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```c++
// (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// path_to_url
// See path_to_url for the library home page.
//
// File : $RCSfile$
//
// Version : $Revision: 49312 $
//
// Description : user's config for Boost.Test debugging support
// ***************************************************************************
#ifndef BOOST_TEST_DEBUG_CONFIG_HPP_112006GER
#define BOOST_TEST_DEBUG_CONFIG_HPP_112006GER
// ';' separated list of supported debuggers
// #define BOOST_TEST_DBG_LIST gdb;dbx
// maximum size of /proc/pid/stat file
// #define BOOST_TEST_STAT_LINE_MAX
#endif
``` |
Pamela Joan Sawyer (born 1938) is an English songwriter/lyricist, who started writing songs in the mid-1960s and whose credits as a co-writer at Motown included "Love Child", "If I Were Your Woman", "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)", and "Love Hangover".
Biography
She was born in London, England. Wanting to become a songwriter, she contacted Lew Grade in London, who was impressed and introduced her to visiting American pianist and composer Bob Mersey. She and Mersey married in 1958, and moved to New York City in 1961. After they separated, she worked as a songwriter/lyricist, initially with co-writers including Helen Miller and Mark Barkan, with whom she wrote Chuck Jackson's R&B hit "If I Didn't Love You". She then teamed up with musician and singer Lori Burton, and the pair wrote songs recorded successfully by Lulu ("Try to Understand", UK No. 25, 1965), Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles ("All or Nothing", US No. 68, 1965), and The Young Rascals ("I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore", US No. 52, 1966). Sawyer and Burton also wrote and recorded together as the Whyte Boots, with Burton as lead singer, though their record company promoted the act as a trio of female singers, none of whom actually appeared on the recordings.
In 1967, Sawyer and Burton auditioned for Holland, Dozier and Holland, who had them signed to Motown as a songwriting partnership. After a few months, Burton decided to end her relationship with Motown at the same time that “Holland, Dozier and Holland “ left the organisation. Sawyer began working with Ivy Hunter, and then as part of the writing collective known as the Clan, with other writers including Henry Cosby and Frank Wilson. Sawyer, Cosby and Wilson co-wrote Diana Ross and the Supremes' 1968 hit "Love Child" with R. Dean Taylor and Deke Richards, which was followed up by "I'm Livin' in Shame", co-written by Sawyer with Cosby, Wilson, Taylor and Berry Gordy. The following year Sawyer co-wrote "My Whole World Ended" with James Roach, produced by Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol for David Ruffin. Other hits followed at Motown, including Jr. Walker's "Got to Hold on to This Feeling", co-written with Johnny Bristol and Joe Hinton, and Sawyer encouraged the songwriting talents of singer Gloria Jones, co-writing Gladys Knight and the Pips' 1970 No. 1 R&B hit, "If I Were Your Woman" with Jones and Clay McMurray produced the song and Jr. Walker's "Take Me Girl, I'm Ready" with Jones and Johnny Bristol. She also wrote with Michael Masser, sharing writing credits on "Last Time I Saw Him", a hit for both Diana Ross and country singer Dottie West, and "My Mistake (Was to Love You)", recorded as a duet by Ross and Marvin Gaye. Writing with Marilyn McLeod, she wrote Ross's number one hit in 1976, "Love Hangover", and the pair also wrote "Pops, We Love You", the tribute to Berry Gordy's father recorded by Ross, Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.
Sawyer left Motown in the early 1980s, and set up her own companies, Pam Sawyer Productions and Barley Lane Music. She lives in Florida.
Selected songwriting credits
References
External links
Resumé at IMDb.com
1938 births
Living people
Motown artists
English expatriates in the United States
English women songwriters
People from Romford |
Alabama House of Representatives, District 2 is one of 105 districts in the Alabama House of Representatives. Its current representative is Lynn Greer. The district was created in 1966 and encompasses parts of Lauderdale and Limestone counties.
Representatives
Source=
General Elections
Source=
References
02
1967 establishments in Alabama |
Reimegrend Station () is a railway station along the Bergen Line. It is located at the village of Reimegrend in the Raundalen valley in the municipality of Voss in Vestland county, Norway. The station is served by the Bergen Commuter Rail, operated by Vy Tog, with up to five daily departures in each direction. The station was opened in 1908. It was formerly the western turning point for snow clearing services along the Bergen Line. It is accessible by a spur of County Road 307.
External links
Jernbaneverket's page on Reimegrend
Railway stations in Voss
Railway stations on Bergensbanen
Railway stations opened in 1908
1908 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1900s |
Emilienstraße is a metro station on the Hamburg U-Bahn line U2. The underground station was opened in October 1913 and is located in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel, Germany. Eimsbüttel is center of the Hamburg borough of Eimsbüttel.
Service
Trains
Emilienstraße is served by Hamburg U-Bahn line U2; departures are every 5 minutes.
See also
List of Hamburg U-Bahn stations
References
External links
Line and route network plans at hvv.de
Hamburg U-Bahn stations in Hamburg
U2 (Hamburg U-Bahn) stations
Buildings and structures in Eimsbüttel
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1913 |
WOBN is an American college radio station owned and operated on 97.5 MHz FM by Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. The station's studio is located at 33 Collegeview Road and tower is located at Cowan Hall on the campus of Otterbein College.
The station began operations in 1948 as a carrier current AM station with the callsign of WOBC. In 1958, the station's programming moved to the FM band on 91.5 FM. In 1977 the station started stereo broadcasts. In 1983, the station changed frequencies to 105.7 MHz - a frequency located within the current commercial portion of the FM band. In 1989, the FCC required that Otterbein relinquish the commercial frequency to make room for a new commercial station in Marysville (now licensed to Hilliard as WXZX). In 1990, WOBN-FM moved to the frequency of 101.5 MHz. In November 2008 WOBN moved once again to the present frequency of 97.5.
Programming
Because WOBN is a student-run college radio station, its lineup and content change frequently as new students enter and experienced students graduate. In addition to WOBN's formatted music programming, the station's mission statement includes supporting local athletes and early airplay of major and independent label new releases.
WOBN-FM is the voice for all Otterbein football, basketball, and baseball teams, as well as many of Westerville's other local sports.
External links
Otterbein University
OBN
Westerville, Ohio
OBN
Radio stations established in 1957
1957 establishments in Ohio |
Sidi M'Bark is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Ifni Province of the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 6932 people living in 1166 households.
References
Populated places in Sidi Ifni Province
Rural communes of Guelmim-Oued Noun |
Ron Irvine (10 March 1927 – 28 April 1984) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
1927 births
1984 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Richmond Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club players |
HMC Protector is a Border Force (customs) cutter of the United Kingdom, formerly the Tavi of the Finnish Border Guard. She was built by Uki Workboat in Finland and was acquired by the UK Border Force in 2013. After a period of refit, the vessel was commissioned by the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 17 March 2014. Protector replaced HMC Sentinel, which was retired in 2013.
Construction
HMC Protector is the only vessel of the Telkkä-class operating in the UK Border Force's fleet and works alongside four customs patrol vessels. Protector was built in 2002 by Uudenkaupungin Työvene Oy at Uusikaupunki, Finland and named Tavi, originally serving with the Finnish Border Guard. The design includes an ice-class steel hull and an aluminium superstructure. After service with the Finnish Border Guard from 2002 to 2013, Tavi was sold to the UK Border Force. Following a period of refit, the vessel was renamed Protector and entered service on 17 March 2014 with a commissioning ceremony in London. The home port of the Protector is Portsmouth.
Propulsion
Protector is fitted with twin Wärtsilä 12V200 engines driving twin propellers through a pair of reduction gearboxes. The total installed power of gives Protector a top speed of . A single bow thruster is fitted for slow speed manoeuvring in confined spaces.
Operational history
From April to October 2015, HMC Protector was located in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Triton alongside HMC Seeker. The two ships were responsible for rescuing 1,650 refugees and apprehended 26 people traffickers. Both vessels operated alongside the Italian Armed Forces and had a small contingent of Royal Marines aboard.
On August 28, 2019 she was involved in the seizure of approximately 750 kg of 80% purity cocaine off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The vessel was then landed in Fishguard harbour.
References
External links
Ships built in Finland
Ships of the United Kingdom
2002 ships
Customs cutters of the United Kingdom |
David Paul Leonhard (born January 22, 1941) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from through . He was a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971 and, won the World Series in 1970.
Baseball career
A native of Arlington, Virginia, Leonhard attended Johns Hopkins University. He was signed by the Orioles as a free agent in 1963. He started his professional career with Class C Aberdeen Pheasants (1963–1964), and won the International League Pitcher of the Year Award while playing for the Rochester Red Wings in 1967, gaining a promotion to Baltimore late in the season.
Leonhard made his major league debut on September 21, 1967, at the age of 26. In three games with the 1967 Orioles, Leonhard went 0–0 with a 3.14 ERA in innings of work. In 1968, he finished with a 7–7 record in a starting rotation that included Dave McNally (22–10), Jim Hardin (18–13) and Tom Phoebus (15–15), but with the emergence of Jim Palmer in 1969, he was relegated to the bullpen.
On May 6, 1968, Leonhard took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before Detroit Tigers outfielder Jim Northrup broke it up with a single after two outs. He had to settle with a one-hit shutout, 4–0 victory over Detroit at Memorial Stadium. On May 30, 1968, he shutout the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park, 5–0, giving up just two singles to Luis Aparicio (4th inning) and Tommy McCraw (7th).
Leonhard appeared in the 1969 and 1971 World Series (3.00 ERA in two games), and was a part of the team's roster in the 1970 World Series, though he did not make an appearance. After the series, the Orioles offered him a World Series ring or a TV; Leonhard picked the TV because he did not wear rings. During the 1971 World Series, Weaver asked him to warm up during a game, a surprise to Leonhard because the Orioles had four 20-game winners on their staff. Weaver said it was "To scare 'em," to which Leonhard responded, "Earl, the Pirates have been scouting us just like we've been scouting them. They know better than to get scared by me." "Not the Pirates," Weaver responded. "I want to scare Palmer, McNally, and Cuellar into pitching better." He played in his final major league game on September 20, 1972. Leonhard continued to play in the minor leagues until he retired in 1976 at the age of 35. He also pitched with the Puerto Rican team in the 1971 Caribbean Series and for Triple-A Salt Lake City Angels in 1973.
In a six-season major league career, Leonhard played in 117 games, accumulating a 16–14 win–loss record along with a 3.15 earned run average including; 29 starts, seven complete games, four shutouts and five saves, giving up 118 earned runs on 287 hits and 150 walks while striking out 146 in 337.0 innings.
Personal life
After he graduated from Johns Hopkins, Leonhard married Judy. She had been his girlfriend in high school, but they stopped dating initially when he went to college; however, their relationship started again when they saw each other at an alumni football game. They only stayed married for a few years before divorcing. Palmer introduced him to Doris while the Orioles were visiting the Red Sox in the early 1970s, and she became his second wife. They opened a garden center in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1975; as of 2010, they owned seven greenhouses in the area, where they sold plants and gardening materials.
Leonhard was roommates with Palmer, who called him "my best friend on the team." Palmer said, "Davey's education really was uncommon in the big leagues. He used words of more than one syllable, and he knew a pronoun was not a ex-amateur noun and stuff like that." The Matz family lives behind Leonhards nursery in Beverly MA
Sources
External links
, or Retrosheet, or SABR Biography Project, or Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)
1941 births
Living people
Aberdeen Pheasants players
Baltimore Orioles players
Baseball players from Virginia
Bluefield Orioles players
Cangrejeros de Santurce (baseball) players
Elmira Pioneers players
Fox Cities Foxes players
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays baseball players
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente pitchers
Major League Baseball pitchers
Minor league baseball coaches
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
People from Beverly, Massachusetts
Québec Carnavals players
Quebec Metros players
Rochester Red Wings players
Salt Lake City Angels players
Sportspeople from Arlington County, Virginia
Washington College alumni
Washington College Shoremen baseball players
Washington College Shoremen basketball players
Wichita Aeros players |
```javascript
/**
* @license Apache-2.0
*
*
*
* 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.
*/
'use strict';
// MODULES //
var resolve = require( 'path' ).resolve;
var tape = require( 'tape' );
var float64ToFloat32 = require( '@stdlib/number/float64/base/to-float32' );
var Float32Array = require( '@stdlib/array/float32' );
var tryRequire = require( '@stdlib/utils/try-require' );
// VARIABLES //
var sdsdot = tryRequire( resolve( __dirname, './../lib/ndarray.native.js' ) );
var opts = {
'skip': ( sdsdot instanceof Error )
};
// TESTS //
tape( 'main export is a function', opts, function test( t ) {
t.ok( true, __filename );
t.strictEqual( typeof sdsdot, 'function', 'main export is a function' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function has an arity of 8', opts, function test( t ) {
t.strictEqual( sdsdot.length, 8, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function calculates the dot product of vectors `x` and `y`', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array( [ 4.0, 2.0, -3.0, 5.0, -1.0, 2.0, -5.0, 6.0 ] );
y = new Float32Array( [ 2.0, 6.0, -1.0, -4.0, 8.0, 8.0, 2.0, -3.0 ] );
dot = sdsdot( x.length, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, -17.0, 'returns expected value' );
x = new Float32Array( [ 3.0, -4.0, 1.0 ] );
y = new Float32Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0 ] );
dot = sdsdot( x.length, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 14.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'if provided an `N` parameter less than or equal to `0`, the function returns a provided scalar constant', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array( [ 3.0, -4.0, 1.0 ] );
y = new Float32Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0 ] );
dot = sdsdot( 0, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 0.0, 'returns expected value' );
dot = sdsdot( -4, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 0.0, 'returns expected value' );
dot = sdsdot( 0, float64ToFloat32( 3.14 ), x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, float64ToFloat32( 3.14 ), 'returns expected value' );
dot = sdsdot( -4, float64ToFloat32( 3.14 ), x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, float64ToFloat32( 3.14 ), 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports providing a scalar constant to add to the dot product', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array( [ 4.0, 2.0, -3.0, 5.0, -1.0, 2.0, -5.0, 6.0 ] );
y = new Float32Array( [ 2.0, 6.0, -1.0, -4.0, 8.0, 8.0, 2.0, -3.0 ] );
dot = sdsdot( x.length, 10.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, -7.0, 'returns expected value' );
x = new Float32Array( [ 3.0, -4.0, 1.0 ] );
y = new Float32Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 3.0 ] );
dot = sdsdot( x.length, -10.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 4.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports an `x` stride', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
2.0, // 0
-3.0,
-5.0, // 1
7.0,
6.0 // 2
]);
y = new Float32Array([
8.0, // 0
2.0, // 1
-3.0, // 2
3.0,
-4.0,
1.0
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, 2, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, -12.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports an `x` offset', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
1.0,
2.0, // 0
3.0,
4.0, // 1
5.0,
6.0 // 2
]);
y = new Float32Array([
6.0, // 0
7.0, // 1
8.0, // 2
9.0,
10.0,
11.0
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, 2, 1, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 88.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports a `y` stride', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
2.0, // 0
-3.0, // 1
-5.0, // 2
7.0,
6.0
]);
y = new Float32Array([
8.0, // 0
2.0,
-3.0, // 1
3.0,
-4.0, // 2
1.0
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 2, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 45.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports a `y` offset', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
1.0, // 0
2.0,
3.0, // 1
4.0,
5.0, // 2
6.0
]);
y = new Float32Array([
6.0,
7.0,
8.0,
9.0, // 0
10.0, // 1
11.0 // 2
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, 2, 0, y, 1, 3 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 94.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports negative strides', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
1.0, // 2
2.0,
3.0, // 1
4.0,
5.0 // 0
]);
y = new Float32Array([
6.0, // 2
7.0, // 1
8.0, // 0
9.0,
10.0
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, -2, x.length-1, y, -1, 2 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 67.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'the function supports complex access patterns', opts, function test( t ) {
var dot;
var x;
var y;
x = new Float32Array([
1.0, // 0
2.0,
3.0, // 1
4.0,
5.0 // 2
]);
y = new Float32Array([
6.0,
7.0, // 2
8.0, // 1
9.0, // 0
10.0
]);
dot = sdsdot( 3, 0.0, x, 2, 0, y, -1, y.length-2 );
t.strictEqual( dot, 68.0, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
tape( 'if both strides are equal to `1`, the function efficiently calculates the dot product', opts, function test( t ) {
var expected;
var dot;
var x;
var y;
var i;
expected = 0.0;
x = new Float32Array( 100 );
y = new Float32Array( x.length );
for ( i = 0; i < x.length; i++ ) {
x[ i ] = i;
y[ i ] = x.length - i;
expected += x[ i ] * y[ i ];
}
dot = sdsdot( x.length, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, expected, 'returns expected value' );
expected = 0.0;
x = new Float32Array( 240 );
y = new Float32Array( x.length );
for ( i = 0; i < x.length; i++ ) {
x[ i ] = i;
y[ i ] = x.length - i;
expected += x[ i ] * y[ i ];
}
dot = sdsdot( x.length, 0.0, x, 1, 0, y, 1, 0 );
t.strictEqual( dot, expected, 'returns expected value' );
t.end();
});
``` |
HMS Viscount was a V-class destroyer (Thornycroft V and W class) of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I and in World War II.
Construction and commissioning
Viscount, the first Royal Navy ship of the name, was ordered either on 30 June 1916 or in July 1916 (sources differ) as part of the 9th Order of the 1916–1917 Naval Programme and was laid down by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston, Hampshire, England, on 20 December 1916. Although broadly similar, Viscount was one of only two V-Class destroyers built by Thornycrofts. HMS Viscount differed in a number of ways to other V-Class destroyers and was notably faster. Launched on 29 December 1917, she was completed on 4 March 1918 and commissioned the same day. Her original pennant number, F99, was changed first to G06 and then in April 1918 to G24; it was changed to D92 during the interwar period.
Service history
First World War
Upon completion, Viscount was assigned to the Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, in which she served for the rest of World War I. Viscount rapidly gained a reputation as an exceptionally fast ship and successfully attacked and sank at least one German U-boat which was caught on the surface. HMS Viscount was signalled to attack at full speed. The U-boat spoilt the aim of Viscounts forward battery by submerging full-speed astern. Viscount steamed over the U-boat and destroyed it by depth charges. HMS Viscount also participated in several cruises/escorts to Murmansk and Archangel during this period. Other actions included the interception and seizing of Bolshevik-controlled Russian warships in support of White Russian forces.
Interwar
After the conclusion of World War I, Viscount served in the Atlantic Fleet. In 1921 she joined the light cruisers , , , and and the destroyers , , , , , , and in a Baltic Sea cruise, departing the United Kingdom on 31 August 1921. The ships crossed the North Sea and transited the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal to enter the Baltic, where they called at Danzig in the Free City of Danzig; Memel in the Klaipėda Region; Liepāja, Latvia; Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Kristiania, Norway, before crossing the North Sea and ending the voyage at Port Edgar, Scotland, on 15 October 1921.
Viscount later served in the Mediterranean Fleet before being assigned to duties in home waters. She was attached to the 1st Submarine Flotilla in 1938.
Second World War
1939–1940
When the United Kingdom entered World War II on 3 September 1939, Viscount was deployed with the 19th Destroyer Flotilla, based at Plymouth, for convoy escort and patrol duty in the English Channel and Southwestern Approaches. In January 1940, she was reassigned to the Western Approaches Command but continued her escort and patrol operations from Plymouth. On 7 January 1940, she and the destroyer relieved two French warships as escort for Convoy HG 13 during the final leg of its voyage from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom; the destroyers and and the trawler joined the escort on 8 January 1940, and Viscount detached from it on 10 January. On 18 February 1940, Viscount and Vanquisher relieved a French warship as the escort for Convoy HG 18 during the final portion of its voyage from Gibraltar to Liverpool, detaching to return to Plymouth when it arrived at Liverpool on 19 February 1940. On 8 April 1940, Viscount, the destroyers and , and the sloop relieved a French warship as the escort of Convoy HG 25F for the last leg of its voyage from Gibraltar to Liverpool; although Vimy and Witch detached the next day, Viscount and Rochester stayed with the convoy until arrived at Liverpool on 11 April 1940. In April, Western Approaches Command moved its headquarters to Liverpool, and as a result Viscounts base was changed from Plymouth to Liverpool.
In May 1940, Viscounts pennant number was changed to I92. That month, she was assigned to operations related to the Norwegian Campaign in the aftermath of the April 1940 German invasion of Norway and Denmark. On 17 May 1940, she joined the destroyers and in escorting the aircraft carrier from the River Clyde in Scotland to the Norwegian coast. On 7 June 1940, Viscount, the destroyers , and , and the escort destroyer departed the United Kingdom to meet a convoy of troopships that had been delayed by fog. Later that day, the destroyers rendezvoused with the troopships – carrying Allied personnel evacuated from Norway as the campaign there ended in the German conquest of the country – and the repair ship and took them under escort to the Clyde. The convoy came under attack by German aircraft on 8 June 1940, but the escorts drove the German planes off.
Viscount returned to her North Atlantic convoy escort duty in July 1940. In September 1940 she detached from it to join Witherington and the destroyers and in escorting the auxiliary minelayers , , , and
while they laid mines in the Northern Barrage in Operation SN42.
Viscount then went back to convoy operations, and she was part of the escort of Convoy HG 47 – bound from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom – along with the sloop and in November 1940. Detaching from HG 47, she rendezvoused with Convoy HX 90 – 41 ships bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Liverpool – as its escort on 1 December 1940. Later that day, HX 90 came under attack by the first of six German submarines, which sank 10 of its ships on 1 and 2 December. The sinkings stopped only after Viscount and the Royal Canadian Navy destroyer conducted 13 depth-charge attacks on asdic contacts over the course of four hours on 2 December, keeping the submarines submerged and unable to attack until HX 90 had left the area. On 2 December, Viscount rescued survivors from some of HX 90s lost ships, picking up some of the 21 survivors from the armed merchant cruiser , which the had torpedoed and sunk west of Ireland at with the loss of 172 lives; 16 survivors of the British merchant ship Kavak, which the had torpedoed and sunk during the night of 1–2 December about west of Bloody Foreland at ; 36 survivors of the British merchant ship Goodleigh, which the had torpedoed and sunk on 2 December west of Bloody Foreland at ; and 27 survivors of the Ellerman Lines cargo ship , which U-52 had torpedoed and sunk on 2 December about west of Bloody Foreland at . Viscount then escorted HX 90 the rest of the way to Liverpool, where it arrived on 5 December 1940.
1941–1942
Viscount continued on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic until June 1941, when she began conversion to a Long-Range Escort at Liverpool. With the conversion complete, she underwent post-conversion acceptance trials and, having passed them, performed work-ups in December 1941 to prepare for her return to convoy duty, which she did later that month.
In March 1942, Viscount was "adopted" by the civilian community of Chislehurst and Sidcup in Kent in a Warship Week national savings campaign. In April 1942, she was reassigned to the 6th Escort Group, in which she joined the corvettes and and the Royal Norwegian Navy corvettes and . In May 1942, she escorted Convoy SC 83 with the group. By June–July 1942, she had had Type 271 surface warning radar and a Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar installed.
On 13 August 1942, Viscount was part of the escort of Convoy ONS 122 when it came under a series of sustained attacks by German submarines of the "Lohs" group. On 23 August, she intercepted communications from one of the submarines, got a fix on its location, detected it with asdic after it submerged, and attacked it. By the time attacks on ONS 122 ended, it had lost four ships and its escorts had damaged two German submarines.
In October 1942, Viscount was part of the escort of Convoy SC 1 CW, which came under attack by 10 German submarines of the "Wotan" (Wōden) group. On 15 October, while defending the convoy, Viscount detected the submarine U-607 on radar and attacked her unsuccessfully. Viscount then rammed and thereafter sank the submarine by gun fire and a heavy depth charge. U-661 at , which went down with the loss of her entire crew of 44. Viscount suffered significant damage in the ramming and had to detach from the convoy and proceed to the United Kingdom for repairs.
