back
stmt_index_t start_back = std::max(node.start_, end);
stmt_index_t end_back = node.end_;
if (start_back < end_back) {
insert(start_back, end_back, virt_reg);
}
}
}
// search interval for overlap
bool search(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end) {
auto iter = node_map_.lower_bound(node_t(start, end, nullptr));
if (iter != node_map_.begin()) { iter--; }
while (iter != node_map_.end()) {
auto &node = *iter;
if (end <= node.start_) { break; }
if (node.intersects(start, end)) { return true; }
iter++;
}
return false;
}
// query interval for overlap
void query(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end,
std::function<void(virtual_reg_t *)> func) {
auto iter = node_map_.lower_bound(node_t(start, end, nullptr));
if (iter != node_map_.begin()) { iter--; }
while (iter != node_map_.end()) {
auto &node = *iter;
if (end <= node.start_) { break; }
if (node.intersects(start, end)) { func(node.virtual_reg_); }
iter++;
}
}
private:
// Internal node
struct node_t {
stmt_index_t start_;
stmt_index_t end_;
virtual_reg_t *virtual_reg_;
bool intersects(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end) const {
return std::max(start_, start) < std::min(end_, end);
}
bool operator<(const node_t &b) const { return start_ < b.start_; }
node_t(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end, virtual_reg_t *virt_reg)
: start_(start), end_(end), virtual_reg_(virt_reg) {
// must contain valid range
assert(start < end);
}
};
// Internal RB-tree
std::set<node_t> node_map_;
// erase interval node
void erase_nodes(stmt_index_t start, stmt_index_t end,
virtual_reg_t *virt_reg, std::function<void(node_t)> func) {
auto iter = node_map_.lower_bound(node_t(start, end, nullptr));
if (iter != node_map_.begin()) { iter--; }
while (iter != node_map_.end()) {
auto &node = *iter;
if (end <= node.start_) { break; }
if (node.virtual_reg_ == virt_reg) {
func(node);
iter = node_map_.erase(iter);
} else {
iter++;
}
}
}
};
} // namespace xbyak
} // namespace gc
} // namespace graph
} // namespace impl
} // namespace dnnl
#endif
``` |
```vue
<template>
<section class="page page--ui-slider">
<h2 class="page__title">UiSlider</h2>
<p>UiSlider allows the user to select a value from a continuous range of values by moving the slider thumb, clicking on the slider, or using the keyboard arrow keys.</p>
<p>UiSlider supports an icon and a disabled state. The slider is keyboard accessible.</p>
<h3 class="page__section-title">
Examples <a href="path_to_url" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Source</a>
</h3>
<div class="page__examples">
<h4 class="page__demo-title">Basic</h4>
<ui-slider v-model="slider1"></ui-slider>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">With icon</h4>
<ui-slider v-model="slider2" icon="volume_up"></ui-slider>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">With marker</h4>
<ui-slider v-model="slider3" show-marker></ui-slider>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">With custom min and max: [1, 15]</h4>
<ui-slider v-model="slider4" show-marker :min="1" :max="15" :step="1"></ui-slider>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">Snap to steps: 20</h4>
<ui-slider
v-model="slider5"
show-marker
snap-to-steps
:step="20"
></ui-slider>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">In a modal</h4>
<ui-button @click="openModal">Open modal</ui-button>
<ui-modal ref="modal" title="Slider in a modal" dismiss-on="close-button esc">
<ui-slider v-model="slider7"></ui-slider>
</ui-modal>
<h4 class="page__demo-title">Disabled</h4>
<ui-slider v-model="slider6" icon="volume_up" disabled></ui-slider>
<div class="reset-sliders">
<ui-button @click="resetSliders">Reset Sliders</ui-button>
</div>
</div>
<h3 class="page__section-title">API</h3>
<ui-tabs raised>
<ui-tab title="Props">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Default</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>name</td>
<td>String</td>
<td></td>
<td>
<p>The <code>name</code> attribute of the slider's hidden input element. Useful when traditionally submitting a form the slider is a part of.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="no-wrap">modelValue, v-model *</td>
<td>Number</td>
<td>(required)</td>
<td>
<p>The model that the slider value syncs to. Changing this value will update the slider.</p>
<p>If you are not using <code>v-model</code>, you should listen for the <code>update:modelValue</code> event and update <code>modelValue</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>icon</td>
<td>String</td>
<td></td>
<td>
<p>The slider icon. Can be any of the <a href="path_to_url" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Material Icons</a>.</p>
<p>You can also use the <code>icon</code> slot to show a custom or SVG icon.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>min</td>
<td>Number</td>
<td><code>0</code></td>
<td>The minimum slider value.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>max</td>
<td>Number</td>
<td><code>100</code></td>
<td>The maximum slider value.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>step</td>
<td>Number</td>
<td><code>10</code></td>