1943–1945
Viscounts repairs were completed in February 1943, and she rejoined the 6th Escort Group that month in time to join the escort of Convoy ONS 165, which came under attack from German submarines of the "Taifun" ("Typhoon") group. In defense of the convoy, she depth charged and rammed the submarine in the North Atlantic at . U-201 sank with the loss of her entire crew of 49, and Viscount again suffered significant damage, requiring repairs that lasted through April 1943.
In May 1943, Viscount returned to North Atlantic convoy duty. While escorting Convoy ONS 6 with the 6th Escort Group on 8 May 1943, she got a radio direction-finding fix on a German submarine and closed with it, sighting it at a range of . The submarine submerged, and Viscount attacked it with depth charges, but without success.
Over the course of the summer of 1943, Viscount was detached for Operation Derange, consisting of offensive antisubmarine operations in the Bay of Biscay in which aircraft and ships cooperated in attacks on German submarines transiting the bay between their bases in German-occupied France and the Atlantic shipping routes. In September 1943, she took part in Operation Alacrity, joining the escort aircraft carrier , the destroyers , , and , and the Polish Navy destroyers and in forming the 8th Support Group to escort military convoys to the Azores as the Allies set up air bases there. She continued operations in support of Alacrity into October 1943.
Viscount returned to Atlantic convoy duty in October 1943, continuing it without further major incident into the early weeks of 1945, when she also began convoy escort operations in British coastal waters. In order to free up her crew members to man newer, more modern escort ships, she was withdrawn from operations in February 1945 and decommissioned in March 1945.
Decommissioning and disposal
Viscount was sold on 20 March 1945 to BISCO for scrapping by Clayton and Davie at Dunston. She arrived at the shipbreakers yard on 27 May 1947.
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Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born 13 July 1938) is a Swedish artist, writer, musician and friherre (baron) of the De Geer noble family.
De Geer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He also exposed his grandmother's Nazi sympathies in a film called ("Grandmother, Hitler and I").
Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning Swedish flag with the words ('COCK') and "" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately confiscated by the police. During the late 1960s he was among the contributors of a satirical magazine, Puss, in Stockholm. De Geer has written a number of books and was also a member of the Swedish radical prog band Blå Tåget. He has been married to the artist Marianne Lindberg de Geer since 1987.
He was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 2017.
References
External links
Marianne Lindberg de Geer's website
Sinziana Ravini: Marianne Lindberg De Geer och kritiken (Dunkers kulturhus, 2010)
1938 births
Barons of Sweden
Artists from Montreal
Swedish artists
Swedish male writers
Swedish nobility
Konstfack alumni
Living people
Writers from Montreal
Swedish people of Belgian descent
Carl Johan
Recipients of the Illis quorum |
Archduke Joseph Árpád Benedikt Ferdinand Franz Maria Gabriel (; 8 February 1933 – 30 April 2017) was a member of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and as such an Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia with the style His Imperial and Royal Highness.
Early life
He was born in Budapest, the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and his wife, Princess Anna of Saxony. He was the great-grandson of Archduchess Gisela of Austria.
Education
He received a degree in economics from the University of Lisbon.
Family
Joseph married Princess Maria von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1935–2018), daughter of Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and Carolina dei Conti Rignon. They married civilly on 25 August 1956 and religiously on 12 September 1956 in Bronnbach, Wertheim am Main, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
They had eight children:
Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (7 August 1957 – 8 August 1957).
Archduchess Monika-Ilona Maria Carolina Stephanie Elisabeth Immacolata Benedicta Dominica of Austria (14 September 1959) she married Charles-Henry de Rambures on 18 May 1996. They have one daughter.
Archduke Joseph Karl Maria Árpád Stephan Pius Ignatius Aloysius Cyrillus of Austria (18 March 1960) he married Princess Margarete of Hohenberg (granddaughter of Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg) on 28 December 1990. They have two sons and two daughters.
Archduchess Maria Christine Regina Stephania Immacolata Carolina Monika Ägidia of Austria (1 September 1963) she married Raymond van der Meide on 22 May 1988. They have seven children.
Archduke Andreas-Augustinus Maria Árpád Aloys Konstantin Pius Ignatius Peter of Austria (29 April 1965) he married Countess Marie-Christine von Hatzfeldt-Donhoff on 2 October 1994. They have six children.
Archduchess Alexandra Lydia Pia Immacolata Josepha Petra Paula Maria of Austria (29 June 1967) she married Wilhelmus de Wit on 19 June 1999. They have four children.
Archduke Nicolaus Franziskus Alexander Nuno Josef Árpád Ruppert Donatus Virgil Maria of Austria (27 November 1973) he married Eugenia de Calonje y Gurrea in July 2002. They have four children.
Archduke Johannes Jacobus Josef Árpád Ulrich Pius Stephan Ignatius Hermann Maria of Austria (21 May 1975) he married María Gabriela Montenegro Villamizar on 3 October 2009. They have three sons.
Dynastic honours
: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
: General Captain of the Order of Vitéz (1977–2017)
References
1933 births
2017 deaths
House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria
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Football Club Barkchi Hisor formerly known as Barqi Tojik Hisor () is football club based in Hisor in Tajikistan. They currently play in the top division of the country, and formerly played in the Soviet Second League.
History
Prior to the 2015 Tajik Season, Energetik Dushanbe were renamed Barqi Tojik Hisor.
On 9 June 2017, Barkchi appointed Mubin Ergashev as their manager after Vitaliy Levchenko joined the coaching staff of Krylia Sovetov.
Names
Domestic history
Managers
Oraz Nazarov
Hadi Bargizar (2011–??)
Mubin Ergashev (2017–2018)
See also
Bargh Shiraz FC
References
External links
Official website (archived 16 May 2013)
Football clubs in Tajikistan
Football clubs in Dushanbe
Association football clubs established in 2006 |
Mario Minniti (8 December 1577 – 22 November 1640) was an Italian artist active in Sicily after 1606.
Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he arrived in Rome in 1593, where he became the friend, collaborator, and model of the key Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including Boy with a Basket of Fruit, The Fortune Teller, The Musicians, Boy Bitten by a Lizard (probable), Bacchus, The Lute Player, The Calling of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew.
He ceases to appear as a model after about 1600, when he is believed to have married, but he may have been involved with Caravaggio and others in the 1606 street brawl which resulted in the death of Ranuccio Tomassoni at Caravaggio's hands – his biographer records that he fled to Sicily following a homicide, from where he petitioned for a pardon (it was eventually granted), and it is known that he sheltered Caravaggio during the latter's stay in Sicily in 1608–1609, procuring for him the important commission for the Burial of Saint Lucy. In Sicily he established a successful workshop producing religious commissions and eventually became a respected local businessman. Because of the nature of his output, where paintings were produced as a collaborative effort by assistants and pupils, it is frequently difficult to identify exactly which works, or parts of works, are by Minniti's own hand. It is clear that he brought to Sicily the lessons he had learnt from Caravaggio, in particular the use of dramatic chiaroscuro and the depiction of scenes seized at the moment of greatest dramatic intensity, but his work (or rather his workshop's output) has been criticised for "endlessly recycled motifs" and "bland religious canvasses". Nevertheless, he is held in high regard in Sicily, and it is possible to speak of a 'School of Minniti' in the island's artistic history.
References
1577 births
1640 deaths
People from Syracuse, Sicily
Italian Baroque painters
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Italian artists' models
Painters from Sicily
Caravaggisti |
Bryson Independent School District is a public school district based in Bryson, Texas (USA).
Located in Jack County, a small portion of the district extends into Young County.
Bryson ISD has one school that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve.
Academic achievement
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
Special programs
Athletics
Bryson High School plays six-man football.
See also
List of school districts in Texas
References
External links
Bryson ISD
School districts in Jack County, Texas
School districts in Young County, Texas |
Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, formerly placed in the now defunct Sterculiaceae; it may sometimes be called the "parasol tree". The genus name honours Karl Joseph von Firmian.
Species
The Catalogue of Life lists 16 species:
Firmiana calcarea
Firmiana colorata
Firmiana danxiaensis
Firmiana diversifolia
Firmiana fulgens
Firmiana hainanensis
Firmiana kerrii
Firmiana kwangsiensis
Firmiana major
Firmiana malayana
Firmiana minahassae
Firmiana papuana
Firmiana philippinensis
Firmiana pulcherrima
Firmiana simplex — Chinese parasol tree, or wutong
Firmiana sumbawaensis
Gallery
References
External links
Sterculioideae
Malvaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
First Police Brigadier (Ret.) Norman Kamaru (born Gorontalo, 27 November 1985; also known as Briptu Norman) is a former Indonesian police officer from the Brimob corps of the Indonesian National Police (POLRI), currently a singer. Prior to termination initiated by POLRI, his rank was the First Police Brigadier (, abbreviated: ). Kamaru was catapulted into stardom after a video of him singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" by A. R. Rahman while in police uniform went viral in early April 2011 in YouTube. He recently signed a billion rupiah (US$113,000) recording contract.
Biography
Kamaru was born in Gorontalo, Gorontalo, Indonesia on 27 November 1985. He is the youngest of nine children born to Idris Kamaru and Halima Marthinus. As a child, he enjoyed singing.
He started his career by joining the Mobile Brigade of POLRI, rising to the rank of First Brigadier.
Celebrity
Kamaru became famous after a video of him in uniform lip-synching "Chaiyya Chaiyya" and imitating Shahrukh Khan while on duty at a guard post was uploaded to YouTube on 29 March 2011. Bagus BT Saragih of The Jakarta Post notes that his hand movements are like those used by Indian actors, while the accuracy of his lip-synching indicates that he had memorized the lyrics.
The video was a hit on YouTube, with viewers considering his actions "perfectly" like Khan's in Dil Se.., and eventually becoming a meme, "catapulting" Kamaru to fame. He began recording his first single, "Cinta Farhat" ("Farhat's Love"), in April of that year.
As a result of his newfound celebrity, Kamaru became a guest on Opera Van Java and Bukan Empat Mata, hosted by Tukul Arwana. He also received a film and commercial offer, which were rejected by the police department; according to a spokesman for the department, Kamaru was not ready and would have to attend film school before acting. He also received a full legal scholarship from Bung Karno University in Jakarta, as well as a new motorcycle and a house.
However, the performing schedule detracted from his duties. As a result, on 7 July 2011 he was taken from the set of Hitam Putih, where he was filming a skit, by twenty people. Although first reported to be a kidnapping, it was later revealed that it had been officers of the Bureau of Professionalism and Security Affairs, who had taken him as he had not secured permission to be on the show.
Kamaru has accepted a billion rupiah (US$113,000) contract offer from the mobile content developer Falcon Interactive. The terms of the contract require him to produce a single album; if he acts in a movie, he will receive another billion. That same month he tendered his resignation from the Indonesian National Police, citing the difficulty in finding time to perform; according to his mother, he had been arrested several times for performing "on the sidelines of his duty". After the Gorontalo police refused to accept his resignation, he went to the national police headquarters in Jakarta, where he was told that he could only resign if he repaid the cost of his training, as he had signed on for a ten-year contract; a spokesman for the police stated that the police force was "not like a [bus] shelter where people can just come and go whenever they want". The police later withdrew the demand and subsequently fired Kamaru.
In order to create a new, more modern image, in April 2012 Norman Kamaru initial rap single 'Forget It' (Lupakan) and collaborate with rapper Saykoji.
In 2013, Kamaru started a YouTube channel called "Noorman Camaru CHANNEL". He has started uploading videos regularly since then.
Reception
Initially the police department intended to punish Kamaru for his dancing, calling his behaviour "undisciplined and childish" as well as "unethical", noting that police officers should be ever vigilant when on duty. After performing for his superiors and mounting public support, the police relented, deciding instead to "channel his talents".
In response to the threatened police sanctions, Kamaru received popular support. Noted singer and songwriter Glenn Fredly tweeted that the police should instead punish those who "call themselves singers but are unable to lip-sync as cool as Norman", while legislator Eva Kusuma Sundari noted that actions like Kamaru's were good public relations for the police. However, Alexia Cahyaningtyas of The Jakarta Globe, called it "embarrassing" that "a lip-syncing policeman [was] considered first-class entertainment".
Salingsilang.com, which records trends on Twitter, reported that Kamaru was the biggest trending topic on Twitter in Indonesia during the first half of 2011, beating Justin Bieber and the death of Osama bin Laden. The original upload was viewed 200,000 times in its first week and by 5 April it had been "liked" 160,000 times; it was only "disliked" 32 times in the same period. He was chosen as the most entertaining newsmaker of the year in the Seputar Indonesia Awards in May of that year.
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
1985 births
Living people
People from Gorontalo (city)
Indonesian police officers
Viral videos
Indonesian Internet celebrities
21st-century Indonesian male singers
Musicians from Gorontalo |
Lamson Engineering Company Ltd was the name between 1937 and 1976 of the British offshoot of the Lamson Cash Carrier Company (and its successors) of Boston Massachusetts. The Lamson companies were the best-known manufacturers of cash carrier systems for shops including cash ball, wire and pneumatic tube systems and of pneumatic tube systems for other applications.
History
The Lamson Cash Carrier Company, was established in Lowell, Massachusetts and was founded by William Stickney Lamson and Meldon Stephen Giles in January 1882 to manufacture his invention of the Cash Ball system.
In 1884, John Magrath Kelly, an Irish-American from Boston, became an agent for the Lamson Cash Carrier Company in London, and the British Company was founded. By 1888, the Lamson Store Service Company Ltd was established at 1 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, London, WC. With capital of £85,000 (£ as of ) the company had rights to the ball system for Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, with UK patent 18566.
In 1889, the company was renamed the Lamson Paragon Supply Company through an amalgamation of the Paragon Check Book Co with the Lamson Store Service Company. Shortly afterwards, they started selling the Rapid Wire systems in Britain.
In 1897, the Bostedo Package and Cash Carrier Company launched its products in Britain. It was bought out two years later when Lamson renamed it the Lamson Pneumatic Tube Company.
Subsidiary companies were established in Australia in 1901 and New Zealand in 1905. In 1911, all manufacturing was consolidated at a single factory on Hythe Road, Willesden Junction, northwest London.
On 20 January 1937, the Lamson Engineering Company Ltd was incorporated as a merger of the Lamson Store Service Co Ltd and Lamson Pneumatic Tube Co Ltd.
In 1973, the firm was promoting its "Rallypost" system with PVC track and battery-operated carriers that could carry up to 6 kg. This was designed as an office document carrier.
Lamsons bought a 51% stake in the Dart Cash Carrier Company in 1927 and became sole owner in 1948. Dart was based in Stoke on Trent, and Lamson relocated to new premises in Stoke in 1974.
Lamson Engineering Company Ltd survived until 1976 when it was taken over by Dialed Despatches to become D. D. Lamson. Further acquisitions and sales moved the pneumatic tube business through Crest Nicholson, Frederick Cooper, J. Bibby and Sons and now it is part of Quirepace.
References
Pneumatics
Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Brent
Companies based in Staffordshire
British companies established in 1937
Manufacturing companies established in 1937
Companies disestablished in 1976 |
Johannes Agnoli (22 February 1925 in Valle di Cadore, Eastern Dolomites – 4 May 2003 in San Quirico di Moriano near Lucca) was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist.
Biography
Agnoli grew up in Belluno, northern Italy. As a pupil, he became an admirer of Benito Mussolini's fascism and a member of the fascist youth organization, because this was considered a type of rebellion or non-bourgeois behavior. Graduating from school in 1943, he then volunteered for the Wehrmacht, the German military, and was sent to Yugoslavia to combat Partisans. In May 1945 he was captured by the British near Trieste and became a prisoner of war in the Moascar camp in Egypt. In the re-educational classes, he aided in the philosophy course using Wilhelm Windelband's History of Philosophy thus also learning German. Released in the summer of 1948, he moved to Urach in Baden-Württemberg where he worked at a sawmill. Agnoli received a veteran's scholarship to study at the University of Tübingen.
Naturalized as a German in 1955, Agnoli did his doctorate in political science about Giambattista Vico's philosophy of law under the supervision of Eduard Spranger.
In 1957, Agnoli also joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD); he would be expelled in 1961, for being a member of the Socialist German Student Union, the former college organization of the SPD, which then rebelled against the party. In 1960, he started working as the assistant of Ferdinand A. Hermens, the only political scientist at the University of Cologne at the time. In Cologne Agnoli got to know his future wife, Barbara Görres. Görres's devoutly Catholic family at first objected to her relationship with Agnoli, an atheist, even calling on Hermens to intervene. The two married in 1962. After it was reported that Agnoli called on the West German government to recognize the socialist German Democratic Republic (East Germany), he came into conflict with Hermens and his contract was not renewed. Wolfgang Abendroth, a renowned German left-wing academic, recommended Agnoli to Ossip K. Flechtheim of the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin. Agnoli worked as Flechtheim's assistant until becoming a professor in his own right in 1972.
In 1967, Die Transformation der Demokratie (The Transformation of Democracy), the book most commonly associated with Agnoli, was published. However, he only wrote one essay, constituting about one third of the book, with the social psychologist Peter Brückner authoring the rest. This book was read very widely in the German student movement of 1968, leading Die Zeit to refer to it as the movement's "Bible". In his essay, Agnoli discusses the question, why parliamentarianism does not allow the exploited and subaltern classes to attain power and use it in their favor. He argues that, historically, fascism was the first method of repressing social unrest by integrating the masses and thus allowing for the destruction of parliamentarianism. However, this did not turn out to be a long-term solution. Capital had to revert to parliamentarian forms of government, according to Agnoli. He argues that it was able to do so by "transforming" parliamentary rule to exclude the possibility of revolutionary insurrection. He names several methods: the prohibition of communist parties, such as the Communist Party of Germany in West Germany; giving additional power to the executive branch; the use of election threshold, which prevent small parties from entering parliaments; and finally plurality voting systems which further marginalize small radical parties. This causes a parliamentary system to become no more than a pluralistic version of one-party rule, according to Agnoli. Elections only decide which politicians get to run policies which have already been decided anyway. He viewed West Germany as the prototype of such a "transformed" parliamentary democracy, which no longer allows for revolutionary parliamentary action.
In 1991, Agnoli was retired. He moved to his vacation home in Lucca, Tuscany – without his wife. He had bought the house in the 1970s. From 2000, his grown-up children cared for him, as he started losing his health. He died there in 2003. In 2004, his wife Barbara published a biography of Agnoli titled Johannes Agnoli: Eine biografische Skizze (Johannes Agnoli: A biographical sketch).
Bibliography
Johannes Agnoli, Theses on the Transformation of Democracy and on the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition, Viewpoint Magazine 4 (October 2014). Retrieved 17 February 2016.
References
1925 births
2003 deaths
German political scientists
Marxist theorists
People from Belluno
German people of Italian descent
Naturalized citizens of Germany
20th-century political scientists |
Rémi Feuillet (born 22 December 1992) is a Mauritian judoka.
Feuillet was introduced to Judo by his father Frédéric who is a former national technical director of the Mauritian judo team. He is based in France and lives in Val-d'Oise and trains in Villiers-le-Bel.
Feuillet won four consecutive bronze medals at the African Judo Championships and finished seventh at the 2021 World Judo Championships. He was selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Games and drawn against Shoichiro Mukai in the first round.
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
Mauritian male judoka
French male judoka
Olympic judoka for Mauritius
Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Mauritian people of French descent
Mauritian expatriate sportspeople in France
African Games medalists in judo
African Games bronze medalists for Mauritius
Competitors at the 2019 African Games |
Cinnamon Life Integrated Resort is the first integrated resort in Sri Lanka and the largest private investment in the country. Sri Lankan-British architect, Cecil Balmond designed the resort while Hyundai Engineering & Construction is the main contractor. The construction of the resort began in 2014. All the buildings in the resort topped off in May 2019. Even though the resort was originally planned to be completed by 2018, the project got delayed several times due to various reasons. John Keells started handing over keys to the suites apartments in August 2021. With handing over of residential and commercial units, revenue recognition started at Cinnamon Life. The remainder of the project is scheduled to be launched in a phased manner, in the second half of 2024.
History
2014-18
Cecil Balmond is the architect of the project while Hyundai Engineering & Construction is the main contractor. Waterfront Properties (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings, will manage the property which will be of total floor area. Construction of Cinnamon Life began in 2014 and the 'Suites Tower' topped off in December 2018. Over 50 percent of the floor area of the first residential tower is already sold by September 2016.
2019-Present
65% of the residential tower's floor area including six penthouses out of 25 are presold by March 2019. A quarter of buyers are expatriates while 7%-8% are foreign investors. Starting price of an apartment was US$400,000. All buildings including the Cinnamon Life Integrated Resort topped off in May 2019. The project was scheduled to finish in 2018 but the expected completion was delayed to March 2020 for Office Tower while it would be the first quarter of 2023 for the hotel and retail mall. The cost of the project has also risen due to the depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee against the US dollar. The revenue expected from the residential apartment and commercial office space is US$250 million. The construction stopped in March 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic but resumed in May 2020 with keeping up with health guidelines imposed by the health authorities. Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a brief impromptu visit to the site in October 2020.
Daily Mirror reported that Cinnamon Life Integrated Resort might get licenses from the government to operate casinos within the resort. On the dawn of the new year, 2021 resort's residential tower lightened up to read "2021 Hope". In February 2021, the resort's office and suites towers received the certificate of conformity and were scheduled to hand over to the occupants in March 2021. John Keells Properties started handing over the keys to the suites apartments in August 2021. The apartment tower consists of 196 units with two-four bedrooms. Revenue recognition at Cinnamon Life commenced after the handing over of residential and commercial units. The remainder of the project is planned to be launched in a phased manner, in the first half of 2023.
Resort
The US$850 million investment will be the largest private investment in Sri Lanka and the resort will also include 427 apartments. The hotel consists of 800 rooms and twenty restaurants and bars including six specialty restaurants. A five-storeyed shopping mall will connect to the hotel and the resort is expected to be a hub for MICE (Meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions).
Source: johnkeellsproperties.com
See also
List of hotels in Sri Lanka
References
External links
, Official website
2021 establishments in Sri Lanka
Tourist attractions in Sri Lanka
Landmarks in Sri Lanka
Hotels in Colombo
Resorts in Sri Lanka
Convention centres in Sri Lanka
Shopping malls in Sri Lanka |
Jaime César Naranjo Ortíz (born 12 September 1951) is a Chilean politician, militant from Socialist Party (PS).
An opponent of the second government of Sebastián Piñera (2018−present), on 8 November 2021, he conducted a filibuster in favor to impeach Piñera, operation which needed the vote of Giorgio Jackson to reach the necessary 78 votes for the initiative to pass to the Senate. In that way, Jackson arrived to the National Congress in Valparaíso around 01:25 AM, moment which he quickly voted.
References
External links
BCN Profile
1951 births
Living people
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso alumni
20th-century Chilean politicians
21st-century Chilean politicians
Socialist Party of Chile politicians
Christian Left (Chile) politicians |
Reds de la Ciudad de México (English: Mexico City Reds) are an American football team based in Mexico City, Mexico. The Reds compete in the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional, the top American football league in Mexico. The team plays its home games at the Estadio ITESM CCM.
History
Beginnings
The team was established in 2020 as Rojos de Lindavista and joined Fútbol Americano de México (FAM) as an expansion team to compete in the 2020 season; nevertheless, the season was canceled on March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with only four games played (the Rojos had a 1–3 record at the moment that the season was canceled).
Raúl Rivera era (2020–present)
In October 2020, the team was rebranded as Rojos CDMX and Raúl Rivera, who previously led Pumas CU to several college championships, was appointed as head coach.
The 2021 FAM season was also canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the league returned to play in 2022. The Rojos won the 2022 FAM season after finishing the regular season with a 6–2 record and as the second best team. In the semifinals, they defeated the Cabo Marlins 40–0 and won the final against the Parrilleros de Monterrey 21–14.
On 14 September 2022, after the dissolution of FAM, the team, now rebranded as Reds, joined the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional as one of the three expansions teams ahead of the 2023 LFA season, the others being Caudillos de Chihuahua and Jefes de Ciudad Juárez. It was also announced that the team will play in the Estadio Jesús Martínez "Palillo"; nevertheless, it was later announced that the team would play in the Estadio ITESM CCM, with a capacity of 2,500 spectators.