<td>The amount to increment or decrement the slider value by when using the keyboard arrow keys. Also determines the snap points on the slider when <code>snapToSteps</code> is <code>true</code>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>snapToSteps</td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>Whether or not the slider value should be snapped to discrete steps. Setting to <code>true</code> will ensure that the value is always a multiple of the <code>step</code> prop when a drag is completed.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>showMarker</td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>Whether or not to show a marker (like a tooltip) above the slider which shows the current value. The value shown can be customized using the <code>markerValue</code> prop.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>markerValue</td>
<td>Number, String</td>
<td></td>
<td>The value shown in the marker when <code>showMarker</code> is <code>true</code>. If not provided and <code>showMarker</code> is <code>true</code>, the slider's value is shown in the marker.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tabindex</td>
<td>Number, String</td>
<td></td>
<td>The slider input <code>tabindex</code>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>disabled</td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>
<p>Whether or not the slider is disabled.</p>
<p>Set to <code>true</code> to disable the slider.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
* Required prop
</ui-tab>
<ui-tab title="Slots">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>icon</td>
<td>Holds the slider icon and can be used to show a custom or SVG icon.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</ui-tab>
<ui-tab title="Events">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>focus</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the slider is focused.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@focus</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>blur</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the slider loses focus.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@blur</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>update:modelValue</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the slider value is changed. The handler is called with the new value.</p>
<p>If you are not using <code>v-model</code>, you should listen for this event and update the <code>modelValue</code> prop.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@update:modelValue</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>change</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the value of the slider is changed. The handler is called with the new value.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@change</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dragstart</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the user starts dragging the slider thumb. The handler is called with the current value and the drag event object.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@dragstart</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dragend</td>
<td>
<p>Emitted when the user stops dragging the slider thumb. The handler is called with the current value and the drag event object.</p>
<p>Listen for it using <code>@dragend</code>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</ui-tab>
<ui-tab title="Methods">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>focus()</code></td>
<td>
<p>Call this method to programmatically focus the slider.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>reset()</code></td>
<td>Call this method to reset the slider's value to its initial value.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</ui-tab>
</ui-tabs>
</section>
</template>
<script>
import UiButton from '@/UiButton.vue';
import UiModal from '@/UiModal.vue';
import UiSlider from '@/UiSlider.vue';
import UiTab from '@/UiTab.vue';
import UiTabs from '@/UiTabs.vue';
export default {
components: {
UiButton,
UiModal,
UiSlider,
UiTab,
UiTabs
},
data() {
return {
slider1: 25,
slider2: 50,
slider3: 60,
slider4: 8,
slider5: 40,
slider6: 75,
slider7: 30
};
},
methods: {
resetSliders() {
this.slider1 = 25;
this.slider2 = 50;
this.slider3 = 60;
this.slider4 = 7;
this.slider5 = 40;
this.slider6 = 75;
this.slider7 = 30;
},
openModal() {
this.$refs.modal.open();
}
}
};
</script>
<style lang="scss">
@import '@/styles/imports';
.page--ui-slider {
.page__examples {
max-width: rem(500px);
}
.ui-slider {
margin-bottom: rem(8px);
}
.reset-sliders .ui-button {
margin-top: rem(36px);
}
}
</style>
``` |
Simon Parkin is an English writer. He is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, a critic for The Observer, and the author of three non-fiction books. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the New Statesman, 1843, and he is a frequent contributor to The Long Read in The Guardian. He also hosts a podcast called My Perfect Console where guests talk about five video games that were meaningful to their life.
Parkin has been the recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. His book A Game of Birds and Wolves was shortlisted for the 2020 Mountbatten Award for Best Book. His book The Island of Extraordinary Captives was one of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022, and winner of the 2023 Wingate Prize.