Team names
Rojos de Lindavista (2020)
Rojos CDMX (2021–2022)
Reds de la Ciudad de México (2023–present)
Roster
Staff
Season-by-season
References
Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional teams
2020 establishments in Mexico
American football teams established in 2020
Sports clubs and teams in Mexico City |
Horlivka Raion (; ) is a prospective raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is in the town of Horlivka. Population: The area of the raion is occupied by Russia, which continues to use the old, pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine. Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, portions of the northern Maiorsk district of Horlivka were the only notable areas of the raion under Ukrainian government control.
Subdivisions
Raion consists of 9 hromadas:
Chystiakove urban hromada
Debaltseve urban hromada
Horlivka urban hromada
Khrestivka urban hromada
Shakhtarsk urban hromada
Snizhne urban hromada
Vuhlehirsk urban hromada
Yenakiieve urban hromada
Zhdanivka urban hromada
References
Raions of Donetsk Oblast
Ukrainian raions established during the 2020 administrative reform |
The Tartan or The Tartan: Radford University News is a student-run newspaper published weekly for readers in and around Radford University in Radford, Virginia. Its mission is to provide the students and faculty of Radford University, as well as the residents of the surrounding city of Radford, with news pertaining to the university and surrounding community. The paper is circulated every Wednesday afternoon, and is the most widely circulated publication in the town of Radford. The paper was first published in January 1921.
History
The Tartan was originally named The Grapurchat. Its first issue was four pages, featured one picture, and detailed a cocktail party which had happened the week before. In 1978, The Grapurchat rebranded to The Tartan and its staff has now grown to include an Editor in Chief, a Managing Editor, a Section Editor, three Copy Editors, five staff writers, and a Webmaster The Tartan has a weekly circulation of 4,000.
The Tartan utilizes the RU Student Media's in-house advertising agency, SMADS, to gather and design advertisements which it uses as its main stream of revenue. The paper nets about $2,100 a week in ad revenue alone.
In March 2011, The Tartan launched a WordPress website to complement the print form of the publication. The website features a mix of articles published in the weekly issues of the paper, but also plays host to content uploaded throughout the week that does not get published in the weekly Wednesday editions.
Staff Members
Editor in Chief: Serenity Sears
Major: BFA Dance & BS Media Studies
Managing Editor: Abigail Ridpath
Major: BA English/ minor in Creative Writing
Section Editor: Stephanie Perez
Major: BS Public Relations
Copy Editor: Owen Saunders
Major: BS Communication Studies
Copy Editor: Bella Smith
Major: BS Dance Education/ minors in Entrepreneurship and Photography
Copy Editor: Alex Castanien
Major: BS Media Studies
Staff Writer: Goldie Owens
Graduate Student in Strategic Communication Program
Staff Writer: Abigail Morin
Major: BS Media Studies
Staff Writer: Aidan Hilton
Major: BS Theater/ minors in Cinema and Environmental Science
Staff Writer: Kimberly Barajas
Major: BS Criminal Justice
Staff Writer: Lauryn Washington
Major: BS Dance/ minor in Education
Webmaster: Benjamin Goldfeder
Major: Cybersecurity/ minors in Management and Legal Studies
Faculty Advisor: Bill Kovarik
External links
The Tartan
Instagram
Newspapers established in 1921
Radford University
Radford, Virginia
Student newspapers published in Virginia
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
1921 establishments in Virginia |
In mathematics, a character is (most commonly) a special kind of function from a group to a field (such as the complex numbers). There are at least two distinct, but overlapping meanings. Other uses of the word "character" are almost always qualified.
Multiplicative character
A multiplicative character (or linear character, or simply character) on a group G is a group homomorphism from G to the multiplicative group of a field , usually the field of complex numbers. If G is any group, then the set Ch(G) of these morphisms forms an abelian group under pointwise multiplication.
This group is referred to as the character group of G. Sometimes only unitary characters are considered (thus the image is in the unit circle); other such homomorphisms are then called quasi-characters. Dirichlet characters can be seen as a special case of this definition.
Multiplicative characters are linearly independent, i.e. if are different characters on a group G then from it follows that .
Character of a representation
The character of a representation of a group G on a finite-dimensional vector space V over a field F is the trace of the representation , i.e.
for
In general, the trace is not a group homomorphism, nor does the set of traces form a group. The characters of one-dimensional representations are identical to one-dimensional representations, so the above notion of multiplicative character can be seen as a special case of higher-dimensional characters. The study of representations using characters is called "character theory" and one-dimensional characters are also called "linear characters" within this context.
Alternative definition
If restricted to finite abelian group with representation in (i.e. ), the following alternative definition would be equivalent to the above (For abelian groups, every matrix representation decomposes into a direct sum of representations. For non-abelian groups, the original definition would be more general than this one):
A character of group is a group homomorphism i.e. for all
If is a finite abelian group, the characters play the role of harmonics. For infinite abelian groups, the above would be replaced by where is the circle group.
See also
Character group
Dirichlet character
Harish-Chandra character
Hecke character
Infinitesimal character
Alternating character
Characterization (mathematics)
Pontryagin duality
References
Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame
External links
Representation theory |
SBOA School and Junior College was founded by Shri E. A. G. Moses and is operated by the SBIOA Education Trust, run by the State Bank of India Officers Association in Anna Nagar Western Extension, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The school educates students from Kindergarten up to Standard 12, which is the final year of schooling in the state.
History
SBOA School and Junior College at Anna Nagar West was started in 1979. The school was founded by the SBIOA Educational Trust formed by the State Bank of India Officers' Association (Chennai Circle), then headed by its general secretary, Shri E. A. G. Moses. The purpose of starting the School was to let the children of the Officers of State Bank of India continue their education when they got transferred. Many of them found it extremely difficult to get admission in any of the other Schools in the city. The School was started with 13 teachers and the roofs of the class rooms initially were thatched. Shri E. A. G. Moses contributed Rs.8/- initially and contributions from other Officers followed. Many fund raising events were also held by the physical education department headed by Mr Easwaharan to raise funds for construction of the buildings and get other infrastructures required for the School. The educational trust slowly expanded by opening Schools in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli and Ernakulam. Its foundation was timed to coincide with the International Year of the Child - 1979. Shirley Ray served as the first principal of this school.
The SBIOA Educational Trust runs other schools in the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
See also
SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai
S.B.O.A. Matric. & Hr. Sec. School, Coimbatore
References
External links
Primary schools in Tamil Nadu
High schools and secondary schools in Chennai
1979 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Educational institutions established in 1979
Private schools in Tamil Nadu
State Bank of India |
In the Red is a 1989 black comedy-crime novel by Mark Tavener, featuring fictional BBC Reporter George Cragge and fictional Police Officer Frank Jefferson, investigating a series of murders of London bank managers, a small political party contesting a by-election, and a plan to overthrow the Director-General of the BBC.
The novel's setting in the worlds of finance (from which it draws its title), politics and media, was inspired by the writer's early experiences working for the BBC and the Liberal Party.
The novel was released (BBC Books, 1998) following the production of a television adaptation of the same name (BBC Two, 1998).
Adaptations
The seven-part radio adaptation of the same name (BBC Radio Four, 1995) by Tavener and Peter Baynham, starring Michael Williams and Barry Foster in the lead roles, was followed by three six-part sequels (BBC Radio Four, 1997–1999).
The three-part television adaptation of the same name (BBC Two, 1998) by Malcolm Bradbury stars Warren Clarke and Alun Armstrong in the lead roles.
The characters of Charles Prentis and Martin McCabe introduced in the novel were featured in their own spin-off series Absolute Power (BBC Radio 4, 2000-2006/BBC Two, 2003–2005), which was also created and written by Tavener.
References
British satirical novels
Political satire books
1989 British novels |
```java
Common mistake on switch statements
Altering format string output by changing a format specifier's `argument_index`
Metadata: creating a user-defined file attribute
Limit Accessibility of `Fields`
Methods performing *Security Checks* must be declared `Private` or `Final`
``` |
Florea Lupu (August 30, 1863–January 28, 1939) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian lawyer and politician.
Born in Volcineț, he completed the state gymnasium in Rădăuți in 1885, followed by the law faculties of Czernowitz and Vienna Universities. He received a law doctorate from Czernowitz in 1890. He worked at the finance department, the legal bar and the notary public. From 1894, he was an editor at the official gazette of Austria-Hungary, the Reichsgesetzblatt. In 1895, he became secretary at the Suceava courthouse, advancing to adviser the following year. He became president of the Bukovina state bank in 1904. In 1905, he founded the Romanian School Association of Bukovina.
Lupu successively joined the Romanian Conservative Party of Bukovina (1900), the Democratic Peasants’ Party of Bukovina (1903), the Romanian National Party (1905), the Romanian Christian Social Party of Bukovina (1908) and the Democratic Peasants' Party (1914). A city councilor, he served in the House of Deputies from 1901 to 1905, and in the Diet of Bukovina. A member of the Romanian National Council of Bukovina, he participated in the congress that approved the union of Bukovina with Romania in late November 1918. He was elected to the Assembly of Deputies for Zastavna in the first parliament of Greater Romania. From 1922 to 1924, he headed a bank in Cernăuți, where he died. He was the brother-in-law of Aurel Onciul.
Notes
References
Emil Satco, Alis Niculică (eds.), Enciclopedia Bucovinei, Vol. II. Suceava: Editura Karl A. Romstorfer, 2018.
1863 births
1939 deaths
People from Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi University alumni
Ethnic Romanian politicians in Bukovina
Members of the Diet of Bukovina
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) |
Nargess may refer to:
Nargess (film), a 1992 Iranian feature film by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Nargess (TV series), an Iranian soap opera television series
Nargess (given name)
See also
Cyclone Nargis, 2008 |
Ennadai is a formerly populated place in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located on a peninsula that juts into northeastern Ennadai Lake it faces an unnamed island. It is northwest of Churchill, Manitoba and west of Arviat. Ennadai and the surrounding area has been the traditional home of the Ahiarmiut (Ihalmiut), a Caribou Inuit band.
The Ennadai Lake Meteorological Aeronautical Presentation System, a former weather station at this locale, consisted of four buildings. The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals operated a base, Ennadai Lake Radio Station, (VEJ) at Ennadai from the summer of 1949 until 18 September 1954 when it was turned over to the Department of Transportation. An INCO Exploration Camp existed at Ennadai at about the same time.
Climate
Ennadai has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc).
See also
List of communities in Nunavut
References
External links
Ennadai Lake photos
Ennadai Lake Relocations, 1950-1960
Former populated places in the Kivalliq Region |
In Greek mythology, Deucalion or Deukalion (/dju:keɪli:ən/; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων τῆς Κρήτης), was a king of Crete. He was counted among the Argonauts and the Calydonian Hunters.
Family
Deucalion was the eldest son of Minos either by Pasiphae or Crete and thus grandson of Zeus. He was the brother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Xenodice, Phaedra, Glaucus and Catreus. By Cleopatra, Deucalion fathered Idomeneus who succeeded him and led the kingdom into the Trojan War. He was also the father of Crete and of an illegitimate son Molus. In Diodorus' account, Deucalion and Molus were brothers and their sons Idomeneus and Meriones led the Cretans to Troy.
"Minos’ sons, they say, were Deucalion and Molus, and to Deucalion was born Idomeneus and to Molus was born Meriones. These two joined with Agamemnon in the expedition against Ilium with ninety ships..."
Mythology
Theseus in Crete
It is said that when Theseus was about to leave Crete, he joined battle with the Cretans at the gate of the Labyrinth where he slew Deucalion and his bodyguard.
"And when Deucalion, his son [i.e. Minos], who was on hostile terms with the Athenians, sent to them a demand that they deliver up Daedalus to him, and threatened, if they refused, to put to death the youth whom Minos had received from them as hostages, Theseus made him a gentle reply, declining to surrender Daedalus, who was his kinsman and cousin.." "Then joining battle with them at the gate of the Labyrinth, he [i.e. Theseus] slew Deucalion and his body-guard.
One source recounts a different relationship between Deucalion and Theseus:
While he [i.e. Deucalion] was ruler of Crete, formed an alliance with the Athenians and united his own sister Phaedra in marriage to Theseus.
Odysseus' lie
Odysseus pretends to be his second son Aethon when he speaks to his wife while in disguise. It is unclear whether Aethon is a real son of Deucalion, left by Idomeneus to act as regent during the war, or invented by Odysseus.
Notes
References
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Deuca'lion" 2.
Argonauts
Princes in Greek mythology
Kings of Crete
Kings in Greek mythology
Characters in the Odyssey
Cretan characters in Greek mythology |
```go
/*
path_to_url
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*/
package rest
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"sync"
"k8s.io/klog"
clientcmdapi "k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd/api"
)
type AuthProvider interface {
// WrapTransport allows the plugin to create a modified RoundTripper that
// attaches authorization headers (or other info) to requests.
WrapTransport(http.RoundTripper) http.RoundTripper
// Login allows the plugin to initialize its configuration. It must not
// require direct user interaction.
Login() error
}
// Factory generates an AuthProvider plugin.
// clusterAddress is the address of the current cluster.
// config is the initial configuration for this plugin.
// persister allows the plugin to save updated configuration.
type Factory func(clusterAddress string, config map[string]string, persister AuthProviderConfigPersister) (AuthProvider, error)
// AuthProviderConfigPersister allows a plugin to persist configuration info
// for just itself.
type AuthProviderConfigPersister interface {
Persist(map[string]string) error
}
// All registered auth provider plugins.
var pluginsLock sync.Mutex
var plugins = make(map[string]Factory)
func RegisterAuthProviderPlugin(name string, plugin Factory) error {
pluginsLock.Lock()
defer pluginsLock.Unlock()
if _, found := plugins[name]; found {
return fmt.Errorf("auth Provider Plugin %q was registered twice", name)
}
klog.V(4).Infof("Registered Auth Provider Plugin %q", name)
plugins[name] = plugin
return nil
}
func GetAuthProvider(clusterAddress string, apc *clientcmdapi.AuthProviderConfig, persister AuthProviderConfigPersister) (AuthProvider, error) {
pluginsLock.Lock()
defer pluginsLock.Unlock()
p, ok := plugins[apc.Name]
if !ok {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no Auth Provider found for name %q", apc.Name)
}
return p(clusterAddress, apc.Config, persister)
}
``` |
```ruby
# frozen_string_literal: false
#
# erbhandler.rb -- ERBHandler Class
#
# Author: IPR -- Internet Programming with Ruby -- writers
# reserved.
#
# $IPR: erbhandler.rb,v 1.25 2003/02/24 19:25:31 gotoyuzo Exp $
require_relative 'abstract'
require 'erb'
module WEBrick
module HTTPServlet
##
# ERBHandler evaluates an ERB file and returns the result. This handler
# is automatically used if there are .rhtml files in a directory served by
# the FileHandler.
#
# ERBHandler supports GET and POST methods.
#
# The ERB file is evaluated with the local variables +servlet_request+ and
# +servlet_response+ which are a WEBrick::HTTPRequest and
# WEBrick::HTTPResponse respectively.
#
# Example .rhtml file:
#
# Request to <%= servlet_request.request_uri %>
#
# Query params <%= servlet_request.query.inspect %>
class ERBHandler < AbstractServlet
##
# Creates a new ERBHandler on +server+ that will evaluate and serve the
# ERB file +name+
def initialize(server, name)
super(server, name)
@script_filename = name
end
##
# Handles GET requests
def do_GET(req, res)
unless defined?(ERB)
@logger.warn "#{self.class}: ERB not defined."
raise HTTPStatus::Forbidden, "ERBHandler cannot work."
end
begin
data = File.open(@script_filename, &:read)
res.body = evaluate(ERB.new(data), req, res)
res['content-type'] ||=
HTTPUtils::mime_type(@script_filename, @config[:MimeTypes])
rescue StandardError
raise
rescue Exception => ex
@logger.error(ex)
raise HTTPStatus::InternalServerError, ex.message
end
end
##
# Handles POST requests
alias do_POST do_GET
private
##
# Evaluates +erb+ providing +servlet_request+ and +servlet_response+ as
# local variables.
def evaluate(erb, servlet_request, servlet_response)
Module.new.module_eval{
servlet_request.meta_vars
servlet_request.query
erb.result(binding)
}
end
end
end
end
``` |
Catherine Field is a suburb of Sydney and part of the Macarthur Region in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Catherine Field is 43 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Camden Council.
History
The area now known as Catherine Field (or Catherine Fields) was originally home to the Muringong, southernmost of the Darug people. In 1805 John Macarthur established his property at Camden where he raised merino sheep.
Catherine Field Post Office opened on 1 July 1963 and closed in 1996.
Catherine Field also contains a pre-school, a cricket oval and community hall.
Catherine Field was home to a theme park called El Caballo Blanco in the 1980s.
It is on the outskirts of south west Sydney and is about 20 minutes without traffic to Campbelltown.
Heritage listings
Catherine Field has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
1025 Camden Valley Way: Raby, Catherine Field
Population
According to the 2016 census, there were 1,657 residents in Catherine Field. 67.8% of people were born in Australia and 65.8% of people spoke only English at home. The most common response for religion was Catholic at 48.0%.
Politics
Catherine Field is part of the north ward of Camden Council represented by David Funnell (currently deputy mayor of Camden), Cindy Cagney and Peter Johnson. Chris Patterson is currently the local mayor. The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).
References
Suburbs of Sydney
Camden Council (New South Wales) |
American Trucker was a television show on the Speed cable channel. Hosted by Robb Mariani, the pilot episode featured Robb helping another mechanic restore one of the classic 1980 Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne trucks used in the TV show B. J. and the Bear, along with a short piece about the world's largest truck stop, the Iowa 80. American Trucker ran a total of 28 episodes across 2 seasons.
The show was produced by Bud Brutsman and Steve Beebe of Overhaulin' fame. Show content was derived from Robb's knowledge and experience with trucks and trucking history. Robb was a past cast member of HGTV's Design Star series. Dan Bruno, the owner of such famous trucks as the Rubber Duck's Mack truck from Convoy and past owner of the Peterbilt tanker from Duel is credited on the show as a technical consultant.
Speed (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings |
Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1095–1177) was the second son of Roger Bigod (also known as Roger Bigot) (died 1107), sheriff of Norfolk and royal advisor, and Adeliza, daughter of Robert de Todeni.
Early years
After the death of his elder brother William, who perished without issue in the sinking of the White Ship on 25 November 1120, Hugh was allowed to inherit his brother's office of royal steward and many estates in East Anglia. He also succeeded his aunt Albreda, heiress of her brother Berengar de Tosny, with lands in Yorkshire, including Kirkstall Abbey, and in Normandy. Hugh became Constable of Norwich Castle in 1122.
During King Stephen's reign
Hugh initially supported Stephen of Blois as king of England. On the death of Henry I in 1135, his nephew Stephen usurped the throne, despite the oath Stephen and the barons had sworn to accept Henry's daughter Empress Matilda as his successor. It was Bigod who asserted that, in his last days, Henry I had named Stephen to become king at the expense of his daughter Matilda. Civil war resulted when, in 1139, Matilda commanded the military strength necessary to challenge Stephen within his own realm.
King Stephen initially had the support of the English barons, but in 1136 he was stricken with sickness and a report of his death was quickly spread abroad. Hugh Bigod seized and held Norwich castle. Stephen, quickly recovering, laid siege to the city and Hugh was compelled to surrender. In February 1141 Bigod fought on Stephen's side in the First Battle of Lincoln, after which the Earl deserted the captured king. In July of that year, he was granted the earldom of Norfolk by the Empress Matilda but he appears to have assumed a position of armed neutrality during the civil war, rather than actively siding with the supporters of the empress.
As Earl of Norfolk, Bigod's landholdings included Castle Acre, Geldeston and Hethel as well as land at Earl Soham, Framlingham, and Thetford
He supported his first wife's brother-in-law, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, during his rebellion against King Stephen in 1143–44. During the disagreement between King Stephen and Archbishop Theobald in 1148, Hugh Bigod sided with the archbishop and received him in his stronghold, his Castle of Framlingham, but joined with others in negotiating a reconciliation between the king and the archbishop.
Rise of King Henry II
Five years later, in 1153, when Henry, Duke of Normandy, soon to become King Henry II (r. 1154–89), landed in England to assert his claim to the throne, Bigod held out in Ipswich against Stephen's forces, while Henry II, on the other side, laid siege to Stamford. Both places fell to Stephen. In the critical state of his fortunes, however, Stephen was in no position to punish the rebel earl. Negotiations between the two parties resulted in Henry's recognition as Stephen's heir and Hugh eluded retaliation.
On Henry II's accession in December 1154, Bigod received confirmation of the possession of his earldom and office of royal steward by a charter issued apparently in January of the next year. The first years of the new reign were spent in restoring order to the shattered kingdom and in breaking the power of the independent barons, which had grown out of control during King Stephen's reign.
It was not long before Bigod became agitated under the rule of law initiated by Henry. He grew restless with measures such as the scutage, a fee paid by vassals in lieu of military service, which became the central feature of Henry II's military system of operation by 1159. The Earl showed signs of resistance but was at once put down. In 1157 Henry II marched into the eastern counties and received the earl's submission.
After this incident Hugh Bigod makes no significant appearances in the chronicles for some time; he is named among those who had been excommunicated by Becket, in consequence of his retention of lands belonging to the monastery of Pentney in Norfolk.
The revolt of 1173
In 1173 the young Crown Prince Henry (also known as Henry the Young King) raised a revolt against his father Henry II. This gave Hugh Bigod a fresh occasion for rebellion, with the English barons and the kings of France and Scotland leagued in his favour. He at once became a leader in the cause, being eager to revive his feudal power which Henry II had curtailed, and because the conflict which inevitably resulted was, at least in England, centred upon his own territorial possessions. The custody of Norwich Castle was promised by the young prince as his reward.
The king's energy and good fortune were equal to the occasion. While he held in check his rebel vassals in France, the loyal barons in England defeated his enemies there. Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (died 1190) landed at Walton, in Suffolk, on 29 September 1173 and marched to Framlingham, joining forces with Hugh. Together they besieged and took the castle of Hagenet in Suffolk on 13 October, held by Randal de Broc for the crown. But the Earl of Leicester was defeated and taken prisoner setting out from Framlingham at the Battle of Fornham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, by the justiciar Richard de Luci and other barons. These then turned their arms against Earl Hugh, who, not being strong enough to fight, opened negotiations with his assailants. It is said he bought them off, and at the same time secured a safe passage home for the Flemings in his service.
Final days
Though defeated and compelled to surrender his castles, Bigod kept his lands and his earldom, and lived at peace with Henry II until his death reportedly in 1177 in Palestine.
On 1 March 1177, his son Roger Bigod appealed to the king on a dispute with his stepmother. Hugh was dead at the time of Roger's appeal, the date of his father's death is fixed 'ante caput jejunii', (i.e. before 9 March). If, then, he died in Palestine, his death must have taken place in the preceding year, 1176, to allow time for the arrival of the news in England. Henry II took advantage of Roger's appeal to seize upon the late Earl's treasure. Earl Hugh had possessed vast estates, which he inherited, and was also the recipient of the third penny of judicial fines levied in the county of Norfolk by right of his earldom.
Marriage and family
Bigod married firstly to Juliane de Vere (died c. 1199). She was the daughter of Aubrey de Vere II and Adeliza de Clare, the daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Clare. The marriage was dissolved before 1156. They had one son:
Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk (born c. 1144–5). He married Ida de Tosny, had issue.
Bigod married secondly Gundreda (c. 1135–1200), daughter of Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick. They had two children:
Hugh Bigod (born c. 1156)
William Hugh Bigod (born 1168)
References
Attribution:
External links
1095 births
1177 deaths
1st Earl of Norfolk
Anglo-Normans
Norman warriors
Hugh
People of The Anarchy
Peers created by King Stephen |
The Gastambide-Mengin monoplane (later Gastambide-Mengin I, Gastambide-Mengin II and Antoinette II) was an early French experimental aircraft designed by Léon Levavasseur, and was the first aircraft built by the Antoinette company. The name came from Jules Gastambide, who financed the company, and Gabriel Mengin, the aircraft engineer.