Career
Parkin began contributing to The New Yorker, where he often writes about technology, in 2013. In 2016 he became the first video game critic for The Observer, contributing to The New Review, the paper's critics' pages. Parkin has also written long-form journalism for Harpers, The New York Times and is a regular contributor to both The Guardian Weekend Magazine and the newspaper's long-form journalism section, The Long Read.
His 2016 Harper's story "So Subtle a Catch", which investigates the widespread theft of carp from British lakes, was included in the 2017 edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading.
The New York Times has praised Parkin's "literary eye for scenic and investigative detail" and described his criticism on gaming and play as "thoughtful and serious." The Library Journal has described Parkin's journalism as "groundbreaking", claiming that "his reportage leads to brilliant, fresh insights."
Parkin has been both a critic of and advocate for the video game medium. "Tabloids are forever blaming video games for their role in the latest school shooting," he said in a 2016 interview with Salon. "That kind of reporting is increasingly passé, simply because most readers under the age of 45 have grown up with video games in their entertainment diet so the pariah schtick doesn't work on them... That said, game industry leaders have often failed to deal with these scandals in a mature way. It's possible to acknowledge that you’re not part of a problem while simultaneously offering ideas for how you might be part of the solution."
In a separate interview with The Guardian, Parkin argued that "the ability that video games have to allow us to inhabit another person or another position in life, or another race or gender, is hugely powerful, and something that we’ve only just started to explore."
Parkin has been the recipient of two awards for "Excellence in Feature Writing" from the Society of Professional Journalists and was a finalist in the British Foreign Press Awards for his reporting on the thirtieth anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.
Parkin's first non-fiction book, Death by Video Game is an investigation into a number of deaths at Internet cafes in Taiwan, where the deceased had spent extended periods of time playing online video games immediately prior to their death. It was published in the UK in August 2015 by Serpent's Tail and in the US in July 2016 by Melville House Publishing.
The Library Journal claimed "this work ignites a series of debates crucial to the future of video games", while The Washington Post praised Parkin's "deft sense of the ways that video games appeal to and satiate the longings of the spirit" describing the book as "an excellent sociocultural study of the 21st century's quintessential art form."
Parkin's second book, A Game of Birds and Wolves is a narrative non-fiction history book exploring the contribution of a group of wargaming experts, known as the Western Approaches Tactical Unit, to the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. The New York Times selected the book as an Editor's Choice. A Game of Birds and Wolves was shortlisted for the 2020 Mountbatten Award for Best Book.
A film adaptation of A Game of Birds and Wolves, is in development at Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin Partners and DreamWorks Pictures, with a screenplay by Vicky Jones.
Parkin's third non-fiction book titled The Island of Extraordinary Captives tells the story of Hutchinson Internment Camp, an internment camp established on the Isle of Man during the Second World War to house so-called 'enemy aliens'. The book follows the story of the artist Peter Midgley who, having fled to Britain on the Kindertransport was interned in the camp, alongside well-known European artists such as Kurt Schwitters. Writing in The Sunday Times, the historian Max Hastings described the book as "vivid and moving," arguing that it "spotlights a sorry aspect of Britain’s war that deserves to be better known."
Identification of German wartime spy
In his 2022 book The Island of Extraordinary Captives, Parkin named the previously unidentified sitter in a Kurt Schwitters portrait as the German spy Ludwig Warschauer. Warschauer came to Britain in 1939 as a representative for the Tefifon recording device, and was interned in Hutchinson Internment Camp, where he became the subject of a major MI5 investigation.
According to the Guardian newspaper, Warschauer had "powerful British allies, including the Conservative MP Sir Herbert Williams, 1st Baronet, chairman of the company financing the Tefifon’s development, and the Home Secretary John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, who came to his home to watch a demonstration of the Tefifon." Warschauer later confessed to having been sent to Britain by a Gestapo handler to conduct espionage for Germany, as documented in a series of British intelligence files. He was deported in 1945. The portrait's sitter was identified by Monica Shubert, Warschauer's step-daughter, who recognised the painting from her childhood. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
Bibliography
Books
Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline. London: Serpent's Tail, 2015. . UK edition.
Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline. New York: Melville House, 2016. . US edition.
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War London: Sceptre, 2019. . UK edition.
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II. New York: Little, Brown, 2020. . US edition.
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal London: Sceptre, 2022. . UK edition.
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp New York: Scribner, 2022. . US edition.
Articles
References
External links
Parkin at Sceptre
Parkin at The New Yorker
Parkin's columns for The Observer at The Observer
Interview with Parkin at The Guardian
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English writers
The Guardian journalists
New Scientist people]
The New Yorker people |
Aliaksandr Radzionau (; born 14 June 2000) is a Belarusian boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
Belarusian male boxers
Olympic boxers for Belarus
Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Belarusian people |
The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) is the world players’ body in cricket.
Established in 1998, FICA is a democratic player-driven organisation that brings together the world’s ‘organised’ professional cricketers under an international body which focuses on matters that affect the players collectively, and the global game.
Players who are members of a FICA member association are, by extension, also guaranteed the support of the other players’ associations in other countries. FICA cares about:
Players: Serving players’ collective interests globally
The Game: Positively influencing the direction of the global game
Players’ Associations: Strengthening and growing
FICA members
Current officers
References
https://www.thefica.com/about/
External links
The Federation of International Cricketers Associations
Cricketers' associations
Sports professional associations
International professional associations
International sports organizations
Organizations established in 1998 |
The Chapel of Saint Brigid () is an 11th-century chapel overlooking the town of Fosses-la-Ville, province of Namur, Belgium. This large and ancient chapel is placed under the protection of Saint Brigid, an Irish nun.
References
Sources
RTBF.be: Fosses la ville: la restauration de Sainte-Brigide assure la transmission du savoir-faire des tailleurs de pierre, 18 May 2022
Diocese of Namur: A Fosses-la-Ville, la statue de sainte Brigide passe de ferme en ferme, 5 May 2020
LeSoir.be: Fosses-la-Ville; Un folklore celtique remontant au VII esiècle. Les pèlerins apprêtent leurs baguettes, Luc Scharès, 5 May 2001
Atelier-arc.eu: Chapelle Sainte-Brigide (Namur)
LaNouvelleGazette-sambre-meuse.sudinfo.be: 360.000 euros pour la restauration globale de la chapelle Sainte-Brigide à Fosses, 7 December 2021
Churches in Namur (province)
Roman Catholic chapels in Belgium |
The Peugeot Moovie is a 2-door city car concept revealed by French automobile manufacturer Peugeot at the 2005 International Motor Show Germany as the winner of the 2004 Peugeot Concours Design competition.
Overview
The Peugeot Moovie concept was revealed at International Motor Show Germany on September 12, 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. It is a 2-door, 2-seat city car and was the winner of the 3rd biennial Peugeot Concours Design concept car design competition held in 2004. The Moovie, intended to be an environmentally-friendly car, was designed by 23-year-old Portuguese university student André Costa.
Design
Exterior
The overall shape of the Peugeot Moovie is round and the car is almost fully enclosed with glass, with it being held together by a chrome trim along the panoramic windshield, which extends to the rear, and navy blue body panels on the sides and rear. On the side door windows and front windshield are large Peugeot lion badges.
Interior
The interior of the Moovie concept is large and open compared to other city cars. The interior has two yellow seats and a steering column both made from plastic and beige padding.
References
Peugeot concept vehicles |
Renato Piccolo (born 31 December 1962) is an Italian former professional cyclist. He is best known for leading the Mountains classification of the 1988 Giro d'Italia for over ten stages, but finishing third overall at the Giro's conclusion. He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
References
1962 births
Living people
Italian male cyclists
Cyclists from the Metropolitan City of Venice
People from Portogruaro
Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Italy |
Wayne Hammond is the name of
Wayne Hammond (field hockey) (born 1948), Australian field hockey player
Wayne G. Hammond (born 1953), Tolkien scholar
Wayne Hammond, Resiliency Expert Mental Health |
Daryl Lawrence Jones (born February 2, 1979) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Giants in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Miami. Jones later played for the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings.
References
External links
Miami Hurricanes bio
1979 births
Living people
American football wide receivers
Miami Hurricanes football players
New York Giants players
Chicago Bears players
Minnesota Vikings players |
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