Design and development
The monoplane (later known as the Gastambide-Mengin I) was powered by a Antoinette piston engine driving a tractor propeller. It was noted for having a complex quadricycle landing gear. The monoplane made four flights between 8 and 14 February 1908 flown by a mechanic named Boyer, the furthest being a flight of 150 m. After these flights, the aircraft was rebuilt between February and August 1908 as the Gastambide-Mengin II (later named the Antoinette II), the modifications including revised, trailing edge-hinged triangular ailerons. The modified aircraft made three short flights in August 1908, one of these on 21 August 1908 being the first circle flown by a monoplane, and on a flight the previous day (20 August 1908) Robert Gastambide became the first passenger flown in a monoplane. With lessons learnt from the design, Levavasseur went on to design a family of monoplanes named after Antoinette Gastambide, the daughter of Jules Gastambide.
Specifications
See also
Antoinette III
Antoinette IV
Antoinette V
Antoinette VI
Antoinette VII
Antoinette military monoplane
Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin, designer of a similar aircraft, 1910
References
Notes
Bibliography
www.aviafrance.com
1900s French experimental aircraft
Antoinette aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1908 |
Meehan is a townland in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. The townland is in the civil parish of St. Mary's.
The townland stands to the north of the town, on the banks of the River Shannon, at the point that it meets Lough Ree. The townland is bordered by Coosan and Creaghduff to the east, and Hillquarter to the south.
References
Townlands of County Westmeath |
Edra Jean Peaker (born 1942) is an American actress. Peaker is best known for her appearances in the movie Hello, Dolly! and in the TV musical series That's Life.
Biography
Peaker was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Centennial High School in Pueblo, Colorado. She attended the University of New Mexico and the University of Vienna for years each.
On television, Peaker portrayed Gloria Quigley in That's Life, Rose Harris in The Greatest American Hero, and Carla St. James in Madame's Place. She was also a co-host of the syndicated variety series Top of the Month..
She played Minnie Fay in the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly!. She was the associate producer of the 1993 made-for-TV movie Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back. She has made over 50 television commercials, guest-starred on television and appeared in films.
Peaker lives in Encino, California where she has been a champion of the homeless.
Selected filmography
Television
Route 66 .... Olivia Devereaux (1964)
Occasional Wife .... Ginger Snap ( 1966)
That Girl .... Sheila (1966)
The Flying Nun .... Diane (1967)
Good Morning World .... Genevieve (1968)
That's Life .... Gloria Quigley (1968)
Three's a Crowd .... Ann Carson (1969)
Disneyland Showtime.... Herself (1970)
The Odd Couple .... Julie (1971)
Night Gallery .... Nurse (1971)
Cade's County .... Gerri Randell (1971)
Banyon .... Jan Shelton (1972)
Love, American Style (1969–1973)
Police Woman .... Kathy Brooks (1974)
Get Christie Love! .... Connie Sawyer (1975)
The Rockford Files .... Jeannie Szymczyk (1975)
The Four Deuces .... Lori Rogers, the Songbird (1976)
Barnaby Jones .... Sheila Wild (1976)
Most Wanted (1976)
The Streets of San Francisco .... Beth Herrick (1972–1976)
Quincy, M.E. .... Michelle Rowan (1977)
Wonder Woman .... Lois (1978)
Charlie's Angels .... Donna Dawson (1978)
The Greatest American Hero .... Reseda Rose Blake (1981)
Madame's Place .... Carla St. James (1982)
CBS Schoolbreak Special .... Barbara Kopchek (1987)
Houston Knights (1988)
Hunter .... Claire Prossi (1990)
Out of This World .... Carla (1991)
Surviving Gilligan's Island .... Natalie Schafer (2001)
Features
Hello, Dolly! (1969) .... Minnie Fay
Getting Away from It All (1972) .... Alice Selby
The All-American Boy (1973) .... Janelle Sharkey
Graduation Day (1981) .... Blondie
Fire in the Night (1986) .... Mary Swanson
Private Road: No Trespassing (1987) .... Virginia Milshaw
The Banker (1989) .... Renee
Dreamrider (1993) .... Mrs. Jennings
The Last Producer (2000) .... Rosie
References
External links
American film actresses
American musical theatre actresses
Actresses from Tulsa, Oklahoma
1944 births
Living people
University of New Mexico alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women |
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, acronym AYP or AYPE, was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909 publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. It was originally planned for 1907 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush, but the organizers learned of the Jamestown Exposition being held that same year and rescheduled.
The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.
Planning
Godfrey Chealander proposed the idea for the fair. Chealander was then Grand Secretary of the Arctic Brotherhood, was involved in the Alaska Territory exhibit at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. Originally, he pitched William Sheffield of the Alaska Club and James A. Wood, city editor of the Seattle Times on the idea of a permanent exhibit in Seattle about Alaska. This merged with Wood's desire for an exposition to rival Portland. They soon gained the backing of Times publisher Alden J. Blethen—remarkably, for the time, without gaining the opposition of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Among other early proponents of the exposition was John Edward Chilberg, one of a line of prominent Seattle merchants in the Chilberg family, who was president of the Alaska Club, and was then given the title of president of the Exposition.
Edmond S. Meany proposed that the exposition be held on the then largely forested campus of the University of Washington, which in 1905 had exactly three buildings and little deliberate landscaping. At the time, this was considered rather far from the center of town, but Meany eventually sold the others involved on the idea that the forested campus could, itself, be an attraction for out-of-town visitors and that the trolley ride from downtown would not be an obstacle to attendance. Of course, he was also highly aware of what the landscaping and structures could do for the campus.
The state legislature endorsed the fair, with the proviso that it would produce at least four permanent buildings, and that any state monetary contribution would be focused mainly on those buildings. King County (the county in which Seattle is located) stepped up with US$300,000 for a forestry exhibit—the largest log cabin ever built—and $78,000 for other exhibits. Because the original Klondike gold strikes had been in Canada, the concept soon evolved to an "Alaska-Yukon Exposition"; later, at the behest of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the "Pacific" theme was also added to emphasize the Oriental trade. The Exposition became known as the "A-Y-P" for short
Although the fair almost certainly could have been ready for 1907, it was postponed so as not to conflict with the Jamestown Exposition. This turned out to be good fortune for Seattle, because 1907 proved to be a bad year for the economy. If the exposition had been held that year it almost certainly would have been a financial failure, rather than the success it was in 1909.
Design and construction
The Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, were selected to plan the Exposition; the firm was already involved in planning parks and parkways for the City of Seattle. John C. Olmsted visited Seattle in October 1906 and saw the dominant form of Mount Rainier toward the southeast. He selected the mountain as the focus of the primary axis of the Exposition. This axis later became the Rainier Vista of the University of Washington campus.
The principal landscape architect for the fair was the Olmsted firm's James Frederick Dawson. His design centered on a long pool with a series of short waterfalls along Rainier Vista. John Galen Howard's firm, Howard and Galloway, based in San Francisco, was chosen as supervising architects for the Exposition buildings. They designed several buildings and supervised construction of those designed by other architects.
The fairgrounds were entirely ready for the June 1, 1909, opening.
Exhibits
The only foreign countries to erect entire buildings at the fair were Japan and Canada, but their presence was enough to validate the "Pacific" theme along with the US territory of Hawaii and the Philippines, recently ceded to the US by Spain. Other foreign countries were represented on a smaller scale. The very popular King County exhibit included a scale model of the coal mine at nearby Newcastle, Washington and dioramas of several Seattle scenes, the originals of which were only a trolley ride away. The Woman's Building emphasized the role of women in pioneering the American West and in current charity work. The Pay Streak was Seattle's answer to Chicago's Midway and featured games of chance and amusements. There was also a reenactment of the American Civil War naval Battle of Hampton Roads (the Battle of Monitor and Merrimack).
Opening ceremony
The gates opened at 8:30 a.m. on June 1, and crowds entered immediately. At 9:30 a.m., attendees watched performances by military bands from the Army and the Navy. Many sat in the fair's amphitheater, awaiting a signal scheduled to be given in Washington, D.C. At 3 p.m. East Coast time (noon in Seattle), in the East Room of the White House, President Taft sent the signal. He "opened...the Exposition...by touching a gold [telegraph] key, studded with gold nuggets taken from the first mine opened in the Klondike region." The telegraphic spark that Taft sent was received by telegraphers at the fairgrounds; as soon as it arrived, a gong was struck five times, a large American flag was unfurled, and there was a 21-gun salute, while other demonstrations of pageantry announced the official opening of the fair.
Attendance
Opening Day, June 1, was declared a city holiday, and 80,000 people attended. Attendance was even higher—117,013—on "Seattle Day". Other big draws were days dedicated to various ethnic groups, fraternal organizations, and U.S. states. By the time the fair closed on October 16, more than 3,700,000 people had visited.
Publicity
The fair had its own publicity department, and it used newspapers and magazines to promote the upcoming exhibition well in advance. In early 1908, Seattle newspapers reported that the publicity department was already showing positive results and the fair was earning many favorable mentions in publications all over the United States. The publicists stressed that this exhibition would be far better organized than 1907's Jamestown Exposition, and would feature entertainment. But what many newspapers found interesting was the assertion that this next World's Fair would not require any financial assistance or subsidies from the U.S. government; the only request made by the fair's directors was that the United States erect buildings and exhibits like any other country.
Throughout 1908, as each new exhibit was built and the fair gradually began to take shape, publicity about the fair's progress was sent out, and frequently printed, nearly verbatim, from the press releases. For example, the Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Florida, printed a story about how the fair would have motor boat races: the article noted that the pavilion for the event was being built on "one of the prettiest spots on the exposition's shoreline." The article praised Puget Sound for being an area perfect for motor boating enthusiasts, and concluded by saying, "The climate is such that motor boating can be enjoyed all the year round."
By early 1909, the focus turned to who was going to attend, as many local newspapers in distant locations wrote articles about residents of their state who planned to make the trip out to Seattle. Also helpful was the fact that several major newspaper conventions were scheduled for the west coast, and the editors were said to be very interested in visiting the fair. The fair's organizers were also able to benefit from advertisements placed in newspapers by the railroads, which encouraged people to travel by rail to Seattle. One such ad, for the Great Northern Railway, promoted the train as the best way to enjoy a scenic trip: "an attractive route over the Rockies and through the Cascades" before finally arriving at what was sure to be "the World's Most Beautiful Fair."
Legacies
The primary physical legacy of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition is the planning framework from the fair which continues to shape the University of Washington campus. The Rainier Vista and Drumheller Fountain, the focus of the A-Y-P, are today the central focus of the Science Quadrangle of the university's overall plan.
Although most of the Exposition's buildings were designed as temporary structures, intended to last only for the duration of the fair, some were more permanent. The Fine Arts Palace was designed by Howard and Galloway as a chemistry building. It was used during the A-Y-P for the exhibit of art. After the Exposition was over, chemistry lab tables and other furnishings were moved in and it became the University's primary facility for teaching chemistry. The building was named Bagley Hall (after Daniel Bagley) and retained that name until 1937, when a new chemistry building named Bagley Hall opened. The older building then became the home of Architecture and Physiology. The building survives today, albeit with extensive renovation and restoration, and is known as Architecture Hall.
The A-Y-P Women's Building also survives. During the fair it housed exhibits related to women. Today the building is named Cunningham Hall (after Imogen Cunningham), one of only a few buildings on the University of Washington campus named for women. During the Exposition itself the building was clad in stucco; today it is faced in wood siding. The building now houses various educational and other programs related to women.
Other buildings from the A-Y-P survived for a time, but were subsequently demolished as the university grew. The Forestry Building was demolished mid-century after the natural logs of the structure proved difficult to maintain and few alternative uses for the structure were found. It stood on the site of the current Husky Union Building (HUB). The original Meany Hall, the AYP Auditorium Hall, was damaged by an earthquake in 1965 and subsequently demolished. Another example is the Hoo-Hoo-House, designed by architect Ellsworth Storey, a clubhouse with reception spaces constructed for the Hoo-Hoos, a lumbermen's fraternity. After the fair, this building served as the faculty club until it was replaced in 1958–60 by the current faculty club.
Another legacy of the fair was the enhanced status of exposition president J. E. Chilberg. Although a respected banker, Chilberg had never really been one of the city's elite. He was drafted into his position with the fair simply as a man who was known to be good at getting things done, but without consideration by the city's elite that they had just made an outsider into something tantamount to royalty for the duration of a social season. Suddenly, any party at their First Hill home became a major event in the social calendar. He and his wife found themselves dining with a close relative of the emperor of Japan and hosting a French ambassador.
The statue of William H. Seward, originally erected for the fair, now stands in Volunteer Park.
William Boeing, founder of Boeing, stated that it was during the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition when he saw a manned flying machine for the first time and became fascinated with aircraft.
Controversy
Labor objections
Because the Exposition buildings were built with non-union labor, various unions protested against the exposition in actions ranging from pamphleteering to boycotts. The Central Labor Council organized a protest march outside the grounds on Labor Day. The Seattle Socialist editorialized that the Exposition was, "a great fantastic monument to the brutal avarice of the capitalist class."
Human exhibits
A month-old orphaned boy named Ernest was raffled away as a prize. Although a winning ticket was drawn, nobody claimed the prize. The ultimate destiny of the child was still being investigated in 2009.
Other human exhibits included displays presenting Igorot people from the Philippines as dog-eating, primitive people; the "Alaskan Siberians — Eskimos"; and a Chinese village depicting opium dens and recounting the recent Boxer Rebellion. The Igorot exhibit spawned a letter of protest to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer signed by over 100 Filipino merchant marines, although some local resident Filipinos responded to the letter by defending the exhibit.
Premature babies were also displayed in French physician Alexandre Lion's incubators, decades before such systems were commonplace in hospitals. This display was not unique to the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition; babies had been displayed in incubators since the 1896 Berlin Exposition (and Seattle itself had seen at least two such exhibits before the A-Y-P Exposition). Given the robustness of the infants seen in photographs, there is some question as to whether these infants actually required extra care or if they were simply used for profit. Particular to this exhibit was a Baby Incubator Cafe which is seen in some photos, although historians are unsure if this was an actual cafe or rather a place to view babies feeding. At the time there was little in the way of protest from either fair-goers or physicians. In fact there was already a seasonal incubator exhibit at Luna Park in West Seattle, the Infant Electrobator concession. The babies were mentioned by name in the newspaper during their stay at the exposition and their medical state followed throughout. A specific point of interest was the range in ethnicity of the infants. No deaths were experienced amongst the babies at the exhibit.
Anniversary
The year 2009 was the centennial of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. The City and University held various activities to celebrate this anniversary.
A documentary was produced by John Forsen called "AYP-Seattle's Forgotten World's Fair" for PBS.
On July 4, 2009, a group of 12 cyclists set off from Santa Rosa, California, on a 1,000 mile bike ride to Seattle, Washington, to support the disease Histiocytosis. The ride, titled Wheels North, was a centennial of the 1909 adventure of Vic McDaniel and Ray Francisco who traveled on bicycles to the Exposition. The ride ended at the Drumheller Fountain, in the center of Frosh Pond on the campus of the University of Washington on July 16, 2009. Drumheller Fountain is one of the last known remnants from the 1909 fair.
See also
Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's 1962 World's Fair
Statue of George Washington (Seattle), a statue dedicated during the fair
Notes
References
Max Johl, The United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century (Lindquist, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 315–319.
External links
Pamphlet and Textual Ephemera Collection, items form the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition – University of Washington Digital Collections
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Photographs 660 photographs of buildings, grounds, entertainment and exotic attractions.
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Digital Collection from the Seattle Public Library 95 articles, brochures, catalogs, directories, guides, reports, and other materials related to the Exposition.
Glimpses of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909); Digitized page images & text from the Library of Congress.
— published for the Exposition.
AYPE.com; An evolving, non-commercial project of image display and text.
1909 Seattle – approximately 80 links
"Alaska, Land of the Midnight Sun" Sheet music of a song dedicated to the Exposition.
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909): Special Days, HistoryLink.org Essay 8461, 2008-01-17
1909 in the United States
1909 in Washington (state)
1900s in Seattle
History of Seattle
World's fairs in Seattle
1909 festivals |
Minter Carney "Jackie" Hayes (July 19, 1906 – February 9, 1983) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators (1927–1931) and Chicago White Sox (1932–1940).
Early life and career
Hayes was born in Clanton, Alabama. The right-handed graduate of the University of Alabama made his debut on August 5, 1927. In his first full season, he batted a solid .276 with 2 home runs and 57 RBIs in 424 at bats. From there, Hayes went on to be a contributing part of the Senators in the late 1920s, and then the White Sox through the '30s. In his career, he was in the top five in sacrifice hits twice.
Baseball career highlights
In a 14-season career, he batted .265 with 20 homers and 493 runs batted in, in 1091 games. He accumulated 34 stolen bases, 494 runs, 196 doubles and a .318 on-base percentage. He had 1069 career hits in 4040 at bats.
He became the first player in Major League Baseball to wear a batting helmet during a game.
Later life
During Spring training 1940, Hayes lost sight in one of his eyes, and legend has it that this was after a piece of cinder hit him in the eye during a game. Hayes was quoted at the time as both thinking a cinder had infiltrated his eye, and that he must have gotten soap in his right eye, but it was actually glaucoma. He later lost sight in both eyes. Hayes died at age 76 in Birmingham, Alabama, and was interred at Clanton's cemetery.
References
External links
Interview with Jackie Hayes by Eugene Murdock, August 5, 1977, in Clanton, Alabama.
1906 births
1983 deaths
People from Clanton, Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide baseball players
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Chicago White Sox players
Major League Baseball second basemen
Baseball players from Birmingham, Alabama
Baseball players from Alabama |
Deidamia may refer to:
see Deidamia (Greek myth)
Deidamia of Scyros, in Greek mythology, a lover of Achilles
Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous), also known as Deidamia, abducted by the Centaurs in Greek mythology
Deidamia I of Epirus, wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes in Ancient Greece
Deidamia II of Epirus, last ruler of the Aeacid dynasty
Deidamia (opera), by George Frideric Handel
Deidamia, a former genus of crustaceans, now included in Willemoesia, family Polychelidae
Deidamia inscriptum, the only moth in the genus Deidamia |
Aidan Dunne is a visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times.
Education
Dunne is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Career
Aidan Dunne has written regularly for The Irish Times for decades. He was art critic of In Dublin magazine, Sunday Press and the Sunday Tribune. Dunne has written extensively on Irish art, with essays on Michael Mulcahy, Victor Sloan, Patrick Scott, Hughie O'Donoghue, Patrick Swift, and Jennifer Trouton. He has also written an essay on Russian photographer and artist Alexey Titarenko.
Bibliography
Patrick Scott, published by Liberties Press in 2008; 2010- ;
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish art critics
Sunday Tribune people
The Irish Times people
Alumni of the National College of Art and Design |
One for the Money is an album by The Whispers. Released in 1976, this album charted at number 40 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart. It was their debut album on Don Cornelius's and Dick Griffey's Soul Train Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Norman Harris, T.J. Tindell, Bobby Eli – guitars
Ronald Baker, Michael Foreman – bass
Earl Young – drums
Ron Kersey – keyboards
Larry Washington – congas
Brian Evans – acoustic guitar
Bruce Gray – Rhodes piano
Charts
Singles
References
External links
1976 albums
The Whispers albums
Albums produced by Norman Harris
Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios |
Konrad Vilhelm Lehtimäki (18 January 1883 – 25 May 1937) was a Finnish journalist, writer and politician, born in Vahto. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1911 to 1917, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). He was imprisoned in 1918 for having sided with the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.
References
1883 births
1937 deaths
People from Rusko
People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1911–1913)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1913–1916)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (1916–1917)
Finnish journalists
Finnish science fiction writers
Writers from Southwest Finland
People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side)
Finnish prisoners and detainees |
The 2002 Hull City Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1. The Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.
Campaign
Hull was seen as one of the key contests in the 2002 local elections with the Liberal Democrats seen as the main challengers to Labour. Labour had run Hull continuously since 1945, apart from a brief period from 1969 to 1971 when the Conservatives had taken control, but they were seen as vulnerable in this election. As well as the Liberal Democrats, who with 10 seats were the main opposition before the election, the Conservatives stood in 31 of the 59 seats that were being contested. Divisions within the local Labour party also meant some councillors stood in the election as independents.
The Labour administration received criticism from the opposition and by the district auditor for the poor quality of services provided in Hull. The opposition also attacked Labour for their use of the £255 million recently gained by Hull council after the part sale of Kingston Communications.
Election result
The results saw the Liberal Democrats become the largest party on the council with Labour falling from 44 seats before the election to only 24 afterwards.
Ward results
References
2002
2002 English local elections
2000s in Kingston upon Hull |
```php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
/**
*/
namespace OCA\Testing\Listener;
use OCP\EventDispatcher\Event;
use OCP\EventDispatcher\IEventListener;
use OCP\IConfig;
use OCP\Settings\Events\DeclarativeSettingsGetValueEvent;
/**
* @template-implements IEventListener<DeclarativeSettingsGetValueEvent>
*/
class GetDeclarativeSettingsValueListener implements IEventListener {
public function __construct(private IConfig $config) {
}
public function handle(Event $event): void {
if (!$event instanceof DeclarativeSettingsGetValueEvent) {
return;
}
if ($event->getApp() !== 'testing') {
return;
}
$value = $this->config->getUserValue($event->getUser()->getUID(), $event->getApp(), $event->getFieldId());
$event->setValue($value);
}
}
``` |
Langenæs Park (Danish: Langenæs Parken) is a public park in the Langenæs neighborhood in the Aarhus C district in Aarhus, Denmark. The park is situated west of the Frederiksbjerg neighborhood along the curved street Langenæs Allé to the south and the AArhus rail yard to the north. Langenæs Park is one of the largest parks in Aarhus and is composed of mainly landscaped lawns with trees scattered throughout along with a large section dedicated to sports. Facilities include soccer fields, a disc gold field, picnic areas and a paved running track. Langenæs Park was established in connection with the development of the Langenæs neighborhood in the 1970s and is today the primary recreational spot in the area along with Frederiksbjerg Bypark to the west and the Rehabilitation PArk to the south. The park is owned by Aarhus Municipality and is managed by the municipal department Natur og Miljø (English: Nature and Environment) and can be rented for public events.
Langenæs Park is home to the disc golf club 'Aarhus Disc Golf Club' which maintains a 4-hole course in the park. The sports club 'Aarhus 1900' has a club house in the park as well and uses the soccer fields as training facilities.
Gallery
References
External links
Aarhus Disc Golf Club
Parks in Aarhus |
Merril Jessop (December 27, 1935 – February 28, 2022) was a high-ranking bishop in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly referred to as the FLDS Church. He was briefly the de facto leader of the FLDS. Jessop was also in charge of the YFZ Ranch during the 2008 raid.
Early life
Jessop was born in Salt Lake City to Richard Seth Jessop, a son of Joseph Smith Jessop, and his wife Ida Johnson.
Bishop in the FLDS
Jessop was a lifelong member of the church, as his father and grandfathers were former high-ranking FLDS officials. Jessop is connected by a nebulous series of marriages to the Jeffs family; several of Jessop's daughters and at least one of his wives were previously the plural wives of Rulon Jeffs while at least eleven of Jessop's daughters and two of his granddaughters became plural wives to Warren Jeffs, several of them while they were underage. One of his daughters, Merrianne, was married to Jeffs three weeks after her twelfth birthday, a ceremony in which Jessop himself presided over. Another daughter, Naomie, was one of Jeffs' favorite wives and was with him at the time of his capture by police.
While he was imprisoned, Warren Jeffs reportedly designated William E. Jessop as the rightful successor to the FLDS Church presidency. However, William Jessop remained at official church headquarters in Hildale, Utah. News reports suggested a possible shift of the church's headquarters to Eldorado, Texas, where a temple has been built by FLDS Church members at the YFZ Ranch. As the bishop of the church at YFZ, it appeared that Merril Jessop was the de facto president and the most powerful person in the FLDS Church, until February 2011.
Jessop was removed as bishop by Jeffs in February 2011.
Personal life
One of Jessop's former wives, Carolyn Jessop, wrote a memoir in 2007 about their 17-year marriage, which had begun when she was 18 and he was 50. The book includes dozens of allegations of spousal and child abuse, both emotional and physical. Carolyn Jessop left the FLDS Church in 2003 and, after a custody battle with Merril Jessop, won full custody of their 8 children. She is the second woman to leave an FLDS community and gain full custody of all her children, although her eldest daughter Betty decided, after turning 18, to return to her father at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas. Betty Jessop vehemently denies her mother's accusations. In 2009 Carolyn Jessop also won a child-support judgment against Merril Jessop in the approximate amount of $148,000 for support he failed to provide his children from 2003-2009. As of February 2010, Merril Jessop had still not paid any of the child support he owed. According to Carolyn's attorney, Natalie Malonis, he can be jailed for contempt for this failure.
According to his former wife's memoir, Jessop was the father of more than 50 biological children, all by his first six wives. His senior wife, Faunita, mother of 10 of Jessop's children, suffered from mental illness; she was abandoned by the roadside when the group moved to Texas, and she became a ward of one of her grandchildren who was living in the mainstream-Mormon community. Jessop is believed to have taken many more wives following Carolyn's departure. According to his ex-wife's book, Jessop had nebulous business interests that included construction and hotels, and had suffered from major heart problems.
In a National Geographic article published in February 2010, Jessop both praised and discussed his troubled relationship with Faunita (spelled 'Foneta' in the article). Over 5,000 people were in attendance at Faunita Jessop's funeral. "My hand is a bit sore today," Merril was quoted as saying at the end of the funeral after greeting all those who came.
See also
Colorado City, Arizona
Mormon fundamentalism
Placement marriage
References
1935 births
2022 deaths
American Latter Day Saint leaders
Mormon fundamentalist leaders
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints members |
Elections were held in Eastern Visayas for seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines on May 13, 2013.
Summary
Biliran
Rogelio Espina is the incumbent.
Eastern Samar
Ben Evardone is the incumbent.
Leyte
1st District
Incumbent Ferdinand Martin Romualdez is running unopposed.
2nd District
Sergio Apostol is the incumbent.
3rd District
Andres Salvacion is the incumbent.
4th District
Lucy Torres-Gomez is the incumbent.
5th District
Jose Carlos Cari is the incumbent.
Northern Samar
1st District
Raul Daza is the incumbent.
2nd District
Emil Ong is the incumbent.
Samar
1st District
Mel Senen Sarmiento is the incumbent.
2nd District
Milagrosa Tan is the incumbent.
Southern Leyte
Incumbent Roger Mercado is term limited and is running for the governorship. Incumbent governor Damian Mercado is his party's nominee.
References
2013 Philippine general election
Lower house elections in Eastern Visayas |
The New York Qin Society (; sometimes abbreviated as NYQS) is a guqin society based in New York, New York in America, serving guqin players on the East Coast of the United States. Of the three major qin societies in the West (the other two being the North American Guqin Association and the London Youlan Qin Society), this society is the most formally structured with a formal agreement of rules and a more learned society approach to selecting members.
History
The society was founded in 2000 by Taiwan guqin player Yuan Jung-ping and other players.
The Society has regular activities, including music gatherings, workshops and concerts throughout the year.
The Society has both a website and a Facebook page.
Membership
The Society especially welcomes qin players as members, but it is also open to anyone with an interest in qin music or the "Way of the Qin". Guests are welcome at meetings, which occur about once every two months, and can be nominated for membership by an existing member, usually after attending three meetings. As of 2021 there were 27 full-time members, including four officers, with an annual membership fee of $25.
Officers
Current President: Peiyou Chang
Founding President: Yuan Jung-ping (an honorary position in homage to his contributions to the society)
References
Please see: References section in the guqin article for a full list of references used in all qin related articles.
External links
NYQS website
NYQS Facebook page
Notes
Called the New York Qin Society Agreement: On website
New York Qin Society Members Web page
Since 2021.
Guqin organizations
Music organizations based in the United States |
```go
package murmur3
import (
"fmt"
"hash"
"testing"
)
var data = []struct {
h32 uint32
h64_1 uint64
h64_2 uint64
s string
}{
{0x00000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, ""},
{0x248bfa47, 0xcbd8a7b341bd9b02, 0x5b1e906a48ae1d19, "hello"},
{0x149bbb7f, 0x342fac623a5ebc8e, 0x4cdcbc079642414d, "hello, world"},
{0xe31e8a70, 0xb89e5988b737affc, 0x664fc2950231b2cb, "19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM"},
{0xd5c48bfc, 0xcd99481f9ee902c9, 0x695da1a38987b6e7, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."},
}
func TestRef(t *testing.T) {
for _, elem := range data {
var h32 hash.Hash32 = New32()
h32.Write([]byte(elem.s))
if v := h32.Sum32(); v != elem.h32 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x (want 0x%x)", elem.s, v, elem.h32)
}
var h32_byte hash.Hash32 = New32()
h32_byte.Write([]byte(elem.s))
target := fmt.Sprintf("%08x", elem.h32)
if p := fmt.Sprintf("%x", h32_byte.Sum(nil)); p != target {
t.Errorf("'%s': %s (want %s)", elem.s, p, target)
}
if v := Sum32([]byte(elem.s)); v != elem.h32 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x (want 0x%x)", elem.s, v, elem.h32)
}
var h64 hash.Hash64 = New64()
h64.Write([]byte(elem.s))
if v := h64.Sum64(); v != elem.h64_1 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x (want 0x%x)", elem.s, v, elem.h64_1)
}
var h64_byte hash.Hash64 = New64()
h64_byte.Write([]byte(elem.s))
target = fmt.Sprintf("%016x", elem.h64_1)
if p := fmt.Sprintf("%x", h64_byte.Sum(nil)); p != target {
t.Errorf("'%s': %s (want %s)", elem.s, p, target)
}
if v := Sum64([]byte(elem.s)); v != elem.h64_1 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x (want 0x%x)", elem.s, v, elem.h64_1)
}
var h128 Hash128 = New128()
h128.Write([]byte(elem.s))
if v1, v2 := h128.Sum128(); v1 != elem.h64_1 || v2 != elem.h64_2 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x-0x%x (want 0x%x-0x%x)", elem.s, v1, v2, elem.h64_1, elem.h64_2)
}
var h128_byte Hash128 = New128()
h128_byte.Write([]byte(elem.s))
target = fmt.Sprintf("%016x%016x", elem.h64_1, elem.h64_2)
if p := fmt.Sprintf("%x", h128_byte.Sum(nil)); p != target {
t.Errorf("'%s': %s (want %s)", elem.s, p, target)
}
if v1, v2 := Sum128([]byte(elem.s)); v1 != elem.h64_1 || v2 != elem.h64_2 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x-0x%x (want 0x%x-0x%x)", elem.s, v1, v2, elem.h64_1, elem.h64_2)
}
}
}
func TestIncremental(t *testing.T) {
for _, elem := range data {
h32 := New32()
h128 := New128()
for i, j, k := 0, 0, len(elem.s); i < k; i = j {
j = 2*i + 3
if j > k {
j = k
}
s := elem.s[i:j]
print(s + "|")
h32.Write([]byte(s))
h128.Write([]byte(s))
}
println()
if v := h32.Sum32(); v != elem.h32 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x (want 0x%x)", elem.s, v, elem.h32)
}
if v1, v2 := h128.Sum128(); v1 != elem.h64_1 || v2 != elem.h64_2 {
t.Errorf("'%s': 0x%x-0x%x (want 0x%x-0x%x)", elem.s, v1, v2, elem.h64_1, elem.h64_2)
}
}
}
//---
func bench32(b *testing.B, length int) {
buf := make([]byte, length)
b.SetBytes(int64(length))
b.ResetTimer()
for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
Sum32(buf)
}
}
func Benchmark32_1(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 1)
}
func Benchmark32_2(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 2)
}
func Benchmark32_4(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 4)
}
func Benchmark32_8(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 8)
}
func Benchmark32_16(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 16)
}
func Benchmark32_32(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 32)
}
func Benchmark32_64(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 64)
}
func Benchmark32_128(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 128)
}
func Benchmark32_256(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 256)
}
func Benchmark32_512(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 512)
}
func Benchmark32_1024(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 1024)
}
func Benchmark32_2048(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 2048)
}
func Benchmark32_4096(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 4096)
}
func Benchmark32_8192(b *testing.B) {
bench32(b, 8192)
}
//---
func benchPartial32(b *testing.B, length int) {
buf := make([]byte, length)
b.SetBytes(int64(length))
start := (32 / 8) / 2
chunks := 7
k := length / chunks
tail := (length - start) % k
b.ResetTimer()
for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
hasher := New32()
hasher.Write(buf[0:start])
for j := start; j+k <= length; j += k {
hasher.Write(buf[j : j+k])
}
hasher.Write(buf[length-tail:])
hasher.Sum32()
}
}
func BenchmarkPartial32_8(b *testing.B) {
benchPartial32(b, 8)
}
func BenchmarkPartial32_16(b *testing.B) {
benchPartial32(b, 16)
}
func BenchmarkPartial32_32(b *testing.B) {
benchPartial32(b, 32)
}
func BenchmarkPartial32_64(b *testing.B) {
benchPartial32(b, 64)
}
func BenchmarkPartial32_128(b *testing.B) {
benchPartial32(b, 128)
}
//---
func bench128(b *testing.B, length int) {
buf := make([]byte, length)
b.SetBytes(int64(length))
b.ResetTimer()
for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
Sum128(buf)
}
}
func Benchmark128_1(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 1)
}
func Benchmark128_2(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 2)
}
func Benchmark128_4(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 4)
}
func Benchmark128_8(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 8)
}
func Benchmark128_16(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 16)
}
func Benchmark128_32(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 32)
}
func Benchmark128_64(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 64)
}
func Benchmark128_128(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 128)
}
func Benchmark128_256(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 256)
}
func Benchmark128_512(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 512)
}
func Benchmark128_1024(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 1024)
}
func Benchmark128_2048(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 2048)
}
func Benchmark128_4096(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 4096)
}
func Benchmark128_8192(b *testing.B) {
bench128(b, 8192)
}
//---
``` |
American Base Hospital No. 238 was an American military hospital formed in Rimaucourt, Department Haute Marne, France. This was the last hospital to be created during the First World War.
History
At this hospital were the United States Army Nurse Corps (ANC). From the start of the war till its bloody finish late 1918 the ANC expanded from 403 nurses to 22,000.
The hospital took its personnel from Base Hospitals Nos. 52, 58, 59, and 64. Nine days after the November 11, 1918 cease-fire this base was set up as a special hospital for eye, ear, nose, and throat, skin and genitourinary diseases, and contained the central laboratory and morgue. It was the fifth base hospital to join the Rimaucourt hospital center, where it occupied a type A, 1,000-bed hospital.
Since it was created so late in the war effort the hospital was only opened for less than three months and during that time cared for 802 patients, closing its doors on January 26, 1919. It disbanded at Rimaucourt on February 15, 1919, "and Base Hospital No. 238, the last base hospital to be organized in the World War, ceased to exist."
Personnel
Commanding Officers
Lieut. Col. William E. Butler, M. C., November 18, 1918, to January 18, 1919.
Chief of surgical service
Capt. N. Worth Brown, M. C.
Chief of medical service
Maj. John J. Madigan, M. C.
See also
American Hospital of Paris
References
(Total pages: 244)
Hospitals disestablished in 1919
Hospitals established in 1918
1918 establishments in France
Military hospitals in France
Defunct hospitals in France
Closed medical facilities of the United States Army |
```java
/*
* one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
* with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
*/
package io.camunda.zeebe.engine.state.migration.to_8_3;
import io.camunda.zeebe.engine.state.immutable.ProcessingState;
import io.camunda.zeebe.engine.state.migration.MigrationTask;
import io.camunda.zeebe.engine.state.mutable.MutableProcessingState;
import io.camunda.zeebe.protocol.ZbColumnFamilies;
public final class MultiTenancyDecisionStateMigration implements MigrationTask {
@Override
public String getIdentifier() {
return getClass().getSimpleName();
}
@Override
public boolean needsToRun(final ProcessingState processingState) {
return hasDeployedDecisionsInDeprecatedCF(processingState);
}
@Override
public void runMigration(final MutableProcessingState processingState) {
final var migrationState = processingState.getMigrationState();
migrationState.migrateDecisionStateForMultiTenancy();
}
private static boolean hasDeployedDecisionsInDeprecatedCF(final ProcessingState processingState) {
return !processingState.isEmpty(ZbColumnFamilies.DEPRECATED_DMN_DECISION_REQUIREMENTS);
}
}
``` |
Tre Avery (born February 26, 1997) is an American football cornerback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Rutgers.
Early life and high school career
Avery grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and attended St. Francis Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and Franklin High School.
College career
On May 3, 2015, Avery committed to play football at Ohio State, but transferred to Toledo after an eligibility issue at Ohio State, redshirting there before transferring a second time to Rutgers.
Professional career
On May 13, 2022, Avery signed with the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent, and made the 53-man roster to start the regular season following final cuts.
References
External links
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Bio
Tennessee Titans Bio
Living people
1997 births
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football players
Players of American football from Baltimore
Tennessee Titans players |
Preston on Wye is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It is situated near the River Wye, about 9 miles west of Hereford. Nearby places are Monnington on Wye, Lulham and Moccas.
It was a nascent town in the 13th century, its tradesmen mentioned alongside those of Bromyard, Ledbury, and Ross-on-Wye in a mandate of Henry III of November 1272 as entitled to trade in the city of Hereford "free from toll and all other exactions". But as with other projected towns in medieval Herefordshire like Wigmore it never developed fully.
Village events include plays and medieval banquets by the local drama group, The POW Players. There is a newly refurbished village hall and a pub (The Yew Tree), also a Church of England Church, St Lawrence's, a Baptist Chapel and a Methodist Chapel. There is a bi-weekly bus service into Hereford and daily buses to the local primary school in Madley and secondary school in Kingstone.
The village hall hosts the local community access point "Cow Pats" twice weekly on Wednesday nights and Saturdays, providing a rural cybercafé.
According to the Book of Llandaff a local warrior prince, Gwrfoddw, who was king of Ergyng, after a victory in battle over the Saxons granted land at Bolgros to Bishop Ufelfyw - Bolgros was said to be "on the banks of the Wye, at some distance from Mochros (now Moccas)" - in thanksgiving for the victory. Bolgros is believed to have been Preston-on-Wye, and a church was built on the site of the present church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, St Peter, St Dubricius and St Teilo.
The village has two seasonal campsites located close to the River Wye for canoeists.
References
External links
Villages in Herefordshire |
Kiels Mountain is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kiels Mountain had a population of 664 people.
Geography
The Bruce Highway defines the western boundary of the locality. The mountain of the same name is central to the locality () and rises to .
Eudlo Creek passes through the southeast tip of Kiels Mountain. Numerous creeks form on the slopes of the mountain, all of which are eventually tributaries of the Maroochy River.
The land use is principally rural residential.
History
The mountain is named after Heinrich "Henry" August Keil who selected on the eastern slopes in 1880. He was the first settler at Diddillibah, on the north side of Kiels Mountain in 1869. Henry Keil was born 13 July 1838 in Frankenberg, Hesse, Germany, the eldest son of Heinrich Andreas Keil and Anna Katherina Schwaner. He immigrated to Queesland arriving in Brisbane 28 March 1857 on 'SS Helene'.
Henry Keil and his wife Elizabeth were prominent Salvationists during the early growth of the Salvation Army on the Sunshine Coast, and were known for their charity to the local Aborigines.
Kiel's Mountain State School opened on 23 September 1918 and closed on 15 April 1962. It was at 349-355 Diddillibah Road (north-west corner of Preston Road, ); it is now within the locality boundaries of Diddillibah.
The spelling was Anglicised from Keils to Kiels Mountain c1930.
On 7 December 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe disappeared while waiting for a bus on Nambour-Connection Rd (Old Bruce Highway), near the Kiel Mountain Road overpass at Woombye. An arrest was made in August 2011 in connection with his death. His remains were discovered near the Glass House Mountains.
At the , the locality recorded a population of 657.
In the , Kiels Mountain had a population of 664 people.
Spiritual retreat
Avatar's Abode is a spiritual retreat dedicated to Meher Baba (1894–1969) who stayed there in 1958. Avatar's Abode is the oldest and longest-running eastern retreat in Queensland. It is at 48 Meher Road at the summit of Kiels Mountain ().
Education
There are no schools in Kiels Mountain. The nearest primary schools are in Woombye and Kuluin. The nearest secondary schools are in Nambour and Maroochydore.
Amenities
There are a number of parks in the locality, including:
Brookfield Court Bushland Conservation Reserve ()
Bushbird Court Bushland Conservation Reserve ()
Glenfinnan Bushland Conservation Reserve ()
Kaalba Court Natural Amenity Reserve ()
Kentish Road Reserve ()
Kiel Mountain Bushland Conservation Reserve ()
Merimist Way Bushland Conservation Reserve ()
References
Further reading
External links
Suburbs of the Sunshine Coast Region
Localities in Queensland |
Sandra Brown (born 1 April 1949) is a British ultra distance walker / runner who holds a number of world records in the field of long-distance walking.
Career
After a childhood which included many, duly completed her first formal marathon in 1982 in Winchester, at age 33 years. That same year saw her enter her first 'ultra' (a race of a distance beyond the marathon's 26 miles 385 yards) with the 100 km Surrey Summits in April and a Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) crosscountry 100 mile event alongs than 24 hours) in the annual English Centurions 24 Hour race - 32 "hundreds" walked between 1982 and 2018.
Brown has excelled in both ultradistance running and walking modes and has shown a great interest in the extremely long ultra distance events.
In 1989, Brown completed the first of four Paris-Colmar walks, a distance of 221 km between the two French cities.
In 1995 Brown walked from Land's End to John o' Groats (the walk from one end of Great Britain to the other), a distance of 830 miles. Her time of 13 days 10 hours beat the current running record and was to last for 9 years until, in 2006, it was finally beaten by world famous ultra distance runner Sharon Gaytor who ran the distance in 12 days 16 hours.
In Nanango (Queensland, Australia) in 1996, Brown set Women's World running records for 1000 kilometres (8 days 12 hours 16 mins 20 secs) and 1000 miles (14 days 10 hours 27 mins 20 secs). And as with her Land's End to John O'Groats record, she did it walking nearly the whole way. Even now, over 20 years later, these performances stand as the second and third ranking performances of all time behind the great Eleanor Robinson.
Brown has represented England on a number of occasions in ultra distance championships including the 2007 IAU 24 Hour Championship in Canada and the inaugural Commonwealth 24 Hour Run Championship in 2009 in England.
Records
Brown holds the official World Walking Records (track) for the 100 km, 100 miles, 12 hours and 24 hours.
Centurion Badges
The aim for many ultradistance walkers is to become a Centurion (racewalking), a membership reserved for those who can walk 100 miles (160.934 kilometres) within 24 hours. Brown is the only person in the world to be awarded all 7 Centurion medals (English, Continental, Australian, New Zealand, American, Malaysian and African).
Biographies
The Winning Experience: Winning in Sport, in Business, in Life
By Richard Brown, 1996,
Long At The Top: Richard and Sandra Brown 1982–1993
By Dudley Harris, 1994, self published (New Zealand)
Bluestocking in Black Tights
By Dudley Harris, 2000, self published (New Zealand)
References
1949 births
Living people
English female long-distance runners |
Huracanes Fútbol Club is an Equatorial Guinean women's football club based in Bata. It consists of a professional senior team that currently plays in the Equatoguinean Primera División femenina, the women's top tier of Equatorial Guinea's football.
Huracanes clinched the Primera División title during the 2022–23 season. In 2023, they were selected as Equatorial Guinea's representative for the UNIFFAC qualifiers. They secured victory by defeating the DR Congo club TP Mazembe 3–2 in the initial match and achieved an outstanding 5–1 win against AS Epah-Ngamba in the final game of the group stage. Notably, they did not face the Cameroon club AS Awa, as AS Awa had withdrawn from the competition held in Malabo. This successful campaign earned Huracanes a spot in the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League, making them the second Equatoguinean team to qualify for Africa's top tier women's football competition CAF Women's Champions League after Malabo Kings in 2021.
Players
Current squad
Former players
For details of current and former players, see :Category:Huracanes FC players.
Honours
See also
Equatoguinean Primera División femenina
Copa de la Primera Dama de la Nación
References
External links
Football clubs in Equatorial Guinea
Women's football clubs in Equatorial Guinea
Bata, Equatorial Guinea |
Muidumbe is a district of Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique. Its capital is the village of Muidumbe.
The district of Muidumbe is limited to the north and the east by Mocimboa da Praia District, to the north and the west by Mueda District, and to the south by Macomia District.
According to the Census of 2007, the district has 72,840 inhabitants and an area of 2,213 km2.
References
External links
Government profile
Geography of Mozambique
Districts in Cabo Delgado Province |
Fritz Fuß is a retired Swiss sidecarcross passenger and four times Sidecarcross World Champion, having won the competition from 1984 to 1987 as the passenger of Hansi Bächtold. The duo became the first-ever combination to win the competition four times in a row, a feat later repeated by the Swiss team of Andreas Fuhrer and Adrian Käser and surpassed by Dutch rider Daniël Willemsen with six consecutive titles.
Apart from his four World Championship triumphs he has also won the Swiss national sidecarcross championship on three occasions, in 1984, 1986 and 1987.
Biography
Fritz Fuß made his sidecarcross debut in the Swiss championship in 1982, joining Hansi Bächtold in mid-season. Success during that season was limited with a fourth place overall in Switzerland and a seventh in the World Championship. The 1983 season, now with Fritz Fuß as permanent passenger, saw improvement with a runners-up finish in the national and a sixth place in the World Championship.
From 1984 to 1987 the combination of Bächtold and Fuß dominated the World Championship and, almost equally, the Swiss championship. In 1984 they beat the 1981 World Champions Ton van Heugten and Frits Kiggen from the Netherlands by 58 points. The following three years August Muller and Henk van Heek, also from the Netherlands, came second each year. The closest the Dutch combination came to the Swiss World champions was in 1987 when they lost by 36 points.
In Switzerland, at the same time, the pair won the national title three times in four seasons. Only in 1985 did they miss out, finishing runners-up to Thomas Graf and Markus von Rotz by six points. It was the only time between 1982 and 1988 that the Swiss champions were not also the World Champions.
At the end of the 1987 season Hansi Bächtold retired from national and international sidecarcross racing despite being only 31 years old, as did Fritz Fuß, five years younger, who had spent his entire career with Bächtold. The main reason behind Bächtold's retirement was financial. He had to give up his job as a car mechanic to be able to race while not actually receiving any financial reward for racing. Fuß initially contemplated continuing his sidecarcross career but in the end never competed in the Swiss or World Championship again.
Honours
World Championship
Champions: (4) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
National Championships
Swiss national championship:
Champions: (3) 1984, 1986, 1987
Runners-up: (1) 1985
References
External links
The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com
Living people
Swiss sidecarcross riders
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Andrea Mastroni is an Italian basso profondo. Born in Milan, he first studied clarinet before training as a singer and studying philosophical aesthetics.
Career
Mastroni made his opera debut in Aida (Re / Ramphis), followed by operas in different styles, such as Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro), Turandot (Timur), La Bohème (Colline), Rigoletto (Sparafucile), Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo), Il Trovatore (Ferrando), Don Giovanni (Leporello), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio), L’Italiana in Algeri (Mustafa), Il matrimonio segreto (Conte Robinson), Die sieben Todsünden by Weill (Vater) and the world premiere of Romeo e Giulietta by Marchetti (Baldassarre).
In later seasons he has incorporated roles such as Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims conducted by Alberto Zedda in an Emilio Sagi production at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro), Oroveso (Norma), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pirro (I Lombardi), Banquo (Macbeth), Frate (Don Carlo), Oroe (Semiramide) and Caronte (L’Orfeo).
Andrea Mastroni has performed in the main opera houses and festivals in Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria and his recordings include operas such as Romeo e Giulietta by Marchetti (Dynamic), I Vespri Siciliani (Naxos, DVD and CD), Roméo et Juliette by Gounod (Decca), Semiramide (Naxos, Grammy 2012) and Lamento (Brilliant Classics), with Henri Duparc's songs for voice and piano. Lied and song form an important facet of his career, with a focus on song cycles such as Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe, while his concert repertoire features pieces such as Mozart's Requiem, Krönungsmesse and Litaniae Lauretanae, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle Verdi's Requiem.
He has performed in the world premieres of Messa Chigiana by Lavagnino, Hazon's Requiem, Arnaboldi's Dante Racconta l’Inferno, La Signora di Monza by Belisario and, opening the 2016/2017 season at La Fenice in Venice, Aquagranda, by Filippo Perocco.
In the 2017/2018 season, as well as having opened the seasons at Hamburg (Die Zauberflöte) and Venice (Aquagranda), he made his debut at the New York Metropolitan and he will make his debut at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London (Don Carlo and Rigoletto).
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian basses
Italian opera singers |
"The Impossible Astronaut" is the first episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The episode was written by show runner Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. It was first broadcast on 23 April 2011 in the United Kingdom on BBC One, the United States on BBC America and in Canada on Space. It also aired in Australia on ABC1 on 30 April 2011. The episode features alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill), and is the first of a two-part story, which concluded with "Day of the Moon" on 30 April.
In the episode, the Doctor, Amy, Rory and the archaeologist River Song (Alex Kingston) are summoned together by a version of the Doctor from 200 years in his future. Trying to understand the enigmatic hints about "Space 1969" the older Doctor mentioned and a man they meet in 2011 called Canton Everett Delaware III (Mark Sheppard in 1969 and William Morgan Sheppard in 2011), they travel to the United States in 1969 and discover a scared girl (Sydney Wade) who is trapped inside a spacesuit. The team deals with the Silence, a religious order of aliens which has members who can make people forget their encounter with them when they look away.
The Silence was created to compete with other past aliens in terms of "scariness," including the Weeping Angels. The episode was partially filmed on location at Lone Rock, Utah, the first time in Doctor Who that principal photography took place in the United States. The episode was seen by 8.86 million viewers in the United Kingdom, and received generally positive reviews from critics. "The Impossible Astronaut" gained an Appreciation Index of 88 – considered excellent. The episode was dedicated to Elisabeth Sladen, known for playing former companion Sarah Jane Smith, who died from cancer on 19 April 2011.
Plot
Prequel
On 22 March 2011, a short scene serving as a prequel for the first episode was released on the programme's website. In the prequel, Richard Nixon receives a phone call from the little girl who keeps calling him in the episode. She begs for the President to look behind him, but he asks how she got that number, which the "spaceman" told her. She tells him it is about monsters, to which he replies "Young lady, there are no monsters in the Oval Office." He then hangs up and leans back. Behind him stands an out-of-focus member of the Silence.
Synopsis
During a break from their travels with the Eleventh Doctor, his companions Amy and Rory are sent envelopes summoning them to Utah at a specific time and location. They arrive to meet River Song (who also received an envelope) and the Doctor, who is nearly 200 years older than he was when he last saw Amy and Rory. He offers them a picnic, and then a trip to "space 1969". During the picnic, a figure from the lake in an American astronaut suit shoots the Doctor multiple times and his body falls. A man called Canton Everett Delaware III arrives with a can of gasoline, telling Amy, Rory, and River that the dead man is the real Doctor. The Doctor's body is burned in a Viking funeral.
Amy, Rory, and River talk at a diner when they discover the fourth envelope was sent to the Doctor, alive and 200 years younger than the one at the lake. The Doctor's companions tell him about space 1969 and Canton, but refuse to tell him about his death or that the sender is the Doctor himself. The Doctor and his companions travel back to 8 April 1969, where the younger Canton, a former FBI operative, is briefed by President Richard Nixon about a series of phone calls Nixon received from a young girl asking for help. The Doctor arrives in Washington, DC and convinces Nixon to give him a few minutes to locate the girl. Based on the phone call and the girl's mention of a "spaceman", he tracks down the Florida intersection where the girl is located. Meanwhile, Amy meets and takes a photograph of one of the leaders of the Silence, a group she also saw by the lake which people forget about any time someone stops looking at them.
Canton follows the Doctor and the others into the TARDIS as they depart for Florida. Upon arrival at the building where the girl is held, they find pieces of a space suit and alien technology. River and Rory explore a vast network of tunnels that have apparently spread across the planet for centuries, unnoticed by the human population and populated by the Silence. Finding Canton unconscious near a figure in a space suit, Amy picks up Canton's gun and shoots at the suit. However, she realises too late that the helmet's visor has opened to reveal the little girl.
Continuity
The TARDIS had been previously turned invisible by damage to its visual stabiliser in the Second Doctor story The Invasion (1968). When Canton first leaves the TARDIS, the Doctor remarks, "Brave heart, Canton," a reference to the Fifth Doctor's recurrent statement to his companion Tegan Jovanka, "Brave heart, Tegan." When Amy asks the younger Doctor to trust her, he asks her to swear to him on something that matters. After some thought, she smiles and says "Fish fingers and custard," referring to events in "The Eleventh Hour," when Amy first meets the Doctor as a little girl.
Production
Writing
The episode was written by Steven Moffat, who took charge of the show in 2010. Moffat wanted the 2011 season to start with a two-part story in an attempt to begin with more gravity and a wider scope in plot, as well as wanting the episodes to be one of the darker ones in the series. "The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon" was the first two-part episode to open a series since the 1985 Sixth Doctor story Attack of the Cybermen.
In the Doctor Who Confidential episode following the broadcast of "The Impossible Astronaut," Moffat stated that in his view, it was one of the darker episodes of the series, but still maintained the same level of humour. The inclusion of the Doctor's death felt like a series ender for some of the producers, but was actually there to "kick it off." In writing the death scene of the older version of the Doctor, Moffat wanted to acknowledge to the audience that Time Lords are not invincible, and could still die permanently if killed before regeneration. In creating the Silence, the alien antagonists of the episode, Moffat wanted them to challenge past monsters in terms of "scariness." He felt these creatures are a "much bigger deal." The aliens' design was partially inspired by the figure from the Edvard Munch painting The Scream.
Casting
In October 2010, it was announced that Mark Sheppard, who had appeared in other science fiction series including Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Supernatural, and Warehouse 13, would make a guest appearance on Doctor Who. Sheppard described playing Canton as a "dream job," and said he wished to appear in another of Moffat's works, including Sherlock. Even though Sheppard is an English actor, it was his first appearance in a British-made television show. For the scene depicting the older Canton Delaware, the producers originally planned that Sheppard would appear older using makeup effects. However, Sheppard suggested instead that his father and actor, William Morgan Sheppard, play the role, a suggestion that was accepted.
American actor Stuart Milligan was cast as President Nixon, which he said he found exciting, having played other presidents in the past, including Dwight D. Eisenhower. Prosthetic pieces were applied on Milligan's cheeks, nose, and ears to make him resemble Nixon as much as possible. He also practiced how Nixon would speak, but initially found it difficult since he had to wear fake teeth. Milligan previously appeared in the animated Tenth Doctor special Dreamland as the voice of Colonel Stark. Chuk Iwuji, who played Carl, previously appeared in the Seventh Doctor audio drama A Thousand Tiny Wings, where he played Joshua Sembeke.
Filming and effects
This pair of episodes marks the first time that Doctor Who has filmed principal photography footage within the United States; the American-produced TV movie of 1996 was filmed in Canada, and some second unit establishing shots of New York and the Statue of Liberty were filmed on Liberty Island for the episode "Daleks in Manhattan", but none of the cast of the episode were involved in the shoot. Filming took place in the state of Utah. For the opening shot for the location, director Toby Haynes wanted it to be epic so that the audience could recognise where the episode was set. Scenes on the roadway were filmed on U.S. Route 163 (several miles east of the coordinates listed on the Doctor's invitations). The crew wanted to add as many American icons as they could into those shots, including a Stetson hat, a 1950s Edsel Villager, and a yellow school bus. Moffat, having enjoyed writing episodes featuring River Song, wanted to give her an impressive entrance. Haynes had actress Alex Kingston block the sunlight from the camera angle and blow smoke from her revolver. The scenes involving the picnic and the future-Doctor dying took place on the shore of Lake Powell. The suit worn by the future-Doctor's killer was a fabricated replica of an Apollo space suit. In filming the death scene the filming crew noticed that Karen Gillan was genuinely upset and "was acting her heart out." In filming the "Viking funeral" scene, Haynes wished to film it during the sunset. However, the sun set over the desert, so was instead filmed during sunrise, as the sun rose over the water.
Kingston had to genuinely slap Matt Smith several times in a scene because it was difficult to fake. Kingston recalled that after a few takes, Smith got red cheeked and grew frustrated at having to do the sequence over and over again. The Oval Office set was constructed at Upper Boat Studios in South Wales. Because the production crew had access to several pictures and plans of the real office, they were able to replicate it in almost every detail. The main problem for building the set was the plastering; the crew normally plaster one wall at a time for normal rooms, but because the Oval Office was round, they had to do the entire set at once. The American-style diner scene when the companions reunite with the Doctor in this episode is actually located in Cardiff Bay. The Laurel and Hardy film The Flying Deuces, in which the Doctor intruded, was done by Smith dancing in front of greenscreen.
Broadcast and reception
Pre-broadcast leak
At some point before the broadcast of the episode, it and "Day of the Moon" were released in a press screening, where a number of fans were invited to attend. The production team present asked them not to give away any spoilers. However, following the screening, a fan gave away the entire plot of the two episodes on an internet forum. News of this angered Moffat. In an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, Moffat stated;
Despite this he added that the majority of Doctor Who fans are "spoiler-phobes," who refused to go online to be spoiled.
Broadcast and ratings
"The Impossible Astronaut" was first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2011 at 6 pm. It began with a still-caption tribute to actress Elisabeth Sladen, who died from cancer on 19 April 2011. Sladen had previously appeared in the series as companion Sarah Jane Smith, and as the same character on the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. After the broadcast "The Impossible Astronaut" received preliminary, overnight figures of 6.52 million viewers. Final consolidated ratings for the episode increased to 8.86 million, with a 43.2 per cent audience share. This made the episode the second highest rated programme of the day, behind Britain's Got Talent on ITV1. The episode was the third most watched on BBC One, and sixth overall for the entire week ending 24 April. An additional 300,000 viewed the episode from BBC iPlayer within two days of its original broadcast. It received an Appreciation Index of 88, one of the higher scores for the weekend.
In the United States the episode aired on BBC America on the same day it was released in the United Kingdom, as was the case in Canada for Space. 1.3 million viewers saw "The Impossible Astronaut" on BBC America, making it the highest rated telecast in the history of the channel. It was reportedly up by 71,000 from "The Eleventh Hour". When Live + 7 day DVR ratings were added, the total rose to 1.8 million. In Canada, the episode was seen by 538,000, making it the most watched Who episode for the channel, and its most watched telecast in 2011. It was shown on ABC1 in Australia on 30 April 2011, and was viewed by 860,000 from the five capital cities, matching the ratings from "A Christmas Carol" on Boxing Day 2010.
Audience measurement service Kantar Media reported that "The Impossible Astronaut" is the most recorded television event of all time. Analysis of BARB data revealed that 4.11 million people recorded and viewed the programme within a week of broadcast, accounting for 46% of the episode's total viewers. A total of 1.38 million requests were placed on iPlayer for the month of April, placing it at number one for the month.
Critical reception
The episode was met with generally positive reviews from television critics. Dan Martin of The Guardian reacted positively towards the episode, believing the cast performed better than the previous fifth series. He stated "Steven Moffat has thrown away the rule book and made Doctor Who as, you imagine, he's pictured it should be his whole life. Killing the Doctor leaves the shape of the series mapped out, raises the bar so that no one is safe, and sees Amy, Rory and River facing a terrible dilemma." Martin liked that "Amy's numbed horror ramps things up to a series-finale level on intensity from the off," and then switches "into an Oval Office comedy of manners," and "morphs into gothic horror and finally flings you to the ground with its cinematic cliffhanger." He was also positive towards the American setting, and "our eccentric British foursome bumbling through it," believing the series raised its game with this. With regards to the Silence, Martin believed it was "a standard Moffat psychological trick, but the most refined to date." Martin later rated it the second best episode of the series, though the finale was not included in the list.
Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy called the episode "a fantastic launch for the sixth series," adding "the Doctor Who team's US location shooting has certainly paid off, lending these early scenes a grand scale that the series could scarcely have expected to achieve in 2005, let alone in 1963." Commenting on the future-Doctor's death, Jeffery said "seven minutes in, a nation's collective jaw dropped as The Doctor — this show's lead — is mercilessly gunned down. This plot twist is simply stunning, and it's difficult to imagine even casual viewers not sitting up to pay attention at this point." Jeffery also believed that the series regulars were on "top form," adding "the more abrasive aspects of Amy Pond's personality seem to have been toned down this year, and Karen Gillan responds with her best, most sympathetic performance to date. Arthur Darvill also lives up to his recent promotion to full-time companion. His comic timing is simply superb, but he excels too in the episode's darker moments." Jeffery rated the episode five stars out of five.
Gavin Fuller of The Daily Telegraph believed it was "a cracking start to the first part of the 2011 series, with the shocking ending of Amy seemingly shooting a girl making one keen wait for the conclusion next week to see how it all resolves itself," as well as enjoying the concept of the Silence. Rick Marshall of MTV believed that "Steven Moffat and the Doctor Who crew offer up yet another great episode," but also said the "big cliffhanger will likely cause more than a few fans' heads to explode." In addition, Marshall believed the alien antagonists "give the Weeping Angels a run for their money in scare factor." Simon Brew of Den of Geek thought the episode was "a triumphant return for Doctor Who, bubbling with confidence and throwing down story strands that hint at an engrossing series." Brew liked Sheppard's performance as Delaware and Darvill's increasing presence as Rory. Brew also complimented Haynes' work in the United States, saying it was an improvement from "Daleks in Manhattan", which featured British actors attempting to play with American accents. Tom Phillips of Metro said the 1969 US setting was "beautifully used," and enjoyed the "spookiness" of the Silence. However Phillips felt the episode would be "a bit hard to get into" for new viewers. Kevin O'Sullivan of The Sunday Mirror was more negative towards the episode, stating it was "impossible to understand," and for "strictly sci-fi nerds only," adding that Smith "remains a derivative Doctor who brings nothing new to the party."
References
External links
2011 British television episodes
Eleventh Doctor episodes
Television episodes set in Utah
Television episodes written by Steven Moffat
Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon
Fiction set in 1969
Fiction set in 2011
Doctor Who pseudohistorical serials
Doctor Who stories set on Earth
Television episodes set in the White House
Television episodes directed by Toby Haynes
Works about the Apollo program
Television episodes set in the 1960s |
The 1968–69 snooker season, the first season of the modern era of snooker, was a series of snooker tournaments played between July 1968 and March 1969. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.
Calendar
New professionals
The following players turned professional during the season: Maureen Baynton, Maurice Parkin David Taylor, Bernard Bennett, and Graham Miles
Notes
References
1968
1968 in snooker
1969 in snooker |
Denbies Wine Estate, near Dorking, Surrey, has the largest vineyard in England, with under vines, representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. It has a visitors' centre that attracts around 300,000 visits a year.
History
The estate takes its name from John Denby, who owned the farmhouse in the 16th century. In the mid-18th century Denby's farm buildings were converted into a gentleman's residence by Jonathan Tyers, proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens near London. Tyers' garden at Denbies was in startling contrast to the frivolities of Vauxhall, being adorned with memento mori ("reminders of death"). The property passed through other hands, and in the 1850s it was rebuilt, much greater, by pre-eminent early Victorian master builder Thomas Cubitt. He was visited at Denbies by Prince Albert, who planted a commemorative tree which survived until the Great Storm of 1990. The house remained in that family except in World War II when it was requisitioned by the military. In the 1950s Cubitt's great-grandson decided to demolish the house as he lacked the funds to restore and maintain it. He converted the laundry and gardener's house into a smaller Regency-style house. The heartland of the estate, earlier parcels having been sold, was purchased by Biwater in the 1980s with development later by local businessman Adrian White.
Wine production
Denbies is situated on the North Downs, which are a range of chalk hills the topsoil of which consists of fertile loam interspersed with flints. From 1986 to 1989 White had the south-facing slopes planted with vines, which cover of the estate, the remainder of which is woodland and pasture. The average yield is 300,000 litres of wine per year.
Around 65 per cent of Denbies' wine is sold at the visitors' centre, and the remainder through supermarkets, wholesalers and via mail order.
In 2010 Denbies Chalk Ridge Rosé won the IWC international Gold award, beating more than 360 competitors from 21 countries. The IWC wine challenge is the world's biggest and most influential wine competition.
Facilities
Visitors' centre
The visitors' centre occupies a double courtyard building in the local vernacular style. It features a working winery which visitors walk through while listening to commentary and having questions answered by an expert tour guide, wine cellars, 360° cinema, art gallery, lecture room, two restaurants and a shop. In the summer there are also tours of the vineyards.
Lego House
In August–September 2009, Denbies was the location chosen for the construction of James May's Lego House, built as part of the James May's Toy Stories BBC television series. The house was taken down less than a week after completion, as no planning permission had been obtained and a buyer for it could not be found.
Denbies Guest House
The estate runs Denbies Guest House in one its farmhouses and a kitchen garden centre. It offers venues and catering for corporate functions and weddings.
Surrey Performing Arts Library
The Surrey Performing Arts Library on the estate brings together major collections of materials covering music, dance, theatre and cinema. Material is available on loan.
Mole Valley parkrun
Denbies Wine Estate agreed to allow a parkrun (weekly 5 kilometre runs) at the Vineyard. The inaugural event was in March 2018, won by Ollie Garrod of Epsom and Ewell Harriers running club.
The course is very difficult owing to two long, steep hills in the first half of the course. The second half is nearly all steep downhill.
Around 150 events have taken place. It was postponed for 16 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and July 2021. The Wine Estate also regularly hosts other running events including the Surrey Cross Country Championships.
References
Further reading
External links
Denbies Wine Estate official site
The first Denbies house at Lost Heritage - a memorial to the lost houses of England
Cubitt's Denbies at Lost Heritage
Surrey Performing Arts Library
Wineries of England
Tourist attractions in Surrey
Houses in Surrey
Dorking |
Telok Kemang was a federal constituency in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 2018. It was replaced by Port Dickson parliamentary constituency following the 2018 redelineation exercise.
The federal constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
History
It was abolished in 2018 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
State constituency
Election results
References
Defunct Negeri Sembilan federal constituencies |
Wurmberg is a municipality in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Geography
Wurmberg is located on the so-called Platte, a Karst mountain range in the northern Black Forest (Schwarzwald).
Municipality
The municipality Wurmberg includes the districts Wurmberg and Neubärental. Wurmberg was a settlement of the Waldensians from Lucerne.
History
Wurmberg was first mentioned in documents in 1221 as a chapel was built at that time. In the following period, the Maulbronn Monastery secured the rule of Wurmberg. The monastery of Wurmberg came into Württemberg in 1504 following the Bavarian-Palatine War of Succession. At the end of the 17th Century Waldensian Protestants forced to flee from Italy settled in Wurmberg. The establishment of the district of Neubärental in 1721 goes back to these religious refugees. An originating theologian of Bärenthal (Hohenzollern) who had converted with some families from Catholicism to Protestantism, had to leave his home in the southern German town of Bärenthal.
Religion
In 1534, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg enforced the Protestant Reformation in his Duchy of Württemberg.
Waldensians immigrants had found refuge in Wurmberg-Lucerne.
40 people form Bärenthal in Hohenzollern had found refuge in Wurmberg-Neubärental.
Population growth
The population figures for the respective area of jurisdiction are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates of the State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg (only primary residences ).
Economy and infrastructure
The nearest railway station is Pforzheim main station, located about 10 km west of Wurmberg. Even closer to the breakpoint is Niefern on the route Pforzheim Mühlacker. Bus lines 739, 761, 763 and 769 of the Verkehrsverbund Pforzheim-Enzkreis connect Wurmberg with Pforzheim.
Education
Wurmberg has its own primary school.
External links
Official Website
References
Enzkreis
Württemberg |
Zygoballus tibialis is a species of jumping spider native to Central America. It was first described by the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The type specimens are housed at the Natural History Museum in London.
The species has been collected from Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Costa Rica, and possibly Panama.
Description
According to the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, males are approximately 3 mm in body length, while females are approximately 4 mm. The male can be distinguished from other Central American Zygoballus by its large tibial apophysis (or "spur") on the pedipalp. In the male, the first pair of legs and the pedipalps are black while the other legs are yellow. In the female, the legs are annulated with black at the apex of the segments, and the abdomen has a pattern of white spots and bands. The female can be distinguished from closely related species by the shape of the epigyne.
References
External links
Zygoballus tibialis at Worldwide database of jumping spiders
Zygoballus tibialis at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library
Salticidae
Spiders of Mexico
Spiders of Central America
Spiders described in 1901 |
Samhall AB is a Swedish state-owned limited company with the task of creating meaningful and developing jobs for people with disabilities. The company was founded in 1980 and is today one of the Swedish state's largest companies in terms of number of employees. The name Samhall is similar to the Swedish word "Samhälle" which translates to English as "Community" or "Society".
During the company's first decades, the business was dominated by its own industrial production, however today, most of the employees work in service or staffing in other companies.
History
Workshops, office work, housework, and other types of sheltered work began to appear in the 1960s in Sweden, with various actors, such as municipalities and county labour boards in charge of these. During the 1970s, flaws in these systems were identified. They were poorly organized. and the chances of having a secure job varied greatly between regions.
In response to these flaws, In 1980, the "Foundation for Social Enterprises" (Sv: Stiftelsen Samhällsföretagen) was established, consolidating the various regional activities.
In 1992, the foundation became a group, with Samhall AB as the parent company and several regional subsidiaries. The Group was merged into one business, Samhall AB, in 2002.
Criticisms
In March 2021, began an investigation into Samhall and has published over 30 articles.
In April 2021, Uppdrag granskning published an investigation about Samhall sifting away the weak and prioritising business over people.
See also
Swedish Public Employment Service
Supported employment
Disability policy in Sweden
List of government enterprises of Sweden
References
Government-owned companies of Sweden
Swedish companies established in 1980 |
Achar may refer to:
Achar (Buddhism), a lay Buddhist ritual specialist in Cambodia.
Acar, Dutch/Indonesian pickle
Achar people, an ethnographic group of Georgians
Achar or Achan (biblical figure), an Israelite referred to in the Book of Joshua and the First Book of Chronicles
Achar, Uruguay, a town in the Tacuarembó Department of Uruguay
Achar!, a 2004–2005 Singaporean English-language sitcom
Achar (crater), a crater on Mars
South Asian pickle, a food native to South Asia
See also
Acar (disambiguation)
Achara clan, a Jat clan of Rajasthan
Atchara, Philippine pickled papaya |
Hapsidomyces is a genus of fungi within the Pezizaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Hapsidomyces venezuelensis.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
Pezizaceae
Monotypic Ascomycota genera |
John Evans (25 June 1867 – 5 January 1958) was a Progressive party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Rhayader, Radnorshire, Wales, the son of John Evans and Mary Wylde, moved to Canada in 1890 and became a farmer.
Evans attended school at Rhayader and Gaufron. He was a public school principal at Teignmouth, England. Evans was also a Life Governor of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Saskatoon riding in the 1921 general election. After serving one term there, he moved to the Rosetown riding where he was re-elected in 1925 and 1926. After two terms at Rosetown, Evans was defeated by William John Loucks of the Liberals in the 1930 federal election. Evans made another attempt to return to Parliament in the 1935 election, this time under the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, but was unsuccessful in that campaign at the Saskatoon City riding.
References
External links
1867 births
1958 deaths
Farmers from Saskatchewan
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan
Progressive Party of Canada MPs
Heads of schools in England
Welsh emigrants to Canada
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidates for the Canadian House of Commons |
Astana City () was a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana City acted as a junior feeder team to , alongside Vino 4ever SKO. The team disbanded at the end of the 2019 season.
Team history
2014: Three doping positives
During the 2014 season three riders, Ilya Davidenok, Victor Okishev and Artur Fedosseyev tested positive for anabolic androgenic steroids. Davidenok tested positive at the Tour de l'Avenir, Okishev tested positive at the Asian Cycling Championships while Fedosseyev tested positive at Tour de l'Ain. The riders were provisionally suspended awaiting doping hearings. The next day Alexander Vinokourov, head of , was reported to have suspended the entire continental team.
2015: Seven Rivers
In 2015 the team changed name to Seven Rivers Cycling Team. Six of the ten riders had previously ridden for the Continental Team Astana.
2016: Astana City
In 2016, the team changed name to Astana City and retained eight riders from Seven Rivers.
Final roster
Major wins
2012
Stage 2a Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 4 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Arman Kamyshev
Stage 2 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Nikita Umerbekov
Stage 5 Heydar Aliyev Anniversary Tour, Nikita Umerbekov
Overall Saguenay U23, Arman Kamyshev
Stages 1 & 3, Arman Kamyshev
Sant'Ermete, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 3 Baby Giro, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Arman Kamyshev
Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Alexey Lutsenko
Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir, Alexey Lutsenko
Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Maxat Ayazbayev
Stage 1b, Alexey Lutsenko
Stage 2, Arman Kamyshev
2013
Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Evgeniy Nepomnyachshiy
Stage 5 Priirtyshe Stage Race, Ilya Davidenok
Atina, Maxat Ayazbayev
2014
Stage 7 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
Stage 5 Tour de Normandie, Marco Benfatto
Stage 2 Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste trophée harmonie Mutuelle, Vadim Galeyev
Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Marco Benfatto
Stage 3 Tour of China II, Vadim Galeyev
2015
Stage 4 Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
Stage 4 Tour of Bulgaria, Nikita Panassenko
2016
Grand Prix of ISD, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
2017
Stage 5a (ITT) Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Vadim Pronskiy
Stage 5b Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Grigoriy Shtein
Stage 3 Grand Prix Priessnitz spa, Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev
2018
Overall Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Stage 1, Galym Akhmetov
Overall Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc, Vadim Pronskiy
Stage 4, Vadim Pronskiy
World, Continental and National champions
2012
World U23 Road Race Championships, Alexey Lutsenko
2013
Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Daniil Fominykh
2014
Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Viktor Okishev
Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, Ilya Davidenok
See also
Astana Pro Team
Astana BePink Womens Team
List of Astana City rosters
References
Cycling teams based in Kazakhstan
Sports teams in Astana
Cycling teams established in 2012
2012 establishments in Kazakhstan
UCI Continental Teams (Europe)
Defunct cycling teams based in Kazakhstan
Cycling teams disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in Kazakhstan |
Narayan Tilakchand Kuche is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Badnapur Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a very popular MLA of Badnapur, mostly in the villages.
References
Maharashtra MLAs 2014–2019
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra
Living people
Politicians from Marathwada
People from Jalna district
Marathi politicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
John Fedo (born 1950) is an American politician from Duluth, Minnesota, and a former mayor of that city. Prior to becoming the City's youngest mayor, he served on the Duluth City Council during the 1970s and owned a gas station in Duluth.
As mayor, Fedo is widely credited with launching the renaissance of Duluth's lakefront and the development of Canal Park in the 1980s. He was also active in the design and beautification of downtown Duluth.
In March 1988, Fedo was indicted on state charges of theft and falsification of records. After a trial, Fedo was acquitted on all counts, and served out his third term before retiring as mayor in January 1992.
After he retired as mayor of Duluth, Fedo became City Administrator (1992–1995) in Hibbing, Minnesota. In 1994 Fedo founded John A Fedo and Associates, an economic development consulting firm. In 2011 the firm merged with JPJ Engineering and Development. Fedo is a partner.
See also
List of mayors of Duluth, Minnesota
References
1950 births
Living people
Mayors of Duluth, Minnesota
Minnesota city council members
Minnesota Democrats |
Babiniec refers to the following places in Poland:
Babiniec, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Babiniec, Łódź Voivodeship
See also
Babinec (disambiguation) |
A.P. Williams Funeral Home is a historic African-American funeral home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1911 as a single-family residence, and is a two-story frame building with a hipped roof with gables and a columned porch. At that time, it was one of six funeral homes that served black customers. Archie Preston Williams, II was a leader in the city's black community.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
References
African-American history of South Carolina
Death care companies of the United States
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1911
Houses in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina |
Zhang Yuehong (; born November 9, 1975 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a volleyball player from Liaoning, China. She won a gold medal with the national team in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Clubs
Liaoning (1993–2002)
RC Cannes (2002–2003)
Liaoning (2003–2008)
Toray Arrows (2008–2009)
Awards
Individuals
2008-09 Japanese Premier League "Most Valuable Player"
2008-09 Japanese Premier League "Best 6"
National team
2003 FIVB World Cup - Gold Medal
2004 Summer Olympics - Gold Medal
References
FIVB profile
External links
1975 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic volleyball players for China
Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Volleyball players from Shenyang
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in volleyball
Volleyball players at the 2002 Asian Games
Chinese women's volleyball players
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Wing spikers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Chinese expatriates in France
Expatriate volleyball players in France
Expatriate volleyball players in Japan
21st-century Chinese women |
Brown's Requiem is a 1981 crime novel, the first novel by American author James Ellroy. Ellroy dedicated Brown's Requiem, "to Randy Rice". Brown's Requiem was initially published in paperback in the US, by Avon Books, and the first hardback and first UK edition was published in 1984 by Allison and Busby. The novel was adapted into a 1998 film of the same title.
Plot
German-American Los Angeles-based detective Fritz Brown is hired by the mysterious caddie Fat Dog Baker, who wants him to spy on his sister Jane and her benefactor, the much older businessman Sol Kupferman. Brown recognizes Kupferman as a man he had seen at the Club Utopia before it was burned down some years before. Brown suspects Fat Dog of being an arsonist and discovers that Kupferman owned Club Utopia through a proxy. Brown, thinking there might be a connection between the two men, decides to look for Fat Dog, who has disappeared and force him to confess but finds him dead in Mexico instead. He has been killed by Richard Ralston, with whom Fat Dog had started an illegal trade in social welfare benefits. Ralston failed to find a notebook where Fat Dog had meticulously noted their illegal transactions. Brown finds it and learns how Fat Dog, apart from the Utopia arson, had burned the houses where he had lived as foster child with his sister. Kupferman is their father, while their mother Louisa was a woman of the upper class who was forbidden from having anything to do with him because he was Jewish. To avoid scandal after Louisa's suicide, Kupferman gave the children to foster parents and bribed a corrupt officer, Haywood Cathcart, for buying his silence about the matter. Brown, who in the meantime has developed a crush on Jane, finds Cathcart out and kills him after making him confess his crimes.
See also
Brown's Requiem, a 1998 film adaptation
References
1981 American novels
Novels by James Ellroy
American crime novels
American novels adapted into films
Avon (publisher) books
Allison and Busby books |
Wen Yang may refer to:
Wen Yang (Three Kingdoms), Cao Wei military general during the Three Kingdoms period
Wen Yang (chess player), Chinese chess player
Wen Yong Yang, American track and field coach |
The men's high jump event at the 1982 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 6 March.
Results
References
High jump at the European Athletics Indoor Championships
High |
This is a partial list of the equipment of the Irish Army, the land component of the Irish Defence Forces.
Weapons
While the Army Ranger Wing has access to a wider variety of specialist weapons, the modern weapons in use within the Irish Army includes the following:
Vehicles
This is a partial list of the modern vehicles in use within the Irish Army.
Defence Forces aircraft
Note: All Irish Aircraft are operated by the Irish Air Corps. Main article: List of aircraft of the Irish Air Corps
Gallery
See also
Modern Irish Army uniform
Armoured fighting vehicles of the Irish Army
References
Modern equipment of the Irish Army
Ireland |
Spore is an action puzzle game for the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and ZX Spectrum, released by Mastertronic in 1987. Its title screen credits Jim Baguley with writing it, although Paul Rogers claims to have written it and its unreleased sequel, Mutant Zone. The music was composed by David Whittaker.
The game includes a level editor for users to create their own maps.
Reception
Zzap!64 gave the Commodore 64 version 97% and a silver medal; Crash gave the ZX Spectrum version 67%.
References
External links
1987 video games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
Maze games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by David Whittaker
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games with user-generated gameplay content
Mastertronic games |
The Digital Visitor and Resident (V&R) model provides a framework to depict how user preference and habit motivates engagement with technology and the web. V&R is commonly described as a continuum, with two modes of online engagement at either end, making a separation between different approaches to engagement. People operating in Visitor mode have a defined goal or task, and select an appropriate online tool to meet their needs as they arise. For example, using a smartphone to search the internet for directions to a local bookstore, thus finding a particular piece of information online and then going offline to complete the task. There will be little in terms of social visibility or trace when online in Visitor mode. People operating in Resident mode are online to connect to, or to be with, other people. For example, posting to the wall in Facebook, tweeting, blogging, or posting comments on blogs. The web supports the projection of their identity and facilitates relationships. In other words, Residents live a percentage of their lives online. Unlike the Visitor mode, there will be online visibility and presence when in Resident mode. It is very common for individuals to engage online in a mixture of Visitor and Resident modes depending on what they are trying to achieve.
Background
Marc Prensky's notions of digital natives and digital immigrants has had a lasting influence on how educational institutions perceive students and technology. However, Prensky's model has been challenged by other researchers who have debated its parameters. One of these new models is the V&R project. It contrasts with Presky's digital native in that it rejects hard divisions based on the age of the user, and instead focuses on the user's desired level of engagement.
Mapping process
The Visitor-Resident continuum illustrates the range of possible modes of engagement individuals now have available to them through the web. The corresponding Digital Visitors and Residents mapping is a tool used by educators and librarians for exploring how their institutional users are engaging with the services they provide. By having students or users map their activity, they can create a picture of their overall engagement. Mapping also can be used to gain a picture of the overall digital presence of a group or department when bringing together and overlaying multiple maps.
V&R study
The V&R project explored learners' motivations behind different types of engagement with the digital environment, when seeking information. The investigation focused on the sources learners turn to in order to gather information, and which on- and off-line spaces they choose to interact in as part of the learning process. The study used the Digital Visitors and Residents framework to map learners' modes of engagement in both personal and institutional contexts. The project assessed whether individual approaches shift according to the learners' educational stage or whether they develop practices/literacies in early stages that remain largely unchanged as they progress through their educational career. Learners from both the United Kingdom and the United States participated in the project.
The V&R project used both quantitative and qualitative methods for a mixed methods approach. The qualitative method of semi-structured interviews, sometimes accompanied by monthly diaries and follow-up interviews, was used to create a rich, descriptive longitudinal study of preselected individuals who represent the four educational stages (Emerging, Establishing, Embedding, and Experiencing). Findings, to date, indicate that behavior patterns vary by the participants' educational stage rather than by their age, which varies within each stage. This categorization, by educational stages rather than age, contrasts with Prensky's "natives and immigrants" paradigm. However, the V&R notion reflects that individual choices about technology and information seeking derive from context— that is, from individuals' educational and professional priorities — rather than from their age.
The findings also indicate that people still rely on other people to get information, especially those within their personal networks. Individuals make decisions based on convenience within the context of their information needs and the situation within which the need arises. Web-based functionalities are the expected norm for services by many people, as the sources that people chose are overwhelmingly digital. Interviewees mentioned search engines and social media sites far more often than physical places, when looking for information. This reliance on digital spaces coexists with a persistent need to be in contact with other people both online and face to face. Individuals expect to use their own technology to connect with institutional (and other) resources, and to engage in Resident modes of behavior. There is also an underlying perception, particularly by US students, that sources such as Wikipedia should be avoided, creating a “learning black market” where these sources are covertly used and not mentioned. Mentions of the free web, as represented by major media sites and Wikipedia, also far outnumbered mentions of university databases or course management systems such as Moodle, even among graduate students. Participants in all of the educational stages frequently mentioned convenience/ease of use as an important factor in obtaining information.
Undoubtedly, people seek what they need within their existing relationships, and as they move through the educational stages, their networks are increasingly populated with people who have relevant subject expertise. By the time individuals become faculty members, calling a "friend" about an article indefinitely means the friend is also an expert in the field. Relationships are a major factor in how individuals get information and whom they choose for collaboration. The desire to make contact with others also motivates people to engage with technology.
Recommendations
Services and systems need to be embedded into individual's workflow. Therefore, the institution should provide a broad range of tools for gathering information and create simple and convenient interface designs. Institutions should also eliminate any barriers between information discovery and access, along with the promotion and marketing of services academic communities. Institutions should use individual Internet practices as a guide to linking institutional resources to those on the open web by conversing with their academic constituencies and using what they already know about people using Wikipedia. It is also important to ensure that the library, or institution, has a diverse presence in digital and physical spaces, and engages in innovative strategies for making library collections come to life, using social media.
InfoKit
The infoKit draws on the findings and methods of the Jisc/OCLC funded Digital Visitors and Residents (V&R) project which is underpinned by an alternative to Prensky's typing of technology users. It contains advice on evaluating the services you offer to your users. The focus is primarily on digital/online services but set within the broader context of more traditional services, exploring the relationship between the two.
See also
Digital native
Networked learning
Generation Y
Generation Z
Homo Ludens
Information society
Online identity
References
Further reading
Silipigni Connaway, Lynn, and Kevin M. Randall. 2013. "Why the Internet is More Attractive than the Library". The Serials Librarian. 64 (1-4): 41–56.
Connaway Lynn Silipigni, Erin Hood, Donna Lanclos, David White, and Alison Le Cornu. 2013. "User-centered decision making: A new model for developing academic library services and systems". IFLA Journal. 39 (1): 20–29.
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White, and Donna Lanclos. 2011. Visitors and residents: What motivates engagement with the digital information environment? Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. (48):1-7.
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White, Donna Lanclos, and Alison Le Cornu. 2012. Visitors and residents: What motivates engagement with the digital information environment? Information Research. 18(1).
Engelsmann, Hazel C., Elke Greifeneder, Nikoline D. Lauridsen, and Anja G. Nielsen. 2014. "Validation of the visitor and resident framework in an e-book setting." Information Research. 19(2): 19–2.
Fagan, Jody Condit. 2010. Visitors and residents in library web spaces. Journal of Web Librarianship. 4(4): 301–303.
Hopkins, David, and Sue Beckingham. 2012. Are students aware of their “digital footprint” and the effect their online presence/activity may have on current or future employment prospects? In The 7th Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON 2012), April 18–20, 2012, Plymouth.
Oliveira, Eloiza, Carvalho, Jose Mauro Goncalves Nunes, Caio Abitbol Carvalho, and Gabriel Moura Souza Miranda Rodrigues. 2014. Digital visitors and digital residents: Overcoming the concept of digital natives. In Proceedings of the 2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. NP: IEEE.
Ramanigopal, C. S., G. Palaniappan, and N. Hemalatha. 2012. "Social Networking: Problems and Prospects of the Knowledge Society." International Journal of Research in Management, Economics and Commerce (IJRMEC). 2(2): 116–129.
Reed, Peter. 2013. "Hashtags and retweets: using Twitter to aid Community, Communication and Casual (informal) learning." Research in Learning Technology. 21.
Tschofen, Carmen, and Jenny Mackness. 2012. "Connectivism and dimensions of individual experience." The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. 13(1): 124–143.
West, Trudi, and Carina Paine. 2012. "The opportunities of mobile learning for executive education." The Ashridge Journal.
White, David. 2008. Not “natives” & “immigrants” but “Visitors” & “Residents.” TALL Blog: Online Education with the University of Oxford, April 23.
White, David, and Alison Le Cornu. (2011). Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement. First Monday. 16(9).
Wright, Fiona, David White, Tony Hirst, and Alan Cann. 2014. "Visitors and Residents: mapping student attitudes to academic use of social networks". Learning, Media and Technology. 39(1): 126–141.
Wu, Kim Somaly, and Donna Lanclos. 2011. "Re-imagining the users' experience: An ethnographic approach to web usability and space design." Reference Services Review. 39(3): 369–389.
External links
Video explanation Visitor Resident Video
Mapping visitors and residents (video)
Digital Visitors and Residents Mapping App
Mapping the role technology plays in your life
Cultural generations
Digital divide
Internet terminology
2010s neologisms |
Remigio Nannini (1518/1521–1580/81) was a Dominican friar, author, editor and translator. A scholar of striking versatility, Nannini's "fame as an author of profane literature [...] did not prevent him from being, at the same time, an active participant in the counter-Reformation [...] he was a Dominican friar who admired Machiavelli and Guicciardini."
Life
Remigio Nannini was born in Florence in 1518 or 1521. He entered the Dominican Order at Santa Maria Novella when young, continuing his education there. He also studied in Padua under the theologian Sisto Medici. He published a book of Petrarchan verse in 1547. In 1553 he became magister theologiae. He edited Petrarch's De remediis, and translated several classical Roman historians, including Cornelius Nepos and Ammianus Marcellinus. After briefly living in Ancona, in 1556 Nannini settled in Venice.
In Venice Nannini worked with several publishers, but particularly with Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari. He published a large number of vernacular devotional editions. From the mid-16th century, the Catholic Church forbade vernacular translations of the Bible, and this generally included the lectionary for daily Mass. However, Nannini's edition of the Epistles and Gospels was permitted. He also published collections of secular historical writers.
Nannini died in Florence in 1580.
Works
Rime [Verses]. Venice: Ludovico Domenichi, 1547.
(tr.) Epistole d’Ouidio di Remigio Fiorentino diuise in due libri by Ovid. Venice, 1555.
Orationi Militari. Venice, 1557.
Orationi in materia civile e criminale. Venice, 1561.
(ed.) Epistole et Evangeli che si leggono tutto l’anno alla messa. Venice, 1567.
Considerationi civili sopra l'historie di M. Francesco Guicciardini e d'altri historici [Civil considerations on the history of M. Francesco Guicciardini and other historians]. Venice: Appresso Damiano Zenaro, 1582. Translated into English by W. Traheron as Ciuill considerations vpon many and sundrie histories, as well ancient as moderne, and principallie vpon those of Guicciardin, London: Imprinted by F.K. for Matthew Lownes, 1601
References
External links
1521 births
Year of birth uncertain
1580 deaths
Italian Dominicans
Dominican scholars
16th-century Italian writers
16th-century translators
Writers from Florence
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The Praslin National Park and surrounding areas Important Bird Area lies in the southern part of the island of Praslin in the Seychelles archipelago of the western Indian Ocean.
Description
The 700 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) extends from sea-level to the highest point of the island at an elevation of 367 m. It includes the 330 ha Praslin National Park as well as additional land to the south-east. The hill-slopes of the site are mainly covered by mixed secondary forest containing a high proportion of native plants, notably all six of Seychelles’ endemic palm species. It includes the palm forest of the World Heritage listed Vallée de Mai, as well as many small streams and waterfalls. The south-eastern part of the site is drier, characterised by boulders and caves amongst scrub vegetation.
Fauna
The site was identified as an IBA by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Seychelles kestrels, Seychelles blue pigeons, Seychelles swiftlets, Seychelles bulbuls and Seychelles sunbirds. Reptiles and amphibians found at the site include the Seychelle Islands tree frog, six caecilians, four geckos, two skinks and two snakes, all of which are endemic. Hawksbill turtles nest on the beaches and green turtles feed along the coast. Most of the Praslin population of the Seychelles fruit bat roosts in the IBA.
References
Praslin, Seychelles
Important Bird Areas of Seychelles
National parks of Seychelles |
Canadian Football News in 1925
McGill coach Frank Shaughnessy introduced the huddle system to Canadian football. It was at first called the Conference System.
Calgary 50th Battalion became the Tigers.
The Ottawa Rough Riders club changed its name to the Senators.
Regular season
Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
*Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs
League Champions
Grey Cup playoffs
Note: All dates in 1925
MRFU Tie-Breaker
SRFU final
West semifinal
East semifinal
Queen's advances to the East Final.
East final
Ottawa advances to the Grey Cup.
West final
Winnipeg advances to the Grey Cup final.
Playoff bracket
Grey Cup Championship
References
Canadian Football League seasons |
Experiential avoidance (EA) has been broadly defined as attempts to avoid thoughts, feelings, memories, physical sensations, and other internal experiences — even when doing so creates harm in the long run. The process of EA is thought to be maintained through negative reinforcement — that is, short-term relief of discomfort is achieved through avoidance, thereby increasing the likelihood that the avoidance behavior will persist. Importantly, the current conceptualization of EA suggests that it is not negative thoughts, emotions, and sensations that are problematic, but how one responds to them that can cause difficulties. In particular, a habitual and persistent unwillingness to experience uncomfortable thoughts and feelings (and the associated avoidance and inhibition of these experiences) is thought to be linked to a wide range of problems.
Background
EA has been popularized by recent third-wave cognitive-behavioral theories such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). However, the general concept has roots in many other theories of psychopathology and intervention.
Psychodynamic
Defense mechanisms were originally conceptualized as ways to avoid unpleasant affect and discomfort that resulted from conflicting motivations. These processes were thought to contribute to the expression of various types of psychopathology. Gradual removal of these defensive processes are thought to be a key aspect of treatment and eventually return to psychological health.
Process-experiential
Process-experiential therapy merges client-centered, existential, and Gestalt approaches. Gestalt theory outlines the benefits of being fully aware of and open to one's entire experience. One job of the psychotherapist is to "explore and become fully aware of [the patient's] grounds for avoidance" and to "[lead] the patient back to that which he wishes to avoid" (p. 142). Similar ideas are expressed by early humanistic theory: "Whether the stimulus was the impact of a configuration of form, color, or sound in the environment on the sensory nerves, or a memory trace from the past, or a visceral sensation of fear or pleasure or disgust, the person would be 'living' it, would have it completely available to awareness…he is more open to his feelings of fear and discouragement and pain...he is more able fully to live the experiences of his organism rather than shutting them out of awareness."
Behavioral
Traditional behavior therapy utilizes exposure to habituate the patient to various types of fears and anxieties, eventually resulting in a marked reduction in psychopathology. In this way, exposure can be thought of as "counter-acting" avoidance, in that it involves individuals repeatedly encountering and remaining in contact with that which causes distress and discomfort.
Cognitive
In cognitive theory, avoidance interferes with reappraisals of negative thought patterns and schema, thereby perpetuating distorted beliefs. These distorted beliefs are thought to contribute and maintain many types of psychopathology.
Third-wave cognitive-behavioral
The concept of EA is explicitly described and targeted in more recent CBT modalities including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), and behavioral activation (BA).
Associated problems
Distress is an inextricable part of life; therefore, avoidance is often only a temporary solution.
Avoidance reinforces the notion that discomfort, distress and anxiety are bad, or dangerous.
Sustaining avoidance often requires effort and energy.
Avoidance limits one's focus at the expense of fully experiencing what is going on in the present.
Avoidance may get in the way of other important, valued aspects of life.
Empirical evidence
Laboratory-based thought suppression studies suggest avoidance is paradoxical, in that concerted attempts at suppression of a particular thought often leads to an increase of that thought.
Studies examining emotional suppression and pain suppression suggest that avoidance is ineffective in the long-run. Conversely, expressing the unpleasant emotions can lead to improvements in the long term, even though it increases negative reactions in the short term.
Exposure-based therapy techniques have been shown to be effective in treating a wide range of psychiatric disorders.
Numerous self-report studies have linked EA and related constructs (avoidance coping, thought suppression) to psychopathology and other forms of dysfunction.
Relevance to psychopathology
Seemingly disparate forms of pathological behavior can be understood by their common function (i.e., attempts to avoid distress). Some examples include:
Relevance to quality of life
Perhaps the most significant impact of EA is its potential to disrupt and interfere with important, valued aspects of an individual's life. That is, EA is seen as particularly problematic when it occurs at the expense of a person's deeply held values. Some examples include:
Putting off an important task because of the discomfort it evokes.
Not taking advantage of an important opportunity due to attempts to avoid worries of failure or disappointment.
Not engaging in physical activity/exercise, meaningful hobbies, or other recreational activities due to the effort they demand.
Avoiding social gatherings or interactions with others because of the anxiety and negative thoughts they evoke.
Not being a full participant in social gatherings due to attempts to regulate anxiety relating to how others are perceiving you.
Being unable to fully engage in meaningful conversations with others because one is scanning for signs of danger in the environment (attempting to avoid feeling "unsafe").
Inability to "connect" and sustain a close relationship because of attempts to avoid feelings of vulnerability.
Staying in a "bad" relationship to try to avoid discomfort, guilt, and potential feelings of loneliness a break-up might entail.
Losing a marriage or contact with children due to an unwillingness to experience uncomfortable feelings (e.g., achieved through drug or alcohol abuse) or symptoms of withdrawal.
Not attending an important graduation, wedding, funeral, or other family event to try to avoid anxiety or symptoms of panic.
Engaging in self-destructive behaviors in an attempt to avoid feelings of boredom, emptiness, worthlessness.
Not functioning or taking care of basic responsibilities (e.g., personal hygiene, waking up, showing up to work, shopping for food) because of the effort they demand and/or distress they evoke.
Spending so much time attempting to avoid discomfort that one has little time for anyone or anything else in life.
Measurement
Self-report
The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ) was the first self-report measure explicitly designed to measure EA, but has since been re-conceptualized as a measure of "psychological flexibility". The 62-item Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was developed to measure different aspects of EA. The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ) is a 15-item measure developed using MEAQ items, which has become the most widely used measure of experiential avoidance.
See also
Avoidant personality disorder
Coping (psychology)
Opposite concepts
Acceptance
Distress tolerance
Psychological flexibility
Related concepts
Denial
Expressive suppression
Notes
References
External links
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Behavior therapy
Anxiety |
The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize was instituted by novelist John Brunner and his wife and was awarded annually to a literary work published in the US or Britain that was deemed to improve interracial understanding, "reflecting the ideals to which Dr. Martin Luther King dedicated his life". As of 1984, the author of the winning work was awarded £100 (). Brunner died in 1995, and it is uncertain if the award has continued.
Winners of the prize have included:
Because They're Black (1972) by Derek Humphry and Gus John
Black and White: The Negro and English Society (1975) by James Walvin
A Dry White Season (1980) by André Brink
In a Dark Time (1984) edited by Nicholas Humphrey and Robert Lifton
The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain (1985) by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe
The European Tribe (1987) by Caryl Phillips
Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988) by Ferdinand Dennis.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988) by Taylor Branch, 1989 MLK Prize (and 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History)
References
British literary awards |
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State Route 158 (SR 158) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for most of its length as Front Street, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 58 Alternate (US 58 Alternate) in Coeburn east to US 58 Alternate east of Coeburn. SR 158 comprises much of the old alignment of US 58 Alternate through Coeburn in eastern Wise County.
Route description
SR 158 begins at a right-in/right-out interchange with westbound US 58 Alternate (Norton Coeburn Road) in the town of Coeburn. The state highway heads east as Front Street to its intersection with SR 72 (Laurel Avenue) and SR 813 (2nd Street); the latter street connects SR 158 and eastbound US 58 Alternate. SR 158 and SR 72 run concurrently through a grade crossing of a rail spur from Norfolk Southern Railway's Clinch Valley District and enter downtown Coeburn. East of downtown, SR 72 turns south onto Dungannon Road. SR 158 parallels the Clinch Valley rail line east to the east town limit of Coeburn, where the highway becomes Bull Run Road. At SR 893 (Bull Run Road), SR 158 turns south, crosses the rail line, and reaches its eastern terminus at an intersection with US 58 Alternate (Bull Run Road).
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 158
158
State Route 158
U.S. Route 58 |
Dawn Breakers International Film Festival (DBIFF) was an international travelling film festival held in various cities throughout the world from 2007 to 2015. The festival debuted in Phoenix, Arizona and was later held in San Diego, Houston and Zurich. DBIFF was recognized as an important festival and nominated at the 2014 annual list of MovieMaker's "Top 25 Film Festivals of the World" in the Social Cause category. Selected films from this festival has received theatrical distribution, television broadcast and four Academy Award nominations.
Background
The Festival is a non-profit organization focused on showcasing films and filmmakers who produce positive films. It has shown both independent and commercial films in the past few years. The filmmakers submit from around the world and there are no restrictions on what is accepted as long as it meets the theme of the festival. DBIFF is one of the few festivals in the world that also accepts Television, Music Videos and Websidoes in their selection. Several publications have covered the festival and the films including the Indian Express, the BNS, and the Samoan news.
Since it is a traveling festival and may take place more than once within a year, it is also named by "Takes" alongside the year.
2007 / Take 1
The festival took place in San Diego with a circle of invited guests and audiences only. A number of films were screened through the two-day festival, however no public announcement of the official selections were made as there were no selection process that year and all films were invites only.
2008 / Take 2
In 2008, it attracted some 500 attendees each day and a total of 1000 for both days from around the world. Films shown in the festival were selected from around the globe, some countries included India, Australia, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Cambodia, France, Malaysia, Hungary, Pakistan, Canada and Ethiopia.
Films
Armed - Music video, Justin Baldoni's directorial debut
A Boy from Jenjarom - Short documentary
Ardia - Short film
Corde - Short documentary
Choke - Short film
Donkey In Lahore - Full-length documentary, Tribeca winner
Justice - Short film
Little Mosque on the Prairie - Television show
Son Maloso - Music Video
The Gallery - Short film
The Prayer - Short film
The Wayfarer - Full-length documentary
Tsehai Loves Learning - Animated television show (Ethiopia)
Uncle Hathi - Animated television show (India)
2009 / Take 3
The 2009, also known as Take 3 Dawn Breakers International Film Festival took place in Zurich from December 26, 2009, to December 31, 2009. This year's line-up included twice as many films as last year and took place over five days.
Films
18:44, Short film, New Zealand, World Premier
Afghan, Short film
Amor in Motion, Short film, World Premier
Antes Que O Mundo Acabe (Before the World Ends), Feature film, World Premier
Arising to Serve, Full-length doc, World Premier
Baber Makes An Entrance – Little Mosque on the Prairie, TV, World Premier
Chase, Short film, World Premier
IL Diavlo (The Devil), Short film
El Espiritu de mi Mama, Feature film (Mexico), World Premier
Essences & Particularities, Experimental, World Premier
Fast Slow Dissolving Tablets, Short film, World Premier
Fragile, Short film
The Fashioner, Documentary, World Premier
From Reservation to Revelation, Documentary, World Premier
Got You, Music video, World Premier
Hossein Amanat - Baha'i Architect, Documentary, World Premier
The Voyages of Jenny Alexandria, Animation
Lie Zi (Master Lie), Animation, World Premier
Light Upon Light, Short film, World Premier
The Lost City, Short film
Method Acting, Short film
Murder With Impunity, Webcast, World Premier
My New Home, Short film
The Power of Forgiveness, Documentary, World Premier
The Promise of World Peace, Documentary, World Premier
The Providence Effect, Documentary International Premier
Red Fish, Short film
Social Studies, Short film, World Premier
Speak and Lie, Animation, World Premier
School, Short film, World Premier
The Study Circle, Webcast, World Premier
Tanha-e (Solitude), Animation
Tokaheya Inajin - The First to Arise, Documentary, World Premier
Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns, Short film
United for Baha'i Human Rights, Webcast, World Premier
What Goes Around Comes Around, Music Video,
2010 / Take 4
The 2010 film festival took place in the United States in the city of San Diego. It was scheduled for November 26 through 27 at the Sheraton Hotel across San Diego International Airport. On November 13, 2010, a press release announced the festival's official selection which included 44 films in all categories.
William Sears (Baháʼí) a popular TV host from the 1950s was honored during the festival. Two of this year's selection are shortlisted for the 83rd Academy Awards. and one was nominated. Most of this year's selection were either world or international premiers.
Films
Below is a particle list of the selected films with notes about each film.
A Cut Above
Adam – The Man
All Birds Whistle
Aqueous Duende - experimental film
Annie, Forget Your Gun
Y aquellas (And These)
Bobo & Kipi - TV show from Congo
Das Verlorene Paradies (Paradise Lost)
Dr. Elham Show Websisodes from South Africa
Enoch Olinga
Feeling from Afghanistan
Faith in Common starting Anthony Azizi Music by KC Porter
Escuchar (Listen) - Spain
The Butterfly Circus funded by Doorstep
Hemels Bewegen (The Conquest of High Passes)
Plastic & Glass - French experimental
Out of Sight
No Longer There - Music video of Carl Young by Jack Lenz
Nebeneinander (Side By Side)
Madregot (Stairs)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage, nominated for the Oscars
Linger - Singapore's new wave
Letters to Ourselves
Jewel in the Lotus - about the House of Worship in India
Glenn, The Flying Robot feature film from Ireland
The Secret Friend
The Road Home Student Oscar winner
The Last Conversation - about the Persecution of Baháʼís
The Invigilator
Hands of the Cause - four volume film about the Hands of the Cause
Straight Ahead
Shoghi Effendi (documentary) about Shoghi Effendi
Roca Bon - exploring the art of Mark Tobey
River to Reef - environmental film
Kol Shtut (Any Little Thing)
Laredo, Texas
To Comfort You
Where There is Love - video of Elika Mahony
Vostok Station
Us (film)
Urs (film)
Zero on the Oscar shortlist
2011 / Take 5
A two-day festival was held in Houston. This festival marked DBIFF's premier in the south and the first major event to be held in the Houston Community Center.
A Media Boot Camp in association with the BMS was held during the ABS conference in San Francisco in August 2011.
2012 / Take 6
Take 6 / 2012 festival takes place in Switzerland.
Take 6 Films
20zwoelf (20zwoelf) / Christian Stahl / Animation / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
Amen! / Moritz Mayerhofer / Animation / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
Andersartig (Different) / Dennis Stein-Schomburg / Animation / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
Baed Az Class (After The Class) / Fereshteh Parnian / Short Narrative / Iran / World Premiere
Batang Aquarium (Aquarium Kids) / Eleazar L. Del Rosario / Documentary / Philippines / International Premiere
Bestiaire / Denis Côté / Documentary / Canada / France / Switzerland Premiere
Booze Culture / Graeme Noble / Short Narrative / United Kingdom / World Premiere
Chant Supplications Together: Tap Into the Power of Devotional Singing / Nancy A. Watters / Documentary / Canada / World Premiere
D'Symmetrie vum Päiperlek (The Symmetry of the Butterfly) / Paul Scheuer and Maisy Hausemer / Feature Narrative / Luxembourg / International Premiere
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared / Joseph Pelling, Becky Sloan / Short Narrative / UK / Switzerland Premiere
Ei voor later / Marieke Schellart / Documentary / Netherlands / Switzerland Premiere
Faced out / Omar Nayef / Documentary / Egypt / World Premiere
Fast in a Day / Afshin Rohani, Sahba Saberian, Victoria Eyton / Documentary / UK / World Premiere
Father's Chair (A Cadeira Do Pai) / Luciano Moura / Feature Narrative / Brazil / Switzerland Premiere
Felix (Felix) / Anselm Belser / Short Narrative / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
Finding Ambrosia / Colin Scully / Short Narrative / United States / World Premiere
Fishing Without Nets / Cutter Hodierne / Short Narrative / Kenya / Switzerland Premiere
Freedom / Khaled Hafi / Short Narrative / Algeria, France, Tunisia / International Premiere
Geschwister (Siblings) / Joya Thome / Short Narrative / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
Good Error / Mo'men Abd Elsalam / Animation / Egypt / World Premiere
Guilford Street (Οδός Γκύλφορδ) / Christos Ouzounis / Short Narrative / Greece / World Premiere
Haraka (Motion) / Sarah Rozik / Documentary / Egypt / World Premiere
Here in the Last Moment / Nicola Trombley / Experimental / USA / World Premiere
Home / Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Documentary / France / World Premiere
Iranian Taboo / Reza Allamehzadeh / Documentary / Netherlands, U.S.A. / Switzerland Premiere
Jesus and Buddha: Practicing Across Traditions / John Ankele, Anne Macksoud / Documentary / United States / World Premiere
l'île (the island) / Pauline Delwaulle / Documentary / France / International Premiere
Landscape of the Elderly / Rami el Harayri & Maarten Stoltz / Short Narrative / Netherlands / Switzerland Premiere
Logging Sports / Andreas Attai / Documentary / USA / World Premiere
Lotus Sutra / Deepak Verma, Neha Chopra / Documentary / India / World Premiere
Luminous Journey: Abdu'l-Baha in America, 1912 / Tim Perry / Documentary / United States / World Premiere
May 1926 / Tasnim Mustafa / Short Narrative / Egypt / World Premiere
Memoria / Yihwen Chen / Short Narrative / Malaysia / European Premiere
Memories / Ferhat Alpözen / Short Narrative / Turkey / World Premiere
Morning Prayer / Nabil Moghaddam / Music Video / Canada / World Premiere
My Last Days / Justin Baldoni / Documentary / USA / World Premiere
Neue Nähe / Sonja Vukovic, Christian Stahl / Short Narrative / Germany / Switzerland Premiere
New Light / Sahba Sanai / Short Narrative / Australia / World Premiere
Old Angel (老天使) / Yen-Ting Chiang / Animation / Taiwan (ROC) / World Premiere
Otis Under Sky / Anlo Sepulveda / Feature Narrative / USA / International Premiere
Occupy Skepticism / Juan Sebastian Barreneche / Documentary / United States / World Premiere
Peter Bossman dobrodošel (Welcome Peter Bossman) / Simon Intihar / Documentary / Slovenia / Switzerland Premiere
Raising the Titanic / Alex Mitchell / Documentary / United States / World Premiere
Reiko's Hina Dolls / Komaki Matsui / Short Narrative / Canada, USA / World Premiere
Sailor / Brittany Gustafson / Short Narrative / United States of America / World Premiere
Silence and Desire (Sessizlik ve Özlem) / Imren Tuzun / Short Narrative / Turkey / European Premiere
Scorpions (Skorpionit) / Simo Hakalisto / Documentary / Finland / World Premiere
Sol de Verano (Summer's sun) / David Dely / Music Video / Hungary, Colombia / World Premiere
Super Soul Sunday / Devon Gundry / Television / USA / International Premiere
Rustman (Zhangis katsi) / Giorgi Tavartkiladze / Short Narrative / Georgia / World Premiere
The Dance / Pardis Parker / Short Narrative / Canada / Switzerland Premiere
The Gospel of Us / Dave McKean / Feature Narrative / United Kingdom / World Premiere
The Most Beautiful Flower Blooms in Winter / Vic Barnes / Short Narrative / United States / World Premiere
The Photograph / Sonbol Taefi, Sohail Sabetian / Music Video / New Zealand, Ireland, China / World Premiere
The Settler / Maram Ashour / Short Narrative / United Arab Emirates / International Premiere
The Sweatshop / Chin Tangsakulsathaporn / Short Narrative / United States / European Premiere
Thomas Hempel / Regieassistent (Thomas Hempel - First Assistant Director) / Short Narrative / Germany / World Premiere
Thunder May Have Ruined The Moment / Pete Monro / Experimental / USA / World Premiere
Transit in a green landscape / Sonja van Kerkhoff, Sen McGlinn / Music Video / New Zealand / Switzerland Premiere
Truks / Joao Inacio / Documentary / Brazil / International Premiere
Txiki / Sergio San Martin / Documentary / Spain / Switzerland Premiere
Uncle Hathi and His Friends - The pink Rabbit / Hamed Mohajer / Animation / India / World Premiere
Under the Staircase / Kimia Ferdowsi Kline / Documentary / United States / International Premier
West Gilgo Mural Project / John Bragino / Documentary / United States / International Premiere
Hueman Photography Contest
The festival announced a photography contest that would showcase the works of its finalists during the film festival.
2013 / Take 7
The festival was held in Scottsdale, Arizona over two days and was the first time to be coordinated locally. It was the second time DBIFF proceeds went to charity, the first being Houston.
2014 / Take 8
Submission period for the 2014 film festival took place over three months and ended in December 2013.
2015 / Take 9
The 2015 festival was held online with content being broadcast from New York. The festival moved submission system to FilmFreeway.
References
External links
Official website
DBIFF 2010
DBIFF 2009
IMDB listing
BritFilms listing
Film festivals held in multiple countries
Bahá'í Faith
Short film festivals in the United States
Animation film festivals in the United States
Documentary film festivals in the United States
Documentary film festivals in Switzerland
Experimental film festivals |
Connestee Falls and Batson Creek Falls are two waterfalls in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard.
Geology
Batson Creek flows less than 1 mile from its source, feeding two manmade lakes along the way. It meets Carson Creek at a point where both Batson Creek and Carson Creek fall over bedrock. The falls meet in an area called "The Silver Slip" before continuing on down Carson Creek.
Natural history
The falls were supposedly named for a Native American princess named "Connestee" in 1882 by Dr. F. A. Miles, owner of the Caesar's Head Hotel.
A legend is told that the princess lost her life at the falls due to a relationship with an Englishman.
Visiting the Falls
The falls were recently closed to the public until April 16, 2011, when a new, handicapped accessible, county park was unveiled. The parking lot for the falls is found by traveling on U.S. Highway 276, 6 miles south of the intersection of 276, U.S. Highway 64, and NC Highway 280 in Brevard, North Carolina. From the viewing platform, you stand at the top of Connestee Falls and watch it just below your feet. In front of you is Batson Falls, which is located on private property within the Connestee Falls Community
Nearby Falls
High Falls
Hooker Falls
Bridal Veil Falls
Wintergreen Falls
Triple Falls
Key Falls
Glen Cannon Falls
Turley Falls
External links
North Carolina Waterfalls - Connestee and Batson Creek Falls
References
Protected areas of Transylvania County, North Carolina
Waterfalls of North Carolina
DuPont State Forest
Waterfalls of Transylvania County, North Carolina |
Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Cambodia have several levels. Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces (khaet; ) and the special administrative unit and capital of Phnom Penh. Though a different administrative unit, Phnom Penh is at provincial level, so de facto Cambodia has 25 provinces and municipalities.
Each province is divided into districts. , there are 162 districts throughout the country's provinces, including Phnom Penh. Each province has one capital district (known as either a city or town, ; ), e.g. for Siem Reap, it is Krong Siem Reap. The exceptions are the provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Kampong Speu, Kandal, Koh Kong, Mondulkiri, Oddar Meanchey, Ratanakiri, Takéo and Tboung Khmum, where the name of the province and the capital district does not match.
A provincial district (, ) is divided into communes (, ). Communes are further divided into villages (, ).
Phnom Penh's 14 districts are called () and their subdivisions (), which are smaller in the other provinces. Sangkat are further subdivided into phum, which are usually translated as villages, though they do not necessarily cover one single settlement.
Administrative units
Officially, Cambodia is divided into 5 administrative tiers, with different types of administrative unit on each tier:
Local administration
In addition to these subdivisions, there are also cities and towns, which take over some of the responsibilities of the districts and communes on the area covered by the municipality. These all have an elected board and an elected mayor.
There are three different levels of municipalities ():
krong (city): More than 50,000 citizens
krong (town): More than 10,000 citizens - or a provincial capital
In addition to the population numbers, the municipalities need to have enough tax revenues for the administration to be able to execute the offices of administrations.
Towns and cities are divided into sangkat (communes), which are equivalent to khum of rural areas.
For areas which do not reach the mandatory conditions, they exist another lower level of local administration. These usually cover a complete subdistrict (Khum), but may also cover more than one subdistrict or share a subdistrict with a municipality.
Informal subdivisions
Kandal Province is informally included as part of Phnom Penh, as the urban sprawl of the capital has already spread into these areas.
There are several definitions of regions in Cambodia.
Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California, is sometimes jokingly referred to as the "25th province" of Cambodia, because of the high population of Cambodian Americans that live there.
See also
List of districts in Cambodia
Communes of Cambodia
Provinces of Cambodia
List of cities in Cambodia
ISO 3166-2:KH
References
External links
Statoid site
Cambodia |
Grigoryev (; ; masculine) or Grigoryeva (; feminine) is a Russian surname mostly common in Russia and Ukraine. It is derived from the Latinized Greek name Gregory (Grigorios). Alternative spellings of this last name include Grigoriev (masculine) and Grigorieva (feminine).
Notable people with that name include the following:
A
Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868), Russian architect
Alexander Grigoriev (disambiguation)
Andrey Aleksandrovich Grigoryev, (1883–1968) Russian geographer
Apollon Grigoryev (1822–1864), Russian poet, literary critic, and translator
Artem Grigoriev, Russian figure skater
B
Boris Grigoriev (1886–1939), Russian painter and graphic artist
D
Dima Grigoriev (born 1954), Russian mathematician
E
Ellina Grigorieva, Russian-American mathematician
I
Igor Grigoriev (born 1950), Russian composer and improvisational guitarist
Ivan Grigoryev (born 1996), Russian association football player
K
Kate Grigorieva (born 1988), Russian fashion model and former Victoria's Secret Angel
L
Lidiya Grigoryeva (born 1974), Russian long-distance runner
M
Maia Grigoryevna Sandu, current President of Moldova
Maksim Grigoryev (disambiguation), several people
Mikhail Grigoryev (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey player
N
Nataliya Grygoryeva (hurdler) (born 1962), Russian runner and hurdler
Nataliya Grigoryeva (rower) (born 1965), Russian rower
Nikifor Grigoriev (1885–1919), military leader in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War
Nikolai Grigoriev (1822–1886), member of the Petrashevsky Circle
Nikolay Grigoriev (1895–1938), Russian chess player and endgame study composer
O
Oksana Grigorieva (born 1970), Russian musician
Oleg Grigoriev (1943–1992), Russian poet
P
Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet association football player
S
Semyon Grigoryev (born 1960), Soviet and Russian diplomat
Sergey Grigoryev (athlete) (born 1992), Kazakhstani athlete
T
Tatiana Grigorieva (born 1975), Russian/Australian pole vaulter
Tatiana P. Grigorieva (1929–2014), Russian Japanologist
V
Vassili Grigorjev (1870–?), Russian-Estonian politician
Y
Yury Grigoriev (born 1969), Russian politician
Bulgarian-language surnames
Russian-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names |
Gift is the first joint album released by mother-and-daughter English folk music duo Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson. It was the winner of the Best Album category of the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where its opening track "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" also won Best Traditional Track.
Reception
The album received positive reviews. In a five-starred review for The Guardian, Robin Denselow described it as "both bravely straightforward and powerfully emotional" and "impressive, even by their standards".
Writing for Bright Young Folk, Liz Osman said that Gift "is a simple non-showy album, and feels like a labour of love between mother and daughter. That warmth of purpose comes through in the delivery of every track, as well as the sleeve notes and album artwork. The calibre of each song, the arrangements and performance make Gift a wonderful collaborative album from two of the country’s best singers".
Track listing
Personnel
Eliza Carthy – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4–11), fiddle (tracks 2, 4–7, 9), bells (track 4), octave violin (track 4), organetta (tracks 4, 9), mandolin (track 5), piano (tracks 6, 9), viola (track 7)
Norma Waterson – vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–9, 11), triangle (track 5)
Anne Waterson – vocals
Marry Waterson – vocals
Mike Waterson – vocals
Aidan Curran – guitar, mandolin
Danny Thompson – double bass
Martin Simpson – banjo
Martin Carthy – guitar, vocals
Chris Parkinson – melodeon
Oliver Knight – cello, electric guitar, vocals
Saul Rose – melodeon
Roger Williams – trombone
References
2011 albums |
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